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Yeah I was pretty excited when I first learned (probably 9-10 years ago now..) that X was designed to work just as well in a networked environment. These days Windows has Remote Desktop though. Still it's limited to only one person at a time using the machine unless you are logging into Windows Server..:/
I thought that display 0 was the local display though, perhaps that's because you want to route the other computer to your local display. It's been a while since I messed about with xorg.conf!
Fair enough, though 'usability' generally refers to interface design, I'd definitely still refer to it as a security issue, which I'd say is more important than 'usability', though successful software companies like MS and Apple don't seem to agree!
Well, I've been driven around in Canada. The road conditions in the south of America are generally a lot better than in Scotland, though in the north they can obviously be worse and the snow lasts longer in America (thank goodness for the gulf stream eh?). I have pretty good understanding of cars in the US, in fact cars from any country, most of which I'd regard to be better than cars from the US, but then again I'm a different target market. I have seen american pickup trucks here though, a Corvette Z06, and lorry tires, and tractor tyres. I was simply suggesting that BMW 3 series tyres are quite big for the class of car that I drive (though I still get a little spin in 3rd gear if I thrash it, even in the dry:p ), not that they are massive tyres. I'm sure an M3s tyres will be a bit wider than mine, but my friends' polos tyres are tiny, and the Polo is based on the same chassis as my car.
Obviously people in the US are generally larger than in the UK too, but that is a poor excuse for having massively larger cars:p And I think you'll find that even smallish European cars have quite a lot of room. The last insides of an American car that I saw was a Hummer and a H2 on Top Gear, maybe they're quite large even by American standards, but I still think it was more than necessary to be comfortable. I actually like the seat in front to be quite close - either because there is less draft that way, and also sometimes I just like to brace my legs slightly against it - whether I'm in a car, bus, plane, whatever. I've been on some long bus journeys where I slouch down, wedge myself against the seat in front with my knees, and read a book.. quite comfortable for me but then again some would call me freakishly flexible (I'm 6'2" before you go thinking I'm just small).
Fair enough, I would usually think of WMD as nukes, but I suppose any kind of death could be regarded as 'destruction' even if it leaves all the buildings untouched. While people would be pretty panicked hearing about them having anthrax delivery systems and whatnot (though AFAIK Iraq does not have satellites nor even true long range ballistic capability..), it's not like the government isn't already playing on the fears of the population to justify things like the PATRIOT act and Guantanamo.. I'm still of the opinion that they haven't actually found anything in Iraq that would be a significant threat to the US.
I wasn't sure if they'd been exporting any oil to the US, but it must be a tempting option for them (or one that they are reserving for the future).
In any case, I of course may be wrong in my beliefs about the situation, and at least some good has come out of the situation (in that Saddam is dead), but a little paranoia is natural between different levels of authority (ie governmentgeneral population), though it may not always be healthy.
Surely proper management of resources is always necessary? Was Marx just an idiot, or did he have a solution to things like organisation of education, health and imports/exports without government involvement? And if everyone has 'equal' quality of life no matter if they are a neurosurgeon or a street sweeper, what is the incentive to even pursue education (beyond the occasional person that just loves to learn for the sake of it)?
How can something try to go against Windows if it doesn't even have a GUI system worth of been called that... I don't know.. how could someone expect to troll successfully when they don't have a decent grasp of the language of their target audience yet?
There is OpenExchange. It would be a lot better if they improved the installer (last time I tried was a couple of years ago, just before the big MS/Novell/SuSE IP crapfest thingy..). One important thing that Exchange 2003 and onwards have done is DirectPUSH to Windows Mobile smartphones though, so a decent replacement for me would have to have a smartphone client. It's not inherently 'hard' to build such a system, but it is time consuming and complex to do it properly.. and sadly even more difficult to justify moving to such a system if you already have a working integrated email/calendar/mobile solution.
The Kernel is a bit of a special case though, as it's got Linus at the helm, and it *is* the operating system. Having two different kernels would be like MS still running NT and 95 derived OSes parallel to each other.
Consider: would all the display managers like Gnome and KDE keep developing at the same rate without all the 'competition' between them? I'm asking that as a genuine question since I know that they tend to have different philosophies and may not compete directly as such - but people do seem to have strong opinions either way as to which they prefer (I preferred KDE when I tried them both a few years ago), so surely there must be the occasional bit of "keeping up with the Joneses" type stuff going on between the two?
True, if not for the fact that it's not a bug but rather the intentional behaviour of Apple's version of DTrace. What other reasons do you have? I'm very happy with OSX for home use. Issues like this don't bother me because I'm not trying to reverse engineer the DRM in iTunes - in fact I don't even use iTunes, I use VLC.
