How did the Obama transition team get a.gov domain name? I never heard before of a transition team having any government status. Of course they're free to meet, discuss and plan agendas, strategies and appointments, but I don't see how they have any power or official government standing until January 20, 2009 (in the afternoon).
Even the traditional briefings of the president-elect, the White House tours of the "First Lady -elect", and other inclusions in the outgoing government's operations are, AFAIK, courtesies extended by the current government to the incoming government. Extended in the interest of continuity of government, the national interest, and avoiding being thought a first-class "jerk" for dissing the incoming people. But I don't see Bush/Cheney extending that courtesy to allowing someone without government standing to register a.gov domain under the US Federal government.
But maybe that's what happened. If so, maybe getting back on track and solving our problems will be a lot faster and smoother than we expect. I hope so.
On the other hand, there does seem to be some legislation creating a "Presidential Transition Team office with official standing. But the statute cited doesn't seem to create this change.gov site, or standing to get one. Government is complicated.
I'm sure that if I produce over 10,000 of those coins, the machine and materials will cost less than E50,000.
And I'm also sure that I can find someone somewhere with a coin minting machine who won't ask any questions in exchange for a few dozen thousand euros. There are machines at low-budget carnivals that stamp blanks for souveniers which could probably pass for E5 long enough to get away with it, especially in hanfuls of other euros.
No, it's much simpler than all that, where you have some desperate need to have sex with me.
You say something stupid, I slap you down. What's truly inevitable is that you respond with something even more stupid, composed at length, even more desperate to have sex with me. You're really crazy stupid.
Wow, all I need to make unlimited money, 5 euros at a time, is that list of free software (and maybe the specific PC model). I should be able to fake up those coins precisely, especially after I scan one pulled from circulation. And since the coin is so new, and doesn't look like the familiar eurocoins, most of the 500 million Europeans who use euros will be easy targets for passing my fakes.
Never before has "making money with free software" looked so easy and lucrative!
Easier to visualize, but that's household income, not individual income. It does show pretty clearly how few people make over $250,000, the people whose taxes will rise to Clinton era levels.
There are many unanswered questions: Why do the portals form every 8 minutes?
Light travels from Sun to Earth (and a tiny amount reflects in the opposite direction) for 8 minutes at c, lightspeed. If the portal's cycle period varies the same way that the distance varies, 93-97 million miles from perigee to apogee, there's more clearly a relationship between the two phenomena.
If not, it's an uncanny coincidence. Like how the Sun and the Moon, each very different in size and in distance from the Earth, coincidentally appear to be about exactly the same size in the sky, as we see during total solar eclipses.
The really exciting market niche for netbooks is ones with really fast videocards. People surfing the Web and emailing frequently get videos to watch. And with a fast GPU plus gigabit ethernet, these terminals could do full HDTV from a "home server". With an HDMI/DVI adapter onboard, they could drive bigscreen HDTVs, and the platform for fully interactive TV would be affordable in every room in the home or office. And they could be grabbed on the go, while running at home with the best power savings.
Give us $350 netbooks with $250 super-duper GPUs. We're ready for it.
Nah, I'm just a geek who has occasional little conversations on Slashdot, and occasionally does things that make the world better for other people, especially geeks. When I'm not having a full life in the real world.
You, on the other hand, are a stupid cunt with nothing better to do than play word games with yourself while you stalk me on Slashdot, as you just unequivocally demonstrated. What a fucking fool you are.
The more we all want it, and say so in public, the faster we will find opportunities to get there. Google is probably the most aggressive force pursuing open mobile networks, because open networks have a high demand for their services. So I'm encouraging us all in public to see that specific benefit to this particular development.
That's what I'm doing (among other, private actions). What are you doing to get us there?
