"... unleashing about 10,000 trillion trillion trillion watts"
Wow! This event released a massive ammount of energy.
With lesser "solar flares" from the Sun causing interference with radio signals and satellites, would this event also have cause disruptions? Also since it reached the atmosphere, did it also change the weather patterns?
(Any signs of a look-alike of Harrison Ford and a hairy ape escaping in a space shuttle?)
I am not a programmer but I've always liked E16 as a Window Manager. It always took more memory but as a desktop user, I was willing to sacrifice for the nice eye candy it presented.
I last used E17 in a rather non-useable state about 2 years ago. I even more appreciate the work being done on E17 and hope it all comes to fruition in the near future. Simply: the Enlightenment team has a new vision for the desktop. The desktop, to them, isn't just about helping getting your work done. Its about an 'experience' and introducing efficiency.
I really want to see the Linux desktop move to the next level. I think what we need are some more apps which have a lot more "wow" effect to them. I hope this will mean tying in X.org at the toolkit level or something to give all apps some transparency and extra effects.
Yes, this doesn't help "get my work done". However, on the higher res desktops that we're working in right now, I personally prefer to work in a Word Processor than a text editor to write essays and books. Hopefully this will come soon!!
Perhaps X.org and some other developers will wish to enforce conpyrights and trademarks specifically towards Red Hat.
The effect I propose would be this: force Red Hat to remove any mention of what software is included on the box and on its website. Further, when installing the software and running it, RH cannot mention what software is running, nor can it claim title to the work. It would make them lose a large amount of recognizable software and therefore lead to sales losses.
If RH is simply customizing their OS, its making a quick and easy buck off thousands of other pieces of software they didn't have to code.
No, that'll happen when she forms CarlyCorp. She'll use her Science degree, MBA and medieval history degrees to form a truly 'evil' company. Perhaps a doctorate is in order? Carly becomes Dr. Evil?
Instead of a glider and flying suit, I imagine she will hold the corporate world hostage by catapulting diseased cows into the offices of HP and demanding One Trillion dollars for the insanity to stop.
I am not a former HP and Compaq employee but this is one job I like to see being lost after the mergers. If let to go on, Fionrina would have completely bankrupt the company.
She is a destructive CEO. That is what you get for hiring someone who's first degree is Medieval history!;)
The only reason that the company was "well" off was with her is that it was a relatively strong company to begin with. She in no way, has the ability to build up a company like HP or to re-create it.
Fiorina was too unbalanced in her descisions. She would vote something out, people would be fired, and then she tried to retract saying "That wasn't such a good idea".
As someone who sells HP printers - as well as other brands - its sad to see the current state of their printer division. They are no where near as good as they were. The old printers were built like tanks. It gets harder to recommend their brand (unless someone insists).
Someone with direction and a vision needs to take over.
Just wondering if Sony is keeping exclusivity for this technology? Or, has IBM developed it for them and can use it on (possibly) desktop PCs but not in other consoles?
At least your conspiracy theories are well through out.... to the point of human extinction!! Guess that qualifies you as the next Nostradamus. When is the book being published?
Maybe, if Amazon sells it, they will offer free shipping.
What I think would be cool, if they decide to 'scrap' the Hubble (figuratively speaking) would be to sort of Open-Source it to the public.
For example: Bandwidth considerations aside, perhaps a university could control the telescope and fullfill amateur and public requests for hi-res pictures of a specific point in the sky.
It would be of better use then to either allow the scope to burn up re-entry or let it sit up there unused.
Questions of indecent content always occurs in advertising. Showing too much of a woman's leg on a billboard (..to me, there can never be enough...) or the wording of a simple phrase can offend someone.
Will we see ads with adult content in the sky any time soon? If its cheap, why not advertise cigarettes, alchol, a casino or an escort service in the sky. Afterall, if no one "owns" the sky who is there to fine for its misuse? Yes, I know that marketing types are members of "ethical advertising" groups but, some this has never stopped.
