so I clicked download, to see if there is a linux version. But I'm not giving them my email address even before I know if there is a linux version. What the hell they think?
it's not free, the price is your privacy.
PS: if anyone,,sacrificed his privacy'' to check, please tell if there is a linux version.
I was thinking about sumitting it, but why the hassle - small chance it will get accepted
about water on Mars. The problem is that temperature and pressure on Mars are oscilating around water triple-point, it means that there is a chance that you will get liquid/ice water at night, but it will vaporize during the day (speaking about non-polar areas, in polar areas water can stay in ice form). Colonists are more likely to settle near equator due to temperature and (maybe) resources. If we consider pressure also, then hellas planitia is very tempting.
And it looks like there is a workaround for problem with constantly vaporizing water - use salt water instead:)
With text games, you can sit there at the prompt, go make a sandwich, then come back and play more.
same goes with all turn based games. like adom, chess, nethack and others. There is one problem about turns however - they are not MMORPG-able by definition. Some tweaks to the turn system must be made, so that other players wouldn't have to wait for other players. I'm dreaming about MMORPG version of adom, just like I'm dreaming about Diablo-like graphical version of adom. Sad is - that they will probably never happen...
I mean, how much money they would be getting anyway from all those windows copies sold in Korea? My bet, is that's just their investment in their "world damination project".
otherwise how would it look like if whole Korea switched off windows?
When people talk about books titled "ten yourself something in NN hours/days" it always reminds me about this webpage.
And in fact that's the truth - you can't learn that something in few days. Progamming? unix administration? sailing? playing chess? Man... that takes years to master.
I'm an AMD fanboy, oh yeah. Their chips are soooo good. Problem is that in Europe there wasn't enough press releases about AMD vs. Intel dual core duel. In fact there is nothing about that. Looks like all PR quietly took a large sum of money from Intel, and this duel is totally ignored by media. I feel bitter about that.
yes, I heard that AMD has launched a big ad campaign in US, but sadly this is not the case for Europe.
and all the universities in western europe are forced to buy upgrades from Dell. I really tried to buy AMD, it simply wasn't possible.
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official thread for flames about garbage collector in java.
for example how many people have discovered that java is fast as long as the benchamrk lasts less than, say, 10000 cycles, and slows down to crawl, when there are millions of cycles? VM decides to launch gc when CPU is under havy load (to reduce the load), not beforehand, when users would notice.
I was on a lecture about gravity waves, once. This guy showed a lot of interesting stuff, like that a best gravity wave emitter is when you place four bodies each on a node of a square, and then squash/unsquash this fictional square. Then a strong wave is emitted in perpendicular direction.
also he said that some folks are trying to detect gravity waves by sending two laser beams through a very long tunnel, they bounce of mirrors and then interfere, so length of their way can be measured with high precision. Exactly like in the summary above.
And guess what? They got totally different results depending if there are clouds up in the sky or not. The beams were attracted to the clouds because of cloud's mass. Of course it means that they couldn't detect any gravity waves from far away - too strong local effects.
He also said that the only possible gravity wave detector should be placed in the space on lagrangian point.
I wonder if this will have any impact on the no smoking bans we have seen in recent years?
hopefully not. All the bans are not about health of smokers, it's about fresh air for non-smokers. Who cares if that stinking person over there inhales deadly stuff, or less deadly? It all stinks the same.
they are saying: the cheapest on the whole world, are they lying? No, it's simply not possible
btw, castorama (like wal-mart in europe, but smaller and focuses only on things that people may use when building/renoving a house) gives warranty on their prices. Their ad is: "if you find this thing cheaper anywhere, we will return to you the price difference". I've never tried if this actually works.
firs/. reader that finds an OSS project that is doing the same, gets the prize! (remember to check freshmeat, sourceforge, berlios, alioth and tigris).
well I run sarge:) but if we are speaking about ads, I'm using custom hosts file that is pointing to my local install of apache2. So every request for an ad shows 404 ErrorDocument from apache2. I don't like to see "Not found" all the time, so I placed in 404 a reference to this. It says that only 142 days are left for our second child to be born.:) Hosts file from my wife's computer is also pointing to it, and she was delighted when she saw it.
I'm too lazy to find related/. article, it was a few weeks ago, some of you may remember. USA has fallen from 4th (previous year) to 16th (this year) place among countries that have broadband internet.
So USA is not using internet that much in fact. Another PR stunt just on time when EU wants to takeover.
second time in 60,000 years. The last occurrence was in 2003.
So the event that happens once per 60,000 years - happens now a SECOND time, just after two years?
No (the summary is of course poorly written), in 2003 it was 35 million miles (56 000 000 km), and then it was an event once per 60,000 years. Now it is 43.1 million miles (69 000 000 km) and it is an event once per.... oops I don't know. But it happens more often;)
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so I clicked download, to see if there is a linux version. But I'm not giving them my email address even before I know if there is a linux version. What the hell they think?
,,sacrificed his privacy'' to check, please tell if there is a linux version.
it's not free, the price is your privacy.
PS: if anyone
I was thinking about sumitting it, but why the hassle - small chance it will get accepted
:)
about water on Mars. The problem is that temperature and pressure on Mars are oscilating around water triple-point, it means that there is a chance that you will get liquid/ice water at night, but it will vaporize during the day (speaking about non-polar areas, in polar areas water can stay in ice form). Colonists are more likely to settle near equator due to temperature and (maybe) resources. If we consider pressure also, then hellas planitia is very tempting.
