I am pretty sure that this means you just don't understand the problem. I encourage you to reread it. (I haven't read it but I understand the math.) Kalman filtering (LQE, if you prefer) may reduce the errors but I assume that's already being applied by the software. You'd need to adjust it - probably specifically for the timing and inherent inaccuracies. It almost certainly wouldn't be a complete solution and, importantly, is quite likely to be already applied.
I had a plotter in the office that had a real button on the side that you held while power cycling it. One could then fiddle with the OS bits if one were able to do so. I did read the manual and did, technically, make a few adjustments but I put them back afterwards. If I recall correctly, it was all in some bastard assembly with a bunch of what I can only called pidgin hex. I may not be recalling properly. My attempt to fix the bug was unsuccessful but it was not a crippling bug so it never got fixed. The OEM would have, as I recall, fixed it for us but I didn't pay for a support contract. I swear to Christ, it was written in Martian.
Viri is man, not virri. This doesn't make them right, but, well... If you don't know Latin then...
And no, I don't agree (and I'm assuming you don't either) that viri should be even considered a 'non-standard' use by sites like Wiktionary. Vir is man. However, Wiktionary now has it listed under "English." Which means, well, something... *sighs* I guess it's better than the last site that I checked which had it listed under Latin still.
Anyhow, no, 'virri' means nothing. At least not in any language I'm familiar with (it probably does, somewhere). But virri most certainly does not mean 'man.'
Those look about right. I see they finally sent some police in and took in a bunch of paramilitary with them. The documentary was a little dated but not too old, as I recall. I don't watch documentaries as a formal study or anything. It's passive entertainment for me - I don't watch television and seldom go to movies unless it's a special reason. I just don't prefer them. I only retain some of the data in the documentaries, I don't remember specific names, dates, and whatnot but I get a good grounding and that's fine - it's entertainment and not scholastic.
Thank you for the clarification. One of the reasons that I enjoy Slashdot, as much as I do, is that I can enter the little bit that I know and someone, almost always, comes along and fills in the details for me - I'm usually correct enough but sometimes I may have overlooked something. It's nice to see the collection of knowledge at play and I sometimes think of connections that others might not have - and then someone fills in more information and we get a more complete picture. This seems to be true with a wide variety of subjects.
At first, I wasn't sure why you'd been moderated negatively and then I finished your post. There's some sensitive types out today and while you weren't specifically racists, you certainly insinuated (even if not intentional) some prejudicial beliefs. I can say, as I've been to the Middle East, that not everyone is like that. I can say that there are a lot of good people there. I can say that there are people there who speak out and condemn the violence and hate it (and the behaviors that are, truly, cultural) as much as you or I. So, there are exceptions and the rule is, if we have to generalize, that people are people - and I find this true no matter where I go.
Take from that what you will. I'm not one to say what you can and can't think, say, feel, or believe. I don't even normally use my moderator points (I get them often). I find that the more hopeless, or destitute, people are then the more likely it is that you'll find bad actors among them. I've gone to places where I've had a stern lecture from the State Department where they told me that they would be of absolutely no help should I have a problem. I was told that if I were arrested that I was probably dead and there wasn't a damned thing they could do about it and that I'd be subject to arrest just for being an American. I've been warned about terrorists, kidnapping, and armed conflicts - I've traveled extensively in Africa and South America over the years as well as some in the Middle East.
I've concluded that people are people. I suspect that we'd have fewer acts of violence if we had fewer desperate people. When you're hopeless, when you've nothing left to lose, or when you have everything to lose, that's when things seem to go poorly. Then again, what do I know, right? I don't, really, know. That's just a guess based on my observations. See the violence in the "Christian" or "Voodoo" areas of East and West Africa. I'd not be surprised if they averaged out to a higher number of fatalities than the Islamic extremists have done in, say, the past quarter century. They just don't have the money to get to Europe and shoot people.
Ah well, that's my take on it. I could be wrong but I don't really think the root is the religion, region, or culture. I think it all boils down to being hopeless, full of despair, having nothing to lose, and having everything to lose.
