Ok, so we've lost a few people in space exploration. You know what, that's what happens, that's what they signed up for, and... that's healthy. What's not healty is how oversensitive the Public seems to be to these losses. Yes, the shuttle is aging, yes we need a new syste, but we shouldn't abandon manned space flight. Without manned space flight, how will we ever escape the Earth? And sooner or later, the Earth is going to want to be rid of us. Or the sun will, and Earth won't have much choice in the matter.
Unix/Linux to Windows isn't exactly a dificult transition. And plenty of secondary schools (in the US at least) use MS Works as their office suite, which nobody uses in business either. So, it's not excactly like we're talking about a real problem anyway. Also, extrapolating 10 years into the future is very hard to do on the computer world. For typing a paper OpenOffice works as well as MS Office, and there will be about the same amount of change from either to whatever they use in the work environment. Also, OpenOffice allows for the students to cheaply get the same software at home. Oh, and lastly, using Linux allows the school to use lower powered machines with a thin client architecture more easily, reducing the amount of needed administration. It's also easier to make a Linux setup both locked down, and usefull at the same time.
That's why you fight dirty. Groin shots, gut shots, kick the bully when he's down. Do everything you can to destroy him. Strike without warning and without mercy. After you've started a few fights with bullies, and they think you are batshit insane, they'll back off. I know, I was a LOT smaller than the people around me when I was in school, but aggression and a willingness to take any amount of pain, and deliver any amount of pain will do a lot to keep people off you. Of course, I also got suspeneded from school a lot for fighting. YMMV
Here's the cool thing though. With Linux/Unix you can use diskless, or semidiskless workstations, where there is only one location where software is installed, making it easier to deal with than heterogenous desktops. If everyone has the same/usr then changes are kept in ONE place. If someone needs more software they request it from the admin, who can then install it on the NFS server. The users have no need to have root access. Ever. Users shouldn't be installing software, even in a Windows environment, that's what admins are for. As for comfort zone, it's a recession, adapt, or get laid off.
You really should put/home on its own partition. It saves a LOT of time if you have to reinstall, and it makes drive upgrades a little easier too. I often put it on a different physical disk from / and/usr.
No, with X you can display applications from multiple hosts on the same destop space. So you can run an app on your local machine, your machine at home, and the server you're admining all at the same time, displaying all three on your desktop, in a transparent manner. That means that hypothetically I could be looking at porn via my home computer, monitoring gtop on the server I admin, and pretending to be doing work all at the same time. Though, since X is a bitmaped protocol, it would make my porn viewing experiance suboptimal, and I never know if work is monitoring my screen, so I save the porn or home. Just saying I could.
You're assuming that the gun owners had even marginal agreement with those who were being shuffled off into "free speach zones" Also, said free speach zones serve a usefull purpose, in protecting free speach. Specifically the speach of those who are orcistrating the event that is being protested. It also protects the protesters physically from a crowd getting violent toward them, because they are offensive. Also, believe it or not, protecing the territory and people of the United States is something most gun owners in the US agree with as well. It's not unusual for civil rights to be restricted during time of war. It's also not unusual for those rights to be unrestricted after the war is over.
It's not about winning. It's far more akin to a suicide bombing. The point is that you believe in your cause enough to die for it. And maybe you get yourself an Honor Guard for Valhalla. The point is that other Americans will be moved by your courage and sacrifice for your beliefs. Even our elected officials are moved by such things. It's also a way of saying "I will not" to whatever they demand of you. Instead of buckling under, you die with your weapon in your hands, which is it's own type of winning, if you look at it with the right sort of viewpoint. Even if it doesn't matter in other countries, Honor and Courage are still held in high regard by most Americans. Also, the US has a large population of vetrens of that very same military. In fact, the last successfull armed rebellion in the US was by the vetrens of WWII on their return, where a county denied them their sufferange rights. Also, it's a perversion of the second ammendment that private citizens, and private armies do NOT have those advanced weapons.
