I've been going to some of the people that are trying to attack me and the majority are not operating. In otherwords, people who probably completely forget that they even have IIS.
Whatever it is suppose to mean, when I hear mono I think of the "kissing" disease (unless it is used in Spanish, because then I'm using a different part of my brain).
I was thinking to counter Hailstorm they could have Rainstorm. Which sounds more pleasant? One you can sing and dance in, the other damages your car. Of course, they countering.NET, something Hailstorm is just a part of. Maybe they could find some neat-sounding god from one of the polytheistist religions, I imagine one of them rides on a monkey or has a monkey head something like that.
AmigaOS is not some open source project. It doesn't have to scratch any itch other then to get whoever owns Amiga these days (Amiga Inc?) some money.
The thing about PDAs is that every person does not have to have PDAs with the same OS for them to functional, unlike with computers where it is handy.
Also, as has been pointed out already, AmigaOS is not a new OS. It is an OS already running a low-powered hardware and that can be an the primary OS, as well as a VM. The latter feature is what makes AmigaOS orginial and different from other OSs. I least I can't think of an OS that has a VM to run its software.
In Tibet it would more common to for a women to marry several men. Obviously, this is a very good form of population control and it has been happening in Tibet for many centuries. Population control is important if you live on a mountain.
I believe that it is unreasonable to expect China to grant Tibet its independence (especially considering the Chinese that live there now), but it should be autonomous like during the times of the Emperors, where it had a colony like status, with lots of homerule.
Unfortuannly, it requires some female infanticide for it work, something the Communists government certainly did not invent.
I found this very interesting, as one always wonders what goes through these people minds who sell this kind of thing. The great majority (Chiu being amoung them) do believe what they are selling to the public.
I saw him on Internet Tonight a few months ago and he is quite a character.
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I agree that LOTR does have a good story, but it is not a great story. If it wasn't for the world he created, they would be OK books that wouldn't have captured so much attention.
Tolkein does not though.
I remember thinking about some anyways, whether or not the author meant so. But my statement was more a general one and was just me regressing into a general discussion of literature and books.
I think he was right on the mark on what led to LOTR's success. It was creating a new world. I found the books did get quite boring at parts, but I read at all through because the world it created was very interesting.
In my opinion, literature is overrated. In my English classes they are always asking about the "Symbolism" that really seems to be stretching it. I'm right with Tolkien that allegories are stupid.
I'm glad that the critics have mostly decided that Tolkien isn't literature; to me it is almost a stamp of poor writing. Not saying that all literature is bad writing, but symbolism-crap seems to be used to cover it up.
I subscribe to The Nation, but don't read the literary reviews in the back since they are always so bourgeois and full of that kind of crap.
However, obvious ones like Frodo's struggle with the ring meaning "power is corrupting" I'm OK with.
In fact, I like it when the Author makes me think about moral issues and such, but I don't like having to ask "what deep meaning did the author have in writing this."
Lawsuits cost money. They get their money from selling their products. If everyone keeps on suing each other, only the public will pay the price.
Whats wrong with this idea is that MS makes like 20% profit. Other companies will consider it luckly to get 5%. Prices of products obey suppply and demand. (Microsoft controls the supply of course). The whole idea that if a company starts losing money they will bump up the price is wrong, at least if the company is smart. If anything they will reduce prices to gain more markey share.
Re:What we really need is a kernel story
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I bought his book for a $1 once. You are correct. There is a little history, that was interesting. I didn't read the rest.
The same sources. The emperor was seen as holy (until he renounced in 1946). I do not believe that Japan would have taken unconditionally surrender without the nukes. Reassuring the Japanese that they could keep their Emperor probably might of meant a surrender without nukes or a ground invasion of Japan.
However, that might have taken more time. And we were worried about Russia which had declared war on Japan shortly before we nuked it. We didn't want the same thing to happen in Japan that had happened in Germany.
It is easy to overestimate the effect that a couple of a-bombs the huge amount of force involved is so impressing. The fire-bombings of Tokyo brought more human deaths then the both the nuclear bombings. I think they just gave more clarity to the writing on the wall for the Japanese leaders.
It should some sort of carving that gets accross the idea of Pl. I was thinking a skull and cross bones along with a drawing that shows its particals, as that would be something the any scientist anywhere anytime could understand.
Really, the only thing holding up Japan giving up was the US's insistence to have unconditional surrender - if had taken some conditions (like assuring Japan that they could keep their Emperor, which they got to anyway) they would have surrendered. This whole idea of Japan was so fanatical it took nukes to put sense in them, is just wrong. The bombings of Tokyo were more damaging then the nukes.
