Look to the future though, with Vista coming out, and increasing loads put on the system by running other cpu and io intensive GUI's, multicore does and will provide acceptable performance. Being able to offload the OS to a second core increases responsiveness in general.
I used to have a dual pentium pro that was slick as butter on a hot ass in July that was better than any pentium 2.
If the genes are "useless" as you say, they don't code for proteins, in which case the cell appears the same to the immune system. Our immune system targets proteins primarily, not DNA. That's why some drugs are good against a plethora of pathogens, because they share characteristic proteins.
So in summary, I think you made this up. Or you heard it from someone likewise uneducated in biology.
The problem with slashdot is its primarily for computer nerds, instead of chemistry nerds, so chemistry (or biochemistry) articles get a lot of BS posted.
I'm tired of people passing off the gamecube as a kids toy, without having played some of the titles on it. Ikaruga comes to mind, if you think that a 7 year old could rock that game, you're wrong. Is Hitman 2: Silent Assassin a childs game? Nope. The number of excellent adult titles on Gamecube are substantial, more games than I can afford anyway. And even without these less well known games, the Metroid Prime series are excellent games.
If you think that Gamecube is a platform for kiddie titles, go blow someones head off and shred their body with an SMG in Hitman 2, and come back and apologize.
Also, someone in this thread said that Nintendo should stick with what their good at, handhelds. This is ridiculous. Might I remind you that the NES and Super NES are still excellent consoles, especially the Super NES.
That having been said, I also own a PSX and a Dreamcast, and will definitely be buying a Revolution.
That having been said, I really with a metal slug collection would come out for gamecube or revolution with all the games included.
I'm tired of people passing off the gamecube as a kids toy, without having played some of the titles on it. Ikaruga comes to mind, if you think that a 7 year old could rock that game, you're wrong. Is Hitman 2: Silent Assassin a childs game? Nope. The number of excellent adult titles on Gamecube are substantial, more games than I can afford anyway. And even without these less well known games, the Metroid Prime series are excellent games.
If you think that Gamecube is a platform for kiddie titles, go blow someones head off and shred their body with an SMG in Hitman 2, and come back and apologize.
Also, someone in this thread said that Nintendo should stick with what their good at, handhelds. This is ridiculous. Might I remind you that the NES and Super NES are still excellent consoles, especially the Super NES.
That having been said, I also own a PSX and a Dreamcast, and will definitely be buying a Revolution.
That having been said, I really with a metal slug collection would come out for gamecube or revolution with all the games included.
I had Mann (RTFA) for a class when I was in school, the guys a moron. And he was also a partner to that study which was later lambasted for having had incorrect assumptions and mathematics made in the prediction models.
Sorry not to be clear, I was talking about the FreeBSD system.
Just out of curiosity, can you not change the directory prefix when you "make" in order to install the application in/tmp, then "make package" from there? I was adressing the OP who was talking about having to deinstall software when making packages he did not want on the building computer.
Wouldn't this avoid the issue of actually installing the software on FreeBSD?
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but cant you "make package" without installing after a "make"?
Actually, make package may hit the install target at some point, still necessitating a make deinstall, but at any rate, I don't think that you need "make install", I think "make ; make package" works fine.
Parent says about chess "soon it will be completely solved."
Is chess a game that lends itself to be solved mathematically? I have little doubt that computers will be able to compute to such a depth as to never lose a game, but I don't know if chess is solvable, like Connect 4. http://www.connectfour.net/Files/connect4.pdf(Warn ing: It's a PDF)
Or by being solved, did you simply mean that you agree that chess can be played to such a depth as to make it impossible for a human to win? That's not really "solving" a game.
What if he downloads the file, does some processing and modifications to the video, then encodes it into his preferred format. I don't know how many cameras would support a completely foreign file being copied to the tape, in fact, I don't know how many cameras even support writing from the firewire connection.
Or perhaps he wants to keep the files separate, instead of tarring them together.
In that case, any tape would be kinda lousy because or insanely long seek times for arbitrary data.
You whine and moan, but ESRI is on top for a reason, their features are useful, and the ones that they add that you malign for being buggy also are better than what the competition has generated.
If you really want to feel the pain, try GRASS, especially for Cygwin, where its basically unusable.
And for things that are difficult to do, ArcGIS 9 has much easier scripting with python than arcview did with AVENUE( arcview scripting) And the ancient arcinfo systems? Very painful to use.
I hail the new features, they provide more benefit than the bugs could ever negate.
GRASS http://grass.itc.it/ is the primary open source GIS solution. The summary could have at least mentioned it in passing.
Odd that they mention AutoDesk too, considering their mapping software doesn't feature as nice spatial analysis stuff as ArcGIS does, although I haven't used it enough to make any other conclusions about it.
Now if GRASS would only improve their text interface and revamp their GUI.
I've found that doing the data analysis with ArcGIS and displaying it with mapserver is the only way to go. ArcIMS is a bit too complex, at least compared to mapserver.
