Before you all get carried away with the
superhero wisecracks, lets hope that this is
not a serious birthdefect, and that the kid
will develop normally. I wouldn't be to excited
about what these Dr. Frankenstein
wannabe biologists are accomplishing with their
superrats. My guess is they live shorter lives
than plain ones.
Hello? If there is actually anyone still left on the planet who thinks the term free software was a good idea, I hope they're paying attention. Because what Microsoft is doing here is exploiting the old familiar gratis/libre ambiguity of the word free in yet another way.
Raymond should be less glib and
contrive a better argument against the term
free software than mere coersion. I see no reason why Micro$oft's
perverse attacks should affect my philosophy the
freedom of ideas, or dictate which terms are
acceptable in discussing it. In these dark days of ever expanding corporatism we need more discussion
of freedom, not less.
Let me first say that it's nice to see the USA cooperating with Europe, but I have to wonder how much Blair's involvement in the Iraq war had to do with this agreement. Either way, it's nice to see the USA and other countries (like France) getting along.
I can assure you that it is not in the spirit
of friendship that the US is cooperating. Galileo
gives potential US adversaries like China assured
precision weapons guidance. Since the US cannot prevent the system from being created it only makes sense for them to make sure that it does not
interfere with the existing GPS. Galileo is the
next step in the arms race. Happily Europe
and China are stuck with the bill.
When someone mentions CPU overclocking it brings
to mind Nigel Tufnel of Spinal Tap taking about
his why his guitar amplifier volume knob goes from 0 to 11. "If it is set to 10, there is nowhere left
to go, is there? 11 is for that extra push, over the cliff..."
because SP2 will de-emphasize backward compatibility with legacy systems and code for the sake of security.
Even if SP2 results in greater security (which I doubt) the lack of backwards compatability removes
the only selling point of the entire OS. Users
will be driven to GNU/Linux systems in droves!
Credit Mike Melville and Burt Rutan for being
so open about the problems they experienced.
Remember, this is 1 day after the flight! Compare
that with how NASA closed ranks and divulged Columbia information with an eye dropper for weeks after the disaster. The only statements made
by the mission controllers were through their
lawyers. The Russians and Chinese would never
admit to problems at all. Burt Rutan is a
genious, he puts his work on the line for all
the world to see. Space Ship 1 is a class act all the way around.
And besides, once you are in space, without having to worry about air resistance, it's trivially easy to build up that extra velocity.
The lack of dynamic pressure in a vacuum is one of the reasons rockets build velocity so fast at the
end of flight. But much more important is that the
rocket is relatively light. The momentum of the rocket exhaust that barely moved the rocket at take off now makes the lighter rocket scream.
This is the standard response from your typical
slashdot idiot whenever they read criticism of
any kind. What about the fact that I don't have
Bill Gates billions? Fact is Carmack has more money (and graphics programming ability) than sense. His amateurish experiments
are not noteworthy and diminish more serious
efforts of other competitors.
Oh ya. I have progressed to a 4 foot model using 2 G engines. It flies to 3000' and exceeds the speed of sound in flight. You can find commercial gasoline/hydrogen-peroxide-water fueled models that fly to 6000'. Perhaps Carmack should have bought one of those and made a press release.
The pictures are quite amazing. It is very puzzling why so small an icy body can have flattened crater floors. It does not take much gravity to allow warmed ice to viscuoously relax apparently. When I look at the images of those amazing spires on the comet limb. I can't help but think about the descriptions of Comet Haley's surface in Arthur C. Clarke's 2061. That guy has spooky prescience.
This is a surprisingly lame attempt at the X-Prize. A hydrogen peroxide engine is a terrible
choice for propulsion. The propellant is dangerous and and has low specific impulse. It has been mainly used for thrusters in the past. It is not even the best choice for that. Bipropellant thrusters now predominate.
Any high power rocket modeller can
show better than this. One wonders why he chose to publicize the event, considering the upcoming
flight of Burt Rutan's vehicle. That is what
I call a serious attempt.
