" Evolution is a fact in that we know it occurs and it has been seen occuring."
No, that makes it a theory. Look up the scientific method on wikipedia.
A fact (or law) would be gravity, something you can see with your own eyes.
It's really weird, the difference, I mean if you can whitness it under a microscope it should be a law right? But it isn't. A law is something that is prooven to happen once, and always happen no matter what. Inertia is a law.
We can't be certain that bacteria will -always- evolve, or if what we're seeing isn't even evolution at all but pre-coded in DNA. Until we understand how DNA works 110% we can't make it a law.
Did you know that the Earth revolving around the sun is a theory and not a law?
[quote]Thanks very much for your malformed links to
1. A generic laptop mouse on Amazon
2. A bogus keyboard that no one in their right mind would use
3. A 2" display that would never work for this project (so small yet it still requires a power adapter)
4. A 4" display made by a company that's out of business [/quote]
What's wrong with you? I was showing a cheap way to get the results the article submitter ASKED FOR.
>>1. A generic laptop mouse on Amazon Yes, easy to use and cheap and small (portable)
>>2. A bogus keyboard that no one in their right mind would use I have one, and use it.
>>3. A 2" display that would never work for this project (so small yet it still requires a power adapter) Poster wanted something small and portable -- I gave him that. If he wants something larger he can get something at will.
>> 4. A 4" display made by a company that's out of business Loki Games is out of business, do their games entertain you any less because of this?
I'd suggest just getting a mini-flatpanel LCD monitor, connecting it to a standard KVM, then get a non-extended PS/2 keyboard and mini-laptop mouse.
There! Instant KVM thats smaller than a laptop!
http://www.amdmb.com/article-display.php?Article ID =167 http://www.spysupplystore.com/Merchant2/merc hant.m vc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=LcdMini2&Category_Code = For your micro-sized-flatpanel ^^^
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0 00 05NJ8R/102-5108035-1791351?v=glance ^^ Your mini mouse
http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000813025740/ ^^ For your small keyboard.
See, doesn't take a genius;] I've built something like this for the same reason, not using the same brands as above but getting the small peripherials/monitor. It works great!
Excuse me for being naiive, but do you guys actually like porn in the form of spam?"/QUOTE
Sorry to be OT here... but parent posters website and name is that of a RIAA fiended "punk rawk girl" that is quite hot. I think your a 14 year old boy who idolizes "Lindsay Lohan."
Don't impersonate people though, that's kinda rude. (If you're the real Lindsay Lohan post a link to picture saying./ rules!)
"Absolutely no way could the MPAA go after the "kenosisp2p" DNS server. Otherwise all DNS servers are committing copyright infringement. When you feed "ftp://www.moviewarezsite.com/pub/MPAA_Movie_Here. avi" into a program, it does the exact same thing as this."
Maybe it would be illegal according to a judge, there's never been a court sueing based on this premise before has there? The situation is also a TAD bit different than your example.
In the end though www.your-favorite-pirate-tracker.com would still probably go bust, unless the owner was rich. Having to afford tens of thousands of dollars can kind of make you want to settle with the *IAA out of court AS FAST AS POSSIBLE
"Do we really need yet another bloated python p2p app? I can feel the flamebait and troll mods comming.. but seriously: Python sucks at gui work. It has to use generic wrappeers, like wxPython, that are extremely inefficient. Sure, like Pearl or Java, you can write gui apps using Python... but they always come out slow and over-weight. "
Mod parent above insightful not flamebait. WTF is up with the mods? Were the mods VisualBasic fans or something who downmodded this post? He has a point, python and java **ARE** slower than C/C++ applications, have crappy memory management and are usually more of a kludge.
I think parent deserves +3 insightful if anything. It's about time developers trashed these 'compilable scripting languages' and went to C/C++
I code a partitioning tool completley PHP and then compile it with Zends optimizer, but would it go fast?
"For anyone to say this would be most beneficial for anything other than illegal activities would be lying."
Well, I used BT to get the Rubyx Linux distribution. It was available through BitTorrent and then a proprietary P2P method devised by the developer of Rubyx Linux.
