The FSF in general will try to resolve these things out of court where they can. I heard a talk by one of their people and from what he said the great majority of times they problem was a goof on someones part and it can be fixed quickly, then better for everyone.
There is one specific feature that the goverment here wants, the ability to have top flight hebrew support. If you don't have that (and MS office does not from what I am told) then everything else is gravy. The ability to support the official language of the state of Israel is a key factor in what the goverment of the state of israel uses for computers.
What software has been written by the FSF of late? A lot of stuff is on their web page but with the exception of emacs much of it is being developed by other people. How many of the cool software titles that are in constant use in the free software community were actually written by GNU people? Not very many. Gcc is mostly done by Cygnus (redhat) and many other "GNU" products are just random bits of free software that RMS has decided to call part of his project. GNOME, KDE, GIMP, Apache, Perl, the Linux & BSD Kernels are all outside of the FSF's control as are most other products.
RMS just like to take credit for everything. And the HURD has been 6 months away from being ready for at least 12 years now.
Also, all ships and aircraft are registered in a specific country. If this ship is owned by a US company it will I assume be flying with a US (N---) tail number. That puts the FAA into play. If they were say a Canadian company the Canadian CAA would have to certify it.
If you look at the pictures of Space Ship 1 you will see that it has a US tail number (N328KF). So it too has an (experimental) certification from the FAA.
I live in Israel and want to talk to the USA a lot for both talking to friends and work related issues. I have been thinking about getting an IP phone via a local company and will probably do it in the next few months. It seems like a great deal better than the phone cards I have been using for this kind of thing.
Because while my email address is in the USA, I am not. So you are right a scud from Iraq could not hit my mail server. I however live in Jerusalem, which is much closer to Iraq.
Saddam did good things for Iraq? Lets look at his record...
Killed 20,000 kurds with poision gas, murdered thousands of others. Killed or expelled the Jews of Iraq, two wars with hundreds of thousands dead? Let us not forget Saddam Hussein was a brutal dictator who threatened his neighbors on a regular basis.
I for one am not at all sad to see Saddam gone for ever. I sleep a lot safer knowing Saddam's scuds are no longer pointed at me, and his money is no longer going to fund suiside bombers.
Then 99% of people would be wrong. It was a poll taken by a palistinian polling group and it did say that about 75% of the palistinians polled supported the murder of 23 israelis in Haifa (including I should point out several israeli arabs) The resturant in haifa was co-owned by an arab family.
I belive it says in the Talmud that if we would really understand our actions and what effect they would have we would never sin. While I'm not sure its always true, how many people out there can honestly say they have never said "If I knew what was going to happen when I did X, I would not have done it".
Yet so many very smart people seem to have no clue that their actions have effects later.
Or you can do this for free with pine. I have a half way step. Anything that ends up in my inbox from someone in my addressbook gets colored purple. But I could have it take everything else and dump it in the spam folder.
I'm sure you could do this with procmail too if you wanted.
I would make sure you have a few flashlights and maybe one of those lights you can clip on things. And make sure the overhead lights (or at least some of them) are on redundent power as well. If the power goes it would be really nice to be able to move around the room and see things if you have too. Its always easier to work on stuff if you can see well.
Some of those light sticks that campers use might be good too.
You may not have a car, but let me ask you this? Do you ever ride a bus? Do you buy stuff? How do you think that stuff got to the store? Probably on a truck over the roads.
Roads are one of those things that a city must have to function. On the other hand a super sonic aircraft, while pretty is not really nessary.
I don't think it was trying to find an effect that was to small to be seen. I think they were trying to find an effect that probably can not be seen. I have a relative with a cronic illness. While she is of course getting very good medical care. How ever I add her name to my prayers (along with others) on a regular basis. This probably won't have any effect you can mesure, but I do it anyway. Why I can't say besides faith.
I do think the idea of having teams of people praying for sick people also is fundantaly misunderstanding the the relationship between man and G-d. I'm sure my Rabbi who be able to pull out a good quote there, but I can't. I'm sure if I were the one doing this study and I asked my Rabbi what he thought about it, he would tell me that I should not do it and why.
I also know that my Rabbi would if I was sick tell me to go to a doctor and not just pray. Jewish tradition is very specific on trusting medical science.
