I don't think anyone is claiming that the Gulf of Mexico is the crater, I'm afraid. The crater has been detected, but it's buried under an awful lot of rock and sediment now.
And in case anyone didn't know, he's talking about the impact that is now generally blamed for the K/T event and all the strange geology, climate change and mass extinction it caused.
I seriously doubt KDE will be usable as a WM on Windows, because I don't think there is any way to replace the existing WM.
It would be feasible for it to be a shell replacement though (that is, use it instead of explorer.exe). However, I have no reason to believe that the devs are implementing this. Can anyone shed any light on this?
If they did, it wouldn't be a straight port of plasma/kicker/dolphin/konqueror anyway. A Windows shell needs to fill a number of the windows-specific functions of explorer if it's going to be at all useful, not least such stuff as working as a Windows system tray and so on.
If you think Kicker was a stable codebase you don't use KDE.
It was great once, but it's been modified so much since KDE 2 without any real cleanup or rewrite, and is now a bloody mess, especially in not threading the applets.
More random killing and disappearances seem to be happening under US rule than under Saddam. Probably still true even if you only count the killings and arrests by US forces and "contractors".
I assume a Black Hawk is very much at the expensive end of SAR choppers. They cost $6M each, in the standard US Army configuration (which is assault rather than SAR). A MQ-9 Reaper such as the Ikhana costs $8M, and can't actually pick people up.
I think the issue is that the console version will lag far behind the PC version, and like nearly any multiplayer FPS, and exact version match is required to play.
If people run servers supporting both PCs and consoles, then when an update comes out for the PC, they'll have to choose whether to upgrade and lose the console players till the console upgrades, or wait for the console upgrades, and lose the PC players who eventually update because all the other servers have.
Or, worse, you could get a situation where servers never install patches because they don't want to lose console players, and PC players don't install patches because they want to play on said servers.
No, there is not a "lengthy certification process" required before you are allowed to release things on a PC. You just distribute it and tell users to install it.
However, if you want to release for the PS3 you need to run everything past Sony first. That is what takes time.
Will linux users not be able to play against PC users either?
Dunno what hardware you run Linux on to play games, but I for one use a PC.
Quibbling aside, there is, suprisingly, no authority who has to check everything released on Linux either.
Actually, diamond is one of the most thermally conductive materials known and would make a great case, thermally...
Seriously though, I'm with you on the low RPM/large diameter thing. I put one of those in my desktop when I couldn't stand the noise from the stock cooler anymore, and it can keep the CPU below 50C at max load, almost silently. Blows air out and over the GPU and chipset heatsinks too. Pretty good for a cheap cooler, except that it's actually slightly over the weight specification for a 775 cooler.
Many modern machines smell pretty bad if you burn them. Sats have fuel on board.
And as a matter of fact, plutonium is not that dreadfully toxic. According to Wikipedia, it causes the normal sort of heavy metal poisoning, and does it about as well as lead does, that is to say, unless you ingest quite a lot, the effects are chronic rather than acute (heavy metals basically do not leave the body once they are ingested).
However, if it's powdered, burned, or airborne some other way, really really small amounts can cause lung cancers.
Doesn't headaches and nausea sound a bit more like acute radiation sickness from a gamma emitter?
Seems most likely to me that the sat either had some kind of toxic fuel, coolant, etc. which burnt up and went airborne, or by some crazy fluke managed to hit some underground deposit of something bad, or the whole thing is mass hysteria (this is after all happening up a mountain in the middle of nowhere).
You missed the most amazingly geektastic thing about that thumbdrive. At the end of the leaked My violent Heart there is a few seconds of what sounds like white noise.
When someone on the intarwebs eventually decided to run a various type of analysis on it, it was found that it actually encodes an image. I think you have to plot time on one axis, frequency on the other, energy at that frequency, at that time as brightness at thate point.
Anyway, the image is a version of the "hand reaching through" thing is now on the the album cover.
The hidden image is now at the end of The Warning on the actual album.
I realise that mean "it can compile", which is impressive, but that really does read like "it can be compiled", which I would have thought was a necessary prerequisite to this sort of discussion.
Slashdot Mirror
Linux != Ubuntu, contrary to currently popular beliefs.
How is reinstalling Grub more painful than an XP install?
Also, had you thought of just backing up and restoring the MBR with dd?
The obvious solution would be to render pages with a doctype declaration correctly, and render pages without one IE6-style.
I don't think anyone is claiming that the Gulf of Mexico is the crater, I'm afraid. The crater has been detected, but it's buried under an awful lot of rock and sediment now.
