The penalty for drunk driving in Ecuador is.35 justice on the side of the road - there has not been a conviction after the first few months of its enforcement, TMK.
Hehe - my first thought was , if this proof was true, and the Riemann hypothesis could be used to decrease the time necessary to break encryption, then we wouldn't be reading it. The author(s) would have died from "natural causes" a long time ago.
and everything should be okay. Microsoft must learn that there are better things in this world than "winning" and "crushing their enemies with an iron heel." Give the software community to revolt (not necessarilt violently, although that might be fun) and take back what is rightfully theirs - and, collectively, ours - innovation.
It's like in Really Decadent Guys:
Minister of Procurement: We just killed that guy! You can't just go around killing people for no reason!
Minister of Philosophy: We have a perfectly good reason to kill him. He was evil.
Minister of Procurement: How can you know he was evil?
Minister of Philosophy: Well, he had knowledge we needed. Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Q.E.D
It will happen, eventually. I hope. Will stop typing since I don't make any sense.
I only include Lilith and Adam for completeness' sake - since, in Eva, they test humanity in their own ways. More or less since I agree with the statements in this FAQ, I'm willing to accept that NERV would qualify them as Angels, even if SEELE wouldn't (scroll down in the FAQ to see what I mean).
You can name up to twenty servers this way, if you want to name the next 17 after the Angels --- Lilith, Adam, Sachiel, Samshel, Ramiel, Gaghiel, Israfel, Sandalphon, Matarael, Sahaquiel, Ireul, Leliel, Bardiel, Zeruel, Arael, Armisael, Tabris
Of course, if you don't like it, you can just start naming computers after Muppets until you get tired. There are a freaking lot of Muppets.
Damn right poeople are warezing Photoshop. For most people, the gimp is probably enough - and they just don't know it yet.
When gimp can do true CMYK what-you-see-is-what-you-print color-matching as well as Photoshop can (which is pretty damn good, but needs work), it will be a professional product. But I'm not exactly holding my breath, because, as Eegon says, "print is dead." Long live the Internet.
People who think Linux will never be able to compete with Windows until every damn niche market has been filled have forgotten what ordinary people do with computers. Average Joe Enduser (no offense) will probably never touch Maya in his entire life. I don't see why Linux needs a Maya clone. It's a niche - and free software may fill it one day. It may never be filled. Until it is, most people won't give a jot if some freedom-loving hacker making Lego movies has to suffer with POVray. In fact, most hackers probably don't care already . ..
After letting my non-technical friends test-drive some Linux software, they wanted Linux. They love ee (electriceyes), gimp, logjam, and Mozilla - because they see these programs as better at doing what ordinary people need to do. In two weeks, I'll be putting Linux on their machines just so they can use these four programs. And that's all I have to say about that.
Which ATI card did you have in mind? Most of the ones I've looked at are supported under Linux, and some are even more supported.
I will agree with you about the lack of necessary apps, (I like the gimp, but I don't see it anywhere near the level of Photoshop for professional work) but I think the issue of necessary drivers is mostly an issue for super-legacy devices or NDA'd device designs. The rest seem to fall into place fairly well, from what I've seen.
When Gentoo gets a graphical front-end for the portage system, compilation will be a long-lost memory for most users. Gentoo standardizes the compilation/compiler option configuration process - for any program, just emerge (name of program to build). It has some bugs now, but fewer than you'd expect. I think this would be great for end-users - power users and sysadmins will want to muck with every individual compilation.
It also does dependency checking better than any packaging system I've seen so far - except maybe Debian.
The fact that it's source-based will probably keep it from mainstream use, but the spin-off distros could be incredibly promising.
I grew up in Park Falls, in northern Wisconsin. A "high-grade textbook paper" mill. I had nosebleeds every day until I moved to St. Paul, Minnesota, where the air was clean. What a world . ..
People like to think that Neo-Fascism is "the best parts of fascism," and they like to think of a military-centralized government as fascism. You do the math. It's mostly the movie (with the "Master Race" overtones that have Heinlein spinning in his grave) that prompts the "hey, that's fascist!" flag.
I like Heinlein's plug for enlightened democracies and rational anarchism. More accurately, stage 1 should be called "Heinlein turns politics upside-down."
From everything I can tell, Heinlein's works go through three stages-
Heinlein experiments with Neo-Fascism
Heinlein has some really good ideas
Heinlein is a horny old man
Overlap is to be expected - note especially how Starship Troopers is about fifty-fifty 1 and 2, while Stranger in a Strange Land is about 75/25 2 and 3, and Time Enough for Love is almost 20/80 2 and 3. Number of the Beast is just plain weird.
amen. Before I quit, I was nearly fired for not keeping my Names and Addresses percentage high enough (because I hated invading people's privacy). Now if they would just insist on being less lenient with returns, I could feel better about buying things from them again.
is Osiris, which has an Apache-style syntax and a weird pseudo-free license. I haven't worked with enough filesystem integrity management systems (aka intrusion detection systems) to differentiate its use from Tripwire. My two cents.
covered a good deal of this in his book, The Transparent Society. Definitely worth a read as a thought experiment investigating a world without privacy, and as an examination of what privacy really is.
nobody posted this - standardized data sets for training AI. It's a start, anyways - useful for comparing one machine learning system to another. Maybe you could use it for something else?
