If we used some sort of higher powered rocket to generate the velocity, I wonder if ion rockets could hold that velocity for a long time.
Since we are using this space, I wonder what we would need the ion rocket for to hold that velocity. In space, there is not much that could slow you down.
No way, gentoo is so fast and debian so slow that the gentoo user will be able to compile everything before you open a terminal simulator in your debian.
There's no doubt that a great many Gentoo users just like the pseudo-133t aspect. But, as was pointed out earlier, the installation is pretty easy if you follow the instructions.
I agree, Gentoo got the geek-factor Debian used to have.
Personally, I see Gentoo as a great learning distro.
Yes, a learning distro. Although the concept is interesting from an academic point of view, it sucks in real life. We got WLAN at our university, so laptops are really common here; I run Debian, another student runs Gentoo. "Hey, look, there's a shiny new program, and it also has a debian package" - "It also has a ebuild" 60 seconds later apt-get has installed the program on my notebook, while his emerge, make and gcc are sucking the juice out of his battery until we can test the software. "Hm, this program sucks, I'll remove it" - "Doesn't matter here, my power just went out"
Debian users take pride in the fact that their distribution is always several releases behind the latest version of the kernel, but makes up for that by being more difficult to install and use.
This is the usual FUD you encounter when discussing Debian. Neither is Debian several versions behind the kernel (yes, stable is somehow old right now, but there is Sarge or backports.org), nor is it difficult to install and use. Debian (I'm talking about the new Installer used for Sarge) has a real nice installation process, making it easy to install straight from network. The package system is clearly one of the best, installing additional software has never been easier: "apt-get install foobar", and through the magical wonders of the internet you get foobar right on your system, including any libraries it depends on. This is a major advantage over other systems where you have to browse through endless lists of packages, interactivly selecting the right package and installing it. The package system is most flexible, so you can get your packages from several sources, really nice for example if you use Debian Stable and backports.org (this project adapts recent software for the Stable branch). I'd say that Debian is the best distribution for newbies, since heliping others is so easy: You acan easily transfer example configurations, you can offer commandline examples for certain jobs, no need to tell someone where to click and what do look for in those fancy colourful dialogs.
And remember: The best distribution for newbies is always the one your more experienced friends use.
You should check the new Debian Installer used in Sarge, which is the testing branch of Debian. Everyone with an IQ over a slug ones (not couting brainslugs) will be able to use this. It's still primarely text base, but makes installing debian really comfortable.
That's mostly the same here in Germany. The people at the polling station ("Wahllokal") are selected throughout the public, and unless you can deliver a good reason for not doing so, you have to attend the election. Although I volunteered for it, it's not that interesting to sit around from 7:30 till 18:00 and do the counting afterwards. The way votes a casted differs from election to election, but for the Bundestag you'll get two votes, one for a candidate coming from your "Wahlkreis" (voting district), one for a party. The ballot (yes, real paper made of real dead wood) is then put in an envelope. You identity is checked (ID card), your entry in the voting register will be marked, and you can put your envelope with the ballot into the sealed box.
After 18:00, the votes are counted individually in each voting station: The "Wahlvorsteher", usually someone who's already gone through the entire process several times, breaks the seal, emptying the envelopes onto a table. Then the closed envelopes are counted. that number is checked against the marked entries in the voting register. Then the envelopes will be opened, sorted by party etc. and counted. By that, you avoid that someone removes votes he don't like, since you have 3 numbers that have to match: register, envelopes, sum of votes. The sorted votes than get to the "Wahlamt", where they are stored.
http://www.schnittberichte.com/sw.php
Although this is in german, the pictures speak for themselves. They also have Episode 1 as well as Episode 4/5/6.
ATI's are just not supported by ID at this point in time
You slightly misspelled "Linux is not (well) supported by ATI at this point of time", compared to the nVidia ones the ATI drivers tend to make huge rendering errors. This is not limited to ID games, e.g. UT2004 is nearly unplayable on some maps without lowering the texture details to "lowest": It looks like your Radeon is puking all over your screen if the scenery gets too complex.
