Yes, that's a common complaint. However, most of the episodes were actually pretty good. Even the shameless super-anachronistic vague Borg reference episode.
You clearly suffer from what I like to call "Bad Theme Song Syndrome." The theme song was so unbelievably not-trek that you couldn't get over that (and your misplaced nostalgia: no trek has ever been the height of literary greatness) and enjoy some good television.
Further, there was only one character who was static and uninteresting, but still miles ahead of the previous character played by Scott Bakula.
Nope, you still pay more. Because of the subsidy, the railroad, telco, etc don't actually need revenue from customers. Thus insulated, they can charge whatever they want knowing that if people leave their service, the subsidy will rise to make up for it. Ideally, it seems they would prefer to collect entirely subsidy with no customers at all if AMTRAK's direction is anything to judge by.
The last one could make sense: if you had a bunch of them running in virtual machines on one big server. Ignore for a moment the question of why you would bother doing that.
You could wait, spend a fortune, lug a desktop, or even buy a mac as everyone here has suggested, perhaps.
But the real question is, What is it that you need a +4GB laptop for? Sometimes, (many times perhaps) we have a problem that we get an idea how to solve that may or may not be the most effective way to do it. We then go and as questions about how to accomplish individual steps in our not particularly effective method.
But depending on the problem, it is sometimes better to ask about the actual problem. Someone is bound to have solved it or something similar or have an insight that would make many of our steps (hopefully the hardest ones) unnecessary.
Yes.. they do now because their research revenue is isolated from their tuition revenue. Research Profs are actually discouraged from entering the classroom by the current environment: Grant givers prefer professors who give 100% of their time to the research rather than 50% in the classroom.
It is only 3 commands if you have all the libraries and headers needed already installed. Otherwise it is 2 commands -> find out you're missing something -> hunt it down and install -> loop until it doesn't work because you couldn't install one of the dependencies, you run out of pizza, or you manage to successfully compile & install the thing.
Then.. how do you know you'll be able to uninstall it later?
All of these things could be made better, but they haven't for the same reason GIMP is still limited to 24 bit RGB colorspace (+8 bit alpha): it's not a problem for the developers, so they never bother scratching that itch.
There is actually an industry that directly benefits from basic research and could conceivably do so completely without government intervention. And that is the university industry. They benefit from multiple sides: People are willing to pay the university to be part of the research, the research itself generates prestige which attracts people who just want to learn from the university, and the results of the research create a wider body of knowledge to sell.
Getting rid of Government grants would require an overhaul of the current university system, but it could result in tuition inflation coming down to regular inflation and more student interaction with research scientists.
The human IS the computer. It can't fly on autopilot without the computer, but most GA aircraft can't do that either. The human is sufficient negative feedback to make it stable. Although unlike the civilian aircraft, if he takes his hands off the controls, the plane won't settle into level flight.* The difference on autopilot is that the civilian autopilot can be a lot simpler because of the mechanical stability.
*GA craft won't necessarily do that either, depending on the plane's orientation. But if it is close to a pole, it will probably settle there.
Building from source is not an appropriate response. The problem is libraries. For packages in a repository system with specified dependencies, it will work (as I assume Gentoo does it), but if you have a repository system you could just as easily distribute binary packages as well. As all the other distributions do it.
But for causal software that hasn't been blessed into one of the various repositories, building from source is not an adequate solution. It could be made to be by having some kind of standard dependencies resolver (after all, the needed libraries are probably part of the distribution blessed repository) or including pared down versions of the needed libraries for static linking, or probably a half dozen ideas that a non programmer such as myself do not find obvious.
But AFAIK, that's all done manually in all the distributions I'm familiar with. I've spent many a night back in the day hunting down what package contains libsomething.so.6 or glibsomething.obscure.so.whatever on rpmfind.net, then re-running the configurator, having it fail again, hunting down the next library, until I just got sick of it.
I doubt it even needs to be smart enough to keep the plane "stable." The pilot is quite capable of closing the control loop, though I imagine a flight half the distance to Hawaii without autopilot would be quite grueling.
Not only is the cars analogy poor, it's also wrong. At least as per the summary: It is the maximum exhaust velocity that is fifth gear. Specific Impulse is directly related to the exhaust velocity.
But, KE = mv^2 (or P=rho*v^2 in this case) The power available (photovoltaic, chemical, nuclear-electric, etc.) is relatively constant, so the density of the exhaust gasses (and therefore the thrust since it goes like momentum T={mass flow rate}*v) goes way down at higher exhaust velocities.
