If you are a BS right now then you may not really remember, but there was a time when meteorology was MUCH different than it is right now. I remember watching the weather when I was a kid and it seems to met that it was far, far less accurate than it is now. Detection technology and understand of what to do with the measurements that come from that technology have grown quite a bit. If you pay attention you'll notice that older people make fun of meteorologists quite a bit more than young people. Of course, if you don't notice that then you probably aren't qualified to look for your own ass, let alone a storm.
That's not a fault of Windows that's your responsibility for allowing your friends to use your machine with an account that has permissions to do such things.
Why the hell does it matter? He was asked why he doesn't use windows. His answer is "because my friends break it."
I think the craft is supposed to attach to a floating base and unload the cargo. Another craft (possibly with a much different design?) launches from the base and brings the payload up to orbital velocity.
Escape velocity is the velocity required to escape the gravity of the Earth. I guess I was a little of as even a bouyant craft will only float to the surface of the atmosphere without some form of propulsion, but eh. When you think of escape velocity you are thinking "how fast does this have to go up so that it will never come back down." This happens to be about 11,000 m/s. However, because a bouyant object doesn't have to "escape" until it is already at the top of the atmosphere it's escape velocity would be much, much lower.
Orbital velocity is the velocity require to stay in orbit. For low earth orbit this velocity is around 8,000 m/s tangent to the surface of the earth.
he author said you "you don't even need to spend the dough for an Access Point". This is wrong.
No it isn't. You don't need to spend the dough for an acess point. You STILL need to buy a wireless card but that tends to be quite a bit cheaper than buying an access point. At least it was back when I bought my wireless stuff.
If people where saying that you could run an access point off of Windows without buying any hardware, they would in fact be insane zellots.
He didn't say you don't need any other hardware. He also didn't say you do. Maybe there is a crime of omission there, but I think discussed that above.
Can you really accelerate a big inflated condom to escape velocity with an ion drive? I mean, it can only get so high on He, and I'm assuming that at its apogee there will still be an appreciable amount of atmosphere. Would an ion drive be able to overcome the drag force? Anyone willing to do the math?
You are aware that there is no such thing as "escape velocity" when you are bouyant, right? A more apt question is more can they reach orbital velocity.
120-odd million dollars worth of tickets disagree with you.
No they don't. Since when does popularity imply goodness? 12 million albums sold say N'Sync is the greatest band ever. Hope you like them.
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I can't believe this got rated insightful.
The author of the parent post should really sit down and think for a minute about what he's saying. Sure the post didn't point out that you need a wireless card in the computer you plan to have act as the access point, but come on. I think most people here could figure that much out.
As far as spending $300 on a computer just to be the access point... BS. Nobody suggested such a thing. The point is that you probably already have a primary computer hardwired to some kind of WAN connection. Why not let it also be the access point. People who do this using windows aren't labelled Windows zealots. It's just being smart with your resources. If the computer is going to be on anyways it's cheaper (or at least it used to be cheaper) to grab a usb 802.11b antennae than it is to buy an access point.
Bottom line is you are looking for a reason to call someone a zealot. Especially seeing as the post was rather non-zealful. There was no pushing you to use linux or use of phrases like "M$" and "Winbloze". The author simply pointed out that wireless is no longer a problem with Linux. Oh geez, he must be a zealot.
I just suggested this in another thread (before I had read yours). Yes, that's exactly what I think. Epicycles were the first the I thought of when I read about dark matter and dark energy.
While it's easy to make fun of this particular theory it isn't so far fetched to think that perhaps gravity doesn't work exactly how we think it does. I think the combination or dark matter (on a local scale galaxies aren't behaving how we think they should based on their mass) and dark energy (on a universal scale the galaxies aren't behaving how we think they should based on mass) kind of hints more at an error in our theory than the existence of invisible particles nobody knows about. In fact, when I read papers about dark X I am often reminded of various "old school" scientific ideas such as ether or Ptolemic astronomy. I'm not saying GR is wrong, far from it. But I think it's pretty obvious that we don't have the whole story. Our theory is incomplete.
The headline to this story is an exaggeration. Of course, you can't blame it on the author seeing as the headlines of the major news sources were exaggerations as well.
So what, we have more evidence the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate. WE ALREADY KNEW THAT! This is just another indication that it's happening. This doesn't "prove" the existence of dark energy. It's still entirely possible (and I would suggest probable) that we just don't know the entire story about gravity. Physicists have gotten gravity wrong before after all.
