They are going to have a hell of a time with track security. If the train is cruising along at 500 km/h only 5 cm above the track, and kind of debris, either deliberately or accidentally placed there, is going to fuck up this train. At least with a diesel-electric locomotive on a typical passenger train, the vehicle is so massive that it can destroy most debris. This WIG train is going to have to be light.
Can you expand on that? I've never heard of nuclear propulsion for rockets.
ObTopic: Heavy lift is great except when it all goes to shit. Loral tried to use a Russian heavylift to save a few bucks on sattelite launches, but they looked pretty dumb when the rocket burst into flames, destroying all six birds.
Blah blah blah. WHy does this tripe come up in every article? I guess you don't need a 1 GHz CPU but I do. I don't need to think of some silly multimedia application that needs it either. My need is very simple: I must compile software quickly. If I sit waiting for ten minutes for software to compile, that costs my company a fortune.
So get back to me when compiling software takes a blink of an eye.
I use mozilla when I can, but it still has crash bugs to work out so it isn't my primary browser. Mozilla has made so much progress so quickly that I am not really worried about the browser.
What I am worried about is the mailer. The mailer in mozilla, even M14, is atrocious. The UI has so many different styles going on at the same time, it makes me queasy. The widgets are constantly jumping around on the screen. And of course it is hideously slow.
Today, Communicator is the only viable IMAP mail client for X. Sure, there are dozens of alleged mail agents, but they invariably have some huge glaring usability problem that turn me away. I'll be pretty depressed if the Mozilla mailer sucks and I have to keep 4.72 laying aroung just for the mailer.
O'Reilly & Associates hold the 9, 10, 12, 16, 22, 32, 33, 36, 37, 44, and 50 places on Amazon's 50 best-selling computer books, and they hold the first spot on the best selling new release in the same category. It is clear that O'Reilly accounts for significant Amazon sales, and it may also be true that Amazon sells a good deal of O'Reilly's books. I don't think it is a deadlock, though. I guess that if O'Reilly stopped shipping books to Amazon, people would still be able to find O'Reilly books at all the other online and offline retailers.
I wonder if Tim O'Reilly has or is contemplating such a move. I don't expect it to happen, but it would certainly be a huge event, and not the first time that O'Reilly has done The Right Thing.
You are wrong, they are balanced. If you like physics, work out the force vectors acting on the spinning CD, in both horizontal and vertical players. If you don't like physics, just take my word for it.
Personally I feel that the RealPlayer part of this is great. I like to use RealPlayer G2 under X, but unfortunately it takes as much CPU time as it can get, which is a problem. I hope this jointly developed version will be of better quality.
What would be really swanky, and a great marketing move for Real, would be if they released a shared library for Linux and other free platforms. They don't need to release the source, just a library that can be linked against. Then we would no doubt have command line, X, GNOME, KDE, and probably some other versions of software that could play Real streams. Maybe we would also be able to make it use ALSA output, and integrate it with the X-Video extension to XFree86. The possibilities are endless with even this simple, non-open-source solution. I hope Real and RedHat are considering it.
As for the server, there is no way in hell I would run a binary-only server on my machine, especially if it wants to run as root or some such tripe.
One way to put a dent in filtering software companies' wallets is to make sure parents see peacefire.org when they search for filtering software. Currently, if I search for "filtering software" on Google, peacefire is the 30th link, after all of the software manufacturers' pages.
For Google, the way to improve peacefire's exposure is to link it from your own personal web pages and make sure those pages are indexed. I dunno about other search engines.
I would strongly recommend that you avoid this kernel unless you know precisely what the consequences may be. The kernel is in the middle of huge changes. The entire networking layer has been yanked out and replaced. Some of the network drivers are not updated yet. The block device interface has changed, and this is still rippling through the source. RAID code is still landing, and doesn't currently compile.
Aside from that I think it is very clear that these kernels do not undergo even the most cursory testing. The typo in the ll_rw_blah_blah.c means that nobody even tried compiling this kernel before release. If they had that typo would have been caught.
They must have modified RealPlayer G2 to run on an 80 MHz box with only 8MB of RAM. On my machine the X version of G2 spins at 100% CPU and eats about 4 MB.
I get pretty tired of the tripe which is spoken about computer hardware on this site. The PCI bus does NOT max out at 133 MB/s. The current fastest PCI implementation is 533 MB/s with 64-bit/66-MHz PCI, which is not all that exotic.
It is a bit like saying SCSI maxes out at 10 MB/s. It is not generally true.
Yeah, give them the plaintext of anything they ask for. The govt might wonder why you have so many copies of the GNOME README file, but they'll get over it eventually.
