I still remember the class I took as an elective in college. You know...the one entitled Prehistoric Civilizations. I thought, neato, we can read up on cool Civilizations that weren't really written down that well...you know like Mayans, aboriginal peoples of the americas...who the white man snuffed out...the original peoples of south america before the europeans came....
No...I was mistaken. This was a class about 100% Evolutionary theory. Really...the teacher even looked like some intermediary step between humans and _whatever_.
We spent an entire semester memorizing how such and such fossil, derived of one single partial jaw piece, and two teeth...found 50 miles away from eachother, in different strata...are related to eachother...and how it proves evolution.
Skipped the part about how the guy that discovered them...yeah, the important world changing scientist...yeah, he was discredited as a complete fraud...and admitted to it.
But this information is still gladly taught to people that wish to believe in evolution no matter what...I presume because they are afraid of the alternatives.
Really, I don't much care what a person believes in, but I really hated spending $1200.00 tuition money for a class that I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt was teaching lies...lies the actual researchers/scientist admitted to.
Flame mod me. I dare you moderators. Flame me for injecting my life encounters with higher education and fraudulent teachings
I had some good things come out of that class, but only 40% or so of the material was legit and 'accepted' by the greater scientific community.
The scientists used their theory to not only predict the existence of such a transitional species, but also where, geologically, it would be located. And guess what - they found what they were looking for exactly where they were looking for it! Talk about predictive power!
Amazing how similar thinking can also prove just about any other faith based religion in the world. I know exactly what the bible says about foobar and I can see it in exactly this spot!! I know exactly what confucious says about foo, and look, it happened in japan on exactly the right day! The Omega code is absolutely true, the world will end on date in the past and it will be started by this country taking oil from this country.
The sooner we realize that faith in evolution is no more scientific than those damn bible thumping fools, then the sooner we can just quit arguing and realize that our way is not the way.
You can no more observe the beginning of time, and the exact way evolution happened than you can tell whether I am wearing pants or not. You aren't here to watch me make my post, so you can never really know...yes my pants have my skin cells on them, yes they are carbon dated to have carbon in the cells exactly yea old, but you can never prove beyond a shadow of __person's__ doubt that I truly was, or was not, wearing any pants while posting.
Flame away diephobic moderators...flame away.
I actually realize the things I believe are just that.:)
This is a hobby OS. It is the developement tree for RHEL. What is so hard to figure out here? It is not a beginner distro, it is a testing ground for new ideas and functions. The entire point is to test things, and separated by name so that people like your professor cannot sue RedHat when something doesn't work as it should.
Point release version numbers don't really apply to something that is perpetually beta. There are dozens of Fedora based distros...ever notice that they all make changes/mods for better security/hardwaredetection/userinterface/etc..
I know this is a flame, and some fedora fanboys will mod be down for this and flame me, but please...do look around> this is a perpetual beta. If you want the 'good stuff' pay for it, or download something that has another couple of steps of tweaking built in.
bug...not really a bug. Just a two keystroke mistake. It isn't a bug in any program or anything. My appologies for not being so up on fedora's policies...its a simple reconfiguration. One that I wish more distros would auto-compile into the kernel, but sadly many don't.
I believe you will find that the kernel that is autocompiled beforehand will not accept the binary drivers...just like any other non-custom-built kernel that leaves out that option.
Rebuild your kernel per directions found on several sites, install the drivers per nvidia's instructions...
This comes with the virtual machine support now I believe. I look forward to wiping my current win2k install and installing virtual machine.
I like the idea of being able to do some extensive testing on virtual machine setup, run win2k, run FC5, run gentoo, and probably ubuntu too. All at the same time.
Its sort of hard to believe that even Microsoft would launch something this obviously flawed. I know that microsoft is primarily a software company and that they don't have much experience with hardware, but any moron thats ever built a computer at all knows that modern CPU's and GPU's need big fat heatsinks...with thermal compound in between.
Like the article says, they believe the silver foil stuff is supposed to replace the compound...but if it doesn't work well enough...wow.
I think there must be more to the overheating problem. Nobody could possibly be stupid enough to allow something that simple to overheat the unit. Quality control issues are a likely culprit, but not something as glaringly obvious as a poorly designed crackpot idea of bare metal on that overpriced and fairly important little wafer of sand.
I don't think the answer is this easy. Perhaps this is something that adds to the overheating problem, but I don't think its the root cause.