I know, Jorge's article was total bullshit. Let's step by step through this piece of shit, just for grins.
Does anyone reading this quote, right off the bat assume that this is going to be a fair review of GNOME whatsoever? I can't even formulate a response to this.
It's an opinion piece. Deal with it. It isn't supposed to do anything other than give someone's opinion.
I was unable to find that setting. How does "Browse Folders" give the impression of going back to an heirarchical browsing style? If there were settings such as "open folders in same window" or "show location bar" then those would be helpful. Browse Folders is just a random phrase. When you have the folder browser open I feel that you are probably already browsing folders.
Windows 95 was never spatial. It was mimicked, poorly. Since Mr. Petreley can't seem to define what spatial is in the first place, and which OS implemented it in which way if at all, we're left with ye olde "Doesn't work like Explorer, it sucks." excuse. There's more to spatial than one folder per window. I'd explain it, but there are plenty of resources available that define this, unfortunately Nicholas failed to comprehend even one of them.
Just a bunch of bullshit and heresay. Petreley never says "it isn't like Explorer so it sucks". In fact, I get the impression Petrely dislikes explorer. He instead questions why explorer can do something so easily that Nautilus can't do. That is a valid question. Brushing it off makes jorge look like an asshole.
GConf is nothing like the Windows Registry, except for the similar appearance of their respective editors. If Mr. Petreley cares to compare and contrast GConf and the Windows Registry he would know this. In fact Nicholas, I will paypal you $100 US if you can name three architectural similarities between GConf and the Registry.
As mentioned before: who cares? So the architecture is different. Does it matter to a user? Editting gconf entries is for all intents and purposes the same as editing windows registry entries. It feels the same. It accomplishes similar ends. It's the fucking same damn thing. Jorge... I'm sure you won't read this, but you're clueless dick.
This is another passage that I can't even comprehend, and isn't worthy of replying to. I'd like to quote it for the record though. Note the lack of evidence when defining "primitive" and "inflexibility". I don't think anyone that has used GTK's language bindings will use the word "inflexible".
He's saying gtk sucks. Sometimes it does. It certainly doesn't look as nice or polished as it could.
Hmmmm, I must be a moron then. I like spatial Nautilus. Everyone I know who uses GNOME loves the spatial Nautilus, except for two. The other dozen or so dig it. Those that don't like it, shut it off and move on with their lives.
Once more jorge goes back to his favorite tactic of making shit up on the spot. Petrely never came close to saying "only morons like spatial". He said that gnome developers seem to think they are better than users at making choices about what suits a user's desktop. You know what! He's right! These days GNOME is made intentionally difficult to customize. Why? Shouldn't it be assumed that I know what I want on my desktop better than anyone else? If I say that do I insinuate that other people are morons? No. By the way though, jorge really is a moron. He got that much right.
It's ridiculous what they pay people to write articles these days. It's amusing, and heartwarming, that the Arslinux crew writes more in depth, informative, and well regarded content FOR FREE, because we love OSS, than a so-called OSS evangelist. Nicholas Petreley should be ashamed of himself.
Awe Nick doesn't like your pet project so he wrote mean things about it!!!! For shame. Fuck you, you fucking dick. I was a GNOME user until 2.6. My roommate was a GNOME user until 2.6. Now
Because if no specific license is offered, then basic copyright applies. This means you have no right to make derivatives, commercial or otherwise.
It also means you have no right to download it seeing as downloading a file technically copies it (and yes, that technicality matters until a court rules otherwise). It's just plain sloppy to put a file up for download with no license.
* cheesy, stupid names
These abound within the opensource community. GNU anyone? How about K-everything or G-everything? Gnometris... Same Gnome. My god, you can't really single out Linspire here.
* raping debian's bandwidth
How? They have their own Click'n Run Repository. If users choose to use a Debian repository that's their perogative. You know, just like every other Linux user. I guess if you buy Linspire you can't play with the other Linux kids?
* taking much, not giving back anything
Let's see, they fund kde-look.org they've written several opensource apps, they pay everaldo. Yup, those lazy bastards. Just remember, Michael Roberts may be an ass, but he has already contributed more to Linux than you ever will.
* uninspired, copycat mentality
So? Ever used Evolution or Kontact? How about rhythmbox or juk? Lots of copycatting happens. And you know what? It's necessary. There really is sometimes a best way to do things. You can't innovate every day. I don't see you bitching that KDE and Gnome use the desktop analogy. That was invented a Xerox-PARC! That's old shit! It just works.
* loudmouth
You got me there.
