so how many chromosomes does this one have
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A horse has 64 chromosomes and a donkey has 62, so a mule is left with 63, an uneven number which cannot divide into chromosome pairs. This should make a mule unable to reproduce.
So how many does this baby mule have? Did it manage to end up with an odd number, or did it end up with an even number due to one of its mule parents having the mule equivilent of downs syndrome?
Possible reason it doesn't happen?
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Could it be possible that that mules don't reproduce very often due to the fact that no one tries to reproduce them due to the fact that its "common knowledge" that mules can't reproduce?
'In the beginning Lunar was a fork of Sorcerer GNU Linux (SGL). The fork occurred in late January to early February of 2002 and was originally made up of a small group of people who wanted to collaboratively develop and extend the Sorcerer technology.'
It appears to be almost totally different now judging from the other info given on the site..
However, people get far, far quicker at using them when they remember *which direction* the option they want is in, whereas for a normal pop-up menu you'll always need to look at it.
With a normal right-click style popup menu, you also ten to remember where the option you want is. For instance, if you right-click on a link in IE, the open in new window option is the second one. I could and do do that with out really looking at it or even really thinking about it.
And what are we seeking to prove? That there's no God or something?
That would be hard to do.. the water has to come from somewhere.. and the atoms to make the water and the stuff to make the atoms.. and on and on and on..
Science better kick it up a couple of notches if they want to try and prove that there's no God anytime soon.
What your talking about is almost exactly how dos handled file deletion.. a file wasn't listed by dir anymore, but unless you did a lot of file IO or ran defrag, you could easily undelete the file using the undelete command.
So what about when someone gets a virus which infects the undelete folder.
So what about it? The only thing you can do with the files in the trash are undelete them back to their original spot and truly delete them. I don't see this as being an overly exploitable system.
No kidding, I'm a residental network technician at my university and I empty peoples trash all the time, as well uninstalling aol and uninstalling kazaa and running adaware. Then again, we make them sign a waiver before touching anything too..
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But really, when I delete files, I WANT them gone. Period.
When I really really want to delete files, I right click on them and do the option for pgp to delete them and wipe them several times with random data. But maybe I'm just paranoid?
I'm sure everyone else is going to be asking the same thing, but why do you need a cmd line trash. The 'normal' user who doesn't understand that when you delete something it goes away forever isn't going to be using the cmd line, they are going to be using x-windows, most likely in the gnome or kde flavor. Its pretty easy to make a folder named "trash" for them to drag stuff into if they don't want to delete it.
[X] Standard software install system - LSB, Red Hat, Mandrake, Suse
Does anyone else find it ironic to see the word "standard" on the same line as four different options?
No, not considering that its one answer with 3 options. It should have been written like this >[X] Standard software install system - LSB: Red Hat, Mandrake, Suse
Re:I know you're kidding, but....
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Rpm doesn't work right, but apt sure does. Serious linux users don't use rpm based distro's anyway so its not a 1 to 1 comparison.
One good thing about Windows Installer is that the install is an atomic procedure. That is, if it fails for any reason (file missing, user cancel, etc.), then it will completely roll-back and not leave bits of a partially installed application.
That is assuming that it doesn't decide to break your other msi installed apps leaving them unrunnable with your registry messed up.
"I feel it is part of crime prevention to knock on the door," Peterson said.
No, its acting like an annoying neighbor to knock on the door. It doesn't even occur to this guy that he might just be annoying people who have open networks on purpose.
I didn't realize chinese people actually made a lot of references towards dragons.. i thought it was like a western misconception or something.. either way, this sounds like an exciting chip.
Why have linux in the process at all? If you can win2k on top of linux on the xbox hardware using some sort of VMWare like product, why not just get win2k to work on the xbox itself? Most of the hardware is stardard pc stuff anyway with the exception of video.
You know, if this keeps up, the RIAA isn't going to need that pro-hacking bill; hacktivists are going to get so fed up with Kazaa that they take them down on their own.
Seriously.. I would love to see kazaa go.. their spyware alone is enough of a headache for me to deal with as a computer support person that I'd be willing to help shut them down, and I like stealing mp3's as much as the next person.
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A horse has 64 chromosomes and a donkey has 62, so a mule is left with 63, an uneven number which cannot divide into chromosome pairs. This should make a mule unable to reproduce.
So how many does this baby mule have? Did it manage to end up with an odd number, or did it end up with an even number due to one of its mule parents having the mule equivilent of downs syndrome?
Could it be possible that that mules don't reproduce very often due to the fact that no one tries to reproduce them due to the fact that its "common knowledge" that mules can't reproduce?
