Are you kidding, as the first generation of gammers grows older, there will be an increasing demand for nostalgia. Jesus, I still play ZORK every once and a while.
according to the IRS, the lowest 50% of taxpayers only pay 4% of the Federal taxes collected. In other words, the burden of running this country has been shifted onto only half the population. But that's another discussion for another day
It's another day:0) BTW I hate stats like this. You mean rich people have to pay more taxes than poor people?! Good God! Who make the majority of goods that the upper half uses? Yep, you guess it, the lower 50%
I tried this first. Didn't work. Couldn't get it to work. Couldn't find a HOWTO that had my problem in it. Installing kernel source and configuring it for my system worked, but was a headache.
Still anytime you have to you go in and edit a config file, you lose half your users. Why can't they put together a better automated package?
I never downloaded the SRPMS disk for my system and thus had to download the individual package. The package I downloaded (kernel-2.4.19.16mdk-1-1mdk.src.rpm) didn't have support for the xfs file system (AFAIK), thus I had to download xfs and patch the kernel, and rebuild.
And as far as I could tell, (and maybe i'm missing something here) to compile the drivers you need to do a make xconfig on the kernel source. This is not a simple task for newbies.
Also, it is not simple to figure out that you need the kernel source to build them. When you try to do this you have to scroll up and read alot a error messages before you can tell you need the kernel source.
My point is anytime that you require the user to have configured kernel source available you are asking for trouble.
While I'm glad that Nvidia is broadening their base, I can't wonder if more people wouldn't benefit from new drivers for the new releases from Red Hat and Mandrake.
I know the rpms don't work for either (8.2 under Mandrake 9.0 and 7.3 under RedHat 8.0) so as far as I can tell, you need to compile the source to get the driver working.
This however requires configured kernel source and if you don't have that for your current kernel i.e. you never installed the src rpm, you'll have to install, configure, compile the kernel, then compile the NVidia drivers then edit the XF86Config file to change the driver string!
Come on Nvidia, can't we have an automated driver? Please? Pretty please?
First off, fantastically worded retort. I wish more gun control advocates communicated as intellegently as you.
"Well regulated" means well trained.
Then would you agree with gun owners being required passing a training course?
Yes, because I want to live in a Constitional Republic, not a nation of "whatever."
I agree with you that the United States is fairly far from any pure Democracy or Constitutional Republic. But where does it say that extra-constitutional institutions are not allowed? This is a true question, I simply don't know. I'm sure that the founding fathers didn't think they had thought of everything.
Also, yes, the BAFT has overstepped what it was designed to do. It is flawed but not fatally so. The same with the FBI: there are some problems that states can not take on themselves. They have to band together in the federal government. How would you divide the duties of the BATF, FBI, CIA, and NSA, (the latter two which are mostly international) to fit with your Constitutional Republic? Some has to do them.
If the amendment said just The right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. I would agree with you. But the sentence was prepended with the fact that the right to bear arms is in the context of forming& maintaining a militia.
If they had wanted to grant everybody the same right, they would have said militia and the people. The constitution says nothing about the right to bear arms with regaurd to anything but a militia.
I'm not in favor of banning all firearms, poeple here are quite use to having them. I do, however, agree with banning handguns.
Needless to say a lot of people here will complain that nobody will use more than a monitor of screen space, or that two would be over kill.
<rant>Seriously though, developers will take as much space as you can throw at them, and they will be more productive. Really, when will managers and procurement people realize that programmers need bigger screens and faster/better boxen? I'm tired of watching our department clerk get the newest machine simply because she's been here 20 years.</rant>
2nd - gun "control" (what part of "shall not be infringed" do you not understand?)
I urge you to read the 2nd again.
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
Nowhere does it say that it is everybody's right to bear arms. A well regulated militia is given that right. You, explicity, are not. This is not interpretation, this is what it says.
