Only mention the things you did, not the ones others did. Like has nasa been able to keep a space station going? Answer NO. The ISS survives thanks to russian engineering. The latest rocket used by NASA? Russian technology. All the data on long time space habitation? Russian again. Probes to venus? Russian again.
It doesn't require all that much money. A soyuz launch costs 30 million. Even to the russians that is peanuts. Better it is money that remains in the country and gives scientist a reason for staying in russia (what would you choose, be an other imigrant in the US or doing space research in russia?)
The daemon tool is a dvd drive just a virtual one. If it was easily detectable that it was not a real drive then it wouldn't be half as usefull.
No, that is the attitude of some themers
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You can find hideous themes on any desktop. Weird borders, black on black apps with black buttons that light up black when you press them.
E gives you the flexibilty, you can abuse it and create some pretty ugly/unworkable themes or you can make a very refined one. They do exist.
E uses one config system. It is called vi Use it.
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E17 Available From CVS
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What you probably mean is you want a gui. Say so. All my apps are configured through vi. Wich is why gnome is a no-no.
What you demand is your business, E is for people who demand different things. Oh and you are probably already using E. Just check for any of its libraries on your linux machine. That is the real value of E. It has given the rest of linux an awfull lot of tools to work with.
Enlightenment is not like KDE or Gnome. It is a different way of looking at a desktop and with E17 Rasterman is trying some things that might finally get Hollywood to use a real desktop in the movies. It just really looks that good. Entrance is finally worthy of being "hacked" by a pretty girl by pressing the "hack" key.
Linux is not the linux of old. You got a lot of people who grew up with windows only for whom the whole idea of configuration files is alien. Now that isn't much of a problem. Some distros have come a long way into making a linux install extremely easy. But any new desktop user soon wants to chance the look and goes searching on the internet for pretty desktops. E has some very very pretty ones. Then they try it and hit the learning curve. It ain't a wall. It is a ceiling. Breaking through it is hard if you come from a windows gui for everything background. The reward is full control but the price is RTFM.
Add to it that most E users don't want or need things like a start button. Its far more extreme use of virtual desktops. Themes wich look cool in screenshot but perhaps grey on black text in real life is hard to read.
This then soon scares people off who are scared and humiliated that they could not use it. This is the "sucks" era. If you can't use something it must suck, it is never your fault.
So now you got two camps. Those that managed to break through the learning curve and those who didn't (of course you also got a camp who could care less either way but they are boring) and the perfect setup for a holy war.
On the one hand you got those who miss their GUI theme configurations and start button on the bottom left corner. On the other hand you got people who enjoy a window manager that just draws the bloody windows as they want it without turning into the bloat that is KDE or the "you can't do this because it would be confusing" that is Gnome.
Welcome to Linux where people got choice. The price for freedom might be eternal vigilance but the price for choice is eternal holy wars. Choice is all very well but unless you choose what I choose you are the sucks.
The difference about E17 is not just the desktop layout, it is how things are drawn. ALL windows managers use the similar model at the moment wether it is MS windows or Apple or any of the linux ones. If Rasterman realizes his vision then E17 could be one of the most important steps forward in desktops (as he has already used it on his Zaurus. Yeah that is right. E17 on a pda. Try that MS.) Remember that most enlightenment haters are probably using it already. The libraries developed for E have found widespread use. Just check for something like imlib2 on your average linux desktop.
Gunnm isn't the best story ever told but it does have something. Mostly it is a very very dark future where "good" people are hard to find.
The opening isn't that original. Old man finds young girl who lost her memory but was once an ultimate weapon. Oh it adds the twist that she mostly has a robot body (I think it is closer to cyborg is I remember correctly) and is rather damaged when found.
So he repairs her and the first "story" is her suspecting the old man of killing humans to supply some of her organic parts.
Later she falls in love with a boy who is really killing humans to sell their parts so he can buy his ticket to a better live.
This is were Gunnm starts to get better then the average overly violent manga. Alita has a shred of humanity left, the idea that killing "innocents" for your own goal isn't right. Most of those around her have no morals including the boy she loves. Since this is early in the story and the full story is about her search for a place to belong it is no suprise the boy gets killed.
But he isn't redeemed. He is not a hollywood scoundrel. He is an evil selfish piece of work who kills innocent people to get a better live and doesn't even take his girlfriend with him. Hardly a hollywood character. He got better motivation then that exec guy in aliens but when he gets splattered you feel sorry for alita not him.
Anyway on with the story, wich is long. Basically it either has Alita being abused into a position where she has to splatter things, temporarily forgetting her humanity so she doesn't feel bad about splattering things OR finds a place that is nice but soon gets splattered. There is an end to the orignal manga but even the author didn't like and he is now busy with an alternate ending.
If anything the story reminds me of the later Mad Max movies but with a less sympathetic set of characters.
Can cameron do it? No.
Why not? Well simply look at the movies he is listed for. All of them got very simple lines between "good" and "evil" characters. Perhaps if ripley had been madly in love and tried to save burk before he got snacked or if the robots in terminator had been shown as quit likable while killing humans left right and center THEN perhaps he might have been capable of doing Gunnm. But all his movies have been straight hollywood flicks. No duality at all in the characters. The best hollywood can do with duality is Darth Vader. Evil bastard all the time then suddenly saved by Jesus Christ in the last 10 minutes and 1 tiny selfish action equals forgiveness for 3 episodes of being evil.
