I suppose it is difficult to make a cost/benefit analysis of something so unique. It's hard to put a dollar value on the data that the Hubble provides. The most conservative estimate would probably claim that it doesn't provide any real practical $ value. However, many would say that insights into the nature of the universe are priceless.
Is this thing just an out-dated, broken down piece of crap that people just can't let go of because of sentimentality?
I have a 15 year old car that I'm rather fond of due to all the good times I've been through with it, but when the next major repair becomes necessary, it's going to the dump.
I like Gnome's development tempo. They seem to make improvements gradually. It makes it easy for users to adapt and respond to each new release.
I love the clean efficient look of the default Gnome desktop. Most other desktops try to "wow" users with eye-candy. That "wow" effect wears off pretty quickly for anyone who spends a lot of time using the system.
I like the sound of the developer improvements for gedit and the samba/nfs share setup. They made great improvements to the file dialogs and panel applets in 2.8. I'm looking forward to trying out 2.10.
I'm reading this thread and, as with any other "iPod Killer" threads, I'm amazed at the zealotry that iPod fans exhibit.
The main draw of the iPod seems to be its "style".
So...I propose to the iPod challengers that they team up with fashion designers to make designer audio players.
How silly will you look with your geeky iPod when I'm strutting around with my "Hugo Boss" or "Tommy Hilfiger" logo emblazened portable audio device. Your girlfriend is going to be pretty jelous when she compares her bland iPod with my girlfriend's "Cartier" or "Prada" designed audio device.
I use FLAC because converting from a lossy format to another lossy format can produce crappy results. If I choose a lossy format for all my audio and then I need the audio to be in some other lossy format, I might be screwed.
You might choose Ogg for your audio then sometime in the future, a new lossy format sweeps the industry. Your Ogg files might not convert well to the new format.
The arguments for and against FOSS are well documented. Obviously, the Venezuelan government found the arguments for FOSS to be more persuasive than those against FOSS.
I have to believe that a "do-it-yourself" attitude for a developing government IT infrastructure is going to pay dividends in the long run.
So, I guess the next release of the kernel will contain zero bugs? If these guys found all 985 of them, then they should all get fixed.
Tell me they filled out bug reports!
I actually held out for over a year simply because Creative did not have OGG support. I looked at the iRiver line but they didn't have a USB storage interface for their flash players. Eventually, I decided I wasn't going to wait any longer and I just went with Creative. Nobody seems to offer both features. At $80, it's cheap enough to buy and then switch if something better comes along.
I seem to be in a minority in this thread, but I actually have some confidence in the Creative name. They've been the biggest name in PC sound cards for a looong time. I figure they know something about audio hardware.
I have a Creative MuVo TX 256MB flash player. I've had it for about 3 weeks and I am very happy with it.
My only complaint is: no ogg support.
I like the way it doubles as a "pen drive" without needing a seperate usb cable. I also like that it's teeny-teeny-tiny and has no moving parts. It lasts forever on a single AAA and is skip proof. I plan to take it skiing with me, so a HD player may have been a little too fragile.
My understanding: Current HDTV cards can only receive Over-The-Air HDTV format. This means that they can't be used to capture HDTV signals from cable or satellite providers because cable and sat. use different encoding formats. The OTA format probably complies to some standard and the cable and sat. guys do their own thing? Is this true?
So, basically, OTA/cable/satellite signals all need some kind of transcoding into the "real" HDTV format that your "HD-Ready" TV understands?
Is the OTA format compressed? Would capturing the OTA signal require less bandwidth/storage than capturing the HD signal that goes from the receiver to your TV? If so, I've read that HDTV is about 25-27 Mbps. Is that for the compressed OTA or for the signal that hits your TV?
I did a fresh install of FC3 the day it was released. I did it on an 1.4 GHz XP nForce system.
The install went smoothly. Everything looks nice. I had no errors or odd messages on first boot. I've been using Redhat since before Fedora and I have to say that the system is evolving nicely over time.
Here is a true testament to how things have improved: I ran a fresh install, logged in, loaded OpenOffice Writer and printed a document to my printer without having to ever configure or look at any printer settings of any kind! As a long-time GNU/Linux user, that really WOWed me. Wrestling with the printer had always been a right of passage on any new install.
I have run into a few things that annoy me...
1. NVIDIA driver trouble - lots of people are having them. The video driver will not load at boot time. I have to boot at runlevel 3, load the driver manually and then switch to runlevel 5. I could just load it with a custom script at startup but I think this issue will be resolved soon, so I'm just going to live with it for now.
My NIC suddenly stopped working. I'm not sure if it was because I booted into a different OS and then switched back or what. I installed the closed-source NForce driver for the NIC and the integrated sound. The NIC works fine, but for some reason the open source driver still gets loaded. I can't figure out what is loading it. It's not hurting anything though. Similarly, both sound drivers were being loaded. I'm still using the open-source one because it's working fine but I can't figure out how to get the nvidia one to stop loading.