High-thrust, low impulse would be "first gear" and only needed for launch. It is the maximum flow rate, and obviously uses up propellant like nobody's business. Orbital transfers would use the "fifth gear" mode as once in orbit, there is no atmosphere to rise out of before turning tangentially to the ground, the energy source (solar power) is relatively unlimited over time, and continuous thrust is even more efficient than even the ever useful hohmann transfer.
There are maximally energy efficient thrust modes between max flow and max velocity depending on orbital velocity, but with a continuous source of energy, the life limiting factor is actually propellant, and since it's not easy to resupply to a spacecraft, it's usually better to be miserly with the thing you can't replace and run all the time in high-Isp (specific impulse) mode.
AND the engine's not even new. It's not even a completed version of a recent project like VASIMR. It's a Hall thruster, which impressive though they are, are mature enough to have actually flown already. Not to mention that it will probably never be capable of the kind of thrust needed for launch.
Ok, I'm not going to show you how to set it up to only listen on localhost. It used to be (using mandrake and tightvnc.. back when mandrake was still a distro...) that the vncserver had a taskbar applet that allowed you to change the various settings. "Accept connections from localhost only" was a checkbox option. I've spent a bit of time searching for how to do that using Ubuntu, my current distro (I am a casual linux user only), and was frustrated at every turn. I'm not even entirely sure how to lock down all of the ports.
The reason for localhost only was to prevent the vncserver from forming any connections with outside machines, thereby sidestepping any potential security concerns within it.
For that reason the convention was to tunnel vnc sessions through ssh. Actually it was recommended to close down *all* listening ports except ssh (port 22 by default), and tunnel everything through it under the assumption that a single point of failure would be more rigorously examined.
The command on the viewing machine goes like this:
If the remote machine is at 192.168.2.14 (for instance, a home network)
login as username on remotemachine
v ssh -l username 192.168.2.14 -L 5900:localhost:5900
^
\-- listen on local port 5900, output on remote port (locally) 5900
(Port 5900 is the default VNC port, you can choose whatever pair of ports you like as long as you set it up)
You may want to run ssh in the background, append -f sleep 10 (or some other command to be run on the remote host) since if you use &, you won't get the password prompt.
Then you can connect the vncviewer to localhost
You can access it from a windows machine by using a ssh capable terminal program like PuTTY to set up the port forwarding before running the vncviewer (and connecting to localhost)
But depending on what it is that you want to do, VNC might not be your best option. If you just want to run GUI programs on the remote machine and it doesn't matter what happens if you're disconnected, You may prefer to set up a remote X session. I would think you'd get slightly better performance that way.
You can set it up by typing
ssh -l loginname remotehost -X
then when you run an X client, it will show up on your local terminal rather than the remote machine.
So, it's certainly not easier under linux than what you've described on XP pro. It isn't too much harder especially compared to XP-home (or at least, didn't used to be.. open port concerns. I seem to have left out the most important part if you want to be confident your server remains uncompromised.), but the advantage of the separate components is that you can use them together in ways not necessarily anticipated by the authors. You can use ssh tunneling to secure more than just VNC or remote X sessions at a cost of some simplicity of use.
Just tell it to only accept connections from the local machine. That's all you have to do on server machine. usually from a GUI even.
On the non-server machine, it's a bit more complicated, involving ssh tunneling.. which is still fairly easy to do if you happen to have a command line handy. Some of the VNC viewers will even do it automatically for you.
In fact, that's the whole beauty of the "Unix way" you've got a small program like ssh that you can use to secure all kinds of less-secure remote processes, rather than having all the various programs reinvent the wheel every time.
Well the illegals certainly won't be moving their accounts out of principle. What were their demographics before?
Also, it's a hassle and a half to set up new banking, close accounts and whatnot. Perhaps some of the so-called apathetic are actually just waiting to see how the case pans out before rashly moving money around. BoA could still do the right thing, though it seems increasingly likely that they will not, nor will they be forced to.
For instance, there could be one or two drivers who are so astoundingly bad that they drag the average down to the point that everyone else is above it. It is perfectly possible for more than half of a population to be 'above average.'
You have confused average and median. Median is the middle value of a population. With the median, we can create frightful statistical nonsense phrases like, "Did you know that roughly 50% of all doctors graduated in the bottom half of their class? Scary."