Anyway gunnm has already had the movie threathment. It has been turned into an anime wich is widely regarded by fans of the manga as crap. To short and leaving out important details.
As for everyone complaing about the CG lead they really got no choice. It is like complaing the in Dragon Heart Sean Connery was replaced by a cg character. Well fucking duh. No amount of make up could turn a human being into a big flying dragon and no amount of make up is going to turn any actress into a limb loosing fighting robot.
Was an art piece. The tech used was those LCD panes that can turn opaque or transparent depending on power.
The "dress" had the panes on certain strategic locations if you know what I mean. The controller was setup in such a way that the panes were opaque most of the time but now and they would flash very fast transparent.
The trick of course being that your brain requires time to see things. Especially when you are not trying to look like a complete pervert. You clearly saw the thing become transparent but at least I was to slow to see anything.
So in one way the girl was nude. But because you couldn't actually see anything she wasn't.
My first thought as well
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Clusters at Home?
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Don't put them in your desk unless you already gone deaf. Or are one of those people who do not go insane in a server room.
How to keep it cool. Hmmm. Eh moving a lot of air with a fan usually works. Again this adds to the noise.
Put it in some room wich you can ventilate. Get a big fan and blow it through your rack. If needed use an airco to cool the room.
Most people like their working room a little bit warmer then computers like their room. If you add more computers they might out vote you and force you to admin them in freezing air.
So my answer? I wouldn't put a dozen computers in my desk. In fact I haven't my setup uses a long extension cable and a kvm box. Very very quit. No bulky PC or cables to hide. Nice cooling on the PC. In fact since it is winter I even have to switch some fans off as the HD's are getting a bit cold.
Geez, so far everyone is focusing on how evil and nasty MS and how they are a bunch of lying scumbags. All true enough and it wouldn't suprise me if when MS actually tries anything with that patent crap they will be shot out of the water by IBM and all the companies they have been stealing off.
So enough. Lets pet Intel a bit. Intel has long been hardly unfriendly to Linux but was on the other hand part of Wintel. Can this suggest that perhaps the Wintel alliance is not nearly as thight as some/. monkeys seem to think? (if it was explain why Intel would ever make their compiler work on linux.)
If Intel is really going to release stuff (actually more stuff they already have linux drivers of their own making) are they going to do it the opensource way? That could actually be pretty big. Almost all components of a pc can be bought from Intel. A total Intel PC with complete opensource drivers would finally end the "Linux doesn't regonize my hardware" crap.
A namebrand PC running 100% opensource software made by volunteers and the company making the hardware. Gosh, that would be nice.
Oh and if Intel releases opensource drivers then nothing in those drivers can be considered to ifringe on any patents of intel. And if Intel wants to sell their chips to Linux users they wouldn't enforce any patents against linux either. Is Intel another ally?
I think this kinda news and companies like nvidia and ati trying to support linux is actually very important. Linux share at the moment is tiny and if these companies did not try it would be even smaller. They are helping linux grow. (and if they go all the way and opensource their contributions BSD grow)
Anyone know if Intel is going all the way? Full opensource drivers and/or helping opensource developers with the specs to their hardware? Grepping through the kernel for intel doesn't tell me who wrote the code or how they found out how to write the driver.
As someone from the netherlands all you say is a complete and utter lie. You can get addicted to weed, it most certainly impairs your coordination and if you are caught driving under the influence you get the same fine as when drunk.
You must have either never used yourselve OR are one of those people who claim they can drive with a couple of drinks under their belt.
It is people like you that hurt the reputation of drugs as people on boths sides of the fence know your full of it. Idiot.
My browser is opera on linux so obviously I am vulnarable. So I checked my preferences and I not only haven't got it enabled. It doesn't even have the link to where it can find java.
Not so long ago (for someone my age. For some/. it may be half a life time ago) java web applets were everywhere. Has this now been replaced with flash or have webdesigners decided they didn't need what java can do or am I visiting the wrong pages?
Not I am not talking about web applications here but java applets that things like menus, scrolling news banner etc etc.
I did a quick check of both real life and online friends and only a few had java enabled. Hardly a scientific measurement and neither is asking here but is your webbrowser java enabled?
This is not an anti-java post. I like azureus wich would never be available to a linux user if it had not been done in java.
Being a criminal is not all that much fun. Rarely mentioned is the constant need to pay everyone off. A few million here, a few million there. Now nokia has left. How much are they going to need to keep silent eh?
Worse with each payment the price goes up. If you got a complaint against MS you are hardly going to settle for a handshake are you? They paid in the past so you want your share.
There is a reason IBM didn't just settle with SCO. If they did every lawyer in the world would have send them a complaint.
Sure MS is buying itself temporary peace but this is resulting in two long term effects.
First anybody else who has the slightest case will want their millions.
But second is a far more damaging effect. If you read the FT story it is very clear that the journalist is calling this a clear case of bribery. Now why would you bribe a witness unless the witness has really seen something? I give it a couple more years before most of the real press will have decided that yes MS is a clearly corrupt company. This will cast suspicion on all their dealings.
Surely any good journalist will then start to question every time MS gets a contract or makes a lawsuit go away who has been paid off for how much?
If I were a reporter at the FT looking for a story I would do some investigation into who received what sums of money for the recent NHS deal or the US army deal. The last one is especially good. The US army has said that windows wasn't good enough for their future soldier project but it is good enough for the desktop of soldiers? Wheres the money!
Have everyone in their brick and mortar shop just using it as a display room for Amazon or whatever online company.
