OK guys. If anybody here thinks this is new, you need your head examined. Here is a great explanation of how it works, along with a demo, by Steve Gibson:
Also, this technology has long been available in your pirated copy of Windblows XP (and quite possibly long before XP). Right click desktop | Properties | Appearance tab | Effects | Use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts: ClearType. This works best on your notebook's LCD.
I think that once the trend of "bigger, faster" stops, some sanity will come to computing in general. Some applications don't need the absolutely fastest performance out there, especially when that performance comes at the price of size, power consumption and heat dissipation. Most servers would be better off with a slightly slower-performing drive that uses less power and dissipates less heat. Maybe this is the start of something beautiful;)
This must have been some French guy behind the wheel. I mean, to drive an automatic car in France is rather rare for a native. Were he driving a normal car, all he would have had to do was to depress the clutch pedal and viola - the car would have stopped.
Just in case the human race is still here in 2562 (I know - a longshot), wouldn't it be prudent to try to break it up into smaller pieces now? Although I guess this would require foresight beyond that of which dumb beasts that destroy the planet they live on for profit are capable of.
I like GNOME. I like KDE. They're great. That said, is it a rule that we must post here every time a new revision of each comes out? Is it that critical? Are all releases of GNOME and KDE exceptional? Every single one of them? I mean, there's a place for freshmeat, and there's a place for/. Let's not confuse the two.
>...when the user plugs in her new hardware device.
Sure, because most Linux users are female.. U know, like Andrea Arcangeli. Or is this the geek's mind's subliminal cry for sex? What is she plugging in, a battery-operated device?
Is there an insatiable demand for these corny-ass headlines? "Death" of "WWW?" Surely you either don't know that death means, or what WWW is, or, most likely, both.
Stop sensationalizing "WWW is 'running up on some architectural limitations' that will eventually cause its downfall
into Death of WWW
you cretins.
And whatever happens, it will not die. It will be extended, sub-classed, XML'd and in general made much more complex than it needs to be and obfuscated and more bandwidth hungry and less us[ful|able], but it will not "die."
How about this: You and I already know who we're gonna vote for. Some/most of us here, the/. grand elitists, know a fair amount about these candidates, what they represent, what they've done (and I'm really saying that we know what one of them represents, has done, etc. and we either want more of it or not).
Now, if you're anything like me, you too do not watch a lot of TV. Why get your news, of all things, thru a read-only, non-interactive medium, instead of being able to custom-tailor what you're interested in on the Internet (take that, decapitalization bastards!).
On to my point: the people that watch TV are either part of an older generation that is not compatible with the Internet way of doing things, or dumb beasts that stuff their pie holes with potato chips and watch mindless programs aired between advertisements that instill in their tiny brains what's hot, what's not, and so on. They don't know many facts about the candidates (again, mostly about the incumbent), as they prefer watching staged "wrestling" to C-SPAN. So, seeing this movie can give them a glimpse of some of the things our current non-elected president has done during his current tenure as our leader - in easy to swallow format, sort of like the movie version of the cliff notes. This will either make them curse at Moore and get in their dualie truck and attempt to run me off the road by changing lanes w/o looking where they're going, or contemplate voting for Kerry. Heck, maybe even contemplate voting, period - voting is not the forté of the potato chip-eating crowd.
Nice concept, but I think it's so useless for anything practial (because of the high potential for account=data loss) that the author would have wasted less time writing a paper rather than implementing it. But that would not have made/. - ah, the things we do for fame.
1) The car is a Lexus (LS400?), a Japanese lux car. BOSE is a German company. What up wid dat?
2) Isn't it kinda really bad that it can run over speed bumps, umm, w/o letting you feel a thing? And especially parking bumps? The safety impact of implementing such a revolutionary new technology (revolutionary in the true meaning of the word, not what's passed these days on TV as "revolutionary"), which by the way looks great - awesome job BOSE! <wink, wink>, has to be fully weighted before unleashed upon the general beasts^M^M^M^M^M^Mpublic.
What these Hong Kongese fail to understand (surprise, surprise) is that without the sex, a girlfriend is useless. Nobody wants a nagging money waster unless, umm, it helps to reproduce the species.
> I long for the days when you could work on your own car with a decent socket set and a few wrenches.
FYI: I have a 2000 Passat with a 1.8T engine and I can, within reason, work on a lot of it w/o having that many tools. As a matter of fact, I only have a 3/8" drive set I bought from Wal-Mart for $19.99 which includes wrench and sockets. I also have a metric allen key set (hex) that I bought for like $5, plus some pliers and screwdrivers. I haven't done a lot of work on the car, but I've replaced a few parts, a few hoses, removed my throttle body, etc. With a minimal investment in tools and elbow grease, I could probably take the whole car/engine apart. From what I read on the Passat boards I'm a member of, even the latest models, including those with a V6 engine, are pretty much the same in this respect. So, at least on my car, tech doesn't get in the way of self-serviceability.
