I've looked at the config screen, and no, it does not seem possible to get all headlines (or maybe i should get them, but are missing a random subset for some reason).
Well, our ordinary computers are also just a finite approximation to a Turing machine, but seem to work fine anyways...
The requirement of an infinite tape (or, rather, a non-terminating one) is only required for the machine to emulate every single possible terminating automaton possible; for a finite subset, the length of the tape (and the number of states in the machine) is bounded.
She has it backwards, I think. The question of wether something matches (for instance) is a subjective experience derived from sour sensory input, not an objective state of the world (there are no natural laws determining the color compatibility of various objects). For her, certain combinations of colors do not match, whereas the same combinations do match for trichromats.
Thing is, most people seeing that combination will be trichromats, so it's really their opinion (as well as the opinion of the wearer) that matters, not hers. Turn it right around and assume she perceives some combinations as matching when everybody else thinks it clashes horribly. Should we all wear clothes we think are horrible so that she sees them as matching (as her color vision is more acute), or should we try to match for the greatest number of people?
Per definition, she is the odd one out, not everybody else, so she would be a bad, rather than good, choice as color advisor.
..since software patents already exist in Europe; for example, the lzw patent..
Well, yes and no. As far as I remember, the lzw patent (as well as other software patents) is the use of lzw 'as part of a device'; you can't patent the algorithm itself, merely its implementation as part of a device.
What really complicates matters seem to be the Bern convention, which requiera signatories to respect patents in other countries. That seems to give the lzw patent greater protection in europe than it would otherwise have had.
A lot of people are very hesitant to install a whole set of libraries to run only one application -- almost no matter how good the app is -- when there are 'good enough' alternatives for the standard libs they already have.
Do you feel that NEdit has suffered from not using more popular libraries, and does it matter to you?
Alright. Mu laptop is a p133/32M, just like yours. I've installed RedHat6.2, using the custom install (so I only get the stuff I want). With Helix GNOME, all developer tools (gcc, libs etc.), vim (not emacs), netscape, LaTeX, documentation etc. it's at 610Mb. The first thing I did after install was go through the machine and delete a lot of stuff I don't really need, like icons, backgrounds, text for other languages and such.
As for speed, I have Xfree3.3.6, sawfish and GNOME, using a minimal theme for sawfish, no theme for GTK, single-color background, rxvt for a terminal, no pager (but four pages), only one applet (a clock), and all unneeded services permanently removed. At startup, and with only one terminal, the swapspace is still unused, and it takes netscape about ten to fifteen seconds to start.
I run GNOME on my P133 laptop without any trouble whatsoever. I can even run GIMP as long as I'm prepared to get slowed down by swapping. I think many people look at the speed of GNOME or KDE on their P9/20.000Mhz, and interpolate down to older stuff, then conclude that it must be unusable.
For _really_ old stuff (like 486:s or 386:s), try running wxwindows for basic graphics apps, though I ran X on a 486/12Mb quite happily for two years.
#123456789 Stress-Tolerant Physical Waveform Storage Unit
The Unit stores two-dimensional analog timeseries by the method of physically displacing atoms horizontally and vertically on a petroleum based substrate physically configurated as to conform to patent #987654321, "Matter Equidistance Technology for Transportation Purposes" (having the edge being equidistant from the Units' Center Of Gravity) -- for a list of advantages of this configuation, plesae see the patent i question. In the COG, a negative imprint of #987654321 (see patent #2468013579, "Negative Matter Prescensing using Equidistance Technology") is placed so as to facilitate precise alignment with the waveform-reconstruction apparatus.
The advantages to obsolete technologies like the CD are physical stress-tolerance, the ability to store two-dimensional waveforms and the ability to store waveforms in analog form directly, unncessitating the need for digitalization.
I like the idea of a submarine; Here's a link to an entire series; from the spiffy two-man Triton to the Phoenix (5000 sqft, 65 meters, dockable minisub).
For the sub $300 category, a Klein bottle is never wrong. This year, say it with a one-sided surface!
