Cantor thought that as he theorized about bigger and bigger infinite sets he was learning to understand God.
Yeah, but Cantor was a nut case, and everybody knows it. Don't get me wrong, set theory is my favorite branch of mathematics, so I am fascinated by Cantor, but he had mental problems his whole life. Maybe only a crazy man could come up with stuff like that.
Of course, all of this is exceedingly silly. The ideal solution would be to duel-license the mozilla rendering engine. *sigh*
One could just as easily say that the ideal solution would be to license Konqueror in a less restrictive manner than the GPL. Would there be a problem if it used a FreeBSD style license?
In the story "Our Neural Chernobyl" (I think by Bruce Sterling), this very thing is predicted (except in the story, cancer is completely cured by an altered HIV strain). That was the basis for the story, it went on to show some potential consequences of having gene-splicing technology accessable to bright young hackers (not hax0rs). I won't give it away, but it is very good read.
Yeah, it is a good read. That story is part of Sterling's "Globalhead," a collection of short stories. highly recommended for those who like Sci-Fi.
Oh, yeah. I was actually thinking Gatekeeper, but I guess I've been having too many "what kind of computer should I buy" discussions lately. People always ask me about Gateway. Anyway, I liked Gatekeeper and used it, along with Disinfectant for years. That was all the AV protection I needed on the Mac.
This is an interesting development, but it is a bit troublesome. The idea of any program on my computer communicating with a "home base" like that is a bit troubling to me. I used to use a program called Gateway for the Macintosh years ago. It would monitor the computer for suspicious behavior, which you could then permit (and it could memorize permissions) or deny. I liked that method of dealing with unknown virusses better than this digital immune system thing.
Well, I've only read Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead, but I found the latter to be better than the former. The first book was very interesting, but was rather simple conceptually. I found the second book much more interesting, at least at my age now. Perhaps if I had read it when I was 18, which was the heavy sci-fi reading period of my life, I would see things differently.
Well, we can debate the pros and cons of the software, and of the ISP policy, but that is not getting your resume seen. I suggest you go to one of the job boards, like dice.com or monster.com, or headhunter.net and post your resume there. The account is free. My URL above is my resume, for example. There is a lower likelyhood of those sites being blocked than that of an ISP.
I'm trying not to forget that when I look at all the flaws in the movie, and I keep hoping that things that appear to be flaws will be explained in future episodes.
If not - I'll be one of first in line to give my complaints on the entire prequal trilogy.
I agree. The plot holes were so large in the Phantom Menace, I think there has to be an unseen reason, and hopefully, an explanation in future movies. Brin pointed out some of them in the article.
What is with all this US vs Canada bs anyway? We have so much in common that it is surprising that we haven't become one country. The only ones who would always oppose this would probabably be the Quebecois (however you spell it).
[sarcasm=on]I for one will never bow willingly to this ongoing Canadian imperialism. I am troubled by our proud American culture's infection by the overbearing Canadian one. Hockey is spreading across the nation. What's next? Will our children be led astray by gangsteaux rap music?[sarcasm=off]
I doubt if the Canadians would want to be Americans, and I can't fault them for that, either.
I recall getting into this argument with somebody once. I oppose government intervention, they argued that the market will take too long to correct Microsoft's undue dominance, and that we need the government to speed things up.
I oppose government intervention in most things as well, but let us not forget, copyrights and patents really can't exist without governments. They aren't like a gadget that you can hire security to keep someone from stealing. You need a government to say "You have exclusive rights to use these ideas." If you invite government protection, you authorize government control.
I run NT4 in vmware on my PII266/128M RAM. It runs about as fast as NT running natively on the machine.
Yeah, NT works well for me. I have not even tried to use Win9x, but I had planned to until I heard about this. WinNT works very well on my dual PII 333 w/ 128MB RAM.
