I have always maintained that if a person were to do something even in a society that watches constantly they would miss a great deal. For example if I wanted to say steal from some store you would take out the security system wear all black clothes (similar to swat), wear gloves, use a glass cutter, voice scrambler etc. Get in and get out. If someone tries to stop you get an automatic weapon with a silencer.
PS. Is there a device that will allow for scrambling of voice. I had a prank pulled on me by some rather unscruplious persons who used such a technique.
Hello I believe that for an application to be universally accepted one must have some form of universal compatability with all levels of hardware. Is there a possible implimentation of a low end option for crappy terminals or processors like say a 486 ala ttyquake?
A little repetition is the price we pay for a great site. What I think is that even if this is the case we must use discretion when we cast blame with anything. Is there a logical algorithm for the ordering of content so that repetition is not encountered.
Actually I am very much against such things for a couple of technical reasons:
1. They slow down page views to the main page and supporting pages thereby increasing time to view (as well as print) possible searches
2. They are anoying when taken in large quantities. Anyone who uses things like this in excess should evaluate why they need that much spare income and what their user base thinks about having a 3k page take 10 minutes to load due to banner ad traffic.
I don't think that they are going back on their promise. Basically they promised a clean ad free page for their searches. It cannot be said that there is any ads on their own page are there?
I would like to have google spit out search requests without limit for perhaps a first page or something more than 100 can this be done? Also is it perhaps possible to see all matches seen and not just the first 20 pages or so? That would make it rock even more. For now I alternate between google and alltheweb (stinking lousy altavista!). Also is there a suitable replacement for deja.com perhaps something that is lynx friendly?
Before I came into the linux camp I was a dos/windows person. Essentially the concept of opensource is quite poorly implimented on anything but unix and even then it requires a whole lot of configuration. This is not a flame but a simple analysis of the situation. If you have to buy a compiler for several thousand dollars to do any decent compilation of an open source package then is it really worth it? If they destroyed the linux community they would also destroy the use of open source by at least 96%. Most people do not have access to tools that work well enough to take advantage of the power or code, or handle the incompatabilities of implimentations of the core language being used. Just try taking code from a highly optimized program using visual C++ and try to use it on a borland compiler? Then try to take it to gcc? any luck there? Did anyone ever use Emacs or any other tools that were developed in the free software movement before they used linux? I believe that about 90+% of people did not.
I don't know what the base model is but what is the hardare in these and how does it relate to traditional pc hardware? Can they run linux effectively? Can you get replacement parts like a power supply. That is usually the first thing to go on any machine especially one that is on 24/7/365.
how can a statistical algorithm be considered proprietary except to the author of it. From what I have seen in journals devoted to mathmatics most of the ideas applied to problems are far too complex for some average joe company to formulate. Do companies hire theoretical mathmaticians to do their program design?
These are being asked because I rarely venture into the "boring" layer of computers namely the commercial level for just money for making more money level
Just a couple html problems one the url in the pop-up window leads to a dead link and secondly no one can read the sspl document that explains liscencing terms to anyone, and the background image cuts off the haloed daemon on the bottom. Although it looks interesting.
Debian already has a system that is quite robust in this regard. Just download the packages onto the hd and then type dpkg -i *.deb or something like that and it will upgrade everything without getting anything munged.
The problem with this reasoning is that if you installed linux with the same ammount of core functionality as win98 you would have something like 50Mb or so. Basically what you got on the cd was everything that would make a complete system with everything you ever need. If you bundled Office2000, doom, quake, (both shareware), netscape, compilers, text formating tools, image manipulation programs, etc. The install would probably be about 5Gb+. So actually for what linux does it does it in a smaller space.
One day just for kicks I decided to look at one of the earlier distro's out there. I got rid of my recent slackware system and decided to look at debian 0.92 beta (I think, I know it was a pre 1 beta) and installed it. Now this was before lilo so you had to use a boot disk to get into your linux system. The mouse didn't work right in X windows, the communications program (some real arcane thing) didn't work right either. However even this early experience (using kernel 0.95.11p or something in the boot disk) was less bumpy than some computer systems I have had the unfortunate ability to use?
Question for anyone who knows just for kicks is it possible to upgrade from that kind of release to the current unstable release of debian without repartitioning or reinstalling?
I am just stupid or isn't the current desktop system made for a total graphical experience (ala GNOME, KDE, etc)? The command line is optional 100%. Even win98 has a command line just pop up a dos prompt.
Being host to one of the original aarpnet nodes does not automatically qualify a place as being an "internet capitol". The infrastructure that is currently there is what really counts. Basically I feel that Virgania qualifies for this status. Almost all of the major internet backbones make their way through some part of that state.
I didn't say that I did not care for politics. In fact I never has written any serious code since I have had little training and little incentive to do so. I just commented on the fact that most people who are involved in computers are generally not the people who get involved with philosophy or running for political office as a whole.
Even if they did how hard is it to kill a 71 year old man? If he is scared enough statistically speaking he would die of a heart attack before the goons even layed a finger on him.
Slashdot Mirror
I would like to get my hands one one of those things (refering to the phone device).
I have always maintained that if a person were to do something even in a society that watches constantly they would miss a great deal. For example if I wanted to say steal from some store you would take out the security system wear all black clothes (similar to swat), wear gloves, use a glass cutter, voice scrambler etc. Get in and get out. If someone tries to stop you get an automatic weapon with a silencer.