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Yes, that's a common complaint. However, most of the episodes were actually pretty good. Even the shameless super-anachronistic vague Borg reference episode.
You clearly suffer from what I like to call "Bad Theme Song Syndrome." The theme song was so unbelievably not-trek that you couldn't get over that (and your misplaced nostalgia: no trek has ever been the height of literary greatness) and enjoy some good television.
Further, there was only one character who was static and uninteresting, but still miles ahead of the previous character played by Scott Bakula.
I like that they seem to have built a whole other robot for the sole purpose of pushing the walker robot.
Though I suppose it's necessary to protect these new inventions from the terrible secret of space.
Nope, you still pay more. Because of the subsidy, the railroad, telco, etc don't actually need revenue from customers. Thus insulated, they can charge whatever they want knowing that if people leave their service, the subsidy will rise to make up for it. Ideally, it seems they would prefer to collect entirely subsidy with no customers at all if AMTRAK's direction is anything to judge by.
The last one could make sense: if you had a bunch of them running in virtual machines on one big server. Ignore for a moment the question of why you would bother doing that.
That wasn't grammar.
I'll tell you what's ironic. Rebar!
You could wait, spend a fortune, lug a desktop, or even buy a mac as everyone here has suggested, perhaps.
But the real question is, What is it that you need a +4GB laptop for? Sometimes, (many times perhaps) we have a problem that we get an idea how to solve that may or may not be the most effective way to do it. We then go and as questions about how to accomplish individual steps in our not particularly effective method.
But depending on the problem, it is sometimes better to ask about the actual problem. Someone is bound to have solved it or something similar or have an insight that would make many of our steps (hopefully the hardest ones) unnecessary.
Yes.. they do now because their research revenue is isolated from their tuition revenue. Research Profs are actually discouraged from entering the classroom by the current environment: Grant givers prefer professors who give 100% of their time to the research rather than 50% in the classroom.
How do you think those laser eavesdropper thingies work?
It is only 3 commands if you have all the libraries and headers needed already installed. Otherwise it is 2 commands -> find out you're missing something -> hunt it down and install -> loop until it doesn't work because you couldn't install one of the dependencies, you run out of pizza, or you manage to successfully compile & install the thing.
Then.. how do you know you'll be able to uninstall it later?
All of these things could be made better, but they haven't for the same reason GIMP is still limited to 24 bit RGB colorspace (+8 bit alpha): it's not a problem for the developers, so they never bother scratching that itch.
There is actually an industry that directly benefits from basic research and could conceivably do so completely without government intervention. And that is the university industry. They benefit from multiple sides: People are willing to pay the university to be part of the research, the research itself generates prestige which attracts people who just want to learn from the university, and the results of the research create a wider body of knowledge to sell.
Getting rid of Government grants would require an overhaul of the current university system, but it could result in tuition inflation coming down to regular inflation and more student interaction with research scientists.
The human IS the computer. It can't fly on autopilot without the computer, but most GA aircraft can't do that either. The human is sufficient negative feedback to make it stable. Although unlike the civilian aircraft, if he takes his hands off the controls, the plane won't settle into level flight.* The difference on autopilot is that the civilian autopilot can be a lot simpler because of the mechanical stability.
*GA craft won't necessarily do that either, depending on the plane's orientation. But if it is close to a pole, it will probably settle there.
Building from source is not an appropriate response. The problem is libraries. For packages in a repository system with specified dependencies, it will work (as I assume Gentoo does it), but if you have a repository system you could just as easily distribute binary packages as well. As all the other distributions do it.
But for causal software that hasn't been blessed into one of the various repositories, building from source is not an adequate solution. It could be made to be by having some kind of standard dependencies resolver (after all, the needed libraries are probably part of the distribution blessed repository) or including pared down versions of the needed libraries for static linking, or probably a half dozen ideas that a non programmer such as myself do not find obvious.
But AFAIK, that's all done manually in all the distributions I'm familiar with. I've spent many a night back in the day hunting down what package contains libsomething.so.6 or glibsomething.obscure.so.whatever on rpmfind.net, then re-running the configurator, having it fail again, hunting down the next library, until I just got sick of it.
I doubt it even needs to be smart enough to keep the plane "stable." The pilot is quite capable of closing the control loop, though I imagine a flight half the distance to Hawaii without autopilot would be quite grueling.
Not only is the cars analogy poor, it's also wrong. At least as per the summary: It is the maximum exhaust velocity that is fifth gear. Specific Impulse is directly related to the exhaust velocity.
