I shoot for about $1200 and make it last at least 3 years. I'm still running an Athlon 700 with TNT2 graphics and Windows98. Of course the last game I bought was Quake 3. My next box will be AMD64 - probably after the 90nm chips. Possibly an XPC, but still with a target of $1200 or less. It'll be running 64bit Linux - distro TBD.
I'm always impressed when I run across something that says to "apt-get big-fscking-name" to install - or yum or whatever app your distro uses. Sure how am I supposed to know that? Where's the list of applications - indexed by function?
1) System design - All account or ID numbers should be a multiple of 11. This check catches the two most common data entry mistakes - wrong digit and transposed digits.
2) The teller obviously
3) You - for not having a little extra because you live check to check.
In fairness, if it weren't for #3 you may never have noticed the problem and you'd be out quit a bit if you don't keep your own records and check the balance from time to time.
Yes it is. And therefore, they have a financial incentive to allow some amount of spam through. This keeps the spammers around while also letting customers know that the spam problem still exists. They'd need to play both sides to stay in business.
He speaks the lingo and also built his own plane. Stop by your local EAA chapter (www.eaa.org). These guys are very interesting. I stopped by some meetings of chapter13 and they were all very nice people - even hooked me up with a MCFI, but I had too much side work going on at the time.
The solution would be this: The implicit copy that is performed by selecting text doesn't happen until that text loses focus. For example:
1) I highlight a URL in some text.
2) I highlight the URL selector in Mozilla - this causes the previous highlighted text to lose focus and causes it to go to clipboard.
3) I middle-click the URL in Mozilla (which never lost focus) and the clipboard text goes in.
Not sure how "focus" actually works in this case, but you should be able to understand what needs to change to make it work. And for goodness sake have the FSF patent this so only Free Software will be able to use it. As the "inventor" can't I still patent for a short time after this public posting?
I believe Inkscape is a descendant of Sodipodi. At least it was started by a bunch of Sodipodi developers. You'd think they'd have forked the code when they went their own way rather than starting over.
I bet they do both X-prize flights the same day, or perhaps 1 day apart. Remember, they want to commercialize this, you can't require 2 weeks between flights. I bet they can reload the rocket in hours if they prepare a bit.
"I'm thinking that we should already have games that are raytraced."
google for rtChess.
The ray tracing engine has since seen a 40% performance boost and has added photon mapping and scales nicely with more CPUs - I just haven't written a game with it since. I don't think a GPU implementation will be much faster. nVidia seems to think they make general purpose processors now - HAH what a laugh.
What is this? I thought it was already published. Why would ANYONE respond publicly to a "beta report"? All they've done is give the author a list of stuff to fix. Next time, please let him officially publish his report before discrediting him - it will be more effective. He'll probably say no one objected, so they must agree with it. Just make it a policy not to comment on unofficial, unpublished reports.
If I were in canada I'd hang out a copyright notice. They allow copyright on buildings. Of course you could display a copyrighted image prominently - have mural (sp?) on the front of your house even in the US to get the same effect - making their image an illegal copy.
Actually, I was wrong about MathML - it is working just fine in standard Mozilla. The fonts are not installed, but don't seem to be necessary. SVG is planned to be the same way when it is finnished (I think). The reason it's not enabled now is probably that it's not done. I would prefer partial native support now that I could disable if I choose (because a plugin works better). I don't see anyone "pissed off" because MathML was enabled (and can't be disabled) behind their back. These are reasonable W3C standards, not some MS crap or Flash that some company wants people to install. Perhaps I'll join the SVG development so we can enable that behind your back;-)
An article in Aviation Week back in (I think) the late 80's had and interesting article. Apparently the seismologists in California had tracked a "shock wave" comming in off the coast heading out to the desert at 4000mph. Due to it's shape and speed, they concluded it was not a geologic event and probably a really fast aircraft heading out to 51. Don't underestimate those guys just because they work for the government. Remember, the SR-71 was designed in the 1960's. Of course, I think most cool things we have today were invented before I was born. Now it's all an effort to patent things so there's no need to innovate...
What if I want to install Linux on a second drive and leave Windoze on the primary one? Does this bug occur? The dual boot configuration will need to modify the MBR (only?) on the main drive. Can a backup/restore of the MBR fix it and save all my Winhozed data if this thing goes wrong?
