Initial configuration may be a problem, but you have to do it only one time, I still think slackware major problem is its bad binaries support.
I'm ok in promoting slackware for small office desktop (very limited applications, like a word processor and browser), but in such ocassions will not be the end user who will install/configure, but the support guy.
Microsoft Windows 95/98/Me don't, if that's your case you may use KCPUCooler for that (not sure if it has spyware) and that feature exists since 486 processors.
Maybe dimming was just a primary detection. They may have looked a lot of starts at the same time and later focused on those that dimmed and also used a coronograph (that reduce the bright of the star itself making the planets around it more visible.
On the other side MSN (and also Yahoo) use "soul-sucking" redirect links on the serch results, instead of direct links. That way they track what you click in.
In the aspect of privacy concerns, I prefer choosing not using a particular email service than copy and paste the url of every result im interested in.
And one curiosity: Microsoft seens to put high wheight on links already clicked, I searched (in another browser) the terms Ive searched before in my tests (low used terms) and the ones Ive clicked are now on the top.
What also generated a bizzar effect, one of the sites Ive clicked returned now 11 results (in the first page) and the term Ive search are secundaries on those pages (internal links for the same page).
PS.: Goggle also use redirect links, but in very rare ocassions that I couldnt determine exactly (it have happended to me just a couple of times)
About the quality of the results, its a shame. It couldnt find two informational sites I own (although, in one case, all the resulting pages had links to my site) and in the other case the top results were very shallow (term used once in the middle of the text and the sites werent about the subject) even existing thounsands of sites specifically about the subject.
I belive it's a task of the government to invest in research of "products" that are not of economic interest for companies (at the point they have reasons that don't justifies their investment) but may bring positive results for the society as a whole.
They're already addicted. First phase was piracy tolerance, now they want to charge...
I believe they are doing what they should have done before, adjusting their prices to the reality of the local population.
Today, MSFT charges the same for Microsoft Windows in any part of the world, either in Europe on in a developing country.
In my country (Brazil) 200U$ is the average salary and MS Windows costs about 130U$.
You may say with that salary people can't buy computers but a lot of them can, financing in one or two years or buying an used one. Although they're not willing to pay the high Microsoft's Tax.
Reducing the cost of the OS, MSFT is trying to reduce piracy. Adjusting the prices to local standards the same way music and movie industries have been doing for years.
Although they don't want the possibility of losing their current revenue. Those, mostly companies, that already buy their expensive product.
So, to keep those companies paying high prices, they remove some (considered) essential features.
The same essential like not clicking on a "blue E" to browse the internet, but on a "M". Whatever, some minimal changes, but enough to make the workers notice and complain to their boss (since aren't they who is paying for their intelectual inertia).
So companies keep paying the high prices, and the population now can afford to buy their "little dose":)
Wonder if you're on an airplane and a despresurization happens, the fuel cell blows and nobody can see the flames (because they're invisible). can you flight safe carring one of these?
That Carver is a nice car, but I have some observations to make: - "4 cylinder 16 valve turbo intercooler" Here in Brazil we use 8 valve on the economic cars, Im not sure if that would be more economic.
- "65 bhp at 7.500 rpm" Im not sure if that motor would last very much reaching so high RPMs
Good aerodinamics (small contact area), small wheight, better security and weather protection than a motorcycle. Everything I would like in a... gas vehicle.
Id buy one of these if it has a gas motor, I dont want to pay the wheight and cost of batteries, and want the flexibility (refueling everywhere) and manutenability of a gas engine. (no need to change that whole battery set once and while)
I seriously want a gas engine vehicle that consume much less, but no way Id like a battery powered vehicle.
Slackware is a nice distribution, its easy to understand its package system for example. But it has bad binaries/package support.
You can live happily with it if all packages you need are in the distro, which include all packages needed for servers and small offices machines, but it can be a nightmare if youre a home user.
Slackware is a "one man" distribution, the reason for that is its low number of official packages.
And if you need some other software outside of that its better you compile all yourself or youll be in a jungle of amateur made packages.
People with different software and hardware configurations generating packages and spreading it around.
That lead to missing libraries messages (even when you have them), missing new versions of libraries that are on the official distro (but not yet updated), complaints about not finding your remote control (even when you dont have one), binaries compiled with strange options (some missing other unuseful) and so on.
A slackware zealot may say "compile your own", but sometimes you cant, because of time restrictions, or just dont want to waste a lot of time compiling a "one task application" and its dependencies.
And in that situations youre SOL in the jungle, and is not a good experience at all.
"non-cheapskates among us should go buy the CD-set to support the project"
If you want to support the project you dont need to buy anything, donate directly and all the money you wanted to donate (not just part of it) you reach the end you wanted.
