My dad, a tool and die maker, worked in a building that was build in the 40-50's. It had something that worked on the same principle. There was this long duct shaft that went up the east wall, across the room, and down the west wall. Where the ducts reached the floor there were huge fans, two at each entrance. In the morning the east fans would run. In the evening the west fans would run. During the winter they would change the direction the fans pushed air.
Hopefully I'm not being too harsh. It isn't my point. But... Prepare her to live a life of house wife, receptionist, bank teller, or bag lady. If your niece hasn't learned the importance of using her strengths to create a life for herself she needs to be prepared to be used.
Didn't Mark Twain (puddin head) say something to the extent of, "If you don't use yourself someone else will. It is one of the few things someone will do for you."
By the way. I ordered those career choices by pay grade and sexual activity.
I agree with you 100%. AMD has been seriously injured because of their inability to shrink die size on demand. If they had Intel's cash things would be different. What is the saying? If frogs had wings they wouldn't bump their ass.
If I had a penny for the number of people that played the shareware version of doom then bought the game, then played the mods, then bought doom 2, then played the mods, then bought the commemorative version, then... I'd have a ton of cash and still wouldn't peel off 60 bucks to buy a shitty game released by epic.
...and I don't feel like downloading OOo just to read a three-page memo.
Ah yes "annoyance" files. The tiny memo that just HAS to be written with an office application because the user doesn't understand anything else. Those are almost as annoying as people that paste jpg images into doc files because they well are completely incompetent and you cant tell them that images can be displayed by every GUI email client on earth. Anyway. I convert all annoyance files to pdf form and read it with xpdf. There are tons of [a-zA-Z]2pdf and print2pdf tools out there. Linux has a bunch that are free/OSS.
Every Toshiba I have looked at, after finding out mine had this issue, has hvm disabled. Not "they use a bios that is not "Intel Virtualization Technology-enabled". Flat out disabled with no way of turning it on. Add to this the fact that every bios update for my laptop has made it more and more difficult to get Linux running properly. No sound? hack bios rebuild kernel and init. No fan for GPU? hack bios - rebuild kernel and init... I'm waiting for the bios that looks to see if I have nothing vista'ish on the drive and disables me turning it on.
IMHO the definition of Linux Desktop is the ability to use whatever desktop I want because it is open to my choice and I'm capable using it. There seems to be the assumption that Windows users are computer users. They are not. They are Windows users. Linux, Solaris, and BSD users are computer users.
I think you'll find the majority of those devices that "just work" use drivers written by the OSS community. Drivers that don't work worth !@#$ on Linux tend to be from device makers geared specifically for the Windows environment. Thanks to apple going with a BSD based OS there is more incentive for hardware makers to open source their drivers so BSD and Linux coders will do the work for them. That, and the fact that writing drivers for Linux is getting easier thanks to all of the work done by others, you'll find things will keep getting better.
Aren't most game developers people who surrounded themselves with games then evolved to developers? Maybe the process is to mature from gamer to game maker. Surely the math, sociology, psychology, and politics involved in the game creation world would be able to stimulate you.
Not to knock down the potential of fungus but I'd like people to be aware of the dangers involved as well. Most of the things you read about fungus neglect to mention how difficult it is to keep it from spreading. Spores are air born which makes it very difficult to contain. Not knowing the effects this fungus would have in the wild if moved to populated areas need to be explored so we don't end up with oily substances dripping from the walls of our houses. Though now that I think about it, scraping fuel off the side of the shed to refill the generator sounds kind of cool.
I've been playing Fallout. I think the "I" is pretty good. If designers could decrease the "A" I'd be happier. IMHO dedicated hardware for AI is something that desperately needs to be tapped. If someone could figure out a way to implement persistent neural nets the device could be used for an array of applications, not just games. ie. OCR, voice/face/fingerprint recognition, hearing/vision aid... I've always wanted to try hacking a graphics card to do it but they don't have any persistent memory. Cards that have memory don't have any good processing capability. I know I'm not alone though which is good. http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/06/1749252
He had long been part of the critical audience for his father's fiction, first as a child listening to tales of Bilbo Baggins, and then as a teenager and young adult offering much feedback on The Lord of the Rings during its 15-year gestation. He had the task of interpreting his father's sometimes self-contradictory maps of Middle-earth in order to produce the versions used in the books, and he re-drew the main map in the late 1970s to clarify the lettering and correct some errors and omissions.
J. R. R. Tolkien wrote a great deal of material connected to the Middle-earth mythos that was not published in his lifetime. Although he had originally intended to publish The Silmarillion along with The Lord of the Rings, and parts of it were in a finished state, he died in 1973 with the project unfinished.
