The reason slack is great is exactly because it is IRC.. but WAY nicer to look at and *much* simpler to integrate with. TBH it's the integration ecosystem that wins the day. Writing bots to connect into Slack is super easy, and it already has "click to enable" integrations with so many other tools.
Once it's all in once place it makes day to day work flow much easier and there are fewer context switches.
While that's a fair comment - it is the butt of jokes. However it is usually from people who've never actually lived there, and those who are such bad drivers they can't cope with a roundabout;)
It's build on a grid system, so would be familiar to US readers, only instead of traffic light intersections it has roundabouts. What this means in practice is that using the major roads it's possible to get everywhere quickly and easily, even in rush hour you don't get caught for too long.
Because these grid roads are also isolated from the housing areas, usually by banks or trees the road noise is not too bad either, and it has lots of parks open space and water.
Yes it's a bit soulless but practically it's very well thought out.
I eat organic for 2 reasons, one is I don't want my body filled with the left over amounts of pesticides (in the case of fruit and veg) and antibiotics and hormones (in the case of meat). I especially don't want my 1 year old son's body being subjected to those if I can avoid it.
But to be honest the main reason I do it is because it tastes so much better. Carrots actually test of carrot rather than crunchy water taste you get from a standard supermarket carrot.
We get organic veg delivered to our door from a local farm and it last much longer due to shorter pick to delivery time scales. There is also the added bonus of getting a wider variety of veg.
As a result I eat a wider range of vegetables, it tastes nicer, and because of the longer shelf life I throw less away. This means that it costs me the same or less than buying normal super market veg. Couple that with the convenience of it delivered to my door it is a no-brainer really!
So let me get this right.... you think it is the cyclists fault if a car driver passes them on a blind corner and then has an accident? If it's a blind corner then the car driver should wait until they can see! Would you blame a tractor or other slow moving vehicle if you had a crash while trying to overtake them on a blind corner??
Cyclists cycle out from the curb because it is the safest way to cycle, otherwise they frequently end up getting run over / pushed off the road as cars try and squeeze past while traffic is in the other lane. I've been run off the road by a car trying to squeeze past then suddenly realising there is a truck coming so they need to move over more.. right into me.
I used to try and cycle in a way that made it easy for car drivers to get past etc. But I've been nearly hit, cut up and run off the road too many times. Now I cycle out from the curb and car drivers pass me properly and I've had no issues with being cut up, it is by far the safest way to cycle.
My 6 year old family car (here in the uk) averages 42mpg with ease, I can get 48mpg on a long journey with careful driving. The new runabout we have bought for my wife gets 5* on crash safety and does 50-60mpg. Now these are small vehicles but I would never consider, right now, buying a car that did less that 40mpg regardless of how big it was.
I'm shocked that anyone considers 42mpg is some sort of great target to achieve!
I would have thought this was obvious. The lack of fossils after a certain point in time only shows that there are no fossils. You cannot logically infer anything else from this, other than the fact that you haven't found any newer ones.
I'm not saying they didn't die out when they claim, but trying to "prove" a concrete date is going to be neigh on impossible.
The reason we haven't find any newer fossils could be for several reasons, they could have all died out, or it could be no more of them were fossilised, or we simply haven't found the newer fossils yet.
I bought a via system for my home media centre, sold by the promises of Linux support and low power hardware - never again! I've got the worst performing badly supported and buggy heap of junk, lots of things simply don't work even with the latest kernels even when you use Via's nasty binary only drivers.
On the other hand the Asus machine will come running Linux, so hardware support will be there from the work go.
If you watch the video you will see this in context of using a "pull down" exercise machine, basically weight lifting, not quite sure of the relevance other than safety (much safer to use a pull down as strength test as if anything goes wrong the weight drop inside a controlled machine, rather than onto and squashing the poor tester and machine) as this mostly just shows how heavy the frame is.
Just because they are your kids doesn't give you the right to do whatever you like to them. In a lot of countries the goverment and health service have legal responsibilities to stop you "harming" your kids.
"I have a 30 km/h sign right in front of my window - and my condo is in front of a freeway! "
Have you considered that the sign is there directly for your benfit? Or would you rather have the traffic noise from a freeway full of cars doing 120km/h???
The biggest problem with the speed debates is that most people only consider them from the selfish point of view of the driver (being as most people who get upset are speed obsessed drivers), speed limits take a number of factors into account a large number of which you might not know about if you are not familiar with the area.
