I haven't tried disabling disk caching, I can't imagine anything really bad would happen but whether it would be noticeable I don't know. I would be kind of interesting if browsers reported statistics on their cache hit rate.
As for copying lots of small files, I've found scp -r isn't very efficient because there's a per-file overhead, and it works better to stream all the files together like so: tar -cvzf - dir | ssh remotehost 'tar -xzf -'
I'll go you one further.. I think all these attempts to make fancy browser histories are just bloat. I ocassionally use the back button to go back one or two steps, but that's about it, and tabs have mostly replaced the need to jump back and forth at all.
Of course I can only speak for myself. Anybody out there interested in extensive browser history?
The majority does have and should have the final say, and in a democracy always will. Usually the majority is not tyrannical, if they were democracy wouldn't work at all. As for the threat of "give me unrestricted Internet access at the library or I'll call you a tyrant," I don't buy it. I could just as well call you a tyrant for taking my money to pay for the library in the first place.
So who decides what's inappropriate for "the children" to view?
Probably the citizens, through their elected officials. Or was that a rhetorical question?
Democracy doesn't require unanimity. If it did, it would never, ever work. The issue of what material to offer in public libraries is no more or less subjective than who should be the next President.
What's cool, the larger model can supposedly make orbit even with 60% failed engines.
Unlike other current U.S. boosters, the Falcon V with five SpaceX Merlin engines will have an engine-out capability much like the Wernher von Braun Saturn vehicles of the 1960s. That means even with up to three engine failures, the vehicle's remaining powerplants can achieve velocity and altitude targets to make orbit.
Wow, here it is 2004 and we've almost caught up with Wernher von Braun... either he was really cool then or we're pretty pathetic now, or both.
Not to mention the cost of a doctor having to sit down and error-check afterwards, etc.
Are you saying doctors don't proofread their dictation? I agree leaving it to computers is bad, but a low-paid transcriptionist (who might not even speak english) doesn't sound real great either.
If you look at a doctor making $100/hr (hey, they went to 7+ years of school, residency, internship, etc)
The Doctors' Union (AMA) restricting medical school availability and enrollment doesn't hurt either.
The truth is that modern techniques could probably make nuclear power an extremely safe alternative.
I think it has to be said - 911 was a big setback for nuclear power. In the 80s my dad told me that the reactors' containment mechanisms were designed to withstand an airplane impact and I thought, "man, are they paranoid." Now I think, "I wonder if they could really take it."
Terrorism is to transportation and energy production as spam is to email. Instead of thinking about whether something will be functional and work well, we have to worry about whether it could possibly be subverted by a determined adversary.
Nuclear power works great, but if we rely on it, are we willing to let Pakistan do the same? How about Iran?
All these name changes have confused me. This article helped tie together phoenix/firebird/firefox, but where does/did Galeon fit into all this? Is there still a Netscape Navigator 7 (or thereabouts) based Mozilla (if so which version?) or is Navigator based on Gecko but not Mozilla?
why hasn't someone written a driver which lets you use a second mouse/trackball as a "view" device.
Some games have a feature like that. You can drive with a joystick in the right hand and look around with the mouse in your left hand. It seems like European Air War and Red Baron 3d had that ability.
Of course the regular quake mouse + wasx is also quite similar.
Maybe it should be fought in some way, I'm not sure yet. Either way, asserting that action can never be taken until everybody agrees is just plain wrong. People don't agree on tax rates, or drug laws, or the draft, or anything else of substance. The argument that we should therefore do nothing is just an unreasoned argument for the status-quo.
Do you believe in immorality and evil or not? Your first paragraph is absolutist, your second is relativist.
If you believe that things can be immoral and evil (without the scare quotes), then let's talk about whether trusted computing falls into that category. Attacking somebody's authority to make a value judgement is just a diversion; it's not as if he's trying to impose his opinion on you.
An army of robots on the surface of Mars will *NEVER* be able to do all the science that just one human could accomplish
Never is a long time. To me now seems to be the right time to push robotics forward. Part of the reason the mars rovers are painfully slow and limited are weight and space constraints, which also preclude putting people there (for the time being). How do people move fast, or dig big holes, or see tiny things? Always with machines.
I do not, when I get in the field, want to work with people who are this incompetent.
You will, but not in the way you think. These people will say, "hey, I'm a generalist not a specialist" and spend their time talking to other people instead of programming, and become your boss. Knowing how to do stuff just makes you fit in the lower ranks, doing technical work.
How l33t you are. A godawful, crappy, Win95-alike manager.
