Nuclear is the best option. Equating it with perpetual motion shows YOUR ignorance. Hate makes you stupid.
Wow, someone has to turn on his sense of humour...
btw, anyone here in slashdot has experimented with electro static energy?? The other day I spent some time looking for that... it would seem to me that Electrostatic + HHO generator could be a promising source of energy...
Of course, maybe I am talking bollocks, that's why I am really interested in reading from someone who knows more about the subject.
I just recently met a guy (very good friend with my father) whose daughter worked for apple some time ago. Until she got headhunted by Adobe. According to what he told me, she was less than impressed with Apple people management policies (she works in HR), whereas Adobe HR policies are really great.
I know you were aiming for a funny mod. But I am tired of reading people say that wine is not an emulator but keep seeing the description of WINE in the Ubuntu and other repositories as "Wine - Windows emulator" [from ubuntu add/remove applications] to run windows applications"
WTF people mantaining the ports!! you should describe WINE for what it is a compatilibity layer. An emulator has in itself several disadvantages that WINE does not have.
With WINE you can say that it makes Linux Windows compatible. It is just a set of libraries to allow such a [not perfect, but still, very good] compatibility.
For those for which the universe does not revolve around the USA, EST = GMT -5. Therefore the firefox download "day" would start at 6:00pm in Great Britain.
Is there a reason why you have to restart for these kind of things... and even after installing an extension? I restarting is not a big problem but why is a restart needed?
ly, it's using over 175MB of ram for the windows I have open (21 different pages) - and that seems excessive to me.
Here I am typing this in Firefox, one window with only 4 tabs (iGoogle with nothing fancy, slashdot, airninja and google maps) and firefox is 97.2 MB already...
Just yesterday I downloaded Opera 9.5 and after using it for some time and having two windows open (each one in a different virtual desktop and with about 5 tabs each one), it occurred to me check the memory foot print (two windows after all, i thought, should be eating quite some ram). To my surprise it was no more than 30 MB.
Now, I do not know what those guys at Opera do right, but Firefox 3 is still a bloated beast compared to that...
Of course I still like Fx, as I use several extensions like scrapbook, del.icio.us, refspoof;), and adblock+.
So far, I have only found a replacement for adblock+.
The [other] good thing about this Fx release is that Opera, Microsoft and even Apple will have to continue improving their browsers if they do not want to stay behind:)... well, not opera, they do not really care about not being the main browser for PC desktops:P
Would make a better presentation of the credits for the Open source software contributors. Think about it. If you look at the "contributors" window in Firefox, you get a boring list without really knowing who has contributed where and how much.
Using a contrib. video like this, you could even add a list of each of the contributors and a list of the files each of them patched (instead of the histogram shown in the video).
Hibernation works fine for me. It doesn't work in Ubuntu however (at least with the most recent kernel), and a lot of people have complained about it.
Second that, neither hibernation nor suspend to ram work in my HP notebook. If it is not that the screen stays black after trying to resume, then the USB devices stop working or when trying to resume the resume file fails.
Of course, I use XP and would not even think on moving to vista.... considering all it has is more eycandy and that the first thing I do when installing XP is to change the config to "maximize performance" making it look like NT.
It wasn't exactly me, but my dad used to do killer spreadsheet programs in Quattro Pro for DOS. He is a biologist and developed several models which could be ran in QPro. One of those was a cool biorythm model which could generate a 1 month-graph of your personalized biorythm.
And all that in a simple 386... in DOS, no fancy Windows, at most 4096KB of RAM and maybe 100 MB of HDD.
I have never understood what good is there in being able to run a bazillion programs when you have only one screen and keyboard... and just a pair of eyes.
In a criminal case the standard is beyond a reasonable doubt. That is a fairly high standard because it means, just as it says there must be no reasonable doubt that you committed the crime for the jury to convict
I designed and run Vendetta Online (vendetta-online.com), another game on the above list. Oh, one more thing.. take the training missions first before you start asking silly questions.;) If that's not karma whoring...
Hell, ship it with a Live DVD version so people don't have to switch right away.
IMHO that would be a "killer app" for Linux. Develop a game using OpenGL and other libraries and then create a live-CD which only starts the game (and all the underlying hardware is done by Linux). That way PC gaming can be made as simple as console gaming. The only downside I see is the lack of upgrades when doing that... other thing you could do is ask to install in some of the available partitions. And let the people play *only* when inserting the disk (that way you can implement insert-CD-annoyance-security.
I don't know however if Linux would be good for that (given the licenses), maybe a BSD based live disk would be better...
