So Europe develops the Eurofighter (Typhoon), UK buys 232 of them... and then still wants these things? I thought the Eurofighter was meant to be an excellent fighter second only to the F22 in performance (which costs approximately twice as much as the Typhoon) but was meant to be easier to fly.
"...and you probably think that if you work hard you'll get that promotion, but don't understand why that schmoozer who is clearly useless keeps getting promoted."
Yup... that's why I'm on/. atm... working as hard as I can;P
"It's been my experience that if you find yourself explaining something to more than one person than it was a bad marketing move. The fact that they have this mp3 file tells me that it is a bad name... Instead of investing resources into explaining the name, expend resources finding and transitioning to a new name. In the long term you will be ahead."
Perhaps we should change the name of Linux while we're at it?
Personally I love PostgreSQL, MySQL always had less features but was faster than PostgreSQL because of it, as MySQL adds these features it's becoming slower effectively making it the same product... when MySQL finally has all the features of PostgreSQL I'm sure it will be the slower of the 2 as PostgreSQL will be way ahead in terms of optimising the features they've had for years.
AFAIK SANE doesn't create a single multipage file for multipage documents, it will create seperate files for each page in a format you specify, e.g: page001.tiff etc. Due to this you may need to use something like imagemagick to combine the multiple files in to 1 multipage tiff... you could then use tiff2pdf to convert it to pdf with jpeg compression enabled for smaller file sizes.
I'm with you on this, I'd never turn it off! If you have enough RAM windows won't touch it, although you may want to make it a static size rather than letting Windows automatically resize it.
Personally I run Linux mainly but I have a Windows partition on my IDE boot disk. Even with 1GB of ram I purposely left 342mb at the end of each of my 3 scsi disks to have a raid 0 stripe of 1024 (ish) swap, just in case windows ever needs it.
"This is a phenominal concept... They've just created a middle market between PDAs and laptops..."
As others have pointed out above, there are already other products like this on the market, see the above posts. To me this is M$ taking other people ideas, copying them and spending more dosh on marketing to win the battle - hmmm... they've never done that before now have they?
"Microsoft said future models will run on Windows Vista, the next-generation of its flagship operating system due out in the second-half of 2006."
Jeeeeessssshh!
Re:Comment about "web performance" amusing
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Has anyone thats got a T650 and complains of crashes ever actually RTFM? Crashing on a Treo is usualy caused by third party apps (at least if you have a recent firmware etc anyway). The T650 offers reporting on whats caused the crashes (by dialing #*377 on euro GSM phones - it varies I believe)... if you're getting crashes find out what third party app is causing the crashes and remove it! Personally I've had 1 crash in the last quarter - stop blaming Palm for what third party developers are doing wrong!
"Don't forget "Experts Exchange". My last company paid for a subscription to that and most of the answers are either "RTFM" or just pulled straight from the newsgroup posting that is right under the 7 experts exchange hits on google. (Or, even more commonly, an RTFM pulled straight from the newsgroup...)"
Actually I like the way EE works, if you have a little spare time you can answer questions and get enough points use the site for free. Yes its anoying that you can't search for results without either paying or answering questions... but you can use google to find the articles, e.g: googling for "linux configure grub site:experts-exchange.com" will find a result within the first few results.
As EE gives points for answers, an answer like "RTFM" will not get the points. And remember to look down the answers for the "accepted answer" or "assisted answers" as they're the solutions that worked.
Re:In space nobody can here you play golf!
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Don't blame me - my calculation was just using the distance and time provided by the article!
From google: 2.1 billion miles = 3 696 000 000 000 yards
<pedantic comment>That's not necessarily true, TFA doesn't mention if it uses the American billion (most probable) or the British billion (3 extra 0's)... while google is possibly correct, it could also be wrong if the article uses the British billion. However 2.1 billion miles = 3,696 billion yards as long as both sides of the expression use the same billion.</pedantic comment>
"I mean 50,000 pieces of spam to nearly 1.2 million AOL users, that's less than.05 penis enlargements per person, pathetic. I've gained greater coverage via semaphore."
