I want to stick a CD in, click a few buttons, and end up at the same point that I was at after the by-hand install process.
But you wont be at the same point as after a manual installation. Now I am going out on a limb here, but I doubt that configuring your own kernel using menuconfig is possible using the graphical installer. That means that you don't get a customized kernel (i.e. you have a server with needless PCMCIA drivers and what-not compiled into the kernel), which is what Gentoo is known for.
No offense, but just because you followed the directions in the install guide doesn't mean you're now a linux guru:)
I never said that; I said that I am little bit ahead of my n00b peers.:-)
When it comes to major players, acquisition may be a bigger factor than failure. If the number of independent PC manufacturers is trending downward, it may be because of mergers (Compaq HP) or companies bailing out of the business (IBM). So determining failure is not as easy as counting the n umber of PC manufacturers out there. It may help to define the scope of your inquiry. There are probably thousands of small PC "manufacturers" who sell through eBay or their own website, but counting their failures may not be helpful to your study.
The pain-in-the-butt, lengthy, confusing terminal installation process is what I like about Gentoo. It is the first Linux distro I ever used, and the difficult installation process gave me some nice hands-on experience and put me ahead of the curve compared to most Linux n00bs. Having a graphical hold-my-hand-daddy version takes all the fun out of it!
Still, if someone has a genetic predisposition towards CTS (let's say 75% as you suggested), there is still no way to be certain that the gene actually caused CTS. Furthermore, regardless of having a CTS genetic predisposition, actually getting CTS is dependent on behavioral (i.e. typing) and environmental (i.e. without wrist protection) factors. Given that behavioral and environmental factors are necessarily present when CTS develops, and that there is not a 1:1 correspondance between having a genetic predisposition toward CTS and actually getting it, I do not think that genetic evaluations are sufficient grounds for escaping legal culpability, as the company is trying to do in the linked article.
This could be big fuel for a nature v. nurture. Are there actually measurable, verifiable genetic characteristics which predispose someone to getting carpal tunnel? Or is the onset of this ailment purely a function of the victims' behavior or their environment?
Personally, I am quite skeptical of the genetic side of the argument. Given our still pedantic understanding of DNA and genetics, I am suspicious of claims that genetic factors could contribute to the problem of carpal tunnel more than behavioral and environmental factors.
Interestingly, the UF team ran Windows XP on their embedded computer."
I think I will hold off on putting Windows XP (or even Vista) in charge of my vehicle (underwater or otherwise). Of course there would be some problem with the "drivers." And I would like to avoid getting the "Blue Windshield of Death" while I am driving 70 MPH. After the "crash" I suppose that the windshield will naturally turn into a "Red Windshield of Death" (for obvious reasons).
At my school, I am lucky enough not to get gouged for books. Since many Christian academic publishers have a conscience are not so much into it for the money, I can get some reasonably-priced text books.
What's more, I often get digital forms of my professors' notes (which later become books themselves) for free. We don't pay for the information, we pay for the books and the men & women to teach it to us.
This digital publishing is disturbing. You are not even paying for a physical object, just the information. And your right to read that information is limited to five months. That is pure profiteering. Sadly, it wont take long to filter down to some unscrupulous Christian publishers. How long until Zondervan puts out the "One Year Read Through Bible" where the title is frighteningly literal? Time to make like Guy Montag . . .
Will internet TV players and video blogs be able to steal any market share from standard broadcast, cable, and sattelite TV? Perhaps with an array of quality video blogs, the internet could make a dent in the ratings for mainstream's low quality offerings (read: Reality TV). I think the more important question is: will the networks or producers of mainstream programming being to offer their product on line as well?
Here is a piggy back question: If you were going to implement a large-scale RFID system (let's say license plates in California), how would you address the issues of fraud, hacking, etc.? It seems to me that RFID would be an attractive taget for hackers (both for proof-of-concept and malicious purposes). Do you encrypt the data being transmitted by the RFID? How do you protect the privacy of the RFIDed people? Knowing that someone could use this technology along with several receivers to triangulate any vehicle's position and therefore follow it without-a-trace, how would you protect this sort of criminal (or law enforcement) abuse?
There is a nifty program called Cross Eyes which reveals all of the formatting in a Word doc (basically shows you the "source" of a.doc). It can help you see what is tripping you up and get it removed.