Software updates...how about an Xbox Live software update that underclocks the GPU for them...so that it doesn't overheat and you can play games in beautiful 20fps glory.:)
Novel does indeed have excellent name recognition: unfortunately the name recognition has been tainted over the last 12 years by people struggling to migrate AWAY from the platform and on to this rediculous microsoft BS.
Thier memories do include Novel as being a necessary and integral part of their windows installs and such, and it was bomb-resistant and sturdy, it was not a happy happy taffy eating time.
We've spent 10 years migrating away from this and now you want us to migrate back? WTF?!
And my parent post is right: SUSE does have a fairly strong name recognition in the tech field, and it isn't a negative one, in fact it it not even remotely negative: it is purely positive, and slightly intriguing.
Positive and intriguing is far better than bad nightmares for me.
I'll take Suse product names over Novel any day.
And yes, I like Solaris better than SunOS too. Its more classy.
//quote/ If you see the disk activity LED lit up a lot, you probably need more memory.//quote/
wow.
Do you watch the blinking lights in the communications closets to calculate out how much the network switches are pushing though and whether or now you need to upgrade to full gigabit or fiber to the desktop?
Those methods are just about as accurate. Please don't become my superior and order me to install this...I will rebel and cause a mutiny.
I know that I have no solid numerical facts for this, but Armagedtron looks and feels far smoother, and graphically looks better on the box while running under gentoo than when running win2k.
Good old boys should sometimes stay inside watching tv, then get up and go to the bar.
The new splash of paint he put on was indeed absolutely mandatory - corrosion Control is a big deal in towers. You must grind off all the rust you can find, and place a good sealing paint meant for this purpose on it, completely cover everything. Use galvanized bolts, and preferably inspect them occasionally. I know its hard at home, but it should be done at least every few years so that you don't end up with a tower section in your living room.
Lightning rods....Lightning rods don't keep your tower from being hit. In fact they increase the likelyhood of them getting hit as it brings 'the ground' closer to the cloud that is making the big booms. The point of a lighting rod is to provide a path of least resistance for all those lightning strikes so that it goes to ground through the damn rod instead of through your computer equipment.
While this may be news to newsweek readers...I think I've known about this technology for around 2 years now. Maybe its finally getting to market just now, but really, is this news to us?
From TFA:
a British startup, is working on a flexible display the size of an 8 1/2-in.-by-11-in. piece of paper that can receive books, news, or e-mail wirelessly. It's partnering with Japan's NTT DoCoMo (DCM ) and plans to have a product on the market by early 2008.
Now, a paper airplane that can change colors as it flies across the room...that may be something special.
Instead of letting some moronic students suck bandwidth...we would have gotten expelled. Seriously, go to a 'normal' university with rules and such where 'free thinking' is not so purvasive and you get in trouble for things like this.
While I do think its a waste of time, I also think it was worth it for the entertainment value to the people involved...whether it should be newsworthy that some nimrods put a couch on top of their mower or not...
wow. This is sad. Can't wait till these guys get into the real world and try to get jobs...what have you done?...err...well I went to MIT...but really I'm most proud of my extracurriculars...reallY? did you help the homeless or solve the problems of some inner city children?... no I built a couch that could go down the sidewalk, jee I loved that couch...
but not because of some moronic need to protect the innocent. Seriously, their game developement cycle is horrible. I have 5 games purchased from them, all have fatal flaws, all have stupid issues with ai or somethingrather that make the game unplayable after a short time. All would be easily fixable, if Activision gave a damn. I just plain won't buy their products anymore because they suck. I've been down that road too many times.
This is a very neat process that I would enjoy having the ability to root around in. Very nice tool, and looks like it has created some excellent data.
I would enjoy seeing some of the nastier data put forth in a simple list so that I can add them to my banned domain listing on my firewall.
Currently, I knock down ads(from the ~1800 most active servers), with the wonderful help of the following gentleman.
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The number of repetative posts on slashdot in the last few weeks really is impressive. This 'story' ran just a few days ago and got thoroughly torn to bits. How many times must we beat the dead horse?
The point, my good friend, is that the company is paying you to sit there and answer the phone. That costs money. That is the only point, and a sizeable addition to their budget, which may slow some down.
I wish this was everywhere. Not necessarily because I want to talk to every advertiser, but because I would love to be able to talk to these jerks sometimes. Really, if you got a spam email, wouldn't it be better if you could then just click, and be connected with them and tell them what you think about their -bodypart- enhancement, or their new guaranteed -success at something-?
