As I pointed out some time ago, some modified spam-filter would be a good thing for slashdot. This dupe-filter won't only be useful for titlepage dupes, but could also give the writer of a comment a hint that a similar comment already exists.
A specially adapted Bayesian filter should do it. One for articles (to detect dupes), and one for each article (to dected similar comments).
1. The future of QT was uncertain and still is uncertain. We all should be very careful and make sure that *if* we include QT into the X windowing system that it *is* and *remains* a free, open-source version of QT.
2. Then there is the question which toolkit to use. I agree that some higher standard than xlib would be a good thing. But, then again, the world is divided in QT/KDE and GTK/Gnome. (And I personally wonder what to use on older machines with not enough harddisk space nor computing power for KDE 3.2 or Gnome 2.5. But, on the other hand, I should perhaps upgrade my computer...)
Why the hell do you think this should be rated "funny"? Just go on and buy a train ticket in some ex-soviet country: The nice lady behind the counter will take an abacus and calculate the price before she types it into her cash register.
Today I cleaned a friend's computer from something which I haven't seen before (btw, it is already mentioned in four other comments here).
His IE always showed "here4search.com" as starting page which always reappeared after manually resetting it. Having seen similiar things before I tried AdWare and checked for some unsual things in Autostart. But after rebooting... it was there again!
This here4search.com-thing is part of the CoolWebSearch trojan and can be detected by Hijack This! and (which is even better) can be removed easely with CWShredder.
Nasty thing, but it was gone afterwards.
I surely do not need to mention that you should install some tools like a decent spyware killer (like AdAware), a decent virus killer, a small personal firewall and someother browser/mailclient than the duo infernale IE/Outlook, if you insist on running Windows.
I wonder which dumba^H^H^H^H^Hmathematical specialist chose to use the framerate as timeunit for all the calculations. That's highly unfair.
After all, I want things to happen - even if I don't see them on my 200MHz MMX ATI Radeon.;-)
And actually, this timeunit problem is quite old: Remeber all those funny M$-DOS-games that you liked to play on your 8086? And then you had to switch this "TURBO" button on your 80286 to be able to play them again.
OK, guys, to troll a little bit:
1) Amiga programmers used to use the time.device.;)
2) One poster told you Hz (or 1/s) stands for Hurtz. Never heard about Hurtz, but Heinrich Hertz
is supposedly upset that someone stole his idea...
I don't understand why anybody would want to change bash to tcsh.
When I started playing with FreeBSD I was forced to used tcsh, since it is installed by default.
After some initial problems (like different keys for auto-completition and history filtering according to what you started to type) I actually started to like this style. And today, I'm left contemplating whether I should change my default shell in Linux to tcsh. But that would mean to change lots of files:
Just imagine, you donwload something nice, do "./configure" and - voila - syntax error.
Doctors keep telling me that the main reason for organ-shortage is not the evil families or the dead who want to keep their organs but the doctor who refuses to ask the family whether he might take the organs.
After all, imagine you are standing in front of a family that is sobbing and crying and you have somewho to ask whether it is okay to take the organs...
Interestingly, this "HIV==AIDS myth"-thing appears in a "6. Profit"-thread.
There are some scientists (like the (in-)famous Peter Duesberg, see here and somewhere in here) who strongly argue against the fact that HIV usually causes AIDS. They even argue that drugs against HIV (like AZT) cause AIDS.
Especially some african governments appreciate this view.
So, here we go...
1. Deny that HIV causes AIDS
2. Say that drugs against HIV cause AIDS
3. Ban all those drugs from your (banana republic) country
4. Profit !!! -> less uneducated, sexual (over-)active people to care about
5. Even more profit -> no need to pay for drugs against HIV and a working infrastructure to bring them to the patients and ensure a steady treatment
Notez bien: The "???"-step is not necessary, instead you get two "profit!"-steps!
AmigaOS was 32 bit by design. Just some weird dos.library-calls were 16 bit concerning address space (ported from some *nix IIRC).
