If you used OS X, you'd know that such an option already exists. Just click on the "advanced install" button and deselect the packages you don't want. Couldn't be simpler.
One feature I occasionally use is concurrent editing of a document via Rendezvous.
You appear to be mistaken concerning the role that Rendezvous plays in an app like SEE. According to the SEE FAQ, the network protocol used to implement concurrent editing is BEEP.
What Rendezvous is used for is to automatically find other instances of SEE on the local LAN. That's not required for concurrent editing, and in fact SEE allows you to manually specify host names and/or addresses if you need to connect to a machine that Rendezvous can't find automatically.
With this release, the SubEthaEdit team might produce a port to Windows soon
Don't hold your breath. According to that same FAQ, SEE is Cocoa. Unless Apple decides to resurrect Yellow Box, aka OpenStep for Windows, Cocoa apps aren't easily portable to Windows.
BEEP is an open standard though, so you might be able to find a Windows editor that speaks that protocol and works with SEE.
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After this, pacman 'hangs' because the one-byte-wide memory for holding board number gets incremented, hosing the next memory location holding other system variables.
Close but not quite. A one-byte variable doesn't magically become a two-byte variable just because it's incremented past 255. What happens is it wraps around to zero. Pac-man numbered its boards starting at one, so it wound up displaying unplayable gibberish on the screen instead of the missing board zero.
Yeah, just like we teach medical advances to marmosets and ants.
If the difference is that drastic, then yeah, we have pretty much zero chance of understanding them and they're unlikely to want to teach us.
But where the differences aren't so wide, there's a lot of research going on. We're studying the behavior and communications of dolphins, as well as chimps and other higher-order primates. We're learning to communicate in a rudimentary fashion with chimps. We've taught sign language to a gorilla.
Every day, right here on this planet, an advanced species goes to great efforts to communicate with more primitive ones. It's fairly reasonable to assume that any aliens that find us may want to communicate just as much as we do. After all, if they were xenophobes, they probably wouldn't be out exploring the stars in the first place.
Should we build big satellites and listen to space in case Aliens are broadcasting research advancements in a format that we are able to decipher, or skip the middle process and just put the effort into research?
Yes - to both.
We could use a similar setup to automate patrolling the skies for meteors that are likely to impact earth.
Yep, that too. It's not an either/or question, because the people involved aren't interchangable resources. Aerospace engineers or computer scientists can't take the place of biologists, or vice versa.
What if we find aliens that are considerably more advanced than us, and teach us of medical advances we wouldn't have found on our own for centuries?
Not that I think that will happen. It's just that we don't know what will result from it - that's the point of doing research, to find out. It doesn't make sense to restrict our areas of inquiry to those with easily imaginable results, when its the results we can't imagine that will really rock our world.
Linux itself is neither amateur nor professional - it's software, not a person. Asking whether it's professional is asking whether the software itself gets paid to do its job of running your computer - obviously a nonsensical question.
If you're speaking of the Linux core developers, many (if not most) of them are indeed professional programmers. That is, they write programs for a living; the fact that they chose to forgo payment for a particular bit of code doesn't change their professional status.
Sure, there are god-forsaken hell-holes out there, but hardly anyone lives in Arkansas and West Virginia anyway...
I live in West Virginia, you insensitive clod! Although you're right anyway - it's pretty much the ass end of nowhere, and I'd give an appendage (buyer's choice) to be living in Boston again.
I get to use stupid DVD-RAM disks, but I can't burn DVD's unless I buy a whole new computer.
False. You can use any standard ATAPI optical drive internally. I pulled an old 8x CD-R drive from my PeeCee and dropped it in my formerly DVD-RAM equipped Mac. No problems at all, aside from the fact that I had to buy a set of allen wrenches to remove the plastic bits.
Apple seems to have put blocks into place to refuse iChat AV from working with anything but their iSight hardware product.
Can you provide any evidence to support this claim? I connected my FireWire camcorder (an older Sony DCR-TRV11), and it works with iChat without a hitch.
