Thieme also noted that, these projects and more importantly those that contribute and use open source technology, have become fluid individuals who's own identity is more modular, less ridged than of past generations, primarily because of the modular, distributed communication systems that are now are commonly used.
This sounds like one of those cases where speakers start to praise something and that something which is in reality relatively simple and easy to understand becomes godlike wisdom from heaven. Well, maybe it is just easy to get carried away when standing in front of thousands of people...but that's just too thick.:)
It's scary to think that sophisticated 3G mobile systems may depend for their survival on Hello Kitty
What is your motivation for reading slashdot? Fun?Leisure? What is your motivation in 90% of your day? Fun? Leisure? Nothing scary in it other than the fact that people do not realize it.
uploading a new kernel...
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Somehow reading the article reminds me of the Neo's training period in the Matrix movie. If they actually can make the brains..
"We know that astronauts are just on the verge of readapting to Earth in the 2 to 4 day time frame after short duration space flight. So we thought, why don't we go to day 3, when we think somebody is just about adapted, and see if we can cause the brain to switch states."
shift states, would not the next thing to try to be able to create those states. Like fast-forwarding (as in FF>>) or uploading a scenario into the brains and balance control...
I couldn't find any notes about USB. I usually have problems when I try to mount a memory stick on my Sony Clie on Linux (system freezes... nothing can be done except hard reboot, can't even ssh/telnet into the box). Anyone had any similar problems?
Reading and installing the patch from the pointers from here changed everything for me. Re-compiled the kernel just 2 days ago. Also generally, if you want to get the latest out of your usb in Linux, I have noticed that linux-usb.org has it first (or atleast soon).
I knew people consider his books, but could not have imagined this heavy
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That must be the lowest amount of comments to a frontpage story for a long time. Anyway, I think the UML distilled is one of the best organized books I have read. Works for a novice as well as someone who only knows something. Not my favourite though, but a piece of art in clarity:)
Are their servers going to be able to handle the load?
Finally this is NOT not off-topic:) Here's an analysis of the slashdot effect. In the UFO files case, I believe the effect will be tens of times powerful in terms of distinct visitors than the case I analyzed and hundreds of times stronger in sense of data transferred, as they are probably going to serve fat media. I believe they will go down.
But based on her attitude, she might actually succeed in it.
"Having fun is essential, because otherwise you get stressed out. You think, I have to show the universe is made out of atoms, and aaaaahhh, you flip out! So you want to keep loose."
...howevery, I feel like I need to upgrade my bird-brains every time when I read sentences like this:
One experiment could be to track gamma-ray photons from billions of light-years away. If spacetime is in fact discrete, then individual photons should travel at slightly different speeds, depending on their wavelength
a key question is the size of the developer communities (for both OS and applications) of Linux vs. Palm
I assume from the context that the new device you mentioned is PDA-like? I think that what you should not forget in the case of Linux is that you do not only have to look at the Linux PDA developers community. A big percent of what is done by the "desktop linux" developer's community can be utilized easily also in PDA -like environment. I can show you no hard facts, but I believe this is a big difference in favor of Linux. I guess, you should try to see your device and the applications & other software you fancy running on it taking this aspect into account as well.
1) they buy the "filtering technology" from commercial from commercial vendors 2) they build the same technology utilizing existing open source solutions and own code ?
I seriously do not think that obtaining the technology is a limiting factor in here. Even though, I have been an amnesty member for some years, I believe this shot goes to wrong direction. Maybe they could have pointed at only the Websense company, whose main purpose is producing filtering technology. Maybe they should not have pointed at any of those companies. When you know that currently you can get killed and tortured for using internet in china I think there is some more concrete issues to concentrate on. Like concentrating all power into freeing those (I heard there were tens of) people) who are in prison because they "used the internet" right now - maybe amnesty could instead make these companies look like saints and request help in this task for them.
Yes, we send the following header along with each prefetch request:
X-moz: prefetch
Ohh, did not notice this. Thanks for the info. I hope Mozilla AND Explorer, Opera & the rest of the browsers will comply to the proposed standard in their future implementations. That way it might be control prefetching while staying sane.
