I can't believe they're even considering this. It is intuitively obvious that these wind farms will slow down the rotation of the Earth. Or maybe speed it up-- I dunno, I'm not a details guy. Anyway, either would clearly trigger massive global climate change.
In my experience, both in Windows and Linux, what doesn't work is almost always non-free software. Flash, Java, LOTS of Windows drivers (like cpu monitoring/throttling stuff, etc), and Windows games are examples. There are workarounds for some of these, and some of them will eventually be patched. But it's a good rule of thumb to keep in mind: open source stuff will be updated much faster than commercial.
You can get by pretty well with 64 bit Linux. I see no compelling reason to run 64 bit Windows yet, unless you need lots of memory. Yeah, you could get a small boost from having more registers, and yeah, it's cool; but the Windows world is just not used to porting to other architectures:). The CPUs have been out, what, 3 years? And it is still a royal pain. And if you game... get used to things like Neverwinter Nights 2 going through the entire 6 cd install, only to tell you "Oh, by the way, 64 bit doesn't work. Ha-ha!"
Yeah! Like, how about a bomb that has two cell phones as a trigger, one from Cingular and one from Verizon, and the terrorists dial each of them 1000 times, and when one of them receives two more calls than the other, BOOM! And when they bark they shoot bees out of their mouths... AIIIEE!
I really like vlc a lot, but like a lot of Free software, the user-interface could really benefit from improvement.
...as opposed to commercial software, which is harmed by improvement?:)
The main beef I had with VLC is that the default keyboard shortcuts seemed deficient, and the navigation shortcuts changed in full screen on Linux. But VLC has rapidly become the best media player out there IMO, and the fact that it's cross-platform is gravy.
The design of the UI seems better than the original, but the implementation is terrible. Playing felt gave me much the same frustration I used to get from using a mouse with a dirty roller... but there's no way to clean this one.
Also, the frame rates and overall speed were terrible. It's rendering much less than Oblivion and doing it much slower. This is on an Athlon X2 4600 with a 7600GT.
A real bummer, because I had a blast playing NWN coop with a buddy. We were looking forward to this, but as it stands I can't recommend it. Anybody got suggestions for good coop-able RPGs? I am not asking about MMOs, I can't afford that much time, and anyway I can't compete with 12 year olds at games anymore.
I think everyone who isn't a total scumbag agrees that spammers and spyware makers are evil and a drain on society. Furthermore, in terms of lifetimes wasted, they time they cost us surely adds up to many times the lives we've lost due to terrorism. I have the answer, one which will heal the political rift in the US as a side effect.
First, we have the NSA, DHS, et al target their illegal wiretapping programs at spammers and spyware makers. They've got the infrastructure to track these people down, and this is a justification for the programs everybody can get behind.
Second, when a spammer is caught, we ship them down to Gitmo. It doesn't matter, in this case, whether torture is an effective means of getting information. We don't need information from them, we just want them out of circulation. We can hope that it would be a deterrent, but really they'll be getting it for the simple reason that they deserve it. Republican/Christians get to torture and sodomize to their shrivelled little hearts' content, and we don't have to worry about damaging our reputation in the world community. Everybody's happy!
Gentlemen, there is no way that we can lose on this one!
Where is it that you guys are getting the idea that the rule of law applies to this administration? That wouldn't be in their interests at all. And since they're in charge of enforcing the laws they break...
And if you think that Congress, aside from a couple of freaks like Feingold and Leahy, are going to do anything about this at all... well, I hope you're right, but I'd bet against it.
PS: I like those freaks. I wish they weren't the exception.
All you're doing is selling more Wiis to people who are not me. This does me no good at all. I've been holding off on this Zelda thing until I felt confident that the series had some staying power, and I was just about ready to pick one up. Well... thanks a lot, you selfish jerk!
You have to remember that Sun changes its mind on whether Linux is good or evil every few months, just like they cancel then resurrect Solaris x86 periodically. This was a few flips back. Don't bet your business on Sun following through on their promises... however, this is getting quite a lot better. Actions like putting Java under the GPL are not just cool, they're pretty irreversible. They're considering making Solaris GPL too... were that to happen, both Solaris and Linux would get much better very quickly, and I would never say anything bad about Sun again. I swear!