I think the first AmigaOS came out in 1984.
AmigaOS is a full 32-bit OS that was running on a 16/32-bit-CPU in the beginning (meaning a CPU with internal 32 bit for registers and so on, but only a 16 bit address and data bus).
And now, let the flame war begin.;-)
PS: Ah, yes, and OS/2, Linux, BSD or Xenix are 32 bit OSes for the Intel-architecture before 1995.
Yes, apart from the grammatical problems, you are hinting at the problem that perhaps we do not need a plural for "virus".
That might be true for a translation like "slime", but it is not true when seeing a virus as a disease-causing agent, as we do nowadays.
Besides, pluralforms of not countable things exist. One beer, two beers. "Informationen" (German) vs "information" (English). Again, I'd recommend you this book I've been talking about (Words and Rules).
And yes, BTW: virus -i n. [slimy liquid , slime; poison, esp. of snakes, venom; any harsh taste or smell].
Taken from here.
Can anybody confirm this? Virus, -i, neutrum? What kind of declination is that?
Sure, everybody has its own style to write a text. And then there are some problems with translating names (of persons and things). Should I translate "dementor" as "Dementor" or rather as "Geistsauger"? Do I need to translate the patronus charm? These were some of the questions that I was asking me when I did the translation of my five pages. (I didn't know about this HP-dictionary.)
And it's only now I recognized, how many english words for "zittern" exist: quiver, tremble, shake,...
You englishmen do this quite a lot, don't you?;-)
Forming the plural is always dependant on the language in which you are using the word.
The default plural form for native english speakers is adding a "s" to the end of the word.
Some latinophiles might insist on using the correct latin plural form in the english language. I don't know about the english language, but it is très chic to use those archaic latin or greek plural forms in german (like "Atlanten" as plural for "Atlas" instead of the german form "Atlasse").
However, virus is a widespread word of latin origin that is today used in a very different context. Originally meant to mean "disease", it is nowadays used to describe disease-causing agents (the viruses in the biologic/medical field) and "computer-disease-causing" agents (the viruses in the IT-field). This shows that it has little in common with the original word and might thus be regarded as an english word. So it is safe and ok to say "viruses".
For an interesting read I'd recommend you Steven Pinker's Words and rules.
Z backscatter seems to base on the Compton effect. (At least that's what the specs from AS&E say.)
There are three major effects ionisating radiation has on matter. Photoeffect, Compton-effect and pair emission. The last one appears only with very high energies, the first one need elements with high mass.
This leaves the Compton effect that mainly takes place with medium energies and affects rather light elements, as used in organic matter. Briefly, the photon splits into a less-powerful photon and an electron. The new photon might (or might not) come back to you. This (back-)scattered light can be detected with special sensors.
For medical purposes this scattered light is a PITA since you only get some gray blurred edges. But it seems to me that now there exists a new technique to get some good information out of this scattered light.
I say: next-generation input devices are based on directly tapping into your brain. There is some great research on linking neurons and technical devices (as previously reported on/.) and there is ongoing research in controlling a pointing devices via thougths.
Although this one is my favorite quote, too, it is wrong. Berkeley made BSD which might (or might not) have some UNIX-code left.
And LSD was developped in Switzerland, I think.
Slashdot Mirror
As I pointed out some time ago, some modified spam-filter would be a good thing for slashdot. This dupe-filter won't only be useful for titlepage dupes, but could also give the writer of a comment a hint that a similar comment already exists.
A specially adapted Bayesian filter should do it. One for articles (to detect dupes), and one for each article (to dected similar comments).
Well... take this:
uhci0: Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller irq 0 at device 1.2 on pci0
uhci0: Could not map ports
Kernel recompilation with PCI_ENABLE_IO_MODES does result in a total hangup on boottime.
So... no USB for this computer.
I don't. I prefer optical scroll wheel mouses. With PS/2 adapter (so they work with FreeBSD).
Remeber the times of slow internet? A proxy might (or might not) save some load on a singe DSL or whatever line to the rest of the world.