The kernel make/installation process smartly
separates new versions. Select the kernel version
(or runlevel) when the Grub screen comes up. I
boot variants of 2.4 and 2.6 without issues on
Gentoo. That way I keep a functioning system and
can still impress the chicks with a cutting
edge kernel running in VGA mode. You might even
set up a parallel installation on another disk
I'm not a newbie either. I've been using Unix since the late 80's and GNU/Linux since 1996.I agree that Linux documentation stinks. I recently tried
for several weeks (off and on) to get PPP to work on Gentoo. After learning a lot about my machine and pppd, I finally got the critical tip from an unrelated posting on the Gentoo forum. With perseverance and Linux forums there is no reason to get completely stuck. Keep trying, figure it out and post your solution.
The newest images of Phoebe are already thousands of times better than the previous ones taken by the Voyager 2 mission in 1981.
No, but it is hoped they will be. At best, the newest released images are 10x
better than Voyager. Expect the high res images
later today. You are getting ahead of yourself.
...rampant misspellings and grammatical errors, boasted an absolute horde of *dumb* users
The arguments presented on Freerepulic must have made quite an impression if the best you can come up with is a spelling flame. Intellectual elitism is a hallmark of the modern American liberal. Spiro Agnew said it best: (Liberals) "an effete corps of inpotent snobs who fancy themselves intellectuals."
When extracting, GNOME-Terminal uses around 70% of the CPU just to draw the text, leaving only 30% for the extraction itself. That's pitifully poor. Metacity is hellishly slow over networked X, and, curiously, these two offending apps were both written by the same guy (Havoc Pennington).
Rather pointed accusation. Do the Gnome developers inspect each others code or are lead app
developers free to do what they want?
What an elitist load of crap. There is more to computer use than compiling your kernel over and over. Some of us use our "toys" to create spreadsheets, edit video, etc. Not everything is more efficient from the command prompt.
I fail to see why running WindowMaker instead of
Gnome or KDE would preclude you from running your
spreadsheets. Even while you are compiling your
kernel over and over. You can point-click-drool to your hearts content.
As more people sign on to high-speed access, how long will it be before we start seeing the cable companies (such as Comcast) start dropping their prices to levels which compete directly with dial-up?
You won't. Cable companies are legally mandated monopolies. They control the cable leading into your house. There is no meaningful competion for service and price as with the dialup providers. Prices are high. >$40 for basic cable TV, >$40 for IP. Until the monopoly is broken, as with the phone system, prices will not drop. Some
digital future, hmm?
I you really want to start a flame war on/.,
and I have started several good ones (over 10 replies), I suggest picking a more incendiary topic.
Global warming is my personal favorite, transatlantic politics is another.
Who cares about Konqueror except a few KDE fanboys? Futhermore, be subtle. The best
responses come from people who don't know they
are being pervoked.
A question for the whole forum: What was the greatest/. flamewar of all time?
Its about time people recognise Javascript for
the plague that it is. Look at an HTML page littered with Javascript and think, "Is this what
the inventors of HTML really had in mind?"
Javascript is a syntactic disaster. It provides
dubious capabilities that would be better implemented as extensions to HTML.
I consider that the golden rule requires that if I like a program I must share it with other people who like it. Software sellers want to divide the users and conquer them, making each user agree not to share with others. I refuse to break solidarity with other users in this way. I cannot in good conscience sign a nondisclosure agreement or a software license agreement.
This is quote from the GNU Manifesto. It resonates with most GNU/Linux
folks to varying degrees. Like many readers of
this forum, I have made an implicit Faustian
bargain with my employer and do not live
up to these ideals at work. At home I do.
It is already being planned. For whatever reason
public squeamishness about nuclear powered planetary probes has abated since it reached a peak with the Galileo and Cassini launches. A good thing for exploration.
I think it is pretty remarkable that the
English the yanks, canucks, or aussies speak are
as close to real thing as they are. I understand
people from GBR well enough when I meet them.
An interesting question is whether world English will converge in the future or continue to diverge. I think they will converge, but heaven forbid if "thru","nite", "cuz", "u", or even "hoser" become commonly accepted.