And it looks like there is a workaround for problem with constantly vaporizing water - use salt water instead
I took this piece from http://marsnews.com/
The study claimed that Linux administrators took 68 per cent longer to implement new business requirements than their Windows counterparts.
yeah, maybe true. But how about maintaining them later, for years, with zero downtime?
for those who are too lazy:
CPU: 3 PowerPC CPUs, each with 2 threads. that gives maximum 6 threads.
GPU: some special dial core ATI card (one core smaller one bigger)
640 picoliters should be enough for everyone.
oh, wait..
it's the porn industry that will decide anyway. not m$ or *cough* sony.
With text games, you can sit there at the prompt, go make a sandwich, then come back and play more.
same goes with all turn based games. like adom, chess, nethack and others. There is one problem about turns however - they are not MMORPG-able by definition. Some tweaks to the turn system must be made, so that other players wouldn't have to wait for other players. I'm dreaming about MMORPG version of adom, just like I'm dreaming about Diablo-like graphical version of adom. Sad is - that they will probably never happen...
I mean, how much money they would be getting anyway from all those windows copies sold in Korea? My bet, is that's just their investment in their "world damination project".
otherwise how would it look like if whole Korea switched off windows?
am i the only one that hates blogs? all i ever see in google is search results from some moron posting his opinion on whatever it is im searching for.
slashdot is a blog.
When people talk about books titled "ten yourself something in NN hours/days" it always reminds me about this webpage.
And in fact that's the truth - you can't learn that something in few days. Progamming? unix administration? sailing? playing chess? Man... that takes years to master.
x-shockwave is not working on linux, so we can't see that.
hey, shutdown sony, that would be a real fun!
when download for iPod or TiVo? heck, I can pay 0.99.
I'm an AMD fanboy, oh yeah. Their chips are soooo good. Problem is that in Europe there wasn't enough press releases about AMD vs. Intel dual core duel. In fact there is nothing about that. Looks like all PR quietly took a large sum of money from Intel, and this duel is totally ignored by media. I feel bitter about that.
yes, I heard that AMD has launched a big ad campaign in US, but sadly this is not the case for Europe.
and all the universities in western europe are forced to buy upgrades from Dell. I really tried to buy AMD, it simply wasn't possible.
official thread for flames about garbage collector in java.
for example how many people have discovered that java is fast as long as the benchamrk lasts less than, say, 10000 cycles, and slows down to crawl, when there are millions of cycles? VM decides to launch gc when CPU is under havy load (to reduce the load), not beforehand, when users would notice.
I was on a lecture about gravity waves, once. This guy showed a lot of interesting stuff, like that a best gravity wave emitter is when you place four bodies each on a node of a square, and then squash/unsquash this fictional square. Then a strong wave is emitted in perpendicular direction.
also he said that some folks are trying to detect gravity waves by sending two laser beams through a very long tunnel, they bounce of mirrors and then interfere, so length of their way can be measured with high precision. Exactly like in the summary above.
And guess what? They got totally different results depending if there are clouds up in the sky or not. The beams were attracted to the clouds because of cloud's mass. Of course it means that they couldn't detect any gravity waves from far away - too strong local effects.
He also said that the only possible gravity wave detector should be placed in the space on lagrangian point.
I wonder if this will have any impact on the no smoking bans we have seen in recent years?
hopefully not. All the bans are not about health of smokers, it's about fresh air for non-smokers. Who cares if that stinking person over there inhales deadly stuff, or less deadly? It all stinks the same.
no one ever remembers that it were polish scientists who cracked enigma...
funniest reason to be scared, ever.
they are saying: the cheapest on the whole world, are they lying? No, it's simply not possible
btw, castorama (like wal-mart in europe, but smaller and focuses only on things that people may use when building/renoving a house) gives warranty on their prices. Their ad is: "if you find this thing cheaper anywhere, we will return to you the price difference". I've never tried if this actually works.
firs /. reader that finds an OSS project that is doing the same, gets the prize! (remember to check freshmeat, sourceforge, berlios, alioth and tigris).
well I run sarge :) but if we are speaking about ads, I'm using custom hosts file that is pointing to my local install of apache2. So every request for an ad shows 404 ErrorDocument from apache2. I don't like to see "Not found" all the time, so I placed in 404 a reference to this. It says that only 142 days are left for our second child to be born. :) Hosts file from my wife's computer is also pointing to it, and she was delighted when she saw it.
serenity for $1.99 anyone?
I'm too lazy to find related /. article, it was a few weeks ago, some of you may remember. USA has fallen from 4th (previous year) to 16th (this year) place among countries that have broadband internet.
So USA is not using internet that much in fact. Another PR stunt just on time when EU wants to takeover.
second time in 60,000 years. The last occurrence was in 2003.
.... oops I don't know. But it happens more often ;)
So the event that happens once per 60,000 years - happens now a SECOND time, just after two years?
No (the summary is of course poorly written), in 2003 it was 35 million miles (56 000 000 km), and then it was an event once per 60,000 years. Now it is 43.1 million miles (69 000 000 km) and it is an event once per
Dell wants dualcore to sell, so they have it.
how long before they realize that it was a fatal move?