Ah, of course! I was confusing it with tracking a specific release, to get security fixes. Besides those, there are of course just two interesting branches: STABLE and CURRENT.
The official website states 7.2-PRERELEASE, but the press release says 7.1-STABLE. Depending on how you track and merge FreeBSD, both may be correct (tracking 7.1-STABLE and backporting functionality from 7.2 would do the trick).
That is definitely a version above 7.0. You are looking at the X Server, which is part of X.org. Seeing that it is released in October 2008, and judging by the version (1.5), I'd say it is either 7.3 or 7.4. My guess is the latter.
You want to follow the procedure for 7.0 and above.
A more decent way to check is by looking which packages are installed. Also, since you are using Ubuntu, you can check which release of X was about two months before the release of Ubuntu, that one will probably be in the distro by then.
That is heard quite often: "even with science, you can't..."
You know, some day we just might. Maybe not today, maybe never, but please, when someone who knows more than you about a certain topic warns you, listen!
According to the TFA, the red grid marks the event horizon as the "falling" observer would see it. Later on, you see a white grid, which marks the event horizon as distant observers see it.
Please elaborate, because I fail to see the point.
If you mean it should be given to another, separate, international entity, you are absolutely right. But I get the feeling that you'd rather maintain the status quo, and I can't see how that would help in matters like these...
"Fast" being somewhat of a vague notion here. If you look purely at clock frequency, you are probably right (especially when we forget about speciality CPU's). If you look at FLOPS, you are wrong (consider the different GPUs on the market today). But processing speed and processing power are more than that.
I have absolutely no doubt at all that IBM can roll out a wild roaring beast of a POWER chip pretty soon after Microsoft announces plans to do a full fledged (not XBox-fledged) port of Windows for the things. Also, ponder what would happen when Microsoft goes to nVidia with a nice proposal.
Oh God! What if Ballmer has a productive game of golf with Schwarz?!?
The resolution is not the problem. Due to the fact that we are measuring nature, small changes do happen. This is the reason that leap seconds aren't scheduled decades in advance.
In openSUSE, the two folders are seperated. There is actually a lot of discussion on the 'net between distros and KDE-ians about what should be the best course for the future, since both KDE3 and KDE4 *want* to use ~/.kde to store their stuff. I *think* it should be fairly trivial to set a preference on it, but I'm not sure how to do it on (K)Ubuntu.
By the way, even if your distro separates KDE4 from KDE3, do not copy.kde to.kde4 in order to preserve your settings, unless you are sure not to turn back to KDE3. Due to a lot of cross-referencing, your.kde(3) will get screwed up.
The main point for me is that KDE always said: "KDE 4.0 will not be a suitable replacement for KDE 3.5. Whenever the replacement is there, we'll tell you." When they said 4.1 could be considered stable, I presumed that it could replace 3.5. It can't. I don't have high hopes now for 4.2, I'm waiting for the team *and* the crowd to rejoice: "3.5 is obsolete!" Then I'll make the switch.
What I don't get (about both you and Linus) is that the choice is either KDE 4 or Gnome. I use openSUSE 11.1 on my main desktop, and it has KDE 3.5.
*Maybe* it has something to do with the fact that to install KDE 3.5 you have to click "other" when the openSUSE installation asks you what desktop you want, but I'm not so sure.
KDE 3.5 is not yet a completely dead end, newer KDE 4 / QT4 apps integrate well enough (like KTorrent and VirtualBox) and it just goes on where the old openSUSE installation left of, because you don't really "switch" your desktop. Plus, at least on openSUSE, the distribution still supports it very, very well.
I'm equally disappointed with KDE 4 as the next KDE user (I didn't even have any high hopes to begin with, but I did expect KDE 4.1 to be usable), but that didn't make me turn to Gnome. I love KDE, and I love it because of KDE 3.5. Why not keep using that?
The Flemish use an AZERTY layout, because then all of Belgium uses the same layout. It could have been the other way around, were it not that not too long ago, the French-speaking community (which included the upper class of Flanders) ruled over Belgica.
The Dutch had a wrangled QWERTY-layout, but these days it is almost obsolete. Almost everyone has switched to the standard en_US variant.
Until you pointed me to it, I didn't even know what the subjunctive mood was. As far as I can tell, the Dutch equivalent isn't even used any more in every day speech, barring some set phrases.
