First off, guys, don't try and just nuke it. You'll still have asteroid coming at you, just smaller pieces. (In space, this is actually better (it'd burn up in the atmosphere better). On Earth, it wouldn't mean shit.)
Of course, who wants to bet there's a naquadah reactor on the asteroid? You gotta use the hyperspace drive to jump it through the planet!
Yep. A little while back, I was looking for an svn-bisect. Ubuntu has a perl svn-bisect in the repos, so I tried it. As far as I could tell, it didn't do anything, so I tried to get a newer version from CPAN. Now, how do I use this... It requires other modules? Okay, I'll grab them too. Now, how do I use THESE... compile them? Okay.
These require modules too? Uh, grab this one, and...
Screw it. I can live without.
Because they aren't asking the computer, "Hey, is this the password? No? Well, how about this?" They're taking the encryption algorithm and running possible passwords through it to see if the resulting hash matches the one it needs.
Or at least that's how some brute-force methods work. (It also assumes you have access to the hashing algorithm. If they don't, they probably have a special version of the program that doesn't do any locking out.) Oh, and sorry if anything is factually incorrect here, it's 3 AM and I should be sleeping.
I wonder if they're also using (or generating) rainbow tables. A couple PS3s and a whole lot of disk space is probably a lot cheaper than several PS3s working case-by-case.
And I fail to see how talking on a cell phone while driving is any more distracting than talking to passengers while driving, but hey... the studies say different.
Passengers generally become less distracting when they know you need more concentration on the road. (Also, you don't have to hold the passenger to your ear.)
I'm starting to get a little scared about all the legislating going on... I mean, seriously, it's alcohol. People don't drink it for the health benefits!
I'm really hoping that in the near future, the US government becomes much more hands-off. We can handle life on our own, really. (Well, most of us can. As for people like this, well... Tough luck to them.)
Failing that, though, can anyone recommend a nice country with good Internet access and a hands-off government?:)
On my system, 99% of videos in Flash are downloaded to/tmp as long as the page is open, regardless of any controls. They can be copied out freely.
(This is Kubuntu 9.10, Firefox 3.5, and Flash 10.0 r32, by the way.)
Problem is, it's an attitude something like this that makes them push for these laws in the first place.
If they could pass laws that require you to purchase X content per time period, they would have a long time ago.
knetworkmanager is broken by design. I have it purged from my system, and if something reinstalls, it, I will purge it again, with prejudice. It is the bane of all networking. (Okay, maybe just in my static IP experience, but still.)
Aside from that, KDE4 works fine now. I can't speak to Bluetooth, but previews in Dolphin work just fine (though I don't know what you mean by "in the context menu"). Only problem I have with previews is that when you're downloading a previewable file, Dolphin regenerates the preview constantly, resulting in 100% CPU until I stop it somehow.
It also seems that when using apt-get, reading package lists takes at least three times as long.
Mormons are quite free and able to interact with people who "don't buy into their crap."
Yeah, tell me about it. They come around every few months and try and convert me. >_<
(Actually, they're very nice people. If you've ever listened to Garrison Keillor's descriptions of Minnesotans/Lutherans, they're kind of like that. I always chat with them for a few minutes.)
Then why are people flocking to AT&T for the IPhone?
Uh... They aren't. They're flocking to the iPhone. AT&T is incidental.
If it had been Sprint, T-Mobile, or some other provider, sales would be nearly identical. (Actually, given the amount of bitching about AT&T, sales would probably have been slightly higher.)
Depends. There are a bunch of man pages on the grub commands, and there's/etc/grub.d/README and/etc/default/grub for the menu configuration. There's also Google.
Apt supports file:/, so you can use that if it's just for personal use. Otherwise, you apparently just replicate the directory structure of an existing repository on your server and generate the necessary files. (Google produced many quick guides on how to do this.)
Setting up mass deployment via Kickstart/preseeding?
All except GRUB and "building your own repository" were found in less than a minute on Google.
Remember that Ubuntu is mostly an amalgam of discrete software packages, all bundled up nice and neat. The best place to look for documentation is usually the origin.
Would someone mind explaining this? The summary makes it sound like telepathy (with a computer encoding and decoding the signals).
As far as I understand it, the person imagines lifting one of their arms. This is picked up and sent over the Internet. At the other end, a light flashes the EEG readings, and the other person's subconscious observes this, which is picked up by their EEG device, and translated into a "left-arm raise" or "right-arm raise", which is then translated into a zero or one.
Frankly, I'm at a loss for any kind of usefulness. It seems like the kind of experiment done just because they can. ("Yes, but it goes over the Internet!!") Wouldn't it just be easier to translate the EEG and turn on or off the light right then and there?
