Yeah, the scissors problem is annoying for us southpaws. (For all you rightys wondering what I mean, take a pair of 'ambidextrous' scissors in your left hand and cut about 8 inches into a piece of cardboard with them. It tried to gouge the flap of skin between your forefinger and thumb, didn't it? That's the scissors problem.) But I digress.
Having to think in a slightly different way is a good thing though. It means that not everyone approaches problems from exactly the same angle. Groupthink is almost always bad.
There's a good reason that the X configuration stuff is in the Desktop section: for some uses, linux doesn't need (or even have any benefit from) a gui.
That said, I do think the install docs should provide a link to the X configuration under a heading like "Where do I go from here?"
It seems to me that 2D quality and clarity is much more important than 3D performance in their target market.
A harder problem is getting enough of the target audience to accept that they're in the target audience, because people (or at least americans; i can't speak for other cultures) like to have the possibility of doing something, even if they'll never do it (hence the ubiquity of SUVs on our roads, but i digress). This should be easier with people that use open-source software though; 3D-intensive software for those isn't nearly as common as on windows.
That said, if they can convince someone to slap it on a PCB, i'll keep an eye out for these things next time i need a video card.
That's the shortcut to check for divisibility by 9, which itself is a special case (or a recursion, depending on how you look at it) of the divisibility check for 3 (sum the digits, and if the sum's divisible by 3, so is the original number).
The moon isn't exactly a small place. What's to stop some other country from setting up a He3 mining base on some remote part of the moon?
Spy satellites wouldn't be of much use for preventing it because the moon is quite dark when not lit by the sun, and robots can work undetected in the dark (provided their EM emissions are kept sufficiently low).
And if things get really unfriendly for rogue lunar He3 mining, there's always either the solar wind itself or mining it from the gas giants, and then shipping it earthward any ofseveralmethods for moving things around the solar system, depending on available technologies and timetables.
Sure, if someone gets complete control of the world's main energy source, this'll almost certainly be illegal (along with competing energy technologies, such as fission and dirty (H2-H3) fusion), but it's questionable whether terrestrial laws have any force outside the atmosphere.
Okay, so quick calculation of 13th roots isn't all that practical. There are lots of fiddly little shortcuts that people discover on their own though for one thing or another.
For example, hen I was learning multiplication back in elementary school, I realized it was faster to multiply n by 10 and subtract n from the result than to multiply n by 9. It's not useful if you have a calculator around, but it's generally faster than multiplying by 9 either mentally or by hand for things past the end of your mental multiplication table. It can also be adapted to the highest single-digit value in any (whole number) base.
That sounds to me like the DA didn't do their job right. It's their responsibility to try to convince the judge/jury that the defendant has committed what he's been charged with. Part of that is educating them about nonobvious yet relevant consequences of the applicable law(s). This means demonstrating how keystroke loggers are capable of intercepting email, instant messaging, IRC, MUDs, etc.
Any reasonable judge should be able to understand that when it's pointed out to them. That doesn't mean it'll spontaneously occur to them though.
Um, it's a hardware logger, not a software one. Probably one of those things about a cm in diameter and 2cm long that the keyboard plugs in through.
But yeah, it seems to me that those "unauthorized access of a computer system" laws should be useful in this case. And anyone who's looked at computer-related legislation in the last 15 or so years knows there's a lot of those.
If it's really as far away from current architectures as the GP makes it sound like, it might require changes to more than just the compilers to make some languages work on it.
You can also use any remotely recent LiveCD with more recent stage tarballs. This doesn't work across architectures though, even ostensibly-compatible ones.
(I discovered these facts when I didn't want to wait for the 2004.2 AMD64 liveCD to download, but had perfectly good x86 2004.2 and AMD64 2004.0 liveCDs on hand. The sticking point for the x86 liveCD and AMD64 stage 3 tarball was the chroot step.)
My guess is that you can't remove that toolbar in the adware version?
I looked around briefly, and couldn't find any way to remove the ads for good (aside, presumably, from paying for an ad-free license). F11 still makes the ads disappear though.
This will be modded redundant, but.... When someone could point out a hypocrisy within the/. crowd, but instead misses the mark, they are mocked to absurdity.
That won't work. Sure, they don't get you on the buying end, but they will on the return end, because most places (and undoubtedly all that use this heinous practice) require you to sign something when you return or exchange something.
Where's a "6 molar sarcasm" moderation when you need it?
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It can't be any slower than dialup from some infamous ISPs. Aside from not being able to play online games, the biggest problem that springs to mind is finding an IRC server that'll accept 1800 second pings
Response number two can be countered with a vignette or two about identity theft. People tend to care a lot more when it can affect their bank account or credit score.
