Switch User - Leave your apps running and switch to another user's desktop. Useful to switch to Administrator quick to fix/install something and then go back to work on your user account.
Log Off - Close all your apps, closes desktop to user login screen. This is good for corporate and multi user PCs. You close all your apps and allow background services to keep functioning (printer sharing, etc).
Lock - Keep your apps and desktop in place, only you need your password to get back to your desktop. This is very useful if you need to walk away from your computer, but want to get back to work when you come back to your desk.
Restart - This is going no where anytime soon.
Sleep - The computers state is suspended into a low power mode. In theory, you can come back to your computer and it will be ready to use in a quicker fashion than a cold boot.
Hibernate - A deeper sleep. Instead of the computer state suspended in RAM, it is written to disk. Useful on laptops, as the computer is really off but still "sleeping".
Shut Down - Everyone should know what this is.
I agree the UI for this menu is terrible, but the options aren't. The solution I believe is to allow all options. Go with the simple menu and you get the three primary options. If you are a power user or admin you get the whole list. Choices are good.
Edward Teller speculated that an atomic weapon could ignite the atmosphere. Another physicist discredited and disproved the idea, but the fear wasn't laid to rest until the actual weapons were used.
You wouldn't need to write zeros to the whole thing to format it unless you wanted to check for bad blocks. However, every write will reduce its lifespan so I wouldn't waste it with zeros in the first place. Some operating systems call is a quick format, but I just omit the -c from mkfs.
These companies make about the nicest mass produced (not handmade) folders you can buy. They are a little expensive, but well worth it. The models I linked too are just personal preference.
I've got no problem with this except...
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The fact that this may be mandatory bothers me. It's like seatbelt laws, lawnmowers that stop running when you get off the seat, and coffee cups with warnings. I'd say, let the market sort this one out. Yes it's cruel, but feel free to give me a Nelson "ha ha" when I run my hand through a chop saw.
I'm sure if you set up a hamburger stand in Burger King's parking lot they would surely have you removed. They are trying to build their business of a search engine on the back of Google's. No one forces Google down your throat, it just happens to be the #1 search engine. Google's ranking is its "parking lot", a property of Google. Every scumbag website loves to cry when Google delists their deserving ass. Even if you didn't deserve it, it is their search ranking. KinderStart should focus on Yahoo or MSN and watch when they do the same thing as Google. If KinderStart.com had better content, it would rise on its own. Digg or Slashdot didn't jump into the top 10 of sites on the web because of Google, it did it with good content and the search results came after.
IBM's Blue Gene is faster (and more flexible). Big networks of computers like SETI's are good at crunching static radio telescope data or brute force RC5 cracking. When it comes to most real world problems, the nodes must communicate and share data, which over the internet makes it far too slow. Real supercomputers do not use any type of networking between nodes, they have a shared memory bus.
I always pay up at the coffee pot, for I fear one day there won't be any! Then I'll be out $2 a cup from $LOCAL_CHAIN. Don't bite the hand that caffeinates you!
Guns are very low tech. Many people can and in fact do reload their own ammunition. Even if primers and casings were to become a scarce commodity, you can fall back to black powder weapons. Gun powder can be home made, and all you need is some lead, a mold and a flint. Black powder weapons, even though lower tech, have progressed recently. Their reload time has come down quite a ways with pelletized powder and other innovations.
I wasn't saying smart guns were a good thing at all. I was saying there are already better choices if you want one. I'm wouldn't be comfortable adding any complications to a weapon. I could see a police officer opting to use such a system, as a good number of police are shot with their own weapon.
Even without guns your government needs to have cameras on every corner and every highway. And we all know that making something illegal makes it magically dissapear too. Thanks, but no thanks.
Not only that, the gun must know the clip order somehow, else rounds in the clip or your pants/jacket start exploding. At least with a conventional handgun, the bad guy has to wrestle it away from you. There are too many things to go wrong with this. I think fire control should be in the weapon (if at all), not the ammunition.
