FYI plasmas are crap. They were always intended to be a half step between CRT and LCD technologies. They rapidly lose contrast and need to be recharged every 2-3 years at $800 a pop.
There isnt that much research going into the plasma technology anymore. Hence 720p is still the most common res on a plasma. The big boys are focused on LCD for the short term and OLED for the long term.
Plus, the heavy-lift rockets you'd need to get it into orbit (let alone to cancel Earth's orbital velocity) are not designed to be reliable, which means they blow up now and again. Uh... no.
You do realize that there is _virtually_ no chance that a rocket carrying nuclear waste could cause a thermo nuclear explosion right?
I am asking because there is a large percentage of the population that believes this is a real possibility. This is also a common scare used by environmental groups to protest fission reactors. Not talking about feared radiation leaks, I am talking about people thinking their house will melt...
Radiation leaks can and will always be a real problem in the future although most reactors and storage containers now are very safe.
I am not advocating storing the waste at Yucca Mountain, Deep trench in the ocean or the middle or a desert has my vote. Desert probably being the safest.
Its amusing how America is _constantly_ bashed worldwide for "human rights violations" and "civil liberties infringments" and China is completely ignored.
The Patriot Act is bad? How about a court system without a real appeals system and has no checks and balances. How about forcing elementry school students to the local stadium so have them watch and cheer executions of corrupted businessmen. Yeah, that still happens in some cities there, ask the Peace Corps.
Its its really about attaining your goals and not being accountable for _how_ you got there, then by all means, go China! What a Country!
the US surely isnt purfect but the typical slashdot double standard gets really old.
The Chinese are huge on short term PR. They are constantly trying to prove national superiority to their people to keep them motivated.
-Olympics (how did they get that again?) -Mid-Air Collision (remember that, a plane with 5 times the mass swerved and hit a small fighter on purpose) -Taiwan (How often do they publish military statistics in the Taiwan media?) -Controlled Media (Go read chinese news sites, its all about national pride)
Just to name a few...
You are either incredibly stoopid or a troll. I hope its the latter but I fear its the former.
If the criteria for making the largest digital picture ever entails combining multiple snapshots than this company needs to get b&tch slapped. There are companies that have "taken" far larger pictures using this method. Try 50 GB for starters. This is small potatoes in the photogrammetry industry.
Nice media ploy though, it even worked on slashdot.
Honda's "hydrogen engine" is a basically a modified diesel engine. They have not made a true hydrogen engine yet so it really isnt a wonder why it had 60% of the power. Hydrogen engines will likely be made out of harder metals and utilize more and smaller valves than todays cars. No more v4 or v8, more like a v32 that fits in a geo metro. It will be a very compact, light engine thats primary goal is to simply withstand the enourmous heat it will generate.
The fuel generation ideas currently include, fossil fuels (in the near term and for commercial use) and large water vats driven by solar cells in your backyard (for home use and light duty applications. Will the be less poluting than petrol in the near term? Without a doubt immediately. In the long term? By definition yes.
Water will become a precious commidity some day. One of the most replenishable and renewable energy sources has been right in front of us for years. In ten years? I doubt it, I would guess more like 6-8 when consumer models will be available. But a full conversion to hydrogen would take decades unless the gov starts taxing the crap out of petrol.
Not sure exactly why, But I am far more likely to purchase a movie rather than download it (opposite of mp3). I suppose its in part due to the fact that I have a Big screen TV and such, but even when I travel, its too convenient to just purchase a dvd to watch on the plane. I dont think the size of the file really has anything to do with it. Downloading is downloading. I suppose quality is a little more important for a movie though.
Music is a far different matter though, I will wait until I get home to either buy a digital copy or download the mp3 if I cant buy one. From what I see pirating movies really isnt that big a problem.
On the other hand, I have this mental image of the Bush energy team as people who think we don't need to worry about alternative sources because Jesus will return before we run out of oil.
Well Bush is pushing fairly hard for hydrogen research. However even as a conservative, I dont believe he is pushing hard enough. Conservatives would like nothing more than to elimanate our dependence on the middle yeast infection.
