I don't see what the big deal is with source RPMs - something malicious could just as easily be put into the source tree and then you would only be compiling it yourself. (But with your very own optimizations, it might just run that much faster!!:)
The answer is more just to d/l [source,binary] packages directly from trusted sources. I certainly don't drag a rake through all the source of the packages I compile!
Just get the stuff from someone you trust. Although I remember hearing something a few years ago that even Redhat doesn't truly check every package's source thoroughly. (Which is completely understandable, provided they excercise some caution.
I would think that this just shows Machiavelli's Principle that it is better to be feared than loved. The Russians were taking huge losses, throughout the war. I do know that Stalin tried many things, including putting more units behind the front lines to "clean up" those that retreated. If you know your superior is going to shoot you if you stand still, why the hell not charge the damn guns?
But Machiavelli wasn't dumb and the way they protrayed this _was_. They supposedly had one rifle for 2 soldiers and sent some up without rifles to pick up ones that were dropped from those who were killed. When these people retreated, they were mowed down by this gattling gun from their own side.
Hey! Why don't you shoot the Germans with the gattling gun! Why not put it on the front line somewhere!
I just have a hard time any military leader would keep a piece so vital for mowing down his own deserters who are deserting in the first place because they lack guns at all...
Yeah, I thought that the sex scene was a little unneeded. O.k., so you had to continue living in really harsh times - keep the spirit up and so forth. But I didn't think it needed to be that explicit. They could have implied that happened by moving the camera off for a second or two on the people lying nearby - that would have presented the idea as well if not better.
I was sitting there wondering a bit why these things _need_ to be shown. They don't add to the reality and it made me question the "15 [years plus]" rating it got over here. It was explicit enough, I think, that it could have belonged in some adult romantic comedy, et al., but seemed out of place here.
It also made me wonder about the girl getting a urinary tract infection - they didn't seem too clean.:)
You know, you can mod me down for this little observation - though I don't think it's justified. But isn't it a little interesting that people always mock KDE because it is so Microsoftish and all the "cool geeks" use Gnome when, in all actuality, the lead Gnome man always seems to praise and follow Microsoft openly? Bonobo for instance, then SOUP?
I'm not making a judgement on all of this, but it always seems so hypocritical to me.
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Much as I hate to join in these silly flame pickles, I don't think (as your login suggests) that pet owning is slavery. Indeed, many pets have shown a commensalism with man over many hundreds of years (dogs, cows). What would have happened to the stupid cow if we hadn't found a use for it? Well, they wouldn't be nearly as abundant today, that's for sure. They gauranteed the survival of their species by being a use to us. You'll find the same things elsewhere, such as lichens.
I've done a "decent" amount of reading in hematology (being a 3rd med) and I can't seem to reconcile some things. Some things just don't stand up.
In blood, there are (as the article points out) a number of stem cells which, while they retain their ability to differentiate, also give off progeny as needed. These progeny are then directed, by various growth factors in turn directed by the biological needs, to differentiate into the various cells. Theoretically, all blood cells (with the exception of red blood cells or erythrocytes) retain the complete genetic code.
But I can't see how it can really be reversed. White blood cells aquire a bunch of different organelles within them depending on their decided function. Do they loose these organelles too? Or do they just regain the ability to differentiate?
What might happen is that certain regulators which prevent certain things from happening in cells may be removed.
But does anyone really think that "just" the needed things are removed? If the cells in your heart or skin suddenly regained the ability to differentiate into anything, they would still first be respective cells of those parts. My (limited) guess is that they've just removed regulating factors and that probably brings the cells closer to neoplastic (a.k.a. uncontrolled cell growth) and that's about it.
Also, some of the top hematologists would be reviewing this paper before it was "not accepted" in a number of journals. Don't you think that these journals would be aching to be the ones to publish something so legendary? In the end, I can't see how "forgetting" to add something to the media suddenly would do this. I wish they'd let out more information.
I think this is very insightful. I may have gone into CS but I hated that the people generally have no lives outside computers (so I went into medicine (? in some ways not that much better!:)). But I couldn't stand it that those people also were so anti-social (some of them at least). I remember being at an early Linux meeting at Research Triangle Park and sitting in some restaurant for dinner after a number of days of non-stop linux and hearing them go on even more about it. I was about to go nuts! (So I dragged them out to a frat party at some UNC frat - much better night!)
But be serious. Let this kid get out some and learn about life - in the end that's going to do him (and by extension others) more good than some string theory.
You know, the biggest argument in favor of so many linux distributions is the whole IBM PC clones vs. Apple MAC sovereignty thing. PCs dominate the world today because the spec was opened up. MACs, Suns, whatever languish as niche products (in the largest market of all, at least) because they're controlled.
