Never heard of Battle Beyond the Stars but Logan's Run is a classic in my book, along with H2G2 in all incarnations other than this apparently godawful film.
There isn't much in the OSS world to compete with OO.o. Just like there's only one Samba, only one Apache, etc..... There's very little "competition" in the land of FOSS,
Yeah there's only one Samba and there's only one SMB implementation (that I know of) but there are several web servers, Apache does have competition.
As for competition for OpenOffice.org, koffice and gnome office come to mind, they are not as feature-complete as OO.o but they're faster and prettier!
So shut yer pus.
What I hope is that this gives a boost to the two aforemention office suites, and also to the Free java projects.
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I do think it is a bad thing to do, making the decision of who should live or die based not on whether or not someone could survive, but on how much it inconveniences the living.
It's a bit off topic, but anyway.
You've presented two options for deciding whether someone gets to live:
1. Could they survive? 2. How inconvenient would that be for others?
But as you can see, they are not distinct options, because the answer to 1. is usually "yes" given a high enough value of inconvenience in 2.
What you're really saying is that you don't like the idea of performing a cost-benefit analysis on someone's life. What alternative do you suggest?
How much money should society spend keeping an individual alive if there's no suggestion that they will ever lead a productive life?
Or say our current spending on medical research is x. Suppose we could find a cure for debilitating illness A if we spend 20x right now.
Should we? If only one person has illness A then it might be a stupid waste of money. If hundreds of thousands have A then maybe we should, but unfortunately we've spent 20x on illness B which affects millions.
There's a limited amount of resource to allocate on different projects. You have to use some determining factor to choose worthy projects. Generally that's about cost/benefit, or "inconvenience".
It's not an equal world, and we can't always make it so. And I'm a socialist.
I've never needed to defrag an ext2 or ext3 filesystem, they are designed not to need it. Only an imbecile would take regular backups of their OS and applications so fuck knows why you think that the amount of installed software has any affect on the duration of these processes. Similarly once installed, never need to reinstall (on Debian anyway) so I have no idea why you're wittering on about software affecting search and indexing. It only needs to happen once.
Is that not about who's paying for the whole thing? If your school disagrees with what you want to publish then it's reasonable that it not pay for it to be published. I mean, take this first-amendment complaint of your's to its extreme and they could be paying for you to publish stories (true or otherwise) about how the principal likes to bum-fuck 14-year old boys.
On the other hand, if you're self-publishing then in what way can the principal wield a veto? Obviously he'll have you for defamation but that's his right!
I'm from the UK and we have a right to education here, I'm not sure how it works in the US, maybe you have some kind of contract with your school that means they can suspend or expel you if you publish something they don't like, but hey, it's in your contract and that's the American way is it not? Start another school.
Ummm... seeing as he cofounded the source of the "Linux community's displeasure", I'd humbly suggest that relevant complaint should be directed at him.
Who is responsible for hitting the target - the arrow or the archer?
Anyway, I agree that it is ridiceulous to ask the "Linux community" to match his trust's donation. That community hasn't taxed the majority of computer users for over a decade.
Let's see. Bill taxes the rich (West) and gives to the poor (3rd World). Does that make him some kind of Robin Hood character?
Well, I suppose he gets to see himself that way.
It's hard to attack the man whn he is evidently doing good in the world. But let's remember that people are not usually entirely good or entirely bad, rather they have good attributes which (hopefully) compensate for the bad ones.
Only if you name your variable "len". Name it "element" and it makes more sense to count from 1, plus you don't have the semantic nonsense of the length of your array incrementing with each loop iteration.
Come on, it used to take technical knowledge to use Free Software but this is 2005. Maybe you need to try something more up-to-date than RedHat 5.2.
I recently set up a Debian unstable box for my mum who is in her 70s, has *never* used computers before and is completely non-technical. She uses it for email (Evolution), word-processing (OpenOffice.org) and web browsing (Firefox). I spent about half an hour showing her to use it. She doesn't need to ask for help.
About two years ago I set up my brother and his two kids with a Debian Woody box, it's showing its age now but they are happy with it. He's a nursing managager so brings no special skills to the job. I'll be sending him a CD with Sarge on it when it goes stable in 2007 (he doesn't have broadband).
His wife, a nurse, has an XP box which she uses for her studies; I recently had to replace Outlook Express with Thunderbird because Outlook refused to display the text of any emails it had ever received or sent! I poked about in OE settings then searched on the web for 10 minutes before I realised it would be quicker just to install a sane email client rather than trying to fix Microsoft's broken one. I didn't even have to show her how to use it and she is pretty computer illiterate.
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You are a god and I worship you.
Never heard of Battle Beyond the Stars but Logan's Run is a classic in my book, along with H2G2 in all incarnations other than this apparently godawful film.
So what's wrong with Logan's Run?
There isn't much in the OSS world to compete with OO.o. Just like there's only one Samba, only one Apache, etc.. ... There's very little "competition" in the land of FOSS,
Yeah there's only one Samba and there's only one SMB implementation (that I know of) but there are several web servers, Apache does have competition.
As for competition for OpenOffice.org, koffice and gnome office come to mind, they are not as feature-complete as OO.o but they're faster and prettier!
So shut yer pus.
What I hope is that this gives a boost to the two aforemention office suites, and also to the Free java projects.
In order to focus the sun's rays, fuckwit.
I do think it is a bad thing to do, making the decision of who should live or die based not on whether or not someone could survive, but on how much it inconveniences the living.