I'm looking for a minimalist distro w/ a faster boot time. I don't need 99% of the apps on many distros... I would just like one w/ firefox to do on-line banking and shopping.
I've been usin Slax and a few others 250 MB but often it takes over 5 minutes to load. This is, virtually the same result on a P3 800 w 640 MB RAM to a 3 GHz A64 w/ 1 GIG RAM. The CD drive is a Lite-on combo @ 40 x or higher read speed.
Yeah, I know about the puzzles. There just aren't enough to do. The last one, as I understand, took 6 months for someone to crack. I'm not looking for something that hard though.
I've read Singh's "The Code Book". I liked a lot of the examples given and found it an interesting read.
I'd like to know if there is a good "exercise" book or website with many puzzles of increasing difficulty, including several that may need a computer. I'd much rather do this as an intellectual exercise than crosswords.
Any ideas? The select few web sites I've found tend to have one simple exercise (monoalphabetic cypher) and then suddenly change to really complex ones.
I played HL2. It was an okay game but Steam slowed down my system and I could never find a way to disable it (even having bought the CD).
ATI just paid Vavle a huge sum of money to optimize HL2 and CT for their video cards. Here's a way to hurt Vavle straight in the pocket book which in turn might fix Steam (and then maybe they'll change steam)... afterall, wasn't it $10 or $12 million they paid?)
Simply do this: Write to ATI directly. Say that the game they sponsored is defective, and you won't buy their cards or Valve software in the future. Valve looses a potential revenue in the future, Nvidia might not touch 'em, nor other sponsors. This also goes for other comapnies who paid for HL2.
Repeat until they fix Steam. Business is business and your customer comes first.
As with many other things, why not just build the damn things more securely to begin with. There's videos of mockup plants absorbing a fighter jet impact. It seems to me though they've done less to protect the plants from physical attack from ground level. Though I'm sure, the government has hidden such secrets well from the public if there are other 'measures'. Frankly, I don't care to know.
I don't much care if a local gun store is built like Fort Nox. I do expect nuclear facilities, chemical, explosive, and military facilities to be though - considering the larger number of population at threat.
I think TFA is slashdotted now and I can't get it. However, why not build more rigourous National secuirty standards before the plants are builts (again, I suspect they are, but given the lives at stake.. more is probably better).
Also, why so long after 9/11? Is it just to cover the threat flavour of the month or does it take 4 years of oversight of the overseers to see what is missing?
I don't think its fair that consumers should have to call on units that haven't shipped. They should either offer something in the automatic form of a credit - and - for those who just bought the system and had it delivered, a credit should be applied. Its the least they could do. You have to consider that they knew about the price cut more than 10 days (presumably months) ahead of time.
I live in Halifax, N.S. Canada for 10 years. In the 10 years since I've left, there's been record snowfalls for 3 years... so much I never would have imagined. Also, hurricanes have been striking with increasing devastation whereas the cold water of the Atlantic usually diminished the hurricane significantly.
California and Vancover have been having record rainfalls (each over 600 mm in a week). There's flooding and landslides.
So far, to me, it sounds a bit like freak weather we get every 50 years or so. If this is a sign of what's to come, due to global warming we're in for a rude wake up call.
What's worse: the brunt of the pollution stems from North American and European industrialization. I cannot image what would happen if India or China had a 2 or 3 car family (let alone, the emerging trend of one car as income increases).
With the increase in industrialization of many countries (in part because of consumer culture) and also because of economic expansion and the lower cost of the automobile (namely, in India and China) what can we do to help stop, slow down or perhaps (if possible?) reverse this trend?
I have a NetMD Minidisc player. I can apprecaite that Sony wants to enforce copyright, etc for its music units. As far as the box advertised 2 years ago, their OpenMG or SonicStage software was supposed to be really easy to use. So I bought a MiniDisc player. Having a RIO PMP 300 previsously, it was an improvment in capacity, quality and battery usage (it lasts much longer on a AA battery).
