Did ANYONE actually read the article where the very next paragraph says:
Even so, 2008 is set to be about the 10th warmest year since 1850, and Met Office scientists say temperatures will rise again as La Nina conditions ease
Global Warming deniers think that any variation of temperature other than year after year increases in temperature is proof that Global Warming is a hoax. They fail to see the larger picture.
I know everyone is making with the jokes,but I for one really don't like the idea of this. Yet again,we have scientists seeing if they CAN do something,rather than if they SHOULD do something. As aggressive as the US has been lately,does anyone really want gunships,fighter jets,and whole squads of special forces rendered invisible? Not to mention what a powerful weapon for "regime change" this would be. No country would be able to protect their leaders when you could set up a sniper a couple of blocks away from them without ever being seen. All around,with such a huge potential for abuse and no positive applications that I can see,it just sounds like a giant bad idea. But as always this is my 02c,YMMV
While we are limiting ourselves from creating an invisibility cloak do we have to ban warfare at night and stealth aircraft? I mean, those things just aren't fair. In fact let's get rid of guns, camouflage, body armor, aircraft, and submarines. We can settle things with a boxing match. Technological advances in warfare has continued for centuries now. We've been down this path before with other technology but I wouldn't be too worried. Just as devices like these are created others are created to defeat them. It is the natural progression of weapons.
Neocons are generally socially conservative, big budget (deficit spending), interventionists. Classical conservatism is much less socially conservative, prefering personal liberty to strict social laws. Classical conservatism is also more about conservative spending and small government. I would say the GWB fits the neocon description to a T.
Are you sure? Have you checked your ~/.bash_history file? Are you sure your editor isn't leaving autosaves in/tmp? There could even be plain text in your swap partition. It's hard to really know.
Those are all easy fixes. Symlink your.bash_history to/dev/zero or/dev/random, have your tmp partition encrypted and deleted upon reboot, turn off all autosave features, encrypt your swap partition, turn off indexing on your encrypted mountpoint.
I guess you just missed the point. Declaring Islam as the problem itself shows a lack of understanding of Islam, the Middle East, and religion in general.
And you're naive to think that terrorists attacking the U.S. are not, predominantly -- though certainly not solely -- Muslim, and therefore, the probability that the next terrorist attack will be by a Muslim will be higher than for a non-Muslim -- and that finally, therefore, that we ought to focus our anti-terrorist attention on Muslims.
I can only seem to recall one terrorist attack on US soil in recent memory that apparently involved Muslims and that was 9/11. To make a jump from some radical Muslims are terrorists to all of Islam is evil is quite a leap and says more about racial and religious bias than anything else.
Right.... no chip on their shoulder. that would be why the Sept 11 bombers were Germans and Swedes? Wake up. There is a problem in the middle east and that problem is ISLAM.
As for as I know Timothy McVeigh isn't a Muslim but that didn't stop him from blowing up a federal building in Oklahoma City. You're naive to think terrorists are soley Muslim.
Islam = Evil is an entirely over simplistic view of the world.
Although, considering Mono is a good two major revisions behind the reference implementation at this point, it may happen sooner than Microsoft anticipates. That may slightly limit Microsoft's tactical advantage when it comes to crushing open source.
You seem to be a little confused by the version numbers. Check out the Mono project's website to see where Mono development is at. Some parts of.Net 3.5 have already been implemented.
And that's why SuSE sucks, it still defaults to reiser. WHY?! And I'm not talking about the founder's legal issues. There are serious technical issues with reiser.
Suse doesn't default to Reiser anymore. They switched to ext3 a year or two ago.
The real war will last for 50 years and will only end when the towel heads have out bread us in the west OR we have taken they're
children's minds with MTV middle east.
Please stop spreading the myth that this is a culture/religious war. It's not, and your racist comments don't help make your point they only hurt it. This war is nothing but a power grab and a tool to suppress freedoms here in the US.
There's nothing wrong with the layout of Debian's site but the design is awful and hurts my eyes. It looks like it was made by one of the developers because it validates but looks like crap. By the way valid HTML/CSS doesn't make a website good. If it did I would be raking in money as a web developer because it seems that next to no one validates their websites except for coders. The really sad thing is that when using CSS you could alter the debian website quite dramatically with little time or effort and it would look 100 times better.