That was the only two ways to get it... the maintainer ran the rubyx website off his home DSL modem.
As you can see, people *DO* use BT for legitimate reasons and people like me utilize that.
Granted, the majority of people pirate using BT, but if you open your eyes you'll find millions of legitimate uses and scenarios.
It's just that when a good thing comes along, the people who can abuse it start moving in really fast.
The biggest problem this poses is the PR to linux. If this news gets out big, corporate vendors will switch to some form of UNIX (sco, solaris, AIX) and Linux will be out of the business market.
That's really all that keeps Linux abuzz aside from hobbiests.
They really need to break out with these updates otherwise they'll get a worse rep on release times than Win too.
" Judging from this screenshot, I think I can see why. Sure, graphics ain't everything..."
You picked the shittiest SS out of the bunch. You must remember, this is an early early beta. Should have seen the FIRST screenshots released from wOw they were all boxy and stuff 100x worse than this.
If people want to see how the game really looked check out here http://www.mutablerealms.com/screenshots.php
"Is it too much to hope someone might build a strong tool for doing this that will run on Linux? Having Copernic rated #1 is wonderful for folks still running Windows, and Google is wonderful for folks still running Windows, and..."
That'd be nice, I'd like a graphical alternative to locate too.
"we are forced to use IE because certian web applications we use for inter/intra department communication or data storage use asp or other activex controls."
ASP is a server-rendered language that is processed before being sent to the browser.
" Yeah It could take almost 40 ms less to load the page. that's.04 seconds BTW. My current latency to Google 47MS to my router.2ms So assuming you're on the lan over at google, your latency should be around.2 to 7 MS depending on length of ethernet, number of switches you're hopping through etc... I'm going 20 feet, to get.2 MS, I'm assuming that google is in a building larger than 20'x20' wide, so presumablly if you've got 1000 feet of cable, and latency remains constant per foot of ethernet the latency could rise to 2 ms. but that's not considering the possiblitiy they're using lower latency fiber optic netowrks for thier entire lan."
Actually, it'd take as long to load the page in the Google H.Q. Offices as it would you or me. The google servers are hosted in a dedicated server farm, which is outside of their primary building.
"Funny, I didn't read that or infer that from the article. Perhaps you have special glasses that let you read invisible ink?"
No, it's just in between the tags.
View>Source look for the part with
<!--- secret comments!!!!! --->
Re:Multitasking is the ONLY way
on
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"I find that in math, if I work on several problems at the same time, all the while surfing or reading/writing email I can get it done just as fast, and perhaps more deeply than if I tackeled each one separately and sequentially. I guess it's the same in programming. If you get stuck on some pesky function, you leave it for a while, work on something else and then come back to it when you have a new idea. Don't tell me people can't multitask. BS."
That would be emulated multi-tasking.
Kind of like computers, they don't REALLY download porn from kazaa, while recieving IMs for your girlfriend while at the exact same moment view slashdot. No.
The processor splits off, and every couple of nanoseconds splits off again.
1 nanosecond; kazaa 1 nanosecond; IM 1 nanosecond; slashdot REPEAT()
This is what the processor does, and it seems like it's doing all simutaniously, and in a way is, but not really. The only way to really do that would be to have 3 processors, 1 for each task.
Likewise, you would need X brains. where X = amount of tasks your doing
I highly doubt your solving 36 + (-20) + 50 - (-17) - 10 while at the exact SAME moment solving 8 - 5 x 2 + 9 simutaniously.
Thats what the scientist brainiac is saying. You don't need a scientist to tell you that.
"It is a shame that these people tarnish the name of Linux for anyone, especially since most of them are of the oppinion that it is a superior OS."
Whats further more a shame of the #Debian channel, is on Freenode you have channels that start with one # or 2 # (##)
E.G.
#conglamo would be an official project channel ##conglamo would be an un-official channel
#debian is an official debian channel, so if they are assholes in there, guess who it reflects upon? It reflects directly back upon the debian project.
Why, if I didn't know any better, I would think Debian Linux is full of the most egotistic, rude, flaming, asshole users that have ever walked the earth.
I would have never -EVER- tried Debian because I wouldn't want to be part of such a asshole community.
