And Olorin. You know, Gandalf. Gandalf was, in actuality a Maiar who wanted to remain after the Valar sealed themselves away. Not exactly a fallen Maiar, like Sauron or Balrogs. Make for odd family reunions though
Actually, in the beginning of the Third Age, the Valar sent 5 of the Maia to Middle Earth to guard against the return of Sauron. Their powers were limited to ward against the corruption of the other Maia who had gone to middle earth(the who absolute power corrupts absolutely thing) though they obviously were immensely powerful. These are the Istari- Saruman the White, leader of the council, Gandalf the Grey, Radagast the Brown, and two others who wore blue robes and went into the east prior to Fellowship(at least one joining the pirate bands south of Mordor) and were effectively non players since the ejection of Sauron from Mirkwood. And as we saw, only two of them still supported good at the opening of LOTR(Gandalf and Radagast) and only Gandalf was fully commited to his original charge. But in the end, it was enough. Gandalfs interest in the people of middle earth, especially the Hobbits, was thankfully enough in the end for the mission of the Istari to be a success, despite the total loss of two of the 5, treason of a third(Saruman), and general apathy of a fourth(Radagast).
The tale of the Istari can be a lesson- Radagast was lost in his animals and plants, and lost touch with his mission to protect the free peoples from lack of contact with sentients. Saruman felt his powers elevated him above those he was charged with defending, thus was corrupted thoroughly. Gandalf however, he was engaged with people- He made friends of all, Kings down to the lowest peasant were treated as equals. These connections grounded him and enabled him to use his great power with responsibility and honor, and to the benefit of all life.
Tolkien may not have knowingly set out to teach moral lessons when he wrote, but they crept in anyways.
Here in Milford CT they seem to have stopped... and they never had a problem if you just said "I'd prefer not to give you my address". And no, I don't go there enough for them to recognize me on sight .
It has gone from tool for supervising internet access to a replacement for said supervision. When my stepdaughter is old enough to actually use teh internet, we will use some form of blocking software- But no form of censorware will be put on our system that does not a) Allow us to override false positives and other sites we think she should be able to see and b) Allow us to add sites to the blocklist.
Censorware that can do both of those things can be a major help to parents and educators. If it misses either capability, it is worse than useless.
Depends on the state. CT it would be legal or illegal, legal by the age of consent but potentially illegal for damaging the morals of a minor(AOC is 15, the morals law goes away at 16). Several states have an age of consent set at 14 or 15. I believe 14 is the lowest in the US.
The V-22 is a solid aircraft. It has had four crashes since its introduction. All the problems that have come up are resolveable. It is absolutely needed. The faked maintenance records are the result of a few yes-men officers who were more worried about their careers than the combat effectiveness of the aircraft. You can bet that the V-22 test squadron will be watched heavily for any funny business. THat will not happen again. In a year or two, it will be ready for full production.
Simple. Patent it normally, and then license it for free use in GPL products. You don't have to license it at all, and if you do you set the costs and restrictions on use.
I skimmed through the patent- 90% of what it does is clear prior art... statements of how the internet works, and references to dialing up for the information...
NASA provides valuable services. Knowledge, they drive a lot of advanced aerospace research, several technologies from the space program have made there way back to earth. And if the population doesn't level off and level off soon, the research of the US, Russia, and other nations space programs will be critical to getting the excess population a new home.
Also, ask a mountain climber why he or she climbs. Very likely you will get the answer "Because it is there". That alone is reason to struggle for a goal.
NASA to survive must fight back against claims like the moon hoax. If they don't, more people may buy the claims and the resultant drop in public support will decrease their funding to dangerously low levels.
I don't want to be the President whos told by his NASA head that "Sir, if you had signed that bill giving us more money two years ago, we would have noticed that planet killer asteroid in time to stop it. Unfortunately, our only hope now is Bruce Willis."
They are all designed with the user firmly in mind. Other distros focus on the capabilities, and are often superior on technical merits or for specific purposes, but those three get high marks for ease of use. Heck, I saw a screenshot of Lycoris and first thought was "How long til MS sues them for copying the XP look and feel". IT was damn near identical. ANd MAndrake is phenomenal, though severely bloated(to MS levels unfortunately) in their default installations.
