If I were handling this settlement for one of the plaintiffs, I'd say to Microsoft,
"That's great that your willing to settle, but we don't want any of your products. We would rather have the
retail value of all those windows licenses in cash, plus the hardware, so we can spend it on what we actually need. A pile of windows licenses won't do us any good when our teachers are underpaid and our school's roofs are leaking."
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1) Perhaps other things are responsible for that climate change. I'm sure more goes into determining what the climate is than the relative masses of the Earth and moon.
2) Probably, but much would get away (and maybe even fall to earth!)
Anyway, I think it's sensationalistic and stupid to say "we shouldn't mine on the moon because it might affect our climate!" We'd have to take and unreasonable amount of material to the Earth to affect the the moon's mass in an even measurable way, let alone see the climate change that this chicken little is whining about.
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Would we remove enough material to ever make a difference? I think not. More mass has been blasted from the moon from metor impacts than we will ever mine and take back to the Earth, has the loss of that mass affected the weather in any catastrophic way?
Linus fucked up. A bug was introduced that caused data loss, and it was in a non-prerelease kernel. It was fixed, but that doesn't make up for the fact that such a serious bug should have been caught and fixed before the release. You're just going to have to admit this to yourself, the Linux kernel will justly receive criticism whenever a major bug is found in a released version, especially one that could corrupt data.
Well, at least you aren't expecting me to bitch about microsoft, in this totally unrelated story, anymore.
Am I supposed to say, "It's okay only a few people's disks got eaten?" This is/was a very serious sort of bug, it should have never made its way into the branch that is generally considered to be the stable non-development one. Someone needs to be rethinking their development/testing methods. Any kernel that hasn't been tested sufficiently should be clearly marked as such, and extra-special care should be taken when messing with filesystem/disk I/O code.
And what the fuck does Microsoft have to do with any of this?
Isn't the 2.4 branch supposed to be stable? You know, the one that doesn't eat your disk. I think that this kernel should have gotten a little more testing for bugs of the catastrophic nature before it was deemed fit for general consumption.
They're showing reruns during the week at 6PM US Central. I think they're around season 3 right now.
Actually, as far a continuity goes if you jump in now (or a week or two ago) you'll be fine. You'll pick up all the backstory pretty quick, you just won't have in handed to you in a slow, easily digestible way.
As far episodic shows, I don't particularly care for them. I can't stand watching TNG anymore because everything is too self contained for my tastes now, everything gets wrapped up in an hour (or two if it's a complex problem). It's much interesting if a show's episodes are connected together somehow than if they are discrete self-contained units.
A normal CD player
ignores the control data and fabricates the sound of that block using its error recovery circuitry. Once again, the blocks must have been carefully
chosen so that the sound is not disrupted significantly.
So, they can only currupt the data under certain conditions. Perhaps someone could determine under what conditions the errors are correctable, and use that knowlege to manually correct for the them? By only chosing particular blocks, the protection is giving the cracker clues as to how it works.
The reports coming into CNN are saying that one of the engines (left or right, the reports vary) was on fire before the crash. So, barring sabotage, I don't think this was an act of terrorism.
I said stock post Star Wars. Which means that it's the same kind of boring old theme scifi song that we've been hearing since starwars (ie not cliched spacy sounding music).
Don't you know all their armor is tethered to the hull with some good heavy duty rope? I mean, this isn't TNG, buddy. They have to have "primitive" "technology" to be "authentic."
They the only music station that they own in my area is the sickeningly sweet pop station, they own none of the good ones.
But I do support some of their choices, Rage Against the Machine is not what a lot of people want to hear right now, but come on, why are they banning Tuesday's Gone? I can't think of a more appropriate song for these times!
But, anyway, I don't think this is some evil censorship spree, ClearChannel probably doesn't want to get thousands of angry phonecalls whenever one of there stations plays a song that's in bad taste.
Just as long as they give me more Dexter's Laboratory, Power Puff Girls, and Spaceghost.
