Mind posting a reference? As far as I knew, Charles Babbage and a lady named Ada were the originators of digital computers. For stored programming, you look at Turing.
Probably the biggest reason it's newsworthy is that the number of people who've done this is still in the single digits, and it has to do with science/technology.
Now, maybe it shouldn't have been on the front page...
I consider Debian an "easy" distro, and I compile my own packages on a regular basis. I also get fine-grained control over which packages to install, when I want it. If you don't want that kind of control, run tasksel instead of dselect or aptitude.
Unfortunately, it's damn near impossible to compile packages optimized for your CPU from official Debian source packages. Which means that the power user will, on occasion, have to ignore the packaging system and install to/usr/local/* instead of/usr/* . The debian compile process uses the same CPU optimization that libc was compiled with. (i686, for people on the PC)
You know, come to think of it, if I custom compile libc from GNU sources, then compile libc from Debian sources, it should retain the -march option that was applied to the GNU sources. I'll have to try that when I get home tonight.
Sure, it had marketing benefits. It also had scientific benefits, and not just those of studying the effects of weightlessness on the elderly.
The more attention NASA can get, the more funding it's likely to retain. These days, anything that doesn't help put a polititian(and not just John Glenn) in positive light isn't safe from being axed in favor of pork barrel spending.
And personally, I'm in favor of NASA retaining its funding.
Or telnet to a Linux box using the wrong terminal emulation. Happens all the time at the college I work at. I try to get everyone around me to switch to Putty...
It's damn near impossible to help shell scripting students when the arrow keys don't work. But then, I'm spoiled, what with text-based FSE's and readline.
XFce does look remarkably like XP, so a public computer running the software could certainly expose more people to alternative browsers without the fear of an unfamiliar operating system.
(They'll think they're in XP, so they probably won't panic.)
I wasn't suggesting asbestos was produced. I was pointing out that hundreds of other probably toxic chemicals were present in the inhaled in the smoke.
Well, if you build your computer "out of the box," you'll certainly get better airflow for cooling, but I hardly think that's worth the extra space taken up.
I think his point was that in any scenario where a popular base can affect control (such as during a civil war or revolution), a charismatic leader (such as Lenin) can maintain power. At that point, you have a popular dictatorship, where the leader just spews out enough propoganda to keep everyone on his side, even while he commits atrocities.
(Though the definition of "atrocity" is highly subjective--and not subject to debate.)
There's more than one kind of catastrophic failure. There's the possibility of a hard drive crashing...if your backup's on site, you'll get up and running faster.
Then there's the possibility of a fire, in which case your backup tapes better be offsite or in a fireproof safe.
They don't, but pyrolosys of complex materials is a fairly undpredictable process...You know that the products are going to consist of the same elements as the reactants, but that's about it.
There are many, many toxic chemicals that are produced from burning synthetic materials. There are a lot of toxic chemicals produced from natural sources as well. (Poison ivy has terrible smoke; a guy who lived near me died when he inhaled it.)
"roundest"... maybe. It is the largest molecule approaching a spherical form that I'm aware of, but I'm only in intro to chemistry.
"most symmetrical"... that doesn't make sense. Methane is symmetrical. Water is symmetrical. Octanitrocubane is symmetrical. A lot of molecules are symmetrical.
Well, the Google cache honors robots.txt...You'll even see some sites mentioning Google by name in there. I imagine that a Slashdot entry in robots.txt would be just as effective.
You know, you could combine chemistry and power a pneumatic set with dry ice + water, giving you pressurized CO2. You just need an automated way or releasing the excess pressure, so you don't blow those damned rubber hoses off.
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Uh, I wouldn't call a session ID "structured", and that's the most common usage for cookies that I can think of.
Am I the only one who doesn't want to be reminded of some of the sites he's seen? Like *cx?
Mind posting a reference? As far as I knew, Charles Babbage and a lady named Ada were the originators of digital computers. For stored programming, you look at Turing.
Probably the biggest reason it's newsworthy is that the number of people who've done this is still in the single digits, and it has to do with science/technology.
Now, maybe it shouldn't have been on the front page...
That's an awesome description. You make us sound civilized.
