Personally, KDE and Gnome both suck. They're both heavy-weight X-Window environments. I like XFCE better because it's simple, doesn't contain all of those "extra applications" I will never use, and is lightweight (IMHO).
Lightweight? Try my current favourite: fluxbox. Weighing in at less than 4 MB for the WM... or Pek at less than 1MB!!
I haven't been following the iPhone Dev Team that closely, as I am on an official carrier - but I do know that in the upcoming months they were recommending heavily against upgrading to the 2.2 firmware because i would affect future unlocking potential.
Nice new year present for all those who "accidentally" upgraded!
I think his point was that by default - xp reboots silently. Ok - *we* know how to stop this, but does joe sixpack? and would he really want to know about the "funny white writing"; or go back to his porn as quickly as possible?
If he's going with Young Earth Creationism, then yes it is less than six thousand years old... For any other kind of creationism, then the earth is usually accepted as the scientifically agreed age of the planet.
>> This is exactly it... they support what they supplied with the system - hardware or software. What's so wrong about that? Why is everyone throwing a fit about this?
yeah, but if it's blatantly a hardware issue and something needs to be RMA'd, then what's the point in backing up your data and reinstalling Windows just so the call monkey can diagnose something which you already know? (In this case anyway - can be a *lot* harder in the case of a graphics card, etc)
Baadger said: No it won't. The full 350Mb appears on Windows Update even if you're fully patched up.
Threni said:
That's not what happens with XP, so I'm guessing that if what you say is true then it's a mistake and not a stupid idea on Microsoft's part.
Nimey said: > O RLY? What patches install the security center, improved firewall, and IE6 SP2 in Windows XP SP1?
Threni said:
What's that got to do with what I put in my post?
Umm... everything?
A service pack isn't just a collection of hotfixes - it will have hotfixes in it, but it is also a collection of OS additions which were either not complete when the OS was released or were not even conceived at the time. You WON'T be able to find all the components of a service pack (e.g. as Nimey suggests - the XP Security Centre, which includes the firewall) on windows update without downloading the service pack itself
PU-238 can glow red-hot from Alpha radiation. It's not the type, but rather the amount of radioactivity and the ability of the material to reject heat.
uh-huh... and what sort of particle is emitted during alpha decay???
It's extremely difficult to produce a super-critical reaction using PU-239. That's why gun-type nuclear weapons use Uranium, while implosion devices use Plutonium.
That's completely irrelevent - it was simply used to illustrate a point;-)
You're absoulutely right - the difference between high explosives (e.g. TNT) and low explosives (e.g. gunpowder) is the way that the explosion is propagated. High explosives detonate, whereas low explosives deflagrate. Big difference to the way an explosion looks.
This is actually incorrect. Radioactive "things" can emit light through two other methods:
1. They grow physically hot enough to glow red-hot or white-hot.
That entirely depends on two factors.
A) The type of radiation emitted.
B) The mass of the material.
For example: a 1g lump of 239PU (used in nuclear weapons), even though it is emitting alpha particles (required) will not even be warm to the touch, let alone glow. However a 16+ Kg block will glow so bright, you'll be able to see it for miles (well... until the shockwave hits you...) - of course less is needed if set up in a reflected sphere configuration.
>> It is just illegal to make somebody use it, it is Cruel and Unusual Punishment.
On the topic of Cruel and unusual Punishment... the United States Supreme Court has ruled that as written it applies only to punishments that are both cruel and unusual, and that punishments that are unusual but not cruel, or cruel but not unusual, are constitutional.
So does that mean that if your normal method of punishment is electrodes attached to the scrotum, it's fine - but as soon as you start attaching electrodes to the elbows... whoa!! that's cruel and unusual!!
> Windows is an order of magnitude or two larger than this OS
More like a magnitude of 10... AOS4 iso = ~50 MB... XP Pro iso = ~500-600 MB, IIRC.
There's a lot of stuff in XP that most people will never use. You can reduce the footprint of XP to about 12 MB - this will load in seconds, but you won't be able to do anything!!
Of course, you don't have to go to this extreme - you can take out just the bits you know you wont need (like extra language / keyboard support and some of the more obscure drivers, etc) using nLite to strip it from your install cd, or XPLite to remove carp from an existing installation.
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I've been using UAE for years and have to say - it's very good... The amusing thing I find about it is that UAE (Initially Unusable Amiga Emulator (!!), then Unix Amiga Emulator, then Ubiquitous Amiga Emulator) was a unix app, which was ported to Windows (WinUAE), then fell out of development on the *nix side and has recently (in the last 2 years) been ported back to *nix from WinUAE to become E-UAE!
