BPL test areas are starting to get shut down left and right as interference complaints and excesive radiated power measurements start rolling in. Don't say f-you to your cable company yet.
I was browsing at a relative's house recently when the phone rang. The moment someone answered it I lost my 802.11 carrier. As soon as the phone was hung up, it came back. Coincidence? I think not.
What you meant to say was that Linux is missing support for some of the peripherals on your cutting-edge powerbook, and the distributions you have used haven't included all of the software you like.
Maybe you don't realize that Linux is a community effort? I'm sure that all of the other PowerBook owners out there would love it if you would work on some drivers to help fully support it. And I'm sure the distribution maintainers would happily accept package submissions of your favorite apps. In the meantime, yes please STFU.
WTF are you shitting? It runs great! I have been running Yellow Dog on my old 7500 with a 180MHz PPC 604e for years and while it doesn't exactly burn up the track, it's perfectly usable. Even KDE isn't horribly slow. It whoops my old P-II 200MHz box up and down. And I've very rarely had trouble compiling things. The box too old for OS-X and MacOS 9 crashed every hour on the hour. Linux runs rock solid. So STFU!
No the reason is there is no good fucking place for the waste. Thats why most of it sits around in pools at reactors. Nothing like spent fuel rods that will kill anybody who touches them for the next 50,000 years.
Oh yeah not to mention CHERNOBLE, there's another good example of how terrific nuclear power is.
Overzealous regulation my ass. If anything our nuclear regulations aren't nearly zealous enough.
Sony made overpriced PDAs with silly proprietary features. Is it all that suprising that they failed? Dell seems to be doing pretty good with the Axim. Sharp is still making Zaurii. HP is still making Ipaq's. I guess Palms are still around.
I love PDAs, I think they're incredibly useful. I think the technology still has a ways to go, but I have to admit I love being able to read/. on the john.
The biggest probles with PDAs: They're flimsy and expensive, two attributes that don't go well together. Pluss data stored on a PDA is extremely vulnerable to loss. PDAs get lost, stolen, and dropped. Nobody likes having vulnerable data.
OpenFirmware is the most amazingly awsome BIOS ever. Mostly because it's written in Forth which is one of the most amazingly awsome languages ever. I learned Forth specifically so I could hack on my PowerMac 7500's OpenFirmware. It's too bad Apple's old OF implementations were a bit buggy, but the newer PowerMacs' OF is super.
For those who aren't familiar with Forth: Forth is a very powerful and easy to learn language. It's hardware requirements are very light and it is completely portable. Except for the most fundamental procedures, Forth is written in Forth and is completely modifiable and extensable. Forth programs are written as extensions of Forth itself. Forth is an interpreted language, and can be used from a Forth shell, much like BASIC. However, it is almost as fast as C, and equally powerful. Forth is an ideal language for embedded computer systems.
For those of you that aren't familiar with OpenFirmware: OF is written in Forth and is very powerful because it can be manipulated from the Forth shell. This makes it very straightforward for an intelligent user to modify his BIOS as he sees fit, write BIOS scripts, modify settings, etc. The OF Forth shell gives you all the power of a normal PC BIOS and GRUB and then some. It even has a rudimentary edlin like text editor. Anyway if you own a Mac, look up some info on OF and play around with it a bit, it's pretty freakin cool.
I think the quality of your shiney veneer is often indicative of your merit. If someone doesn't take pride in their appearance, it stands to reason that they might not take pride in their work either. Not always, but often enough.
No, just ubiquitous, and cheaper as a consequence. Anyway as long as we're talking about an average person using a hi-fi VHS deck on an ordinary TV, VHS isn't really lacking for much. And SVHS is great, too bad it never caught on.
EVD is even SUPERIOR to DVD.
Like DVD, EVD video data is compressed, but according to the format's developers, Beijing-based E-World and US digital video technology company On2, it is capable of displaying HDTV images, a feat currently not possible with the established standard.
EVD uses On2's latest video codec, VP6, which offers "better image quality and faster decoding performance than Windows Media 9, Real 9, H.264 and QuickTime MPEG-4," the company - formerly known as The Duck Corporation - claims.
It's too bad that you go around propogating this misconception. It leads to confusion on the part of the users. I guess next you'll be saying that KDE is Linux?