The classic is the stupid "the autobahn doesn't have speed limits so why do we have limits on Road X" argument. Nicely forgetting that the unlimited sections of the autobahn have been designed for high speed travel, and only roads with very specific and strict design criteria are allowed to have no limit.
Limits exist for saftey and the consideration of everyone on and around the roads in question, in most cases they are correct, even if "I'm in a rush and these stupid limits are slowing me down" driver cannot see it.
Notes can be a git to use, takes a lot of getting used to... but it is WAY better than Outlook & Exchange, Organising meetings is easier, the replication features make it easy to work "off-line" on a laptop then sync up your changes when you get into the office.
Once you are used to the user interface and have learned a bit about the power of notes, it makes Outlook look like a childs toy.
Looking around the web you see nothing but the examples I've given, aandtech, mailing lists etc. saying that on linux, even on the fastest CPU's available, you cannot get smooth h.264 playback with 1080p HD content (at least not demanding content).
I'd love you to me right, then I could actually buy a machine capable of working, I've been putting off the move to HD capable hardware exactly because there doesn't appear to be any atm. (Currently run via epia hardware which stands no hope of running hd content)
Please note this isn't h.264 decoding, its just support for texture video!
"The only part of ATI Avivo that works on linux is 'video texture'. It is used to display the video (any kind of video), not decode it. 'Video texture' is a replacement for 'video overlay', which modern graphic cards don't have anymore."
See this thread for some people with real world testing of hd playback. Maybe you can play *some* h.264 content, but anything demanding just won't work on anything other than the latest and greatest CPU's
You can currently only use ATI and NVidia drivers on windows to off-load decoding of h264 video, this makes playback under linux of HD DVB streams almost impossible (you get frames dropped even with top of the line CPU's).
Hopefully this will mean we can get XVmC support for ATI cards to do h264 decoding, this would be awsome, and a big boost to the media centre community. I look forward to seeing the developments, maybe soon I can put an ATI card in my Freevo Media Centre and actually be able to view HD content - woot!
Probably a flaming torch, or something similar, but to be honest how often in modern society are you likey to end up confused. I cannot remember the last time I saw someone wandering around at night with fire on a stick, as opposed to an electric "flashlight"
Only mine is braned by Fujitsu Siemens - go figure.
I has the advantage of being very adjustable and has reduced my RSI problems a lot. The weird enter key takes a bit of getting used to, I was used to an "L" shaped one, but the cursors are sensible, the only weird thing is getting used to the slightly odd home/end/insert/delete/pgup/pgdown positioning but they are separeate keys on the right and reasonably easy to get used to.
I don't think this machine is aimed at the LCD screen market.
All the via mico and nano boards have S-Video out on them. These kind of machines, especially the cool looking nanode, are designed to sit in your lounge and be connected up to the TV.
Once they release a price, and assuming I can afford one, that will be my aim. Buy one, install linux, wire up to the TV and install one of the great linux media station packages.
Applications programmed in C don't want any of the above (well they might want them but it's not their primary concern).
They want low level control, they want minimised memory footprint, they want to know exactly when memory is released and not rely on the random interactions with garbage collection.
They want to be able to talk as directly as possible to the devices they work on because this gives you one major bonus SPEED. In some situations you worry about an extra 100 instructions, when you are worrying about that few instructions you really don't want a something "managing" your applications and stealing more of them from underneath you:D
When I started doing work with computers, and my computer degree, I did it because I enjoyed the work and appeared to have a natural talent. This was the case for most people on my degree course.
A couple of years ago I worked for a UK university and I was so disapointed at the number of people who had no interest in the subject but doing it awayway. It seems that people think you can get a high paying job in IT, so will get the degree in hopes of getting a job despite not having any enthusiasm or talent or skill.
Maybe this will be a good thing, we might see less people going into IT just because they think it will pay well.
I have a friend who got himself a dual AMD machine and had no end of trouble and problems with it, he wanted a kick-ass games machine but ended up with all sorts of SMP_not_supported driver hell with the graphics card and soundblaster card.
If you intend this as a games machine, go for hyperthreading P4, or athlon64, don't go dual processor, its not worth that hassle.
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The reason slack is great is exactly because it is IRC.. but WAY nicer to look at and *much* simpler to integrate with. TBH it's the integration ecosystem that wins the day. Writing bots to connect into Slack is super easy, and it already has "click to enable" integrations with so many other tools.
Once it's all in once place it makes day to day work flow much easier and there are fewer context switches.
While that's a fair comment - it is the butt of jokes. However it is usually from people who've never actually lived there, and those who are such bad drivers they can't cope with a roundabout ;)
It's build on a grid system, so would be familiar to US readers, only instead of traffic light intersections it has roundabouts. What this means in practice is that using the major roads it's possible to get everywhere quickly and easily, even in rush hour you don't get caught for too long.
Because these grid roads are also isolated from the housing areas, usually by banks or trees the road noise is not too bad either, and it has lots of parks open space and water.
Yes it's a bit soulless but practically it's very well thought out.
http://openelec.tv/news/item/235-openelec-on-raspberry-pi-our-first-arm-device-supported
Of course getting hold of a RaspBerry Pi will be tough, but once you have done that it's all done :)
If are not happy with the way this is being handled. And you live in the UK. You can always write to your MP.
there is a great website:
http://www.writetothem.com/
Which makes it really easy. Simply enter your post code, select your MP, then write them an email.
I've had positive results doing this in the past. If enough people agree then your MP will take notice.
Exactly,
I eat organic for 2 reasons, one is I don't want my body filled with the left over amounts of pesticides (in the case of fruit and veg) and antibiotics and hormones (in the case of meat). I especially don't want my 1 year old son's body being subjected to those if I can avoid it.
But to be honest the main reason I do it is because it tastes so much better. Carrots actually test of carrot rather than crunchy water taste you get from a standard supermarket carrot.
We get organic veg delivered to our door from a local farm and it last much longer due to shorter pick to delivery time scales. There is also the added bonus of getting a wider variety of veg.
As a result I eat a wider range of vegetables, it tastes nicer, and because of the longer shelf life I throw less away. This means that it costs me the same or less than buying normal super market veg. Couple that with the convenience of it delivered to my door it is a no-brainer really!
It costs money, but buy the file transfer edition. You get reliable and encrypted data transmission.
Simple :)
So let me get this right.... you think it is the cyclists fault if a car driver passes them on a blind corner and then has an accident? If it's a blind corner then the car driver should wait until they can see! Would you blame a tractor or other slow moving vehicle if you had a crash while trying to overtake them on a blind corner??
Cyclists cycle out from the curb because it is the safest way to cycle, otherwise they frequently end up getting run over / pushed off the road as cars try and squeeze past while traffic is in the other lane. I've been run off the road by a car trying to squeeze past then suddenly realising there is a truck coming so they need to move over more.. right into me.
I used to try and cycle in a way that made it easy for car drivers to get past etc. But I've been nearly hit, cut up and run off the road too many times. Now I cycle out from the curb and car drivers pass me properly and I've had no issues with being cut up, it is by far the safest way to cycle.
My 6 year old family car (here in the uk) averages 42mpg with ease, I can get 48mpg on a long journey with careful driving. The new runabout we have bought for my wife gets 5* on crash safety and does 50-60mpg. Now these are small vehicles but I would never consider, right now, buying a car that did less that 40mpg regardless of how big it was. I'm shocked that anyone considers 42mpg is some sort of great target to achieve!
I would have thought this was obvious. The lack of fossils after a certain point in time only shows that there are no fossils. You cannot logically infer anything else from this, other than the fact that you haven't found any newer ones. I'm not saying they didn't die out when they claim, but trying to "prove" a concrete date is going to be neigh on impossible. The reason we haven't find any newer fossils could be for several reasons, they could have all died out, or it could be no more of them were fossilised, or we simply haven't found the newer fossils yet.
I bought a via system for my home media centre, sold by the promises of Linux support and low power hardware - never again! I've got the worst performing badly supported and buggy heap of junk, lots of things simply don't work even with the latest kernels even when you use Via's nasty binary only drivers.
On the other hand the Asus machine will come running Linux, so hardware support will be there from the work go.
If you watch the video you will see this in context of using a "pull down" exercise machine, basically weight lifting, not quite sure of the relevance other than safety (much safer to use a pull down as strength test as if anything goes wrong the weight drop inside a controlled machine, rather than onto and squashing the poor tester and machine) as this mostly just shows how heavy the frame is.
Exactly!
:(
Why did my mod points expire yesterday
Just because they are your kids doesn't give you the right to do whatever you like to them. In a lot of countries the goverment and health service have legal responsibilities to stop you "harming" your kids.
"I have a 30 km/h sign right in front of my window - and my condo is in front of a freeway! "
Have you considered that the sign is there directly for your benfit? Or would you rather have the traffic noise from a freeway full of cars doing 120km/h???
