I wanted to download a slackware 1.0 (hence 1993), the first distribution I ever used, to try it on an emulator. After 15min of google, nothing. Is there a canonical place to find old distributions ?
It seemed that he does not like the "touch" of it, with that impression that the whole keyboard moves down when you press a key. Cheap laptops tend to do this, but not the thinkpads I own.
I am the proud owner of a 570e, T41p, T61p and X61s. And indeed, the T61p is the most Lenovo of the four, and it sucks (huge and hot). The X61s is wonderful (netbook sized and amazing keyboard, CPU, HD, screen and linux compatibility) but it seems that it was IBM designed.
One of my relatives just bought a T400 and his comment was "pretty cool, but the keyboard sucks a bit"... Knowing that one of the main reason to buy a Thinkpad was the quality of the keyboard, this is bad.
Now, maybe the expensive ones are better ? People do not seem to complain about the X[23]00, do they ?
I am not sure to understand why it is simpler to have another source of energy such as wind or sunlight instead of powering a turbine and a generator with the bio-fuel the plant produces.
At the moment, yes. But there's little reason to believe that will always be the case, especially with the advances in wind, solar and tidal power, coupled with increased intrest in Nuclear power.
That may be a stupid question, but how comes one can not use the grass-fuel to power the grass-fuel production ? As long as the required input energy is lower than the output, one just need to bootstrap the production with an additional source of energy, and then it could go on forever without it, no ?
A decade ago I wrote a perl script for sirc that had 40 sentences and would just reply one picked at random (uniformly) every time it would get a private message. Hence it was not taking into account neither what was the message it just received to it (a la Eliza) nor what it had said before. It was not even waiting before replying, hence would type the respones in a tenth of a second.
It happened several times that people would talk with it for more than an hour. If I remember correctly the record was 1h45min...
For the Turing test, the tester has a strong prior that the testee may be a computer. This is not the case here, and the prior for this to happen is so low that it's impossible for a layman to come with that explanation. What happens is that people think inconsistencies in the speech of their interlocutor is due to technical problems (sending message to the wrong person, lag, complexity of the program the person use, etc.)
Who are the third party developpers we are talking about here ? Will there be some cyptographic scheme to prevent me from uploading whatever I want on the phone ? That's the main question.
You can not deny that there is something moraly bad in spending money, resources in general, and intelligence in finding ways to convince people that eating crap is good for them. And this is what these big food corporations are doing.
In fact, both a stupid consumer and a corporation making dishonest commercials are wrong. The first to be stupid, the second to be driven by greed to the point of pushing people to do something bad for them. Now the question is: Should we allow the first to sue the second ? Since the advertisement of the second annoys me more than the stupidity of the first in my everyday life, I would say yes.
So to summarize what you wrote, L. Torvald "wrote specific terms into the modified GPL v2", and these terms are that Linux is under the non-modified GPL v2 and not under a yet unwritten, hence unknown license ? Ain't you making a confusion between the license and the statement about under what license the code is ?
It seems that the paper tries to make a sensational news by making a confusion between the fact that the people involved where having "virtual sex" with child-looking avatar, and the fact that they were actually trading real child-porn material.
Sentences mixing both like Mr Schader was asked to pay to attend meetings where virtual and real child pornography was being shown were obviously written to make that confusion in the reader's mind. As one can observe in the slashdot's comments, the goal was indeed reached beyond expectation.
But can't they revoke the key of the XBOX drive ? Or they can technically but they can not commercialy ? Can't they ask people to update their bios with a new private key whatever ?
There is not enough Trusted Computing hardware in an XBOX so that MS can ask users to update their drive firmware with a new AACS key in a way that even sniffing the network you can't know the new key, and then revoke the old one ?
I never used seriously one of those fancy AJAX softare for more than 10 minues (except Google Maps) and my feeling was that even on a decent PC they are sluggishly slow, and lacking a lot of features. Now I read in many places that Google is a real contender for the office applications and I do not understand how that can be possible beside the mail.
It reminds me 1997 when we were supposed to have Corel Office in java: There was such a discrepancy between what I could read in the news and the true experience of using the betas.