I forgot to mention, SEAMLESS LINUX SUPPORT! That's huge for me, huge for a lot of Linux users. I just downloaded it, unziped it, and ran it! Okay well I had to emerge some SDL libraries but that was no big deal.
Heh it even runs under wine, although the window is misplaced on the screen. probably easy to fix tho.
Don't get me wrong, I'm wearing at least three pieces of clothing from Walmart as I type this. My point is lower cost == lower quality == less longevity. My Walmart clothes definately wear out faster.
All I can say is "Thank God I've still got my LaserJet III." I'm sure that it will long outlive every POS printer that's being sold today, and I'm sure I'll always be able to find toner cartridges for it.
I hate to see HP forced into competition with a company like Dell. Dell is the Walmart of computer hardware, it's cheap, it probably works okay for a while, but but eventually it's gonna crap the bed and you'll have to buy a new one. HP stuff USED to last forever, but now they're starting to sell wally-peripherals as well. It all goes back to our disposeable culture. But some of us (like me) would much rather pay a little more for something that will last a lot longer, or even pay a little less for something that's already old but that will STILL last a lot longer (like my LJ III).
It's small! It's FAST! It's free! It's FUN! What more could you ask for?
I played tonight for the first time. Multiplayer play reminds me a lot of Quake. The maps are all very pretty. The lighting effects are really quite good. It's true that it doesn't currently support true 3d maps (although there is a hack to get rooms over rooms using map models), and that gives the maps a sort of doom-ish feel, but WTF? Does that really impact the fun of deathmatch? I don't think so!
Screw you for releasing such a fun game that I had to waste two hours of my evening playing it! Bloody video game time pirates.:)
I have to agree, this project sounds like a waste of time and resources. The only way to do a NICE job of this would be to type up all the text and create neat digital versions of all the diagrams, and that's more than a one-person job. Sounds to me like something the profs should be doing their damn lazy selves.
I drive a 3000lb Sport Compact, with about a 170hp engine. There's 746 watts per hp, so that's 127KW of electricity needed for the equivalent performance.
That's not true at all. The electric car we built, a VW Scirocco, could do burnouts and it only had a 25hp motor with a 1500 watt controller. The secret? The motor's torque rating was up around 200 ft-lbs. HP sells cars, torque wins races, and electric motors are torquy as all getout.
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BPL test areas are starting to get shut down left and right as interference complaints and excesive radiated power measurements start rolling in. Don't say f-you to your cable company yet.
I was browsing at a relative's house recently when the phone rang. The moment someone answered it I lost my 802.11 carrier. As soon as the phone was hung up, it came back. Coincidence? I think not.
Of course RMS would shit his pants over something like that. By controling what what it can be used for, the platform is no longer "free".
Ebay, yard sales, used electronics shops, hamfests, dumpsters... That part shouldn't be even remotely difficult.
What you meant to say was that Linux is missing support for some of the peripherals on your cutting-edge powerbook, and the distributions you have used haven't included all of the software you like.
Maybe you don't realize that Linux is a community effort? I'm sure that all of the other PowerBook owners out there would love it if you would work on some drivers to help fully support it. And I'm sure the distribution maintainers would happily accept package submissions of your favorite apps. In the meantime, yes please STFU.
WTF are you shitting? It runs great! I have been running Yellow Dog on my old 7500 with a 180MHz PPC 604e for years and while it doesn't exactly burn up the track, it's perfectly usable. Even KDE isn't horribly slow. It whoops my old P-II 200MHz box up and down. And I've very rarely had trouble compiling things. The box too old for OS-X and MacOS 9 crashed every hour on the hour. Linux runs rock solid. So STFU!
No the reason is there is no good fucking place for the waste. Thats why most of it sits around in pools at reactors. Nothing like spent fuel rods that will kill anybody who touches them for the next 50,000 years. Oh yeah not to mention CHERNOBLE, there's another good example of how terrific nuclear power is. Overzealous regulation my ass. If anything our nuclear regulations aren't nearly zealous enough.
Sony made overpriced PDAs with silly proprietary features. Is it all that suprising that they failed? Dell seems to be doing pretty good with the Axim. Sharp is still making Zaurii. HP is still making Ipaq's. I guess Palms are still around. I love PDAs, I think they're incredibly useful. I think the technology still has a ways to go, but I have to admit I love being able to read /. on the john.
