In the case of the laptop, the V would be what it got up to. Using Vf^2 = Vi^2 + 2ad, we find that the V ~= 4.43 m/s.
If I have a 1kg laptop, and have it 1 metre above the ground, the force it will hit the ground with is easily worked out. 1 * 4.43 = 4.43N of force. If you convert it to pounds, that means the laptop struck with a force of about 0.995 pounds. Scientifically we have determined that if it broke from that fall, it was a cheap piece of shit.
A kernel is very different from an application. It requires some very tricky compiler support in order to function as designed. If you don't want to sit down and write it entirely in assember, you end up picking 1 compiler and using many compiler-specific features to get your results.
"May 2004's Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) would seem an appropriate time for the PS3 unveiling"
No, it wouldn't. That time would be 2005. The cycle between consoles otherwise is 5 years. When did they last have complete hardware to show in North America? At E3 2000. When did the PS2 release? Fall 2000.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again, the KDE v3 file selector is the best one I've ever used simply because the shortcuts on the left hand side are easy to use and customize (just give 'em a context click, and you can change the name, location, icon, etc).
And then you add in cool features like the kio_slave support (so that the location can be a WebDav dir for DnD file publishing, etc), and the fact that the custom locations can be made app specific (wow, my digital camera knows about my image dir, but I won't worry about that cluttering my kwrite dialogs!), and you see why KDE is a great DE to use.
The KDE folks got the file dialog right a while back -- it's time more people noticed their great work.
"We found the heatsink to work quite well. It kept our CPU running in the mid -40C range while gaming at default clock speeds."
If your CPU runs at -40C, you have something very special. I, for one, would be worried about condensation from water becoming ice on contact with the CPU at that temperature!
Great, maybe Google will improve.
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Now that Yahoo's decided to switch beyond, maybe it'll be time for Google to improve its database import spiders so we don't see spam in their db. You know what I'm talking about, erroneous results like http://electronic-store.tanks4all.com/ that comes up when you search for 'speaker review car'
All the spam domains I checked into last November came up registered by the same people, too:
Venera Pictures, LLC
Samantha Dayk (samdayk@msn.com)
+1.14107857078
FAX: +1.-
1170 S. Chelton Rd.
Colorado Springs, CO 80910
US
Gateway Traffic, LLC
Sean Der (seander@verizon.net)
+1.4107857078
FAX: +1.-
102 Hunts Bluff Road
Sparks, MD 21152
US
If they add a Bayesian algorithm on incoming pages (comparing link farm pages to ham, and determining it's spam), and keep track of the whois informatin for domains (all the spam domains I found using random search queries led back to those false names in the whois database), Google's results could probably stay non-erroneous for some time.
It's really a tragedy that advertisers feel they can skip paying Google, and instead wreck Google for users and other advertisers, causing people to move on the potentially greener pastures. We've had IM partially ruined by spam, email almost ruined, and places like Google ruined. When will laws be passed so that purposefully attacking online systems is as illegal and easily prosecutable as defacing buildings?
My cats have learned well, too. If I am asleep, they will cuddle with me. If the alarm goes off, they get closer to my face. They'll snuggle me when I'm barely awake because I'm more likely to pet them.
The moment I open my eyes more than a slit, though, they're off the bed, at the door, and meowing for breakfast.;)
If you think there've been no memorable video game soundtracks since mid-2000, you've been sleeping in a room cushioned by your own nostlagia. To name a few excellent soundtracks that've been released between then and now:
Jet Set Radio Future
Halo
Homeworld
Silent Hill 3
Castlevania: Lament of Innocence
F-Zero GX
Soul Calibur 2
Final Fantasy X-2
I listen to these soundtracks all the time, as well as older ones, because they are good music. They stand on their own as being great soundtracks. You can play the game, and get that extra nostalgia-tilt value in there, but people who are not gamers can listen to these and go, "that's some good music!"
"The pixelated graphics just remind us how silly and trivially we expended our youth. But the music...the music makes us want to waste our youth yet again."
Not to me. The graphics are the same as always, and the music is the same as always. Perspective might change, but it's still the same game. The first and most important part will always be the gameplay. For example, I may hate sports games, but there are a couple of sports games released that have such great gameplay I can play them regardless of their genre. Graphics and sound are a part of the experience; you can't easily judge them in a vacuum.
