And tell me that conspiracy theories are all b*llshit, but I guess this solar probe mission is not only to protect astronauts and satellites, but to protect the very existence of our planet. Some theories suggest that dinosaurs became extinct not due to a giant asteroid impact but due to magnetic poles displacement.
And I'd be glad to hear the craziest thoughts on this issue.
Last time I used (five years ago) Slackware it had no dependencies tracking, no automatic updates or update manager, it lacked any utilities to automatically set up network interfaces and used LILO. Is it better now?;)
The real question is, what's the target audience of Slackware? People who have no active social life and prefer computers to chicks?
I wonder what you call "existing games for Linux". Do you mean 1-3 developers projects based on Quake3 with several modifications - Linux games? Maybe you call Linux games what LGP ports from Windows to Linux (old and quite simple games)? Please, wake me up when I can play native Sim2/3, Crysis(Warhead/FarCry2), World of Warcraft, Medal of Honor, Need For Speed, etc. Or maybe you think that KReversi can make Linux popular amongst hardcore gamers?
Wine introduces quite a big overhead when running memory intensive applications so I think Linux Unified Kernel is what really needs attention. With this project you can use unmodified core Windows libraries thus getting the best possible compatibility.
No one is arguing whether Vista is stable or not, Windows NT kernel has been rock solid for over decade (with only buggy drivers or hardware as an exception) the problem is that Vista introduces clunky UI, where most obvious options are often removed (like "UP" level button in Windows Explorer), some features which used to be grouped nicely in Windows 2k/XP, all now sit in different places with changed, often not-so-obvious names.
Other not so minor issues are:
constant disk thrashing and vastly decreased laptops' battery life
greatly increased memory consumption (1GB just to run the core OS)
No VLK version (yes, that's very important for some users)
Still (after SP1 applied) very slow at some basic operations like files deletion
(Old) software (in)compatibility
Insane number of product editions which drive customers mad
You'd better have a telescope that is billion times better than those which exist nowadays.
Just to look back a hundred years you have to be a hundred light years away from Earth (if you were able to travel in a matter of seconds) - now good luck trying to "see" anything from that distance.
until they want to give a voice to pedophiles and to those who kindle national dissension.
Some things have to be limited by force no matter how free we'd like to be.
Here's how these "improved" fonts are rendered by Linux (freetype 2.3.4 with FT_CONFIG_OPTION_SUBPIXEL_RENDERING and TT_CONFIG_OPTION_BYTECODE_INTERPRETER and libXft-2.1.12):
If I remember correctly there were no such talks when Windows XP first came out. And you know why: Windows XP was generally compatible with all Windows 2000 software, most 2000 hardware drivers were compatible with XP.
In terms of compatibility XP was much easier to upgrade and that's why most businesses shun Vista.
Vista imposes too high demands on PCs (most corporate PCs have only 256 or 512MB of RAM these days) and lacks a way too many drivers. Not to mention hundreds of software titles which don't work nicely on Vista.
During acute toxoplasmosis, symptoms are often flu-like: swollen lymph nodes, or muscle aches and pains that last for a month or more. Rarely, a patient with a fully functioning immune system may develop eye damage from toxoplasmosis. Young children and immunocompromised patients, such as those with HIV/AIDS, those taking certain types of chemotherapy, or those who have recently received an organ transplant, may develop severe toxoplasmosis. This can cause damage to the brain or the eyes. Only a small percentage of infected newborns have serious eye or brain damage at birth.
Treatment
The vast majority of patients with a normal immune system require no treatment.
Patients with HIV/AIDS or patients who are immunosuppressed should be given sulfadiazine and pyrimethamine. Pregnant women who become ill with acute toxoplasmosis should be treated with spiramycin. Folinic acid (leucovorin) is administered in all cases to reduce the bone marrow suppression caused by pyrimethamine (ref: Montoya JG, Liesenfeld O. Toxoplasmosis. Lancet. 2004 Jun 12;363(9425):1965-76. )
Latent toxoplasmosis
Most patients who become infected with Toxoplasma gondii and develop toxoplasmosis do not know it. In most non-immunodeficient patients, the infection enters a latent phase, during which only bradyzoites are present, forming cysts in nervous and muscle tissue. Most infants who are infected while in the womb have no symptoms at birth but may develop symptoms later in life.
