IIRC, Airbus used a customized version of MSFS as an aid for A380 testing. It was used to show exact real-time airplane position, pitch, roll and yaw during testing.
I've been using Ubuntu for I year. I was quite happy with the 8.4, but unfortunately I've switched to 8.10 64bit (to support 4GB RAM). You know what? I couldn't care less about how fast it boots. I do, however, care about these things: - switching from dual display to presentation (clone) and back totally messes up x config, I have to uninstall and reinstall nvidea drivers - in dual screen mode, nautilus opens on the first display. I have to open terminal and run nautilus& to lunch it on the second display - in dual screen mode, keyboard keeps focus in the previous screen. I have to minimize/maximize a windows on the "new" screen to move keyboard focus - RDP client crashes X windows in some cases (it does not close the drop down list of used servers... and bang) - oh and NO it's not AN ERROR if I close the RDP window. If I want to reconnect, I will, don't hide under my active windows and bring RDP windows back in 30 seconds. That's just plain stupid. - java and window decorations don't play well together (popups without buttons etc.) - How about opening a connection to a new server in a new tab, not in a new nautilus window? - Flash stops working. I just see a gray square where flash is supposed to be. - Firefox is not very stable. - Windows would become gray and unresponsive when there's a lot of disk activity. - I've seen ubuntu crash on my much more times than I've seen BSOD on the same HW. - If i lock my computer, I want it to be locked. I don't want it to be locked for a minute or so and than display what was last on my desktop. Sure, you'd have to log in to get access, but there could be things for my eyes only on that screen. So don't you ever roll eyes on windows security, ok? You've got your own issues.
I could probably think of more but this is just a list of things I remember from the top of my head. Sure, you'll be downmoding me and say I'm trolling. Maybe I am. But my point is: there are MUCH more IMPORTANT things to fix than the FUCKING BOOT TIME. Who the fuck even cares about boot time?? Can't you just grab a coffee while it boots? What kind of idiotic metric is this?
I guess SW development is hard and complex. And we've reached a point where maintaining these beasts is hard, for either open source or commercial products.
It's even worse. They think we, the users are stupid. They think we believe everything they serve us.
But please, someone explain, how stupid am I supposed to be to think that forums and newsgroups don't work. That they don't provide information and knowledge exchange.
You are geeks, you know what I am talking about. HOW THE FUCK AM I SUPPOSED TO BELIEVE, THAT THE ONLY REAL PLACE TO GET TECHNICAL ANSWERS IS SOME FUCKING ***SEXCHANGE PAGE!?
Just try, search for something technical. That stupid page will be in top five. And that's not sponsored... right...
Google is evil. Information shall not be server by only one, the mighty truth teller. I think we need open source, p2p search engine. Sorry to say, but we need it more than linux or anything.
I don't mean to troll. I LIKE food. I LIKE to eat. I love chocolate, icecream, you name it. Yet, I'm NOT FAT. I've spent the summer in the US - I come frome Europe - and it's just ludicrus how big everything is. You don't HAVE to eat THAT GIANT ICECREAM, you don't have to drink THAT FREE COKE (omg, the crasiest thing i saw was this "extreme gulp"; that's just plain stupid; don't tell me you have no idea how you got fat!?). Not to mention your sandwiches... I saw a sandwitch maid of an entire loave!? while the "Poor boy's" sandwich was enough for me. You get the picture.
Anyway, I didn't gain any weight while in the US. You know, they sell great ingridinets in your marts, far better than I get over here. Well yes, cooking just a simple pasta meal could be more expensive than eating at/put your favorite junk food here/. But it's far FAR better and won't get you fat.
Now that I'm thinkink about it I remember how confused I was the first coulple of days in the US. There was food all around, yet I was starving and just couldn't find anything to eat. I don't eat junk food at home (well, I like burek [http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/548041/2/istockphoto_548041_burek_a_greasy_meal.jpg] from time to time), rather I'd go to a quite inexpensive restaruant where i can get pizza, pasta, steaks etc. for like 4-5. You are virtually surrounded by junk food, everywhere.
And.. walk people, walk! It won't hurt you to walk a few blocks (e.g. from a hotel to a metro station). And no, it's not dangerous. I felt as safe over there as I do in Europe.
I don't know for the rest of EU, but in Slovenia, every company that provides means to play broadcasted music to employees or customers (read: has at least one radio in the office) MUST pay a fee to SAZAS (www.sazas.org), a member of cisac (www.cisac.org).