I hope that Google's "end game" (really just a beginning, natch) is to force open access to wireless carrier networks. "Roaming" charges and other lockins that bundle the physical network with the data, its servers, and (in the US) even the client HW are entirely against the openness of networks that has made them extremely valuable for everyone. Until networks were opened and unbundled, they were not so much engines for growth as they were accessories. Telcos and other network operators long ago stopped innovating in any area other than lobbying, lawsuits and restrictive licensing. All the growth in value comes from people competing to offer services on open networks.
Google is one of those innovative competitors. I hope they can force Verizon, Sprint, AT&T, T-Mobile and the few other wireless carriers to join the 21st Century's openness and growth.
Copyright monopoly privileges on books should pass into the public domain after 14 years, as the original US copyright rules specified. Anything built something more exclusive intolerably compromises our free speech/press rights, and un-Constitutionally interferes with "progress in science and the useful arts".
Just because older brains don't necessarily work as fast as younger ones doesn't mean they don't work better. Plenty of better thinking is slower than the fastest stuff, like jumping to conclusions. And the older brains have lots more information and habits that can be more powerful than the newer ones. This is known to humans as "wisdom".
Besides, just getting to the wrong answer faster is not "better".
Just some more reasons people say "age and guile will beat youth and talent any day". Even if younger people just zip around without realizing it.
Beginning with Ubuntu 7.04, the PowerPC edition of Ubuntu will be
reclassified as unofficial. The PowerPC software itself and supporting
infrastructure will continue to be available, and supported by a community
team.
The Ubuntu Technical Board has decided to reclassify PowerPC as an
unofficial architecture, rather than a fully supported architecture, for
Ubuntu 7.04 and subsequent releases. This means that packages and ISO
images will continue to be produced, but releases will not be delayed due
to problems which are specific to PowerPC, and the quality of the PowerPC
release itself will depend very much on the extent to which members of the
Ubuntu community drive PowerPC testing and bug fixes.
In other words, Canonical is hosting the Ubuntu on PPC community, but the community is doing the development. And if a PPC port is broken at Ubuntu release time, it ships broken. Canonical might possibly do some PPC patching task, but there's no guarantee. That's why the community needs developers, and why I'm promoting it.
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Perhaps they typed a "braino".
The 10th Amendment does limit government, by referencing the set of powers not assigned to either the United States, or to the several states, which are assigned to the people. There is no other category. It also carves out the niche for states' powers, by establishing the basis for explicit Federal limits to them, but again only as explicit. That brief formulation makes clear that the Federal government's powers, even when powers over the states, exist only where explicit. That is an express basis of inherently limited government. As opposed to inherently unlimited government that would be limited by law, which was the model for governments (eg. unlimited monarchies reined in by laws) previously.
FWIW, the Constitution is scoped to only the Federal government, so its omission of limits on state governments is no indication of any lack of inherent limitation of "government" that might be exercised in a state. Your observation does indeed indicate, though, that states are not necessarily bound to the inherently limited government model. The Constitution does not say that a state cannot have a monarch. However, each state's constitution does mirror the Federal Constitution's formulas, AFAIK. But I suppose that if, say, Texas amended its constitution to produce a hereditary dynasty of "Bushes" who function as divine emperor, we'd have a really big, but legal, problem on our hands.
I'm not so sure about the Ubuntu.com PS3 forums' median experience level. But beware the PSUbuntu.com forums: they're really "Ubuntu is a free PS3 game to collect" bunch.
If you can help get a 2.6.27 kernel to boot Ubuntu on PS3, you could drop a line in the Ubuntu.com PS3 forums, or that ubuntu-cell maillist, and return the favor of "collaborating" on PS3 Linux.
As I said, PS3 Ubuntu is a community distro. There is a more recent version than the 07.10 version, but they're all community now, which is why I'm promoting the community here. Just pointing people at the binary that the community is maintaining is a circular null reference.
As I said, the Cell arch port is a community supported port of Ubuntu, not an officially supported one from Canonical:
We need developers! It's very early days for this community supported port and we need all the hands we can get to physically make the port stable and current.