I often find myself wondering what would happen if the Hindenberg never made the world terrified of airships as methods of mass transportation.
I've seen this a dozen times on/. now, it's "Hindenburg" (burg == fortress), not "Hindenberg" (berg == moutain). The zeppelin was named after General Paul von Hindenburg, later president of the "Weimarer Republik", see wikipedia for further information about that.
That depends on the USB2serial converter you got there. You could get a USB gps unit as well, although it will contain a USB2Serial converter, too. Just try with something like Knoppix to see whether your converter is recognized by hotplug and the kernel.
Open protocols and open standards, that's what we need!
And this is what we got. NMEA should be supported by nearly all receivers. It defines how gps data should be transmitted via a serial link. Even most USB units only use a USB2Serial chip, so they just appear as new serial ports.
Most GPS receivers will deliver their signals in NMEA format, which is an accepted standard. Most of the USB units even only contain a pl2303 chip or another form of USB2Serial driver and work just fine. I bought mine on eBay, just plugged it in, and hotplug did most of the work. It appeared as a new USB serial port, so I could gpsdrive without any problems.
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it wont air here (israel) for another 3 weeks though... :(
I guess it'll take even longer here in germany. Well, it'll be coming soon to a torrent tracker near you :-)
Or how do I have to interpret "Nothing for you to see here. Please move along."?
So they owe to their clients (the public) unfiltered and uncensored results.
You are not the client. You are the product. Clients are the people that place ads via google.
If we used some sort of higher powered rocket to generate the velocity, I wonder if ion rockets could hold that velocity for a long time.
Since we are using this space, I wonder what we would need the ion rocket for to hold that velocity. In space, there is not much that could slow you down.
http://www.schnittberichte.com/sw.php As I already pointed out during the last story about that, this page got it all (it's german though).
No way, gentoo is so fast and debian so slow that the gentoo user will be able to compile everything before you open a terminal simulator in your debian.
Gentoo user. q.e.d.
There's no doubt that a great many Gentoo users just like the pseudo-133t aspect. But, as was pointed out earlier, the installation is pretty easy if you follow the instructions.
I agree, Gentoo got the geek-factor Debian used to have.
Personally, I see Gentoo as a great learning distro.
Yes, a learning distro. Although the concept is interesting from an academic point of view, it sucks in real life. We got WLAN at our university, so laptops are really common here; I run Debian, another student runs Gentoo. "Hey, look, there's a shiny new program, and it also has a debian package" - "It also has a ebuild" 60 seconds later apt-get has installed the program on my notebook, while his emerge, make and gcc are sucking the juice out of his battery until we can test the software. "Hm, this program sucks, I'll remove it" - "Doesn't matter here, my power just went out"
Debian users take pride in the fact that their distribution is always several releases behind the latest version of the kernel, but makes up for that by being more difficult to install and use.
This is the usual FUD you encounter when discussing Debian. Neither is Debian several versions behind the kernel (yes, stable is somehow old right now, but there is Sarge or backports.org), nor is it difficult to install and use. Debian (I'm talking about the new Installer used for Sarge) has a real nice installation process, making it easy to install straight from network. The package system is clearly one of the best, installing additional software has never been easier: "apt-get install foobar", and through the magical wonders of the internet you get foobar right on your system, including any libraries it depends on. This is a major advantage over other systems where you have to browse through endless lists of packages, interactivly selecting the right package and installing it. The package system is most flexible, so you can get your packages from several sources, really nice for example if you use Debian Stable and backports.org (this project adapts recent software for the Stable branch). I'd say that Debian is the best distribution for newbies, since heliping others is so easy: You acan easily transfer example configurations, you can offer commandline examples for certain jobs, no need to tell someone where to click and what do look for in those fancy colourful dialogs.
And remember: The best distribution for newbies is always the one your more experienced friends use.