It is suprising though to see how many "environmentalist" sites hate the Hydrogen idea though. There really isnt a competing replenishable power source for transportation out there yet.
If you believe what John said at the debates than I guess its true.
But its not, at least not completely...
My friend is a local vet that has a large practice. which means he frequently purchases equipment and drugs every month from traveling salesmen from healthcare companies. He can buy allergy medication from the same production lot at 1/4 the price that a pharmacy pays. Why? Partly because the pharmacy exists and takes a chunk but primarily because dog owners do not sue the manufacturer when something bad happens. He can also but surgical equipement for a fraction of the cost a surgeon would pay. According to his salesman its not because the companies dont think vets will pay it, its because again there is very little insurance premium that needs to be paid.
A family friend has a nuero-surgeon daughter that recently switched hospitals to get closer to home. She has never had a claim against her in 8 years. However her premium went from 125k a year to 300k a year simply because that hospital did have a couple claims against it before she got there. Her net pay is now ~65k a year and is still paying off her 120k in student loans. Not relavent? Think about the people in the community that have to buck up now to pay the insurance. Someone has to...
Frivilous lawsuits do not directly contribute to the rising health care costs, but the insurance against them most definitely does. Money is money and it has to come from somewhere to pay insurance. Its not the only problem with out helathcare system but I definitely think its one of the top three.
Due to separation of layers, the Kernel does not and should never have knowledge of that a POP or News server is. Therefore we will probably never have a driver for them.
As for networked filesystems, I personally have never needed to have a filesystem mounted on the system that I was browsing with konq. I would assume that the developers are the same way. Not so say that it wouldnt be nice, I just dont think its needed.
The die hard fvwm/twm/fluxbox linux vets I am sure would disagree;)
Whoever said us evil conservatives didnt believe in the Scientific Method(tm)?
We believe in it completely. We (me and my very conservative christian friends anyway) just do not believe in all theories relating to macro evolution. Either theory takes a considerable amount faith.
Remember how it was a fact in grade school that Jupiter did not have a surface and was just a giant planet of condensed gas? I still have an astronomy book that describes it in detail. Then on day some metoers hit and created impact explosions on... the surface...
I as a Christian, do believe that God created the universe. (let me guess, I have no credibility anymore on slantdot, boohoo)
Did He do it in 7 days? 7 earth days? Was it preexisting and He just polish it?
Did he _create_ man? Did He create primates and then turn them into men? Did He simply use the same basic characteristics from other animals to create various species?
The answers to the above questions are irrelavent to a Christian's faith. What we have is the account of men from 2000+ years ago that needed a simple way to relate the Word of God to men for people living in a simpler time. But most importantly what we have are the faith, experiences and vision that verifies Gods existance to us everyday.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with your theological, political or scientific position of the history of earth. There however is something wrong when you canvas over and misrepresent other people's beliefs in an attempt to quash their voices. If you dont understand whey they believe what they do, you might want to do some research to find out.
Unfortunately it requires that you predefine your device via a mount conf file or a hotplug script.
Until someone ports hald and possibly dbus to *BSD, hotplug really doesnt help all that much. It simply automounts devices that you already knew about.
Having to link with a special KDE library and rewrite the application to use different calls is not acceptable.
Not acceptable? Its their project. If you dont like it, dont use it or write your own. That or port what they have into slimmed down ioslave factory. Most people like the ioslaves because they dont mount on the actual file systems. I know I do. "It just works" (tm)
Its no different than windows or mac, If you dont use the same chooser from the system library, it wont have all the power that that LVM might have. If you dont use the chooser from KDE, you wont get the ioslaves...
To answer your question, if you pop3:// somewhere it doesnt download anything automatically. It simply lets you browse the folders on your pop3 server. If you want you can drag and drop messages to your desktop.
The real power lies in the webdav, imap, ftp, fish, lan, smb and ldap ioslaves (and their ssl counterparts). These have been present since KDE 3.0 (18 months).
No they arent, and they shouldnt be. There is no reason to create and manage mountpoints for all the different protocols konq can handle. Last time I checked there is no ldap fs type for mounting.
