On the other hand, dropping $20k on speakers when you only make $21k a year then you probably are in the exact same sinking boat.
An addiction is unhealthy because it interferes with a person's normal interaction with the world. If you start caring about audio fidelity more than feeding yourself that is IMHO abnormal behavior.
Ever time I hear about "full body force feedback" I'm reminded of this strip from the wise people at MegaTokyo. Some feedback was never ment to be experienced.
Lets see...you used "10,000" and "100". Those are idographic representation of "ten thousand" and "one hundred". There are hundreds of idographs in common US English yet someone wants to harp on a language that uses idographs for 95% of their written word?
The point is that any character encoding should have been robust enough to encode any language used at any point in the history of mankind(okay...encoding things like Ancient Latin might be more acedemic than anything).
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"The business model for commercial software has a proven track record..."
Yeah...a proven track record for making business' money. It doesn't have a proven track record for making better software, protecting the rights of consumers and users, or protecting the rights of the rights of those who choose to create new software.
So Microsoft is trying to equate "making money" with "good software" which just is a logical falicy. There is nothing about a successful business model that promotes better software. Apache, Perl and others seem to be quiet sound without the money grubbing business model Microsoft seems to aspire too.
I'm not a physics student/professor/etc. so others might be able to give better info on this effect than others.
The aurora effect seen in nature is essentially the same physics used in flouressent lights. Solar winds carrying charged particles are channeled into the northern and southern polar regions due to the planet's magnetic field(Earth, Jupiter whatever). The particles strike molucules in the upper atmosphere which excites them to a new energy state and light is emmited when they return to their original energy state.
What is physicist have known for awhile is that different gasses emmit different wavelengths of light in this kind of situations(neon lights etc). Recording an aurora effect this large is interesting because there is a possiblity of catching a glimpse of the chemestry in the upper Jovian atmosphere or possibly a different/rare physical reaction(can you excite hydrogen to the point of doing something new?). Hopefully they'll pull some interesting science out of their lucky observations.
A lot of science is theory and logic. A piece of it is also being lucky and at the right place at the right times.
Its great that there are driven and enthusiastic people but their drive must be tempered "wisdom".
Open Source is probably the most important and powerful movement in technology since Microsoft came out with Windows 3.0. It makes the might Microsoft quake. It makes the giants like IBM move. Even with all of this power I make no illusions: it isn't a silver bullet that will solve all of the world's computational problems. Not yet anyway.
Its the difference between good and bad advocation. Its one thing to point out to as many people you can that Linux is cooler and better technology than Windows. Its something else to try and ram it down people's throat because you believe it is.
So lets promote but not crush. Otherwise you've just forced software onto people that makes them confused and uncomfortable.
One of the main reasons GNOME is using C as opposed to C++ is that C is more portable and far more supported across platforms. If you are stuck on an AIX RS6000 machine with a "quirky" compiler you'll understand how this goes.
And another thing, just because something is written in C automatically means no "object oriented" code. You can accomplish OOP in C by various mechanisms that all work even though C itself doesn't naitively support OOP. X (which KDE depends on anyway) and Gnome and Win32 all work on the concept of a modifying a "black box object". It is interesting to note that there are C++ bindings built on these toolkits!
And let us not forget that OOP code doesn't automatically mean better written code. Some of the neatest code I've seen (in Perl btw) doesn't require OOP.:-)
Does Gnome need to be written in C++? No because they found that the extra synax was just sugar. I have no problem with Gnome and GTK being written in C because others will come along and implement C++ wrapping around it(just like MFC).
Does anyone have perspective on trying to get Linux up and running on Blade workstation? I tried to use Debian's Potato on a duelie Ultra2 and still haven't gotten all of the services configured correctly(for instance XFree still doesn't work).
Does anyone have any recommendations on which distro to be using for prospective buyers?
Flexibility has the feature it can be configured any number of ways. Standardization has the feature that each system is the same in behavior and configuration. Both of these are useful and have their place.
Because the way Unix was designed, it is designed to be as open and flexible as possible. "Everything is a file" and "tools built on other tools" design makes for a powerful environment that unfortunately means that it may spawn a million different designs(how many ways can you manipulate a file?). Windows seems to be a highly structured and standard environment which unforunately means you sacrafice a lot of free formed design to fit in "the box". Heck they make their money off of ISVs banking on this.
Neither is particularlly good or bad but it is "inefficient" to make Linux "more standard". In essence the power of Linux and other Unix environments is the lack of "rules".
