Very interesting, I always use ReiserFS so that might have been the problem. I absolutely hate Beagle (find & locate are much better), but it might have gotten installed without me noticing. Of course after a while I always notice beagle (slows things down, delays my home dir rsync backups), but maybe this time it didn't give me any chance! So thanks for the info.
I actually had to RTFA because I could not figure out what on earth this is about. So, two couriers decide to steal a cake sent to a newspaper. To COVER the theft, they replaced it with a package intended to a bank, without even opening it. That package happened to contain microfilmed (?!) of transactions. This must be a hoax, the sheer stupidity of "hiding" a CAKE theft with a second theft. Then banks sending around transactions and customer data in MICROFILMS???? Am I missing something, or is this just a hoax?
I looked a few weeks ago for the 7's and the cheapest was like 350-375$, most seemed to be over 400$. Which to me, is simply nuts.
This statement means a lot to people who lived in an era of absolute Intel dominance (i.e. before 2000) and had to pay whatever Intel asked, if they wanted a decent processor. I hope for the sake of all of us that AMD does not go away...
From TFA it would have cost $35-$75mil. If you calculated that on something like a 10m unit first year estimate, it would be $3.5 - $7.5 per console. Now, I am not saying they would actually increase the MSRP even if they went for that option, however it is ridiculous for a company OR a user to spend ANY money to have a console that can be rocked around while reading a disk (even more so when this is not an insignificant amount as it was the case).
I wonder whether some people would prefer a slight increase on the price of a console to include the ability to reorient it while a disk was playing inside without scratching the disc.
I am a long-time SuSE fan, since it had the least problems with my hardware (esp. laptops), could get my favorite package manager (apt, although since 10.3 & zypper you don't need it), and its config tool Yast was better than most things out there. When our company needed 64bit servers (running VMware among other things) about 4 years ago, SuSE was the best option. And with every version, it did get much better... until the dreaded 11. At first I installed a SuSE 11 beta on an AMD system to check out KDE 4. As you all know, KDE 4.0 was nothing to look at unless you were a KDE developer, so I didn't have much fun there as a KDE user, however I noticed that the system was VERY unstable, even for a beta. I am not used to seeing hard locks even on beta linux distros. Anyway, I gave SuSE 11 a shot when it came out. I installed it on a very common Core 2 system (Asus mobo, fresh bios etc). A few seconds after you started KDE (random number), even WITHOUT doing anything, the screen would freeze, and there was nothing you could do, no ctrl+F1, or ssh etc, it was a hard lock. If you switched off and on, nothing out of the ordinary was on the system logs... Tried three clean installations, same behavior, gave up and reinstalled 10.3 (which was always fine). I never had a hard lock with out any clue in the logs, so I could not imagine how I could troubleshoot (without randomly trying things)... Sorry for the rant, I hope I am allowed a little bit as a SuSE fan. Anyway really hope 11.1 is what 11 should have been for me...
Are you telling me that the judicial system does not trust sworn testimonies? I might see some point if the first testimony was also sword, however if the policeman was not sure it still would not make sense to disallow a sworn testimony. If that is so, let's throw away ALL testimonies. Also, does everyone know what the witnesses etc will say even before the trial? Are all the courtroom dramas with the suspense of what the witness will testify so far from reality? Why even have the trial? Finally, I also don't get how a policeman remembers that a rape victim told them she was not forced (i.e. was not a rape victim). Isn't it obvious this policeman was helping the defense? Shouldn't he be prosecuted? Or maybe lawyer stuff don't fit my logic...
...As a result, Barnes' lawyers claimed that the victim's original police interview, as police remembered it, would have been inconsistent with her trial testimony and therefore would be exculpatory evidence...
Ok, enough with the data recovery stuff. Can someone please explain to me why the victim was not allowed to testify? I tried to understand but it really is beyond me. Maybe someone can help out with a simple car analogy etc. Obviously this is THE LAST time I RTFA. As a/.er I should have known better...