Looking at what happened, Sprint did not unilaterally change the contract. The contract was for a period of 3 months, and then they offered a NEW contract to Cogent. Cogent did not depeer, and after a year, Sprint cut them off. Since Cogent did not wish to revise the contract, they should have disconnected that trunk. Also, if Cogent is routing Sprint packets to the bitbucket instead of through other channels, who does that make being the misbehaving party in this.
I dislike the term veto proof. A supermajority means that the veto is likely to be overridden, and when the margian is as great as it was for the DMCA it would greatly weaken the president to veto it, and force them to override it, but the president CAN veto any bill. It requires a separate vote to override it. Andrew Johnson vetoed many bills he thought were bad bills, and because the congress was overwhelmingly against him had more than half his vetos overridden, but he still vetoed them. Please be more careful with such terms in the future.
It's not veto proof. There is a seperate vote to override a veto. Often deals are made for votes, and seperate deals have to be made for the votes to override a veto. Or, seperate deals may be made for enough votes NOT to override the veto, if the minority side can swing the political capital. Heck, sometimes law makers even just change their mind, and vote their concience. By the way, be aware of the procedures before you rag on someone next time.
Sure you can. If you don't have a real OS disk, then you use the "restore" media that came with your machine, or that your OEM will provide at a nominal fee. Then you upgrade. if you have a real OS disk, then it simply asks you to insert it durring the install process. It's not THAT hard.
Sane and insane are not scientific terms. Besides, there are other means of being neurologically abnormal, so it would be better to say schitzophrenics and nonschitzophrenics. But I'm sure you know that. Besides, sane people would exclude many subsets of nonschitzophrenics, such as psycopaths, sociopaths, persons with cognative defects, and many others whom the courts have determined are not competent to tell the difference between right and wrong.
Ehh, that sucks. ATT has a tie in for family plans where for $30 a month the entire family plan gets unlimited text. My dad, sister, and I love it. ATT and Verizon also both have plans where you can get unlimited texting in the same network, usually with their 1000ish message plans. So, if you have a message plan, it's not that bad. If you are using your sms little enough that it doesn't make sense to have a plan, then, well, it's less than the outlay for a plan, unless you just get swamped.
AS A DEVELOPER data collection should be considered obtrusive. As a CUSTOMER you can make your own choices. It's not THAT hard to understand the difference. What this means is that when writing software, you should warn about it, but your customers are big boys, and if they are Ok with the data being collected, great.
It depends on where they are, and how their crops did. In many key food production parts of the country they didn't do so good. In some they made out like bandits. That's what happens when crops fail. If your crops fail, you're screwed. if someone else's crops failed, you're in the money, because people need to get food from somewhere.
Or if things go anything like the last few years, they can put crop in the ground, expending time and fuel, and watch as floods, drought, wildfires, hail, or any of a number of other things ruin their crop, and make it unharvestable. Then the insurance payments won't even be enough to pay the taxes on their farmland. Yep. The farmers are doing great. Wheat and Rice both have shortages, and if we were growing as much as we normally do, that would be great news for the US, but the yeilds just haven't been there in recent years and supprise, there is a worldwide shortage of many foodstuffs.
Um, where have you been living? The Crusades were a direct result of the MUSLIM invasion of the Holy land. I'll grand you the Spanish Inquisition, which though a reaction to the Muslims, was not perpetrated by the Muslims, and I'll grant that Cristians have been far more effective at killing Jews than the Muslims, but I won't attribute it to Muslim kindness, but simply to inefectuality. Back to the body count argument, if one were to shout "Allah loves gays" in a Muslim fundamentalist rally, there would be quite a few "friendly fire" incidents. Whereas if one were to shout "Jesus loves Gays" at a Christian fundamentalist group meeting, it is far more likely that only the person who shouted it would be killed, so the body count would indeed be higher with the Muslim group. Though I could be wrong. After all, a riot is not the sort of organised and systematic killing that Christians are good at.