Having lost my original software disc (2 years ago), I've tried upgrading to newer software (SonicStage 2.0). I've tried for 20 minutes to upload songs to it -- importing music libararies... no go. The worst thing is, is that Real Player was the easiest sofrware to use to update the MiniDisc player. If it weren't for RP, I probably wouldn't have used it (and taken it back). RP update servers seem to be down now, so I can't get the drivers for it.
I warn everyone who thinks of buying Sony, that they use many proprietary formats (the memory stick in cameras, etc). Sony has probably lost many sales from my peers (business and friends alike) as a result. Unless they clean up their act, I cannot recommend them, good as their products might be.
According to an interview (w/ President of EA) I read in Business 2.0 a year or two ago, EA would like to become the next Disney.
It wouldn't suprise me then if EA takes a similar stance on coyright - afterall, Disney still bases most of its sucess on old characters (Mickey, Donald) opting not to create the new. EA is doing the same with their games (Prince of Persia, Medal of Honour, Need for Speed, SIMS.....).
Whatever the next version of office will come out, I think MS will copy some of the features and look and feel (as much as they can and get away with it) of iLife '05.
It looks like Apple did a beautiful job. Now I'm starting to think that getting a MAC would be a good idea.
Let's assume that there are no other life forms in existence and/or there are none that we may reach by radio signal. Is there anything else which can be gained from the SETI program? Is there other knowledge gained, perhaps a deeper understanding of radio communications...?
Drug abuse patterns are also prevalent in spousal abuse. As well many repreat drunk driving cases where there is a vehicular manslaughter or injury also have the same problem. The judges, despite seeing repetitive druge abuse, don't give the maximum penalty.
Not saying this is right or wrong. But there is something here that the law should acknowledge but doesn't enforce.
If impariment gets less time in conviction for violent crimes, then using the same logic, distributing files on the Internet while under the influence should have a lesser penalty as well.
After reading through the thread a few things become apparent:
1) For some this free iPod stuff works. 2) For others, the cueues are too long and companies have to decide who is more deserving. 3) Some posters are discrediting these companies saying they have bad motives.
Could it be that if #1 works, given #2 is short enough, that accomplishing #1 and #2 can be done by using #3 on a/. news post??
This has me thinking. Maybe IBM isn't trying to kill off MS or compete against it right away. Maybe its trying to take on Sun covertly.
Consider this: 1) Sun is using, ever increasingly, commodity hardware. The mobo's etc are definately "custom". I might 'lose' on this point, but consider my other two.
2) Solaris and AIX are probably comparable Unixes but OS X is gaining ground in other markets (NAS, SAN) which Sun couldn't touch because they were too expensive. IBM can push AIX (if it wants to continue it) on the one end for high availabilty server and/or promote Linux more. For the smaller companies with smaller budgets than want low maintenance and easy use Apple is their solution. IBM doesn't lose out since their CPUs are still being bought... which to them is better than having a client buy AMD or Intel.
And more specifically yet, 3) This point specifically had me thinking of the SUN slogan. Sun wanted "their" servers running office computers and the databases. With dummy networked terminals providing a screen, no storage space and a nice looking OS. What if IBM is willing to accept that their servers and OS might not run the network or the desktops.... but THEIR chips will (using OS X as both the desktop and server OS. They still make money on the chip sales.
Wait a sec.... with a mulit-taking VM PPC chip, couldn't the server OS also run the desktop at the same time???? So there you have it. A SUN killer with a fast, high power chip running the corporate desktops in small/med businesses.
Especially if we have to rely on Bruce Willis. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120591/ (Armageddon). Don't think he'd make a smart astronaut. Think he'd rather Die Hard: With a Vengence.
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"... unleashing about 10,000 trillion trillion trillion watts"
Wow! This event released a massive ammount of energy.