I can understand that some information is better kept secret, but how exactly is it of any benefit to not divulge that you found what you originally went in for, when you are already basically in control (to an extent) of that country anyway? And how is "no evidence for destruction of huge stockpiles of WMD" a valid argument unless you have evidence for huge stockpiles of WMD? This is well worthy of some eye rolling, especially considering you used the word 'rational'.. I admit that I haven't been following the news on this stuff much, but like I said, I think I'm representative of the general public who think that the US just went in there for oil using WMDs as an excuse, and Americas image would be vindicated (to both foreigners and Americans alike) if they did find some evidence of WMDs. The current administration would be a lot better off if they did find such evidence, so don't try to pretend they would have any reason for hiding such information - honestly can you think of any situation where it would be preferable? You think even if it has some benefit for the country over the next decade that the current administration will care if it means the difference between them staying in power or not?
It should be, but unfortunately that's not the case in today's world. What is your proposed alternative? One that doesn't require the recipient to be online at all times? I like IM systems for transferring files and chatting. What method can you use to eliminate spam unless you don't actually have a built in method of requesting to be added to a white list - so you could just phone up the recipient instead letting them know your username. Even then if you have a phone you're still getting hit by advertising drones all day. And you can't just say "don't send through any calls" because sometimes they are actually valid calls. I should probably make a whitelist of allowed companies or certain 'keywords' mentioned that mean reception can pass a call up to me..
So basically even someone with an MBA and no technical knowledge whatsoever should have known that it was a dumb thing to do, but did it anyway:p That's presuming that they are taught that the first generation of any complex product tends to need some kinks ironed out anyway..
And I think we all know the proportion of people who are capable of serious self-education. It's almost 100% of all literate people, right? Or do you mean the proportion of people who can be assed to do some serious self-education?
We all make mistakes. Cut 'em some slack Sure everyone makes mistakes, but companies are meant to do this thing called 'testing' and have Quality Assurance depts and the like. Everything Microsoft makes seems to start off as a steaming heap, then improves slightly over time as they throw massive amounts of money and lies (or should that be 'marketing') at it.. I wouldn't be surprised if everything MS ever designed - rather than bought in - sucked, to be bluntly honest.
You don't have access to intel information of the sort which would be required to state, with any surety, wether or not nuke materials were found. All you have is free market information. I don't care for all the political bullshit, but if they had actually found anything, they have no reason to hide it. There are other countries in Iraq as well as the US, and none of them have even implied that we have found anything approaching WMD status? What's the point in even suggesting that they may have but we haven't been told because of some grandiose covert purpose?
IMO Bush needs to provide a valid reason for invading Iraq or sensible people will continue to lambast him for it, it doesn't matter if the war technically never ended if all the whole thing amounted to was an act of bullying to appropriate Iraq's resources. I think that's the generally held public opinion of what really happened recently, whether it's accurate or not.
Sorry, I meant Astra not Astra. The Accord was more comfortable overall, but aside from the annoying wind and road noise (which is an issue with the Astra rather than all cars that size, my slightly smaller car is fine at higher speeds, and even more comfortable overall, since I have heated seats:) ), it was a comfortable journey.
lol I've lost this post twice now. Great. Even shorter rewrite ahead!
2D collision detection is easy, and it's all that's needed here. I did 2D collision detection when I was twelve. Line detection is more complicated, but plenty of algorithms and code are available to do it - for example code, you could probably look at neon/emboss type plugins for the GIMP. Just combine the two by detecting if one line moves over an object in your scene and you have 'gesture recognition'. You'd also need to do a bit of 3D stuff when detecting how to apply an acceleration the model on-screen. Perhaps the system here recognises hand shapes as well, but again IMO that's not an insurmountable task and isn't very amazing these days, when you get mobile phones who's cameras do "face recognition".
Go look at http://www.crs4.it/vic/data/papers/ieeevr2006ws-holo.pdf and you'll see that this is not a plasma screen, it's a clever use of a large array of projectors and box with mirrors in:p All the self styled experts on/. are just slagging it off and saying the Wii guy did a better job. His method is indeed very cool, and great for a single user, especially since it only has to render a scene once, same as any current 2D computer game. The 3D projector thing will work to provide at least partial stereoscopic vision though as the display does appear to change depending on where you are standing, and not just for one person, but for anyone at any angle. It has much more potential for advancing towards true 3D display tech than a head-tracking device, and I for one think it's pretty clever and had never heard of that method before.
I know your gas is cheap and you have high horsepower cars, but I'd still have a powerful light car than a powerful heavy car;) Take the Audi RS4 for example, aluminium alloy V8, at least part aluminium chassis, 4WD, 400bhp, good fun:)
Even so I'd probably still prefer a Lotus Elise which has half the horsepower, but also half the weight.. similar acceleration and better handling - less top speed but I don't want to be doing over 150mph on public roads anyway!:)
Those are pretty extreme examples but I'd prefer to spend my money on weight reduction over extra power, for a better handling car.