I can play the old NES MegaMan games with the sound off and still really enjoy it, because the gameplay is something I really enjoy. The graphics don't seem dated -- low resolution and low colour depth, yea, but apropos for the hardware involved.
The only really ugly graphics you see are on the PS1/Saturn/N64 era games, when most games had either non-filtered textures, lack of hardware perspective correction (I hate that about PS1 games), or blurry textures. First-gen PS2 games suffer from a bad case of jaggies, but it's not something that's going to throw me off a good game.
If you extended family is offering to pay you, take it. You should be charging a rate that is fair to them, such as 20 or 30$/hour. Where I am, the cheapest on-site fixing is about 75$/hour. I'll charge a friends and family rate of only 20$/hour for friends and extended family. Plus, I round to next half hour, something most local computer shops won't do.
You're spending your time fixing stuff, you should be paid for that.
Either MTAs need a central authority which could yank rights to send mail, or MTAs need to have the capability to learn webs of trust. TLS, which just lets you encrypt stuff and does only hostname matching on a cert doesn't help.
3deaedb7.3050209@thock.com's not an address, it's a message ID. My server blocks many emails that contain a TO of these message IDs. This means my point's still valid, because the majority of emails of that form today are sniffed up message ids. You're just an asshole.
If Linux wasn't growing, it could only be said to be growing if there weren't thousands of developers and users (I find it funny that you say testers).
He's right, he just chose to make a vague statement that could be easily said to be true next year. Compare: BSD must grow or die -- they must release new BSD kernels with new bugfixes and features, or it is dead (ala VMS). True? Yea, but only because it's vague.
"As for old fashioned spam, it will continue to cram our inboxes, making a good business for third-party anti-spam products and services while making e-mail pretty much useless for reliable communication. Microsoft will see opportunity here and propose new protocols to replace SMTP and POP3."
Why replace POP3 (and IMAP)? These work fine and are completely separate of the SMTP delivery engine. The smart thing to do would be to replace SMTP MTAs with something that does server-to-server authentication, and leave POP3 and IMAP for the MUAs.
"71532.4532@compuserve.com" is a message ID. Plenty of spam bots will go ahead and parse anything with an @ sign in it. I started to receive a few of these a couple of years ago.
Now my system bounces about 20 a day to message ids (which are encoded in the form of msgid@server.addr) because I run several mailing lists with publicly searchable archives. The emails themselves (not in the body) are automatically hidden by Mailman, but it doesn't do anything to cloak message ids, which spam bots will harvest.
Spammers are scum. Fucking scum. They choose to not operate within the rules of a polite society, and thus deserve none of the privilege of a polite society. They need to be in jail with all the other criminals.
game music, rather than music related to a game. " Grand Theft Auto: Vice City soundtrack, of which "...the most popular CD, 'V-Rock,' sold 42,300 copies.""
I don't recall V-Rock being loaded with comositions I'd be familiar with if I played MegaMan, Devil May Cry, Contra, Castlevania, Metal Gear Solid, Mario, Zelda, etc. In fact, I think it was loaded with that pop music stuff from the 1980s which I don't really care for except for nostalgia.
Wake me when people know the composer for MegaMan's music without me having to explain what MegaMan is and then tell them.
You must have a very primitive web reading style, then. When dealing with complex, non-linear documents, I've found that most people will (over time) learn to read in a top-down fashion ala an opprotunistic path walking approach. The user will read the main (seed) page, and open any interesting links as they go along in separate windows (or separate tabs). When they've completed reading the page, they'll start reading all the child tabs they've created -- repeat until done.
This way, they get all the information and supporting information easily. You can also have a single browser window which contains a logical grouping of related information (like a set of tabs relating to a project you're working on) to use as a reference.
Of course, if you still don't understand why people use tabs, you also won't understand why I (and others) use multiple monitors:)
From my fortune file: "The so-called "desktop metaphor" of today's workstations is instead an "airplane-seat" metaphor. Anyone who has shuffled a lap full of papers while seated between two portly passengers will recognize the difference -- one can see only a very few things at once."
-- Fred Brooks
That's why I also will stop and wave people past if they are tailgating severly. I don't have the time to deal with bullshit.
