In it, he spoke about how one of the ideas about why there is coal/oil is that during the carboniferous period there were no heterotrophs at the start of the period, and none for about 60MY afterwards. Since they couldn't decompose the biological material, it simply all "pooled up".
I find this idea spectacular and was wondering if the amount of preservation could possibly be used to reenforce/disprove this idea by identifying heterotrophs or the lack thereof?
You never gave a good reason why you abandoned linux after your attempt - I'm not saying you should have one - but it'd be nice if you could write your thoughts down somewhere so perhaps someone could attempt to solve your problems - or perhaps someone already has and it just needs more attention.
COD2 was great IMNSHO, COD3 was a steaming pile of shit riddled with bugs (and still is, with no support from Treyarch). I hope COD4 isn't some Battlefield clone, but we need to start moving out of WWII some time.
If you actually bother to read the politics section - you'll find that it has historically confined to itself to political topics of specific interest to nerds, not general political news.
In a bizarre coincidence, I just happened to have replied you your comment, despite "not bothering to read the politics section" as you have said. Interesting, eh?
Get off your pedantic ass and actually look at politics.slashdot.org and note the type of story typically published there - and note how this one doesn't match the general tenor.
General tenor == politics. Story subject == politcal. Just like how I don't get pissy when I see articles about wristwatches, crays and Amigas under "hardware", I am prepared to see the spectrum under politics. It's general. Get over it.
There is a difference between the two even if you lack the wit or energy to actual read and understand my post.
Funny how you complain about lack of wit when you yourself can't conjure up something better than a bad adhom.
DJB's software is "secure" because he can flat out deny vulnerabilities and all of his fans believe him and parrot it around for the rest of their servitude, despite there being realworld exploits for realworld configurations.
For us rational people, places like osvdb.org exist.
This doesn't even take into account the fact that 12 different patches with at least 2 or more of them being mutually exclusive are needed to make his software work. Indeed, these 12 patches are one offs usually written by one or two people and compromise the touted security of "DJB"'s godness.
PS if by "very well written" you mean hardcoded, very ugly code, using every hardware "trick" possible (thereby decreasing portability), you have an interesting perception of reality. I'll compare Postfix's coding style to Qmail's any day.
#1. Check the URL. Politics.slashdot.org #2. Check the logo for politics./..org - Politics for nerds. Your vote matters.
Holy shit man, this section has been around for quite some time and you just started bitching now? Just uncheck "Politics" for your front page preferences.
Has the ability to apply deduction all but disappeared from people?
They set a date for withdrawal, that rests only with the President.
Utter BS. They are essentially bargaining with Bush. They said: "Hey, if you want your money, you can have it, but you need to leave by this date".
They never "set a date" explicitly, Bush can make them stay over there as long as he wants, it's just that money's going to be hard to come be eventually.
There's a reason those two things are ran by two different branches, you know. If you want a dictatorship, why are you living here?
That's exactly what I was thinking. There's only one reason this douchebag is asking this question, and that's because he knows fuckall if he thinks reading some DJB rant has made him experienced in the dns.
Bind9 on debian etch with views takes all of 1.5 minutes to set up, and a sub 1ghz/512mb machine could easily serve the domain he's describing.
While you are certainly right about how coke from Mexico has sugar, I think you may be wrong about the corn syrup thing.
I've always read that it has more to do with the fact that (cane) sugar is substantially cheaper than corn syrup/beat sugar. As such, most places outside of the US use cane sugar. The reason the US uses corn syrup is because we have high tariffs on imported cane sugar - enough so that corn syrup/beat sugar is more economically viable in the states.
Agreed. It took me a while to give up on the game, but I should have known better when I could cook an entire meal during the loading screen. What a terrible waste.
WTF are you on? It's not google's fault, they're just one of the visible ones. Software, in general, has become much more complex than it was 10+ years ago. Many more lines of code, many other programs to co-exist with, more unpredictability w/ OSs, richer GUIs, new paradigms, etc.
As a result, it's tougher to hammer out some of the non-obvious issues, or issues that don't crop up in the first few hundred man hours of testing.
"Beta" in some cases, now just means "Hey, we don't have the resources to dedicate 2 man-years of testing for this App, but it works ok for us".
