(Borrowed a different drive to initially install from, had to compile a patched kernel on a 386sx-16 so don't even try talking to me about pains in the ass because I have the t-shirt.) It was another year and more hardware upgrades before I reached a point where I could start planning to move most of my day to day operations over.
That wasn't one of those Panasonic drives with its own driver card, was it? Aaach! What a mess!
Whatever the motivation these folks have for writing this particular piece of software, it fulfills one aspect of hacking that you haven't addressed yet: it scrathes an itch.
I've seen it said here more than once by people more software-talented than I; "Software is like sex. It is best when it is free". But like sex, software also has its fetishes. I don't particularly like pain and leather, but there is someone (apparently more than I would have imagined) who absolutely DIG it. Who would have thought?
As for DOSEMU and Wine, you're right. These projects are coding onward on obsolete APIs for no apparent reason (with the exception of just about everyone who doesn't want to pay for old versions of MSDOS, IBM PCDOS, or DRDOS to make a system run - see Sensors and Software GPR software). But they have a community, they are learning something from their experiences, and they provide that expertise back to the community-at-large for free.
Who knows where those bits and bytes might be useful? Just because you and I do may not care about the code doesn't diminish its value. Used code is valuable code even for just the historical and educational value. Whether you or I consider it a waste of their time is irrelevant.
With all of your own exeperience I'm sure I could pry loose something "unusable" to the development community.;)
He voted against an Omnibus spending package that included pay increases for the military, funding for body armor, and pork spending for congressional elections.
Yeah, the time boundaries between creep and this kind of phenomenon are kind of fuzzy and subjective. When does creep become a slow quake, when is a quake not a quake, etc.
Since this falls in the gap between creep and quake, you should expect a whole subdiscipline to appear in a few years dedicated to the study of long duration quakes. They will provide the theoretical and emperical basis for dividing creep from slow quake.
One thing that definately helps establish a boundary is the depth of the energy release. Deep quakes associated with long period activity form where the heat and pressure of the zone (epicenter) of activity allows for a less-catastrophic release.
If that is going to be the standard, then Linux-ISVs better get cracking and provide a digital signature capability.
Or is there one around already? The only reason I continue to maintain a Windows partition is because our time cards are electronic and our digital signature software is Windows-only.
That's a good one... unless it happens to 'your' equipment. Do you think your battery guys use that description when their tires "spontaneous disassemble" on the road?;)
I guess I should have been more precise in my explanation: brittle deformation is what I meant to describe.
Yes, the stress relieved at one site may be trasferred to another along the plate margin. But exactly where in the system it is taken up determines whether the "receiving" plate margin will react in a catastrophic manner. Some sites may behave in a plastic (quasi-elastic) fashion and the stress will be dissapated in a slowly developing folded crust. Others will absorb the stress along brittle margins and will eventually react in a non-elastic fault.
"Slow" earthquakes are a bit of a misnomer. The energy released in a slow earthquake is the same as the energy released by a catastrophic quake. It is just released over a longer period of time.
General plate movement creates both slow and catastrophic quakes; plate tectonics is the engine driving the stress that creates earthquakes.
The more I read of Tanenbaum and his work the more I admire him. The fact that he is a Fellow of two prestigious societies says alot about his contributions. Tanenbaum is a classic academic; he knows where to pick his fights - on the science. He attempts to stay above personalities, but doesn't flinch when it comes to calling bullshit on some dickhead (my words) who is out to smear someone for money.
Whenever you look at an old fossil of a computer, remember this: at some point, that was considered so much power that we would never be able to find a use for it all. We can't even blame MS - Linux gear is just as bloated.
If you read the article, they are talking about rendering a fully compliant webpage. They did mention Opera and PocketIE. Both failed to render at 32MB. From the article:
"We have run the same tests using Opera and Pocket IE on 32MB device form factors, and neither can make it though the page load test based on their lack of browser content and standards support, or they just simply run out of memory trying to display the pages."
I don't think they are talking about the size of the binary distribution, but the size of all the components loaded into RAM and rendering compliant webpages.
Atheism has about as many variants as Christianity... probabally more.
You obviously haven't visited http://www.adherents.com/.
Perhaps I could use a term a little more appropriate, like Secular-Humanism...
Which is not atheism....