Start using the visible range of the electromagnetic spectrum. Sure, humans and many animals will be confused by the light show, but at least we have some more bandwidth in the sky that way.
Arizona, Indiana, and Hawaii do not have DST. The reason they do not cannot be chalked up to DST being "silly" in their opinions.
First of all, Hawaii is farther south than any other U.S. state (inf fact, it is in the tropics). This means that there is less variation in the amount of daylight throughout the year, and therefore DST would have less of an effect on energy consumption.
In the cases of Arizona and Indiana, both are on the far east of their timezones. In the case of Indiana, the sun already goes down much later than in New York city, but the two are in the same time zone. To implement DST in these states would make the sun be up much later than would be useful for DST (that is, after many people head to bed).
So each of these three states has decided not to use DST not only because it fouls up their VCRs, but for some practical reasons as well.
Slashdot is supposed to be News for Nerd; I wonder how the editors interpret "News." Are they trying to emulate any fair journalistic practices? If so, why do they post articles with such slanted summaries?
For example:
Assuming anything coming out of Darl's mouth is true.
I think that we could stand to live without the biased remarks in the article summaries. Let the article postings be for facts and the comments be for interpretation.
Determing the cause of a global freeze which we think happened 2.3 billion years ago has got to be pretty tough. Their actual article is not linked, so does anyone have a link or an idea about how they determined this?
Indeed, all the excitement over "viruses" affecting Monad seems overblown; as summed up by an earlier post:
This just in! Running arbitrary code from an untrusted source not a security best-practice!
This is amazing spin. First of all, tech writers start clamoring that Monad suffers from vulnerabilities to viruses. These "viruses" are not malicious at all, they are just proof-of-concept scripts which are run as root (well, not root), not executed through a buffer overflow or something else like that. So now everyone is saying that these vapor-viruses caused Windows to pull Monad from Vista, even though Microsoft said that they were doing so months ago, and the Vista beta shipped without Monad! I know that Micro$oft bashing is popular here, but we have to let facts have a say in this case.
Well maybe it goes like this: The citizens of the UK were much more resistant to the war in Iraq than the people of the US. The war, without much popular support, does not seem to hinder the arts. The same thing happened in Vietnam. As opposition to the war grew among the people, we had an increase in artistic output, especially in music. So maybe that has something to do with it.
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But you wont be at the same point as after a manual installation. Now I am going out on a limb here, but I doubt that configuring your own kernel using menuconfig is possible using the graphical installer. That means that you don't get a customized kernel (i.e. you have a server with needless PCMCIA drivers and what-not compiled into the kernel), which is what Gentoo is known for.
No offense, but just because you followed the directions in the install guide doesn't mean you're now a linux guru :)
I never said that; I said that I am little bit ahead of my n00b peers. :-)
When it comes to major players, acquisition may be a bigger factor than failure. If the number of independent PC manufacturers is trending downward, it may be because of mergers (Compaq HP) or companies bailing out of the business (IBM). So determining failure is not as easy as counting the n umber of PC manufacturers out there. It may help to define the scope of your inquiry. There are probably thousands of small PC "manufacturers" who sell through eBay or their own website, but counting their failures may not be helpful to your study.
The pain-in-the-butt, lengthy, confusing terminal installation process is what I like about Gentoo. It is the first Linux distro I ever used, and the difficult installation process gave me some nice hands-on experience and put me ahead of the curve compared to most Linux n00bs. Having a graphical hold-my-hand-daddy version takes all the fun out of it!
I am trolling this unmoderated thread! BOOYAH! Let's keep this story moving way up the Hall of Fame! San Dimas High School Football Rules!
Still, if someone has a genetic predisposition towards CTS (let's say 75% as you suggested), there is still no way to be certain that the gene actually caused CTS. Furthermore, regardless of having a CTS genetic predisposition, actually getting CTS is dependent on behavioral (i.e. typing) and environmental (i.e. without wrist protection) factors. Given that behavioral and environmental factors are necessarily present when CTS develops, and that there is not a 1:1 correspondance between having a genetic predisposition toward CTS and actually getting it, I do not think that genetic evaluations are sufficient grounds for escaping legal culpability, as the company is trying to do in the linked article.
Personally, I am quite skeptical of the genetic side of the argument. Given our still pedantic understanding of DNA and genetics, I am suspicious of claims that genetic factors could contribute to the problem of carpal tunnel more than behavioral and environmental factors.