The biggest probles with PDAs: They're flimsy and expensive, two attributes that don't go well together. Pluss data stored on a PDA is extremely vulnerable to loss. PDAs get lost, stolen, and dropped. Nobody likes having vulnerable data.
Uhm, Fortran? My God, Man, you are going to scare EVERYBODY away from OpenFirmware! OF uses Forth, not Fortran.
OpenFirmware is the most amazingly awsome BIOS ever. Mostly because it's written in Forth which is one of the most amazingly awsome languages ever. I learned Forth specifically so I could hack on my PowerMac 7500's OpenFirmware. It's too bad Apple's old OF implementations were a bit buggy, but the newer PowerMacs' OF is super.
For those who aren't familiar with Forth: Forth is a very powerful and easy to learn language. It's hardware requirements are very light and it is completely portable. Except for the most fundamental procedures, Forth is written in Forth and is completely modifiable and extensable. Forth programs are written as extensions of Forth itself. Forth is an interpreted language, and can be used from a Forth shell, much like BASIC. However, it is almost as fast as C, and equally powerful. Forth is an ideal language for embedded computer systems.
For those of you that aren't familiar with OpenFirmware: OF is written in Forth and is very powerful because it can be manipulated from the Forth shell. This makes it very straightforward for an intelligent user to modify his BIOS as he sees fit, write BIOS scripts, modify settings, etc. The OF Forth shell gives you all the power of a normal PC BIOS and GRUB and then some. It even has a rudimentary edlin like text editor. Anyway if you own a Mac, look up some info on OF and play around with it a bit, it's pretty freakin cool.
Well, since you're farming the algea, you just don't grow that kind.
I think the quality of your shiney veneer is often indicative of your merit. If someone doesn't take pride in their appearance, it stands to reason that they might not take pride in their work either. Not always, but often enough.
They aren't trying to focus all their efforts on their domestic market, they're trying to avoid paying gazillions in royalties to the Japanese. RTFA.
EVD is even SUPERIOR to DVD.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/11/20/china_unv
I for one welcome our new EVD overloards. Seriously, DVD is a crappy encumbered standard. EVD could be to DVDs as VHS was to BETA.
Yeah with only 2 billion people in their market, they could wind up being really isolated.
It's too bad that you go around propogating this misconception. It leads to confusion on the part of the users. I guess next you'll be saying that KDE is Linux?
Also, it's a "GNU/Linux Distribution", but everybody just calls it "Linux", much to the dismay of RMS.
I forgot to mention, SEAMLESS LINUX SUPPORT! That's huge for me, huge for a lot of Linux users. I just downloaded it, unziped it, and ran it! Okay well I had to emerge some SDL libraries but that was no big deal. Heh it even runs under wine, although the window is misplaced on the screen. probably easy to fix tho.
Don't get me wrong, I'm wearing at least three pieces of clothing from Walmart as I type this. My point is lower cost == lower quality == less longevity. My Walmart clothes definately wear out faster.
All I can say is "Thank God I've still got my LaserJet III." I'm sure that it will long outlive every POS printer that's being sold today, and I'm sure I'll always be able to find toner cartridges for it.
I hate to see HP forced into competition with a company like Dell. Dell is the Walmart of computer hardware, it's cheap, it probably works okay for a while, but but eventually it's gonna crap the bed and you'll have to buy a new one. HP stuff USED to last forever, but now they're starting to sell wally-peripherals as well. It all goes back to our disposeable culture. But some of us (like me) would much rather pay a little more for something that will last a lot longer, or even pay a little less for something that's already old but that will STILL last a lot longer (like my LJ III).
It's small! It's FAST! It's free! It's FUN! What more could you ask for?
:)
I played tonight for the first time. Multiplayer play reminds me a lot of Quake. The maps are all very pretty. The lighting effects are really quite good. It's true that it doesn't currently support true 3d maps (although there is a hack to get rooms over rooms using map models), and that gives the maps a sort of doom-ish feel, but WTF? Does that really impact the fun of deathmatch? I don't think so!
Screw you for releasing such a fun game that I had to waste two hours of my evening playing it! Bloody video game time pirates.
I have to agree, this project sounds like a waste of time and resources. The only way to do a NICE job of this would be to type up all the text and create neat digital versions of all the diagrams, and that's more than a one-person job. Sounds to me like something the profs should be doing their damn lazy selves.
Knoppix is your friend.