I'd either ignore it or ask what's in it for me. Then again, in hopes of good exposure, or him remembering me when it's time to license the next batch I might just send him one w/o asking questions. (in hopes of something nice happening in return) What's one phone to a factory anyway? But I would hope for something in return, after all, the manufacturer has to pay Microsoft for Windows Mobile licenses. After that they don't owe Microsoft anything.
Now, in the case of a Linux phone, yes, I would just give him one and not expect anything in return. The difference... They don't have to pay to put Linux on their phone! Sure, companies have hired him to get special attention but he started Linux for free and it still is. Why the hell shouldn't they give him a free phone? They should even include a thank you note to him in the box! They benefit from his free work.
Of course, there are many many others who deserve that free phone as well. It wouldn't be practical to send them all but he is the leader, and the one who started the kernel so just send him one. Now, if they used GNU much I'd say send Richard Stallman one too but I get the impression there isn't much GNU in there, just Linux and Java.
But are they really better off? If there is a chance of greater recovery then yes, by all means scan away. Of course I can't speak for any actual PVS patients but if this happened to me I'd rather be let go than spend the rest of my life answering yes/no questions by imagining tennis courts and streets.
No, they got those starting as part of a free power user pack from Microsoft for Windows98. It's been available in some form ever since. Of course... it was available elsewhere first...
No, NVidia driver. What I didn't state is that I do have one of my monitors rotated on it's side. It isn't like Windows is randomly flipping my screen. I would suspect it was either a joke from a coworker or a worm (probably the first) if it was doing that. What it's doing is forgetting my preference and going back to normal, which for me, with my monitor physically rotated already is not normal.
That would be pretty difficult when I undock the laptop and take it home at night. I always turn it off before undocking so it shouldn't be the undocking that causes it to lose it's settings.
I used to use Xinerama b/c of the "dead space" myself. Xinerama used to be really buggy with 3D acceleration though. On my machine enabling Xinerama pretty much killed acceleration. From what I read on forums online it occasionally worked but most people had the same experience I did. That was quite a while ago though. It's been a long time since I messed with Xinerama. Maybe 3D w/ Xinerama has improved?
Since then nVidia added a setting to TwinView which if enabled causes it to emulate Xinerama. With this enabled, if your desktop/window manager was aware of non-rectangle window dimensions under Xinerama it should be under TwinView just the same. I don't know about independent window rotation though. I haven't looked for that feature. NVidia did add a lot of config options to TwinView a little while back. It might be in there.
If you have the same 3D compromise I did and you haven't read the TwinView readme files in a while you might want to check it out. Or, maybe not.
Granted, this is Slashdot and you're pretty much preaching to the choir here but "intergalactic flights"? Let's work on interplanetary flights first. Then interstellar, and maybe someday our descendants can think about intergalactic. Complaining about a lack of intergalactic flights now isn't going to convince many people b/c it's a bit too scifi today.
The Republicans did no better. They gave NASA good intentions but not the budget to follow through. The democrats continued what the Republicans started, throwing all our money away in Iraq and bailouts. They are just more honest about where they really intend NASA to go. Any vote for a Republican or a Democrat is a vote to continue moving backwards.
I follow your logic that a good economy makes a good budget however I don't agree that this means NASA's budget now relates to it's future budget in that way. NASA's budget is too small of a percentage of government spending to have that kind of effect on the future economy. It could be raised quite a bit and this would still be true.
Informative? Really? He wants multiple Desktop sessions, one for each monitor. Xinerama and XRandR do not provide this. They provide a single Desktop session across two monitors. The difference is subtle but the original poster already acknowledged the single desktop option and the whole point was not to do that.
Does Windows 7 allow for precisely what the original poster is asking for? Independant Virtual Desktops which can be switched out individually and the ability to drag apps between them? I'm pretty sure XP doesn't.
Linux isn't all that hard to configure for dual monitors in the usual sense, one extended desktop. Just use Xinerama (if you aren't using nVidia cards). I used to have 2 monitors and my livingroom TV all hooked to my machine. It wasn't that hard though I did have to edit the xorg.conf file which might be scary to one not used to working with ini files. I use Gentoo, I suspect a more userfriendly distro like Ubuntu might have a nice GUI wizard.