The reason we nuked Japan was to get there before the Russians and to demostrate nukes to the Russians. One could make the point that this was enough reason. But the nuking wasn't to prevent a ground war.
Saying the Terry Pratchett writes Science Fiction is pushing it. Fantasy is a much better generalization. There is magic, demons, Death (with a capital D) etc. etc. It is more SF then most Fantasy in that it gives a reason for all these things to exist, but it still isn't SF.
Robert Cringley wrote a column the described how to solve the energy crisis. Basically, eveyone would have a battery that would store energy during the night and release energy during the peak times. I don't know if this would provide any benefit now - I believe that energy costs the same no matter what time it is sold.
I have to disagree. The publisher of the game I don't think makes much difference. Alpha Centauri was really cool (not very pretty, however), but I prefer the historical setting so I'm really excited by Civ3.
Of course, Civilization Call to Power was really bad because of the lack of Sid Mier, probably.
Did you even read the preview? The new culture and trade stuff that they are adding looks cool. And one can always make the AI smarter.
However, even if all they did was take Civilization II or Alpha Centauri and give it a really pretty interface and fix the bugs that would be enough. They are such great games.
Well, if they were not funding the defense contractors with the ISS they would have to do with weapons. The former, even if useless, is better then the latter.
Of course, perhaps we could have gone to Mars instead. That would have better.
The WTO has way more power then the UN. The WTO can decide that our laws (such as cleaner oil or dolphin-safe tuna) are determintal to free trade. While the UN does have some say when it comes to human rights, the WTO is overall a power more organization in my opinon.
The UN doesn't break our soverinty particuraly from the US presceptive because the UN can't do anything unless we let it due to our veto powers; meaning that it doesn't do much.
As far as the NSI, they certainly do get in a lot of people business; which is their job I suppose.
The problem is that companies do not need have the law on there side to go around censoring people. Court cases are cost a lot of money.
This has started being a problem with people talking at city council meetings and the like and then sent a letter from a company that didn't like what they said.
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I've been going to some of the people that are trying to attack me and the majority are not operating. In otherwords, people who probably completely forget that they even have IIS.
Whatever it is suppose to mean, when I hear mono I think of the "kissing" disease (unless it is used in Spanish, because then I'm using a different part of my brain). I was thinking to counter Hailstorm they could have Rainstorm. Which sounds more pleasant? One you can sing and dance in, the other damages your car. Of course, they countering .NET, something Hailstorm is just a part of. Maybe they could find some neat-sounding god from one of the polytheistist religions, I imagine one of them rides on a monkey or has a monkey head something like that.
They also have a native client I believe, but it uses TOC.
AmigaOS is not some open source project. It doesn't have to scratch any itch other then to get whoever owns Amiga these days (Amiga Inc?) some money. The thing about PDAs is that every person does not have to have PDAs with the same OS for them to functional, unlike with computers where it is handy. Also, as has been pointed out already, AmigaOS is not a new OS. It is an OS already running a low-powered hardware and that can be an the primary OS, as well as a VM. The latter feature is what makes AmigaOS orginial and different from other OSs. I least I can't think of an OS that has a VM to run its software.
In Tibet it would more common to for a women to marry several men. Obviously, this is a very good form of population control and it has been happening in Tibet for many centuries. Population control is important if you live on a mountain.
I believe that it is unreasonable to expect China to grant Tibet its independence (especially considering the Chinese that live there now), but it should be autonomous like during the times of the Emperors, where it had a colony like status, with lots of homerule.
Unfortuannly, it requires some female infanticide for it work, something the Communists government certainly did not invent.
I found this very interesting, as one always wonders what goes through these people minds who sell this kind of thing. The great majority (Chiu being amoung them) do believe what they are selling to the public.
I saw him on Internet Tonight a few months ago and he is quite a character.
I agree that LOTR does have a good story, but it is not a great story. If it wasn't for the world he created, they would be OK books that wouldn't have captured so much attention.
Tolkein does not though.
I remember thinking about some anyways, whether or not the author meant so. But my statement was more a general one and was just me regressing into a general discussion of literature and books.
I think he was right on the mark on what led to LOTR's success. It was creating a new world. I found the books did get quite boring at parts, but I read at all through because the world it created was very interesting.
In my opinion, literature is overrated. In my English classes they are always asking about the "Symbolism" that really seems to be stretching it. I'm right with Tolkien that allegories are stupid.
