Still, 1500 watts is a lot. That's the same output as one of those little space heaters on High. I don't want one of those under my desk; it's hot enough in here as it is.
I used to know a guy who could lead you through a string of "if this then that" statements, each of which you could easily agree with, arriving at the end with "...then everything in the universe is a dairy product." It was unnerving. Karl's dead now, or I'd think he had taken up a job as an international economist.
I can't remember; was that guy they were dealing with (big blue) in the last few episodes the Emperor, or just some upper governor who was trying to claw his way up? I thought he was the head of the regional outpost or something.
And, the Lady in Black (assuming you're not referring to Aeryn) is not only manipulative, she sweats a transdermic, hallucinogenic aphrodesiac. Just think "black widow" and you've got the picture.
Unlikely, other than what you normally see on Farscape (which, mind you, is quite a bit compared to the likes of Star Trek), seeing as how it's being shown on SciFi and not HBO/ShowTime/.
I'll wager that the cost to produce is well under $5, and that they could honestly care less if any of the cameras actually get recycled. But even if the cameras cost them $22, it could still be profitable if they charge heavily for processing the output. It's called a "loss-leader" marketing plan.
I tried the last link for the article, thinking that info on a hack was what I'd find. The link's dead, even after a couple days of this story being out. Can you a) point us to a mirror, or b) summarize?
thx
I was almost onboard with that argument until my wife pointed out that, if you let this sort of thing go, then pretty soon athletes will be expected to dope up to make the team. That's one thing in professional sports, which is commercial and the athletes get paid to risk themselves. But it wouldn't be long before it got into college sports, then high school. There's too much opportunity for kids to make bad decisions, the effects of which might not show up for twenty or more years, on the premise that they want to impress their coach so he'll put them into Varsity league in their freshman year.
Now, I'm not saying that we should ban the practice all together. For instance, I'm nearly 40 years old, I'm never going to be a pro athlete, and I'm in fairly typical shape for your average cube dweller (not overweight, but not exactly fit, either). Much like many of you, I didn't grow up with that genetic string that allowed me to grow muscles just by thinking about it, as all the meatheads in high school seemed to do. I wouldn't mind having a little doping treatment that would add 20% to mass and strength in the short term, so long as the risk to my long term health was minimal.
I believe the parent was referring to the American team playing football, which in America is called "soccer," as opposed to the team playing American football, which you're not likely to see in the Olympics. Except that they let in synchronized swimming and the biathalon, so pretty much anything could happen.
Hydan steganographically conceals a message into an application. It exploits redundancy in the i386 instruction set by defining sets of functionally equivalent instructions. It then encodes information in machine code by using the appropriate instructions from each set.
A true "paradigm shift" (blech!) will come when we have a way to get rid of keyboards all together, or at least for all but the most complicated tasks, and screens are virtualized, appearing in the air in front of us without some gum pack-thing hanging off of our temple. When my entire hardware kit can be dropped in my pocket like my cell phone -- for that matter, is embedded in my cell phone -- and I don't need to take it out of my pocket to use it, then I'll believe we've had a paradigm shift. Until then, it's evolutionary rather than revolutionary.
Really? You must know a different set of "most people" than I do. I'm about 60% full on my 15 GB hard drive on the laptop I got in March. Mind you, I'm running SUSE 9.1 Pro with a lot of developer tools, but there are no media files (mp3, ogg, divx, etc.) that a lot of people have stored that take up a lot of space.
If you're still running Win98 with a small app collection and all ten of your CDs ripped to mp3s, then maybe 4 gig will work out for you.
I'm not sure I follow you. Mind you, I'm not specifically talking about US having a neighbor to talk to, except by inferrence.
Think of it this way: Take a soup can and set it in the middle of a football field (and, no, I don't care if it's a soccer field or an NFL field). Imagine that one particularly hot day, a freak hailstorm comes along. It's hot out, so the hailstones are melting shortly after they hit the ground, but they're there for a while. Occasionally, a hailstone lands in the soup can, sits there a while, then melts. If the hailstorm goes on all day, but with very little output, chances are good that there will only ever be one hailstone in the can at one time. But if the stones really start falling, you are more likely to get two stones in the can at the same time. The faster the hail falls from the sky, the more likely that two or more stones will exist in the can at the same time before one of them melts off.