9th & 10th - The mere existence of the NSA. The Bill of Rights lists merely SOME, not ALL, of the rights of the people, but it clearly states that the Federal government cannot do anything unless it's expressly stated in the Constitution. I don't remember the clause allowing the creation of the National Security Agency.
What about the FBI or ATF or frickin navy seals or CIA? You want to disband all of these? Also, the 9th and 10th say nothing about not creating anything not said in the constitution, it (the 10th) says to defer to the states on issues not in the constituion. I'm sure if you ask all of the governors, they will say that overall, the FBI,CIA,NSA&ATF do more good than harm.
Apparently the people over at Open Office (or Star or Sun or whatever) had some luck. Their default file format is compressed XML. Usually smaller compared to binary.DOC files. You can even look at it. Try typing unzip someOO.swx
I'd like to join the chorus about your misconception. Besides, you sound just like my boss. You want to know all XML is?
1. It's a text markup "language" with <begin tags> and </end tags> like html.
2. It's tags have to have a start and end tag and are case sensitive.
3. Start tags can have attributes in the form of attribute="value"
4. XML documents begin with an XML version tag.
"The technical fault arose when we were installing new software," a spokesman for the mobile phone company O2 said.
Don't you just have to sit and listen somewhere to tap mobile phones? You should be able to discretely listen to mobile phones(with the blessing of the teleco's) easily. The bug must have been somewhere in the overhead of logging thousands of calls.
Since the bug is probably in the overhead and not the actual tap itself, the teleco would probably be the party at fault.
Item: IM destroys the natural and God-given human capacity to spell.
True, spelling isn't my strong point, but it's not because of IM as I haven't had the need to use it in years.
as the wails of bereft children pursue him on his loathsome path, is it really of such great moment that IM enables him to maintain a flimsy, repugnant facade of decency with his own long-suffering helpmeet?
-1 Flamebait
Well, since you are an anonymous coward, I'll take your comment as sarcasm, but if you really want to defend your point of view, reply again.
Man, I've had it with your IM bashing. IM is NOT evil. I respect the fact that you try and help people in their relationships, but no technology is evil. It's like saying a rock is evil.
Besides I've found that IM can improve relationships. One of my close friends is a contractor and thus is on the move alot. His wife, however, is a teacher and must stay put. AIM has helped them stay in contact while apart.
Please realize that you must treat the people, not bash the technology.
...have always been that their single user experience was good. Mac users don't just like their macs at home, they love them. Apple realized this and catered to that strength. Meanwhile Wintel took over the corporations of america. Besides from schools and maybe graphics/multimedia places, who would implement an Apple network?
Thus it doesn't surprise me that their implementation is unpolished. Polish is, however Apple's strength, so give em hell, and give em time, and they'll come round.
:) Yes thank you. Normally my misspelins don't impead my message i'm triing to comunikate. Quite funny though isn't it? I only wished it was intensional.
IM is just a tool. If a person was committed to not having an affair, no amount of technology would change that. It is a matter of self-control. A person that has to cut off their IM usage because they are afraid they might cheat has bigger problems in their relationship than IM.
I am also tired about being preached to about pornography. Yes, it can be abused, but then so does alcohol. Is alcohol a sin? It is all about moderation.
I would have modded you down, but thought a reply would better serve my opinion. It is just blantantly absurd to blame IM for affairs. <sarcasm> Men might as well shun off all contact with other women. In fact, why don't we not let women out at all? They are just there to tempt us. Better yet let us make them hide there bodies so no man would be temped.</sarcasm>
It is ideas like yours that give rise to fanatasism. Technology is not evil. People just must exorcise good judgement. Preach good judgement and soon there won't be as many affairs to worry about.
The distance we are talking here is nanometers. How long does it take to move something that far?
Besides your logic is flawed. What happens if you put the rest state in the middle of the spectrum, say green? Then it has to move an equal distance to get to blue or red.
However if you go from red to blue or blue to red, this would be the transition with the greatest delay. But again we are talking nanometers, how great can the delay be?