The community is a real one that develops the port available from the ubuntu.com website. But it's community supported, not by the Canonical team, and they need developers. Just like I said.
So, Anonymous FUD Coward, take back your attempt to monkeywrench this community effort and scare off needed developers. You're exactly the opposite of what FOSS projects need.
We can also expect the PowerPC distro to fall further behind, unless the outside community helps the ubuntu-cell project, which has taken over from the main Ubuntu project (run by Canonical,Inc) in maintaining that architecture's distro. Which means not just PS3 Ubuntu, but also PPC ubuntu on other platforms, including rack servers and workstations, and embedded PPCs that might use a stripped-down downstream distro (but benefit from Ubuntu's APT repos), or any other Cell machines, from workstations to supercomputers.
If you've got a PPC machine, please try installing the current ubuntu-cell snapshot, as the project explains. At the very least you can file bug reports. If you can, you can patch some bugs. That's why the source is open, after all. And what the community is really for: not just getting free SW, but giving something back so everyone can get some free SW, including you.
How does someone use a microwave oven to zap the embedded RFID without leaving a noticeable mark on the passport (like a burn mark after too much power/time)? Maybe there's some amount of popcorn kernels that can pop before burning the passport, then stop the process after the chip is fried, before some larger amount of kernels pop before the passport burns?
Is there a "SourceForge" for the "configurations" of FPGAs, that are free and open for download and installation on these reconfigurable hardware platforms?
Not just the promotional "cores" offered by FPGA vendors bundled with their parts, but a whole load of third-party developed circuits that do things, and can be hooked together to make combination applications? Specifically I'm interested in Xilinx configs, especially ones that can offload iterated tasks from a Linux kernel running on their parts that contain PPC cores into the onchip FPGA.
They haven't seen him walking down the street with his grandfather at his own age.
There are a lot of facial characteristics that differ between races. Other than Obama's dark skin and curly hair, the rest of his features look enough like his grandfather's (two generations removed) that they'd look just alike if his grandfather were as dark as he is.
Skin color is a very weak way of accurately associating genetic racial identity. The demonstration is that genetically Obama is exactly as African as he is European.
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How did the Obama transition team get a .gov domain name? I never heard before of a transition team having any government status. Of course they're free to meet, discuss and plan agendas, strategies and appointments, but I don't see how they have any power or official government standing until January 20, 2009 (in the afternoon).
Even the traditional briefings of the president-elect, the White House tours of the "First Lady -elect", and other inclusions in the outgoing government's operations are, AFAIK, courtesies extended by the current government to the incoming government. Extended in the interest of continuity of government, the national interest, and avoiding being thought a first-class "jerk" for dissing the incoming people. But I don't see Bush/Cheney extending that courtesy to allowing someone without government standing to register a .gov domain under the US Federal government.
But maybe that's what happened. If so, maybe getting back on track and solving our problems will be a lot faster and smoother than we expect. I hope so.
On the other hand, there does seem to be some legislation creating a "Presidential Transition Team office with official standing. But the statute cited doesn't seem to create this change.gov site, or standing to get one. Government is complicated.
I'm sure that if I produce over 10,000 of those coins, the machine and materials will cost less than E50,000.
And I'm also sure that I can find someone somewhere with a coin minting machine who won't ask any questions in exchange for a few dozen thousand euros. There are machines at low-budget carnivals that stamp blanks for souveniers which could probably pass for E5 long enough to get away with it, especially in hanfuls of other euros.
No, it's much simpler than all that, where you have some desperate need to have sex with me.
You say something stupid, I slap you down. What's truly inevitable is that you respond with something even more stupid, composed at length, even more desperate to have sex with me. You're really crazy stupid.
