Do you have sound module support compiled (as a module) into the kernel? Also recommended with alsa is to NOT compile any of the kernel drivers, alsa compiles it's own. Also, I know in Gentoo it's recommended to put a ALSA_CARDS="module name" into your make.conf (module name is the alsa module name, not the kernel module name, they're different for some cards) not sure about debian tho.
Those are two things that tripped me up the first time.
You could also try here http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/ for the alsa sound module names, and here http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/alsa-howto/al sa-howto.html (remove slashcode space:-) if you haven't already seen these. Remember too to configure alsa in the module start file (in Gentoo it's/etc/modules.d/alsa)
What problems are you having? I just got done installing Gentoo this week and so alsa and nvidia problems are fresh in my mind:-) (BTW, the nvidia install script they came out with some time back has worked on every single system I've tried it on with 2.4.20, so I'd be interested in knowing what you're experiencing)
"Fossils are a very poor example, the fossil record contains huge gaps and actually tends to disprove evolution in certain areas."
In other words you don't know squat about what the theory of evolution is.
" If life is constanly evoling[sic] over the centuries we would expect the fossil record to show this, "
If you knew anything about what fossils are, and how they come to be, then you would not have said anything like this. You need to do some reading. God, I'm sick of this kind of debate. I've been involved in it, voluntarily, for more than a quarter century.
There are two conservative ways, and, third, a non-conservative way, to respond to EPR:
accede that nonlocal superluminal influences are possible. This violates Einstein locality ("state vector collapse should occur instantaneously at all point in configuration space") but does not violate signal locality ("no usable signal can be communicated faster than light's speed"). Another is that |Y> is not an intrinsic property of the quantum system, but an expression for the information content for some quantum observable. In the single state, there is mutual information between A and B, so the information content of B changes when we know about A. A third way is to accept EPR at face value, and try to "complete" QM using local hidden variables. The impossibility of such a model was first shown by John Bell (1964, 1966).
Like I said, I'm not really sure on this. But it does seem to me that information transmission could not violate SR.
If you'd like to discuss it more, let's keep it off the/. forum; you can email me here (remove the obvious) agroz@OBVIOUSLYspeNOT.midco.net
Thank you, that was well put. I like your dice analogy, have to remember that one.
As I understand it, the effective transmission bandwidth(and therefore the amount of info that can be exchanged / function of time) is constrained in some way by the speed of light.
It's been a long time since I read it, and I don't really pretend to understand the math involved (although I do understand GR and SR from a conceptual viewpoint; higher calculus has never been my strongest subject:-).
But I did remember the conclusions. T'would be interesting if one could violate SR with information transmission. That would have all kinds of weird consequences....
More or less my understanding of it is that while the linked particle exchange happened more or less instantaneously, any data exchanged would have a an effective bandwidth (ok, amount of info / second) limited to a value determined to be under/at the speed of light. As I recall that was tied to GR theory.
I may be wrong, tho, it's been a while since I read it.
Missing links in the fossil chain do not *disprove* evolution, they just indicate that we don't have all the data yet (and may not ever, because of the processes which produce fossils).
My point was that because a lot of viruses are written in VB, and because windows is by far the more common OS, it's a lot more likely that most virus writers are windows scripties rather than linux users. Writing destructive linux viruses is actually fairly trivial; the problem lies on the social engineering side (most linux users are a little smarter and not likely to get bit).
I still haven't seen any evidence for your claim, so I have to assume it's your opinion only. You are entitled to it, as I am entitled to disagree. At least I can do it a little more politely.
But those probes didn't include experiments looking for life, tho. The moon has been pretty well examined (and it's unlikely that there was ever any there, given local conditions); and the first really serious Mars probes (Viking) included experiments specifically looking for life.
Offtopic, but I have a copy of the NASA book from the Viking landers, and there is some awesome stuff in there. (The Martian Landscape, NASA SP-425, for anyone interested)
Are the mods not seriously familiar with this guy?
A notable quote:
"He is not only a great man, but he has done great things in his life," said Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah.
But none of the Senate accolades mentioned how Thurmond had once championed racial segregation, how until the rise of George Wallace in Alabama, the South Carolinian had defended the right of states to discriminate against its citizens and denied the right of the federal government to do anything about it.
NAACP Chairman Julian Bond said the public praise for Thurmond is "a sad indication of . . . how willing we Americans are to push yesterday further and further away" without an accounting. "I say good riddance to a relic of our shameful past who has long overstayed his welcome."