Although, I did like Gundum Wing, but it could have been better if they *animated* it a bit more.
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1) Perhaps other things are responsible for that climate change. I'm sure more goes into determining what the climate is than the relative masses of the Earth and moon.
2) Probably, but much would get away (and maybe even fall to earth!)
Anyway, I think it's sensationalistic and stupid to say "we shouldn't mine on the moon because it might affect our climate!" We'd have to take and unreasonable amount of material to the Earth to affect the the moon's mass in an even measurable way, let alone see the climate change that this chicken little is whining about.
Would we remove enough material to ever make a difference? I think not. More mass has been blasted from the moon from metor impacts than we will ever mine and take back to the Earth, has the loss of that mass affected the weather in any catastrophic way?
Sure people would die, but gold would be raining down from the sky!
Well, at least you aren't expecting me to bitch about microsoft, in this totally unrelated story, anymore.
And what the fuck does Microsoft have to do with any of this?
Isn't the 2.4 branch supposed to be stable? You know, the one that doesn't eat your disk. I think that this kernel should have gotten a little more testing for bugs of the catastrophic nature before it was deemed fit for general consumption.
Go watch it at their house, one of them must have cable. ;)
They're showing reruns during the week at 6PM US Central. I think they're around season 3 right now.
Actually, as far a continuity goes if you jump in now (or a week or two ago) you'll be fine. You'll pick up all the backstory pretty quick, you just won't have in handed to you in a slow, easily digestible way.
As far episodic shows, I don't particularly care for them. I can't stand watching TNG anymore because everything is too self contained for my tastes now, everything gets wrapped up in an hour (or two if it's a complex problem). It's much interesting if a show's episodes are connected together somehow than if they are discrete self-contained units.
There's always Farscape and Lexx.
Bill was the first guy to bitch about software piracy, not the inventor of open souce.
So, they can only currupt the data under certain conditions. Perhaps someone could determine under what conditions the errors are correctable, and use that knowlege to manually correct for the them? By only chosing particular blocks, the protection is giving the cracker clues as to how it works.
...use gnut like the real men. There's no way in hell it's going to get banner ads.
The reports coming into CNN are saying that one of the engines (left or right, the reports vary) was on fire before the crash. So, barring sabotage, I don't think this was an act of terrorism.
What's Apple doing with Dell stationary?
They need to bring here back, quick. If there's no Xev, who's going to be having the sex?
Kai? Nope, "The dead do not get hard."
Stanley? He wishes.
Bunny? She can't get into it unless it's that dorky president guy.
WE NEED XEV!
What does this thing have that the Nintendo Power Glove doesn't?
It's called tin foil, my good man. Tin foil will block the GPS signals, and as a bonus, it will prevent aliens from monitoring your calls.
I don't think it's to the point that we're going to deny that the WTC towers ever existed.
I said stock post Star Wars. Which means that it's the same kind of boring old theme scifi song that we've been hearing since starwars (ie not cliched spacy sounding music).
"Yep doctor, our deadly bacteria problem is solved, I've disinfected my legs and back."
Don't you know all their armor is tethered to the hull with some good heavy duty rope? I mean, this isn't TNG, buddy. They have to have "primitive" "technology" to be "authentic."
DS9s theme is just stock post Starwars SciFi theme music, I don't care who wrote it, it's nothing.
They the only music station that they own in my area is the sickeningly sweet pop station, they own none of the good ones.
But I do support some of their choices, Rage Against the Machine is not what a lot of people want to hear right now, but come on, why are they banning Tuesday's Gone? I can't think of a more appropriate song for these times!
But, anyway, I don't think this is some evil censorship spree, ClearChannel probably doesn't want to get thousands of angry phonecalls whenever one of there stations plays a song that's in bad taste.
Just as long as they give me more Dexter's Laboratory, Power Puff Girls, and Spaceghost.
Although, I did like Gundum Wing, but it could have been better if they *animated* it a bit more.