See what I'm getting at? The ops in #debian should police that channel and make sure it stays at a fun and positive enviroment, because new-comers will think the entire debian community is like that if they see people act that way in an "official" debian channel.
I hang out in #mepis on freenode. It's the way a distro channel should be; everyone is friends with everyone else, and when a newbie comes walking through the door we're glad to help, no matter how stupid the question is. (Hey, the easier the question the easier it is to help, right?)
MEPIS Linux has a very positive community, and we're all glad to help each other out.
" Heh. For a really good time, try going into #debian on freenode and asking any question, no matter how esoteric. You're bound to get about three or four RTFMs, and one guy who will pmsg you with more helpful information. Note: I just switched to deb after several years of RPM-based distros, and am not a complete n00b here, so the attitude I encountered was offputting to say the least. Imagine sending your grandma in there for help - she'd probably smack you with her purse the next time she saw you!"
No shit! I hate them mother fuckers. Maybe I would RTFM if the programs I need help with HAD A FUCKING MAN PAGE! Idiots...
Try out channel #mepis for MEPIS Linux; I hang out in there and they are very nice, and even help out for other distros.
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Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. Apache/1.3.33 Server at www.e-buyonline.com Port 80
Yes, if your family is worried about that, or you are for your family, I'd suggest installing MEPIS Linux (mepis.org) very clean and fast, easy to install, and easy to use once installed. I've been running it for a while now.
"I got drunk in the revolving restaurant in "God's Microphone" (what is the correct name for that thing) in Dallas one time. Coming back from the bathroom was a bit of an experience."
Slashdot Mirror
" Evolution is a fact in that we know it occurs and it has been seen occuring."
No, that makes it a theory. Look up the scientific method on wikipedia.
A fact (or law) would be gravity, something you can see with your own eyes.
It's really weird, the difference, I mean if you can whitness it under a microscope it should be a law right? But it isn't. A law is something that is prooven to happen once, and always happen no matter what. Inertia is a law.
We can't be certain that bacteria will -always- evolve, or if what we're seeing isn't even evolution at all but pre-coded in DNA. Until we understand how DNA works 110% we can't make it a law.
Did you know that the Earth revolving around the sun is a theory and not a law?
[quote]Thanks very much for your malformed links to
1. A generic laptop mouse on Amazon
2. A bogus keyboard that no one in their right mind would use
3. A 2" display that would never work for this project (so small yet it still requires a power adapter)
4. A 4" display made by a company that's out of business [/quote]
What's wrong with you? I was showing a cheap way to get the results the article submitter ASKED FOR.
>>1. A generic laptop mouse on Amazon
Yes, easy to use and cheap and small (portable)
>>2. A bogus keyboard that no one in their right mind would use
I have one, and use it.
>>3. A 2" display that would never work for this project (so small yet it still requires a power adapter)
Poster wanted something small and portable -- I gave him that. If he wants something larger he can get something at will.
>> 4. A 4" display made by a company that's out of business
Loki Games is out of business, do their games entertain you any less because of this?
I'd suggest just getting a mini-flatpanel LCD monitor, connecting it to a standard KVM, then get a non-extended PS/2 keyboard and mini-laptop mouse.
e ID =167c hant.m vc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=LcdMini2&Category_Code =
0 00 05NJ8R/102-5108035-1791351?v=glance
;]
There! Instant KVM thats smaller than a laptop!
http://www.amdmb.com/article-display.php?Articl
http://www.spysupplystore.com/Merchant2/mer
For your micro-sized-flatpanel ^^^
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B
^^ Your mini mouse
http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000813025740/
^^ For your small keyboard.
See, doesn't take a genius
I've built something like this for the same reason, not using the same brands as above but getting the small peripherials/monitor. It works great!
QUOTE "by Lindsay Lohan (847467) (http://llrocks.com/)
/QUOTE
./ rules!)
Excuse me for being naiive, but do you guys actually like porn in the form of spam?"
Sorry to be OT here... but parent posters website and name is that of a RIAA fiended "punk rawk girl" that is quite hot. I think your a 14 year old boy who idolizes "Lindsay Lohan."