That's really two questions - why buy a G5, and why put Linux on it.
For the first, the answer is I/O. For purely CPU bound benchmarks, the G5 compares fairly well with 64-bit x86 chips, but it's nothing to write home about. On the other hand, the I/O subsystem smokes, so unless you're doing almost pure number crunching, that's something you have to take into account as well.
As for putting Linux on it, it's funny you should ask that in a comment for this particular story - prior to this release I would have asked the same thing. However, YDL appears to now offer something that OS X doesn't - a full 64-bit address space for applications. Mac OS X is not "full" 64-bit; the OS can manage all 8GB of RAM, and apps can use 64-bit ints. But, apps run in a 32-bit address space.
It is a multiuser envrionment any my whole family is loged in
If your kids have been playing in the family room and didn't put their toys away, do you complain to Hoover because the vacuum cleaner can't magically navigate around them? Of course not - you hold the kids responsible for not cleaning up their mess.
What makes you think the family computer is any different? Yes, fast login clears away the onscreen clutter - but everything is still there, eating up RAM, and potentially CPU. Leaving a bunch of crap running and documents open when you're not using them is rude, and your family obviously needs to be taught that.
If this "forced" reboot means that Johnny lost all the "work" he'd put into getting to level 5 on Doom (dated, I know, but I haven't played an FPS in ages), then maybe that'll teach him not to be so damned lazy. Maybe next time he'll save his game and log out properly when he's done playing. And maybe next time you're crunching the budget in Excel, you'll find it goes quite a bit faster when Doom isn't cycling through its demo mode in the background.
Right, because a reboot isn't an inconvenience or anything.
I realize you're being sarcastic - but you're right, it's not. Having to schedule some down time for a 24x7 server that's used by an office (or building) full of people is a pain. But a desktop workstation? Puhleeze. You're the only person on that machine - if you choose an inconvenient time, that's your own damn fault.
So why are you telling me that something I didn't say is wrong??? That's what I get for feeding trolls - I should have known better from your nick.
I don't believe that the controversy you cite is actually coming as a result of a lack of pornographic games.
I didn't say it was. The controversy is a result of the perception - by the general public, not gamers - that games are for kids, and therefore should be sanitized so as to be appropriate for that audience. Once that misconception is changed, the furor will die down, and we'll see more porn games.
Get it now? I'm not saying that porn will cause the change to happen, I'm saying that the common availability of porn will be one sign that the change has happened.
Don't tell me... you fucking moron... Go fucking die you piece of trash.
Oh, I understand now - you're twelve. Does your mommy know you're using her computer? Does she know you're up past your bed time? Does she know you're using words like that?
You're an idiot for thinking that video games will only be considered an adult medium once a pornographic game is made.
You're missing the point. Porn games won't cause games to be considered an adult medium, but they will be a sign that games have finally begun to be considered an adult medium. Much of the current noise over sex and violence in games is a result of the perception that games are only for kids - once the idea that adults play them too becomes common, the controversy will die down.
More of a hybrid. The connection between your news reader and some server is pure client-server. But, the propogation of articles among servers is more of a peer-to-peer model.
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If I used OSX I'd want a minimual install option
If you used OS X, you'd know that such an option already exists. Just click on the "advanced install" button and deselect the packages you don't want. Couldn't be simpler.
One feature I occasionally use is concurrent editing of a document via Rendezvous.
You appear to be mistaken concerning the role that Rendezvous plays in an app like SEE. According to the SEE FAQ, the network protocol used to implement concurrent editing is BEEP.
What Rendezvous is used for is to automatically find other instances of SEE on the local LAN. That's not required for concurrent editing, and in fact SEE allows you to manually specify host names and/or addresses if you need to connect to a machine that Rendezvous can't find automatically.
