Grandpa tells his buddies at the VFW that his "rocket scientist" grandson installed some "Flame squirrel" browser that didn't *even* work Thanks for the coffee on the keyboard. Flame Squirrel... lmao. $10 says a project shows up on sourceforge within a week with that name.
+1 insightful. Don't have any mod points, but I wish I did.
One of the arguments he uses is that east antarctica is colder. Erm, but look at the ice shelfs on the western peninsula. Localized cooling doesn't indicate squat. It's great that the penguins return x days later. I'm sure that the bears up north are happy for them.
I'm still up in the air as to the extent of our contribution to climate change... but politicians like yes or no answers. I'd rather see us err on the side of caution on an issue like this.
I don't think it's apple. Most of the antivirus products aren't working with vista yet. Drivers for hardware are being worked on. This isn't apple fumbling. Either the world fumbled Microsofts' throw, OR Microsoft threw badly. I'll let you decide which is more plausible.;)
In 1996 I heard the same argument about Netscape. Really, we have three choices.
Ignore closed media. WMV,Sorenson,Mp3,etc. Just pretend they don't exist.
Implement closed media codecs in an illegal, partially open but not really open way.
Play the game to deliver capabilities that most people have come to expect of a modern OS in the last ten years. for a short time
I'll keep using Netscape as an example. Using a closed source app was a stopgap measure until an open replacement was available. Are we such purists that we'll disregard anything that contains any non-free software? Or are we going to be willing to allow linux to prove itself a valuable part of the computing ecosystem? Then leveraging that to push open standards and codecs and formats.
It's a fscking codec, it's not like MS is pushing office down our throats. And these same codecs are already being used (possibly)illegally(in the US, perhaps the EU) in many systems today.
I'd read a paper a while back that spoke of the need to provide legal and simple codec plugins for linux. The authors had mentioned that Linspire was in the unique position as the only linux distro with legal right to use wmf.
The paper was Here The portion about Linspire was towards the bottom.
To the authors: Congratulations and thank you for tackling one of the large hurdles preventing mainstream adoption.
99bottlesofbeer has a great post a little ways above you that outlines precisely why a national model would be inferior. This is pretty much about compartmentalization. If the Californian state government began abusing the rights of her citizens, those citizens can move to a different state.
What do you do when the Feds become corrupted? Viva La Mexico? Jump down to Venezuela to chill with Chavez?
The slight disharmony and incompatibility between the states themselves and the federal government is an intended effect. Else why have states? Why not just dissolve all the states and pronounce the country as America. Get rid of the U.S. Get a national ID card, let a representative in D.C. choose which roads are repaired in your neighborhood. Be done with the whole mess.
No, a good friend of mine recently tried setting up multiple heads from his new ati card.. As I write this, the card now sits in a box while he awaits his geforce. This friend used to come close to near fanboy status with regard to his ati cards, so that's a strong statement. IME, ati still has the issues it had. No real decline, but they haven't really improved the situation either.
geforce cards have their problems, but I still prefer them to ati. *shrug*
As a quick aside. I'm writing this from a test system running vista business. Video is a Geforce 7800 GT. 97.46 Forceware drivers are loaded and I'm running with no real issues. Dual heads work fine and 3d accel hasn't decreased noticeably from xp. I haven't benchmarked yet though.
But.. Novel is going for SCOs throat at the moment. Isn't there a phrase that goes something like 'If my friend's enemy becomes his friend, and my friend is killing my enemy, I should avoid killing my friend until he's finished killing'?
This is a game where if the hero is exceptionally good or except crappy, it's gonna suck.
As opposed to now? I've friends who only play online because the ai is sufficiently sucky that they beat the game in no time. Yet my brother or father suck so bad that they usually give up on fps games relatively quickly.
I agree that this idea has a stink of probable failure, but it could be a boon for those who are tired of lame ai but want to play a good storyline mode fps.
There was a story on here a little while back about Improvements to improve solar cells.
