I was thinking about getting a little Small-form factor box to run something like MythTv, something along the lines of a AMD64. But checking out the Mac mini just makes me wonder about how I could get that going. Anyone think that this box could be a useful solution to that kind of project? I think the fairly standardized hardware would make that pretty simple to do, but being a non-mac person, I have no idea.
And damn - just in time to consider when upgrading my parents old machines.;)
I think it will be interesting when the source code to Q3A will be released - the truly difficult tech programming is in there, and tweaking it and developing mods/add-ons/changes will be possible for a smaller, dedicated group of people who aren't all serious programmers can be done.
I know there must be a *nix variant of this kind of program (a simple cron job perhaps?) that can act as a.
I guess I'm simultaneously surprised and cynical that someone going into a hostile environment like Iraq didn't prepare for this possibility. My condolences for his family.
"The fact it can be done begins to move us away from some of the mysteries surrounding human beings; things like the existence of a soul, which frankly is pure imagination,"
From the webpage: Every time I look at the word "molester" my brain tries to parse it as "mole-ster" instead of the agentive of "to molest", and now I have an excuse to name a piece of software MoleSter, so I'm going to use it.
I think that the RIAA and MPAA are going to get a lot of positive spin when people start reading that they're going after all the MoleSters on the Internets.
While we are at it might as well remake casablanca.
And teen wolf.
SSsssshhh! You're going to give them ideas!
Movie Exec: I bet Keanu Reeves would be great for Rick's part! Keanu: You'll, like regret it - maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but you'll be all like 'Whoa!'
It takes roughly 5 000 hours to localize OOo. Firefox, Thunderbird, Sunbird & Chatzilla take roughly 20 000 hours to localize. Debian Linux takes roughly 25 000 hours to localize.
Just curious, where'd you get those hour numbers? I did a little googling, but wasn't able to come up with really relevant set of answers.
I found this site stating that it only takes a couple of hours?
I know that was meant to be funny, but I often wondered about how difficult it would be to modify a distrobution so that the word processor, email client, web browser, and mp3 player would all be in my native TribalLanguage.
I'm just a little bit curious about how pervasive this information will get. I can understand that if I worked for the FBI, I can expect a serious background check, and I don't know if I'd have an objection to having biometric information taken in addition to work in a security field. But I do research at a VA hospital - I can't imagine what information or materials that I'd have access to that would require that kind of clearance or identification process.
How often do you need to run an X app across the wire?
Every day. X needs better network transparancy, not less. Keep in mind that for local delivery, X uses unix domain sockets which impose no observable overhead.
A little offtopic: I don't know if you've tried this out or not, but I've been using NX server for a bit, and it makes using X from a remote location lots more usable. It's pretty cool. There are free packages for Debian (look for FreeNX), I think it's included in Knoppix now, and you can search for other packages too (like for Fedora).
I'm not really opposed to using them, but considering that you need to stop a life to get them
I'm not sure that is necessarily true - I know that there is some research to extract stem cells from other human tissues in adults (which I unfortunately can't find at the moment). Second, if the life of the fetus (I could get into the at-what-point-life-begins argument, but that's for another more flamebait post.;) ) has already been decided to be terminated, then why not use the stem cells for research?
I think that many abortions today take place in very young mothers or mothers who just want no kids
I know I should talk about not providing links to back up facts, but do you have something to back that up with? It was my understanding that the majority of abortions were done for health-related reasons.
But there's a difference between an evil witch doing bad things to a princess, as told by parents with a child visualizing the events. And vs a first-person perspective of running down a hallway, chasing another person, aiming a gun at them, blowing them away many times, and seeing their bodily fluids explode out of them, all in perfect graphic detail.
(sarcasm) You're absolutely right - The government should prevent me from using my imagination, 'cause it's much worse than any videogame I've ever played. (/sarcasm)
Again, it's the filter of the parents - they should be there to help distinguish what is right/wrong, and what is reality/imagination. A scary story can be just as scarring to a child as a violent videogame; it is the parent's responsiblity to help that child adjust and learn from either one, and their responsibility to protect them from it when it comes up.
I'd try for a "First Post," but I'd like to include some actual content here.
For those of you not reading the attached article, it is a summary of a report that says that reading an hour's worth of fairy tales to your kids contains more violent imagery than an hour of evening television.
The difference is the medium - parents reading stories vs. children watching TV (usually without supervision). Parents who blame video games for violent behavior need to take a long hard look at themselves first, before making the leap that violence in games is tied to violence in the real world.
That being said, I am all for some additional coporate responsibility to not sell violent games to children under (insert arbitrary age between 10 and 14 here). Ultimately though, it's up to parents to help provide context for these things.