Treatment
The cysts are immune to the standard acute treatments as the antibiotics do not reach the bradyzoites in sufficient concentration.
The antibiotic atovaquone has been used to kill Toxoplasma cysts in situ in AIDS patients.[3] In mice, a combination of atovaquone with clindamycin seemed to optimally kill cysts.
Currently most distros have their own bugs database (bugzilla), security teams, productions teams and even sometimes they share the same patches for open source software.
How do you see a process of integration of these common efforts? What major steps are required to achieve a Linux unity and unification?
Does this discovery mean that we can hope for immortality?
Though I am at my young ages sometimes I get completely stuck due to the fear of death which immobilizes me.
Sir, I suppose you have gormandized. Here in Russia I have an optical 100Mbit Ethernet delivered straight to my apartment building, yet the maximum Internet speed which we enjoy on an average basis is just [b]1.5 Mbit and this pleasure costs US $0.15 per megabyte[/b].
Yes, we have "flat" rate tarifs like $55 a month for... 128Kbit Internet with 2Gbytes traffic limitation.
Have mercy - use Internet downloaders/torrent clients/eDonkey if you don't want to spend hours waiting for a movie to download. Otherwise I cannot understand the cause of your dissatisfaction. If they don't deliver the advertised connection speed why one should bother subsribing on it?
Heroes of Might and Magic III with addons is what makes me play it again and again. The most beautiful, interesting and exciting game I've ever dealt with. I forgot about my studies, about my friend and I could not stop playing it...
Again and again
and again
I hope MS will keep its promises this time. SP2 was originally due in late 2003 and we only got it on August 2004.
And I would like Windows XP SP3 to be issued this year 'cause I'm sick and tired of all those bells and whistles which are being prepared for Vista which in its turn will require at least 512GB of RAM and ~8GB just for installation.
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And tell me that conspiracy theories are all b*llshit, but I guess this solar probe mission is not only to protect astronauts and satellites, but to protect the very existence of our planet. Some theories suggest that dinosaurs became extinct not due to a giant asteroid impact but due to magnetic poles displacement.
And I'd be glad to hear the craziest thoughts on this issue.
It's really great that Intel has become not only an OSS advocate but a vivid developer, supporter and promoter.
X.org development, open source drivers for its GPUs, miscellaneous kernel patches ... Microsoft must be getting nervous.
Last time I used (five years ago) Slackware it had no dependencies tracking, no automatic updates or update manager, it lacked any utilities to automatically set up network interfaces and used LILO. Is it better now? ;)
The real question is, what's the target audience of Slackware? People who have no active social life and prefer computers to chicks?
I wonder what you call "existing games for Linux". Do you mean 1-3 developers projects based on Quake3 with several modifications - Linux games? Maybe you call Linux games what LGP ports from Windows to Linux (old and quite simple games)? Please, wake me up when I can play native Sim2/3, Crysis(Warhead/FarCry2), World of Warcraft, Medal of Honor, Need For Speed, etc. Or maybe you think that KReversi can make Linux popular amongst hardcore gamers?
Wine introduces quite a big overhead when running memory intensive applications so I think Linux Unified Kernel is what really needs attention. With this project you can use unmodified core Windows libraries thus getting the best possible compatibility.
After all there's no way to legally purchase XP nowadays, so Dell is free to do pretty much everything and claim any amount of money.
No one is arguing whether Vista is stable or not, Windows NT kernel has been rock solid for over decade (with only buggy drivers or hardware as an exception) the problem is that Vista introduces clunky UI, where most obvious options are often removed (like "UP" level button in Windows Explorer), some features which used to be grouped nicely in Windows 2k/XP, all now sit in different places with changed, often not-so-obvious names.
Other not so minor issues are:
You'd better have a telescope that is billion times better than those which exist nowadays.
Just to look back a hundred years you have to be a hundred light years away from Earth (if you were able to travel in a matter of seconds) - now good luck trying to "see" anything from that distance.
until they want to give a voice to pedophiles and to those who kindle national dissension. Some things have to be limited by force no matter how free we'd like to be.
Here's how these "improved" fonts are rendered by Linux (freetype 2.3.4 with FT_CONFIG_OPTION_SUBPIXEL_RENDERING and TT_CONFIG_OPTION_BYTECODE_INTERPRETER and libXft-2.1.12):
spapshot.
