I have installed Linux on my computer about a year ago, and liked it. There were some medium painful moments (i.e. getting and installing Redhat 7.2 after upgrading the video card and finding absolutely no way to get all the packages installing new X required. Then, trying to fit Redhat with GNOME & KDE into somewhat limited hard drive space through the dependency hell), but it was OK.
Later, however, I installed Cygwin. Then, I suddenly found out that there is absolutely no reason for me to reboot into Linux. Right now, more or less the only reason I would reboot is to get a good debugger (gdb for Cygwin is unstable on Windows 98, and MSVC can't run arbitrary functions. But I'll install Windows 2000 someday...). So, I boot into Linux from time to time but really see no major reason to use it... And I can't use it all the time (or even most of the time) because:
2) It's more pain... If something goes wrong, you have to search Googe Groups. Then, sometimes you find nothing.... I'm lazy, darn it!
3) KDE & Gnome are slow; GNOME 1 is ugly; WindowMaker is better, but still sometimes just feels wrong (i.e. when you resease right mouse button, and the menu doesn't disappear).
Was I the only one to see a pretty funny cartoon before the movie (a kind of parody on Star Wars)? Does anyone know why did id get in before the movie? Or is it only shown in United Artist cinemas?
Mathworld is good, but I found it very hard to learn something new with it - the articles usually assume that you know the stuff, and use them as a reference.
-- CD's - with widespread adoption of tapes, what is the motivation for taping companies to provide widespread support for another format, with CD readers costing about $2000?
-- tapes - with widespread adoption of vinil disks, what is the motivation for sound companies to provide widespread support for another format, with tape recorders costing about $2000?
-- vinil disks -...
-- Internet Explorer/Word/Windows -.... widespread adoption of Netscape/WordPerfect/MacOS... who needs another...?
-- WWW - with widespread... news... e-mail... who needs another format?
There is one problem - Civilization III doesn't support any multiplayer. They promise to release a multiplayer update in January, though. It's very annoying to see how they split the game in two just to make it cost twice as much...
In the mean time, you can try Alpha Centaury. It's basically the same thing (well, the graphics is worse, IMVHO) but the gameplay is mostly the same. And yes, when played multiplayer it's infinetly addictive.
I imagine, Naboo will be renamed to Alderaan. Also, just to piss everyone off, Darth Vader will kill Anaken and Darth Sidous will kill Palpatine. Episodes 4-6 are waiting to be remade...
Really, why send humans to Mars? The cost and time needed to send humans to Mars are enormous. Apollo program costed NASA 2 million dollars per year for seven years. A program to Mars may cost ten times as much. And, what can humans do on Mars that robots can't? Is it really worth it?
The only real reason I see to send people to Mars is press. Maybe, people will actually vote to pay NASA money if they will go to this project? I don't think so, however. Cold war is over, so US doesn't feel that it needs to prove it is the best any more. I'm also not sure if there will going to be much reaction - imagine if people will think "Well, we've already been on the Moon, who needs Mars now?" Finally, again, is it worth the money and effort?
It would souch nicer to see more cheaper robots out there... Send a craft to Pluto while there's still time... Send robots to Mars - how much cheaper it is to return Martian soil with a robot than with a human... How great Mars Pathfinder was. Not much public attention (or money for NASA), though... *sigh*
Or, maybe they can persuade Bill Gates to be the first space tourist to Mars in 20 years for some $20 billion now?
I've been using Opera 6.0 (for Windows) for a while, but now I switched to Mozilla. Mazilla and Opera are almost equally comfortable to use - as long as you install Optimoz for Mozilla. Also, if Mozilla wouldn't have tabs it would be far behind.
One great feature of Opera is that pop-ups don't ever get to your taskbar, and there is an option to force them behind all other windows. Even if Mozilla could open pop-ups in tabs behind all others, they would still occupy the whole window. Still, it would be have to have this in Mozilla. Also, when you start a download in Opera, it already is downloading the file when you are dealing with the "Save As..." dialog. Another thing I wish for Mozilla.
There are several reasons I switched to Mozilla. First, it seems to render IE-oriented pages better. In fact, I haven't seen one page I really needed to open IE for. Mozilla as fast in browsing (and as slow in startup;( ) as Opera (or, seems so). It also has a much greater number of plugins for it (look at mozdev.org; my favourite after Optimoz is BannerBlind. Mozilla Mail is useful, while the mailer in Opera seems lame to me. Finally, no ads and adware on the computer...