Gee, good computer shops already have the problem that people come to them for advice and then go to the crappy cheap shop for their actual purchase. Only to return to the good shop when things go wrong and then be upset that no we don't fix other shops computers for free.
Friend of mine is about to commit murder if he gets one more Dell on the counter with a demand to fix it for free because it cost a lot. For free of course.
Sadly this seems to be the way of the future. Brick and mortar shops can never hope to match the storage space and ease of access (no parking problems on the net or busses that don't run on weekends) and lack of costs of internet shops. But internet shops can never meet most humans desire to touch before they buy. Photo's just ain't the same as actually holding a product in your hand. Doesn't matter much for memory or a cpu but an Mp3 player or keyboard is different.
But I can hardly imagine that brick and mortar shops will be happy to function as the display windows. Look forward to people being kicked out by security.
Is linux the first free open source operating system? No. BSD was there before. Minix was there before. Hell it was developed on minix wich is kinda the ultimate proof that free opensource unixes were available before Linux came along.
Since then there been other OS'es wich tried to be open in one way or the other. In fact if you really look you will probably find more OS'es then computers.
Linux is more then just an opensource Unix clone. It got something. Don't ask me what. If I knew I would sell it to MS. Perhaps it is the GPL. Because of the GPL people can give code away yet not have others exploit their hardwork. Use yes but not exploit.
MS itself has tried to capatalize on linux with their shared source license with shall we say limited success?
Linux is not just open-source or the GPL or Linus Torvald or the bazaar or Unix. It is all this combined wich came together at the right time when the internet was ready to support it. I think it is no coincedence that Linux bloom goes hand in hand with the bloom of the internet.
And that is just the kernel. Good luck solaris on emulating KDE + Gnome + Enlightenment + XFCE4. Because that is something else linux (the OS/desktop) has. CHOICE. Pure sweet fucking free choice.
Solaris is just another OS wich tries to emulate the GPL software success. But until people really understand what makes Linux so loved they cannot even begin to emulate it.
Will solaris take over? Not until it can run a no-budget website on an old desktop dell plonked into a 2u box. Not until it can get the backing of an IBM NSA Chinese goverment.
Who would have thought 10 yrs ago that solaris would be the young hopefull trying to uproot the succesfull Linux. By the very fact that solaris went opensource they have admitted they couldn't cope.
Disclaimer I use the term opensource in a rather liberal meaning. Deal with it
So yes you are right. If you include this in your kernel you can use it to mount samba/windows file shares. This will then instruct your linux machine to contact the server you specified and do it thing. It will not connect on its own nor accept connections. (Unless it is bugged:P)
Unless the server you connected to has been taken over OR someone can intercept your communication with the server can your linux client be hijacked.
Now samba has had several exploits and windows has its share so an infected file server is not that unlikely. Remember it doesn't matter how much they own a file server on your network. If you don't connect to it your in the clear. (not counting other security holes).
An other attack is if someone can intercept your communication. This is not impossible. I connect to 192.168.1.4 wich is my windows machine. Someone could sneak in, unplug that windows machine and replace it with their laptop with a hacked fileserver. My machine will be none the wiser and happily connect and get exploited.
Possible but unlikely in a home enviroment, lets face it if someone can touch your hardware they hardly need to bother with software exploits. In a business enviroment this is a higher risk. If I have control over a router it would be trivial to direct traffic temporarily to an infect fileserver long enough to get control.
Wich is why it is so goddamn important to stay current with all patches. If your file servers are patched up then you are in the clear. (not counting unknown exploits of course) Of course you better apply the patch for this when it comes out or else you will be vulnarable when the next fileserver exploit hits. Computer security is fun eh?
Hardly a needless check. Steam has a reason.
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Review: Half-Life 2
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Piracy prevention. Every single game out for the american market is pirated with a few days of release and often before.
This is something the game industry doesn't like. They don't sell millions of copies and if you see some torrents at 5000 downloads and multiple users you can understand the game industry wants to change this.
it is not even that they worry about the people who download the game. What worries them is that current paying customers might get upset that others get it for free and see themselves justified to do the same.
Half-Life success is partly due because it worked with an authenticated key. No key, no multiplayer for you. Even with Half-Life long since available at bargain prices you still find people begging for half-life keys so they can play counterstrike online.
Having the multiplayer part only available to legal games is a huge bonus. MMO games were being designed by everyone. Why? Because they are so easy to protect. No way to pirate them.
Steam is an attempt to add online authentication to an offline game. Frankly I think it is the future. As long as only legal games can play they elimated piracy. At least it means that everyone who did pay knows that nobody else played the game without paying. At best it gets all those who would have pirated the game to pay for their copy.
Sure it is a hassle but do you got another solution?
There are two kind of projects for developers. Small budget limited web sites and gigantic mission critical database applications.
I worked on both. Or rather I was somewhat involved in 2 mission critical application including full databases and a whole lot of small internal and external websites.
So far the money/fun/job security/supply of work have all been better for the small tiny jobs.
I am getting sick and tired of every idiot like you who thinks IT is always the big jobs. The people on the ground, you the sales people and other office grinders who you are there to support are often best served with small websites that help them do 1 task a lot faster.
Recently I have worked on several jobs that reduced several man years for departments at a cost of a week of my salery. You couldn't even buy a database license for that.
Not everything requires transactions. In fact I have been able to upgrade the speed on many a mission critical app by simply switching off unneeded safe guards. Transactions are only needed if it can fail. If it can't or it doens't matter then don't bother.