And in case anyone didn't know, he's talking about the impact that is now generally blamed for the K/T event and all the strange geology, climate change and mass extinction it caused.
Sorry, which was a joke? The claim that they edited Wiki to say Castro is a transsexual, or the edit itself?
Uh, it was intentional posting of misinformation.
Unless someone can find a citation for Castro's admission that he is a transsexual.
A window manager is not the same thing as a desktop shell.
I seriously doubt KDE will be usable as a WM on Windows, because I don't think there is any way to replace the existing WM.
It would be feasible for it to be a shell replacement though (that is, use it instead of explorer.exe). However, I have no reason to believe that the devs are implementing this. Can anyone shed any light on this?
If they did, it wouldn't be a straight port of plasma/kicker/dolphin/konqueror anyway. A Windows shell needs to fill a number of the windows-specific functions of explorer if it's going to be at all useful, not least such stuff as working as a Windows system tray and so on.
If you think Kicker was a stable codebase you don't use KDE.
It was great once, but it's been modified so much since KDE 2 without any real cleanup or rewrite, and is now a bloody mess, especially in not threading the applets.
It's the program that crashes most on me.
I *think* that every section of the site now redirects to the download section. Possibly a temporary defence against Slashdotting.
More random killing and disappearances seem to be happening under US rule than under Saddam. Probably still true even if you only count the killings and arrests by US forces and "contractors".
I assume a Black Hawk is very much at the expensive end of SAR choppers. They cost $6M each, in the standard US Army configuration (which is assault rather than SAR). A MQ-9 Reaper such as the Ikhana costs $8M, and can't actually pick people up.
Scared of EMPs?
Seriously though, how old is this car? Are you sure the engine timing isn't controlled by a microprocessor?
Goatse.ca is a currently working mirror, and has a much larger image than the thumbs on Google.
Just providing this useful information in case anyone ever needs it.
I think the issue is that the console version will lag far behind the PC version, and like nearly any multiplayer FPS, and exact version match is required to play.
If people run servers supporting both PCs and consoles, then when an update comes out for the PC, they'll have to choose whether to upgrade and lose the console players till the console upgrades, or wait for the console upgrades, and lose the PC players who eventually update because all the other servers have.
Or, worse, you could get a situation where servers never install patches because they don't want to lose console players, and PC players don't install patches because they want to play on said servers.
However, if you want to release for the PS3 you need to run everything past Sony first. That is what takes time. Dunno what hardware you run Linux on to play games, but I for one use a PC.
Quibbling aside, there is, suprisingly, no authority who has to check everything released on Linux either.
Well done with the first post though.
Actually, diamond is one of the most thermally conductive materials known and would make a great case, thermally...
Seriously though, I'm with you on the low RPM/large diameter thing. I put one of those in my desktop when I couldn't stand the noise from the stock cooler anymore, and it can keep the CPU below 50C at max load, almost silently. Blows air out and over the GPU and chipset heatsinks too. Pretty good for a cheap cooler, except that it's actually slightly over the weight specification for a 775 cooler.
I use Gentoo, you insensative clod!
Many modern machines smell pretty bad if you burn them. Sats have fuel on board.
And as a matter of fact, plutonium is not that dreadfully toxic. According to Wikipedia, it causes the normal sort of heavy metal poisoning, and does it about as well as lead does, that is to say, unless you ingest quite a lot, the effects are chronic rather than acute (heavy metals basically do not leave the body once they are ingested).
However, if it's powdered, burned, or airborne some other way, really really small amounts can cause lung cancers.
Doesn't headaches and nausea sound a bit more like acute radiation sickness from a gamma emitter?
Seems most likely to me that the sat either had some kind of toxic fuel, coolant, etc. which burnt up and went airborne, or by some crazy fluke managed to hit some underground deposit of something bad, or the whole thing is mass hysteria (this is after all happening up a mountain in the middle of nowhere).
Even if it comes through the atmosphere cold, it's gonna heat up pretty fast when it hits the ground, right?
You need to set it up so that if you don't run a certain script once a week, the Goatse wallpaper happens.
You missed the most amazingly geektastic thing about that thumbdrive. At the end of the leaked My violent Heart there is a few seconds of what sounds like white noise.
When someone on the intarwebs eventually decided to run a various type of analysis on it, it was found that it actually encodes an image. I think you have to plot time on one axis, frequency on the other, energy at that frequency, at that time as brightness at thate point.
Anyway, the image is a version of the "hand reaching through" thing is now on the the album cover.
The hidden image is now at the end of The Warning on the actual album.
Then I guess it's for the people who don't want updates.
After all, they're all pirate trying to avoid install WGA anyway. Or something.