I would rather see id and other make sane and flexible programs than have them waste their time running around making sure everyone follows some "Linux Game Platform Driver API".
Who better than the production company to wrangle in interviews with the creators and designers for shows. What more they provide a bunch of them in English! Very nifty IMHO.
I think I should patent the computer virus so those guys who write anti-virus software will have to pay me for doing anything with any virus. I wonder if it will actually get by the USPO?
Emulating this will be sweet and elite. The only problem is the 70 lbs box. Hurm...I bet if I strap together four old metal computer cases that will way nearly 70 lbs! Rock on!
Hey...its the only thing I could think of besides saying "Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these things?"
...only when I have to put new hardware in the box. Does this mean Microsoft will be forcing people who have Linux to install hardware?
I also think its cute they completely ignore BSD. They also ignore IBM which is not to be ignored. Lets give props where props are due. The combination of open and hardened BSD and open and innovative Linux will mean that Microsoft will on gain market share by strongarm marketering and strategery.;-)
I bet by the time I'm done typing and hitting submit there will be several posts saying something like this. Why can't everyone stand back and go "great job guys for implementing it on a new platform!" instead of "you lamers...we had this X years ago". If they had implemented this on MacOS(random OS picked off the top of my head) would the BSD guys say the same thing?
Microsoft was a very very very late player in the net software. In fact it almost sunk them in late 80s/early 90s. Gates originaly thought the WWW was an interesting side technology. It took a bunch from NCSA making truck loads of money to change his tune. I hate to sound trite but Microsoft's past actions don't sound very enlightened.
You are correct: Pushing repackaged technology every few years is super expensive for consumers and people might have to stopped buying at the outragous rate Microsoft wants them too. Why upgrade to Windows ME when my Win98 works great? Why upgrade to Office 2K when Office 97 works great except that it doesn't open Office 2K files? Why write new code for a platform that is only supported on one hardware configuration which could be accomplished by other cheaper and more flexible hardware and software?
One of the paradoxes of a free society is the fact that it is free enough to destroy itself. The alternative isn't very applealing if you think about it.
The great thing about this place is that if you really do believe things are wrong we have the tools to fix it. This also means that if you oppenent doesn't want you to fix them then they have every right to stop you from accomplishing their goals. You can't have "free for the good(me) guys but not for the evil(other) guys". How do you determine "evil(other) guys"? To have anything less would be problematic.
Slashdot just like other place tends to grab the senasational topics and hold on to them. I'm not saying it there aren't problems out there. There will always be problems in any culture. I really don't believe things are horribly wrong and studies have shown that if you aren't afluently rich open soceities like the US are the best places to be.
- I've wanted to mess around with a PowerPC platform hardware but unlike Intel hardware it seems to be very hard to find for realitively cheap. Any hints on how to jump into LinuxPPC without running out to CompUSA and buying a PowerCube?
- Got any feelings about OSX? Will there be any nifty widgets(graphic, hardware drivers, or other) that you will be modeling from OSX for LinuxPPC?
- Have you kept track of the person that crashed into you? I mean in the sense that you made sure that he was dealt with in the courts properly. I don't want to imply you are vengeful or anything but do you think they were treated properly(to lightly, to harshly or something in between)?
The client support for Linux systems seems to be great. I'm using GICU and GAIM both of which seem to work well.
The thing I wonder about though has anyone implemented a AIM or ICQ sever? I ask this because there are some setups, like work, where you want the instant messaging functionality without the distraction of the outside world.
"Why bother with this crazy trip? We can spend our money on better things than to finance some trip to some place we already know is there(ie. India)!"
There are plenty of things that can only be learned by just being there. And you never know when you might figure out something completely unexpected when you try.
The fact is for all of the theories we have about Pluto and why it is out there we don't have enough observation and data still. There are plenty of things out there that are "quirky" about Neptune and Pluto. Their orbits cross each other sycronously. Is this a coinsidence? Neptune has the only moon in the entire Solar System with a large bulk moon that is in a retrograde orbit(Triton).
If it can be shown that objects like Triton and Pluto are commonly found in the Kuiper Belt then that would go a long way to show where a lot of the left over mass of the Solar System could be hidding.
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On the other hand, dropping $20k on speakers when you only make $21k a year then you probably are in the exact same sinking boat.
An addiction is unhealthy because it interferes with a person's normal interaction with the world. If you start caring about audio fidelity more than feeding yourself that is IMHO abnormal behavior.
