Can anyone familiar with the pubblication in question give us any details? The claims are quite extraordinary, and I certainly would do a double-take even if I read them in Science or Nature. I just want to rule out getting all excited then finding out it's the Australian version of The Onion, that's all...
By the same token, if these people go public with it they probably already have a preprint up somewhere. Anyone in the field know anything?
You know how there is a "womyn's room" in every uni? The idea being it's women without the "men". I want you to set up a "myn's" club in your local uni - our catchphrase will be "putting the myn back in womyn". Spread the meme.
I agree with the spirit of your comment, but I stand my ground on the actual content.
NO ONE should ever bring up crappy wifi hardware as a reason to use WinDOS.
I'm not arguing that there is a lot of shoddily designed and manufactured Wifi hardware out there. However, whether it's crappy or not is not the point. The point is whether it's supported natively by the kernel, needs some magic third party drivers or utilities or even works at all. Some cards (and not necessarily cheap or crappy ones either) even rely on files from the manufacturer used in ways that border on license violations. I am sure you will agree that this is not an optimal situation.
If you read my post carefully, you will also note that I never advocated people use Windows to get around this issue. In fact, I never mentioned windows at all. It's not about "linux vs. windows", it's about making linux better in an absolute frame of reference.
Linux wins hands down in that area simply due to relative simplicity and transparency.
Again, i wish I could agree. For me, the statement is almost true. Not so for the majority of people out there. Just figuring out what friggin chipset your wifi card has is an enterprise worthy of note fo rthe average user, let alone actually getting it to work. My atheros works like a charm in my debian laptop, but in order to get it to work i had to compile the driver and modify half a dozen configuration files left and right.
Of course, a distribution could automate this for the user, but this is not going to happen until the manufacturers enable the distributors to redistribute some key files, usually the firmware, for all major wifi card chipsets. Initiatives in that field (notably by Theo de Raadt of OpenBSD) have not been resounding successes.
XP is still subject to bitrot and crippling spyware and trojans.
Absolutely true. However, I do feel that acknowledging issues in the current system and devising solutions is more productive that taking potshots at the competition. The fact that there is something that is worse than what we have to deal with does not mean that our system does not have room for improvement. Down that path lies lethargy.
I would also like to take this opportunity to object to your usage of "WinDOS". It's not clever and it makes you look like someone with an axe to grind. With Linux and Free software is starting to gain some mainstram traction and we really could do without reinforcing the ancient "drooling zealot" stereotype.
And the Linux desktop's act already is together, you might try using one sometime so you can learn to stfu instead of spreading misinformation about something you know nothing about.
While I cannot deny that large strides have been made in this regard, the act is a pretty fucking long way from "together". I know 90% of the issues revolve around hardware suport and NDA issues. However ou must realise that until people that know very little about computers want to be able to plug in their new cheap-ass wifi card or digital camera and have it work. We don't mind having to track down some configuration file and/or getting a source tarball/CVS image and compiling it. Most regular users however would be utterly lost.
So yeah, linux got it's act together for my desktop, and that's why I use it. It got it's act together for your desktop. But does it have it's act together for my mother? Or her equally digibetic friends? Not yet.
The sooner we stop hiding under a rock about this, the sooner we (yes, we) will get it fixed.
Spouting abuse and accusations because someone once in a while reminds us that Linux on the desktop is not accessible to everyone yet is certainly not helping.
I think the main reson for not doing it is that, by shifting rendering up to a server from the client, the ability to scale dynamically (without a round trip to the server for each component) is lost.
While a good thought in principle, you fail to take into account that in the bizarre inverted world of X11 the server sits on the client. And the "font server" that the GP mentioned is a special process that the X server (that sits on the client) uses to render the fonts, and it sits on the client as well. Confusing? Very.
It's one of the things that need changing if we ever do UNIX again... that and umount():)
Really? What version was that?
I remeber getting the 2.1 version on a 2 megabyte 386. Now, that was somewhat below the reccomended configuration even at the time, so we had to pull a few tricks, but it worked.
Also, i remember running a this version on a 486 with 4 meg (inc. X and fvwm95) with very few problems. Compiling the kernel took 3 hours, but other than that things were just dandy.
Of course, a modern graphical browser would probably kill it outright (just use top to see the memory firefox consumes), but if you are willing to step back to NN2.0 you might end up with something workable.
If you need some specific assistence, try stopping by #slackware on freenode. Those guys don't mind a little soft-archeology side-project:D
Since we're trading newsflashes, there's this thing called "suspend to disk". It works like a charm, and it's quite quick.
I hardly ever actually "boot" any of my machines (desktops and laptops, windows and linux) unless there is a specific reason. Haven't in years.
Agreed, it looks more like someone's fantasy about what a 1940s era atomic weapon should look like than a real one.