You are paying for access to the network, but you have agreed to the terms of using said network. If the net admins (who probably also run most of the IT services for the campus) are spending too much time trying to limit non-academic bandwidth, then other services required for an academic network will not be nearly as well off. To be honest, I have no sympathy for a campus where people demand Kazaa, when better solutions exist that do not require using up bandwidth. A well-publicized (among the students) internal Gnutella network did wonders for the bandwidth problems at my school, which is an option you might consider, since it doesn't require administrative overhead/oversight.
As a student body representative, it is your responsiblity to work with administrative officials, not against them. If you find the terms of using the network too constrictive, campaign to have them changed. We didn't get them changed at my school - the excess bandwidth, before throttling was in place for http and ftp, was in excess of $100k, and it's hard to argue an idealistic case in favor of that number to a budget-minded administrator. Just remember to keep your options open, and work for what you believe in. When that doesn't work, re-evaluate your beliefs, and start again.
Re:When did politics become vital for geeks?
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I think that you rightly assert that it has always been our responsibility to participate - but only recently has it been enough of an issue for most of us to care.
I hate to sound the schlub-horn, but I think the most important factor in all of this is the Internet. Computer professionals love it as an end, and a means to and end. We love information that affects our lives. We also love being right. So, thanken-sie Internet, we are in a unique situation (as a demographic) to have a wide dispersal of information related to our issues at hand, and a system to interpret it. How is politics not a perfect match for what most of us do every day? In some ways, I see politics as a meat-space version of your favorite flame war.
First off - Phoenix is not even a beta browser yet. Its developers will be the first to say that.
And check out FAQ 17 -
Phoenix is getting bloated. I knew it would happen.
Phoenix is not getting bloated. Its download size is going down, for one thing. As stated earlier, the time to do the heavy lifting, feature work and redesign is early in the development cycle. That's where we are now -- this is 0.4, folks!
We're working hard to improve our support for extensions to reduce bloat. Without extensions support, we'd be pressured to include the add-ons in the default build.
The premise is the same as dynamically-linked libraries - let the users add whatever they want at run-time - don't make everything load at once. This thing they're doing, with the code-cutting and the extension-building and the hey-hey is called refactoring. More developers should look into it, more often.
One of my favorite IRC quotes -
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"I think the butler did it . . ."
*flip flip flip flip flip*
"He did!"
The penalty for drunk driving in Ecuador is .35 justice on the side of the road - there has not been a conviction after the first few months of its enforcement, TMK.
Hehe - my first thought was , if this proof was true, and the Riemann hypothesis could be used to decrease the time necessary to break encryption, then we wouldn't be reading it. The author(s) would have died from "natural causes" a long time ago.
Yeah, a formula for calculating the nth digit of Pi. Yup - nobod'ys ever done that. Ever.
and everything should be okay. Microsoft must learn that there are better things in this world than "winning" and "crushing their enemies with an iron heel." Give the software community to revolt (not necessarilt violently, although that might be fun) and take back what is rightfully theirs - and, collectively, ours - innovation.
It's like in Really Decadent Guys:
Minister of Procurement: We just killed that guy! You can't just go around killing people for no reason!
Minister of Philosophy: We have a perfectly good reason to kill him. He was evil.
Minister of Procurement: How can you know he was evil?
Minister of Philosophy: Well, he had knowledge we needed. Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Q.E.D
It will happen, eventually. I hope. Will stop typing since I don't make any sense.
I only include Lilith and Adam for completeness' sake - since, in Eva, they test humanity in their own ways. More or less since I agree with the statements in this FAQ, I'm willing to accept that NERV would qualify them as Angels, even if SEELE wouldn't (scroll down in the FAQ to see what I mean).
You can name up to twenty servers this way, if you want to name the next 17 after the Angels --- Lilith, Adam, Sachiel, Samshel, Ramiel, Gaghiel, Israfel, Sandalphon, Matarael, Sahaquiel, Ireul, Leliel, Bardiel, Zeruel, Arael, Armisael, Tabris
Of course, if you don't like it, you can just start naming computers after Muppets until you get tired. There are a freaking lot of Muppets.Damn right poeople are warezing Photoshop. For most people, the gimp is probably enough - and they just don't know it yet.
When gimp can do true CMYK what-you-see-is-what-you-print color-matching as well as Photoshop can (which is pretty damn good, but needs work), it will be a professional product. But I'm not exactly holding my breath, because, as Eegon says, "print is dead." Long live the Internet.