Is there somebody here who used / is using these on-line softwares seriously and could tell me what I missed ?
How does this strategy prevent the student from having most of his work done somebody else ? Family, friends, or mercenaries ? This idea of evaluating students on work done out of class, where it is obvious that the quality of the work will be only weakly correlated to the true skills of the student is something I have always thought strange. And this is the standard in the U.S. If you tell students there that you will do it European-style, that is, 90% of the final grade will be the final in-class test, they would sue you.
More practical than a plane, and more comfortable than a bus
Trains such as the French TGV, the Swiss ICN, or (even better) the Japanese Shinkansen, are far (FAR) more comfortable than a plane (I am talking economy class here).
Why Of course they aren't ? I do not know the precise meaning of "submitted using the Mono's Migration Analysis". Depending on who submits, why he submits, what is this migration analysis thing (is it a website, a mono application, do you need linux, do you need a free OS, do you need to read hard-core mono user forums to be aware of its existence in the first place) these statistics can me something or nothing. My post was just to get that kind of information.
When I think about DRM -- software or hardware -- I have in mind this image of a small vault in a cave, with a bunch of guys around it with all tools, time and motivation they need.
Have you ever taught ? I have, and while I believe I am not considered as a very "nice" teacher, I don't remember anything I have done that I would be ashamed of if it has been filmed and distributed on Youtube.
All these spoiled kids are not in class to play with their expensive electronic gizmos, but beside this I am not sure to get exactly the argument against teachers behind filmed. It would even make sense if it was mandatory. I would not be comfortable with my kids for hours with teachers that feel so bad about the outer world knowing what they do in their class.
When, until he realizes there is a video of him on Sun's web site, in a proprietary codec and viewable with a program written in a proprietary language.
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I wanted to download a slackware 1.0 (hence 1993), the first distribution I ever used, to try it on an emulator. After 15min of google, nothing. Is there a canonical place to find old distributions ?
It seemed that he does not like the "touch" of it, with that impression that the whole keyboard moves down when you press a key. Cheap laptops tend to do this, but not the thinkpads I own.
I am the proud owner of a 570e, T41p, T61p and X61s. And indeed, the T61p is the most Lenovo of the four, and it sucks (huge and hot). The X61s is wonderful (netbook sized and amazing keyboard, CPU, HD, screen and linux compatibility) but it seems that it was IBM designed.
One of my relatives just bought a T400 and his comment was "pretty cool, but the keyboard sucks a bit" ... Knowing that one of the main reason to buy a Thinkpad was the quality of the keyboard, this is bad.
Now, maybe the expensive ones are better ? People do not seem to complain about the X[23]00, do they ?
I would put no restriction on the laptops, and hard restrictions on the school wireless (i.e. whitelist), if there is one.
From my logic, what the students do with their laptops out of the school is the parents responsability, what they do at school is yours.
I really don't get why nobody cares about the keyboard size. Young people do not type anymore these days ?!
Indeed. And even more worrying is that somebody noticed the password, which means that they are readable somewhere and actually read.
I never see anybody complaining about the eee keyboard. Is it truly usable ?
I am not sure to understand why it is simpler to have another source of energy such as wind or sunlight instead of powering a turbine and a generator with the bio-fuel the plant produces.
That may be a stupid question, but how comes one can not use the grass-fuel to power the grass-fuel production ? As long as the required input energy is lower than the output, one just need to bootstrap the production with an additional source of energy, and then it could go on forever without it, no ?
A decade ago I wrote a perl script for sirc that had 40 sentences and would just reply one picked at random (uniformly) every time it would get a private message. Hence it was not taking into account neither what was the message it just received to it (a la Eliza) nor what it had said before. It was not even waiting before replying, hence would type the respones in a tenth of a second.
It happened several times that people would talk with it for more than an hour. If I remember correctly the record was 1h45min ...
For the Turing test, the tester has a strong prior that the testee may be a computer. This is not the case here, and the prior for this to happen is so low that it's impossible for a layman to come with that explanation. What happens is that people think inconsistencies in the speech of their interlocutor is due to technical problems (sending message to the wrong person, lag, complexity of the program the person use, etc.)