After his father's death, Christopher Tolkien embarked on organizing the masses of his father's notes, some of them written on odd scraps of paper a half-century earlier. Much of the material was handwritten; frequently a fair draft was written over a half-erased first draft, and names of characters routinely changed between the beginning and end of the same draft. Deciphering this was an arduous task, and perhaps only someone with personal experience of J. R. R. Tolkien and the evolution of his stories could have made any sense of it. Christopher Tolkien has admitted to having to occasionally guess at what his father intended.
Working with Guy Gavriel Kay, he was able to complete The Silmarillion, which was published in 1977. The Silmarillion was edited by Christopher Tolkien, who had to make some difficult editorial decisions when deciding how to present the material, and both Christopher Tolkien himself, and others have criticised some of these decisions.[citation needed] The Silmarillion was followed by Unfinished Tales in 1980, and the twelve-volume The History of Middle-earth between 1983 and 1996.
In April 2007 Christopher published a "new" book by his father, The Children of HÃrin, which Tolkien had written between 1951-57 and brought to a relatively completed stage before he abandoned it. This was one of the elder Tolkien's earliest stories, its first version dating back to 1918; several versions of the story are published in The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales and The History of Middle-earth. The Children of HÃrin is a synthesis of these and other sources.
It is one thing to be creative to the extreme like his father. It is another to be hard working and creative like your father. Christopher Tolkien breaks all of the rules when it comes to inheriting something.
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My dad, a tool and die maker, worked in a building that was build in the 40-50's. It had something that worked on the same principle. There was this long duct shaft that went up the east wall, across the room, and down the west wall. Where the ducts reached the floor there were huge fans, two at each entrance. In the morning the east fans would run. In the evening the west fans would run. During the winter they would change the direction the fans pushed air.
Hopefully I'm not being too harsh. It isn't my point. But... Prepare her to live a life of house wife, receptionist, bank teller, or bag lady. If your niece hasn't learned the importance of using her strengths to create a life for herself she needs to be prepared to be used.
Didn't Mark Twain (puddin head) say something to the extent of, "If you don't use yourself someone else will. It is one of the few things someone will do for you."
By the way. I ordered those career choices by pay grade and sexual activity.
In my case it is. I only run Linux :p
Warning. If you love Microsoft, don't read. Your delicate sensibilities might be hurt 40% of the time.
Engineering sector 99.999 Microsoft 40.000 Sounds about right.
I agree with you 100%. AMD has been seriously injured because of their inability to shrink die size on demand. If they had Intel's cash things would be different. What is the saying? If frogs had wings they wouldn't bump their ass.
Why do I feel like a Logic teacher just beat me with a syllogism?
This begs the question: Was agriculture a product of maintaining religion? Perhaps religion is the reason we have hierarchy.
The bible must say to divide by stupidity. 4.5 billion/stupidity=6,000
Why do you say that? They patch ALMOST every hole within AT LEAST 8 years! http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/12/199215 Sigh.
Sure! They can block users from nasty ol' Capitolist porn. But, do they keep users from attacking overseas networks? Noooooo.
Sorry. I'm in touch with my inner child today.
If I had a penny for the number of people that played the shareware version of doom then bought the game, then played the mods, then bought doom 2, then played the mods, then bought the commemorative version, then... I'd have a ton of cash and still wouldn't peel off 60 bucks to buy a shitty game released by epic.
The Huggy Bear character was burried with them.
http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&q=huggy+bear+starsky+and+hutch&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&resnum=4&ct=title#
...and I don't feel like downloading OOo just to read a three-page memo.
Ah yes "annoyance" files. The tiny memo that just HAS to be written with an office application because the user doesn't understand anything else. Those are almost as annoying as people that paste jpg images into doc files because they well are completely incompetent and you cant tell them that images can be displayed by every GUI email client on earth. Anyway. I convert all annoyance files to pdf form and read it with xpdf. There are tons of [a-zA-Z]2pdf and print2pdf tools out there. Linux has a bunch that are free/OSS.
Sooooo drunks should buy iphones?
iKid! :)
Every Toshiba I have looked at, after finding out mine had this issue, has hvm disabled. Not "they use a bios that is not "Intel Virtualization Technology-enabled". Flat out disabled with no way of turning it on. Add to this the fact that every bios update for my laptop has made it more and more difficult to get Linux running properly. No sound? hack bios rebuild kernel and init. No fan for GPU? hack bios - rebuild kernel and init... I'm waiting for the bios that looks to see if I have nothing vista'ish on the drive and disables me turning it on.
