2) Electricity doesn't have to come from fossil fuel sources
But the total energy consumed remains, at best, constant; and at the current demands for electricity we are already depending upon foreign oil and other fossil fuels to supply it.
I am pro electric car, but they are not a panacea.
And exactly the sort of thing that Bluetooth is intended for, to work the speakers on your desk without wires, but without burning up batteries or interfering with other, more long range, wireless devices.
But I guess a one line shell script isn't done until it can send and recieve email.
Libraries do not traditionally maintain collections of adult material on their shelves. ..
Lolita, Portnoy's Complaint, How to Draw Nudes, Ruebens and the American Library Association reports that the most commonly stolen library items are copies of the magazines Road & Track and . ..Playboy.
The world is full up of adults and libraries are full up of adult material for them to access, unpoliced (well, except for that PATRIOT thingy).
There is also an essential difference between denying access by not actually having the material to view and providing the means to access the material but telling people not to use it.
This is just another case where appending the words "on the Internet" makes things different somehow.
And it would make just as much sense to sack the City Commission because the incident occured on their watch as it does to sack the head librarian because it occured on hers.
I guess the City Commission has spent some time in the library researching the fallout from Abu Ghraib.
about ratings in the first place. There were a few thousand more who heard them bitching and moaning incessantly for years who eventually said, "Yeah, Ok, I guess."
The rest of us simply did what we still do; decide what we are and are not willing to supply our children with on our own. Ratings are meaningless for this and I rather resent the implication that making up my own mind is somehow "wrong."
The ratings are just there to placate those few vocal twits who think they need a panel to make their decisions for them and believe they have the right to enforce that panel on others with more brains.
I am the only rating system that counts for my children. I'll screw 'em up as I see fit. Go screw up your own.
I'm not disputing the value of information, just questioning whether display on the keyboard is the appropriate solution.
Wouldn't displaying this information on your monitor, a pure sofware solution, be superior to buying a new keyboard with yet another display, out of the line of your normal vision, be superior?
Ah yes, pointless and idiotic redundency which only increases the size of code base, and thus possible bugs and exploits, all to fix a self induced problem which can be cured by reducing the amount of code.
This is the sort of engineering "paradigm" that results in so much of our software being so fucked up.
No. Some of the code is open, some is closed and the license is commercial. The OS version is OpenOffice which would have saved them 25 pounds a seat right off the top, at the cost of some of the propriatary code and Sun's support.
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"Does anyone write 25kb html pages any more?"
People who aren't selling something.
KFG
Thank God. For a minute there I thought there really were companies in Australia selling Linux products and services.
KFG
What the hell do you think the point of all of this is?
KFG
Braaaaaaaains! Braaaaaaaains!
KFG
I take it that means you've rejected my hypothesis?
Bummer. I was kinda looking forward to the Fairydust Economy. Just think happy, happy thoughts and yell, "Heeeeeeere Tink!"
KFG
2) Electricity doesn't have to come from fossil fuel sources
But the total energy consumed remains, at best, constant; and at the current demands for electricity we are already depending upon foreign oil and other fossil fuels to supply it.
I am pro electric car, but they are not a panacea.
KFG
Where does he get the electricity to power the batteries?
Fairies?
Nevermind the fact that I could mod a Chevette to get 250 mpg as well, were I willing to make the compromises to do so.
It's all about compromises, not milage.
KFG
And exactly the sort of thing that Bluetooth is intended for, to work the speakers on your desk without wires, but without burning up batteries or interfering with other, more long range, wireless devices.
But I guess a one line shell script isn't done until it can send and recieve email.
KFG
I picked my examples with a modicum of deliberation. Lolita and Portnoy were both underage, as were many of Rueben's models.
KFG
Libraries do not traditionally maintain collections of adult material on their shelves. . .
.Playboy.
Lolita, Portnoy's Complaint, How to Draw Nudes, Ruebens and the American Library Association reports that the most commonly stolen library items are copies of the magazines Road & Track and . .
The world is full up of adults and libraries are full up of adult material for them to access, unpoliced (well, except for that PATRIOT thingy).
There is also an essential difference between denying access by not actually having the material to view and providing the means to access the material but telling people not to use it.
This is just another case where appending the words "on the Internet" makes things different somehow.
And it would make just as much sense to sack the City Commission because the incident occured on their watch as it does to sack the head librarian because it occured on hers.
I guess the City Commission has spent some time in the library researching the fallout from Abu Ghraib.
It's time to play "Find a Patsy."
KFG
. . .supported by the most powerfull. . .
.it fell to the ground. . .
.spend a week in the library of Alexandria at the height of it's peek!
Well, as it turns out, second most powerful.
. .
Humpty-Dumpty was pushed.
. .
Sometimes typos turn out to be wonderful.
KFG
about ratings in the first place. There were a few thousand more who heard them bitching and moaning incessantly for years who eventually said, "Yeah, Ok, I guess."
The rest of us simply did what we still do; decide what we are and are not willing to supply our children with on our own. Ratings are meaningless for this and I rather resent the implication that making up my own mind is somehow "wrong."
The ratings are just there to placate those few vocal twits who think they need a panel to make their decisions for them and believe they have the right to enforce that panel on others with more brains.
I am the only rating system that counts for my children. I'll screw 'em up as I see fit. Go screw up your own.
KFG
Now if only Slashdot could impliment a sarcasm detector.
Ahhhhhhhhhh, the blessings that The Semantic Web will bestow upon us.
KFG
And couldn't I have written that with superior grammar?
KFG
I'm not disputing the value of information, just questioning whether display on the keyboard is the appropriate solution.
Wouldn't displaying this information on your monitor, a pure sofware solution, be superior to buying a new keyboard with yet another display, out of the line of your normal vision, be superior?
KFG
Using the latest advancements in computers to create a heads down display.
Ahhhhh! Technology marches on.
KFG
Haven't I read this post before?
KFG
Well, yes. I do wish them to find and fix the vulnerabilities of the OS before it goes public.
That would avoid having vulnerabilities in the wild, such as the one refered to in the article, before the authors of the OS are aware of it.
I want the Good Guys to find them first.
KFG
Ah yes, pointless and idiotic redundency which only increases the size of code base, and thus possible bugs and exploits, all to fix a self induced problem which can be cured by reducing the amount of code.
This is the sort of engineering "paradigm" that results in so much of our software being so fucked up.
KFG
StarOffice is OSS isn't it?
No. Some of the code is open, some is closed and the license is commercial. The OS version is OpenOffice which would have saved them 25 pounds a seat right off the top, at the cost of some of the propriatary code and Sun's support.
Other than that your point stands.
KFG
Yes, I know that some companies do, but some do not.
Look Bub, you don't know that at all. . .
The sun hasn't gone cold yet.
KFG
. . a space shuttle with chocolade heathshields...
Eureka! Bombard it with Heath bars! The shuttle program is saved!
KFG
A point where it's not learning anymore and. . . only seems to be acting intelligent.
Yeah, I think we all know a lot of people like that.
KFG
See The Battle of Thermopolyae.
I'm afraid that one of the attributes of real intelligence is that it often leads the enemy to your backyard.
The real world is full of real twits.
KFG
Amen.
KFG