This was the only thing that has kept me from switching to the *nixes I have installed the last three years (Mandrake, FC3, FreeBSD). After looking in a few forums, trying a couple drivers, and generally not hearing anything for a few days, I booted Windows instead. If this is somehow supported in the default FC4 install, that'll most splendidly make my day. That said, any tips to make this work would be highly appreciated...
I remember ripping a DVD under Win2k and then doing it again under WinXP when I got XP and seeing significant performance gains to the tune of going from about 4000kb/sec to about 7500-8000kb/sec under XP.
IIRC, the automatic detection of DMA settings for drives was not included in Win2k. Sure it's a nice feature for Joe Average, but I doubt that any revolutionary I/O handling improvements caused the speed increase.
And a little though is work dog crap to your supervisor, who wants this out the day before you even heard about it.
Oh, and if you know your contract is definitely out in six months, why bother covering the next guy's ass? Getting credit right now is so simple, you'd have to be stupid or very kind to actually give a second's thought about your array1 = {var1, var2}s and quadruple for loops.</rant>
This morning, shortly after eleven o'clock, comedy struck this little thread at Slashdot. Sudden... violent... comedy. Police have sealed off the area, and Scotland Yard's crack inspector is with me now.
Can't some enterprising company hire someone like, say, Brian Azzarello / Warren Ellis / Alan Moore to put a storyline worth a damn into a game?
Garth Ennis or Neil Gaiman. Arguably two of the finest minds in modern comics, Ennis with his political incorrectness, and Gaiman with his otherworldly, yet eerily familiar, worlds of imagination.
They want to find hidden information on the Internet? Somebody please add this to the "Examples" section of the Wikipedia "Oxymoron" article.
On a more serious note, after decades of AI research, maybe it's time to realize that we still have a looong way to go before being able to extract any meaning out of random combinations of piractical speech, baby language, franglais, etc., even when written in any form that most English-speaking persons understand. And once that feat is done, how about doing the same for audio or video, with an archaic arabian dialect as the base? And how about techniques like steganography and CAPTCHA?
Bottom line: Human language is hard to decipher, and it doesn't take much imagination to make it even harder.
It will have a "soft-wired" top speed of 2mph in rural areas, and will be banned altogether when this kills 240 pedestrians on the first day in the "field", because of uncontrolled speeding when breaking and turning on the radio at the same time.
I for one welcome our new evolution-speeding overlords!
The "ø" character is part of the Norwegian alphabet, just as "æ" and "å". If you want to use them with an English keyboard in Windows, just add Norwegian as an input language, and assign shortcuts such as Alt-Shift-1 & 2 to shift between it and the other language you're using. Then "ø" is at ";", "æ" is at "'", and "å" is at "[".
Hasn't this been obvious for years? I mean, even though the first white LEDs were hugely expensive, and the public seems to be as clueless as always, this must be one of the most important technology revolutions outside the silicon industry for decades.
*Directed at the USA Today article, not the/. reviewers
Well, what happens to the customers that have a player-model that gets, by no fault of themselves, revoked. Are they reembursed (getting (part of) their money back), or are they just left with a piece of worthless, but costly junk ?
This can't possibly work on the global scale, so it'll just be the final kick in the balls before all consumers learn how to pirate movies. That is, if the movie industry doesn't realize that it's their worst move of all times.
If we can't even colonize all of the continents here on Earth, why bother with other planets. A better example is the bottom of the ocean. Why not colonize the ocean floor? It's less rediculous than colonizing the moon.
Here's why:
Raw materials, such as gold or deuterium-rich soil
Escaping the inevitable, but possibly remote, extinction of the human race
Slashdot Mirror
In other news, 1994 is being sued for multiple DDoS attacks, including meta-slashdotting.
Nah, too close to the new suite name, Sunderfox.
Check out http://www.stenling.no/dvorak/ for a very nice Norwegian Dvorak layout. Shouldn't be too hard to copy for Swedish...