The fingerprint system and the ID ring system are already working examples of "smart guns". One gun fingerprints you, the other makes sure you are wearing a uniqe ring with some sort of RFID tag in it. These seam to be as simple as an owner-fire-only system you can get.
It's not over saving lives at all. The seatbelt legislation is to save the insurance companies money. With mandatory insurance laws the insurance companies get to have their cake and eat it too. I have long argued the seatbelt issue as a freedom issue, yet noone cares except maybe a few here on slashdot.
It's funny that the the commercial threatens you with a fine, not accident statistics proving you are more likely to survive. Maybe there aren't any statistics? Or maybe people think money is worth more than (actual) safety.
Why don't school busses have seat belts? Protect the children?
I have a pair of 12MB Voodoo 2s somewhere too. The Voodoo 5500 had dual processors making it SLI on one board. The 6000 was to have 4 processors but never made it to market because of an AGP bug and the fact that NVIDIA single GPU cards (GeForce 2) were getting as fast or faster than 3dfx's SLI setups.
Gozer: The Choice is made! Dr. Peter Venkman: Whoa! Ho! Ho! Whoa-oa! Gozer: The Traveller has come! Dr. Peter Venkman: Nobody choosed anything! [turns to Egon] Dr. Peter Venkman: Did YOU choose anything? Dr. Egon Spengler: No. Dr. Peter Venkman: [to Winston] Did YOU? Winston Zeddemore: My mind is totally blank. Dr. Peter Venkman: I didn't choose anything. [long pause, Peter, Egon and Winston all look at Ray] Dr Ray Stantz: I couldn't help it. It just popped IN there. Dr. Peter Venkman: [angrily] What? What just popped in there? Dr Ray Stantz: I... I... I tried to think... Dr. Egon Spengler: LOOK! [they all look over one side of the roof] Dr Ray Stantz: No! It CAN'T be! Dr. Peter Venkman: What is it? Dr Ray Stantz: It CAN'T be! Dr. Peter Venkman: What did you do, Ray? Winston Zeddemore: Oh, shit! [they all see a giant cubic white head topped with a sailor hat, Peter looks at Ray] Dr Ray Stantz: [somberly] It's the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.
The old Squaresoft we know isn't anymore. This FF VII movie just proves it. It's one of the only things they have that might spawn a successful franchise (besides NEW and GOOD FF games). If this movie goes over well, expect to see more of the same old thing. I thought the FFs were just ONE game, no sequels and no returning characters. I guess that changed with X-2 and the marketing engine that is now in full swing.
Amano (Artwork for 1-6) is long gone. Yoshida (FF Tactics) is designing the new FF XII. Uematsu (music composer) is also gone.
Maybe I'm too cynical, but I think SE is the EA of RPGs now.
I know OpenSSH has saved me more than $49 on gas alone. Even though I don't use OpenBSD as often as Linux or FreeBSD, it's well worth it to fund such a polished software project. I'm ordering 3.9 right now.
It could also be your VGA card. I have seen VGA boards go bad in such manners that the make darkened streaks across the screen, off color to complete wrong or missing colors and artifacting/flickering picture. Monitors sometimes go bad in the exact same way! I've been fooled into thinking a display was bad before.
Also, this is a very slight possibility, but your VGA cable might be bad. If the cable is crimpled or damaged, there may be cross talk among the signal wires. This usually leads to a ghosted image, but may cause color problems.
So, I'd check your display out on a different PC, with a new cable just to rule out those issues before buying a costly replacement. The case is probably going to be that your display is just bad. Viewsonic isn't a great name in monitors, but then again no one makes a good display anymore.
As a long shot, but Windows and Mac OS X support color profiles. You might be able to compensate with software depending on your video card. I'm pretty sure X.org has some sort of color profile support, though I may be wrong on that point.
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What, held under the dorsal guiding feathers?
I think all the choices have some merit.
Switch User - Leave your apps running and switch to another user's desktop. Useful to switch to Administrator quick to fix/install something and then go back to work on your user account.
Log Off - Close all your apps, closes desktop to user login screen. This is good for corporate and multi user PCs. You close all your apps and allow background services to keep functioning (printer sharing, etc).
