Wow, that's really inane. Now I know why people some peole call some Christians morons... I'm a Christian myself, but I have had little awareness of all the hilarious "evidence" out there... Amazing that people think a big ball of radiation could walk out of the tomb and talk to Mary Magdalene...
Have you ever used LindowsOS? While I personally use Mandrake quite extensively, I wouldn't expect the "average Walmart customer" (as that phrase seems to be so popular here on/.) to fully appreciate it. LindowsOS is, in fact, significantly easier to use in 99% of situations. Personally, I'd rather edit/etc/smb/samba.conf than run a wizard, but does, say, your grandmother want to be confronted by a strange blue dialog in "text mode" saying that a new mouse has been found, and asking her what to do, or would she rather it just start working right away?
In no way am I discrediting Mandrake (or likewise favoring LindowsOS), I'm just saying that for your average desktop user, Mandrake isn't as ideal as LindowsOS, and for your average techie, LindowsOS isn't as ideal as Mandrake, SuSE, Debian, or Gentoo (I use gentoo a lot as well - but I have to wonder if the time saved by applications running faster is greater than the time spent compiling;p).
I seem to recall a teacher violently escorting a student out of the classroom who refused to say the pledge.
You'd be surprised though, by how tolerant of other views some religious people can be, and likewise, how intolerant some atheists can be.
There was a girl in my AP calculus class who was an orthodox atheist, and I'm a devout Christian. Naturally there were never arguments, but quite frequently the teacher had to interrupt our class-wide discussions because class had ended. Everyone was mature enough to acknowledge and accept others beliefs, and I'm [ABORTION IS MURDER] sure most of those involved found the discussions to be educational and interesting, including the teacher.
I suppose this was inevitable... I mean, after all, this is one nation under [insert favorite villain here, such as Bob, or Bill, or what's his name]... The constitution states that there will be a separation of church and state, and that all people will have freedom of religion. It never says freedom from religion. Atheism is a religion too...
As for my personal opinion, I think that removing the "under God" part is really lame, perhaps more so than adding it in the first place. I mean, if little Johnny's parents are upset about him being exposed to other beliefs, why not just explain to him that in their home, God means evolution, or DNA, or money, or something like that? It's getting to the point where people who believe in a God or many gods are treated unjustly because of their religious beliefs.
Lindows CEO said in a response to the "where's the source?"/. story a while ago that source code to crossover office came through an agreement between Lindows and Codeweavers to share Wine developments, and that Crossover Office is basically the applicable sections of the Lindows version of Wine.
It worked fine with my voodoo 3. It's these stupid vendor-provided binary only drivers that have problems. The stupidest thing of all is nVidia replacing the system libgl.so with their own SGI-licensed implementation. That's one major reason why you'll never get 3D acceleration on all monitors if one of them is powered by an nVidia.
The plastic thickness has to be a particular fractional multiple of the wavelength of the laser being used, to prevent the coherent laser light from cancelling itself out.
I tried writing on the bottom of a CD with a marker to create a shadow in the burned data of a second session. Unfortunately, the drive interpreted the marker as a signal to move the laser to the end of the disc... instead of burning through the "defect," it skipped it, and began writing again, creating a blank band on the disc followed by another ring of burned area.
Part of the change of heart could be the fact that the RIAA makes a premium on all blank tape sold (ever wonder why blank tape costs more than (insert least favorite group here)?), and all audio CD-R media sold, but they haven't got their fingers around data CD-R or ISP money yet. I'm sure they'll stop complaining when there's a tax on your ISP bill directly to them (per megabyte). It seems some ISP's already do this (excess bandwidth usage fees)...
The thing that really bothers me about Xine is when it scales a DVD down (i.e. 720x480->640x480), it just shifts the 16x16 MPEG-2 blocks, rather than doing a real video scale. This severely distorts the motion of any movie, causes text to look rippled, and faces to look like they went through a meat grinder... Apparently Xine doesn't use Xv to do scaling. Plus, when playing videos with the surround40 alsa driver on my SB Live 5.1, the sound is delayed by half a second or more, and no option is presented to adjust the sound/video sync offset, as there was with OSS. What gives?
The thing I DO like about Xine, however, is that it seems to run much more smoothly than mplayer when given the same DVD to play on the same computer at the same resolution, through the same hardware devices using the same API's (Xv, OSS).
I don't understand either. I've tried showing my parents how to use it, and they just get frustrated and walk away. However, when I didn't tell them it was Linux, and I was just showing them how to watch a dvd by logging in as the DVD user, and to watch tv by logging in as the TV user, on the home theater machine I built them, my mom, sister, dad, brother, etc. all didn't seem to have a problem with that.