Offtopic, but I'm say it anyway.
It's because the tired old Vorlon arguments come up so often too. Besides, wouldn't you rather have political discussion about it, than battle crabs in low orbit strafing out cities?
Yes, but a good chunk of the usage is in your buffers and cache. Linux is a very greedy operating system, and it gobbles up all the memory it can and says MINE! MOAR! and uses it to cache the contents of whatever it has accessed on the hard drive. The memory is still available to be used if something more important needs it, but until something more important does need it, it gets used up.
This becomes far less of an issue if you are willing to share with your squad mates. All of a sudden things like rotations apear out of nowhere. Just because it's not an officaly army sanctioned activity doesn't mean there's not an army way of doing things.
It means that some in the slashdot community already have. It's not allowed to be talked about, but one of the comfort items most desired in theater is porn. They aren't supposed to have it, and they can't get it in the PX, so they get it in letters from home, in nice little optical shiny packages, or they download it from FTP sites set up by their families, that don't get on the blacklist. Those who aren't so lucky, purchase it in theater, which apparently is a less than stellar option.
She is also a valid choice, and in fact the one used by Wizards of the Coast for the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game. It is also often used for items in english that do not have a sex, I do not say gender, because if you are calling the item he or she, you are declaring it to have such a gender, such as cars, ships, and other vehicles, however that are considered to have "personality". My point was not the specific pronoun to use, but rather that a singular personal pronoun should be used. Unless of course, they encompases more than one person, in which case, it does become the correct pronoun, regardless of if that more than one person is of one gender or of multiple genders.
Yes, but "HE" is gramatically correct, not "they". "It" would work, except that in english, "it" only refers to objects that are not people. The use of "he" for the gender neutral pronoun has faded in recent decades, because of feminism, however it is still the gramatically correct form. (Please forgive any spelling errors, I'm posting from work, and don't have firefox to spell check for me.)
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Ok, so we've lost a few people in space exploration. You know what, that's what happens, that's what they signed up for, and... that's healthy. What's not healty is how oversensitive the Public seems to be to these losses. Yes, the shuttle is aging, yes we need a new syste, but we shouldn't abandon manned space flight. Without manned space flight, how will we ever escape the Earth? And sooner or later, the Earth is going to want to be rid of us. Or the sun will, and Earth won't have much choice in the matter.
Unix/Linux to Windows isn't exactly a dificult transition. And plenty of secondary schools (in the US at least) use MS Works as their office suite, which nobody uses in business either. So, it's not excactly like we're talking about a real problem anyway. Also, extrapolating 10 years into the future is very hard to do on the computer world. For typing a paper OpenOffice works as well as MS Office, and there will be about the same amount of change from either to whatever they use in the work environment. Also, OpenOffice allows for the students to cheaply get the same software at home. Oh, and lastly, using Linux allows the school to use lower powered machines with a thin client architecture more easily, reducing the amount of needed administration. It's also easier to make a Linux setup both locked down, and usefull at the same time.
That's why you fight dirty. Groin shots, gut shots, kick the bully when he's down. Do everything you can to destroy him. Strike without warning and without mercy. After you've started a few fights with bullies, and they think you are batshit insane, they'll back off. I know, I was a LOT smaller than the people around me when I was in school, but aggression and a willingness to take any amount of pain, and deliver any amount of pain will do a lot to keep people off you. Of course, I also got suspeneded from school a lot for fighting. YMMV
Here's the cool thing though. With Linux/Unix you can use diskless, or semidiskless workstations, where there is only one location where software is installed, making it easier to deal with than heterogenous desktops. If everyone has the same /usr then changes are kept in ONE place. If someone needs more software they request it from the admin, who can then install it on the NFS server. The users have no need to have root access. Ever. Users shouldn't be installing software, even in a Windows environment, that's what admins are for. As for comfort zone, it's a recession, adapt, or get laid off.