Lock - Keep your apps and desktop in place, only you need your password to get back to your desktop. This is very useful if you need to walk away from your computer, but want to get back to work when you come back to your desk.
Restart - This is going no where anytime soon.
Sleep - The computers state is suspended into a low power mode. In theory, you can come back to your computer and it will be ready to use in a quicker fashion than a cold boot.
Hibernate - A deeper sleep. Instead of the computer state suspended in RAM, it is written to disk. Useful on laptops, as the computer is really off but still "sleeping".
Shut Down - Everyone should know what this is.
I agree the UI for this menu is terrible, but the options aren't. The solution I believe is to allow all options. Go with the simple menu and you get the three primary options. If you are a power user or admin you get the whole list. Choices are good.
Edward Teller speculated that an atomic weapon could ignite the atmosphere. Another physicist discredited and disproved the idea, but the fear wasn't laid to rest until the actual weapons were used.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project (wikipedia, blah blah blah)
You wouldn't need to write zeros to the whole thing to format it unless you wanted to check for bad blocks. However, every write will reduce its lifespan so I wouldn't waste it with zeros in the first place. Some operating systems call is a quick format, but I just omit the -c from mkfs.
They do it with goldfish:
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn2066
Sorry, that knife isn't decent at all. I've had one of those and it's just a piece of shit. Get a good knife:
Columbia River Knife & Tool
Benchmade
SOG
These companies make about the nicest mass produced (not handmade) folders you can buy. They are a little expensive, but well worth it. The models I linked too are just personal preference.
The fact that this may be mandatory bothers me. It's like seatbelt laws, lawnmowers that stop running when you get off the seat, and coffee cups with warnings. I'd say, let the market sort this one out. Yes it's cruel, but feel free to give me a Nelson "ha ha" when I run my hand through a chop saw.
I'm sure if you set up a hamburger stand in Burger King's parking lot they would surely have you removed. They are trying to build their business of a search engine on the back of Google's. No one forces Google down your throat, it just happens to be the #1 search engine. Google's ranking is its "parking lot", a property of Google. Every scumbag website loves to cry when Google delists their deserving ass. Even if you didn't deserve it, it is their search ranking. KinderStart should focus on Yahoo or MSN and watch when they do the same thing as Google. If KinderStart.com had better content, it would rise on its own. Digg or Slashdot didn't jump into the top 10 of sites on the web because of Google, it did it with good content and the search results came after.
I should have said ethernet instead of "networking". Blue Gene/L's node interconnect looks pretty interesting though. http://www.llnl.gov/ASC/platforms/bluegenel/arch.h tml
With over 900,000 computers in the system, SETI@home has the ability to compute over 250 TFLOPS (as of April 17, 2006).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seti@home
IBM's Blue Gene is faster (and more flexible). Big networks of computers like SETI's are good at crunching static radio telescope data or brute force RC5 cracking. When it comes to most real world problems, the nodes must communicate and share data, which over the internet makes it far too slow. Real supercomputers do not use any type of networking between nodes, they have a shared memory bus.
I always pay up at the coffee pot, for I fear one day there won't be any! Then I'll be out $2 a cup from $LOCAL_CHAIN. Don't bite the hand that caffeinates you!
Guns are very low tech. Many people can and in fact do reload their own ammunition. Even if primers and casings were to become a scarce commodity, you can fall back to black powder weapons. Gun powder can be home made, and all you need is some lead, a mold and a flint. Black powder weapons, even though lower tech, have progressed recently. Their reload time has come down quite a ways with pelletized powder and other innovations.
I wasn't saying smart guns were a good thing at all. I was saying there are already better choices if you want one. I'm wouldn't be comfortable adding any complications to a weapon. I could see a police officer opting to use such a system, as a good number of police are shot with their own weapon.
Even without guns your government needs to have cameras on every corner and every highway. And we all know that making something illegal makes it magically dissapear too. Thanks, but no thanks.
