I agree... my screen is 1280x854, yet I typically surf with my browser window set at about 800px width. I enjoy having a widescreen display because I can display two documents side by side with little trouble... for example: I'll view both a webpage and a css file while designing a website. So even though people have bigger monitors, it doesn't mean that people have "bigger" browsers...
And regarding slashdot not fitting on your pda: try this
Kind of like Social programs. Be careful with what you say or people will call you a socialist and tell you to move to Europe.
well, it doesn't take much to encourage greed and selfishness... I wasn't trying to suggest that capitolism is the only socioeconomic model that encourages such things!
"Compassionate capitolism" sounds like more than just good karma (although that's part of the package), it sounds like a responsible thing for a corporation to encourage.
It seems that capitolism tends to encourage greed and selfishness, perhaps a concerted effort towards community building will help balance things out.
I'd much rather the hotspot be funded by charging an extra $0.10 for coffee, or whatever the business may be. Actually, I just set up a WiFi hotspot for a local coffeehouse and the "free" WiFi has brought him enough extra business that he feels quite justified in not charging extra for the service.
WiFi should be a condiment, like catsup or salt or paper napkins...
This was my first year at LFNW, and it actually exceeded my expectations for an event in a small town like Bellingham (~70K). It was great... continue to keep it small, grassroots and free to all and I'm sure LFNW will be a success for years to come.
case and point: here I am, interacting with you on a somewhat superficial level. That's more social interaction than Joe Banger gets from watching his nightly WWF, right? I will go out on a limb here and propose that over time, some of these superficial interactions with people could evolve into relationships... and what do you know, spending four hours a day on internet forums and message boards provides more social interaction than watching your soaps.
Than's all I'm trying to say...
However, this "social interaction" here at slashdot doesn't come close to you buying me a beer at the local tavern... I guess the 'net is merely the lesser of two evils, socially speaking.
In the last few decades, TV became the common ground that brought much of our society together... disparate groups of people didn't have much in common, except TV. As TV began to model more and more content after our culture, we began to model our lives after what we saw on TV. Sooner or later we were bound to reach a point where life and TV were nearly interchangable... why go outside and meet people when you can just "meet" someone new on TV? And it's so much easier to "meet" someone that way.
Thankfully, the internet came along to provide a dissenting fracture to the TV as life/life as TV spiral. The internet encourages interaction between people. The internet makes diversity within society easier to accomplish, while at the same time providing a common ground that can bring people together. As the next step in our culture's social model, the internet is a positive step forward.
it's interesting that the G5 was bested in photoshop benchmarks... heh. (how long will it be until someone else publishes some benchmarks that utilize some other filters and show the G5 to be faster?)
Perhaps it works like this: antibubbles float downward, when they burst their membranes decompose to air "droplets" and "fall" upwards.... thus employing the opposite vertical motion that a normal bubble would.
An antibubble is a droplet of fluid surrounded by an gasseous membrane, as opposed to a fluid membrane around air. Of course, creating a gasseous membrane is a much more difficult proposition than creating a fluid membrane, which is why this is such an interesting discovery. (well, that and because it relates science and beer...)
When discussing the death of the antibubble, Dr. Dorbolo states:
We also found that when they die, or burst, they morph into a form of structure which we have nicknamed the jellyfish form because it looks very like a jellyfish swimming through water. It slowly moves and fades away until it disappears altogether.
Wouldn't an antibubble just decompose to form a regular bubble of gas within the liquid? Or is he saying that the gas is re-dissolved into the beer?
true... naming is very important. If something is a quality product, but has a lame name it will get passed over without getting much more than a sideways glance and a snicker. There are very few people who can look past marketing (or lack therof) to see the actual product.
I'm curious to see how this distro stacks up against Mandrake, SuSe and RedHat. I'll have to give it a try...
I'm aware that there are a number of supported machines that don't have DVD players, however it would be a nice option if they made both available. Also, Apple is *still* offering an iBook with CD drive through the education store!
Just hope the option comes soon... then I won't have to spend time swapping install disks. Perhaps the next major release?
