The record companies claim that song swapping cost them money. The technology, if it's not cracked to soon, essentially should remove the electronic version of these CDs.
It will be an interesting test of their statements. If unprotected CDs outsell the protected ones they will have to eat some crow.
The use of ports isn't as simple as getting a particular program running on your box.
For FreeBSD the ports tree is a very nice way for maintainers to modify the packages, via patches, to handle differences in the system software. I'm not sure of all of the differences but when making low level system calls surely the Linux/BSD kernels have special requirements. The ports tree allows maintainers to insure that software follows system policies on security etc. as well.
If you just want to download binaries all the time you wouldn't be any more interested in the ports system than you would be in building your own RPMS or DEBs.
Updating software using the ports system is, I think, where it shines. You can keep your ports system up to date using cvs. If a package get's updated you can use a utility called portupgrade to get the new source/patch it/compile it/upgrade it.
You just have to type something like %portupgrade greatprogram.
Since everything is compiled on your system you don't have to deal with dependencies as much. Anybody who has tried installing the latest KDE rpms on a redhat system might appreciate this.
So it's more like an automagic way to build and install the latest rpms/debs/pkg for your computer.
Having said that, it's just a matter of preference.
I wonder how much better the stock market would be if companies focused on their core instead of trying to be the next napolean of the internet...
I wonder from what angle these devices will start to become popular. Obviously the palm market is a specialized computing device who's time had come. But I don't see myself surfing on a palm anytime soon. The screen is just big enough for a cnet banner add.
That would be interesting.
So how do we compensate those who controlled the idea on which a character was based? I thought that is was why copyright was limitted. At some point the ideas are released back to the society which enabled the person to have such ideas.
Otherwise, perhaps people should have to pay to interact with others in our society.
Even with the time limits copyright now the actual people who created a culture/technology of the time would never benefit directly.
I think it is definately overrated if you look as it as a replacement for the keyboard/mouse but it holds a lot of promise as an enhancement.
There are many times when I use the mouse to do something that slows down what I am doing dramatically (I hate taking my hands off the keyboard). The mouse is natural for very visual tasks such as selecting sections of text or editing images but is slower for navigating a desktop etc. Think of VR tied in with a pager.
It would be pretty sweet to be typing away and tell the computer to do things in the background so that they're ready when you are.
I can see it now -
"Check Slashdot" "Top Story" "Reply" "First Post - I RULEZ" "Submit"
Anyway, I don't see VR replacing the keyboard anytime soon but with some imagination (and a lot of code) it may finally take the desktop out of the 90's.
I wonder if this will be able to be used by researchers in the forseeable future.
There is a lot of basic science which is still to difficult for todays supercomputers in a reasonable time frame.
A good example of this is computational fluid dynamics (CFD). People have the knowledge to simulate this at a fundamental level (Direct Numeric Simulation DNS) but not the power except for simple flows at relatively low Reynolds numbers.
If something like this were unleashed in the CFD community we could possibly see some rapid advances in many areas including anything with turbulent fluids (weather prediction for example).
i didn't read the article but i think simple can be better. kind of depends on the game. in some of the newer games they eye candy is part of the fun
as far as simple, xpilot is still my favorite game after 8 years. but part of the fun is that you're playing against other humans with and humor often is involved.
Most discussion of BLEVE's talk about flammable liquids because they are geared towards firefighters. However, the impulse of the explosion is an issue with any liquid which instantly vaporizes.
I first studied it with CO2. The nuke plants consider with regards to water.
It's even more dangerous with flamable liquids because of the post explosion burn or post explosion explosion.
A BLEVE is a boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion. When a liquid tank is punctured of course the pressure drops rapidly. If it is a bad puncture the pressure drops to fast for the mixture to vaporize normally (nonequlibrium). The substance goes past the normal vapor dome properties and reaches a point of mechanical istability called the second spinoidal (I think). I think it was Gibbs who first considered this.
Anyway to make a long story short. If the pressure drops very rapidly (due to a tank rupture) The entire contents of the tank reach the state where the pressure cannot drop anymore in the liquid phase and the entire substance vaporizes instantly and rapidly - you know a bomb.
It would at least be something to consider before we all strap LN2 to our backs.
Everytime a new release comes out I try and use it for a few weeks and switch back to something simpler (gnome using sawfish - I basically use the gnome panel and the sawfish window manager).