This would be an excellent feedback mechanism to increase the cost of internet advertising so that every hokey jerk out there cannot bombard me mindlessly. I enjoy google ads, I like those for the most part, and the do work. Targeted ads work. I wish I could provide feedback to the dimwads that do not target their marketing. I wish I could feeback to those that abuse my bandwidth.
Socialistic programming. We could all bunch up in our own little socialist cities, with public funds paying for heat, electricity, and our own segways!
Used to be a time we'd go to war against things such as this communistic/socialistic ideal....
1) Can't print envelopes directly 2) No label making support
These are just two little additions that need to be made. I keep going back to 'Open With - Microsoft Word' because when I click on the documents that I need to create labels and envelopes with I can't do it in the (now default) OO.o. It would be really great if I could uninstall Microsoft office completely...oh wait...then I'd be able to dump windows completely too! I am holding on to all this stuff due to my laziness in writing envelopes...oh yeah, and the need for them to look professional and well done. -hence run them thru the printer.
How exactly does a society/world transition to this new 'wealth' and ease of living? Think about it:
Our lives are spent going to work, to earn a salary(and hopefully enjoy it). Eventually we will have these super neat technologies to assist our work, and then slowly replace us. How does a society transition smoothly from a working society to a leasure society?
Some people will be out of work entirely...some because they can afford to not work anymore...but many others because there simply won't be any more work. There is no such thing as 'earning a living' anymore.
This will create what is essentially a communal or socialist utopia...but these things don't happen overnight. Who will govern the facilitate this change? There is no such intellect or governing body capable of this transition in the world today...or even in your imagination.
Really, millions of people not working...and not earning money...all with a moderately reduced urge to protect property because it is now so 'cheap' and easily replaced.
I see the transition to this as failing, and flooding into a bloody war of the haves against the have-nots...and also all the have-nots against other have-nots.
This would become a global civil war, and eventually people will die. Specific technologies will be destroyed (factories and producers of these super nano builders, etc. etc.).
How does this utopian vision come about?
Do we test it on a first come first serve basis in a model community somewhere in Ohio or Madagascar? I don't forsee this happening and actually succeeding because just outside the borders there will be have-nots that are jealous and angry.
I don't think humanity can muster enough compassion and love to make this utopian dream come true.
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No...I was mistaken. This was a class about 100% Evolutionary theory. Really...the teacher even looked like some intermediary step between humans and _whatever_.
We spent an entire semester memorizing how such and such fossil, derived of one single partial jaw piece, and two teeth...found 50 miles away from eachother, in different strata...are related to eachother...and how it proves evolution.
Skipped the part about how the guy that discovered them...yeah, the important world changing scientist...yeah, he was discredited as a complete fraud...and admitted to it.
But this information is still gladly taught to people that wish to believe in evolution no matter what...I presume because they are afraid of the alternatives.Really, I don't much care what a person believes in, but I really hated spending $1200.00 tuition money for a class that I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt was teaching lies...lies the actual researchers/scientist admitted to.
Flame mod me. I dare you moderators. Flame me for injecting my life encounters with higher education and fraudulent teachings
I had some good things come out of that class, but only 40% or so of the material was legit and 'accepted' by the greater scientific community.Amazing how similar thinking can also prove just about any other faith based religion in the world. I know exactly what the bible says about foobar and I can see it in exactly this spot!! I know exactly what confucious says about foo, and look, it happened in japan on exactly the right day! The Omega code is absolutely true, the world will end on date in the past and it will be started by this country taking oil from this country.
The sooner we realize that faith in evolution is no more scientific than those damn bible thumping fools, then the sooner we can just quit arguing and realize that our way is not the way.
You can no more observe the beginning of time, and the exact way evolution happened than you can tell whether I am wearing pants or not. You aren't here to watch me make my post, so you can never really know...yes my pants have my skin cells on them, yes they are carbon dated to have carbon in the cells exactly yea old, but you can never prove beyond a shadow of __person's__ doubt that I truly was, or was not, wearing any pants while posting.
Flame away diephobic moderators...flame away.
I actually realize the things I believe are just that.I for one welcome our new feminine slashdot overlords!
This is a hobby OS. It is the developement tree for RHEL. What is so hard to figure out here? It is not a beginner distro, it is a testing ground for new ideas and functions. The entire point is to test things, and separated by name so that people like your professor cannot sue RedHat when something doesn't work as it should.