It's not Fvwm95, it's fvwm2.
The only thing you see on the desktop is a small row of 10 virtual desktops across the top, the same height as a window title bar. Each virtual desktop is a little picture with the name of each application running on that desktop. I can click anywhere outside an app, and up pops a list of the GUI apps that I use.
It's not l33t in the slightest; it's utterly simple and practically perfect.
I just can't see why people want to put so much into windowing. I don't see the problem that's being solved.
I sit down at my office mate's Mac. I see the transparency, the shadows, I minimize and maximize to trigger the special effects. I mouse-over some icons to make them inflate. I switch between users a few times for no particular reason to watch the desktop spin around on a cube. I say "cool, maybe they could play a 'whooshing' noise when it does that."
Then I go back to my unobtrusive, perfectly tailored fvwm2 desktop to get back to business.
Do you worry about breakfast cereal depleting our precious natural corn resources?
The key of having enough of a renewable resource is getting people to value it in the first place. With the $15 I pay to cut down a Christmas tree, the forest service plants several more. (And that is in fact exactly what they do with the money).
$6 isn't terrible. Then again, a store-bought DVD prerecorded with a $100M movie on it costs only about twice as much -- making it a dubious proposition for pirates.
If someone is willing to do the same job, just as well, for half the price, why would a company NOT do so?
By the same logic, threatened workers would be crazy not to vote for protectionist legislation. So what if it screws the economy overall? We're all expected to act in our own best interests, no? Is there any question that farm subsides help farmers? Or that the plumbers union or doctor's union (AMA) drive up salaries by restricting entrance to those fields?
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As for copying lots of small files, I've found scp -r isn't very efficient because there's a per-file overhead, and it works better to stream all the files together like so: tar -cvzf - dir | ssh remotehost 'tar -xzf -'
Of course I can only speak for myself. Anybody out there interested in extensive browser history?
If he was only interested in helping himself he wouldn't have bothered with a nice writeup for all us to read.
Like trading a day's work for a little piece of green paper stamped with a picture of a dead president, what's the point?
The majority does have and should have the final say, and in a democracy always will. Usually the majority is not tyrannical, if they were democracy wouldn't work at all. As for the threat of "give me unrestricted Internet access at the library or I'll call you a tyrant," I don't buy it. I could just as well call you a tyrant for taking my money to pay for the library in the first place.
Democracy doesn't require unanimity. If it did, it would never, ever work. The issue of what material to offer in public libraries is no more or less subjective than who should be the next President.
Terrorism is to transportation and energy production as spam is to email. Instead of thinking about whether something will be functional and work well, we have to worry about whether it could possibly be subverted by a determined adversary.
Nuclear power works great, but if we rely on it, are we willing to let Pakistan do the same? How about Iran?
All these name changes have confused me. This article helped tie together phoenix/firebird/firefox, but where does/did Galeon fit into all this? Is there still a Netscape Navigator 7 (or thereabouts) based Mozilla (if so which version?) or is Navigator based on Gecko but not Mozilla?
Of course the regular quake mouse + wasx is also quite similar.
Maybe it should be fought in some way, I'm not sure yet. Either way, asserting that action can never be taken until everybody agrees is just plain wrong. People don't agree on tax rates, or drug laws, or the draft, or anything else of substance. The argument that we should therefore do nothing is just an unreasoned argument for the status-quo.
If you believe that things can be immoral and evil (without the scare quotes), then let's talk about whether trusted computing falls into that category. Attacking somebody's authority to make a value judgement is just a diversion; it's not as if he's trying to impose his opinion on you.
Uh oh, I think I'm getting bitter.
rm -f libflashplayer.so
The only thing you see on the desktop is a small row of 10 virtual desktops across the top, the same height as a window title bar. Each virtual desktop is a little picture with the name of each application running on that desktop. I can click anywhere outside an app, and up pops a list of the GUI apps that I use.
It's not l33t in the slightest; it's utterly simple and practically perfect.
I just can't see why people want to put so much into windowing. I don't see the problem that's being solved.
Then I go back to my unobtrusive, perfectly tailored fvwm2 desktop to get back to business.
The key of having enough of a renewable resource is getting people to value it in the first place. With the $15 I pay to cut down a Christmas tree, the forest service plants several more. (And that is in fact exactly what they do with the money).
I presumed he was referring to the insulating properties of wood.
$6 isn't terrible. Then again, a store-bought DVD prerecorded with a $100M movie on it costs only about twice as much -- making it a dubious proposition for pirates.