Don't impersonate people though, that's kinda rude. (If you're the real Lindsay Lohan post a link to picture saying
[/OT]
Sorry again!
"Absolutely no way could the MPAA go after the "kenosisp2p" DNS server. Otherwise all DNS servers are committing copyright infringement. When you feed "ftp://www.moviewarezsite.com/pub/MPAA_Movie_Here. avi" into a program, it does the exact same thing as this."
Maybe it would be illegal according to a judge, there's never been a court sueing based on this premise before has there? The situation is also a TAD bit different than your example.
In the end though www.your-favorite-pirate-tracker.com would still probably go bust, unless the owner was rich. Having to afford tens of thousands of dollars can kind of make you want to settle with the *IAA out of court AS FAST AS POSSIBLE
"Do we really need yet another bloated python p2p app? I can feel the flamebait and troll mods comming.. but seriously: Python sucks at gui work. It has to use generic wrappeers, like wxPython, that are extremely inefficient. Sure, like Pearl or Java, you can write gui apps using Python... but they always come out slow and over-weight. "
Mod parent above insightful not flamebait. WTF is up with the mods? Were the mods VisualBasic fans or something who downmodded this post? He has a point, python and java **ARE** slower than C/C++ applications, have crappy memory management and are usually more of a kludge.
I think parent deserves +3 insightful if anything. It's about time developers trashed these 'compilable scripting languages' and went to C/C++
I code a partitioning tool completley PHP and then compile it with Zends optimizer, but would it go fast?
"For anyone to say this would be most beneficial for anything other than illegal activities would be lying."
Well, I used BT to get the Rubyx Linux distribution. It was available through BitTorrent and then a proprietary P2P method devised by the developer of Rubyx Linux.
That was the only two ways to get it... the maintainer ran the rubyx website off his home DSL modem.
As you can see, people *DO* use BT for legitimate reasons and people like me utilize that.
Granted, the majority of people pirate using BT, but if you open your eyes you'll find millions of legitimate uses and scenarios.
It's just that when a good thing comes along, the people who can abuse it start moving in really fast.
The biggest problem this poses is the PR to linux. If this news gets out big, corporate vendors will switch to some form of UNIX (sco, solaris, AIX) and Linux will be out of the business market.
That's really all that keeps Linux abuzz aside from hobbiests.
They really need to break out with these updates otherwise they'll get a worse rep on release times than Win too.
" Judging from this screenshot, I think I can see why. Sure, graphics ain't everything..."
You picked the shittiest SS out of the bunch. You must remember, this is an early early beta. Should have seen the FIRST screenshots released from wOw they were all boxy and stuff 100x worse than this.
If people want to see how the game really looked check out here http://www.mutablerealms.com/screenshots.php
"Is it too much to hope someone might build a strong tool for doing this that will run on Linux? Having Copernic rated #1 is wonderful for folks still running Windows, and Google is wonderful for folks still running Windows, and..."
That'd be nice, I'd like a graphical alternative to locate too.
"we are forced to use IE because certian web applications we use for inter/intra department communication or data storage use asp or other activex controls."
ASP is a server-rendered language that is processed before being sent to the browser.
Try http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/search.asp
Shows up fine in Galeon on Linux for me... no ie here.
"So they track every user who visits a site running their web bug"
So you're telling me google has this fucking bug in it? Doubt it.. how else would they get the Apache access.log with MS ips from google to anaylize?
" Yeah It could take almost 40 ms less to load the page. that's .04 seconds BTW. .2ms .2 to 7 MS depending on length of ethernet, number of switches you're hopping through etc... I'm going 20 feet, to get .2 MS, I'm assuming that google is in a building larger than 20'x20' wide, so presumablly if you've got 1000 feet of cable, and latency remains constant per foot of ethernet the latency could rise to 2 ms. but that's not considering the possiblitiy they're using lower latency fiber optic netowrks for thier entire lan."
My current latency to Google 47MS to my router
So assuming you're on the lan over at google, your latency should be around
Actually, it'd take as long to load the page in the Google H.Q. Offices as it would you or me. The google servers are hosted in a dedicated server farm, which is outside of their primary building.