I'm glad that the critics have mostly decided that Tolkien isn't literature; to me it is almost a stamp of poor writing. Not saying that all literature is bad writing, but symbolism-crap seems to be used to cover it up.
I subscribe to The Nation, but don't read the literary reviews in the back since they are always so bourgeois and full of that kind of crap.
However, obvious ones like Frodo's struggle with the ring meaning "power is corrupting" I'm OK with.
In fact, I like it when the Author makes me think about moral issues and such, but I don't like having to ask "what deep meaning did the author have in writing this."
Whats wrong with this idea is that MS makes like 20% profit. Other companies will consider it luckly to get 5%. Prices of products obey suppply and demand. (Microsoft controls the supply of course). The whole idea that if a company starts losing money they will bump up the price is wrong, at least if the company is smart. If anything they will reduce prices to gain more markey share.
I bought his book for a $1 once. You are correct. There is a little history, that was interesting. I didn't read the rest.
Does publishing the screen play mean they are not going to make the movie?
The same sources. The emperor was seen as holy (until he renounced in 1946). I do not believe that Japan would have taken unconditionally surrender without the nukes. Reassuring the Japanese that they could keep their Emperor probably might of meant a surrender without nukes or a ground invasion of Japan.
However, that might have taken more time. And we were worried about Russia which had declared war on Japan shortly before we nuked it. We didn't want the same thing to happen in Japan that had happened in Germany.
It is easy to overestimate the effect that a couple of a-bombs the huge amount of force involved is so impressing. The fire-bombings of Tokyo brought more human deaths then the both the nuclear bombings. I think they just gave more clarity to the writing on the wall for the Japanese leaders.
It should some sort of carving that gets accross the idea of Pl. I was thinking a skull and cross bones along with a drawing that shows its particals, as that would be something the any scientist anywhere anytime could understand.
Really, the only thing holding up Japan giving up was the US's insistence to have unconditional surrender - if had taken some conditions (like assuring Japan that they could keep their Emperor, which they got to anyway) they would have surrendered. This whole idea of Japan was so fanatical it took nukes to put sense in them, is just wrong. The bombings of Tokyo were more damaging then the nukes.
The reason we nuked Japan was to get there before the Russians and to demostrate nukes to the Russians. One could make the point that this was enough reason. But the nuking wasn't to prevent a ground war.
On the root page it says that will be up on Monday.
It could be the first distribution with an ext2 image on a windows partition.
Saying the Terry Pratchett writes Science Fiction is pushing it. Fantasy is a much better generalization. There is magic, demons, Death (with a capital D) etc. etc. It is more SF then most Fantasy in that it gives a reason for all these things to exist, but it still isn't SF.
Robert Cringley wrote a column the described how to solve the energy crisis. Basically, eveyone would have a battery that would store energy during the night and release energy during the peak times. I don't know if this would provide any benefit now - I believe that energy costs the same no matter what time it is sold.
Check it out:
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20010510. html
I have to disagree. The publisher of the game I don't think makes much difference. Alpha Centauri was really cool (not very pretty, however), but I prefer the historical setting so I'm really excited by Civ3. Of course, Civilization Call to Power was really bad because of the lack of Sid Mier, probably.
Did you even read the preview? The new culture and trade stuff that they are adding looks cool. And one can always make the AI smarter.
However, even if all they did was take Civilization II or Alpha Centauri and give it a really pretty interface and fix the bugs that would be enough. They are such great games.
Well, if they were not funding the defense contractors with the ISS they would have to do with weapons. The former, even if useless, is better then the latter.
Of course, perhaps we could have gone to Mars instead. That would have better.
I've noticed that the tab "Security News" isn't working (thought it could be for other reasons.)
Are any other frontpage tabs not working?
I heard a few years ago from a guy who worked at the aerospace musuem in Huntsville, Alamba that the a lot of early cosmonauts had died.
The WTO has way more power then the UN. The WTO can decide that our laws (such as cleaner oil or dolphin-safe tuna) are determintal to free trade. While the UN does have some say when it comes to human rights, the WTO is overall a power more organization in my opinon.
The UN doesn't break our soverinty particuraly from the US presceptive because the UN can't do anything unless we let it due to our veto powers; meaning that it doesn't do much.
As far as the NSI, they certainly do get in a lot of people business; which is their job I suppose.
The problem is that companies do not need have the law on there side to go around censoring people. Court cases are cost a lot of money.
This has started being a problem with people talking at city council meetings and the like and then sent a letter from a company that didn't like what they said.
The only reason windows is still being used? What the heck are you talking about? Windows... Secure?!?