...What do you need to use sudo for other than installing apps, starting services, or mounting stuff? I certainly hope you wouldn't sudo before running some random crap you got in an email attachment or something. Only times I ever sudo are to install software from trusted repositories, to run scripts that I wrote myself (generally for sshfs mounts) and to start services that were installed from trusted repositories.
Of course, if my Pacman repository ever gets hacked, then I'm pretty much fucked....
Most other calculators require you to start over if the key you pressed 20 keys ago was wrong.
Dude, how long has it been since you've looked at calculators? Granted, I'm a bit young (few weeks from 21), but I don't think I've ever owned a calculator that didn't let you do that. Can't remember the last time I even _saw_ one. Hell, even some of the cheapest TIs will let you go back and correct that calculation you did 500 equations ago (assuming you have the patience to scroll through all those...)
1500 desktops and 3500 servers at Dreamworks alone running Linux. Sure, they probably don't do _EVERYTHING_ on Linux, but it's certainly a huge part of their operations. They obviously don't do _EVERYTHING_ on Windows or Mac either. With those numbers, it seems fair to say that there is heavy use of Linux in production...
Maybe it's specific to your distro. Works great for me on Arch. But I switched from Mandriva a couple months ago, and have noticed a couple programs that I used to think were somewhat buggy suddenly run flawlessly...
Also worth pointing out that even on highways, the speed isn't set based on the road. It's set by the state or federal government -- as in, if your state has any highways with a speed higher than X, you lose all federal highway funding, as well as all federal funding for a bunch of entirely unrelated programs. The speeds should be set by the engineers who designed the roads, taking into account safety features of the average car, features of the road, and other conditions (like pedestrian traffic). That's not currently the case.
Also worth noting that speeding isn't the only (or even primary) cause of accidents. Usually it's speeding and reckless driving that is a problem. And reckless driving alone is still dangerous, even if you aren't speeding. Officers can ticket people for reckless driving. Cameras can't. Adding cameras won't stop people from weaving through traffic and cutting people off (which causes far more accidents than just driving fast). Adding more police officers will.
Wow. For once I'm glad I use Comcast. They installed a jack, I bought a modem, called and gave them the modem's MAC address, and everything worked. None of this installation disc BS. Wonder what they would have said to someone like myself, who doesn't have a Windows machine at all....
The Treasury is empty and we're $14 Trillion in the hole.
...yet we have no trouble finding a few trillion to go kill or imprison brown people in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Mexico, etc..., as well as here in our own country..
Am I the only person who actually _likes_ ehow? For certain searches, I will skip the first 5 results if I see an ehow link below them. Sometimes they're exactly what you want.
So thinking that massive corporations/"the wealthy" shouldn't be able to deny people an education or healthcare or a basic standard of living is equivalent to "fucking people over and taking away their freedom"? How did you make that jump?
(1) Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.
(2) Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace.
(3) Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.
So no, education as a right is not part of the right to free association. Yes, government subsidized education is part of it being a right.
Personally, I used to always write programs to brute-force solutions. During the exams. They could go ahead and reformat it, because I wasn't writing my program until after the exam had already started.
Sure, I couldn't do that for every problem. Sure, it didn't get me the work. But I could usually work both ways to figure out how to properly do the work once I had the solution in front of me. Wouldn't be enough to pass on it's own, but it certainly raised my grade a few percentage points here and there...
Of course, that only worked in highschool. In college, most of my math exams have been no calculators permitted of any sort. Which is the way it should be. I can see the utility of needing to know certain things without using Google. But if you need to know them without tools...you need to know them without tools. You're more likely to have access to Google than a graphing calculator...
Seriously, you think governments are more concerned with child porn than copyright infringement? Clearly you haven't been paying much attention to what laws have been being passed lately....child porn is something they say they're working on to make people feel good. Copyright infringement is something they actually work on, because the people pushing that have enough money to make sure things actually get done.