It's a bit off topic, but anyway.
You've presented two options for deciding whether someone gets to live:
1. Could they survive?
2. How inconvenient would that be for others?
But as you can see, they are not distinct options, because the answer to 1. is usually "yes" given a high enough value of inconvenience in 2.
What you're really saying is that you don't like the idea of performing a cost-benefit analysis on someone's life. What alternative do you suggest?
How much money should society spend keeping an individual alive if there's no suggestion that they will ever lead a productive life?
Or say our current spending on medical research is x. Suppose we could find a cure for debilitating illness A if we spend 20x right now.
Should we? If only one person has illness A then it might be a stupid waste of money. If hundreds of thousands have A then maybe we should, but unfortunately we've spent 20x on illness B which affects millions.
There's a limited amount of resource to allocate on different projects. You have to use some determining factor to choose worthy projects. Generally that's about cost/benefit, or "inconvenience".
It's not an equal world, and we can't always make it so. And I'm a socialist.
So, do you believe that the subjunctive is thriving in other English-speaking countries? Which? More interestingly, why is it thriving there?
I keep my subjunctive in good working order; I hope you appreciate my efforts.
Yes, but, made you look!
Pendula, if you please, you donut.
68 places more popular. That's how much more mainstream you can get.
Unix doesn't "crash" so they didn't need to make MySQL crash-tolerant. Windows on the other hand....
Do I win a prize?
While I enjoyed your filmic reference, please see here, for example, to vindicate your parent's choice of word, which it seems you are challenging.
Honestly, I take it all back; and the c word is a special scottish swear word in that we use it for people we like too.
Oops, sorry I got up far too early this morning!
:o)
No offence
I've never needed to defrag an ext2 or ext3 filesystem, they are designed not to need it. Only an imbecile would take regular backups of their OS and applications so fuck knows why you think that the amount of installed software has any affect on the duration of these processes. Similarly once installed, never need to reinstall (on Debian anyway) so I have no idea why you're wittering on about software affecting search and indexing. It only needs to happen once.
Ever heard of humour, cunt? Thought not.
Of course it was in jest you fucking idiot.
You assumed it was in jest yet you still ticked me off! God help us all, when the courts assume innocence until proven guilty but lock us up anyway.
The presence of files on a disk doesn't make processes run slower.
Defragmentation? Backup?? Recovery??? Search???? Indexing?????
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Hi Sean
I'll be modded off topic but I need to know...
1. This pepper pad thing. It looks cool. Is there a beta program or do you work for them? or something else?
2. There is no 2, I just found the answer and it is Mambo.
Cheers.
Is that not about who's paying for the whole thing? If your school disagrees with what you want to publish then it's reasonable that it not pay for it to be published. I mean, take this first-amendment complaint of your's to its extreme and they could be paying for you to publish stories (true or otherwise) about how the principal likes to bum-fuck 14-year old boys.
On the other hand, if you're self-publishing then in what way can the principal wield a veto? Obviously he'll have you for defamation but that's his right!
I'm from the UK and we have a right to education here, I'm not sure how it works in the US, maybe you have some kind of contract with your school that means they can suspend or expel you if you publish something they don't like, but hey, it's in your contract and that's the American way is it not? Start another school.
Ummm... seeing as he cofounded the source of the "Linux community's displeasure", I'd humbly suggest that relevant complaint should be directed at him.
Who is responsible for hitting the target - the arrow or the archer?
Anyway, I agree that it is ridiceulous to ask the "Linux community" to match his trust's donation. That community hasn't taxed the majority of computer users for over a decade.
Let's see. Bill taxes the rich (West) and gives to the poor (3rd World). Does that make him some kind of Robin Hood character?
Well, I suppose he gets to see himself that way.
It's hard to attack the man whn he is evidently doing good in the world. But let's remember that people are not usually entirely good or entirely bad, rather they have good attributes which (hopefully) compensate for the bad ones.
So slashdot, as you were.
I'ts been known on Slashdot for a while. Useful link to send people in just this kind of situation.
Still, I'd suggest you stop running everything as root, that's just asking for trouble.
/* should be clear; people don't say "zeroth" */
for (element=1;array[element-1];element++);
Only if you name your variable "len". Name it "element" and it makes more sense to count from 1, plus you don't have the semantic nonsense of the length of your array incrementing with each loop iteration.
Come on, it used to take technical knowledge to use Free Software but this is 2005. Maybe you need to try something more up-to-date than RedHat 5.2.
I recently set up a Debian unstable box for my mum who is in her 70s, has *never* used computers before and is completely non-technical. She uses it for email (Evolution), word-processing (OpenOffice.org) and web browsing (Firefox). I spent about half an hour showing her to use it. She doesn't need to ask for help.
About two years ago I set up my brother and his two kids with a Debian Woody box, it's showing its age now but they are happy with it. He's a nursing managager so brings no special skills to the job. I'll be sending him a CD with Sarge on it when it goes stable in 2007 (he doesn't have broadband).
His wife, a nurse, has an XP box which she uses for her studies; I recently had to replace Outlook Express with Thunderbird because Outlook refused to display the text of any emails it had ever received or sent! I poked about in OE settings then searched on the web for 10 minutes before I realised it would be quicker just to install a sane email client rather than trying to fix Microsoft's broken one. I didn't even have to show her how to use it and she is pretty computer illiterate.
So, from my personal experience, you are wrong.