No penguin during bootup for me. I want the kernel info.
Guess you haven't looked at the graphical boot, then. Assuming you're talking out-of-the-box Linux, that penguin sits at the top of the screen peacefully, while kernel info and init scripts scroll by.
It says right in the Constitution that the president is the "Commander in Chief" of the armed forces, right? That means that he has the full ability to take the armed forces, order them to march into the House and Senate floors while they're in session, and kill every single congressional leader in the country, leaving him dictator (well, he'd have to take out the Supreme Court justices too, but you get the jist of it).
You're assuming the generals would pass that order along, and the troops would follow it.
Instant messaging is just another nifty lil' thing that everybody lived without it, but now that it appeared, people gives too much importance
for it.
People lived without computers for thousands of years, and got along just fine. Doesn't mean they haven't become very important.
People lived without shoes for thousands of years, and got along just fine.
People have lived without instant messaging for thousands of years. This does not mean it will not become very important in the near future.
You're monitoring your email every 5 minutes; sounds like you're taking a stab at instant messaging anyway, just with a 5 minute delay instead of a 5 second one. If you really don't want to be interrupted, you should be checking your email a couple of times a day, not all day long.
I always thought "Geeks" were very right-wing in most aspects of life but this confirms my thoughts that you are all just a bunch of lefty trendy PC dogooders.
No, dumbass, it was sarcasm; if America wasn't good at making war, there'd be no anti-Semitism because the Nazis would have slaughtered all the Jews.
How sad is it that the US finds the Berne Convention to be important enough to sign, but not the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
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The initial investment to give any region fusion power will be enough to keep it out of reach from third world nations for a long time.
Irrelevant. The more fusion power we use, the more oil will be available for those third world nations to generate their own power, and the cheaper that oil will be (due to decreased demand.)
In the long term, the cheaper power will decrease the cost of American goods, which will increase the ability of the First World to aid the Third.
The people using the non-renewable resources will benefit from this. EVERYONE will benefit from this.
In other words, there are some people on slashdot whose spend on disks (RAID arrays, etc.) are going to be equivalent to 100s of ordinary home users. I'm likely to spend to have influence over around $1 million worth of RAID arrays and disks over the next few years on my own... and that's just me...
I could toss similar numbers around too, but the fact is that I don't get to tell Sun, EMC, or Hitachi what brand of disks I want in those servers and arrays. I just tell 'em how big.
They're not just prohibiting the seller contacting potential buyers, they're prohibiting bidders from contacting the seller offline.
That's right, if you click on that web page link to somebody's store, you're violating eBay policy.
Perhaps their usage policy has changed since I signed up, but I don't remember agreeing to check my First Amendment rights to free speech and free association at the door.
People get injunctions to prevent POSSIBLE harm all the time.
As for spelling and grammar, contracts get nullified over that all the time too.
There is no meeting of the minds if you write a contract that you intend to say one thing, and I think it says something else because your grammar was bad. Without a meeting of the minds, there is no contract; what you thought you signed and what I thought I signed were two different things, and that's not a contract.
This is the only way that Linux will get accepted into the mainstream. Look at windows help, it's very easy and searchable, and they are a million intro to's, classes, cdroms etc..
Windows became a desktop standard WITHOUT all of that stuff pre-existing. That all came along after Windows became popular.
Of course, none of this will be able to happen without a set of standards.
What standard did Windows follow, again?
Computer standards (that work) aren't pushed down from above, they're pulled up from below.
The LSB will succeed because it will adopt successful things. Whatever interface standard is eventually dominant in Linux will be successful first, then made standard, not the other way around.
Not only that, but the customers, because of a change in the terms of the contract, would have to resign the contract if they were to agree to the new terms.
Has anybody managed to sue eBay for similar terms in their contract?
Elimination of used book sales and libraries would probably be to the guild's benefit.
Nope. All writers are voracious readers, with no more than a small handful of exceptions.
People don't become writers unless they love to read, and people who love to read quickly find out that used book stores and libraries enable them to get a lot more reading done.
The guild is cutting off their nose to spite their face, and their members will eventually figure it out.
You know, if Jeff Bezos bought a $1 lottery ticket, won $30 million, and gave the entire thing as one lump-sum check to UNICEF, we'd have angry letters from Feed the Children and the Salvation Army saying he'd picked the wrong charity, and posts on Slashdot saying that he'd cheated some poor person out of that money would get moderated "insightful".
Gimme a fuckin' break, Author's Guild and everybody else; selling used books is LEGAL. Amazon is conducting LEGAL BUSINESS. Get over it.
The whole dotcom stock bubble is going to wreak terrible havoc on the economy. The next ten years will be as major a dislocating event as the Great Depression was. It will redefine what it means to be an American, and probably not for the better.
This actually applies to anyone who's reading this: if you need to switch jobs, do so now.
I completely disagree. If you move now, the company you move to may start laying off the less-senior employees in six months.
If you wait until *AFTER* the bust, any company that hires you is probably counting on building, not shrinking, and has probably already cleaned house.
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No penguin during bootup for me. I want the kernel info.
Guess you haven't looked at the graphical boot, then. Assuming you're talking out-of-the-box Linux, that penguin sits at the top of the screen peacefully, while kernel info and init scripts scroll by.
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It says right in the Constitution that the president is the "Commander in Chief" of the armed forces, right? That means that he has the full ability to take the armed forces, order them to march into the House and Senate floors while they're in session, and kill every single congressional leader in the country, leaving him dictator (well, he'd have to take out the Supreme Court justices too, but you get the jist of it).
You're assuming the generals would pass that order along, and the troops would follow it.
I doubt that either is true.
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In some cases, management are the ones asking that they steal the code, and programmers might intentionally leave those easter eggs in.
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Since then, they've taken the download down, and put up a message about "enhancements".
I wonder what kind of enhancements; the inclusion of source code, or the removal of distinguishing marks...
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Instant messaging is just another nifty lil' thing that everybody lived without it, but now that it appeared, people gives too much importance
for it.
People lived without computers for thousands of years, and got along just fine. Doesn't mean they haven't become very important.
People lived without shoes for thousands of years, and got along just fine.
People have lived without instant messaging for thousands of years. This does not mean it will not become very important in the near future.
You're monitoring your email every 5 minutes; sounds like you're taking a stab at instant messaging anyway, just with a 5 minute delay instead of a 5 second one. If you really don't want to be interrupted, you should be checking your email a couple of times a day, not all day long.
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There'd be no anti-semitism?
I always thought "Geeks" were very right-wing in most aspects of life but this confirms my thoughts that you are all just a bunch of lefty trendy PC dogooders.
No, dumbass, it was sarcasm; if America wasn't good at making war, there'd be no anti-Semitism because the Nazis would have slaughtered all the Jews.
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The japs would maybe rule the Pacific but the nazi's would have been defeated by the Soviets; the Soviets won the war in Europe, not the Americans.
England was on the verge of surrender. France was gone. Russia didn't give a shit about either.
Without the US, Russia and Germany would have eventually come to an agreement and divided up the world.
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Yeah, the world would really be much better off if America had never developed the ability to make war so well.
For instance, all the trains would run on time, and there'd be no anti-Semitism to worry about any more.
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You're right that everyone will benefit from this, but we're going to benefit the most.
Yep; everyone will benefit, and the people who spent the hundreds of billions of dollars to make it happen will benefit the most.
Is that somehow a bad thing?
If a hunter shoots a deer, and cuts it up into enough portions for the entire family plus two for himself, is that somehow wrong?
Of course we should benefit the most; we spent all the money. Of course others should benefit as well; we're human beings.
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How sad is it that the US finds the Berne Convention to be important enough to sign, but not the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
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The initial investment to give any region fusion power will be enough to keep it out of reach from third world nations for a long time.
Irrelevant. The more fusion power we use, the more oil will be available for those third world nations to generate their own power, and the cheaper that oil will be (due to decreased demand.)
In the long term, the cheaper power will decrease the cost of American goods, which will increase the ability of the First World to aid the Third.