With lesser "solar flares" from the Sun causing interference with radio signals and satellites, would this event also have cause disruptions? Also since it reached the atmosphere, did it also change the weather patterns?
(Any signs of a look-alike of Harrison Ford and a hairy ape escaping in a space shuttle?)
I am not a programmer but I've always liked E16 as a Window Manager. It always took more memory but as a desktop user, I was willing to sacrifice for the nice eye candy it presented.
I last used E17 in a rather non-useable state about 2 years ago. I even more appreciate the work being done on E17 and hope it all comes to fruition in the near future. Simply: the Enlightenment team has a new vision for the desktop. The desktop, to them, isn't just about helping getting your work done. Its about an 'experience' and introducing efficiency.
I really want to see the Linux desktop move to the next level. I think what we need are some more apps which have a lot more "wow" effect to them. I hope this will mean tying in X.org at the toolkit level or something to give all apps some transparency and extra effects.
Yes, this doesn't help "get my work done". However, on the higher res desktops that we're working in right now, I personally prefer to work in a Word Processor than a text editor to write essays and books. Hopefully this will come soon!!
Perhaps X.org and some other developers will wish to enforce conpyrights and trademarks specifically towards Red Hat.
The effect I propose would be this: force Red Hat to remove any mention of what software is included on the box and on its website. Further, when installing the software and running it, RH cannot mention what software is running, nor can it claim title to the work. It would make them lose a large amount of recognizable software and therefore lead to sales losses.
If RH is simply customizing their OS, its making a quick and easy buck off thousands of other pieces of software they didn't have to code.
No, that'll happen when she forms CarlyCorp. She'll use her Science degree, MBA and medieval history degrees to form a truly 'evil' company. Perhaps a doctorate is in order? Carly becomes Dr. Evil?
Instead of a glider and flying suit, I imagine she will hold the corporate world hostage by catapulting diseased cows into the offices of HP and demanding One Trillion dollars for the insanity to stop.
I am not a former HP and Compaq employee but this is one job I like to see being lost after the mergers. If let to go on, Fionrina would have completely bankrupt the company.
;)
She is a destructive CEO. That is what you get for hiring someone who's first degree is Medieval history!
The only reason that the company was "well" off was with her is that it was a relatively strong company to begin with. She in no way, has the ability to build up a company like HP or to re-create it.
Fiorina was too unbalanced in her descisions. She would vote something out, people would be fired, and then she tried to retract saying "That wasn't such a good idea".
As someone who sells HP printers - as well as other brands - its sad to see the current state of their printer division. They are no where near as good as they were. The old printers were built like tanks. It gets harder to recommend their brand (unless someone insists).
Someone with direction and a vision needs to take over.
Just wondering if Sony is keeping exclusivity for this technology? Or, has IBM developed it for them and can use it on (possibly) desktop PCs but not in other consoles?
At least your conspiracy theories are well through out .... to the point of human extinction!! Guess that qualifies you as the next Nostradamus. When is the book being published?
Maybe, if Amazon sells it, they will offer free shipping.
What I think would be cool, if they decide to 'scrap' the Hubble (figuratively speaking) would be to sort of Open-Source it to the public.
For example:
Bandwidth considerations aside, perhaps a university could control the telescope and fullfill amateur and public requests for hi-res pictures of a specific point in the sky.
It would be of better use then to either allow the scope to burn up re-entry or let it sit up there unused.
Questions of indecent content always occurs in advertising. Showing too much of a woman's leg on a billboard (..to me, there can never be enough ...) or the wording of a simple phrase can offend someone.
Will we see ads with adult content in the sky any time soon? If its cheap, why not advertise cigarettes, alchol, a casino or an escort service in the sky. Afterall, if no one "owns" the sky who is there to fine for its misuse? Yes, I know that marketing types are members of "ethical advertising" groups but, some this has never stopped.