Wow, all I need to make unlimited money, 5 euros at a time, is that list of free software (and maybe the specific PC model). I should be able to fake up those coins precisely, especially after I scan one pulled from circulation. And since the coin is so new, and doesn't look like the familiar eurocoins, most of the 500 million Europeans who use euros will be easy targets for passing my fakes.
Never before has "making money with free software" looked so easy and lucrative!
Easier to visualize, but that's household income, not individual income. It does show pretty clearly how few people make over $250,000, the people whose taxes will rise to Clinton era levels.
Anyone want to package this tool up with the PS3 mplayer vo driver for the PS3 Ubuntu Intrepid release?
Light travels from Sun to Earth (and a tiny amount reflects in the opposite direction) for 8 minutes at c, lightspeed. If the portal's cycle period varies the same way that the distance varies, 93-97 million miles from perigee to apogee, there's more clearly a relationship between the two phenomena.
If not, it's an uncanny coincidence. Like how the Sun and the Moon, each very different in size and in distance from the Earth, coincidentally appear to be about exactly the same size in the sky, as we see during total solar eclipses.
$25-50,000 annual income isn't "low income". It's middle income, since real median income is about $25-50,000.
The really exciting market niche for netbooks is ones with really fast videocards. People surfing the Web and emailing frequently get videos to watch. And with a fast GPU plus gigabit ethernet, these terminals could do full HDTV from a "home server". With an HDMI/DVI adapter onboard, they could drive bigscreen HDTVs, and the platform for fully interactive TV would be affordable in every room in the home or office. And they could be grabbed on the go, while running at home with the best power savings.
Give us $350 netbooks with $250 super-duper GPUs. We're ready for it.
Nah, I'm just a geek who has occasional little conversations on Slashdot, and occasionally does things that make the world better for other people, especially geeks. When I'm not having a full life in the real world.
You, on the other hand, are a stupid cunt with nothing better to do than play word games with yourself while you stalk me on Slashdot, as you just unequivocally demonstrated. What a fucking fool you are.
The more we all want it, and say so in public, the faster we will find opportunities to get there. Google is probably the most aggressive force pursuing open mobile networks, because open networks have a high demand for their services. So I'm encouraging us all in public to see that specific benefit to this particular development.
That's what I'm doing (among other, private actions). What are you doing to get us there?
I hope that Google's "end game" (really just a beginning, natch) is to force open access to wireless carrier networks. "Roaming" charges and other lockins that bundle the physical network with the data, its servers, and (in the US) even the client HW are entirely against the openness of networks that has made them extremely valuable for everyone. Until networks were opened and unbundled, they were not so much engines for growth as they were accessories. Telcos and other network operators long ago stopped innovating in any area other than lobbying, lawsuits and restrictive licensing. All the growth in value comes from people competing to offer services on open networks.
Google is one of those innovative competitors. I hope they can force Verizon, Sprint, AT&T, T-Mobile and the few other wireless carriers to join the 21st Century's openness and growth.
Copyright monopoly privileges on books should pass into the public domain after 14 years, as the original US copyright rules specified. Anything built something more exclusive intolerably compromises our free speech/press rights, and un-Constitutionally interferes with "progress in science and the useful arts".
Just what Windows needs: even more unreliability, even less control over your data.
Just because older brains don't necessarily work as fast as younger ones doesn't mean they don't work better. Plenty of better thinking is slower than the fastest stuff, like jumping to conclusions. And the older brains have lots more information and habits that can be more powerful than the newer ones. This is known to humans as "wisdom".
Besides, just getting to the wrong answer faster is not "better".
Just some more reasons people say "age and guile will beat youth and talent any day". Even if younger people just zip around without realizing it.
In other words, Canonical is hosting the Ubuntu on PPC community, but the community is doing the development. And if a PPC port is broken at Ubuntu release time, it ships broken. Canonical might possibly do some PPC patching task, but there's no guarantee. That's why the community needs developers, and why I'm promoting it.
Perhaps they typed a "braino".
