Every cookie has its expiration time - like real cookies have Best before date. But most cookies stored in my browser will not expire until 2020 or so. Many websites use expiration time in distant future to make cookies permanent.
I still don't get why would I want one of these. I already have a PC with i/o devices, display and power. This portable thing doesn't work on its own. If it's about synchronizing files - I can carry a USB memory stick with me and keep my $HOME there.
What Gentoo calls a "LiveCD" is mostly different from what every other distribution refers to as a "LiveCD". It's still a true "LiveCD" in that it is a bootable cd that contains a fully working instance of Gentoo on it. However this working instance of Gentoo is a minimal, command line driven (until this release) instance and its purpose is to give you an environment in which you can begin installing Gentoo from scratch to your hard drive.
How is this "LiveCD" different from what other distros call a "Install+RescueCD". Most install CDs also have minimal command line interface available and waiting on another virtual terminal.
Interoperability is another thing. It increases number of places where Windows can be used. Getting rid of OpenGL means that once an application is written for Windows it will most probably stay on Windows. Together with its users.
Why risk using cross-platform standard while you can tie developers to your platform with Direct3D? It seems that Microsoft has no interest in supporting cross-platform solutions. Why should they?
Without extra colour these pictures are plain boring and not informative. With a bit of false colour it is possible to see the extra features. Note that this is not like using some Photoshop airbrush on the picture, but rather merging data from other instruments into visible image. The same thing is with Earth. For scientists false colour pictures, where colour enhances some geological features, are more valuable than photos from Google Maps. Can you guess what kind of crop grows on a field basing on Google Maps?
Using my lack of mastering English language (foreign to me) as an argument in discussion is plain rude.
Of course they are CG. But they are based on real thing. Real data coming from the craft is not 'pretty' enough to be shown to the general public. Sending into space a camera that can do only visible light is a waste of money.
Seriously... I do.
It was light, fast, stable, and pretty enough.
I missed it too when I saw bloated KDE2.x. But then, some time ago, I tried KDE 3.3 and I loved it again. KDE 3.4 was even better, even on my becoming-obsolete box. I'm going to stick with KDE.
The most effective thing "we" could do for space travel is abolish NASA. Quit throwing good money after bad, auction off all their assets to the highest bidders and let it go already! Before more people die pointlessly.
What interest private efforts would have to fund science missions to Mars, Saturn, Jupiter etc? It works only for long-term programs. Currently only governments may have incentive to spend money on it.
It turned out that there IS a lot of output in the 20-40KHz range on a properly-recorded analog record.
Of course, you cannot hear tones at this frequency played in isolation. But in real life, there is only one continuously variable wave of air pressure hitting your ear, with all the frequencies present at once. So it may make a difference.
May or may not. Do you have speakers that can do 40KHz? For example my headphones can't - that is written on their technical specs.
Because I, the listener, should be informed that the following track is being played so often not because the DJ or the public like it but because the DJ has been paid to play it. I want to know which tracks are played because of their own merit and which were 'sponsored'.
Using C on low-end hadware is not very exciting:). For me, programming C64 in C with http://www.cc65.org/ feels a lot like doing it in plain 6502 assembly with lots of useful macros. Simlar thing with AVR uC.
If the telemarketers get their way that Do Not Call list is going to be a fantastic source of active phone numbers.
I don't know how this works, but if this is 'Do Not Call' list then they must have access to it already because, well, they have to know which numbers are forbidden. Or not?
For example, every instruction is run thru two physical CPU's at the same time, and if the result is different, the diagnostic code kicks in, disable the CPU that's incorrect, and calls IBM to replace it.
BeOS 5PE had ext2fs and vfat support and there is reiserfs 3 driver on bebits so I guess that all of them went into Zeta.
As for 3D there was OpenGL kit in BeOS from the very beginning. NVidia drivers are supported.
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This is a joke but has its point. There are many USB gadgets - like lamps, radios, etc. that have 'USB' tag only because they draw power from USB.
It's a cultural, not geographic or political thing.
whenever they "expire" (whatever that means)
Every cookie has its expiration time - like real cookies have Best before date. But most cookies stored in my browser will not expire until 2020 or so. Many websites use expiration time in distant future to make cookies permanent.