I think you'll find that's 50,000 pieces of spam (or part of that 50k) to each of the 1.2 million mail boxes - otherwise it'd be 50,000 pieces of spam to 50,000 mail boxes! (or was that intended solely as a [bad] joke?)
In space nobody can here you play golf!
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ok, from TFA:
"The ball is expected to remain in orbit for three to four years."
"The ball is expected to travel up to 2.1 billion miles before it drops back into the atmosphere and burns up."
TFA doesn't say if that distance is based on 3 or 4 years, so I'll work out both and give a max & min average velocity:
Min time in space = 3 years = 1,096 days (2*365 + 1*366: leap year in 2008) = 26,304 hours
Max time in space = 4 years = 1,461 days (3*365 + 1*366: leap year in 2008) = 35,064 hours
2.1 billion miles / 26,304 hours = 79,835.77 mph
2.1 billion miles / 35,064 hours = 59,890.49 mph
So the average speed will be between 59,890.49 mph & 79,835.77 mph!! (or 96,384.16 kph & 128,482.90 kph)
Considering the speed of sound (at sea level) is 761mph it's just as well in space nobody can here you play golf!
Haydn.
Re:Yardage?
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"So I wonder how many yards it will travel in 3 or 4 years before it burns up? This is going to be the longest drive ever."
From TFA:
"The ball is expected to travel up to 2.1 billion miles before it drops back into the atmosphere and burns up."
<sarcasm>I know it's a really hard conversion, especially for the techie crowd on/.</sarcasm> - that's 3696 billion yards.
Good point - I remember playing D&D when I was young and the party reached a moat, the wizard in our group decided to turn me (a stupid warrior) in to a fish to check if the moat was acidic or not... needless to say I failed the saving throw, got thrown in the moat and got burned.
"The documentation states you have to be a full time student."
Really? I can't find that in the rules, all I can find is this:
"WHO CAN ENTER
To participate in the Ultimate Virtual Appliance Challenge (the "Challenge"), you must be at least 18 years old. The Challenge is open to individuals or teams of up to 10 people (the "Participant"), but not to corporate entries. By participating in the Challenge, Participants agree to be bound by these rules and to all decisions of VMware, which are final, binding and conclusive in all matters. To keep the Challenge legal and fair, we need to prohibit certain participants, see below.
PROHIBITED PARTICIPANTS: We want a fair and legal Challenge!
Full and part-time employees of VMware as well as those who are performing internships during the Challenge duration and those involved in the production (including prize suppliers), implementation and distribution of this Challenge and their advertising or promotion agencies, parent companies, service providers, agents, officers, subsidiaries or affiliates, or any other persons or entities directly associated with the Challenge and members of the immediate families and/or persons living in the same household as such persons, are ineligible to enter the Challenge. Prizes will not be awarded to residents of Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Sudan, or Syria.
Slashdot Mirror
"Gnome vs KDE flamewar starting in... 5...4...3...2...1...GO!!!"
Yup... and then you get the intelligent users who use something light like WindowMaker piping in with their zealot stories (or did I just do that?)
1) Move to America
2) Get RSI
3) Sue
4) PROFIT!!!
Ouch! Even the menu's on the left (in about) are identical... Ulteo: "The easiest system to rip off web design" - I wonder if Mozilla know about this?
"but some guy putting sugar in the boss's coffee by mistake when the boss is having a bad day is not"
;P
Unless your role is to make coffee and you regularly make mistakes like this
I was thinking mad cow disease also... who comes up with these titles, perhaps "games industry vets..." would make it clearer!
So Europe develops the Eurofighter (Typhoon), UK buys 232 of them... and then still wants these things? I thought the Eurofighter was meant to be an excellent fighter second only to the F22 in performance (which costs approximately twice as much as the Typhoon) but was meant to be easier to fly.