I did a clean install on the iBook, and I've noticed a marked improvement in boot up time, application speed and GUI responsiveness.
I did a straight upgrade to the 15" AlBook, and it worked just fine. However, I did just get this computer a couple weeks ago, so that probably makes a huge difference. I'm sure another incremental upgrade to the above mentioned iBook would have added to the system's sluggishness... it's been incramentally upgraded since 10.0!
I received my copy of "Panther" via FedEx at 11AM... so I spent the afternoon backing up and installing Panther on my two laptops (a 15" AlBook and older iBook SE). The install was three disks long (when will they start offering a DVD?) and rather uneventful.
I really dig the new "Expose'" feature, fast user switching and the capability to easily/seamlessly encrypt my home directory. I plan on testing the windows printer share capabilities in a few minutes...
However, my "Night of Panther" was spent watching the BBC's rendition of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy... had to test out the updated Apple DVD player, you know? It worked great!
I just received news of Edward Teller's passage today via PhysicsWeb update, a physics news summary service of the Institute of Physics. Here's what they had to say:
Edward Teller dies (Sep 10)
http://physicsweb.org/article/news/7/9/6
Edward Teller died on September 9 at his home on the campus of Stanford
University in California, having had a stroke a few days earlier,
according to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Teller was
instrumental in the development of the hydrogen bomb, having previously
worked on the Manhattan atomic-bomb project during the Second World War.
A passionate advocate of nuclear weapons, he angered many physicists
after he gave evidence at the 1954 trial of Robert Oppenheimer, the
leader of the Manhattan project, that led to Oppenheimer losing his
security clearance.
If you're sharing amongst yourselves behind closed doors (or a router, in this case) then then how would the RIAA know? A university's campuswide intranet would be a great place to set up a massive file sharing network. Especially since a number of universities are protective of internal users/data. (beware of the loose-lipped campus, though!) With a little organization amongst students this could be quite successful.
The problem comes when these files are made available to people outside the intranet... which is probably the scenario that you are proposing in your question. Once the RIAA has targeted a specific user as being an "excessive" offender, problems arise. As mentioned above, *someone* will probably be served... and that *someone* could very possibly be you, even if it is by blame shifting.
<disclaimer>I'm not a lawyer, and if I were I probably wouldn't post on/.</disclaimer>
I've heard rumors of fuel cells coming to market for quite some time now. Most of the fuel cell research seemed to be related to cars, though.
I think the tech sector is definately a more appropriate audience for fuel cells, the market is much more used to accepting new technologies and living with a short product life span.
It is good that the problems and shortcomings of fuel cells can be uncovered by the tech market before the auto industry adopts them. It'd be a shame to have a car that you just paid $20,000 for break down after a couple years!
"Holy shit you're right. The government shouldn't know my social security number! This is ridiculous!"
My concern is not that the government knows somebody's social security number. My concern is that all of this information (Income, race, medical history, etc.) will be easily acessable from a central database. Right now I'm required to tell Uncle Sam about my income so that he can get his "fair" share, but why should my race and medical history be associated with that information?
I consider my personal information to be just that... personal. If someone wants to know my race, medical history, sexual preference, cultural heritage, marital status, eating habits, etc. they should have to go through some amount of difficulty to find out.
In a world of such vast amounts of public information, the small amount of privacy I have is quite valued.
"Entities that provide services would collect their names, Social Security Numbers, dates of birth, race, gender, health status (including HIV, pregnancy, and domestic violence), veteran status, and income information."
This sounds way too invasive. It concerns me because once things like this are manditory for homeless people (it sounds like this system is moving that direction), then it will slowly be introduced to the masses.
Start with the outcasts of society as to make a quiet entrance. Then work your way up.
I use one of the "pre-chicklet" iBooks. (I'm running OSX 10.3 Jaguar on a 466mHz G3 iBook SE with 384MB RAM) Other than it being a tiny bit slow, OSX works great.
I think this is really a statement about how Apple's customers have come to expect so much from the fruit company... yeah, Apple said they would support G3's. And they do. It's just when you try and scrape by with the minimum recommended requirements, things don't usually work as well as you'd like.