The ioslaves are accesible by any Kapp or app that uses KDE bindings. This is called OS -> WM separation and is very important for a stable, portable system.
ioslaves exist for a reason so that they are fast and portable and keep the system clean. Not every supported protocol can be translated to an fs. The ioslaves _are_ part of the kvm (vfs equiv layer). Incidently this layer is getting a massive overhaul for KDE4 so that it will speak with dbus.
There are so many misconceptions about KDE which usually deal with complaining about the KDE 1.x and 2.x days. KDE 3.3 is so far ahead of the pack right now in terms of ability and conformity, its not even funny. From any KDE file chooser you can use any of these ioslaves transparently. Thats right, smb,ftp,sftp,fish,lan.rlan,imap,ldap,pop3,nfs,tar, zip and http just to name a few.
The only problem I have with KDE is that they like to include non-KDE apps on the KMenu in most distros. I would prefer they just stick to K apps. There is really no other app that a run of the mill computer user needs that KDE does not offer.
About the only thing you can say to people who keep hounding this useless disinformation is to actually try out KDE for a week. However most wont. sigh.
Yeah the security issue makes no sense. If a webpage launches a different protocol, http is no longer being used. If they want to throw you to a random service on a random site, it would be no different than if you typed it in your self.
If you _used_ konqueror you would see and understand how safe and powerful it is.
Cheney is Grand Moff Tarkin, Bush is Darth Vader, Karl Rove is Emperor Palpatine, the WTO is the Trade Federation.
And John Edwards is JarJar followed by John Kerry as R2D2...
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I think you ment pretends right?
So all we have to do is "own up" to the very few cases where this _may_ have been an issue and we will be viewed as a good country. Cool.
I wish that legal defense worked in court, I could get away with anything...
FYI plasmas are crap. They were always intended to be a half step between CRT and LCD technologies. They rapidly lose contrast and need to be recharged every 2-3 years at $800 a pop.
There isnt that much research going into the plasma technology anymore. Hence 720p is still the most common res on a plasma. The big boys are focused on LCD for the short term and OLED for the long term.
Plus, the heavy-lift rockets you'd need to get it into orbit (let alone to cancel Earth's orbital velocity) are not designed to be reliable, which means they blow up now and again. Uh... no.
You do realize that there is _virtually_ no chance that a rocket carrying nuclear waste could cause a thermo nuclear explosion right?
I am asking because there is a large percentage of the population that believes this is a real possibility. This is also a common scare used by environmental groups to protest fission reactors. Not talking about feared radiation leaks, I am talking about people thinking their house will melt...
Radiation leaks can and will always be a real problem in the future although most reactors and storage containers now are very safe.
I am not advocating storing the waste at Yucca Mountain, Deep trench in the ocean or the middle or a desert has my vote. Desert probably being the safest.
http://www.geocities.com/thesciencefiles/marianas
Thank you for proving my point.
Have a nice day =)
Its amusing how America is _constantly_ bashed worldwide for "human rights violations" and "civil liberties infringments" and China is completely ignored.
The Patriot Act is bad? How about a court system without a real appeals system and has no checks and balances. How about forcing elementry school students to the local stadium so have them watch and cheer executions of corrupted businessmen. Yeah, that still happens in some cities there, ask the Peace Corps.
Its its really about attaining your goals and not being accountable for _how_ you got there, then by all means, go China! What a Country!
the US surely isnt purfect but the typical slashdot double standard gets really old.
The Chinese are huge on short term PR. They are constantly trying to prove national superiority to their people to keep them motivated.
-Olympics (how did they get that again?)
-Mid-Air Collision (remember that, a plane with 5 times the mass swerved and hit a small fighter on purpose)
-Taiwan (How often do they publish military statistics in the Taiwan media?)
-Controlled Media (Go read chinese news sites, its all about national pride)
Just to name a few...
You are either incredibly stoopid or a troll. I hope its the latter but I fear its the former.
If the criteria for making the largest digital picture ever entails combining multiple snapshots than this company needs to get b&tch slapped. There are companies that have "taken" far larger pictures using this method. Try 50 GB for starters. This is small potatoes in the photogrammetry industry.
