X11 for Mac OS X offers a complete X Window System implementation for running X11-based applications on Mac OS X. Based on the de facto-standard for X11, the open source XFree86 project,
*snort*
X11 for Mac OS X is compatible, fast and fully integrated with Mac OS X.
If that's the case, is Linux really "free" afterall, or is it beholden to commercial, sponsor interests? I'd hate to think it was turning into Fox News.
has such useful inventions as the show with a wheel on the back so it can be used like a roller skate
Like you, I mocked these shoes when I first saw them, but I was out walking the other night and witnessed someone who had developed a pretty impressive hybrid running / gliding style using them. So... uh, that's about it. They're not quite as dumb as they initially seem. I agree about the dog poncho however.
Okay, then what, exactly, is the purpose of martial arts? If they don't give you an edge in combat then there's no practical reason beyond exercise for learning them, right?
If you're talking about something like boxing ( little B ), I would agree, but many martial arts, particularly Chinese martial arts, encompass systems of philosophy, ethics, lifestyle and religion. Physical exertion, fighting and exercise help to shape the mind, but the consummate martial artist should hope to eventually move beyond having to make their point with force.
I don't have the book with me, but in a history of Hsing-I I recently read, the introduction mentions that a desire to learn fighting skills is not always an appropriate reason to start Boxing, because it confesses a lack of faith in ones abilities to solve problems peacefully. Whether this is naivete on the authors part, I leave to you, but I agree that the goal of a Boxing student should be personal growth, not just being able to snap someones ribs with the palm of your hand. YMMV.
And FWIW, the previous poster was referring to Landrover Freelander. A 2003 Freelander is rated at 17/20, which is still not great.
Hey. I'm not real good on imperial measurement conversion, but the consumption figures I have cited here ( Australian model is perhaps different? ) is 11 litres / 100 kilometres city and 6.8 litres / 100 kilometers highway.
11 litres is about 2.9 gallons... so the freelander gets 34.48 kilometers per gallon... about 21.5 mpg.
6.8 litres is 1.7 gallons... so 55.67 km/g... 34.6 mpg.
Is this on target, or have I screwed up a conversion somewhere? Could the fuel efficiencies really be that different in different countries?
Guess what? Last time I looked we lived in a free, capitalistic society,
Feh. I can't speak for your country, but the only reason goddamn soccer mothers can afford SUV's in my country is because the government only tarrifs them at 5% instead of the regular 15% for passenger cars - i.e. the very opposite of free capitalism, government price interference.
This tarrif break was originally for farmers who required 4WD's/SUV's to work their land - it should not apply to people who aren't making their primary income from primary industry.
YLFI
I feel obliged to point out, btw, that not all SUV's/4WD's are gas guzzling monsters - Landrover Freelander is a good exception.
It's not really a plot point, it's more just sort of background information about the future the book is set in. Don't worry, it shouldn't have spoilt anything.
A virus which kicks the other ones ass and then take up patrol duty.
I may be mistaken, but isn't there a plotline about "friendly" HIV that inhibits the action of mainline HIV and then becomes a benign pandemic in William Gibsons "Virtual Light"?
You might as well call the standard admin security authorization dialog at that point.
That thing has ( had? ) issues. As it was basically a wrapper for Sudo, if you successfully authenticated to it once, even though it would prompt you for your password again the next time it needed to authorise an action, if the sudo timeout hadn't passed yet, you could type any old crap into the password box, and it would still work fine.
This is an issue if a roving administrator authenticates an action for a user and then wanders off - the user can continue to perform authenticated actions for some time - despite the reappearance of the authentication box seeming to signal that the credentials are only transient. Was this fixed in Panther? I don't have my powerbook here to check with.
I would say that the reason he's selling the Ursus suits is to raise money for his spruiking of his new 'invention', a type of bakeable heat retardant paste. ( Ingredients include diet Coke. )
More info at Canadian Business Magazine, including a strange article title that recalls the Crazy World of Arthur Brown.
I was thinking about this when I was at the watercooler, so I took the RFID access card I use to open the server room in my workplace, and one of those small steel ( I think they're steel ) business card "wallets" from a managers desk, and to my not very great surprise, once inside it was unable to interact with any of the RFID sensors in my office, even when placed flush against the readers front plate.