But, KE = mv^2 (or P=rho*v^2 in this case) The power available (photovoltaic, chemical, nuclear-electric, etc.) is relatively constant, so the density of the exhaust gasses (and therefore the thrust since it goes like momentum T={mass flow rate}*v) goes way down at higher exhaust velocities.
High-thrust, low impulse would be "first gear" and only needed for launch. It is the maximum flow rate, and obviously uses up propellant like nobody's business. Orbital transfers would use the "fifth gear" mode as once in orbit, there is no atmosphere to rise out of before turning tangentially to the ground, the energy source (solar power) is relatively unlimited over time, and continuous thrust is even more efficient than even the ever useful hohmann transfer.
There are maximally energy efficient thrust modes between max flow and max velocity depending on orbital velocity, but with a continuous source of energy, the life limiting factor is actually propellant, and since it's not easy to resupply to a spacecraft, it's usually better to be miserly with the thing you can't replace and run all the time in high-Isp (specific impulse) mode.
AND the engine's not even new. It's not even a completed version of a recent project like VASIMR. It's a Hall thruster, which impressive though they are, are mature enough to have actually flown already. Not to mention that it will probably never be capable of the kind of thrust needed for launch.
The reason for localhost only was to prevent the vncserver from forming any connections with outside machines, thereby sidestepping any potential security concerns within it.
For that reason the convention was to tunnel vnc sessions through ssh. Actually it was recommended to close down *all* listening ports except ssh (port 22 by default), and tunnel everything through it under the assumption that a single point of failure would be more rigorously examined.
The command on the viewing machine goes like this: Then you can connect the vncviewer to localhost
You can access it from a windows machine by using a ssh capable terminal program like PuTTY to set up the port forwarding before running the vncviewer (and connecting to localhost)
But depending on what it is that you want to do, VNC might not be your best option. If you just want to run GUI programs on the remote machine and it doesn't matter what happens if you're disconnected, You may prefer to set up a remote X session. I would think you'd get slightly better performance that way.
You can set it up by typing then when you run an X client, it will show up on your local terminal rather than the remote machine.
So, it's certainly not easier under linux than what you've described on XP pro. It isn't too much harder especially compared to XP-home (or at least, didn't used to be.. open port concerns. I seem to have left out the most important part if you want to be confident your server remains uncompromised.), but the advantage of the separate components is that you can use them together in ways not necessarily anticipated by the authors. You can use ssh tunneling to secure more than just VNC or remote X sessions at a cost of some simplicity of use.
Impossible to make secure easily?
Just tell it to only accept connections from the local machine. That's all you have to do on server machine. usually from a GUI even.
On the non-server machine, it's a bit more complicated, involving ssh tunneling.. which is still fairly easy to do if you happen to have a command line handy. Some of the VNC viewers will even do it automatically for you.
In fact, that's the whole beauty of the "Unix way" you've got a small program like ssh that you can use to secure all kinds of less-secure remote processes, rather than having all the various programs reinvent the wheel every time.
I would rather that Mexico's economy and infrastructure rises to our own rather than allow ours to degrade to their current level...
Well the illegals certainly won't be moving their accounts out of principle. What were their demographics before?
Also, it's a hassle and a half to set up new banking, close accounts and whatnot. Perhaps some of the so-called apathetic are actually just waiting to see how the case pans out before rashly moving money around. BoA could still do the right thing, though it seems increasingly likely that they will not, nor will they be forced to.
Indeed. If only Jefferson hadn't resisted the Barbary pirates, we wouldn't be in this mess.
14 years is too long. Get the troops out of Tripoli!
Toss it and get new heads. They usually come with a full set of inks and rarely cost more than $10-$20 over that.
So the money flows from the users -> MS -> shareholders.
Seems like we're the customers after all and the shareholders are the share holders.
But then perhaps, they'd be so much more complicated that they'd only have lasted the requisite 90 days...
How does Microsoft profit from its stock price?
Not if we drink all their oil first.
That depends on the shape of the distribution.
For instance, there could be one or two drivers who are so astoundingly bad that they drag the average down to the point that everyone else is above it. It is perfectly possible for more than half of a population to be 'above average.'
You have confused average and median. Median is the middle value of a population. With the median, we can create frightful statistical nonsense phrases like, "Did you know that roughly 50% of all doctors graduated in the bottom half of their class? Scary."