Many internal apps are nothing more then getting pieces of data out of several sources, combining them and displaying them. Exactly wich part requires transactions?
If you never worked in a business were they had two systems wich didn't talk to each other yet data from both was needed for daily business needs then you either work in heaven or you never bothered about the real business needs of your employer. I see them a lot. You got on your resume "developed large account system for X" I got on my resume "saved company X 3 fulltime salaries in 1 week". Sad thing? You are probably easier employed then me. IT likes big spending.
Do you know how an internal combustion engine works? If not search the net but it involves a cycle of actions and at one point of the cycle a burst of power is generated. This burst of power comes from an explosion (petrol) or a rapid burn (diesel) wich forces the piston downwards. The power of the explosion is the power of the engine. So if the petrol explodes with a power of X then the piston is pushed away at the power of X wich means the rod it is attached to will get at that point of the cycle a push of power X. Now the power of the engine will not be X precisly because engines need power to power their cycle. Most engines got more then 1 piston and while 1 is pushing down others are using power to let the gasses escape and recompress for their explosion.
But more or less the power of the explosion is the power of the engine.
So until the first explosion happens an internal combustion engine cannot generate power. You can not simply hit a switch and it will start. Instead you have to help the engine complete its first cycle and get enough speed so that the cycles happen fast enough to sustain themselves.
This is what a kickstart or electric starter motor do. They simple give the engine a couple of revolution to get started.
What would happen if you started the engine and you applied a load to it greater then the power of the engine? Well simply put the piston would now require a power greater then X to push it down. The explosion doesn't have that so it will simply remain in place. Their would be no power to get the engine to its next stage and the engine stalls. Pretty common, just watch at a traffic light.
Electric engines work totally differently. Magnets attract each other. This is simple enough to test. Get two magnets, align their oppisite poles and hold them close. Do you feel them pulling? Notice how this pull is constant? An electric motor works no different except that with the uses of electric magnets wich switch on and off they create a constant cycle of magnets pulling. Again search the net for a detailed description.
However unlike an internal combustion engine an electric motor can always pull. As long as power is applied the magnets will be pulling. You can easily try this with a drill. Set it to low power and hold the drill bit with our hand. It doesn't matter how low the rpm gets. The motor will still be pulling. Also notice how easy it is to switch directions. Electric motors can turn either way with ease. Internal combustion engines can not.
So a clutch is to allow an internal combustion engine to achieve at an RPM while what it powers is at rest. Gears allow the RPM required by an internal combustion engine to be reduced to the RPM of your wheels.
Neither are needed. This electric car goes one step further. Because no gears or clutch are needed they have moved the engines into the wheels themselves. So the wheel is the engine.
this means no power is wasted on the transmission. It also means it is very easy to maintain. Try it on a normal car. Replace a tyre and replace the engine. Electic wires are not exactly hard to replace. Plus electic engines got another intresting capacity. They are exactly the same as electric generators. Apply power and you start the engine turning. But a turning engine can also generate power. So uphill it costs power. Downhill you get power. Beat that mister petrol engine!
Japan has no natural resources for fuel so nuclear power gives them a certain independence.
WWII for japan was about finally getting their paws on some natural resources like oil. Oh and killing and raping but japan also does that while at home. (if you ever read about japan having a low crime rate realize that crime rate is reported crimes. Making raping kids not a crime or have crimes not reported because of shame and you got yourselve a low crime rate)
Anyway they got no coal gas or oil to power their plants so it must all be exported. Nuclear material must also be imported but is easier to stockpile.
Japan has had some nuclear incidents but is very protective of its nuclear industry. It is also looking into expending it since for japan it makes sense. If you consider putting nukes ontop of earthquake zones sensible.
As for japanese car use. Japanese don't use the car all that much. Although japan is pretty big most of the population is bunched up wich creates travel distances more in line with western europe and places like New York then say Texas or LA.
A lot of japanese housing is also extremely small with simply no place to park a car.
So small distances. No place for cars. All you need is a good alternative and your set. Japanese public transport is pretty good if crowded at peak times. Then again japan is crowded all the time. And why would you want to drive a heavily taxed car you can't park stuck in a traffic jam when you can be in a train wedged up against a school girl in sailor uniform who is raised not to resist groping?
Please note this is all based on dated experience. Japan has changed a lot according to people that visited recently.
Oh geez a lot of idiots woke up for this storie
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230mph Electric Car
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Gee, heat. Were would an electric car get heat from. Mmmm well lets see where do normal cars get it from. Their natural heat source? The engine you mean? Oh wow! So those really thin wires in the rear window are actually hooked up the exhaust and carry hot exhaust fumes through them to keep the window warm and avoid fogging up? NEAT!
Still I find it slightly worrying that exhaust fumes are being routed through my car seat to give me a nice warm bun on a cold morning.
Oh wait. Of course not. Most cars nowadays use electric heating or cooling for that matter.
As for the track version having all the gadgets removed. That is nowhere in the story so your just guessing. But this is pretty standard behaviour. Nascar seems to use road going vehicles and yet seem always to leave out the digital entertainment center for the childeren on the backseat. Or for that matter, seem to leave out the backseat.
And where do you get the power from? The grid. Where do you think far far heavier electric engines are powered from? The electric grid. Unless you live in pure residential area you can even get extra power easily. You know for all the small business running high powered tools.
