While I completely agree in theory, I find that I go back to my logs quite often since I have them. I get a lot of information through IM, and I find myself needing to go back to it later. Sometimes I even IM myself to make notes I know I will want later, but am too lazy to use a frickin post it note.
As for the human aspect, I also find myself pouring over old IMs from when my girlfriend and I started going out, as if they were old letters. It's neat to see how much those "quick little chats" still mean to me.
Yeah, casing is the hardest part, in my opinion. (then again, I haven't done any home made cd changers or 3d scanners either...)
I am currently learning to work with stained glass (should make some nice boxes), as well as looking for a local machinist. And don't forget about Front Panel Express, even though I'd really like to find something cheaper...
I second that. I finished my [girlfriend's] gainclone over the summer, and it turned out wonderful. The sound truly does have to be heard to be believed. Pics and details at my page: soma.freeshell.org/audio.php
Got any pics/design details? I don't know much about tube amps at all but I haven't seen anything near 400w/ch! How much did the main parts (not casing, etc) cost all together?
So do Northen Michigan Univerity students. It's not that cool though, we pay somewhere around 400 dollars/semester to lease them from IBM (though this does include network fees as well), then have the option to buy for another 400 after they are two years old.
I am sort of glad for it though, without the program I probably wouldn't have gotten a laptop and realized how wonderful they are. Then again, I am a CS student, so I get more than the average use out of it. Most people just IM and download spyware, I mean music, with theirs.
Oh, and art students get iBooks, though they have to pay more.
www.diyaudio.com is a pretty good approximation of what you are trying to get at I think. I spend a lot of time browsing around those forums, people post schematics, think up new ideas and test them against the community, and help newbies out with building the stuff. Also, they often do "group buys" of the hardware that is necessary so many people can get the stuff relatively cheap.
I mean, its simple. All you have to do is click on use advanced options radio button, and then click the change advanced settings. No, the little circle first, right. Then the advanced button, and select check hosts file and check Internet Explorer preferences, then click on Next and Continue and, grrr. MOOOVE.
I've wondered about that myself, though its usually as easy as if its not in/usr/bin or/usr/local its/opt. Weird, and annoying.
The only other thing that's annoyed me with gentoo is when etc-update hoses my fstab (and half a dozen other important files.) Maybe I just don't know how to use it properly. That and waiting for a new program to get into portage, but that is the price you pay for reliability in dep. handling.
I've used Muine, a while ago. It automatically downloads album covers from amazon or something, which was cool but didn't always work. Also, it is organised into albums, so if you've got a directory of music thats mix and match, you have to select an album just to hear the one song off of that album. I could be wrong however, it was a while ago.
Actually, I think it suffers from that all too common among Apple and Gnome base apps problem of "Its so intuitive it's annoying." I like an asthetically pleasing app as much as anyone, but it's almost as if people are afraid of control and buttons and things these days. If you're used to XMMS, it's going to be hard to beat in terms of functionality.
When Napster first got real press, it was bad. Napster eventually lost, because the bad press was true, but the press is what brought it to my attention, and what attracted me to it.
I think you are right concerning businesses and the like, they are likely to stay away from anything even remotely dubious. I would say however that your "average computer user" (whatever that means) is actually more attracted to things that have a bit of an edge to them, which linux now has do to this whole debacle.
I have to say I hate this approach. I work at a computer help desk, one day I was doing phone support and someone had done that with every IE icon on the machine, when all I wanted was IE so I could help the customer set up an option over the phone.
Admittedly an extreme case, but do we really want to win support for a browser via intentionaly misleading people?
Yeah, I used to get a kick out of this and run my wallpaper as ifs or the OSX screensaver knockoff:
/usr/lib/xscreensaver/xflame -root
The/usr/lib/screensaver part is there because its not in my path, so I have to tell it where the screensaver (in this case xflame) is, and the -root option tells it to display on the root window. I'm not sure how well this will work on Gnome etc., as they might handle their root window a lot causing them to disrupt the 'saver, but for simple WMs it works great.
There are a lot of extra flags for each screensaver too: man xflame
And if you put it into a startup script (such as.xinitrc) with a & after it, it will tell it to run the command in the background and move on.