How would I sign up for this trial to get off of their shitty DSL?
Man, having swbell.net my homepage for 4 years, and I still don't get real news.
No, it's just in between the tags.
View>Source
look for the part with
"I find that in math, if I work on several problems at the same time, all the while surfing or reading/writing email I can get it done just as fast, and perhaps more deeply than if I tackeled each one separately and sequentially. I guess it's the same in programming. If you get stuck on some pesky function, you leave it for a while, work on something else and then come back to it when you have a new idea. Don't tell me people can't multitask. BS."
That would be emulated multi-tasking.
Kind of like computers, they don't REALLY download porn from kazaa, while recieving IMs for your girlfriend while at the exact same moment view slashdot. No.
The processor splits off, and every couple of nanoseconds splits off again.
1 nanosecond; kazaa
1 nanosecond; IM
1 nanosecond; slashdot
REPEAT()
This is what the processor does, and it seems like it's doing all simutaniously, and in a way is, but not really. The only way to really do that would be to have 3 processors, 1 for each task.
Likewise, you would need X brains. where X = amount of tasks your doing
I highly doubt your solving
36 + (-20) + 50 - (-17) - 10
while at the exact SAME moment solving
8 - 5 x 2 + 9
simutaniously.
Thats what the scientist brainiac is saying. You don't need a scientist to tell you that.
I live in Ft. Worth. I'll be 70 years old before I can use this system.
Great.. oh well, was nice thought while it lasted.
Couldn't they like double the amount of workers and lower the amount of time?
I'll be over there to visit my cousin possibly in this time frame. Is there any way I can opt in?
Well, way too much shit to read. But I figure if it had **Anything** good to say about GNU/Linux, it wouldn't be hosted on Microsofts site.
For those with the time to read a 3400 word article; don't be surprised!
"personaly i hate both the linux and windows way but thats just me:)"
Ah, so you're still using a Tandy TRS-80?
"It is a shame that these people tarnish the name of Linux for anyone, especially since most of them are of the oppinion that it is a superior OS."
Whats further more a shame of the #Debian channel, is on Freenode you have channels that start with one # or 2 # (##)
E.G.
#conglamo would be an official project channel
##conglamo would be an un-official channel
#debian is an official debian channel, so if they are assholes in there, guess who it reflects upon? It reflects directly back upon the debian project.
Why, if I didn't know any better, I would think Debian Linux is full of the most egotistic, rude, flaming, asshole users that have ever walked the earth.
I would have never -EVER- tried Debian because I wouldn't want to be part of such a asshole community.
See what I'm getting at? The ops in #debian should police that channel and make sure it stays at a fun and positive enviroment, because new-comers will think the entire debian community is like that if they see people act that way in an "official" debian channel.
I hang out in #mepis on freenode. It's the way a distro channel should be; everyone is friends with everyone else, and when a newbie comes walking through the door we're glad to help, no matter how stupid the question is. (Hey, the easier the question the easier it is to help, right?)
MEPIS Linux has a very positive community, and we're all glad to help each other out.
" Heh. For a really good time, try going into #debian on freenode and asking any question, no matter how esoteric. You're bound to get about three or four RTFMs, and one guy who will pmsg you with more helpful information. Note: I just switched to deb after several years of RPM-based distros, and am not a complete n00b here, so the attitude I encountered was offputting to say the least. Imagine sending your grandma in there for help - she'd probably smack you with her purse the next time she saw you!"
No shit! I hate them mother fuckers. Maybe I would RTFM if the programs I need help with HAD A FUCKING MAN PAGE! Idiots...
Try out channel #mepis for MEPIS Linux; I hang out in there and they are very nice, and even help out for other distros.
http://www.e-buyonline.com/
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You don't have permission to access / on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/1.3.33 Server at www.e-buyonline.com Port 80
Yes, if your family is worried about that, or you are for your family, I'd suggest installing MEPIS Linux (mepis.org) very clean and fast, easy to install, and easy to use once installed. I've been running it for a while now.
"I got drunk in the revolving restaurant in "God's Microphone" (what is the correct name for that thing) in Dallas one time. Coming back from the bathroom was a bit of an experience."
The electric moon