Scheduling isn't scientific data. Excel doesn't have near the precision or consistency that's needed to really work with it. I have numerous examples from my work with just product data of Excel screwing up interpretations of data. I really wouldn't trust it with significant data.
There's a difference between Iraq War spending and military research spending. We've spent MUCH less on military research than funding the endless war. I don't think you know what you're talking about... military research funding = good. Military operational funding = good when we have something worthwhile we're doing. Right now military operational funding = bad.
Welcome to fucked up ACPI interfaces. HP/Compaq are notorious for it. Getting a "standard" system that isn't hacked up by HP or Dell makes it much easier to get a functioning system. I bought a notebook that has a Core 2 Duo 7400, GeForce 7600GT and 2GB of RAM from a whitebox reseller that has had absolutely no problems with any installs, and it's faster than most of the "name brand" notebooks. And this Lenovo T61, I have multiple screens (switching on the fly), HD video and all my Java work stuff, random videos and music working on it with very minimal work. Less work than it took to get Windows understanding there were two screens on the same machine. It does depend quite a bit on the hardware you use, and when I use "cheap", I don't mean price. I mean design.
The problem is that if I give you a model, there's no guarantee that it'll have a supported chipset. Manufactureres like Netgear and Linksys are famous for changing the chipsets, but not the model number. So one may have an Atheros chip (very well supported), and another may have a Broadcom chip (very not supported), but both be called a "Wireless Super-N USB Dongle" on the box. It doesn't matter with Windows since they ship drivers with the hardware, but what it amounts to is that they give you the cheapest chipset they can buy that marginally works, just to make a bit more profit off their standard pricing model.
In short, no, I can't tell you which ones from a store will work. But then again, I had the same issues trying to get a wireless dongle working with Windows 2000 around 2003. It just wasn't supported by Windows. Getting a properly supported dongle changed that.
And since I'm feeling nice, this Belkin adapter should work out of the box with Ubuntu 8.04 (make sure you get the correct model), A very common DWL-122 should also work if you make sure linux-wlan-ng is installed (plug in for a few minutes, it's not a default package), and this Netgear dongle should also work straight out of the box.
Naah. They're handled through freedesktop.org interfaces. NetworkManager, powernowd, all that just provide hooks that KDE and Gnome take advantage of with their controller widgets. It's the same underpinnings, just a different fascia depending on the DE.
4.0 was advertised as a "base" platform for application developers and bleeding-edge adopters, a feature-freeze for the KDE 4.0 frameworks, not necessarily a feature-complete desktop environment. Was there somewhere or someone that said otherwise? If so, they should be slapped with a trout.
I know KBCO here plays "Alice's Restaurant" every year on November 25th... because it's the only Thanksgiving song that really exists to the best of my knowledge;)
I think you're misunderstanding... NOTHING "just works" everywhere, but more often than not Linux "just works" when Windows doesn't. The main reason things don't just work for you is that you probably have cheap hardware with a broken ACPI table or something, or perhaps wireless or graphics chips from a company that isn't very forthcoming with specs. If you have good hardware, Linux does "just work". It's like saying "Ha, I told you it wasn't a swimming pool!" when you haven't filled it with water.
Virtualbox. I run Windows inside of it on my Linux laptop for the occasional need to run Excel or Word natively, where OpenOffice.org doesn't cut it (basically only with our VBA plugin). It's worth it... you can even back up an image of Windows for when it inevitably craters, and use a shared folder that Windows can access but is hosted on the Linux partition. I've been thoroughly impressed with it so far.
PC gaming is becoming ever more marginal, and DX10 isn't worth the pain. The bleeding-edge gamers are split on the issue... they like the pretty DX10 effects, but they're also the power users that the increased media limitations of Vista affect the most. The people who run Windows Media Center and couldn't record NBC programs. The people who have troubles getting BluRay video to work on their expensive monitors (and probably never will without resorting to piracy). Vista has done so many things wrong that it's only saving grace might be DX10 like you say, and even that is alienating the very people who are most likely to use it.
Linux-based ecosystem seems to be focused more directly on competitive and tangible improvements that (maybe surprisingly) tend to reflect the desire of the user. Why is that surprising? The neat thing about Linux is that the developer IS the user, so the improvements the user wants are the ones that the developer puts in. There is no marketing department, no licensing bullshit, no cross-advertising or bundling agreements. Just software that is developed for a purpose.
Ubuntu "just works" on proper, supported, non-cut-rate hardware. Vista's problems are more systemic, and it doesn't matter WHAT hardware you run on, you'll run into the limitations of it unless you only check your email and browse the Internet, and deal with the minor technical glitches like not working with HDMI or random blocking of, say, NBC broadcasts.
I'll take some slight inconvenience like needing to get a new wireless card to know that I'm not being prepped to be screwed over.
They've had plenty of time. The problem isn't that NVidia hasn't had time to get their act together, the problem is that Vista introduces all kinds of requirements to the driver model for "content protection" that they're required to implement. They've pushed back on a few issues, but the fact is that they're still spending more of their time on making the system so that the user can't do anything that is "disallowed" by whatever media company cares to flip the bits, rather than working on actual functionality. The driver situation will NOT get better with time, given the requirements that they need to meet.