Who are the third party developpers we are talking about here ? Will there be some cyptographic scheme to prevent me from uploading whatever I want on the phone ? That's the main question.
Why isn't there a link from your site main page to Wikipedia's ?
You can not deny that there is something moraly bad in spending money, resources in general, and intelligence in finding ways to convince people that eating crap is good for them. And this is what these big food corporations are doing.
In fact, both a stupid consumer and a corporation making dishonest commercials are wrong. The first to be stupid, the second to be driven by greed to the point of pushing people to do something bad for them. Now the question is: Should we allow the first to sue the second ? Since the advertisement of the second annoys me more than the stupidity of the first in my everyday life, I would say yes.
So to summarize what you wrote, L. Torvald "wrote specific terms into the modified GPL v2", and these terms are that Linux is under the non-modified GPL v2 and not under a yet unwritten, hence unknown license ? Ain't you making a confusion between the license and the statement about under what license the code is ?
It seems that the paper tries to make a sensational news by making a confusion between the fact that the people involved where having "virtual sex" with child-looking avatar, and the fact that they were actually trading real child-porn material.
Sentences mixing both like Mr Schader was asked to pay to attend meetings where virtual and real child pornography was being shown were obviously written to make that confusion in the reader's mind. As one can observe in the slashdot's comments, the goal was indeed reached beyond expectation.
But can't they revoke the key of the XBOX drive ? Or they can technically but they can not commercialy ? Can't they ask people to update their bios with a new private key whatever ?
There is not enough Trusted Computing hardware in an XBOX so that MS can ask users to update their drive firmware with a new AACS key in a way that even sniffing the network you can't know the new key, and then revoke the old one ?
You would put your phd thesis in the hands of a filesystem which has not been extensively used by thousands of users for years ? I would not.
I would use CVS and make a backup of the cvsroot everyday on a CD. But I am a bit paranoid.
I never used seriously one of those fancy AJAX softare for more than 10 minues (except Google Maps) and my feeling was that even on a decent PC they are sluggishly slow, and lacking a lot of features. Now I read in many places that Google is a real contender for the office applications and I do not understand how that can be possible beside the mail.
It reminds me 1997 when we were supposed to have Corel Office in java: There was such a discrepancy between what I could read in the news and the true experience of using the betas.
Is there somebody here who used / is using these on-line softwares seriously and could tell me what I missed ?
How does this strategy prevent the student from having most of his work done somebody else ? Family, friends, or mercenaries ? This idea of evaluating students on work done out of class, where it is obvious that the quality of the work will be only weakly correlated to the true skills of the student is something I have always thought strange. And this is the standard in the U.S. If you tell students there that you will do it European-style, that is, 90% of the final grade will be the final in-class test, they would sue you.
More practical than a plane, and more comfortable than a bus
Trains such as the French TGV, the Swiss ICN, or (even better) the Japanese Shinkansen, are far (FAR) more comfortable than a plane (I am talking economy class here).
Why Of course they aren't ? I do not know the precise meaning of "submitted using the Mono's Migration Analysis". Depending on who submits, why he submits, what is this migration analysis thing (is it a website, a mono application, do you need linux, do you need a free OS, do you need to read hard-core mono user forums to be aware of its existence in the first place) these statistics can me something or nothing. My post was just to get that kind of information.
Are the submitted applications a non-biased sampling ?
When I think about DRM -- software or hardware -- I have in mind this image of a small vault in a cave, with a bunch of guys around it with all tools, time and motivation they need.
Have you ever taught ? I have, and while I believe I am not considered as a very "nice" teacher, I don't remember anything I have done that I would be ashamed of if it has been filmed and distributed on Youtube.
All these spoiled kids are not in class to play with their expensive electronic gizmos, but beside this I am not sure to get exactly the argument against teachers behind filmed. It would even make sense if it was mandatory. I would not be comfortable with my kids for hours with teachers that feel so bad about the outer world knowing what they do in their class.
When, until he realizes there is a video of him on Sun's web site, in a proprietary codec and viewable with a program written in a proprietary language.