I have a *very* rich friend who would love to bankroll a fight against this twat.
If thats true, why isn't your *very* rich friend helping any of the people already involved?
'In the beginning Lunar was a fork of Sorcerer GNU Linux (SGL). The fork occurred in late January to early February of 2002 and was originally made up of a small group of people who wanted to collaboratively develop and extend the Sorcerer technology.'
It appears to be almost totally different now judging from the other info given on the site..
However, people get far, far quicker at using them when they remember *which direction* the option they want is in, whereas for a normal pop-up menu you'll always need to look at it.
With a normal right-click style popup menu, you also ten to remember where the option you want is. For instance, if you right-click on a link in IE, the open in new window option is the second one. I could and do do that with out really looking at it or even really thinking about it.
the IE shortcut of alt+mousewheel to change font size goes through the history in phoenix
Its control+mousewheel in IE. Normal windows behavior in any app for the alt key is to do things in the menu bar.
Heh.. man I wish I had mod points today.
And what are we seeking to prove? That there's no God or something?
That would be hard to do.. the water has to come from somewhere.. and the atoms to make the water and the stuff to make the atoms.. and on and on and on..
Science better kick it up a couple of notches if they want to try and prove that there's no God anytime soon.
This is flamebait, certainly not worth a 4 insight..
Give it up, nobody gives a shit. If all that stuff wasn't under the GNU license it would be available some other way.
This is hard to believe, given that no one had made such tools available before GNU, and no one has really created such tools since.
Like that aren't at least 5-10 other compilers that are just as mature or capable as gcc?
if you don't know how to change your system to testing or unstable thats your problem.. don't cry about it on slashdot.
What your talking about is almost exactly how dos handled file deletion.. a file wasn't listed by dir anymore, but unless you did a lot of file IO or ran defrag, you could easily undelete the file using the undelete command.
So what about when someone gets a virus which infects the undelete folder.
So what about it? The only thing you can do with the files in the trash are undelete them back to their original spot and truly delete them. I don't see this as being an overly exploitable system.
No kidding, I'm a residental network technician at my university and I empty peoples trash all the time, as well uninstalling aol and uninstalling kazaa and running adaware. Then again, we make them sign a waiver before touching anything too..
But really, when I delete files, I WANT them gone. Period.
When I really really want to delete files, I right click on them and do the option for pgp to delete them and wipe them several times with random data. But maybe I'm just paranoid?
I'm sure everyone else is going to be asking the same thing, but why do you need a cmd line trash. The 'normal' user who doesn't understand that when you delete something it goes away forever isn't going to be using the cmd line, they are going to be using x-windows, most likely in the gnome or kde flavor. Its pretty easy to make a folder named "trash" for them to drag stuff into if they don't want to delete it.
[X] Standard software install system - LSB, Red Hat, Mandrake, Suse
Does anyone else find it ironic to see the word "standard" on the same line as four different options?
No, not considering that its one answer with 3 options. It should have been written like this
>[X] Standard software install system - LSB: Red Hat, Mandrake, Suse
Rpm doesn't work right, but apt sure does. Serious linux users don't use rpm based distro's anyway so its not a 1 to 1 comparison.
One good thing about Windows Installer is that the install is an atomic procedure. That is, if it fails for any reason (file missing, user cancel, etc.), then it will completely roll-back and not leave bits of a partially installed application.
That is assuming that it doesn't decide to break your other msi installed apps leaving them unrunnable with your registry messed up.
Now, Hurd is almost a real kernel.. Finally those GNU people have gotten off their asses and done what that punk Linus kid did years ago.
"I feel it is part of crime prevention to knock on the door," Peterson said.
No, its acting like an annoying neighbor to knock on the door. It doesn't even occur to this guy that he might just be annoying people who have open networks on purpose.
I didn't realize chinese people actually made a lot of references towards dragons.. i thought it was like a western misconception or something.. either way, this sounds like an exciting chip.
Why have linux in the process at all? If you can win2k on top of linux on the xbox hardware using some sort of VMWare like product, why not just get win2k to work on the xbox itself? Most of the hardware is stardard pc stuff anyway with the exception of video.
I wish dns providers would just have it resolve to some other site.. that would effectively kill it if enough people did it.
You know, if this keeps up, the RIAA isn't going to need that pro-hacking bill; hacktivists are going to get so fed up with Kazaa that they take them down on their own.
Seriously.. I would love to see kazaa go.. their spyware alone is enough of a headache for me to deal with as a computer support person that I'd be willing to help shut them down, and I like stealing mp3's as much as the next person.