Statistics seem to show most slashdotians are closet XP users. However I've added my computer to the linux fold (I love puns).
Incidentely the software seems to work fine. It's not pretty and it's just based off standard GTK. When installing you have to remember to read the instructions CAREFULLY as it will give you a link that's needed to attach your account to the server. After this run the file run_manager and it will download a whole lot of files that you need and then after these files are finished downloading it'll automatically start and your trusty CPU counter will go up to 100%.
More than one reason to moderate up not down. I saw an idiot posting stupid rubbish trolls (those see how many times you could swear in a sentence teenage kid posts) and I used my five mod points to mod them down just so the troll wouldn't clutter the page.
No the headline was completely correct. The scientists are thinking that current technology can actually read gravitational waves and we're actually detecting it all the time in our minds! So not only is it immanent but it's immanently immanent!
Well you could ask the same thing about humans, and it'd be almost definitely the same reason (if only because of the close relation between the brains of humans and mice). We should all know that mice are creative especially in their problem solving abilities, as are humans, singing could be just an extension to that, and they might have some cool artistic skills.. Or it could also an incident of enhancing their hearing abilities and recognising patterns in sound, needed for escaping out of tricky situations and required for stealth capability (definitely a plus). It's probably a combination of reasons. Or, taking a leaf out of an alternate version of thought, perhaps God just made them that way.
I actually once answered the phone to be greeted with "You are currently on hold, this call will be answered as soon as an operator is free." It only took a second but I was just transfixed in shock. An operator answered and I just hung up on him.
Perhaps you should of read the article, especially the bit "how is this different from a shortcut?"
The basis of it is that a shortcut is just a file - the exact same thing as a shortcut can be achieved by having a file with the target path just written in ascii inside, and assuming that the reader can tell it's a shortcut then it could get the target path sure, but if the reader is not equiped to specifically handle those shortcuts then it'll get muck.
A symlink masquerades as the actual file or folder, and the app doesn't need any specific handling to read the file. You can for example go into bash and write "cd symlink/" and it'll go to that folder. A shortcut is just a file, a symlink is an attribute of the filesystem.
It depends where you live. I moved down from the Blue Mountains, where we got almost no telemarketers (occasionally charities that our family has donated to would ring up, a great thank you from them definitely) to South Sydney where it's a huge hassle with telemarketers ringing every day!
Pretty soon laptops screens will become so big that you won't even be able to carry them around, and you'll have to keep it permanantly on your desk. They'll have to come up with a new name though, I mean if you keep it on your desk, how about instead of "lap-top" call it something like "desk-top"?
Don't you get it? Dvorak hasn't written anything insightful or probably even factual for years. The reason why he's still a writer is simply cause he's so funny. Look at the articles slashdot has linked of his and you'll see the top posts all either +5 funny or simply having fun trashing Dvorak.
Though I haven't tried it, I'm wondering if you can buy a song from the US iTunes web site with an Australian credit card (say a visa one). Does it not work even if you pretend the browser is in the US?
Though admittedly there is a problem with this in that you wouldn't get any or very much Australian music which is quite popular at the moment and growing in popularity, but still there's plenty of good American music I listen to.
I agree. If the guy doesn't like a program, or it doesn't work on his system, he should just use another program and not blame it on the operating system! That goes for each of the three main operating systems.
In the meantime, RISC chips happened, and some of them are running at over 100 MIPS. Speeds of 200 MIPS and more are likely in the coming years. These things are not going to suddenly vanish. What is going to happen is that they will gradually take over from the 80x86 line. They will run old MS-DOS programs by interpreting the 80386 in software. (I even wrote my own IBM PC simulator in C, which you can get by FTP from ftp.cs.vu.nl = 192.31.231.42 in dir minix/simulator.) I think it is a gross error to design an OS for any specific architecture, since that is not going to be around all that long.
Another one. Reading predictions from fifteen years ago is really quite entertaining, showing that even the smartest people can get things slightly wrong.
While I could go into a long story here about the relative merits of the two designs, suffice it to say that among the people who actually design operating systems, the debate is essentially over. Microkernels have won.
In retrospect that might have been a bit overconfident.
'Well, the key issue here is that the protection scheme under Blu-Ray is very anti-consumer and there's not much visibility of that. The inconvenience is that the [MPAA] got too much protection at the expense of consumers and it won't work well on PCs. You won't be able to play movies and do software in a flexible way.'
Yes Mr Stallman, but I think that this sort of thing is bound to happen whatever you...Bill who said what?
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No they're not.
Statistics seem to show most slashdotians are closet XP users. However I've added my computer to the linux fold (I love puns).
Incidentely the software seems to work fine. It's not pretty and it's just based off standard GTK. When installing you have to remember to read the instructions CAREFULLY as it will give you a link that's needed to attach your account to the server. After this run the file run_manager and it will download a whole lot of files that you need and then after these files are finished downloading it'll automatically start and your trusty CPU counter will go up to 100%.