This is a possible compromise if Stallman wants to be able to open the doors, but not be remotely scanned as he moves about the campus. You can open the "door" on the wallet to scan the card, and then latch it and slip it back into your jeans. I'm not a physics man, so I have no idea if this defense would be easily broken down by simply pouring more juice out of the reader, however.
I don't think he has a legitimate complaint. While there is a potential that someone might mine the access logs, and, for example, find out he hasn't actually come to work in the last five years, stuff goes missing from these labs late at night, and it would be totally sweet if the long suffering admin at least had a shortlist of who they could ask if they saw 'anything suspicious'.
Swipecards aren't a perfect solution to the building security problem. People prop doors, people let their friends in, people lose their cards in the quad and other people decide to see just how much access they had, but if they nuke the card program, the alternative proposed by security will probably be cameras, and let me tell you, they're a hell of a lot more intrusive than cards - a camera collects a lot more information than just whether you're there or not* - and they're a lot more labour intensive too.
I guess the bottom line is that he's free to leave if he wants ( as he's indicated ), but the U. should also be free to implement whatever measures it feels are necessary to provide a safe environment for equipment and students. If they can't come to a compromise ( and while Stallman might be a "great and important character", compromise is not seen as one of his strong suits ) then I guess it's splitsville. I ( and I suspect many others here ) would endure a lot worse than an RFID doorlock to be granted a research position at MIT.
B.D.
* - If they'd used cameras in our student labs instead of pin numbers, I probably would have been ejected several times for slovenly appearance unbecoming to the university.
We used to play this on a crummy old pentium laptop running BSD during our first and second year lectures ( Computer Science, UTS ). Sometime in second year, a friend tried to teach a neural net to play XKobo for his major project in Cognitive Modeling, but it never quite worked out. Killer game!
While I'd normally be well pleased to talk to someone who understands the I.N.R.I. acrostic, Microsoft shouldn't have to carry the support burden of those who steal from them. However, there is a third way - just write a second patch that disables the network stack.
Microsoft gets to act on piracy ( which I suspect deep down they're a bit soft on anyway - so this probably won't happen ), and the machines are kept off the internet, preserving our interests. What's not to like?
I watched, and enjoyed, Cowboy Bebop and it's wonderful Soundtrack, but while it did use animation to convey a very real sense of effects which could not have been simply or economically done using minatures or matte shots ( some of the Zero-G sections in 'Heavy Metal Queen' and 'Toys in the Attic' as well as the Shuttle re-entry work in 'Wild Horses' ), the series is really quite retro, and there aren't a lot of effects I can remember where they really let their imagination run away with them.
Perhaps I misspoke. "imaginative potential", or "visual potential" might have been a better phrasing of the above, because while Bebop is a dramatic success ( at least for me ), it could probably have been made with human actors and a minimum of super sophisticated effects work ( which may be part of its charm. )
Did you get this from Mr. Takei's interview or did you hear it somewhere else?
I don't really know much about the series apart from what I heard in Mr Takei's Q&A, but I am pretty sure he explicitly said that he would usually find himself coming into the sound studio just as Leonard, for example, was leaving, and that he found this a disapointment. I remember this quite vividly because he repeated it again at the close of his remark ( not for emphasis, I think he just forgot he'd already said it ). Perhaps he was the only one for whom this offset schedule was in place, and if so, I apologise for misrepresenting his comment as being the case for the entire cast.
I attended a short talk by George Takei ( Mr Sulu ) a few weeks ago at the Supanova popular culture festival in Sydney, Australia while I was waiting for David Carradines Q&A, and he was a very funny and personable speaker, this from someone who doesn't really know Star Trek from a bar of soap... Some discussion of his feelings on the Animated Series came up.
He seemed to consider it something of a damp squib: despite being freed of the constraints of period special effects, the writers never let themselves go and explored the possibilities on offer - he said he would have particularly liked to see some non humanoid aliens, or some more inspired Zero-G work. And while I agree with his point, I don't think I've really seen much animation work at all that manages to dramatically explore the potential of the medium like that.
Also, apparently it wasn't as much fun to work with as the original series because all the voice talent recorded their lines separately to each other, in their own booths, and often not even at the same time. How an actor is supposed to build up any sense of timing or interrelation in a scenario like that I can't even begin to guess.
I don't actually mind paying this. Writing operating systems code isn't cheap, and Apple are probably greatful for every dollar they can haul in. All the same, this has to be one of the silliest discussions I've seen on Slashdot in a looooong time.