Ever time I hear about "full body force feedback" I'm reminded of this strip from the wise people at MegaTokyo. Some feedback was never ment to be experienced.
Lets see...you used "10,000" and "100". Those are idographic representation of "ten thousand" and "one hundred". There are hundreds of idographs in common US English yet someone wants to harp on a language that uses idographs for 95% of their written word?
The point is that any character encoding should have been robust enough to encode any language used at any point in the history of mankind(okay...encoding things like Ancient Latin might be more acedemic than anything).
"The business model for commercial software has a proven track record..."
Yeah...a proven track record for making business' money. It doesn't have a proven track record for making better software, protecting the rights of consumers and users, or protecting the rights of the rights of those who choose to create new software.
So Microsoft is trying to equate "making money" with "good software" which just is a logical falicy. There is nothing about a successful business model that promotes better software. Apache, Perl and others seem to be quiet sound without the money grubbing business model Microsoft seems to aspire too.
Can you imagine a Beowolf cluster of these Dell laptops? You can probably bbq an entire heard of cattle!
Gah...as if my Palm doesn't already go slow enough...
...they where talking about this...which I thought was pretty good art.
I'm not a physics student/professor/etc. so others might be able to give better info on this effect than others.
The aurora effect seen in nature is essentially the same physics used in flouressent lights. Solar winds carrying charged particles are channeled into the northern and southern polar regions due to the planet's magnetic field(Earth, Jupiter whatever). The particles strike molucules in the upper atmosphere which excites them to a new energy state and light is emmited when they return to their original energy state.
What is physicist have known for awhile is that different gasses emmit different wavelengths of light in this kind of situations(neon lights etc). Recording an aurora effect this large is interesting because there is a possiblity of catching a glimpse of the chemestry in the upper Jovian atmosphere or possibly a different/rare physical reaction(can you excite hydrogen to the point of doing something new?). Hopefully they'll pull some interesting science out of their lucky observations.
A lot of science is theory and logic. A piece of it is also being lucky and at the right place at the right times.
That the "Foot and Mouth" E-mail Virus is not actually dangerous to humans but it does destroy the value of your e-mail.
Its great that there are driven and enthusiastic people but their drive must be tempered "wisdom".
Open Source is probably the most important and powerful movement in technology since Microsoft came out with Windows 3.0. It makes the might Microsoft quake. It makes the giants like IBM move. Even with all of this power I make no illusions: it isn't a silver bullet that will solve all of the world's computational problems. Not yet anyway.
Its the difference between good and bad advocation. Its one thing to point out to as many people you can that Linux is cooler and better technology than Windows. Its something else to try and ram it down people's throat because you believe it is.
So lets promote but not crush. Otherwise you've just forced software onto people that makes them confused and uncomfortable.
One of the main reasons GNOME is using C as opposed to C++ is that C is more portable and far more supported across platforms. If you are stuck on an AIX RS6000 machine with a "quirky" compiler you'll understand how this goes.
:-)
And another thing, just because something is written in C automatically means no "object oriented" code. You can accomplish OOP in C by various mechanisms that all work even though C itself doesn't naitively support OOP. X (which KDE depends on anyway) and Gnome and Win32 all work on the concept of a modifying a "black box object". It is interesting to note that there are C++ bindings built on these toolkits!
And let us not forget that OOP code doesn't automatically mean better written code. Some of the neatest code I've seen (in Perl btw) doesn't require OOP.
Does Gnome need to be written in C++? No because they found that the extra synax was just sugar. I have no problem with Gnome and GTK being written in C because others will come along and implement C++ wrapping around it(just like MFC).
Does anyone have perspective on trying to get Linux up and running on Blade workstation? I tried to use Debian's Potato on a duelie Ultra2 and still haven't gotten all of the services configured correctly(for instance XFree still doesn't work).
Does anyone have any recommendations on which distro to be using for prospective buyers?
Flexibility has the feature it can be configured any number of ways. Standardization has the feature that each system is the same in behavior and configuration. Both of these are useful and have their place.
Because the way Unix was designed, it is designed to be as open and flexible as possible. "Everything is a file" and "tools built on other tools" design makes for a powerful environment that unfortunately means that it may spawn a million different designs(how many ways can you manipulate a file?). Windows seems to be a highly structured and standard environment which unforunately means you sacrafice a lot of free formed design to fit in "the box". Heck they make their money off of ISVs banking on this.
Neither is particularlly good or bad but it is "inefficient" to make Linux "more standard". In essence the power of Linux and other Unix environments is the lack of "rules".