Point release version numbers don't really apply to something that is perpetually beta. There are dozens of Fedora based distros...ever notice that they all make changes/mods for better security/hardwaredetection/userinterface/etc..
I know this is a flame, and some fedora fanboys will mod be down for this and flame me, but please...do look around> this is a perpetual beta. If you want the 'good stuff' pay for it, or download something that has another couple of steps of tweaking built in.
Mod parent post up
bug...not really a bug. Just a two keystroke mistake. It isn't a bug in any program or anything. My appologies for not being so up on fedora's policies...its a simple reconfiguration. One that I wish more distros would auto-compile into the kernel, but sadly many don't.
I believe you will find that the kernel that is autocompiled beforehand will not accept the binary drivers...just like any other non-custom-built kernel that leaves out that option.
Rebuild your kernel per directions found on several sites, install the drivers per nvidia's instructions...
game. xgl. whatever.
This comes with the virtual machine support now I believe. I look forward to wiping my current win2k install and installing virtual machine.
I like the idea of being able to do some extensive testing on virtual machine setup, run win2k, run FC5, run gentoo, and probably ubuntu too. All at the same time.
Very slick.
I look forward to it.
Its sort of hard to believe that even Microsoft would launch something this obviously flawed. I know that microsoft is primarily a software company and that they don't have much experience with hardware, but any moron thats ever built a computer at all knows that modern CPU's and GPU's need big fat heatsinks...with thermal compound in between.
:)
Like the article says, they believe the silver foil stuff is supposed to replace the compound...but if it doesn't work well enough...wow.
I think there must be more to the overheating problem. Nobody could possibly be stupid enough to allow something that simple to overheat the unit. Quality control issues are a likely culprit, but not something as glaringly obvious as a poorly designed crackpot idea of bare metal on that overpriced and fairly important little wafer of sand.
I don't think the answer is this easy. Perhaps this is something that adds to the overheating problem, but I don't think its the root cause.
Software updates...how about an Xbox Live software update that underclocks the GPU for them...so that it doesn't overheat and you can play games in beautiful 20fps glory.
I agree with this.
Novel does indeed have excellent name recognition: unfortunately the name recognition has been tainted over the last 12 years by people struggling to migrate AWAY from the platform and on to this rediculous microsoft BS.
Thier memories do include Novel as being a necessary and integral part of their windows installs and such, and it was bomb-resistant and sturdy, it was not a happy happy taffy eating time.
We've spent 10 years migrating away from this and now you want us to migrate back? WTF?!
And my parent post is right: SUSE does have a fairly strong name recognition in the tech field, and it isn't a negative one, in fact it it not even remotely negative: it is purely positive, and slightly intriguing.
Positive and intriguing is far better than bad nightmares for me.
I'll take Suse product names over Novel any day.
And yes, I like Solaris better than SunOS too. Its more classy.
//quote/ If you see the disk activity LED lit up a lot, you probably need more memory. //quote/
wow.
Do you watch the blinking lights in the communications closets to calculate out how much the network switches are pushing though and whether or now you need to upgrade to full gigabit or fiber to the desktop?
Those methods are just about as accurate. Please don't become my superior and order me to install this...I will rebel and cause a mutiny.
I know that I have no solid numerical facts for this, but Armagedtron looks and feels far smoother, and graphically looks better on the box while running under gentoo than when running win2k.
Just my 2 cents
Good old boys should sometimes stay inside watching tv, then get up and go to the bar.
The new splash of paint he put on was indeed absolutely mandatory - corrosion Control is a big deal in towers. You must grind off all the rust you can find, and place a good sealing paint meant for this purpose on it, completely cover everything. Use galvanized bolts, and preferably inspect them occasionally. I know its hard at home, but it should be done at least every few years so that you don't end up with a tower section in your living room.
Lightning rods....Lightning rods don't keep your tower from being hit. In fact they increase the likelyhood of them getting hit as it brings 'the ground' closer to the cloud that is making the big booms. The point of a lighting rod is to provide a path of least resistance for all those lightning strikes so that it goes to ground through the damn rod instead of through your computer equipment.
Erg. Simpletons.
While this may be news to newsweek readers...I think I've known about this technology for around 2 years now. Maybe its finally getting to market just now, but really, is this news to us?
From TFA:Now, a paper airplane that can change colors as it flies across the room...that may be something special.
that actually thought it was a well done article?
/.