Errr, how can it hurt content providers? Re-read the FAQ again. The content provider has to do one of three things for it to even think about prefetching: use the appropriate <link> tag, the appropriate Link header, or the equivalent <meta>
As posted to other leaf of this thread: How do I make some other page on the otherside of the world not include a prefetch tag to some content I have made? I am not trolling, maybe I am just stupid - but not trolling:)
It is the content provider that chooses what to be prefetch. So please stop trolling
How do I make some other page on the otherside of the world not include a prefetch tag to some content I have made? I am not trolling, maybe I am just stupid - but not trolling:)
What about folks who pay-per-byte for network bandwidth? - prefetching is a browser feature; users should be able to disable it easily
Is there a preference to disable link prefetching? - Yes, there is a hidden preference that you can set to disable link prefetching. Add this line to your prefs.js file located in your Mozilla profile directory: user_pref("network.prefetch-next", false);
Although I admit link-prefetching may be good, but if it becomes a on-bydefault feature in most browsers, the ones that it will damage are the content providers. Those cannot turn it off (and actually do not have anyway of knowing whether their content is being prefetched (and not potentially viewed at all) or not. Well, I am just whining. Generally, Mozilla seems to be doing great:)
They have made the renderer available, here (win 2000 only). I don't think I have the interest to see further than just trying whether it works for me, but if someone does, please let us know if you find anything worth commenting:)
And it is good that people come out from using computers as commodities and start to use their brains.
Exactly. Use your own brains using neutral and opinions from all views as input and process. Well, maybe I am just odd, but I dislike it when stuff is just thrown on my face. On the other hand, memos like the one linked from this particular article are excellent, because they provide facts on which the resulting conclusion was based. The value of good reports like this can be ruined by religion-like advocatism. Free software advocatism is getting some characteristics like this lately... but maybe in this case I just needed the extra cup of coffee.:)
People worldwide are beginning to wake up, and this needs to be shouted from the (networked) hills...
Whoa. Ok! I will start shouting! More seriously: it is not a religion - nothing to shout from networked hills. Or if it is then it is not. Religions are rather scary because they don't often make decisions based on common sense. Open source just makes sense because of practical reasons for some(many) cases.
... I know I will regret posting this after a few cups of coffee..:)
You can join me in taking up Lessig's Challenge. Email me and I'll link to your challenge page from this one. If we get enough intrest, we can even start a weblog. Will you take Lessig's Challenge
No, because this way of taking it into action is absurd. If your point is to fight against the monopolies, then the answer is to give zero $ to monopolies and a penny for EFF. If you understand it like this, then the Lessig challenge makes sense...
Thanks for these pointers. Steeplechase seems to be a close equivalent to what I was thinking about... looking for details on it brought me to for example this interesting article on a PC-based open architecture servo controller for CNC machining - interesting reading!
Sorry if this sounds like sci-fi, but I have started lately thinking whether it would be possible to launch a tiny REAL OS from within/integrated with the BIOS. A bit like vmware but on a even lower level - I am thinking this might start being possible now that BIOS capabilities are increasing all the time as well. This would provide many interesting possibilities. Do you see this impossible for some reason? The vmware page says : "VMware technology is patented and patent-pending" - does anyone know exactly which patents they have and what limitations do those pose.
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is just as twisted as bondage play... imho :) Ok , it's 00:41 saturday night...what do you expect from me :)))
This sounds like one of those cases where speakers start to praise something and that something which is in reality relatively simple and easy to understand becomes godlike wisdom from heaven. Well, maybe it is just easy to get carried away when standing in front of thousands of people...but that's just too thick. :)
It's scary to think that sophisticated 3G mobile systems may depend for their survival on Hello Kitty
What is your motivation for reading slashdot? Fun?Leisure? What is your motivation in 90% of your day? Fun? Leisure? Nothing scary in it other than the fact that people do not realize it.
"We know that astronauts are just on the verge of readapting to Earth in the 2 to 4 day time frame after short duration space flight. So we thought, why don't we go to day 3, when we think somebody is just about adapted, and see if we can cause the brain to switch states."
shift states, would not the next thing to try to be able to create those states. Like fast-forwarding (as in FF>>) or uploading a scenario into the brains and balance control...
Reading and installing the patch from the pointers from here changed everything for me. Re-compiled the kernel just 2 days ago. Also generally, if you want to get the latest out of your usb in Linux, I have noticed that linux-usb.org has it first (or atleast soon).
s/only/already/ - sorry.
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That must be the lowest amount of comments to a frontpage story for a long time. Anyway, I think the UML distilled is one of the best organized books I have read. Works for a novice as well as someone who only knows something. Not my favourite though, but a piece of art in clarity :)
Finally this is NOT not off-topic :) Here's an analysis of the slashdot effect. In the UFO files case, I believe the effect will be tens of times powerful in terms of distinct visitors than the case I analyzed and hundreds of times stronger in sense of data transferred, as they are probably going to serve fat media. I believe they will go down.
this together with the link to a registered users only article is pretty funny.