Which is sort of amazing, because I remember when I switched _to_ nero because it was lean and mean and easy cd creator went overboard. Now that I use linux, I don't have that problem anymore, but it's always interesting to see software go full circle like that.
Well this was a tough predicament, and there's no great way to go about fixing it that I can think of. This was a last minute (week) change ubuntu did in order to _not_ alienate 50%+ (out of my ass figure, but it's damn high) of their userbase.
I suspect the next release will deal with this in a more respectable way, and grant my personal apology that two of my machines led me to contribute to this problem, but for now we'll have to deal with it.
Don't blame launchpad for the funkiness, they had to work around nvidia's move of de-supporting a huge amount of cards that are still currently very popular.
Step 1: Pray you have SP2 to enable firewall. Step 2: Install 80+ updates. Reboot at least 4 times, probably one crash at least. Step 3: Install all drivers for all hardware. Step 4: Download and install A/V software. Suffer 10% performance penalty until the end of time. Step 5: Download and install browser. Step 6: Download and install decent text editor. Step 7: Download and install cd burning software. Step 8: Download and install dvd playing software. Step 9: Download and install video software. Step 10: Download and install music playing software. Step 11: Disable tons of services in mmc services panel.
Jesus, we're not even close to done. All of these take quite a bit more time than the 7 steps outlined above, and nowhere near as stable...
Exactly. I also learned a lot by overclocking. Not only do unstable speeds corrupt wierd things that I've seen time and time again in the real world, but even the hobby itself teaches you stuff about hardware.
The main exception being qmail, which never fails to be running, but doesn't necessarily, you know, deliver mail. Nope, that's just qmail. Nothing to do with gentoo. Nothing like software that "doesn't have security vulnerabilities" simply because the author can deny it.
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I recently finished a lecture by Stephen Nowicki ( http://www.teach12.com/ttcx/coursedesclong2.aspx?
In it, he spoke about how one of the ideas about why there is coal/oil is that during the carboniferous period there were no heterotrophs at the start of the period, and none for about 60MY afterwards. Since they couldn't decompose the biological material, it simply all "pooled up".
I find this idea spectacular and was wondering if the amount of preservation could possibly be used to reenforce/disprove this idea by identifying heterotrophs or the lack thereof?
You never gave a good reason why you abandoned linux after your attempt - I'm not saying you should have one - but it'd be nice if you could write your thoughts down somewhere so perhaps someone could attempt to solve your problems - or perhaps someone already has and it just needs more attention.
COD2 was great IMNSHO, COD3 was a steaming pile of shit riddled with bugs (and still is, with no support from Treyarch). I hope COD4 isn't some Battlefield clone, but we need to start moving out of WWII some time.
http://osvdb.org/searchdb.php?action=search_title& vuln_title=qmail&Search=Search
I was covering all DJB's software, not just $somethingdns. Just because it's written by djb, doesn't mean it's secure.
If you actually bother to read the politics section - you'll find that it has historically confined to itself to political topics of specific interest to nerds, not general political news.
In a bizarre coincidence, I just happened to have replied you your comment, despite "not bothering to read the politics section" as you have said. Interesting, eh?
Get off your pedantic ass and actually look at politics.slashdot.org and note the type of story typically published there - and note how this one doesn't match the general tenor.
General tenor == politics. Story subject == politcal. Just like how I don't get pissy when I see articles about wristwatches, crays and Amigas under "hardware", I am prepared to see the spectrum under politics. It's general. Get over it.
There is a difference between the two even if you lack the wit or energy to actual read and understand my post.
Funny how you complain about lack of wit when you yourself can't conjure up something better than a bad adhom.
DJB's software is "secure" because he can flat out deny vulnerabilities and all of his fans believe him and parrot it around for the rest of their servitude, despite there being realworld exploits for realworld configurations.
For us rational people, places like osvdb.org exist.
This doesn't even take into account the fact that 12 different patches with at least 2 or more of them being mutually exclusive are needed to make his software work. Indeed, these 12 patches are one offs usually written by one or two people and compromise the touted security of "DJB"'s godness.
PS if by "very well written" you mean hardcoded, very ugly code, using every hardware "trick" possible (thereby decreasing portability), you have an interesting perception of reality. I'll compare Postfix's coding style to Qmail's any day.
#1. Check the URL. Politics.slashdot.org
#2. Check the logo for politics./..org - Politics for nerds. Your vote matters.