Yeah petrol cars never have to be filled
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230mph Electric Car
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Geez are you nuts or stupid? This car can be refilled when you get home. Your petrol powered car cannot. This can be refilled at work. Most petrol cars cannot. This car can be filled by knocking on somebodies door and asking if you can use their plug for a while. Petrol cars cannot.
Most people are used nowadays to keeping a device fully powered. What do you do with your mp3 player or mobile phone the moment you come home? Plug them in for a recharge. Most people even got a recharger at work.
People run out of fuel with petrol cars as well. At least this one makes it easier to keep it filled up. Just plugin when you park. And for the truly stupid like you who can't remember to plugin everytime. This has one advantage over petrol. All electric power is the same but guys like you do insist on putting diesel in petrol cars.
Or at least the way I understand it a fork happens when the code is copied and taking into different directions.
Linux has already forked a bit with the embedded linux versions wich are designed to run on hardware without proper memory management. They probably added all sorts of code that will never make it back into the main linux because it ain't needed. Similar any enhancements made to the main linux related to memory management will not be taken up by the mobile versions. The closest I can think of as a fork.
As long as the PC linux continues to be done by the same people with the same end goal there is no fork.
Has this guy never heard of software development cycles? I never worked on a piece of software that did not have multiple versions. Development testing production.
It is the sudden windows death syndrome. Sadly it is often missed by the pathologist and people do the format reinstall that MS has taught them is the normal thing to do.
Here is a symptom. Program Y never works unless you first do X. Clear indication that X loads the proper dll and Y does not.
It also explains why you sometimes need to reboot to get a program to behave. Because you had a bad dll loaded. It is also a reason Tech Support always ask you to reboot. It cleans the system.
I helped far to many people who had this happen to them. They installed some old proggie from the net wich replaced a dll and BOOOM.
Your evidence seems to be outweighed by the amazing amount of work computer shops and relatives with a clue get fixing broken windows installations.
Exactly why do you tbink MS has introduced rollback and system files protection?
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It doesn't require all that much money. A soyuz launch costs 30 million. Even to the russians that is peanuts. Better it is money that remains in the country and gives scientist a reason for staying in russia (what would you choose, be an other imigrant in the US or doing space research in russia?)
The daemon tool is a dvd drive just a virtual one. If it was easily detectable that it was not a real drive then it wouldn't be half as usefull.
E gives you the flexibilty, you can abuse it and create some pretty ugly/unworkable themes or you can make a very refined one. They do exist.
What you demand is your business, E is for people who demand different things. Oh and you are probably already using E. Just check for any of its libraries on your linux machine. That is the real value of E. It has given the rest of linux an awfull lot of tools to work with.
Linux is not the linux of old. You got a lot of people who grew up with windows only for whom the whole idea of configuration files is alien. Now that isn't much of a problem. Some distros have come a long way into making a linux install extremely easy. But any new desktop user soon wants to chance the look and goes searching on the internet for pretty desktops. E has some very very pretty ones. Then they try it and hit the learning curve. It ain't a wall. It is a ceiling. Breaking through it is hard if you come from a windows gui for everything background. The reward is full control but the price is RTFM.
Add to it that most E users don't want or need things like a start button. Its far more extreme use of virtual desktops. Themes wich look cool in screenshot but perhaps grey on black text in real life is hard to read.
This then soon scares people off who are scared and humiliated that they could not use it. This is the "sucks" era. If you can't use something it must suck, it is never your fault.
So now you got two camps. Those that managed to break through the learning curve and those who didn't (of course you also got a camp who could care less either way but they are boring) and the perfect setup for a holy war.
On the one hand you got those who miss their GUI theme configurations and start button on the bottom left corner. On the other hand you got people who enjoy a window manager that just draws the bloody windows as they want it without turning into the bloat that is KDE or the "you can't do this because it would be confusing" that is Gnome.
Welcome to Linux where people got choice. The price for freedom might be eternal vigilance but the price for choice is eternal holy wars. Choice is all very well but unless you choose what I choose you are the sucks.
The difference about E17 is not just the desktop layout, it is how things are drawn. ALL windows managers use the similar model at the moment wether it is MS windows or Apple or any of the linux ones. If Rasterman realizes his vision then E17 could be one of the most important steps forward in desktops (as he has already used it on his Zaurus. Yeah that is right. E17 on a pda. Try that MS.) Remember that most enlightenment haters are probably using it already. The libraries developed for E have found widespread use. Just check for something like imlib2 on your average linux desktop.
The opening isn't that original. Old man finds young girl who lost her memory but was once an ultimate weapon. Oh it adds the twist that she mostly has a robot body (I think it is closer to cyborg is I remember correctly) and is rather damaged when found.
So he repairs her and the first "story" is her suspecting the old man of killing humans to supply some of her organic parts.
Later she falls in love with a boy who is really killing humans to sell their parts so he can buy his ticket to a better live.
This is were Gunnm starts to get better then the average overly violent manga. Alita has a shred of humanity left, the idea that killing "innocents" for your own goal isn't right. Most of those around her have no morals including the boy she loves. Since this is early in the story and the full story is about her search for a place to belong it is no suprise the boy gets killed.
But he isn't redeemed. He is not a hollywood scoundrel. He is an evil selfish piece of work who kills innocent people to get a better live and doesn't even take his girlfriend with him. Hardly a hollywood character. He got better motivation then that exec guy in aliens but when he gets splattered you feel sorry for alita not him.