Oh, I remembered one such instance I read in a paper not long ago. In one of those "scientific" articles it mentioned that photons from the sun take 8 light-minutes to reach earth... Obviously the writer thought a light-minute/year etc is time when it applies to light, or something like that. Anyway, don't tell me you haven't read stuff like that...
It is, if it is not used metaphorically and you actually think "light year" measures time. You are right though, the phrase I chose is not a good example of that.
They use fMRI scans. This means they measure the blood flow which powers the neurons. It is like measuring the power usage of the various parts of the gpu and figuring out the graphics it is rendering... Of course a real neural interface would be amazing (first of all imagine of all the pr0n - yeah, that's what I mean, you just have to IMAGINE!, rule 34!) but we are not even close. Or as journalists would very incorrectly state "we are light years from that" (hmm, unless they mean the brain scanning center in the Betelgeuse system).
Hmm, good movie, definitely worth a watch by all geeks, although the actor playing Gates looked way too sleazy. Whatever you think about Gates, at least on the outside he looks just nerdy and certainly not dangerous or sleazy - which I guess is an advantage if opponents lower their guard;)
So, what if my reaction to an image of George W. Bush is worse than my reaction to Osama? I mean Bin Laden is indeed a leading terrorist etc, but he is hiding far away in Afghanistan, years after his deplorable act. At the same time George has been right here screwing with our lives every day... Would I still pass security in 20-30 seconds?
My post was more of an attempt to entertainment (I love the linked clip from Spinal Tap), but if you want to analyze it... So, I am a physicist and possibly an engineer (I put "possibly" since some people don't accept the term "software engineers") and I never had a problem dealing with different systems of measurement. However, I think it is blatantly obvious that all systems of measurements were not created equal. Or, if they were created equal, the decimal ones are more equal than the others;) I have lived in the US for the last 5 years. I find it very amusing (and disturbing at the same time) how people say they can't use the metric system, yet they don't realize the can't REALLY use the english system either, due to its non-decimal nature. Yes, they do know what a foot, inch, yard, pound, ounce etc is, so they will get what "6 feet" means when they can't figure out "2m", however try to have them compare pounds with ounces, feet with yards or even worse start mixing things like how many pounds of water in a gallon etc. These come up in everyday life and I can actually manage them way better than the average American, since I can do calculations fast. But you are not supposed to have to do hard calculations when buying groceries! And let's not go into scientific applications. Oh, after all these years, the only thing I cannot get used to are temperatures in the Fahrenheit scale. Celsius is defined as : 0=water freezes, 100=water evaporates. Humans live closer to water freezes, end of story. Fahrenheit is defined as: 0=mixture of ice, water, and ammonium chloride (?!?) 32=freezing water (nice round number), 96=human blood (later adjusted to 98 point sth). Great f*ing scale.
Yep, you have a point. We could always add a law about causing willfully causing distress to a minor leading their death. I mean they can add laws about consumers not being able to listen to the CD they purchased on their car stereo, how hard would this be? On the other hand, Gene Hunt would have simply stuffed some narcotics in her trunk. Problem solved.
Yawn... Another one of these. Why do I feel I read a/. article about "Minority Report interfaces" every week? And it would be interesting if we were talking about pre-cognitive interfaced etc. instead of the useless "do your best traffic officer impression" to move some videos around. Yeah, IWTFV (didn't actually RTFA that came with it) and I guess it would be kind of cool for people who are not Real Geeks (TM). I especially enjoyed their "intuitive high bandwidth access to information" where they navigate this seemingly enormous 3D grid of what looks like boxes containing... the same japanese character! Yay, what a way to navigate through 2 bytes of info! Ok, maybe it is 1kb if the boxes were not identical, but there is no way to tell at a glance, as people who have tried to use lame 3D file managers would now. That scene also brought back fond cinematic memories... It's a Unix system! I know this!