You might check the blackberry forums. I have my Blackberry 8800 working as a bluetooth modem, so if the E70 has a similar feature set, it may be worthwhile to at least poke at it. Basically you have to set up the correct bluetooth channel and MAC address for the phone, and then set up your ppp client to use that device.
For example, my/etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf looks like this: rfcomm0 {
# Automatically bind the device at startup
bind yes;
# Bluetooth address of the device
device 00:00:00:00:00:00; # (put your MAC in here)
# RFCOMM channel for the connection
channel 1;
# Description of the connection
comment "T-Mobile Pitaberry"; }
First use your bluetooth daemon to pair your phone with the computer, then do an "hcitool scan" to find your phone's address, and then an "sdptool search dun" in order to find the channel needed for dial-up networking. Put in your network's dial-up info into your ppp daemon (search for AT&T bluetooth modem linux or similar on Google), and you should be good to go.
You don't need to look for kids crossing the road or a police car or ambulance coming up behind you on a NASCAR or Formula 1 track. They also have radios in their helmets to help keep them appraised of the track situations as well as to strategize, something that wouldn't be in a consumer car (hook it up to an external microphone or something? Like lots of people out there who can barely keep their vehicles running would spring for that). Completely different set of circumstances. Thanks for playing, though. Helmets would cause a lot more problems than they would solve in the average person's car.
I never said I wouldn't help him;) I just said I wouldn't bend over backwards to do so. If you take advantage of me and then get yourself in a situation where you need me, I'm not going to feel terribly generous with either scheduling or payment.
For example, if there's an urgent project that needs done and you have been good to me? I'll work my life around to make it happen. If you haven't, I might consider working it in, if the barbecue that weekend doesn't sound like a better time than staring at a monitor.
Because wearing a helmet severely impedes vision and hearing on top of what just being in a car already does? Wearing a helmet in a car is profoundly stupid and is more of a danger to the occupants and the other people on the road than being helmetless is.
Electric motors provide constant torque. An internal combustion engine doesn't, not to mention not needing to shift (no "drop outs" of power for moments while gears change). And that's pretty much all there is to it.
I'm betting he can lean forward in it. That design isn't unstable if you lower the center of gravity. Having it up high like that is more for parking, like it says in TFA.
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Scheduling isn't scientific data. Excel doesn't have near the precision or consistency that's needed to really work with it. I have numerous examples from my work with just product data of Excel screwing up interpretations of data. I really wouldn't trust it with significant data.
Not only that, but Excel "interprets" all kinds of things about numbers that you may not mean for it to (I run into this ALL the time). incorrectly.
Oh, wait... sorry, forgot whose pocket my congresscritter was in. Carry on :)
So, $5 a month to help understand proteins better? It may be tax deductible if you really work at it, but it's still charity I can get behind
There's a difference between Iraq War spending and military research spending. We've spent MUCH less on military research than funding the endless war. I don't think you know what you're talking about... military research funding = good. Military operational funding = good when we have something worthwhile we're doing. Right now military operational funding = bad.
Ur post? Epic fale. I know because I run Linux.
You overpaid... I got one behind the faceplate when I bought a new radio for $100 ;)
Crap... replied to myself. See my response here: http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=565875&cid=23577115
Welcome to fucked up ACPI interfaces. HP/Compaq are notorious for it. Getting a "standard" system that isn't hacked up by HP or Dell makes it much easier to get a functioning system. I bought a notebook that has a Core 2 Duo 7400, GeForce 7600GT and 2GB of RAM from a whitebox reseller that has had absolutely no problems with any installs, and it's faster than most of the "name brand" notebooks. And this Lenovo T61, I have multiple screens (switching on the fly), HD video and all my Java work stuff, random videos and music working on it with very minimal work. Less work than it took to get Windows understanding there were two screens on the same machine. It does depend quite a bit on the hardware you use, and when I use "cheap", I don't mean price. I mean design.
The problem is that if I give you a model, there's no guarantee that it'll have a supported chipset. Manufactureres like Netgear and Linksys are famous for changing the chipsets, but not the model number. So one may have an Atheros chip (very well supported), and another may have a Broadcom chip (very not supported), but both be called a "Wireless Super-N USB Dongle" on the box. It doesn't matter with Windows since they ship drivers with the hardware, but what it amounts to is that they give you the cheapest chipset they can buy that marginally works, just to make a bit more profit off their standard pricing model.
In short, no, I can't tell you which ones from a store will work. But then again, I had the same issues trying to get a wireless dongle working with Windows 2000 around 2003. It just wasn't supported by Windows. Getting a properly supported dongle changed that.
And since I'm feeling nice, this Belkin adapter should work out of the box with Ubuntu 8.04 (make sure you get the correct model), A very common DWL-122 should also work if you make sure linux-wlan-ng is installed (plug in for a few minutes, it's not a default package), and this Netgear dongle should also work straight out of the box.