The iMoD elements are built upon two conductive layers--one a flexible metal membrane, the other is a thin film. These layers are held about 1 micron apart between two sheets of glass. When a voltage is applied to the element, the metal membrane layer becomes attracted to the thin film layer, turning the element black. Varying the voltage brings the layers closer and farther apart, and the distance between the layers determines what color--red, green or blue--the element displays.
Thus the only distance you have to control is between the membrane and film. Then unless you were moving at significant fraction of the speed of light the colors wouldn't change on your motion much.
Hmmm... good idea. I have had this idea with respect to e-mail servers and making sure each e-mail sent out had no forged information.
Basically, I guess that this would require some sort of change to IP. One solution would be so send the "front line router" a connection packet. Then have the router send you back a public key. Then whenever the client encrypts his IP address (or some other unique peice of information(MAC?) and send this along with every outgoing message.
The router could then maintain a lookup table with IP's and encrypted message to determine which ones to drop.
You might have to double the number of front line routers to handle the overhead, but I guess this would help quite a number of security related questions.
I realize there are probably a number of problems with this as I am not a security guy, but are they any reasons this basic idea wouldn't work?
If you root a webserver chances are that you want people to see the changes that you make to it. Once you have control of the machine you can do much worse things than DOS it.
Besides it is much harder to break into a well protected machine, than to break into a couple of thousand nearly unprotected ones.
While the X-boxes continue to sell, they are not ever loosing the whole $200. If there comes a point where everybody stopped buying them Microsoft would be stuck with the bill.
I didn't buy an Xbox today, so I cost Microsoft $200? No, they (not taking in account wharehousing etc.) will only lose money when an Xbox is actually sold.
If they figure they will not recoup the lost money on game sales, it makes sence that they would stop selling Xboxes to a particular region.
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Are you kidding, as the first generation of gammers grows older, there will be an increasing demand for nostalgia. Jesus, I still play ZORK every once and a while.
according to the IRS, the lowest 50% of taxpayers only pay 4% of the Federal taxes collected. In other words, the burden of running this country has been shifted onto only half the population. But that's another discussion for another day
:0) BTW I hate stats like this. You mean rich people have to pay more taxes than poor people?! Good God! Who make the majority of goods that the upper half uses? Yep, you guess it, the lower 50%
It's another day
I tried this first. Didn't work. Couldn't get it to work. Couldn't find a HOWTO that had my problem in it. Installing kernel source and configuring it for my system worked, but was a headache.
Still anytime you have to you go in and edit a config file, you lose half your users. Why can't they put together a better automated package?
I never downloaded the SRPMS disk for my system and thus had to download the individual package. The package I downloaded (kernel-2.4.19.16mdk-1-1mdk.src.rpm) didn't have support for the xfs file system (AFAIK), thus I had to download xfs and patch the kernel, and rebuild.
And as far as I could tell, (and maybe i'm missing something here) to compile the drivers you need to do a make xconfig on the kernel source. This is not a simple task for newbies.
Also, it is not simple to figure out that you need the kernel source to build them. When you try to do this you have to scroll up and read alot a error messages before you can tell you need the kernel source.
My point is anytime that you require the user to have configured kernel source available you are asking for trouble.
While I'm glad that Nvidia is broadening their base, I can't wonder if more people wouldn't benefit from new drivers for the new releases from Red Hat and Mandrake.
I know the rpms don't work for either (8.2 under Mandrake 9.0 and 7.3 under RedHat 8.0) so as far as I can tell, you need to compile the source to get the driver working.
This however requires configured kernel source and if you don't have that for your current kernel i.e. you never installed the src rpm, you'll have to install, configure, compile the kernel, then compile the NVidia drivers then edit the XF86Config file to change the driver string!
Come on Nvidia, can't we have an automated driver? Please? Pretty please?
First off, fantastically worded retort. I wish more gun control advocates communicated as intellegently as you.
"Well regulated" means well trained.
Then would you agree with gun owners being required passing a training course?