There is a long tradition in most religions of Prayer for the sick. Do I belive G-d may cause a sick person to become well due to prayer, yes. Do I belive G-d will always do this, or do it on a regular basis, no. I belive miracles are posible and do happen, but not on a regular basis. After all if I was sick with cancer and knew that I could become well by getting a bunch of my friends to pray for me, I would do that and not go to a doctor.
It should be noted that a large number of Rabbis over the years have also been doctors both in Medieval times and modern times.
If you ask me its a silly study.
For the record I have a degree in physics and consider myself very much to be a religous person.
Well Israel can also say "If you want us to buy your software, you must support Hebrew on the Mac and windows". If microsoft does not add hebrew support we take our shekels and go elsewhere. Very simple really. Anyone can make a choice like that, but when the goverment of a country with a buying power much larger than you or me does it they actually may pay attention.
Well I don't know that Israel thinks much about Urdu, but Arabic is an offical language of the state of Israel, at least in Jerusalem road signs are in Hebrew, Arabic and English. Also it should be noted a lot of Israeli Jews (Including our president!) were born in countries that speak Arabic or Farsi. And they may have a need to write these languages from time to time. Also we do have a large arab minority who are citizens of Israel and may wish to be able to use a computer.
I would doubt that trademark law would apply to vanity plates. And as someone noted, I don't think Linus would care. He seems like a very down to earth guy.
I was also impressed with his response to the whole RMS/GNU issues. He did the smartest thing posible, simply say he did not want to talk about it. It makes Linus look like a decent guy and RMS look like he is on a power trip.
If you started awarding posthumous Nobel prizes you would probably have to start by giving the next 4-6 to Albert Einsteing (Special Relativity, General Relativity, Brownian Motian, Expantion of the universe etc). The rules say you have to be living, and for good reasons. How far back would you like to go giving them out. It gets kind of silly after a while.
Sounds Like Chabad to me, everywhere you go there they are, with their black hats and pictures of the Rebbe. They will welcome you into their homes and fead you good kosher food. Of course they speak the original international Language *YIDDISH*. (And English, and Hebrew, and Russian, and depending on where you are probably a few others )
This is good advice, paper shreaders are cheap (at least ones for home usage). Get one that does cross cut if you can for not to much more money.
However some of this advice may not be practical, For example there may be cases where you have to rent a car for some reason. (say you are out of town or need to move and want a van).
You have to consider the "cost" in terms of loss of privacy vs the benifit to you life. I do buy stuff online, but limit where I buy it. You may want to get a mail alias somewhere that you can filter on for email, so when you need to put down an email address put that one down, They have it filtered into a seperate box.
Well if you were worried about the terorists taking out power systems, blowing a few of the trunk lines into NYC on a very hot summer day could cause some major problems. Its not like the locations of trunk lines are secret. its hard to hide them you know.
But this seems to be much higher concept than most terorrism we have seen so far. I am personally much more worried about a 18 wheeler filled with fertalizer blowing up on the George Washington bridge at rush hour.
Well what I am really worried about is some palistinian with a bomb under his coat on the bus. Mostly because I live in Jerusalem and take the busses.
Not in the US. All money ever issued by the US goverment back to the first coins in the 1790's are still legal tender. In theory if you had a quarter dated 1800 you could spend it.
This is not true of many countries, When I lived in England they changed the money around from time to time. (And ofcourse they changed it in a major way in the 1960's). Here in Israel we are on our 3rd money unit in 50 some years. We had the Israeli Pound, then the Shekel, now the NEW Shekel. Other countries do other things.
If there were no problems at all in testing I would be worried. Burt Rutan is pushing the limit here. When you do that you should hit a few snags. Its not a bit deal that is why you do a lot of flight testing. If you look at the test logs it is very clear that Rutan et al have a well thought out flight test program. And they are running it. From everything I know they have people who really know their stuff.
They will fix this problem, and I'm sure they will find a bunch of other ones and then they will fix them too. If i were a betting man (and I'm not) I would be putting my money on scaled to win the X-prize.
Well orcourse in Newton's day those were perfectly normal things for him to be wokring on. Even if we do think them a bit weird today.
It should also be noted that he did not use a fountin pen, as it was not invented until the 19th century. He used a dip pen, probably a goose quill. They are still used in some places. If done well its amazing to watch.
