hell, people can't figure out how to spell MySQL either. Is it 'my ess-cue-ell' or is it 'my sequel'? I think it's properly the first one, but nobody ever bothers calling it that.
whoa whoa whoa whoa... little bit of a sweeping generalisation there... The southern province Kerala has one of the highest literacy rates in the world, even though many live under the poverty line. I think it's something like 90 per cent, comparable to that of developed countries. The whole country's average is much lower at 55 per cent, but there are many, many sharp people in India.
...who will probably be stealing your job real soon.
actually, a page from 3M's website says that, as a fire retardant, it does its work in gaseous form (check out the PDF link near the bottom of the centre column). And is quite given to evaporation in a normal (room-temperature) environment. Yikes!
hey, I thought you were being funny. After all, Corbis is a Microsoft company... so there's sorta a connection there... if you squint real hard and make believe... ^_^
you know, I expected that very same thing before I bought my Wacom Graphire tablet (mine was a Graphire2, not the Graphire3 in the link). I figgered, "well, it mimics a pen, so it's gotta be comfier, right?" hmmmmmmm... sometimes a week of heavy Wacomming will give me more wrist pain and tendonitis than a week of heavy mousing. (heh, maybe my desk is the wrong height though.)
Another thing to watch out for is that the pen or mouse get a little jumpy around the edges of the tablet, so get a 6x8 instead of a 4x5 if you can afford it.
And -- before you ask -- yes, both Linux and XFree86 have drivers for the whole line of Wacom tools. The GIMP has pressure-sensitivity support built in too. All in all, I love my little tablet, but I don't know if it's eased my tendonitis or anything like that.
I've been trying the bloody site for a week or so now, having first seen the link on OSNews.com (which, to my knowledge, isn't exactly the most high-traffic site). Could they have been OSNews'd before they were Slashdotted? I have no idea. Maybe the silly site just doesn't exist anymore.
ha ha, funny little story about our twoonies. When they began to make them, there was something wrong in the design -- maybe the join between the annulus and the inner coin wasn't as tight as they'd intended, or maybe the composition of metals wasn't quite right, but when they got too cold the inside would contract faster than the outside, and the coins would fall apart.
I know people who are loaded with cash and are happy, and I know people who are loaded with cash and are miserable. Conventional philosophies say that people will probably lean towards being miserable when they have tons of money, not because money makes you miserable but because you're putting all your happiness into making cash, which just doesn't satisfy in the same way love and purposefulness do.
In my opinion, both of you have interesting opinions on two different, but legitimate, ideas of freedom. The first is close to an 'anarchic' style of freedom, where people take their own responsibility to be the guardians of their own ethics. This, though, presupposes that people will generally rise to that call and be good stewards of their freedom, which is unfortunately not always the case.
The second idea of freedom is closer to the (original) American ideal of freedom, in which certain people are set up as stewards and guardians of freedom. A little freedom is lost, but it's for the sake of preserving all the other freedoms we enjoy. The GPL and other similar licenses are slightly restrictive, but they are designed this way in order to preserve freedom for the long run.
Take your pick as to which style of freedom you prefer. I'm okay with either style.
GNAA stands for 'Gay Niggers Association of America'. Buncha trolls who post on Slashdot every so often and think their tongue-in-cheek politically-incorrect humour is pretty clever and impressive.
(not that political incorrectness is bad, mind you... I for one hate political correctness in many of its forms. But political incorrectness just to get a rise out of someone is pretty obnoxious.)
you know there really should be a +1 funny flamebait modifier. And if I hadn't already joined this thread, I woulda modded you up, man. I don't ind burning mod points.
