I can't see something as expensive as a car becoming especially popular, but it's great to think about what might evolve from these little dudes in a few years' time. Five or so years from now they'll probably be down to a few thousand dollars and ten times as intelligent. I can see them being used for things like domestic maintenance, helping the elderly and disabled, going into dangerous environments, they could even have military applications.
Plus, it's just be cool to have one in the server room to reboot boxes for us, and make coffee:-)
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If there were some way I could contribute monetarily to the Samba project
It's a well known fact that Andrew Tridgell, Samba's creator, accepts Pizza if you feel the urge to be generous. More details in the FAQ:
Andrew doesn't askfor payment, but he does appreciate it when people give him pizza.
This calls for a little organisation when the pizza donor is twenty
thousand kilometres away, but it has been done.
Method 1: Ring up your local branch of an international pizza chain
and see if they honour their vouchers internationally. Pizza Hut do,
which is how the entire Canberra Linux Users Group got to eat pizza
one night, courtesy of someone in the US
Method 2: Ring up a local pizza shop in Canberra and quote a credit
card number for a certain amount, and tell them that Andrew will be
collecting it (don't forget to tell him.) One kind soul from Germany
did this.
Method 3: Purchase a pizza voucher from your local pizza shop that has
no international affiliations and send it to Andrew. It is completely
useless but he can hang it on the wall next to the one he already has
from Germany:-)
Method 4: Air freight him a pizza with your favourite regional
flavours. It will probably get stuck in customs or torn apart by
hungry sniffer dogs but it will have been a noble gesture.
Since there hasn't been a proper post yet, just my two pence: Dave's a nice bloke. We've been out drinking a few times and he's a laugh. Also very scary, but that's a fact of life if 1) you're welsh and 2) you hack the kernel for fun and profit.
Ridley Scott paid Francis Ford Coppolla for the right to use the name "Bladerunner" for the movie. Coppolla had bought the option rights to the book of that name but had no plans to make it into a film.
I run a website that pulls a lot of content from other servers. We use to have a newsfeed via ITN's RDF feed - until I got a call from their Director of New Media asking me to take it off. Seems they charge a hefty fee for such a feed - around £30,000 - but hadn't taken any attempts to protect it with a.htaccess file or something. How did I find it? By searching Google!
My company uses Slackware exclusively on all our servers all over the world, and on the desktops of the technical department (apart from me, I use RH). Nothing gets us worked up more than the release of a new Slack version.
Part of the reason is habitual, but Slackware's simplicity and UNIX-ness is also very appealing for a large, complex network that needs a lot of work to operate. Its lean install (if you don't want it, you don't have to install it, if you do, put it on yourself) is perfect for mission critical stuff where security is important.
That's why Slack will always have a place in our hearts and on our boxen.
It's nice to see that so far more projects have been hilighted for being open than for not. I'd like to add Galeon to the list. The devel list happily accepts patches, even my poor attempts to produce graphics for it.
A mass of 3 million Suns may seem a lot, but it isn't when you remember that the Galaxy is quite a bit bigger than that. It's unlikely that this Black Hole could "swallow" the galaxy, in fact it's probably the only reason our galaxy exists.
Every new release of Mozilla fills me with both joy and dread. Joy because it genuinely gets better each time, dread because I'll have to fight with Ximian Redcarpet and Galeon RPMs to install it:-( Why does Mozilla have to be such a crucial part of Ximian? Mozilla's being developed much quicker than Ximian is, but those of us lazy folks who use packages have to wait for the Ximian distribution to catch up before we can try the latest Mozilla builds. Which sucks.
Small isn't necessarily beautiful when it comes to spacecraft. I'm a big fan of the "Big Dumb Booster" theory, which states that the cost of a space mission is related not only to the cost of fuel, resources and construction, but also to the amount of R&D that has to be done to create new technology for the mission.
Using state-of-the-art technology incurs costs in R&D, since NASA has to justify its existence by contracting out to private companies and re-inventing the wheel everytime. I bet it'd be much cheaper to re-use the large and out-of-date Viking technology of 25 years ago than spend billions developing a bleeding edge spacecraft, but it'd do just as good a job.
A new Indy movie has been on the cards for years. I have the boxed VHS set that was released a couple of years back that had interviews with Lucas, Spielberg and Ford. In them they discussed the possibility of a fourth movie. They were all keen to do it, but they wanted to wait until Lucas could write a script worth filming. And since Lucas is busy on Star Wars, it might be a while before that happens.
do you really want a record in place every time you pay with cash?
Since I spend most of my cash in the pub, it would be neat to be able to go to my landlord's website and answer the question what the hell was I drinking last night?
a dwelling is a building that people live in. a building can be something other than a dwelling. you wouldn't call an office block a dwelling, but it is a building.
Apparently the Americans are celebrating some kind of holiday. Even though it only applies to them, they seem to want to ram it down everyone else's throats.
Maybe I'm biased, though, being British;)
Mind you, there is a certain poetry to the release of the latest Linux kernel on a day people celebrate Freedom.
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I can't see something as expensive as a car becoming especially popular, but it's great to think about what might evolve from these little dudes in a few years' time. Five or so years from now they'll probably be down to a few thousand dollars and ten times as intelligent. I can see them being used for things like domestic maintenance, helping the elderly and disabled, going into dangerous environments, they could even have military applications.
:-)
Plus, it's just be cool to have one in the server room to reboot boxes for us, and make coffee
The GIMP tells me that the colour of the universe is #FEF9E5 in hex. Now that's got to mean something :-p
As anyone who's ever hitch-hiked the galaxy knows - dolphins are actually the second most intelligent life form on this planet.
Click here to see why.
