Anyone who cites Wikipedia in a paper should fail, as everything even remotely contentious on Wikipedia is supposed to be backed up by a citation from a proper source. Wikipedia's use in writing papers is in telling you where to find material you can cite.
I nearly bought a menstrual pain reliever called "Ibuprofem" or something after noticing that the only active ingredient was ibuprofen (I am male and take ibuprofen for headaches).
Oddly, it was the cheapest brand of ibuprofen in the shop, and was packaged and marketed solely as a menstrual pain treatment.
Normally, the difference is in default packages, and an install can be converted by simply installing and uninstalling packages. The reason there should be different installers is that servers are generally configured somewhat differently, and having sensible defaults is nice, but more importantly, users want a GUI installer and server people want a text-based installer which can work remotely.
You were still performing atmospheric bomb tests on a site just 65 miles away from Las Vegas into the 1960s.
(My emphasis.)
Radioactive air and a bit of left-over fissile material is a lot less scary than the large amounts of radioactive dust ("fallout") that you get from an explosion at ground level (which is the only way to damage an underground silo).
As to the "be nuking ourselves" we do have low-yield nuclear weapons also.
Fallout is effected more by where the warhead is when it detonates than by the yield of the weapon.
Missile silos tend to be underground and don't really care if you hit them with an airburst (the normal configuration for a "deterrent" type weapon designed to kill the population of a city). A strike intended to stop a nuclear launch would have to be a groundburst (fuse detonates on impact like a traditional bomb). A groundburst inevitably results in a lot of material (e.g. the area's soil) being very close to the weapon when it detonates and experiencing a lot of neutron flux. This radioactive soil gets kicked up into a fine dust by the blast and is called fallout.
Wiimotes connect to Wiis using Bluetooth. I believe various 3rd-party drivers have been written to allow one to use Wiimotes with various OSs on bluetooth-enabled PCs.
Yeah, I use Google Earth regularly and it works just fine for me. The current version for Windows, Mac and Linux is 4.3 now, so the cross-platform 4.x series is no longer unstable.
There's not really much to go wrong in porting it: the API's it uses are Qt and OpenGL. It's a shame they can't be bothered to put in a couple of days to port it to FreeBSD properly really.
My only complaint is that they insist on statically linking Qt, which makes GE slower to start and means it won't use the system widget theme.
Google Earth has been written in Qt with a native Linux version for quite some time now. Wouldn't it be easier to use the Linux version? I thought FreeBSD had extensive compatibility layers for running Linux executable built-in, and a Linux Qt application would look and feel more native.
The Koala is an example of a creature who's ancestors were very probably much more intelligent than present-day specimens. Pretty much all a koala does, (other than sleeping 18 hours a day to conserve energy) is eat eucalypt leaves all day, which neither requires much thought nor provides much energy, as they are really not very nutritious.
Konqueror sucks. On most of the sites I visit, it doesn't render the page properly
In KDE 4, Konqueror uses effectively the same rendering engine as Safari, and I for one have not been encountering many rendering errors. Which sites misrender for you?
For that matter, Even Firefox 3.0.3 continuously crashes on my Fedora Core 9 installation.
The majority of the Firefox codebase is cross-platform. If it crashes on Linux, you can bet it'll crash on Windows too, under similar circumstances*. In my experience, it is equally (un)stable on both platforms.
I use Konqueror for most things due to it's speed, and Firefox when I have to use Windows, and for the occasional sites which insist on specific browsers or use broken flash-detection scripts (why must sites try to decide whether you can have flash content instead of just sending you the tag and seeing what you do with it)?
* Barring buggy plugins, that is. For me, Quicktime causes more crashes than any plugins on Linux.
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\PROGMAN.EXE in Windows 2000, XP, and XP SP1. In XP SP2, Program Manager was replaced with a dummy version which serves only to convert old-style shortcuts to explorer shortcuts, for compatibility with very old installers.
At that sort of speed, presumably all control is going to be aerodynamic anyway, making this basically a rocket-plane designed to fly so close to the ground that the wheels touch it, right?
Google Earth uses it's own compiled-in Qt, rather than the system's one.
This is ostensibly because they have no idea how Linux works and think that this makes it easier to install, but is more likely because they couldn't be bothered with making sure it looks OK when the sizes of the widgets change like everyone else does.
Have online games started using large amounts of bandwidth (instead of trying to minimise traffic in the interests of latency) since I last played a new game?
Or are they just something that the aforementioned Granny doesn't do, and therefore probably antisocial?
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Anyone who cites Wikipedia in a paper should fail, as everything even remotely contentious on Wikipedia is supposed to be backed up by a citation from a proper source. Wikipedia's use in writing papers is in telling you where to find material you can cite.