Funny that they refered to Santa Claus. When some journalist asked Carlos Slim if he was planning to donate some of his money, he answered that he did not want to go like santa claus just giving away money, but that he prefered to invest in developing specific programs for the integral development of people.
That is what makes a businessman succesful I guess... the OLPC guy just thought that throwing a bunch of cheap and durable computers to kids would make them learn... but they did not really thought about integral programs (and not talking about "computer programs" but real ones) in which this XO toy could be used...
Now, any government who wants to invest in them needs to find a reason to do it. Before that, the relevant development programs must be implemented, and I think the governments that could benefit won't go as far as creating their own programs (due to the lack of interest, money or will)
'The hackers took over,' ... at the risk of being flamed, I believe this is pretty much what happens with lots of open source projects.
People start their projects, invite some expert in relevant fields to participate but when any of these experts tells them that they are doing X or Y thing wrong, they get all proud and stubborn and ignore the advise.
What does this experts do? they just leave (as people has been leaving the OLPC project)...
.maybe if we attach lasers to the giant shark balloons....
Can someone clarify where does this "sharks with lasers attached" meme comes from? I have googled but can't find the origin of such thing. Is it from a film or something?
, I'd take 42 days maximum in a standard UK jail, held under standard UK
Not that I would like to be in any jail system but the brother of my flatmate tried to visit him in the UK (from Mexico), but was not allowed entry. (stupid immigration control). However, as he arrived at night, the next flight departed next day morning. The guards had to escort him to a detention centre. He said they were *very* *very* apologetic, telling him that they were sorry, that they didn't know or understood why had it happened.
Of course, he still slept in detention... but at least he didn't "killed himself" with handcuffs... as detained people do in the USA.
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Nuclear is the best option. Equating it with perpetual motion shows YOUR ignorance. Hate makes you stupid.
Wow, someone has to turn on his sense of humour...
btw, anyone here in slashdot has experimented with electro static energy?? The other day I spent some time looking for that... it would seem to me that Electrostatic + HHO generator could be a promising source of energy...
Of course, maybe I am talking bollocks, that's why I am really interested in reading from someone who knows more about the subject.
If you want lower memory usage than what firefox 3 can give you ... you would need to use no browser at all it would seem.
1 word:
Dillo
Just one, but he hits "apt-get dist-upgrade" twice a day... :)
I've got the sollution to that, he just have to move to Gentoo, that way he will only will have to emerge everything once every six months...
Then how much would you pay for Ubuntu, which causes even fewer headaches than Windows XP as long as GNU/Linux supports your hardware?
That is priceless... I mean, as hmmmm
forget it
Comparing Apple with Google is like comparing apples with oranges, or, like comparing Apple with Orange!
And what is the relevance of a mobile provider in this discussion?
People love working at EA, but my friends there tell me they work 150+hrs/week...
oh shit wait, do people love working at EA?
I just recently met a guy (very good friend with my father) whose daughter worked for apple some time ago. Until she got headhunted by Adobe. According to what he told me, she was less than impressed with Apple people management policies (she works in HR), whereas Adobe HR policies are really great.
Got anything less than thirty years old?
:(
Sorry, but he has got no friends since then
I know you were aiming for a funny mod. But I am tired of reading people say that wine is not an emulator but keep seeing the description of WINE in the Ubuntu and other repositories as "Wine - Windows emulator" [from ubuntu add/remove applications] to run windows applications"
WTF people mantaining the ports!! you should describe WINE for what it is a compatilibity layer. An emulator has in itself several disadvantages that WINE does not have.
With WINE you can say that it makes Linux Windows compatible. It is just a set of libraries to allow such a [not perfect, but still, very good] compatibility.
DO NOT DRINK THE KOOL-AID.
DRINK THE WINE! 1.0
Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
For those for which the universe does not revolve around the USA, EST = GMT -5. Therefore the firefox download "day" would start at 6:00pm in Great Britain.
Then restart.
Is there a reason why you have to restart for these kind of things... and even after installing an extension? I restarting is not a big problem but why is a restart needed?
ly, it's using over 175MB of ram for the windows I have open (21 different pages) - and that seems excessive to me.
;), and adblock+.
:) ... well, not opera, they do not really care about not being the main browser for PC desktops :P
Here I am typing this in Firefox, one window with only 4 tabs (iGoogle with nothing fancy, slashdot, airninja and google maps) and firefox is 97.2 MB already...
