If you're using sawfish as your window manager, you can bind any key combination to any action on a window/screen/desktop. I don't know about other WMs or DMs but I'd assume they have at least some basic keybinding control.
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Most humans pass out at 6-7Gs. So I doubt that it would be an enjoyable ride if you did survive.
Heh, I was actually arguing FOR your points:)
I'm just glad all these probabilities added up to what they did so that I can enjoy a good stary night and a cup of coffee.
The problem with those arguments are that:
If the Earth was a planet where the complex interactions weren't balanced 'just right', we wouldn't be here!
Also, if the universe weren't balanced as it is, fairly helpful to life and with many complex interactions, there wouldn't be ANYONE here to argue about it!
An even more interesting thought would be to let your perfectly organized and rational universe do whatever it wanted and see how it turned out every few million years.
You have to admit, it is a bit worse when the companies have to buy laws to prevent it. If the law is bad, then there's nowhere else to turn and society breaks down.
But, that IS what the government is for!
The FDA, BBB, FCC, SEC their purposes are to protect US citizens from this kind of thing. The only thing stronger than a major international corporation IS a government, and if that's what it takes to stop abuse of power than that's what needs to be done.
This isn't an invitation for the government to control all facits of computing, it's just a message to them to start 'trust-busting' and make it a fair economy.
But in the 'old days' once that information was out, it was out for good, and all the people could do was complain. Now if a company's information is found out in some way and distributed (MS distributing Kerberos in a zipfile), they'll try to use the law to destroy the source and then blindlessly attack anyone who posseses it.
An MS Linux distro wouldn't really be a good attack on GNU/Linux because it would most likely be absolute shit (as per their 'standard') and nobody would use it. On the other hand, they might make one that IS absolute shit and say, "This is how bad unix is. Come back to mommy microsoft, we'll make it all better."
Because most consumers are idiots and will buy whatever is spoonfed them and backed by the most advertising money, most likely Microsoft products, as opposed to judging formats by their technical merit.
If you see this, please respond because I want to be corrected. One thing you said, about having densities higher than neutron stars, can't be true. I remember reading (somewhere) that as the density increases, the 'stiffness' of the matter increases, as does the speed of sound through it. If the density reached a certain limit, sound would travel through it faster than light speed, which can't be; so that's the limit of a neutron star and anything more dense must be a more condensed form of matter (black hole).
The whole point of all the experiments on the ISS is that there is no gravity to malform crystals and structures.
Having a completely rotating station would be hell if there were any small problems with the superstructure. The ISS is humanities fourth major step in space (Salyut, Skylab, Mir, ISS) and there is a LOT to learn before we get really ambitious and attempt even minimal gravity.
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If you're using sawfish as your window manager, you can bind any key combination to any action on a window/screen/desktop. I don't know about other WMs or DMs but I'd assume they have at least some basic keybinding control.
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Most humans pass out at 6-7Gs. So I doubt that it would be an enjoyable ride if you did survive.
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Heh, I was actually arguing FOR your points :)
I'm just glad all these probabilities added up to what they did so that I can enjoy a good stary night and a cup of coffee.
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Noice that little (R) under the apple?
That's the "please don't sue us" mark.
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10Gs would pretty much kill every human that took the ride.
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Compared to it's predecessor, stinkymeat looks nifty...
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Huh?
The win98 interface is the SAME thing as win95 but with (the possibility of) two-colored titlebars.
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The problem with those arguments are that:
If the Earth was a planet where the complex interactions weren't balanced 'just right', we wouldn't be here!
Also, if the universe weren't balanced as it is, fairly helpful to life and with many complex interactions, there wouldn't be ANYONE here to argue about it!
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An even more interesting thought would be to let your perfectly organized and rational universe do whatever it wanted and see how it turned out every few million years.
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You can use 2.4.0-testX's now, and they're as stable as any 2.2.X I've ever used.
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You have to admit, it is a bit worse when the companies have to buy laws to prevent it. If the law is bad, then there's nowhere else to turn and society breaks down.
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But, that IS what the government is for!
The FDA, BBB, FCC, SEC their purposes are to protect US citizens from this kind of thing. The only thing stronger than a major international corporation IS a government, and if that's what it takes to stop abuse of power than that's what needs to be done.
This isn't an invitation for the government to control all facits of computing, it's just a message to them to start 'trust-busting' and make it a fair economy.
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But in the 'old days' once that information was out, it was out for good, and all the people could do was complain. Now if a company's information is found out in some way and distributed (MS distributing Kerberos in a zipfile), they'll try to use the law to destroy the source and then blindlessly attack anyone who posseses it.
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An MS Linux distro wouldn't really be a good attack on GNU/Linux because it would most likely be absolute shit (as per their 'standard') and nobody would use it. On the other hand, they might make one that IS absolute shit and say, "This is how bad unix is. Come back to mommy microsoft, we'll make it all better."
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Because most consumers are idiots and will buy whatever is spoonfed them and backed by the most advertising money, most likely Microsoft products, as opposed to judging formats by their technical merit.
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If you see this, please respond because I want to be corrected. One thing you said, about having densities higher than neutron stars, can't be true. I remember reading (somewhere) that as the density increases, the 'stiffness' of the matter increases, as does the speed of sound through it. If the density reached a certain limit, sound would travel through it faster than light speed, which can't be; so that's the limit of a neutron star and anything more dense must be a more condensed form of matter (black hole).
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haha
Who the fuck moderated that insightful?
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According to the story, a HAL 9000 had never made a mistake.
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The whole point of all the experiments on the ISS is that there is no gravity to malform crystals and structures.
Having a completely rotating station would be hell if there were any small problems with the superstructure. The ISS is humanities fourth major step in space (Salyut, Skylab, Mir, ISS) and there is a LOT to learn before we get really ambitious and attempt even minimal gravity.
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I'm a youngin' (I suppose) and much new music DOES suck. The problem is that there's so much money behind it that it can't fail the way it should.
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How is switching to win2000 not reinvesting in all new software?
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Are all verbose descriptions 'cryptic' to you, or do you just like to use that word a lot?
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Why the hell are buisness users installing anything in the first place?
Shouldn't that be the job of the sysadmins?
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one orbit is about 90mins
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Why must a country go through the mess of an industrial revolution to recieve the benefits of other, newer technologies?
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