Second, the "199x called" jokes are just as redundant as anything else.
I think I will hold off on putting Windows XP (or even Vista) in charge of my vehicle (underwater or otherwise). Of course there would be some problem with the "drivers." And I would like to avoid getting the "Blue Windshield of Death" while I am driving 70 MPH. After the "crash" I suppose that the windshield will naturally turn into a "Red Windshield of Death" (for obvious reasons).
This digital publishing is disturbing. You are not even paying for a physical object, just the information. And your right to read that information is limited to five months. That is pure profiteering. Sadly, it wont take long to filter down to some unscrupulous Christian publishers. How long until Zondervan puts out the "One Year Read Through Bible" where the title is frighteningly literal? Time to make like Guy Montag . . .
How about you mark him as a foe, and mod foes -5; then you don't have to read his "filth."
A troll is trolling with not fear of negative mods! Long live this thread!
Will internet TV players and video blogs be able to steal any market share from standard broadcast, cable, and sattelite TV? Perhaps with an array of quality video blogs, the internet could make a dent in the ratings for mainstream's low quality offerings (read: Reality TV). I think the more important question is: will the networks or producers of mainstream programming being to offer their product on line as well?
Here is a piggy back question: If you were going to implement a large-scale RFID system (let's say license plates in California), how would you address the issues of fraud, hacking, etc.? It seems to me that RFID would be an attractive taget for hackers (both for proof-of-concept and malicious purposes). Do you encrypt the data being transmitted by the RFID? How do you protect the privacy of the RFIDed people? Knowing that someone could use this technology along with several receivers to triangulate any vehicle's position and therefore follow it without-a-trace, how would you protect this sort of criminal (or law enforcement) abuse?
There is a nifty program called Cross Eyes which reveals all of the formatting in a Word doc (basically shows you the "source" of a .doc). It can help you see what is tripping you up and get it removed.
Start using the visible range of the electromagnetic spectrum. Sure, humans and many animals will be confused by the light show, but at least we have some more bandwidth in the sky that way.
The increase can be explained by Yahoo adding Slashdot dupes to their index.
(-2)+(-3)=+1
if and only if
2+2=5
First of all, Hawaii is farther south than any other U.S. state (inf fact, it is in the tropics). This means that there is less variation in the amount of daylight throughout the year, and therefore DST would have less of an effect on energy consumption.
In the cases of Arizona and Indiana, both are on the far east of their timezones. In the case of Indiana, the sun already goes down much later than in New York city, but the two are in the same time zone. To implement DST in these states would make the sun be up much later than would be useful for DST (that is, after many people head to bed).
So each of these three states has decided not to use DST not only because it fouls up their VCRs, but for some practical reasons as well.
http://zapatopi.net/metrictime/
They also have some nice little javascript clocks you can add to your webpage if you are an übernerd.
For example:
Assuming anything coming out of Darl's mouth is true.
I think that we could stand to live without the biased remarks in the article summaries. Let the article postings be for facts and the comments be for interpretation.
You wouldn't have so much debris if you vaporized the target. Let's go nuclear!
It's "gyps", you insensitive clod!
"Gyp" is an ethnic slur, you insensitive clod!
Gypsy people refer to themselves as "Rom", you insensitive clod!
Determing the cause of a global freeze which we think happened 2.3 billion years ago has got to be pretty tough. Their actual article is not linked, so does anyone have a link or an idea about how they determined this?
This just in! Running arbitrary code from an untrusted source not a security best-practice!
This is amazing spin. First of all, tech writers start clamoring that Monad suffers from vulnerabilities to viruses. These "viruses" are not malicious at all, they are just proof-of-concept scripts which are run as root (well, not root), not executed through a buffer overflow or something else like that. So now everyone is saying that these vapor-viruses caused Windows to pull Monad from Vista, even though Microsoft said that they were doing so months ago, and the Vista beta shipped without Monad! I know that Micro$oft bashing is popular here, but we have to let facts have a say in this case.
Well maybe it goes like this: The citizens of the UK were much more resistant to the war in Iraq than the people of the US. The war, without much popular support, does not seem to hinder the arts. The same thing happened in Vietnam. As opposition to the war grew among the people, we had an increase in artistic output, especially in music. So maybe that has something to do with it.