The true power of Linux is that you have these choices. They share a common base, so they can all run the same software, yet each distribution focuse on taking that base into a specific direction, allowing you to decide what- Stability, light load on the system, small space required, raw speed, ease of use, etc- that is most important to you, and you can get exactly what you want from the OS.
"You must get a lot of laughs then, because I've seen that clause in a LOT of online and offline agreements. Basically if the law says a particular clause doesn't hold up in court the rest isn't invalid. IANAL of course so I can't say how legal that position is."
I'd bet it is legal. The US Governments non disclosure agreement for vieing classified material-Valid for 50 years for normal stuff, 70 for SCI(super sensitive information with sources detailed)- has the same clause. I doubt the CIA which developed the agreement would have put that in there if it wouldn't actually help.
"In Superman they've created a superhero who is just too strong to be beaten."
Thats why Smallville is worth watching(though I don't, no TV in my room grr..). His powers are still manifesting, and as a teenager, he still struggles with moral dillemas rather than seeing it all in black and white. What gets me most about Superman, is there is little moral struggle. It may have developed more though, been a while since I read comics of any sort regularly.
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"I distinctly remember batman taking a swing at superman after robin got killed off. he just about broke his hand"
True, but remember that was a snap action of rage, not a measured plan of attack. Assuming Batman is not making a snap raged attack, they are about even.
DOn't forget, Superman has defeated opponents who tried the Kryptonite thing before. It would be even all things considered, unless the fight was in one of the twos home cities, in which case the native would have an immense advantage.
In a straight up fair fight, Supermans immense strength and speed could trounce Batman.
However, Batman is less concerned with notions of honor. Batman fights to win. Plus, the creativity shown by his gadgets could be a big help. I'd put my money on a draw, Batmans mind and greater willingness to use dirty tricks playing off against Supermans raw power. If he could get hands on Kryptonite, I'd say batman would have a slight edge, though, Superman has learned to deal with enemies who have the stuff over the years, which evens it out again.
So, I say it would be a draw, assuming a battlefield that did not inherently favor or impede either of them. Though in Metropolis, Supermans knowledge of the place would probably carry him to victory, same with Gotham for Batman.
"You cannot stream a track over the Internet while burning it. It just won't work."
Occasionally, mind you this is rare, I get transfer rates well exceeding the speed of a 2x burner. On those rare occasions, I have the bandwith that if I shut down everything not needed for the stream and burn, and the CPU power, I could pull off burning at 1x or 2x while downloading. Mind you, I'd have to have a clear connection here(uncapped cable modems only go so far when the network is congested) and a clear connection at the server, as well as all points in between. But it isn't too unusual for my to see download rates around 250KB/s and sometimes over 500... Not common though.
This is the first time the big labels have done soemthing like this to my knowledge. They aren't going to replace their main business model yet. They will test the waters, and tweak things according to their pocketbooks. If they see that it can make money, they will look at what customers say about it- What would get customers to spend more money here, and what would bring more customers into the fold. Whatever tweaks get them the most money they will make. Use the service if you can afford it, and make damn sure the company knows what you like, what you don't like, and what new things you want to see added that could get you to spend more. They may well ignore your recommendations. But if you don't let them know what they are, they WILL ignore them.
The F-4E was the first F-4 variant with an internal gun. And in dogfights, once pilots figured out how to take advantage of the greater speed and engine power of the F-4 over its MiG counterparts of the time, it ended up being a superior dogfighter, though, that was largely due to the fact that the average US pilot got more training and more practice flight time thant the average enemy pilot. The Wild Weasel was the F-4G which was taken out of service shortly after the Gulf War, EA-6B's from the Navy and Marine Corps as well as F-117's from the Air Force pull that duty nowadays.
The entire concept of that lawsuit was bullshit from the start. It should have been laughed at when initially filed and NEVER should have gone to trial.
"The F-117 is so far as I know strictly a strike fighter...
No, not a fighter. No air-to-air missiles, no guns."
A strike fighter is the current designation for what used to be called a light bomber.
"It probably could be fitted for interceptor duty...
No, that would be very stupid."