Not only that, the gun must know the clip order somehow, else rounds in the clip or your pants/jacket start exploding. At least with a conventional handgun, the bad guy has to wrestle it away from you. There are too many things to go wrong with this. I think fire control should be in the weapon (if at all), not the ammunition.
The fingerprint system and the ID ring system are already working examples of "smart guns". One gun fingerprints you, the other makes sure you are wearing a uniqe ring with some sort of RFID tag in it. These seam to be as simple as an owner-fire-only system you can get.
It's not over saving lives at all. The seatbelt legislation is to save the insurance companies money. With mandatory insurance laws the insurance companies get to have their cake and eat it too. I have long argued the seatbelt issue as a freedom issue, yet noone cares except maybe a few here on slashdot.
It's funny that the the commercial threatens you with a fine, not accident statistics proving you are more likely to survive. Maybe there aren't any statistics? Or maybe people think money is worth more than (actual) safety.
Why don't school busses have seat belts? Protect the children?
I have a pair of 12MB Voodoo 2s somewhere too. The Voodoo 5500 had dual processors making it SLI on one board. The 6000 was to have 4 processors but never made it to market because of an AGP bug and the fact that NVIDIA single GPU cards (GeForce 2) were getting as fast or faster than 3dfx's SLI setups.
Gozer: The Choice is made!
Dr. Peter Venkman: Whoa! Ho! Ho! Whoa-oa!
Gozer: The Traveller has come!
Dr. Peter Venkman: Nobody choosed anything!
[turns to Egon]
Dr. Peter Venkman: Did YOU choose anything?
Dr. Egon Spengler: No.
Dr. Peter Venkman: [to Winston] Did YOU?
Winston Zeddemore: My mind is totally blank.
Dr. Peter Venkman: I didn't choose anything.
[long pause, Peter, Egon and Winston all look at Ray]
Dr Ray Stantz: I couldn't help it. It just popped IN there.
Dr. Peter Venkman: [angrily] What? What just popped in there?
Dr Ray Stantz: I... I... I tried to think...
Dr. Egon Spengler: LOOK!
[they all look over one side of the roof]
Dr Ray Stantz: No! It CAN'T be!
Dr. Peter Venkman: What is it?
Dr Ray Stantz: It CAN'T be!
Dr. Peter Venkman: What did you do, Ray?
Winston Zeddemore: Oh, shit!
[they all see a giant cubic white head topped with a sailor hat, Peter looks at Ray]
Dr Ray Stantz: [somberly] It's the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.
--From the IMDB.
Amano (Artwork for 1-6) is long gone. Yoshida (FF Tactics) is designing the new FF XII. Uematsu (music composer) is also gone.
Maybe I'm too cynical, but I think SE is the EA of RPGs now.
I know OpenSSH has saved me more than $49 on gas alone. Even though I don't use OpenBSD as often as Linux or FreeBSD, it's well worth it to fund such a polished software project. I'm ordering 3.9 right now.
It could also be your VGA card. I have seen VGA boards go bad in such manners that the make darkened streaks across the screen, off color to complete wrong or missing colors and artifacting/flickering picture. Monitors sometimes go bad in the exact same way! I've been fooled into thinking a display was bad before.
Also, this is a very slight possibility, but your VGA cable might be bad. If the cable is crimpled or damaged, there may be cross talk among the signal wires. This usually leads to a ghosted image, but may cause color problems.
So, I'd check your display out on a different PC, with a new cable just to rule out those issues before buying a costly replacement. The case is probably going to be that your display is just bad. Viewsonic isn't a great name in monitors, but then again no one makes a good display anymore.
As a long shot, but Windows and Mac OS X support color profiles. You might be able to compensate with software depending on your video card. I'm pretty sure X.org has some sort of color profile support, though I may be wrong on that point.
1) Bring your phone and egg to the gas station.
2) Talk on phone while filling your car and holding egg.
3) Wait for explosion.
4) Enjoy.
Next on Slashdot: How to summon dead relatives by changing the refresh rate of your monitor.
I never knew talking to AOL members was a privilege worth paying for.
I realize it did specify later, but why not mention a huge freakin' detail in the article summary?