...women can see up to 30% more colors than men, so if a woman doesn?t think your outfit matches, she is probably right, go change)...
What? I have *never* heard this one. I'm currently a med student and have been more or less "in the neuro field" for some time before that. Perhaps I'm wrong, but I'd love to see where that came from. A reference please?
Gosh, people are calling 700Mhz machines slow already? I just built an 800Mhz Athlon over summer (I know, but still) and while I've been enjoying it - I haven't really gotten any good proc-intensive games for it - infact, I still have an "Old" Voodoo3 2000 PCI in it. Man. Passed out on the 3D superhighway already?!?!?!
You know - I had a lot of problem with the point people mentioned: that you needed to have so many libraries loaded just to run a simple program such as gtop, for example; I agree with this. But now I see that is a completely different paradigm than what Miguel sees. That doesn't worry him because he wants those libraries on every distribution. He, probably like the KDE people, assumes that those will be standard on every linux setup. I'm not too sure how I feel about that though.
You know I hate to sound umfy umfy, but he said he had to run each monitor at 320x204. What kind of resolution is that?
I was an intern at SGI for some silly number of times (6 I think) and we once had this Saturday Quake I match back in the days of pre-hwaccel PCs. We were using Indigo 2's but every now and then we'd take a turn and each plan on the Onyx2 Infinite Reality: 3 monitors at 1280x1024. Now *that's* peripheral vision!:)
You know, he comments a lot on the size of the linux kernel, but 700k isn't really that large in my mind. In days where computers are shipping with at least 64Megs of ram, 0.7k isn't much to ask for the guts.
The fact that linux can scale down to embedded systems speaks for how well it was written.
BesidesHow many people are using the wonderfully fully-functioned QNX as their main desktop OS?? anyone??
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I don't see what the big deal is with source RPMs - something malicious could just as easily be put into the source tree and then you would only be compiling it yourself. (But with your very own optimizations, it might just run that much faster!!
The answer is more just to d/l [source,binary] packages directly from trusted sources. I certainly don't drag a rake through all the source of the packages I compile!
Just get the stuff from someone you trust. Although I remember hearing something a few years ago that even Redhat doesn't truly check every package's source thoroughly. (Which is completely understandable, provided they excercise some caution.
Man, do you think Jobs will crush this clone maker too? Or will he just let them clean up???
Mod this one up! Guffah!
I would think that this just shows Machiavelli's Principle that it is better to be feared than loved. The Russians were taking huge losses, throughout the war. I do know that Stalin tried many things, including putting more units behind the front lines to "clean up" those that retreated. If you know your superior is going to shoot you if you stand still, why the hell not charge the damn guns?
But Machiavelli wasn't dumb and the way they protrayed this _was_. They supposedly had one rifle for 2 soldiers and sent some up without rifles to pick up ones that were dropped from those who were killed. When these people retreated, they were mowed down by this gattling gun from their own side.
Hey! Why don't you shoot the Germans with the gattling gun! Why not put it on the front line somewhere!
I just have a hard time any military leader would keep a piece so vital for mowing down his own deserters who are deserting in the first place because they lack guns at all...
Yeah, I thought that the sex scene was a little unneeded. O.k., so you had to continue living in really harsh times - keep the spirit up and so forth. But I didn't think it needed to be that explicit. They could have implied that happened by moving the camera off for a second or two on the people lying nearby - that would have presented the idea as well if not better.
I was sitting there wondering a bit why these things _need_ to be shown. They don't add to the reality and it made me question the "15 [years plus]" rating it got over here. It was explicit enough, I think, that it could have belonged in some adult romantic comedy, et al., but seemed out of place here.
It also made me wonder about the girl getting a urinary tract infection - they didn't seem too clean.
You know, you can mod me down for this little observation - though I don't think it's justified. But isn't it a little interesting that people always mock KDE because it is so Microsoftish and all the "cool geeks" use Gnome when, in all actuality, the lead Gnome man always seems to praise and follow Microsoft openly? Bonobo for instance, then SOUP?
I'm not making a judgement on all of this, but it always seems so hypocritical to me.
Yes, I'd like to know this too...
Great, more junk in space!
Much as I hate to join in these silly flame pickles, I don't think (as your login suggests) that pet owning is slavery. Indeed, many pets have shown a commensalism with man over many hundreds of years (dogs, cows). What would have happened to the stupid cow if we hadn't found a use for it? Well, they wouldn't be nearly as abundant today, that's for sure. They gauranteed the survival of their species by being a use to us. You'll find the same things elsewhere, such as lichens.