Dang kids. I remember reading about him in grade school, fer crying out loud. I thought he was sick back then, even.
It' never work for me. My gait changes considerably on cold, wet days when the arthritis in my knees kicks in.
Something like that would, as someone else noted, also produce false rejections depending on the type of shoes worn, whether your pants are tight or loose, etc. What if you broke an ankle? Your gait would change considerably for months as it healed up (I've spiral-fractured one, and it was nearly a year before I could walk decently again).
But you know, I'd bet some company somewhere is already working on something like this....
I see....and that's why the large majority of newer viruses are written in Visual Basic. Geez, didn't know MS made that for Linux./sarcasm Every time I see a virus in my inbox I dump it into a hex editor - and invariably it was written in VB. Why? Probably because VB is *easy*. Give me a break. If you have some source for this "fact" pony it up.
BTW, I use windows, too. I also fix windows machines, and have for more than 5 years. I've cleaned a heckuva lot of machines.
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Sorry, that should be "sound card support" in the kernel config, not "sound module support". Argh
SB
Do you have sound module support compiled (as a module) into the kernel? Also recommended with alsa is to NOT compile any of the kernel drivers, alsa compiles it's own. Also, I know in Gentoo it's recommended to put a ALSA_CARDS="module name" into your make.conf (module name is the alsa module name, not the kernel module name, they're different for some cards) not sure about debian tho.
l sa-howto.html (remove slashcode space :-) if you haven't already seen these. Remember too to configure alsa in the module start file (in Gentoo it's /etc/modules.d/alsa)
Those are two things that tripped me up the first time.
You could also try here http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/ for the alsa sound module names, and here http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/alsa-howto/a
Good luck!
SB
What problems are you having? I just got done installing Gentoo this week and so alsa and nvidia problems are fresh in my mind :-) (BTW, the nvidia install script they came out with some time back has worked on every single system I've tried it on with 2.4.20, so I'd be interested in knowing what you're experiencing)
SB
How about the nearly endless resources the asteroids present? Moving heavy industry off Earth? There's our "gold and slaves" equivalent :-)
SB
Like.....the RIAA?
:-(
What was that figure they sued for again? $93 billion or something ridiculous like that?
I agree with you about this decision not making sense...but the RIAA must just *love* it
SB
Fire up the editor, open the class browser, open the sound tab, look for the "AnnouncerMain"; select the sound you want, File>>export
:-)
bing!
They removed HS in the latest patch? Bastards. I wondered where it went. Thought my gameplay was just getting worse.
Now I'll just have to put it back.
SB
Quote from your original post:
"Fossils are a very poor example, the fossil record contains huge gaps and actually tends to disprove evolution in certain areas."
In other words you don't know squat about what the theory of evolution is.
" If life is constanly evoling[sic] over the centuries we would expect the fossil record to show this, "
If you knew anything about what fossils are, and how they come to be, then you would not have said anything like this. You need to do some reading.
God, I'm sick of this kind of debate. I've been involved in it, voluntarily, for more than a quarter century.
Mostly I blame our screwed up school system.
SB
There seems to be a lot of difference of opinion on this.
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/. forum; you can email me here (remove the obvious) agroz@OBVIOUSLYspeNOT.midco.net
See here
Quote:
There are two conservative ways, and, third, a non-conservative way, to respond to EPR:
accede that nonlocal superluminal influences are possible. This violates Einstein locality ("state vector collapse should occur instantaneously at all point in configuration space") but does not violate signal locality ("no usable signal can be communicated faster than light's speed").
Another is that |Y> is not an intrinsic property of the quantum system, but an expression for the information content for some quantum observable. In the single state, there is mutual information between A and B, so the information content of B changes when we know about A.
A third way is to accept EPR at face value, and try to "complete" QM using local hidden variables. The impossibility of such a model was first shown by John Bell (1964, 1966)
Like I said, I'm not really sure on this. But it does seem to me that information transmission could not violate SR.
If you'd like to discuss it more, let's keep it off the
SB
Thank you, that was well put. I like your dice analogy, have to remember that one.
:-).
As I understand it, the effective transmission bandwidth(and therefore the amount of info that can be exchanged / function of time) is constrained in some way by the speed of light.
It's been a long time since I read it, and I don't really pretend to understand the math involved (although I do understand GR and SR from a conceptual viewpoint; higher calculus has never been my strongest subject
But I did remember the conclusions. T'would be interesting if one could violate SR with information transmission. That would have all kinds of weird consequences....
SB
More or less my understanding of it is that while the linked particle exchange happened more or less instantaneously, any data exchanged would have a an effective bandwidth (ok, amount of info / second) limited to a value determined to be under/at the speed of light. As I recall that was tied to GR theory.
I may be wrong, tho, it's been a while since I read it.
More stuff to reread. Sigh.
SB
Missing links in the fossil chain do not *disprove* evolution, they just indicate that we don't have all the data yet (and may not ever, because of the processes which produce fossils).
SB
That was very well put.
SB
My point was that because a lot of viruses are written in VB, and because windows is by far the more common OS, it's a lot more likely that most virus writers are windows scripties rather than linux users. Writing destructive linux viruses is actually fairly trivial; the problem lies on the social engineering side (most linux users are a little smarter and not likely to get bit).
I still haven't seen any evidence for your claim, so I have to assume it's your opinion only. You are entitled to it, as I am entitled to disagree. At least I can do it a little more politely.
SB
But those probes didn't include experiments looking for life, tho. The moon has been pretty well examined (and it's unlikely that there was ever any there, given local conditions); and the first really serious Mars probes (Viking) included experiments specifically looking for life.
Offtopic, but I have a copy of the NASA book from the Viking landers, and there is some awesome stuff in there. (The Martian Landscape, NASA SP-425, for anyone interested)
SB
Are the mods not seriously familiar with this guy?
A notable quote:
"He is not only a great man, but he has done great things in his life," said Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah.
But none of the Senate accolades mentioned how Thurmond had once championed racial segregation, how until the rise of George Wallace in Alabama, the South Carolinian had defended the right of states to discriminate against its citizens and denied the right of the federal government to do anything about it.
NAACP Chairman Julian Bond said the public praise for Thurmond is "a sad indication of . . . how willing we Americans are to push yesterday further and further away" without an accounting. "I say good riddance to a relic of our shameful past who has long overstayed his welcome."
Dang kids. I remember reading about him in grade school, fer crying out loud. I thought he was sick back then, even.
SB
Did anyone else read that and immediately think of Saruman?
"Now....I see ALLLLLLLL!!!"
SB
Yo mama's so ugly, the T1000 broke down and cried... :-)
SB
"or is it a dog .. a wombat maybe?"
:-)))
Dude, you should have a serious conversation with your foks
SB
It' never work for me. My gait changes considerably on cold, wet days when the arthritis in my knees kicks in.
Something like that would, as someone else noted, also produce false rejections depending on the type of shoes worn, whether your pants are tight or loose, etc. What if you broke an ankle? Your gait would change considerably for months as it healed up (I've spiral-fractured one, and it was nearly a year before I could walk decently again).
But you know, I'd bet some company somewhere is already working on something like this....
SB
I see....and that's why the large majority of newer viruses are /sarcasm
written in Visual Basic. Geez, didn't know MS made that for Linux.
Every time I see a virus in my inbox I dump it into a hex editor -
and invariably it was written in VB. Why? Probably because VB is
*easy*.
Give me a break. If you have some source for this "fact" pony it up.
BTW, I use windows, too. I also fix windows machines, and have for
more than 5 years. I've cleaned a heckuva lot of machines.
SB
"We all know that the people exploiting security holes and writing
virii for Windows computers are Linux users"
IMHO, that comment right there deserves a flamebait mod.
Come on, man! Do you seriously think that most experienced linux users
would be so incompetent?
"patches would be released as quickly"
Patches for Linux, BSD, etc are released MUCH MORE QUICKLY than
the patches MS provides. Where have you been?
SB
Bah. I'm installing Gentoo (emerging kde right now) and surfing :-)
slashdot, playing mp3s (mpg123) and drinking Guiness. Beat that
for masochism.
I'm also listening to Britn^H^H^H^H^H ok, ACDC
SB
The really funny part is that Lynx rendered it fine :-)
:-)_
:-) I love linux :-)
Microsoft legacy HTML?
SB
(I'm in the middle of emerge kde in Gentoo; reading slashdot and
playing mp3s on other terminals
I want to know what his/hers pizza and beer bill was....
SB
Guess we'd have to call you a shortstop, then ;-)
SB