On a more serious note, I generally just go to Dell and pick out whatever's cheapest. Check out their small business line too, you can get a laptop with nearly identical specs for a decent bit less sometimes. I generally also compare prices with HP too, but usually Dell has the better deals. Their service is pretty good too as long as your problems occur before the warranty expires, and they're hardware faults. When my motherboard died, I was on the phone with them for less than half an hour, and I had a fully functional machine back within a week...and they specifically told me to keep the hard drive, which allowed me to retain access to my data since I had a SATA USB dock. Software (or driver) faults you'll get nowhere with though - they'll just try to tell you it's a virus. But this is Slashdot, so I assume you are capable of dealing with such issues yourself.
Certainly, that would be correct. But it would be inaccurate. The problem with 667k is that it is accurate, but incorrect. 666k is both accurate and correct.
Not unless they're going to add the word 'about'. Microsoft DID buy 666,000 addresses. They did NOT buy 667,000.
It would also be accurate to say that Microsoft bought 1 IP address. Because they did. It just happened to be in a bundle with 666,624 others
Of course, since they used '666,000' rather than '666k' or even '666 thousand', there's absolutely no reason they couldn't have just put '666,624' in there instead of just zeros....
This kind of syntax is great if you're doing scripting. Small programs. For anything large though, that looks absolutely horrid. I can't see myself using a language like that for anything more than a few dozen lines, and even then I'd rather use regular Java.
Seriously, what is it with people wanting to get rid of the braces, for example? I can't tell you how many times I've been trying to debug Python code and determined that the whole damn program was failing because someone forgot a single space. Usually the compiler doesn't even complain. There's a reason C and Java and so many other languages use the braces. It's not because they wanted to piss off programmers.
At the beginning, they didn't want us there (March 2nd). [presstv.ir] Of course, once the government started using tanks, fighters, etc. the opinions kinda changed...
Well yea, the entire argument for us being there is based on the government using tanks, fighters, etc. to gun down innocent (and some not so innocent I suppose) people. On March 2nd, I too would have been saying that we have no business getting involved. Things have changed.
We aren't wanted there? Ask the protesters. They want us there.
What, we aren't wanted there by the Libyan government? The leader who has said he has no problem killing as many people as it takes to retain control over his country? The government that has been gunning down peaceful protests with machine guns (sure, the protests aren't very peaceful now, but that's why)? The government that was sending fighter jets against chants and flags?
When innocent people are being murder by the hundreds and thousands for doing nothing more than speaking their minds...we have a responsibility as human beings to take action to help them. I can agree that military action is not always the best choice. If you have some alternative proposal, I may agree with you 100% after hearing it. But at the moment, I see no other option.
On a related note, it could be said that France wasn't wanted in the American Revolution either. But they got involved. And without their involvement, it is quite likely that the US would not exist as a nation.
I do seem to remember some satelites having support for relaying messages for free for people using amateur radio - however - I suspect this is for voice communication and not for packet radio.
If you can send voice, you can send data. It may be slow, but it's certainly possible. You just need someone on the outside to set up the same system.
I don't know the current state of packet radio, nor do I know how easy it is to trace or jam - but my suspicion is that it would be relatively easy to both track down and to jam.
Somewhat, yes. I doubt that most governments would bother though. If they jam it, you can always jump to another frequency - there are quite a few amateur radio bands, and more than one that would allow digital transmission. If they block all the amateur bands, they've probably already blocked every other wireless link you could possible use (including satellites - quite a few of the arabic countries have already done that), so you're pretty thoroughly screwed without a land link in that case. Tracking it down is no different than tracking down any other radio source - which yes, is not all that difficult, but it does take a fair bit of time. And it's quite easy to mount one of these radios in your car and connect on the go with a laptop. They can't track you if you don't stand still. And I know people with relatively simple equipment (including parts of antennas made from pizza trays, for example) who have managed mobile contacts over distances hundreds of miles. If you make your antenna directional, it gets even better range, and much harder to track (but harder to use mobile as well)
Could it work? Certainly. Could it be sold for under a couple grand? Doubtful.