It seems then that my English teachers, low grades notwithstanding, have managed to teach me something.
Ah, I forgot about something. Not just the JavaScript engine is probably win32 specific, but Chrome also relies heavily on inter-process communication (since each tab in each window has its own process).
I'm betting good money that this is very hard to do properly cross-platform.
Because they want Chrome to be fast. While python is fast for a scripting language, it is not up to the task of delivering the fastest browser known to man.
If I were Google (that is a great sentence) I would base it on QT 4. Fast, customizable, cross-platform, modern and integrated with WebKit.
Don't forget the brand-new JavaScript engine they had. The move to OS X will be just as hard (and for a big part exactly the same) as the move to Linux.
They made a win32 browser and they are now going to translate it to *nix. Seems like they are going to do that properly this time (unlike Picasa and, to some extend, Earth).
The platform is not advertised. But the phones that run it are. Right now, T-Mobile and HTC are pushing their version of the Android phone here.
Granted, it isn't pushed as hard as the iPhone was, but then I didn't really see much Apple-branded advertising here in the Netherlands either. Usually the networks advertises the phones, so right now it shows that T-Mobile has more faith in the iPhone on the short term. But things can change.
The thing Android has against it is that it now runs on old-school, bulky, ugly smartphones with no real new features. That shows us that T-Mobile is targeting the youth with the iPhone and the business world with Android. But that too might change.
And don't forget the power of geeks. They usually have some money to spare for gadgets, and they won't stop talking about how great some new tech product is. Some of my friends and colleagues are waiting to see how good OpenMoko turns out, for example. And when "normal" folk hear the word Google in connection with something gadgety and flashy, they will be interested.
Not my way to say it, but: exactly. I pay my ISP to provide me with connectivity and an IP address. It really should be my choice and my responsibility what I do with that service. If you want to combat illegal file sharing or illegal child porn, you should track down the providers and the big users and sue them. Don't use the ISPs to do that job.
And even if you want the ISPs to do part of that job, have it done right. Don't give them more power, give them rules (like: if we find a certain IP-address offending the law, give us the appropriate name and address).
I am glad that I'm not in danger of having my ISP sort out my traffic for me, yet. But if the USA implements this kind of ludicrous legislation, I'm sure the EU will follow in a few years "because it has proved to work at the other side of the Atlantic". We all know that it will only end with less freedom and more commerce (hence: either higher prices, or more advertising).
Another question that bugs me, and maybe the boffins here on board have an answer:
If information cannot travel faster than light, and the universe we live in is 13.7 billion years old, how can the universe be larger than a radius of 13.7 light years if it indeed did begin as a singularity?
If we are observing structures that are affected by other structures, the latter should either be within our observable universe (since information cannot travel faster than light) or it is acting upon our observable universe through some crazy time-bend or something.
Really, it bugs me. AFAIK, even gravity cannot "enact" faster than light. But maybe, just maybe, we are wrong with that statement. The alternative is that space-time is not the same in other places, but can affect "our" universe.
The implications of either one are surreal to say the least. I think the answers to those moving clusters might prove to be the same as the answer to dark matter and dark energy. Boost the LHC, please.
I agree that we shouldn't be able to go around and violate the laws of other countries.
Ridiculous. I shouldn't be able to go around and violate the laws of the country a live in, since I have full democratic rights within that legislature. Any other country is not my business. I can't vote there, so they have no right to put me under their law (except when I'm on their soil).
The exact same reasoning is applied to countries with oppressive regimes, because we find that their population has the right to oppose the government.
If the population is stupid enough to support a government that enforces bilateral treaties that enacts the law of foreign states on its population, so be it. But it sure as hell shouldn't be so because it sounds logical to someone.
The screenplay for the movie was started by Adams, and finished by others after his death. Adams has, before he died, had tremendous influence on various aspects of the movie, and remarks he made were influential to many decisions made after his death.
He was most certainly not an obstacle in the way of making the movie.
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Ah, of course! I was confusing it with tracking a specific release, to get security fixes. Besides those, there are of course just two interesting branches: STABLE and CURRENT.
I'm pretty sure it's based on 7.2 PRE, not 7.1.
That is correct.
