You people aren't being suitably pessimistic. Where's the profit motive in building something that can replicate itself and solve an entire problem just from a few grams? Pharmaceuticals, et. al., want to be able to sell you the same stuff over and over again. This stuff will be artificially crippled if need be.
I can't do it justice in a simple reply, but you should try Lock On: Modern Combat, the successor to Flanker 2.0. As far as flight simulators, Flanker 2.0 (and moreso the 2.5 patch) was the Russian counterpart to Falcon 4.0, although lacking in immersiveness in a campaign.
LOMAC takes all that and builds on it an amazing and modern graphic engine, even further improved flight physics (beyond the already stock-Falcon quality physics in Flanker), and allows you to fly eight such highly detail aircraft--Su25, Su27, Su33, and 3 varieties of MiG-29; and the F15C and A10.
Coming soon will be a fully random and dynamic campaign, in addition to the pack-in campaign, similar to what Enemy Engaged: Commanche vs Hokum offered.
All told, not only has LOMAC attempted, it has succeeded beyond all hope.
Read SimHQ's article on LOMAC here. Find the official website here.
This may sound like an advertisement, but I've been an avid fan (and player) of Flanker 2.5 for some years and am foaming at the mouth with the release of LOMAC. It is that exciting.
its rotors work like a helicopter for takeoff, hovering, and slow-speed manouvering [sic], and then lock into place like a fixed-wing aircraft for cruising.
This reminds me of how Airwolf's turbo mode was supposed to work.:-)
Good grief that looks terrible. I guess [pre] is illegal. *sigh*
omoikane:~$ apt-cache stats
Total Package Names : 16160 (646k)
Normal Packages: 12417
Pure Virtual Packages: 259
Single Virtual Packages: 541
Mixed Virtual Packages: 176
Missing: 2767
Total Distinct Versions: 13104 (629k)
Total Dependencies: 71632 (2006k)
Total Ver/File relations: 14047 (225k)
Total Provides Mappings: 2239 (44.8k)
Total Globbed Strings: 104 (1175)
Total Dependency Version space: 329k
Total Slack space: 70.7k
Total Space Accounted for: 3622k
omoikane:~$
(One of these days I'll learn to always preview posts.)
Actually sid's nearly up to 12500 (depending on how you count) these days:
omoikane:~$ apt-cache stats
Total Package Names : 16160 (646k)
Normal Packages: 12417
Pure Virtual Packages: 259
Single Virtual Packages: 541
Mixed Virtual Packages: 176
Missing: 2767
Total Distinct Versions: 13104 (629k)
Total Dependencies: 71632 (2006k)
Total Ver/File relations: 14047 (225k)
Total Provides Mappings: 2239 (44.8k)
Total Globbed Strings: 104 (1175)
Total Dependency Version space: 329k
Total Slack space: 70.7k
Total Space Accounted for: 3622k
omoikane:~$
This just out: the reading of scientific articles in a language almost resembling English, but not quite, can cause serious mental stress according to non-citeable sources.
This effect seems magnified if subjects have been sitting in front of CRT all day reading headline websites and not generally excercising their physical body in any way.
(BTW-Tongue firmly in cheek, no offense meant to these researchers in any way.)
Have you priced 120GB SCSI drives? $1000-ish. IDE would be about $120. Plus $100 for an adapter. $220 < $1000. Why do it? SCSI RAID controllers are still better in general and better supported in Linux is one case you might consider it. I dunno.
Yes, but there you're using a duplexor because they're on seperate bands. On the same band, you'd have the problem that your transmitter's radiation might loop back into the receiver. Less so on a directional antenna, yes, but just the same...
Find a vulnerability and you're not even allowed to release a fixed version!
That's assuming you ever find one. qmail's withstood the security guarantee since 1998. djb tends to write fairly good software... Besides, people are allowed to release unofficial patches to djb projects and quite a community has grown up around additional features. See qmail.org and tinydns.org.
There hasn't been a djbdns release since 12-Feb-2001 [freshmeat.net] and the project is bound to go stale sooner or later if djb does not renew his interest.
Oh come on. If something works well and implements the standards, why should you bother to add more gimmicks? "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
In the computer lab, the LCD iMac's open up a terminal (so I can ssh home to my Linux cluster) fast enough for me. Likewise IE seems relatively snappy. That's about the extent of my experience on new hardware.
But oh my gosh, OSX is slow on an old Blue and White.
Mozilla: AFAICT at least half of the development costs for Mozilla come from AOL still.
Winamp: They also own Nullsoft and allow them to put out a pretty good product ad-free for free.
It should also be noted that AOL uses OpenSSH internally and open sourced (a version of) their web server.
Sure, if they all had the rug pulled out from under them they'd probably limp along and find a new home, but that kind of disruption can't help rate of progress and all. And who likes "subscription models" that a lot of places seem to be resorting to?
Sure their marketing and their Windows IP stacks and their war against open Oscar and so on are pretty evil, but there's a lot of "good" in there, too.
(FWIW-I've never subscribed to AOL, but I've worked at companies contracted by AOL.)
[sarcasm]
I didn't know Linux was actually *based* on Minix. And because of the GPL you have no rights to sell it at all? Somebody'd better go tell RedHat quick!
[/sarcasm]
I expect more from Brett Glass, honestly. He sounded like some Microsoft evangelist.
BSD can stand on its own merit, it doesn't need people to try and put down Linux.
(My 2 cents.)
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Yeah. Nobody needs Titanium do they? How can you put an upper bound on something that is by definition unknown.
