The inverse square root is 1/(sqrt(x)), not x^2 (which is, I admit, the first thing I thought of, wondering why anyone would be so excited about a faster way of getting it).
Well, you're sort of right.
f^-1(x) = x^2 is the inverse of f(x) = sqrt(x) where x > 0
Most drivers for mice in Microsoft allow configuration of all three mouse buttons. Most of these that I have seen do not setup the wheel button to act as a middle-click, you have to manually change it to do that. Generally I tend to setup the middle button as a double-click due to the low percentage of windows programs that utilize a middle button.
Firefox uses it. That ought to be enough for anyone (TM).
This might be good enough for Windows (although the wheel *is* a welcome innovation) but in X11 a 2 button mouse is quite painful to use (and I'm not even talking about a 1 button one).
But I AM using it in X11 (well, x.org). 3 button emulation works wonders.
I like beige so much I'm still using an old compaq-mouse from the early 90's. It weighs about as much as five optical mice, and it only has two buttons and no wheels or any of that fancy stuff. Not to mention it's beige.
Hilarious that cost should be an issue when it comes to saving the world.
On the other hand, it's pretty stupid to launch the sun-shield thing with chemical combustion engines, the very source of the problem in the first place.
What is up with the sound in the review? It's a ~ 4 minute video clip, yet it sounds like they've hired some behemoth sound effects team out of hollywood with a $74 M budget to do the music and sound effects?
The best part about this one is that it is absolutely non-functional.
The first scenario that springs to mind is that the buyer clearly is a wealthy mad scientist that is planning to overtake the world with clones of Patrick Stewart. In order to do this he obviously needed a DNA sample, which he can extract from this flute.
Navigating an unfamiliar tree in text mode is a pain in the ass. The only decent way to navigate a tree in text mode is via command line with tab completion, but that sucks when you are unfamiliar with the tree. You need tree navigation to customize the list of packages to install.
It's not like you're going to install the system often--and if you are, you're going to need an intimate knowledge of the installer.
Not everybody can read a language that works fine with 256 fixed-size characters. There exist languages like traditional Chinese, Thai, and Arabic. You won't get these people to suddenly switch to a more practical alphabet.
Uh, the kernel supports traditional Chinese, Thai and Arabic charsets...
It makes me sick you got modded insightful. In this world looks are *everything* and there is nothing you can do about it. What a stupid comment. Open your eyeballs, man. A GUI installer adds everything to the installation.
If how your the installer of your headless server system looks is a major factor, the world needs priorities.
Let's take a walk back in time...to the first time you booted up a *nix distro and stared at a CLI. Oh wait, let me guess: you knew *exactly* what to do, because you are so special, so smart and sexy with your intimate knowledge of partitioning and installing an OS. It seems you are forgetting not everyone speaks in binary or assembly.
Well... no, I read the manual. I hardly call being able to read special. I knew the school system had gone south as of late, but I didn't expect it to be this bad.
Back to the looks issue, let's consider the impact of how something looks. Hummer H2. Giant piece of crap vehicle that is mostly OTS (off-the-shelf) parts. But it *looks* cool, right? But it costs $100 to fill the tank. So who cares how it looks. The focus should be on how fast, durable, economical and tough the vehicle is, right? NO! It is all about the looks, and quite frankly the H2 is none of those things. How about a Ferrari? Except when you hit something, you aren't wrapped in a carbon fiber cage like in a real race car. How about your favorite restaurant? If you walk in and watch the roaches open the door for you, are you going to head in and eat?
Roaches is a sanitary issue, not an aesthetical one. And I hardly see anyone plowing a field with a Ferrari. They may look good, but they're hardly useful vehicles. If you need a useful vehicle, you don't get one based on how it looks.
At the risk of sounding like a troll, is this not a sign of how far behind the rest of the Linux world Debian has let itself fall? An installation GUI touted as a "major new feature"?
For years, Debian was heralded for it's packaging system, and yes apt-get is/was great. But the rest of the distros caught up, and easy, automated installation and updating is now a feature that one expects in a Linux distro as standard equipment. Just like a GUI installer.
This is like a car manufacturer in 2006 saying they've just added airbags to their cars, and it's a "major new feature!"
It's not a major new feature. It's about damn time.
A graphical installer adds ABSOLUTELY nothing to the installation. Unless you're a newbie to Linux (if you are, debian isn't really too suited for you), you will see and understand this. Who the bleeding heck cares how the installation looks? The focus should be on a fast installer that works on as many configurations as possible, not fancy eye-candy.
Are you absolutelly positive, that there were no soldiers or people paid by military among those giants?
Why would the military fund that kind of fundamental research? That makes no sense. You don't see the military funneling money into researching theoretical physics today? Why--Because even if it might pay off in the vastly distant future, having theories about why this subatomic particle does that today is a collossal a waste of resources in the eyes of the military.