DMX4Linux is a project to develop kernel device drivers for DMX dongles and cards. Programming for the driver looks ridiculously simple. But you're probably looking for a more ready-made solution... well, there is the included X program, DMXPanel, but it's no Martin Show Designer. A quick search on Freshmeat brings up a few more full-featured programs, but they're all simple slider-type programs, so you still have to know exactly what's going to happen to your Martin MX400 when you send it "142" on channel 7 -- will it start scanning with a green filter and a spiderweb gobo, or will it just start smoking and turn off?
well, not many, I guess. I only learned about kernel compilation a year or two ago, using Mandrake Linux (do yourself a favour and don't get Mandrake if you need to recompile your kernel -- the kernel sources are nigh impossible to find). But from a very very subjective point of view (which was what my original post was intended as), Linux works just peachy for me in a way that Windows doesn't.
:) I'm too young too; I'm in my mid-twenties. But I grew up on them in the sense that my dad grew up on them, and introduced them to us at an early age, thu s warping our minds irreparably in our formative years.
Ying-tong-iddle-I-po!
"if you build it, he will come." x86 the architecture itself may be ready for the set-top box and the digital streaming stereo thingy, and good software foundations are out there (for appliances, think QNX Neutrino, embedded Linux, PalmOS 6, and so forth), and there are low power chips like Geodes and C3s. (I've even heard that people are experimenting with Transmeta's processors for appliances.) So the architecture is ready and the software is ready. But there aren't a lot of people out there who seem really interested in making good hardware (mainly motherboards) to fit this niche, and I think that's mostly what the author is frustrated with. (Mind you, VIA is going in the right direction with their new nano-ITX board, if only they'd drop their price a whole heap.)
I certainly wouldn't agree that Linux has "greater" hardware support than Windows. But, with the smaller set of devices it supports, it has infinitely better hardware support (for certain pieces of hardware, that is).
This is what I love about Linux hardware support:
USB hotplugging -- PnP in Windows 98, and even Windows 2000 is a joke and never worked properly for me. I think Linux is a breeze compared to those. As long as I've compiled the proper kernel module, I plug it in-- zip, there it goes!
All the drivers are included in a standard distribution (though this is less of an issue with the advent of Windows XP and all the hardware it supports). If I want to compile in DRI support for my Matrox card, I just compile the (included) kernel module. Same for my network card. No searching around for the manufacturer's discs.
Okay, I've run out of points and it's late. And I would be patently wrong if I said that hardware support in Linux is easier than in Windows too -- I've given up on my poor old scanner and webcam. But I prefer Linux hardware support on the x86.
I second the Sony/Panasonic recommendation. Most of them seem pretty durable and well-made. I work at a RadioShack, and we're sticking pretty much exclusively to these two brands -- we're pretty disenchanted with no-names like Koss. (Yes, they're now a no-name brand in my opinion, just like the once-elite Jensen.)
The Sony players cost a bit more; from what I can see, you're only paying extra for the ATRAC3 compatibility and the little SONY logo. ATRAC3 is Sony's proprietary compression, and from what I've heard, it doesn't sound as good even as MP3.
Panasonic's newest players seem a little -- plasticky. But I don't think a single one has been returned by a customer, so maybe they're more durable than I think. Not all of them have ID3 support, however; displaying only the folder and track numbers. The SL-MP70, however, has a funky curved alphanumeric display for only ten dollars more than the others.
The best thing about these brands though, besides their quality, is that you can stick a set of AA alkalines in them and play music for over forty hours. My dad bought a non-MP3 Sony recently, and the same batteries lasted him through a summer of daily use. Apparently the MP3 versions are even better.
No prices, sorry; I'm in Canada and I know they sell them for much less in the US (even considering the exchange rate).
really? I had that very same experience about Mozilla proper (Seamonkey), but as soon as I started using Firebird/fox browser it was like night and day. When I maximise/restore a window that's full of tabs, it is a bit slow, but otherwise I find it much faster than Internet Explorer.
I know this is slightly off-topic, but -- are you sure it's safe to have that amount of tritium dangling from your keys? Those things look pretty bloody bright... just don't stick your keychain in your pocket if you wanna have kids in the future ^_^
okay, here in Canada, we have two official spellings: 'minimize' or 'minimise', and in the UK they go so far as to only use the second spelling. Anyway, it's sort of the pot calling the kettle black, seeing as 'grammar' is spelled with two A's.