"Load Averages 8.31 6.93 6.18"
/.ed and you've loaded it 3 times to get load times? You mean mean man =P
People are complaining that it's being
"...and you probably think that if you work hard you'll get that promotion, but don't understand why that schmoozer who is clearly useless keeps getting promoted."
/. atm... working as hard as I can ;P
Yup... that's why I'm on
"It's been my experience that if you find yourself explaining something to more than one person than it was a bad marketing move. The fact that they have this mp3 file tells me that it is a bad name... Instead of investing resources into explaining the name, expend resources finding and transitioning to a new name. In the long term you will be ahead."
Perhaps we should change the name of Linux while we're at it?
"I'm scratching my head wondering how this should be glorified, and how whistleblowing applies?"
OK - I can understand not rtfa... but the blurb surely isn't too long to read! From the blurb:
"Journalist are understandably upset that confidential information, that has nothing to do with the investigation, will be found"
"Switch from Linux to FreeBSD and MySQL to PostgreSQL and you've got FAPP (that's actually what I run on some servers), which sounds vaguely dirty..."
You could use BSD and get BAPP... and I like bapps!!
"The name is pretty awkward, and that can be a fast turn-off for many people.2
I doubt many people would not use good software because the name is hard to pronounce! Anyway, there has been an mp3 of the prunounciation on the website for at least 8 years!
Personally I love PostgreSQL, MySQL always had less features but was faster than PostgreSQL because of it, as MySQL adds these features it's becoming slower effectively making it the same product... when MySQL finally has all the features of PostgreSQL I'm sure it will be the slower of the 2 as PostgreSQL will be way ahead in terms of optimising the features they've had for years.
AFAIK SANE doesn't create a single multipage file for multipage documents, it will create seperate files for each page in a format you specify, e.g: page001.tiff etc. Due to this you may need to use something like imagemagick to combine the multiple files in to 1 multipage tiff... you could then use tiff2pdf to convert it to pdf with jpeg compression enabled for smaller file sizes.
Still easy in a shell script though =)
I'm with you on this, I'd never turn it off! If you have enough RAM windows won't touch it, although you may want to make it a static size rather than letting Windows automatically resize it.
Personally I run Linux mainly but I have a Windows partition on my IDE boot disk. Even with 1GB of ram I purposely left 342mb at the end of each of my 3 scsi disks to have a raid 0 stripe of 1024 (ish) swap, just in case windows ever needs it.
Remember, disk space is cheap!
"Hard disk is never the problem- games are not disc intensive. You might speed up laods slightly with a faster disc, but not by much...
RAM- you need enough RAM so you don't hit swap."
Just to be pedantic... if you don't have enough RAM and you do 'hit swap' a fast HDD will help - but it'll still be slow in comparison.
"This is a phenominal concept... They've just created a middle market between PDAs and laptops..."
As others have pointed out above, there are already other products like this on the market, see the above posts. To me this is M$ taking other people ideas, copying them and spending more dosh on marketing to win the battle - hmmm... they've never done that before now have they?
...did you rtfa?!?
"Microsoft said future models will run on Windows Vista, the next-generation of its flagship operating system due out in the second-half of 2006."
Jeeeeessssshh!
Has anyone thats got a T650 and complains of crashes ever actually RTFM? Crashing on a Treo is usualy caused by third party apps (at least if you have a recent firmware etc anyway). The T650 offers reporting on whats caused the crashes (by dialing #*377 on euro GSM phones - it varies I believe)... if you're getting crashes find out what third party app is causing the crashes and remove it! Personally I've had 1 crash in the last quarter - stop blaming Palm for what third party developers are doing wrong!
"Don't forget "Experts Exchange". My last company paid for a subscription to that and most of the answers are either "RTFM" or just pulled straight from the newsgroup posting that is right under the 7 experts exchange hits on google. (Or, even more commonly, an RTFM pulled straight from the newsgroup...)"