Yes, because I want to live in a Constitional Republic, not a nation of "whatever."
I agree with you that the United States is fairly far from any pure Democracy or Constitutional Republic. But where does it say that extra-constitutional institutions are not allowed? This is a true question, I simply don't know. I'm sure that the founding fathers didn't think they had thought of everything.
Also, yes, the BAFT has overstepped what it was designed to do. It is flawed but not fatally so. The same with the FBI: there are some problems that states can not take on themselves. They have to band together in the federal government. How would you divide the duties of the BATF, FBI, CIA, and NSA, (the latter two which are mostly international) to fit with your Constitutional Republic? Some has to do them.
If the amendment said just The right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. I would agree with you. But the sentence was prepended with the fact that the right to bear arms is in the context of forming& maintaining a militia.
If they had wanted to grant everybody the same right, they would have said militia and the people. The constitution says nothing about the right to bear arms with regaurd to anything but a militia.
I'm not in favor of banning all firearms, poeple here are quite use to having them. I do, however, agree with banning handguns.
Needless to say a lot of people here will complain that nobody will use more than a monitor of screen space, or that two would be over kill.
<rant>Seriously though, developers will take as much space as you can throw at them, and they will be more productive. Really, when will managers and procurement people realize that programmers need bigger screens and faster/better boxen? I'm tired of watching our department clerk get the newest machine simply because she's been here 20 years.</rant>
2nd - gun "control" (what part of "shall not be infringed" do you not understand?)
I urge you to read the 2nd again.
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
Nowhere does it say that it is everybody's right to bear arms. A well regulated militia is given that right. You, explicity, are not. This is not interpretation, this is what it says.
9th & 10th - The mere existence of the NSA. The Bill of Rights lists merely SOME, not ALL, of the rights of the people, but it clearly states that the Federal government cannot do anything unless it's expressly stated in the Constitution. I don't remember the clause allowing the creation of the National Security Agency.
What about the FBI or ATF or frickin navy seals or CIA? You want to disband all of these? Also, the 9th and 10th say nothing about not creating anything not said in the constitution, it (the 10th) says to defer to the states on issues not in the constituion. I'm sure if you ask all of the governors, they will say that overall, the FBI,CIA,NSA&ATF do more good than harm.
If I had put the semicolon after it, it would have showed up < which kinda defeats the purpose :)
Apparently the people over at Open Office (or Star or Sun or whatever) had some luck. Their default file format is compressed XML. Usually smaller compared to binary .DOC files. You can even look at it. Try typing unzip someOO.swx
Happy Hacking!
Do a replace on < with <. Oh and don't forget the semicolon after the lt :)
I'd like to join the chorus about your misconception. Besides, you sound just like my boss. You want to know all XML is?
1. It's a text markup "language" with <begin tags> and </end tags> like html.
2. It's tags have to have a start and end tag and are case sensitive.
3. Start tags can have attributes in the form of attribute="value"
4. XML documents begin with an XML version tag.
That's it. Complex huh?
"The technical fault arose when we were installing new software," a spokesman for the mobile phone company O2 said.
Don't you just have to sit and listen somewhere to tap mobile phones? You should be able to discretely listen to mobile phones(with the blessing of the teleco's) easily. The bug must have been somewhere in the overhead of logging thousands of calls.
Since the bug is probably in the overhead and not the actual tap itself, the teleco would probably be the party at fault.
Item: IM destroys the natural and God-given human capacity to spell.
True, spelling isn't my strong point, but it's not because of IM as I haven't had the need to use it in years.
as the wails of bereft children pursue him on his loathsome path, is it really of such great moment that IM enables him to maintain a flimsy, repugnant facade of decency with his own long-suffering helpmeet?
-1 Flamebait
Well, since you are an anonymous coward, I'll take your comment as sarcasm, but if you really want to defend your point of view, reply again.