I am not getting your point. Are you saying it is not useful ? My string theorist friend (last time we talked working on something about supersymmetry & orbifolds but I "forgot" - i.e. didn't understand - the details), assures me it is very valuable in her field. Are you saying everybody already knows it is useful? I never said otherwise. As for Einstein, it is well known that he would discuss with great mathematicians to learn about math concepts/tools that might prove useful. You doubt that he would have found Mathematica to be a great tool? So, clarify your post, what are you saying exactly?
I don't get all this bias against Mathematica. So, anything not free & open source is bad? Most universities give this for free to their students. At least both my undergrad and my grad did. Even if yours does not give it, it costs $140 for students, not much more than some expensive textbooks. There is even a 1-year time limited version for half the price (although I don't like renting software myself). Now, about the software itself, it is almost a decade since I was doing a Physics degree but I still remember how blown away I was with this software. Imagine how a physicist would feel if he could suddenly enlist the greatest mathematician of all time, one that knows every technique "in the book", to work on his side. I am sure Einstein would have "killed" for Mathematica. Actually, Mathematica was not ONLY positive for me. Because of it, I never bothered with LaTeX. I simply wrote all my papers in Mathematica (and switched science for Grad school, so there was no need any more). I am not sure how the new versions have advanced, but I would still call even the 10+ year old version (Mathematica 3), the best software ever written. Oh, BTW, copy paste with MS Eq editor? WTF? But I guess there was nothing else they could add;) And YES, it does run on Linux. Even 64 bit.
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Very interesting, I always use ReiserFS so that might have been the problem. I absolutely hate Beagle (find & locate are much better), but it might have gotten installed without me noticing. Of course after a while I always notice beagle (slows things down, delays my home dir rsync backups), but maybe this time it didn't give me any chance!
So thanks for the info.
Obviously the fruitcake was stollen...
I actually had to RTFA because I could not figure out what on earth this is about. So, two couriers decide to steal a cake sent to a newspaper. To COVER the theft, they replaced it with a package intended to a bank, without even opening it. That package happened to contain microfilmed (?!) of transactions.
This must be a hoax, the sheer stupidity of "hiding" a CAKE theft with a second theft. Then banks sending around transactions and customer data in MICROFILMS????
Am I missing something, or is this just a hoax?
As far as I'm concerned, Men At Work are still cool. ;)
Why funny? I grew up in Europe and I can tell you in the 80s you couldn't go much cooler than Crocodile Dundee...
Then it was Vanilla Ice's turn...
I looked a few weeks ago for the 7's and the cheapest was like 350-375$, most seemed to be over 400$. Which to me, is simply nuts.
This statement means a lot to people who lived in an era of absolute Intel dominance (i.e. before 2000) and had to pay whatever Intel asked, if they wanted a decent processor. I hope for the sake of all of us that AMD does not go away...
From TFA it would have cost $35-$75mil. If you calculated that on something like a 10m unit first year estimate, it would be $3.5 - $7.5 per console. Now, I am not saying they would actually increase the MSRP even if they went for that option, however it is ridiculous for a company OR a user to spend ANY money to have a console that can be rocked around while reading a disk (even more so when this is not an insignificant amount as it was the case).
I wonder whether some people would prefer a slight increase on the price of a console to include the ability to reorient it while a disk was playing inside without scratching the disc.
-No.
As long as you are fixing things...
I am a long-time SuSE fan, since it had the least problems with my hardware (esp. laptops), could get my favorite package manager (apt, although since 10.3 & zypper you don't need it), and its config tool Yast was better than most things out there. When our company needed 64bit servers (running VMware among other things) about 4 years ago, SuSE was the best option.
And with every version, it did get much better... until the dreaded 11. At first I installed a SuSE 11 beta on an AMD system to check out KDE 4. As you all know, KDE 4.0 was nothing to look at unless you were a KDE developer, so I didn't have much fun there as a KDE user, however I noticed that the system was VERY unstable, even for a beta. I am not used to seeing hard locks even on beta linux distros.