I don't remember the payment process but I think, I'm not sure, that they had a sale at one point where you could buy a lifetime license for $20. I bought like five of them if I recall correctly. (I might have shared one or two with friends/family. We were evil like that, back in the day.)
I think that one of my favorite features was 'fit to width.' I still seek out scripts and extensions that enable me to do so for a variety of sites. Hmm... One sec... http://i.imgur.com/xPZrOQF.png
That's Slashdot, wide and dark. The 'fit to width' feature was awesome!
Anyhow, if you're still using Opera then, by all means, try uMatrix.
I don't expect my atoms will remember me but I do hope they end up the matter that makes of stars (thanks Brian Cox). I don't drink any more. Well, I haven't for a few years now. Once in a while I'll allow myself one - maybe two, and never more. I was a professional drinker for a lot of years - a functional alcoholic. I'm not sure what happened but I retired and I somehow stopped being functional but I kept up the alcoholic part. So, I quit. That sucked.:/ Don't quit - it's worse than drinking!
Either way, I'd certainly have a frosty cold beverage with ya. Just not more than two.;-)
S'not a problem. I'm not really a zealot or anything but I much prefer Opera. I've been using Opera since the days when we had to pay for it. I used Firefox for a while, when they first came out, and that was okay. Opera kind of took a nosedive when they first converted their code base to the current incarnation but it's improved and is very nice now. I spend some time on their forums and have known some of the devs for ages now.
The cool thing is, and yes - I've run wireshark, they've stripped out any of the privacy invading stuff from Google. They have and are working on some sync features - no complaints so far but I do have some improvements for them to consider. It is pretty light and rather stable. The Linux versions now use the PPA system for updates if you want. The extension ecosystem is excellent and one can even install Chrome extensions if you want.
There's no NoScript but there's something even better called uMatrix. uMatix is like an old school software firewall except for your browser. It's a hell of a lot better than what NoScript is - you can do much more with it. There's a small learning curve but it's not steep and it is easy enough to figure out. Give it a shot. I don't like the mobile versions as much but they'll do. I prefer Firefox if I'm stuck using Android but that will change on Monday.
Is there an actual embargo on the video games? During the 1990s there was some concern with Iraq getting hold of a bunch of PS2s (I think they were) and clustering them together to make a supercomputer. I imagine the fears were unfounded but I seem to recall they'd actually ordered a whole ton of them and had them shipped to their country.
I did not realize that the word "nominally" was so poorly understood. Or, maybe, you're just trying to "prove" something or attempting to argue with something. Yet, strangely, nothing you said even remotely relates to my comment - not even tangentially.
I'm a very approachable person who will even admit to be wrong, but if you want to actually have a conversation then you should actually try doing so without speckling your keyboard and monitor with spittle and attacking things that I've not said. You've got a voice, use it wisely.
Tada! It's open source but not truly open licensing - permissive licensed, to some extent. You can review, poke, and change it all you want. You may not redistribute it with their proprietary bits - if I've read the licensing agreement properly.
If you're referring to the song, it was the Siegfried Line, indeed. For the uninitiated or those who are not into history, I've been less lazy and found you a link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I am familiar with the research and inclined to agree, at first blush. If you read the link you sent, you'll find some antecedents. I dare say, I prefer those.
Actually, as strange as this sounds, I watched a documentary where they put a thing with mechanical nubs on it into people's mouths. The mechanical piece was attached to a camera (black and white only - for contrast) and the images where then displayed by manipulating the nubs which sat on the user's tongue. With some practice (just a couple of weeks, as I recall) people were able to "see" using the nerves in their tongues.
This was somewhere around 10 years ago - when I watched it, as I recall.
No, not really. Rest assured that any response containing a link will not be clicked on - no matter how tempting you make it sound. I am not new to Slashdot. I don't even usually click the links in the summaries!