Seems a bit better than some of the journalist's moronic rantings that I've seen lately on
Good food for thought, good examples, good examples of the new functions that replace some of the fubar functions in 3 & 4.
Instead of letting some moronic students suck bandwidth...we would have gotten expelled. Seriously, go to a 'normal' university with rules and such where 'free thinking' is not so purvasive and you get in trouble for things like this.
...err...well I went to MIT...but really I'm most proud of my extracurriculars...reallY? did you help the homeless or solve the problems of some inner city children? ... no I built a couch that could go down the sidewalk, jee I loved that couch...
While I do think its a waste of time, I also think it was worth it for the entertainment value to the people involved...whether it should be newsworthy that some nimrods put a couch on top of their mower or not...
wow. This is sad. Can't wait till these guys get into the real world and try to get jobs...what have you done?
but not because of some moronic need to protect the innocent. Seriously, their game developement cycle is horrible. I have 5 games purchased from them, all have fatal flaws, all have stupid issues with ai or somethingrather that make the game unplayable after a short time. All would be easily fixable, if Activision gave a damn. I just plain won't buy their products anymore because they suck. I've been down that road too many times.
I would enjoy seeing some of the nastier data put forth in a simple list so that I can add them to my banned domain listing on my firewall.
Currently, I knock down ads(from the ~1800 most active servers), with the wonderful help of the following gentleman.
For the Lazy...
Now, about that warez/malware/stupid screensaver and other utilities list....
Does it really need to be super smooth and mirror like?
I'm sure if it gave it a huge bonus in range, they would make golf balls with mirror finishes.
Perhaps we could dimple the surfaces of the tube...and achieve warp 1.
Really...or do dimples only work on spherical objects?
The number of repetative posts on slashdot in the last few weeks really is impressive. This 'story' ran just a few days ago and got thoroughly torn to bits. How many times must we beat the dead horse?
The point, my good friend, is that the company is paying you to sit there and answer the phone. That costs money. That is the only point, and a sizeable addition to their budget, which may slow some down.
I wish this was everywhere. Not necessarily because I want to talk to every advertiser, but because I would love to be able to talk to these jerks sometimes. Really, if you got a spam email, wouldn't it be better if you could then just click, and be connected with them and tell them what you think about their -bodypart- enhancement, or their new guaranteed -success at something-? This would be an excellent feedback mechanism to increase the cost of internet advertising so that every hokey jerk out there cannot bombard me mindlessly. I enjoy google ads, I like those for the most part, and the do work. Targeted ads work. I wish I could provide feedback to the dimwads that do not target their marketing. I wish I could feeback to those that abuse my bandwidth.
Socialistic programming. We could all bunch up in our own little socialist cities, with public funds paying for heat, electricity, and our own segways!
Used to be a time we'd go to war against things such as this communistic/socialistic ideal....
2 things that really really bug me about OO.0
1) Can't print envelopes directly
2) No label making support
These are just two little additions that need to be made. I keep going back to 'Open With - Microsoft Word' because when I click on the documents that I need to create labels and envelopes with I can't do it in the (now default) OO.o. It would be really great if I could uninstall Microsoft office completely...oh wait...then I'd be able to dump windows completely too! I am holding on to all this stuff due to my laziness in writing envelopes...oh yeah, and the need for them to look professional and well done. -hence run them thru the printer.
Our lives are spent going to work, to earn a salary(and hopefully enjoy it). Eventually we will have these super neat technologies to assist our work, and then slowly replace us. How does a society transition smoothly from a working society to a leasure society?
Some people will be out of work entirely...some because they can afford to not work anymore...but many others because there simply won't be any more work. There is no such thing as 'earning a living' anymore.
This will create what is essentially a communal or socialist utopia...but these things don't happen overnight. Who will govern the facilitate this change? There is no such intellect or governing body capable of this transition in the world today...or even in your imagination.
Really, millions of people not working...and not earning money...all with a moderately reduced urge to protect property because it is now so 'cheap' and easily replaced.
I see the transition to this as failing, and flooding into a bloody war of the haves against the have-nots...and also all the have-nots against other have-nots.
This would become a global civil war, and eventually people will die. Specific technologies will be destroyed (factories and producers of these super nano builders, etc. etc.). How does this utopian vision come about? Do we test it on a first come first serve basis in a model community somewhere in Ohio or Madagascar? I don't forsee this happening and actually succeeding because just outside the borders there will be have-nots that are jealous and angry.
I don't think humanity can muster enough compassion and love to make this utopian dream come true.