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Re:The problems of British industry... come on!LOL ! Take a look at France, too:
- The airtrain (Aerotrain)
- Aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle
- Nuclear waste reprocessing, heh ? What about SuperPhenix?
- Oh, yeah, Concorde as well, France was so proud about it
- The infamous "ligne Maginot"
- Minitel, so successful in France, but not to be found anywhere else
- "La 5eme Republique" which brought the country on the verge of chaos on 2002-04-21
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2 Words ....
... Maginot Line
Not the blunder it's made out to be
vous invitent à entrer dans le monde captivant de
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(virtual tour you english speaking creten)
Pics & Discussion Forum
What has this got to do with LILO ? Just a reminder that security is more about subtance than style ... and that one might want to look behind the GUI loaders before leaping. -
Is slashdot going mainstream???
Is Slashdot going mainstream??? I mean, going like mainstream media : addicted to sensationalist story that look so until you read the actual story???
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Re:Marconi Corp. GPL's the "Morse Code" stack
In a move that rocked the open source community, the Marconi Corp. today announced plans toGPL their "Morse Code" telegraphy protocol stack, formerly widely used for telegram transmission.
You laugh, but when Marconi started supplying wireless sets to ships, more than 100 years ago, the contract specifically forbade radio operators from communicating with ships with non-Marconi radio equipment...
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Open source wins anyway...
Either way, whether Microsoft opens it or not, this clearly shows that the weight of the idea behind open-source software has on the largest software company is far from being negligible.
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After all, why not?(First post?)
Who knows? This may bring about more good to Microsoft, too.
- Millions of eyes will be trained on Windows bugs, and what may not itch some microserf will mightily itch someone else...
- Microsoft may see that there are better OS cores (did I hear someone say "kernel"?) than what it currently offers... So, who knows, it may churn out Microsoft Wine
... - This may signal a new beginning of absolute interoperability; software could run easily on much more platforms...
- Some zealots could even port Windows for the Macintrash...
- Or why doesn't Microsoft realize that it could benefit from OSing it's OSs? It could concentrate on lucrative application markets, and leave the debugging of the software running the servers to the people who have a bigger stake at having it bugless...
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Ha! You can kiss firewire goodbye...
Ooops! I guess that Apple's decision to require license fees for each Firewire connector was the first nail in Firewire's coffin...
See what happens when you'te too greedy? People just ignore you...
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Whoa!!!!
1.13 For Open Source applications, which license is most preferable to your organization see http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html for a GNU.ORG perspective of various Open Source licenses
Careful what you say here! Borland/Corel may end-up with a restrictive license!!!- GPL (GNU General Public License)
- LGPL (Lesser GPL)
- Mozilla
- QPL
- Any license recognized by the Open Source Initiative
- Does not matter
- Other
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What a fucking bunch of MORONS!!!
December 1980 Prototype
THIS IS INFURIATING, AND TERMINALLY STUPID!!!Browser-like display with individually resizable panes.
(Looks a lot like the NeXT-style "Browser View" coming in Mac OS X, doesn't it?)One of the biggest reasons I CANNOT stand the Macintrash is that (on the version of the Finder I used last) when you had a long enough file name, the end of it got hidden under the file size, and that you cannot (could not?) resize the individual columns.
They had solved my principal Macintrash peeve 10 years before I started to use those beige boxen !!!!
Bunch of morons!
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Did i forget anything?Yes: hot grits
What are grits, anyway???
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Re:For a lawyer...
so maybe France will just seize all those tanks and F16s that the US has on the bases it rents from Germany...
Why would they bother? Their Rafale and Mirage aircrafts are much better than those flying jitneys...
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Re:Allies spying on one another? NOOOOO!!!!!!
There was once a project to build a dish antenna (a damn BIG one) for the NSA that was intended to pick up faint radio signals that were being reflected by THE MOON. I believe this project was cancelled. The engineering problems were myriad to say the least.
The one I heard about was about a satellite, whose body is as big as a delivery van, with a parabolic antenna that, deployed, is on the order of 30 meters wide, used to intercept russian microwave links leaks.The satellite would be on a geostationary orbit. It must have been no mean feat to put that big a thing that high!!!
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Funny, eh...
Yankees are very quick to denounce France about individual freedoms, but whenever they are TRULY endangered, either by hare-brained governmental schemes (like Echelon), or by big corporations, guess who is the staunchest parangon of individual liberties?
Certainly not the country who has Babylon-on-the-Potomac for a capital...
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Re:Drivers are usually written by the manufacturer
Ultimately I think we need to get completely away from the notion of measuring things in pixels, or defining stored images as arrays of pixels. Once you do that, the problem more or less goes away.
This is a job for... DISPLAY POSTSCRIPT!!!
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Re:Comments on the situation.
Yes, the smithsonian is not a bastion of truth.
Indeed it is not. It's most notable lie is about the Wright Flyer, claimed to be the first "heavier-than-air" aircraft.Blatantly false! The honour belongs to Clément Ader's Éole , which flew as far back as 1890, in France.
The fact is that the Wright Brothers would not give the Smithsonian their (still) historic Flyer unless the Smithsonian claimed it was the FIRST "heavier-than-air" aircraft.
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Encrypt! Encrypt! Encrypt!
And you yankees are lucky enough to have the 5th amendment, so you can't be forced to disclose your encryption key!!!
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Re:UC San Diego and Linux/Unix
... and zippy Intel (NT) machines.
For pinhead computing???
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Re:Adobe's not for sale
Quark tried to take over Adobe a year and a half ago.
Yeah, but given Quirk's snotty snobbish attitude, it's a good thing they weren't able to get Adobe.
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Re:ISS == pointless
This is nice in theory but remember the ISS will be orbiting a few hundred scant miles while the moon is a couple hundred thousand miles and Mars is half an AU. In relative terms the ISS is not a stepping stone, rather a pepple displaced by your foot.
Learn about gravity wells, and then you'll understand that what you just posted is plain nonsense.
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Re:Dying? It's dead already...
What is needed is a better system for news sharing. Usenet has no decent moderation mechanism (Yes, you can Cancel messages, but it's inefective).
Just define a "X-SCORE:" and a "X-CATEGORY:" header field, and write a newsreader that supports a threshold, and supports moderating along categories, and voilà, Slashdot-style moderated USENET.
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A time capsule...I was getting weary of newsgroups, then french newsgroups started to appear as France is getting hooked-up.
Going there is like going back in time: not only everyone's overly nice to each other, but we regularly organize get-togethers, and, most importantly, when you ask a technical question, you have two or three world authorities on the subject that are more than happy to explain it to you. Just like USENET was back in 1994...
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Re:IBM gets it.
IBM, after their many year long anti-trust case, seem to have reformed. They are giving the code away, not under their own license, but under the one and only GPL. They can't claim it back. That shows a lot of understanding, and the will to play this game on our terms.
I would say that IBM finally understood what it really is: a hardware company.Now, when will Apple realize that they really are a software company???
(I wonder what kind of company Micro@£ is...)
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Re:ESR sez open source == free softwareand I'd recommend French speakers to stick to the term "software libre"
I'll drink to that!
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Re:Funny?To reiterate: I hope the AOL class-action filers loose.... and I hope that they, their lawyers, their friends, the press, and random people on the street get peeved enough about the loss that public pressure forces the government to dump the UCITA and implement the software equivilent of the automotive "lemon laws" on the books in many states.
You'll probably get a kick out of the http://www.overlawyered.com website, especially in the section about class-action lawsuits...
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Yes, but...
... can we punch those monkeys????
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Re:The first schizophrenic robot???
Before you never Forth with obviously programmed...
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Physicists...
Lord, can somebody teach those physicists the concept of the paragraph????
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The first schizophrenic robot???I guess that Marvin (the paranoïd androïd, of HHGTTG fame) is no longer the only robot with mental problems...
(seen on the p age describing the robot)
:> Nomad is a powerful computing platform. Its size allows all necessary
> processing to be performed on the robot. There are four computers on Nomad
> during this expedition. Two PCs running Windows NT control the panoramic
> camera, perform landmark based navigation, and run the autonomous
> classification software. A third computer running Red Hat Linux
> coordinates robot navigation and obstacle avoidance with the stereo
> cameras and the laser rangefinder.
> Finally, a VME processor cage with a Motorola 68060 processor controls
> Nomad's real-time processing, such as translation of driving commands
> into servo motor movements and the monitoring of all systems on Nomad.Now, let's introduce the schizo robot!!!
And I wonder what effet it will have to make the robot look through Microsoft-coloured glasses...
(Now, I wonder that OS runs on the 68060)...
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Three questions...What would you think is the best thing the computer community could do to help either your case or your cause?
What amount of parental and family support have you been getting?
Amongst your immediate inner circle of friends, would you say that whether they are computer knowledgeable or not has affected the amount of support/disapprocal they displayed towards yourself?
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Re:On to Spanish Harlem!165,000,000 = proper public education so the people who cannot pay for private schools do not end-up on welfare.
The problem is that it won't fly with the bourgeois mentality who need a steady flock of easily gullible people either to work for them or simply to buy the junk they sell...
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Re:IMAX movieActually, some 15 years ago, they DID take an Imax camera aboard a shuttle, and made a 30 minute flick out of it.
The most impressive part is when, in less than two minute, you see whe whole of Italy going by, on the screen, starting from the Piemonte and finishing in the Puglia.
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Re:I'm surprisedHGttG is fine, but it must be understood as a satire of most Science-Fiction genres and ideas.
(Does someone has a MP3ed version of the radio show? I NEVER heard it and would dearly like to) Not necessarly good as a first read, but definitely de rigueur as a digestive after swallowing some Larry Niven, Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, Alfred E. Van Vogt or Jack Williamson...
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Re:Starship Troopers> Where did the scene with the soldiers handing the kids the guns come from?
> The nazi uniforms? All creations of the moron directing it.Come to think of it, in that respect, Dune (the movie) wasn't much better; the Atréides House staff uniforms were definitely of tsarist russian inspiration...