I find you've got a point, and *gasp* it's making me think about my position that "being an environmentalist can be good for the economy" might not be the way to go.
However, I think there are some additional long-term costs by being more environmentally friendly. (It's the end of the work-week for me, and I'm a little tired to fit this into your "10k workers, 100k consumers, $100B cost" model right now, so bear with me) Consider this lawsuit of IBM, where workers sued because they were believed to have higher cancer rates because of their jobs. (Yeah, I know, IBM won)
If the costs for changing the environmental conditions now is less than the costs for healthcare + the costs of lawsuits + the costs of environmental changes later, isn't that good for business? is that good for the people who work in and around there? why not do it now?
The pressure to standardize Linux to some meaningful extent will come from
a) Smaller distributions (like Debian
Debian is small?;)
I don't think that standardization would necessarily hurt RedHat, but provide them a door in. I'm sure there are some marketing people at RH thinking "Once you get your teeth cut on another standardized distro, and you want to move up to a better supported service for a more serious business (or whatever description gets the Pointy Haired Boss interested), why not move over to Red Hat?"
Then all they have to do is provide a service that can distinguish themselves from other vendors, and they're good. (Of course, that's always the hard part).
Just for the people who don't know: Here is a link to the Milgram experiment. In the experiemnt, it was found that around 60% of people would continue administering painful and life-threatening electric shocks to a stranger at the request of an authority figure.
The Stanford Prison Experiment has recently gotten a little more press as a result of the problems at Abu Ghraib. Volunteer students at Stanford University were put into one of two roles: guards or prisoners. Despite being smart, "psychologically stable" people, the guards rapidly became abusive and the prisoners had varied reactions, from rebellion to one developing a psychosomatic rash within a day. (Philip Zimbardo ran the study).
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I was thinking about getting a little Small-form factor box to run something like MythTv, something along the lines of a AMD64. But checking out the Mac mini just makes me wonder about how I could get that going. Anyone think that this box could be a useful solution to that kind of project? I think the fairly standardized hardware would make that pretty simple to do, but being a non-mac person, I have no idea.
;)
And damn - just in time to consider when upgrading my parents old machines.
I think it will be interesting when the source code to Q3A will be released - the truly difficult tech programming is in there, and tweaking it and developing mods/add-ons/changes will be possible for a smaller, dedicated group of people who aren't all serious programmers can be done.
ooops. messed up the wikipedia link.
I know there must be a *nix variant of this kind of program (a simple cron job perhaps?) that can act as a .
I guess I'm simultaneously surprised and cynical that someone going into a hostile environment like Iraq didn't prepare for this possibility. My condolences for his family.
In Korea, only old people worry about digital signatures...
Damn, that meme died out quickly. What about "In Soviet Russia, Memes repeat YOU!"
hot grits?
hello?
Gilligan's Isle have their own copyright owners. =P
Heh. Nice timing. (The very next post after yours makes the same bad joke).
So THAT'S what Step two is. =P
"The fact it can be done begins to move us away from some of the mysteries surrounding human beings; things like the existence of a soul, which frankly is pure imagination,"
Amen, brotha.
Cue flamewar in 5... 4... 3...
They removed most of the DNA from lab mice and produced living, healthy mice with no apparent side effects.
Most? 3% of the genome doesn't seem like "most". "Some", maybe.
From the webpage: Every time I look at the word "molester" my brain tries to parse it as "mole-ster" instead of the agentive of "to molest", and now I have an excuse to name a piece of software MoleSter, so I'm going to use it.
I think that the RIAA and MPAA are going to get a lot of positive spin when people start reading that they're going after all the MoleSters on the Internets.
While we are at it might as well remake casablanca.
And teen wolf.
SSsssshhh! You're going to give them ideas!
Movie Exec: I bet Keanu Reeves would be great for Rick's part!
Keanu: You'll, like regret it - maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but you'll be all like 'Whoa!'
noooooooooooooooo!
It takes roughly 5 000 hours to localize OOo. Firefox, Thunderbird, Sunbird & Chatzilla take roughly 20 000 hours to localize. Debian Linux takes roughly 25 000 hours to localize.
Just curious, where'd you get those hour numbers? I did a little googling, but wasn't able to come up with really relevant set of answers.
I found this site stating that it only takes a couple of hours?
I know that was meant to be funny, but I often wondered about how difficult it would be to modify a distrobution so that the word processor, email client, web browser, and mp3 player would all be in my native Tribal Language.