It's a well known fact that Andrew Tridgell, Samba's creator, accepts Pizza if you feel the urge to be generous. More details in the FAQ:
Andrew doesn't askfor payment, but he does appreciate it when people give him pizza. This calls for a little organisation when the pizza donor is twenty thousand kilometres away, but it has been done.
:-)
Method 1: Ring up your local branch of an international pizza chain and see if they honour their vouchers internationally. Pizza Hut do, which is how the entire Canberra Linux Users Group got to eat pizza one night, courtesy of someone in the US
Method 2: Ring up a local pizza shop in Canberra and quote a credit card number for a certain amount, and tell them that Andrew will be collecting it (don't forget to tell him.) One kind soul from Germany did this.
Method 3: Purchase a pizza voucher from your local pizza shop that has no international affiliations and send it to Andrew. It is completely useless but he can hang it on the wall next to the one he already has from Germany
Method 4: Air freight him a pizza with your favourite regional flavours. It will probably get stuck in customs or torn apart by hungry sniffer dogs but it will have been a noble gesture.
Since there hasn't been a proper post yet, just my two pence: Dave's a nice bloke. We've been out drinking a few times and he's a laugh. Also very scary, but that's a fact of life if 1) you're welsh and 2) you hack the kernel for fun and profit.
Ridley Scott paid Francis Ford Coppolla for the right to use the name "Bladerunner" for the movie. Coppolla had bought the option rights to the book of that name but had no plans to make it into a film.
Just FYI.
I run a website that pulls a lot of content from other servers. We use to have a newsfeed via ITN's RDF feed - until I got a call from their Director of New Media asking me to take it off. Seems they charge a hefty fee for such a feed - around £30,000 - but hadn't taken any attempts to protect it with a .htaccess file or something. How did I find it? By searching Google!
It's from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare. You may have heard of him.
My company uses Slackware exclusively on all our servers all over the world, and on the desktops of the technical department (apart from me, I use RH). Nothing gets us worked up more than the release of a new Slack version.
Part of the reason is habitual, but Slackware's simplicity and UNIX-ness is also very appealing for a large, complex network that needs a lot of work to operate. Its lean install (if you don't want it, you don't have to install it, if you do, put it on yourself) is perfect for mission critical stuff where security is important.
That's why Slack will always have a place in our hearts and on our boxen.
According to the Human Freedom Index, the freest place to live in the world is Sweden. Also very well wired up.
Will the last geek to leave America, please turn Slashdot off? Thanks.
It's nice to see that so far more projects have been hilighted for being open than for not. I'd like to add Galeon to the list. The devel list happily accepts patches, even my poor attempts to produce graphics for it.
Not if their work is derived from a GPL project they aren't.
Well yes, that's because they would then be closing the source to someone else's work, that the author has already decided they want to keep open.
I believe there are licenses out there that allow what you want. Maybe you should only develop code released under them.
Erm, they are allowed to ;-)
A mass of 3 million Suns may seem a lot, but it isn't when you remember that the Galaxy is quite a bit bigger than that. It's unlikely that this Black Hole could "swallow" the galaxy, in fact it's probably the only reason our galaxy exists.
Incidentally, the BBC article is here.
Sturgeon's Law is always strictly enforced:
Every new release of Mozilla fills me with both joy and dread. Joy because it genuinely gets better each time, dread because I'll have to fight with Ximian Redcarpet and Galeon RPMs to install it :-( Why does Mozilla have to be such a crucial part of Ximian? Mozilla's being developed much quicker than Ximian is, but those of us lazy folks who use packages have to wait for the Ximian distribution to catch up before we can try the latest Mozilla builds. Which sucks.
Small isn't necessarily beautiful when it comes to spacecraft. I'm a big fan of the "Big Dumb Booster" theory, which states that the cost of a space mission is related not only to the cost of fuel, resources and construction, but also to the amount of R&D that has to be done to create new technology for the mission.
Using state-of-the-art technology incurs costs in R&D, since NASA has to justify its existence by contracting out to private companies and re-inventing the wheel everytime. I bet it'd be much cheaper to re-use the large and out-of-date Viking technology of 25 years ago than spend billions developing a bleeding edge spacecraft, but it'd do just as good a job.
Heh. If we applied this rule to Linux/GNOME/[insert open-source project name here], we'd end up waiting quite a while...
Personally, if someone's made their best effort with the tools at their disposal, I'm impressed.
Galileo's discoveries may seem simplistic compared to modern physics, but he's no less a genius because of it.
A new Indy movie has been on the cards for years. I have the boxed VHS set that was released a couple of years back that had interviews with Lucas, Spielberg and Ford. In them they discussed the possibility of a fourth movie. They were all keen to do it, but they wanted to wait until Lucas could write a script worth filming. And since Lucas is busy on Star Wars, it might be a while before that happens.
Nice to see you've taken my post in the spirit in which it was intended. It's good to see the America Sense of Humour in full effect.
Boxing Day is just a day to get over the hangover from Christmas Day. May Day passes unmentioned around here most years.
You know more than me then ;)
Since I spend most of my cash in the pub, it would be neat to be able to go to my landlord's website and answer the question what the hell was I drinking last night?
a dwelling is a building that people live in. a building can be something other than a dwelling. you wouldn't call an office block a dwelling, but it is a building.
Apparently the Americans are celebrating some kind of holiday. Even though it only applies to them, they seem to want to ram it down everyone else's throats.
Maybe I'm biased, though, being British ;)
Mind you, there is a certain poetry to the release of the latest Linux kernel on a day people celebrate Freedom.
I think you mean "abode". An adobe is a type of mud-brick, or a building made from them.
J.