Regarding all music industry bashing here on slashdot:
- why is it OK to download music regardless of a "license", even if legitimate authors haven't decide that it should be available for free and
- why is it evil to ignore GPL - say by include a part of GPLed code in a proprietary software?
From TFA:
In order to identify any Vista services present, it was necessary to disable the default firewall after booting into the system for the first time. After disabling Vista's firewall, Nmap was able to identify three open ports for Windows networking and correctly fingerprinted the system Windows Vista. Sorry, but what's the point in doing this? Out of the box, vista comes with no open ports. Deal!
It's just like saying "your-favorite-distro was not detected until telnetd was installed and root password was set to 'password'". Stupid.
He even figured out how to access the shell, but he didn't understand why it kept saying that he needed superuser privileges to continue Ehem... how far is it from this point to... "Ubuntu needs your permissions to continue... Cancel or Allow?"
When I come home from work, well, all the lights in the kitchen, the halls, very soon the livingroom, the plasma TV, the surround sound, the computer. Lot's more things. Now, most of these don't change from summer to winter, except the lights. If it is light out, I do not turn them on (shocking). That is a savings of energy by not turning on the lights. Dude! Get a life! You know there are better things in life than TV, computer, game console..., right?
I beleive there are two major reasons for the "god" and the "afterlife" concepts:
1. it's very hard to accept that in the next moment you can just cease to exist. Just try to imagine it. It's very strange and maybe even scarry.
2. Politics. Most religions promise you the afterlife. It's not really hard to figure why. I mean, if your soliders knew (and beleived) they lived their one and only life they'd most probably find a better way to enjoy it than to die for some useless political goals. So, you have to offer them something:
- reincarnation (just read the first few pages of the Bhagavad Gita and you'll understand)
- endless life in heaven
- virgins in the garden of eaden (I recommend reading Alamut by Vladimir Bartol; it's a fiction but worth reading)
OK, maybe 3: Not beeing able to explain a perfectly natural phenomena (like drought etc.), which has a negative impact on a person or society. "This year there's no crops due to drought, I must have done something wrong to uppset the God. I'l sacrifise my youngest daughter to see if it helps." I'd thought we'd get past this stage by now, but...
Since most people have problem accepting their death and / or live empty miserable lifes, religion kicks in nicely. I doubt it's genetics. And if it is, it's most defenitly a bug.
On a side note: I do have my own little philosophy that hepls me accpet my death:
in order to acknowledge you've died, you'd have to live past the moment of your death. Since that is most probably not the case, you'll never know you've died. But if you DO acknowledge your death, there must be some kind of afterlife. See, you just can't die!
1. If you can "generally feed yourself" your top priority is not to learn something abstract, but to find food for tomorrow
2. Once every child has a laptop... maybe someone will think of the "OPSPC" project (one power socket per child)
3. WTF is a child going to do with a computer? Write software that predicts weather? Or track a staticstics "there is 30% chance that I'm going to be hungry tomorrow"? I don't get it.
This is the best interpretation of computer/OS history ever!
And yes, I can confirm: every computer crashes cos every OS sucks. Just got myself a Nokia E50. It sometimes freezes after I hang up! But the line "my phone doesn't take a week to boot it" is not that much accurate;-)
Since I was modded off-topic, I have to explain why I posted this.
I think the morality of the western society is based on some - so called - Christian values. Some of the EU countries even insist on putting Christian roots in the future EU constitution. AFAIK the US of A is established on the same values and different Christian lobbies are quite strong over there (I could be wrong).
The problem is, we are served just the convenient part of the values. Lot, for instance, was never punished for his "sins" - having sex with his own daughters, who could be under age (I don't remember this detail).
Since laws are (or should be) based on general morality and values, I am on topic.
31 And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth:
32Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
33And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
34And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
35And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
36Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.
37And the first born bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day.
38And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Benammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.
So how do java /.net compilers handle 64bit processors? Do they know how to use the new registers?
And what does integer mean on 64bit platform? int32 or int64?
When I'm in the office (or in the car), I know I'm beeing called (or that I'll receive SMS) abaout a second before I do. I can hear the handshake on my FM radio.
I bet the bad guys can afford one of those to monitor when their phones transmit...
Rgs
Jernej
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IIRC, Airbus used a customized version of MSFS as an aid for A380 testing. It was used to show exact real-time airplane position, pitch, roll and yaw during testing.