Too bad IBM can't realistically go after SCO's backers (MS, Sun)... but as long as SCO is vaporized and the scum who ran the scam have all their assets seized, I'll be content. Prison time would be appropriate given the damage they did and attempted to do to honest programmers and the economy in general, but... probably best to just end the whole farce and move on.
Why blow a chance at all those tourist dollars? A lot of people would pay good money to see the World's Largest Atom. Locate it next to a Dairy Queen and it'd be a perfect stop during those long drives through, say, Kansas. Wait... do Kansans believe in atoms?
...I have to admit that I think Gates would be better than most of the likely candidates. I'd rather have a President who's either evil or incompetent than one who is both. Like, consider the hypothetical choice between a guy who is pretty evil but competent, let's call him Senior, and one who is evil and ragingly incompetent, let's call him... okay, never mind that.
Gates makes mistakes, and he's greedy, but his #2 motivation now seems to be polishing his record in the history books (#1 is still being the richest person in history). I would expect him to be rather progressive on social issues, pretty good on health issues... and largely against any regulations on business, but then again, who isn't?
There are a couple of candidates who look pretty good to me right now, but I fully expect them to be kneecapped within a year or so. And we'll be left with the same uninspiring choices we've had forever... I really don't like Gates very much, but actually think that he's done most of the harm he's going to do, and that he'd be better than most career politicians. At least I wouldn't expect him to allow arsenic in baby formula for a $20,000 campaign contribution.
All you need in order to beat a frivolous lawsuit is unlimited time and money, a few competent judges, and a little luck:)
Seriously, this is great news and Groklaw, as usual, does a nice job of presenting it in human-readable form. One hopes that the impending THUD of SCO will act as a deterrent to shell corporations who might want to try the same tactics. And real corporations would have something to lose in countersuits, so... Hmm, I'm feeling awfully optimistic today. I'd better have that checked.
You are almost certain to either lose your shirt or come out dirty yourself. People who lie and steal for a living, whether legally or not, are better at this than you. They have certain advantages, for example the fact that there's nothing they won't do for money.
Just a general statement of principle, apply it where you will. I've never seen it to be wrong. I've seen more than one business destroyed because people thought they could take tainted money and get away clean, or they were in denial about the source and motivation behind the money.
Given that they're not likely to be able to pull off such a major forced upgrade to a new technology more than once every 20 years or so, they should have thought about what features would be really meaningful.
Higher resolution and better frame rates are nice. But it would have been much better to add internet type functionality. Picture HDTV with a Wii type remote and out of band information. If you're watching a sporting event, you can look up stats on the players and teams. If you're watching a movie, you can get IMDB type information. If you might want to buy a product that's on-screen, you point at it. It wouldn't take much extra bandwidth to have bounding boxes embedded on the linked objects in the scene-- it doesn't have to be good enough for an FPS shooter, after all. The purchasing option alone would generate enough revenue that it'd be a no-brainer to subsidize the hardware and networks. You could also easily switch between subtitle languages, closed captioning, etc., and none of these things would have to be embedded in the picture in any particular way. The client decides how to render the information. Kind of like a web browser.
HDTV as it stands is just not a compelling upgrade, and attempts to add this functionality now would be very hackish-- especially given that the companies involved, the television, movie, and media industries, still don't understand the benefits of open standards. I'd say the best bet now is Tivo type devices... but unless they standardize, the features will be too expensive and poorly supported to go far.
Mr. Shuttleworth was not being in the slighest bit inflammatory. I think we're all rational people here, and it's perfectly reasonable to point out that, while this in no way reflects on the many excellent and ethical OpenSuSE developers, Novell has, in fact, been corrupted by NAZI MORMON MICROSOFT POD PEOPLE FROM THE BEYOND! DISCONNECT NOW OR BE ASSIMILATED!
All of the gifts I buy online are shipped to other states. You're saying I should, what, drive them to their recipients? Maybe ride my bike there? Seems... inefficient. I buy locally when it is a reasonable option. I even have a bias toward doing so. So... take your assumptions, print them out on thick hemp-based paper, fold them into a nice sharp origami shapes, and shove them up your ass, you self-righteous prick.