If I remember correctly there were no such talks when Windows XP first came out. And you know why: Windows XP was generally compatible with all Windows 2000 software, most 2000 hardware drivers were compatible with XP.
In terms of compatibility XP was much easier to upgrade and that's why most businesses shun Vista.
Vista imposes too high demands on PCs (most corporate PCs have only 256 or 512MB of RAM these days) and lacks a way too many drivers. Not to mention hundreds of software titles which don't work nicely on Vista.
"Final Fantasy: the spirit within" was shot ... six years ago?
I mean: doesn't this essay actually mean that we cannot invent anything really new and novel?
From the wikipedia article:
Acute toxoplasmosis
During acute toxoplasmosis, symptoms are often flu-like: swollen lymph nodes, or muscle aches and pains that last for a month or more. Rarely, a patient with a fully functioning immune system may develop eye damage from toxoplasmosis. Young children and immunocompromised patients, such as those with HIV/AIDS, those taking certain types of chemotherapy, or those who have recently received an organ transplant, may develop severe toxoplasmosis. This can cause damage to the brain or the eyes. Only a small percentage of infected newborns have serious eye or brain damage at birth.
Treatment
The vast majority of patients with a normal immune system require no treatment.
Patients with HIV/AIDS or patients who are immunosuppressed should be given sulfadiazine and pyrimethamine. Pregnant women who become ill with acute toxoplasmosis should be treated with spiramycin. Folinic acid (leucovorin) is administered in all cases to reduce the bone marrow suppression caused by pyrimethamine (ref: Montoya JG, Liesenfeld O. Toxoplasmosis. Lancet. 2004 Jun 12;363(9425):1965-76. )
Latent toxoplasmosis
Most patients who become infected with Toxoplasma gondii and develop toxoplasmosis do not know it. In most non-immunodeficient patients, the infection enters a latent phase, during which only bradyzoites are present, forming cysts in nervous and muscle tissue. Most infants who are infected while in the womb have no symptoms at birth but may develop symptoms later in life.
Treatment
The cysts are immune to the standard acute treatments as the antibiotics do not reach the bradyzoites in sufficient concentration.
The antibiotic atovaquone has been used to kill Toxoplasma cysts in situ in AIDS patients.[3] In mice, a combination of atovaquone with clindamycin seemed to optimally kill cysts.
Isn't it SkyNet coming? First it cures our computers then it takes over the world.
After all the humans are going to land on Mars soon, and also todays graphics technologies can resurrect pseudomoon landing.
Currently most distros have their own bugs database (bugzilla), security teams, productions teams and even sometimes they share the same patches for open source software. How do you see a process of integration of these common efforts? What major steps are required to achieve a Linux unity and unification?
Does this discovery mean that we can hope for immortality? Though I am at my young ages sometimes I get completely stuck due to the fear of death which immobilizes me.
I though we already have one.
Here's what the auther says himself: http://www.hedweb.com/bgcharlton/ed-boygenius.html
I suppose for Windows 2003 servers they have computed in-between-reboots uptime which was "better" then Linux'es one.
Sir, I suppose you have gormandized. Here in Russia I have an optical 100Mbit Ethernet delivered straight to my apartment building, yet the maximum Internet speed which we enjoy on an average basis is just [b]1.5 Mbit and this pleasure costs US $0.15 per megabyte[/b]. Yes, we have "flat" rate tarifs like $55 a month for ... 128Kbit Internet with 2Gbytes traffic limitation.
Have mercy - use Internet downloaders/torrent clients/eDonkey if you don't want to spend hours waiting for a movie to download. Otherwise I cannot understand the cause of your dissatisfaction. If they don't deliver the advertised connection speed why one should bother subsribing on it?
Heroes of Might and Magic III with addons is what makes me play it again and again. The most beautiful, interesting and exciting game I've ever dealt with. I forgot about my studies, about my friend and I could not stop playing it ...
Again and again
and again
I hope MS will keep its promises this time. SP2 was originally due in late 2003 and we only got it on August 2004. And I would like Windows XP SP3 to be issued this year 'cause I'm sick and tired of all those bells and whistles which are being prepared for Vista which in its turn will require at least 512GB of RAM and ~8GB just for installation.