Which is why I was careful to say that it was true only for me. Lots of others have vastly different use-cases. These days? I'm quite OS agnostic but I don't use Windows simply because I don't prefer it. I'll use it, if I must. I don't have to, so I don't. I prefer Linux, it's just more logical to me. I don't mind BSD but there's a lot about it that I've yet to learn. A goodly portion of my career was tied into Sun so I expect to spend more time in BSD-land in the near future. I don't mind OS X but, again, I've not spent enough time there to be "fluent" or even truly adept. It seems like a fine OS from what I've experienced. I own a MBP, maybe. I think my daughter absconded with it when she last visited the house.
I don't really do the tablet thing - I own a few but I don't like them. I used to have a Motion, years ago, with XP on it. I'm probably going to get a Surface Pro 4 and put Ubuntu on it. I do have a Windows phone that should be here on Monday (the hotel is letting me get it shipped to the lobby). I really dislike Android, so that does make me not quite agnostic. I don't much care for it - it's too needy and my attention is limited. I've even dabbled in the more esoteric OSes like Minix and I've even played with Debian/Hurd.
So, yeah, I'm not tied into any specific OS nor do I actually need any specific piece of software. I kind of enjoy it. I do much prefer my browser choice (Opera) but I am able to manage with alternatives.
It could happen! And, for some definition of "start." WWII really, kind of, sort of, started with Japan back as early as the late 1920s. WWI was a Serbia and Austria thing but then a few other countries decided to help and that then bloomed into everyone trying to get a piece. In Europe, well, we could even say that it was Italy that started that theater rolling, for WWII. It's pretty hard to pinpoint exactly where some of these events began, humans aren't a very good source for formal studies.
But, damn it, it could happen! The dastardly German folk could, once again, stomp up and around the top of France, kick the low-land countries in the jimmies, and then sack France for fun and profit. (I'm still working on why, exactly, they'd do so but I'm sure I'll come up with a good reason - eventually.)
GhostBSD only comes with the two but I am given to understand that you can use other DE if you want to install them. I've never done so. I'm a fan of LXDE but I find MATE to be quite workable with GhostBSD. I have played with PC-BSD a few times and it just seemed, well, rudimentary. I do like basic and functional but PC-BSD looks a whole lot like Windows 95. I admit, I did not spend enough time with it to go on and try to find other DE - at all. I simply used the stock configuration or a while until I decided to try something else.
Anything that runs in WINE on Linux should work fine in BSD. I don't do a whole lot in WINE, I don't actually do anything except test software for other people to see if I can get it to work for them. I don't rely on any Windows applications so it isn't of much use for me. I do know that it will not support 64 bit apps, well that's what I've been told. However, as you mention, most aren't 64 bit apps and many of those that are actually have a 32 bit version as well.
There's a Linux abstraction layer but I've not played with it as much as I'd like. Thus, I'm not qualified to opine. I dare say that PC-BSD is a nice OS but just not for me. That's probably my fault - I haven't given it a whole lot of time. I'm kind of OS agnostic and will use what suits my needs and I tend to meander back and fourth through the distros as I see fit, driven by curiosity and a need to try new things. My only issue with PC-BSD is that I found it clunky and uncomfortable. While I like basic and appreciate functionality, it was just too basic in appearance for my taste.
I find the systemd thing overblown. Frankly, I learned a few new commands (they're handy - like journalctl for instance) and have come to appreciate them. The OP was (it looked like) offended that Debian "forced" systemd down their users throats thus I suggested BSD because, from my experience, it's an excellent and stable OS. I still prefer Linux but I'll be doing more work in BSD in the near future. I must, after all, keep learning.
The Pew Research claimed "the world's Muslims" (according to the image) yet they only took data from a specific geographical area. The sample sizes are tiny. The margin of error is huge, unacceptably so. How was the data collected? How did they prevent biases in the survey - were they done in-person?
Needless to say, I stopped there. The data may be right but using a handful of people to extrapolate to include millions and to do so with data from just one geopolitical region is not good work.
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I am pretty sure that this means you just don't understand the problem. I encourage you to reread it. (I haven't read it but I understand the math.) Kalman filtering (LQE, if you prefer) may reduce the errors but I assume that's already being applied by the software. You'd need to adjust it - probably specifically for the timing and inherent inaccuracies. It almost certainly wouldn't be a complete solution and, importantly, is quite likely to be already applied.