I noticed that over Christmas vacation I tend not to drink any cafinated beverages. While I found it hard to stop drinking them at my desk, it happened naturally when I was away for a while. The key was not to start when I came back to work in January. While I am now unable to drink cafinated stuff without feeling like I'm going to explode I have unfortunately started drinking sugar-water again after a legionairs scare at work. We're all clear now, but I may need another vacation to stop:-)
On another note, a friend didn't believe me that stopping a 1 candy bar a day habit made me lose 5 pounds in college. He claimed I should have kept losing wieght because I was supposedly burning more calories than I take in. Consider this:
1) You're at equilibrium. Calories in = calories burned.
2) You start eating an extra 200 calories/day
3) Your weight increases a few pounds and stops
Why? How much more would you burn if you carried a 5 pound weight around with you 24 hours a day? I assert that for a given activity level, there is a stable weight for a given calorie intake. That is why I didn't lose weight indefinitely and is also why increased activity works better than diet alone. I use DDR for just that purpose now.
"Seems Mozilla is a lot further along than the competition with this feature."
How can it be further along when the feature is not enabled in the release builds? This is something that could really set Mozilla apart from the others, but it's not enabled. As long as it's unfinnished, it should be possible to turn it off/use a plugin but it should be enabled.
MathML should also be enabled by default and the required fonts should (maybe) come with Mozilla. I absolutely hate sites/browsers that tell me I need to download extra crap to view them. Consider me a lazy joe sixpack, but if it isn't installed and turned on it isn't there - as far as I'm concerned.
p.s. the Stixfonts are nearly complete and would be good for rendering MathML.
Perhaps a human should look over the paper first. Look over it quickly to verify the overall flow makes sense. If so, let the computer grade it. If not, then revert to manual grading. Treat the computer as an aid, not the authority.
I've seen that race used to describe how airplane wings work too. Followed by: the faster air on the top surface produces a lower pressure (bernouli) than the slower air on the bottom - this difference produces lift. Never mind that air is deflected downward and hence there is an equal and opposite force on the wing.
I've also seen physics teachers try to explain curve balls this way: The relative air-speed on the top and bottom (with back spin) are different and this causes a pressure difference which causes a perpendicular force on the ball causing it to curve (climb). The problem there is that the claimed force would cause a curve in the opposite direction from what actually happens - i.e. backspin actually causes the ball to climb. but the airspeed on top is lower which should produce higher pressure than on the bottom.
First, thanks for the great reply. One little observation though:
"The ratio of baryons to dark matter isn't going to change."
I would agree that the number does not change. The number of observable baryons will change over time as many of them end up inside black holes - which of course would constitue part of the dark matter. Crap, that was considered in there somewhere... Now I need to go back and read it again.
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I'm still waiting for the IBOT to show up.
Case in point. How do I install it? This the typical thing you see in Linux land.
I shoot for about $1200 and make it last at least 3 years. I'm still running an Athlon 700 with TNT2 graphics and Windows98. Of course the last game I bought was Quake 3. My next box will be AMD64 - probably after the 90nm chips. Possibly an XPC, but still with a target of $1200 or less. It'll be running 64bit Linux - distro TBD.
I'm with you, they need a good installer.
1) System design - All account or ID numbers should be a multiple of 11. This check catches the two most common data entry mistakes - wrong digit and transposed digits.
2) The teller obviously
3) You - for not having a little extra because you live check to check.
In fairness, if it weren't for #3 you may never have noticed the problem and you'd be out quit a bit if you don't keep your own records and check the balance from time to time.
And you think other people get interest on money in the bank? Especilly a checking account?
No, but we can probably get by without fire-retardant in all our products.
Yes it is. And therefore, they have a financial incentive to allow some amount of spam through. This keeps the spammers around while also letting customers know that the spam problem still exists. They'd need to play both sides to stay in business.
Pipe-full-of-fun-kit-number-7.
He speaks the lingo and also built his own plane. Stop by your local EAA chapter (www.eaa.org). These guys are very interesting. I stopped by some meetings of chapter13 and they were all very nice people - even hooked me up with a MCFI, but I had too much side work going on at the time.
1) I highlight a URL in some text.
2) I highlight the URL selector in Mozilla - this causes the previous highlighted text to lose focus and causes it to go to clipboard.
3) I middle-click the URL in Mozilla (which never lost focus) and the clipboard text goes in.