PS. Is there a device that will allow for scrambling of voice. I had a prank pulled on me by some rather unscruplious persons who used such a technique.
Hello I believe that for an application to be universally accepted one must have some form of universal compatability with all levels of hardware. Is there a possible implimentation of a low end option for crappy terminals or processors like say a 486 ala ttyquake?
A little repetition is the price we pay for a great site. What I think is that even if this is the case we must use discretion when we cast blame with anything. Is there a logical algorithm for the ordering of content so that repetition is not encountered.
What like merchandise? Hats, mugs, tee shirts? I really don't think this is necessary to have a good site or service.
Actually I am very much against such things for a couple of technical reasons:
1. They slow down page views to the main page and supporting pages thereby increasing time to view (as well as print) possible searches
2. They are anoying when taken in large quantities. Anyone who uses things like this in excess should evaluate why they need that much spare income and what their user base thinks about having a 3k page take 10 minutes to load due to banner ad traffic.
I don't think that they are going back on their promise. Basically they promised a clean ad free page for their searches. It cannot be said that there is any ads on their own page are there?
I would like to have google spit out search requests without limit for perhaps a first page or something more than 100 can this be done? Also is it perhaps possible to see all matches seen and not just the first 20 pages or so? That would make it rock even more. For now I alternate between google and alltheweb (stinking lousy altavista!). Also is there a suitable replacement for deja.com perhaps something that is lynx friendly?
Before I came into the linux camp I was a dos/windows person. Essentially the concept of opensource is quite poorly implimented on anything but unix and even then it requires a whole lot of configuration. This is not a flame but a simple analysis of the situation. If you have to buy a compiler for several thousand dollars to do any decent compilation of an open source package then is it really worth it? If they destroyed the linux community they would also destroy the use of open source by at least 96%. Most people do not have access to tools that work well enough to take advantage of the power or code, or handle the incompatabilities of implimentations of the core language being used. Just try taking code from a highly optimized program using visual C++ and try to use it on a borland compiler? Then try to take it to gcc? any luck there? Did anyone ever use Emacs or any other tools that were developed in the free software movement before they used linux? I believe that about 90+% of people did not.
I don't know what the base model is but what is the hardare in these and how does it relate to traditional pc hardware? Can they run linux effectively? Can you get replacement parts like a power supply. That is usually the first thing to go on any machine especially one that is on 24/7/365.
so sort of like
database 1
database 1 part a
database 1 part a subsection 1
? maybe I cannot see this in my head yet isn't that just a simple c++ program away? Is there a good text for multidimentional databases.
how can a statistical algorithm be considered proprietary except to the author of it. From what I have seen in journals devoted to mathmatics most of the ideas applied to problems are far too complex for some average joe company to formulate. Do companies hire theoretical mathmaticians to do their program design?
Well maybe compared to AI, or quake, or perhaps biological life simulations.
Just having a couple of fields in the database ex:
database 1 has a column for x and one for y and another for z can that be considered multidimentional?
Couldn't cgi's be considered an implimentation of OLAP?
1. What is a PHB? perhaps I know not.
2. What is OLAP?
These are being asked because I rarely venture into the "boring" layer of computers namely the commercial level for just money for making more money level
Just a couple html problems one the url in the pop-up window leads to a dead link and secondly no one can read the sspl document that explains liscencing terms to anyone, and the background image cuts off the haloed daemon on the bottom. Although it looks interesting.
Debian already has a system that is quite robust in this regard. Just download the packages onto the hd and then type dpkg -i *.deb or something like that and it will upgrade everything without getting anything munged.
The problem with this reasoning is that if you installed linux with the same ammount of core functionality as win98 you would have something like 50Mb or so. Basically what you got on the cd was everything that would make a complete system with everything you ever need. If you bundled Office2000, doom, quake, (both shareware), netscape, compilers, text formating tools, image manipulation programs, etc. The install would probably be about 5Gb+. So actually for what linux does it does it in a smaller space.
One day just for kicks I decided to look at one of the earlier distro's out there. I got rid of my recent slackware system and decided to look at debian 0.92 beta (I think, I know it was a pre 1 beta) and installed it. Now this was before lilo so you had to use a boot disk to get into your linux system. The mouse didn't work right in X windows, the communications program (some real arcane thing) didn't work right either. However even this early experience (using kernel 0.95.11p or something in the boot disk) was less bumpy than some computer systems I have had the unfortunate ability to use?
Question for anyone who knows just for kicks is it possible to upgrade from that kind of release to the current unstable release of debian without repartitioning or reinstalling?
I am just stupid or isn't the current desktop system made for a total graphical experience (ala GNOME, KDE, etc)? The command line is optional 100%. Even win98 has a command line just pop up a dos prompt.
Being host to one of the original aarpnet nodes does not automatically qualify a place as being an "internet capitol". The infrastructure that is currently there is what really counts. Basically I feel that Virgania qualifies for this status. Almost all of the major internet backbones make their way through some part of that state.
I didn't say that I did not care for politics. In fact I never has written any serious code since I have had little training and little incentive to do so. I just commented on the fact that most people who are involved in computers are generally not the people who get involved with philosophy or running for political office as a whole.
Why is that bad? If I own a store I shure would like to rent as many copies of a particular movie as I could so as to get the most money.
Even if they did how hard is it to kill a 71 year old man? If he is scared enough statistically speaking he would die of a heart attack before the goons even layed a finger on him.