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Heh... No... This would have been 1995 or so.
Says the guy who is now guilty of placing an ad in the comments of Slashdot... ;-)
I had a plotter in the office that had a real button on the side that you held while power cycling it. One could then fiddle with the OS bits if one were able to do so. I did read the manual and did, technically, make a few adjustments but I put them back afterwards. If I recall correctly, it was all in some bastard assembly with a bunch of what I can only called pidgin hex. I may not be recalling properly. My attempt to fix the bug was unsuccessful but it was not a crippling bug so it never got fixed. The OEM would have, as I recall, fixed it for us but I didn't pay for a support contract. I swear to Christ, it was written in Martian.
Viri is man, not virri. This doesn't make them right, but, well... If you don't know Latin then...
And no, I don't agree (and I'm assuming you don't either) that viri should be even considered a 'non-standard' use by sites like Wiktionary. Vir is man. However, Wiktionary now has it listed under "English." Which means, well, something... *sighs* I guess it's better than the last site that I checked which had it listed under Latin still.
Anyhow, no, 'virri' means nothing. At least not in any language I'm familiar with (it probably does, somewhere). But virri most certainly does not mean 'man.'
Those look about right. I see they finally sent some police in and took in a bunch of paramilitary with them. The documentary was a little dated but not too old, as I recall. I don't watch documentaries as a formal study or anything. It's passive entertainment for me - I don't watch television and seldom go to movies unless it's a special reason. I just don't prefer them. I only retain some of the data in the documentaries, I don't remember specific names, dates, and whatnot but I get a good grounding and that's fine - it's entertainment and not scholastic.
Thank you for the clarification. One of the reasons that I enjoy Slashdot, as much as I do, is that I can enter the little bit that I know and someone, almost always, comes along and fills in the details for me - I'm usually correct enough but sometimes I may have overlooked something. It's nice to see the collection of knowledge at play and I sometimes think of connections that others might not have - and then someone fills in more information and we get a more complete picture. This seems to be true with a wide variety of subjects.
At first, I wasn't sure why you'd been moderated negatively and then I finished your post. There's some sensitive types out today and while you weren't specifically racists, you certainly insinuated (even if not intentional) some prejudicial beliefs. I can say, as I've been to the Middle East, that not everyone is like that. I can say that there are a lot of good people there. I can say that there are people there who speak out and condemn the violence and hate it (and the behaviors that are, truly, cultural) as much as you or I. So, there are exceptions and the rule is, if we have to generalize, that people are people - and I find this true no matter where I go.
Take from that what you will. I'm not one to say what you can and can't think, say, feel, or believe. I don't even normally use my moderator points (I get them often). I find that the more hopeless, or destitute, people are then the more likely it is that you'll find bad actors among them. I've gone to places where I've had a stern lecture from the State Department where they told me that they would be of absolutely no help should I have a problem. I was told that if I were arrested that I was probably dead and there wasn't a damned thing they could do about it and that I'd be subject to arrest just for being an American. I've been warned about terrorists, kidnapping, and armed conflicts - I've traveled extensively in Africa and South America over the years as well as some in the Middle East.
I've concluded that people are people. I suspect that we'd have fewer acts of violence if we had fewer desperate people. When you're hopeless, when you've nothing left to lose, or when you have everything to lose, that's when things seem to go poorly. Then again, what do I know, right? I don't, really, know. That's just a guess based on my observations. See the violence in the "Christian" or "Voodoo" areas of East and West Africa. I'd not be surprised if they averaged out to a higher number of fatalities than the Islamic extremists have done in, say, the past quarter century. They just don't have the money to get to Europe and shoot people.
Ah well, that's my take on it. I could be wrong but I don't really think the root is the religion, region, or culture. I think it all boils down to being hopeless, full of despair, having nothing to lose, and having everything to lose.