Anyway on with the story, wich is long. Basically it either has Alita being abused into a position where she has to splatter things, temporarily forgetting her humanity so she doesn't feel bad about splattering things OR finds a place that is nice but soon gets splattered. There is an end to the orignal manga but even the author didn't like and he is now busy with an alternate ending.
If anything the story reminds me of the later Mad Max movies but with a less sympathetic set of characters.
Can cameron do it? No.
Why not? Well simply look at the movies he is listed for. All of them got very simple lines between "good" and "evil" characters. Perhaps if ripley had been madly in love and tried to save burk before he got snacked or if the robots in terminator had been shown as quit likable while killing humans left right and center THEN perhaps he might have been capable of doing Gunnm. But all his movies have been straight hollywood flicks. No duality at all in the characters. The best hollywood can do with duality is Darth Vader. Evil bastard all the time then suddenly saved by Jesus Christ in the last 10 minutes and 1 tiny selfish action equals forgiveness for 3 episodes of being evil.
Anyway gunnm has already had the movie threathment. It has been turned into an anime wich is widely regarded by fans of the manga as crap. To short and leaving out important details.
As for everyone complaing about the CG lead they really got no choice. It is like complaing the in Dragon Heart Sean Connery was replaced by a cg character. Well fucking duh. No amount of make up could turn a human being into a big flying dragon and no amount of make up is going to turn any actress into a limb loosing fighting robot.
The "dress" had the panes on certain strategic locations if you know what I mean. The controller was setup in such a way that the panes were opaque most of the time but now and they would flash very fast transparent.
The trick of course being that your brain requires time to see things. Especially when you are not trying to look like a complete pervert. You clearly saw the thing become transparent but at least I was to slow to see anything.
So in one way the girl was nude. But because you couldn't actually see anything she wasn't.
How to keep it cool. Hmmm. Eh moving a lot of air with a fan usually works. Again this adds to the noise.
Put it in some room wich you can ventilate. Get a big fan and blow it through your rack. If needed use an airco to cool the room.
Most people like their working room a little bit warmer then computers like their room. If you add more computers they might out vote you and force you to admin them in freezing air.
So my answer? I wouldn't put a dozen computers in my desk. In fact I haven't my setup uses a long extension cable and a kvm box. Very very quit. No bulky PC or cables to hide. Nice cooling on the PC. In fact since it is winter I even have to switch some fans off as the HD's are getting a bit cold.
So enough. Lets pet Intel a bit. Intel has long been hardly unfriendly to Linux but was on the other hand part of Wintel. Can this suggest that perhaps the Wintel alliance is not nearly as thight as some /. monkeys seem to think? (if it was explain why Intel would ever make their compiler work on linux.)
If Intel is really going to release stuff (actually more stuff they already have linux drivers of their own making) are they going to do it the opensource way? That could actually be pretty big. Almost all components of a pc can be bought from Intel. A total Intel PC with complete opensource drivers would finally end the "Linux doesn't regonize my hardware" crap.
A namebrand PC running 100% opensource software made by volunteers and the company making the hardware. Gosh, that would be nice.
Oh and if Intel releases opensource drivers then nothing in those drivers can be considered to ifringe on any patents of intel. And if Intel wants to sell their chips to Linux users they wouldn't enforce any patents against linux either. Is Intel another ally?
I think this kinda news and companies like nvidia and ati trying to support linux is actually very important. Linux share at the moment is tiny and if these companies did not try it would be even smaller. They are helping linux grow. (and if they go all the way and opensource their contributions BSD grow)
Anyone know if Intel is going all the way? Full opensource drivers and/or helping opensource developers with the specs to their hardware? Grepping through the kernel for intel doesn't tell me who wrote the code or how they found out how to write the driver.
As someone from the netherlands all you say is a complete and utter lie. You can get addicted to weed, it most certainly impairs your coordination and if you are caught driving under the influence you get the same fine as when drunk.
You must have either never used yourselve OR are one of those people who claim they can drive with a couple of drinks under their belt.
It is people like you that hurt the reputation of drugs as people on boths sides of the fence know your full of it. Idiot.
Not so long ago (for someone my age. For some /. it may be half a life time ago) java web applets were everywhere. Has this now been replaced with flash or have webdesigners decided they didn't need what java can do or am I visiting the wrong pages?
Not I am not talking about web applications here but java applets that things like menus, scrolling news banner etc etc.
I did a quick check of both real life and online friends and only a few had java enabled. Hardly a scientific measurement and neither is asking here but is your webbrowser java enabled?
This is not an anti-java post. I like azureus wich would never be available to a linux user if it had not been done in java.
Worse with each payment the price goes up. If you got a complaint against MS you are hardly going to settle for a handshake are you? They paid in the past so you want your share.
There is a reason IBM didn't just settle with SCO. If they did every lawyer in the world would have send them a complaint.
Sure MS is buying itself temporary peace but this is resulting in two long term effects.
First anybody else who has the slightest case will want their millions.
But second is a far more damaging effect. If you read the FT story it is very clear that the journalist is calling this a clear case of bribery. Now why would you bribe a witness unless the witness has really seen something? I give it a couple more years before most of the real press will have decided that yes MS is a clearly corrupt company. This will cast suspicion on all their dealings.
Surely any good journalist will then start to question every time MS gets a contract or makes a lawsuit go away who has been paid off for how much?
If I were a reporter at the FT looking for a story I would do some investigation into who received what sums of money for the recent NHS deal or the US army deal. The last one is especially good. The US army has said that windows wasn't good enough for their future soldier project but it is good enough for the desktop of soldiers? Wheres the money!