You really should put /home on its own partition. It saves a LOT of time if you have to reinstall, and it makes drive upgrades a little easier too. I often put it on a different physical disk from / and /usr.
Leto III Atredies. Not Leto II Leto II was Paul's first son, and killed by the Sardukur.
No, with X you can display applications from multiple hosts on the same destop space. So you can run an app on your local machine, your machine at home, and the server you're admining all at the same time, displaying all three on your desktop, in a transparent manner. That means that hypothetically I could be looking at porn via my home computer, monitoring gtop on the server I admin, and pretending to be doing work all at the same time. Though, since X is a bitmaped protocol, it would make my porn viewing experiance suboptimal, and I never know if work is monitoring my screen, so I save the porn or home. Just saying I could.
You're assuming that the gun owners had even marginal agreement with those who were being shuffled off into "free speach zones" Also, said free speach zones serve a usefull purpose, in protecting free speach. Specifically the speach of those who are orcistrating the event that is being protested. It also protects the protesters physically from a crowd getting violent toward them, because they are offensive. Also, believe it or not, protecing the territory and people of the United States is something most gun owners in the US agree with as well. It's not unusual for civil rights to be restricted during time of war. It's also not unusual for those rights to be unrestricted after the war is over.
It's not about winning. It's far more akin to a suicide bombing. The point is that you believe in your cause enough to die for it. And maybe you get yourself an Honor Guard for Valhalla. The point is that other Americans will be moved by your courage and sacrifice for your beliefs. Even our elected officials are moved by such things. It's also a way of saying "I will not" to whatever they demand of you. Instead of buckling under, you die with your weapon in your hands, which is it's own type of winning, if you look at it with the right sort of viewpoint. Even if it doesn't matter in other countries, Honor and Courage are still held in high regard by most Americans. Also, the US has a large population of vetrens of that very same military. In fact, the last successfull armed rebellion in the US was by the vetrens of WWII on their return, where a county denied them their sufferange rights. Also, it's a perversion of the second ammendment that private citizens, and private armies do NOT have those advanced weapons.
Looking at what happened, Sprint did not unilaterally change the contract. The contract was for a period of 3 months, and then they offered a NEW contract to Cogent. Cogent did not depeer, and after a year, Sprint cut them off. Since Cogent did not wish to revise the contract, they should have disconnected that trunk. Also, if Cogent is routing Sprint packets to the bitbucket instead of through other channels, who does that make being the misbehaving party in this.
I dislike the term veto proof. A supermajority means that the veto is likely to be overridden, and when the margian is as great as it was for the DMCA it would greatly weaken the president to veto it, and force them to override it, but the president CAN veto any bill. It requires a separate vote to override it. Andrew Johnson vetoed many bills he thought were bad bills, and because the congress was overwhelmingly against him had more than half his vetos overridden, but he still vetoed them. Please be more careful with such terms in the future.
It's not veto proof. There is a seperate vote to override a veto. Often deals are made for votes, and seperate deals have to be made for the votes to override a veto. Or, seperate deals may be made for enough votes NOT to override the veto, if the minority side can swing the political capital. Heck, sometimes law makers even just change their mind, and vote their concience. By the way, be aware of the procedures before you rag on someone next time.
Sure you can. If you don't have a real OS disk, then you use the "restore" media that came with your machine, or that your OEM will provide at a nominal fee. Then you upgrade. if you have a real OS disk, then it simply asks you to insert it durring the install process. It's not THAT hard.
Sane and insane are not scientific terms. Besides, there are other means of being neurologically abnormal, so it would be better to say schitzophrenics and nonschitzophrenics. But I'm sure you know that. Besides, sane people would exclude many subsets of nonschitzophrenics, such as psycopaths, sociopaths, persons with cognative defects, and many others whom the courts have determined are not competent to tell the difference between right and wrong.