* no attention to security (everyone runs as root)
And there.
So only 2/6 or your points were really valid. Nice work though. Have you considered getting job writing FUD for MS or some other major corporation?
I'm not going to waste my time worrying about the CCL being abused by Linspire or anyone else. Not that it isn't illegal or maybe even immoral, it's just that I can't make myself give a rats ass. Creative Commons is a wart riding on the ass of open source.
I think you guys are all missing this guys point. His point is that we should be putting gpl (or whatever the gpl for art is called) art with gpl software. Not CCL art. Why? Because it avoids this confusing shit. Seriously, what is the difference between the CCL "give credit" clause and the X11 "advertising clause" people threw such a fit about? Not a fucking whole fucking lot as far as I'm concerned.
It's just a little ridiculous to be mixing the licenses together like that. It creates confusion. If these artists want to play with the open source kids then they need to embrace it too.
You do realize that version numbers are entirely subjective don't you? Would it make you happy if they just named it v0.2? Maybe 0.3 would float your boat? Maybe your busy schedule doesn't leave time for you to do things like read a feature list before you go posting comments on slashdot? Well, if you are going to just pick one of the two I suggest you read what the emulator can do and pass on the posting.
As mentioned the emulator can play quite a few games really well. The big problem is speed and I wonder how this problem can be solved... oh wait, no I don't, and if you read the article neither would you.
...would have to be "Why the hell would anyone want to eumlate the SNES on a GBA?"
Gee genius. Perhaps its so that they can play SNES games on the road, in class, or what have you. Perhaps you don't enjoy such fine games as Secret of Mana, Final Fantasy III (US), Super Mario World, Super Mario RPG, Final Fight, Secret of Evermore, Earthbound, or the whole host of great games that were out on SNES. Still, a lot of people do, myself included.
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If you are a BS right now then you may not really remember, but there was a time when meteorology was MUCH different than it is right now. I remember watching the weather when I was a kid and it seems to met that it was far, far less accurate than it is now. Detection technology and understand of what to do with the measurements that come from that technology have grown quite a bit. If you pay attention you'll notice that older people make fun of meteorologists quite a bit more than young people. Of course, if you don't notice that then you probably aren't qualified to look for your own ass, let alone a storm.
Which is exactly the meaning of the words "Faraday cage" you motherfucking moron.
That's not a fault of Windows that's your responsibility for allowing your friends to use your machine with an account that has permissions to do such things.
Why the hell does it matter? He was asked why he doesn't use windows. His answer is "because my friends break it."
Seems like a reasonable reason to me.
I think the craft is supposed to attach to a floating base and unload the cargo. Another craft (possibly with a much different design?) launches from the base and brings the payload up to orbital velocity.
I think.
Escape velocity is the velocity required to escape the gravity of the Earth. I guess I was a little of as even a bouyant craft will only float to the surface of the atmosphere without some form of propulsion, but eh. When you think of escape velocity you are thinking "how fast does this have to go up so that it will never come back down." This happens to be about 11,000 m/s. However, because a bouyant object doesn't have to "escape" until it is already at the top of the atmosphere it's escape velocity would be much, much lower.
Orbital velocity is the velocity require to stay in orbit. For low earth orbit this velocity is around 8,000 m/s tangent to the surface of the earth.
he author said you "you don't even need to spend the dough for an Access Point". This is wrong.
No it isn't. You don't need to spend the dough for an acess point. You STILL need to buy a wireless card but that tends to be quite a bit cheaper than buying an access point. At least it was back when I bought my wireless stuff.
If people where saying that you could run an access point off of Windows without buying any hardware, they would in fact be insane zellots.
He didn't say you don't need any other hardware. He also didn't say you do. Maybe there is a crime of omission there, but I think discussed that above.
Can you really accelerate a big inflated condom to escape velocity with an ion drive? I mean, it can only get so high on He, and I'm assuming that at its apogee there will still be an appreciable amount of atmosphere. Would an ion drive be able to overcome the drag force? Anyone willing to do the math?
You are aware that there is no such thing as "escape velocity" when you are bouyant, right? A more apt question is more can they reach orbital velocity.
The whole point of an access point is that its small and discreat enough to be wall mounted, ceiling mounted, crawl space mounted or whatever.
Incredible. And all along I thought the point of an AP was to allow wireless network connectivity.
Unless the Pentium II system is going to be running anyways then you'll make up the difference in energy bills.
120-odd million dollars worth of tickets disagree with you.