It's about time they put support for Windows product activation on their Airport. Just think of all those poor Windows users whose machines suddenly refuse to work because they were never allowed to activate through their wireless Net connections...
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hell, people can't figure out how to spell MySQL either. Is it 'my ess-cue-ell' or is it 'my sequel'? I think it's properly the first one, but nobody ever bothers calling it that.
whoa whoa whoa whoa... little bit of a sweeping generalisation there... The southern province Kerala has one of the highest literacy rates in the world, even though many live under the poverty line. I think it's something like 90 per cent, comparable to that of developed countries. The whole country's average is much lower at 55 per cent, but there are many, many sharp people in India.
...who will probably be stealing your job real soon.
actually, a page from 3M's website says that, as a fire retardant, it does its work in gaseous form (check out the PDF link near the bottom of the centre column). And is quite given to evaporation in a normal (room-temperature) environment. Yikes!
you cruel, heartless person.
No, wait. If you were truly heartless, you'd make pop-overs and -unders that all showed those hideous pictures and screamed that inane alarm.
ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, that makes sense. I'll try that out!
hey, I thought you were being funny. After all, Corbis is a Microsoft company... so there's sorta a connection there... if you squint real hard and make believe... ^_^
you know, I expected that very same thing before I bought my Wacom Graphire tablet (mine was a Graphire2, not the Graphire3 in the link). I figgered, "well, it mimics a pen, so it's gotta be comfier, right?" hmmmmmmm... sometimes a week of heavy Wacomming will give me more wrist pain and tendonitis than a week of heavy mousing. (heh, maybe my desk is the wrong height though.)
Another thing to watch out for is that the pen or mouse get a little jumpy around the edges of the tablet, so get a 6x8 instead of a 4x5 if you can afford it.
And -- before you ask -- yes, both Linux and XFree86 have drivers for the whole line of Wacom tools. The GIMP has pressure-sensitivity support built in too. All in all, I love my little tablet, but I don't know if it's eased my tendonitis or anything like that.
I've been trying the bloody site for a week or so now, having first seen the link on OSNews.com (which, to my knowledge, isn't exactly the most high-traffic site). Could they have been OSNews'd before they were Slashdotted? I have no idea. Maybe the silly site just doesn't exist anymore.
ha ha, funny little story about our twoonies. When they began to make them, there was something wrong in the design -- maybe the join between the annulus and the inner coin wasn't as tight as they'd intended, or maybe the composition of metals wasn't quite right, but when they got too cold the inside would contract faster than the outside, and the coins would fall apart.
I know people who are loaded with cash and are happy, and I know people who are loaded with cash and are miserable. Conventional philosophies say that people will probably lean towards being miserable when they have tons of money, not because money makes you miserable but because you're putting all your happiness into making cash, which just doesn't satisfy in the same way love and purposefulness do.
The second idea of freedom is closer to the (original) American ideal of freedom, in which certain people are set up as stewards and guardians of freedom. A little freedom is lost, but it's for the sake of preserving all the other freedoms we enjoy. The GPL and other similar licenses are slightly restrictive, but they are designed this way in order to preserve freedom for the long run.
Take your pick as to which style of freedom you prefer. I'm okay with either style.
GNAA stands for 'Gay Niggers Association of America'. Buncha trolls who post on Slashdot every so often and think their tongue-in-cheek politically-incorrect humour is pretty clever and impressive.
(not that political incorrectness is bad, mind you... I for one hate political correctness in many of its forms. But political incorrectness just to get a rise out of someone is pretty obnoxious.)
you know there really should be a +1 funny flamebait modifier. And if I hadn't already joined this thread, I woulda modded you up, man. I don't ind burning mod points.