Actually, he's not the author of the song... He's just a performer.
I've been using Ubuntu for I year. I was quite happy with the 8.4, but unfortunately I've switched to 8.10 64bit (to support 4GB RAM). You know what? I couldn't care less about how fast it boots. I do, however, care about these things:
- switching from dual display to presentation (clone) and back totally messes up x config, I have to uninstall and reinstall nvidea drivers
- in dual screen mode, nautilus opens on the first display. I have to open terminal and run nautilus& to lunch it on the second display
- in dual screen mode, keyboard keeps focus in the previous screen. I have to minimize/maximize a windows on the "new" screen to move keyboard focus
- RDP client crashes X windows in some cases (it does not close the drop down list of used servers... and bang)
- oh and NO it's not AN ERROR if I close the RDP window. If I want to reconnect, I will, don't hide under my active windows and bring RDP windows back in 30 seconds. That's just plain stupid.
- java and window decorations don't play well together (popups without buttons etc.)
- How about opening a connection to a new server in a new tab, not in a new nautilus window?
- Flash stops working. I just see a gray square where flash is supposed to be.
- Firefox is not very stable.
- Windows would become gray and unresponsive when there's a lot of disk activity.
- I've seen ubuntu crash on my much more times than I've seen BSOD on the same HW.
- If i lock my computer, I want it to be locked. I don't want it to be locked for a minute or so and than display what was last on my desktop. Sure, you'd have to log in to get access, but there could be things for my eyes only on that screen. So don't you ever roll eyes on windows security, ok? You've got your own issues.
I could probably think of more but this is just a list of things I remember from the top of my head. Sure, you'll be downmoding me and say I'm trolling. Maybe I am. But my point is: there are MUCH more IMPORTANT things to fix than the FUCKING BOOT TIME. Who the fuck even cares about boot time?? Can't you just grab a coffee while it boots? What kind of idiotic metric is this?
I guess SW development is hard and complex. And we've reached a point where maintaining these beasts is hard, for either open source or commercial products.
Hi, is download using some silverlight stuff or what? When I click download nothing happens...?
It's even worse. They think we, the users are stupid. They think we believe everything they serve us.
But please, someone explain, how stupid am I supposed to be to think that forums and newsgroups don't work. That they don't provide information and knowledge exchange.
You are geeks, you know what I am talking about. HOW THE FUCK AM I SUPPOSED TO BELIEVE, THAT THE ONLY REAL PLACE TO GET TECHNICAL ANSWERS IS SOME FUCKING ***SEXCHANGE PAGE!?
Just try, search for something technical. That stupid page will be in top five. And that's not sponsored... right...
Google is evil. Information shall not be server by only one, the mighty truth teller. I think we need open source, p2p search engine. Sorry to say, but we need it more than linux or anything.
Science found the answer after all http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY_sZyiCA6o
/put your favorite junk food here/. But it's far FAR better and won't get you fat.
I don't mean to troll. I LIKE food. I LIKE to eat. I love chocolate, icecream, you name it. Yet, I'm NOT FAT. I've spent the summer in the US - I come frome Europe - and it's just ludicrus how big everything is. You don't HAVE to eat THAT GIANT ICECREAM, you don't have to drink THAT FREE COKE (omg, the crasiest thing i saw was this "extreme gulp"; that's just plain stupid; don't tell me you have no idea how you got fat!?). Not to mention your sandwiches... I saw a sandwitch maid of an entire loave!? while the "Poor boy's" sandwich was enough for me. You get the picture.
Anyway, I didn't gain any weight while in the US. You know, they sell great ingridinets in your marts, far better than I get over here. Well yes, cooking just a simple pasta meal could be more expensive than eating at
Now that I'm thinkink about it I remember how confused I was the first coulple of days in the US. There was food all around, yet I was starving and just couldn't find anything to eat. I don't eat junk food at home (well, I like burek [http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/548041/2/istockphoto_548041_burek_a_greasy_meal.jpg] from time to time), rather I'd go to a quite inexpensive restaruant where i can get pizza, pasta, steaks etc. for like 4-5.
You are virtually surrounded by junk food, everywhere.
And.. walk people, walk! It won't hurt you to walk a few blocks (e.g. from a hotel to a metro station). And no, it's not dangerous. I felt as safe over there as I do in Europe.
Oh, and, btw, THIS is how coffee should be served http://www.gastronova.pl/images/stories/oferta/dla_biura/capuccino.jpg
But no, "small capuccino" in your term means something like http://nick.recoil.org/assets/2007/7/11/sbux_tall_short_cap.jpeg . That's just insulting to the coffee!