If only there was a similar corrective behaviour I could do for people driving dangerously under the limit. 30km/h in a 50km/h zone, dropping to 5-10km/h in turns makes in hard to maintain following distance:-/ Luckily I've only had to watch out for that kind of driving a few times.
Don't assume that such a system would be setup without obvious checks and balances. With such a litigation-happy country as the US, I'm sure the insurance companies have flocks of consutants who do CYA work on that stuff rather than let it just be a machine that generates money-sucking lawsuits.
Don't assume that all technology will be applied thoughtlessly and incorrectly.
Until I can get screenshots showing that it respects all styles, has proper magining, and has a proper respect for the pinned menu. Safari is broken the same way Konq is, so I expect Safari to be broken the same way as well.
I leave the option of underlines/outlines to the user agent. Personally, I have playing the game of magic-mouse-cursor where I have to sweep the entire page with my mouse to find out what's clickable and what's not. Mozilla's user CSS rocks in this regard (Konq works great for it, too) in that I can force it on. This breaks a bunch of silly pixel-perfect layouts, though;) But I don't have to spend 5 minutes figuring out what's a link and what's not on each page.
I really hate that. Underlined links were created for good reason:p
Only by having websites which look broken in IE will people change from IE. The same way people only changed away from Netscape 4 because in broke on a whole buttload of websites.
Personally, I don't give a shit about IE. I use Mozilla, my friends use Safari or Opera or Firebird or Mozilla. There are lots of alternatives, and most of them are better than IE. Plus, none of them have known security problems of the severity of IE!
I think that writing kick-ass websites using standards compliant markup and CSS is a much better way of encouraging people to be browser agnostic than you think. Banks want stuff that works on all their customers' PCs -- using well established standards (CSS1 is from 1997, for crying out loud!) is that solution.
You're welcome to your opinion (hey, this is why my CSS doesn't force on/off link text or underlines, I want the end-user to decide!), but I'm going to stick with mine;)
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P = M V.
In the case of the laptop, the V would be what it got up to. Using Vf^2 = Vi^2 + 2ad, we find that the V ~= 4.43 m/s.
If I have a 1kg laptop, and have it 1 metre above the ground, the force it will hit the ground with is easily worked out. 1 * 4.43 = 4.43N of force. If you convert it to pounds, that means the laptop struck with a force of about 0.995 pounds. Scientifically we have determined that if it broke from that fall, it was a cheap piece of shit.
The Win2k kernel won't compile on GCC.
A kernel is very different from an application. It requires some very tricky compiler support in order to function as designed. If you don't want to sit down and write it entirely in assember, you end up picking 1 compiler and using many compiler-specific features to get your results.
"May 2004's Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) would seem an appropriate time for the PS3 unveiling"
No, it wouldn't. That time would be 2005. The cycle between consoles otherwise is 5 years. When did they last have complete hardware to show in North America? At E3 2000. When did the PS2 release? Fall 2000.
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Tim
Sat Dec 20 at 6:37PM EST
Guess I should read the article before I post. I was under the impression that the next release of IE4 *would* support HTML 4.0...Oh well."
Guess I should read the article before I post? What a crazy, upside-down world it was back then!
I've said it before, and I'll say it again, the KDE v3 file selector is the best one I've ever used simply because the shortcuts on the left hand side are easy to use and customize (just give 'em a context click, and you can change the name, location, icon, etc).
And then you add in cool features like the kio_slave support (so that the location can be a WebDav dir for DnD file publishing, etc), and the fact that the custom locations can be made app specific (wow, my digital camera knows about my image dir, but I won't worry about that cluttering my kwrite dialogs!), and you see why KDE is a great DE to use.
The KDE folks got the file dialog right a while back -- it's time more people noticed their great work.
"We found the heatsink to work quite well. It kept our CPU running in the mid -40C range while gaming at default clock speeds."
If your CPU runs at -40C, you have something very special. I, for one, would be worried about condensation from water becoming ice on contact with the CPU at that temperature!