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I disagree. The Star Wars page is much more cartoonial with the edited images. The Star Trek page seems much more sinister, and a much more convincing parody. It actually resembles some of the web pages I have seen around the 'Net. But the Andy Gibb-esque depiction of Jesus on The Force=Satan had me laughing more than anything else on either page.
who the heck wants to watch a DVD using those horrible RF-outputs?!
None of the modern consoles even have RF outputs, much less require them. They use RCA outs like most other consumer video equipment. Now, if you are one of those people who use S-VHS outs and fiber optics all over, or balanced outputs, then you might not want one, but Sony is likely not marketing a Playstaition to audiophiles.
IMHO... If you're an individual who's getting into kernel tuning you already are the sysadmin.
I see your point, but I was really speaking more on telling the individual what daemons can be disabled and how to do it, etc. Things which will optimize Linux for a single user with an Internet account, rather than a LAN user.
Well, it is about time. I get a lot of information from the Linux How-Tos, but we do need to get more central repositories for Linux knowledge. Looks like the site may have been/.ed, but it may be the proxy server here. Will it contain info for individual users as well as sysadmins?
QT 4.0 will already play mp3's, but more support is always better. Now if QT would only play *streaming* mp3's then that would be so cool. There currently is no streaming mp3 player for the mac.:(
I have never seen one for Linux, either. The only one I know of is WinAmp, and its platform is obvious
Wasn't the kid's father a marine? No amount of gun control would have kept the guns out of that house. Where the gun control is necessary is in the house, not at the store.
wow, that's a generalization if i ever saw one. come on, i know plenty of people in the military who don't have guns in their homes.
That's not how I took that statement. Rather, that military people have access to guns, and rather than depending on gun control laws in such a situation, you have to depend on the people in the house.
I don't think privacy is a right. As a child, I didn't buy any of the things I used. My parents have as much right to look on a computer in their house as I do now in my own now that I am living on my own. There may be good reasons to permit a certain amount of privacy to children, but it is certainly not a right in any real sense of the word.
I agree. If I pay for a course, it really needs to be worth my while. I didn't take courses for any of my MCSE exams, and that certification does have real monetary value.
I look at it as just the opposite really. I use Mandrake 5.3 at home, because I had too many problems trying to compile programs, so RPM really helped me to spend less time configuring and installing and more time tinkering with what is already installed. I intend to move to Slack at some point in the future, as I figure compiling my own programs will give me a bit more speed than using binaries. So for me, Mandrake is a training distro, and Slack is where I want to eventually go.
I tried to install NT for 2 weeks before giving up. I got 98 to install after the third attempt. I have 2 separate SCSI drives, and a dual PII system. Slackware, Redhat and Linux Mandrake all installed on the first attempt.
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Yeah, but Cantor was a nut case, and everybody knows it. Don't get me wrong, set theory is my favorite branch of mathematics, so I am fascinated by Cantor, but he had mental problems his whole life. Maybe only a crazy man could come up with stuff like that.
One could just as easily say that the ideal solution would be to license Konqueror in a less restrictive manner than the GPL. Would there be a problem if it used a FreeBSD style license?
Yeah, it is a good read. That story is part of Sterling's "Globalhead," a collection of short stories. highly recommended for those who like Sci-Fi.
Oh, yeah. I was actually thinking Gatekeeper, but I guess I've been having too many "what kind of computer should I buy" discussions lately. People always ask me about Gateway. Anyway, I liked Gatekeeper and used it, along with Disinfectant for years. That was all the AV protection I needed on the Mac.
This is an interesting development, but it is a bit troublesome. The idea of any program on my computer communicating with a "home base" like that is a bit troubling to me. I used to use a program called Gateway for the Macintosh years ago. It would monitor the computer for suspicious behavior, which you could then permit (and it could memorize permissions) or deny. I liked that method of dealing with unknown virusses better than this digital immune system thing.
Well, I've only read Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead, but I found the latter to be better than the former. The first book was very interesting, but was rather simple conceptually. I found the second book much more interesting, at least at my age now. Perhaps if I had read it when I was 18, which was the heavy sci-fi reading period of my life, I would see things differently.
