Funny. In my desktop preferences, I have nothing for xscreensaver. I have background, font, keyboard, keyboard shortcuts, mouse, network, sound, theme, toolbars and menus, and window focus. Which one controls xscreensaver?
Yes I seem to remember watching live video on the mbone around 1994. And then *poof* no more mbone. At one time there was a host mbone.yahoo.com, but no more. The old mbone information web at www.mbone.com is squatted.
It's too bad really. Multicast is neat.
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deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/../project/experiment al main
I am using the packages from Debian's experimental archive, and they are very usable. GTK+ 2 has many improvements. I love the uncluttered new panels, the simplified control panels. Nautilus is as good as ever:) There are still many bugs in GNOME 2.0, but I suggest that people should not be shy about trying it.
I'll be the first to agree that USB is a nasty hack, but there aren't a lot of 1394-connected audio devices, and certainly not any I can afford. The Edirol unit is nice though, because it can operate alone without the computer connected.
I think external USB audio devices are a great choice for everyday uses, gaming, and even home recording studio use. Consider a box like the Edirol UA-5. It has *real* microphone preamps, coaxial and optical digital inputs and outputs, single-ended coaxial analog inputs and ouputs, and an amplified headphone monitor output. It does not sit in your computer, so it doesn't pickup noise the way a PCI card will. It is in all ways a fairly serious piece of electronics, and you can get one for only $249.
The only drawback in my mind is you cannot use the USB interface for 24/96 audio. That, and some issues like jitter and delay, should be solved by the next generation of IEEE-1394 interfaces.
I have had Mozilla crash the X server plenty good. Just turn on XIE, which Mozilla's imagelib used to take advantage of, and X 4.1.0 would crash all over the place. Especially easy if you stick Mozilla up on a Xinerama display.
One gets the feeling, from having used and worked with Mozilla for a few years now, that it is simply crawling with remotely-exploitable DoS attacks, stack smashes, etc. They will surface eventually, just like the reports on Internet Explorer.
This certainly seems like the US strong-arming the EU to pass these measures. After they get passed in the EU it is much easier to get them passed in the USA.
George Bush, President of the USA, sent this demand -- among many others -- to the EU on October 16, 2001:
Revise draft privacy directives that call for mandatory destruction to permit the retention of critical data for a reasonable period.
You are completely out of your crack smoking head. Industries might be considered highly regulated in the USA, but that explains why manufacturing simply moves overseas. In Singapore, you can get away with a lot more dumping. In Mexico, environmental regulation is a joke. Many products sold in the US and Europe are manufactured in China under the most lax environmental regime. Even in the USA, we still allow clearcutting forests despite the fact that we are down to the last tiny fraction of our native forest (not counting monoculture tree farms).
What is the maximum negative economic impact allowable before environmental regulations must be curbed. Name industries where ecological improvements resulted in better revenues, or other tangible benefits.
Wow, those are really important issues. Let's phrase them another way:
What is the maximum negative environmental impact allowable before the economy must be curbed?
The key solution to your proposed problem is to properly account for externalities like pollution and waste. It is cheap to use toxic chemicals in manufacturing because the manufacturer doesn't have to pay to dispose of the wastewater. They usually just dump it. The cost is payed by society as a whole. Obviously, if we had a way to account for the cost of this waste, the cost of the manufactured good would also increase.
People must understand the complete cost of their actions, as this book tries to point out. If you harvest a tree, you have gained some wood and removed from the world some habitat and a carbon sink. You should have to pay to harvest that tree, because a cost is incurred by society. The same principle applies to clearcutting 100 acres, except the cost is much greater. The same principle applies to polluting bodies of water, paving land, taking game, etc.
If you carefully consider my point, you will see that it actually fits best with libertarian free market philosophy. The market is the best system, but our current market is imperfect because it cannot account for externalities.
Car-free cities are difficult and expensive? The city of San Francisco devotes 20% of its real estate to roads, and another sizable fraction goes to parking lots, parking garages, driveways, auto repair shops, gas stations, and auto dealers. This is BILLIONS of dollars worth of real estate, nevermind the environmental externality.