The official website states 7.2-PRERELEASE, but the press release says 7.1-STABLE. Depending on how you track and merge FreeBSD, both may be correct (tracking 7.1-STABLE and backporting functionality from 7.2 would do the trick).
Since it is in FreeBSD, it will be in PC-BSD.
I believe ZFS has been in FreeBSD since 7.0. A quick google teaches me that PC-BSD is enjoying it since then too.
That is definitely a version above 7.0. You are looking at the X Server, which is part of X.org. Seeing that it is released in October 2008, and judging by the version (1.5), I'd say it is either 7.3 or 7.4. My guess is the latter.
You want to follow the procedure for 7.0 and above.
A more decent way to check is by looking which packages are installed. Also, since you are using Ubuntu, you can check which release of X was about two months before the release of Ubuntu, that one will probably be in the distro by then.
That is heard quite often: "even with science, you can't..."
You know, some day we just might. Maybe not today, maybe never, but please, when someone who knows more than you about a certain topic warns you, listen!
According to the TFA, the red grid marks the event horizon as the "falling" observer would see it. Later on, you see a white grid, which marks the event horizon as distant observers see it.
Please elaborate, because I fail to see the point.
If you mean it should be given to another, separate, international entity, you are absolutely right. But I get the feeling that you'd rather maintain the status quo, and I can't see how that would help in matters like these...
"Fast" being somewhat of a vague notion here. If you look purely at clock frequency, you are probably right (especially when we forget about speciality CPU's). If you look at FLOPS, you are wrong (consider the different GPUs on the market today). But processing speed and processing power are more than that.
I have absolutely no doubt at all that IBM can roll out a wild roaring beast of a POWER chip pretty soon after Microsoft announces plans to do a full fledged (not XBox-fledged) port of Windows for the things. Also, ponder what would happen when Microsoft goes to nVidia with a nice proposal.
Oh God! What if Ballmer has a productive game of golf with Schwarz?!?
The resolution is not the problem. Due to the fact that we are measuring nature, small changes do happen. This is the reason that leap seconds aren't scheduled decades in advance.
See here.
I'd like the metric system to take over our measurement of time, but, disregarding other problems, it won't solve the leap second issue all by itself.
In openSUSE, the two folders are seperated. There is actually a lot of discussion on the 'net between distros and KDE-ians about what should be the best course for the future, since both KDE3 and KDE4 *want* to use ~/.kde to store their stuff. I *think* it should be fairly trivial to set a preference on it, but I'm not sure how to do it on (K)Ubuntu. .kde to .kde4 in order to preserve your settings, unless you are sure not to turn back to KDE3. Due to a lot of cross-referencing, your .kde(3) will get screwed up.
By the way, even if your distro separates KDE4 from KDE3, do not copy
The main point for me is that KDE always said: "KDE 4.0 will not be a suitable replacement for KDE 3.5. Whenever the replacement is there, we'll tell you." When they said 4.1 could be considered stable, I presumed that it could replace 3.5. It can't. I don't have high hopes now for 4.2, I'm waiting for the team *and* the crowd to rejoice: "3.5 is obsolete!" Then I'll make the switch.
What I don't get (about both you and Linus) is that the choice is either KDE 4 or Gnome. I use openSUSE 11.1 on my main desktop, and it has KDE 3.5.
*Maybe* it has something to do with the fact that to install KDE 3.5 you have to click "other" when the openSUSE installation asks you what desktop you want, but I'm not so sure.
KDE 3.5 is not yet a completely dead end, newer KDE 4 / QT4 apps integrate well enough (like KTorrent and VirtualBox) and it just goes on where the old openSUSE installation left of, because you don't really "switch" your desktop. Plus, at least on openSUSE, the distribution still supports it very, very well.
I'm equally disappointed with KDE 4 as the next KDE user (I didn't even have any high hopes to begin with, but I did expect KDE 4.1 to be usable), but that didn't make me turn to Gnome. I love KDE, and I love it because of KDE 3.5. Why not keep using that?
It probably just means "off", without any form of sleeping or hibernating.
The Flemish use an AZERTY layout, because then all of Belgium uses the same layout. It could have been the other way around, were it not that not too long ago, the French-speaking community (which included the upper class of Flanders) ruled over Belgica.