The 10th Amendment does limit government, by referencing the set of powers not assigned to either the United States, or to the several states, which are assigned to the people. There is no other category. It also carves out the niche for states' powers, by establishing the basis for explicit Federal limits to them, but again only as explicit. That brief formulation makes clear that the Federal government's powers, even when powers over the states, exist only where explicit. That is an express basis of inherently limited government. As opposed to inherently unlimited government that would be limited by law, which was the model for governments (eg. unlimited monarchies reined in by laws) previously.
FWIW, the Constitution is scoped to only the Federal government, so its omission of limits on state governments is no indication of any lack of inherent limitation of "government" that might be exercised in a state. Your observation does indeed indicate, though, that states are not necessarily bound to the inherently limited government model. The Constitution does not say that a state cannot have a monarch. However, each state's constitution does mirror the Federal Constitution's formulas, AFAIK. But I suppose that if, say, Texas amended its constitution to produce a hereditary dynasty of "Bushes" who function as divine emperor, we'd have a really big, but legal, problem on our hands.
I'm not so sure about the Ubuntu.com PS3 forums' median experience level. But beware the PSUbuntu.com forums: they're really "Ubuntu is a free PS3 game to collect" bunch.
If you can help get a 2.6.27 kernel to boot Ubuntu on PS3, you could drop a line in the Ubuntu.com PS3 forums, or that ubuntu-cell maillist, and return the favor of "collaborating" on PS3 Linux.
As I said, PS3 Ubuntu is a community distro. There is a more recent version than the 07.10 version, but they're all community now, which is why I'm promoting the community here. Just pointing people at the binary that the community is maintaining is a circular null reference.
As I said, the Cell arch port is a community supported port of Ubuntu, not an officially supported one from Canonical:
The community is a real one that develops the port available from the ubuntu.com website. But it's community supported, not by the Canonical team, and they need developers. Just like I said.
So, Anonymous FUD Coward, take back your attempt to monkeywrench this community effort and scare off needed developers. You're exactly the opposite of what FOSS projects need.
We can also expect the PowerPC distro to fall further behind, unless the outside community helps the ubuntu-cell project, which has taken over from the main Ubuntu project (run by Canonical,Inc) in maintaining that architecture's distro. Which means not just PS3 Ubuntu, but also PPC ubuntu on other platforms, including rack servers and workstations, and embedded PPCs that might use a stripped-down downstream distro (but benefit from Ubuntu's APT repos), or any other Cell machines, from workstations to supercomputers.
If you've got a PPC machine, please try installing the current ubuntu-cell snapshot, as the project explains. At the very least you can file bug reports. If you can, you can patch some bugs. That's why the source is open, after all. And what the community is really for: not just getting free SW, but giving something back so everyone can get some free SW, including you.
How does someone use a microwave oven to zap the embedded RFID without leaving a noticeable mark on the passport (like a burn mark after too much power/time)? Maybe there's some amount of popcorn kernels that can pop before burning the passport, then stop the process after the chip is fried, before some larger amount of kernels pop before the passport burns?
Is there a "SourceForge" for the "configurations" of FPGAs, that are free and open for download and installation on these reconfigurable hardware platforms?
Not just the promotional "cores" offered by FPGA vendors bundled with their parts, but a whole load of third-party developed circuits that do things, and can be hooked together to make combination applications? Specifically I'm interested in Xilinx configs, especially ones that can offload iterated tasks from a Linux kernel running on their parts that contain PPC cores into the onchip FPGA.
Nailed it!
They haven't seen him walking down the street with his grandfather at his own age.
There are a lot of facial characteristics that differ between races. Other than Obama's dark skin and curly hair, the rest of his features look enough like his grandfather's (two generations removed) that they'd look just alike if his grandfather were as dark as he is.
Skin color is a very weak way of accurately associating genetic racial identity. The demonstration is that genetically Obama is exactly as African as he is European.