2. SELinux and ntpd - There's a bug in the SELinux policy that prevents ntpd from doing it's job. Supposedly, it's fixed but I'm waiting for the fix to be officially released. I suppose I could learn a little about SELinux policies and fix it myself but there is only so much time in the day.
3. OpenOffice.org - printing Envelopes arg! Printing envelopes has been a pain in my ass on every system I have ever used, regardless of Hardware, OS, or Word Processing software. Not really a FC issue.
4. USB 2.0 storage device in a system with only USB 1.1 controller - doesn't work. It's recognized, but not loading the usb-storage driver. The same hardware works with a different OS and the device works with FC in a box with a 2.0 controller. Had this same problem with FC2, btw.
Overall, I'm pretty happy with FC3. Considering, I jumped on it the day it was released, I've had very few issues.
Linus Torvalds: Nobody should start to undertake a large project. You start with a small _trivial_ project, and you should never expect it to get large. If you do, you'll just overdesign and generally think it is more important than it likely is at that stage. Or worse, you might be scared away by the sheer size of the work you envision.
These are truly words of wisdom! Take note, young software engineer!
I'm going to state the obvious because I'm bored at work....
As the "People in the Know", it is our responsibility to inform our grandmothers, friends, co-workers, etc. of all the pitfalls of the online world.
For each person close to us that we can warn, that's one more person who will learn the "easy" way. The rest will have to learn the "hard" way by getting burned.
Eventually everyone will learn. Unfortunately, there will always be new and more creative scams.
"Fool me once - shame on you! Fool me twice - shame on me!"
Someone please explain the statement about blocking security threats in conjunction with the operating system. My imagination is failing me. New instructions that do....what?
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IE7 won't run on Linux. The Linux user base continues to grow and Microsoft has no browser product for that platform.
I suppose it is difficult to make a cost/benefit analysis of something so unique. It's hard to put a dollar value on the data that the Hubble provides. The most conservative estimate would probably claim that it doesn't provide any real practical $ value. However, many would say that insights into the nature of the universe are priceless.
Is this thing just an out-dated, broken down piece of crap that people just can't let go of because of sentimentality?
I have a 15 year old car that I'm rather fond of due to all the good times I've been through with it, but when the next major repair becomes necessary, it's going to the dump.
I like Gnome's development tempo. They seem to make improvements gradually. It makes it easy for users to adapt and respond to each new release.
I love the clean efficient look of the default Gnome desktop. Most other desktops try to "wow" users with eye-candy. That "wow" effect wears off pretty quickly for anyone who spends a lot of time using the system.
I like the sound of the developer improvements for gedit and the samba/nfs share setup. They made great improvements to the file dialogs and panel applets in 2.8. I'm looking forward to trying out 2.10.
I'm reading this thread and, as with any other "iPod Killer" threads, I'm amazed at the zealotry that iPod fans exhibit.
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The main draw of the iPod seems to be its "style".
So...I propose to the iPod challengers that they team up with fashion designers to make designer audio players.
How silly will you look with your geeky iPod when I'm strutting around with my "Hugo Boss" or "Tommy Hilfiger" logo emblazened portable audio device. Your girlfriend is going to be pretty jelous when she compares her bland iPod with my girlfriend's "Cartier" or "Prada" designed audio device.
A previous article that supports my idea: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/23/17262
I use FLAC because converting from a lossy format to another lossy format can produce crappy results. If I choose a lossy format for all my audio and then I need the audio to be in some other lossy format, I might be screwed.
You might choose Ogg for your audio then sometime in the future, a new lossy format sweeps the industry. Your Ogg files might not convert well to the new format.
and besides...Disk is Cheap!
The arguments for and against FOSS are well documented. Obviously, the Venezuelan government found the arguments for FOSS to be more persuasive than those against FOSS.
I have to believe that a "do-it-yourself" attitude for a developing government IT infrastructure is going to pay dividends in the long run.
How many Polacks does it take to block a European software patent vote?
Apparently, just one.
were you red state people thinking?
So, I guess the next release of the kernel will contain zero bugs? If these guys found all 985 of them, then they should all get fixed. Tell me they filled out bug reports!
It was a joke. The author of the parent comment seems to have misstated his thoughts.
What he meant to say was something along the lines of, "Either we keep our jobs and companies or we sign onto Kyoto."
Given those 2 choices, I say we sign on.
Well, I did sign this petition: http://www.petitiononline.com/oggpet/petition.html
I actually held out for over a year simply because Creative did not have OGG support. I looked at the iRiver line but they didn't have a USB storage interface for their flash players. Eventually, I decided I wasn't going to wait any longer and I just went with Creative. Nobody seems to offer both features. At $80, it's cheap enough to buy and then switch if something better comes along.