Now that Yahoo's decided to switch beyond, maybe it'll be time for Google to improve its database import spiders so we don't see spam in their db. You know what I'm talking about, erroneous results like http://electronic-store.tanks4all.com/ that comes up when you search for 'speaker review car'
All the spam domains I checked into last November came up registered by the same people, too:
Venera Pictures, LLC
Samantha Dayk (samdayk@msn.com)
+1.14107857078
FAX: +1.-
1170 S. Chelton Rd.
Colorado Springs, CO 80910
US
Gateway Traffic, LLC
Sean Der (seander@verizon.net)
+1.4107857078
FAX: +1.-
102 Hunts Bluff Road
Sparks, MD 21152
US
If they add a Bayesian algorithm on incoming pages (comparing link farm pages to ham, and determining it's spam), and keep track of the whois informatin for domains (all the spam domains I found using random search queries led back to those false names in the whois database), Google's results could probably stay non-erroneous for some time.
It's really a tragedy that advertisers feel they can skip paying Google, and instead wreck Google for users and other advertisers, causing people to move on the potentially greener pastures. We've had IM partially ruined by spam, email almost ruined, and places like Google ruined. When will laws be passed so that purposefully attacking online systems is as illegal and easily prosecutable as defacing buildings?
My cats have learned well, too. If I am asleep, they will cuddle with me. If the alarm goes off, they get closer to my face. They'll snuggle me when I'm barely awake because I'm more likely to pet them.
;)
The moment I open my eyes more than a slit, though, they're off the bed, at the door, and meowing for breakfast.
If you think there've been no memorable video game soundtracks since mid-2000, you've been sleeping in a room cushioned by your own nostlagia. To name a few excellent soundtracks that've been released between then and now:
I listen to these soundtracks all the time, as well as older ones, because they are good music. They stand on their own as being great soundtracks. You can play the game, and get that extra nostalgia-tilt value in there, but people who are not gamers can listen to these and go, "that's some good music!"
"The pixelated graphics just remind us how silly and trivially we expended our youth. But the music...the music makes us want to waste our youth yet again."
Not to me. The graphics are the same as always, and the music is the same as always. Perspective might change, but it's still the same game. The first and most important part will always be the gameplay. For example, I may hate sports games, but there are a couple of sports games released that have such great gameplay I can play them regardless of their genre. Graphics and sound are a part of the experience; you can't easily judge them in a vacuum.
I can play the old NES MegaMan games with the sound off and still really enjoy it, because the gameplay is something I really enjoy. The graphics don't seem dated -- low resolution and low colour depth, yea, but apropos for the hardware involved.
The only really ugly graphics you see are on the PS1/Saturn/N64 era games, when most games had either non-filtered textures, lack of hardware perspective correction (I hate that about PS1 games), or blurry textures. First-gen PS2 games suffer from a bad case of jaggies, but it's not something that's going to throw me off a good game.
If you extended family is offering to pay you, take it. You should be charging a rate that is fair to them, such as 20 or 30$/hour. Where I am, the cheapest on-site fixing is about 75$/hour. I'll charge a friends and family rate of only 20$/hour for friends and extended family. Plus, I round to next half hour, something most local computer shops won't do.
You're spending your time fixing stuff, you should be paid for that.
That of accountability.
Either MTAs need a central authority which could yank rights to send mail, or MTAs need to have the capability to learn webs of trust. TLS, which just lets you encrypt stuff and does only hostname matching on a cert doesn't help.
3deaedb7.3050209@thock.com's not an address, it's a message ID. My server blocks many emails that contain a TO of these message IDs. This means my point's still valid, because the majority of emails of that form today are sniffed up message ids. You're just an asshole.
If Linux wasn't growing, it could only be said to be growing if there weren't thousands of developers and users (I find it funny that you say testers).
He's right, he just chose to make a vague statement that could be easily said to be true next year. Compare: BSD must grow or die -- they must release new BSD kernels with new bugfixes and features, or it is dead (ala VMS). True? Yea, but only because it's vague.
"As for old fashioned spam, it will continue to cram our inboxes, making a good business for third-party anti-spam products and services while making e-mail pretty much useless for reliable communication. Microsoft will see opportunity here and propose new protocols to replace SMTP and POP3."
Why replace POP3 (and IMAP)? These work fine and are completely separate of the SMTP delivery engine. The smart thing to do would be to replace SMTP MTAs with something that does server-to-server authentication, and leave POP3 and IMAP for the MUAs.