Consoles used to be able to beat computers for gaming value simply because computers weren't really designed for gaming. Now computers are arguably designed _solely_ for gaming. That's the real test. If you look at the marketing for high end desktop components, it's almost all about gaming and multimedia. The only way for consoles to remain a better value is to either have the console as a loss leader or to lower the price through volume - but even with volume, a console would have a hard time doing much better than Dell. Yes, making something really revolutionary would be great too, but no matter what, you'll mostly be running PC hardware. It's already build for gaming; why reinvent the wheel?
There's a reason we don't have things like cartridges on PCs already, and that is because optical media is good enough. And cheap. Nobody is going to pay a premium for games on cartridges, because there's just no benefit to it. Blu-ray can already read data at 288Mbps+. Do you really need more than that right now? You don't need anything near that fast to read video data for full 1080p, so even with massive resolutions you should have plenty of data left for the game itself. If you're reading and writing, then yes, solid state is great. But for read-only data, there's no reason right now to move beyond Blu-ray.
What consoles really need to do is be simple. Realize that people aren't buying a console to have the latest and greatest high-tech gaming system anymore - they're buying one so that they can have a system that's easy to connect, easy to use, and that they can play with their friends. Especially playing with friends - focus on the ability of a console to easily have 4 players (or more) in the same room. Hell, throw two video cards into it so it can output to 2 TVs, and have 8 controller ports. That's something you'll never see a computer do. Basically, make the gaming console a _social_ device.
Actually, I recently switched from Chrome back to Firefox around 4b9, and Firefox performs _MUCH_ better, especially (for some strange reason) with Flash content. Running Flash on Chrome used to make my entire system slow to a crawl.
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...What do you need to use sudo for other than installing apps, starting services, or mounting stuff? I certainly hope you wouldn't sudo before running some random crap you got in an email attachment or something. Only times I ever sudo are to install software from trusted repositories, to run scripts that I wrote myself (generally for sshfs mounts) and to start services that were installed from trusted repositories.
Of course, if my Pacman repository ever gets hacked, then I'm pretty much fucked....
Most other calculators require you to start over if the key you pressed 20 keys ago was wrong.
Dude, how long has it been since you've looked at calculators? Granted, I'm a bit young (few weeks from 21), but I don't think I've ever owned a calculator that didn't let you do that. Can't remember the last time I even _saw_ one. Hell, even some of the cheapest TIs will let you go back and correct that calculation you did 500 equations ago (assuming you have the patience to scroll through all those...)
Disney, Pixar, Dreamworks:
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/05/07/27/1551250/Disney-DreamWorks-Pixar-Go-Linux
1500 desktops and 3500 servers at Dreamworks alone running Linux. Sure, they probably don't do _EVERYTHING_ on Linux, but it's certainly a huge part of their operations. They obviously don't do _EVERYTHING_ on Windows or Mac either. With those numbers, it seems fair to say that there is heavy use of Linux in production...
Maybe it's specific to your distro. Works great for me on Arch. But I switched from Mandriva a couple months ago, and have noticed a couple programs that I used to think were somewhat buggy suddenly run flawlessly...
Also worth pointing out that even on highways, the speed isn't set based on the road. It's set by the state or federal government -- as in, if your state has any highways with a speed higher than X, you lose all federal highway funding, as well as all federal funding for a bunch of entirely unrelated programs. The speeds should be set by the engineers who designed the roads, taking into account safety features of the average car, features of the road, and other conditions (like pedestrian traffic). That's not currently the case.
Also worth noting that speeding isn't the only (or even primary) cause of accidents. Usually it's speeding and reckless driving that is a problem. And reckless driving alone is still dangerous, even if you aren't speeding. Officers can ticket people for reckless driving. Cameras can't. Adding cameras won't stop people from weaving through traffic and cutting people off (which causes far more accidents than just driving fast). Adding more police officers will.