Didn't say it would be smart, just that it could be done. If the shit hit the fan so hard that that was a good idea rather than simply a plausible or a "just in case we need to" idea, we've already lost. I actually hope they develop some sort of air to air system for the F-117... Incidentally, the first US aircraft for which stealth was a concern, the SR-71, had a carrier based interceptor variant, the A-12, that never got into production, though the concept was basically sound.
"...the F-15 was the American response, a good bit slower but with a bigger payload and unbelievably superior maneuvaribility.
No, the F-15 is an air superiority fighter, that can also be used as a strike fighter/bomber."
The F-15 program was begun in response to witness reports of the MiG-25 at a Moscow airshow in the 70's. We went overboard. We thought we were facing a super fighter, we weren't. And the F-15 was initially designed strictly as an air superiority/interceptor aircraft to replace the F-4 Phantom in the US Air Force inventory. It wasn't until the E variant first flown in combat(with 0 losses) in the Gulf War that it gained specific design features for ground attack. It was used in that role somewhat before, but the strike role wasn't a design feature until the F-15E. Prior to the F-15E the primary strike fighters of the US Air Force were the F-4 and the F-111.
Another cool thing about the F-15 is it was the first US fighter with the ability to accelerate going straight up, and I think the F-16 is the only other that can. Theoretically, they could launch it as a rocket, straight up, though the fuel expenditure would be obscene not to mention the aerodynamics of the aircraft would make it a hideously risky venture that has no value apart from a proof of concept.
Hmm... On this note, with Darwin being open sourced, how feasible is it to port Darwin to x86(probably fairly easy as far as OS ports go) and then provide an emulation layer to translate between the Mac hardware that the rest of OSX expects and the x86 it is actually running on? I imagine a dedicated team could do this in a few months... And within a year or so it would be ready for everyday use. This is pure speculation, I do know much of the BSD code darwin is based on already runs on x86, I just don't know how tough emulation would be for the non BSD derived portions of the OS.
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And Olorin. You know, Gandalf. Gandalf was, in actuality a Maiar who wanted to remain after the Valar sealed themselves away. Not exactly a fallen Maiar, like Sauron or Balrogs. Make for odd family reunions though
Actually, in the beginning of the Third Age, the Valar sent 5 of the Maia to Middle Earth to guard against the return of Sauron. Their powers were limited to ward against the corruption of the other Maia who had gone to middle earth(the who absolute power corrupts absolutely thing) though they obviously were immensely powerful. These are the Istari- Saruman the White, leader of the council, Gandalf the Grey, Radagast the Brown, and two others who wore blue robes and went into the east prior to Fellowship(at least one joining the pirate bands south of Mordor) and were effectively non players since the ejection of Sauron from Mirkwood. And as we saw, only two of them still supported good at the opening of LOTR(Gandalf and Radagast) and only Gandalf was fully commited to his original charge. But in the end, it was enough. Gandalfs interest in the people of middle earth, especially the Hobbits, was thankfully enough in the end for the mission of the Istari to be a success, despite the total loss of two of the 5, treason of a third(Saruman), and general apathy of a fourth(Radagast).
The tale of the Istari can be a lesson- Radagast was lost in his animals and plants, and lost touch with his mission to protect the free peoples from lack of contact with sentients. Saruman felt his powers elevated him above those he was charged with defending, thus was corrupted thoroughly. Gandalf however, he was engaged with people- He made friends of all, Kings down to the lowest peasant were treated as equals. These connections grounded him and enabled him to use his great power with responsibility and honor, and to the benefit of all life.
Tolkien may not have knowingly set out to teach moral lessons when he wrote, but they crept in anyways.
Here in Milford CT they seem to have stopped... and they never had a problem if you just said "I'd prefer not to give you my address". And no, I don't go there enough for them to recognize me on sight
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It has gone from tool for supervising internet access to a replacement for said supervision. When my stepdaughter is old enough to actually use teh internet, we will use some form of blocking software- But no form of censorware will be put on our system that does not a) Allow us to override false positives and other sites we think she should be able to see and b) Allow us to add sites to the blocklist.
Censorware that can do both of those things can be a major help to parents and educators. If it misses either capability, it is worse than useless.
Depends on the state. CT it would be legal or illegal, legal by the age of consent but potentially illegal for damaging the morals of a minor(AOC is 15, the morals law goes away at 16). Several states have an age of consent set at 14 or 15. I believe 14 is the lowest in the US.
