The real problem is that the NASA engineers choose the wrong means of communication, when trying to explain what I would suspect to be a rather complicated situation. Who's fault is that?
You can say a lot about the guys at Redmond, but I doubt their PowerPoint team has any rocket scientists associated with them. *pun intended*
Well. I don't completely understand you, but I do agree with your last point.
I didn't mean that the US should stop spending money, but I wonder if the money couldn't be more well spent on better causes. I pulled up the vaccine/traffic deaths because you would propably see a better money/lives saved ratio in that scenario.
Well I guess that almost everything is possible in theory.
Agreed it's a tragedy, but why risk the lives of another set of crew members, and why is it that people tend to focus so much of the loss of seven lives, who knew it was a dangerous mission and propably were prepared to die in the name of science.
I mean. For the cost of such a rescue mission...how many lives could you save by using the money on eg vaccines in the 3. world.
How many people die in the traffic in the US? How many lives could be saved by investing money in car safety?
You could propably have invested in something with a better money-lives saved ratio, but people don't seem to be very intereested in that or what?
FreeBSD is a great OS, if you get to know it. There's a lot of documentation available, and I thought I'd just share with you my experiences with FreeBSD.
Which version to install. 4.x or 5.0? 4.x is the stable series and 5.x is in development. It suffers of what's been called a chicken and egg problem described here. Think of 5.x as Linux 2.5 series. 5.1 when released(scheduled for release in june)to will be the start of the new stable branch. If you want stability choose 4.x. Bleeding edge? 5.0.
Installation: The installer is text based, but dont let it scare you off. The partition layout is a little different than what you may be used to but it's all described in the FreeBSD handbook here
The installation will leave you off with a pretty basic system and you're ready to install:
Ports Ports is a very powerfull way of installing new programs and manage installed programs. You almost never run into dependency hell. A very powerfull tool to help manage ports is portupgrade. A short introduction is available here and to ports in general here
Documentation. FreeBSD requires some time to get to know but the FreeBSD Handbook, provides a great introduction to FreeBSD. Sites also worth a visit is Freshports.org to keep you updated about new ports, and BSD dev center
If you give FreeBSD an honest try it will pay off. Most of the applications avalible for Linux also compiles on FreeBSD, and in general I find it more easy to find documentation, thus making it more easy to maintain.
In the original language a word which comes closer to meaning "eon" than "day" is used for the time period God used when creating the universe
I've heard this before but if you consider the text(Genesis): God seprerates light and darkness (and later goes on to create the sun and the moon to rule over it). If you read this litterally, the text would only make sense if this is done in 6 days, as in 6x24 hours. At least thats how I read it in my translation.
To answer your question: AntiPiratGruppen or APG is Danish organisation represented by some lawyers (Bech-Bruun Dragsted) who works together with their clients from the music/movie/software industry. This includes CopyDan who pays of royalties of copyrighted material whenever it's preformed. E.g. played on the radio. APG primarily targets music and movie piracy and I would guess that whenever APG sues someone, some of the $$ goes to CopyDan and from there to the artists.
That's why I use FreeBSD
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If you're like me you like to have everything compiled from scratch. Thats why I tried LFS some months ago, but found it at that the time it took to make a basic setup was awful long. Then I switched to gentoo but I disliked their portage system, but finally I setteled with FreeBSD. Compiling everything from scratch is as easy as: cvsup stable-supfile cd/usr/src make world && make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL && make installkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL
Linux by itself handles quite a lot. Controls the CPU(s), the main memory, I/O modules and system interconnection and provides an API to userland, but it's still just a kernel.
To make it a operating system it must IMHO provide some user interface, e.g. bash, or COMMAND.COM or whatever, and some basic filesystem utilities like ls, rm, cd etc.
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The real problem is that the NASA engineers choose the wrong means of communication, when trying to explain what I would suspect to be a rather complicated situation.
Who's fault is that?
You can say a lot about the guys at Redmond, but I doubt their PowerPoint team has any rocket scientists associated with them.
*pun intended*
Mine was surprisingly accurate
This is also known as the Forer effect aka. subjective validation.
Five years ago, Miguel committed the first code for Gnumeric to CVS. In a testament to the quality of the code several lines are still in use
It's nothing. As a testament to the quality of the Windows sourcecode they keep seleral lines of code back from the early eighties in active use.