I've done a "decent" amount of reading in hematology (being a 3rd med) and I can't seem to reconcile some things. Some things just don't stand up.
In blood, there are (as the article points out) a number of stem cells which, while they retain their ability to differentiate, also give off progeny as needed. These progeny are then directed, by various growth factors in turn directed by the biological needs, to differentiate into the various cells. Theoretically, all blood cells (with the exception of red blood cells or erythrocytes) retain the complete genetic code.
But I can't see how it can really be reversed. White blood cells aquire a bunch of different organelles within them depending on their decided function. Do they loose these organelles too? Or do they just regain the ability to differentiate?
What might happen is that certain regulators which prevent certain things from happening in cells may be removed.
But does anyone really think that "just" the needed things are removed? If the cells in your heart or skin suddenly regained the ability to differentiate into anything, they would still first be respective cells of those parts. My (limited) guess is that they've just removed regulating factors and that probably brings the cells closer to neoplastic (a.k.a. uncontrolled cell growth) and that's about it.
Also, some of the top hematologists would be reviewing this paper before it was "not accepted" in a number of journals. Don't you think that these journals would be aching to be the ones to publish something so legendary? In the end, I can't see how "forgetting" to add something to the media suddenly would do this. I wish they'd let out more information.
I think this is very insightful. I may have gone into CS but I hated that the people generally have no lives outside computers (so I went into medicine (? in some ways not that much better!
But be serious. Let this kid get out some and learn about life - in the end that's going to do him (and by extension others) more good than some string theory.
Support issues? So let loki support it. I'm sure they'd love to.
You know, the biggest argument in favor of so many linux distributions is the whole IBM PC clones vs. Apple MAC sovereignty thing. PCs dominate the world today because the spec was opened up. MACs, Suns, whatever languish as niche products (in the largest market of all, at least) because they're controlled.
What? I have *never* heard this one. I'm currently a med student and have been more or less "in the neuro field" for some time before that. Perhaps I'm wrong, but I'd love to see where that came from. A reference please?
I'm no big time auction guru, but isn't this a little screwy? That umpa-umpa dude raised it 10 Grand bidding against himself...
Gosh, people are calling 700Mhz machines slow already? I just built an 800Mhz Athlon over summer (I know, but still) and while I've been enjoying it - I haven't really gotten any good proc-intensive games for it - infact, I still have an "Old" Voodoo3 2000 PCI in it. Man. Passed out on the 3D superhighway already?!?!?!
O.k., Now, over here. If we take a look at the bathroom... AAHHH [rat tat tat] [bang!] [BOOM]
... Phew. O.k. I think you'll _both_ like this little touch. Note the oak panels and marble sink and...
Hey! A secret passage behind the toilet! Quick! In Here!
You know of all the people to criticize unix, I never thought the mac people would have the gall to.
Hey, buddy. My operating system doesn't grind to a halt when I click on menus.
[grin]
Well, a better "summary" is at Alan's page here.
You know - I had a lot of problem with the point people mentioned: that you needed to have so many libraries loaded just to run a simple program such as gtop, for example; I agree with this. But now I see that is a completely different paradigm than what Miguel sees. That doesn't worry him because he wants those libraries on every distribution. He, probably like the KDE people, assumes that those will be standard on every linux setup. I'm not too sure how I feel about that though.
You know I hate to sound umfy umfy, but he said he had to run each monitor at 320x204. What kind of resolution is that?
:)
I was an intern at SGI for some silly number of times (6 I think) and we once had this Saturday Quake I match back in the days of pre-hwaccel PCs. We were using Indigo 2's but every now and then we'd take a turn and each plan on the Onyx2 Infinite Reality: 3 monitors at 1280x1024. Now *that's* peripheral vision!
Shouldn't they make these available for download too? I want my free shirt!!
Hook me up with napster and let me download a tshirt!
But we knew this. This is really how they sent all those baddies on that crystal in Superman to earth. If it wasn't for this, we would ave been safe.
We also would have been safe from the "Share the software song". My guess is that's how RMS found it - it's clearly an alien microbe kind of tune.
As a developer I refuse to link my applications with GNOME because it has taken a few good concepts and gone WAY overboard.
Tell me about it. I triend compiling the latest and greatest sawfish the other day and couldn't because it looked for all these gnome libs! Bye bye!
You know, he comments a lot on the size of the linux kernel, but 700k isn't really that large in my mind. In days where computers are shipping with at least 64Megs of ram, 0.7k isn't much to ask for the guts.
The fact that linux can scale down to embedded systems speaks for how well it was written.
BesidesHow many people are using the wonderfully fully-functioned QNX as their main desktop OS?? anyone??