Received? 'Delivered' is the word you might have been looking for.
Barrier? Barrier to what? Perhaps you were thinking of 'milestone'?
I've downloaded Firefox lots of times, but I'm stuck with the 1.0 PR 1 release because GTK1 support no longer works (or was dropped) in all subsequent releases; my work machine is a RedHat 7.3 box with no chance of upgrade anytime soon.
Each of the source releases since 1.0 PR 1 also include a number of non-GTK related issues that would prevent a successful build; perhaps newer distros include a version of 'make' that can deduce the correct paths for various include files that, while in the source archive, are unlocatable during the build. Is anyone working to make sure that the documentation "./configure; make; make install" actually works?
I'd quit casting asperions on the source releases if someone more skilled at wrangling Firefox source than I could point me to a successful build of the most recent source release on an RH7.3 system.
This is merely proof that the current 'administration' is not competent to handle the business of running a country.
This is but one example where partisan politics interferes with an issue requiring technical expertise, but given how boldly they have defended their position, then there are likely no boundaries to this kind of incompetence.
As soon as "are you a member of my club?" becomes more important than "can you help make this better?", revolution is around the corner.
This scheme eliminates theft involving new credit cards ordered when the card owner already has a voice print on file.
It does nothing if the owner's voice print is not on file, which means it protects none of the current card owners. If I steal your bank statement and order a new card, the bank will have to ask for a voice print. If I get there first, I get to activate any future cards in your name, not you.
The sensor on the credit card must be a joke. The card itself is a token representing the account. If you speak to the card and it says 'activated' (or not), what difference does that make? None unless the card can magically contact the bank... current card swipe readers aren't going to be able to determine activated status, and there no place to speak the activated status in a web form.
If the sensor is not a joke, it can only be a technique to make credit cards expensive to produce so banks can have an additional revenue stream, or, a way to increase their security budgets so that when a scam is perpetrated, they will have fresh FUD to say the scam is worth 200% more damage than for cards without the sensor.
If advertisers and their agents (agents in this case is the website operator placing the ads) want to enforce a 'right' to have their ad displayed, it is because they want to communicate their message to the audience.
I am completely fine with that concept, on one condition: the advertisers and their agents provide a means for me to use the same medium (the web or email) to provide my all-important insight and comments related to their message.
But many large advertisers no longer provide a feedback page or contact email addresses on their websites.
If they are not interested in the feedback from their messages, we should not be interested in their messages. In fact, if they are going to ignore us, we should ignore them.
I think we need to look further. If most people do not particularly care about the topic, don't have their own opinion and will answer differently depending on how the question is phrased, why do we care about their opinions at all?
Yes, we need to look further. The answer to your question depends on how familiar the respondents are to the survey's topic. If they are not familiar at all, then their responses are similar to knee-jerk responses, and represent simple biases.
If the respondents are very familiar with the topic, then you're in the realm of 'opinions'.
Why do we care what 72% of people say if 71% of them are incompetent morons? Public opinion is worthless on issues where the majority doesn't actually have one.
Because people can learn. Ever answered a question, and then thought (or said), "oh, wait..." ?
As a previous poster pointed out, we should not be implementing policy based on a single survey, but on the aggregate opinion of multiple surveys on the same topic, but using different questions seeking similar answers.
I've just finished downloading the live torrent to a WinXP box, and burned it to a CD. What's really cool is the autoplay code which asks you to reboot to try Ubuntu, or to install Windows versions of several open source apps, like OOo, Firefox, Thunderbird, Abiword, Gimp, and Audacity, and a link to The OpenCD for more FLOSS apps.
That's a great way to get people to try Linux, and if they aren't prepare to make the switch, at least let them experience open source apps.
Each column has been reproduced as it was written in the original magazine, with "Randal's Note" prepended. Therein lies this book's best feature and greatest flaw. Allow me to explain.
Perhaps I missed it. But where is the explanation of 'best feature' and 'greatest flaw'?
I think the term they are looking for is 'incompatible'.
Provided my DVD burner continues to operate normally, I will not purchase a new one. If these companies provide media that somehow inhibits burning of content, specifically or generally, then the retailers will simply see a large increase in returns of 'defective' media.
Obsolesence is how you describe VCR's when you have a DVD player (when used solely for playback); the experience of watching a DVD is so much better in so many ways that you never want to use a VCR again.
