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  1. Re:As a matter of fact... on China Develops Their Own CPU: The "Dragon Chip" · · Score: 1

    A requirement to even be considered for the Navy's Nuclear Power Program (as an officer as was Pres. Carter), you have to already have an ENGINEERING degree.

  2. Re:As a matter of fact... on China Develops Their Own CPU: The "Dragon Chip" · · Score: 1
    Obviously you are either a troll or un-informed as to what a "Nuclear Engineer" in the Navy is. To even be considered for the program you have to have a BS in Engineering (or a science such as Physics, Mathematics, etc). Then there is a little over a year of additional training that focuses on the operation and theory of nuclear power plants (incidently, this training is much harder than any university courses around). Just because you aren't sitting in a lab or doing initial design work doesn't make one any less of an engineer. Dealing with the operations and maintenance of something, especially something as complex as a nuclear power plant, gives you a completely different perspective on things and forces you to combine many traditional disciplines. In the real world, rarely is a problem limited to an Electrical Engineering or a Mechanical Engineering issue or maybe a Chemisty problem -- they are all interdependent and you have to know a good deal about all of them to make it all work.


    Discalaimer: I was a Nuclear Engineer in the Navy (have since left the Navy to pursue other career interests).

  3. Re:Question for the Uber geeks. on Kernel 2.4.11 Released · · Score: 1

    There are a couple of packages that you will need to update to work with the newer kernel. I don't know them all off the top of my head, but IIRC it's things like modutils. Depending on which version of Redhat you're running, they may have some info specific to your question on their site. When 2.2 was released, I very easily upgraded a RH 5.2 box from a 2.0 kernel to 2.2 with a few package updates in addition to the kernel.

  4. Re:I doubt it on Rumblings of MS Office for Linux at CeBIT · · Score: 1

    Why would they? If they think that they can make money on it, they may very well do it. I think it'd be more of a ballance of development costs against how many copies they think they can sell at ~$500 a pop. With the share of Linux Desktops approaching (or exceeding -- I don't know the current stats) the number of Mac desktops, the potential for them to make $$$$$ might be there (in their eye at least). Just my 2 cents.

  5. Re:Guess what... on Mac OS X Officially Previewed · · Score: 1

    I personally prefer the left hand scroll bar. Text, in left-to-right languages at least, is left justified. With the scrollbar on the left with the text, everything is lined up.
    But most of all, I think users should be given the option to select where they want it.

  6. Re:performance on 3dfx to develop DRI for linux · · Score: 1

    I use X over a network all the time. Eventhough I typically use the command line for most things, it is nice to be able to run a GUI app and have it display locally. This is one feature I would NOT want to see go away.