Is it possible it was a design "speculated" from spy reports from the allies? It does capture two crucial design decisions (gun assembly and plutonium core), but manages to mix them up in a single entity. Which would be an easy mistake to make if one was relying on shaky intelligence from someone close to the Manhattan project, but not too close.
The design still looks approximated though, and does not take into account the scale or space requirements of a v2-type rocket.
Java the Language is compiled to bytecode that runs on Java the Platform. If you were so inclined you could write a FORTRAN compiler than compiles to Java the Platform bytecode, just as you could write one for the.NET CLR.
Once the thing is compiled to bytecode, Java the Language is more or less done doign it's thing.
Yes, I admit, I made one in my teenage "I'm an ueberhacker" period. It's probably still somewhere at my parent's house.
What seemed to work best was very fine abrasive paper. You have to be careful at leaving the dimples in the J and F intact though, or it will make the whole typing thing a bit more difficult than stricly necessary.
Also worth mentioning is that you need to remove the keys and then file off the printing. Doing it with the keys attached is very unwieldy and makes a huge mess as the plastic particles fall between the keys into the switches.
You say "persona non grata" because in latin "persona" is feminin. If you replace the subject of the sentence with "he" you need to use the masculin form:
Please post more:)
We recently finished BG:DA, BG:DA2 and X-Men Legends (unexpected but very good), and I'm currently at a loss regarding what to play next.
I know about Champions of Norrath, but we don't have a PS2 (just an Xbox and a Gamecube).
You could just use the linux kernel with some device specific drivers, then run some custom program as "init" and be done with it.
The fact that the device runs the linux kernel does not mean implicitly that it should come with a full set of POSIX userland tools, or even any 3rd party application whatsoever.
It's useless to attack a large corporation such as Microsoft with fines and taking away money, because it doesn't work. Instead, take away things that they need to stay in power, such as forcing them to open their protocols, or greater interoperability. But not money.
That's the entire idea behind the ruling, as spelled out in the blurb (not even the article!). You just need a big stick when you tell them "open your protocols OR ELSE!". The multimillion dollar/day fines are the "or else".
They can impose fines up to a certain percentage of gross. I have a feeling they still have some wiggle room to increase them if MS decides to play the "pay and carry on as usual" game.
The EU is slow and undecisive, but like all huge burocratic institutions, once it gets moving it has a certain inertia.
Honestly, I don't think that having any particular certification could hurt more than the insecurity you displayed in this comment. Honestly, if you ever end up interviewing at a place where they burn people at the stake for mentioning the word "microsoft" like that, you have bigger problems anyway.
Just make sure you have what it takes to convince the person in step two that you are actually worth something, and are not just a standardized test takign monkey.
Here in Holland recently released console titles are all already priced at EUR 59.95. At current exchange rates, this amounts to $80.17 according to the currency calculator. A 50% price hike in the US ($40 to $60) is likely to be mirrored in european prices, and this would put prices of new console games far beyond anything I consider even vaguely reasonable, probably in the EUR 80 - 90 range.
At that price point, I have some severe doubts about the volume of units they will be able to move.
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By the same token, if these people go public with it they probably already have a preprint up somewhere. Anyone in the field know anything?
Ours is called the "Physics lab".
NO ONE should ever bring up crappy wifi hardware as a reason to use WinDOS.
I'm not arguing that there is a lot of shoddily designed and manufactured Wifi hardware out there. However, whether it's crappy or not is not the point. The point is whether it's supported natively by the kernel, needs some magic third party drivers or utilities or even works at all. Some cards (and not necessarily cheap or crappy ones either) even rely on files from the manufacturer used in ways that border on license violations. I am sure you will agree that this is not an optimal situation.
If you read my post carefully, you will also note that I never advocated people use Windows to get around this issue. In fact, I never mentioned windows at all. It's not about "linux vs. windows", it's about making linux better in an absolute frame of reference.
Linux wins hands down in that area simply due to relative simplicity and transparency.
Again, i wish I could agree. For me, the statement is almost true. Not so for the majority of people out there. Just figuring out what friggin chipset your wifi card has is an enterprise worthy of note fo rthe average user, let alone actually getting it to work. My atheros works like a charm in my debian laptop, but in order to get it to work i had to compile the driver and modify half a dozen configuration files left and right.
Of course, a distribution could automate this for the user, but this is not going to happen until the manufacturers enable the distributors to redistribute some key files, usually the firmware, for all major wifi card chipsets. Initiatives in that field (notably by Theo de Raadt of OpenBSD) have not been resounding successes.
XP is still subject to bitrot and crippling spyware and trojans.