Unlike hell, however, if someone drains all the fun out of the industry, we can just leave. What if there was an information revolution, and nobody showed up?
Slashdot Mirror
You fail it!
*snort*
X11 for Mac OS X is compatible, fast and fully integrated with Mac OS X.If that's the case, is Linux really "free" afterall, or is it beholden to commercial, sponsor interests? I'd hate to think it was turning into Fox News.
Like you, I mocked these shoes when I first saw them, but I was out walking the other night and witnessed someone who had developed a pretty impressive hybrid running / gliding style using them. So... uh, that's about it. They're not quite as dumb as they initially seem. I agree about the dog poncho however.
If you're talking about something like boxing ( little B ), I would agree, but many martial arts, particularly Chinese martial arts, encompass systems of philosophy, ethics, lifestyle and religion. Physical exertion, fighting and exercise help to shape the mind, but the consummate martial artist should hope to eventually move beyond having to make their point with force.
I don't have the book with me, but in a history of Hsing-I I recently read, the introduction mentions that a desire to learn fighting skills is not always an appropriate reason to start Boxing, because it confesses a lack of faith in ones abilities to solve problems peacefully. Whether this is naivete on the authors part, I leave to you, but I agree that the goal of a Boxing student should be personal growth, not just being able to snap someones ribs with the palm of your hand. YMMV.
YLFIHey. I'm not real good on imperial measurement conversion, but the consumption figures I have cited here ( Australian model is perhaps different? ) is 11 litres / 100 kilometres city and 6.8 litres / 100 kilometers highway.
11 litres is about 2.9 gallons... so the freelander gets 34.48 kilometers per gallon... about 21.5 mpg.
6.8 litres is 1.7 gallons... so 55.67 km/g... 34.6 mpg.
Is this on target, or have I screwed up a conversion somewhere? Could the fuel efficiencies really be that different in different countries?
YLFI
Somehow, these posts have cleared up a big mystery for me as to why PS2 games are so bad. Is that you, Derek Smart?
Feh. I can't speak for your country, but the only reason goddamn soccer mothers can afford SUV's in my country is because the government only tarrifs them at 5% instead of the regular 15% for passenger cars - i.e. the very opposite of free capitalism, government price interference.
This tarrif break was originally for farmers who required 4WD's/SUV's to work their land - it should not apply to people who aren't making their primary income from primary industry.
YLFII feel obliged to point out, btw, that not all SUV's/4WD's are gas guzzling monsters - Landrover Freelander is a good exception.
It's not really a plot point, it's more just sort of background information about the future the book is set in. Don't worry, it shouldn't have spoilt anything.
I may be mistaken, but isn't there a plotline about "friendly" HIV that inhibits the action of mainline HIV and then becomes a benign pandemic in William Gibsons "Virtual Light"?
Life imitates art...
That thing has ( had? ) issues. As it was basically a wrapper for Sudo, if you successfully authenticated to it once, even though it would prompt you for your password again the next time it needed to authorise an action, if the sudo timeout hadn't passed yet, you could type any old crap into the password box, and it would still work fine.
This is an issue if a roving administrator authenticates an action for a user and then wanders off - the user can continue to perform authenticated actions for some time - despite the reappearance of the authentication box seeming to signal that the credentials are only transient. Was this fixed in Panther? I don't have my powerbook here to check with.
YLFIDude, Halflife is the horror version of Halflife.
Sure, it'd be neat, but XBox Live already has centralised stats, at least for titles that support it, such as Crimson Skies.
I would say that the reason he's selling the Ursus suits is to raise money for his spruiking of his new 'invention', a type of bakeable heat retardant paste. ( Ingredients include diet Coke. )
More info at Canadian Business Magazine, including a strange article title that recalls the Crazy World of Arthur Brown.
YLFI
I was thinking about this when I was at the watercooler, so I took the RFID access card I use to open the server room in my workplace, and one of those small steel ( I think they're steel ) business card "wallets" from a managers desk, and to my not very great surprise, once inside it was unable to interact with any of the RFID sensors in my office, even when placed flush against the readers front plate.
This is a possible compromise if Stallman wants to be able to open the doors, but not be remotely scanned as he moves about the campus. You can open the "door" on the wallet to scan the card, and then latch it and slip it back into your jeans. I'm not a physics man, so I have no idea if this defense would be easily broken down by simply pouring more juice out of the reader, however.