Nice media ploy though, it even worked on slashdot.
Honda's "hydrogen engine" is a basically a modified diesel engine. They have not made a true hydrogen engine yet so it really isnt a wonder why it had 60% of the power. Hydrogen engines will likely be made out of harder metals and utilize more and smaller valves than todays cars. No more v4 or v8, more like a v32 that fits in a geo metro. It will be a very compact, light engine thats primary goal is to simply withstand the enourmous heat it will generate.
The fuel generation ideas currently include, fossil fuels (in the near term and for commercial use) and large water vats driven by solar cells in your backyard (for home use and light duty applications. Will the be less poluting than petrol in the near term? Without a doubt immediately. In the long term? By definition yes.
Water will become a precious commidity some day. One of the most replenishable and renewable energy sources has been right in front of us for years. In ten years? I doubt it, I would guess more like 6-8 when consumer models will be available. But a full conversion to hydrogen would take decades unless the gov starts taxing the crap out of petrol.
Doing that in linux is a piece of cake. I am at a loss as to how to accomplish that under winders though.
I have one, it doesnt work as advertised. Only a few resolutions work and they chop off the edges. Its a piece of crap...
;)
--Just an FYI
Not sure exactly why, But I am far more likely to purchase a movie rather than download it (opposite of mp3). I suppose its in part due to the fact that I have a Big screen TV and such, but even when I travel, its too convenient to just purchase a dvd to watch on the plane. I dont think the size of the file really has anything to do with it. Downloading is downloading. I suppose quality is a little more important for a movie though.
Music is a far different matter though, I will wait until I get home to either buy a digital copy or download the mp3 if I cant buy one. From what I see pirating movies really isnt that big a problem.
On the other hand, I have this mental image of the Bush energy team as people who think we don't need to worry about alternative sources because Jesus will return before we run out of oil.
Well Bush is pushing fairly hard for hydrogen research. However even as a conservative, I dont believe he is pushing hard enough. Conservatives would like nothing more than to elimanate our dependence on the middle yeast infection.
It is suprising though to see how many "environmentalist" sites hate the Hydrogen idea though. There really isnt a competing replenishable power source for transportation out there yet.
If you believe what John said at the debates than I guess its true.
But its not, at least not completely...
My friend is a local vet that has a large practice. which means he frequently purchases equipment and drugs every month from traveling salesmen from healthcare companies. He can buy allergy medication from the same production lot at 1/4 the price that a pharmacy pays. Why? Partly because the pharmacy exists and takes a chunk but primarily because dog owners do not sue the manufacturer when something bad happens. He can also but surgical equipement for a fraction of the cost a surgeon would pay. According to his salesman its not because the companies dont think vets will pay it, its because again there is very little insurance premium that needs to be paid.
A family friend has a nuero-surgeon daughter that recently switched hospitals to get closer to home. She has never had a claim against her in 8 years. However her premium went from 125k a year to 300k a year simply because that hospital did have a couple claims against it before she got there. Her net pay is now ~65k a year and is still paying off her 120k in student loans. Not relavent? Think about the people in the community that have to buck up now to pay the insurance. Someone has to...
Frivilous lawsuits do not directly contribute to the rising health care costs, but the insurance against them most definitely does. Money is money and it has to come from somewhere to pay insurance. Its not the only problem with out helathcare system but I definitely think its one of the top three.
Due to separation of layers, the Kernel does not and should never have knowledge of that a POP or News server is. Therefore we will probably never have a driver for them.
As for networked filesystems, I personally have never needed to have a filesystem mounted on the system that I was browsing with konq. I would assume that the developers are the same way. Not so say that it wouldnt be nice, I just dont think its needed.
The die hard fvwm/twm/fluxbox linux vets I am sure would disagree
Whoever said us evil conservatives didnt believe in the Scientific Method(tm)?
We believe in it completely. We (me and my very conservative christian friends anyway) just do not believe in all theories relating to macro evolution. Either theory takes a considerable amount faith.
Remember how it was a fact in grade school that Jupiter did not have a surface and was just a giant planet of condensed gas? I still have an astronomy book that describes it in detail. Then on day some metoers hit and created impact explosions on... the surface...