Actually I like the way EE works, if you have a little spare time you can answer questions and get enough points use the site for free. Yes its anoying that you can't search for results without either paying or answering questions... but you can use google to find the articles, e.g: googling for "linux configure grub site:experts-exchange.com" will find a result within the first few results.
As EE gives points for answers, an answer like "RTFM" will not get the points. And remember to look down the answers for the "accepted answer" or "assisted answers" as they're the solutions that worked.
Don't blame me - my calculation was just using the distance and time provided by the article!
From google: 2.1 billion miles = 3 696 000 000 000 yards
<pedantic comment>That's not necessarily true, TFA doesn't mention if it uses the American billion (most probable) or the British billion (3 extra 0's)... while google is possibly correct, it could also be wrong if the article uses the British billion. However 2.1 billion miles = 3,696 billion yards as long as both sides of the expression use the same billion.</pedantic comment>
You can slap me now =)
"I mean 50,000 pieces of spam to nearly 1.2 million AOL users, that's less than .05 penis enlargements per person, pathetic. I've gained greater coverage via semaphore."
I think you'll find that's 50,000 pieces of spam (or part of that 50k) to each of the 1.2 million mail boxes - otherwise it'd be 50,000 pieces of spam to 50,000 mail boxes! (or was that intended solely as a [bad] joke?)
ok, from TFA:
"The ball is expected to remain in orbit for three to four years."
"The ball is expected to travel up to 2.1 billion miles before it drops back into the atmosphere and burns up."
TFA doesn't say if that distance is based on 3 or 4 years, so I'll work out both and give a max & min average velocity:
Min time in space = 3 years = 1,096 days (2*365 + 1*366: leap year in 2008) = 26,304 hours
Max time in space = 4 years = 1,461 days (3*365 + 1*366: leap year in 2008) = 35,064 hours
2.1 billion miles / 26,304 hours = 79,835.77 mph
2.1 billion miles / 35,064 hours = 59,890.49 mph
So the average speed will be between 59,890.49 mph & 79,835.77 mph!! (or 96,384.16 kph & 128,482.90 kph)
Considering the speed of sound (at sea level) is 761mph it's just as well in space nobody can here you play golf!
Haydn.
"So I wonder how many yards it will travel in 3 or 4 years before it burns up? This is going to be the longest drive ever."
/.</sarcasm> - that's 3696 billion yards.
From TFA:
"The ball is expected to travel up to 2.1 billion miles before it drops back into the atmosphere and burns up."
<sarcasm>I know it's a really hard conversion, especially for the techie crowd on
Good point - I remember playing D&D when I was young and the party reached a moat, the wizard in our group decided to turn me (a stupid warrior) in to a fish to check if the moat was acidic or not... needless to say I failed the saving throw, got thrown in the moat and got burned.
"The documentation states you have to be a full time student."
Really? I can't find that in the rules, all I can find is this:
"WHO CAN ENTER
To participate in the Ultimate Virtual Appliance Challenge (the "Challenge"), you must be at least 18 years old. The Challenge is open to individuals or teams of up to 10 people (the "Participant"), but not to corporate entries. By participating in the Challenge, Participants agree to be bound by these rules and to all decisions of VMware, which are final, binding and conclusive in all matters. To keep the Challenge legal and fair, we need to prohibit certain participants, see below.
PROHIBITED PARTICIPANTS: We want a fair and legal Challenge!
Full and part-time employees of VMware as well as those who are performing internships during the Challenge duration and those involved in the production (including prize suppliers), implementation and distribution of this Challenge and their advertising or promotion agencies, parent companies, service providers, agents, officers, subsidiaries or affiliates, or any other persons or entities directly associated with the Challenge and members of the immediate families and/or persons living in the same household as such persons, are ineligible to enter the Challenge. Prizes will not be awarded to residents of Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Sudan, or Syria.