The biggest problem with the speed debates is that most people only consider them from the selfish point of view of the driver (being as most people who get upset are speed obsessed drivers), speed limits take a number of factors into account a large number of which you might not know about if you are not familiar with the area.
The classic is the stupid "the autobahn doesn't have speed limits so why do we have limits on Road X" argument. Nicely forgetting that the unlimited sections of the autobahn have been designed for high speed travel, and only roads with very specific and strict design criteria are allowed to have no limit.
Limits exist for saftey and the consideration of everyone on and around the roads in question, in most cases they are correct, even if "I'm in a rush and these stupid limits are slowing me down" driver cannot see it.
Notes can be a git to use, takes a lot of getting used to... but it is WAY better than Outlook & Exchange, Organising meetings is easier, the replication features make it easy to work "off-line" on a laptop then sync up your changes when you get into the office.
Once you are used to the user interface and have learned a bit about the power of notes, it makes Outlook look like a childs toy.
Do you have any links / data to back that up?
Looking around the web you see nothing but the examples I've given, aandtech, mailing lists etc. saying that on linux, even on the fastest CPU's available, you cannot get smooth h.264 playback with 1080p HD content (at least not demanding content).
I'd love you to me right, then I could actually buy a machine capable of working, I've been putting off the move to HD capable hardware exactly because there doesn't appear to be any atm. (Currently run via epia hardware which stands no hope of running hd content)
Please note this isn't h.264 decoding, its just support for texture video!
"The only part of ATI Avivo that works on linux is 'video texture'. It is used to display the video (any kind of video), not decode it. 'Video texture' is a replacement for 'video overlay', which modern graphic cards don't have anymore."
Oh.. and after more searching... try this AnandTech article.. http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2886 &p=4
Rubbish,
s @lists.sourceforge.net/7117967.html
See this thread for some people with real world testing of hd playback. Maybe you can play *some* h.264 content, but anything demanding just won't work on anything other than the latest and greatest CPU's
http://www.opensubscriber.com/message/freevo-user
You can currently only use ATI and NVidia drivers on windows to off-load decoding of h264 video, this makes playback under linux of HD DVB streams almost impossible (you get frames dropped even with top of the line CPU's).
Hopefully this will mean we can get XVmC support for ATI cards to do h264 decoding, this would be awsome, and a big boost to the media centre community. I look forward to seeing the developments, maybe soon I can put an ATI card in my Freevo Media Centre and actually be able to view HD content - woot!
Probably a flaming torch, or something similar, but to be honest how often in modern society are you likey to end up confused. I cannot remember the last time I saw someone wandering around at night with fire on a stick, as opposed to an electric "flashlight"
Only mine is braned by Fujitsu Siemens - go figure.
I has the advantage of being very adjustable and has reduced my RSI problems a lot. The weird enter key takes a bit of getting used to, I was used to an "L" shaped one, but the cursors are sensible, the only weird thing is getting used to the slightly odd home/end/insert/delete/pgup/pgdown positioning but they are separeate keys on the right and reasonably easy to get used to.
I don't think this machine is aimed at the LCD screen market. All the via mico and nano boards have S-Video out on them. These kind of machines, especially the cool looking nanode, are designed to sit in your lounge and be connected up to the TV. Once they release a price, and assuming I can afford one, that will be my aim. Buy one, install linux, wire up to the TV and install one of the great linux media station packages.
Did you read the guys post?
:D
Applications programmed in C don't want any of the above (well they might want them but it's not their primary concern).
They want low level control, they want minimised memory footprint, they want to know exactly when memory is released and not rely on the random interactions with garbage collection.
They want to be able to talk as directly as possible to the devices they work on because this gives you one major bonus SPEED. In some situations you worry about an extra 100 instructions, when you are worrying about that few instructions you really don't want a something "managing" your applications and stealing more of them from underneath you
When I started doing work with computers, and my computer degree, I did it because I enjoyed the work and appeared to have a natural talent. This was the case for most people on my degree course.
A couple of years ago I worked for a UK university and I was so disapointed at the number of people who had no interest in the subject but doing it awayway. It seems that people think you can get a high paying job in IT, so will get the degree in hopes of getting a job despite not having any enthusiasm or talent or skill.
Maybe this will be a good thing, we might see less people going into IT just because they think it will pay well.
I have a friend who got himself a dual AMD machine and had no end of trouble and problems with it, he wanted a kick-ass games machine but ended up with all sorts of SMP_not_supported driver hell with the graphics card and soundblaster card.
If you intend this as a games machine, go for hyperthreading P4, or athlon64, don't go dual processor, its not worth that hassle.