Where the Syllable-Firefox analogy breaks down isn't the software age; Syllable is a fork of AtheOS, which began development in 1994. Where it breaks down is that Firefox is easy to drop in in place of IE; changing browsers doesn't break all the other apps you use, but changing your OS usually does.
I'd expect something OO.o to be more likely to follow the path of firefox than an OS, even Linux (any distro). The only time that an OS change is painless is when all the apps they're used to, files they have, and extant filesystems work under their new OS. Until that happens for a large percentage of users, alternate OSes will remain on the sidelines.
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Considering that radioisotopes occur in everything, it would take an awful lot of nuclear batteries to get enough material to significantly affect the radioactivity of a reservoir or city's atmosphere.
As much as I hate to contribute to the cloud of jaded cynicism over the comments here, most people will find out about the broadcast flag the same way they found out about the do-not-fast-forward flag that some companies abused on DVDs. And they will do just as much about it.
How many of them know how to do more than watch tapes on their VCR, anyways? The blinking 12:00 is all too common for this to get politically interesting numbers of people up in arms.
The thing with the ludicrously high-revving engines in F1 is that, despite their small displacement (and downright tiny per-cylinder displacement), they rev so high because they only have to last several hundred miles, not the 200k+ miles that a production engine, at the bare minimum these days, has to meet (Wankel rotaries excepted, but that's a niche market).
Higher revving engines, all other things equal, when used to their full potential, don't last as long as engines with lower redlines. This is retrospectively obvious, as there is more wear for a given distance at higher rpms, because the gear ratios are usually optimized for best performance.
Also, there was a problem that F1 engineers first encountered around 15000 rpm that is a bit of a showstopper for most purposes: the valve springs hit their resonance frequencies and shattered. The solution? Use compressed nitrogen as pneumatic valve springs. Which is why every F1 car now carries an N2 tank. For some reason, I think the number of people who will remember to fill up their N2 tank every time they get gas is the same number who remember to check their oil every time they get gas (as most car manuals recommend).
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Yeah, the scissors problem is annoying for us southpaws. (For all you rightys wondering what I mean, take a pair of 'ambidextrous' scissors in your left hand and cut about 8 inches into a piece of cardboard with them. It tried to gouge the flap of skin between your forefinger and thumb, didn't it? That's the scissors problem.) But I digress.
Having to think in a slightly different way is a good thing though. It means that not everyone approaches problems from exactly the same angle. Groupthink is almost always bad.
Yes, the Earth is a rather big basket, but so are the projectiles Jupiter's perturbing in our eventual direction.
There's a good reason that the X configuration stuff is in the Desktop section: for some uses, linux doesn't need (or even have any benefit from) a gui.
That said, I do think the install docs should provide a link to the X configuration under a heading like "Where do I go from here?"
It seems to me that 2D quality and clarity is much more important than 3D performance in their target market.
A harder problem is getting enough of the target audience to accept that they're in the target audience, because people (or at least americans; i can't speak for other cultures) like to have the possibility of doing something, even if they'll never do it (hence the ubiquity of SUVs on our roads, but i digress). This should be easier with people that use open-source software though; 3D-intensive software for those isn't nearly as common as on windows.
That said, if they can convince someone to slap it on a PCB, i'll keep an eye out for these things next time i need a video card.
That's the shortcut to check for divisibility by 9, which itself is a special case (or a recursion, depending on how you look at it) of the divisibility check for 3 (sum the digits, and if the sum's divisible by 3, so is the original number).
Gentoo can actually use binary packages. You just have to find a 3rd-party source for most of them.
One hot machine (something like a pentium 4 or athlon64/opteron) could provide optimized binary packages for an army of these little boxen though.
The moon isn't exactly a small place. What's to stop some other country from setting up a He3 mining base on some remote part of the moon?
Spy satellites wouldn't be of much use for preventing it because the moon is quite dark when not lit by the sun, and robots can work undetected in the dark (provided their EM emissions are kept sufficiently low).
And if things get really unfriendly for rogue lunar He3 mining, there's always either the solar wind itself or mining it from the gas giants, and then shipping it earthward any of several methods for moving things around the solar system, depending on available technologies and timetables.
Sure, if someone gets complete control of the world's main energy source, this'll almost certainly be illegal (along with competing energy technologies, such as fission and dirty (H2-H3) fusion), but it's questionable whether terrestrial laws have any force outside the atmosphere.
Okay, so quick calculation of 13th roots isn't all that practical. There are lots of fiddly little shortcuts that people discover on their own though for one thing or another.
