It's funny you say that. A few years ago, I asked on a mailing list for the most Linux-friendly gigabit ethernet card, and almost everyone said e1000. I've been happy with mine ever since. My distro was a bit too old for the card, but I was able to download the drivers from intel.com and install them without any problems.
Why is it so hard to believe? Let's say for instance I tell you that there is a one-in-a-million chance that a person will have a particular dream. Every night, 300 million Americans go to sleep. Would you find it hard to believe that at least one person has this dream every night?
And what if you were that one person last night? Would you think you were special? You would, if you were bad at math.
So why is it hard to believe that our planet exists in conditions that have incredibly low odds? The universe is not only more vast than anyone can imagine, it's also been around for over 13 billion years! For all you know, these "special conditions" you complain about could have happened a million times by now.
You're thinking of HD-DVD, not Blu-ray. An Ethernet connection is (was?) required on HD-DVD drives, but only Blu-ray 2.0 drives (of which there are only 2 or 3, I think) require Ethernet.
Everyone needs online backups, but most providers of these services charge money. Make it.Mac compatible, so it's easy for Mac users. It's a great service for backing up papers and other homework assignments. Who knows, you might actually be a life-saver if some Ph.D. student gets his laptop stolen and wouldn't otherwise have a backup of his dissertation.
I've never had any problem with Virgin Mobile. I bought a $50 phone, pay $5/month for cell phone service, never had any outages, and no contract either.
I was expecting people to miss my point. This isn't some high school rock band that wants to do a cover of a popular song for a talent contest. This is the RNC choosing a song to represent an individual on a national level.
Weird Al Yankovic always gets permission from the artist before parodying a song, even when he doesn't need to. Why can't McCain do the same thing?
Besides, a lot of these bands had no choice but to sign their rights away if they wanted to sell any number of records. Keep in mind these are old songs that came out before independent labels were a real option for musicians. And do you really think Heart cares about MTV Cribs?
There's doing the legal thing, and then there's doing the right thing. McCain did the legal thing - he paid the ASCAP fees (although I've heard from people who handle ASCAP licensing that it might not have been enough). He did not do the right thing, however - asking the artists if they would approve.
This tells me all I need to know about McCain's stance on IP right. He only cares that the money goes to the right place. Actually caring about the artists is not on his radar.
OS/2 was originally designed to run on a 80286 but was redesigned as a 32-bit kernel (Warp 3).
Fine, there is some 32-bit code in the kernel, but it is still seriously outdated.
Unlike Windows and Linux, the OS would prevent applications from overwriting protected memory, accessing I/O devices directly, or reprogramming the interrupt controller.
Now you're smoking something. Linux and Windows have much better protection that OS/2 does. OS/2 allows ring-2 DLLs to do direct I/O access. You can't do that in Linux.
BTW, I heard that IBM had ported OS/2 to Power PC just before they discontinued it.
The PowerPC version OS/2 was a complete rewrite as a micro-kernel. I know, because I worked on it. And it was terrible. The performance was miserable, and the device model was complete crap.
I used to be a OS/2 user, but I stopped about 4 years ago. I sympathize with the OS/2 community, because it was my geek "home" for a while, but they're going about it all wrong. I tried to convince them a long time ago, but they never listened.
The OS/2 kernel is seriously outdated. Hardware support is minimal, and the kernel itself is just dated. It's mostly 16-bit. So there's no reason to keep it. A few people insist that the OS/2 kernel is "nicer" or "better" than the Linux kernel is some way, but these people don't know anything about kernels. It's a stupid argument.
The OS/2 community should port the OS/2 API to Linux. This will allow them to run the WPS (the illustrious GUI that OS/2 users rave about) and every other OS/2 application. This would be a one-time effort, because the API is stable. It hasn't been updated in almost 10 years. Not only that, but it's very well documented
Instead, these guys keep trying to port Linux applications to OS/2. If every OS/2 developer dropped what he was doing and worked on porting the OS/2 API, they'd be done in about a year. They would never have to ask for any more help ever again. The user base would actually grow, even. They'd be able to use all of their applications forever, even on newer hardware. Device support would never be a problem. Even businesses that are based on OS/2 would start moving to Linux. It would be win-win for everyone.
In fact, the WPS might even become quite popular. Someone might try to make an open source version of it, and it might even become a replacement GUI for Linux, competing with Gnome and KDE.
You must be a troll. No Libertarian would vote for McCain. Besides, there already is a Libertarian candidate, Bob Barr. Why aren't you voting for him?
I can understand not agreeing with everything the Libertarian party stands for. I'm personally only about 75% Libertarian. But only a moron would think that McCain represents Libertarian ideals in any shape.