I would rather see id and other make sane and flexible programs than have them waste their time running around making sure everyone follows some "Linux Game Platform Driver API".
Who better than the production company to wrangle in interviews with the creators and designers for shows. What more they provide a bunch of them in English! Very nifty IMHO.
I think I should patent the computer virus so those guys who write anti-virus software will have to pay me for doing anything with any virus. I wonder if it will actually get by the USPO?
Emulating this will be sweet and elite. The only problem is the 70 lbs box. Hurm...I bet if I strap together four old metal computer cases that will way nearly 70 lbs! Rock on!
Hey...its the only thing I could think of besides saying "Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these things?"
...only when I have to put new hardware in the box. Does this mean Microsoft will be forcing people who have Linux to install hardware?
;-)
I also think its cute they completely ignore BSD. They also ignore IBM which is not to be ignored. Lets give props where props are due. The combination of open and hardened BSD and open and innovative Linux will mean that Microsoft will on gain market share by strongarm marketering and strategery.
I mean I used the stuff with my web cam and this is what it spit out...
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"This has been in BSD forever..."
I bet by the time I'm done typing and hitting submit there will be several posts saying something like this. Why can't everyone stand back and go "great job guys for implementing it on a new platform!" instead of "you lamers...we had this X years ago". If they had implemented this on MacOS(random OS picked off the top of my head) would the BSD guys say the same thing?
Microsoft was a very very very late player in the net software. In fact it almost sunk them in late 80s/early 90s. Gates originaly thought the WWW was an interesting side technology. It took a bunch from NCSA making truck loads of money to change his tune. I hate to sound trite but Microsoft's past actions don't sound very enlightened.
You are correct: Pushing repackaged technology every few years is super expensive for consumers and people might have to stopped buying at the outragous rate Microsoft wants them too. Why upgrade to Windows ME when my Win98 works great? Why upgrade to Office 2K when Office 97 works great except that it doesn't open Office 2K files? Why write new code for a platform that is only supported on one hardware configuration which could be accomplished by other cheaper and more flexible hardware and software?
One of the paradoxes of a free society is the fact that it is free enough to destroy itself. The alternative isn't very applealing if you think about it.
The great thing about this place is that if you really do believe things are wrong we have the tools to fix it. This also means that if you oppenent doesn't want you to fix them then they have every right to stop you from accomplishing their goals. You can't have "free for the good(me) guys but not for the evil(other) guys". How do you determine "evil(other) guys"? To have anything less would be problematic.
Slashdot just like other place tends to grab the senasational topics and hold on to them. I'm not saying it there aren't problems out there. There will always be problems in any culture. I really don't believe things are horribly wrong and studies have shown that if you aren't afluently rich open soceities like the US are the best places to be.
I can't be the real deal if its proportional dimensions aren't perfect squares(1x4x9). Anyone actually take the measurements of the thing?
Seriously, this is pretty cool move on who ever did this(especially if it was God or ET). They obviously like A Clarke's work.
- I've wanted to mess around with a PowerPC platform hardware but unlike Intel hardware it seems to be very hard to find for realitively cheap. Any hints on how to jump into LinuxPPC without running out to CompUSA and buying a PowerCube?
- Got any feelings about OSX? Will there be any nifty widgets(graphic, hardware drivers, or other) that you will be modeling from OSX for LinuxPPC?
- Have you kept track of the person that crashed into you? I mean in the sense that you made sure that he was dealt with in the courts properly. I don't want to imply you are vengeful or anything but do you think they were treated properly(to lightly, to harshly or something in between)?
The client support for Linux systems seems to be great. I'm using GICU and GAIM both of which seem to work well.
The thing I wonder about though has anyone implemented a AIM or ICQ sever? I ask this because there are some setups, like work, where you want the instant messaging functionality without the distraction of the outside world.
"Why bother with this crazy trip? We can spend our money on better things than to finance some trip to some place we already know is there(ie. India)!"
There are plenty of things that can only be learned by just being there. And you never know when you might figure out something completely unexpected when you try.
The fact is for all of the theories we have about Pluto and why it is out there we don't have enough observation and data still. There are plenty of things out there that are "quirky" about Neptune and Pluto. Their orbits cross each other sycronously. Is this a coinsidence? Neptune has the only moon in the entire Solar System with a large bulk moon that is in a retrograde orbit(Triton).
If it can be shown that objects like Triton and Pluto are commonly found in the Kuiper Belt then that would go a long way to show where a lot of the left over mass of the Solar System could be hidding.