Only problem now is... the stupid Samsung DVD drive has major problems with 85% of dual layer discs (even though it says it supports them). My sister had a bunch of friends over to watch Harry Potter, and it hardlocked the system on chapter 18 (by that time, after spinning at full 12X DVD speed for over an hour, the DVD drive was at 120F as well.. the drive doesn't support spin limiting either).
Anyone know of a good DVD drive that supports dual layer discs, as well as spin limiting with hdparm -E? My cheap-as-crap can't-remember-the-brand 56X CD-ROM drive has full spin limiting support...
I'm sure it also helps that it is a GB movie, based on a book by a GB author... If it was released in region 1 first, what kind of sense would that make?
I live in a redneck/hick town. I don't think of myself as better than my neighbors. I have sold computers to several of them, though. All of them want nothing more than to run an old version of Quicken to manage the books for the dairy, Word Perfect 6.0 to type letters to their grand kids, and Printshop to make birthday cards. There were a few exceptions: some of them had kids who wanted to play Star Craft and Half-Life, and one person needed to run the latest QuickBooks to handle payroll for his construction business. Most people can do anything they already do in Windows, with Linux.
The problem for me, however, was that I was 16/17 at the time I was selling these computers, living at home. I got all my referrals from my mom, since she knew the people. She has seen me coding in a Linux console, and after seeing that, started spreading anti-Linux FUD to all the people she was referring to me ("He'll build you a great computer, but he'll try to put Linux on it -- don't let him do that."). I found this out when people started specifically asking NOT to have Linux on their machines (though I've never sold a Linux machine to anyone). Star Craft and Half-Life both run under WineX.
What's the point of this rambling? If you are young and live at home, make sure your parents don't spread Linux FUD, and if you are older, make sure your wife doesn't spread Linux FUD, and if you're old and single, well, get out more. But the real moral of the story is: most people don't need Windows, or even the apps they're used to. Give them a few of their staple apps, such as Star Craft, Quicken, Word, and then fill in the rest with Open Source software, and slowly convert them away from their staple apps (and convert game programmers away from their staple OS). This is exactly what Lindows is doing.
Some people think Lindows will take over Linux and become a Linux monopoly, others think Lindows will just act as the gateway into a new world of software. Whatever. See above for the point of this disjointed, redundant rambling.
No, I believe that's vice versa, electron orbit is said to be speed of light, wave propagation is 2/3 speed of light, and actual matter propagation is centimeters per second.
I once participated in a (state-wide) mathematics contest where a majority of the questions were related to math "tricks" such as those you mention. That was the first year they banned calculators, as calculators would've made everyone ace the test. That was also the year I did worst, since my schools had never taught tricks, but rather we got an overhead view of the underlying principles, without a lot of detail involved. Previous years' tests allowed graphing calculators as powerful as the TI-86, but no more powerful (CAS systems were banned). Those years I did best (top 50 or better in state), because the tests were about deeper (relatively anyway) mathematical concepts, not magic tricks, and I was able to write a program on the spot (my memory was clean -- I wrote the programs during the test) to iterate through a long and tedious process, such as Newton's method.
Much of the detail I learned was from other classes, like AP Physics, and from my own experiments in software (in 9th grade I thought I had figured out perspective). We did learn how to draw an ellipse with a string (in AP Calculus -- no sooner), but only a passing mention was made of why it works, and how to calculate the length of string and focus spacing necessary to create desired ellipses.
By the way: I figured that multiple of three one by myself in junior high. Nobody believed me, though, but I swear it wasn't taught to me.
I transferred everything to my TI-86 and later TI-89 with my parallel port link cable I built. I'd just edit the text files on the computer, convert them to the TI text or program format (basically a raw text file with a short binary header -- as I recall the TI-85 would then compile the program into a binary format the first time it was run), and transfer them to the calculator.
Typing with a computer keyboard is so much easier.
According to a (text)book called Network Analysis I'm borrowing from my uncle, electron propagation rate is approximately 3cm/s. Although, I don't recall if that's in general, or specific to DC circuits, or an ideal rate, or just what...
At my high school the jocks would always be told by the counsellors what classes their friends were in, which teachers and classes to take to get the easiest A (or in other words, which teachers cut the star quarterback/whatever some grading slack), and were overall given preferential treatment. At the expense of whom, might you ask? Why, the intelligent and/or hard working students who preferred music, arts, or technology over football. The worst part is, I'm quite certain the status quo will never change.
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Wow, that's really inane. Now I know why people some peole call some Christians morons... I'm a Christian myself, but I have had little awareness of all the hilarious "evidence" out there... Amazing that people think a big ball of radiation could walk out of the tomb and talk to Mary Magdalene...