Introduction of DRM will provide one user-noticable feature: refusal to do something asked of the device. That makes it incompatible.
I would hope we couldn't blame serving up static content as a cause; there are so many cache servers built for this task in 2004 that one would hope actual web servers never actually see these requests.
Do you really want to have a financial transaction website cached? Really?!?!
If you think caching is a good idea in this situation, you're already a victim, you just don't know it yet. That "OH SH*T!" feeling will catch up with you eventually.
'live' means while it happens. The bulk of Olympic events will take place during daylight hours in Greece. That's middle of the night in North America.
Folks who work regular hours, have families, etc. will only be able to appreciate video from the Olympics well after the events are over.
Unless I'm missing something, those folks outnumber night shift workers, kids with nothing better to do, and (gasp) geeks who decide not to visit the 'big room' because it's too bright. And by a wide margin.
Here's a sampling of what you cannot do with Verizon's "unlimited" Internet Access: "...cannot be used for" "uploading, downloading or streaming of movies, music or games"...
Unfortunately, uploading means "sending data from your system", and downloading means "receiving data to your system".
If this TOC is going to be enforced, you can plug in the adapter, but you couldn't technically use the service at all (everything else relies on these two capabilities).
This has been done before. In fact its still being done for less.
For less what? Your link points to the same company's Ultra cordless optical mouse, which is the same price as the Ultra GT displayed on the article's home page.
Were you thinking of another manufacturer? If so, please update your link.
Thanks. Although my original post was meant to poke fun at the poster's phrasing in the original story, it was my mistake for not using smiley's to make it blatantly obvious that this was the case.
I was also playing on the assumption most readers will make that a 'submarine' is the type of vessel seen in most naval war movies. The term does not normally invoke images of small, unmanned, electrically-powered research craft (even if you wanted to argue the point)
Having said that, I suppose I am now, in fact, an idiot, having had to explain the joke. Ah well, there's always next Friday for lame end-of-week humour attempts.
Aside from all the comments regarding the lack of logic in the story submission, and all the sex-related gibes, I think this technology will prove itself immensely useful.
Since it is sensitive enough to generate power from the normal activity of ventilation systems, the advent of wearable computing devices will have a source of power that is relavent to when the devices are being used. This could be a real boon for animal biologists, since current tracking collars have fairly limited lifespans. But it's going to be a revolution for areas where power is hard to provide power, and you have irregular activity you want to measure/record.
Anywhere that is seismically active, either naturally, or in close proximity to rail lines, highways, etc. will be able to power gear to help make sense of activity in these regions: better earthquake predictions from sensors that communicate when activity occurs, but that are essentially 'distribute and forget'; orders of magnitude better targeting of activity because you can readily cover large amounts of geography via airdrop instead of sending crews into the field to install powered sites. Traffic sensors/guidance equipment that is embeddded into to the road surface.
If the hardware to capture power can readily be built into infrastructure, this could be highly benficial, for example, in oil drilling; you'd get data from the entire length of the bore. Or the space shuttle could harness many more sensors to measure strucural integrity because they wouldn't need to be wired. Or even smart tools that know when their working parts are experiencing significant stresses.
As I mentioned in the parent post, I was looking to see what's new so that I could decide whether I wanted to upgrade or not, which is a decision that has to be made before 'upgrade early' makes any sense.
Downloading the ISO's just to find out what's changed goes a long way to defeating the purpose of asking if anyone else has done that and is willing to share, no?
If nobody is willing or able to say what's new in RedHat 9, that's fine. No upgrading will be done here.
Certainly, I could install the beta. I'm just interested in the synopsis of the updates though, which should only be a few K at most, not in downloading several hundred megabytes and trying to figure it out.
If you don't have the list of updates, that's fine. I was just asking if anyone had the list and could make it available. I've checked RedHat's site, but it's not very helpful... under the "Get RedHat Linux 9 early" heading is information about RedHat 8.0.
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Received? 'Delivered' is the word you might have been looking for.
Barrier? Barrier to what? Perhaps you were thinking of 'milestone'?
I've downloaded Firefox lots of times, but I'm stuck with the 1.0 PR 1 release because GTK1 support no longer works (or was dropped) in all subsequent releases; my work machine is a RedHat 7.3 box with no chance of upgrade anytime soon.