With this release, the SubEthaEdit team might produce a port to Windows soon
Don't hold your breath. According to that same FAQ, SEE is Cocoa. Unless Apple decides to resurrect Yellow Box, aka OpenStep for Windows, Cocoa apps aren't easily portable to Windows.
BEEP is an open standard though, so you might be able to find a Windows editor that speaks that protocol and works with SEE.
After this, pacman 'hangs' because the one-byte-wide memory for holding board number gets incremented, hosing the next memory location holding other system variables.
Close but not quite. A one-byte variable doesn't magically become a two-byte variable just because it's incremented past 255. What happens is it wraps around to zero. Pac-man numbered its boards starting at one, so it wound up displaying unplayable gibberish on the screen instead of the missing board zero.
Here's a page with patterns and a screen shot of the "level zero" bug.
Yeah, just like we teach medical advances to marmosets and ants.
If the difference is that drastic, then yeah, we have pretty much zero chance of understanding them and they're unlikely to want to teach us.
But where the differences aren't so wide, there's a lot of research going on. We're studying the behavior and communications of dolphins, as well as chimps and other higher-order primates. We're learning to communicate in a rudimentary fashion with chimps. We've taught sign language to a gorilla.
Every day, right here on this planet, an advanced species goes to great efforts to communicate with more primitive ones. It's fairly reasonable to assume that any aliens that find us may want to communicate just as much as we do. After all, if they were xenophobes, they probably wouldn't be out exploring the stars in the first place.
Should we build big satellites and listen to space in case Aliens are broadcasting research advancements in a format that we are able to decipher, or skip the middle process and just put the effort into research?
Yes - to both.
We could use a similar setup to automate patrolling the skies for meteors that are likely to impact earth.
Yep, that too. It's not an either/or question, because the people involved aren't interchangable resources. Aerospace engineers or computer scientists can't take the place of biologists, or vice versa.
What if we find aliens that are considerably more advanced than us, and teach us of medical advances we wouldn't have found on our own for centuries?
Not that I think that will happen. It's just that we don't know what will result from it - that's the point of doing research, to find out. It doesn't make sense to restrict our areas of inquiry to those with easily imaginable results, when its the results we can't imagine that will really rock our world.
Scientific progress *does* go boinc!
Just watching reruns of Voyager, you can see the same patterns over and over again
Yeah - two nice big Borg patterns, week after week. God bless 'em.
Linux itself is neither amateur nor professional - it's software, not a person. Asking whether it's professional is asking whether the software itself gets paid to do its job of running your computer - obviously a nonsensical question.
If you're speaking of the Linux core developers, many (if not most) of them are indeed professional programmers. That is, they write programs for a living; the fact that they chose to forgo payment for a particular bit of code doesn't change their professional status.
It stands to reality as does Geo. Washington's dad's fictitious ex-cherry tree, which there's also no point in going out to look for.
;-)
Well, of course there's no point in looking for that. George chopped it down.
Sure, there are god-forsaken hell-holes out there, but hardly anyone lives in Arkansas and West Virginia anyway...
I live in West Virginia, you insensitive clod! Although you're right anyway - it's pretty much the ass end of nowhere, and I'd give an appendage (buyer's choice) to be living in Boston again.
Or you could do what I did and marry a loving, supportive woman.
Sounds like a good plan... are you sure your wife won't mind?
I get to use stupid DVD-RAM disks, but I can't burn DVD's unless I buy a whole new computer.
False. You can use any standard ATAPI optical drive internally. I pulled an old 8x CD-R drive from my PeeCee and dropped it in my formerly DVD-RAM equipped Mac. No problems at all, aside from the fact that I had to buy a set of allen wrenches to remove the plastic bits.
Apple seems to have put blocks into place to refuse iChat AV from working with anything but their iSight hardware product.
Can you provide any evidence to support this claim? I connected my FireWire camcorder (an older Sony DCR-TRV11), and it works with iChat without a hitch.
That's really two questions - why buy a G5, and why put Linux on it.