The other reason to zip single compressed files is to offer integrity validation via zip's CRC.
You people aren't being suitably pessimistic. Where's the profit motive in building something that can replicate itself and solve an entire problem just from a few grams? Pharmaceuticals, et. al., want to be able to sell you the same stuff over and over again. This stuff will be artificially crippled if need be.
I can't do it justice in a simple reply, but you should try Lock On: Modern Combat, the successor to Flanker 2.0. As far as flight simulators, Flanker 2.0 (and moreso the 2.5 patch) was the Russian counterpart to Falcon 4.0, although lacking in immersiveness in a campaign.
LOMAC takes all that and builds on it an amazing and modern graphic engine, even further improved flight physics (beyond the already stock-Falcon quality physics in Flanker), and allows you to fly eight such highly detail aircraft--Su25, Su27, Su33, and 3 varieties of MiG-29; and the F15C and A10.
Coming soon will be a fully random and dynamic campaign, in addition to the pack-in campaign, similar to what Enemy Engaged: Commanche vs Hokum offered.
All told, not only has LOMAC attempted, it has succeeded beyond all hope.
Read SimHQ's article on LOMAC here. Find the official website here.
This may sound like an advertisement, but I've been an avid fan (and player) of Flanker 2.5 for some years and am foaming at the mouth with the release of LOMAC. It is that exciting.
This reminds me of how Airwolf's turbo mode was supposed to work. :-)
That Ape Never Seems To Assess Accounting For Lemurs?
When I first read this, my first thought was "You were thinking of doing what to robots, you naughty person?!"
omoikane:~$ apt-cache stats
Total Package Names : 16160 (646k)
Normal Packages: 12417
Pure Virtual Packages: 259
Single Virtual Packages: 541
Mixed Virtual Packages: 176
Missing: 2767
Total Distinct Versions: 13104 (629k)
Total Dependencies: 71632 (2006k)
Total Ver/File relations: 14047 (225k)
Total Provides Mappings: 2239 (44.8k)
Total Globbed Strings: 104 (1175)
Total Dependency Version space: 329k
Total Slack space: 70.7k
Total Space Accounted for: 3622k
omoikane:~$
(One of these days I'll learn to always preview posts.)
Actually sid's nearly up to 12500 (depending on how you count) these days: omoikane:~$ apt-cache stats Total Package Names : 16160 (646k) Normal Packages: 12417 Pure Virtual Packages: 259 Single Virtual Packages: 541 Mixed Virtual Packages: 176 Missing: 2767 Total Distinct Versions: 13104 (629k) Total Dependencies: 71632 (2006k) Total Ver/File relations: 14047 (225k) Total Provides Mappings: 2239 (44.8k) Total Globbed Strings: 104 (1175) Total Dependency Version space: 329k Total Slack space: 70.7k Total Space Accounted for: 3622k omoikane:~$
http://www.compgeeks.com/
There's also nothing new about being able to do on-demand 4/8 cylinders in the SUV. That's been done before. In American cars, no less.
Normally, I hate writing "me too" sorts of posts.
One of the more interesting posts I've read here in a long time because of the elegant 'hack' to the phone directory. Thanks.
This effect seems magnified if subjects have been sitting in front of CRT all day reading headline websites and not generally excercising their physical body in any way.
(BTW-Tongue firmly in cheek, no offense meant to these researchers in any way.)
The previous article was an advertisement, this article links to an actual "unbiased" review.
Have you priced 120GB SCSI drives? $1000-ish. IDE would be about $120. Plus $100 for an adapter. $220 < $1000. Why do it? SCSI RAID controllers are still better in general and better supported in Linux is one case you might consider it. I dunno.
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20021114. html
And you read Slashdot? ;-P
Yes, but there you're using a duplexor because they're on seperate bands. On the same band, you'd have the problem that your transmitter's radiation might loop back into the receiver. Less so on a directional antenna, yes, but just the same...
That's assuming you ever find one. qmail's withstood the security guarantee since 1998. djb tends to write fairly good software... Besides, people are allowed to release unofficial patches to djb projects and quite a community has grown up around additional features. See qmail.org and tinydns.org.
Oh come on. If something works well and implements the standards, why should you bother to add more gimmicks? "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
But oh my gosh, OSX is slow on an old Blue and White.
Even Taliban Afghanistan was a bit of Utopia for them.
Mozilla: AFAICT at least half of the development costs for Mozilla come from AOL still.
Winamp: They also own Nullsoft and allow them to put out a pretty good product ad-free for free.
It should also be noted that AOL uses OpenSSH internally and open sourced (a version of) their web server.
Sure, if they all had the rug pulled out from under them they'd probably limp along and find a new home, but that kind of disruption can't help rate of progress and all. And who likes "subscription models" that a lot of places seem to be resorting to?
Sure their marketing and their Windows IP stacks and their war against open Oscar and so on are pretty evil, but there's a lot of "good" in there, too.
(FWIW-I've never subscribed to AOL, but I've worked at companies contracted by AOL.)
Sure, it's not illegal, but just imagine how incriminating it would *look* (to "them" at least) just to have "Votester" installed...
[sarcasm] I didn't know Linux was actually *based* on Minix. And because of the GPL you have no rights to sell it at all? Somebody'd better go tell RedHat quick! [/sarcasm] I expect more from Brett Glass, honestly. He sounded like some Microsoft evangelist. BSD can stand on its own merit, it doesn't need people to try and put down Linux. (My 2 cents.)
(Of course, you couldn't really lvreduce your main LV's to give space to snapshots, so you're still not 100% there with a cron-script.)