Windows is very easy to configure this way. I have 3 monitors on my XP box at work. You just check the boxes to extend the desktop then drag the screens into the order you want. Easy is nice but unlike my Linux box the Windows one forgets what order/orientation I wanted my screens in about every 7-10 boots and I have to turn my head sideways to use the mouse to put it back. (I have a flipped monitor for easy long page reading) I prefer editing an xorg.conf file ONCE to doing this almost weekly! I'm told Mac is just as easy to configure and actually remembers your preference.
I don't think Windows will let you have separate windows session on the same machine on two monitors. At least not unless you hook one monitor to a second computer, login to the first via RDC and the first is running a server edition... Linux can be multiheaded, it isn't exactly easy though.
What the poster actually asked for though... I don't think either Xorg or Windows can do. I doubt Mac can either but I wouldn't know about that one.
Or is this a new Windows feature? I'm not that familiar with the multimonitor features of Vista or 7, most of my knowledge of the Windows world ends with XP.
Generally block heaters are used on Diesel engines which aren't that popular in the US. I don't see a switch to Diesel happening here any time soon either as Diesel fuel here more than expensive enough here to offset it's efficiency gain over gasoline.
Maybe block heaters could be used on Gasoline engines? I'm not sure if the blocks have the necessary holes for adding the heater. It's an interesting idea. House owners could do this before work. Most apartment complexes don't have power outlets near where the cars are parked though. Even if they do it's probably meant to be used for grounds maintenance tools, not for warming resident's cars. This still leaves the drive home. Where Diesel engines are more popular do employers provide power outlets in the parking lots for employees to warm their engine blocks? This is definitely not the norm here.
I want to be excited and hopeful this will become a full alternative to installing Flash on my Linux desktop. But, are developer's really expected to break their sites on IE just so it will work on iPhones or non-IE machines which don't have Flash installed? Don't get me wrong I would very much love to see IE and Flash go away forever but until IE marketshare goes sub 10% or IE picks up SVG support AND it's user's actually install the update I don't see how this can work. Now, if Gordon detected IE or better yet, any browser lacking SVG support and passed the swf to Flash I could see this having a chance of being used somewhere.
I still don't think it will get too popular because if website developers gave two sh1ts about how Flash sucks resources or what a pain it is to run in Linux or the fact it doesn't run at all outside of Windows,Mac,Linux(BSD?) it wouldn't have reached the state it's in today where it shows up on almost as many pages as HTML.
I'd feel a little more comfortable if it started with Linux b/c I know there should be modules available for all the hardware. I suppose I can research that online beforehand but I'd be a little afraid that the manufacturer switched chips on something without changing the model number.
I'm a pretty big Linux fan but I've got to admit he has a point. If the difference is only $7 I can pocket the XP license and install Linux myself. I suspect that when I get my netbook (I'm a little behind on the hardware) I'll probably want to try out a few distros and probably won't settle with the one it ships with anyway. Meanwhile I have an XP license which I may want to run in a virtual machine or give to a friend some day. (No, I don't believe in the EULA, if I bought it I can give it away, it's mine)
Causing cancer takes time. Just look at smokers. If (I doubt it) but if there is a link to be found I wouldn't expect to see the cancer rate to even begin to rise until the 20teens or so. If anybody has a cell/bag/carphone induced cancer now it would probably be someone who started with the bulky things back in the 80s and what percentage of the population is that?
Look for a local Hacker Space or Makers club. http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Hacker_Spaces
Someone there will take it off you and build something interesting from it. Unless they need a printer. Then they might use one of those refill kits. I haven't had much success refilling cartridges myself though.
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I'd either ignore it or ask what's in it for me. Then again, in hopes of good exposure, or him remembering me when it's time to license the next batch I might just send him one w/o asking questions. (in hopes of something nice happening in return) What's one phone to a factory anyway? But I would hope for something in return, after all, the manufacturer has to pay Microsoft for Windows Mobile licenses. After that they don't owe Microsoft anything.