For the first, the answer is I/O. For purely CPU bound benchmarks, the G5 compares fairly well with 64-bit x86 chips, but it's nothing to write home about. On the other hand, the I/O subsystem smokes, so unless you're doing almost pure number crunching, that's something you have to take into account as well.
As for putting Linux on it, it's funny you should ask that in a comment for this particular story - prior to this release I would have asked the same thing. However, YDL appears to now offer something that OS X doesn't - a full 64-bit address space for applications. Mac OS X is not "full" 64-bit; the OS can manage all 8GB of RAM, and apps can use 64-bit ints. But, apps run in a 32-bit address space.
And Perl, and AppleScript. (John, how could you of all people forget to mention ASK???)
It is a multiuser envrionment any my whole family is loged in
If your kids have been playing in the family room and didn't put their toys away, do you complain to Hoover because the vacuum cleaner can't magically navigate around them? Of course not - you hold the kids responsible for not cleaning up their mess.
What makes you think the family computer is any different? Yes, fast login clears away the onscreen clutter - but everything is still there, eating up RAM, and potentially CPU. Leaving a bunch of crap running and documents open when you're not using them is rude, and your family obviously needs to be taught that.
If this "forced" reboot means that Johnny lost all the "work" he'd put into getting to level 5 on Doom (dated, I know, but I haven't played an FPS in ages), then maybe that'll teach him not to be so damned lazy. Maybe next time he'll save his game and log out properly when he's done playing. And maybe next time you're crunching the budget in Excel, you'll find it goes quite a bit faster when Doom isn't cycling through its demo mode in the background.
Right, because a reboot isn't an inconvenience or anything.
I realize you're being sarcastic - but you're right, it's not. Having to schedule some down time for a 24x7 server that's used by an office (or building) full of people is a pain. But a desktop workstation? Puhleeze. You're the only person on that machine - if you choose an inconvenient time, that's your own damn fault.
My linux box has been up for 211 days
So? What do you want, a medal or something?
I'll explain that right after you explain why you're using iChat on your mission-critical server that needs five-nines availability.
I am not missing the point.
... you fucking moron ... Go fucking die you piece of trash.
So why are you telling me that something I didn't say is wrong??? That's what I get for feeding trolls - I should have known better from your nick.
I don't believe that the controversy you cite is actually coming as a result of a lack of pornographic games.
I didn't say it was. The controversy is a result of the perception - by the general public, not gamers - that games are for kids, and therefore should be sanitized so as to be appropriate for that audience. Once that misconception is changed, the furor will die down, and we'll see more porn games.
Get it now? I'm not saying that porn will cause the change to happen, I'm saying that the common availability of porn will be one sign that the change has happened.
Don't tell me
Oh, I understand now - you're twelve. Does your mommy know you're using her computer? Does she know you're up past your bed time? Does she know you're using words like that?
You're an idiot for thinking that video games will only be considered an adult medium once a pornographic game is made.
You're missing the point. Porn games won't cause games to be considered an adult medium, but they will be a sign that games have finally begun to be considered an adult medium. Much of the current noise over sex and violence in games is a result of the perception that games are only for kids - once the idea that adults play them too becomes common, the controversy will die down.
This is perhaps the ultimate downfall of democracy, and the end point of capitalism.
On the other hand, it's the beginning point of a lot of really good sci fi books.
everyone trusts them, except one, slightly paranoid detective (Smith) investigating what he alone believes is a crime perpetrated by a robot.
Huh? Now I'm confused... Except for the detective's name (Smith vs. Elijiah Bailey), that sounds like "The Caves of Steel," not "I, Robot."
I'd also like to note that a couple of DVD features, such as multiple angels
Nah. The "multiple angels" fantasy predates DVD by quite a bit. It's been the #1 male fantasy since porn was invented.
More of a hybrid. The connection between your news reader and some server is pure client-server. But, the propogation of articles among servers is more of a peer-to-peer model.
You're right - we should. Obviously, we can't do it until our technology is up to the task, but once it is - why not?