Anyway, I gave SuSE 11 a shot when it came out. I installed it on a very common Core 2 system (Asus mobo, fresh bios etc). A few seconds after you started KDE (random number), even WITHOUT doing anything, the screen would freeze, and there was nothing you could do, no ctrl+F1, or ssh etc, it was a hard lock. If you switched off and on, nothing out of the ordinary was on the system logs... Tried three clean installations, same behavior, gave up and reinstalled 10.3 (which was always fine). I never had a hard lock with out any clue in the logs, so I could not imagine how I could troubleshoot (without randomly trying things)...
Sorry for the rant, I hope I am allowed a little bit as a SuSE fan. Anyway really hope 11.1 is what 11 should have been for me...
Are you telling me that the judicial system does not trust sworn testimonies? I might see some point if the first testimony was also sword, however if the policeman was not sure it still would not make sense to disallow a sworn testimony. If that is so, let's throw away ALL testimonies.
Also, does everyone know what the witnesses etc will say even before the trial? Are all the courtroom dramas with the suspense of what the witness will testify so far from reality? Why even have the trial?
Finally, I also don't get how a policeman remembers that a rape victim told them she was not forced (i.e. was not a rape victim). Isn't it obvious this policeman was helping the defense? Shouldn't he be prosecuted?
Or maybe lawyer stuff don't fit my logic...
...As a result, Barnes' lawyers claimed that the victim's original police interview, as police remembered it, would have been inconsistent with her trial testimony and therefore would be exculpatory evidence...
Ok, enough with the data recovery stuff. Can someone please explain to me why the victim was not allowed to testify? I tried to understand but it really is beyond me. Maybe someone can help out with a simple car analogy etc. /.er I should have known better...
Obviously this is THE LAST time I RTFA. As a
Oh, I remembered one such instance I read in a paper not long ago. In one of those "scientific" articles it mentioned that photons from the sun take 8 light-minutes to reach earth... Obviously the writer thought a light-minute/year etc is time when it applies to light, or something like that. Anyway, don't tell me you haven't read stuff like that...
It is, if it is not used metaphorically and you actually think "light year" measures time. You are right though, the phrase I chose is not a good example of that.
They use fMRI scans. This means they measure the blood flow which powers the neurons. It is like measuring the power usage of the various parts of the gpu and figuring out the graphics it is rendering...
Of course a real neural interface would be amazing (first of all imagine of all the pr0n - yeah, that's what I mean, you just have to IMAGINE!, rule 34!) but we are not even close. Or as journalists would very incorrectly state "we are light years from that" (hmm, unless they mean the brain scanning center in the Betelgeuse system).
Hmm, good movie, definitely worth a watch by all geeks, although the actor playing Gates looked way too sleazy. Whatever you think about Gates, at least on the outside he looks just nerdy and certainly not dangerous or sleazy - which I guess is an advantage if opponents lower their guard ;)
So, what if my reaction to an image of George W. Bush is worse than my reaction to Osama? I mean Bin Laden is indeed a leading terrorist etc, but he is hiding far away in Afghanistan, years after his deplorable act. At the same time George has been right here screwing with our lives every day...
Would I still pass security in 20-30 seconds?
My post was more of an attempt to entertainment (I love the linked clip from Spinal Tap), but if you want to analyze it... ;)
So, I am a physicist and possibly an engineer (I put "possibly" since some people don't accept the term "software engineers") and I never had a problem dealing with different systems of measurement. However, I think it is blatantly obvious that all systems of measurements were not created equal. Or, if they were created equal, the decimal ones are more equal than the others
I have lived in the US for the last 5 years. I find it very amusing (and disturbing at the same time) how people say they can't use the metric system, yet they don't realize the can't REALLY use the english system either, due to its non-decimal nature. Yes, they do know what a foot, inch, yard, pound, ounce etc is, so they will get what "6 feet" means when they can't figure out "2m", however try to have them compare pounds with ounces, feet with yards or even worse start mixing things like how many pounds of water in a gallon etc. These come up in everyday life and I can actually manage them way better than the average American, since I can do calculations fast. But you are not supposed to have to do hard calculations when buying groceries!
