Could I just point out that the vast majority of the time Linux does actually run on a random piece of hardware. I did have slight troubles with my new laptop where I had to update the sound drivers - not pleasant, not quite as bad as having to search through the vendor site since the place to upgrade the sound drivers is always in the same place but it did surprise me that I had to do it. Of course when I tried to install a new sanatised version of Windows (lots of crap pre-installed) I incredibly failed after three days of trying which was even less pleasant. These days you can pretty well be confident that Linux will run on any modern computer.
It causes cancer, after all. But it is only 10-40% of recent temperature increases according to the people who spend their professional careers on such questions. Things can have more than one cause.
I always dismiss research and statistics that come from people who have a direct stake in the outcome being a certain way. Your link there is about as reliable as Microsoft's "Get The Facts" web page.
As long as it gives the option of debugging and actually finding out what it's doing, and maybe doing something a bit advanced when you happen to need to, then it is not evil. See the Gnome effect.
I thought that NP-Complete problems can be generalised to one-another, so if a solution can be found for one NP-Complete problem then it can be generalised for all. Doesn't this mean that other NP-Complete problems can be generalised to Sudoku?
But those are only in the lower level routers. The top level routers will communicate only with the other top level routers and the second level routers geographically around them. There are currently 183 top level blocks allocated (according to XKCD's map at least!) which gives probably about 100 fixed routes to be in the routing tables of each of the top tier routers. The lower blocks that are being allocated will not change the top level router tables one bit. As I was saying the internet is hierarchical - adding a few end nodes only affects the router(s) directly connected to it, not any others.
Things will become even simpler come IPv6 which will allow the internet to become even more geographically hierarchical and gets rid of the huge top-level blocks allocated to companies.
Why would you need to add more routes to the BGP4 tables? The internet's hierarchical and pretty much covers the globe already... All that should need to be done is put more grunt to the job - upgrade the pipes between the routers and put more hardware on the job.
I think that this is more for situations where they don't have good enough teachers around to excel or even to become interested in something. The olpc interface is nothing like modern interfaces so it can hardly be considered purely teaching "computer skills", and this isn't going to the first world. I agree with your point about computers in first world schools, however I don't think it's quite on-topic here.
Not sure about that. It's been repeatedly shown that fingerprint readers aren't secure and can be broken trivially. Not only this but they are unreliable with plenty of false-negatives. The biggest practical problem though is that you're moving the danger from something mostly harmless to lose (your phone) to something stupidly horrific to lose (your finger or even your hand). You need to think of what you're protecting here - I'd rather have the phone in danger than a finger.
You might as well look things up before being a smart-arse just to make sure you're right!
Anyway, the first breach into 3D effects for the desktop was in Luminocity, the testbed for Metacity, the Gnome window drawer. This was in testing and wasn't planned as such to go straight into Gnome. It introduced a few algorithms you may be familiar with in Beryl now, the least being the wobbly windows. It had a few problems, the greatest being that you needed to heavily hack the X-Server to get it to work, and X.Org hadn't yet forked off from XFree so politics prevented it from happening as fast as it should have. When David Reveman released XGL they finally had something to work with so Compiz was introduced. At first it was only on XGL but with some work from nVidia and Red Hat full support for opengl rendering was placed in the X.Org server through a X surface to texture extension.
There was a bit of a dispute with Compiz. The main maintainer wanted it to be as stable as possible so didn't want new features. This was a bit of a problem since Compiz was heavily dependent on Gnome (specifically gconf) and wasn't very flexible at all. In the end Beryl was forked and went ahead at lightening speed.
Beryl itself has been getting both more stable since it's worked out as much of its featureset as possible, giving the base for some pretty nice plugins. It is a *lot* more impressive than either Vista or Mac OS-X's offerings since it offers a fully 3D accelerated environment with fully scriptable and pluginable animations and effects. Examples of these effects include pretty much everything from Mac OSX including Expose (OSS isn't known for shrinking from stealing a good idea), wobbly windows, custom opening, closing, minimising and shading animations (including bursting into flames, beaming it up/down, the genie effect, windows folding up, zooming in and coming from the side. It can be extended to make whatever you can think of.), multiple desktops mapped to different objects, pure translucency, and even pure pointless eyecandy like the "water effect", which simply makes ripples go from your mouse when you press a button.