Some atheists I've seen go so far as to form "clubs" of common social groups...
Which means the chess club is now a religion....
BTW, I did see a survey of Unitarian ministers that claimed over 65% of the ministers didn't believe in the existance of a God.
Which doesn't have *anything* to do with atheism....
Although the U.S.S.R. was officially "atheist"...
Which has as much to do with atheism as Christianity does with Nazism....
It can be argued that worship of the GNU/Linux gods can be a cult...
Point conceded. Still has nothing to do with atheism....
You have tried valiantly to defend your position, but despite your efforts, you have still failed to make a theology out of a philosophy.
People who claim atheism is religion are generally Christian fundamentalist in their beliefs. What is most striking is what making the comparison says about the person who advances it: they are saying that a system that relies on faith is the same as one that lacks it.
My lack of belief in any gods is predicated on the lack of convincing physical evidence that any exist. It is also predicated on the notion that I can be proved wrong by the introduction of incontrovertable evidence to the contrary.
No religion based on faith (which I would argue includes them all) would allow for that situation. When faced with evidence to the contrary, individuals with a fundamentalist-based belief system rationalize the evidence to fit their belief structure (fossils - floods; radiometric dating - creationism with differential radiometric clocks; evolution - creation "science").
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Instead, it sounds like they took Fedora or something and crammed it into a consumer device.
Which, by itself, wouldn't have been a *bad* thing provided you didn't install EVERY freaking library and application that came on the install media.
As for Linux boot times - I've seen the Zaurus boot before and it was nearly "instant on". It was certainly faster than my Nokia cell phone.
(Borrowed a different drive to initially install from, had to compile a patched kernel on a 386sx-16 so don't even try talking to me about pains in the ass because I have the t-shirt.) It was another year and more hardware upgrades before I reached a point where I could start planning to move most of my day to day operations over.
;)
That wasn't one of those Panasonic drives with its own driver card, was it? Aaach! What a mess!
Whatever the motivation these folks have for writing this particular piece of software, it fulfills one aspect of hacking that you haven't addressed yet: it scrathes an itch.
I've seen it said here more than once by people more software-talented than I; "Software is like sex. It is best when it is free". But like sex, software also has its fetishes. I don't particularly like pain and leather, but there is someone (apparently more than I would have imagined) who absolutely DIG it. Who would have thought?
As for DOSEMU and Wine, you're right. These projects are coding onward on obsolete APIs for no apparent reason (with the exception of just about everyone who doesn't want to pay for old versions of MSDOS, IBM PCDOS, or DRDOS to make a system run - see Sensors and Software GPR software). But they have a community, they are learning something from their experiences, and they provide that expertise back to the community-at-large for free.
Who knows where those bits and bytes might be useful? Just because you and I do may not care about the code doesn't diminish its value. Used code is valuable code even for just the historical and educational value. Whether you or I consider it a waste of their time is irrelevant.
With all of your own exeperience I'm sure I could pry loose something "unusable" to the development community.
Knowing Kerry,...
And, of course, you don't.
He voted against an Omnibus spending package that included pay increases for the military, funding for body armor, and pork spending for congressional elections.
Are you for the pork?
The reason vests were in short supply:
Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld weren't going.
Good point! You should have posted this sans AC.
Please Mod Parent Up!
Yeah, the time boundaries between creep and this kind of phenomenon are kind of fuzzy and subjective. When does creep become a slow quake, when is a quake not a quake, etc.
Since this falls in the gap between creep and quake, you should expect a whole subdiscipline to appear in a few years dedicated to the study of long duration quakes. They will provide the theoretical and emperical basis for dividing creep from slow quake.
One thing that definately helps establish a boundary is the depth of the energy release. Deep quakes associated with long period activity form where the heat and pressure of the zone (epicenter) of activity allows for a less-catastrophic release.
If that is going to be the standard, then Linux-ISVs better get cracking and provide a digital signature capability.
Or is there one around already? The only reason I continue to maintain a Windows partition is because our time cards are electronic and our digital signature software is Windows-only.
"spontaneous disassembly"
;)
That's a good one... unless it happens to 'your' equipment. Do you think your battery guys use that description when their tires "spontaneous disassemble" on the road?
I guess I should have been more precise in my explanation: brittle deformation is what I meant to describe.