...die by the douchebag. Something like that. Couldn't happen to a nicer company. Oh, that reminds me, for years I've done much of my holiday shopping on Amazon. This year, I don't think so. Who do you guys suggest for books and movies, preferably both in one site?
As it stands, they're the last serious commercial Linux distribution company with a reputation people think they can trust. They're not perfect, but they've been pretty ethical overall. Certainly they are not the type that seems likely to pull a SCO. Also, if you're leaving SuSE, another RPM based commercial distro seems to make the most sense. So the MS/Novell deal should be great for them-- and Ubuntu et al. BTW, I don't count Canonical as a commercial distro company due to their charter, ownership, and focus on selling only support. That would change if they ever went public.
One more thing. This may be considered by some to be inflammatory, but nevertheless... I hate Microsoft Mormon Nazis.
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...realize that if you give douchebags, er, sorry, capitalists and habitual defectors, a mechanism for screwing you over (e.g. DRM), they will screw you over. And that's basically what RMS has been fighting against. And this little scam is yet another proof of that.
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I just eyeball /proc/kcore for anything suspicious every day or so.
I can't believe they're even considering this. It is intuitively obvious that these wind farms will slow down the rotation of the Earth. Or maybe speed it up-- I dunno, I'm not a details guy. Anyway, either would clearly trigger massive global climate change.
You can get by pretty well with 64 bit Linux. I see no compelling reason to run 64 bit Windows yet, unless you need lots of memory. Yeah, you could get a small boost from having more registers, and yeah, it's cool; but the Windows world is just not used to porting to other architectures :). The CPUs have been out, what, 3 years? And it is still a royal pain. And if you game... get used to things like Neverwinter Nights 2 going through the entire 6 cd install, only to tell you "Oh, by the way, 64 bit doesn't work. Ha-ha!"
Yeah! Like, how about a bomb that has two cell phones as a trigger, one from Cingular and one from Verizon, and the terrorists dial each of them 1000 times, and when one of them receives two more calls than the other, BOOM! And when they bark they shoot bees out of their mouths... AIIIEE!
Probably not, but... okay, weirdest non-porn torrent ever?
The main beef I had with VLC is that the default keyboard shortcuts seemed deficient, and the navigation shortcuts changed in full screen on Linux. But VLC has rapidly become the best media player out there IMO, and the fact that it's cross-platform is gravy.
Also, the frame rates and overall speed were terrible. It's rendering much less than Oblivion and doing it much slower. This is on an Athlon X2 4600 with a 7600GT.
A real bummer, because I had a blast playing NWN coop with a buddy. We were looking forward to this, but as it stands I can't recommend it. Anybody got suggestions for good coop-able RPGs? I am not asking about MMOs, I can't afford that much time, and anyway I can't compete with 12 year olds at games anymore.
Either EFI or LinuxBIOS would be a huge improvement over any PC BIOS, in terms of speed and manageability. Those BIOS engineers... yeah.
First, we have the NSA, DHS, et al target their illegal wiretapping programs at spammers and spyware makers. They've got the infrastructure to track these people down, and this is a justification for the programs everybody can get behind.
Second, when a spammer is caught, we ship them down to Gitmo. It doesn't matter, in this case, whether torture is an effective means of getting information. We don't need information from them, we just want them out of circulation. We can hope that it would be a deterrent, but really they'll be getting it for the simple reason that they deserve it. Republican/Christians get to torture and sodomize to their shrivelled little hearts' content, and we don't have to worry about damaging our reputation in the world community. Everybody's happy!
Gentlemen, there is no way that we can lose on this one!
Where is it that you guys are getting the idea that the rule of law applies to this administration? That wouldn't be in their interests at all. And since they're in charge of enforcing the laws they break...
And if you think that Congress, aside from a couple of freaks like Feingold and Leahy, are going to do anything about this at all... well, I hope you're right, but I'd bet against it.
PS: I like those freaks. I wish they weren't the exception.