Perhaps we'll see that logic in future papers promoting OSS.
I consider Debian an "easy" distro, and I compile my own packages on a regular basis. I also get fine-grained control over which packages to install, when I want it. If you don't want that kind of control, run tasksel instead of dselect or aptitude.
/usr/local/* instead of /usr/* . The debian compile process uses the same CPU optimization that libc was compiled with. (i686, for people on the PC)
Unfortunately, it's damn near impossible to compile packages optimized for your CPU from official Debian source packages. Which means that the power user will, on occasion, have to ignore the packaging system and install to
You know, come to think of it, if I custom compile libc from GNU sources, then compile libc from Debian sources, it should retain the -march option that was applied to the GNU sources. I'll have to try that when I get home tonight.
Sure, it had marketing benefits. It also had scientific benefits, and not just those of studying the effects of weightlessness on the elderly.
The more attention NASA can get, the more funding it's likely to retain. These days, anything that doesn't help put a polititian(and not just John Glenn) in positive light isn't safe from being axed in favor of pork barrel spending.
And personally, I'm in favor of NASA retaining its funding.
Uh, check the wording of the story, then check the wording of your post.
Mandrake is profitable and is coming out of Chapter 11. That means that they're producing enough of what people want in order to stay in business.
Of course, you could force IE to support CSS for your site...
Being a patent clerk sounds like a really interesting job to me. Think about it...seeing all of those ideas passing across your desk.
Or telnet to a Linux box using the wrong terminal emulation. Happens all the time at the college I work at. I try to get everyone around me to switch to Putty...
It's damn near impossible to help shell scripting students when the arrow keys don't work. But then, I'm spoiled, what with text-based FSE's and readline.
XFce does look remarkably like XP, so a public computer running the software could certainly expose more people to alternative browsers without the fear of an unfamiliar operating system.
(They'll think they're in XP, so they probably won't panic.)
I wasn't suggesting asbestos was produced. I was pointing out that hundreds of other probably toxic chemicals were present in the inhaled in the smoke.
I do run Debian Unstable. And I'm really hating Sneakernet right now...
Well, if you build your computer "out of the box," you'll certainly get better airflow for cooling, but I hardly think that's worth the extra space taken up.
Not really conducive for Folding@HOME clusters...
Ohh...a LAN network on an external SCSI bus. Sounds fun. :)
I think his point was that in any scenario where a popular base can affect control (such as during a civil war or revolution), a charismatic leader (such as Lenin) can maintain power. At that point, you have a popular dictatorship, where the leader just spews out enough propoganda to keep everyone on his side, even while he commits atrocities.
(Though the definition of "atrocity" is highly subjective--and not subject to debate.)
There's more than one kind of catastrophic failure. There's the possibility of a hard drive crashing...if your backup's on site, you'll get up and running faster.
Then there's the possibility of a fire, in which case your backup tapes better be offsite or in a fireproof safe.
They don't, but pyrolosys of complex materials is a fairly undpredictable process...You know that the products are going to consist of the same elements as the reactants, but that's about it.
There are many, many toxic chemicals that are produced from burning synthetic materials. There are a lot of toxic chemicals produced from natural sources as well. (Poison ivy has terrible smoke; a guy who lived near me died when he inhaled it.)
And how many of these are going to actually go to completion?
Funding, politics, it's all horrible.
"roundest" ... maybe. It is the largest molecule approaching a spherical form that I'm aware of, but I'm only in intro to chemistry.
... that doesn't make sense. Methane is symmetrical. Water is symmetrical. Octanitrocubane is symmetrical. A lot of molecules are symmetrical.
"most symmetrical"
"Cause of death: B-b-b-buh-buh. C60 overdose."
My step-dad tells me they have a saying where he works: "Ten thousand unemployed software developers can't be wrong."
Well, the Google cache honors robots.txt...You'll even see some sites mentioning Google by name in there. I imagine that a Slashdot entry in robots.txt would be just as effective.
You know, you could combine chemistry and power a pneumatic set with dry ice + water, giving you pressurized CO2. You just need an automated way or releasing the excess pressure, so you don't blow those damned rubber hoses off.