Now, please don't go off talking about related weather effects regarding wind and convective cooling when large numbers of hailstones are falling from the sky on a hot day. It ruins the illustration, thank you very much.
So, how about this: The more common life is in the Universe, the more likely it will be that two or more civilizations will arise to the same spacefaring capabilities at the same time in the same proximity.
I just made that up, but it's simple enough that a) someone has probably said it before, and b) it's hard to argue.
Well, when I do a shutdown (KDE menu, not the shell command), it powers off the machine, and I've set the thing up to turn off the screen after a certain period of inactivity, as well as put the hard drive to sleep, both of which seem to work. What more do I want from ACPI?
I haven't gotten 3D acceleration working, though it's not that important to me. LBreakout works fine, and that's about all the game intensity I throw at this thing. I might fiddle with it later, especially if RT-III gets a Linux-native release. I'm not sure what you're referring to with "3d acceleration and suspend-to-ram working together", though as I don't have 3D acceleration working, I guess not. On a possibly related note, I had some trouble once when my wife used the "switch user" function to log in when I was already logged in. Getting back wasn't exactly straightforward, and I ended up killing her session to do it. I'm not sure if it was my lack of understanding of the tool, or the tool not working right. I'll have to play around with it someday. The machine had gone to sleep with both sessions active, though, and it seemed a little groggy when I woke it up.
So, am I misunderstanding my installation? Do I not really have ACPI working? The control panels seem to indicate that I do.
SUSE 9.1 rocks, BTW. Much better than 9.0. Much, much better.
I've got an IBM R40 (Celery 1.6) running SUSE 9.1 and I've had no problems with any of the hardware, including power control and my handy-dandy keyboard light. I added the miniPCI A/B/G wireless card, which connects to the stock internal antennas, and a CDR/DVD combo drive. SUSE's installer picked them both right up on install.
My head is aching right now to remember the author's name of a short story I read wherein the entirety of Earth was covered with this grey sandy powder that was the result of (and contained) nanites gone wrong. There was one city left on Earth that was shielded from the otherwise complete sterilization of the planet, and it was mostly a museum. Visitors (mankind had migrated off planet by that time) who wanted to go "outside" had to wear special suits that protected them from the microscopic beasties. Coming back inside, the suits were destroyed, and the returning people went through a detoxification process that included removal (and replacement) of every square inch of their skin. Can you say ouch? As you might imagine, the process was excrutiatingly painful, and not a lot of people went through it. Of course, without someone to do it, there wouldn't be a story...
don't be sad you live in WA, I left 11 years ago now, and I go back every chance I get... it only goes downhill from there.
Should've moved to Oregon. Less rain, less traffic, less (no) sales tax [okay, so we have income tax] and more friendly people.
Of course, keep that all a secret. We try to keep people from moving here by talking about how much it rains. It's less than Washington, but they evidently want immigrants, and so they don't publicize that.
Agreed. SUSE 9.1 is fantastic. One thing, though, is that (as of last week, anyhow), the diskpack's Mono 0.3 didn't have an online update to any more recent revisions (such as the recent v.1.0). I had to download the MonoAll zip file, unpack the RPMs, point YaST to the folder containing all the RPMs, then select the "Install Everything" selection from the list. It really wasn't much of an effort, but I was sort of frustrated that, since Novell owns both SUSE and Ximian, they would have at least cross-pollinated their apps into the online updates.
I've historically been a VB developer, with some experience with VB.NET. That's what attracted me to Mono. Not only do they have support for a large set of.NET system calls in C#, which isn't too much of a stretch for me, they're building support for VB as well (okay, keep the flames down; I only know what I know). I did a test launch of MonoDevelop, the included IDE in the package, and it looked robust. I didn't test any deep functionality, but it sure looked like an IDE to me.:^)
As far as distros go, I've been very happy with SUSE 9.1. I wasn't overjoyed with 9.0, and thought about switching just about the time they released 9.1. I decided to give it a fair shot and bought the Pro pack, which includes a variety of development tools. I doubt I'll ever switch at this point. It has everything I want in an OS, as well as most things I want in software right on the disk.