I don't remember the payment process but I think, I'm not sure, that they had a sale at one point where you could buy a lifetime license for $20. I bought like five of them if I recall correctly. (I might have shared one or two with friends/family. We were evil like that, back in the day.)
I think that one of my favorite features was 'fit to width.' I still seek out scripts and extensions that enable me to do so for a variety of sites. Hmm... One sec...
http://i.imgur.com/xPZrOQF.png
That's Slashdot, wide and dark. The 'fit to width' feature was awesome!
Anyhow, if you're still using Opera then, by all means, try uMatrix.
I don't expect my atoms will remember me but I do hope they end up the matter that makes of stars (thanks Brian Cox). I don't drink any more. Well, I haven't for a few years now. Once in a while I'll allow myself one - maybe two, and never more. I was a professional drinker for a lot of years - a functional alcoholic. I'm not sure what happened but I retired and I somehow stopped being functional but I kept up the alcoholic part. So, I quit. That sucked. :/ Don't quit - it's worse than drinking!
Either way, I'd certainly have a frosty cold beverage with ya. Just not more than two. ;-)
S'not a problem. I'm not really a zealot or anything but I much prefer Opera. I've been using Opera since the days when we had to pay for it. I used Firefox for a while, when they first came out, and that was okay. Opera kind of took a nosedive when they first converted their code base to the current incarnation but it's improved and is very nice now. I spend some time on their forums and have known some of the devs for ages now.
The cool thing is, and yes - I've run wireshark, they've stripped out any of the privacy invading stuff from Google. They have and are working on some sync features - no complaints so far but I do have some improvements for them to consider. It is pretty light and rather stable. The Linux versions now use the PPA system for updates if you want. The extension ecosystem is excellent and one can even install Chrome extensions if you want.
There's no NoScript but there's something even better called uMatrix. uMatix is like an old school software firewall except for your browser. It's a hell of a lot better than what NoScript is - you can do much more with it. There's a small learning curve but it's not steep and it is easy enough to figure out. Give it a shot. I don't like the mobile versions as much but they'll do. I prefer Firefox if I'm stuck using Android but that will change on Monday.
Is there an actual embargo on the video games? During the 1990s there was some concern with Iraq getting hold of a bunch of PS2s (I think they were) and clustering them together to make a supercomputer. I imagine the fears were unfounded but I seem to recall they'd actually ordered a whole ton of them and had them shipped to their country.
I did not realize that the word "nominally" was so poorly understood. Or, maybe, you're just trying to "prove" something or attempting to argue with something. Yet, strangely, nothing you said even remotely relates to my comment - not even tangentially.
I'm a very approachable person who will even admit to be wrong, but if you want to actually have a conversation then you should actually try doing so without speckling your keyboard and monitor with spittle and attacking things that I've not said. You've got a voice, use it wisely.
Ask and ye shall receive...
Source code for Opera's various browsers!
Tada! It's open source but not truly open licensing - permissive licensed, to some extent. You can review, poke, and change it all you want. You may not redistribute it with their proprietary bits - if I've read the licensing agreement properly.
I think you mean:
Mr. "general hatter!"
If we're going to be pedantic then punctuation is important.
If you're referring to the song, it was the Siegfried Line, indeed. For the uninitiated or those who are not into history, I've been less lazy and found you a link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
It's kind of catchy.
I am familiar with the research and inclined to agree, at first blush. If you read the link you sent, you'll find some antecedents. I dare say, I prefer those.
>:-(
Actually, as strange as this sounds, I watched a documentary where they put a thing with mechanical nubs on it into people's mouths. The mechanical piece was attached to a camera (black and white only - for contrast) and the images where then displayed by manipulating the nubs which sat on the user's tongue. With some practice (just a couple of weeks, as I recall) people were able to "see" using the nerves in their tongues.
This was somewhere around 10 years ago - when I watched it, as I recall.
Link?
No, not really. Rest assured that any response containing a link will not be clicked on - no matter how tempting you make it sound. I am not new to Slashdot. I don't even usually click the links in the summaries!
So you could say that their enemies 'got waxed?'