This by no means solves the problem. But using your optimal figure of 3.6KWH/day or 1/3 gallon of gas, doubled * a few million people = a noticeable reduction overall in grid requirements to keep those cars charged. Even 1/5th of that with a few million people would help.
What we've done at my place is to shield the boxes with fiberfrax board on the heat-facing side. Typically on a warm summer day, 10-15 feet from the furnaces it can reach 300 - 400 degrees. Keeping lateral air circulation is key (i.e. a cooler air flow along the side of the furnace that hits the side of the box) helps. Even with all that we end up replacing components at least once a year. Water cooled can help, but here in colorado the winters have frozen numerous water jackets even a few feet from the furnace (2800 degree). In most cases, cooled air brought in to the box via lines from an ac or fan works well enough without worrying about freezing or leaks.
Really the best solution is to keep all components with the exception of the cable itself in a control room or mcc room where there is some form of climate control.
For RL documents/items, absolutely. But what about your online presence? I'm trying to picture a lawyer signing on irc to say goodbye to everyone.. gah lost it.
Most people don't give much thought to planning for that and my online aquantainces make up a good 15-20 percent of people I speak to on a regular basis. And I'm definitely skeptical handing a lawyer all of my passwords. Never mind that I usually change them frequently and would have to tell him/her every time I did.
On the other hand, I royally suck at checking snail/email. My family would probably be getting "Ray is dead" emails monthly.
Slashdot Mirror
I don't know what (google cache) you're talking about. (second link has a great pic below the PA comic.)
You're starting to sound like Kierkgaard. ;)
Grandpa tells his buddies at the VFW that his "rocket scientist" grandson installed some "Flame squirrel" browser that didn't *even* work
Thanks for the coffee on the keyboard. Flame Squirrel... lmao. $10 says a project shows up on sourceforge within a week with that name.
+1 insightful. Don't have any mod points, but I wish I did.
One of the arguments he uses is that east antarctica is colder. Erm, but look at the ice shelfs on the western peninsula. Localized cooling doesn't indicate squat. It's great that the penguins return x days later. I'm sure that the bears up north are happy for them.
I'm still up in the air as to the extent of our contribution to climate change... but politicians like yes or no answers. I'd rather see us err on the side of caution on an issue like this.
I don't think it's apple. Most of the antivirus products aren't working with vista yet. Drivers for hardware are being worked on. This isn't apple fumbling. Either the world fumbled Microsofts' throw, OR Microsoft threw badly. I'll let you decide which is more plausible. ;)
I'll keep using Netscape as an example. Using a closed source app was a stopgap measure until an open replacement was available. Are we such purists that we'll disregard anything that contains any non-free software? Or are we going to be willing to allow linux to prove itself a valuable part of the computing ecosystem? Then leveraging that to push open standards and codecs and formats.
It's a fscking codec, it's not like MS is pushing office down our throats. And these same codecs are already being used (possibly)illegally(in the US, perhaps the EU) in many systems today.
I'd read a paper a while back that spoke of the need to provide legal and simple codec plugins for linux. The authors had mentioned that Linspire was in the unique position as the only linux distro with legal right to use wmf.
The paper was Here
The portion about Linspire was towards the bottom.
To the authors: Congratulations and thank you for tackling one of the large hurdles preventing mainstream adoption.
Andrew,
Thank you for you recent letter. We typicaly use th-
^fkdds....
(Hiss)
ALL YOUR BIOS ARE BELONG TO US.
99bottlesofbeer has a great post a little ways above you that outlines precisely why a national model would be inferior. This is pretty much about compartmentalization. If the Californian state government began abusing the rights of her citizens, those citizens can move to a different state.
What do you do when the Feds become corrupted? Viva La Mexico? Jump down to Venezuela to chill with Chavez?
The slight disharmony and incompatibility between the states themselves and the federal government is an intended effect. Else why have states? Why not just dissolve all the states and pronounce the country as America. Get rid of the U.S. Get a national ID card, let a representative in D.C. choose which roads are repaired in your neighborhood. Be done with the whole mess.