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Still, 1500 watts is a lot. That's the same output as one of those little space heaters on High. I don't want one of those under my desk; it's hot enough in here as it is.
I used to know a guy who could lead you through a string of "if this then that" statements, each of which you could easily agree with, arriving at the end with "...then everything in the universe is a dairy product." It was unnerving. Karl's dead now, or I'd think he had taken up a job as an international economist.
I can't remember; was that guy they were dealing with (big blue) in the last few episodes the Emperor, or just some upper governor who was trying to claw his way up? I thought he was the head of the regional outpost or something.
And, the Lady in Black (assuming you're not referring to Aeryn) is not only manipulative, she sweats a transdermic, hallucinogenic aphrodesiac. Just think "black widow" and you've got the picture.
Unlikely, other than what you normally see on Farscape (which, mind you, is quite a bit compared to the likes of Star Trek), seeing as how it's being shown on SciFi and not HBO/ShowTime/.
Hang on to that memory. Eventually, he'll buy the rights to the interviews so he can re-edit them for consistency.
There were always nine movies planned. These aren't the interviews you're looking for.
I'll wager that the cost to produce is well under $5, and that they could honestly care less if any of the cameras actually get recycled. But even if the cameras cost them $22, it could still be profitable if they charge heavily for processing the output. It's called a "loss-leader" marketing plan.
I tried the last link for the article, thinking that info on a hack was what I'd find. The link's dead, even after a couple days of this story being out. Can you a) point us to a mirror, or b) summarize? thx
Now, I'm not saying that we should ban the practice all together. For instance, I'm nearly 40 years old, I'm never going to be a pro athlete, and I'm in fairly typical shape for your average cube dweller (not overweight, but not exactly fit, either). Much like many of you, I didn't grow up with that genetic string that allowed me to grow muscles just by thinking about it, as all the meatheads in high school seemed to do. I wouldn't mind having a little doping treatment that would add 20% to mass and strength in the short term, so long as the risk to my long term health was minimal.
I believe the parent was referring to the American team playing football, which in America is called "soccer," as opposed to the team playing American football, which you're not likely to see in the Olympics. Except that they let in synchronized swimming and the biathalon, so pretty much anything could happen.
Hydan steganographically conceals a message into an application. It exploits redundancy in the i386 instruction set by defining sets of functionally equivalent instructions. It then encodes information in machine code by using the appropriate instructions from each set.
A true "paradigm shift" (blech!) will come when we have a way to get rid of keyboards all together, or at least for all but the most complicated tasks, and screens are virtualized, appearing in the air in front of us without some gum pack-thing hanging off of our temple. When my entire hardware kit can be dropped in my pocket like my cell phone -- for that matter, is embedded in my cell phone -- and I don't need to take it out of my pocket to use it, then I'll believe we've had a paradigm shift. Until then, it's evolutionary rather than revolutionary.
Which, I assume you realize, is fiction. Well written fiction at that, and often based in fact. Still... fiction.
Really? You must know a different set of "most people" than I do. I'm about 60% full on my 15 GB hard drive on the laptop I got in March. Mind you, I'm running SUSE 9.1 Pro with a lot of developer tools, but there are no media files (mp3, ogg, divx, etc.) that a lot of people have stored that take up a lot of space. If you're still running Win98 with a small app collection and all ten of your CDs ripped to mp3s, then maybe 4 gig will work out for you.
Or... ahem... "Evolution will continue without them."
I'm not sure I follow you. Mind you, I'm not specifically talking about US having a neighbor to talk to, except by inferrence.
Think of it this way: Take a soup can and set it in the middle of a football field (and, no, I don't care if it's a soccer field or an NFL field). Imagine that one particularly hot day, a freak hailstorm comes along. It's hot out, so the hailstones are melting shortly after they hit the ground, but they're there for a while. Occasionally, a hailstone lands in the soup can, sits there a while, then melts. If the hailstorm goes on all day, but with very little output, chances are good that there will only ever be one hailstone in the can at one time. But if the stones really start falling, you are more likely to get two stones in the can at the same time. The faster the hail falls from the sky, the more likely that two or more stones will exist in the can at the same time before one of them melts off.