I nearly bought a menstrual pain reliever called "Ibuprofem" or something after noticing that the only active ingredient was ibuprofen (I am male and take ibuprofen for headaches).
Oddly, it was the cheapest brand of ibuprofen in the shop, and was packaged and marketed solely as a menstrual pain treatment.
I don't think you understand.
Normally, the difference is in default packages, and an install can be converted by simply installing and uninstalling packages. The reason there should be different installers is that servers are generally configured somewhat differently, and having sensible defaults is nice, but more importantly, users want a GUI installer and server people want a text-based installer which can work remotely.
(My emphasis.)
Radioactive air and a bit of left-over fissile material is a lot less scary than the large amounts of radioactive dust ("fallout") that you get from an explosion at ground level (which is the only way to damage an underground silo).
Fallout is effected more by where the warhead is when it detonates than by the yield of the weapon.
Missile silos tend to be underground and don't really care if you hit them with an airburst (the normal configuration for a "deterrent" type weapon designed to kill the population of a city). A strike intended to stop a nuclear launch would have to be a groundburst (fuse detonates on impact like a traditional bomb). A groundburst inevitably results in a lot of material (e.g. the area's soil) being very close to the weapon when it detonates and experiencing a lot of neutron flux. This radioactive soil gets kicked up into a fine dust by the blast and is called fallout.
You can't do a clean strike on a missile base.
It makes people not want to live in California.
Wiimotes connect to Wiis using Bluetooth. I believe various 3rd-party drivers have been written to allow one to use Wiimotes with various OSs on bluetooth-enabled PCs.
Yeah, I use Google Earth regularly and it works just fine for me. The current version for Windows, Mac and Linux is 4.3 now, so the cross-platform 4.x series is no longer unstable.
There's not really much to go wrong in porting it: the API's it uses are Qt and OpenGL. It's a shame they can't be bothered to put in a couple of days to port it to FreeBSD properly really.
My only complaint is that they insist on statically linking Qt, which makes GE slower to start and means it won't use the system widget theme.
Google Earth has been written in Qt with a native Linux version for quite some time now. Wouldn't it be easier to use the Linux version? I thought FreeBSD had extensive compatibility layers for running Linux executable built-in, and a Linux Qt application would look and feel more native.
Can I steal that? I think that needs to be written in very large letters on most things.
The Koala is an example of a creature who's ancestors were very probably much more intelligent than present-day specimens. Pretty much all a koala does, (other than sleeping 18 hours a day to conserve energy) is eat eucalypt leaves all day, which neither requires much thought nor provides much energy, as they are really not very nutritious.
If you roll your own NAS, just use SSH and rsync. Then it will support everything, and, in my experience, have more reliable transfers.
In KDE 4, Konqueror uses effectively the same rendering engine as Safari, and I for one have not been encountering many rendering errors. Which sites misrender for you?
The majority of the Firefox codebase is cross-platform. If it crashes on Linux, you can bet it'll crash on Windows too, under similar circumstances*. In my experience, it is equally (un)stable on both platforms.
I use Konqueror for most things due to it's speed, and Firefox when I have to use Windows, and for the occasional sites which insist on specific browsers or use broken flash-detection scripts (why must sites try to decide whether you can have flash content instead of just sending you the tag and seeing what you do with it)?
* Barring buggy plugins, that is. For me, Quicktime causes more crashes than any plugins on Linux.
US-based ones?
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\PROGMAN.EXE in Windows 2000, XP, and XP SP1. In XP SP2, Program Manager was replaced with a dummy version which serves only to convert old-style shortcuts to explorer shortcuts, for compatibility with very old installers.
Does it involve bludgeoning with any number of common household items?
At that sort of speed, presumably all control is going to be aerodynamic anyway, making this basically a rocket-plane designed to fly so close to the ground that the wheels touch it, right?
It would die of revert-wars.
[Citation Needed]
Seriously. Where does it say that?
Thanks, that seems to work fine here. I might try and see what other bundled libraries can be eliminated too...
Google Earth uses it's own compiled-in Qt, rather than the system's one.
This is ostensibly because they have no idea how Linux works and think that this makes it easier to install, but is more likely because they couldn't be bothered with making sure it looks OK when the sizes of the widgets change like everyone else does.
Have online games started using large amounts of bandwidth (instead of trying to minimise traffic in the interests of latency) since I last played a new game?
Or are they just something that the aforementioned Granny doesn't do, and therefore probably antisocial?
Chrome uses WebKit, which is based on the LGPL'ed software KHTML. Shouldn't this make it harder to put weird restrictions on usage?
I give in. Why? Is Bash greatly modified on BSD?