Just for the record, WP8 is essentially the only piece of Windows software that's still used by my sister... I know she'll be happy when WP2k/Linux comes out. I'll be happy to get rid of that I-have-window-manager-delussions piece of software on some boxes...
An install script that automatically adds an icon or a menu entry for Gnome, KDE, or Afterstep. Come on, this is not rocket science. Took me a grand total of three minutes to figure out how to have my RPMs install the icons.
(I don't use GNOME, I don't use KDE) AFAIK, with GNOME this might be possible in a distrubution neutral way, with KDE I don't have any idea, but with AfterSTEP and the like, you are getting dangeously close to distribution-specific stuff that I would not like to see in WP2k or any other product for that matter... and I'm a Debian user, I hope Corel has got some pretty decent working experience with Debian, they know for sure they have to stick one file in one directory to get the thing installed on every window manager's menu, but it's still distribution specific (darth! why won't the other distros see the light and admit that menu is a great idea...)
[...] because of the nation's [US's] leadership role in inventing and promoting the Internet
Excuse me? Last time I checked, CERN hasn't been moved to the US and this "Internet" they talk about is nothing but the freaking world wide web. Promote all that you want, but the US did not "invent" it... if you really mean the Internet, ok, but I'm pretty sure it's the WWW they are talking about.
Answer this, and you've got your answer. I sure didn't get my first copy because I thought "Oh, I can edit the code! Its all free!" - I thought -> "Oh, a new OS to try out!"
As a matter of fact... yes. I did start with Linux because it was GPLed (not Open Source, at that time ERS hadn't even thought of making "freedom" marketing-correct). By the time I became aware of Linux's existance (and by the first time I saw a box running Linux) I did know what the GPL was. In fact, I had read it quite a few times trying to get "the catch" in it... The first thing the person who showed me that first box told me, was that the kernel of that operating system was GPLed.
So you are partially right, I couldn't care less if the source was available or not. What I cared was the thing was under a license that I liked. Too many times I had seen "see the code but don't toucht it" type of licenses...
I don't know what mags this ad's been running in, but sure bet it is probably something like PHB World or something.
Linux Journal. Picked a copy at the Frankfurt airport. Read the ad. Thought about sending a comment about it to/., gave it a second thought. It was not worth it.
I know it was a joke, but it think/. actually ran a story about barrapunto (slashdot in Spanish), which is not only a translation of Taco's idea for the name, but an actual mimic of/. (a bad one, but a mimic nonetheless)
I assume that the gravity lensing difference between the two stars can easily be picked out because although they both throw a lot of light, they don't have the same spectrum, and probably not even the same redshift. You can then subtract out the closer star because you very carefully observed it when there was nothing significant behind it.
This is not gravitational lensing, but gravitational microlensing. From the BBC text I guess it's the planet's gravitational field modifying the star's light curve. The light curve is a plot of light intensity vs time. For a main sequence star, i.e., a "regular" one, say, Sol, there's no reason for the light curve to change over a small period of time (400 days or less, typical in microlensing events). Now, what puzzles me is an Earth sized planet's gravitational field isn't strong enough for the effect to be measurable.
Back when I read alt.hackers on a regular basis (early 90s) the general consensus seemed to be that it involved not necessarily programming, but pretty much any clever solution to a given problem. Sometimes it might involve rewiring power tools, sometimes writing/changing code, maybe even just pounding pieces of wood together..
This is interesting. I can imagine several medical applications for this kind of robots... I wonder how they perform under extreme conditions (high pressure and high pH come to mind)
I don't know if this is just me, but compared to the last few days, I think this thread is much noisier with many comments getting scores that are way too high...
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Just for the record, WP8 is essentially the only piece of Windows software that's still used by my sister... I know she'll be happy when WP2k/Linux comes out. I'll be happy to get rid of that I-have-window-manager-delussions piece of software on some boxes...
(I don't use GNOME, I don't use KDE) AFAIK, with GNOME this might be possible in a distrubution neutral way, with KDE I don't have any idea, but with AfterSTEP and the like, you are getting dangeously close to distribution-specific stuff that I would not like to see in WP2k or any other product for that matter... and I'm a Debian user, I hope Corel has got some pretty decent working experience with Debian, they know for sure they have to stick one file in one directory to get the thing installed on every window manager's menu, but it's still distribution specific (darth! why won't the other distros see the light and admit that menu is a great idea...)
Excuse me? Last time I checked, CERN hasn't been moved to the US and this "Internet" they talk about is nothing but the freaking world wide web. Promote all that you want, but the US did not "invent" it... if you really mean the Internet, ok, but I'm pretty sure it's the WWW they are talking about.
It seems Lycos is filtering stuff out... for example, if you look at Lycos Home > Reference > Education > Directories-n-Resources > Search Engines Altavista, Deja, Excite, Yahoo! are not there... ok, maybe the "education" thigie has something to do with it... but Compu ters > Internet > WWW > Searching the Web > Search Engines doesn't list them either... they are stuffed in Lycos Home > Computers > Internet > WWW > Searching the Web > Search Engines > General.
This is sad, as I remember the first lycos versions, for which source code was available...
And I'm sure that if pregnancy rates don't lower now there won't be much of a world where we geeks can rise /. usage in a not so distant future...
As a matter of fact... yes. I did start with Linux because it was GPLed (not Open Source, at that time ERS hadn't even thought of making "freedom" marketing-correct). By the time I became aware of Linux's existance (and by the first time I saw a box running Linux) I did know what the GPL was. In fact, I had read it quite a few times trying to get "the catch" in it... The first thing the person who showed me that first box told me, was that the kernel of that operating system was GPLed.
So you are partially right, I couldn't care less if the source was available or not. What I cared was the thing was under a license that I liked. Too many times I had seen "see the code but don't toucht it" type of licenses...
agreed... perhaps missing:
Linux Journal. Picked a copy at the Frankfurt airport. Read the ad. Thought about sending a comment about it to /., gave it a second thought. It was not worth it.
I know it was a joke, but it think /. actually ran a story about barrapunto (slashdot in Spanish), which is not only a translation of Taco's idea for the name, but an actual mimic of /. (a bad one, but a mimic nonetheless)
This is not gravitational lensing, but gravitational microlensing. From the BBC text I guess it's the planet's gravitational field modifying the star's light curve. The light curve is a plot of light intensity vs time. For a main sequence star, i.e., a "regular" one, say, Sol, there's no reason for the light curve to change over a small period of time (400 days or less, typical in microlensing events). Now, what puzzles me is an Earth sized planet's gravitational field isn't strong enough for the effect to be measurable.
You can look here and here if you are interested in more information about gravitational lenses. I couldn't find more details at Mount Stromlo Observatory's homepage.
wow, you just described Richard Feynman there...
This is interesting. I can imagine several medical applications for this kind of robots... I wonder how they perform under extreme conditions (high pressure and high pH come to mind)
I don't know if this is just me, but compared to the last few days, I think this thread is much noisier with many comments getting scores that are way too high...
Marcelo