A simple 'emerge --sync --quiet && emerge -u =mozilla-firefox-3.0.4'
I'm a Gentooer myself, but I don't go round claiming things like that are simple. That road leads to madness. Specifically, the person whose box I've just installed Linux on gets mad at me.
I imagine this happened around the time people started to realise they had better beaches than us, and it became apparent that a free trip to a sunny paradise away from those nasty interfering coppers wasn't really the horrible punishment originally envisioned...
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I expect my lecturer would disagree with you on that point. I'm an undergraduate at Swansea University, where a lot of the work (such as the aerodynamics) is being done. The computational fluid dynamics code that's being used to allow this thing to go 1000mph was developed here, powers aerospace firms like Airbus, BAE Systems and Rolls Royce, and has been decades in the making.
And wouldn't it be nice if we could all afford that?
I don't have the money for a big fileserver with RAID or whatever, or indeed for most of those other cutting-edge things you mentioned. Provided you factor in cost, what I suggested is indeed the optimal solution for ~90% of people.
I'm sorry, but this is a bad idea. Moisture forming inside the bag is only evidence that the air within has reached 100% humidity, (ie. the maximum moisture the air can hold at a given temperature and pressure). If the air in the bag has 80% humidity, for instance, then nothing will condense but it'll be hard for water to evaporate. Evaporation can be encouraged by high temperatures or low pressures, but neither of those suitable: high temperatures will melt the bag and low pressures will turn it into shrink-wrap, with no air for the moisture to evaporate into.
If you ask me, you want to find a small cupboard and rent a dehumidifier. Set it to get the humidity as low as possible, and maybe stick a small heater in there as well. That way you'll have both warmth and minimal vapour content in the air. Both of these things will encourage evaporation.
Disclaimer: I'm studying Thermodynamics as part of my Engineering degree, but I haven't actually graduated yet:)
> Open societies are going to be vulnerable to terrorism.
Mod parent up, this is the most insightful thing I've seen on Slashdot in a good while. When you scale that familiar security/convenience trade-off up to national governments, it morphs into security/civil liberties. Since absolute security can never be achieved, (be it for computer or country), the march towards that end of the spectrum must be halted before citizens of the Western world have no more freedom than denizens of 1970s Cambodia.
Could it be that the BBC's slowness to offer HD is related to the fact that most license payers receive their broadcasts via analogue or "Freeview" digital, neither of which currently support it? I guess they have better things to spend their limited budget on.
Well that's interesting in its own way, but what I meant was x86. I'd really like to see nvidia compete with the likes of AMD and Intel in the CPU market. What would suck was if it went the "budget" route like Via. My media PC has a 2Ghz Esther in it and it's a good deal slower than my 2.4GHz AMD64 - slower than you'd expect from the 400MHz difference.
Average Joe doesn't buy a video card upgrade anyway, so nvidia's market there shouldn't be too badly affected. Of course, if AMD/ATi decide to introduce incompatibilities into their chipset that make it hard for other video cards to work, that's another matter. Also don't nvidia do integrated graphics? They might have a problem there.
Perhaps we'll see nvidia entering the CPU business some time soon... Maybe they'll be the new AMD, who knows?
Actually he doesn't, although you could be forgiven for thinking otherwise. Instead he owns the Times (upmarket right wing) and the Sun (downmarket, more right wing, with breasts), and last I checked he part-owned BskyB, which runs the UK's satellite broadcasting racket, has its own cable/satellite TV channels (including Sky News which, while having a higher quality of journalism than Fox, seems to show clips lifted directly from Fox News on a regular basis - or it did last I checked). It's now also one of the country's biggest ISPs.
The Mail seems to have remained pretty much independent, (according to Wikipedia it's owned by Associated Newspapers Ltd), which allows it to be more racist, hate-provoking and hypocritical than NewsCorp could ever get away with - resulting, apparently, in one of the biggest circulations of any one newspaper in the country today.
For those across the pond who haven't heard of the Daily Mail, they're pretty much our equivalent of Fox News. They'll publish any story if they think it'll sell papers, but they usually play on Joe Public's apparent dislike of immigrants, gays, people whose skin is too dark, etc.
At least where I'm from, (the UK), it's illegal to cycle on the pavement. By law, cyclists have to share the road with motorists and follow all the same rules. Of course this isn't necessarily a good law - see my post below.
Maybe the cyclists have to do this sort of thing to avoid getting killed by unfriendly motorists? You take every chance you have to get ahead of the traffic, or better yet out of its way entirely. You take your life in your hands if you don't.
There's been a bit of discussion about this in London since David Cameron, (the leader of the main opposition party), was caught cycling the wrong way down a one way street. Of course many people had a go at him for it, but cycling organisations defended him for the very reasons I have given. It's a jungle out there.
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What exactly does that code in your sig do? I can tell it's an infinite loop, but of what? My computer doesn't seem to like it very much ;)
I'm a Gentooer myself, but I don't go round claiming things like that are simple. That road leads to madness. Specifically, the person whose box I've just installed Linux on gets mad at me.
28K what? Does it mean 28000 somethings, or is K itself a unit?
Those bastards. 90% of Chinese are lactose intolerant!
I imagine this happened around the time people started to realise they had better beaches than us, and it became apparent that a free trip to a sunny paradise away from those nasty interfering coppers wasn't really the horrible punishment originally envisioned...