Cool ways to eat CPU. Also, might I suggest www.electricsheep.org
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What the differences between all of these groups actually are? I can see I'm not the only one with the problem, but I think I'm further gone than most. I often read in the political realm, and am at least fairly knowledgeable about a few current world and American events (I read slashdot after all) but I can never decide what these terms seem to mean. Left wing, Right wing, Liberal, Conservative, hell even Democrat and Republican are terms thrown about, all over the place, and they all seems to make claims both the same, and contradictory, about their own views and the views of the other parties.
Possibly I should elaborate on my own (current) understanding, which is very limited, and probably quite wrong. So far I seem to have seperated two distinct groups of people among all of these words, people who tend to be about resisting change, extending governmental powers, and things like that. With this I tend to associate the words conservative, republican, and right wing. Then there are the "pot smoking hippies" as my unconscious mind refers to them, with which I associate the words liberal, democrat, and left wing, who _seem_ to be about limiting governmental powers, and exacting reform.
However, I've also read lots of counter examples to this. For instance, I once read that conservatives were so called because they wanted governmental powers to be held in check (conservative with power) and liberals were all about liberal powers for government. Thus, I tend to be rather confused, and shy away from political discussions because I fear showing my ignorance.
I'm actually pretty good about resisting associating myself with any "party" of people, as I think it is a sign of weakness to need to define your values as that of a group of people, rather than thinking as an individual. This might seem like a liberal point of view (I think...) but I really doubt it is any of these people's point of veiw.
So, if anyone out there could tell me, in all honesty and truth - is there any objective reality to any of these words and labels?
Subject says it all really, and as far as down as I looked at this point (about 300 comments) very few people were pointing this out, quite like you were. I've got a bit heftier laptop that I used to have, but even when it was a 700 Celeron it was blindingly fast, especially with fluxbox and 2.6 series kernel.
I guess another thing is I'm pretty picky about my desktop, with fluxbox being my top choice giving me lots of screen real estate.
The only thing that can compare to the speed and beauty of my laptop was my roommates old laptop, he had XP with a blackbox port as the WM and a bunch of the services turned off, which was pretty sweet for windows XP.
RAM is cheaper than programmer time. Particularly since the developers don't have to buy the RAM...
Sad, but true. Though, there really is no excuse for for the iTouch problem, then again there is no reason to spend 6 months trying to fit a word processor into 640K (like they had to in the "old days" my prof likes to talk about so much.) There really must be a happy medium, and I think most apps and OS's are at it.
Just so you're aware, according to the book Espresso by Petzke and Slavin-
"Although most people assume espresso to be as strong as in caffeine as it is in flavor and aroma, it contains less than one half to one third of the caffeine in a cup of coffee brewed from robusta beans, the cheaper coffee beans used for canned coffee. Arabica beans, the high-quality beans used for espresso, have less caffeine. The dark-roast process, which concentrates the flavor of the beans used to make an espresso blend, also has the effect of burning off some of the caffeine content, so that the darker the roast, the lower the caffeine."
Possibly not the best source of information, but for a book dedicated to the subject of espresso, its got to be pretty near the target. And I know what you mean, a lot of people drink fancy drinks as opposed to coffee, which I think actually requires a finer taste (well until you're addicted anyway, which might be the cause of the finer taste in coffee - the fact that we keep on drinking it.)
Yeah, but that would mean retyping all of the documents... this is another of the side affects of running a Dead Tree Tyranny
To be honest, I have no idea how many current documents are kept primarily in electronic form (making a simple text replacement possible), but I doubt its very many.
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I'd be interested to see what would happen if someone were to write one that would actually really mess up a machine, make it unusable. The repercussions would be huge, but more than that it would get something done either in the way of a huge code audit (with everyone from Microsoft to OSS looking very carefully at their stuff) or of some other possibly policy change - that would ruin the game for them. I bet thats why they're not doing it too, they know the greater public would finally have to find a way to protect themselves, and then the jig would be up. If only...
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You know we're talking about a dead meme when the first comment is modded redundant.
The beowulf cluster joke is dead, long live the beowulf cluster joke!!
While I completely agree in theory, I find that I go back to my logs quite often since I have them. I get a lot of information through IM, and I find myself needing to go back to it later. Sometimes I even IM myself to make notes I know I will want later, but am too lazy to use a frickin post it note.
As for the human aspect, I also find myself pouring over old IMs from when my girlfriend and I started going out, as if they were old letters. It's neat to see how much those "quick little chats" still mean to me.