Wow. For once I'm glad I use Comcast. They installed a jack, I bought a modem, called and gave them the modem's MAC address, and everything worked. None of this installation disc BS. Wonder what they would have said to someone like myself, who doesn't have a Windows machine at all....
The Treasury is empty and we're $14 Trillion in the hole.
...yet we have no trouble finding a few trillion to go kill or imprison brown people in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Mexico, etc..., as well as here in our own country..
Well sure, but if I already knew ehow had an article that was exactly what I was looking for, I would go to their website, not type it into Google...
Am I the only person who actually _likes_ ehow? For certain searches, I will skip the first 5 results if I see an ehow link below them. Sometimes they're exactly what you want.
...what the fuck?
So thinking that massive corporations/"the wealthy" shouldn't be able to deny people an education or healthcare or a basic standard of living is equivalent to "fucking people over and taking away their freedom"? How did you make that jump?
You are using a different definition of 'right' than the rest of the world.
Do some reading:
http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml
In regards to education:
(1) Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.
(2) Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace.
(3) Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.
So no, education as a right is not part of the right to free association. Yes, government subsidized education is part of it being a right.
Personally, I used to always write programs to brute-force solutions. During the exams. They could go ahead and reformat it, because I wasn't writing my program until after the exam had already started.
Sure, I couldn't do that for every problem. Sure, it didn't get me the work. But I could usually work both ways to figure out how to properly do the work once I had the solution in front of me. Wouldn't be enough to pass on it's own, but it certainly raised my grade a few percentage points here and there...
Of course, that only worked in highschool. In college, most of my math exams have been no calculators permitted of any sort. Which is the way it should be. I can see the utility of needing to know certain things without using Google. But if you need to know them without tools...you need to know them without tools. You're more likely to have access to Google than a graphing calculator...
hahahahahahahaha...
Seriously, you think governments are more concerned with child porn than copyright infringement? Clearly you haven't been paying much attention to what laws have been being passed lately....child porn is something they say they're working on to make people feel good. Copyright infringement is something they actually work on, because the people pushing that have enough money to make sure things actually get done.
You don't.
On a more serious note, I generally just go to Dell and pick out whatever's cheapest. Check out their small business line too, you can get a laptop with nearly identical specs for a decent bit less sometimes. I generally also compare prices with HP too, but usually Dell has the better deals. Their service is pretty good too as long as your problems occur before the warranty expires, and they're hardware faults. When my motherboard died, I was on the phone with them for less than half an hour, and I had a fully functional machine back within a week...and they specifically told me to keep the hard drive, which allowed me to retain access to my data since I had a SATA USB dock. Software (or driver) faults you'll get nowhere with though - they'll just try to tell you it's a virus. But this is Slashdot, so I assume you are capable of dealing with such issues yourself.
Certainly, that would be correct. But it would be inaccurate. The problem with 667k is that it is accurate, but incorrect. 666k is both accurate and correct.
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Not unless they're going to add the word 'about'. Microsoft DID buy 666,000 addresses. They did NOT buy 667,000.
It would also be accurate to say that Microsoft bought 1 IP address. Because they did. It just happened to be in a bundle with 666,624 others
Of course, since they used '666,000' rather than '666k' or even '666 thousand', there's absolutely no reason they couldn't have just put '666,624' in there instead of just zeros....
This kind of syntax is great if you're doing scripting. Small programs. For anything large though, that looks absolutely horrid. I can't see myself using a language like that for anything more than a few dozen lines, and even then I'd rather use regular Java.
Seriously, what is it with people wanting to get rid of the braces, for example? I can't tell you how many times I've been trying to debug Python code and determined that the whole damn program was failing because someone forgot a single space. Usually the compiler doesn't even complain. There's a reason C and Java and so many other languages use the braces. It's not because they wanted to piss off programmers.
At the beginning, they didn't want us there (March 2nd). [presstv.ir] Of course, once the government started using tanks, fighters, etc. the opinions kinda changed...
Well yea, the entire argument for us being there is based on the government using tanks, fighters, etc. to gun down innocent (and some not so innocent I suppose) people. On March 2nd, I too would have been saying that we have no business getting involved. Things have changed.