I file manager looks nice and all but I am very used to using the command line. It is a waste of time to keep taking my hands off the keyboard and dragging the mouse around. I don't understand why the file manager could swallow a two or three line bash command line and display the results for simple commands in the window. (ie: ls *.txt would show the *.txt icons and ls -l *.txt would show a detailed listing of the *.txt files etc.)
I'm also not sure if the kde panel has changed but I really like the island panels. One can have the panel and a few icons in the same area of the screen and have separate panels for separate tasks.
This having been said I think KDE is as nice a desktop that can be found on many computing environments. I'm a little surprised that some commercial unixes don't offer it instead of cde.
I couldn't get through to the store. how much is the cube?
The best part of all is the lack of fan. I wonder if the G4 runs cool enough to be cooled by a large heat sink and natural convection or if they are using a peltier cooler.
This is on my wish list for my next box. silence. hmmmmm maybe i could save some money by putting my cpu in the basement and just running cables up to the office. or i could wait for apple to start selling these with unix installed. *holding breath*
Electrical cars have a bit of an advantage over regular cars. The electric motors which drive the car become generators when you brake and can reclaim energy from the cars momentum.
So an electric car has an energy input that straight gasoline cars don't. MPG may be a little deceptive. They can certainly do better but it's not all due to the engine.
If the virus have an affinity for particular structures, I wonder if they could construct little virus collectors? An inplant could collect a particular viral infection.
I'll bet she'll be really pissed off when she finds out that the local radio station played the mp3 on the air;)
i wonder who released it into the wild anyway. that would be the person i'd go after. actually since al gore invented the internet he might be her next target
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The record companies claim that song swapping cost them money. The technology, if it's not cracked to soon, essentially should remove the electronic version of these CDs.
It will be an interesting test of their statements. If unprotected CDs outsell the protected ones they will have to eat some crow.
So does this mean that Gartner's website has been hacked?
hehe good move putting on the flame proof suit
The use of ports isn't as simple as getting a particular program running on your box.
For FreeBSD the ports tree is a very nice way for maintainers to modify the packages, via patches, to handle differences in the system software. I'm not sure of all of the differences but when making low level system calls surely the Linux/BSD kernels have special requirements. The ports tree allows maintainers to insure that software follows system policies on security etc. as well.
If you just want to download binaries all the time you wouldn't be any more interested in the ports system than you would be in building your own RPMS or DEBs.
Updating software using the ports system is, I think, where it shines. You can keep your ports system up to date using cvs. If a package get's updated you can use a utility called portupgrade to get the new source/patch it/compile it/upgrade it.
You just have to type something like %portupgrade greatprogram.
Since everything is compiled on your system you don't have to deal with dependencies as much. Anybody who has tried installing the latest KDE rpms on a redhat system might appreciate this.
So it's more like an automagic way to build and install the latest rpms/debs/pkg for your computer.
Having said that, it's just a matter of preference.
It usually takes a week or so but....
:)
but go check freshports - it's in the ports collection now. along with koffice-rc1. very cool.
my modem will be busy today
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i've seen a few programs written in this that look very professional. i wonder what the code looks like...
fortran: write once compile anywhere
I wonder how much better the stock market would be if companies focused on their core instead of trying to be the next napolean of the internet...
I wonder from what angle these devices will start to become popular. Obviously the palm market is a specialized computing device who's time had come. But I don't see myself surfing on a palm anytime soon. The screen is just big enough for a cnet banner add.
That would be interesting. So how do we compensate those who controlled the idea on which a character was based? I thought that is was why copyright was limitted. At some point the ideas are released back to the society which enabled the person to have such ideas. Otherwise, perhaps people should have to pay to interact with others in our society. Even with the time limits copyright now the actual people who created a culture/technology of the time would never benefit directly.
haven't heard that in a while.....
I think it is definately overrated if you look as it as a replacement for the keyboard/mouse but it holds a lot of promise as an enhancement.
There are many times when I use the mouse to do something that slows down what I am doing dramatically (I hate taking my hands off the keyboard). The mouse is natural for very visual tasks such as selecting sections of text or editing images but is slower for navigating a desktop etc. Think of VR tied in with a pager.
It would be pretty sweet to be typing away and tell the computer to do things in the background so that they're ready when you are.
I can see it now -
"Check Slashdot" "Top Story" "Reply" "First Post - I RULEZ" "Submit"
Anyway, I don't see VR replacing the keyboard anytime soon but with some imagination (and a lot of code) it may finally take the desktop out of the 90's.