DMX4Linux is a project to develop kernel device drivers for DMX dongles and cards. Programming for the driver looks ridiculously simple. But you're probably looking for a more ready-made solution... well, there is the included X program, DMXPanel, but it's no Martin Show Designer. A quick search on Freshmeat brings up a few more full-featured programs, but they're all simple slider-type programs, so you still have to know exactly what's going to happen to your Martin MX400 when you send it "142" on channel 7 -- will it start scanning with a green filter and a spiderweb gobo, or will it just start smoking and turn off?
well, not many, I guess. I only learned about kernel compilation a year or two ago, using Mandrake Linux (do yourself a favour and don't get Mandrake if you need to recompile your kernel -- the kernel sources are nigh impossible to find). But from a very very subjective point of view (which was what my original post was intended as), Linux works just peachy for me in a way that Windows doesn't.
:) I'm too young too; I'm in my mid-twenties. But I grew up on them in the sense that my dad grew up on them, and introduced them to us at an early age, thu s warping our minds irreparably in our formative years. Ying-tong-iddle-I-po!
it's beautiful! did you grow up on the Goon Show too?
"if you build it, he will come." x86 the architecture itself may be ready for the set-top box and the digital streaming stereo thingy, and good software foundations are out there (for appliances, think QNX Neutrino, embedded Linux, PalmOS 6, and so forth), and there are low power chips like Geodes and C3s. (I've even heard that people are experimenting with Transmeta's processors for appliances.) So the architecture is ready and the software is ready. But there aren't a lot of people out there who seem really interested in making good hardware (mainly motherboards) to fit this niche, and I think that's mostly what the author is frustrated with. (Mind you, VIA is going in the right direction with their new nano-ITX board, if only they'd drop their price a whole heap.)
I certainly wouldn't agree that Linux has "greater" hardware support than Windows. But, with the smaller set of devices it supports, it has infinitely better hardware support (for certain pieces of hardware, that is).
This is what I love about Linux hardware support:
Okay, I've run out of points and it's late. And I would be patently wrong if I said that hardware support in Linux is easier than in Windows too -- I've given up on my poor old scanner and webcam. But I prefer Linux hardware support on the x86.
I second the Sony/Panasonic recommendation. Most of them seem pretty durable and well-made. I work at a RadioShack, and we're sticking pretty much exclusively to these two brands -- we're pretty disenchanted with no-names like Koss. (Yes, they're now a no-name brand in my opinion, just like the once-elite Jensen.)
The Sony players cost a bit more; from what I can see, you're only paying extra for the ATRAC3 compatibility and the little SONY logo. ATRAC3 is Sony's proprietary compression, and from what I've heard, it doesn't sound as good even as MP3.
Panasonic's newest players seem a little -- plasticky. But I don't think a single one has been returned by a customer, so maybe they're more durable than I think. Not all of them have ID3 support, however; displaying only the folder and track numbers. The SL-MP70, however, has a funky curved alphanumeric display for only ten dollars more than the others.
The best thing about these brands though, besides their quality, is that you can stick a set of AA alkalines in them and play music for over forty hours. My dad bought a non-MP3 Sony recently, and the same batteries lasted him through a summer of daily use. Apparently the MP3 versions are even better.
No prices, sorry; I'm in Canada and I know they sell them for much less in the US (even considering the exchange rate).
really? I had that very same experience about Mozilla proper (Seamonkey), but as soon as I started using Firebird/fox browser it was like night and day. When I maximise/restore a window that's full of tabs, it is a bit slow, but otherwise I find it much faster than Internet Explorer.
one tiny shake and BLAM! there goes your LED. I seriously doubt the piezo generator can create 10A; I think it was a typo.
I know this is slightly off-topic, but -- are you sure it's safe to have that amount of tritium dangling from your keys? Those things look pretty bloody bright... just don't stick your keychain in your pocket if you wanna have kids in the future ^_^
okay, here in Canada, we have two official spellings: 'minimize' or 'minimise', and in the UK they go so far as to only use the second spelling. Anyway, it's sort of the pot calling the kettle black, seeing as 'grammar' is spelled with two A's.
It's about time they put support for Windows product activation on their Airport. Just think of all those poor Windows users whose machines suddenly refuse to work because they were never allowed to activate through their wireless Net connections...