Now, in the case of a Linux phone, yes, I would just give him one and not expect anything in return. The difference... They don't have to pay to put Linux on their phone! Sure, companies have hired him to get special attention but he started Linux for free and it still is. Why the hell shouldn't they give him a free phone? They should even include a thank you note to him in the box! They benefit from his free work.
Of course, there are many many others who deserve that free phone as well. It wouldn't be practical to send them all but he is the leader, and the one who started the kernel so just send him one. Now, if they used GNU much I'd say send Richard Stallman one too but I get the impression there isn't much GNU in there, just Linux and Java.
But if you make your business with 100s or 1000s of small one time transactions with different people... It adds up.
Is a really long RS232 cable. Stretch it between your home and work.
But are they really better off? If there is a chance of greater recovery then yes, by all means scan away. Of course I can't speak for any actual PVS patients but if this happened to me I'd rather be let go than spend the rest of my life answering yes/no questions by imagining tennis courts and streets.
No, they got those starting as part of a free power user pack from Microsoft for Windows98. It's been available in some form ever since. Of course... it was available elsewhere first...
No, NVidia driver. What I didn't state is that I do have one of my monitors rotated on it's side. It isn't like Windows is randomly flipping my screen. I would suspect it was either a joke from a coworker or a worm (probably the first) if it was doing that. What it's doing is forgetting my preference and going back to normal, which for me, with my monitor physically rotated already is not normal.
That would be pretty difficult when I undock the laptop and take it home at night. I always turn it off before undocking so it shouldn't be the undocking that causes it to lose it's settings.
I used to use Xinerama b/c of the "dead space" myself. Xinerama used to be really buggy with 3D acceleration though. On my machine enabling Xinerama pretty much killed acceleration. From what I read on forums online it occasionally worked but most people had the same experience I did. That was quite a while ago though. It's been a long time since I messed with Xinerama. Maybe 3D w/ Xinerama has improved?
Since then nVidia added a setting to TwinView which if enabled causes it to emulate Xinerama. With this enabled, if your desktop/window manager was aware of non-rectangle window dimensions under Xinerama it should be under TwinView just the same. I don't know about independent window rotation though. I haven't looked for that feature. NVidia did add a lot of config options to TwinView a little while back. It might be in there.
If you have the same 3D compromise I did and you haven't read the TwinView readme files in a while you might want to check it out. Or, maybe not.
Granted, this is Slashdot and you're pretty much preaching to the choir here but "intergalactic flights"? Let's work on interplanetary flights first. Then interstellar, and maybe someday our descendants can think about intergalactic. Complaining about a lack of intergalactic flights now isn't going to convince many people b/c it's a bit too scifi today.
The Republicans did no better. They gave NASA good intentions but not the budget to follow through. The democrats continued what the Republicans started, throwing all our money away in Iraq and bailouts. They are just more honest about where they really intend NASA to go. Any vote for a Republican or a Democrat is a vote to continue moving backwards.
I follow your logic that a good economy makes a good budget however I don't agree that this means NASA's budget now relates to it's future budget in that way. NASA's budget is too small of a percentage of government spending to have that kind of effect on the future economy. It could be raised quite a bit and this would still be true.
Isn't that the point, offer a way to move beyond Flash WITHOUT reinventing the wheel?
Informative? Really? He wants multiple Desktop sessions, one for each monitor. Xinerama and XRandR do not provide this. They provide a single Desktop session across two monitors. The difference is subtle but the original poster already acknowledged the single desktop option and the whole point was not to do that.
Does Windows 7 allow for precisely what the original poster is asking for? Independant Virtual Desktops which can be switched out individually and the ability to drag apps between them? I'm pretty sure XP doesn't.
Linux isn't all that hard to configure for dual monitors in the usual sense, one extended desktop. Just use Xinerama (if you aren't using nVidia cards). I used to have 2 monitors and my livingroom TV all hooked to my machine. It wasn't that hard though I did have to edit the xorg.conf file which might be scary to one not used to working with ini files. I use Gentoo, I suspect a more userfriendly distro like Ubuntu might have a nice GUI wizard.