Just yesterday I downloaded Opera 9.5 and after using it for some time and having two windows open (each one in a different virtual desktop and with about 5 tabs each one), it occurred to me check the memory foot print (two windows after all, i thought, should be eating quite some ram). To my surprise it was no more than 30 MB.
Now, I do not know what those guys at Opera do right, but Firefox 3 is still a bloated beast compared to that...
Of course I still like Fx, as I use several extensions like scrapbook, del.icio.us, refspoof
So far, I have only found a replacement for adblock+.
The [other] good thing about this Fx release is that Opera, Microsoft and even Apple will have to continue improving their browsers if they do not want to stay behind
He was just taken to the future by a T-800.
Would make a better presentation of the credits for the Open source software contributors. Think about it. If you look at the "contributors" window in Firefox, you get a boring list without really knowing who has contributed where and how much.
Using a contrib. video like this, you could even add a list of each of the contributors and a list of the files each of them patched (instead of the histogram shown in the video).
Hibernation works fine for me. It doesn't work in Ubuntu however (at least with the most recent kernel), and a lot of people have complained about it.
Second that, neither hibernation nor suspend to ram work in my HP notebook. If it is not that the screen stays black after trying to resume, then the USB devices stop working or when trying to resume the resume file fails.
Of course, I use XP and would not even think on moving to vista.... considering all it has is more eycandy and that the first thing I do when installing XP is to change the config to "maximize performance" making it look like NT.
It wasn't exactly me, but my dad used to do killer spreadsheet programs in Quattro Pro for DOS. He is a biologist and developed several models which could be ran in QPro. One of those was a cool biorythm model which could generate a 1 month-graph of your personalized biorythm.
And all that in a simple 386... in DOS, no fancy Windows, at most 4096KB of RAM and maybe 100 MB of HDD.
I have never understood what good is there in being able to run a bazillion programs when you have only one screen and keyboard... and just a pair of eyes.
In a criminal case the standard is beyond a reasonable doubt. That is a fairly high standard because it means, just as it says there must be no reasonable doubt that you committed the crime for the jury to convict
... don't flame me bro!...
Tell that to Hans Reiser...
Hell, ship it with a Live DVD version so people don't have to switch right away.
IMHO that would be a "killer app" for Linux. Develop a game using OpenGL and other libraries and then create a live-CD which only starts the game (and all the underlying hardware is done by Linux).
That way PC gaming can be made as simple as console gaming. The only downside I see is the lack of upgrades when doing that... other thing you could do is ask to install in some of the available partitions. And let the people play *only* when inserting the disk (that way you can implement insert-CD-annoyance-security.
I don't know however if Linux would be good for that (given the licenses), maybe a BSD based live disk would be better...
from the santa-is-not-a-capitalist dept.
Funny that they refered to Santa Claus. When some journalist asked Carlos Slim if he was planning to donate some of his money, he answered that he did not want to go like santa claus just giving away money, but that he prefered to invest in developing specific programs for the integral development of people.
That is what makes a businessman succesful I guess... the OLPC guy just thought that throwing a bunch of cheap and durable computers to kids would make them learn... but they did not really thought about integral programs (and not talking about "computer programs" but real ones) in which this XO toy could be used...
Now, any government who wants to invest in them needs to find a reason to do it. Before that, the relevant development programs must be implemented, and I think the governments that could benefit won't go as far as creating their own programs (due to the lack of interest, money or will)
'The hackers took over,' ... at the risk of being flamed, I believe this is pretty much what happens with lots of open source projects.
People start their projects, invite some expert in relevant fields to participate but when any of these experts tells them that they are doing X or Y thing wrong, they get all proud and stubborn and ignore the advise.
What does this experts do? they just leave (as people has been leaving the OLPC project)...
.maybe if we attach lasers to the giant shark balloons....
Can someone clarify where does this "sharks with lasers attached" meme comes from? I have googled but can't find the origin of such thing. Is it from a film or something?
IN the UK they can detain you for 42 days.. if you are a citizen.. with no charges. I find the implications disturbing.
:)
Two things come to mind...
Don't tase me bro!
and
Killer Handcuffs
Among the other "isolated incidents".
, I'd take 42 days maximum in a standard UK jail, held under standard UK
Not that I would like to be in any jail system but the brother of my flatmate tried to visit him in the UK (from Mexico), but was not allowed entry. (stupid immigration control). However, as he arrived at night, the next flight departed next day morning. The guards had to escort him to a detention centre. He said they were *very* *very* apologetic, telling him that they were sorry, that they didn't know or understood why had it happened.
Of course, he still slept in detention... but at least he didn't "killed himself" with handcuffs... as detained people do in the USA.