Absolutely true. However, I do feel that acknowledging issues in the current system and devising solutions is more productive that taking potshots at the competition. The fact that there is something that is worse than what we have to deal with does not mean that our system does not have room for improvement. Down that path lies lethargy.I would also like to take this opportunity to object to your usage of "WinDOS". It's not clever and it makes you look like someone with an axe to grind. With Linux and Free software is starting to gain some mainstram traction and we really could do without reinforcing the ancient "drooling zealot" stereotype.
While I cannot deny that large strides have been made in this regard, the act is a pretty fucking long way from "together". I know 90% of the issues revolve around hardware suport and NDA issues. However ou must realise that until people that know very little about computers want to be able to plug in their new cheap-ass wifi card or digital camera and have it work. We don't mind having to track down some configuration file and/or getting a source tarball/CVS image and compiling it. Most regular users however would be utterly lost.
So yeah, linux got it's act together for my desktop, and that's why I use it. It got it's act together for your desktop. But does it have it's act together for my mother? Or her equally digibetic friends? Not yet.
The sooner we stop hiding under a rock about this, the sooner we (yes, we) will get it fixed.
Spouting abuse and accusations because someone once in a while reminds us that Linux on the desktop is not accessible to everyone yet is certainly not helping.
While a good thought in principle, you fail to take into account that in the bizarre inverted world of X11 the server sits on the client. And the "font server" that the GP mentioned is a special process that the X server (that sits on the client) uses to render the fonts, and it sits on the client as well. Confusing? Very. ... that and umount() :)
It's one of the things that need changing if we ever do UNIX again
It does seem to have dropped off the mirrors .. weird.
Really? What version was that? I remeber getting the 2.1 version on a 2 megabyte 386. Now, that was somewhat below the reccomended configuration even at the time, so we had to pull a few tricks, but it worked. Also, i remember running a this version on a 486 with 4 meg (inc. X and fvwm95) with very few problems. Compiling the kernel took 3 hours, but other than that things were just dandy. Of course, a modern graphical browser would probably kill it outright (just use top to see the memory firefox consumes), but if you are willing to step back to NN2.0 you might end up with something workable. If you need some specific assistence, try stopping by #slackware on freenode. Those guys don't mind a little soft-archeology side-project :D
You really ought to try and read it, it's a quite a clever piece of work.
Since we're trading newsflashes, there's this thing called "suspend to disk". It works like a charm, and it's quite quick.
I hardly ever actually "boot" any of my machines (desktops and laptops, windows and linux) unless there is a specific reason. Haven't in years.
Boot? You mean you do that more often that every few weeks?
Is it possible it was a design "speculated" from spy reports from the allies? It does capture two crucial design decisions (gun assembly and plutonium core), but manages to mix them up in a single entity. Which would be an easy mistake to make if one was relying on shaky intelligence from someone close to the Manhattan project, but not too close.
The design still looks approximated though, and does not take into account the scale or space requirements of a v2-type rocket.
I think you just "prooved" yourself wrong too ...
Java the Language is compiled to bytecode that runs on Java the Platform. If you were so inclined you could write a FORTRAN compiler than compiles to Java the Platform bytecode, just as you could write one for the .NET CLR.
Once the thing is compiled to bytecode, Java the Language is more or less done doign it's thing.
What seemed to work best was very fine abrasive paper. You have to be careful at leaving the dimples in the J and F intact though, or it will make the whole typing thing a bit more difficult than stricly necessary.
Also worth mentioning is that you need to remove the keys and then file off the printing. Doing it with the keys attached is very unwieldy and makes a huge mess as the plastic particles fall between the keys into the switches.
You say "persona non grata" because in latin "persona" is feminin. If you replace the subject of the sentence with "he" you need to use the masculin form:
At the moment he's perfectly gratus.
I'll crawl back into my hole now.
You might not be a casual gamer, but plenty of people are, and they want their quick multiplayer action RPG kicks.
Then what's the issue about implementing an asterisk plugin for it? Legal issues?
I know about Champions of Norrath, but we don't have a PS2 (just an Xbox and a Gamecube).
You could just use the linux kernel with some device specific drivers, then run some custom program as "init" and be done with it.
The fact that the device runs the linux kernel does not mean implicitly that it should come with a full set of POSIX userland tools, or even any 3rd party application whatsoever.
Well, microwave ovens operate at 1.41 GHz, or 21 cm.
That's the entire idea behind the ruling, as spelled out in the blurb (not even the article!). You just need a big stick when you tell them "open your protocols OR ELSE!". The multimillion dollar/day fines are the "or else".
The EU is slow and undecisive, but like all huge burocratic institutions, once it gets moving it has a certain inertia.
Just make sure you have what it takes to convince the person in step two that you are actually worth something, and are not just a standardized test takign monkey.
At that price point, I have some severe doubts about the volume of units they will be able to move.