I'm looking for a minimalist distro w/ a faster boot time. I don't need 99% of the apps on many distros ... I would just like one w/ firefox to do on-line banking and shopping.
I've been usin Slax and a few others 250 MB but often it takes over 5 minutes to load. This is, virtually the same result on a P3 800 w 640 MB RAM to a 3 GHz A64 w/ 1 GIG RAM. The CD drive is a Lite-on combo @ 40 x or higher read speed.
Ideas?
Yeah, I know about the puzzles. There just aren't enough to do. The last one, as I understand, took 6 months for someone to crack. I'm not looking for something that hard though.
I've read Singh's "The Code Book". I liked a lot of the examples given and found it an interesting read.
I'd like to know if there is a good "exercise" book or website with many puzzles of increasing difficulty, including several that may need a computer. I'd much rather do this as an intellectual exercise than crosswords.
Any ideas? The select few web sites I've found tend to have one simple exercise (monoalphabetic cypher) and then suddenly change to really complex ones.
I played HL2. It was an okay game but Steam slowed down my system and I could never find a way to disable it (even having bought the CD).
ATI just paid Vavle a huge sum of money to optimize HL2 and CT for their video cards. Here's a way to hurt Vavle straight in the pocket book which in turn might fix Steam (and then maybe they'll change steam)... afterall, wasn't it $10 or $12 million they paid?)
Simply do this: Write to ATI directly. Say that the game they sponsored is defective, and you won't buy their cards or Valve software in the future. Valve looses a potential revenue in the future, Nvidia might not touch 'em, nor other sponsors. This also goes for other comapnies who paid for HL2.
Repeat until they fix Steam. Business is business and your customer comes first.
As with many other things, why not just build the damn things more securely to begin with. There's videos of mockup plants absorbing a fighter jet impact. It seems to me though they've done less to protect the plants from physical attack from ground level. Though I'm sure, the government has hidden such secrets well from the public if there are other 'measures'. Frankly, I don't care to know.
.. more is probably better).
I don't much care if a local gun store is built like Fort Nox. I do expect nuclear facilities, chemical, explosive, and military facilities to be though - considering the larger number of population at threat.
I think TFA is slashdotted now and I can't get it. However, why not build more rigourous National secuirty standards before the plants are builts (again, I suspect they are, but given the lives at stake
Also, why so long after 9/11? Is it just to cover the threat flavour of the month or does it take 4 years of oversight of the overseers to see what is missing?
I don't think its fair that consumers should have to call on units that haven't shipped. They should either offer something in the automatic form of a credit - and - for those who just bought the system and had it delivered, a credit should be applied. Its the least they could do. You have to consider that they knew about the price cut more than 10 days (presumably months) ahead of time.
I live in Halifax, N.S. Canada for 10 years. In the 10 years since I've left, there's been record snowfalls for 3 years ... so much I never would have imagined. Also, hurricanes have been striking with increasing devastation whereas the cold water of the Atlantic usually diminished the hurricane significantly.
California and Vancover have been having record rainfalls (each over 600 mm in a week). There's flooding and landslides.
So far, to me, it sounds a bit like freak weather we get every 50 years or so. If this is a sign of what's to come, due to global warming we're in for a rude wake up call.
What's worse: the brunt of the pollution stems from North American and European industrialization. I cannot image what would happen if India or China had a 2 or 3 car family (let alone, the emerging trend of one car as income increases).
With the increase in industrialization of many countries (in part because of consumer culture) and also because of economic expansion and the lower cost of the automobile (namely, in India and China) what can we do to help stop, slow down or perhaps (if possible?) reverse this trend?
Dupe or not, I didn't comment last week so....
... no go. The worst thing is, is that Real Player was the easiest sofrware to use to update the MiniDisc player. If it weren't for RP, I probably wouldn't have used it (and taken it back). RP update servers seem to be down now, so I can't get the drivers for it.