Man, I've had it with your IM bashing. IM is NOT evil. I respect the fact that you try and help people in their relationships, but no technology is evil. It's like saying a rock is evil.
Besides I've found that IM can improve relationships. One of my close friends is a contractor and thus is on the move alot. His wife, however, is a teacher and must stay put. AIM has helped them stay in contact while apart.
Please realize that you must treat the people, not bash the technology.
...have always been that their single user experience was good. Mac users don't just like their macs at home, they love them. Apple realized this and catered to that strength. Meanwhile Wintel took over the corporations of america. Besides from schools and maybe graphics/multimedia places, who would implement an Apple network?
Thus it doesn't surprise me that their implementation is unpolished. Polish is, however Apple's strength, so give em hell, and give em time, and they'll come round.
:) Yes thank you. Normally my misspelins don't impead my message i'm triing to comunikate. Quite funny though isn't it? I only wished it was intensional.
IM is just a tool. If a person was committed to not having an affair, no amount of technology would change that. It is a matter of self-control. A person that has to cut off their IM usage because they are afraid they might cheat has bigger problems in their relationship than IM.
I am also tired about being preached to about pornography. Yes, it can be abused, but then so does alcohol. Is alcohol a sin? It is all about moderation.
I would have modded you down, but thought a reply would better serve my opinion. It is just blantantly absurd to blame IM for affairs. <sarcasm> Men might as well shun off all contact with other women. In fact, why don't we not let women out at all? They are just there to tempt us. Better yet let us make them hide there bodies so no man would be temped.</sarcasm>
It is ideas like yours that give rise to fanatasism. Technology is not evil. People just must exorcise good judgement. Preach good judgement and soon there won't be as many affairs to worry about.
The distance we are talking here is nanometers. How long does it take to move something that far?
Besides your logic is flawed. What happens if you put the rest state in the middle of the spectrum, say green? Then it has to move an equal distance to get to blue or red.
However if you go from red to blue or blue to red, this would be the transition with the greatest delay. But again we are talking nanometers, how great can the delay be?
RTFA Genius
The iMoD elements are built upon two conductive layers--one a flexible metal membrane, the other is a thin film. These layers are held about 1 micron apart between two sheets of glass. When a voltage is applied to the element, the metal membrane layer becomes attracted to the thin film layer, turning the element black. Varying the voltage brings the layers closer and farther apart, and the distance between the layers determines what color--red, green or blue--the element displays.
Thus the only distance you have to control is between the membrane and film. Then unless you were moving at significant fraction of the speed of light the colors wouldn't change on your motion much.
Hmmm... good idea. I have had this idea with respect to e-mail servers and making sure each e-mail sent out had no forged information.
Basically, I guess that this would require some sort of change to IP. One solution would be so send the "front line router" a connection packet. Then have the router send you back a public key. Then whenever the client encrypts his IP address (or some other unique peice of information(MAC?) and send this along with every outgoing message.
The router could then maintain a lookup table with IP's and encrypted message to determine which ones to drop.
You might have to double the number of front line routers to handle the overhead, but I guess this would help quite a number of security related questions.
I realize there are probably a number of problems with this as I am not a security guy, but are they any reasons this basic idea wouldn't work?
If you root a webserver chances are that you want people to see the changes that you make to it. Once you have control of the machine you can do much worse things than DOS it.
Besides it is much harder to break into a well protected machine, than to break into a couple of thousand nearly unprotected ones.
This is probably the most off topic/inflamatory post to an article that I have ever seen. Please don't mix politics and geekdom. Fucking Bastard (tm).
and don't blame me I'm a independent.
While the X-boxes continue to sell, they are not ever loosing the whole $200. If there comes a point where everybody stopped buying them Microsoft would be stuck with the bill.
I didn't buy an Xbox today, so I cost Microsoft $200? No, they (not taking in account wharehousing etc.) will only lose money when an Xbox is actually sold.
If they figure they will not recoup the lost money on game sales, it makes sence that they would stop selling Xboxes to a particular region.