This was the only thing that has kept me from switching to the *nixes I have installed the last three years (Mandrake, FC3, FreeBSD). After looking in a few forums, trying a couple drivers, and generally not hearing anything for a few days, I booted Windows instead. If this is somehow supported in the default FC4 install, that'll most splendidly make my day. That said, any tips to make this work would be highly appreciated...
IIRC, the automatic detection of DMA settings for drives was not included in Win2k. Sure it's a nice feature for Joe Average, but I doubt that any revolutionary I/O handling improvements caused the speed increase.
And a little though is work dog crap to your supervisor, who wants this out the day before you even heard about it.
Oh, and if you know your contract is definitely out in six months, why bother covering the next guy's ass? Getting credit right now is so simple, you'd have to be stupid or very kind to actually give a second's thought about your array1 = {var1, var2}s and quadruple for loops.</rant>
We need a more accurate measure than $s and £s: Libraries of congress per average decay time of a proton in vacuum.
Garth Ennis or Neil Gaiman. Arguably two of the finest minds in modern comics, Ennis with his political incorrectness, and Gaiman with his otherworldly, yet eerily familiar, worlds of imagination.
They want to find hidden information on the Internet? Somebody please add this to the "Examples" section of the Wikipedia "Oxymoron" article.
On a more serious note, after decades of AI research, maybe it's time to realize that we still have a looong way to go before being able to extract any meaning out of random combinations of piractical speech, baby language, franglais, etc., even when written in any form that most English-speaking persons understand. And once that feat is done, how about doing the same for audio or video, with an archaic arabian dialect as the base? And how about techniques like steganography and CAPTCHA?
Bottom line: Human language is hard to decipher, and it doesn't take much imagination to make it even harder.
I'd like to have a 30 GHz myself, just to pronounce it "triple-x jeeze".
ObQuote: "I guess it would be more politically correct to kill the women and the minorities first."
It will have a "soft-wired" top speed of 2mph in rural areas, and will be banned altogether when this kills 240 pedestrians on the first day in the "field", because of uncontrolled speeding when breaking and turning on the radio at the same time.
I for one welcome our new evolution-speeding overlords!
Yep, and there's the goody feeling of having 14000 250GB disks available at the click of a button :)
IIRC, Microsoft owns Wiley. Maybe this could be an even better reason for Jobs to not support the book.
The "ø" character is part of the Norwegian alphabet, just as "æ" and "å". If you want to use them with an English keyboard in Windows, just add Norwegian as an input language, and assign shortcuts such as Alt-Shift-1 & 2 to shift between it and the other language you're using. Then "ø" is at ";", "æ" is at "'", and "å" is at "[".
To make good passwords, bad spelling is your friend. Just use any of the following:
Combine with scrambling methods like left- or right-shifting "for great justice".
I really do hate to say it, but Firefox is one of the very few user-centered pieces of FOSS within a huge pile of geek-centric applications.
's probably because of that here death warrant on the fool invented the sequel. Basserds tryin' to hide their tracks...
Urrh, that is, outside the semiconductor^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hcomputer industry.
Hasn't this been obvious for years? I mean, even though the first white LEDs were hugely expensive, and the public seems to be as clueless as always, this must be one of the most important technology revolutions outside the silicon industry for decades.
*Directed at the USA Today article, not the /. reviewers
So, basically you have the following rule-set:
?Get the job done, and done easily. Three words I can't emphasize enough "USER INTERFACE DESIGN".
I don't know where I heard about this principle, but it's something I try to keep to when programming:
Point 2 is necessary, but really the only things needed are those which make the meaning of the input and output clearer, such as a green "OK" button.
If we can't even colonize all of the continents here on Earth, why bother with other planets. A better example is the bottom of the ocean. Why not colonize the ocean floor? It's less rediculous than colonizing the moon.
Here's why: