Well I think one of the causes for this is the insistence from upper management that open plan offices are a good idea and impose it on every one but themselves.
the result is that people need to find a quiet place from time to time to not be disturb so that they can concentrate on a specific task. And when putting headphones on, not answering email immediately and so on don't work any more because people just come by your desk and stand there until you give up and talk to them, the only solution is to simply not be there!
If there is enough dynamic range information in the original raw file (these days modern pro/semi pro easily do) , it is also very possible that this was an HDR style manipulation from a single exposure.
You are right though that this look very much like an HDR
and muscle mass counts in body index too. But BMI 40 *is not right*.
Well yes it counts but not in the right way. As in it makes no difference if your BMI is 40 and you are all muscle or if you are all fat, . In both cases you are labelled obese and this is wrong. There is nothing scientific or medical about the BMI. it is just a meaningless made-up value created to dispense the medical professionals from actually doing their job and save money at the expense of the patients. It is much easier and cheaper to say, "your BMI is too high, go on a diet before I actually check you up... next!"
Since the new Slackware 64-bit is a multilib distribution the other direction should work fine as well.
Well not quite, the new Slackware64 is not currently multilib. It puts the 64bit lib in/usr/lib64 to allow the user to add 32bit libs in/usr/lib if required but does not contain any 32bit libs itself.
I suspect a procedure that would work would be something along the lines of: 1) install (not upgrade) the new 64bit kernel 2) install (not upgrade) glibc-solibs 3) reboot using the new 64bit kernel in init 1 4) upgrade tar and pkgtools packages 5) upgrade every thing. 6) do some clean-up 7) reboot
Disclaimer: this is not tested, use at your own risk:-) This is not an exhaustive list and one probably should make sure to user the huge kernel as mkinitrd may not create the right image until every thing is installed. This may cause an issue for people using software RAID and/or LVM on their / mount point
Point 2 - Slackware upgrades are braindead simple and are indeed supported. UPGRADE.TXT [slackware.com] always details how. As upgradepkg is simply remove the old package and install the new one (while being intellegent with config files) I don't see why you couldn't simply remove the old i386 packages and replace them with x86_84 ones. In a perfect world anyway.
True, Slackware updates are fairly simple these days and tools like slackpkg make life even simpler (or more boring depending on your point of view).
However upgrading from a 32bit to a 64bit distro is quite different, especially when the 64bit version is not multilib. As soon as the glibc-solibs package gets upgraded things will stop working (the libs will be 64bit and the leftover binaries such as tar will be 32bit).
Like Olympics '08? Maybe sport competition isn't your game, (it's not really mine either), but I felt truly shafted when I couldn't view the videos on the Olympics' site this year on my Linux box.
Well here in the UK, the BBC were making the event available using their flash video player (but only to UK IPs). So despite not being really into sport, I did watch it some of the time. As I said the content is usually available somewhere else...
If that guy wants linux users to view his site, then he should use a technology that linux users can use. Silverlight is not the only technology to do the job. None of them are perfect. but when that guy made the decision to use silverlight, he knew that linux users were not going to be able to view his site. So no, he is not losing viewers because MS doesn't fully support silverlight. He chose a technology according to certain criteria and made the decision that linux users were not the target ones or not relevant enough.
It is exactly the same as writing a site in ways that only IE can display properly ( or the contrary as I have been know to do due to our user base)
Personally I don't really care about silverlight. if a site I go to uses it, then I assume that I am not the target user and go somewhere else. It is neither here nor there, the information will be available somewhere in another more friendly format, and if not, then I didn't really wanted to see it anyway.
PDF and SWF have exactly the same status at this point. both format are free with the specifications released but still under control of adobe.
No; the SWF spec is available but only under a license agreement that says you're not allowed to use it to write your own player. That's the difference.
Err...
you can download the specs from http://www.adobe.com/devnet/swf/ and it doesn't mention any license agreement one would need to agree to beforehand. On the contrary, the page specifically says:
The SWF file format is available as an open specification to create products and technology that implement the specification.
I'd be interested to know where you found the license agreement requirement.
PDF and SWF have exactly the same status at this point. both format are free with the specifications released but still under control of adobe. every one can create software to read of create either formats.
Adobe releases a free (as in beer) proprietary reader for each formats and make money on their own creator software.
So I am not quite sure what you are trying to prove. The business model for flash and acrobat is the same.
There is an exception to this which is valid in this case. The trademark in question (if it is a trademark, as the submission is not explicit here), is the last name of the person owning the domain. In this case, the last name should take precedence over the trademark unless it was registered "in bad faith".
It appears that the Respondent registered the Domain Name in order to be identified by his surname, in line therefore with the provision of paragraph 4(c)(ii) of the Policy.[...]The use of one's own surname in a domain name corresponds to a legitimate customary practice and is, as a rule, sufficient evidence of a legitimate right or interest in the domain name. The scope of the Policy is limited to cybersquatting. Trademark owners shall not be allowed to use the Policy to dispossess summarily a third party of a domain name reflecting his or her surname (G.A. Modefine S.A. v. A. R. Mani, WIPO Case No.D2001-0537).
The thing is, the last thing INTEL wants at this point is for AMD to disappear as well. Their competition over the last few years has driven the industry forward and I doubt INTEL doesn't recognise this.
The death of AMD would be rather bad for Intel in the long run as well as for the industry.
Well actually, Windows has version numbers too but it is not shown to the user unless you ask for it (eg. winver), but to be fair, the version of the linux kernel is usually not shown to the user either unless you ask for it (eg. uname).
Where version numbers tend to be relevant is usually related to drivers and hardware compatibility. This is also the case with the linux kernel, especially if you are dealing with the vanilla one.
It is useful for users to have some sort of numbering to also report bugs. I would hate to have to provide support when it is impossible to determine the environment which is causing a problem.
The real problem is not a chicken and egg, but to get Linux users to pry open their wallets and start buying Linux applications and so on. You will then very quickly see how people will begin supporting Linux. Yet that will not happen because people use Linux because you don't have to pay! See the problem?
Well actually it still is a chicken and egg problem. Linux users will only start opening their wallet to by applications when those applications are available. I would buy a Linux version of Photoshop if it was available, but it isn't. I pay for my version of Slackware because I think it is the right thing to do, and I have payed for crossover office when I needed it. Maybe I am alone here but somehow I don't think so.
One of the other reasons why some companies use Linux in their devices, is also because it is know by many to be stable and secure. that is also why they actually advertise the fact that the device is running Linux and therefore attracts customer from the Linux users. At some point these companies will have to take the risk of supplying software or support to Linux, some companies already do and the fact that OEMs like Dell or Acer are starting to provide hardware with some versions Linux installed as an alternative to Windows, we will probably start seeing some support from software vendors as well.
Well all I can see looking at the config files is that on slack 11.0, both raid.s and huge26.s have support for the 3Ware 7xxx and 8xxx series (2.6 adds support to 9xxx series). so basically it is basically intended to work. If it doesn't I guess there is something that is missing in the kernel config., and therefore it might be a good idea to notify upstream (i.e. in this case, Patrick) with if possible a solution.
Recently I tried to install it on a high-end server. I was appalled to discover that Slackware does not support (at least not out of the box) 3ware RAID controllers. If you're serious about setting up a server, a hardware RAID controller is essential. 3ware makes some of the best that their Linux support is good.
Well funny that, but looking at the kernel config, the hugesmp.s version shows:
If this is not 3ware support out of the box, I don't know what it is.
There has always been several kernels you can boot from at install time. on 12.0 the huge-smp should be the one to use by preference as it contains pretty much every drivers available built-in.
on previous version of slackware the booting kernel raid.s contains support for 3ware scsi and ataraid.i has the SATA raid bit.
As for the large file support, other have already picked up on that but this is entirely not true. I have been making and burning dvd images since 10.1 (didn't have a dvd burner before that so I cannot comment for previous version)
Yes Acrobat linux seems to be vulnerable to this and in this case we have no way to upgrade to version 8 as it is not available for linux yet. Switching off javascript in the preferences fixes the problem and fortunately, unlike under windows, the application doesn't come up with the message about the lack of javascript crippling functionality.
There is nothing in the article accounting for the legal responsibility of what happens if indeed someone gets unintentionally (or intentionally) in the way and gets killed. would it be the person pressing the trigger or the person behind who actually aimed. it would be a rather tricky legal case.
The blind person would argue that he/she simple pressed the trigger when told to in the belief that he/she was shooting some game. the person who aimed would say that they did indeed said not to shoot as something happened at the last second but that the other person ignored the warning or was too slow to react.
Here neither parties are entirely in control of the situation, therefore how can legal responsibility be fully established?
