This gets the heads sliding across the platters to overcome the static friction
Um, no. The heads never touch the platters. The stiction comes from the ball bearing grease solidifying over time, not heads sticking to the platters. Newer drives have female bearings (they're full of fluid with no balls) and don't have this problem.
This claimer: Having MSIE bundled with Windows poses no problem for me, I see it as they include Notepad instead of Word and Calculator instead of Excel. So why not let them include Internet Explorer instead of arealbrowser? However, I dislike sites that require it. It's like mailing around text files that need Notepad to read... Rude.
That's another quagmire, and one that's rearing its head in the SCO case(s). What's the definition of a "derivative work"? Is dynamic linking enough? Not really, except maybe in Utah (I wonder if it's legal to dynamically link with your sister there?). Static linking? Probably. It's mostly a gray area with a few black and white patches at the edges.
The following should not be taken as authorative canonical gospel, it's just what I've gleaned from reading the XFree forum threads:
The XFree system, for want of a better name, is a bunch of GPL, LGPL, BSD, PD and otherwise licensed code snippets. This license only applies to the parts of the code that The XFree Project, Inc has released, but this is not really clarified in the license. It appears to want to be a license for the whole shebang, which is not acceptable.
It does not really clarify if the acknowledgement should be given to the XFree Project, Inc even if no other third-party acknowledgements are made (this has since been clarified outside the license, but it should go back into the license itself).
And, I believe that some people are wary of the incorporation itself: Note that there's no "Inc." in the old 1.0 license. Those letters carry a lot of emotional weight in the open source community, as witnessed by the ruckus when Gentoo, Inc. was formed.
Additionally, there's a lot of posturing which reminds me of the old bad Fidonet times when it appeared that only certain clerics were allowed to read and interpret the holy texts and excommunicate all heathens. The GPL is a pivotal piece of artful legalese, but it's not written in stone.
On its face, the new license seems both reasonable and fair -- however, it also seems to create a lot of questions regarding how it should be interpreted and this is causing all the noise. My guess (and sincere hope) is that a clarification from, and possible minor re-write of the license by the XFree Project, Inc will clear this all up.
As far as I could tell, depriving someone worthy of a lot of oxygen.
Once he wanted to show us the centripetal force so he took a piece of string, ran it through a glass cylinder and tied weights to both ends. When he started swinging one of the weights around, it pulled the other one upwards...
..until the glass cylinder edge cut the string and sent the rotating weight on a tangential flight across the classroom. Fortunately, no one was hit.
We had him in math, too. When we were studying statistics, the subject of playing cards came up and we had to explain the concept to him. He thought the cards were different colours like blue, yellow, green and red -- not diamonds, cloves, hearts and spades. He was in his mid-forties at the time.
Once in college, the moron (for many, many reasons) physics teacher pulled out a fist-sized capacitor and dared one of the pupils up front to lick the terminals. I just barely managed to stop him by ripping the capacitor out of the teacher's hands and stick it to the metal crank of the pencil sharpener instead. It fused to it. Everyone suddenly went very, very pale.
Notes as only an e-mail client is indeed seriously crappy. Notes as a groupware package shines. When was this, BTW? If it was eight years ago or more, a die-hard Lotushead probably should have pushed cc:Mail on you instead of Notes.
Or maybe they had plans to use the database and document sharing functionality in Notes but never got around to it? That would be a good, valid reason to use Notes. There are many, many reasons to use Notes, but e-mail isn't one of them.
My guess is that it's easier to get more resolution out of the camera this way. You can use the full resolution for every colour instead of having 4 sensors (RGB + IR) on-chip per pixel. More on the MER cameras here
I can still remember using a NewTek DigiView digitizer with a b/w video camera and filters so I guess the Alzheimer hasn't gotten to me yet.:-)
OK, that just piqued my curiosity. I am very sorry it did, but it did. People, do NOT follow that link in the grandparent post. Just take my word for it. Don't. No amount of curiosity is worth seeing that.
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Good troll. Not quite Insightful, but still.:-)
(Moderators: The BSD ports system has slightly less than nothing to do with TCP/IP ports being open, closed or missing on firewall or other machines. It's just a homonym (no, it has absolutely nothing to do with gays).)
My mum and sister went to India a year ago and brought back some Nescafe from there. I dunno what the exact difference between that and the regular European Nescafe is, but it's definitely something. Different blend of beans, maybe. Anyway, I take a mug, fill it with milk, stick in the microwave on nuke for two minutes, add a teaspoon of the black stuff and two to three lumps of raw sugar. Enjoy. It's not really coffee, but it tastes great. It's like liquid candy. Besides, it's the sugar that keeps me going, not the caffeine.