Well, we can debate the pros and cons of the software, and of the ISP policy, but that is not getting your resume seen. I suggest you go to one of the job boards, like dice.com or monster.com, or headhunter.net and post your resume there. The account is free. My URL above is my resume, for example. There is a lower likelyhood of those sites being blocked than that of an ISP.
I saw it this morning. I didn't look at it closely, but it sounded strange. I was going to send off an email to Rob when I got home.
If not - I'll be one of first in line to give my complaints on the entire prequal trilogy.
I agree. The plot holes were so large in the Phantom Menace, I think there has to be an unseen reason, and hopefully, an explanation in future movies. Brin pointed out some of them in the article.
[sarcasm=on]I for one will never bow willingly to this ongoing Canadian imperialism. I am troubled by our proud American culture's infection by the overbearing Canadian one. Hockey is spreading across the nation. What's next? Will our children be led astray by gangsteaux rap music?[sarcasm=off]
I doubt if the Canadians would want to be Americans, and I can't fault them for that, either.
I oppose government intervention in most things as well, but let us not forget, copyrights and patents really can't exist without governments. They aren't like a gadget that you can hire security to keep someone from stealing. You need a government to say "You have exclusive rights to use these ideas." If you invite government protection, you authorize government control.
Yeah, and we can get Celine Dion to sing "The Force will go on" and have the soundtrack go platinum.
Yeah, NT works well for me. I have not even tried to use Win9x, but I had planned to until I heard about this. WinNT works very well on my dual PII 333 w/ 128MB RAM.
IMHO, once again the Star Wars stuff is superior
I disagree. The Star Wars page is much more cartoonial with the edited images. The Star Trek page seems much more sinister, and a much more convincing parody. It actually resembles some of the web pages I have seen around the 'Net. But the Andy Gibb-esque depiction of Jesus on The Force=Satan had me laughing more than anything else on either page.
None of the modern consoles even have RF outputs, much less require them. They use RCA outs like most other consumer video equipment. Now, if you are one of those people who use S-VHS outs and fiber optics all over, or balanced outputs, then you might not want one, but Sony is likely not marketing a Playstaition to audiophiles.
I see your point, but I was really speaking more on telling the individual what daemons can be disabled and how to do it, etc. Things which will optimize Linux for a single user with an Internet account, rather than a LAN user.
Well, it is about time. I get a lot of information from the Linux How-Tos, but we do need to get more central repositories for Linux knowledge. Looks like the site may have been /.ed, but it may be the proxy server here. Will it contain info for individual users as well as sysadmins?
I have never seen one for Linux, either. The only one I know of is WinAmp, and its platform is obvious
wow, that's a generalization if i ever saw one. come on, i know plenty of people in the military who don't have guns in their homes.
That's not how I took that statement. Rather, that military people have access to guns, and rather than depending on gun control laws in such a situation, you have to depend on the people in the house.
Actually, it's second to fertilizer (Oklahoma City).
On American soil, perhaps, but the A-bomb takes all comers for what has been done in far less than a day.
I don't think privacy is a right. As a child, I didn't buy any of the things I used. My parents have as much right to look on a computer in their house as I do now in my own now that I am living on my own. There may be good reasons to permit a certain amount of privacy to children, but it is certainly not a right in any real sense of the word.
I agree. If I pay for a course, it really needs to be worth my while. I didn't take courses for any of my MCSE exams, and that certification does have real monetary value.
I look at it as just the opposite really. I use Mandrake 5.3 at home, because I had too many problems trying to compile programs, so RPM really helped me to spend less time configuring and installing and more time tinkering with what is already installed. I intend to move to Slack at some point in the future, as I figure compiling my own programs will give me a bit more speed than using binaries. So for me, Mandrake is a training distro, and Slack is where I want to eventually go.
I tried to install NT for 2 weeks before giving up. I got 98 to install after the third attempt. I have 2 separate SCSI drives, and a dual PII system. Slackware, Redhat and Linux Mandrake all installed on the first attempt.