The biggest complaint I see here (or anywhere else) is that you don't want to see ads in a product that you've already paid for.
Well, what if the ad revenue offset part of the production cost, translating into a lower retail price? Games cost around $60 now. Do you think you'd be more likely to buy it if it had some non-intrusive ads and cost $30?
Here's a nice example of a non-intrusive ad. Take a game like Half-Life, where at some points you're driving down a road. Do you think it'd be that bad if there were some billboards that fit into the landscape? Or take Call of Duty 5's "Nazi Zombies" mode, one level of which has power-up drinks. Say some big-name energy drink company (e.g. Monster) paid to have their product used. Do you think you'd be THAT offended?
You could also possibly put some slightly more intrusive ads, like the ones you may or may not see here on Slashdot, on loading screens or menus? For example, the Call of Duty series has a big blank space in the lower-left of the menus, and Half-Life has some pretty boring loading screens.
Of course, the price reduction wouldn't last... Companies would soon find they could just jack the price up like they already have.
While these are all interesting concepts, they all look like solutions looking for a problem. All of the multi-touch gestures shown (like scaling a window or image) can be accomplished easily with the scroll wheel. Add in the modifier keys and you've got several more actions on one motion.
I use Blender from time to time, and its policy of one hand on the keyboard and one hand on the mouse works damn well.
The only device I found actually interesting was the last one, the "Arty" mouse (the one shaped like Mickey Mouse). It provides multi-touch functionality while minimally changing the way you move your hand. Only thing I think it needs is somewhere to put the rest of your fingers. (The video shows the person's middle finger held awkwardly in the air.)
What I think would be optimal is basically a multi-touch touchpad. Take it off a laptop, enlarge it, and add multi-touch. That'd make a pretty good interface device.
Why not use a "Keno" to close the hatch?!/blockquote
That occurred to me as well. It's easily made impossible by requiring the controls to have a person touching them (e.g. they detect specific changes in electrical resistance).
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First off, guys, don't try and just nuke it. You'll still have asteroid coming at you, just smaller pieces. (In space, this is actually better (it'd burn up in the atmosphere better). On Earth, it wouldn't mean shit.)
Of course, who wants to bet there's a naquadah reactor on the asteroid? You gotta use the hyperspace drive to jump it through the planet!
OH SHI--
Yep. A little while back, I was looking for an svn-bisect. Ubuntu has a perl svn-bisect in the repos, so I tried it. As far as I could tell, it didn't do anything, so I tried to get a newer version from CPAN. Now, how do I use this... It requires other modules? Okay, I'll grab them too. Now, how do I use THESE... compile them? Okay.
These require modules too? Uh, grab this one, and...
Screw it. I can live without.
You joke, but it's true. :(
http://rule34.paheal.net/post/list/sun/1. (Not safe for work in any way, shape, or form.)
Ancient rovers on Mars? Hell, we haven't found the rovers the microbes sent to Earth yet!
Thanks. Thanks for the image of someone selling Steve Jobs some orifices. Now I won't sleep.
Well, there's one commercial with the hot Linux chick I know I'd like!
Last I heard, that's what lift WAS... A difference in pressure. Faster-moving fluids exert less pressure on their surroundings.
Because they aren't asking the computer, "Hey, is this the password? No? Well, how about this?" They're taking the encryption algorithm and running possible passwords through it to see if the resulting hash matches the one it needs.
Or at least that's how some brute-force methods work. (It also assumes you have access to the hashing algorithm. If they don't, they probably have a special version of the program that doesn't do any locking out.) Oh, and sorry if anything is factually incorrect here, it's 3 AM and I should be sleeping.
I wonder if they're also using (or generating) rainbow tables. A couple PS3s and a whole lot of disk space is probably a lot cheaper than several PS3s working case-by-case.
Passengers generally become less distracting when they know you need more concentration on the road. (Also, you don't have to hold the passenger to your ear.)
I'm starting to get a little scared about all the legislating going on... I mean, seriously, it's alcohol. People don't drink it for the health benefits!
:)
I'm really hoping that in the near future, the US government becomes much more hands-off. We can handle life on our own, really. (Well, most of us can. As for people like this, well... Tough luck to them.)
Failing that, though, can anyone recommend a nice country with good Internet access and a hands-off government?
On my system, 99% of videos in Flash are downloaded to /tmp as long as the page is open, regardless of any controls. They can be copied out freely.
(This is Kubuntu 9.10, Firefox 3.5, and Flash 10.0 r32, by the way.)