Not sure how "focus" actually works in this case, but you should be able to understand what needs to change to make it work. And for goodness sake have the FSF patent this so only Free Software will be able to use it. As the "inventor" can't I still patent for a short time after this public posting?
That works great except when you want to highlight something and paste over it with whats on the clipboard.
I believe Inkscape is a descendant of Sodipodi. At least it was started by a bunch of Sodipodi developers. You'd think they'd have forked the code when they went their own way rather than starting over.
I bet they do both X-prize flights the same day, or perhaps 1 day apart. Remember, they want to commercialize this, you can't require 2 weeks between flights. I bet they can reload the rocket in hours if they prepare a bit.
google for rtChess.
The ray tracing engine has since seen a 40% performance boost and has added photon mapping and scales nicely with more CPUs - I just haven't written a game with it since. I don't think a GPU implementation will be much faster. nVidia seems to think they make general purpose processors now - HAH what a laugh.
Don't help them beta test their FUD please.
Does that mean their government controls what is printed in the newspaper?
If I were in canada I'd hang out a copyright notice. They allow copyright on buildings. Of course you could display a copyrighted image prominently - have mural (sp?) on the front of your house even in the US to get the same effect - making their image an illegal copy.
Actually, I was wrong about MathML - it is working just fine in standard Mozilla. The fonts are not installed, but don't seem to be necessary. SVG is planned to be the same way when it is finnished (I think). The reason it's not enabled now is probably that it's not done. I would prefer partial native support now that I could disable if I choose (because a plugin works better). I don't see anyone "pissed off" because MathML was enabled (and can't be disabled) behind their back. These are reasonable W3C standards, not some MS crap or Flash that some company wants people to install. Perhaps I'll join the SVG development so we can enable that behind your back ;-)
An article in Aviation Week back in (I think) the late 80's had and interesting article. Apparently the seismologists in California had tracked a "shock wave" comming in off the coast heading out to the desert at 4000mph. Due to it's shape and speed, they concluded it was not a geologic event and probably a really fast aircraft heading out to 51. Don't underestimate those guys just because they work for the government. Remember, the SR-71 was designed in the 1960's. Of course, I think most cool things we have today were invented before I was born. Now it's all an effort to patent things so there's no need to innovate...
Thanks for any info on this.
On another note, a friend didn't believe me that stopping a 1 candy bar a day habit made me lose 5 pounds in college. He claimed I should have kept losing wieght because I was supposedly burning more calories than I take in. Consider this:
1) You're at equilibrium. Calories in = calories burned.
2) You start eating an extra 200 calories/day
3) Your weight increases a few pounds and stops
Why? How much more would you burn if you carried a 5 pound weight around with you 24 hours a day? I assert that for a given activity level, there is a stable weight for a given calorie intake. That is why I didn't lose weight indefinitely and is also why increased activity works better than diet alone. I use DDR for just that purpose now.
How can it be further along when the feature is not enabled in the release builds? This is something that could really set Mozilla apart from the others, but it's not enabled. As long as it's unfinnished, it should be possible to turn it off/use a plugin but it should be enabled.
MathML should also be enabled by default and the required fonts should (maybe) come with Mozilla. I absolutely hate sites/browsers that tell me I need to download extra crap to view them. Consider me a lazy joe sixpack, but if it isn't installed and turned on it isn't there - as far as I'm concerned.
p.s. the Stixfonts are nearly complete and would be good for rendering MathML.
Perhaps a human should look over the paper first. Look over it quickly to verify the overall flow makes sense. If so, let the computer grade it. If not, then revert to manual grading. Treat the computer as an aid, not the authority.
I've also seen physics teachers try to explain curve balls this way: The relative air-speed on the top and bottom (with back spin) are different and this causes a pressure difference which causes a perpendicular force on the ball causing it to curve (climb). The problem there is that the claimed force would cause a curve in the opposite direction from what actually happens - i.e. backspin actually causes the ball to climb. but the airspeed on top is lower which should produce higher pressure than on the bottom.
It's rare to see these explained correctly.
"The ratio of baryons to dark matter isn't going to change."
I would agree that the number does not change. The number of observable baryons will change over time as many of them end up inside black holes - which of course would constitue part of the dark matter. Crap, that was considered in there somewhere... Now I need to go back and read it again.