"71532.4532@compuserve.com" is a message ID. Plenty of spam bots will go ahead and parse anything with an @ sign in it. I started to receive a few of these a couple of years ago.
Now my system bounces about 20 a day to message ids (which are encoded in the form of msgid@server.addr) because I run several mailing lists with publicly searchable archives. The emails themselves (not in the body) are automatically hidden by Mailman, but it doesn't do anything to cloak message ids, which spam bots will harvest.
Spammers are scum. Fucking scum. They choose to not operate within the rules of a polite society, and thus deserve none of the privilege of a polite society. They need to be in jail with all the other criminals.
That CmdrTaco is the first-duper of 2004? No..
game music, rather than music related to a game.
" Grand Theft Auto: Vice City soundtrack, of which "...the most popular CD, 'V-Rock,' sold 42,300 copies.""
I don't recall V-Rock being loaded with comositions I'd be familiar with if I played MegaMan, Devil May Cry, Contra, Castlevania, Metal Gear Solid, Mario, Zelda, etc. In fact, I think it was loaded with that pop music stuff from the 1980s which I don't really care for except for nostalgia.
Wake me when people know the composer for MegaMan's music without me having to explain what MegaMan is and then tell them.
You must have a very primitive web reading style, then. When dealing with complex, non-linear documents, I've found that most people will (over time) learn to read in a top-down fashion ala an opprotunistic path walking approach. The user will read the main (seed) page, and open any interesting links as they go along in separate windows (or separate tabs). When they've completed reading the page, they'll start reading all the child tabs they've created -- repeat until done.
:)
This way, they get all the information and supporting information easily. You can also have a single browser window which contains a logical grouping of related information (like a set of tabs relating to a project you're working on) to use as a reference.
Of course, if you still don't understand why people use tabs, you also won't understand why I (and others) use multiple monitors
From my fortune file: "The so-called "desktop metaphor" of today's workstations is instead an "airplane-seat" metaphor. Anyone who has shuffled a lap full of papers while seated between two portly passengers will recognize the difference -- one can see only a very few things at once."
-- Fred Brooks
No point repeating myself why
No point repeating myself why.
That's why I also will stop and wave people past if they are tailgating severly. I don't have the time to deal with bullshit.
:-/ Luckily I've only had to watch out for that kind of driving a few times.
If only there was a similar corrective behaviour I could do for people driving dangerously under the limit. 30km/h in a 50km/h zone, dropping to 5-10km/h in turns makes in hard to maintain following distance
Don't assume that such a system would be setup without obvious checks and balances. With such a litigation-happy country as the US, I'm sure the insurance companies have flocks of consutants who do CYA work on that stuff rather than let it just be a machine that generates money-sucking lawsuits.
Don't assume that all technology will be applied thoughtlessly and incorrectly.
Until I can get screenshots showing that it respects all styles, has proper magining, and has a proper respect for the pinned menu. Safari is broken the same way Konq is, so I expect Safari to be broken the same way as well.
I leave the option of underlines/outlines to the user agent. Personally, I have playing the game of magic-mouse-cursor where I have to sweep the entire page with my mouse to find out what's clickable and what's not. Mozilla's user CSS rocks in this regard (Konq works great for it, too) in that I can force it on. This breaks a bunch of silly pixel-perfect layouts, though ;) But I don't have to spend 5 minutes figuring out what's a link and what's not on each page.
:p
I really hate that. Underlined links were created for good reason
Only by having websites which look broken in IE will people change from IE. The same way people only changed away from Netscape 4 because in broke on a whole buttload of websites.
;)
Personally, I don't give a shit about IE. I use Mozilla, my friends use Safari or Opera or Firebird or Mozilla. There are lots of alternatives, and most of them are better than IE. Plus, none of them have known security problems of the severity of IE!
I think that writing kick-ass websites using standards compliant markup and CSS is a much better way of encouraging people to be browser agnostic than you think. Banks want stuff that works on all their customers' PCs -- using well established standards (CSS1 is from 1997, for crying out loud!) is that solution.
You're welcome to your opinion (hey, this is why my CSS doesn't force on/off link text or underlines, I want the end-user to decide!), but I'm going to stick with mine