I've never believed that an "emergency law" is ever necessary. The law should be able to handle situations in advance. If we need to have certain changes in the law to thwart terrorism, then it should be possible to know in advance what those changes are. I reject the notion that our legislatures need to "act quickly" after a terrorist attack in order to quickly modify the law to catch the terrorists or prevent another attack.
The problem is, the DS has -plenty- of quality games
That's news to me. I bought a DS for my 6-year-old girl. There are plenty of games for her, and she'll be entertained with it for years to come, I suppose. But for me, it sucks. The only sophisticated games are crappy Japanese RPGs. When I read the reviews of DS games in EGM, I just shake my head.
Does anybody know of any good DS games for people over the age of 12 that don't feature cute animals and children as the main characters?
The black hole will be created on the surface of the Earth, not the center, therefore it won't exactly replace the planet. The new center of gravity will be somewhere between the current center of the Earth and the surface of the Earth. This will cause the Moon's orbit to go haywire. I seriously doubt the end result will be a moon orbiting a black hole which orbits the sun peacefully.
Wouldn't it be easier and mainly better to start all over?
No.
You know, like, remove that part of the code and code it all over again, see what is broken, and continue this way?
It's not that simple. When it comes to locking, there is no "part of the code" that can be replaced. Locking governs interaction between two pieces of code, sometimes two pieces that are very different but have some small thing in common.
Besides, the kernel is too big to just start throwing parts of it out and redoing them from scratch. It's much better to make incremental improvements, because then the people working on them will actual learn how to solve the problem. The BKL is not just a coding problem, but also a people and project management problem.
If you can not record a video of your 1 year old son dancing to a well-known song, your ability to participate in the society and extended family is seriously curtailed.
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You can record a video of your son dancing to a well-known song. What you cannot do is post that video to an international web site where millions of people can download it. And why would you want to do that anyway? I only want to share my home videos with family members. So I post them to my personal web site and email a URL.
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It's funny you say that. A few years ago, I asked on a mailing list for the most Linux-friendly gigabit ethernet card, and almost everyone said e1000. I've been happy with mine ever since. My distro was a bit too old for the card, but I was able to download the drivers from intel.com and install them without any problems.
Why is it so hard to believe? Let's say for instance I tell you that there is a one-in-a-million chance that a person will have a particular dream. Every night, 300 million Americans go to sleep. Would you find it hard to believe that at least one person has this dream every night?
And what if you were that one person last night? Would you think you were special? You would, if you were bad at math.
So why is it hard to believe that our planet exists in conditions that have incredibly low odds? The universe is not only more vast than anyone can imagine, it's also been around for over 13 billion years! For all you know, these "special conditions" you complain about could have happened a million times by now.
Would you want an ad for another product on your auction page?
You're thinking of HD-DVD, not Blu-ray. An Ethernet connection is (was?) required on HD-DVD drives, but only Blu-ray 2.0 drives (of which there are only 2 or 3, I think) require Ethernet.
Everyone needs online backups, but most providers of these services charge money. Make it .Mac compatible, so it's easy for Mac users. It's a great service for backing up papers and other homework assignments. Who knows, you might actually be a life-saver if some Ph.D. student gets his laptop stolen and wouldn't otherwise have a backup of his dissertation.
I've never had any problem with Virgin Mobile. I bought a $50 phone, pay $5/month for cell phone service, never had any outages, and no contract either.
I was expecting people to miss my point. This isn't some high school rock band that wants to do a cover of a popular song for a talent contest. This is the RNC choosing a song to represent an individual on a national level.
Weird Al Yankovic always gets permission from the artist before parodying a song, even when he doesn't need to. Why can't McCain do the same thing?
Besides, a lot of these bands had no choice but to sign their rights away if they wanted to sell any number of records. Keep in mind these are old songs that came out before independent labels were a real option for musicians. And do you really think Heart cares about MTV Cribs?
There's doing the legal thing, and then there's doing the right thing. McCain did the legal thing - he paid the ASCAP fees (although I've heard from people who handle ASCAP licensing that it might not have been enough). He did not do the right thing, however - asking the artists if they would approve.
This tells me all I need to know about McCain's stance on IP right. He only cares that the money goes to the right place. Actually caring about the artists is not on his radar.
OS/2 was originally designed to run on a 80286 but was redesigned as a 32-bit kernel (Warp 3).
Fine, there is some 32-bit code in the kernel, but it is still seriously outdated.
Unlike Windows and Linux, the OS would prevent applications from overwriting protected memory, accessing I/O devices directly, or reprogramming the interrupt controller.
Now you're smoking something. Linux and Windows have much better protection that OS/2 does. OS/2 allows ring-2 DLLs to do direct I/O access. You can't do that in Linux.
BTW, I heard that IBM had ported OS/2 to Power PC just before they discontinued it.