P.S. With a $300 software/hardware tool, I can map my RPM and many other parameters in real-time on my laptop, plus change/disable all sorts of OEM functionality, perform resets on different systems and get a full list of "codes" as to what the onboard computer (ECU) thinks about the health of my car. A very IT-friendly car, I would say.
> has called into question the motivations and expectations of space exploration and research, particularly manned space exploration. Van Allen comments that 'the only surviving motivation for continuing human spaceflight is the ideology of adventure.'
Hmm.. How about.. colonization? Or should we just stay here on Earth till we think we're ready to colonize, maybe in a few hundred years, and then just go colonize w/o ever having been there? I think that is short-sighted - sounds to me like he's suddenly interested in the politics and economics of it rather than the science.
BTB, I love the FP: "[the ideology of adventure] - good enough for me."
This was a very effective way to ruin my day, possibly my weekend. I'll have to consume copious amounts of [insert_drug_of_choice_here] to try to forget about this for the next 3 days. Just wanted to express my gratitude to Linus, AM and the gang for making yet another well-thought-out decision! NOT!
Just when it looks like OSS really has a chance to succeed/have an impact, a prominent project such as the Linux kernel goes and does something really stupid like this that pisses off even their most hard-core fans that are not using said project for purely-scientific purposes, but also for business-oriented ones.
Oh well, I'm sure it will feel good to know a lot of sysadmins world-wide will soon say "In the words of Dick Cheney, go..." to honor of Mr. Torvalds & Mr. Morton's choice, on pretty much a daily basis.
> What I'm bothered about is that when they did this they completely eliminated the Mac population
Do you consider Mac software? Or are you lost?
> Is everyone else completely locked into Microsoft like we are?
Again, you are mixing your apples and oranges.. PCs can [easily] run Linux as well as many other OSes. Microsoft is not a maker of PCs. Perhaps a better title would have been "Platform monoculture?" Or "I want my Mac?"
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OK guys. If anybody here thinks this is new, you need your head examined. Here is a great explanation of how it works, along with a demo, by Steve Gibson:
How Sub-Pixel Font Rendering Works
The Free & Clear Demo
Also, this technology has long been available in your pirated copy of Windblows XP (and quite possibly long before XP). Right click desktop | Properties | Appearance tab | Effects | Use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts: ClearType. This works best on your notebook's LCD.
I think that once the trend of "bigger, faster" stops, some sanity will come to computing in general. Some applications don't need the absolutely fastest performance out there, especially when that performance comes at the price of size, power consumption and heat dissipation. Most servers would be better off with a slightly slower-performing drive that uses less power and dissipates less heat. Maybe this is the start of something beautiful ;)
This must have been some French guy behind the wheel. I mean, to drive an automatic car in France is rather rare for a native. Were he driving a normal car, all he would have had to do was to depress the clutch pedal and viola - the car would have stopped.
About fuckin' time!
Just in case the human race is still here in 2562 (I know - a longshot), wouldn't it be prudent to try to break it up into smaller pieces now? Although I guess this would require foresight beyond that of which dumb beasts that destroy the planet they live on for profit are capable of.
They are opening it up now because at this point it's so bloated that nobody would have time to go thru it during their natural life.
I like GNOME. I like KDE. They're great. That said, is it a rule that we must post here every time a new revision of each comes out? Is it that critical? Are all releases of GNOME and KDE exceptional? Every single one of them? I mean, there's a place for freshmeat, and there's a place for /. Let's not confuse the two.
>...when the user plugs in her new hardware device.
Sure, because most Linux users are female.. U know, like Andrea Arcangeli. Or is this the geek's mind's subliminal cry for sex? What is she plugging in, a battery-operated device?
Is there an insatiable demand for these corny-ass headlines? "Death" of "WWW?" Surely you either don't know that death means, or what WWW is, or, most likely, both.
Stop sensationalizing
"WWW is 'running up on some architectural limitations' that will eventually cause its downfall
into
Death of WWW
you cretins.
And whatever happens, it will not die. It will be extended, sub-classed, XML'd and in general made much more complex than it needs to be and obfuscated and more bandwidth hungry and less us[ful|able], but it will not "die."
How about this: You and I already know who we're gonna vote for. Some/most of us here, the /. grand elitists, know a fair amount about these candidates, what they represent, what they've done (and I'm really saying that we know what one of them represents, has done, etc. and we either want more of it or not).
Now, if you're anything like me, you too do not watch a lot of TV. Why get your news, of all things, thru a read-only, non-interactive medium, instead of being able to custom-tailor what you're interested in on the Internet (take that, decapitalization bastards!).