Each of the source releases since 1.0 PR 1 also include a number of non-GTK related issues that would prevent a successful build; perhaps newer distros include a version of 'make' that can deduce the correct paths for various include files that, while in the source archive, are unlocatable during the build. Is anyone working to make sure that the documentation "./configure; make; make install" actually works?
I'd quit casting asperions on the source releases if someone more skilled at wrangling Firefox source than I could point me to a successful build of the most recent source release on an RH7.3 system.
This is merely proof that the current 'administration' is not competent to handle the business of running a country.
This is but one example where partisan politics interferes with an issue requiring technical expertise, but given how boldly they have defended their position, then there are likely no boundaries to this kind of incompetence.
As soon as "are you a member of my club?" becomes more important than "can you help make this better?", revolution is around the corner.
This scheme eliminates theft involving new credit cards ordered when the card owner already has a voice print on file.
It does nothing if the owner's voice print is not on file, which means it protects none of the current card owners. If I steal your bank statement and order a new card, the bank will have to ask for a voice print. If I get there first, I get to activate any future cards in your name, not you.
The sensor on the credit card must be a joke. The card itself is a token representing the account. If you speak to the card and it says 'activated' (or not), what difference does that make? None unless the card can magically contact the bank... current card swipe readers aren't going to be able to determine activated status, and there no place to speak the activated status in a web form.
If the sensor is not a joke, it can only be a technique to make credit cards expensive to produce so banks can have an additional revenue stream, or, a way to increase their security budgets so that when a scam is perpetrated, they will have fresh FUD to say the scam is worth 200% more damage than for cards without the sensor.
If advertisers and their agents (agents in this case is the website operator placing the ads) want to enforce a 'right' to have their ad displayed, it is because they want to communicate their message to the audience.
I am completely fine with that concept, on one condition: the advertisers and their agents provide a means for me to use the same medium (the web or email) to provide my all-important insight and comments related to their message.
But many large advertisers no longer provide a feedback page or contact email addresses on their websites.
If they are not interested in the feedback from their messages, we should not be interested in their messages. In fact, if they are going to ignore us, we should ignore them.
Signed, A _VERY_ satisfied AdBlock user.
I think we need to look further. If most people do not particularly care about the topic, don't have their own opinion and will answer differently depending on how the question is phrased, why do we care about their opinions at all?
Yes, we need to look further. The answer to your question depends on how familiar the respondents are to the survey's topic. If they are not familiar at all, then their responses are similar to knee-jerk responses, and represent simple biases.
If the respondents are very familiar with the topic, then you're in the realm of 'opinions'.
Why do we care what 72% of people say if 71% of them are incompetent morons? Public opinion is worthless on issues where the majority doesn't actually have one.
Because people can learn. Ever answered a question, and then thought (or said), "oh, wait..." ?
As a previous poster pointed out, we should not be implementing policy based on a single survey, but on the aggregate opinion of multiple surveys on the same topic, but using different questions seeking similar answers.
I've just finished downloading the live torrent to a WinXP box, and burned it to a CD. What's really cool is the autoplay code which asks you to reboot to try Ubuntu, or to install Windows versions of several open source apps, like OOo, Firefox, Thunderbird, Abiword, Gimp, and Audacity, and a link to The OpenCD for more FLOSS apps.
That's a great way to get people to try Linux, and if they aren't prepare to make the switch, at least let them experience open source apps.
Now, to start playing...
Render something: repeatable, high CPU usage test with visible (and interesting) progress.
Columns are as published; not re-written -- RTA thru.
I did RTA. What makes you think I did not?
or is understanding why that is both a "feature" and a "flaw" hard?
<shrug> Perhaps it's just semantics. Had the reviewer not said 'Allow me to explain', I wouldn't be looking for an explanation.
Also, the reviewer used the term 'Therein', which means 'That is where the problem lies,' not 'That _is_ the problem.'
The explanation may be just as you suggest. If not, it was not included in the review.
Each column has been reproduced as it was written in the original magazine, with "Randal's Note" prepended. Therein lies this book's best feature and greatest flaw. Allow me to explain.
Perhaps I missed it. But where is the explanation of 'best feature' and 'greatest flaw'?
Provided my DVD burner continues to operate normally, I will not purchase a new one. If these companies provide media that somehow inhibits burning of content, specifically or generally, then the retailers will simply see a large increase in returns of 'defective' media.