;)
This would serve a dual purpose:
1. A little Language immersion and preservation
2. A somewhat-encrypted desktop.
I'm just a little bit curious about how pervasive this information will get. I can understand that if I worked for the FBI, I can expect a serious background check, and I don't know if I'd have an objection to having biometric information taken in addition to work in a security field. But I do research at a VA hospital - I can't imagine what information or materials that I'd have access to that would require that kind of clearance or identification process.
Amen! Running bittorrent via console is one of the things that makes it wonderful. :) I hope the programmers of Exeem keep that in mind.
A little offtopic: I don't know if you've tried this out or not, but I've been using NX server for a bit, and it makes using X from a remote location lots more usable. It's pretty cool. There are free packages for Debian (look for FreeNX), I think it's included in Knoppix now, and you can search for other packages too (like for Fedora).
I'm not really opposed to using them, but considering that you need to stop a life to get them
;) ) has already been decided to be terminated, then why not use the stem cells for research?
I'm not sure that is necessarily true - I know that there is some research to extract stem cells from other human tissues in adults (which I unfortunately can't find at the moment). Second, if the life of the fetus (I could get into the at-what-point-life-begins argument, but that's for another more flamebait post.
I think that many abortions today take place in very young mothers or mothers who just want no kids
I know I should talk about not providing links to back up facts, but do you have something to back that up with? It was my understanding that the majority of abortions were done for health-related reasons.
I compleded
And I bet you wrote your own spellcheck program too?
But there's a difference between an evil witch doing bad things to a princess, as told by parents with a child visualizing the events. And vs a first-person perspective of running down a hallway, chasing another person, aiming a gun at them, blowing them away many times, and seeing their bodily fluids explode out of them, all in perfect graphic detail.
(sarcasm)
You're absolutely right - The government should prevent me from using my imagination, 'cause it's much worse than any videogame I've ever played.
(/sarcasm)
Again, it's the filter of the parents - they should be there to help distinguish what is right/wrong, and what is reality/imagination. A scary story can be just as scarring to a child as a violent videogame; it is the parent's responsiblity to help that child adjust and learn from either one, and their responsibility to protect them from it when it comes up.
I'd try for a "First Post," but I'd like to include some actual content here.
For those of you not reading the attached article, it is a summary of a report that says that reading an hour's worth of fairy tales to your kids contains more violent imagery than an hour of evening television.
The difference is the medium - parents reading stories vs. children watching TV (usually without supervision). Parents who blame video games for violent behavior need to take a long hard look at themselves first, before making the leap that violence in games is tied to violence in the real world.
That being said, I am all for some additional coporate responsibility to not sell violent games to children under (insert arbitrary age between 10 and 14 here). Ultimately though, it's up to parents to help provide context for these things.
Seeking valid tech support from Slashdot is like going to an Adam Sandler film for some deep, subtle wit.
-------- "lol i had sex w/ ur mom" - George W. Bush
...said the man with the "yer mom" joke for a sig.
I find you've got a point, and *gasp* it's making me think about my position that "being an environmentalist can be good for the economy" might not be the way to go.
However, I think there are some additional long-term costs by being more environmentally friendly. (It's the end of the work-week for me, and I'm a little tired to fit this into your "10k workers, 100k consumers, $100B cost" model right now, so bear with me) Consider this lawsuit of IBM, where workers sued because they were believed to have higher cancer rates because of their jobs. (Yeah, I know, IBM won)
If the costs for changing the environmental conditions now is less than the costs for healthcare + the costs of lawsuits + the costs of environmental changes later, isn't that good for business? is that good for the people who work in and around there? why not do it now?
Heh, not to nitpick, but:
;)
The pressure to standardize Linux to some meaningful extent will come from
a) Smaller distributions (like Debian
Debian is small?
I don't think that standardization would necessarily hurt RedHat, but provide them a door in. I'm sure there are some marketing people at RH thinking "Once you get your teeth cut on another standardized distro, and you want to move up to a better supported service for a more serious business (or whatever description gets the Pointy Haired Boss interested), why not move over to Red Hat?"
Then all they have to do is provide a service that can distinguish themselves from other vendors, and they're good. (Of course, that's always the hard part).
Just for the people who don't know: Here is a link to the Milgram experiment. In the experiemnt, it was found that around 60% of people would continue administering painful and life-threatening electric shocks to a stranger at the request of an authority figure.
The Stanford Prison Experiment has recently gotten a little more press as a result of the problems at Abu Ghraib. Volunteer students at Stanford University were put into one of two roles: guards or prisoners. Despite being smart, "psychologically stable" people, the guards rapidly became abusive and the prisoners had varied reactions, from rebellion to one developing a psychosomatic rash within a day. (Philip Zimbardo ran the study).