"With the next version of Internet Explorer tied to the release of longhorn, and still years off"
But there's MS Internet Explorer 6 SP2 scheduled to be released on september together with a SP for MS Windows XP. It isn't a total new version but I belive they will incorporate some of that features.
It was in a situation like that that Venus athmosphere (its clounds) was discovered, when Venus was against the sun an astromer saw a fog over the planet. A lot of light passed trough where previously was thoug to be solid.
That's all [insert name here] bullship. Don't know who to blame but I searched for more data and found several pictures like that. Like this (don't know exposition time) and this (five minute exposition, march 11). All have similar streaks, the only difference is the streak on the "UFO" picture seens to be alone and probably move faster (since it's a 15 seconds exposition) or that's just zoom effect. And probably was the first to be photographed, so that's might be the reason it created so much hype between NASA people. This is what I belive to be the original image, taken from this page. There is some discussion here but I didn't read it all.
That's really interesting idea, hope NASA is listeanig. But there'are other aspects involved, the orbit of the object may don't cross the same spot soon, light conditions: must be day and reflecting the sun against a dark background. Mybe they are already doing, they're just afraid of expectaion and a latter false positive (image not there, for whatever reason
Companies buy in bunches so they get a better price or don't have IT people that care the hardware they're buying is bundled with an expensive OS (price).
You usually don't pay for inovation you pay for a commodity, an operating system, don't matter if it's 10 years old or not, what matters is if it work or not.
When it don't some people that don't learn very fast (didn't 98, ME, 2000, XP) buy a new version, instead of switch, beliveing that new version now works properly.
And a few people out there upgrade to the newest one, because... it's new, or have a fancier interface. That few buy for innovation ask them if it worths.
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Initial configuration may be a problem, but you have to do it only one time, I still think slackware major problem is its bad binaries support.
I'm ok in promoting slackware for small office desktop (very limited applications, like a word processor and browser), but in such ocassions will not be the end user who will install/configure, but the support guy.
Microsoft Windows 95/98/Me don't, if that's your case you may use KCPUCooler for that (not sure if it has spyware) and that feature exists since 486 processors.
Maybe dimming was just a primary detection. They may have looked a lot of starts at the same time and later focused on those that dimmed and also used a coronograph (that reduce the bright of the star itself making the planets around it more visible.
Pluto hasn't even finished an orbit (estimated in 130 earth years) around the sun, since it was discovered in 1930.
And those others that were recently discovered, there isn't enough data to say how they will behave (if they will scape to outter space or whatever)
No, it didnt! Or are you questioning the Patent Office credibility? :-)
On the other side MSN (and also Yahoo) use "soul-sucking" redirect links on the serch results, instead of direct links. That way they track what you click in.
In the aspect of privacy concerns, I prefer choosing not using a particular email service than copy and paste the url of every result im interested in.
And one curiosity: Microsoft seens to put high wheight on links already clicked, I searched (in another browser) the terms Ive searched before in my tests (low used terms) and the ones Ive clicked are now on the top.
What also generated a bizzar effect, one of the sites Ive clicked returned now 11 results (in the first page) and the term Ive search are secundaries on those pages (internal links for the same page).
PS.: Goggle also use redirect links, but in very rare ocassions that I couldnt determine exactly (it have happended to me just a couple of times)
About the quality of the results, its a shame. It couldnt find two informational sites I own (although, in one case, all the resulting pages had links to my site) and in the other case the top results were very shallow (term used once in the middle of the text and the sites werent about the subject) even existing thounsands of sites specifically about the subject.
Google and yahoo find those two sites easily
Get the signals (positions, kicks, ...) from the computers controlling the robots and make an interface for it :-)
My money == government money ?
I belive it's a task of the government to invest in research of "products" that are not of economic interest for companies (at the point they have reasons that don't justifies their investment) but may bring positive results for the society as a whole.
But what about emissions? You keep having cheap gas but CO2 emissions go skyhigh the same way.
Wealso have those, but CDMA, for about 3 years here in Brazil. They're usually used in shows and sports events.
They're already addicted. First phase was piracy tolerance, now they want to charge...
:)
I believe they are doing what they should have done before, adjusting their prices to the reality of the local population.
Today, MSFT charges the same for Microsoft Windows in any part of the world, either in Europe on in a developing country.
In my country (Brazil) 200U$ is the average salary and MS Windows costs about 130U$.
You may say with that salary people can't buy computers but a lot of them can, financing in one or two years or buying an used one. Although they're not willing to pay the high Microsoft's Tax.
Reducing the cost of the OS, MSFT is trying to reduce piracy. Adjusting the prices to local standards the same way music and movie industries have been doing for years.
