I do remember this, or something called The Palace where people had avatars and could move from rooms to rooms... I don't have much memories from... 8... years ago, but it's enough for this 'new technology' not all so inovative.
The entire thing seems useless to me anyway. The good part of instant messaging is that it's quick and requires little attention. There is no way I'm going to start staring at graphical stuff taking up half my screen while I'm suppoed to work.
Honestly, I doubt this makes a major difference. The wind still can traverse and wind power is not about creating a big wall to change nature (like hydroelectricity is). The wind still goes way above and all around.
Do you think sail boats are causing the Ivan huricane?
But really, imagine the amount of power you could capture from those huge hurricanes! Actually, I think people living down there would be quite glad their power plant would stop them...
An other thing, in Mozilla: Select your fonts wisely. Not all of them can be anti-aliases. I also check the option to disable websites from using fonts not in the list. This way, websites always look good.
A while back, my ISP had 1 mbps down and 64kbps up, now it's around 3mbps down and 640kbps up. Since it's one of the largest ISP in Canada, that change sure is part of the statistics. I wonder how many other ISPs increased the upstream during this period.
One of the questions I ask myself is how 1mbps can be considered as not broadband, even if the upstream is lower.
For those who like to have more details:
http://freedesktop.org/~xorg/X11R6.7.0/doc/RELNOTE S.html
Sounds like a nice release to me. Now I only have to wait for Gentoo to update portage.
I think you should search the slashdot history for benchmarks. Java is not slower in terms of processing, it's even faster in some cases. The only thing is that the virtual machine has to load first and it does consume a lot of memory.
Trust me, when you store your entire enterprise backup data on a single disk, you take good care of it, no matter how fragile it is. I think the data quantity/media size ratio is good enough for the solution to be viable. Imagine replacing a complete data storage room filled with tapes for a tiny box of disks!
Actually, you will have to explain to your boss and clients that the application runs under Mozilla and not on application they can usually use to surf the web (IE is not good enough to be called a browser).
I don't think XForms aims for wide availability anytime soon, but for administration areas or intranet type of applications, it could probably be used as soon as Mozilla has an official releases with it included.
Actually, they probably removed all those calling themselves IT Consultants from the employed list, because it's most likely a synonym to unemployed but it sounds better when you meet a girl.
Is there really a good reason why would GNU be considered as UNIX officially? GNU has it's own credibility.
What is UNIX anyway? Does anyone have a concrete definition of what UNIX is right now (no historical reasons, not the fact that the filesystem starts with/).
Well, RDF is something totally different: It's a W3C standard that has a much larger vision than simply RSS. It's used for semantic web and FOAF type of projects but the applications are about unlimited with some imagination.
Anyway, I found that giving an award to RSS as a game was quite a good joke. What kind of geek plays games anyway?
One of the huge advantages of Stored functions/Procedures is that they make your code a lot cleaner by removing about every logic from the interface. Of course, it makes it easy to have multiple interfaces but most of the time, this probably won't happen.
Of course, for them to be really useful, you need some way to sort and document them because as everything else, you will end up loosing them and forget they exist. I've seen problems like that with undocumented procedures and views. It ends up being a total mess.
I've used Oracle for a while and procedures/functions are quite useful and easy to create once you figured out all the little syntax problems that come with Oracle... (don't they know about make syntax uniform?). I ran a few tests on MySQL 5 alpha, it's quite unstable now but the implentation seem much better to me. I'll have to get the development version from BitKeeper before going any further in the tests because there seem to be a problem with DROP PROCEDURE in the version I have (not blaming, I know the risks of alpha versions).
When it comes to security and data integrity, there is nothing like triggers, but it will have to wait until MySQL 5.1, which is probably over 2 years ahead since MySQL 5 itself probably won't be released before an other 1.5 year.
Probably simply because the process would require studies and a lot of engineering, and that requires some budget, which is the source of the original problem.
Actually, there are/have been crews of 6 people, for 1 week durations. When the crew changes, they spend a few days all together up there for a handover.
Right now, it's impossibe to have so many people up there for long periods since there is not enough room for everyone. The station is incomplete. Node 2 is still missing, and actually, I don't think it's even confirmed if it will ever go up at this time. Since the station is incomplete and there is so much maintenance to do, it can only get worst when it will be completed. Of course the canadian SPDM will come to the rescue for the outdoor tasks and reduce the amount of space walks.
Actually, there are also problems with suppies at the moment. Without shuttles, there are just no way they can bring garbage back on Earth.
At least the station could be used to test the durability of the components, and humans, on orbit. They also learned that there was a great deal of maintenance to be made and that all the experiments that were planned in the first place simply were not realistic. It's closer to a space survival crash course than a scientific facility since 60% of the work time in space has to be spent to make sure everything is in order.
It's quite sad they have to reduce the size of the project, but still, not everything is lost. Space science really improved with the project and all that knowledge will remain for others. The engineering work that has been made is simply amazing.
Actually, the huge advantage is that the satelite can cover areas that no other broadband access could reach (such as the northern regions of Canada, Alaska and all those small towns no company considered implementing infrastructure as a valuable solution.
Actually, if you add a few mirrors in yum or apt configuration, you can simply install all those packages. That process is explained somewhere on fedora.us (which I can't access at this time, I would have pasted the exact link).
Slashdot Mirror
I do remember this, or something called The Palace where people had avatars and could move from rooms to rooms... I don't have much memories from... 8... years ago, but it's enough for this 'new technology' not all so inovative.
The entire thing seems useless to me anyway. The good part of instant messaging is that it's quick and requires little attention. There is no way I'm going to start staring at graphical stuff taking up half my screen while I'm suppoed to work.
Who cares? It's actually the best excuse I have up to now for drinking beer during my courses... and between... and after...