I'm doing my bit for Team Slashdot!
More than one reason to moderate up not down. I saw an idiot posting stupid rubbish trolls (those see how many times you could swear in a sentence teenage kid posts) and I used my five mod points to mod them down just so the troll wouldn't clutter the page.
I haven't gotten mod points since.
No the headline was completely correct. The scientists are thinking that current technology can actually read gravitational waves and we're actually detecting it all the time in our minds! So not only is it immanent but it's immanently immanent!
Well I just assumed it was an AFL football field.
Well you could ask the same thing about humans, and it'd be almost definitely the same reason (if only because of the close relation between the brains of humans and mice). We should all know that mice are creative especially in their problem solving abilities, as are humans, singing could be just an extension to that, and they might have some cool artistic skills.. Or it could also an incident of enhancing their hearing abilities and recognising patterns in sound, needed for escaping out of tricky situations and required for stealth capability (definitely a plus). It's probably a combination of reasons. Or, taking a leaf out of an alternate version of thought, perhaps God just made them that way.
You can see the great effect Microsoft patents are having on that site.
I actually once answered the phone to be greeted with "You are currently on hold, this call will be answered as soon as an operator is free." It only took a second but I was just transfixed in shock. An operator answered and I just hung up on him.
Perhaps you should of read the article, especially the bit "how is this different from a shortcut?"
The basis of it is that a shortcut is just a file - the exact same thing as a shortcut can be achieved by having a file with the target path just written in ascii inside, and assuming that the reader can tell it's a shortcut then it could get the target path sure, but if the reader is not equiped to specifically handle those shortcuts then it'll get muck.
A symlink masquerades as the actual file or folder, and the app doesn't need any specific handling to read the file. You can for example go into bash and write "cd symlink/" and it'll go to that folder. A shortcut is just a file, a symlink is an attribute of the filesystem.
It depends where you live. I moved down from the Blue Mountains, where we got almost no telemarketers (occasionally charities that our family has donated to would ring up, a great thank you from them definitely) to South Sydney where it's a huge hassle with telemarketers ringing every day!
(Ring up someone you really hate at midnight sunday night)
*Ring Ring*
Hi, I'm from Microsoft. Have you heard about the exciting new things Windows now has to offer your business or home?
What a stupid thing to ask. It's running Linux, you should be asking what the frame rates in Doom 3 are.
An IBM engineer was caught remarking "And boy can it hold a lot of porn."
Yes because everyone at Novell works for free.
They can put a man on the moon and robots on mars. I mean if anyone can withstand a slashdotting, surely they can.
Pretty soon laptops screens will become so big that you won't even be able to carry them around, and you'll have to keep it permanantly on your desk. They'll have to come up with a new name though, I mean if you keep it on your desk, how about instead of "lap-top" call it something like "desk-top"?
Don't you get it? Dvorak hasn't written anything insightful or probably even factual for years. The reason why he's still a writer is simply cause he's so funny. Look at the articles slashdot has linked of his and you'll see the top posts all either +5 funny or simply having fun trashing Dvorak.
Though I haven't tried it, I'm wondering if you can buy a song from the US iTunes web site with an Australian credit card (say a visa one). Does it not work even if you pretend the browser is in the US?
Though admittedly there is a problem with this in that you wouldn't get any or very much Australian music which is quite popular at the moment and growing in popularity, but still there's plenty of good American music I listen to.
I agree. If the guy doesn't like a program, or it doesn't work on his system, he should just use another program and not blame it on the operating system! That goes for each of the three main operating systems.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
- Joseph Roux, Meditations of a Parish Priest
It's hardly a coincidence, as they both branch off the Unix standard.
In the meantime, RISC chips happened, and some of them are running at over 100 MIPS. Speeds of 200 MIPS and more are likely in the coming years. These things are not going to suddenly vanish. What is going to happen is that they will gradually take over from the 80x86 line. They will run old MS-DOS programs by interpreting the 80386 in software. (I even wrote my own IBM PC simulator in C, which you can get by FTP from ftp.cs.vu.nl = 192.31.231.42 in dir minix/simulator.) I think it is a gross error to design an OS for any specific architecture, since that is not going to be around all that long. Another one. Reading predictions from fifteen years ago is really quite entertaining, showing that even the smartest people can get things slightly wrong.
While I could go into a long story here about the relative merits of the two designs, suffice it to say that among the people who actually design operating systems, the debate is essentially over. Microkernels have won.
In retrospect that might have been a bit overconfident.
(ahem sorry for being picky here but the GPL isn't an EULA but a copyright license)
'Well, the key issue here is that the protection scheme under Blu-Ray is very anti-consumer and there's not much visibility of that. The inconvenience is that the [MPAA] got too much protection at the expense of consumers and it won't work well on PCs. You won't be able to play movies and do software in a flexible way.'
Yes Mr Stallman, but I think that this sort of thing is bound to happen whatever you...Bill who said what?