You have no idea how long I've spent thinking about that. If you think the fire dept. requires giant trucks to do their thing, you just aren't using your imagination.
Weather effects are cute, and I love details in games, but Simcity's gameplay is quite primitive, and I hope they really improve it. The game is unfortunately wedged in a very twentieth-century-american mode. You cannot build a city without building roads everywhere. Even if your reliable and convenient subway spans the city, nobody will move in until you build roads. This isn't exactly allowing you much flexibility. Now it seems that the designers have changed the game engine to automatically build roads, bridge and tunnels. In Simcity, cars are a given.
I'd like to play a Simcity game where I could build a car-free city. I want a button for bicycle paths. I want to mix residential, commercial, and industrial without zoning. I think the fire department should operate without trucks. I want a city with 95% green open space, and a community-supported agricultural belt. Where's the button for farm? In Simcity, it is assumed that farms are "over there", far from the glorious car temple you are constructing.
In short, I want the Simcity people to exercise some imagination.
Do you have anything to support that statement? With metacity 2.3.337, switching to a desktop with 14 NEdit windows and 2 xterms takes quite a while, well over 1 second. You can quite easily see the individual NEdit windows being mapped, bottom to top. The workstation is a Dual Xeon with 512MB main memory. A dual fucking Xeon and I have to watch my windows get mapped 1 by 1.
It seems to me people are parrotting the "metacity is fast" line without really checking it out. Probably a groupthink preference for C implementations.
Yes i'm running Xinerama, but thanks for the pointers anyway. Are you claiming that metacity is supposed to work correctly on Xinerama? If it is, it doesn't.
Take as an example the window list that appears when you use alt-tab: it is placed square in the center of the display, which on a 2-head display happens to be split by a few inches of plastic. I guess I should upgrade to a 2-head display to account for such broken software:')
Funny, I thought the multihead support was relatively bad. I've got metacity installed on Debian unstable. It seems to map windows more or less at random, frequently split between my two monitors.
I do like the way metacity places dialog boxes though. They are placed horizontally centered and just below the top of their parent window, somewhat like a MacOS X dialog.
I suppose that in this event where your hydraulic brake system has fully failed and your electrical system has completely failed, and you have a fire under the hood for $GOD knows what reason, you will probably just crash into something. Good luck!
The electronic parking brake is unintuitive and dangerous.
Why? In the BMW if you punch the parking brake button (not controlled by the main iDrive controls, but with a dedicated button on the driver's left hand) while moving, you induce a computer-controlled panic stop on all four wheels. This is way better than a lever-controlled rear-wheel parking brake, because in a panic situation the driver is likely to pull it up too hard, lock up the rear end, and spin.
I'll agree that the rest of the car sucks. Even the seating is cramped!
Microsoft could release the API and then a 3rd party could implement the interface. That would create the possibility of non-microsoft providers of mshtml.dll.
The author of this letter really goes for Microsoft's throat. Check out this paragraph:
The inclusion of the intellectual property of others in works claimed as one's own is not a practice that has been noted in the free software community; whereas, unfortunately, it has been in the area of proprietry software. As an example, the condemnation by the Commercial Court of Nanterre, France, on 27th September 2001 of Microsoft Corp. to a penalty of 3 million francs in damages and interest, for violation of intellectual property (piracy, to use the unfortunate term that your firm commonly uses in its publicity).
Yow! Where can I get an informed legislator like Dr. Edgar David Villanueva Nuñez to represent me?
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Funny. In my desktop preferences, I have nothing for xscreensaver. I have background, font, keyboard, keyboard shortcuts, mouse, network, sound, theme, toolbars and menus, and window focus. Which one controls xscreensaver?
It's too bad really. Multicast is neat.
deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ ../project/experiment al main
I am using the packages from Debian's experimental archive, and they are very usable. GTK+ 2 has many improvements. I love the uncluttered new panels, the simplified control panels. Nautilus is as good as ever :) There are still many bugs in GNOME 2.0, but I suggest that people should not be shy about trying it.
I'll be the first to agree that USB is a nasty hack, but there aren't a lot of 1394-connected audio devices, and certainly not any I can afford. The Edirol unit is nice though, because it can operate alone without the computer connected.