The people using the non-renewable resources will benefit from this. EVERYONE will benefit from this.
Assuming it works.
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In other words, there are some people on slashdot whose spend on disks (RAID arrays, etc.) are going to be equivalent to 100s of ordinary home users. I'm likely to spend to have influence over around $1 million worth of RAID arrays and disks over the next few years on my own... and that's just me...
I could toss similar numbers around too, but the fact is that I don't get to tell Sun, EMC, or Hitachi what brand of disks I want in those servers and arrays. I just tell 'em how big.
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They're not just prohibiting the seller contacting potential buyers, they're prohibiting bidders from contacting the seller offline.
That's right, if you click on that web page link to somebody's store, you're violating eBay policy.
Perhaps their usage policy has changed since I signed up, but I don't remember agreeing to check my First Amendment rights to free speech and free association at the door.
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Will our boycott really matter?
We're boycotting Winmodems, remember.
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People get injunctions to prevent POSSIBLE harm all the time.
As for spelling and grammar, contracts get nullified over that all the time too.
There is no meeting of the minds if you write a contract that you intend to say one thing, and I think it says something else because your grammar was bad. Without a meeting of the minds, there is no contract; what you thought you signed and what I thought I signed were two different things, and that's not a contract.
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These guys make me feel like a piker.
A poor migrant to California?
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This is the only way that Linux will get accepted into the mainstream. Look at windows help, it's very easy and searchable, and they are a million intro to's, classes, cdroms etc..
Windows became a desktop standard WITHOUT all of that stuff pre-existing. That all came along after Windows became popular.
Of course, none of this will be able to happen without a set of standards.
What standard did Windows follow, again?
Computer standards (that work) aren't pushed down from above, they're pulled up from below.
The LSB will succeed because it will adopt successful things. Whatever interface standard is eventually dominant in Linux will be successful first, then made standard, not the other way around.
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Not only that, but the customers, because of a change in the terms of the contract, would have to resign the contract if they were to agree to the new terms.
Has anybody managed to sue eBay for similar terms in their contract?
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Elimination of used book sales and libraries would probably be to the guild's benefit.
Nope. All writers are voracious readers, with no more than a small handful of exceptions.
People don't become writers unless they love to read, and people who love to read quickly find out that used book stores and libraries enable them to get a lot more reading done.
The guild is cutting off their nose to spite their face, and their members will eventually figure it out.
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You know, if Jeff Bezos bought a $1 lottery ticket, won $30 million, and gave the entire thing as one lump-sum check to UNICEF, we'd have angry letters from Feed the Children and the Salvation Army saying he'd picked the wrong charity, and posts on Slashdot saying that he'd cheated some poor person out of that money would get moderated "insightful".
Gimme a fuckin' break, Author's Guild and everybody else; selling used books is LEGAL. Amazon is conducting LEGAL BUSINESS. Get over it.
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So let's see.
We lack the materials science to build it, the transportation science to obtain the counter-weight, and the funds to make it all happen.
We've got everything else, though. We're home-free.
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Why in the world would you use Redhat if you need a distribution that can auto-update?
Exactly my point.
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It has been released for some time now - look for up2date 2.1.7
A week isn't a very good match for "some time" but thanks for the info!
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They've also been promising an up2date that works through firewalls "in a couple of weeks" since at least October.
They won't respond to emails inquiring about this, either; not even to say "we don't have a time estimate yet".
So, I just continue to report to my Fortune 100 employer that RedHat doesn't have an auto-update solution yet, and doesn't respond to email.
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The whole dotcom stock bubble is going to wreak terrible havoc on the economy. The next ten years will be as major a dislocating event as the Great Depression was. It will redefine what it means to be an American, and probably not for the better.
This actually applies to anyone who's reading this: if you need to switch jobs, do so now.
I completely disagree. If you move now, the company you move to may start laying off the less-senior employees in six months.
If you wait until *AFTER* the bust, any company that hires you is probably counting on building, not shrinking, and has probably already cleaned house.
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