Ehh, that sucks. ATT has a tie in for family plans where for $30 a month the entire family plan gets unlimited text. My dad, sister, and I love it. ATT and Verizon also both have plans where you can get unlimited texting in the same network, usually with their 1000ish message plans. So, if you have a message plan, it's not that bad. If you are using your sms little enough that it doesn't make sense to have a plan, then, well, it's less than the outlay for a plan, unless you just get swamped.
AS A DEVELOPER data collection should be considered obtrusive. As a CUSTOMER you can make your own choices. It's not THAT hard to understand the difference. What this means is that when writing software, you should warn about it, but your customers are big boys, and if they are Ok with the data being collected, great.
It depends on where they are, and how their crops did. In many key food production parts of the country they didn't do so good. In some they made out like bandits. That's what happens when crops fail. If your crops fail, you're screwed. if someone else's crops failed, you're in the money, because people need to get food from somewhere.
Or if things go anything like the last few years, they can put crop in the ground, expending time and fuel, and watch as floods, drought, wildfires, hail, or any of a number of other things ruin their crop, and make it unharvestable. Then the insurance payments won't even be enough to pay the taxes on their farmland. Yep. The farmers are doing great. Wheat and Rice both have shortages, and if we were growing as much as we normally do, that would be great news for the US, but the yeilds just haven't been there in recent years and supprise, there is a worldwide shortage of many foodstuffs.
Um, where have you been living? The Crusades were a direct result of the MUSLIM invasion of the Holy land. I'll grand you the Spanish Inquisition, which though a reaction to the Muslims, was not perpetrated by the Muslims, and I'll grant that Cristians have been far more effective at killing Jews than the Muslims, but I won't attribute it to Muslim kindness, but simply to inefectuality. Back to the body count argument, if one were to shout "Allah loves gays" in a Muslim fundamentalist rally, there would be quite a few "friendly fire" incidents. Whereas if one were to shout "Jesus loves Gays" at a Christian fundamentalist group meeting, it is far more likely that only the person who shouted it would be killed, so the body count would indeed be higher with the Muslim group. Though I could be wrong. After all, a riot is not the sort of organised and systematic killing that Christians are good at.
Offtopic, but I'm say it anyway. It's because the tired old Vorlon arguments come up so often too. Besides, wouldn't you rather have political discussion about it, than battle crabs in low orbit strafing out cities?
Yes, but a good chunk of the usage is in your buffers and cache. Linux is a very greedy operating system, and it gobbles up all the memory it can and says MINE! MOAR! and uses it to cache the contents of whatever it has accessed on the hard drive. The memory is still available to be used if something more important needs it, but until something more important does need it, it gets used up.
This becomes far less of an issue if you are willing to share with your squad mates. All of a sudden things like rotations apear out of nowhere. Just because it's not an officaly army sanctioned activity doesn't mean there's not an army way of doing things.
It means that some in the slashdot community already have. It's not allowed to be talked about, but one of the comfort items most desired in theater is porn. They aren't supposed to have it, and they can't get it in the PX, so they get it in letters from home, in nice little optical shiny packages, or they download it from FTP sites set up by their families, that don't get on the blacklist. Those who aren't so lucky, purchase it in theater, which apparently is a less than stellar option.
She is also a valid choice, and in fact the one used by Wizards of the Coast for the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game. It is also often used for items in english that do not have a sex, I do not say gender, because if you are calling the item he or she, you are declaring it to have such a gender, such as cars, ships, and other vehicles, however that are considered to have "personality". My point was not the specific pronoun to use, but rather that a singular personal pronoun should be used. Unless of course, they encompases more than one person, in which case, it does become the correct pronoun, regardless of if that more than one person is of one gender or of multiple genders.
Yes, but "HE" is gramatically correct, not "they". "It" would work, except that in english, "it" only refers to objects that are not people. The use of "he" for the gender neutral pronoun has faded in recent decades, because of feminism, however it is still the gramatically correct form. (Please forgive any spelling errors, I'm posting from work, and don't have firefox to spell check for me.)