Problem is, it's an attitude something like this that makes them push for these laws in the first place. If they could pass laws that require you to purchase X content per time period, they would have a long time ago.
Because hopefully you're running Clearview in your development environment, not a production one.
knetworkmanager is broken by design. I have it purged from my system, and if something reinstalls, it, I will purge it again, with prejudice. It is the bane of all networking. (Okay, maybe just in my static IP experience, but still.)
Aside from that, KDE4 works fine now. I can't speak to Bluetooth, but previews in Dolphin work just fine (though I don't know what you mean by "in the context menu"). Only problem I have with previews is that when you're downloading a previewable file, Dolphin regenerates the preview constantly, resulting in 100% CPU until I stop it somehow.
It also seems that when using apt-get, reading package lists takes at least three times as long.
But yeah, other than that, everything else flies.
Yeah, tell me about it. They come around every few months and try and convert me. >_<
(Actually, they're very nice people. If you've ever listened to Garrison Keillor's descriptions of Minnesotans/Lutherans, they're kind of like that. I always chat with them for a few minutes.)
Uh... They aren't. They're flocking to the iPhone. AT&T is incidental.
If it had been Sprint, T-Mobile, or some other provider, sales would be nearly identical. (Actually, given the amount of bitching about AT&T, sales would probably have been slightly higher.)
Depends. There are a bunch of man pages on the grub commands, and there's /etc/grub.d/README and /etc/default/grub for the menu configuration. There's also Google.
http://upstart.ubuntu.com/
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEC
Apt supports file:/, so you can use that if it's just for personal use. Otherwise, you apparently just replicate the directory structure of an existing repository on your server and generate the necessary files. (Google produced many quick guides on how to do this.)
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/
https://help.ubuntu.com/7.04/installation-guide/i386/preseed-using.html
All except GRUB and "building your own repository" were found in less than a minute on Google.
Remember that Ubuntu is mostly an amalgam of discrete software packages, all bundled up nice and neat. The best place to look for documentation is usually the origin.
http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/users/bsy/coke.html
Would someone mind explaining this? The summary makes it sound like telepathy (with a computer encoding and decoding the signals).
As far as I understand it, the person imagines lifting one of their arms. This is picked up and sent over the Internet. At the other end, a light flashes the EEG readings, and the other person's subconscious observes this, which is picked up by their EEG device, and translated into a "left-arm raise" or "right-arm raise", which is then translated into a zero or one.
Frankly, I'm at a loss for any kind of usefulness. It seems like the kind of experiment done just because they can. ("Yes, but it goes over the Internet!!") Wouldn't it just be easier to translate the EEG and turn on or off the light right then and there?
Sex and childbirth are not the same thing.
The biggest complaint I see here (or anywhere else) is that you don't want to see ads in a product that you've already paid for.
Well, what if the ad revenue offset part of the production cost, translating into a lower retail price? Games cost around $60 now. Do you think you'd be more likely to buy it if it had some non-intrusive ads and cost $30?
Here's a nice example of a non-intrusive ad. Take a game like Half-Life, where at some points you're driving down a road. Do you think it'd be that bad if there were some billboards that fit into the landscape? Or take Call of Duty 5's "Nazi Zombies" mode, one level of which has power-up drinks. Say some big-name energy drink company (e.g. Monster) paid to have their product used. Do you think you'd be THAT offended?
You could also possibly put some slightly more intrusive ads, like the ones you may or may not see here on Slashdot, on loading screens or menus? For example, the Call of Duty series has a big blank space in the lower-left of the menus, and Half-Life has some pretty boring loading screens.
Of course, the price reduction wouldn't last... Companies would soon find they could just jack the price up like they already have.
Sweet! Now maybe we can affirm that we actually own things we purchase, and companies like Nintendo will stop stuffing up things like homebrew.
While these are all interesting concepts, they all look like solutions looking for a problem. All of the multi-touch gestures shown (like scaling a window or image) can be accomplished easily with the scroll wheel. Add in the modifier keys and you've got several more actions on one motion.
I use Blender from time to time, and its policy of one hand on the keyboard and one hand on the mouse works damn well.
The only device I found actually interesting was the last one, the "Arty" mouse (the one shaped like Mickey Mouse). It provides multi-touch functionality while minimally changing the way you move your hand. Only thing I think it needs is somewhere to put the rest of your fingers. (The video shows the person's middle finger held awkwardly in the air.)
What I think would be optimal is basically a multi-touch touchpad. Take it off a laptop, enlarge it, and add multi-touch. That'd make a pretty good interface device.