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Um, no. The heads never touch the platters. The stiction comes from the ball bearing grease solidifying over time, not heads sticking to the platters. Newer drives have female bearings (they're full of fluid with no balls) and don't have this problem.
If you're gonna do it, do it right. :-)
It's under your bed, in that brown cardboard box with stains.
Evil. Evil, I say!
This claimer: Having MSIE bundled with Windows poses no problem for me, I see it as they include Notepad instead of Word and Calculator instead of Excel. So why not let them include Internet Explorer instead of a real browser? However, I dislike sites that require it. It's like mailing around text files that need Notepad to read... Rude.
And that's much better than being a General Failure, no matter how many disks you get to read.
So, what's the required drug to be able to tell the difference between Fark and Slashdot?
That's another quagmire, and one that's rearing its head in the SCO case(s). What's the definition of a "derivative work"? Is dynamic linking enough? Not really, except maybe in Utah (I wonder if it's legal to dynamically link with your sister there?). Static linking? Probably. It's mostly a gray area with a few black and white patches at the edges.
The following should not be taken as authorative canonical gospel, it's just what I've gleaned from reading the XFree forum threads:
- The XFree system, for want of a better name, is a bunch of GPL, LGPL, BSD, PD and otherwise licensed code snippets. This license only applies to the parts of the code that The XFree Project, Inc has released, but this is not really clarified in the license. It appears to want to be a license for the whole shebang, which is not acceptable.
- It does not really clarify if the acknowledgement should be given to the XFree Project, Inc even if no other third-party acknowledgements are made (this has since been clarified outside the license, but it should go back into the license itself).
- And, I believe that some people are wary of the incorporation itself: Note that there's no "Inc." in the old 1.0 license. Those letters carry a lot of emotional weight in the open source community, as witnessed by the ruckus when Gentoo, Inc. was formed.
Additionally, there's a lot of posturing which reminds me of the old bad Fidonet times when it appeared that only certain clerics were allowed to read and interpret the holy texts and excommunicate all heathens. The GPL is a pivotal piece of artful legalese, but it's not written in stone.On its face, the new license seems both reasonable and fair -- however, it also seems to create a lot of questions regarding how it should be interpreted and this is causing all the noise. My guess (and sincere hope) is that a clarification from, and possible minor re-write of the license by the XFree Project, Inc will clear this all up.
Live Easy And Read News To Ossify Slowly, People. Eliza Lives and Learns. Retsearch, indeed...
Wasn't that a Seinfeld episode?
As far as I could tell, depriving someone worthy of a lot of oxygen.
Once he wanted to show us the centripetal force so he took a piece of string, ran it through a glass cylinder and tied weights to both ends. When he started swinging one of the weights around, it pulled the other one upwards...
We had him in math, too. When we were studying statistics, the subject of playing cards came up and we had to explain the concept to him. He thought the cards were different colours like blue, yellow, green and red -- not diamonds, cloves, hearts and spades. He was in his mid-forties at the time.
Once in college, the moron (for many, many reasons) physics teacher pulled out a fist-sized capacitor and dared one of the pupils up front to lick the terminals. I just barely managed to stop him by ripping the capacitor out of the teacher's hands and stick it to the metal crank of the pencil sharpener instead. It fused to it. Everyone suddenly went very, very pale.
One would hope he's doing it to show how silly the DMCA is...
I don't think Henry would mind if I started making "Lord" automobiles. The Pope, maybe...
You left out the last bit: "Bah, what's a few holes in the walls between friends?"
Or maybe they had plans to use the database and document sharing functionality in Notes but never got around to it? That would be a good, valid reason to use Notes. There are many, many reasons to use Notes, but e-mail isn't one of them.
I can still remember using a NewTek DigiView digitizer with a b/w video camera and filters so I guess the Alzheimer hasn't gotten to me yet. :-)
Now, where's the Goatse.cx site when you need it...
OK, that just piqued my curiosity. I am very sorry it did, but it did. People, do NOT follow that link in the grandparent post. Just take my word for it. Don't. No amount of curiosity is worth seeing that.
(Moderators: The BSD ports system has slightly less than nothing to do with TCP/IP ports being open, closed or missing on firewall or other machines. It's just a homonym (no, it has absolutely nothing to do with gays).)
I'm not worried about Earth. She's a big girl now and can take care of herself. I'm worried about us...
I'll have to look for that, thanks for the tip. Almost all kinds of chocolate is great with coffee, but you knew that. :-)
You haven't lived 'til you've tried the Bulgarian variety. That stuff tastes like it's laced with heavy metals. :-)
Or just compare Canadian Jolt or Dew with the originals...
From the man who brought you Star Trek Tea.
Can't we just redefine that to "don't have a clue"? ;-)