Naah. They're handled through freedesktop.org interfaces. NetworkManager, powernowd, all that just provide hooks that KDE and Gnome take advantage of with their controller widgets. It's the same underpinnings, just a different fascia depending on the DE.
4.0 was advertised as a "base" platform for application developers and bleeding-edge adopters, a feature-freeze for the KDE 4.0 frameworks, not necessarily a feature-complete desktop environment. Was there somewhere or someone that said otherwise? If so, they should be slapped with a trout.
I know KBCO here plays "Alice's Restaurant" every year on November 25th... because it's the only Thanksgiving song that really exists to the best of my knowledge ;)
I think you're misunderstanding... NOTHING "just works" everywhere, but more often than not Linux "just works" when Windows doesn't. The main reason things don't just work for you is that you probably have cheap hardware with a broken ACPI table or something, or perhaps wireless or graphics chips from a company that isn't very forthcoming with specs. If you have good hardware, Linux does "just work". It's like saying "Ha, I told you it wasn't a swimming pool!" when you haven't filled it with water.
Virtualbox. I run Windows inside of it on my Linux laptop for the occasional need to run Excel or Word natively, where OpenOffice.org doesn't cut it (basically only with our VBA plugin). It's worth it... you can even back up an image of Windows for when it inevitably craters, and use a shared folder that Windows can access but is hosted on the Linux partition. I've been thoroughly impressed with it so far.
PC gaming is becoming ever more marginal, and DX10 isn't worth the pain. The bleeding-edge gamers are split on the issue... they like the pretty DX10 effects, but they're also the power users that the increased media limitations of Vista affect the most. The people who run Windows Media Center and couldn't record NBC programs. The people who have troubles getting BluRay video to work on their expensive monitors (and probably never will without resorting to piracy). Vista has done so many things wrong that it's only saving grace might be DX10 like you say, and even that is alienating the very people who are most likely to use it.
Ubuntu "just works" on proper, supported, non-cut-rate hardware. Vista's problems are more systemic, and it doesn't matter WHAT hardware you run on, you'll run into the limitations of it unless you only check your email and browse the Internet, and deal with the minor technical glitches like not working with HDMI or random blocking of, say, NBC broadcasts.
I'll take some slight inconvenience like needing to get a new wireless card to know that I'm not being prepped to be screwed over.
They've had plenty of time. The problem isn't that NVidia hasn't had time to get their act together, the problem is that Vista introduces all kinds of requirements to the driver model for "content protection" that they're required to implement. They've pushed back on a few issues, but the fact is that they're still spending more of their time on making the system so that the user can't do anything that is "disallowed" by whatever media company cares to flip the bits, rather than working on actual functionality. The driver situation will NOT get better with time, given the requirements that they need to meet.
You might check the blackberry forums. I have my Blackberry 8800 working as a bluetooth modem, so if the E70 has a similar feature set, it may be worthwhile to at least poke at it. Basically you have to set up the correct bluetooth channel and MAC address for the phone, and then set up your ppp client to use that device.
/etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf looks like this:
For example, my
rfcomm0 {
# Automatically bind the device at startup
bind yes;
# Bluetooth address of the device
device 00:00:00:00:00:00; # (put your MAC in here)
# RFCOMM channel for the connection
channel 1;
# Description of the connection
comment "T-Mobile Pitaberry";
}
First use your bluetooth daemon to pair your phone with the computer, then do an "hcitool scan" to find your phone's address, and then an "sdptool search dun" in order to find the channel needed for dial-up networking. Put in your network's dial-up info into your ppp daemon (search for AT&T bluetooth modem linux or similar on Google), and you should be good to go.
You don't need to look for kids crossing the road or a police car or ambulance coming up behind you on a NASCAR or Formula 1 track. They also have radios in their helmets to help keep them appraised of the track situations as well as to strategize, something that wouldn't be in a consumer car (hook it up to an external microphone or something? Like lots of people out there who can barely keep their vehicles running would spring for that). Completely different set of circumstances. Thanks for playing, though. Helmets would cause a lot more problems than they would solve in the average person's car.
I never said I wouldn't help him ;) I just said I wouldn't bend over backwards to do so. If you take advantage of me and then get yourself in a situation where you need me, I'm not going to feel terribly generous with either scheduling or payment.
For example, if there's an urgent project that needs done and you have been good to me? I'll work my life around to make it happen. If you haven't, I might consider working it in, if the barbecue that weekend doesn't sound like a better time than staring at a monitor.
Because wearing a helmet severely impedes vision and hearing on top of what just being in a car already does? Wearing a helmet in a car is profoundly stupid and is more of a danger to the occupants and the other people on the road than being helmetless is.
Electric motors provide constant torque. An internal combustion engine doesn't, not to mention not needing to shift (no "drop outs" of power for moments while gears change). And that's pretty much all there is to it.
I'm betting he can lean forward in it. That design isn't unstable if you lower the center of gravity. Having it up high like that is more for parking, like it says in TFA.