The PowerPC version OS/2 was a complete rewrite as a micro-kernel. I know, because I worked on it. And it was terrible. The performance was miserable, and the device model was complete crap.
I used to be a OS/2 user, but I stopped about 4 years ago. I sympathize with the OS/2 community, because it was my geek "home" for a while, but they're going about it all wrong. I tried to convince them a long time ago, but they never listened.
The OS/2 kernel is seriously outdated. Hardware support is minimal, and the kernel itself is just dated. It's mostly 16-bit. So there's no reason to keep it. A few people insist that the OS/2 kernel is "nicer" or "better" than the Linux kernel is some way, but these people don't know anything about kernels. It's a stupid argument.
The OS/2 community should port the OS/2 API to Linux. This will allow them to run the WPS (the illustrious GUI that OS/2 users rave about) and every other OS/2 application. This would be a one-time effort, because the API is stable. It hasn't been updated in almost 10 years. Not only that, but it's very well documented
Instead, these guys keep trying to port Linux applications to OS/2. If every OS/2 developer dropped what he was doing and worked on porting the OS/2 API, they'd be done in about a year. They would never have to ask for any more help ever again. The user base would actually grow, even. They'd be able to use all of their applications forever, even on newer hardware. Device support would never be a problem. Even businesses that are based on OS/2 would start moving to Linux. It would be win-win for everyone.
In fact, the WPS might even become quite popular. Someone might try to make an open source version of it, and it might even become a replacement GUI for Linux, competing with Gnome and KDE.
First of all, the VP is influential, so it's important to consider her opinions on domestic and foreign policy when voting.
Second, McCain won't live long. I'd be surprised if he's still alive in 2012. That means that if McCain is elected, Palin will become president.
You must be a troll. No Libertarian would vote for McCain. Besides, there already is a Libertarian candidate, Bob Barr. Why aren't you voting for him?
I can understand not agreeing with everything the Libertarian party stands for. I'm personally only about 75% Libertarian. But only a moron would think that McCain represents Libertarian ideals in any shape.
In other words, just like every other PC manufacturer.
I used to work for Dell. Frankly, I can't understand why anyone likes it there.
A friend of mine is Chinese and still spends a lot of time in China. He's convinced that He Kexin is under age.
Does anyone have a contact email address for the IOC? I couldn't find one on the web site.
Software patents are not allowed in Europe, so we already know he doesn't live there.
I've never believed that an "emergency law" is ever necessary. The law should be able to handle situations in advance. If we need to have certain changes in the law to thwart terrorism, then it should be possible to know in advance what those changes are. I reject the notion that our legislatures need to "act quickly" after a terrorist attack in order to quickly modify the law to catch the terrorists or prevent another attack.
The problem is, the DS has -plenty- of quality games
That's news to me. I bought a DS for my 6-year-old girl. There are plenty of games for her, and she'll be entertained with it for years to come, I suppose. But for me, it sucks. The only sophisticated games are crappy Japanese RPGs. When I read the reviews of DS games in EGM, I just shake my head.
Does anybody know of any good DS games for people over the age of 12 that don't feature cute animals and children as the main characters?
With Stallman at the helm, the FSF is at risk of becoming the PETA of open-source advocacy organizations.
I have a 928 Galaxy Space Explorer at home. What's so special about it?
The black hole will be created on the surface of the Earth, not the center, therefore it won't exactly replace the planet. The new center of gravity will be somewhere between the current center of the Earth and the surface of the Earth. This will cause the Moon's orbit to go haywire. I seriously doubt the end result will be a moon orbiting a black hole which orbits the sun peacefully.
Really? Never in a million years would my gut have told me that keeping all kids in school, no matter how dumb or malevolent they are, is a good idea.
His point is that you don't know a joke when you see one.
No.
You know, like, remove that part of the code and code it all over again, see what is broken, and continue this way?
It's not that simple. When it comes to locking, there is no "part of the code" that can be replaced. Locking governs interaction between two pieces of code, sometimes two pieces that are very different but have some small thing in common.
Besides, the kernel is too big to just start throwing parts of it out and redoing them from scratch. It's much better to make incremental improvements, because then the people working on them will actual learn how to solve the problem. The BKL is not just a coding problem, but also a people and project management problem.
Altering someones picture without there permission probably should be illegal.
No, it shouldn't be illegal. Trust me on this. You don't want photoshopping people without permission to be illegal.
If you can not record a video of your 1 year old son dancing to a well-known song, your ability to participate in the society and extended family is seriously curtailed.
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You can record a video of your son dancing to a well-known song. What you cannot do is post that video to an international web site where millions of people can download it. And why would you want to do that anyway? I only want to share my home videos with family members. So I post them to my personal web site and email a URL.