The Dutch had a wrangled QWERTY-layout, but these days it is almost obsolete. Almost everyone has switched to the standard en_US variant.
So, you're left handed? I guess that doesn't make much difference on a Mac...
Until you pointed me to it, I didn't even know what the subjunctive mood was. As far as I can tell, the Dutch equivalent isn't even used any more in every day speech, barring some set phrases.
It seems then that my English teachers, low grades notwithstanding, have managed to teach me something.
Ah, I forgot about something. Not just the JavaScript engine is probably win32 specific, but Chrome also relies heavily on inter-process communication (since each tab in each window has its own process).
I'm betting good money that this is very hard to do properly cross-platform.
Because they want Chrome to be fast. While python is fast for a scripting language, it is not up to the task of delivering the fastest browser known to man.
If I were Google (that is a great sentence) I would base it on QT 4. Fast, customizable, cross-platform, modern and integrated with WebKit.
Don't forget the brand-new JavaScript engine they had. The move to OS X will be just as hard (and for a big part exactly the same) as the move to Linux.
They made a win32 browser and they are now going to translate it to *nix. Seems like they are going to do that properly this time (unlike Picasa and, to some extend, Earth).
The platform is not advertised. But the phones that run it are. Right now, T-Mobile and HTC are pushing their version of the Android phone here.
Granted, it isn't pushed as hard as the iPhone was, but then I didn't really see much Apple-branded advertising here in the Netherlands either. Usually the networks advertises the phones, so right now it shows that T-Mobile has more faith in the iPhone on the short term. But things can change.
The thing Android has against it is that it now runs on old-school, bulky, ugly smartphones with no real new features. That shows us that T-Mobile is targeting the youth with the iPhone and the business world with Android. But that too might change.
And don't forget the power of geeks. They usually have some money to spare for gadgets, and they won't stop talking about how great some new tech product is. Some of my friends and colleagues are waiting to see how good OpenMoko turns out, for example. And when "normal" folk hear the word Google in connection with something gadgety and flashy, they will be interested.
Not my way to say it, but: exactly. I pay my ISP to provide me with connectivity and an IP address. It really should be my choice and my responsibility what I do with that service. If you want to combat illegal file sharing or illegal child porn, you should track down the providers and the big users and sue them. Don't use the ISPs to do that job.
And even if you want the ISPs to do part of that job, have it done right. Don't give them more power, give them rules (like: if we find a certain IP-address offending the law, give us the appropriate name and address).
I am glad that I'm not in danger of having my ISP sort out my traffic for me, yet. But if the USA implements this kind of ludicrous legislation, I'm sure the EU will follow in a few years "because it has proved to work at the other side of the Atlantic". We all know that it will only end with less freedom and more commerce (hence: either higher prices, or more advertising).
Miss-modded you. There should be an undo function. So here is my solution, sorry for modding you redundant...
Another question that bugs me, and maybe the boffins here on board have an answer:
If information cannot travel faster than light, and the universe we live in is 13.7 billion years old, how can the universe be larger than a radius of 13.7 light years if it indeed did begin as a singularity?
If we are observing structures that are affected by other structures, the latter should either be within our observable universe (since information cannot travel faster than light) or it is acting upon our observable universe through some crazy time-bend or something.
Really, it bugs me. AFAIK, even gravity cannot "enact" faster than light. But maybe, just maybe, we are wrong with that statement. The alternative is that space-time is not the same in other places, but can affect "our" universe.
The implications of either one are surreal to say the least. I think the answers to those moving clusters might prove to be the same as the answer to dark matter and dark energy. Boost the LHC, please.
Ridiculous. I shouldn't be able to go around and violate the laws of the country a live in, since I have full democratic rights within that legislature. Any other country is not my business. I can't vote there, so they have no right to put me under their law (except when I'm on their soil).
The exact same reasoning is applied to countries with oppressive regimes, because we find that their population has the right to oppose the government.
If the population is stupid enough to support a government that enforces bilateral treaties that enacts the law of foreign states on its population, so be it. But it sure as hell shouldn't be so because it sounds logical to someone.
The screenplay for the movie was started by Adams, and finished by others after his death. Adams has, before he died, had tremendous influence on various aspects of the movie, and remarks he made were influential to many decisions made after his death.
He was most certainly not an obstacle in the way of making the movie.