I seem to be in a minority in this thread, but I actually have some confidence in the Creative name. They've been the biggest name in PC sound cards for a looong time. I figure they know something about audio hardware.
I have a Creative MuVo TX 256MB flash player. I've had it for about 3 weeks and I am very happy with it.
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My only complaint is: no ogg support.
I like the way it doubles as a "pen drive" without needing a seperate usb cable. I also like that it's teeny-teeny-tiny and has no moving parts. It lasts forever on a single AAA and is skip proof. I plan to take it skiing with me, so a HD player may have been a little too fragile.
Here's a link to Creative's portable audio product line: http://www.creative.com/products/welcome.asp?cate
Please help me to understand the problem.
My understanding: Current HDTV cards can only receive Over-The-Air HDTV format. This means that they can't be used to capture HDTV signals from cable or satellite providers because cable and sat. use different encoding formats. The OTA format probably complies to some standard and the cable and sat. guys do their own thing? Is this true?
So, basically, OTA/cable/satellite signals all need some kind of transcoding into the "real" HDTV format that your "HD-Ready" TV understands?
Is the OTA format compressed? Would capturing the OTA signal require less bandwidth/storage than capturing the HD signal that goes from the receiver to your TV? If so, I've read that HDTV is about 25-27 Mbps. Is that for the compressed OTA or for the signal that hits your TV?
I did a fresh install of FC3 the day it was released. I did it on an 1.4 GHz XP nForce system.
The install went smoothly. Everything looks nice. I had no errors or odd messages on first boot. I've been using Redhat since before Fedora and I have to say that the system is evolving nicely over time.
Here is a true testament to how things have improved: I ran a fresh install, logged in, loaded OpenOffice Writer and printed a document to my printer without having to ever configure or look at any printer settings of any kind! As a long-time GNU/Linux user, that really WOWed me. Wrestling with the printer had always been a right of passage on any new install.
I have run into a few things that annoy me...
1. NVIDIA driver trouble - lots of people are having them. The video driver will not load at boot time. I have to boot at runlevel 3, load the driver manually and then switch to runlevel 5. I could just load it with a custom script at startup but I think this issue will be resolved soon, so I'm just going to live with it for now.
My NIC suddenly stopped working. I'm not sure if it was because I booted into a different OS and then switched back or what. I installed the closed-source NForce driver for the NIC and the integrated sound. The NIC works fine, but for some reason the open source driver still gets loaded. I can't figure out what is loading it. It's not hurting anything though. Similarly, both sound drivers were being loaded. I'm still using the open-source one because it's working fine but I can't figure out how to get the nvidia one to stop loading.
2. SELinux and ntpd - There's a bug in the SELinux policy that prevents ntpd from doing it's job. Supposedly, it's fixed but I'm waiting for the fix to be officially released. I suppose I could learn a little about SELinux policies and fix it myself but there is only so much time in the day.
3. OpenOffice.org - printing Envelopes arg! Printing envelopes has been a pain in my ass on every system I have ever used, regardless of Hardware, OS, or Word Processing software. Not really a FC issue.
4. USB 2.0 storage device in a system with only USB 1.1 controller - doesn't work. It's recognized, but not loading the usb-storage driver. The same hardware works with a different OS and the device works with FC in a box with a 2.0 controller. Had this same problem with FC2, btw.
Overall, I'm pretty happy with FC3. Considering, I jumped on it the day it was released, I've had very few issues.
-Jason
The SG ad was the best part of the article.
Here is the solution to all of our problems: http://www.vhemt.org/
Homer: Or what? You'll release the dogs, or the bees, or the dogs with bees in their mouths and when they bark they shoot bees at you?
/ sounds/Homer/bees.wav
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/2359
http://www.snpp.com/episodes/1F16.html
I'm going to state the obvious because I'm bored at work.... As the "People in the Know", it is our responsibility to inform our grandmothers, friends, co-workers, etc. of all the pitfalls of the online world. For each person close to us that we can warn, that's one more person who will learn the "easy" way. The rest will have to learn the "hard" way by getting burned. Eventually everyone will learn. Unfortunately, there will always be new and more creative scams. "Fool me once - shame on you! Fool me twice - shame on me!"
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Weblets/0,,7832_11104_111 05,00.html?redir=CPVP01/
... any guesses as to which classes these might be?
Here's what AMD says about the new security features. Lots of hype on this page but not much info.
"Protects against certain classes of viruses"
Someone please explain the statement about blocking security threats in conjunction with the operating system. My imagination is failing me. New instructions that do....what?
These are 10 of my most commonly used utilities... iptables netstat top find ps ifconfig bash diff who cron
I would like to take a look at the code for the "Boobie Recognition Subsystem".
Is there a dipswitch inside that will allow me to only watch the "naughty bits" without having to sit through the rest of the movie?