Although they don't want the possibility of losing their current revenue. Those, mostly companies, that already buy their expensive product.
So, to keep those companies paying high prices, they remove some (considered) essential features.
The same essential like not clicking on a "blue E" to browse the internet, but on a "M". Whatever, some minimal changes, but enough to make the workers notice and complain to their boss (since aren't they who is paying for their intelectual inertia).
So companies keep paying the high prices, and the population now can afford to buy their "little dose"
Wonder if you're on an airplane and a despresurization happens, the fuel cell blows and nobody can see the flames (because they're invisible). can you flight safe carring one of these?
That Carver is a nice car, but I have some observations to make:
- "4 cylinder 16 valve turbo intercooler"
Here in Brazil we use 8 valve on the economic cars, Im not sure if that would be more economic.
- "65 bhp at 7.500 rpm"
Im not sure if that motor would last very much reaching so high RPMs
Do you have any idea of how much it costs?
Good aerodinamics (small contact area), small wheight, better security and weather protection than a motorcycle. Everything I would like in a ... gas vehicle.
Id buy one of these if it has a gas motor, I dont want to pay the wheight and cost of batteries, and want the flexibility (refueling everywhere) and manutenability of a gas engine. (no need to change that whole battery set once and while)
I seriously want a gas engine vehicle that consume much less, but no way Id like a battery powered vehicle.
Thata an example of amateur packaging (not compling with the official rules), a search for xmule leads to: xmule-1.8.2-i686-1orb.tgz
i686 ? What about the rest of us (i586)?
The author of that package made just 5 packages and joined on April of 2004? Is it an experienced user?
He didnt packaged any of the xmule dependecies.
The package is rated 2 of 3.
I tried and it seens anyone can post a package there without previous checking.
Thats what I call amateur.
Maybe because they couldnt base on something that didnt exist yet (slackware 10) but on the now old slackware 9.1
Slackware is a nice distribution, its easy to understand its package system for example. But it has bad binaries/package support.
You can live happily with it if all packages you need are in the distro, which include all packages needed for servers and small offices machines, but it can be a nightmare if youre a home user.
Slackware is a "one man" distribution, the reason for that is its low number of official packages.
And if you need some other software outside of that its better you compile all yourself or youll be in a jungle of amateur made packages.
People with different software and hardware configurations generating packages and spreading it around.
That lead to missing libraries messages (even when you have them), missing new versions of libraries that are on the official distro (but not yet updated), complaints about not finding your remote control (even when you dont have one), binaries compiled with strange options (some missing other unuseful) and so on.
A slackware zealot may say "compile your own", but sometimes you cant, because of time restrictions, or just dont want to waste a lot of time compiling a "one task application" and its dependencies.
And in that situations youre SOL in the jungle, and is not a good experience at all.
"non-cheapskates among us should go buy the CD-set to support the project"
If you want to support the project you dont need to buy anything, donate directly and all the money you wanted to donate (not just part of it) you reach the end you wanted.
"With the next version of Internet Explorer tied to the release of longhorn, and still years off"
But there's MS Internet Explorer 6 SP2 scheduled to be released on september together with a SP for MS Windows XP.
It isn't a total new version but I belive they will incorporate some of that features.
It was in a situation like that that Venus athmosphere (its clounds) was discovered, when Venus was against the sun an astromer saw a fog over the planet. A lot of light passed trough where previously was thoug to be solid.
See slashdot effect in action here and here
That's all [insert name here] bullship. Don't know who to blame but I searched for more data and found several pictures like that.
Like this (don't know exposition time) and this (five minute exposition, march 11).
All have similar streaks, the only difference is the streak on the "UFO" picture seens to be alone and probably move faster (since it's a 15 seconds exposition) or that's just zoom effect. And probably was the first to be photographed, so that's might be the reason it created so much hype between NASA people.
This is what I belive to be the original image, taken from this page.
There is some discussion here but I didn't read it all.
That's really interesting idea, hope NASA is listeanig.
But there'are other aspects involved, the orbit of the object may don't cross the same spot soon, light conditions: must be day and reflecting the sun against a dark background.
Mybe they are already doing, they're just afraid of expectaion and a latter false positive (image not there, for whatever reason
Companies buy in bunches so they get a better price or don't have IT people that care the hardware they're buying is bundled with an expensive OS (price).
You usually don't pay for inovation you pay for a commodity, an operating system, don't matter if it's 10 years old or not, what matters is if it work or not.
... it's new, or have a fancier interface. That few buy for innovation ask them if it worths.
When it don't some people that don't learn very fast (didn't 98, ME, 2000, XP) buy a new version, instead of switch, beliveing that new version now works properly.
And a few people out there upgrade to the newest one, because