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Lightweight? Try my current favourite: fluxbox. Weighing in at less than 4 MB for the WM... or Pek at less than 1MB!!
I haven't been following the iPhone Dev Team that closely, as I am on an official carrier - but I do know that in the upcoming months they were recommending heavily against upgrading to the 2.2 firmware because i would affect future unlocking potential. Nice new year present for all those who "accidentally" upgraded!
Alll the radio stations I've heard are 96 Kbps - and that's crappy quality as is... who would want to listen to anything with a lower bit rate?
I think his point was that by default - xp reboots silently. Ok - *we* know how to stop this, but does joe sixpack? and would he really want to know about the "funny white writing"; or go back to his porn as quickly as possible?
I would have to agree with you 100% on the simple basis of how do we know that a dog just wants to be a dog or a chicken just wants to be a chicken?
If only I had mod points...
Villager > If... she... weighs... the same as a duck,... she's made of wood.
Bedevere > And therefore?
Villager > A witch!
If he's going with Young Earth Creationism, then yes it is less than six thousand years old... For any other kind of creationism, then the earth is usually accepted as the scientifically agreed age of the planet.
>> This is exactly it... they support what they supplied with the system - hardware or software. What's so wrong about that? Why is everyone throwing a fit about this?
yeah, but if it's blatantly a hardware issue and something needs to be RMA'd, then what's the point in backing up your data and reinstalling Windows just so the call monkey can diagnose something which you already know? (In this case anyway - can be a *lot* harder in the case of a graphics card, etc)
A service pack isn't just a collection of hotfixes - it will have hotfixes in it, but it is also a collection of OS additions which were either not complete when the OS was released or were not even conceived at the time. You WON'T be able to find all the components of a service pack (e.g. as Nimey suggests - the XP Security Centre, which includes the firewall) on windows update without downloading the service pack itself
i dunno... if you were a sysadmin who worked for apple...
apologies - you're absolutely correct.
beta and gamma radiation will also produce heat in the surrounding materials.
I was also assuming that the specimens were reasonably pure.
That's completely irrelevent - it was simply used to illustrate a point
You're absoulutely right - the difference between high explosives (e.g. TNT) and low explosives (e.g. gunpowder) is the way that the explosion is propagated. High explosives detonate, whereas low explosives deflagrate. Big difference to the way an explosion looks.
A) The type of radiation emitted.
B) The mass of the material.
For example: a 1g lump of 239PU (used in nuclear weapons), even though it is emitting alpha particles (required) will not even be warm to the touch, let alone glow. However a 16+ Kg block will glow so bright, you'll be able to see it for miles (well... until the shockwave hits you...) - of course less is needed if set up in a reflected sphere configuration.
Ah... the good old /. car analogy ;-)
that's because they don't have any oil
>> It is just illegal to make somebody use it, it is Cruel and Unusual Punishment.
On the topic of Cruel and unusual Punishment... the United States Supreme Court has ruled that as written it applies only to punishments that are both cruel and unusual, and that punishments that are unusual but not cruel, or cruel but not unusual, are constitutional.
So does that mean that if your normal method of punishment is electrodes attached to the scrotum, it's fine - but as soon as you start attaching electrodes to the elbows... whoa!! that's cruel and unusual!!
If I had mod points - you'd be getting +1 insightful!!
You must be new here - this is Slashdot, where there is no end to pedantry
LOL... I am a retard!! cheers for that! >.
> Windows is an order of magnitude or two larger than this OS
More like a magnitude of 10... AOS4 iso = ~50 MB... XP Pro iso = ~500-600 MB, IIRC.
There's a lot of stuff in XP that most people will never use. You can reduce the footprint of XP to about 12 MB - this will load in seconds, but you won't be able to do anything!!
Of course, you don't have to go to this extreme - you can take out just the bits you know you wont need (like extra language / keyboard support and some of the more obscure drivers, etc) using nLite to strip it from your install cd, or XPLite to remove carp from an existing installation.
I've been using UAE for years and have to say - it's very good... The amusing thing I find about it is that UAE (Initially Unusable Amiga Emulator (!!), then Unix Amiga Emulator, then Ubiquitous Amiga Emulator) was a unix app, which was ported to Windows (WinUAE), then fell out of development on the *nix side and has recently (in the last 2 years) been ported back to *nix from WinUAE to become E-UAE!
A copy of Vista "Signed by Bill Gates himself"? Damn - I'll be looking for the torrent of that... I mean, that's got to be a collectors edition!!