Beryl is usually simply installed with your package manager. It requires compatible 3D accelerated hardware and drivers though. The official nvidia and OSS ati drivers support the required extension, though I'm not sure if the official ATI driver does. The OSS ati driver doesn't support the latest radeon cards, so basically with nVidia you're fine, with ATI you might not be.
Beryl is pretty stable, at least stable enough to run on a standard desktop computer, but not recommended for running on anything critical. Linux users have pretty high standards for "stable".
They're in the repositories now, why would they remove them?
Re:"PJ", very interesting..
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It's no secret that PJ treasures anonymity more than most people, very careful and maybe is slightly paranoid (though I don't think there's anything wrong with that)
I've heard that a few people have met her in person, though most people don't talk so much about it because she likes her anonymity and most public figures respect that.
Besides, if you read Groklaw enough you'll realise she's definitely one person and pretty definitely a woman. To tell the truth I really wouldn't be surprised if Pamela Jones isn't her real name, but to tell the truth names are not something I really care about. (strider, by the way, is not my real name)
Perhaps. (BTW this is probably more towards the GP than the parent but . . . ah well, I've already clicked reply.)
Maybe you just have to get over being offended by those sorts of things. There are arseholes everywhere, but if you get offended by someone trying to insult your race/creed/sexuality then it says something about your self-confidence as well as him being either stupid or simply an arse. If you're worried about anything like that then you should just get over it, because all of people you're around already have.
I get more annoyed by people for example complaining about the news talking about two "arab", "black", "asian", or even "white" men on the run when obviously they should say "these two men have black hair, dark brown coloured skin, brown eyes..."
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Red Hat isn't mentioned anywhere in the article, so what's your point?
Could I just point out that the vast majority of the time Linux does actually run on a random piece of hardware. I did have slight troubles with my new laptop where I had to update the sound drivers - not pleasant, not quite as bad as having to search through the vendor site since the place to upgrade the sound drivers is always in the same place but it did surprise me that I had to do it. Of course when I tried to install a new sanatised version of Windows (lots of crap pre-installed) I incredibly failed after three days of trying which was even less pleasant. These days you can pretty well be confident that Linux will run on any modern computer.
It causes cancer, after all. But it is only 10-40% of recent temperature increases according to the people who spend their professional careers on such questions. Things can have more than one cause.
Pirates?
OK I'll shut up now.
You'd be surprised how easy it is for people to give up TV once they find something better to do.
Or the much more serious one...
I don't know, a real google search seems to match quite a few.
I always dismiss research and statistics that come from people who have a direct stake in the outcome being a certain way. Your link there is about as reliable as Microsoft's "Get The Facts" web page.
As long as it gives the option of debugging and actually finding out what it's doing, and maybe doing something a bit advanced when you happen to need to, then it is not evil. See the Gnome effect.
I thought that NP-Complete problems can be generalised to one-another, so if a solution can be found for one NP-Complete problem then it can be generalised for all. Doesn't this mean that other NP-Complete problems can be generalised to Sudoku?
Yes, and they plan to compress the entire Summer of Code into the next two weeks. Get cracking students!
If she's being paid by IBM to do that then I want to hire her. *No one* normal is that thorough just because they're being paid.
But those are only in the lower level routers. The top level routers will communicate only with the other top level routers and the second level routers geographically around them. There are currently 183 top level blocks allocated (according to XKCD's map at least!) which gives probably about 100 fixed routes to be in the routing tables of each of the top tier routers. The lower blocks that are being allocated will not change the top level router tables one bit. As I was saying the internet is hierarchical - adding a few end nodes only affects the router(s) directly connected to it, not any others.
Things will become even simpler come IPv6 which will allow the internet to become even more geographically hierarchical and gets rid of the huge top-level blocks allocated to companies.
Why would you need to add more routes to the BGP4 tables? The internet's hierarchical and pretty much covers the globe already... All that should need to be done is put more grunt to the job - upgrade the pipes between the routers and put more hardware on the job.
I think that this is more for situations where they don't have good enough teachers around to excel or even to become interested in something. The olpc interface is nothing like modern interfaces so it can hardly be considered purely teaching "computer skills", and this isn't going to the first world. I agree with your point about computers in first world schools, however I don't think it's quite on-topic here.