OOL does have up/down caps. They are 10Mbps down, 1Mbps up. Not bad:)
The V-22 is a solid aircraft. It has had four crashes since its introduction. All the problems that have come up are resolveable. It is absolutely needed. The faked maintenance records are the result of a few yes-men officers who were more worried about their careers than the combat effectiveness of the aircraft. You can bet that the V-22 test squadron will be watched heavily for any funny business. THat will not happen again. In a year or two, it will be ready for full production.
I haven't found a linux newsreader that even comes remotely close. Thats the biggest reason.
Simple. Patent it normally, and then license it for free use in GPL products. You don't have to license it at all, and if you do you set the costs and restrictions on use.
I skimmed through the patent- 90% of what it does is clear prior art... statements of how the internet works, and references to dialing up for the information...
NASA provides valuable services. Knowledge, they drive a lot of advanced aerospace research, several technologies from the space program have made there way back to earth. And if the population doesn't level off and level off soon, the research of the US, Russia, and other nations space programs will be critical to getting the excess population a new home.
Also, ask a mountain climber why he or she climbs. Very likely you will get the answer "Because it is there". That alone is reason to struggle for a goal.
NASA to survive must fight back against claims like the moon hoax. If they don't, more people may buy the claims and the resultant drop in public support will decrease their funding to dangerously low levels.
I don't want to be the President whos told by his NASA head that "Sir, if you had signed that bill giving us more money two years ago, we would have noticed that planet killer asteroid in time to stop it. Unfortunately, our only hope now is Bruce Willis."
Check out Mandrake, Lindows, or Lycoris.
They are all designed with the user firmly in mind. Other distros focus on the capabilities, and are often superior on technical merits or for specific purposes, but those three get high marks for ease of use. Heck, I saw a screenshot of Lycoris and first thought was "How long til MS sues them for copying the XP look and feel". IT was damn near identical. ANd MAndrake is phenomenal, though severely bloated(to MS levels unfortunately) in their default installations.
The true power of Linux is that you have these choices. They share a common base, so they can all run the same software, yet each distribution focuse on taking that base into a specific direction, allowing you to decide what- Stability, light load on the system, small space required, raw speed, ease of use, etc- that is most important to you, and you can get exactly what you want from the OS.
"You must get a lot of laughs then, because I've seen that clause in a LOT of online and offline agreements. Basically if the law says a particular clause doesn't hold up in court the rest isn't invalid. IANAL of course so I can't say how legal that position is."
I'd bet it is legal. The US Governments non disclosure agreement for vieing classified material-Valid for 50 years for normal stuff, 70 for SCI(super sensitive information with sources detailed)- has the same clause. I doubt the CIA which developed the agreement would have put that in there if it wouldn't actually help.
"In Superman they've created a superhero who is just too strong to be beaten."
Thats why Smallville is worth watching(though I don't, no TV in my room grr..). His powers are still manifesting, and as a teenager, he still struggles with moral dillemas rather than seeing it all in black and white. What gets me most about Superman, is there is little moral struggle. It may have developed more though, been a while since I read comics of any sort regularly.
"I distinctly remember batman taking a swing at superman after robin got killed off. he just about broke his hand"
True, but remember that was a snap action of rage, not a measured plan of attack. Assuming Batman is not making a snap raged attack, they are about even.
DOn't forget, Superman has defeated opponents who tried the Kryptonite thing before. It would be even all things considered, unless the fight was in one of the twos home cities, in which case the native would have an immense advantage.
In a straight up fair fight, Supermans immense strength and speed could trounce Batman.
However, Batman is less concerned with notions of honor. Batman fights to win. Plus, the creativity shown by his gadgets could be a big help. I'd put my money on a draw, Batmans mind and greater willingness to use dirty tricks playing off against Supermans raw power. If he could get hands on Kryptonite, I'd say batman would have a slight edge, though, Superman has learned to deal with enemies who have the stuff over the years, which evens it out again.
So, I say it would be a draw, assuming a battlefield that did not inherently favor or impede either of them. Though in Metropolis, Supermans knowledge of the place would probably carry him to victory, same with Gotham for Batman.