That would be how these things are usually organised.
Gee, good computer shops already have the problem that people come to them for advice and then go to the crappy cheap shop for their actual purchase. Only to return to the good shop when things go wrong and then be upset that no we don't fix other shops computers for free.
Friend of mine is about to commit murder if he gets one more Dell on the counter with a demand to fix it for free because it cost a lot. For free of course.
Sadly this seems to be the way of the future. Brick and mortar shops can never hope to match the storage space and ease of access (no parking problems on the net or busses that don't run on weekends) and lack of costs of internet shops. But internet shops can never meet most humans desire to touch before they buy. Photo's just ain't the same as actually holding a product in your hand. Doesn't matter much for memory or a cpu but an Mp3 player or keyboard is different.
But I can hardly imagine that brick and mortar shops will be happy to function as the display windows. Look forward to people being kicked out by security.
Since then there been other OS'es wich tried to be open in one way or the other. In fact if you really look you will probably find more OS'es then computers.
Linux is more then just an opensource Unix clone. It got something. Don't ask me what. If I knew I would sell it to MS. Perhaps it is the GPL. Because of the GPL people can give code away yet not have others exploit their hardwork. Use yes but not exploit.
MS itself has tried to capatalize on linux with their shared source license with shall we say limited success?
Linux is not just open-source or the GPL or Linus Torvald or the bazaar or Unix. It is all this combined wich came together at the right time when the internet was ready to support it. I think it is no coincedence that Linux bloom goes hand in hand with the bloom of the internet.
And that is just the kernel. Good luck solaris on emulating KDE + Gnome + Enlightenment + XFCE4. Because that is something else linux (the OS/desktop) has. CHOICE. Pure sweet fucking free choice.
Solaris is just another OS wich tries to emulate the GPL software success. But until people really understand what makes Linux so loved they cannot even begin to emulate it.
Will solaris take over? Not until it can run a no-budget website on an old desktop dell plonked into a 2u box. Not until it can get the backing of an IBM NSA Chinese goverment.
Who would have thought 10 yrs ago that solaris would be the young hopefull trying to uproot the succesfull Linux. By the very fact that solaris went opensource they have admitted they couldn't cope.
Disclaimer I use the term opensource in a rather liberal meaning. Deal with it
So yes you are right. If you include this in your kernel you can use it to mount samba/windows file shares. This will then instruct your linux machine to contact the server you specified and do it thing. It will not connect on its own nor accept connections. (Unless it is bugged :P)
Unless the server you connected to has been taken over OR someone can intercept your communication with the server can your linux client be hijacked.
Now samba has had several exploits and windows has its share so an infected file server is not that unlikely. Remember it doesn't matter how much they own a file server on your network. If you don't connect to it your in the clear. (not counting other security holes).
An other attack is if someone can intercept your communication. This is not impossible. I connect to 192.168.1.4 wich is my windows machine. Someone could sneak in, unplug that windows machine and replace it with their laptop with a hacked fileserver. My machine will be none the wiser and happily connect and get exploited.
Possible but unlikely in a home enviroment, lets face it if someone can touch your hardware they hardly need to bother with software exploits. In a business enviroment this is a higher risk. If I have control over a router it would be trivial to direct traffic temporarily to an infect fileserver long enough to get control.
Wich is why it is so goddamn important to stay current with all patches. If your file servers are patched up then you are in the clear. (not counting unknown exploits of course) Of course you better apply the patch for this when it comes out or else you will be vulnarable when the next fileserver exploit hits. Computer security is fun eh?
This is something the game industry doesn't like. They don't sell millions of copies and if you see some torrents at 5000 downloads and multiple users you can understand the game industry wants to change this.
it is not even that they worry about the people who download the game. What worries them is that current paying customers might get upset that others get it for free and see themselves justified to do the same.
Half-Life success is partly due because it worked with an authenticated key. No key, no multiplayer for you. Even with Half-Life long since available at bargain prices you still find people begging for half-life keys so they can play counterstrike online.
Having the multiplayer part only available to legal games is a huge bonus. MMO games were being designed by everyone. Why? Because they are so easy to protect. No way to pirate them.
Steam is an attempt to add online authentication to an offline game. Frankly I think it is the future. As long as only legal games can play they elimated piracy. At least it means that everyone who did pay knows that nobody else played the game without paying. At best it gets all those who would have pirated the game to pay for their copy.
Sure it is a hassle but do you got another solution?
and you know you are wrong :)
I worked on both. Or rather I was somewhat involved in 2 mission critical application including full databases and a whole lot of small internal and external websites.
So far the money/fun/job security/supply of work have all been better for the small tiny jobs.
I am getting sick and tired of every idiot like you who thinks IT is always the big jobs. The people on the ground, you the sales people and other office grinders who you are there to support are often best served with small websites that help them do 1 task a lot faster.
Recently I have worked on several jobs that reduced several man years for departments at a cost of a week of my salery. You couldn't even buy a database license for that.
Not everything requires transactions. In fact I have been able to upgrade the speed on many a mission critical app by simply switching off unneeded safe guards. Transactions are only needed if it can fail. If it can't or it doens't matter then don't bother.
Many internal apps are nothing more then getting pieces of data out of several sources, combining them and displaying them. Exactly wich part requires transactions?