I haven't used exchange. It sounds like CVS for scheduling. Is that basically what it is?
With computing power like that how many of these would we actually need.
We would just need to figure out how to use quantum entanglement to communicate with the server and we could all use the same computer.
instantaneous communication would that mean no more lag in xpilot?
does os x have userppp available. i've had better luck with userppp than pppd on my freebsd box...
I wonder if this will be able to be used by researchers in the forseeable future.
There is a lot of basic science which is still to difficult for todays supercomputers in a reasonable time frame.
A good example of this is computational fluid dynamics (CFD). People have the knowledge to simulate this at a fundamental level (Direct Numeric Simulation DNS) but not the power except for simple flows at relatively low Reynolds numbers.
If something like this were unleashed in the CFD community we could possibly see some rapid advances in many areas including anything with turbulent fluids (weather prediction for example).
I was listening to a bit about what it would take to change it. It would take extraordinary approval at the congression and state levels.
All but 13 states would have to approve it.
This includes at least some small states who would be left with a weaker voice without the electoral college.
i didn't read the article but i think simple can be better. kind of depends on the game. in some of the newer games they eye candy is part of the fun
as far as simple, xpilot is still my favorite game after 8 years. but part of the fun is that you're playing against other humans with and humor often is involved.
Most discussion of BLEVE's talk about flammable liquids because they are geared towards firefighters. However, the impulse of the explosion is an issue with any liquid which instantly vaporizes.
I first studied it with CO2. The nuke plants consider with regards to water.
It's even more dangerous with flamable liquids because of the post explosion burn or post explosion explosion.
A BLEVE is a boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion. When a liquid tank is punctured of course the pressure drops rapidly. If it is a bad puncture the pressure drops to fast for the mixture to vaporize normally (nonequlibrium). The substance goes past the normal vapor dome properties and reaches a point of mechanical istability called the second spinoidal (I think). I think it was Gibbs who first considered this.
Anyway to make a long story short. If the pressure drops very rapidly (due to a tank rupture) The entire contents of the tank reach the state where the pressure cannot drop anymore in the liquid phase and the entire substance vaporizes instantly and rapidly - you know a bomb.
It would at least be something to consider before we all strap LN2 to our backs.
Perhaps people that "loath" it have other issues.
Everytime a new release comes out I try and use it for a few weeks and switch back to something simpler (gnome using sawfish - I basically use the gnome panel and the sawfish window manager).
I file manager looks nice and all but I am very used to using the command line. It is a waste of time to keep taking my hands off the keyboard and dragging the mouse around. I don't understand why the file manager could swallow a two or three line bash command line and display the results for simple commands in the window. (ie: ls *.txt would show the *.txt icons and ls -l *.txt would show a detailed listing of the *.txt files etc.)
I'm also not sure if the kde panel has changed but I really like the island panels. One can have the panel and a few icons in the same area of the screen and have separate panels for separate tasks.
This having been said I think KDE is as nice a desktop that can be found on many computing environments. I'm a little surprised that some commercial unixes don't offer it instead of cde.
I couldn't get through to the store. how much is the cube?
The best part of all is the lack of fan. I wonder if the G4 runs cool enough to be cooled by a large heat sink and natural convection or if they are using a peltier cooler.
This is on my wish list for my next box. silence.
hmmmmm maybe i could save some money by putting my cpu in the basement and just running cables up to the office. or i could wait for apple to start selling these with unix installed. *holding breath*
Electrical cars have a bit of an advantage over regular cars. The electric motors which drive the car become generators when you brake and can reclaim energy from the cars momentum.
So an electric car has an energy input that straight gasoline cars don't. MPG may be a little deceptive. They can certainly do better but it's not all due to the engine.
If the virus have an affinity for particular structures, I wonder if they could construct little virus collectors? An inplant could collect a particular viral infection.
kind of like a roach motel.
I'll bet she'll be really pissed off when she finds out that the local radio station played the mp3 on the air ;)
i wonder who released it into the wild anyway. that would be the person i'd go after. actually since al gore invented the internet he might be her next target
I wonder if the nuclear missile decoy defense.
Make an mp3 of yourself quipping your favorite python quotes and rename it to have keywords in the title.
To actually prove that a user had the song it would require somebody listening to 314,352 mp3s to verify that it's the real thing.
What a horrible job. Ugggg can you imagine listening to the same Back Street Boys song 15,000 time? *shudder*
Does this mean we could get rid of all of those ugly billboards?