Which is why I was careful to say that it was true only for me. Lots of others have vastly different use-cases. These days? I'm quite OS agnostic but I don't use Windows simply because I don't prefer it. I'll use it, if I must. I don't have to, so I don't. I prefer Linux, it's just more logical to me. I don't mind BSD but there's a lot about it that I've yet to learn. A goodly portion of my career was tied into Sun so I expect to spend more time in BSD-land in the near future. I don't mind OS X but, again, I've not spent enough time there to be "fluent" or even truly adept. It seems like a fine OS from what I've experienced. I own a MBP, maybe. I think my daughter absconded with it when she last visited the house.
I don't really do the tablet thing - I own a few but I don't like them. I used to have a Motion, years ago, with XP on it. I'm probably going to get a Surface Pro 4 and put Ubuntu on it. I do have a Windows phone that should be here on Monday (the hotel is letting me get it shipped to the lobby). I really dislike Android, so that does make me not quite agnostic. I don't much care for it - it's too needy and my attention is limited. I've even dabbled in the more esoteric OSes like Minix and I've even played with Debian/Hurd.
So, yeah, I'm not tied into any specific OS nor do I actually need any specific piece of software. I kind of enjoy it. I do much prefer my browser choice (Opera) but I am able to manage with alternatives.
O_O
It could happen! And, for some definition of "start." WWII really, kind of, sort of, started with Japan back as early as the late 1920s. WWI was a Serbia and Austria thing but then a few other countries decided to help and that then bloomed into everyone trying to get a piece. In Europe, well, we could even say that it was Italy that started that theater rolling, for WWII. It's pretty hard to pinpoint exactly where some of these events began, humans aren't a very good source for formal studies.
But, damn it, it could happen! The dastardly German folk could, once again, stomp up and around the top of France, kick the low-land countries in the jimmies, and then sack France for fun and profit. (I'm still working on why, exactly, they'd do so but I'm sure I'll come up with a good reason - eventually.)
GhostBSD only comes with the two but I am given to understand that you can use other DE if you want to install them. I've never done so. I'm a fan of LXDE but I find MATE to be quite workable with GhostBSD. I have played with PC-BSD a few times and it just seemed, well, rudimentary. I do like basic and functional but PC-BSD looks a whole lot like Windows 95. I admit, I did not spend enough time with it to go on and try to find other DE - at all. I simply used the stock configuration or a while until I decided to try something else.
Anything that runs in WINE on Linux should work fine in BSD. I don't do a whole lot in WINE, I don't actually do anything except test software for other people to see if I can get it to work for them. I don't rely on any Windows applications so it isn't of much use for me. I do know that it will not support 64 bit apps, well that's what I've been told. However, as you mention, most aren't 64 bit apps and many of those that are actually have a 32 bit version as well.
There's a Linux abstraction layer but I've not played with it as much as I'd like. Thus, I'm not qualified to opine. I dare say that PC-BSD is a nice OS but just not for me. That's probably my fault - I haven't given it a whole lot of time. I'm kind of OS agnostic and will use what suits my needs and I tend to meander back and fourth through the distros as I see fit, driven by curiosity and a need to try new things. My only issue with PC-BSD is that I found it clunky and uncomfortable. While I like basic and appreciate functionality, it was just too basic in appearance for my taste.
I find the systemd thing overblown. Frankly, I learned a few new commands (they're handy - like journalctl for instance) and have come to appreciate them. The OP was (it looked like) offended that Debian "forced" systemd down their users throats thus I suggested BSD because, from my experience, it's an excellent and stable OS. I still prefer Linux but I'll be doing more work in BSD in the near future. I must, after all, keep learning.
Lies, damned lies, and statistics...
The Pew Research claimed "the world's Muslims" (according to the image) yet they only took data from a specific geographical area. The sample sizes are tiny. The margin of error is huge, unacceptably so. How was the data collected? How did they prevent biases in the survey - were they done in-person?
Needless to say, I stopped there. The data may be right but using a handful of people to extrapolate to include millions and to do so with data from just one geopolitical region is not good work.