Have you ever used LindowsOS? While I personally use Mandrake quite extensively, I wouldn't expect the "average Walmart customer" (as that phrase seems to be so popular here on /.) to fully appreciate it. LindowsOS is, in fact, significantly easier to use in 99% of situations. Personally, I'd rather edit /etc/smb/samba.conf than run a wizard, but does, say, your grandmother want to be confronted by a strange blue dialog in "text mode" saying that a new mouse has been found, and asking her what to do, or would she rather it just start working right away?
In no way am I discrediting Mandrake (or likewise favoring LindowsOS), I'm just saying that for your average desktop user, Mandrake isn't as ideal as LindowsOS, and for your average techie, LindowsOS isn't as ideal as Mandrake, SuSE, Debian, or Gentoo (I use gentoo a lot as well - but I have to wonder if the time saved by applications running faster is greater than the time spent compiling ;p).
Clue: I'd like you to see what happens when all the 'peons' go on strike. Then how important do your jack-crap managers become?
Your measure of importance is highly skewed.
P.S. Nice troll.
D'oh...
Reading the last sentence of your post made me nauseous.. Who would DO such a thing?
I seem to recall a teacher violently escorting a student out of the classroom who refused to say the pledge.
You'd be surprised though, by how tolerant of other views some religious people can be, and likewise, how intolerant some atheists can be.
There was a girl in my AP calculus class who was an orthodox atheist, and I'm a devout Christian. Naturally there were never arguments, but quite frequently the teacher had to interrupt our class-wide discussions because class had ended. Everyone was mature enough to acknowledge and accept others beliefs, and I'm [ABORTION IS MURDER] sure most of those involved found the discussions to be educational and interesting, including the teacher.
I suppose this was inevitable... I mean, after all, this is one nation under [insert favorite villain here, such as Bob, or Bill, or what's his name]... The constitution states that there will be a separation of church and state, and that all people will have freedom of religion. It never says freedom from religion. Atheism is a religion too...
As for my personal opinion, I think that removing the "under God" part is really lame, perhaps more so than adding it in the first place. I mean, if little Johnny's parents are upset about him being exposed to other beliefs, why not just explain to him that in their home, God means evolution, or DNA, or money, or something like that? It's getting to the point where people who believe in a God or many gods are treated unjustly because of their religious beliefs.
As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
Lindows CEO said in a response to the "where's the source?" /. story a while ago that source code to crossover office came through an agreement between Lindows and Codeweavers to share Wine developments, and that Crossover Office is basically the applicable sections of the Lindows version of Wine.
It worked fine with my voodoo 3. It's these stupid vendor-provided binary only drivers that have problems. The stupidest thing of all is nVidia replacing the system libgl.so with their own SGI-licensed implementation. That's one major reason why you'll never get 3D acceleration on all monitors if one of them is powered by an nVidia.
What would be so bad about that? Advertising is a self-propagating wave.
The plastic thickness has to be a particular fractional multiple of the wavelength of the laser being used, to prevent the coherent laser light from cancelling itself out.
I'm sure it depends on how large your image is.
I tried writing on the bottom of a CD with a marker to create a shadow in the burned data of a second session. Unfortunately, the drive interpreted the marker as a signal to move the laser to the end of the disc... instead of burning through the "defect," it skipped it, and began writing again, creating a blank band on the disc followed by another ring of burned area.
Perhaps he meant the linear velocity when spinning at a constant 1x angular velocity (which no CD-ROM drive does)?
Part of the change of heart could be the fact that the RIAA makes a premium on all blank tape sold (ever wonder why blank tape costs more than (insert least favorite group here)?), and all audio CD-R media sold, but they haven't got their fingers around data CD-R or ISP money yet. I'm sure they'll stop complaining when there's a tax on your ISP bill directly to them (per megabyte). It seems some ISP's already do this (excess bandwidth usage fees)...
The thing that really bothers me about Xine is when it scales a DVD down (i.e. 720x480->640x480), it just shifts the 16x16 MPEG-2 blocks, rather than doing a real video scale. This severely distorts the motion of any movie, causes text to look rippled, and faces to look like they went through a meat grinder... Apparently Xine doesn't use Xv to do scaling. Plus, when playing videos with the surround40 alsa driver on my SB Live 5.1, the sound is delayed by half a second or more, and no option is presented to adjust the sound/video sync offset, as there was with OSS. What gives?
The thing I DO like about Xine, however, is that it seems to run much more smoothly than mplayer when given the same DVD to play on the same computer at the same resolution, through the same hardware devices using the same API's (Xv, OSS).
I don't understand either. I've tried showing my parents how to use it, and they just get frustrated and walk away. However, when I didn't tell them it was Linux, and I was just showing them how to watch a dvd by logging in as the DVD user, and to watch tv by logging in as the TV user, on the home theater machine I built them, my mom, sister, dad, brother, etc. all didn't seem to have a problem with that.