PS: sori gramar nacis, ie dazn't hev bilt in speling ceker
I don't know for the rest of EU, but in Slovenia, every company that provides means to play broadcasted music to employees or customers (read: has at least one radio in the office) MUST pay a fee to SAZAS (www.sazas.org), a member of cisac (www.cisac.org).
Regarding all music industry bashing here on slashdot:
- why is it OK to download music regardless of a "license", even if legitimate authors haven't decide that it should be available for free and
- why is it evil to ignore GPL - say by include a part of GPLed code in a proprietary software?
It's just like saying "your-favorite-distro was not detected until telnetd was installed and root password was set to 'password'". Stupid.
And yes, I am a Vista user.
I beleive there are two major reasons for the "god" and the "afterlife" concepts: 1. it's very hard to accept that in the next moment you can just cease to exist. Just try to imagine it. It's very strange and maybe even scarry. 2. Politics. Most religions promise you the afterlife. It's not really hard to figure why. I mean, if your soliders knew (and beleived) they lived their one and only life they'd most probably find a better way to enjoy it than to die for some useless political goals. So, you have to offer them something: - reincarnation (just read the first few pages of the Bhagavad Gita and you'll understand) - endless life in heaven - virgins in the garden of eaden (I recommend reading Alamut by Vladimir Bartol; it's a fiction but worth reading) OK, maybe 3: Not beeing able to explain a perfectly natural phenomena (like drought etc.), which has a negative impact on a person or society. "This year there's no crops due to drought, I must have done something wrong to uppset the God. I'l sacrifise my youngest daughter to see if it helps." I'd thought we'd get past this stage by now, but... Since most people have problem accepting their death and / or live empty miserable lifes, religion kicks in nicely. I doubt it's genetics. And if it is, it's most defenitly a bug. On a side note: I do have my own little philosophy that hepls me accpet my death: in order to acknowledge you've died, you'd have to live past the moment of your death. Since that is most probably not the case, you'll never know you've died. But if you DO acknowledge your death, there must be some kind of afterlife. See, you just can't die!
Vista won't recognise my C64 tape drive either! Those MS bastards! It's a conspiracy, I tell you!
1. If you can "generally feed yourself" your top priority is not to learn something abstract, but to find food for tomorrow 2. Once every child has a laptop... maybe someone will think of the "OPSPC" project (one power socket per child) 3. WTF is a child going to do with a computer? Write software that predicts weather? Or track a staticstics "there is 30% chance that I'm going to be hungry tomorrow"? I don't get it.
Well, not much would have happend as Vista just says:
Access Denied as you do not have sufficient privileges.
You have to invoke this utility running in elevated mode.
I must say UAC is one of the best features of Vista...
This is the best interpretation of computer/OS history ever! And yes, I can confirm: every computer crashes cos every OS sucks. Just got myself a Nokia E50. It sometimes freezes after I hang up! But the line "my phone doesn't take a week to boot it" is not that much accurate ;-)
Since I was modded off-topic, I have to explain why I posted this.
I think the morality of the western society is based on some - so called - Christian values. Some of the EU countries even insist on putting Christian roots in the future EU constitution. AFAIK the US of A is established on the same values and different Christian lobbies are quite strong over there (I could be wrong).
The problem is, we are served just the convenient part of the values. Lot, for instance, was never punished for his "sins" - having sex with his own daughters, who could be under age (I don't remember this detail).
Since laws are (or should be) based on general morality and values, I am on topic.
31 And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth:
32Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
33And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
34And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
35And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
36Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.
37And the first born bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day.
38And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Benammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.
So how do java / .net compilers handle 64bit processors? Do they know how to use the new registers?
And what does integer mean on 64bit platform? int32 or int64?
When I'm in the office (or in the car), I know I'm beeing called (or that I'll receive SMS) abaout a second before I do. I can hear the handshake on my FM radio. I bet the bad guys can afford one of those to monitor when their phones transmit... Rgs Jernej
How about this: http://www.tomshardware.com.tr/business/20050428/i mages/amd-ferrari.jpg
http://www.adm02.com/Marketer/AMD/AMD_Opteron_News letter_july/Archives_april_files/ferrari.jpg
http://www.pcinpact.com/images/bd/news/10535.jpg
This is an EXPENSIVE marketing campaign...