For example, hen I was learning multiplication back in elementary school, I realized it was faster to multiply n by 10 and subtract n from the result than to multiply n by 9. It's not useful if you have a calculator around, but it's generally faster than multiplying by 9 either mentally or by hand for things past the end of your mental multiplication table. It can also be adapted to the highest single-digit value in any (whole number) base.
That sounds to me like the DA didn't do their job right. It's their responsibility to try to convince the judge/jury that the defendant has committed what he's been charged with. Part of that is educating them about nonobvious yet relevant consequences of the applicable law(s). This means demonstrating how keystroke loggers are capable of intercepting email, instant messaging, IRC, MUDs, etc.
Any reasonable judge should be able to understand that when it's pointed out to them. That doesn't mean it'll spontaneously occur to them though.
Um, it's a hardware logger, not a software one. Probably one of those things about a cm in diameter and 2cm long that the keyboard plugs in through.
But yeah, it seems to me that those "unauthorized access of a computer system" laws should be useful in this case. And anyone who's looked at computer-related legislation in the last 15 or so years knows there's a lot of those.
Well, there'll hopefully be éX-Drivers to deal with that.
If it's really as far away from current architectures as the GP makes it sound like, it might require changes to more than just the compilers to make some languages work on it.
You can also use any remotely recent LiveCD with more recent stage tarballs. This doesn't work across architectures though, even ostensibly-compatible ones.
(I discovered these facts when I didn't want to wait for the 2004.2 AMD64 liveCD to download, but had perfectly good x86 2004.2 and AMD64 2004.0 liveCDs on hand. The sticking point for the x86 liveCD and AMD64 stage 3 tarball was the chroot step.)
My guess is that you can't remove that toolbar in the adware version?
I looked around briefly, and couldn't find any way to remove the ads for good (aside, presumably, from paying for an ad-free license). F11 still makes the ads disappear though.
This will be modded redundant, but .... When someone could point out a hypocrisy within the /. crowd, but instead misses the mark, they are mocked to absurdity.
This'll probably get modded -1, Redundant, but...
That won't work. Sure, they don't get you on the buying end, but they will on the return end, because most places (and undoubtedly all that use this heinous practice) require you to sign something when you return or exchange something.
Sounds like another one for Public Patents.
Where's a "6 molar sarcasm" moderation when you need it?
It can't be any slower than dialup from some infamous ISPs. Aside from not being able to play online games, the biggest problem that springs to mind is finding an IRC server that'll accept 1800 second pings
Response number two can be countered with a vignette or two about identity theft. People tend to care a lot more when it can affect their bank account or credit score.
Where the Syllable-Firefox analogy breaks down isn't the software age; Syllable is a fork of AtheOS, which began development in 1994. Where it breaks down is that Firefox is easy to drop in in place of IE; changing browsers doesn't break all the other apps you use, but changing your OS usually does.
I'd expect something OO.o to be more likely to follow the path of firefox than an OS, even Linux (any distro). The only time that an OS change is painless is when all the apps they're used to, files they have, and extant filesystems work under their new OS. Until that happens for a large percentage of users, alternate OSes will remain on the sidelines.
Considering that radioisotopes occur in everything, it would take an awful lot of nuclear batteries to get enough material to significantly affect the radioactivity of a reservoir or city's atmosphere.
As much as I hate to contribute to the cloud of jaded cynicism over the comments here, most people will find out about the broadcast flag the same way they found out about the do-not-fast-forward flag that some companies abused on DVDs. And they will do just as much about it.
How many of them know how to do more than watch tapes on their VCR, anyways? The blinking 12:00 is all too common for this to get politically interesting numbers of people up in arms.
The thing with the ludicrously high-revving engines in F1 is that, despite their small displacement (and downright tiny per-cylinder displacement), they rev so high because they only have to last several hundred miles, not the 200k+ miles that a production engine, at the bare minimum these days, has to meet (Wankel rotaries excepted, but that's a niche market).
Higher revving engines, all other things equal, when used to their full potential, don't last as long as engines with lower redlines. This is retrospectively obvious, as there is more wear for a given distance at higher rpms, because the gear ratios are usually optimized for best performance.
Also, there was a problem that F1 engineers first encountered around 15000 rpm that is a bit of a showstopper for most purposes: the valve springs hit their resonance frequencies and shattered. The solution? Use compressed nitrogen as pneumatic valve springs. Which is why every F1 car now carries an N2 tank. For some reason, I think the number of people who will remember to fill up their N2 tank every time they get gas is the same number who remember to check their oil every time they get gas (as most car manuals recommend).