But Dune, the movie, was an excellent adaptation of the book; you identified the characters (especially Thufir Hawat, Gurney Halleck & Duncan Idaho) at first sight...
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Just what we need!!!!
Now, we'll have crappy, bugful software for Linux...
What a sad day!!!!
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Re:For an excellent fictional treatment of this...> Sure, it's a perfect replica, but it's not me. If it walks
> like a nugget, and talks like a nugget, that's just not
> sufficient in my eyes.But it will be sufficient in the eyes of your friends and loved ones...
The ultimate irony: immortality which doesn't benefit it's incument at all!!!
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You don't need scanning...Some 15 years ago, I proposed to a Neural Netowrks researcher to hook his own brain to an external neural network, and use it as an extension of his brein. Over time, and as the neural net is expanded, more and more brain functions would have migrated to the neural net, and, given the redundant nature of the human brain, at one point, one would arrive to the point that the biological brain can simply be discarded.
Voilà! Immortality without scanning!But the researcher looked at me as if I asked him to jog naked around Times Square...
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You don't need scanning...
Some 15 years ago, I proposed to a Neural Netowrks researcher to hook his own brain to an external neural network, and use it as an extension of his brein. Over time, and as the neural net is expanded, more and more brain functions would have migrated to the neural net, and, given the redundant nature of the human brain, at one point, one would arrive to the point that the biological brain can simply be discarded.
Voilà! Immortality without scanning! But the researcher looked at me as if I asked him to jog naked around Times Square...
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Re:Or the washing machine.Actually, you could see in turn-of-the-century catalogs examples of washing machines that were powered by a garden-hose...
Yup! Turbo washing machines in 1904...
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Re:Transistor? ( maybe == valve but != relay)Was that a "Carbon pile" voltage regulator? For years, railroad passenger cars used an incredible contraption to regulate voltage: a "variable relay" where a varying control voltage applied through a solenoid exerced a variable mechanical pressure on a pile of carbon, thus varying it's resitance and allowing a crude regulation...
The idea was to have a constant voltage out of a variable one coming from the axle-driven generator. This was cool: by pushing the solenoid by hand, you could have all the lights in the car fluctuating wildly...
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Re:Here's my fourEr, sorry to burst your bubble, but the automobile was not invented in the XIXth century, but a good 100 years earlier than that.
The first automobile was invented in 1769 (Yup! 6 years before the US Revolution) by Nicholas-Joseph Cugnot who built a crude front-wheel drive steam-powered tractor, primarly intended to haul cannons.
Unfortunately, the limitations of the technology of the times did not enable him to address the problems inherent in developping a compact-enough steam engines.
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Railroads.The development of railroads in the XIXth century certainly did the most for Mankind.
By enabling cheap large-scale overland transportation of people and goods, the secular patterns of stagnating civilization that were the norm since the dawn of Humanity were irretrieavably shattered, leading to unprecedented wealth and freedom from the old demons of famin and isolation.
What? No, we're still in the XXth century, so the last century HAS to be the XIXth...
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Well, as it happens...... I just spent the whole yesterday cooped-up in a large walk-in closed with routers and hubs and servers.
The hubs are mounted on such a poor man's chassis, cheaply done:
Two parallel vertical plywood boards 19 inches apart (you could use 2x4s, actually), with one of those bolted "meccano"-like angled sheet metal strip with holes.
Voilà. Cheap rack.
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Re:defense>First, hearing what has happened to Jon Johansen sickens me. I always
> thought that the Scandinavian countries were wiser about the Internet than the
> US is -- look at how Sweden, Norway, & Finland have been at the forefront at defending
> the rights of their citizens against the manuevers of the ``Church" of
> Scientology to silence them.Like closing anon.penet.fi???
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Re:Deterrence> If you knew you could end up losing your computers, all your files and possibly your
> freedom, would you publically release something like DeCSS? Probably not, unless you've a yen
> for martyrdom.One word: "Backup", my dear, backup early and often.
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Re:My own first troll on /.> P.S. Yes, I used to play with Lego. And chemicals. Rockets. And old radios. Transistors. Repairing
> things. And so on. Any kind of toy which had screws in it.And now, what do you play with? Yourself?
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Not a total defeat, actually.> However, the Court refuses to issue an injunction against
> linking to other websites which contain the protected
> materials as such an order is overbroad and extremely
> burdensome. Links to other websites are the mainstay of the
> Internet and indispensable to its convenient access to the vast
> world of information. A website owner cannot be held
> responsible for all of the content of the sites to which it
> provides links. Further, an order prohibiting linking to
> websites with prohibited information is not necessary since the
> Court has enjoined the posting of the information in the first instance.> Nothing in this Order shall prohibit discussion, comment or
> criticism, so long as the proprietary information
> identified above is not disclosed or distributed.Finally, here is one of the robed gentry who has truly grasped the significance of the philosophical issues that lay behind the Internet.
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Re:Whacking the mole
We should all email this to Jack Valenti, c/o webmaster@mpaa.org...
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