+1 ROFL
IMHO the definition of Linux Desktop is the ability to use whatever desktop I want because it is open to my choice and I'm capable using it. There seems to be the assumption that Windows users are computer users. They are not. They are Windows users. Linux, Solaris, and BSD users are computer users.
I think you'll find the majority of those devices that "just work" use drivers written by the OSS community. Drivers that don't work worth !@#$ on Linux tend to be from device makers geared specifically for the Windows environment. Thanks to apple going with a BSD based OS there is more incentive for hardware makers to open source their drivers so BSD and Linux coders will do the work for them. That, and the fact that writing drivers for Linux is getting easier thanks to all of the work done by others, you'll find things will keep getting better.
Every so called law of nature is mankinds attempt to put the things mankind perceives into understandable terms.
Every so called religion is mankind's attempt to put the things mankind perceives into understandable terms.
How equatable.
Aren't most game developers people who surrounded themselves with games then evolved to developers? Maybe the process is to mature from gamer to game maker. Surely the math, sociology, psychology, and politics involved in the game creation world would be able to stimulate you.
I vote for COMMANDER taco AND CHIEF technology officer!
Not to knock down the potential of fungus but I'd like people to be aware of the dangers involved as well. Most of the things you read about fungus neglect to mention how difficult it is to keep it from spreading. Spores are air born which makes it very difficult to contain. Not knowing the effects this fungus would have in the wild if moved to populated areas need to be explored so we don't end up with oily substances dripping from the walls of our houses. Though now that I think about it, scraping fuel off the side of the shed to refill the generator sounds kind of cool.
I've been playing Fallout. I think the "I" is pretty good. If designers could decrease the "A" I'd be happier. IMHO dedicated hardware for AI is something that desperately needs to be tapped. If someone could figure out a way to implement persistent neural nets the device could be used for an array of applications, not just games. ie. OCR, voice/face/fingerprint recognition, hearing/vision aid... I've always wanted to try hacking a graphics card to do it but they don't have any persistent memory. Cards that have memory don't have any good processing capability. I know I'm not alone though which is good. http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/06/1749252
I'm not sure why/how my post was funny or troll or how I would be wrong. All one has to do is look at wikipedia to see Christopher's contributions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Tolkien
For those who are link challenged...
He had long been part of the critical audience for his father's fiction, first as a child listening to tales of Bilbo Baggins, and then as a teenager and young adult offering much feedback on The Lord of the Rings during its 15-year gestation. He had the task of interpreting his father's sometimes self-contradictory maps of Middle-earth in order to produce the versions used in the books, and he re-drew the main map in the late 1970s to clarify the lettering and correct some errors and omissions.
J. R. R. Tolkien wrote a great deal of material connected to the Middle-earth mythos that was not published in his lifetime. Although he had originally intended to publish The Silmarillion along with The Lord of the Rings, and parts of it were in a finished state, he died in 1973 with the project unfinished.
After his father's death, Christopher Tolkien embarked on organizing the masses of his father's notes, some of them written on odd scraps of paper a half-century earlier. Much of the material was handwritten; frequently a fair draft was written over a half-erased first draft, and names of characters routinely changed between the beginning and end of the same draft. Deciphering this was an arduous task, and perhaps only someone with personal experience of J. R. R. Tolkien and the evolution of his stories could have made any sense of it. Christopher Tolkien has admitted to having to occasionally guess at what his father intended.
Working with Guy Gavriel Kay, he was able to complete The Silmarillion, which was published in 1977. The Silmarillion was edited by Christopher Tolkien, who had to make some difficult editorial decisions when deciding how to present the material, and both Christopher Tolkien himself, and others have criticised some of these decisions.[citation needed] The Silmarillion was followed by Unfinished Tales in 1980, and the twelve-volume The History of Middle-earth between 1983 and 1996.
In April 2007 Christopher published a "new" book by his father, The Children of HÃrin, which Tolkien had written between 1951-57 and brought to a relatively completed stage before he abandoned it. This was one of the elder Tolkien's earliest stories, its first version dating back to 1918; several versions of the story are published in The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales and The History of Middle-earth. The Children of HÃrin is a synthesis of these and other sources.
It is one thing to be creative to the extreme like his father. It is another to be hard working and creative like your father. Christopher Tolkien breaks all of the rules when it comes to inheriting something.
He was editor, artist, and consultant to the majority of his fathers work. I would argue he did more than his father.