Not sure about that. It's been repeatedly shown that fingerprint readers aren't secure and can be broken trivially. Not only this but they are unreliable with plenty of false-negatives. The biggest practical problem though is that you're moving the danger from something mostly harmless to lose (your phone) to something stupidly horrific to lose (your finger or even your hand). You need to think of what you're protecting here - I'd rather have the phone in danger than a finger.
Biometrics have never been really that practical.
You might as well look things up before being a smart-arse just to make sure you're right!
Anyway, the first breach into 3D effects for the desktop was in Luminocity, the testbed for Metacity, the Gnome window drawer. This was in testing and wasn't planned as such to go straight into Gnome. It introduced a few algorithms you may be familiar with in Beryl now, the least being the wobbly windows. It had a few problems, the greatest being that you needed to heavily hack the X-Server to get it to work, and X.Org hadn't yet forked off from XFree so politics prevented it from happening as fast as it should have. When David Reveman released XGL they finally had something to work with so Compiz was introduced. At first it was only on XGL but with some work from nVidia and Red Hat full support for opengl rendering was placed in the X.Org server through a X surface to texture extension.
There was a bit of a dispute with Compiz. The main maintainer wanted it to be as stable as possible so didn't want new features. This was a bit of a problem since Compiz was heavily dependent on Gnome (specifically gconf) and wasn't very flexible at all. In the end Beryl was forked and went ahead at lightening speed.
Beryl itself has been getting both more stable since it's worked out as much of its featureset as possible, giving the base for some pretty nice plugins. It is a *lot* more impressive than either Vista or Mac OS-X's offerings since it offers a fully 3D accelerated environment with fully scriptable and pluginable animations and effects. Examples of these effects include pretty much everything from Mac OSX including Expose (OSS isn't known for shrinking from stealing a good idea), wobbly windows, custom opening, closing, minimising and shading animations (including bursting into flames, beaming it up/down, the genie effect, windows folding up, zooming in and coming from the side. It can be extended to make whatever you can think of.), multiple desktops mapped to different objects, pure translucency, and even pure pointless eyecandy like the "water effect", which simply makes ripples go from your mouse when you press a button.
Beryl is usually simply installed with your package manager. It requires compatible 3D accelerated hardware and drivers though. The official nvidia and OSS ati drivers support the required extension, though I'm not sure if the official ATI driver does. The OSS ati driver doesn't support the latest radeon cards, so basically with nVidia you're fine, with ATI you might not be.
Beryl is pretty stable, at least stable enough to run on a standard desktop computer, but not recommended for running on anything critical. Linux users have pretty high standards for "stable".
They're in the repositories now, why would they remove them?
It's no secret that PJ treasures anonymity more than most people, very careful and maybe is slightly paranoid (though I don't think there's anything wrong with that)
I've heard that a few people have met her in person, though most people don't talk so much about it because she likes her anonymity and most public figures respect that.
Besides, if you read Groklaw enough you'll realise she's definitely one person and pretty definitely a woman. To tell the truth I really wouldn't be surprised if Pamela Jones isn't her real name, but to tell the truth names are not something I really care about. (strider, by the way, is not my real name)
Of course they do a lot more than that, however it's not exactly relevant to the article.
You now have a 9-11 conspiracy article in there. I don't think this will become the most reliable magazine in the world.
And then, assuming they did it properly, no one would care a year from now.
Alright, I love XKCD but I've got to ask someone for an explanation for that specific comic - I've never listened to Missy Elliot.
Perhaps. (BTW this is probably more towards the GP than the parent but . . . ah well, I've already clicked reply.)
Maybe you just have to get over being offended by those sorts of things. There are arseholes everywhere, but if you get offended by someone trying to insult your race/creed/sexuality then it says something about your self-confidence as well as him being either stupid or simply an arse. If you're worried about anything like that then you should just get over it, because all of people you're around already have.
I get more annoyed by people for example complaining about the news talking about two "arab", "black", "asian", or even "white" men on the run when obviously they should say "these two men have black hair, dark brown coloured skin, brown eyes..."
I wonder why countries such as Australia with a healthy sugar industry don't push for more ethanol usage.
DRM can only be secure through secrets and confusion so it's pretty necessary.