If I had the Windows "Clouds" wallpaper all over my room, I'd feel like...
You wouldn't be able to make out what that is. The wallpaper is 640*480, 16 colors. Imagine this scaled to the size of your room, if it starts looking bad on a big monitor already...
I basically messed up everything above. First, I treated Newtons like Jewels. Then, with this speed radius of Superman's orbit will be very close to 0 (speed decreases with radius, and at Earth's surface the speed is 8m/s). Yes, 40000km is the circumference of Earth.
So, now I'm ignoring the acceleration. When Superman flies at R~6000km @ 10^9m/s, his acceleration outwards (that produces the centrifugal force) will be v^2/R=10^18/6*10^6=1.66*10^12m/s^2. We have to subtract g, which acts the other way, but it's negligibely small. OK, now the force is F = ma = 60kg*1.66*10^12m/s^2=10^14N. The work he had done, W=Fs=10^14N * 4*10^7m * 50revolutions = 2*10^24J
OK, now E=mc^2 m = 2*10^24J/(3*10^8m/s)^2 = 2*10^24/9*10^16~10^8kg. That's a lot of food, even if all of it's mass converts to energy (Superman has a matter-antimatter engine?).
Then, imagine the mechanical consequence of such a thing - tidal waves, hurricanes, etc...
Yes, maybe the cause-effect is backwards? If time goes backwards, Earth would go in the other direction by itself. But then, what is flying for?
how did Superman turn around time by turning around Earth's rotation? How did he reverse Earth's rotation around by flying around it in the wrong direction really-really fast?
Oh, yes, how much energy do you need to circle around earth ~50 times in 1 second, or, assuming that he flies like a sattelite (and, therefore, exerts no force on the planet) accelerates to this velocity?
Hmm... Radius of earth is ~40000 km. So, speed of 1 revolution/sec is 40000km/sec. Approximately 50 revolutions/2 sec= 25rev/sec = 1000000km/sec=10^6 km/sec, which is greater than speed of light. Still using Newtonian mechanics. He accelerates in something like a second, so the acceleration is 10^6km/sec^2=10^9m/sec^2. His mass is ~60 kg, so the force ma = 6*10^10N.
That's a lot. Unfortuanetly, E=mc^2 doesn't provide for impressive enough mass of food. Still,...
1) It has The Bat!. I haven't seen a better mailer.
2) I need to be 100% compatible with Word in my school. I don't want to install OpenOffice, StarOfice, and KDE's office to find out which one better supports word.
3) XMMS is great, but soumething always interferes with esd/KDE's sound daemon. Sound usually works, but not all the time.
4) Concerning music, I haven't seen anything on Linux better than MilkDrop. There is a G-Force for XMMS, but it doesn't compile with me.
5) Not every program has RPMs, and I want to keep track of what I have installed.
6) Yes, this is outdated, but I don't have much disk space to upgrade. Gnome is ugly (in my opinion - too squary), KDE 2 is slow and unstable. There hardly is a good browser for Linux - Konqueror has problems with fonts, Mozilla is slow. I'll try to install Mozilla 1.0 when I'll reboot next.
As an end user, I sometimes reboot only for one reason - Cygwin's gdb is buggy. So, Linux for me is just the enviroment that runs ddd without crashing;).
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It will crash into a distant planet of robots, get help, lose the 'oy', return and destroy Earth.
I have installed Linux on my computer about a year ago, and liked it. There were some medium painful moments (i.e. getting and installing Redhat 7.2 after upgrading the video card and finding absolutely no way to get all the packages installing new X required. Then, trying to fit Redhat with GNOME & KDE into somewhat limited hard drive space through the dependency hell), but it was OK.
Later, however, I installed Cygwin. Then, I suddenly found out that there is absolutely no reason for me to reboot into Linux. Right now, more or less the only reason I would reboot is to get a good debugger (gdb for Cygwin is unstable on Windows 98, and MSVC can't run arbitrary functions. But I'll install Windows 2000 someday...). So, I boot into Linux from time to time but really see no major reason to use it... And I can't use it all the time (or even most of the time) because:
1) I like The Bat! and MilkDrop.