No they don't. Since when does popularity imply goodness? 12 million albums sold say N'Sync is the greatest band ever. Hope you like them.
I can't believe this got rated insightful.
The author of the parent post should really sit down and think for a minute about what he's saying. Sure the post didn't point out that you need a wireless card in the computer you plan to have act as the access point, but come on. I think most people here could figure that much out.
As far as spending $300 on a computer just to be the access point... BS. Nobody suggested such a thing. The point is that you probably already have a primary computer hardwired to some kind of WAN connection. Why not let it also be the access point. People who do this using windows aren't labelled Windows zealots. It's just being smart with your resources. If the computer is going to be on anyways it's cheaper (or at least it used to be cheaper) to grab a usb 802.11b antennae than it is to buy an access point.
Bottom line is you are looking for a reason to call someone a zealot. Especially seeing as the post was rather non-zealful. There was no pushing you to use linux or use of phrases like "M$" and "Winbloze". The author simply pointed out that wireless is no longer a problem with Linux. Oh geez, he must be a zealot.
Dumbass.
Brilliant!
Holy Crap!
I just suggested this in another thread (before I had read yours). Yes, that's exactly what I think. Epicycles were the first the I thought of when I read about dark matter and dark energy.
While it's easy to make fun of this particular theory it isn't so far fetched to think that perhaps gravity doesn't work exactly how we think it does. I think the combination or dark matter (on a local scale galaxies aren't behaving how we think they should based on their mass) and dark energy (on a universal scale the galaxies aren't behaving how we think they should based on mass) kind of hints more at an error in our theory than the existence of invisible particles nobody knows about. In fact, when I read papers about dark X I am often reminded of various "old school" scientific ideas such as ether or Ptolemic astronomy. I'm not saying GR is wrong, far from it. But I think it's pretty obvious that we don't have the whole story. Our theory is incomplete.
The headline to this story is an exaggeration. Of course, you can't blame it on the author seeing as the headlines of the major news sources were exaggerations as well.
So what, we have more evidence the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate. WE ALREADY KNEW THAT! This is just another indication that it's happening. This doesn't "prove" the existence of dark energy. It's still entirely possible (and I would suggest probable) that we just don't know the entire story about gravity. Physicists have gotten gravity wrong before after all.
I know, Jorge's article was total bullshit. Let's step by step through this piece of shit, just for grins.
Does anyone reading this quote, right off the bat assume that this is going to be a fair review of GNOME whatsoever? I can't even formulate a response to this.
It's an opinion piece. Deal with it. It isn't supposed to do anything other than give someone's opinion.
I was unable to find that setting. How does "Browse Folders" give the impression of going back to an heirarchical browsing style? If there were settings such as "open folders in same window" or "show location bar" then those would be helpful. Browse Folders is just a random phrase. When you have the folder browser open I feel that you are probably already browsing folders.
Windows 95 was never spatial. It was mimicked, poorly. Since Mr. Petreley can't seem to define what spatial is in the first place, and which OS implemented it in which way if at all, we're left with ye olde "Doesn't work like Explorer, it sucks." excuse. There's more to spatial than one folder per window. I'd explain it, but there are plenty of resources available that define this, unfortunately Nicholas failed to comprehend even one of them.
Just a bunch of bullshit and heresay. Petreley never says "it isn't like Explorer so it sucks". In fact, I get the impression Petrely dislikes explorer. He instead questions why explorer can do something so easily that Nautilus can't do. That is a valid question. Brushing it off makes jorge look like an asshole.
GConf is nothing like the Windows Registry, except for the similar appearance of their respective editors. If Mr. Petreley cares to compare and contrast GConf and the Windows Registry he would know this. In fact Nicholas, I will paypal you $100 US if you can name three architectural similarities between GConf and the Registry.
As mentioned before: who cares? So the architecture is different. Does it matter to a user? Editting gconf entries is for all intents and purposes the same as editing windows registry entries. It feels the same. It accomplishes similar ends. It's the fucking same damn thing. Jorge... I'm sure you won't read this, but you're clueless dick.
This is another passage that I can't even comprehend, and isn't worthy of replying to. I'd like to quote it for the record though. Note the lack of evidence when defining "primitive" and "inflexibility". I don't think anyone that has used GTK's language bindings will use the word "inflexible".
He's saying gtk sucks. Sometimes it does. It certainly doesn't look as nice or polished as it could.
Hmmmm, I must be a moron then. I like spatial Nautilus. Everyone I know who uses GNOME loves the spatial Nautilus, except for two. The other dozen or so dig it. Those that don't like it, shut it off and move on with their lives.