And let's not go into scientific applications.
Oh, after all these years, the only thing I cannot get used to are temperatures in the Fahrenheit scale. Celsius is defined as : 0=water freezes, 100=water evaporates. Humans live closer to water freezes, end of story.
Fahrenheit is defined as: 0=mixture of ice, water, and ammonium chloride (?!?) 32=freezing water (nice round number), 96=human blood (later adjusted to 98 point sth). Great f*ing scale.
So, these are FEET right? I mean, we wouldn't want another stonehenge miss communication ;)
I wish you guys stuck to metric at least on slashdot...
Why don't you go the the planning dept at Alpha Centauri to make sure? Don't forget to take a flashlight with you.
Naah. The 6.4322% of smug iPhone-owning speeding population is the one that deserves to be caught :D
Now all the police has to do is rate their actual speed traps low and catch the iPhone speeders!
I mean, I always said that Apple users would not pass a round of natural selection, this could be an example ;)
Yep, you have a point. We could always add a law about causing willfully causing distress to a minor leading their death. I mean they can add laws about consumers not being able to listen to the CD they purchased on their car stereo, how hard would this be?
On the other hand, Gene Hunt would have simply stuffed some narcotics in her trunk. Problem solved.
Yawn... Another one of these. Why do I feel I read a /. article about "Minority Report interfaces" every week? And it would be interesting if we were talking about pre-cognitive interfaced etc. instead of the useless "do your best traffic officer impression" to move some videos around.
Yeah, IWTFV (didn't actually RTFA that came with it) and I guess it would be kind of cool for people who are not Real Geeks (TM). I especially enjoyed their "intuitive high bandwidth access to information" where they navigate this seemingly enormous 3D grid of what looks like boxes containing... the same japanese character! Yay, what a way to navigate through 2 bytes of info! Ok, maybe it is 1kb if the boxes were not identical, but there is no way to tell at a glance, as people who have tried to use lame 3D file managers would now. That scene also brought back fond cinematic memories... It's a Unix system! I know this!
I am not getting your point.
Are you saying it is not useful ? My string theorist friend (last time we talked working on something about supersymmetry & orbifolds but I "forgot" - i.e. didn't understand - the details), assures me it is very valuable in her field.
Are you saying everybody already knows it is useful? I never said otherwise.
As for Einstein, it is well known that he would discuss with great mathematicians to learn about math concepts/tools that might prove useful. You doubt that he would have found Mathematica to be a great tool?
So, clarify your post, what are you saying exactly?
I don't get all this bias against Mathematica. So, anything not free & open source is bad? ;)
Most universities give this for free to their students. At least both my undergrad and my grad did. Even if yours does not give it, it costs $140 for students, not much more than some expensive textbooks. There is even a 1-year time limited version for half the price (although I don't like renting software myself).
Now, about the software itself, it is almost a decade since I was doing a Physics degree but I still remember how blown away I was with this software. Imagine how a physicist would feel if he could suddenly enlist the greatest mathematician of all time, one that knows every technique "in the book", to work on his side. I am sure Einstein would have "killed" for Mathematica.
Actually, Mathematica was not ONLY positive for me. Because of it, I never bothered with LaTeX. I simply wrote all my papers in Mathematica (and switched science for Grad school, so there was no need any more).
I am not sure how the new versions have advanced, but I would still call even the 10+ year old version (Mathematica 3), the best software ever written.
Oh, BTW, copy paste with MS Eq editor? WTF? But I guess there was nothing else they could add
And YES, it does run on Linux. Even 64 bit.