All you're doing is selling more Wiis to people who are not me. This does me no good at all. I've been holding off on this Zelda thing until I felt confident that the series had some staying power, and I was just about ready to pick one up. Well... thanks a lot, you selfish jerk!
http://www.linuxtoday.com/it_management/2003061301 126NWSVLL
You have to remember that Sun changes its mind on whether Linux is good or evil every few months, just like they cancel then resurrect Solaris x86 periodically. This was a few flips back. Don't bet your business on Sun following through on their promises... however, this is getting quite a lot better. Actions like putting Java under the GPL are not just cool, they're pretty irreversible. They're considering making Solaris GPL too... were that to happen, both Solaris and Linux would get much better very quickly, and I would never say anything bad about Sun again. I swear!
What do you mean, vindictive?
Why blow a chance at all those tourist dollars? A lot of people would pay good money to see the World's Largest Atom. Locate it next to a Dairy Queen and it'd be a perfect stop during those long drives through, say, Kansas. Wait... do Kansans believe in atoms?
How marvelous.
Gates makes mistakes, and he's greedy, but his #2 motivation now seems to be polishing his record in the history books (#1 is still being the richest person in history). I would expect him to be rather progressive on social issues, pretty good on health issues... and largely against any regulations on business, but then again, who isn't?
There are a couple of candidates who look pretty good to me right now, but I fully expect them to be kneecapped within a year or so. And we'll be left with the same uninspiring choices we've had forever... I really don't like Gates very much, but actually think that he's done most of the harm he's going to do, and that he'd be better than most career politicians. At least I wouldn't expect him to allow arsenic in baby formula for a $20,000 campaign contribution.
In conclusion: Damn you, Scott Adams!
Seriously, this is great news and Groklaw, as usual, does a nice job of presenting it in human-readable form. One hopes that the impending THUD of SCO will act as a deterrent to shell corporations who might want to try the same tactics. And real corporations would have something to lose in countersuits, so... Hmm, I'm feeling awfully optimistic today. I'd better have that checked.
Just a general statement of principle, apply it where you will. I've never seen it to be wrong. I've seen more than one business destroyed because people thought they could take tainted money and get away clean, or they were in denial about the source and motivation behind the money.
Higher resolution and better frame rates are nice. But it would have been much better to add internet type functionality. Picture HDTV with a Wii type remote and out of band information. If you're watching a sporting event, you can look up stats on the players and teams. If you're watching a movie, you can get IMDB type information. If you might want to buy a product that's on-screen, you point at it. It wouldn't take much extra bandwidth to have bounding boxes embedded on the linked objects in the scene-- it doesn't have to be good enough for an FPS shooter, after all. The purchasing option alone would generate enough revenue that it'd be a no-brainer to subsidize the hardware and networks. You could also easily switch between subtitle languages, closed captioning, etc., and none of these things would have to be embedded in the picture in any particular way. The client decides how to render the information. Kind of like a web browser.
HDTV as it stands is just not a compelling upgrade, and attempts to add this functionality now would be very hackish-- especially given that the companies involved, the television, movie, and media industries, still don't understand the benefits of open standards. I'd say the best bet now is Tivo type devices... but unless they standardize, the features will be too expensive and poorly supported to go far.
Mr. Shuttleworth was not being in the slighest bit inflammatory. I think we're all rational people here, and it's perfectly reasonable to point out that, while this in no way reflects on the many excellent and ethical OpenSuSE developers, Novell has, in fact, been corrupted by NAZI MORMON MICROSOFT POD PEOPLE FROM THE BEYOND! DISCONNECT NOW OR BE ASSIMILATED!
All of the gifts I buy online are shipped to other states. You're saying I should, what, drive them to their recipients? Maybe ride my bike there? Seems... inefficient. I buy locally when it is a reasonable option. I even have a bias toward doing so. So... take your assumptions, print them out on thick hemp-based paper, fold them into a nice sharp origami shapes, and shove them up your ass, you self-righteous prick.
...die by the douchebag. Something like that. Couldn't happen to a nicer company. Oh, that reminds me, for years I've done much of my holiday shopping on Amazon. This year, I don't think so. Who do you guys suggest for books and movies, preferably both in one site?
"Is it true that you squeeze photographs out your ass?"
One more thing. This may be considered by some to be inflammatory, but nevertheless... I hate Microsoft Mormon Nazis.
...realize that if you give douchebags, er, sorry, capitalists and habitual defectors, a mechanism for screwing you over (e.g. DRM), they will screw you over. And that's basically what RMS has been fighting against. And this little scam is yet another proof of that.