If you scroll to the bottom of the page, they show a picture of the lenses flipping up, for just such an occasion.
Though, they still look ridiculous (horrific, even). Maybe that's why the first two people using them look like they're screaming?
Yeah, casing is the hardest part, in my opinion. (then again, I haven't done any home made cd changers or 3d scanners either...)
I am currently learning to work with stained glass (should make some nice boxes), as well as looking for a local machinist. And don't forget about Front Panel Express, even though I'd really like to find something cheaper...
I second that. I finished my [girlfriend's] gainclone over the summer, and it turned out wonderful. The sound truly does have to be heard to be believed. Pics and details at my page: soma.freeshell.org/audio.php
Got any pics/design details? I don't know much about tube amps at all but I haven't seen anything near 400w/ch! How much did the main parts (not casing, etc) cost all together?
So do Northen Michigan Univerity students. It's not that cool though, we pay somewhere around 400 dollars/semester to lease them from IBM (though this does include network fees as well), then have the option to buy for another 400 after they are two years old.
I am sort of glad for it though, without the program I probably wouldn't have gotten a laptop and realized how wonderful they are. Then again, I am a CS student, so I get more than the average use out of it. Most people just IM and download spyware, I mean music, with theirs.
Oh, and art students get iBooks, though they have to pay more.
That's the pov-ray logo.
I haven't actually "laughed out loud" at anything on the internet in a long time - thank you.
And I must say I agree, that does seem to be the trend... where are the mod points when I really need them?
www.diyaudio.com is a pretty good approximation of what you are trying to get at I think. I spend a lot of time browsing around those forums, people post schematics, think up new ideas and test them against the community, and help newbies out with building the stuff. Also, they often do "group buys" of the hardware that is necessary so many people can get the stuff relatively cheap.
You have a girlfriend AND a segway!?
... Can I be your friend?
I mean, its simple. All you have to do is click on use advanced options radio button, and then click the change advanced settings. No, the little circle first, right. Then the advanced button, and select check hosts file and check Internet Explorer preferences, then click on Next and Continue and, grrr. MOOOVE.
I've wondered about that myself, though its usually as easy as if its not in /usr/bin or /usr/local its /opt. Weird, and annoying.
The only other thing that's annoyed me with gentoo is when etc-update hoses my fstab (and half a dozen other important files.) Maybe I just don't know how to use it properly. That and waiting for a new program to get into portage, but that is the price you pay for reliability in dep. handling.
I've used Muine, a while ago. It automatically downloads album covers from amazon or something, which was cool but didn't always work. Also, it is organised into albums, so if you've got a directory of music thats mix and match, you have to select an album just to hear the one song off of that album. I could be wrong however, it was a while ago.
Actually, I think it suffers from that all too common among Apple and Gnome base apps problem of "Its so intuitive it's annoying." I like an asthetically pleasing app as much as anyone, but it's almost as if people are afraid of control and buttons and things these days. If you're used to XMMS, it's going to be hard to beat in terms of functionality.
I wanted to see if there any hidden links on that page, which there weren't, but I still suggest having a look at the source for it.
When Napster first got real press, it was bad. Napster eventually lost, because the bad press was true, but the press is what brought it to my attention, and what attracted me to it.
I think you are right concerning businesses and the like, they are likely to stay away from anything even remotely dubious. I would say however that your "average computer user" (whatever that means) is actually more attracted to things that have a bit of an edge to them, which linux now has do to this whole debacle.
I have to say I hate this approach. I work at a computer help desk, one day I was doing phone support and someone had done that with every IE icon on the machine, when all I wanted was IE so I could help the customer set up an option over the phone.
Admittedly an extreme case, but do we really want to win support for a browser via intentionaly misleading people?
Yeah, I used to get a kick out of this and run my wallpaper as ifs or the OSX screensaver knockoff:
/usr/lib/xscreensaver/xflame -root
/usr/lib/screensaver part is there because its not in my path, so I have to tell it where the screensaver (in this case xflame) is, and the -root option tells it to display on the root window. I'm not sure how well this will work on Gnome etc., as they might handle their root window a lot causing them to disrupt the 'saver, but for simple WMs it works great.
.xinitrc) with a & after it, it will tell it to run the command in the background and move on.