I think that in Haskell "++" signifies the concatenation of lists. Not a logical "OR".
I think Haskell is neat and has applications in the "real world." Take a look at "WASH" for web scripting, for example.
http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~thiemann/ha skell/WASH/
The facts are that such tests do not actually work? Then why is this slashdot article even here, if the answer is so conclusive?
In truth, lie detectors are based on recordable behaviors of humans when exposed to stimulus, namely the sweating or increased breathing. Psycholgists love to talk about that, it's an observable phenomenon.
The problem with "lie detector" tests comes when the result is inconclusive. Does this indicate a lie, or the truth? Neither.
Really, lie detectors shouldn't be a front line tool, and shouldn't be trusted, but they are a potentially viable tool in an examiner's belt.
"It seems clear that Smith and Steflik are concerned not so much with the well-being of the patients entrusted to their care as they are with protecting themselves from being held accountable by those patients for their ill-founded practice of making key decisions about treatment based on such junk science as the polygraph."
That's nothing, I was searching for "hats" the other day on google (I want to buy a hat) and the 6th link that comes up is something called "Fat Chicks in Party Hats."
I may be mistaken, but I don't think that the QT license is a free software license anyway. I can recall some disagreement regarding its freeness, and its alternative licensure for commercial applications. Wasn't this the reason for GTK development?
This article definately sounds as if the writer was more aligned along the marketing/policy end of consulting rather than technology, the article comes across as pretty weak. Although I don't know any IT consultants, geological consultants are usually a bit more terse and limit their comments to things other than "warm fuzzy feelings."
I also have never liked the term consultant. Sometimes consultants are nothing more than paid mouths to spread an idea, and they don't actually "consult," or say their own opinions.
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Lord, everyone knows that purple is the color of kids. Everyday I see kids wearing purple.
Go back to the 1850 rural areas, doode.
Look to the future though, with Vista coming out, and increasing loads put on the system by running other cpu and io intensive GUI's, multicore does and will provide acceptable performance. Being able to offload the OS to a second core increases responsiveness in general.
I used to have a dual pentium pro that was slick as butter on a hot ass in July that was better than any pentium 2.
So look to the future, as well as the now.
"I'm new to Slashdot and still not quite understanding the mysteries of the editors."
Their mysteries are written in UTF-8, but they're trying to decode them in ISO-8859-1.
Thats why they often get confused.
Troff/Groff can generate PS output, and is generally considerably smaller than TeX.
Not to mention troff is easier to use, and I think has nicer looking output.
I call your bluff.
If the genes are "useless" as you say, they don't code for proteins, in which case the cell appears the same to the immune system. Our immune system targets proteins primarily, not DNA. That's why some drugs are good against a plethora of pathogens, because they share characteristic proteins.
So in summary, I think you made this up. Or you heard it from someone likewise uneducated in biology.
The problem with slashdot is its primarily for computer nerds, instead of chemistry nerds, so chemistry (or biochemistry) articles get a lot of BS posted.
I'm tired of people passing off the gamecube as a kids toy, without having played some of the titles on it. Ikaruga comes to mind, if you think that a 7 year old could rock that game, you're wrong. Is Hitman 2: Silent Assassin a childs game? Nope. The number of excellent adult titles on Gamecube are substantial, more games than I can afford anyway. And even without these less well known games, the Metroid Prime series are excellent games.
If you think that Gamecube is a platform for kiddie titles, go blow someones head off and shred their body with an SMG in Hitman 2, and come back and apologize.
Also, someone in this thread said that Nintendo should stick with what their good at, handhelds. This is ridiculous. Might I remind you that the NES and Super NES are still excellent consoles, especially the Super NES.
That having been said, I also own a PSX and a Dreamcast, and will definitely be buying a Revolution.
That having been said, I really with a metal slug collection would come out for gamecube or revolution with all the games included.
I'm tired of people passing off the gamecube as a kids toy, without having played some of the titles on it. Ikaruga comes to mind, if you think that a 7 year old could rock that game, you're wrong. Is Hitman 2: Silent Assassin a childs game? Nope. The number of excellent adult titles on Gamecube are substantial, more games than I can afford anyway. And even without these less well known games, the Metroid Prime series are excellent games.
If you think that Gamecube is a platform for kiddie titles, go blow someones head off and shred their body with an SMG in Hitman 2, and come back and apologize.
Also, someone in this thread said that Nintendo should stick with what their good at, handhelds. This is ridiculous. Might I remind you that the NES and Super NES are still excellent consoles, especially the Super NES.
That having been said, I also own a PSX and a Dreamcast, and will definitely be buying a Revolution.
That having been said, I really with a metal slug collection would come out for gamecube or revolution with all the games included.
I had Mann (RTFA) for a class when I was in school, the guys a moron. And he was also a partner to that study which was later lambasted for having had incorrect assumptions and mathematics made in the prediction models.