You should check the new Debian Installer used in Sarge, which is the testing branch of Debian. Everyone with an IQ over a slug ones (not couting brainslugs) will be able to use this. It's still primarely text base, but makes installing debian really comfortable.
That's mostly the same here in Germany. The people at the polling station ("Wahllokal") are selected throughout the public, and unless you can deliver a good reason for not doing so, you have to attend the election. Although I volunteered for it, it's not that interesting to sit around from 7:30 till 18:00 and do the counting afterwards. The way votes a casted differs from election to election, but for the Bundestag you'll get two votes, one for a candidate coming from your "Wahlkreis" (voting district), one for a party. The ballot (yes, real paper made of real dead wood) is then put in an envelope. You identity is checked (ID card), your entry in the voting register will be marked, and you can put your envelope with the ballot into the sealed box. After 18:00, the votes are counted individually in each voting station: The "Wahlvorsteher", usually someone who's already gone through the entire process several times, breaks the seal, emptying the envelopes onto a table. Then the closed envelopes are counted. that number is checked against the marked entries in the voting register. Then the envelopes will be opened, sorted by party etc. and counted. By that, you avoid that someone removes votes he don't like, since you have 3 numbers that have to match: register, envelopes, sum of votes. The sorted votes than get to the "Wahlamt", where they are stored.
Also, is it going to make that jet engine noise?
Can't be worse than those low-cost P4 notebooks. Those fans can already be calles "turbine on a chip".
Am I the only one who initially thought that said "shit a brick?"
Hm, actually...yes. Yes indeed.
http://www.schnittberichte.com/sw.php Although this is in german, the pictures speak for themselves. They also have Episode 1 as well as Episode 4/5/6.
..the stunt helicopter pilots? And did the chinese use the same sensors as the american Genesis mission?
ATI's are just not supported by ID at this point in time
You slightly misspelled "Linux is not (well) supported by ATI at this point of time", compared to the nVidia ones the ATI drivers tend to make huge rendering errors. This is not limited to ID games, e.g. UT2004 is nearly unplayable on some maps without lowering the texture details to "lowest": It looks like your Radeon is puking all over your screen if the scenery gets too complex.
I often find myself wondering what would happen if the Hindenberg never made the world terrified of airships as methods of mass transportation.
I've seen this a dozen times on /. now, it's "Hindenburg" (burg == fortress), not "Hindenberg" (berg == moutain). The zeppelin was named after General Paul von Hindenburg, later president of the "Weimarer Republik", see wikipedia for further information about that.
That depends on the USB2serial converter you got there. You could get a USB gps unit as well, although it will contain a USB2Serial converter, too. Just try with something like Knoppix to see whether your converter is recognized by hotplug and the kernel.
Open protocols and open standards, that's what we need!
And this is what we got. NMEA should be supported by nearly all receivers. It defines how gps data should be transmitted via a serial link. Even most USB units only use a USB2Serial chip, so they just appear as new serial ports.
Most GPS receivers will deliver their signals in NMEA format, which is an accepted standard. Most of the USB units even only contain a pl2303 chip or another form of USB2Serial driver and work just fine. I bought mine on eBay, just plugged it in, and hotplug did most of the work. It appeared as a new USB serial port, so I could gpsdrive without any problems.
I'm sure Einstein didn't see it coming when his nuclear research was used to build the nuclear bomb and killed 100,000 people in Japan during WWII.
He did not only see it coming, he recommended building the bomb, fearing nazi germany could reach its goal of contructing the uranium bomb first.
In a Zero-G environment, where is your floor?
You should check out Xcruiser (formerly Xruise). Pretty nice, especially if you use stow and unter /usr/local.
They could get there. Google cache. But I guess Google will be on the Verboten!-list then.
Instead of "improving my productivity" I wish these developers would focus their skills on what linux desperately needs -- more games!
If you have a wheel mouse, you can play the desktop lottery with this :-) Just spiiiiiin the wheeeeeel....
Sure, you can drink the water from the exhaust,
No you can't, it's like drinking destilled water.