On this note, I've been thinking about what technology such as this could be used for on motorcycles. Sure, there's the obvious stuff, like GPS+GIS for navigation, but what else?
One idea I've had is to have a database of photographs of streets and streetcorners that can pop up on a HUD screen in the helmet, making it easy to compare the real scene with what you should be seeing if you're in the right place -- much more helpful than a small dot on a GPS map for navigating.
I'm not all that happy with the idea of mail on the bike, though -- biking on a busy street with buses and trucks is 'interesting' enough without trying to compose a message at the same time. The sent mail would be quite intresting to read, though: "...and thus I think thatNo! NO! Don't swerve this way! AAAaaaaargh..."
One gadget that would be useful would be a tire temperature/pressure sensor that could warn as soon at the pressure is too high or too low for current conditions. Another one would be moisture sensors in the pack bags (don't laugh -- it's _REALLY_ depressing to stop for the night and realize that your entire wardrobe's been rainsoaked 'cause you didn't seal the bags properly).
Vodka should be drunk straight from a short glass IMHO. Preferably slightly chilled, but not overly so (keep it out of the freezer, people!). If you want flavoured stuff, I recommend either flavoring it yourself (take a bottle, stuff herbs and/or spices in there for a few days, then enjoy -- wormwood is a perennial favourite), or buy finished blends. Citrus (or other artificial flavouring) flavoured vodka tends to taste "off", like it's been sitting too long.
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I quite agree that stock market news (or sports results, or how to molest chickens for fun and profit) do not belong on slashdot; there are several thousand sites out there already with everything from quotes from markets all over the world, to commentary, to astrological market forecasts.
In general, i feel there is only a point in posting non-tech stories if there is a valid "geek angle" to it, something about the story that the slashdot crowd can appreciate. The stock market in general doesn't qualify.
Strange... I installed the beta three weeks ago, and have yet to have any problems with it. Ah well, I'll just do the 'real' 6.2 install just to be safe.
Drunk drivers of the sky, teens throwing empty cans through the rotors of other fliers, halfblind grandpas landing into others' rotors then suing the manufacturers for the loss of their legs... Now there's a brave new future I can do without.
...Why not thank them for the binary driver, and then hope in some time they'll release the source code for it...
Well, there's the problem: there is no decent binary driver; the stuff you can download from their support site is a pain to install, incomplete, buggy and gives a lousy 3d performance. All the while there has been noises about a real driver with the advent of Xfree4, and now they seem to be backpedaling. I do not call that 'supporting linux', I call it throwing a bone to the dogs to keep them quiet.
I have a TNT2 Ultra card, and yes, it's really fast in 2D under Xfree4.0 . It is a good piece of hardware and it is relatively affordable. Nevertheless, I regret my purchase. When it was time to buy the card, their own website said they would produce a 3D driver for the Xfree4 infrastructure -- that it wasn't going to be open source didn't bother me overmuch.
Now, however, if they are going to require ditching parts of Xfree4 for their own DRI infrastructure and their own OpenGL implementation (which probably won't play nice with Mesa based apps), this card looks more and more like a big mistake on my part.
Sure, 3D under TNT2 is supposed to be a lot faster than Matrox or 3dfx, but thanks to nvidia dragging their feet, my basis of comparison is matrox or 3dfx versus software rendering, which makes the TNT2 an expensive dud.
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I've looked at the config screen, and no, it does not seem possible to get all headlines (or maybe i should get them, but are missing a random subset for some reason).
Yep, BTW, it is from Paranoia.
I usually read /. through an automagic headline grabber -- what can I say?
/. to show all headlines within a given section on the main page.
I would wish that there was a way to configure
People replying to my sig annoy me, that's why I change it all the time.
:) (Offtopic, -1)
Well then, don't make it so darn enticing to do so
Well, they're calling it a vrisu,
I can see it now: the dreaded vrisus and jabberwockys scampering around on a green irish field, playing in the sun...
Sorry.
Well, our ordinary computers are also just a finite approximation to a Turing machine, but seem to work fine anyways...
The requirement of an infinite tape (or, rather, a non-terminating one) is only required for the machine to emulate every single possible terminating automaton possible; for a finite subset, the length of the tape (and the number of states in the machine) is bounded.
She has it backwards, I think. The question of wether something matches (for instance) is a subjective experience derived from sour sensory input, not an objective state of the world (there are no natural laws determining the color compatibility of various objects). For her, certain combinations of colors do not match, whereas the same combinations do match for trichromats.
Thing is, most people seeing that combination will be trichromats, so it's really their opinion (as well as the opinion of the wearer) that matters, not hers. Turn it right around and assume she perceives some combinations as matching when everybody else thinks it clashes horribly. Should we all wear clothes we think are horrible so that she sees them as matching (as her color vision is more acute), or should we try to match for the greatest number of people?
Per definition, she is the odd one out, not everybody else, so she would be a bad, rather than good, choice as color advisor.
..since software patents already exist in Europe; for example, the lzw patent..
Well, yes and no. As far as I remember, the lzw patent (as well as other software patents) is the use of lzw 'as part of a device'; you can't patent the algorithm itself, merely its implementation as part of a device.
What really complicates matters seem to be the Bern convention, which requiera signatories to respect patents in other countries. That seems to give the lzw patent greater protection in europe than it would otherwise have had.
Let me think about this....when someone built Mt. Rushmore from legos, everyone was really impressed with the skill and art
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and patience and all..
No, building mount rushmore in Lego is pretty pathetic too
Use the mirrors, Luke, use the mirrors...
And, should I convert it to other formats?
Yes, an mpeg version would be nice for those of us that don't have ready access to anything else than linux.
Alright, somebody has way too much free time on their hands. Though I'd love to find the time to write a minimal vi clone on it...
A lot of people are very hesitant to install a whole set of libraries to run only one application -- almost no matter how good the app is -- when there are 'good enough' alternatives for the standard libs they already have.
Do you feel that NEdit has suffered from not using more popular libraries, and does it matter to you?
Would you be so kind and tell me how to do that?
Alright. Mu laptop is a p133/32M, just like yours. I've installed RedHat6.2, using the custom install (so I only get the stuff I want). With Helix GNOME, all developer tools (gcc, libs etc.), vim (not emacs), netscape, LaTeX, documentation etc. it's at 610Mb. The first thing I did after install was go through the machine and delete a lot of stuff I don't really need, like icons, backgrounds, text for other languages and such.
As for speed, I have Xfree3.3.6, sawfish and GNOME, using a minimal theme for sawfish, no theme for GTK, single-color background, rxvt for a terminal, no pager (but four pages), only one applet (a clock), and all unneeded services permanently removed. At startup, and with only one terminal, the swapspace is still unused, and it takes netscape about ten to fifteen seconds to start.
I run GNOME on my P133 laptop without any trouble whatsoever. I can even run GIMP as long as I'm prepared to get slowed down by swapping. I think many people look at the speed of GNOME or KDE on their P9/20.000Mhz, and interpolate down to older stuff, then conclude that it must be unusable.
For _really_ old stuff (like 486:s or 386:s), try running wxwindows for basic graphics apps, though I ran X on a 486/12Mb quite happily for two years.
#123456789 Stress-Tolerant Physical Waveform Storage Unit
The Unit stores two-dimensional analog timeseries by the method of physically displacing atoms horizontally and vertically on a petroleum based substrate physically configurated as to conform to patent #987654321, "Matter Equidistance Technology for Transportation Purposes" (having the edge being equidistant from the Units' Center Of Gravity) -- for a list of advantages of this configuation, plesae see the patent i question. In the COG, a negative imprint of #987654321 (see patent #2468013579, "Negative Matter Prescensing using Equidistance Technology") is placed so as to facilitate precise alignment with the waveform-reconstruction apparatus.
The advantages to obsolete technologies like the CD are physical stress-tolerance, the ability to store two-dimensional waveforms and the ability to store waveforms in analog form directly, unncessitating the need for digitalization.
I like the idea of a submarine; Here's a link to an entire series; from the spiffy two-man Triton to the Phoenix (5000 sqft, 65 meters, dockable minisub).
For the sub $300 category, a Klein bottle is never wrong. This year, say it with a one-sided surface!
On this note, I've been thinking about what technology such as this could be used for on motorcycles. Sure, there's the obvious stuff, like GPS+GIS for navigation, but what else?
One idea I've had is to have a database of photographs of streets and streetcorners that can pop up on a HUD screen in the helmet, making it easy to compare the real scene with what you should be seeing if you're in the right place -- much more helpful than a small dot on a GPS map for navigating.
I'm not all that happy with the idea of mail on the bike, though -- biking on a busy street with buses and trucks is 'interesting' enough without trying to compose a message at the same time. The sent mail would be quite intresting to read, though: "...and thus I think thatNo! NO! Don't swerve this way! AAAaaaaargh..."
One gadget that would be useful would be a tire temperature/pressure sensor that could warn as soon at the pressure is too high or too low for current conditions. Another one would be moisture sensors in the pack bags (don't laugh -- it's _REALLY_ depressing to stop for the night and realize that your entire wardrobe's been rainsoaked 'cause you didn't seal the bags properly).
Any more ideas, anybody?
That's my opinion. Flame me!
Ahem... Please consider yourself flamed... Don't really want to do this, but since you asked, I'll oblige.
Vodka should be drunk straight from a short glass IMHO. Preferably slightly chilled, but not overly so (keep it out of the freezer, people!). If you want flavoured stuff, I recommend either flavoring it yourself (take a bottle, stuff herbs and/or spices in there for a few days, then enjoy -- wormwood is a perennial favourite), or buy finished blends. Citrus (or other artificial flavouring) flavoured vodka tends to taste "off", like it's been sitting too long.
I quite agree that stock market news (or sports results, or how to molest chickens for fun and profit) do not belong on slashdot; there are several thousand sites out there already with everything from quotes from markets all over the world, to commentary, to astrological market forecasts.
In general, i feel there is only a point in posting non-tech stories if there is a valid "geek angle" to it, something about the story that the slashdot crowd can appreciate. The stock market in general doesn't qualify.
JMHO,
Strange... I installed the beta three weeks ago, and have yet to have any problems with it. Ah well, I'll just do the 'real' 6.2 install just to be safe.
Drunk drivers of the sky, teens throwing empty cans through the rotors of other fliers, halfblind grandpas landing into others' rotors then suing the manufacturers for the loss of their legs... Now there's a brave new future I can do without.
Why not test the old theory that Jimmy Hoffa was buried under the pile of makeup called Tammy Bakker?
...Why not thank them for the binary driver, and then hope in some time they'll release the source code for it...
Well, there's the problem: there is no decent binary driver; the stuff you can download from their support site is a pain to install, incomplete, buggy and gives a lousy 3d performance. All the while there has been noises about a real driver with the advent of Xfree4, and now they seem to be backpedaling. I do not call that 'supporting linux', I call it throwing a bone to the dogs to keep them quiet.
I have a TNT2 Ultra card, and yes, it's really fast in 2D under Xfree4.0 . It is a good piece of hardware and it is relatively affordable. Nevertheless, I regret my purchase. When it was time to buy the card, their own website said they would produce a 3D driver for the Xfree4 infrastructure -- that it wasn't going to be open source didn't bother me overmuch.
Now, however, if they are going to require ditching parts of Xfree4 for their own DRI infrastructure and their own OpenGL implementation (which probably won't play nice with Mesa based apps), this card looks more and more like a big mistake on my part.
Sure, 3D under TNT2 is supposed to be a lot faster than Matrox or 3dfx, but thanks to nvidia dragging their feet, my basis of comparison is matrox or 3dfx versus software rendering, which makes the TNT2 an expensive dud.