I still don't get why would I want one of these. I already have a PC with i/o devices, display and power. This portable thing doesn't work on its own. If it's about synchronizing files - I can carry a USB memory stick with me and keep my $HOME there.
Could someone elighten me?
What Gentoo calls a "LiveCD" is mostly different from what every other distribution refers to as a "LiveCD". It's still a true "LiveCD" in that it is a bootable cd that contains a fully working instance of Gentoo on it. However this working instance of Gentoo is a minimal, command line driven (until this release) instance and its purpose is to give you an environment in which you can begin installing Gentoo from scratch to your hard drive.
How is this "LiveCD" different from what other distros call a "Install+RescueCD". Most install CDs also have minimal command line interface available and waiting on another virtual terminal.
Do you refer to GP comment that beer has bad taste? Actually I know many girls that like beer. Probably it depends on the brewery.
Interoperability is another thing. It increases number of places where Windows can be used. Getting rid of OpenGL means that once an application is written for Windows it will most probably stay on Windows. Together with its users.
Why risk using cross-platform standard while you can tie developers to your platform with Direct3D? It seems that Microsoft has no interest in supporting cross-platform solutions. Why should they?
It is much cheaper to use Russian crafts for unmanned missions. Shuttle would be terribly inefficient if used only as an unmanned cargo vehicle.
It makes tinkering with that handheld easier.
Without extra colour these pictures are plain boring and not informative. With a bit of false colour it is possible to see the extra features. Note that this is not like using some Photoshop airbrush on the picture, but rather merging data from other instruments into visible image. The same thing is with Earth. For scientists false colour pictures, where colour enhances some geological features, are more valuable than photos from Google Maps. Can you guess what kind of crop grows on a field basing on Google Maps?
Using my lack of mastering English language (foreign to me) as an argument in discussion is plain rude.
Of course they are CG. But they are based on real thing. Real data coming from the craft is not 'pretty' enough to be shown to the general public. Sending into space a camera that can do only visible light is a waste of money.
These are no plantes. These objects' orbits are not in the same plane as the 8 planets.
It's not so hard after a while... or seeing http://imdb.com/title/tt0382719/ this.
Seriously... I do. It was light, fast, stable, and pretty enough.
I missed it too when I saw bloated KDE2.x. But then, some time ago, I tried KDE 3.3 and I loved it again. KDE 3.4 was even better, even on my becoming-obsolete box. I'm going to stick with KDE.
The most effective thing "we" could do for space travel is abolish NASA. Quit throwing good money after bad, auction off all their assets to the highest bidders and let it go already! Before more people die pointlessly.
What interest private efforts would have to fund science missions to Mars, Saturn, Jupiter etc? It works only for long-term programs. Currently only governments may have incentive to spend money on it.
Those fabric covers were designed to fall off as soon as the craft started moving.
May I ask why they are attaching that stuff if it is supposed to fall off?
It turned out that there IS a lot of output in the 20-40KHz range on a properly-recorded analog record. Of course, you cannot hear tones at this frequency played in isolation. But in real life, there is only one continuously variable wave of air pressure hitting your ear, with all the frequencies present at once. So it may make a difference.
May or may not. Do you have speakers that can do 40KHz? For example my headphones can't - that is written on their technical specs.
You could use BeOS or its incarnation Zeta or Haiku (when it comes).
Maybe Virtual Earth sucks, but at least it has some information about continental Europe besides national borders.
Why exactly should this be illegal?
Because I, the listener, should be informed that the following track is being played so often not because the DJ or the public like it but because the DJ has been paid to play it. I want to know which tracks are played because of their own merit and which were 'sponsored'.
Using C on low-end hadware is not very exciting :). For me, programming C64 in C with http://www.cc65.org/ feels a lot like doing it in plain 6502 assembly with lots of useful macros. Simlar thing with AVR uC.
If the telemarketers get their way that Do Not Call list is going to be a fantastic source of active phone numbers. I don't know how this works, but if this is 'Do Not Call' list then they must have access to it already because, well, they have to know which numbers are forbidden. Or not?
As for 3D there was OpenGL kit in BeOS from the very beginning. NVidia drivers are supported.