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Well I think one of the causes for this is the insistence from upper management that open plan offices are a good idea and impose it on every one but themselves.
the result is that people need to find a quiet place from time to time to not be disturb so that they can concentrate on a specific task. And when putting headphones on, not answering email immediately and so on don't work any more because people just come by your desk and stand there until you give up and talk to them, the only solution is to simply not be there!
If there is enough dynamic range information in the original raw file (these days modern pro/semi pro easily do) , it is also very possible that this was an HDR style manipulation from a single exposure.
You are right though that this look very much like an HDR
The funny thing is that apple also uses cups for printing, right? x_x
It is more than that. Apple actually owns CUPS. They bought it in 2007
and muscle mass counts in body index too. But BMI 40 *is not right*.
Well yes it counts but not in the right way. As in it makes no difference if your BMI is 40 and you are all muscle or if you are all fat, . In both cases you are labelled obese and this is wrong. There is nothing scientific or medical about the BMI. it is just a meaningless made-up value created to dispense the medical professionals from actually doing their job and save money at the expense of the patients. It is much easier and cheaper to say, "your BMI is too high, go on a diet before I actually check you up... next!"
Since the new Slackware 64-bit is a multilib distribution the other direction should work fine as well.
Well not quite, the new Slackware64 is not currently multilib. It puts the 64bit lib in /usr/lib64 to allow the user to add 32bit libs in /usr/lib if required but does not contain any 32bit libs itself.
I suspect a procedure that would work would be something along the lines of:
1) install (not upgrade) the new 64bit kernel
2) install (not upgrade) glibc-solibs
3) reboot using the new 64bit kernel in init 1
4) upgrade tar and pkgtools packages
5) upgrade every thing.
6) do some clean-up
7) reboot
Disclaimer: this is not tested, use at your own risk:-) This is not an exhaustive list and one probably should make sure to user the huge kernel as mkinitrd may not create the right image until every thing is installed. This may cause an issue for people using software RAID and/or LVM on their / mount point
Point 2 - Slackware upgrades are braindead simple and are indeed supported. UPGRADE.TXT [slackware.com] always details how. As upgradepkg is simply remove the old package and install the new one (while being intellegent with config files) I don't see why you couldn't simply remove the old i386 packages and replace them with x86_84 ones. In a perfect world anyway.
True, Slackware updates are fairly simple these days and tools like slackpkg make life even simpler (or more boring depending on your point of view).
However upgrading from a 32bit to a 64bit distro is quite different, especially when the 64bit version is not multilib. As soon as the glibc-solibs package gets upgraded things will stop working (the libs will be 64bit and the leftover binaries such as tar will be 32bit).
Like Olympics '08? Maybe sport competition isn't your game, (it's not really mine either), but I felt truly shafted when I couldn't view the videos on the Olympics' site this year on my Linux box.
Well here in the UK, the BBC were making the event available using their flash video player (but only to UK IPs). So despite not being really into sport, I did watch it some of the time. As I said the content is usually available somewhere else...
If that guy wants linux users to view his site, then he should use a technology that linux users can use. Silverlight is not the only technology to do the job. None of them are perfect. but when that guy made the decision to use silverlight, he knew that linux users were not going to be able to view his site. So no, he is not losing viewers because MS doesn't fully support silverlight. He chose a technology according to certain criteria and made the decision that linux users were not the target ones or not relevant enough.
It is exactly the same as writing a site in ways that only IE can display properly ( or the contrary as I have been know to do due to our user base)
Personally I don't really care about silverlight. if a site I go to uses it, then I assume that I am not the target user and go somewhere else. It is neither here nor there, the information will be available somewhere in another more friendly format, and if not, then I didn't really wanted to see it anyway.
PDF and SWF have exactly the same status at this point. both format are free with the specifications released but still under control of adobe.
No; the SWF spec is available but only under a license agreement that says you're not allowed to use it to write your own player. That's the difference.
Err...
you can download the specs from http://www.adobe.com/devnet/swf/ and it doesn't mention any license agreement one would need to agree to beforehand. On the contrary, the page specifically says:
The SWF file format is available as an open specification to create products and technology that implement the specification.
I'd be interested to know where you found the license agreement requirement.
PDF and SWF have exactly the same status at this point. both format are free with the specifications released but still under control of adobe. every one can create software to read of create either formats.
Adobe releases a free (as in beer) proprietary reader for each formats and make money on their own creator software.
So I am not quite sure what you are trying to prove. The business model for flash and acrobat is the same.