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Yeah I was pretty excited when I first learned (probably 9-10 years ago now..) that X was designed to work just as well in a networked environment. These days Windows has Remote Desktop though. Still it's limited to only one person at a time using the machine unless you are logging into Windows Server.. :/
I thought that display 0 was the local display though, perhaps that's because you want to route the other computer to your local display. It's been a while since I messed about with xorg.conf!
Fair enough, though 'usability' generally refers to interface design, I'd definitely still refer to it as a security issue, which I'd say is more important than 'usability', though successful software companies like MS and Apple don't seem to agree!
WTF..! And the F150 is the best selling vehicle on the planet (or at least it was a few years ago if not now) :s That's really nasty for just 40mph!
Well, I've been driven around in Canada. The road conditions in the south of America are generally a lot better than in Scotland, though in the north they can obviously be worse and the snow lasts longer in America (thank goodness for the gulf stream eh?). I have pretty good understanding of cars in the US, in fact cars from any country, most of which I'd regard to be better than cars from the US, but then again I'm a different target market. I have seen american pickup trucks here though, a Corvette Z06, and lorry tires, and tractor tyres. I was simply suggesting that BMW 3 series tyres are quite big for the class of car that I drive (though I still get a little spin in 3rd gear if I thrash it, even in the dry :p ), not that they are massive tyres. I'm sure an M3s tyres will be a bit wider than mine, but my friends' polos tyres are tiny, and the Polo is based on the same chassis as my car.
:p And I think you'll find that even smallish European cars have quite a lot of room. The last insides of an American car that I saw was a Hummer and a H2 on Top Gear, maybe they're quite large even by American standards, but I still think it was more than necessary to be comfortable. I actually like the seat in front to be quite close - either because there is less draft that way, and also sometimes I just like to brace my legs slightly against it - whether I'm in a car, bus, plane, whatever. I've been on some long bus journeys where I slouch down, wedge myself against the seat in front with my knees, and read a book.. quite comfortable for me but then again some would call me freakishly flexible (I'm 6'2" before you go thinking I'm just small).
Obviously people in the US are generally larger than in the UK too, but that is a poor excuse for having massively larger cars
Fair enough, I would usually think of WMD as nukes, but I suppose any kind of death could be regarded as 'destruction' even if it leaves all the buildings untouched. While people would be pretty panicked hearing about them having anthrax delivery systems and whatnot (though AFAIK Iraq does not have satellites nor even true long range ballistic capability..), it's not like the government isn't already playing on the fears of the population to justify things like the PATRIOT act and Guantanamo.. I'm still of the opinion that they haven't actually found anything in Iraq that would be a significant threat to the US.
I wasn't sure if they'd been exporting any oil to the US, but it must be a tempting option for them (or one that they are reserving for the future).
In any case, I of course may be wrong in my beliefs about the situation, and at least some good has come out of the situation (in that Saddam is dead), but a little paranoia is natural between different levels of authority (ie governmentgeneral population), though it may not always be healthy.
Surely proper management of resources is always necessary? Was Marx just an idiot, or did he have a solution to things like organisation of education, health and imports/exports without government involvement? And if everyone has 'equal' quality of life no matter if they are a neurosurgeon or a street sweeper, what is the incentive to even pursue education (beyond the occasional person that just loves to learn for the sake of it)?
Well, "full-throated endorsement" sounds like a good euphemism to use in another /. classic troll story
It would be, if we weren't capable of coding, but we are. Most /.ers are better at coding than fixing up broken bones..
What about http://sourceforge.net/projects/cotvnc/ ?
Note: worthy, and being.
There is OpenExchange. It would be a lot better if they improved the installer (last time I tried was a couple of years ago, just before the big MS/Novell/SuSE IP crapfest thingy..). One important thing that Exchange 2003 and onwards have done is DirectPUSH to Windows Mobile smartphones though, so a decent replacement for me would have to have a smartphone client. It's not inherently 'hard' to build such a system, but it is time consuming and complex to do it properly.. and sadly even more difficult to justify moving to such a system if you already have a working integrated email/calendar/mobile solution.
The Kernel is a bit of a special case though, as it's got Linus at the helm, and it *is* the operating system. Having two different kernels would be like MS still running NT and 95 derived OSes parallel to each other.
Consider: would all the display managers like Gnome and KDE keep developing at the same rate without all the 'competition' between them? I'm asking that as a genuine question since I know that they tend to have different philosophies and may not compete directly as such - but people do seem to have strong opinions either way as to which they prefer (I preferred KDE when I tried them both a few years ago), so surely there must be the occasional bit of "keeping up with the Joneses" type stuff going on between the two?