2) It's more pain... If something goes wrong, you have to search Googe Groups. Then, sometimes you find nothing.... I'm lazy, darn it!
3) KDE & Gnome are slow; GNOME 1 is ugly; WindowMaker is better, but still sometimes just feels wrong (i.e. when you resease right mouse button, and the menu doesn't disappear).
-- Ilya.
Have everyone noticed it? Was it only United Artist Cinemas? How tight was it connected to the actual movie?
It's just that what's user-friendly (comfortable to use) for me, is not necessary that for you, or, what's worse, for the "average user".
Was I the only one to see a pretty funny cartoon before the movie (a kind of parody on Star Wars)? Does anyone know why did id get in before the movie? Or is it only shown in United Artist cinemas?
How many trees/day are wasted on junk mail?
Mathworld is good, but I found it very hard to learn something new with it - the articles usually assume that you know the stuff, and use them as a reference.
Also, you can use http://mathworld.com as well.
They have already answered that one...
;)
I'd also give six months to...
...
.... widespread adoption of Netscape/WordPerfect/MacOS ... who needs another ...? ... news ... e-mail ... who needs another format?
-- CD's - with widespread adoption of tapes, what is the motivation for taping companies to provide widespread support for another format, with CD readers costing about $2000?
-- tapes - with widespread adoption of vinil disks, what is the motivation for sound companies to provide widespread support for another format, with tape recorders costing about $2000?
-- vinil disks -
-- Internet Explorer/Word/Windows -
-- WWW - with widespread
---
Not meant to be troll.
Will it be called Titanux?
No intention to be troll...
There is one problem - Civilization III doesn't support any multiplayer. They promise to release a multiplayer update in January, though. It's very annoying to see how they split the game in two just to make it cost twice as much...
In the mean time, you can try Alpha Centaury. It's basically the same thing (well, the graphics is worse, IMVHO) but the gameplay is mostly the same. And yes, when played multiplayer it's infinetly addictive.
I imagine, Naboo will be renamed to Alderaan. Also, just to piss everyone off, Darth Vader will kill Anaken and Darth Sidous will kill Palpatine. Episodes 4-6 are waiting to be remade...
;)
Google -- slashdotted... O my God.
What? It's not in Google's cache!
I guess we need an alternative search/caching engine for this very case...
;)
I wonder, why is it called Entropia? Because it brings chaos (entropy) into the lives of the poor people who download the client?
Also, how long will it take the Entropia world to create Project Reality (the peak of technology, real world emulator!)?
;)
Really, why send humans to Mars? The cost and time needed to send humans to Mars are enormous. Apollo program costed NASA 2 million dollars per year for seven years. A program to Mars may cost ten times as much. And, what can humans do on Mars that robots can't? Is it really worth it?
The only real reason I see to send people to Mars is press. Maybe, people will actually vote to pay NASA money if they will go to this project? I don't think so, however. Cold war is over, so US doesn't feel that it needs to prove it is the best any more. I'm also not sure if there will going to be much reaction - imagine if people will think "Well, we've already been on the Moon, who needs Mars now?" Finally, again, is it worth the money and effort?
It would souch nicer to see more cheaper robots out there... Send a craft to Pluto while there's still time... Send robots to Mars - how much cheaper it is to return Martian soil with a robot than with a human... How great Mars Pathfinder was. Not much public attention (or money for NASA), though... *sigh*
Or, maybe they can persuade Bill Gates to be the first space tourist to Mars in 20 years for some $20 billion now?
;)
(;->)
;)
I've been using Opera 6.0 (for Windows) for a while, but now I switched to Mozilla. Mazilla and Opera are almost equally comfortable to use - as long as you install Optimoz for Mozilla. Also, if Mozilla wouldn't have tabs it would be far behind.
;( ) as Opera (or, seems so). It also has a much greater number of plugins for it (look at mozdev.org; my favourite after Optimoz is BannerBlind. Mozilla Mail is useful, while the mailer in Opera seems lame to me. Finally, no ads and adware on the computer...
One great feature of Opera is that pop-ups don't ever get to your taskbar, and there is an option to force them behind all other windows. Even if Mozilla could open pop-ups in tabs behind all others, they would still occupy the whole window. Still, it would be have to have this in Mozilla. Also, when you start a download in Opera, it already is downloading the file when you are dealing with the "Save As..." dialog. Another thing I wish for Mozilla.