Obsolesence is how you describe VCR's when you have a DVD player (when used solely for playback); the experience of watching a DVD is so much better in so many ways that you never want to use a VCR again.
Introduction of DRM will provide one user-noticable feature: refusal to do something asked of the device. That makes it incompatible.
Snow White brought in for questioning related to 7 suspicious deaths. Details at 11.
"Insightful"? Geez.
I would hope we couldn't blame serving up static content as a cause; there are so many cache servers built for this task in 2004 that one would hope actual web servers never actually see these requests.
Do you really want to have a financial transaction website cached? Really?!?!
If you think caching is a good idea in this situation, you're already a victim, you just don't know it yet. That "OH SH*T!" feeling will catch up with you eventually.
'live' means while it happens. The bulk of Olympic events will take place during daylight hours in Greece. That's middle of the night in North America.
Folks who work regular hours, have families, etc. will only be able to appreciate video from the Olympics well after the events are over.
Unless I'm missing something, those folks outnumber night shift workers, kids with nothing better to do, and (gasp) geeks who decide not to visit the 'big room' because it's too bright. And by a wide margin.
Here's a sampling of what you cannot do with Verizon's "unlimited" Internet Access: "...cannot be used for" "uploading, downloading or streaming of movies, music or games"...
Unfortunately, uploading means "sending data from your system", and downloading means "receiving data to your system".
If this TOC is going to be enforced, you can plug in the adapter, but you couldn't technically use the service at all (everything else relies on these two capabilities).
Why exactly would you pay them any money?
For less what? Your link points to the same company's Ultra cordless optical mouse, which is the same price as the Ultra GT displayed on the article's home page.
Were you thinking of another manufacturer? If so, please update your link.
Thanks. Although my original post was meant to poke fun at the poster's phrasing in the original story, it was my mistake for not using smiley's to make it blatantly obvious that this was the case.
I was also playing on the assumption most readers will make that a 'submarine' is the type of vessel seen in most naval war movies. The term does not normally invoke images of small, unmanned, electrically-powered research craft (even if you wanted to argue the point)
Having said that, I suppose I am now, in fact, an idiot, having had to explain the joke. Ah well, there's always next Friday for lame end-of-week humour attempts.
Have a great weekend!
I don't recall which physics principles make submarines fuelless. Anyone?
I'm doing 5-10 for typoing my name.
Does anyone know the terms of the license? Is this an annual fee, one-time, or other time period? Any other conditions?
Since it is sensitive enough to generate power from the normal activity of ventilation systems, the advent of wearable computing devices will have a source of power that is relavent to when the devices are being used. This could be a real boon for animal biologists, since current tracking collars have fairly limited lifespans. But it's going to be a revolution for areas where power is hard to provide power, and you have irregular activity you want to measure/record.
Anywhere that is seismically active, either naturally, or in close proximity to rail lines, highways, etc. will be able to power gear to help make sense of activity in these regions: better earthquake predictions from sensors that communicate when activity occurs, but that are essentially 'distribute and forget'; orders of magnitude better targeting of activity because you can readily cover large amounts of geography via airdrop instead of sending crews into the field to install powered sites. Traffic sensors/guidance equipment that is embeddded into to the road surface.
If the hardware to capture power can readily be built into infrastructure, this could be highly benficial, for example, in oil drilling; you'd get data from the entire length of the bore. Or the space shuttle could harness many more sensors to measure strucural integrity because they wouldn't need to be wired. Or even smart tools that know when their working parts are experiencing significant stresses.
Very cool.
In order to kill a joke, there must first be a joke.
I believe the word being searched for is elitist.
There is an answer here
As I mentioned in the parent post, I was looking to see what's new so that I could decide whether I wanted to upgrade or not, which is a decision that has to be made before 'upgrade early' makes any sense.
Downloading the ISO's just to find out what's changed goes a long way to defeating the purpose of asking if anyone else has done that and is willing to share, no?
If nobody is willing or able to say what's new in RedHat 9, that's fine. No upgrading will be done here.
If you don't have the list of updates, that's fine. I was just asking if anyone had the list and could make it available. I've checked RedHat's site, but it's not very helpful... under the "Get RedHat Linux 9 early" heading is information about RedHat 8.0.