Maybe it's because I didn't read TFA, but isn't this idea old, and not new and unique as the article implies? Diesel electric trains have used traction motors for years, only using their huge diesels as generators.
I've always wondered why there's not more of a community for sharing the source-code for buy-the-executable-first software. I mean, it's not against the license... I'm looking at you, GNAT Pro!
Make sense? Science is filled with discoveries that were unbelievable and nonsensical for the discovers and general population both. A good scientist also pursues results empirically and systematically even if his mind can't make sense of thing quite yet.
When it comes to governments advocating or impugning nuclear power, it's not so much an issue of "where does the waste go" as it is "who will use the waste, and for what". It's apparent if you take even a momentary glance at the state of affairs in Iran, and there are countless other precedents.
Do you also find car insurance prices discriminatory? If you get speeding tickets, you pay premiums. Isn't that akin to saying "if you keep your body trim, you're less apt to have health problems"?
It did indeed reach 88mph with a six cylinder, it's just too bad it wasn't a Delorean engine. A Porsche flat-six engine was swapped in to Back in the Future's DMC-12s allow the car to accelerate as it did.
I'm in the same boat as you. My computer consistently was slower than Windows at doing regular tasks, no matter what I tried to speed Linux up. I tried distributions (Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Ubuntu, Knoppix, Mandriva), windowmanagers (GNOME [sawfish & metacity], KDE [KWin], ratpoison, fluxbox, xfce, e16, ion, afterstep, blackbox, fvwm, icewm, probably more), kernel tweaking (-mm, various smaller trees off the gentoo forums, other/beta io schedulers), filesystems (ext3, fat32, reiserfs, reiser4, and even xfs and jfs) XFree/X.org configurations aplenty, and complete stripping down of runlevel/init.d spawned process, but none of it was to any avail. Video would take enormous efforts to work as fast as it did on Windows; stop using GNOME, switch to current super-low-memory-profile WM of choice, stop any server process but ssh, start mplayer as root with nice, and pray. Day-to-day use of any windowmanager wasn't up to snuff; windows would tear when moving, resizing would feel sloppy unless I had window outline resizing on, Firefox would take forever to start, tabs would have large delays on opening, as did menues, page rendering sucked balls, and in XMMS/BMP/amaroK/rhythmbox/kaffeine sounds would regularly chop with high CPU load spikes, there was a palpably long load whenever I opened an application in another widget toolkit that had me acting GTK1 zealot just for memory concerns, and more. I mean, I ended up using Dillo and mp3blaster (a console music player) for day-to-day use! Screw using Eye of Gnome, I had to use tiny, featureless or distro-included media viewers! Unless X started COMPLETELY BRINGING DOWN my machine again, regardless of what user it was running in (damn you suid!?) in which case I'd just use lynx on a console window, and become a pure coder-monkey because I had nothing else to do... And even then, I'd keep using Linux exclusively, for a period of a few months, until I switched back to Windows. I'd be shocked at the responsiveness, and how multimedia and (god-forbid) 3D rendered applications actually worked, until I got so pissed off with everything else that I'd switch back to Linux after a month or two, and restart the miserable cycle. I ended up doing so little stuff on my computer that I ended up getting a Mac, for god's sake, and fulfulled my *n{i,u}x needs on a headless FreeBSD server on an ancient discarded UltraSPARC, all that I could afford! Yup, that's my life on Linux. It's been about a year since I seriously usd it, and I'd switch back to Linux in the blink of an eye if I had any indication that someone finally tracked down the speed-killer patch that SCO or Hitler or Steve Jobs comitted into every X11 implementation ever.:(
Con Kolivas used to provide his own, custom 2.4 kernel patches, much like Andrew Morton still does. I'm not sure if he's done it for 2.6, but the fact that he's tried patchsets to remedy and still is discontented sure seems to poimy that patchsets aren't currently that great at what they're supposed to do.
Whenever I'm on laptops, I find myself using my left hand for keyboard shortcuts, and my right for the touchpad; if I need to type, it's not a far move for my mouse-hand, and on Mac OS X, many shortcuts are accessible on the left homerow. It's a decent compromise.