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The FSF in general will try to resolve these things out of court where they can. I heard a talk by one of their people and from what he said the great majority of times they problem was a goof on someones part and it can be fixed quickly, then better for everyone.
There is one specific feature that the goverment here wants, the ability to have top flight hebrew support. If you don't have that (and MS office does not from what I am told) then everything else is gravy. The ability to support the official language of the state of Israel is a key factor in what the goverment of the state of israel uses for computers.
What software has been written by the FSF of late? A lot of stuff is on their web page but with the exception of emacs much of it is being developed by other people. How many of the cool software titles that are in constant use in the free software community were actually written by GNU people? Not very many. Gcc is mostly done by Cygnus (redhat) and many other "GNU" products are just random bits of free software that RMS has decided to call part of his project. GNOME, KDE, GIMP, Apache, Perl, the Linux & BSD Kernels are all outside of the FSF's control as are most other products.
RMS just like to take credit for everything. And the HURD has been 6 months away from being ready for at least 12 years now.
Also, all ships and aircraft are registered in a specific country. If this ship is owned by a US company it will I assume be flying with a US (N---) tail number. That puts the FAA into play. If they were say a Canadian company the Canadian CAA would have to certify it.
If you look at the pictures of Space Ship 1 you will see that it has a US tail number (N328KF). So it too has an (experimental) certification from the FAA.
I live in Israel and want to talk to the USA a lot for both talking to friends and work related issues. I have been thinking about getting an IP phone via a local company and will probably do it in the next few months. It seems like a great deal better than the phone cards I have been using for this kind of thing.
Because while my email address is in the USA, I am not. So you are right a scud from Iraq could not hit my mail server. I however live in Jerusalem, which is much closer to Iraq.
Saddam did good things for Iraq? Lets look at his record...
Killed 20,000 kurds with poision gas, murdered thousands of others. Killed or expelled the Jews of Iraq, two wars with hundreds of thousands dead? Let us not forget Saddam Hussein was a brutal dictator who threatened his neighbors on a regular basis.
I for one am not at all sad to see Saddam gone for ever. I sleep a lot safer knowing Saddam's scuds are no longer pointed at me, and his money is no longer going to fund suiside bombers.
Then 99% of people would be wrong. It was a poll taken by a palistinian polling group and it did say that about 75% of the palistinians polled supported the murder of 23 israelis in Haifa (including I should point out several israeli arabs) The resturant in haifa was co-owned by an arab family.
I belive it says in the Talmud that if we would really understand our actions and what effect they would have we would never sin. While I'm not sure its always true, how many people out there can honestly say they have never said "If I knew what was going to happen when I did X, I would not have done it".
Yet so many very smart people seem to have no clue that their actions have effects later.
Or you can do this for free with pine. I have a half way step. Anything that ends up in my inbox from someone in my addressbook gets colored purple. But I could have it take everything else and dump it in the spam folder.
I'm sure you could do this with procmail too if you wanted.
Well I would personally look in peer reviewed medical Journals not Wired. Wired is an OK magazine, but they are not experts in public health.
I would make sure you have a few flashlights and maybe one of those lights you can clip on things. And make sure the overhead lights (or at least some of them) are on redundent power as well. If the power goes it would be really nice to be able to move around the room and see things if you have too. Its always easier to work on stuff if you can see well.
Some of those light sticks that campers use might be good too.
You may not have a car, but let me ask you this? Do you ever ride a bus? Do you buy stuff? How do you think that stuff got to the store? Probably on a truck over the roads.
Roads are one of those things that a city must have to function. On the other hand a super sonic aircraft, while pretty is not really nessary.
What a plane though!
I don't think it was trying to find an effect that was to small to be seen. I think they were trying to find an effect that probably can not be seen. I have a relative with a cronic illness. While she is of course getting very good medical care. How ever I add her name to my prayers (along with others) on a regular basis. This probably won't have any effect you can mesure, but I do it anyway. Why I can't say besides faith.
I do think the idea of having teams of people praying for sick people also is fundantaly misunderstanding the the relationship between man and G-d. I'm sure my Rabbi who be able to pull out a good quote there, but I can't. I'm sure if I were the one doing this study and I asked my Rabbi what he thought about it, he would tell me that I should not do it and why.
I also know that my Rabbi would if I was sick tell me to go to a doctor and not just pray. Jewish tradition is very specific on trusting medical science.