I don't think he has a legitimate complaint. While there is a potential that someone might mine the access logs, and, for example, find out he hasn't actually come to work in the last five years, stuff goes missing from these labs late at night, and it would be totally sweet if the long suffering admin at least had a shortlist of who they could ask if they saw 'anything suspicious'.
Swipecards aren't a perfect solution to the building security problem. People prop doors, people let their friends in, people lose their cards in the quad and other people decide to see just how much access they had, but if they nuke the card program, the alternative proposed by security will probably be cameras, and let me tell you, they're a hell of a lot more intrusive than cards - a camera collects a lot more information than just whether you're there or not* - and they're a lot more labour intensive too.
I guess the bottom line is that he's free to leave if he wants ( as he's indicated ), but the U. should also be free to implement whatever measures it feels are necessary to provide a safe environment for equipment and students. If they can't come to a compromise ( and while Stallman might be a "great and important character", compromise is not seen as one of his strong suits ) then I guess it's splitsville. I ( and I suspect many others here ) would endure a lot worse than an RFID doorlock to be granted a research position at MIT.
B.D.
* - If they'd used cameras in our student labs instead of pin numbers, I probably would have been ejected several times for slovenly appearance unbecoming to the university.
We used to play this on a crummy old pentium laptop running BSD during our first and second year lectures ( Computer Science, UTS ). Sometime in second year, a friend tried to teach a neural net to play XKobo for his major project in Cognitive Modeling, but it never quite worked out. Killer game!
While I'd normally be well pleased to talk to someone who understands the I.N.R.I. acrostic, Microsoft shouldn't have to carry the support burden of those who steal from them. However, there is a third way - just write a second patch that disables the network stack.
Microsoft gets to act on piracy ( which I suspect deep down they're a bit soft on anyway - so this probably won't happen ), and the machines are kept off the internet, preserving our interests. What's not to like?
Perhaps they'll release an Americana expansion pack where you have to whitewash a fence...
I watched, and enjoyed, Cowboy Bebop and it's wonderful Soundtrack, but while it did use animation to convey a very real sense of effects which could not have been simply or economically done using minatures or matte shots ( some of the Zero-G sections in 'Heavy Metal Queen' and 'Toys in the Attic' as well as the Shuttle re-entry work in 'Wild Horses' ), the series is really quite retro, and there aren't a lot of effects I can remember where they really let their imagination run away with them.
Perhaps I misspoke. "imaginative potential", or "visual potential" might have been a better phrasing of the above, because while Bebop is a dramatic success ( at least for me ), it could probably have been made with human actors and a minimum of super sophisticated effects work ( which may be part of its charm. )
I don't really know much about the series apart from what I heard in Mr Takei's Q&A, but I am pretty sure he explicitly said that he would usually find himself coming into the sound studio just as Leonard, for example, was leaving, and that he found this a disapointment. I remember this quite vividly because he repeated it again at the close of his remark ( not for emphasis, I think he just forgot he'd already said it ). Perhaps he was the only one for whom this offset schedule was in place, and if so, I apologise for misrepresenting his comment as being the case for the entire cast.
I attended a short talk by George Takei ( Mr Sulu ) a few weeks ago at the Supanova popular culture festival in Sydney, Australia while I was waiting for David Carradines Q&A, and he was a very funny and personable speaker, this from someone who doesn't really know Star Trek from a bar of soap... Some discussion of his feelings on the Animated Series came up.
He seemed to consider it something of a damp squib: despite being freed of the constraints of period special effects, the writers never let themselves go and explored the possibilities on offer - he said he would have particularly liked to see some non humanoid aliens, or some more inspired Zero-G work. And while I agree with his point, I don't think I've really seen much animation work at all that manages to dramatically explore the potential of the medium like that.
Also, apparently it wasn't as much fun to work with as the original series because all the voice talent recorded their lines separately to each other, in their own booths, and often not even at the same time. How an actor is supposed to build up any sense of timing or interrelation in a scenario like that I can't even begin to guess.
Jeez, dude, I thought we were talking about macs?
/mac user
I don't actually mind paying this. Writing operating systems code isn't cheap, and Apple are probably greatful for every dollar they can haul in. All the same, this has to be one of the silliest discussions I've seen on Slashdot in a looooong time.
Unlike hell, however, if someone drains all the fun out of the industry, we can just leave. What if there was an information revolution, and nobody showed up?