This low-resolution image somehow reminded me of all the Decoy structures you could make in Command and Conquer: Red Alert to throw off exactly this sort of investigation.
Additionally, it's not like it's hard to take the seat out of a CRX, plant some books you bought with hard cash, and then cut your arm a little to bleed on the floor (her lover was in BDSM for chrissakes!)
Actually, I think that's not at all what he meant. To my knowledge, WGA keeps all sorts of records about your PC; I imagine that if your hardware UUIDs and whatnot are validated using a Windows boot, when you use WGA in Ubuntu Microsoft positively matches your hardware and confirms validation. What he means is that if you were solely a Wine user this wouldn't work.
I've always wondered why people don't make a version of ZFS that is designed to be patched to the Linux kernel for non-distributed use. As I recall, you can do nearly bloody anything with either piece of software, just so long as it's not DISTRIBUTED. Production servers and powerusers both don't seem to mind patching Linux, so patching in ZFS should be no big deal. Right? Distributions could send out binary blobs (OSI approved, just pre-compiled) too!
This project isn't the first of its sort: Amazon has the Mechanical Turk project, where users perform various tasks similar to CAPTCHAs for amazon.com credit.
The cameras are certainly not detterents to crimes; they are IMMENSELY useful investigatively. With sufficient cameras, what's to stop the police from tracing a criminal in a crime scene backwards through camera footage and discover his arms dealer and associates?
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OH GOD THE IRANIAN FLAG!
As if Americans don't festoon their flag everywere.
Patiotic? "Nationalistic"? God.
It's not that people are prejudiced against Wikipedia. It's that HUMANS DO NOT TRUST ONE ANOTHER, AND FOR GOOD REASON.
Maybe it's because I didn't read TFA, but isn't this idea old, and not new and unique as the article implies?
Diesel electric trains have used traction motors for years, only using their huge diesels as generators.
>> -- Should you believe authority without question?
Y-E-S Y-O-U S-H-O-U-L-D
*beep boop*
Well, the community versions of GNAT doesn't run on my setup (you need an Ada compiler to compile an Ada compiler), so I moan every once and a while.
I've always wondered why there's not more of a community for sharing the source-code for buy-the-executable-first software. I mean, it's not against the license...
I'm looking at you, GNAT Pro!
Make sense? Science is filled with discoveries that were unbelievable and nonsensical for the discovers and general population both. A good scientist also pursues results empirically and systematically even if his mind can't make sense of thing quite yet.
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In your nation's flag, the red bars extend to the edge of the flag. On the red cross, the red is completely surrounded by white.
See:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thu
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thu
Feel free to use St. George's. I don't think anyone owns rights to THAT.
When it comes to governments advocating or impugning nuclear power, it's not so much an issue of "where does the waste go" as it is "who will use the waste, and for what". It's apparent if you take even a momentary glance at the state of affairs in Iran, and there are countless other precedents.
Do you also find car insurance prices discriminatory? If you get speeding tickets, you pay premiums. Isn't that akin to saying "if you keep your body trim, you're less apt to have health problems"?
It did indeed reach 88mph with a six cylinder, it's just too bad it wasn't a Delorean engine. A Porsche flat-six engine was swapped in to Back in the Future's DMC-12s allow the car to accelerate as it did.
Too bad hardware keyloggers would still eat you up.
I'm in the same boat as you. My computer consistently was slower than Windows at doing regular tasks, no matter what I tried to speed Linux up. :(
I tried distributions (Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Ubuntu, Knoppix, Mandriva), windowmanagers (GNOME [sawfish & metacity], KDE [KWin], ratpoison, fluxbox, xfce, e16, ion, afterstep, blackbox, fvwm, icewm, probably more), kernel tweaking (-mm, various smaller trees off the gentoo forums, other/beta io schedulers), filesystems (ext3, fat32, reiserfs, reiser4, and even xfs and jfs) XFree/X.org configurations aplenty, and complete stripping down of runlevel/init.d spawned process, but none of it was to any avail.