Slower then? :-P
Longer period.
Yes, the stress relieved at one site may be trasferred to another along the plate margin. But exactly where in the system it is taken up determines whether the "receiving" plate margin will react in a catastrophic manner. Some sites may behave in a plastic (quasi-elastic) fashion and the stress will be dissapated in a slowly developing folded crust. Others will absorb the stress along brittle margins and will eventually react in a non-elastic fault.
"Slow" earthquakes are a bit of a misnomer. The energy released in a slow earthquake is the same as the energy released by a catastrophic quake. It is just released over a longer period of time.
General plate movement creates both slow and catastrophic quakes; plate tectonics is the engine driving the stress that creates earthquakes.
These kinds of puns are not gneiss. The are just the type of schist that geologists have been objecting to for years.
The seismic staff at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
We contribute to the UoW by maintaining the Eastern Washington Seismic Monitoring Network.
The more I read of Tanenbaum and his work the more I admire him. The fact that he is a Fellow of two prestigious societies says alot about his contributions.
Tanenbaum is a classic academic; he knows where to pick his fights - on the science. He attempts to stay above personalities, but doesn't flinch when it comes to calling bullshit on some dickhead (my words) who is out to smear someone for money.
A Sperry XT?
;)
Dude, you are the shit.
I wish I had mod points.
That was funny.
Gaming is a hobby, a release, and to have to "train" for it would be rather unenjoyable, I think.
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I thought the same thing when I heard that folks actually made a living skateboarding
When you try visiting http://projectname.sf.net/ and get an error like that, switch to http://sf.net/projects/projectname/ instead.
Great hint. Hope this post gets modded up. Thanks.
Whenever you look at an old fossil of a computer, remember this: at some point, that was considered so much power that we would never be able to find a use for it all. We can't even blame MS - Linux gear is just as bloated.
You could always just run Minix.
Do you have a better URL? I get this when I load the one listed in your post:
We're Sorry but this Project hasn't yet uploaded their personal webpage yet. Please check back soon for updates or visit SourceForge
If you read the article, they are talking about rendering a fully compliant webpage. They did mention Opera and PocketIE. Both failed to render at 32MB. From the article:
"We have run the same tests using Opera and Pocket IE on 32MB device form factors, and neither can make it though the page load test based on their lack of browser content and standards support, or they just simply run out of memory trying to display the pages."
I don't think they are talking about the size of the binary distribution, but the size of all the components loaded into RAM and rendering compliant webpages.
Atheism has about as many variants as Christianity... probabally more.
You obviously haven't visited http://www.adherents.com/.
Perhaps I could use a term a little more appropriate, like Secular-Humanism...
Which is not atheism....
Some atheists I've seen go so far as to form "clubs" of common social groups...
Which means the chess club is now a religion....
BTW, I did see a survey of Unitarian ministers that claimed over 65% of the ministers didn't believe in the existance of a God.
Which doesn't have *anything* to do with atheism....
Although the U.S.S.R. was officially "atheist"...
Which has as much to do with atheism as Christianity does with Nazism....
It can be argued that worship of the GNU/Linux gods can be a cult...
Point conceded. Still has nothing to do with atheism....
You have tried valiantly to defend your position, but despite your efforts, you have still failed to make a theology out of a philosophy.
People who claim atheism is religion are generally Christian fundamentalist in their beliefs. What is most striking is what making the comparison says about the person who advances it: they are saying that a system that relies on faith is the same as one that lacks it.
My lack of belief in any gods is predicated on the lack of convincing physical evidence that any exist. It is also predicated on the notion that I can be proved wrong by the introduction of incontrovertable evidence to the contrary.
No religion based on faith (which I would argue includes them all) would allow for that situation. When faced with evidence to the contrary, individuals with a fundamentalist-based belief system rationalize the evidence to fit their belief structure (fossils - floods; radiometric dating - creationism with differential radiometric clocks; evolution - creation "science").
Atheism is a philosophy, just as economics is.
This happens in most religions (including atheism)..
Atheism is the rejection of supernaturalism.
Name one religion that does not rely on a supernatural mechanism for its existance.
If atheism is a religion, then an abiotic environment has all kinds of biotic critters running about.
Atheism is a philosophy, not a theology.
You're right!
BTW, what developmental release of Windows are you running?