Slashdot Mirror
$ emerge unmerge saddam
$ emerge --pretend interim-govt
$ emerge unmerge us-army
$ init 0
Before you all get carried away with the superhero wisecracks, lets hope that this is not a serious birthdefect, and that the kid will develop normally. I wouldn't be to excited about what these Dr. Frankenstein wannabe biologists are accomplishing with their superrats. My guess is they live shorter lives than plain ones.
Hello? If there is actually anyone still left on the planet who thinks the term free software was a good idea, I hope they're paying attention. Because what Microsoft is doing here is exploiting the old familiar gratis/libre ambiguity of the word free in yet another way.
Raymond should be less glib and contrive a better argument against the term free software than mere coersion. I see no reason why Micro$oft's perverse attacks should affect my philosophy the freedom of ideas, or dictate which terms are acceptable in discussing it. In these dark days of ever expanding corporatism we need more discussion of freedom, not less.
Let me first say that it's nice to see the USA cooperating with Europe, but I have to wonder how much Blair's involvement in the Iraq war had to do with this agreement. Either way, it's nice to see the USA and other countries (like France) getting along.
I can assure you that it is not in the spirit of friendship that the US is cooperating. Galileo gives potential US adversaries like China assured precision weapons guidance. Since the US cannot prevent the system from being created it only makes sense for them to make sure that it does not interfere with the existing GPS. Galileo is the next step in the arms race. Happily Europe and China are stuck with the bill.
When someone mentions CPU overclocking it brings to mind Nigel Tufnel of Spinal Tap taking about his why his guitar amplifier volume knob goes from 0 to 11. "If it is set to 10, there is nowhere left to go, is there? 11 is for that extra push, over the cliff..."
because SP2 will de-emphasize backward compatibility with legacy systems and code for the sake of security.
Even if SP2 results in greater security (which I doubt) the lack of backwards compatability removes the only selling point of the entire OS. Users will be driven to GNU/Linux systems in droves!
Credit Mike Melville and Burt Rutan for being so open about the problems they experienced. Remember, this is 1 day after the flight! Compare that with how NASA closed ranks and divulged Columbia information with an eye dropper for weeks after the disaster. The only statements made by the mission controllers were through their lawyers. The Russians and Chinese would never admit to problems at all. Burt Rutan is a genious, he puts his work on the line for all the world to see. Space Ship 1 is a class act all the way around.
And besides, once you are in space, without having to worry about air resistance, it's trivially easy to build up that extra velocity.
The lack of dynamic pressure in a vacuum is one of the reasons rockets build velocity so fast at the end of flight. But much more important is that the rocket is relatively light. The momentum of the rocket exhaust that barely moved the rocket at take off now makes the lighter rocket scream.
Check out the physics here
This is the standard response from your typical slashdot idiot whenever they read criticism of any kind. What about the fact that I don't have Bill Gates billions? Fact is Carmack has more money (and graphics programming ability) than sense. His amateurish experiments are not noteworthy and diminish more serious efforts of other competitors.
Oh ya. I have progressed to a 4 foot model using 2 G engines. It flies to 3000' and exceeds the speed of sound in flight. You can find commercial gasoline/hydrogen-peroxide-water fueled models that fly to 6000'. Perhaps Carmack should have bought one of those and made a press release.
The pictures are quite amazing. It is very puzzling why so small an icy body can have flattened crater floors. It does not take much gravity to
allow warmed ice to viscuoously relax apparently.
When I look at the images of those amazing spires
on the comet limb. I can't help but think about
the descriptions of Comet Haley's surface in
Arthur C. Clarke's 2061. That guy has spooky prescience.
This is a surprisingly lame attempt at the X-Prize. A hydrogen peroxide engine is a terrible choice for propulsion. The propellant is dangerous and and has low specific impulse. It has been mainly used for thrusters in the past. It is not even the best choice for that. Bipropellant thrusters now predominate. Any high power rocket modeller can show better than this. One wonders why he chose to publicize the event, considering the upcoming flight of Burt Rutan's vehicle. That is what I call a serious attempt.