"Sir! Monkey number X335B12K has smashed his PC with a sledgehammer!"
The camera pans around to Bill Gates' face
"I call it... X-BOX. Release it"
Well. I don't completely understand you, but I do agree with your last point.
I didn't mean that the US should stop spending money, but I wonder if the money couldn't be more well spent on better causes. I pulled up the vaccine/traffic deaths because you would propably see a better money/lives saved ratio in that scenario.
Well I guess that almost everything is possible in theory.
Agreed it's a tragedy, but why risk the lives of another set of crew members, and why is it that people tend to focus so much of the loss of seven lives, who knew it was a dangerous mission and propably were prepared to die in the name of science.
I mean. For the cost of such a rescue mission...how many lives could you save by using the money on eg vaccines in the 3. world.
How many people die in the traffic in the US? How many lives could be saved by investing money in car safety?
You could propably have invested in something with a better money-lives saved ratio, but people don't seem to be very intereested in that or what?
Fact 1: Most people like fancy interfaces.
Fact 2: Most desktop computers are equipped with some sort of 3d acceleration hardware.
Fact 1 + Fact 2 = fast fancy interface.
FreeBSD is a great OS, if you get to know it. There's a lot of documentation available, and I thought I'd just share with you my experiences with FreeBSD.
Which version to install.
4.x or 5.0? 4.x is the stable series and 5.x is in development. It suffers of what's been called a chicken and egg problem described here. Think of 5.x as Linux 2.5 series. 5.1 when released(scheduled for release in june)to will be the start of the new stable branch. If you want stability choose 4.x. Bleeding edge? 5.0.
You can download the ISO's from here:
You generally only need to download the first ISO
Installation:
The installer is text based, but dont let it scare you off. The partition layout is a little different than what you may be used to but it's all described in the FreeBSD handbook here
The installation will leave you off with a pretty basic system and you're ready to install:
Ports
Ports is a very powerfull way of installing new programs and manage installed programs. You almost never run into dependency hell. A very powerfull tool to help manage ports is portupgrade. A short introduction is available here and to ports in general here
Documentation.
FreeBSD requires some time to get to know but the FreeBSD Handbook, provides a great introduction to FreeBSD. Sites also worth a visit is Freshports.org to keep you updated about new ports, and BSD dev center
If you give FreeBSD an honest try it will pay off. Most of the applications avalible for Linux also compiles on FreeBSD, and in general I find it more easy to find documentation, thus making it more easy to maintain.
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Are you sure you included a URL? Didja test them for typos?
I seem to have a problem with the link to http://sdf.lonestar.org
Dude...
In the original language a word which comes closer to meaning "eon" than "day" is used for the time period God used when creating the universe
I've heard this before but if you consider the text(Genesis): God seprerates light and darkness (and later goes on to create the sun and the moon to rule over it). If you read this litterally, the text would only make sense if this is done in 6 days, as in 6x24 hours. At least thats how I read it in my translation.
Oh and btw. If you got scared please read this afterwards.
To answer your question:
AntiPiratGruppen or APG is Danish organisation represented by some lawyers (Bech-Bruun Dragsted) who works together with their clients from the music/movie/software industry. This includes CopyDan who pays of royalties of copyrighted material whenever it's preformed. E.g. played on the radio. APG primarily targets music and movie piracy and I would guess that whenever APG sues someone, some of the $$ goes to CopyDan and from there to the artists.
Intel's Pentium 4 3.06GHz: Hyper-Threading on Desktops
If you're like me you like to have everything compiled from scratch. Thats why I tried LFS some months ago, but found it at that the time it took to make a basic setup was awful long. Then I switched to gentoo but I disliked their portage system, but finally I setteled with FreeBSD. Compiling everything from scratch is as easy as: /usr/src
cvsup stable-supfile
cd
make world && make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL && make installkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL
and ports+portupgrade is just great.
Linux by itself handles quite a lot.
Controls the CPU(s), the main memory, I/O modules and system interconnection and provides an API to userland, but it's still just a kernel.
To make it a operating system it must IMHO provide some user interface, e.g. bash, or COMMAND.COM or whatever, and some basic filesystem utilities like ls, rm, cd etc.
Lycoris seems to be comming along with their W*ndows'ish distro:
Review at modemnet.net
All in all it sounds like a great step towards bringing Linux to the desktop.