The only drawback in my mind is you cannot use the USB interface for 24/96 audio. That, and some issues like jitter and delay, should be solved by the next generation of IEEE-1394 interfaces.
One gets the feeling, from having used and worked with Mozilla for a few years now, that it is simply crawling with remotely-exploitable DoS attacks, stack smashes, etc. They will surface eventually, just like the reports on Internet Explorer.
Are you going to run for mayor next time or what?
There is at least one, from pioneer. Pioneer Elite DVR-7000
George Bush, President of the USA, sent this demand -- among many others -- to the EU on October 16, 2001:
You are completely out of your crack smoking head. Industries might be considered highly regulated in the USA, but that explains why manufacturing simply moves overseas. In Singapore, you can get away with a lot more dumping. In Mexico, environmental regulation is a joke. Many products sold in the US and Europe are manufactured in China under the most lax environmental regime. Even in the USA, we still allow clearcutting forests despite the fact that we are down to the last tiny fraction of our native forest (not counting monoculture tree farms).
Wow, those are really important issues. Let's phrase them another way:
I think my version reads better.
People must understand the complete cost of their actions, as this book tries to point out. If you harvest a tree, you have gained some wood and removed from the world some habitat and a carbon sink. You should have to pay to harvest that tree, because a cost is incurred by society. The same principle applies to clearcutting 100 acres, except the cost is much greater. The same principle applies to polluting bodies of water, paving land, taking game, etc.
If you carefully consider my point, you will see that it actually fits best with libertarian free market philosophy. The market is the best system, but our current market is imperfect because it cannot account for externalities.
Car-free cities are difficult and expensive? The city of San Francisco devotes 20% of its real estate to roads, and another sizable fraction goes to parking lots, parking garages, driveways, auto repair shops, gas stations, and auto dealers. This is BILLIONS of dollars worth of real estate, nevermind the environmental externality.
You have no idea how long I've spent thinking about that. If you think the fire dept. requires giant trucks to do their thing, you just aren't using your imagination.
I'd like to play a Simcity game where I could build a car-free city. I want a button for bicycle paths. I want to mix residential, commercial, and industrial without zoning. I think the fire department should operate without trucks. I want a city with 95% green open space, and a community-supported agricultural belt. Where's the button for farm? In Simcity, it is assumed that farms are "over there", far from the glorious car temple you are constructing.
In short, I want the Simcity people to exercise some imagination.
That isn't the point. With sawfish the same operation is snappy. Snappier still is fvwm.
Do you have anything to support that statement? With metacity 2.3.337, switching to a desktop with 14 NEdit windows and 2 xterms takes quite a while, well over 1 second. You can quite easily see the individual NEdit windows being mapped, bottom to top. The workstation is a Dual Xeon with 512MB main memory. A dual fucking Xeon and I have to watch my windows get mapped 1 by 1.
It seems to me people are parrotting the "metacity is fast" line without really checking it out. Probably a groupthink preference for C implementations.
Take as an example the window list that appears when you use alt-tab: it is placed square in the center of the display, which on a 2-head display happens to be split by a few inches of plastic. I guess I should upgrade to a 2-head display to account for such broken software :')
I do like the way metacity places dialog boxes though. They are placed horizontally centered and just below the top of their parent window, somewhat like a MacOS X dialog.
I suppose that in this event where your hydraulic brake system has fully failed and your electrical system has completely failed, and you have a fire under the hood for $GOD knows what reason, you will probably just crash into something. Good luck!
The parking brake in the 7-series does not use the main brake, it uses a separate drum brake attached to each wheel.
Why? In the BMW if you punch the parking brake button (not controlled by the main iDrive controls, but with a dedicated button on the driver's left hand) while moving, you induce a computer-controlled panic stop on all four wheels. This is way better than a lever-controlled rear-wheel parking brake, because in a panic situation the driver is likely to pull it up too hard, lock up the rear end, and spin.
I'll agree that the rest of the car sucks. Even the seating is cramped!
Microsoft could release the API and then a 3rd party could implement the interface. That would create the possibility of non-microsoft providers of mshtml.dll.
Yow! Where can I get an informed legislator like Dr. Edgar David Villanueva Nuñez to represent me?