There is a long tradition in most religions of Prayer for the sick. Do I belive G-d may cause a sick person to become well due to prayer, yes. Do I belive G-d will always do this, or do it on a regular basis, no. I belive miracles are posible and do happen, but not on a regular basis. After all if I was sick with cancer and knew that I could become well by getting a bunch of my friends to pray for me, I would do that and not go to a doctor.
It should be noted that a large number of Rabbis over the years have also been doctors both in Medieval times and modern times.
If you ask me its a silly study.
For the record I have a degree in physics and consider myself very much to be a religous person.
Well Israel can also say "If you want us to buy your software, you must support Hebrew on the Mac and windows". If microsoft does not add hebrew support we take our shekels and go elsewhere. Very simple really. Anyone can make a choice like that, but when the goverment of a country with a buying power much larger than you or me does it they actually may pay attention.
Well I don't know that Israel thinks much about Urdu, but Arabic is an offical language of the state of Israel, at least in Jerusalem road signs are in Hebrew, Arabic and English. Also it should be noted a lot of Israeli Jews (Including our president!) were born in countries that speak Arabic or Farsi. And they may have a need to write these languages from time to time. Also we do have a large arab minority who are citizens of Israel and may wish to be able to use a computer.
I would doubt that trademark law would apply to vanity plates. And as someone noted, I don't think Linus would care. He seems like a very down to earth guy.
I was also impressed with his response to the whole RMS/GNU issues. He did the smartest thing posible, simply say he did not want to talk about it. It makes Linus look like a decent guy and RMS look like he is on a power trip.
If you started awarding posthumous Nobel prizes you would probably have to start by giving the next 4-6 to Albert Einsteing (Special Relativity, General Relativity, Brownian Motian, Expantion of the universe etc). The rules say you have to be living, and for good reasons. How far back would you like to go giving them out. It gets kind of silly after a while.
Sounds Like Chabad to me, everywhere you go there they are, with their black hats and pictures of the Rebbe. They will welcome you into their homes and fead you good kosher food. Of course they speak the original international Language *YIDDISH*. (And English, and Hebrew, and Russian, and depending on where you are probably a few others )
This is good advice, paper shreaders are cheap (at least ones for home usage). Get one that does cross cut if you can for not to much more money.
However some of this advice may not be practical, For example there may be cases where you have to rent a car for some reason. (say you are out of town or need to move and want a van).
You have to consider the "cost" in terms of loss of privacy vs the benifit to you life. I do buy stuff online, but limit where I buy it. You may want to get a mail alias somewhere that you can filter on for email, so when you need to put down an email address put that one down, They have it filtered into a seperate box.
For Postal mail just throw it out.
Well if you were worried about the terorists taking out power systems, blowing a few of the trunk lines into NYC on a very hot summer day could cause some major problems. Its not like the locations of trunk lines are secret. its hard to hide them you know.
But this seems to be much higher concept than most terorrism we have seen so far. I am personally much more worried about a 18 wheeler filled with fertalizer blowing up on the George Washington bridge at rush hour.
Well what I am really worried about is some palistinian with a bomb under his coat on the bus. Mostly because I live in Jerusalem and take the busses.
Not in the US. All money ever issued by the US goverment back to the first coins in the 1790's are still legal tender. In theory if you had a quarter dated 1800 you could spend it.
This is not true of many countries, When I lived in England they changed the money around from time to time. (And ofcourse they changed it in a major way in the 1960's). Here in Israel we are on our 3rd money unit in 50 some years. We had the Israeli Pound, then the Shekel, now the NEW Shekel. Other countries do other things.
If there were no problems at all in testing I would be worried. Burt Rutan is pushing the limit here. When you do that you should hit a few snags. Its not a bit deal that is why you do a lot of flight testing. If you look at the test logs it is very clear that Rutan et al have a well thought out flight test program. And they are running it. From everything I know they have people who really know their stuff.
They will fix this problem, and I'm sure they will find a bunch of other ones and then they will fix them too. If i were a betting man (and I'm not) I would be putting my money on scaled to win the X-prize.
Well orcourse in Newton's day those were perfectly normal things for him to be wokring on. Even if we do think them a bit weird today.
It should also be noted that he did not use a fountin pen, as it was not invented until the 19th century. He used a dip pen, probably a goose quill. They are still used in some places. If done well its amazing to watch.