Sorry not to be clear, I was talking about the FreeBSD system.
/tmp, then "make package" from there? I was adressing the OP who was talking about having to deinstall software when making packages he did not want on the building computer.
Just out of curiosity, can you not change the directory prefix when you "make" in order to install the application in
Wouldn't this avoid the issue of actually installing the software on FreeBSD?
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but cant you "make package" without installing after a "make"?
Actually, make package may hit the install target at some point, still necessitating a make deinstall, but at any rate, I don't think that you need "make install", I think "make ; make package" works fine.
Is chess a game that lends itself to be solved mathematically? I have little doubt that computers will be able to compute to such a depth as to never lose a game, but I don't know if chess is solvable, like Connect 4. http://www.connectfour.net/Files/connect4.pdf(Warn ing: It's a PDF)
Or by being solved, did you simply mean that you agree that chess can be played to such a depth as to make it impossible for a human to win? That's not really "solving" a game.
What if he downloads the file, does some processing and modifications to the video, then encodes it into his preferred format. I don't know how many cameras would support a completely foreign file being copied to the tape, in fact, I don't know how many cameras even support writing from the firewire connection.
Or perhaps he wants to keep the files separate, instead of tarring them together.
In that case, any tape would be kinda lousy because or insanely long seek times for arbitrary data.
You whine and moan, but ESRI is on top for a reason, their features are useful, and the ones that they add that you malign for being buggy also are better than what the competition has generated.
If you really want to feel the pain, try GRASS, especially for Cygwin, where its basically unusable.
And for things that are difficult to do, ArcGIS 9 has much easier scripting with python than arcview did with AVENUE( arcview scripting) And the ancient arcinfo systems? Very painful to use.
I hail the new features, they provide more benefit than the bugs could ever negate.
GRASS http://grass.itc.it/ is the primary open source GIS solution. The summary could have at least mentioned it in passing.
Odd that they mention AutoDesk too, considering their mapping software doesn't feature as nice spatial analysis stuff as ArcGIS does, although I haven't used it enough to make any other conclusions about it.
Now if GRASS would only improve their text interface and revamp their GUI.
Another critical open source GIS application for webmaps is MapServer http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/
I've found that doing the data analysis with ArcGIS and displaying it with mapserver is the only way to go. ArcIMS is a bit too complex, at least compared to mapserver.
I think that in Haskell "++" signifies the concatenation of lists. Not a logical "OR". I think Haskell is neat and has applications in the "real world." Take a look at "WASH" for web scripting, for example. http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~thiemann/ha skell/WASH/
The facts are that such tests do not actually work? Then why is this slashdot article even here, if the answer is so conclusive?
In truth, lie detectors are based on recordable behaviors of humans when exposed to stimulus, namely the sweating or increased breathing. Psycholgists love to talk about that, it's an observable phenomenon.
The problem with "lie detector" tests comes when the result is inconclusive. Does this indicate a lie, or the truth? Neither.
Really, lie detectors shouldn't be a front line tool, and shouldn't be trusted, but they are a potentially viable tool in an examiner's belt.
"It seems clear that Smith and Steflik are concerned not so much with the well-being of the patients entrusted to their care as they are with protecting themselves from being held accountable by those patients for their ill-founded practice of making key decisions about treatment based on such junk science as the polygraph."
Suuure, theres no bias in this at all.
Lots of sensationalism though.
Good point, and the fact that IE7 will not be available for pre-SP2 Windows XP, a good deal of those older IE 6 users will still be around.
Of course, Windows Update could start listing firefox as the browser upgrade for Windows 98-2000.
Remember when carts were the game storage medium of choice, and there were no load times?
Why don't we go back to carts, in the form of self-contained hard drives, like teh Jaz drive.
Faster load times. Only problem would be the jump in price of the game, becuase of the hugely more expensive media.
Yeah, not to mention that Win 3.1 wouldn't install with less than 2.
That's nothing, I was searching for "hats" the other day on google (I want to buy a hat) and the 6th link that comes up is something called "Fat Chicks in Party Hats."
Most distressing.
They settled, actually, for around $12 million US. Check it out
I may be mistaken, but I don't think that the QT license is a free software license anyway. I can recall some disagreement regarding its freeness, and its alternative licensure for commercial applications. Wasn't this the reason for GTK development?
Man, this is a horrible troll.
.... and the fact that we were unable to defrag its ext2 file system."
"FreedBSD's
FreeBSD has never used ext2 as its native filesystem, nor the GPL. It looks like someone just found/replaced the word linux with FreeBSD.
This article definately sounds as if the writer was more aligned along the marketing/policy end of consulting rather than technology, the article comes across as pretty weak. Although I don't know any IT consultants, geological consultants are usually a bit more terse and limit their comments to things other than "warm fuzzy feelings."
I also have never liked the term consultant. Sometimes consultants are nothing more than paid mouths to spread an idea, and they don't actually "consult," or say their own opinions.