Reminds me of a joke about Afghanistan:
Q: Whats the 7 day forecast for Afghanistan?
A: Three days.
Everyone knows what evil dictators use.
12345.
Bet he has it on his luggage too.
"You cannot stream a track over the Internet while burning it. It just won't work."
Occasionally, mind you this is rare, I get transfer rates well exceeding the speed of a 2x burner. On those rare occasions, I have the bandwith that if I shut down everything not needed for the stream and burn, and the CPU power, I could pull off burning at 1x or 2x while downloading. Mind you, I'd have to have a clear connection here(uncapped cable modems only go so far when the network is congested) and a clear connection at the server, as well as all points in between. But it isn't too unusual for my to see download rates around 250KB/s and sometimes over 500... Not common though.
Calm down.
This is the first time the big labels have done soemthing like this to my knowledge. They aren't going to replace their main business model yet. They will test the waters, and tweak things according to their pocketbooks. If they see that it can make money, they will look at what customers say about it- What would get customers to spend more money here, and what would bring more customers into the fold. Whatever tweaks get them the most money they will make. Use the service if you can afford it, and make damn sure the company knows what you like, what you don't like, and what new things you want to see added that could get you to spend more. They may well ignore your recommendations. But if you don't let them know what they are, they WILL ignore them.
The F-4E was the first F-4 variant with an internal gun. And in dogfights, once pilots figured out how to take advantage of the greater speed and engine power of the F-4 over its MiG counterparts of the time, it ended up being a superior dogfighter, though, that was largely due to the fact that the average US pilot got more training and more practice flight time thant the average enemy pilot. The Wild Weasel was the F-4G which was taken out of service shortly after the Gulf War, EA-6B's from the Navy and Marine Corps as well as F-117's from the Air Force pull that duty nowadays.
The entire concept of that lawsuit was bullshit from the start. It should have been laughed at when initially filed and NEVER should have gone to trial.
"The F-117 is so far as I know strictly a strike fighter...
No, not a fighter. No air-to-air missiles, no guns."
A strike fighter is the current designation for what used to be called a light bomber.
"It probably could be fitted for interceptor duty...
No, that would be very stupid."
Didn't say it would be smart, just that it could be done. If the shit hit the fan so hard that that was a good idea rather than simply a plausible or a "just in case we need to" idea, we've already lost. I actually hope they develop some sort of air to air system for the F-117... Incidentally, the first US aircraft for which stealth was a concern, the SR-71, had a carrier based interceptor variant, the A-12, that never got into production, though the concept was basically sound.
"...the F-15 was the American response, a good bit slower but with a bigger payload and unbelievably superior maneuvaribility.
No, the F-15 is an air superiority fighter, that can also be used as a strike fighter/bomber."
The F-15 program was begun in response to witness reports of the MiG-25 at a Moscow airshow in the 70's. We went overboard. We thought we were facing a super fighter, we weren't. And the F-15 was initially designed strictly as an air superiority/interceptor aircraft to replace the F-4 Phantom in the US Air Force inventory. It wasn't until the E variant first flown in combat(with 0 losses) in the Gulf War that it gained specific design features for ground attack. It was used in that role somewhat before, but the strike role wasn't a design feature until the F-15E. Prior to the F-15E the primary strike fighters of the US Air Force were the F-4 and the F-111.
Another cool thing about the F-15 is it was the first US fighter with the ability to accelerate going straight up, and I think the F-16 is the only other that can. Theoretically, they could launch it as a rocket, straight up, though the fuel expenditure would be obscene not to mention the aerodynamics of the aircraft would make it a hideously risky venture that has no value apart from a proof of concept.
Hmm... On this note, with Darwin being open sourced, how feasible is it to port Darwin to x86(probably fairly easy as far as OS ports go) and then provide an emulation layer to translate between the Mac hardware that the rest of OSX expects and the x86 it is actually running on? I imagine a dedicated team could do this in a few months... And within a year or so it would be ready for everyday use. This is pure speculation, I do know much of the BSD code darwin is based on already runs on x86, I just don't know how tough emulation would be for the non BSD derived portions of the OS.
Go to netcraft and check out www.army.mil.
You may find it interesting:)