The
There are a lot of extra flags for each screensaver too: man xflame
And if you put it into a startup script (such as
Cool ways to eat CPU. Also, might I suggest www.electricsheep.org
What the differences between all of these groups actually are? I can see I'm not the only one with the problem, but I think I'm further gone than most. I often read in the political realm, and am at least fairly knowledgeable about a few current world and American events (I read slashdot after all) but I can never decide what these terms seem to mean. Left wing, Right wing, Liberal, Conservative, hell even Democrat and Republican are terms thrown about, all over the place, and they all seems to make claims both the same, and contradictory, about their own views and the views of the other parties.
Possibly I should elaborate on my own (current) understanding, which is very limited, and probably quite wrong. So far I seem to have seperated two distinct groups of people among all of these words, people who tend to be about resisting change, extending governmental powers, and things like that. With this I tend to associate the words conservative, republican, and right wing. Then there are the "pot smoking hippies" as my unconscious mind refers to them, with which I associate the words liberal, democrat, and left wing, who _seem_ to be about limiting governmental powers, and exacting reform.
However, I've also read lots of counter examples to this. For instance, I once read that conservatives were so called because they wanted governmental powers to be held in check (conservative with power) and liberals were all about liberal powers for government. Thus, I tend to be rather confused, and shy away from political discussions because I fear showing my ignorance.
I'm actually pretty good about resisting associating myself with any "party" of people, as I think it is a sign of weakness to need to define your values as that of a group of people, rather than thinking as an individual. This might seem like a liberal point of view (I think...) but I really doubt it is any of these people's point of veiw.
So, if anyone out there could tell me, in all honesty and truth - is there any objective reality to any of these words and labels?
Subject says it all really, and as far as down as I looked at this point (about 300 comments) very few people were pointing this out, quite like you were. I've got a bit heftier laptop that I used to have, but even when it was a 700 Celeron it was blindingly fast, especially with fluxbox and 2.6 series kernel.
I guess another thing is I'm pretty picky about my desktop, with fluxbox being my top choice giving me lots of screen real estate.
The only thing that can compare to the speed and beauty of my laptop was my roommates old laptop, he had XP with a blackbox port as the WM and a bunch of the services turned off, which was pretty sweet for windows XP.
RAM is cheaper than programmer time. Particularly since the developers don't have to buy the RAM...
Sad, but true. Though, there really is no excuse for for the iTouch problem, then again there is no reason to spend 6 months trying to fit a word processor into 640K (like they had to in the "old days" my prof likes to talk about so much.) There really must be a happy medium, and I think most apps and OS's are at it.
Just so you're aware, according to the book Espresso by Petzke and Slavin-
"Although most people assume espresso to be as strong as in caffeine as it is in flavor and aroma, it contains less than one half to one third of the caffeine in a cup of coffee brewed from robusta beans, the cheaper coffee beans used for canned coffee. Arabica beans, the high-quality beans used for espresso, have less caffeine. The dark-roast process, which concentrates the flavor of the beans used to make an espresso blend, also has the effect of burning off some of the caffeine content, so that the darker the roast, the lower the caffeine."
Possibly not the best source of information, but for a book dedicated to the subject of espresso, its got to be pretty near the target. And I know what you mean, a lot of people drink fancy drinks as opposed to coffee, which I think actually requires a finer taste (well until you're addicted anyway, which might be the cause of the finer taste in coffee - the fact that we keep on drinking it.)
Yeah, but that would mean retyping all of the documents... this is another of the side affects of running a Dead Tree Tyranny
To be honest, I have no idea how many current documents are kept primarily in electronic form (making a simple text replacement possible), but I doubt its very many.
I'd be interested to see what would happen if someone were to write one that would actually really mess up a machine, make it unusable. The repercussions would be huge, but more than that it would get something done either in the way of a huge code audit (with everyone from Microsoft to OSS looking very carefully at their stuff) or of some other possibly policy change - that would ruin the game for them. I bet thats why they're not doing it too, they know the greater public would finally have to find a way to protect themselves, and then the jig would be up. If only...
This uses photon mapping for a lighting technique, which is inherently very good for lighting as it simulates ambient and reflected light as well.
Here are some global illumination pics from the person who developed this - global illumination - and for a nice video check out the top animation here.
Not sure if this will meet your satisfactions, but its closer than ever before.