Just get 4-LATEST or 5-CURRENT...
Someone who understands me...
/.
Obviously, sarcasm is no good on
So I'll make my point again in other words:
1. The future of QT was uncertain and still is uncertain. We all should be very careful and make sure that *if* we include QT into the X windowing system that it *is* and *remains* a free, open-source version of QT.
2. Then there is the question which toolkit to use. I agree that some higher standard than xlib would be a good thing. But, then again, the world is divided in QT/KDE and GTK/Gnome. (And I personally wonder what to use on older machines with not enough harddisk space nor computing power for KDE 3.2 or Gnome 2.5. But, on the other hand, I should perhaps upgrade my computer...)
If you want coffee, you have the choice between:
kde-koffee-3.2-beta1.i586.mdk.rpm
or the Linux Coffee HOWTO
You pays your money, you takes your choice...
Naaah... don't use QT. It's close sourced! Use gtk! Hmm... or perhaps xforms? Hmmm.. difficult...
Why is this comment rated "funny"? I'd prefer "scary".
Oh, brave new world...
... everybody used an abacus.
.
.
.
Why the hell do you think this should be rated "funny"? Just go on and buy a train ticket in some ex-soviet country: The nice lady behind the counter will take an abacus and calculate the price before she types it into her cash register.
Today I cleaned a friend's computer from something which I haven't seen before (btw, it is already mentioned in four other comments here).
His IE always showed "here4search.com" as starting page which always reappeared after manually resetting it. Having seen similiar things before I tried AdWare and checked for some unsual things in Autostart. But after rebooting... it was there again!
This here4search.com-thing is part of the CoolWebSearch trojan and can be detected by Hijack This! and (which is even better) can be removed easely with CWShredder.
Nasty thing, but it was gone afterwards.
I surely do not need to mention that you should install some tools like a decent spyware killer (like AdAware), a decent virus killer, a small personal firewall and some other browser/mailclient than the duo infernale IE/Outlook, if you insist on running Windows.
Ahh... I *think* I get the meaning... but I do not understand how to navigate this source tree...
Well... and, of course, I wonder why my posts are always rejected, since they are more understandable than this freak thing.
Must be the smell of the old chocolate cake behind my keyboard or something...
I wonder which dumba^H^H^H^H^Hmathematical specialist chose to use the framerate as timeunit for all the calculations. That's highly unfair. After all, I want things to happen - even if I don't see them on my 200MHz MMX ATI Radeon. ;-)
;)
And actually, this timeunit problem is quite old: Remeber all those funny M$-DOS-games that you liked to play on your 8086? And then you had to switch this "TURBO" button on your 80286 to be able to play them again.
OK, guys, to troll a little bit:
1) Amiga programmers used to use the time.device.
2) One poster told you Hz (or 1/s) stands for Hurtz. Never heard about Hurtz, but Heinrich Hertz is supposedly upset that someone stole his idea...
I don't understand why anybody would want to change bash to tcsh.
When I started playing with FreeBSD I was forced to used tcsh, since it is installed by default.
After some initial problems (like different keys for auto-completition and history filtering according to what you started to type) I actually started to like this style. And today, I'm left contemplating whether I should change my default shell in Linux to tcsh. But that would mean to change lots of files:
Just imagine, you donwload something nice, do "./configure" and - voila - syntax error.
Yours??? I feared it was mine...
Doctors keep telling me that the main reason for organ-shortage is not the evil families or the dead who want to keep their organs but the doctor who refuses to ask the family whether he might take the organs.
After all, imagine you are standing in front of a family that is sobbing and crying and you have somewho to ask whether it is okay to take the organs...
Interestingly, this "HIV==AIDS myth"-thing appears in a "6. Profit"-thread.
There are some scientists (like the (in-)famous Peter Duesberg, see here and somewhere in here) who strongly argue against the fact that HIV usually causes AIDS. They even argue that drugs against HIV (like AZT) cause AIDS.