If you never worked in a business were they had two systems wich didn't talk to each other yet data from both was needed for daily business needs then you either work in heaven or you never bothered about the real business needs of your employer. I see them a lot. You got on your resume "developed large account system for X" I got on my resume "saved company X 3 fulltime salaries in 1 week". Sad thing? You are probably easier employed then me. IT likes big spending.
But more or less the power of the explosion is the power of the engine.
So until the first explosion happens an internal combustion engine cannot generate power. You can not simply hit a switch and it will start. Instead you have to help the engine complete its first cycle and get enough speed so that the cycles happen fast enough to sustain themselves.
This is what a kickstart or electric starter motor do. They simple give the engine a couple of revolution to get started.
What would happen if you started the engine and you applied a load to it greater then the power of the engine? Well simply put the piston would now require a power greater then X to push it down. The explosion doesn't have that so it will simply remain in place. Their would be no power to get the engine to its next stage and the engine stalls. Pretty common, just watch at a traffic light.
Electric engines work totally differently. Magnets attract each other. This is simple enough to test. Get two magnets, align their oppisite poles and hold them close. Do you feel them pulling? Notice how this pull is constant? An electric motor works no different except that with the uses of electric magnets wich switch on and off they create a constant cycle of magnets pulling. Again search the net for a detailed description.
However unlike an internal combustion engine an electric motor can always pull. As long as power is applied the magnets will be pulling. You can easily try this with a drill. Set it to low power and hold the drill bit with our hand. It doesn't matter how low the rpm gets. The motor will still be pulling. Also notice how easy it is to switch directions. Electric motors can turn either way with ease. Internal combustion engines can not.
So a clutch is to allow an internal combustion engine to achieve at an RPM while what it powers is at rest. Gears allow the RPM required by an internal combustion engine to be reduced to the RPM of your wheels.
Neither are needed. This electric car goes one step further. Because no gears or clutch are needed they have moved the engines into the wheels themselves. So the wheel is the engine.
this means no power is wasted on the transmission. It also means it is very easy to maintain. Try it on a normal car. Replace a tyre and replace the engine. Electic wires are not exactly hard to replace. Plus electic engines got another intresting capacity. They are exactly the same as electric generators. Apply power and you start the engine turning. But a turning engine can also generate power. So uphill it costs power. Downhill you get power. Beat that mister petrol engine!
WWII for japan was about finally getting their paws on some natural resources like oil. Oh and killing and raping but japan also does that while at home. (if you ever read about japan having a low crime rate realize that crime rate is reported crimes. Making raping kids not a crime or have crimes not reported because of shame and you got yourselve a low crime rate)
Anyway they got no coal gas or oil to power their plants so it must all be exported. Nuclear material must also be imported but is easier to stockpile.
Japan has had some nuclear incidents but is very protective of its nuclear industry. It is also looking into expending it since for japan it makes sense. If you consider putting nukes ontop of earthquake zones sensible.
As for japanese car use. Japanese don't use the car all that much. Although japan is pretty big most of the population is bunched up wich creates travel distances more in line with western europe and places like New York then say Texas or LA.
A lot of japanese housing is also extremely small with simply no place to park a car.
So small distances. No place for cars. All you need is a good alternative and your set. Japanese public transport is pretty good if crowded at peak times. Then again japan is crowded all the time. And why would you want to drive a heavily taxed car you can't park stuck in a traffic jam when you can be in a train wedged up against a school girl in sailor uniform who is raised not to resist groping?
Please note this is all based on dated experience. Japan has changed a lot according to people that visited recently.
Still I find it slightly worrying that exhaust fumes are being routed through my car seat to give me a nice warm bun on a cold morning.
Oh wait. Of course not. Most cars nowadays use electric heating or cooling for that matter.
As for the track version having all the gadgets removed. That is nowhere in the story so your just guessing. But this is pretty standard behaviour. Nascar seems to use road going vehicles and yet seem always to leave out the digital entertainment center for the childeren on the backseat. Or for that matter, seem to leave out the backseat.
And where do you get the power from? The grid. Where do you think far far heavier electric engines are powered from? The electric grid. Unless you live in pure residential area you can even get extra power easily. You know for all the small business running high powered tools.
Most people are used nowadays to keeping a device fully powered. What do you do with your mp3 player or mobile phone the moment you come home? Plug them in for a recharge. Most people even got a recharger at work.
People run out of fuel with petrol cars as well. At least this one makes it easier to keep it filled up. Just plugin when you park. And for the truly stupid like you who can't remember to plugin everytime. This has one advantage over petrol. All electric power is the same but guys like you do insist on putting diesel in petrol cars.
Linux has already forked a bit with the embedded linux versions wich are designed to run on hardware without proper memory management. They probably added all sorts of code that will never make it back into the main linux because it ain't needed. Similar any enhancements made to the main linux related to memory management will not be taken up by the mobile versions. The closest I can think of as a fork.
As long as the PC linux continues to be done by the same people with the same end goal there is no fork.
Has this guy never heard of software development cycles? I never worked on a piece of software that did not have multiple versions. Development testing production.
Here is a symptom. Program Y never works unless you first do X. Clear indication that X loads the proper dll and Y does not.
It also explains why you sometimes need to reboot to get a program to behave. Because you had a bad dll loaded. It is also a reason Tech Support always ask you to reboot. It cleans the system.
I helped far to many people who had this happen to them. They installed some old proggie from the net wich replaced a dll and BOOOM.
Your evidence seems to be outweighed by the amazing amount of work computer shops and relatives with a clue get fixing broken windows installations.
Exactly why do you tbink MS has introduced rollback and system files protection?