No, a good friend of mine recently tried setting up multiple heads from his new ati card.. As I write this, the card now sits in a box while he awaits his geforce. This friend used to come close to near fanboy status with regard to his ati cards, so that's a strong statement. IME, ati still has the issues it had. No real decline, but they haven't really improved the situation either.
geforce cards have their problems, but I still prefer them to ati. *shrug*
As a quick aside. I'm writing this from a test system running vista business. Video is a Geforce 7800 GT. 97.46 Forceware drivers are loaded and I'm running with no real issues. Dual heads work fine and 3d accel hasn't decreased noticeably from xp. I haven't benchmarked yet though.
But.. Novel is going for SCOs throat at the moment. Isn't there a phrase that goes something like 'If my friend's enemy becomes his friend, and my friend is killing my enemy, I should avoid killing my friend until he's finished killing'?
;)
Something like that....
Gah. Stupid principles.
That colluding remark wasn't in his defense. TFA and the snippet said he had counter claims. That would be one of them.
Because of its near-unlimited adaptability, we call Gentoo a metadistribution.
;)
Sorry, we screwed the pooch on that one.
Aren't those two terms supposed to be mutually exclusive?
Nice try Sony. =)
DVD copying isn't widespread. (At least in the USA; parts of Asia like China are a different story.)
I disagree, Netflix + dvdshrink = a great american past time.
It's right up there with lemonade and apple pie.
Come on, mod parent up. Not only was this ontopic, it was a humorous analogy.
This is a game where if the hero is exceptionally good or except crappy, it's gonna suck.
As opposed to now? I've friends who only play online because the ai is sufficiently sucky that they beat the game in no time. Yet my brother or father suck so bad that they usually give up on fps games relatively quickly.
I agree that this idea has a stink of probable failure, but it could be a boon for those who are tired of lame ai but want to play a good storyline mode fps.
they are good lawyers.
Drumroll.....
Folks, I have a nomination for Oxymoron Of The Year.
There was a story on here a little while back about Improvements to improve solar cells.
This by no means solves the problem. But using your optimal figure of 3.6KWH/day or 1/3 gallon of gas, doubled * a few million people = a noticeable reduction overall in grid requirements to keep those cars charged. Even 1/5th of that with a few million people would help.
Solves the problem? No. Helps it? Yes.
What? You've never heard of a probability web before? ...Holds the improbability drive at NS in place?
What we've done at my place is to shield the boxes with fiberfrax board on the heat-facing side. Typically on a warm summer day, 10-15 feet from the furnaces it can reach 300 - 400 degrees. Keeping lateral air circulation is key (i.e. a cooler air flow along the side of the furnace that hits the side of the box) helps. Even with all that we end up replacing components at least once a year. Water cooled can help, but here in colorado the winters have frozen numerous water jackets even a few feet from the furnace (2800 degree). In most cases, cooled air brought in to the box via lines from an ac or fan works well enough without worrying about freezing or leaks.
Really the best solution is to keep all components with the exception of the cable itself in a control room or mcc room where there is some form of climate control.
"Sure my Treo 650 isn't nearly as sexy. But sexy wears off in a few days and productivity and ease of use are what I care about long term."
Funny, I said something remarkably similar to my wife just a little while ago.. I write this from the couch.
Better yet, just start playing the penis game. Drop the bat wing on him and demand your three kicks.
Those that haven't seen Waiting should disregard this post.
For RL documents/items, absolutely. But what about your online presence? I'm trying to picture a lawyer signing on irc to say goodbye to everyone.. gah lost it.
Most people don't give much thought to planning for that and my online aquantainces make up a good 15-20 percent of people I speak to on a regular basis. And I'm definitely skeptical handing a lawyer all of my passwords. Never mind that I usually change them frequently and would have to tell him/her every time I did.
On the other hand, I royally suck at checking snail/email. My family would probably be getting "Ray is dead" emails monthly.