On to my point: the people that watch TV are either part of an older generation that is not compatible with the Internet way of doing things, or dumb beasts that stuff their pie holes with potato chips and watch mindless programs aired between advertisements that instill in their tiny brains what's hot, what's not, and so on. They don't know many facts about the candidates (again, mostly about the incumbent), as they prefer watching staged "wrestling" to C-SPAN. So, seeing this movie can give them a glimpse of some of the things our current non-elected president has done during his current tenure as our leader - in easy to swallow format, sort of like the movie version of the cliff notes. This will either make them curse at Moore and get in their dualie truck and attempt to run me off the road by changing lanes w/o looking where they're going, or contemplate voting for Kerry. Heck, maybe even contemplate voting, period - voting is not the forté of the potato chip-eating crowd.
For non-database logging, use mod_log_spread. This also solves the problem of merging logs if you happen to run a web farm.
Nice concept, but I think it's so useless for anything practial (because of the high potential for account=data loss) that the author would have wasted less time writing a paper rather than implementing it. But that would not have made /. - ah, the things we do for fame.
Optical = of or relating to the science of optics, of or relating to vision. Lasers are optical, so it cannot be 20x more precise than.. itself.
Hmm, my bad. Scratch #1 ;)
1) The car is a Lexus (LS400?), a Japanese lux car. BOSE is a German company. What up wid dat?
2) Isn't it kinda really bad that it can run over speed bumps, umm, w/o letting you feel a thing? And especially parking bumps? The safety impact of implementing such a revolutionary new technology (revolutionary in the true meaning of the word, not what's passed these days on TV as "revolutionary"), which by the way looks great - awesome job BOSE! <wink, wink>, has to be fully weighted before unleashed upon the general beasts^M^M^M^M^M^Mpublic.
What these Hong Kongese fail to understand (surprise, surprise) is that without the sex, a girlfriend is useless. Nobody wants a nagging money waster unless, umm, it helps to reproduce the species.
Sounds to me like someone's had a bit too much vodka. Put the bottle down, Boris!
That's.. gay!
I didn't realize it was April 1st. Or has /. completely lost it?
> I long for the days when you could work on your own car with a decent socket set and a few wrenches.
FYI: I have a 2000 Passat with a 1.8T engine and I can, within reason, work on a lot of it w/o having that many tools. As a matter of fact, I only have a 3/8" drive set I bought from Wal-Mart for $19.99 which includes wrench and sockets. I also have a metric allen key set (hex) that I bought for like $5, plus some pliers and screwdrivers. I haven't done a lot of work on the car, but I've replaced a few parts, a few hoses, removed my throttle body, etc. With a minimal investment in tools and elbow grease, I could probably take the whole car/engine apart. From what I read on the Passat boards I'm a member of, even the latest models, including those with a V6 engine, are pretty much the same in this respect. So, at least on my car, tech doesn't get in the way of self-serviceability.
P.S. With a $300 software/hardware tool, I can map my RPM and many other parameters in real-time on my laptop, plus change/disable all sorts of OEM functionality, perform resets on different systems and get a full list of "codes" as to what the onboard computer (ECU) thinks about the health of my car. A very IT-friendly car, I would say.
> has called into question the motivations and expectations of space exploration and research, particularly manned space exploration. Van Allen comments that 'the only surviving motivation for continuing human spaceflight is the ideology of adventure.'
Hmm.. How about.. colonization? Or should we just stay here on Earth till we think we're ready to colonize, maybe in a few hundred years, and then just go colonize w/o ever having been there? I think that is short-sighted - sounds to me like he's suddenly interested in the politics and economics of it rather than the science.
BTB, I love the FP: "[the ideology of adventure] - good enough for me."
This was a very effective way to ruin my day, possibly my weekend. I'll have to consume copious amounts of [insert_drug_of_choice_here] to try to forget about this for the next 3 days. Just wanted to express my gratitude to Linus, AM and the gang for making yet another well-thought-out decision! NOT!
..." to honor of Mr. Torvalds & Mr. Morton's choice, on pretty much a daily basis.
Just when it looks like OSS really has a chance to succeed/have an impact, a prominent project such as the Linux kernel goes and does something really stupid like this that pisses off even their most hard-core fans that are not using said project for purely-scientific purposes, but also for business-oriented ones.
Oh well, I'm sure it will feel good to know a lot of sysadmins world-wide will soon say "In the words of Dick Cheney, go
Title: Software Monoculture in Schools?
> What I'm bothered about is that when they did this they completely eliminated the Mac population
Do you consider Mac software? Or are you lost?
> Is everyone else completely locked into Microsoft like we are?
Again, you are mixing your apples and oranges.. PCs can [easily] run Linux as well as many other OSes. Microsoft is not a maker of PCs. Perhaps a better title would have been "Platform monoculture?" Or "I want my Mac?"
> How this got modded up +4 interesting is beyond me.
It was.. a.. joke!
And BTW, it was moderated as follows:
Moderation +4
50% Funny
30% Underrated
20% Interesting
Look (meaning, in this case, think) before you leap. Try laughing today instead of making God kill another kitten.
> Winning a bet against Hawking would be something to tell the grandchildren about.
Hey, kids - when I was your age, I used to bet people in wheelchairs who couldn't even speak unassisted and take their money away.