Now, please don't go off talking about related weather effects regarding wind and convective cooling when large numbers of hailstones are falling from the sky on a hot day. It ruins the illustration, thank you very much.
So, how about this: The more common life is in the Universe, the more likely it will be that two or more civilizations will arise to the same spacefaring capabilities at the same time in the same proximity.
I just made that up, but it's simple enough that a) someone has probably said it before, and b) it's hard to argue.
Finally, someone with a sensible, yet succinct statement. I'd go on, but that would be contrary...
I haven't gotten 3D acceleration working, though it's not that important to me. LBreakout works fine, and that's about all the game intensity I throw at this thing. I might fiddle with it later, especially if RT-III gets a Linux-native release. I'm not sure what you're referring to with "3d acceleration and suspend-to-ram working together", though as I don't have 3D acceleration working, I guess not. On a possibly related note, I had some trouble once when my wife used the "switch user" function to log in when I was already logged in. Getting back wasn't exactly straightforward, and I ended up killing her session to do it. I'm not sure if it was my lack of understanding of the tool, or the tool not working right. I'll have to play around with it someday. The machine had gone to sleep with both sessions active, though, and it seemed a little groggy when I woke it up.
So, am I misunderstanding my installation? Do I not really have ACPI working? The control panels seem to indicate that I do.
SUSE 9.1 rocks, BTW. Much better than 9.0. Much, much better.
I've got an IBM R40 (Celery 1.6) running SUSE 9.1 and I've had no problems with any of the hardware, including power control and my handy-dandy keyboard light. I added the miniPCI A/B/G wireless card, which connects to the stock internal antennas, and a CDR/DVD combo drive. SUSE's installer picked them both right up on install.
My head is aching right now to remember the author's name of a short story I read wherein the entirety of Earth was covered with this grey sandy powder that was the result of (and contained) nanites gone wrong. There was one city left on Earth that was shielded from the otherwise complete sterilization of the planet, and it was mostly a museum. Visitors (mankind had migrated off planet by that time) who wanted to go "outside" had to wear special suits that protected them from the microscopic beasties. Coming back inside, the suits were destroyed, and the returning people went through a detoxification process that included removal (and replacement) of every square inch of their skin. Can you say ouch? As you might imagine, the process was excrutiatingly painful, and not a lot of people went through it. Of course, without someone to do it, there wouldn't be a story...
Should've moved to Oregon. Less rain, less traffic, less (no) sales tax [okay, so we have income tax] and more friendly people.
Of course, keep that all a secret. We try to keep people from moving here by talking about how much it rains. It's less than Washington, but they evidently want immigrants, and so they don't publicize that.
I, for one, welcome our new Microsoft-approved XHTML overlords.
It's just as much the fault of the editors as anyone. What do they do, anyhow?
Windows luser2: Who needs Notepad? Long live regedit!!!
Agreed. SUSE 9.1 is fantastic. One thing, though, is that (as of last week, anyhow), the diskpack's Mono 0.3 didn't have an online update to any more recent revisions (such as the recent v.1.0). I had to download the MonoAll zip file, unpack the RPMs, point YaST to the folder containing all the RPMs, then select the "Install Everything" selection from the list. It really wasn't much of an effort, but I was sort of frustrated that, since Novell owns both SUSE and Ximian, they would have at least cross-pollinated their apps into the online updates. I've historically been a VB developer, with some experience with VB.NET. That's what attracted me to Mono. Not only do they have support for a large set of .NET system calls in C#, which isn't too much of a stretch for me, they're building support for VB as well (okay, keep the flames down; I only know what I know). I did a test launch of MonoDevelop, the included IDE in the package, and it looked robust. I didn't test any deep functionality, but it sure looked like an IDE to me. :^)
As far as distros go, I've been very happy with SUSE 9.1. I wasn't overjoyed with 9.0, and thought about switching just about the time they released 9.1. I decided to give it a fair shot and bought the Pro pack, which includes a variety of development tools. I doubt I'll ever switch at this point. It has everything I want in an OS, as well as most things I want in software right on the disk.