Video would take enormous efforts to work as fast as it did on Windows; stop using GNOME, switch to current super-low-memory-profile WM of choice, stop any server process but ssh, start mplayer as root with nice, and pray.
Day-to-day use of any windowmanager wasn't up to snuff; windows would tear when moving, resizing would feel sloppy unless I had window outline resizing on, Firefox would take forever to start, tabs would have large delays on opening, as did menues, page rendering sucked balls, and in XMMS/BMP/amaroK/rhythmbox/kaffeine sounds would regularly chop with high CPU load spikes, there was a palpably long load whenever I opened an application in another widget toolkit that had me acting GTK1 zealot just for memory concerns, and more.
I mean, I ended up using Dillo and mp3blaster (a console music player) for day-to-day use!
Screw using Eye of Gnome, I had to use tiny, featureless or distro-included media viewers!
Unless X started COMPLETELY BRINGING DOWN my machine again, regardless of what user it was running in (damn you suid!?) in which case I'd just use lynx on a console window, and become a pure coder-monkey because I had nothing else to do...
And even then, I'd keep using Linux exclusively, for a period of a few months, until I switched back to Windows. I'd be shocked at the responsiveness, and how multimedia and (god-forbid) 3D rendered applications actually worked, until I got so pissed off with everything else that I'd switch back to Linux after a month or two, and restart the miserable cycle.
I ended up doing so little stuff on my computer that I ended up getting a Mac, for god's sake, and fulfulled my *n{i,u}x needs on a headless FreeBSD server on an ancient discarded UltraSPARC, all that I could afford!
Yup, that's my life on Linux. It's been about a year since I seriously usd it, and I'd switch back to Linux in the blink of an eye if I had any indication that someone finally tracked down the speed-killer patch that SCO or Hitler or Steve Jobs comitted into every X11 implementation ever.
Con Kolivas used to provide his own, custom 2.4 kernel patches, much like Andrew Morton still does. I'm not sure if he's done it for 2.6, but the fact that he's tried patchsets to remedy and still is discontented sure seems to poimy that patchsets aren't currently that great at what they're supposed to do.
You don't know they're spoilers until you read them, hence "unexpected".
Christ. Pedants.
Unfortunately, it's also a game in obfuscation: centre versus center, aluminium and aluminum, et cetera.
Whenever I'm on laptops, I find myself using my left hand for keyboard shortcuts, and my right for the touchpad; if I need to type, it's not a far move for my mouse-hand, and on Mac OS X, many shortcuts are accessible on the left homerow.
It's a decent compromise.
This low-resolution image somehow reminded me of all the Decoy structures you could make in Command and Conquer: Red Alert to throw off exactly this sort of investigation.
Additionally, it's not like it's hard to take the seat out of a CRX, plant some books you bought with hard cash, and then cut your arm a little to bleed on the floor (her lover was in BDSM for chrissakes!)
Actually, I think that's not at all what he meant. To my knowledge, WGA keeps all sorts of records about your PC; I imagine that if your hardware UUIDs and whatnot are validated using a Windows boot, when you use WGA in Ubuntu Microsoft positively matches your hardware and confirms validation.
What he means is that if you were solely a Wine user this wouldn't work.
Hey, it sure beats an 11MB document of feature requests.
I've always wondered why people don't make a version of ZFS that is designed to be patched to the Linux kernel for non-distributed use. As I recall, you can do nearly bloody anything with either piece of software, just so long as it's not DISTRIBUTED.
Production servers and powerusers both don't seem to mind patching Linux, so patching in ZFS should be no big deal. Right?
Distributions could send out binary blobs (OSI approved, just pre-compiled) too!
I imagine that when you install distros, you do it on 50 heterogenuous machines like many Fedora adminstrators have to do?
This project isn't the first of its sort: Amazon has the Mechanical Turk project, where users perform various tasks similar to CAPTCHAs for amazon.com credit.
http://www.mturk.com/
The cameras are certainly not detterents to crimes; they are IMMENSELY useful investigatively.
With sufficient cameras, what's to stop the police from tracing a criminal in a crime scene backwards through camera footage and discover his arms dealer and associates?