I just base the quality of the sources based on if I like the result.
Honestly, I doubt this makes a major difference. The wind still can traverse and wind power is not about creating a big wall to change nature (like hydroelectricity is). The wind still goes way above and all around.
Do you think sail boats are causing the Ivan huricane?
But really, imagine the amount of power you could capture from those huge hurricanes! Actually, I think people living down there would be quite glad their power plant would stop them...
I guess everyone has it's own way of taking... fresh air. Depending on the time of the day, I do different things.
If it's the second half of the afternoon,
I just go back home.
During the evening,
Off for a beer.
Any other moment,
Walk, coffee or walk to coffee...
And yes, it does work. I usually find my bugs within 10 minutes after sitting back to my desk, which obviously includes reading slashdot.
Just call yourself united staters and it will solve the problem ;)
One day I will learn to read the source of the stats.
An other thing, in Mozilla: Select your fonts wisely. Not all of them can be anti-aliases. I also check the option to disable websites from using fonts not in the list. This way, websites always look good.
A while back, my ISP had 1 mbps down and 64kbps up, now it's around 3mbps down and 640kbps up. Since it's one of the largest ISP in Canada, that change sure is part of the statistics. I wonder how many other ISPs increased the upstream during this period.
One of the questions I ask myself is how 1mbps can be considered as not broadband, even if the upstream is lower.
For those who like to have more details: http://freedesktop.org/~xorg/X11R6.7.0/doc/RELNOTE S.html
Sounds like a nice release to me. Now I only have to wait for Gentoo to update portage.
Just try to tell me lynx didn't do it before IE.
I also believe it's an inconvenient... if only I could configure my browser to stop animating gifs... imagine... less publicity!
I think you should search the slashdot history for benchmarks. Java is not slower in terms of processing, it's even faster in some cases. The only thing is that the virtual machine has to load first and it does consume a lot of memory.
Trust me, when you store your entire enterprise backup data on a single disk, you take good care of it, no matter how fragile it is. I think the data quantity/media size ratio is good enough for the solution to be viable. Imagine replacing a complete data storage room filled with tapes for a tiny box of disks!
Actually, you will have to explain to your boss and clients that the application runs under Mozilla and not on application they can usually use to surf the web (IE is not good enough to be called a browser).
I don't think XForms aims for wide availability anytime soon, but for administration areas or intranet type of applications, it could probably be used as soon as Mozilla has an official releases with it included.
Actually, they probably removed all those calling themselves IT Consultants from the employed list, because it's most likely a synonym to unemployed but it sounds better when you meet a girl.
You forgot about all the Mario.NET serie.
Is there really a good reason why would GNU be considered as UNIX officially? GNU has it's own credibility. What is UNIX anyway? Does anyone have a concrete definition of what UNIX is right now (no historical reasons, not the fact that the filesystem starts with /).
Well, RDF is something totally different: It's a W3C standard that has a much larger vision than simply RSS. It's used for semantic web and FOAF type of projects but the applications are about unlimited with some imagination. Anyway, I found that giving an award to RSS as a game was quite a good joke. What kind of geek plays games anyway?
One of the huge advantages of Stored functions/Procedures is that they make your code a lot cleaner by removing about every logic from the interface. Of course, it makes it easy to have multiple interfaces but most of the time, this probably won't happen.
Of course, for them to be really useful, you need some way to sort and document them because as everything else, you will end up loosing them and forget they exist. I've seen problems like that with undocumented procedures and views. It ends up being a total mess.
I've used Oracle for a while and procedures/functions are quite useful and easy to create once you figured out all the little syntax problems that come with Oracle... (don't they know about make syntax uniform?). I ran a few tests on MySQL 5 alpha, it's quite unstable now but the implentation seem much better to me. I'll have to get the development version from BitKeeper before going any further in the tests because there seem to be a problem with DROP PROCEDURE in the version I have (not blaming, I know the risks of alpha versions).
When it comes to security and data integrity, there is nothing like triggers, but it will have to wait until MySQL 5.1, which is probably over 2 years ahead since MySQL 5 itself probably won't be released before an other 1.5 year.
Probably simply because the process would require studies and a lot of engineering, and that requires some budget, which is the source of the original problem.
For working with ISS/MSS Ops team at CSA, nothing seem certain anymore...
Actually, there are/have been crews of 6 people, for 1 week durations. When the crew changes, they spend a few days all together up there for a handover.
Right now, it's impossibe to have so many people up there for long periods since there is not enough room for everyone. The station is incomplete. Node 2 is still missing, and actually, I don't think it's even confirmed if it will ever go up at this time. Since the station is incomplete and there is so much maintenance to do, it can only get worst when it will be completed. Of course the canadian SPDM will come to the rescue for the outdoor tasks and reduce the amount of space walks.
Actually, there are also problems with suppies at the moment. Without shuttles, there are just no way they can bring garbage back on Earth.
At least the station could be used to test the durability of the components, and humans, on orbit. They also learned that there was a great deal of maintenance to be made and that all the experiments that were planned in the first place simply were not realistic. It's closer to a space survival crash course than a scientific facility since 60% of the work time in space has to be spent to make sure everything is in order. It's quite sad they have to reduce the size of the project, but still, not everything is lost. Space science really improved with the project and all that knowledge will remain for others. The engineering work that has been made is simply amazing.
Actually, the huge advantage is that the satelite can cover areas that no other broadband access could reach (such as the northern regions of Canada, Alaska and all those small towns no company considered implementing infrastructure as a valuable solution.
You must recieve a lot o p0rn emails to find it exciting.
;)
I just get everything filtered on server side spamassassin
Actually, if you add a few mirrors in yum or apt configuration, you can simply install all those packages. That process is explained somewhere on fedora.us (which I can't access at this time, I would have pasted the exact link).