Especially some african governments appreciate this view.
So, here we go...
1. Deny that HIV causes AIDS
2. Say that drugs against HIV cause AIDS
3. Ban all those drugs from your (banana republic) country
4. Profit !!! -> less uneducated, sexual (over-)active people to care about
5. Even more profit -> no need to pay for drugs against HIV and a working infrastructure to bring them to the patients and ensure a steady treatment
Notez bien: The "???"-step is not necessary, instead you get two "profit!"-steps!
AmigaOS was 32 bit by design. Just some weird dos.library-calls were 16 bit concerning address space (ported from some *nix IIRC).
I think the first AmigaOS came out in 1984.
Wrong.
;-)
AmigaOS is a full 32-bit OS that was running on a 16/32-bit-CPU in the beginning (meaning a CPU with internal 32 bit for registers and so on, but only a 16 bit address and data bus).
And now, let the flame war begin.
PS: Ah, yes, and OS/2, Linux, BSD or Xenix are 32 bit OSes for the Intel-architecture before 1995.
Yes, apart from the grammatical problems, you are hinting at the problem that perhaps we do not need a plural for "virus".
That might be true for a translation like "slime", but it is not true when seeing a virus as a disease-causing agent, as we do nowadays.
Besides, pluralforms of not countable things exist. One beer, two beers. "Informationen" (German) vs "information" (English). Again, I'd recommend you this book I've been talking about (Words and Rules).
And yes, BTW:
virus -i n. [slimy liquid , slime; poison, esp. of snakes, venom; any harsh taste or smell].
Taken from here. Can anybody confirm this? Virus, -i, neutrum? What kind of declination is that?
Sure, everybody has its own style to write a text. And then there are some problems with translating names (of persons and things). Should I translate "dementor" as "Dementor" or rather as "Geistsauger"? Do I need to translate the patronus charm? These were some of the questions that I was asking me when I did the translation of my five pages. (I didn't know about this HP-dictionary.) ... ;-)
And it's only now I recognized, how many english words for "zittern" exist: quiver, tremble, shake,
You englishmen do this quite a lot, don't you?
Forming the plural is always dependant on the language in which you are using the word.
The default plural form for native english speakers is adding a "s" to the end of the word.
Some latinophiles might insist on using the correct latin plural form in the english language. I don't know about the english language, but it is très chic to use those archaic latin or greek plural forms in german (like "Atlanten" as plural for "Atlas" instead of the german form "Atlasse").
However, virus is a widespread word of latin origin that is today used in a very different context. Originally meant to mean "disease", it is nowadays used to describe disease-causing agents (the viruses in the biologic/medical field) and "computer-disease-causing" agents (the viruses in the IT-field). This shows that it has little in common with the original word and might thus be regarded as an english word. So it is safe and ok to say "viruses".
For an interesting read I'd recommend you Steven Pinker's Words and rules.
Nichts gegen Bremsstrahlung, aber...
Z backscatter seems to base on the Compton effect. (At least that's what the specs from AS&E say.)
There are three major effects ionisating radiation has on matter. Photoeffect, Compton-effect and pair emission. The last one appears only with very high energies, the first one need elements with high mass.
This leaves the Compton effect that mainly takes place with medium energies and affects rather light elements, as used in organic matter. Briefly, the photon splits into a less-powerful photon and an electron. The new photon might (or might not) come back to you. This (back-)scattered light can be detected with special sensors.
For medical purposes this scattered light is a PITA since you only get some gray blurred edges. But it seems to me that now there exists a new technique to get some good information out of this scattered light.
Just my two cents...
It's all crap! ;-)
/.) and there is ongoing research in
I say: next-generation input devices are based on directly tapping into your brain. There is some great research on linking neurons and technical devices (as previously reported on
controlling a pointing devices via thougths.
Although this one is my favorite quote, too, it is wrong. Berkeley made BSD which might (or might not) have some UNIX-code left. And LSD was developped in Switzerland, I think.