Sure, refunding the purchase price on a product that didn't work as expected is understandable, but it's too bad it had to happen in court. I guess that's just the way of doing things these days. Too bad.
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I agree... my screen is 1280x854, yet I typically surf with my browser window set at about 800px width. I enjoy having a widescreen display because I can display two documents side by side with little trouble... for example: I'll view both a webpage and a css file while designing a website. So even though people have bigger monitors, it doesn't mean that people have "bigger" browsers...
And regarding slashdot not fitting on your pda: try this
Kind of like Social programs. Be careful with what you say or people will call you a socialist and tell you to move to Europe.
well, it doesn't take much to encourage greed and selfishness... I wasn't trying to suggest that capitolism is the only socioeconomic model that encourages such things!
"Compassionate capitolism" sounds like more than just good karma (although that's part of the package), it sounds like a responsible thing for a corporation to encourage.
It seems that capitolism tends to encourage greed and selfishness, perhaps a concerted effort towards community building will help balance things out.
I guess Macs are just more reliable computers all around...
*ducks*
I'd much rather the hotspot be funded by charging an extra $0.10 for coffee, or whatever the business may be. Actually, I just set up a WiFi hotspot for a local coffeehouse and the "free" WiFi has brought him enough extra business that he feels quite justified in not charging extra for the service.
WiFi should be a condiment, like catsup or salt or paper napkins...
Yes, Kudos the local LUG's.
This was my first year at LFNW, and it actually exceeded my expectations for an event in a small town like Bellingham (~70K). It was great... continue to keep it small, grassroots and free to all and I'm sure LFNW will be a success for years to come.
(I picked up a nice Debian shirt, too...)
case and point: here I am, interacting with you on a somewhat superficial level. That's more social interaction than Joe Banger gets from watching his nightly WWF, right? I will go out on a limb here and propose that over time, some of these superficial interactions with people could evolve into relationships... and what do you know, spending four hours a day on internet forums and message boards provides more social interaction than watching your soaps.
Than's all I'm trying to say...
However, this "social interaction" here at slashdot doesn't come close to you buying me a beer at the local tavern... I guess the 'net is merely the lesser of two evils, socially speaking.
In the last few decades, TV became the common ground that brought much of our society together... disparate groups of people didn't have much in common, except TV. As TV began to model more and more content after our culture, we began to model our lives after what we saw on TV. Sooner or later we were bound to reach a point where life and TV were nearly interchangable... why go outside and meet people when you can just "meet" someone new on TV? And it's so much easier to "meet" someone that way.
Thankfully, the internet came along to provide a dissenting fracture to the TV as life/life as TV spiral. The internet encourages interaction between people. The internet makes diversity within society easier to accomplish, while at the same time providing a common ground that can bring people together. As the next step in our culture's social model, the internet is a positive step forward.
it's interesting that the G5 was bested in photoshop benchmarks... heh. (how long will it be until someone else publishes some benchmarks that utilize some other filters and show the G5 to be faster?)
Perhaps it works like this: antibubbles float downward, when they burst their membranes decompose to air "droplets" and "fall" upwards.... thus employing the opposite vertical motion that a normal bubble would.
(a pocket of air within liquid is not a "true" bubble...)
An antibubble is a droplet of fluid surrounded by an gasseous membrane, as opposed to a fluid membrane around air. Of course, creating a gasseous membrane is a much more difficult proposition than creating a fluid membrane, which is why this is such an interesting discovery. (well, that and because it relates science and beer...)
When discussing the death of the antibubble, Dr. Dorbolo states:
Wouldn't an antibubble just decompose to form a regular bubble of gas within the liquid? Or is he saying that the gas is re-dissolved into the beer?true... naming is very important. If something is a quality product, but has a lame name it will get passed over without getting much more than a sideways glance and a snicker. There are very few people who can look past marketing (or lack therof) to see the actual product.
I'm curious to see how this distro stacks up against Mandrake, SuSe and RedHat. I'll have to give it a try...
"advanced automatic hardware configuration." open office. mozilla. will this be a new contender for the everyman business desktop?