We aren't wanted there? Ask the protesters. They want us there.
What, we aren't wanted there by the Libyan government? The leader who has said he has no problem killing as many people as it takes to retain control over his country? The government that has been gunning down peaceful protests with machine guns (sure, the protests aren't very peaceful now, but that's why)? The government that was sending fighter jets against chants and flags?
When innocent people are being murder by the hundreds and thousands for doing nothing more than speaking their minds...we have a responsibility as human beings to take action to help them. I can agree that military action is not always the best choice. If you have some alternative proposal, I may agree with you 100% after hearing it. But at the moment, I see no other option.
On a related note, it could be said that France wasn't wanted in the American Revolution either. But they got involved. And without their involvement, it is quite likely that the US would not exist as a nation.
I do seem to remember some satelites having support for relaying messages for free for people using amateur radio - however - I suspect this is for voice communication and not for packet radio.
If you can send voice, you can send data. It may be slow, but it's certainly possible. You just need someone on the outside to set up the same system.
I don't know the current state of packet radio, nor do I know how easy it is to trace or jam - but my suspicion is that it would be relatively easy to both track down and to jam.
Somewhat, yes. I doubt that most governments would bother though. If they jam it, you can always jump to another frequency - there are quite a few amateur radio bands, and more than one that would allow digital transmission. If they block all the amateur bands, they've probably already blocked every other wireless link you could possible use (including satellites - quite a few of the arabic countries have already done that), so you're pretty thoroughly screwed without a land link in that case. Tracking it down is no different than tracking down any other radio source - which yes, is not all that difficult, but it does take a fair bit of time. And it's quite easy to mount one of these radios in your car and connect on the go with a laptop. They can't track you if you don't stand still. And I know people with relatively simple equipment (including parts of antennas made from pizza trays, for example) who have managed mobile contacts over distances hundreds of miles. If you make your antenna directional, it gets even better range, and much harder to track (but harder to use mobile as well)
Could it work? Certainly. Could it be sold for under a couple grand? Doubtful.
Consoles used to be able to beat computers for gaming value simply because computers weren't really designed for gaming. Now computers are arguably designed _solely_ for gaming. That's the real test. If you look at the marketing for high end desktop components, it's almost all about gaming and multimedia. The only way for consoles to remain a better value is to either have the console as a loss leader or to lower the price through volume - but even with volume, a console would have a hard time doing much better than Dell. Yes, making something really revolutionary would be great too, but no matter what, you'll mostly be running PC hardware. It's already build for gaming; why reinvent the wheel?
There's a reason we don't have things like cartridges on PCs already, and that is because optical media is good enough. And cheap. Nobody is going to pay a premium for games on cartridges, because there's just no benefit to it. Blu-ray can already read data at 288Mbps+. Do you really need more than that right now? You don't need anything near that fast to read video data for full 1080p, so even with massive resolutions you should have plenty of data left for the game itself. If you're reading and writing, then yes, solid state is great. But for read-only data, there's no reason right now to move beyond Blu-ray.
What consoles really need to do is be simple. Realize that people aren't buying a console to have the latest and greatest high-tech gaming system anymore - they're buying one so that they can have a system that's easy to connect, easy to use, and that they can play with their friends. Especially playing with friends - focus on the ability of a console to easily have 4 players (or more) in the same room. Hell, throw two video cards into it so it can output to 2 TVs, and have 8 controller ports. That's something you'll never see a computer do. Basically, make the gaming console a _social_ device.
Actually, I recently switched from Chrome back to Firefox around 4b9, and Firefox performs _MUCH_ better, especially (for some strange reason) with Flash content. Running Flash on Chrome used to make my entire system slow to a crawl.
...Pretty much every school is 'for-profit'. Some are just better at hiding it than others...
Openbox with Bpanel2 FTW.
Also, double-click the title bar to maximize? WTF? Isn't that supposed to be 'shade'? Am I the only one who still uses that?