I as a Christian, do believe that God created the universe. (let me guess, I have no credibility anymore on slantdot, boohoo)
Did He do it in 7 days? 7 earth days? Was it preexisting and He just polish it?
Did he _create_ man? Did He create primates and then turn them into men? Did He simply use the same basic characteristics from other animals to create various species?
The answers to the above questions are irrelavent to a Christian's faith. What we have is the account of men from 2000+ years ago that needed a simple way to relate the Word of God to men for people living in a simpler time. But most importantly what we have are the faith, experiences and vision that verifies Gods existance to us everyday.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with your theological, political or scientific position of the history of earth. There however is something wrong when you canvas over and misrepresent other people's beliefs in an attempt to quash their voices. If you dont understand whey they believe what they do, you might want to do some research to find out.
Unfortunately it requires that you predefine your device via a mount conf file or a hotplug script.
Until someone ports hald and possibly dbus to *BSD, hotplug really doesnt help all that much. It simply automounts devices that you already knew about.
Not sure of your environment but you can run the chooser manually from any application...
/home
/home you can of course use "fish://chewy:han@ssh.starwars.com" and it will automagically start with that dir.
kdialog --getopenfilename
For
Check out the other options for kdialog, It can do quite a few other things.
Having to link with a special KDE library and rewrite the application to use different calls is not acceptable.
Not acceptable? Its their project. If you dont like it, dont use it or write your own. That or port what they have into slimmed down ioslave factory. Most people like the ioslaves because they dont mount on the actual file systems. I know I do. "It just works" (tm)
Its no different than windows or mac, If you dont use the same chooser from the system library, it wont have all the power that that LVM might have. If you dont use the chooser from KDE, you wont get the ioslaves...
ftp://user:pass@ftp.microsoft.com
To answer your question, if you pop3:// somewhere it doesnt download anything automatically. It simply lets you browse the folders on your pop3 server. If you want you can drag and drop messages to your desktop.
The real power lies in the webdav, imap, ftp, fish, lan, smb and ldap ioslaves (and their ssl counterparts). These have been present since KDE 3.0 (18 months).
No they arent, and they shouldnt be. There is no reason to create and manage mountpoints for all the different protocols konq can handle. Last time I checked there is no ldap fs type for mounting.
The ioslaves are accesible by any Kapp or app that uses KDE bindings. This is called OS -> WM separation and is very important for a stable, portable system.
ioslaves exist for a reason so that they are fast and portable and keep the system clean. Not every supported protocol can be translated to an fs. The ioslaves _are_ part of the kvm (vfs equiv layer). Incidently this layer is getting a massive overhaul for KDE4 so that it will speak with dbus.
Agreed.
, zip and http just to name a few.
There are so many misconceptions about KDE which usually deal with complaining about the KDE 1.x and 2.x days. KDE 3.3 is so far ahead of the pack right now in terms of ability and conformity, its not even funny. From any KDE file chooser you can use any of these ioslaves transparently. Thats right, smb,ftp,sftp,fish,lan.rlan,imap,ldap,pop3,nfs,tar
The only problem I have with KDE is that they like to include non-KDE apps on the KMenu in most distros. I would prefer they just stick to K apps. There is really no other app that a run of the mill computer user needs that KDE does not offer.
About the only thing you can say to people who keep hounding this useless disinformation is to actually try out KDE for a week. However most wont. sigh.
Yeah the security issue makes no sense. If a webpage launches a different protocol, http is no longer being used. If they want to throw you to a random service on a random site, it would be no different than if you typed it in your self.
If you _used_ konqueror you would see and understand how safe and powerful it is.
Rockstar is paid money up front by Sony to not release GTA for any other platform (including the PC) until 6 months after the PS release.
Unforunately not to many PC makers are paying Rockstar more (at all) top get exclusive distribution rights.
Sony is very smart. GTA is a sure bet with every release.
Cheney is Grand Moff Tarkin, Bush is Darth Vader, Karl Rove is Emperor Palpatine, the WTO is the Trade Federation. And John Edwards is JarJar followed by John Kerry as R2D2... =)