I'm aware that there are a number of supported machines that don't have DVD players, however it would be a nice option if they made both available. Also, Apple is *still* offering an iBook with CD drive through the education store!
Just hope the option comes soon... then I won't have to spend time swapping install disks. Perhaps the next major release?
I did a clean install on the iBook, and I've noticed a marked improvement in boot up time, application speed and GUI responsiveness.
I did a straight upgrade to the 15" AlBook, and it worked just fine. However, I did just get this computer a couple weeks ago, so that probably makes a huge difference. I'm sure another incremental upgrade to the above mentioned iBook would have added to the system's sluggishness... it's been incramentally upgraded since 10.0!
I received my copy of "Panther" via FedEx at 11AM... so I spent the afternoon backing up and installing Panther on my two laptops (a 15" AlBook and older iBook SE). The install was three disks long (when will they start offering a DVD?) and rather uneventful.
I really dig the new "Expose'" feature, fast user switching and the capability to easily/seamlessly encrypt my home directory. I plan on testing the windows printer share capabilities in a few minutes...
However, my "Night of Panther" was spent watching the BBC's rendition of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy... had to test out the updated Apple DVD player, you know? It worked great!
Cargo is already sent up separately from crews... it's just that people have never really tried to meet back up with it...
If you're sharing amongst yourselves behind closed doors (or a router, in this case) then then how would the RIAA know? A university's campuswide intranet would be a great place to set up a massive file sharing network. Especially since a number of universities are protective of internal users/data. (beware of the loose-lipped campus, though!) With a little organization amongst students this could be quite successful.
/.</disclaimer>
The problem comes when these files are made available to people outside the intranet... which is probably the scenario that you are proposing in your question. Once the RIAA has targeted a specific user as being an "excessive" offender, problems arise. As mentioned above, *someone* will probably be served... and that *someone* could very possibly be you, even if it is by blame shifting.
<disclaimer>I'm not a lawyer, and if I were I probably wouldn't post on
I've heard rumors of fuel cells coming to market for quite some time now. Most of the fuel cell research seemed to be related to cars, though.
I think the tech sector is definately a more appropriate audience for fuel cells, the market is much more used to accepting new technologies and living with a short product life span.
It is good that the problems and shortcomings of fuel cells can be uncovered by the tech market before the auto industry adopts them. It'd be a shame to have a car that you just paid $20,000 for break down after a couple years!
"Holy shit you're right. The government shouldn't know my social security number! This is ridiculous!"
My concern is not that the government knows somebody's social security number. My concern is that all of this information (Income, race, medical history, etc.) will be easily acessable from a central database. Right now I'm required to tell Uncle Sam about my income so that he can get his "fair" share, but why should my race and medical history be associated with that information?
I consider my personal information to be just that... personal. If someone wants to know my race, medical history, sexual preference, cultural heritage, marital status, eating habits, etc. they should have to go through some amount of difficulty to find out.
In a world of such vast amounts of public information, the small amount of privacy I have is quite valued.
"Entities that provide services would collect their names, Social Security Numbers, dates of birth, race, gender, health status (including HIV, pregnancy, and domestic violence), veteran status, and income information."
This sounds way too invasive. It concerns me because once things like this are manditory for homeless people (it sounds like this system is moving that direction), then it will slowly be introduced to the masses.
Start with the outcasts of society as to make a quiet entrance. Then work your way up.
I don't like it.
Jaguar is OS X 10.2. 10.3 isn't out yet (only developer previews). My bad... I'm actually running Jaguar 10.2.6. I guess I inadvertantly rounded up...
I use one of the "pre-chicklet" iBooks. (I'm running OSX 10.3 Jaguar on a 466mHz G3 iBook SE with 384MB RAM) Other than it being a tiny bit slow, OSX works great.
I think this is really a statement about how Apple's customers have come to expect so much from the fruit company... yeah, Apple said they would support G3's. And they do. It's just when you try and scrape by with the minimum recommended requirements, things don't usually work as well as you'd like.
Sure, refunding the purchase price on a product that didn't work as expected is understandable, but it's too bad it had to happen in court. I guess that's just the way of doing things these days. Too bad.