Was thinking exactly the same. If they could fit a couple of seats in the nose cones of those things, I guess the disclaimers would start like "You'll sit at the top of the biggest firework ever made. Don't even think about complaining if something goes wrong -- in fact, you won't.", but I'm sure they would sell out the tickets in seconds anyway.
As an avid consumer of fine chocolate, I feel compelled to join the chorus: Milka doesn't make any "very good" chocolate that I know of, even if you only look at supermarket-variety chocolate. Lindt, for one, is much better; Valrhona is light years ahead, and I could talk for hours about the fine handcrafted chocolates you can find in many small shops here in Italy.
After this coup, Milka the chocolate is forever out of my shopping list (as if it wasn't already), along with everything else from Kraft.
Thats because the current ATI driver only supports kernel 2.4 [...]
Bullshit. I've been using the fglrx driver on 2.6 since version 3.2.8 IIRC, it needed a couple of patches but it worked. Recent versions don't need any changes. I maintain Debian packages of the fglrx driver and I have dozens of users on 2.6 in case you need proof.
Well, "far longer than any radioactivity will last" is obviously wrong, because it depends on which kind of radioactive isotopes we're talking about. It's far longer than *most* radioactivity will last, because the most abundant isotopes in this kind of waste have half times of a few hundred years, but some radioactivity will last for millions of years.
That's fine, but then no country outside the US should ever use Windows again for the exact same reason. With Windows, you don't even have the chance to see if there are backdoors, and why would you trust a commercial entity to not do bad things if you don't trust a few thousands hobbyists?
(I guess someone said this already, but I just don't have the time to read through almost a thousand comments today, sorry.)
This is completely ridiculous. Make those laptops cooler, for god's sake! Or else one day we'll just stop worrying about air pollution and just wear gas masks all the time.
Given the latest Sun outbursts about "open source", I don't think they mean what the article implies they mean.
(This is likely redundant, but today I was busy and I didn't get a chance to post when the article was fresh. Sorry. Skipping your daily dose of/. can have bad health effects, let me tell you.)
I once connected the audio out directly to the voice coil of an old disk, without dismounting the head assembly. The sound output was of course pretty low, but definitely audible and of relatively good quality.
While I agree that getting a PC to be silent is a good idea, I find it mostly useful in situations where there are several of them in the same room and you just can't go away or use big headphones all the time. Think office -- I have two PCs in front of me and another on my side and I am having a hard time convincing the powers that be that it *really* gets on my nerves when I'm trying to concentrate and that making them more silent would be well worth the money.
However, there's no chance that someone could build a PC silent enough for me to sleep in the same room while it's turned on. Even the most silent drives are unbearable. I can hear the humming noise of the UPS, dammit! (Aaah, silence... That's the advantage of living in a 400 people village, with a 900m mountain between you and the city nearby.) If you don't want to hear your PC, you'll have to put it in another room, period.
The real question is: how much of the warming was caused by the huge, thundering flamethrowers that brought those satellites up into space in the first place?
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> ...to realize that they did broke something.
Like grammar.
Was thinking exactly the same. If they could fit a couple of seats in the nose cones of those things, I guess the disclaimers would start like "You'll sit at the top of the biggest firework ever made. Don't even think about complaining if something goes wrong -- in fact, you won't.", but I'm sure they would sell out the tickets in seconds anyway.
"Arnold Schwarzenegger, governor of California..."
It's governator, baby!
2. Just recompile my ass. The byte ordering issue is going to make this a real pain for any existing codebase.
If that's the case for your code, tough luck. Any competent programmer takes the endianness problem into account when writing code.
(hmmm... being a supposedly competent programmer myself, I'm not sure if I'd moderate this as insightful or funny...)
Beware, she could develop moositis and write toy operating systems for fun.
Q. Who are the two ugliest CEOs in IT?
Almost seriously... they put a photo on the front page and they couldn't find a better one?
I won't even think about the ethical and technical side of things. We're obviously doomed.
As an avid consumer of fine chocolate, I feel compelled to join the chorus: Milka doesn't make any "very good" chocolate that I know of, even if you only look at supermarket-variety chocolate. Lindt, for one, is much better; Valrhona is light years ahead, and I could talk for hours about the fine handcrafted chocolates you can find in many small shops here in Italy.
After this coup, Milka the chocolate is forever out of my shopping list (as if it wasn't already), along with everything else from Kraft.
...but on additional stress on the nearby ones, so five seconds later you lose a whole section of them. How nice.
Noticed that too. I guess that in a contemporary edition it would become 'Gates and 'Torvalds'.
For example; they think they know how to program a computor.
...or grammar.
Mod parent up, thanks. Was going to say just that.
Thats because the current ATI driver only supports kernel 2.4 [...]
Bullshit. I've been using the fglrx driver on 2.6 since version 3.2.8 IIRC, it needed a couple of patches but it worked. Recent versions don't need any changes. I maintain Debian packages of the fglrx driver and I have dozens of users on 2.6 in case you need proof.
"The first one to get to the other side of the bridge gets $2. Oh and by the way, crossing the bridge costs you $4."
You don't do it for the prize. You do it because it's fun. Just like any other form of competition.
Ah, I would expect most of the uranium to be gone from the waste, if it's the fuel. ;)
Well, "far longer than any radioactivity will last" is obviously wrong, because it depends on which kind of radioactive isotopes we're talking about. It's far longer than *most* radioactivity will last, because the most abundant isotopes in this kind of waste have half times of a few hundred years, but some radioactivity will last for millions of years.
That's fine, but then no country outside the US should ever use Windows again for the exact same reason. With Windows, you don't even have the chance to see if there are backdoors, and why would you trust a commercial entity to not do bad things if you don't trust a few thousands hobbyists?
(I guess someone said this already, but I just don't have the time to read through almost a thousand comments today, sorry.)
This is completely ridiculous. Make those laptops cooler, for god's sake! Or else one day we'll just stop worrying about air pollution and just wear gas masks all the time.
Given the latest Sun outbursts about "open source", I don't think they mean what the article implies they mean. (This is likely redundant, but today I was busy and I didn't get a chance to post when the article was fresh. Sorry. Skipping your daily dose of /. can have bad health effects, let me tell you.)
Funny, a joke moderated as troll. Some people really don't have any sense of humor. ;)
You mean proprietary, closed-source software can't be hacked? Quick, someone pass me a copy of Windows for my servers!
What does a fat old man from the North Pole or thereabouts have to do with the birth of Christ, for that matter?
I once connected the audio out directly to the voice coil of an old disk, without dismounting the head assembly. The sound output was of course pretty low, but definitely audible and of relatively good quality.
What about making those technologies available to other platforms with a no-royalties license instead?
While I agree that getting a PC to be silent is a good idea, I find it mostly useful in situations where there are several of them in the same room and you just can't go away or use big headphones all the time. Think office -- I have two PCs in front of me and another on my side and I am having a hard time convincing the powers that be that it *really* gets on my nerves when I'm trying to concentrate and that making them more silent would be well worth the money.
However, there's no chance that someone could build a PC silent enough for me to sleep in the same room while it's turned on. Even the most silent drives are unbearable. I can hear the humming noise of the UPS, dammit! (Aaah, silence... That's the advantage of living in a 400 people village, with a 900m mountain between you and the city nearby.) If you don't want to hear your PC, you'll have to put it in another room, period.
The real question is: how much of the warming was caused by the huge, thundering flamethrowers that brought those satellites up into space in the first place?