I expect my lecturer would disagree with you on that point. I'm an undergraduate at Swansea University, where a lot of the work (such as the aerodynamics) is being done. The computational fluid dynamics code that's being used to allow this thing to go 1000mph was developed here, powers aerospace firms like Airbus, BAE Systems and Rolls Royce, and has been decades in the making.
Which means that you sir, are trolling.
And wouldn't it be nice if we could all afford that?
I don't have the money for a big fileserver with RAID or whatever, or indeed for most of those other cutting-edge things you mentioned. Provided you factor in cost, what I suggested is indeed the optimal solution for ~90% of people.
There are two criteria for a media centre PC: lots of storage space and small size. Oh, and minimal heat production, so loud fans aren't required.
All of this points to a single, high capacity disk as the optimal solution.
I'm sorry, but this is a bad idea. Moisture forming inside the bag is only evidence that the air within has reached 100% humidity, (ie. the maximum moisture the air can hold at a given temperature and pressure). If the air in the bag has 80% humidity, for instance, then nothing will condense but it'll be hard for water to evaporate. Evaporation can be encouraged by high temperatures or low pressures, but neither of those suitable: high temperatures will melt the bag and low pressures will turn it into shrink-wrap, with no air for the moisture to evaporate into.
If you ask me, you want to find a small cupboard and rent a dehumidifier. Set it to get the humidity as low as possible, and maybe stick a small heater in there as well. That way you'll have both warmth and minimal vapour content in the air. Both of these things will encourage evaporation.
Disclaimer: I'm studying Thermodynamics as part of my Engineering degree, but I haven't actually graduated yet :)
Oh great, now you've given them the idea.
One goatse was bad enough :(
> Open societies are going to be vulnerable to terrorism.
Mod parent up, this is the most insightful thing I've seen on Slashdot in a good while. When you scale that familiar security/convenience trade-off up to national governments, it morphs into security/civil liberties. Since absolute security can never be achieved, (be it for computer or country), the march towards that end of the spectrum must be halted before citizens of the Western world have no more freedom than denizens of 1970s Cambodia.
> Linux now an Equal Flash Player
> Microsoft-only iPlayer service
Actually, if you don't care about downloading, iPlayer support for Linux is now on a par with Windows and Mac, according to The Fine Title.
> If Democracy actually gave power to the people, it would have been abolished a long time ago.
Isn't that precisely what has happened?
Could it be that the BBC's slowness to offer HD is related to the fact that most license payers receive their broadcasts via analogue or "Freeview" digital, neither of which currently support it? I guess they have better things to spend their limited budget on.
Well that's interesting in its own way, but what I meant was x86. I'd really like to see nvidia compete with the likes of AMD and Intel in the CPU market. What would suck was if it went the "budget" route like Via. My media PC has a 2Ghz Esther in it and it's a good deal slower than my 2.4GHz AMD64 - slower than you'd expect from the 400MHz difference.
Average Joe doesn't buy a video card upgrade anyway, so nvidia's market there shouldn't be too badly affected. Of course, if AMD/ATi decide to introduce incompatibilities into their chipset that make it hard for other video cards to work, that's another matter. Also don't nvidia do integrated graphics? They might have a problem there.
Perhaps we'll see nvidia entering the CPU business some time soon... Maybe they'll be the new AMD, who knows?
Actually he doesn't, although you could be forgiven for thinking otherwise. Instead he owns the Times (upmarket right wing) and the Sun (downmarket, more right wing, with breasts), and last I checked he part-owned BskyB, which runs the UK's satellite broadcasting racket, has its own cable/satellite TV channels (including Sky News which, while having a higher quality of journalism than Fox, seems to show clips lifted directly from Fox News on a regular basis - or it did last I checked). It's now also one of the country's biggest ISPs.
The Mail seems to have remained pretty much independent, (according to Wikipedia it's owned by Associated Newspapers Ltd), which allows it to be more racist, hate-provoking and hypocritical than NewsCorp could ever get away with - resulting, apparently, in one of the biggest circulations of any one newspaper in the country today.
Haha, "Daily Fail" - I haven't heard that one :)
I call it the HateMail sometimes, because that's pretty much all they peddle...
For those across the pond who haven't heard of the Daily Mail, they're pretty much our equivalent of Fox News. They'll publish any story if they think it'll sell papers, but they usually play on Joe Public's apparent dislike of immigrants, gays, people whose skin is too dark, etc.
Tax.
Why, have you actually been in both?
I haven't been in either, but I wonder if you're speaking from experience or merely assumptions.
Cyclists are counted as pedestrians in Canada?
At least where I'm from, (the UK), it's illegal to cycle on the pavement. By law, cyclists have to share the road with motorists and follow all the same rules. Of course this isn't necessarily a good law - see my post below.
Maybe the cyclists have to do this sort of thing to avoid getting killed by unfriendly motorists? You take every chance you have to get ahead of the traffic, or better yet out of its way entirely. You take your life in your hands if you don't.
There's been a bit of discussion about this in London since David Cameron, (the leader of the main opposition party), was caught cycling the wrong way down a one way street. Of course many people had a go at him for it, but cycling organisations defended him for the very reasons I have given. It's a jungle out there.
*cough*Mac*cough*OS/2*cough*
And Linux is irrelevant in this argument. It wasn't even invented at the time.
Hahaha, I just had the mental image of Ballmer sitting behind his desk writing gift tags on endless mounds of cakes... Very surreal, thankyou :)