I find it a hypocrytic for someone to ban the use of his software by military, when such person, his software and its proper functioning depend on the technology for which military paid the bills.
Don't want to have anything to do with the military? Get the fsck out of the Internet, researched and developed with military grants.
Robert
In the end, that reasoning is flawed. They were just standing on the shoulders of giants. Without civilian scientists, like Faraday and Maxwell, there wouldn't even be electricity to run computers. Should scientists be above software licensing? Or heck, be above the law? Social scientists practically invented the society we live in today.
"Just out of curiosity, how would you feel if a product you produced was being used to kill others?"
It could be far worse...
Imagine it was your country being attacked and software you wrote had a big hand in that attack. Free Software is developed around the globe so this quandary is valid.
Might just be me having as high opinions in nationalism as Nietzsche did Christianity, but I really don't see how that is worse?
Maybe I've been watching way too many campy sci-fi movies from the 50's, but won't the radiation mutate the bacteria into horrible 50 foot slime-creatures devouring everything in their path?
For those that think it is not possible to have an effect - look at induction furnaces. For those who think you are in trouble if you live some distance away and not directly under 33kV lines - think about the inverse square law and how weak the feild is going to be even when it hits ground level. It is real (long term exposure of pregnant women to faulty EMF plastic welders proved that), but you have to be close, and the mechanism is raising the core temperature of your body by induction.
Eh? Last time I checked the magnetic field strength is inversely proportional to the distance from a wire, not inversely proportional the distance squared.
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Well, you're sort of right.
f^-1(x) = x^2 is the inverse of f(x) = sqrt(x) where x > 0
Firefox uses it. That ought to be enough for anyone (TM).
But I AM using it in X11 (well, x.org). 3 button emulation works wonders.
I like beige so much I'm still using an old compaq-mouse from the early 90's. It weighs about as much as five optical mice, and it only has two buttons and no wheels or any of that fancy stuff. Not to mention it's beige.
Can anyone fluent in Legalese translate that into English, please?
On the other hand, it's pretty stupid to launch the sun-shield thing with chemical combustion engines, the very source of the problem in the first place.
What is up with the sound in the review? It's a ~ 4 minute video clip, yet it sounds like they've hired some behemoth sound effects team out of hollywood with a $74 M budget to do the music and sound effects?
But... does it have a positronic brain?
(and can it run Linux? And imagine a Beowulf cluster of those!)
Right, in this part of the world we've got surveillance cameras to do that.
Havn't you heard? Your independence has been revoked!
Currently there isn't room in the Comedy Hall of Fame.
Seriously, energy is CREATED? The very fundamental idea of energy is that it can not be created or destroyed!
Don't know about you, but I find her proportions pretty divine...
I experienced problems with wikipedia today as well, so I guess it was just bad timing posting it just before wikipedia was up again...
It's not like you're going to install the system often--and if you are, you're going to need an intimate knowledge of the installer.
Uh, the kernel supports traditional Chinese, Thai and Arabic charsets...
If how your the installer of your headless server system looks is a major factor, the world needs priorities.
Well... no, I read the manual. I hardly call being able to read special. I knew the school system had gone south as of late, but I didn't expect it to be this bad.
Roaches is a sanitary issue, not an aesthetical one. And I hardly see anyone plowing a field with a Ferrari. They may look good, but they're hardly useful vehicles. If you need a useful vehicle, you don't get one based on how it looks.
A graphical installer adds ABSOLUTELY nothing to the installation. Unless you're a newbie to Linux (if you are, debian isn't really too suited for you), you will see and understand this. Who the bleeding heck cares how the installation looks? The focus should be on a fast installer that works on as many configurations as possible, not fancy eye-candy.
Why would the military fund that kind of fundamental research? That makes no sense. You don't see the military funneling money into researching theoretical physics today? Why--Because even if it might pay off in the vastly distant future, having theories about why this subatomic particle does that today is a collossal a waste of resources in the eyes of the military.
In the end, that reasoning is flawed. They were just standing on the shoulders of giants. Without civilian scientists, like Faraday and Maxwell, there wouldn't even be electricity to run computers. Should scientists be above software licensing? Or heck, be above the law? Social scientists practically invented the society we live in today.
Might just be me having as high opinions in nationalism as Nietzsche did Christianity, but I really don't see how that is worse?
That and a short "Hello World"-program in COBOL.
Maybe I've been watching way too many campy sci-fi movies from the 50's, but won't the radiation mutate the bacteria into horrible 50 foot slime-creatures devouring everything in their path?
Eh? Last time I checked the magnetic field strength is inversely proportional to the distance from a wire, not inversely proportional the distance squared.
B = 2*10^-7 * I / r
(I = current, r = distance)
Aren't strong magnetic fields supposed to be harmful? After all, there's this fuss about living under power lines...