Windows is very easy to configure this way. I have 3 monitors on my XP box at work. You just check the boxes to extend the desktop then drag the screens into the order you want. Easy is nice but unlike my Linux box the Windows one forgets what order/orientation I wanted my screens in about every 7-10 boots and I have to turn my head sideways to use the mouse to put it back. (I have a flipped monitor for easy long page reading) I prefer editing an xorg.conf file ONCE to doing this almost weekly! I'm told Mac is just as easy to configure and actually remembers your preference.
I don't think Windows will let you have separate windows session on the same machine on two monitors. At least not unless you hook one monitor to a second computer, login to the first via RDC and the first is running a server edition... Linux can be multiheaded, it isn't exactly easy though.
What the poster actually asked for though... I don't think either Xorg or Windows can do. I doubt Mac can either but I wouldn't know about that one.
Or is this a new Windows feature? I'm not that familiar with the multimonitor features of Vista or 7, most of my knowledge of the Windows world ends with XP.
Generally block heaters are used on Diesel engines which aren't that popular in the US. I don't see a switch to Diesel happening here any time soon either as Diesel fuel here more than expensive enough here to offset it's efficiency gain over gasoline. Maybe block heaters could be used on Gasoline engines? I'm not sure if the blocks have the necessary holes for adding the heater. It's an interesting idea. House owners could do this before work. Most apartment complexes don't have power outlets near where the cars are parked though. Even if they do it's probably meant to be used for grounds maintenance tools, not for warming resident's cars. This still leaves the drive home. Where Diesel engines are more popular do employers provide power outlets in the parking lots for employees to warm their engine blocks? This is definitely not the norm here.
Haven't we been on the flexible path? So flexible they were able to bend it right back around upon itself making circles around the Earth...
I want to be excited and hopeful this will become a full alternative to installing Flash on my Linux desktop. But, are developer's really expected to break their sites on IE just so it will work on iPhones or non-IE machines which don't have Flash installed? Don't get me wrong I would very much love to see IE and Flash go away forever but until IE marketshare goes sub 10% or IE picks up SVG support AND it's user's actually install the update I don't see how this can work. Now, if Gordon detected IE or better yet, any browser lacking SVG support and passed the swf to Flash I could see this having a chance of being used somewhere.
I still don't think it will get too popular because if website developers gave two sh1ts about how Flash sucks resources or what a pain it is to run in Linux or the fact it doesn't run at all outside of Windows,Mac,Linux(BSD?) it wouldn't have reached the state it's in today where it shows up on almost as many pages as HTML.
I'd feel a little more comfortable if it started with Linux b/c I know there should be modules available for all the hardware. I suppose I can research that online beforehand but I'd be a little afraid that the manufacturer switched chips on something without changing the model number.
Yes, they are. One geek installs it for many friends and relatives.
I'm a pretty big Linux fan but I've got to admit he has a point. If the difference is only $7 I can pocket the XP license and install Linux myself. I suspect that when I get my netbook (I'm a little behind on the hardware) I'll probably want to try out a few distros and probably won't settle with the one it ships with anyway. Meanwhile I have an XP license which I may want to run in a virtual machine or give to a friend some day. (No, I don't believe in the EULA, if I bought it I can give it away, it's mine)
how do you prove that you exist yourself?
Causing cancer takes time. Just look at smokers. If (I doubt it) but if there is a link to be found I wouldn't expect to see the cancer rate to even begin to rise until the 20teens or so. If anybody has a cell/bag/carphone induced cancer now it would probably be someone who started with the bulky things back in the 80s and what percentage of the population is that?
Must be April fools day again.
Look for a local Hacker Space or Makers club. http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Hacker_Spaces Someone there will take it off you and build something interesting from it. Unless they need a printer. Then they might use one of those refill kits. I haven't had much success refilling cartridges myself though.
True.. But gee, why is that...
Oh, your $1000 printer?!? Hmm... Why doesn't everyone rush out to drop $1000 on a printer. I just can't guess...