I have a NetMD Minidisc player. I can apprecaite that Sony wants to enforce copyright, etc for its music units. As far as the box advertised 2 years ago, their OpenMG or SonicStage software was supposed to be really easy to use. So I bought a MiniDisc player. Having a RIO PMP 300 previsously, it was an improvment in capacity, quality and battery usage (it lasts much longer on a AA battery).
Having lost my original software disc (2 years ago), I've tried upgrading to newer software (SonicStage 2.0). I've tried for 20 minutes to upload songs to it -- importing music libararies
I warn everyone who thinks of buying Sony, that they use many proprietary formats (the memory stick in cameras, etc). Sony has probably lost many sales from my peers (business and friends alike) as a result. Unless they clean up their act, I cannot recommend them, good as their products might be.
According to an interview (w/ President of EA) I read in Business 2.0 a year or two ago, EA would like to become the next Disney.
It wouldn't suprise me then if EA takes a similar stance on coyright - afterall, Disney still bases most of its sucess on old characters (Mickey, Donald) opting not to create the new. EA is doing the same with their games (Prince of Persia, Medal of Honour, Need for Speed, SIMS.....).
Whatever the next version of office will come out, I think MS will copy some of the features and look and feel (as much as they can and get away with it) of iLife '05.
It looks like Apple did a beautiful job. Now I'm starting to think that getting a MAC would be a good idea.
Let's assume that there are no other life forms in existence and/or there are none that we may reach by radio signal. Is there anything else which can be gained from the SETI program? Is there other knowledge gained, perhaps a deeper understanding of radio communications...?
Drug abuse patterns are also prevalent in spousal abuse. As well many repreat drunk driving cases where there is a vehicular manslaughter or injury also have the same problem. The judges, despite seeing repetitive druge abuse, don't give the maximum penalty.
Not saying this is right or wrong. But there is something here that the law should acknowledge but doesn't enforce.
If impariment gets less time in conviction for violent crimes, then using the same logic, distributing files on the Internet while under the influence should have a lesser penalty as well.
After reading through the thread a few things become apparent:
/. news post??
1) For some this free iPod stuff works.
2) For others, the cueues are too long and companies have to decide who is more deserving.
3) Some posters are discrediting these companies saying they have bad motives.
Could it be that if #1 works, given #2 is short enough, that accomplishing #1 and #2 can be done by using #3 on a
Sun's slogan is "The Network is the computer".
... which to them is better than having a client buy AMD or Intel.
This has me thinking. Maybe IBM isn't trying to kill off MS or compete against it right away. Maybe its trying to take on Sun covertly.
Consider this:
1) Sun is using, ever increasingly, commodity hardware. The mobo's etc are definately "custom".
I might 'lose' on this point, but consider my other two.
2) Solaris and AIX are probably comparable Unixes but OS X is gaining ground in other markets (NAS, SAN) which Sun couldn't touch because they were too expensive. IBM can push AIX (if it wants to continue it) on the one end for high availabilty server and/or promote Linux more. For the smaller companies with smaller budgets than want low maintenance and easy use Apple is their solution. IBM doesn't lose out since their CPUs are still being bought
And more specifically yet,
3) This point specifically had me thinking of the SUN slogan. Sun wanted "their" servers running office computers and the databases. With dummy networked terminals providing a screen, no storage space and a nice looking OS. What if IBM is willing to accept that their servers and OS might not run the network or the desktops.... but THEIR chips will (using OS X as both the desktop and server OS. They still make money on the chip sales.
Wait a sec.... with a mulit-taking VM PPC chip, couldn't the server OS also run the desktop at the same time???? So there you have it. A SUN killer with a fast, high power chip running the corporate desktops in small/med businesses.
Especially if we have to rely on Bruce Willis. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120591/ (Armageddon). Don't think he'd make a smart astronaut. Think he'd rather Die Hard: With a Vengence.