The internet is a MMORPG.
"Having fun is essential, because otherwise you get stressed out. You think, I have to show the universe is made out of atoms, and aaaaahhh, you flip out! So you want to keep loose."
One experiment could be to track gamma-ray photons from billions of light-years away. If spacetime is in fact discrete, then individual photons should travel at slightly different speeds, depending on their wavelength
I assume from the context that the new device you mentioned is PDA-like? I think that what you should not forget in the case of Linux is that you do not only have to look at the Linux PDA developers community. A big percent of what is done by the "desktop linux" developer's community can be utilized easily also in PDA -like environment. I can show you no hard facts, but I believe this is a big difference in favor of Linux. I guess, you should try to see your device and the applications & other software you fancy running on it taking this aspect into account as well.
I seriously do not think that obtaining the technology is a limiting factor in here. Even though, I have been an amnesty member for some years, I believe this shot goes to wrong direction. Maybe they could have pointed at only the Websense company, whose main purpose is producing filtering technology. Maybe they should not have pointed at any of those companies. When you know that currently you can get killed and tortured for using internet in china I think there is some more concrete issues to concentrate on. Like concentrating all power into freeing those (I heard there were tens of) people) who are in prison because they "used the internet" right now - maybe amnesty could instead make these companies look like saints and request help in this task for them.
Ohh, did not notice this. Thanks for the info. I hope Mozilla AND Explorer, Opera & the rest of the browsers will comply to the proposed standard in their future implementations. That way it might be control prefetching while staying sane.
As posted to other leaf of this thread: How do I make some other page on the otherside of the world not include a prefetch tag to some content I have made? I am not trolling, maybe I am just stupid - but not trolling :)
How do I make some other page on the otherside of the world not include a prefetch tag to some content I have made? I am not trolling, maybe I am just stupid - but not trolling :)
What about folks who pay-per-byte for network bandwidth?
- prefetching is a browser feature; users should be able to disable it easily
Is there a preference to disable link prefetching?
- Yes, there is a hidden preference that you can set to disable link prefetching. Add this line to your prefs.js file located in your Mozilla profile directory: user_pref("network.prefetch-next", false);
Although I admit link-prefetching may be good, but if it becomes a on-bydefault feature in most browsers, the ones that it will damage are the content providers. Those cannot turn it off (and actually do not have anyway of knowing whether their content is being prefetched (and not potentially viewed at all) or not. Well, I am just whining. Generally, Mozilla seems to be doing great :)
They have made the renderer available, here (win 2000 only). I don't think I have the interest to see further than just trying whether it works for me, but if someone does, please let us know if you find anything worth commenting :)
Exactly. Use your own brains using neutral and opinions from all views as input and process. Well, maybe I am just odd, but I dislike it when stuff is just thrown on my face. On the other hand, memos like the one linked from this particular article are excellent, because they provide facts on which the resulting conclusion was based. The value of good reports like this can be ruined by religion-like advocatism. Free software advocatism is getting some characteristics like this lately... but maybe in this case I just needed the extra cup of coffee. :)
People worldwide are beginning to wake up, and this needs to be shouted from the (networked) hills...
Whoa. Ok! I will start shouting! More seriously: it is not a religion - nothing to shout from networked hills. Or if it is then it is not. Religions are rather scary because they don't often make decisions based on common sense. Open source just makes sense because of practical reasons for some(many) cases.
Yes, I described an embedded OS, which would run below a non embedded OS. Something similar to what was described on some other thread of this post.
No, because this way of taking it into action is absurd. If your point is to fight against the monopolies, then the answer is to give zero $ to monopolies and a penny for EFF. If you understand it like this, then the Lessig challenge makes sense...
Thanks for these pointers. Steeplechase seems to be a close equivalent to what I was thinking about... looking for details on it brought me to for example this interesting article on a PC-based open architecture servo controller for CNC machining - interesting reading!
like in Chr+k ? :) or maybe your keyboard layout is different?
Sorry if this sounds like sci-fi, but I have started lately thinking whether it would be possible to launch a tiny REAL OS from within/integrated with the BIOS. A bit like vmware but on a even lower level - I am thinking this might start being possible now that BIOS capabilities are increasing all the time as well. This would provide many interesting possibilities. Do you see this impossible for some reason? The vmware page says : "VMware technology is patented and patent-pending" - does anyone know exactly which patents they have and what limitations do those pose.