Once more jorge goes back to his favorite tactic of making shit up on the spot. Petrely never came close to saying "only morons like spatial". He said that gnome developers seem to think they are better than users at making choices about what suits a user's desktop. You know what! He's right! These days GNOME is made intentionally difficult to customize. Why? Shouldn't it be assumed that I know what I want on my desktop better than anyone else? If I say that do I insinuate that other people are morons? No. By the way though, jorge really is a moron. He got that much right.
It's ridiculous what they pay people to write articles these days. It's amusing, and heartwarming, that the Arslinux crew writes more in depth, informative, and well regarded content FOR FREE, because we love OSS, than a so-called OSS evangelist. Nicholas Petreley should be ashamed of himself.
Awe Nick doesn't like your pet project so he wrote mean things about it!!!! For shame. Fuck you, you fucking dick. I was a GNOME user until 2.6. My roommate was a GNOME user until 2.6. Now
Wow, but wow, here comes the ignorance.
Blender's interface wasn't designed by open source developers. It was made commercially.
I find it funny that you say gentoo cannot get grub to work on the first boot on your systems when gentoo does not in fact install grub... you do.
What you actually mean is that left to install grub on your own you can't make it work. Personal problem? I think so.
Because if no specific license is offered, then basic copyright applies. This means you have no right to make derivatives, commercial or otherwise.
It also means you have no right to download it seeing as downloading a file technically copies it (and yes, that technicality matters until a court rules otherwise). It's just plain sloppy to put a file up for download with no license.
* cheesy, stupid names
These abound within the opensource community. GNU anyone? How about K-everything or G-everything? Gnometris... Same Gnome. My god, you can't really single out Linspire here.
* raping debian's bandwidth
How? They have their own Click'n Run Repository. If users choose to use a Debian repository that's their perogative. You know, just like every other Linux user. I guess if you buy Linspire you can't play with the other Linux kids?
* taking much, not giving back anything
Let's see, they fund kde-look.org they've written several opensource apps, they pay everaldo. Yup, those lazy bastards. Just remember, Michael Roberts may be an ass, but he has already contributed more to Linux than you ever will.
* uninspired, copycat mentality So? Ever used Evolution or Kontact? How about rhythmbox or juk? Lots of copycatting happens. And you know what? It's necessary. There really is sometimes a best way to do things. You can't innovate every day. I don't see you bitching that KDE and Gnome use the desktop analogy. That was invented a Xerox-PARC! That's old shit! It just works.
* loudmouth
You got me there.
* no attention to security (everyone runs as root)
And there.
So only 2/6 or your points were really valid. Nice work though. Have you considered getting job writing FUD for MS or some other major corporation?
Which the gpl allows for.
There is no GPL attribution clause. If you want an attribution clause go find another license.
I'm not going to waste my time worrying about the CCL being abused by Linspire or anyone else. Not that it isn't illegal or maybe even immoral, it's just that I can't make myself give a rats ass. Creative Commons is a wart riding on the ass of open source.
CCL isn't free. It just wishes it was.
I think you guys are all missing this guys point. His point is that we should be putting gpl (or whatever the gpl for art is called) art with gpl software. Not CCL art. Why? Because it avoids this confusing shit. Seriously, what is the difference between the CCL "give credit" clause and the X11 "advertising clause" people threw such a fit about? Not a fucking whole fucking lot as far as I'm concerned.
It's just a little ridiculous to be mixing the licenses together like that. It creates confusion. If these artists want to play with the open source kids then they need to embrace it too.
You do realize that version numbers are entirely subjective don't you? Would it make you happy if they just named it v0.2? Maybe 0.3 would float your boat? Maybe your busy schedule doesn't leave time for you to do things like read a feature list before you go posting comments on slashdot? Well, if you are going to just pick one of the two I suggest you read what the emulator can do and pass on the posting.
As mentioned the emulator can play quite a few games really well. The big problem is speed and I wonder how this problem can be solved... oh wait, no I don't, and if you read the article neither would you.
...would have to be "Why the hell would anyone want to eumlate the SNES on a GBA?"
Gee genius. Perhaps its so that they can play SNES games on the road, in class, or what have you. Perhaps you don't enjoy such fine games as Secret of Mana, Final Fantasy III (US), Super Mario World, Super Mario RPG, Final Fight, Secret of Evermore, Earthbound, or the whole host of great games that were out on SNES. Still, a lot of people do, myself included.