People who think Linux will never be able to compete with Windows until every damn niche market has been filled have forgotten what ordinary people do with computers. Average Joe Enduser (no offense) will probably never touch Maya in his entire life. I don't see why Linux needs a Maya clone. It's a niche - and free software may fill it one day. It may never be filled. Until it is, most people won't give a jot if some freedom-loving hacker making Lego movies has to suffer with POVray. In fact, most hackers probably don't care already . . .
After letting my non-technical friends test-drive some Linux software, they wanted Linux. They love ee (electriceyes), gimp, logjam, and Mozilla - because they see these programs as better at doing what ordinary people need to do. In two weeks, I'll be putting Linux on their machines just so they can use these four programs. And that's all I have to say about that.
Which ATI card did you have in mind? Most of the ones I've looked at are supported under Linux, and some are even more supported.
I will agree with you about the lack of necessary apps, (I like the gimp, but I don't see it anywhere near the level of Photoshop for professional work) but I think the issue of necessary drivers is mostly an issue for super-legacy devices or NDA'd device designs. The rest seem to fall into place fairly well, from what I've seen.
When Gentoo gets a graphical front-end for the portage system, compilation will be a long-lost memory for most users. Gentoo standardizes the compilation/compiler option configuration process - for any program, just emerge (name of program to build). It has some bugs now, but fewer than you'd expect. I think this would be great for end-users - power users and sysadmins will want to muck with every individual compilation.
It also does dependency checking better than any packaging system I've seen so far - except maybe Debian.
The fact that it's source-based will probably keep it from mainstream use, but the spin-off distros could be incredibly promising.
I grew up in Park Falls, in northern Wisconsin. A "high-grade textbook paper" mill. I had nosebleeds every day until I moved to St. Paul, Minnesota, where the air was clean. What a world . . .
where they make coffee with dirt in it ;)
The guys in the office have been wondering that for weeks . . .
People like to think that Neo-Fascism is "the best parts of fascism," and they like to think of a military-centralized government as fascism. You do the math. It's mostly the movie (with the "Master Race" overtones that have Heinlein spinning in his grave) that prompts the "hey, that's fascist!" flag.
I like Heinlein's plug for enlightened democracies and rational anarchism. More accurately, stage 1 should be called "Heinlein turns politics upside-down."
From everything I can tell, Heinlein's works go through three stages-
Overlap is to be expected - note especially how Starship Troopers is about fifty-fifty 1 and 2, while Stranger in a Strange Land is about 75/25 2 and 3, and Time Enough for Love is almost 20/80 2 and 3. Number of the Beast is just plain weird.
Muppets . . . In . . . SPACE!
Hehe . . . sorry, it's the eternal chant of the kids from 30Mac. I love Farscape - but that name will be stuck in my mind for all eternity.
I think it's called a Faraday cage. They have one on a building at MIT.
amen. Before I quit, I was nearly fired for not keeping my Names and Addresses percentage high enough (because I hated invading people's privacy). Now if they would just insist on being less lenient with returns, I could feel better about buying things from them again.
is Osiris, which has an Apache-style syntax and a weird pseudo-free license. I haven't worked with enough filesystem integrity management systems (aka intrusion detection systems) to differentiate its use from Tripwire. My two cents.
covered a good deal of this in his book, The Transparent Society. Definitely worth a read as a thought experiment investigating a world without privacy, and as an examination of what privacy really is.
I think it was Mel Brooks who said: "Tragedy is when I prick my finger. Comedy is when you fall in a manhole and die."
nobody posted this - standardized data sets for training AI. It's a start, anyways - useful for comparing one machine learning system to another. Maybe you could use it for something else?
You are paying for access to the network, but you have agreed to the terms of using said network. If the net admins (who probably also run most of the IT services for the campus) are spending too much time trying to limit non-academic bandwidth, then other services required for an academic network will not be nearly as well off. To be honest, I have no sympathy for a campus where people demand Kazaa, when better solutions exist that do not require using up bandwidth. A well-publicized (among the students) internal Gnutella network did wonders for the bandwidth problems at my school, which is an option you might consider, since it doesn't require administrative overhead/oversight.
As a student body representative, it is your responsiblity to work with administrative officials, not against them. If you find the terms of using the network too constrictive, campaign to have them changed. We didn't get them changed at my school - the excess bandwidth, before throttling was in place for http and ftp, was in excess of $100k, and it's hard to argue an idealistic case in favor of that number to a budget-minded administrator. Just remember to keep your options open, and work for what you believe in. When that doesn't work, re-evaluate your beliefs, and start again.
I think that you rightly assert that it has always been our responsibility to participate - but only recently has it been enough of an issue for most of us to care.
I hate to sound the schlub-horn, but I think the most important factor in all of this is the Internet. Computer professionals love it as an end, and a means to and end. We love information that affects our lives. We also love being right. So, thanken-sie Internet, we are in a unique situation (as a demographic) to have a wide dispersal of information related to our issues at hand, and a system to interpret it. How is politics not a perfect match for what most of us do every day? In some ways, I see politics as a meat-space version of your favorite flame war.
PS- Why do you hate using the term "geek"?