Because it's not an interesting problem. It's a fucking boring problem if _you_ have to deal with it. But it's interesting to read about because it's the kind of thing you probably haven't thought about if you don't compile distributions. I meant what I wrote.
I suppose believing tha vacuum tubes are coming back is quite bad, but I actually fell for the story on/. 3 or 4 years ago about scientists having cracked Cold Fusion. Now _that_ was bad.:)
But in Gibson's world the corporations had government-like powers. At the moment, public servants don't really go job-hopping (well, maybe within the same department) unless they're political appointments. Plus, in the books corporations are like violent dictatorship-style governments, unlike what we have now.
When M$ (or Sun, or Cisco, or General Motors, or any of the other mega-corps out there) actually demonstrates via trials or whatever that they have more power than the government, then it's time to worry...
I'm not sure if this is the same problem I have with the local HTTP proxy here running on NT/IIS, but a technical description of what is happening and how to implement the authentication for HTTP proxies is here and here respectively.
This would be a good point if governments could be trusted. However, as pointed out above somewhere, they are not even remotely interested in the good of the people, but in their own little power trips and MONEY. As such, the government is probably worse than most of the criminals out there and I would not want them being able to access my movements, just in case they make up some new laws or something... Anyway, what's legal today might not be tomorrow and might even not be taken into account... Look at reverse-engineering in Norway.
Its better that they patent it than having fossil fuel companies buying them out and nobody ever finding out how its done. At least with a patent the knowledge is in the public domain, or will get there eventually.
But a litre of algae isnt very much. If you take say a 50x20x2 metre pool of the stuff (I think thats about the same as an olympic swimming pool, but Im not sure) then it will produce 6000 litres of hydrogen an hour, if I havent messed up the calculations. This is a more realistic way of looking at things, because nobody is going to try to make fuel using only a litre of algae.
Now what I would really like to know is how efficient are hydrogen-based engines and how far would these 6000 litres go? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?
So? Your second sentence is not true. They just work the hours and dont tell the government. My boss has clearly stated several times that overtime is not paid in our company, but at 8 or 9 pm the office is still mainly full.
Perhaps I should clarify that I live in Spain and the working day here ends at 7pm because lunch is 2 hours and working time is 8 hours not 7.5. Oh, and the salaries suck hard as well...:(
Will it be emulation or hardware compatibility? I am under the impression it was the latter, but its been a while since Ive looked up anything about the psx2, so my memory could be failing me...
...FUDnet? Disguise them as "corporate info" and "independent benchmarks" and put them on fudnet.microsoft.com for people to be able to make informed decisions about serious issues.:)
I also think a decent interview is in order. However, while the questions could be fashioned by the/. community, there should be a real live person from the staff conducting it to counter all the stupid remarks with further questions and prevent the article from looking like the Salon one.
Anonymous posting is useful because it allows (just one example...) somebody who works inside a company being discussed in an article to write negative comments about their company without fear of reprisals.
Change of subject: What I do think, however, is that anonymous posting should only be anonymous to the readers, not to the site. i.e. You must be logged in to post, but there is always the option box for posting as an AC. This can be logged for up to 24h, for example, and thus the comments cannot be held against the user but truly stupid first post/hot grits/natalie portman posts can simply result in the user being terminated.
I say Rob should put back the feature that automatically places a first-post on each article. (If you dont know what Im talking about, have a read of the Slash code...)
True. A better idea would be to use the sensors on the boat to generate a moving image that corresponds to what you are feeling. That way all you need are VR glasses, and you can forget about the inner-ear manipulation.
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Arent the dragonflys aerodynamics what inspired helicopters? Just thought I heard that somewhere...
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Now this I can accept. I promise to think about what I write next time. ;)
I'd never heard emacsen, but VAXen is commonly used for multiple VAX machines, I believe.
Because it's not an interesting problem. It's a fucking boring problem if _you_ have to deal with it. But it's interesting to read about because it's the kind of thing you probably haven't thought about if you don't compile distributions. I meant what I wrote.
Because he's talking about the Linux kernel specifically, not the operating system as a whole.
I believe I read somewhere that this is because mod_perl is not ready for Apache 2 yet. I could be wrong, of course... :)
Alternatively, you could abide by the law....
I suppose believing tha vacuum tubes are coming back is quite bad, but I actually fell for the story on /. 3 or 4 years ago about scientists having cracked Cold Fusion. Now _that_ was bad. :)
But in Gibson's world the corporations had government-like powers. At the moment, public servants don't really go job-hopping (well, maybe within the same department) unless they're political appointments. Plus, in the books corporations are like violent dictatorship-style governments, unlike what we have now.
When M$ (or Sun, or Cisco, or General Motors, or any of the other mega-corps out there) actually demonstrates via trials or whatever that they have more power than the government, then it's time to worry...
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This would be a good point if governments could be trusted. However, as pointed out above somewhere, they are not even remotely interested in the good of the people, but in their own little power trips and MONEY. As such, the government is probably worse than most of the criminals out there and I would not want them being able to access my movements, just in case they make up some new laws or something... Anyway, what's legal today might not be tomorrow and might even not be taken into account... Look at reverse-engineering in Norway.
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Now what I would really like to know is how efficient are hydrogen-based engines and how far would these 6000 litres go? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?
Dave
Perhaps I should clarify that I live in Spain and the working day here ends at 7pm because lunch is 2 hours and working time is 8 hours not 7.5. Oh, and the salaries suck hard as well... :(
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I also think a decent interview is in order. However, while the questions could be fashioned by the /. community, there should be a real live person from the staff conducting it to counter all the stupid remarks with further questions and prevent the article from looking like the Salon one.
Dave
Change of subject: What I do think, however, is that anonymous posting should only be anonymous to the readers, not to the site. i.e. You must be logged in to post, but there is always the option box for posting as an AC. This can be logged for up to 24h, for example, and thus the comments cannot be held against the user but truly stupid first post/hot grits/natalie portman posts can simply result in the user being terminated.
Just an idea...
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Arent the dragonflys aerodynamics what inspired helicopters? Just thought I heard that somewhere...