True, if not for the fact that it's not a bug but rather the intentional behaviour of Apple's version of DTrace. What other reasons do you have? I'm very happy with OSX for home use. Issues like this don't bother me because I'm not trying to reverse engineer the DRM in iTunes - in fact I don't even use iTunes, I use VLC.
How is that a 'usability issue'? It's a security issue.
Obviously DRM crackers are incapable of this level of ingenuity (if you live in cuckoo land that is..)
I can understand that some information is better kept secret, but how exactly is it of any benefit to not divulge that you found what you originally went in for, when you are already basically in control (to an extent) of that country anyway? And how is "no evidence for destruction of huge stockpiles of WMD" a valid argument unless you have evidence for huge stockpiles of WMD? This is well worthy of some eye rolling, especially considering you used the word 'rational'.. I admit that I haven't been following the news on this stuff much, but like I said, I think I'm representative of the general public who think that the US just went in there for oil using WMDs as an excuse, and Americas image would be vindicated (to both foreigners and Americans alike) if they did find some evidence of WMDs. The current administration would be a lot better off if they did find such evidence, so don't try to pretend they would have any reason for hiding such information - honestly can you think of any situation where it would be preferable? You think even if it has some benefit for the country over the next decade that the current administration will care if it means the difference between them staying in power or not?
It should be, but unfortunately that's not the case in today's world. What is your proposed alternative? One that doesn't require the recipient to be online at all times? I like IM systems for transferring files and chatting. What method can you use to eliminate spam unless you don't actually have a built in method of requesting to be added to a white list - so you could just phone up the recipient instead letting them know your username. Even then if you have a phone you're still getting hit by advertising drones all day. And you can't just say "don't send through any calls" because sometimes they are actually valid calls. I should probably make a whitelist of allowed companies or certain 'keywords' mentioned that mean reception can pass a call up to me..
So basically even someone with an MBA and no technical knowledge whatsoever should have known that it was a dumb thing to do, but did it anyway :p That's presuming that they are taught that the first generation of any complex product tends to need some kinks ironed out anyway..
ah, I'd never actually seen what that was meant to be before! Perhaps that was a good thing though.
IMO Bush needs to provide a valid reason for invading Iraq or sensible people will continue to lambast him for it, it doesn't matter if the war technically never ended if all the whole thing amounted to was an act of bullying to appropriate Iraq's resources. I think that's the generally held public opinion of what really happened recently, whether it's accurate or not.
Sorry, I meant Astra not Astra. The Accord was more comfortable overall, but aside from the annoying wind and road noise (which is an issue with the Astra rather than all cars that size, my slightly smaller car is fine at higher speeds, and even more comfortable overall, since I have heated seats :) ), it was a comfortable journey.
lol I've lost this post twice now. Great. Even shorter rewrite ahead!
:p All the self styled experts on /. are just slagging it off and saying the Wii guy did a better job. His method is indeed very cool, and great for a single user, especially since it only has to render a scene once, same as any current 2D computer game. The 3D projector thing will work to provide at least partial stereoscopic vision though as the display does appear to change depending on where you are standing, and not just for one person, but for anyone at any angle. It has much more potential for advancing towards true 3D display tech than a head-tracking device, and I for one think it's pretty clever and had never heard of that method before.
2D collision detection is easy, and it's all that's needed here. I did 2D collision detection when I was twelve. Line detection is more complicated, but plenty of algorithms and code are available to do it - for example code, you could probably look at neon/emboss type plugins for the GIMP. Just combine the two by detecting if one line moves over an object in your scene and you have 'gesture recognition'. You'd also need to do a bit of 3D stuff when detecting how to apply an acceleration the model on-screen. Perhaps the system here recognises hand shapes as well, but again IMO that's not an insurmountable task and isn't very amazing these days, when you get mobile phones who's cameras do "face recognition".
Go look at http://www.crs4.it/vic/data/papers/ieeevr2006ws-holo.pdf and you'll see that this is not a plasma screen, it's a clever use of a large array of projectors and box with mirrors in
I know your gas is cheap and you have high horsepower cars, but I'd still have a powerful light car than a powerful heavy car ;) Take the Audi RS4 for example, aluminium alloy V8, at least part aluminium chassis, 4WD, 400bhp, good fun :)
:)
Even so I'd probably still prefer a Lotus Elise which has half the horsepower, but also half the weight.. similar acceleration and better handling - less top speed but I don't want to be doing over 150mph on public roads anyway!
Those are pretty extreme examples but I'd prefer to spend my money on weight reduction over extra power, for a better handling car.