Ext4 has a lot of performance improvements, like extents or delayed allocation. Desktop users will notice that ext4 is much faster
XFS has both extents and delayed allocation. I really don't know why we need Ext4. XFS has been a very solid fs for quite some time now, it's sad that more attention hasn't been payed to it from kernel hackers. The whole idea behind Ext4 seems to be more of a NIH syndrome than anything else. I could understand if it was radically different but it isn't.
Running on everything and having really elegant source code.
Linux runs on more architectures now than NetBSD and has for some time.
> So where does OpenSolaris fit in?
A stable ABI, with extensible kernel constructs that don't require rejiggering the ABI every couple weeks. You write your solaris driver once. Ever.
That sound horrible. Even Microsoft isn't that backwards. If what you say is really true, forget about refactoring when new hardware comes out and you want to make functions more generic. Just imagine the spagetti code that would arise from that kind of naivety.
Sub-pixel antialiasing might look sharper, but it'll always feel a bit out of place. I don't think it's easier to read. If you want bolder fonts, make them bolder, it's just that simple. If anything, sub-pixel precision is going to make them thinner.
On Windows font antialiasing makes fonts thinner but not on a Mac. On a Mac their goal is precision of the characters for print so the sizes and thinkness are correct although they look a little fuzzy on screen.
Unless your monitor is calibrated to correspond to the color profile of the actual printers that will be used to produce your images, CMYK is irrelevant. The print shop will have to make a final editing pass on ANY raster image in ANY format, to adjust for their hardware's own quirks. That's what proofs are for: To confirm that the print shop guessed your intentions correctly. And by the way, the GIMP does support color profiles so if your printing vendor offers them, use them, to make life a little bit easier on all involved.
You make a great point about color gamut, that it is particular to the machine it is being printed on. To be honest the only reason I can see Photoshop being a necessity is if you work as a professional photographer who prints your own photographs (not likely) or are a prepress designer who makes final adjustments to an image before it is printed.
It shouldn't be too shocking if there are a lot of people who need to do something that involves professional-level features. Anyone working in graphic design, advertising, or even a creative branch of some other kind of company might need some particular features (including CMYK). I worked for an engineering firm that wanted to send some presentation materials to a professional printer so they looked nice. Those needed to be in CMYK.
I work in a prepress job and I've noticed two things:
Marketing and advertising people know nothing about CMYK, color gamut, color seperation, or any of that. Just yesterday we were sent a screenshot of an art file made in Word to use for a poster and the customer wanted to know why the proof was all pixelated! We're sent all kinds of crap that takes a lot of effort to get into a state where it can be printed accurately. Most customers grudgingly give in and pay for us to transform their crap images into workable images. They just don't know anything about what it takes to print images made on a computer.
Photoshop is rarely used unless you are working for a magazine or something of that nature. Most things printed are vector graphics and text. Most design work involves logo design, color correction, and layout. Just as customers send us screenshots and things of that nature, they also just send us compressed jpegs when they send pictures. In a perfect work everyone would send us proper files that can be printed easily but they don't and its our job to get it to press.
No I mean that the arbitrary rules of logic and construction that are mathematics do not control or define the laws of the universe. Math is a language no different than any other language. The fact that I can describe something in English doesn't make what I describe a reality. Why would something I can describe in math be any more real?
I disagree. Knowledge of math is a priori, language is not. There is a reason for this. While we still haven't unlocked all of the secrets of mathematical modeling there is hope that some day we will. Ultimately the goal is for all of science to converge on math. There are many philosophers and scientists alike who think this is going to happen and are actively working towards this goal today.
I don't think being free is the issue. First although knowledge about Linux is growing the vast majority of people have never heard of it and the few that have have no idea what it is about and have no exposure to it on the desktop. Second I find that most people don't know Windows is so expensive because it came with their computer, which by the way seems to be the real issue as to why Linux isn't more popular. People that end up having to buy Windows are appalled when they learn the price.
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Did ANYONE actually read the article where the very next paragraph says:
Global Warming deniers think that any variation of temperature other than year after year increases in temperature is proof that Global Warming is a hoax. They fail to see the larger picture.
While we are limiting ourselves from creating an invisibility cloak do we have to ban warfare at night and stealth aircraft? I mean, those things just aren't fair. In fact let's get rid of guns, camouflage, body armor, aircraft, and submarines. We can settle things with a boxing match. Technological advances in warfare has continued for centuries now. We've been down this path before with other technology but I wouldn't be too worried. Just as devices like these are created others are created to defeat them. It is the natural progression of weapons.