The kernel make/installation process smartly separates new versions. Select the kernel version (or runlevel) when the Grub screen comes up. I boot variants of 2.4 and 2.6 without issues on Gentoo. That way I keep a functioning system and can still impress the chicks with a cutting edge kernel running in VGA mode. You might even set up a parallel installation on another disk
I'm not a newbie either. I've been using Unix since the late 80's and GNU/Linux since 1996.I agree that Linux documentation stinks. I recently tried for several weeks (off and on) to get PPP to work on Gentoo. After learning a lot about my machine and pppd, I finally got the critical tip from an unrelated posting on the Gentoo forum. With perseverance and Linux forums there is no reason to get completely stuck. Keep trying, figure it out and post your solution.
As opposed to chickenhawk central aka the Freerepublic!
LOL. You're right. I'd rather hand the republic over to ribbon-burning peaceniks who sit around in circles smoking dope and playing the guitar.
The newest images of Phoebe are already thousands of times better than the previous ones taken by the Voyager 2 mission in 1981.
No, but it is hoped they will be. At best, the newest released images are 10x better than Voyager. Expect the high res images later today. You are getting ahead of yourself.
The arguments presented on Freerepulic must have made quite an impression if the best you can come up with is a spelling flame. Intellectual elitism is a hallmark of the modern American liberal. Spiro Agnew said it best: (Liberals) "an effete corps of inpotent snobs who fancy themselves intellectuals."
When extracting, GNOME-Terminal uses around 70% of the CPU just to draw the text, leaving only 30% for the extraction itself. That's pitifully poor. Metacity is hellishly slow over networked X, and, curiously, these two offending apps were both written by the same guy (Havoc Pennington).
Rather pointed accusation. Do the Gnome developers inspect each others code or are lead app developers free to do what they want?
What an elitist load of crap. There is more to computer use than compiling your kernel over and over. Some of us use our "toys" to create spreadsheets, edit video, etc. Not everything is more efficient from the command prompt.
I fail to see why running WindowMaker instead of Gnome or KDE would preclude you from running your spreadsheets. Even while you are compiling your kernel over and over. You can point-click-drool to your hearts content.
As more people sign on to high-speed access, how long will it be before we start seeing the cable companies (such as Comcast) start dropping their prices to levels which compete directly with dial-up?
You won't. Cable companies are legally mandated monopolies. They control the cable leading into your house. There is no meaningful competion for service and price as with the dialup providers. Prices are high. >$40 for basic cable TV, >$40 for IP. Until the monopoly is broken, as with the phone system, prices will not drop. Some digital future, hmm?
I you really want to start a flame war on /.,
and I have started several good ones (over 10 replies), I suggest picking a more incendiary topic.
Global warming is my personal favorite, transatlantic politics is another.
Who cares about Konqueror except a few KDE fanboys? Futhermore, be subtle. The best
responses come from people who don't know they
are being pervoked.
A question for the whole forum: What was the greatest /. flamewar of all time?
What about Konqueror, you jackass.
Its about time people recognise Javascript for the plague that it is. Look at an HTML page littered with Javascript and think, "Is this what the inventors of HTML really had in mind?" Javascript is a syntactic disaster. It provides dubious capabilities that would be better implemented as extensions to HTML.
I consider that the golden rule requires that if I like a program I must share it with other people who like it. Software sellers want to divide the users and conquer them, making each user agree not to share with others. I refuse to break solidarity with other users in this way. I cannot in good conscience sign a nondisclosure agreement or a software license agreement.
This is quote from the GNU Manifesto. It resonates with most GNU/Linux folks to varying degrees. Like many readers of this forum, I have made an implicit Faustian bargain with my employer and do not live up to these ideals at work. At home I do.
It is already being planned. For whatever reason public squeamishness about nuclear powered planetary probes has abated since it reached a peak with the Galileo and Cassini launches. A good thing for exploration.
I think it is pretty remarkable that the English the yanks, canucks, or aussies speak are as close to real thing as they are. I understand people from GBR well enough when I meet them. An interesting question is whether world English will converge in the future or continue to diverge. I think they will converge, but heaven forbid if "thru","nite", "cuz", "u", or even "hoser" become commonly accepted.