Only problem now is... the stupid Samsung DVD drive has major problems with 85% of dual layer discs (even though it says it supports them). My sister had a bunch of friends over to watch Harry Potter, and it hardlocked the system on chapter 18 (by that time, after spinning at full 12X DVD speed for over an hour, the DVD drive was at 120F as well.. the drive doesn't support spin limiting either).
Anyone know of a good DVD drive that supports dual layer discs, as well as spin limiting with hdparm -E? My cheap-as-crap can't-remember-the-brand 56X CD-ROM drive has full spin limiting support...
I'm sure it also helps that it is a GB movie, based on a book by a GB author... If it was released in region 1 first, what kind of sense would that make?
I live in a redneck/hick town. I don't think of myself as better than my neighbors. I have sold computers to several of them, though. All of them want nothing more than to run an old version of Quicken to manage the books for the dairy, Word Perfect 6.0 to type letters to their grand kids, and Printshop to make birthday cards. There were a few exceptions: some of them had kids who wanted to play Star Craft and Half-Life, and one person needed to run the latest QuickBooks to handle payroll for his construction business. Most people can do anything they already do in Windows, with Linux.
The problem for me, however, was that I was 16/17 at the time I was selling these computers, living at home. I got all my referrals from my mom, since she knew the people. She has seen me coding in a Linux console, and after seeing that, started spreading anti-Linux FUD to all the people she was referring to me ("He'll build you a great computer, but he'll try to put Linux on it -- don't let him do that."). I found this out when people started specifically asking NOT to have Linux on their machines (though I've never sold a Linux machine to anyone). Star Craft and Half-Life both run under WineX.
What's the point of this rambling? If you are young and live at home, make sure your parents don't spread Linux FUD, and if you are older, make sure your wife doesn't spread Linux FUD, and if you're old and single, well, get out more. But the real moral of the story is: most people don't need Windows, or even the apps they're used to. Give them a few of their staple apps, such as Star Craft, Quicken, Word, and then fill in the rest with Open Source software, and slowly convert them away from their staple apps (and convert game programmers away from their staple OS). This is exactly what Lindows is doing.
Some people think Lindows will take over Linux and become a Linux monopoly, others think Lindows will just act as the gateway into a new world of software. Whatever. See above for the point of this disjointed, redundant rambling.
No, I believe that's vice versa, electron orbit is said to be speed of light, wave propagation is 2/3 speed of light, and actual matter propagation is centimeters per second.
I once participated in a (state-wide) mathematics contest where a majority of the questions were related to math "tricks" such as those you mention. That was the first year they banned calculators, as calculators would've made everyone ace the test. That was also the year I did worst, since my schools had never taught tricks, but rather we got an overhead view of the underlying principles, without a lot of detail involved. Previous years' tests allowed graphing calculators as powerful as the TI-86, but no more powerful (CAS systems were banned). Those years I did best (top 50 or better in state), because the tests were about deeper (relatively anyway) mathematical concepts, not magic tricks, and I was able to write a program on the spot (my memory was clean -- I wrote the programs during the test) to iterate through a long and tedious process, such as Newton's method.
Much of the detail I learned was from other classes, like AP Physics, and from my own experiments in software (in 9th grade I thought I had figured out perspective). We did learn how to draw an ellipse with a string (in AP Calculus -- no sooner), but only a passing mention was made of why it works, and how to calculate the length of string and focus spacing necessary to create desired ellipses.
By the way: I figured that multiple of three one by myself in junior high. Nobody believed me, though, but I swear it wasn't taught to me.
I transferred everything to my TI-86 and later TI-89 with my parallel port link cable I built. I'd just edit the text files on the computer, convert them to the TI text or program format (basically a raw text file with a short binary header -- as I recall the TI-85 would then compile the program into a binary format the first time it was run), and transfer them to the calculator.
Typing with a computer keyboard is so much easier.
According to a (text)book called Network Analysis I'm borrowing from my uncle, electron propagation rate is approximately 3cm/s. Although, I don't recall if that's in general, or specific to DC circuits, or an ideal rate, or just what...
At my high school the jocks would always be told by the counsellors what classes their friends were in, which teachers and classes to take to get the easiest A (or in other words, which teachers cut the star quarterback/whatever some grading slack), and were overall given preferential treatment. At the expense of whom, might you ask? Why, the intelligent and/or hard working students who preferred music, arts, or technology over football. The worst part is, I'm quite certain the status quo will never change.
Sandra played the girl in The Net. The shift-click Pi symbol linked you to the praetorius(sp) terrorist organization magic spy page that was on all Gatekeeper protected systems.