There are several reasons I switched to Mozilla. First, it seems to render IE-oriented pages better. In fact, I haven't seen one page I really needed to open IE for. Mozilla as fast in browsing (and as slow in startup
So, Opera is great, but I like Mozilla better.
So that's CTRL-ALT-DEL
why CTRL-ALT-DEL
Windows CTRL-ALT-DEL
crashed CTRL-ALT-DEL
again CTRL-ALT-DEL
. CTRL-ALT-DEL
If I had the Windows "Clouds" wallpaper all over my room, I'd feel like ...
You wouldn't be able to make out what that is. The wallpaper is 640*480, 16 colors. Imagine this scaled to the size of your room, if it starts looking bad on a big monitor already...
;)
A better version (no highliting) here.
The page isn't slashdotted just yet though...
Why did I say that - it's probably being destroyed now...
Try BannerBlind. Look at many other useful things at mozdev.org, too.
I basically messed up everything above. First, I treated Newtons like Jewels. Then, with this speed radius of Superman's orbit will be very close to 0 (speed decreases with radius, and at Earth's surface the speed is 8m/s). Yes, 40000km is the circumference of Earth.
So, now I'm ignoring the acceleration. When Superman flies at R~6000km @ 10^9m/s, his acceleration outwards (that produces the centrifugal force) will be v^2/R=10^18/6*10^6=1.66*10^12m/s^2. We have to subtract g, which acts the other way, but it's negligibely small. OK, now the force is F = ma = 60kg*1.66*10^12m/s^2=10^14N. The work he had done, W=Fs=10^14N * 4*10^7m * 50revolutions = 2*10^24J
OK, now E=mc^2
m = 2*10^24J/(3*10^8m/s)^2 = 2*10^24/9*10^16~10^8kg. That's a lot of food, even if all of it's mass converts to energy (Superman has a matter-antimatter engine?).
Then, imagine the mechanical consequence of such a thing - tidal waves, hurricanes, etc...
Yes, maybe the cause-effect is backwards? If time goes backwards, Earth would go in the other direction by itself. But then, what is flying for?
how did Superman turn around time by turning around Earth's rotation? How did he reverse Earth's rotation around by flying around it in the wrong direction really-really fast?
Oh, yes, how much energy do you need to circle around earth ~50 times in 1 second, or, assuming that he flies like a sattelite (and, therefore, exerts no force on the planet) accelerates to this velocity?
Hmm... Radius of earth is ~40000 km. So, speed of 1 revolution/sec is 40000km/sec. Approximately 50 revolutions/2 sec= 25rev/sec = 1000000km/sec=10^6 km/sec, which is greater than speed of light. Still using Newtonian mechanics. He accelerates in something like a second, so the acceleration is 10^6km/sec^2=10^9m/sec^2. His mass is ~60 kg, so the force ma = 6*10^10N.
That's a lot. Unfortuanetly, E=mc^2 doesn't provide for impressive enough mass of food. Still,...
;)
However, sign "Earth this way" will be installed only by a local Venian (Venusian? Venovian?) artist. Everyone will be very surprised.
1) It has The Bat!. I haven't seen a better mailer.
;).
2) I need to be 100% compatible with Word in my school. I don't want to install OpenOffice, StarOfice, and KDE's office to find out which one better supports word.
3) XMMS is great, but soumething always interferes with esd/KDE's sound daemon. Sound usually works, but not all the time.
4) Concerning music, I haven't seen anything on Linux better than MilkDrop. There is a G-Force for XMMS, but it doesn't compile with me.
5) Not every program has RPMs, and I want to keep track of what I have installed.
6) Yes, this is outdated, but I don't have much disk space to upgrade. Gnome is ugly (in my opinion - too squary), KDE 2 is slow and unstable. There hardly is a good browser for Linux - Konqueror has problems with fonts, Mozilla is slow. I'll try to install Mozilla 1.0 when I'll reboot next.
7) I'm too lazy to reboot, and I have Cygwin.
As an end user, I sometimes reboot only for one reason - Cygwin's gdb is buggy. So, Linux for me is just the enviroment that runs ddd without crashing