If you are having problems with 10pt fonts looking small then your system is broken. A point, by definition, is 1/72 inch high. This is regardless of resolution, so the system should be scaling the font's pixel representation based on the actual screen resolution.
X, at least, gets this right. I am running my 21" screen at 2000x1500 and all the fonts are fine. Everything in Netscape, application menus, and the window manager are perfectly readable and about the physical size I would expect from the point sizes I have chosen.
Well yeah, attributes are the single best part of BFS, IMHO. You should see my MP3 directory on the BeOS partition. Every file has a Title, Artist, and Album attribute. I can sort by them all right in the BeOS Tracker.
BeOS is all that and a side of cheese fries.
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All of the current cast of MMRPGS suck because of their fantasy and sci-fi plots. What I am really looking forward to are things like massively multiplayer flight sims with some good WWII historical settings.
The thing with BMW is that nobody makes cars like them. What other car company sells a sedan with a 400 HP V8 and a 6-speed manual transmission? Yeah, nobody else.
The other thing is that there is a huge aftermarket parts market for BMW. You can get literally anything, and a lot of BMW drivers set their car apart by customization. Finally, the BMW racing community is very active. Head out to your next local SCCA event and see how many BMWs show up.
I don't think this is really newsworthy. Of course you need to scan the user input to make sure it contains only elements in a specifically defined set of elements. You should search for onClick, onMouseOver, on* javascript events, FORM and SCRIPT elements, and anything else that doesn't fit a strictly predefined list of allowable input.
I thought people knew this stuff. At least slashdot seems to get it right.
I forgot to mention that getting venture funded will pretty much end the good times and begin the endless cycle of evil. Get a loan from the bank and work out of your garage for a while.
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ObTopic: Heavy lift is great except when it all goes to shit. Loral tried to use a Russian heavylift to save a few bucks on sattelite launches, but they looked pretty dumb when the rocket burst into flames, destroying all six birds.
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So get back to me when compiling software takes a blink of an eye.
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What I am worried about is the mailer. The mailer in mozilla, even M14, is atrocious. The UI has so many different styles going on at the same time, it makes me queasy. The widgets are constantly jumping around on the screen. And of course it is hideously slow.
Today, Communicator is the only viable IMAP mail client for X. Sure, there are dozens of alleged mail agents, but they invariably have some huge glaring usability problem that turn me away. I'll be pretty depressed if the Mozilla mailer sucks and I have to keep 4.72 laying aroung just for the mailer.
-jwb
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I wonder if Tim O'Reilly has or is contemplating such a move. I don't expect it to happen, but it would certainly be a huge event, and not the first time that O'Reilly has done The Right Thing.
Cheers,
Jeffrey
-jwb
What would be really swanky, and a great marketing move for Real, would be if they released a shared library for Linux and other free platforms. They don't need to release the source, just a library that can be linked against. Then we would no doubt have command line, X, GNOME, KDE, and probably some other versions of software that could play Real streams. Maybe we would also be able to make it use ALSA output, and integrate it with the X-Video extension to XFree86. The possibilities are endless with even this simple, non-open-source solution. I hope Real and RedHat are considering it.
As for the server, there is no way in hell I would run a binary-only server on my machine, especially if it wants to run as root or some such tripe.
-jwb
For Google, the way to improve peacefire's exposure is to link it from your own personal web pages and make sure those pages are indexed. I dunno about other search engines.
-jwb
Aside from that I think it is very clear that these kernels do not undergo even the most cursory testing. The typo in the ll_rw_blah_blah.c means that nobody even tried compiling this kernel before release. If they had that typo would have been caught.
-jwb
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It is a bit like saying SCSI maxes out at 10 MB/s. It is not generally true.
-jwb
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If you are having problems with 10pt fonts looking small then your system is broken. A point, by definition, is 1/72 inch high. This is regardless of resolution, so the system should be scaling the font's pixel representation based on the actual screen resolution.
X, at least, gets this right. I am running my 21" screen at 2000x1500 and all the fonts are fine. Everything in Netscape, application menus, and the window manager are perfectly readable and about the physical size I would expect from the point sizes I have chosen.
-jwb
Try sticking a number 1-6 between "www" and ".". For example, www6.tomshardware.com. -jwb
BeOS is all that and a side of cheese fries.
-jwb
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The thing with BMW is that nobody makes cars like them. What other car company sells a sedan with a 400 HP V8 and a 6-speed manual transmission? Yeah, nobody else.
The other thing is that there is a huge aftermarket parts market for BMW. You can get literally anything, and a lot of BMW drivers set their car apart by customization. Finally, the BMW racing community is very active. Head out to your next local SCCA event and see how many BMWs show up.
Don't get me wrong, I'd drive an S4!
-jwb
'91 BMW 318is
I thought people knew this stuff. At least slashdot seems to get it right.
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