Holy shit man, this section has been around for quite some time and you just started bitching now? Just uncheck "Politics" for your front page preferences.
Has the ability to apply deduction all but disappeared from people?
They set a date for withdrawal, that rests only with the President.
Utter BS. They are essentially bargaining with Bush. They said: "Hey, if you want your money, you can have it, but you need to leave by this date".
They never "set a date" explicitly, Bush can make them stay over there as long as he wants, it's just that money's going to be hard to come be eventually.
There's a reason those two things are ran by two different branches, you know. If you want a dictatorship, why are you living here?
That's exactly what I was thinking. There's only one reason this douchebag is asking this question, and that's because he knows fuckall if he thinks reading some DJB rant has made him experienced in the dns.
Bind9 on debian etch with views takes all of 1.5 minutes to set up, and a sub 1ghz/512mb machine could easily serve the domain he's describing.
Who is this Terrorism guy I keep hearing about?
The use of google and microsoft are both voluntary. When that ends, my outcries will begin.
Whoops. Make that s/beat/beet/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_beets
While you are certainly right about how coke from Mexico has sugar, I think you may be wrong about the corn syrup thing.
I've always read that it has more to do with the fact that (cane) sugar is substantially cheaper than corn syrup/beat sugar. As such, most places outside of the US use cane sugar. The reason the US uses corn syrup is because we have high tariffs on imported cane sugar - enough so that corn syrup/beat sugar is more economically viable in the states.
I am willing to be corrected, however.
Say goodbye to your clock radio, asshole!
Agreed. It took me a while to give up on the game, but I should have known better when I could cook an entire meal during the loading screen. What a terrible waste.
WTF are you on? It's not google's fault, they're just one of the visible ones. Software, in general, has become much more complex than it was 10+ years ago. Many more lines of code, many other programs to co-exist with, more unpredictability w/ OSs, richer GUIs, new paradigms, etc.
As a result, it's tougher to hammer out some of the non-obvious issues, or issues that don't crop up in the first few hundred man hours of testing.
"Beta" in some cases, now just means "Hey, we don't have the resources to dedicate 2 man-years of testing for this App, but it works ok for us".
Agreed. The fact that the rt2500 doesn't work with NM has been known for quite some time, and hardly deserves to the reason 7.04 is called "buggy".
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Which is sort of amazing, because I remember when I switched _to_ nero because it was lean and mean and easy cd creator went overboard. Now that I use linux, I don't have that problem anymore, but it's always interesting to see software go full circle like that.
Well this was a tough predicament, and there's no great way to go about fixing it that I can think of. This was a last minute (week) change ubuntu did in order to _not_ alienate 50%+ (out of my ass figure, but it's damn high) of their userbase.
I suspect the next release will deal with this in a more respectable way, and grant my personal apology that two of my machines led me to contribute to this problem, but for now we'll have to deal with it.
Yes, I believe you can do:
sudo apt-get --purge remove nvidia-glx
sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-new
and it will work.
That's no guarantee, as I haven't tested it myself (The best I have is a 7900).
the nvidia-glx-new package supports the 8xxx cards. There's a long story behind why it's called new, and it's all right here:
e stricted-modules-2.6.20/+bug/96430
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-r
Don't blame launchpad for the funkiness, they had to work around nvidia's move of de-supporting a huge amount of cards that are still currently very popular.
Um...
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FINISH HIM!
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How long is your list for vista/xp?
Xp:
Step 1: Pray you have SP2 to enable firewall.
Step 2: Install 80+ updates. Reboot at least 4 times, probably one crash at least.
Step 3: Install all drivers for all hardware.
Step 4: Download and install A/V software. Suffer 10% performance penalty until the end of time.
Step 5: Download and install browser.
Step 6: Download and install decent text editor.
Step 7: Download and install cd burning software.
Step 8: Download and install dvd playing software.
Step 9: Download and install video software.
Step 10: Download and install music playing software.
Step 11: Disable tons of services in mmc services panel.
Jesus, we're not even close to done. All of these take quite a bit more time than the 7 steps outlined above, and nowhere near as stable...
Exactly. I also learned a lot by overclocking. Not only do unstable speeds corrupt wierd things that I've seen time and time again in the real world, but even the hobby itself teaches you stuff about hardware.