Actually, it is filed in from the known_hosts files, both global and user specific. you also don't need to specify the user:
ssh [tab][tab]
will list all the hosts and IPs you have used in the past.
I wish it would complete the -o flag, but it doesn't on my system.
There is an exception to this which is valid in this case. The trademark in question (if it is a trademark, as the submission is not explicit here), is the last name of the person owning the domain. In this case, the last name should take precedence over the trademark unless it was registered "in bad faith".
It appears that the Respondent registered the Domain Name in order to be identified by his surname, in line therefore with the provision of paragraph 4(c)(ii) of the Policy.[...]The use of one's own surname in a domain name corresponds to a legitimate customary practice and is, as a rule, sufficient evidence of a legitimate right or interest in the domain name. The scope of the Policy is limited to cybersquatting. Trademark owners shall not be allowed to use the Policy to dispossess summarily a third party of a domain name reflecting his or her surname (G.A. Modefine S.A. v. A. R. Mani, WIPO Case No.D2001-0537).
The thing is, the last thing INTEL wants at this point is for AMD to disappear as well. Their competition over the last few years has driven the industry forward and I doubt INTEL doesn't recognise this.
The death of AMD would be rather bad for Intel in the long run as well as for the industry.
Well actually, Windows has version numbers too but it is not shown to the user unless you ask for it (eg. winver), but to be fair, the version of the linux kernel is usually not shown to the user either unless you ask for it (eg. uname).
Where version numbers tend to be relevant is usually related to drivers and hardware compatibility. This is also the case with the linux kernel, especially if you are dealing with the vanilla one.
It is useful for users to have some sort of numbering to also report bugs. I would hate to have to provide support when it is impossible to determine the environment which is causing a problem.
a guess: CMYK colour space?
seeing that the main target is the printing industry, it would make sense.
Well actually it still is a chicken and egg problem. Linux users will only start opening their wallet to by applications when those applications are available. I would buy a Linux version of Photoshop if it was available, but it isn't. I pay for my version of Slackware because I think it is the right thing to do, and I have payed for crossover office when I needed it. Maybe I am alone here but somehow I don't think so.
One of the other reasons why some companies use Linux in their devices, is also because it is know by many to be stable and secure. that is also why they actually advertise the fact that the device is running Linux and therefore attracts customer from the Linux users. At some point these companies will have to take the risk of supplying software or support to Linux, some companies already do and the fact that OEMs like Dell or Acer are starting to provide hardware with some versions Linux installed as an alternative to Windows, we will probably start seeing some support from software vendors as well.
Try "links -g" one day from your console. (hints it use svgalib)
Well all I can see looking at the config files is that on slack 11.0, both raid.s and huge26.s have support for the 3Ware 7xxx and 8xxx series (2.6 adds support to 9xxx series). so basically it is basically intended to work. If it doesn't I guess there is something that is missing in the kernel config., and therefore it might be a good idea to notify upstream (i.e. in this case, Patrick) with if possible a solution.
Well funny that, but looking at the kernel config, the hugesmp.s version shows:
If this is not 3ware support out of the box, I don't know what it is.
There has always been several kernels you can boot from at install time. on 12.0 the huge-smp should be the one to use by preference as it contains pretty much every drivers available built-in.
on previous version of slackware the booting kernel raid.s contains support for 3ware scsi and ataraid.i has the SATA raid bit.
As for the large file support, other have already picked up on that but this is entirely not true. I have been making and burning dvd images since 10.1 (didn't have a dvd burner before that so I cannot comment for previous version)Yes Acrobat linux seems to be vulnerable to this and in this case we have no way to upgrade to version 8 as it is not available for linux yet. Switching off javascript in the preferences fixes the problem and fortunately, unlike under windows, the application doesn't come up with the message about the lack of javascript crippling functionality.
There is nothing in the article accounting for the legal responsibility of what happens if indeed someone gets unintentionally (or intentionally) in the way and gets killed. would it be the person pressing the trigger or the person behind who actually aimed. it would be a rather tricky legal case.
The blind person would argue that he/she simple pressed the trigger when told to in the belief that he/she was shooting some game. the person who aimed would say that they did indeed said not to shoot as something happened at the last second but that the other person ignored the warning or was too slow to react.
Here neither parties are entirely in control of the situation, therefore how can legal responsibility be fully established?
These ones are much more recent but they make me laugh every time I see them... but it might just be me!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpY2Ei02lKI: Powerbook
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHWDAomz2CY: I Mac