Neocons are generally socially conservative, big budget (deficit spending), interventionists. Classical conservatism is much less socially conservative, prefering personal liberty to strict social laws. Classical conservatism is also more about conservative spending and small government. I would say the GWB fits the neocon description to a T.
That's not entirely true. Their engineers have contributed code to the forcedeth driver.
Those are all easy fixes. Symlink your .bash_history to /dev/zero or /dev/random, have your tmp partition encrypted and deleted upon reboot, turn off all autosave features, encrypt your swap partition, turn off indexing on your encrypted mountpoint.
You mean h.264. h.264 is the format, x264 is an encoding library.
I guess you just missed the point. Declaring Islam as the problem itself shows a lack of understanding of Islam, the Middle East, and religion in general.
I can only seem to recall one terrorist attack on US soil in recent memory that apparently involved Muslims and that was 9/11. To make a jump from some radical Muslims are terrorists to all of Islam is evil is quite a leap and says more about racial and religious bias than anything else.
As for as I know Timothy McVeigh isn't a Muslim but that didn't stop him from blowing up a federal building in Oklahoma City. You're naive to think terrorists are soley Muslim.
Islam = Evil is an entirely over simplistic view of the world.
You seem to be a little confused by the version numbers. Check out the Mono project's website to see where Mono development is at. Some parts of .Net 3.5 have already been implemented.
Please stop spreading the myth that this is a culture/religious war. It's not, and your racist comments don't help make your point they only hurt it. This war is nothing but a power grab and a tool to suppress freedoms here in the US.
There's nothing wrong with the layout of Debian's site but the design is awful and hurts my eyes. It looks like it was made by one of the developers because it validates but looks like crap. By the way valid HTML/CSS doesn't make a website good. If it did I would be raking in money as a web developer because it seems that next to no one validates their websites except for coders. The really sad thing is that when using CSS you could alter the debian website quite dramatically with little time or effort and it would look 100 times better.
XFS has both extents and delayed allocation. I really don't know why we need Ext4. XFS has been a very solid fs for quite some time now, it's sad that more attention hasn't been payed to it from kernel hackers. The whole idea behind Ext4 seems to be more of a NIH syndrome than anything else. I could understand if it was radically different but it isn't.
Nope. It runs VxWorks, at least that is what the firmware dump from my Canon indicates.
NTFS fragments pretty easily too.
> nobody really knows what NetBSD is about
Running on everything and having really elegant source code.
Linux runs on more architectures now than NetBSD and has for some time.
> So where does OpenSolaris fit in?
A stable ABI, with extensible kernel constructs that don't require rejiggering the ABI every couple weeks. You write your solaris driver once. Ever.
That sound horrible. Even Microsoft isn't that backwards. If what you say is really true, forget about refactoring when new hardware comes out and you want to make functions more generic. Just imagine the spagetti code that would arise from that kind of naivety.
It does the same thing on Epiphany and Midori for me.
On Windows font antialiasing makes fonts thinner but not on a Mac. On a Mac their goal is precision of the characters for print so the sizes and thinkness are correct although they look a little fuzzy on screen.
You make a great point about color gamut, that it is particular to the machine it is being printed on. To be honest the only reason I can see Photoshop being a necessity is if you work as a professional photographer who prints your own photographs (not likely) or are a prepress designer who makes final adjustments to an image before it is printed.
I work in a prepress job and I've noticed two things:
You forgot bluetooth. Bluetooth file transfer is often crippled by carriers.
I disagree. Knowledge of math is a priori, language is not. There is a reason for this. While we still haven't unlocked all of the secrets of mathematical modeling there is hope that some day we will. Ultimately the goal is for all of science to converge on math. There are many philosophers and scientists alike who think this is going to happen and are actively working towards this goal today.
I don't think being free is the issue. First although knowledge about Linux is growing the vast majority of people have never heard of it and the few that have have no idea what it is about and have no exposure to it on the desktop. Second I find that most people don't know Windows is so expensive because it came with their computer, which by the way seems to be the real issue as to why Linux isn't more popular. People that end up having to buy Windows are appalled when they learn the price.
If you put it in your .bashrc they shouldn't be deleted.