That's funny, I thought Linux was about having a good operating system to use on your hardware.
Does anyone remember SLS? That's the first linux distribution I ever installed. (when was that? 93? 94?) It was just a step or two above a roll-your-own install. At the time I had a very good network connection at work, so I could easily download the 90MB of the distribution, but I didn't have a cdrom drive (and no CD-R anyway). I had to write it to ~90 3.5" floppies so I could take it home & install it. I didn't even have a PC on the network to write the floppies so I used the floppy drive on a Sparc IPX. One floppy at a time, checking every 10 minutes or so. (writing a MSDOS floppy in SunOS was slow...). Later I got a 14.4 modem & was able to log onto the modem pool & ftp the distribution right onto my hardrive (took about 18 hours - not counting lost connections).
Then of course the install was agony. I was used to installing SunOS & VMS. The early fdisk for linux was PAINFUL. To make matters worse, there was no easy way to know how much would fit. The first time I installed it, I guessed wrong on the partition size & got most of the way through the install (changing ~90 floppies by hand) only to have the install fail because a partition was 5meg too small.
I don't understand why people don't like the linux industry. I think RedHat, VALinux, even Dell, IBM, etc. have done a lot for Linux. I'm glad they're there.
A couple nights ago I booted a poweredge 4400 with the RedHat 6.1 CD. In about 20 minutes I specified a bunch of RAID5 partitions, selected the packages to install, and then I went home. When I returned the next morning the Linux server was ready and waiting for me in the computer room.
You should never blame an application for crashing an OS. An OS should never crash as a result of some bug in an application. If it does, the problem is with the OS.
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Woah! Careless or in a hurry? If you made a mistake because you were careless or in a hurry, why should I care about you losing your vote. This is important. You're supposed to take your time and be careful.
PS - For what it's worth, I think the electors should just go ahead & elect Gore. That's why the founding fathers set the system up this way - so that electors could correct the mistakes of the stupid people.
Nope. I would have been willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, but not anymore. Now that I've seen the ballot that everyone is complaining about, I think the news media have been exaggerating. That ballot is perfectly reasonable. It might not be the best possible configuration, but there is nothing wrong with it. Anyone who couldn't manage to vote correctly with that ballot should be declared mentally incompetent.
I just don't have any sympathy for anyone who could screw that up.
The high concentration of mistakes might just mean that there is a high concentration of incompetent voters in that area.
I think one problem with this is that the shareholders aren't all evil people making millions without doing any work. There are probably quite a few hard working people whose pension funds, retirement accounts, etc. will be wiped out. Not to mention a few thousand out of work employees.
One reason that punishing a corporation is so tricky is that it hurts lots of people who have very limited control over what the corporation does.
I'd bet the tires would be much more expensive as well.
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Wait, are you saying that the french word for "bullshit" is "bullshit"? Wow. You'd think French would have its own way to say bullshit. Don't bulls shit in France?
>I've always wondered how they would have managed to put the WOPR back to work after it had the realization that 'The only winning move is not to play'.
Of course, the System Admin is the one person who is least likely to be thwarted by your use of PGP. Face it, the only thing that protects your privacy from your sustem administrator is the admin's professionalism. That & the fact that the admin doesn't have time to waste reading your email.
Old fashioned reproduction for me.
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> To secure that right and achieve the requisite > quality control over new human life, human > conception and gestation will need to be brought > fully into the bright light of laboratory, > beneath which the child-to-be can be fertilized, > nourished, pruned, weeded, watched, inspected, > prodded, pinched, cajoled, injected, tested, > rated, graded, approved, stamped, wrapped, > sealed and delivered.
Most of the people I know would much rather make babies the old fashioned way. Even the people who go the lab method only do so when the old standard doesn't work for them.
And of course, very few people out there plan their reproduction enough to involve a lab:
"What do you mean you're pregnant? We only did it once"!
I dunno, I always kind of liked those. There was a lot you could do with them (if you had the imagination). However, I always needed more. I've been dreaming of bulk-ordering these pieces for as long as I can remember.
Anyone who wants LEGO to expand the bulk catalog should buy as many bulk pieces as they can afford. If LEGO sees that they can sell them, they'll add more to the line.
> I still hold a grudge against my mom for giving > my Legos away to charity when I "grew up"
Have her declared incompetent as soon as possible. That'll teach her.
I'm lucky. My parents knew better than to get rid of my Legos. I was also smart enough to marry someone who would allow me to keep purchasing them.
HINT: If you're married to someone who won't let you buy your own Lego sets, have a kid. Then you can play with your child's Legos. My son is only 2 years old & "his" collection is already almost as big as "mine". That also applies to model trains.
More than a year ago I had sun sales reps encouraging me to install sparc linux instead of solaris to take advantage of hardware supported under linux. They're also involved in porting their version of NFS to linux. I think Sun may be closer to the linux shift than you think.
> red/blue 3d glasses, vr gogles, and this technology are bloody useless to me
One of the ways to treat binocular vision problems is with vision training. Basically this involves strengthening the muscles of the eye and training the person to gain better control. The reason I bring it up is that my wife (an OD) has a computer with a set of 3D glasses which are used for certain exercises. So this (& similar) technology may be useful to you after all.
If I'm wrong feel free to correct me, but I was under the impression that the Egyption deserts existed before Rome. The reason Egypt was the breadbasket of Rome was the Nile river. It provides plenty of water for irrigation & also flooded regularly, depositing rich soil on the land around the river. If something has caused a problem with farming in Egypt, I would look to the dam they built on the Nile.
FYI: I think some believe that Nile river flooding also encouraged the development of geometry in Egypt - the idea is that they needed a way to re-establish property lines after the seasonal floods washed away all markers.
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>What else could a small robot with cameras be used for anyway?
I'd use it to find the toys my son put down the bathtub drain. I'd like to take a shower without 5 inches of water in the tub.
That's funny, I thought Linux was about having a good operating system to use on your hardware.
Does anyone remember SLS? That's the first linux distribution I ever installed. (when was that? 93? 94?) It was just a step or two above a roll-your-own install. At the time I had a very good network connection at work, so I could easily download the 90MB of the distribution, but I didn't have a cdrom drive (and no CD-R anyway). I had to write it to ~90 3.5" floppies so I could take it home & install it. I didn't even have a PC on the network to write the floppies so I used the floppy drive on a Sparc IPX. One floppy at a time, checking every 10 minutes or so. (writing a MSDOS floppy in SunOS was slow...). Later I got a 14.4 modem & was able to log onto the modem pool & ftp the distribution right onto my hardrive (took about 18 hours - not counting lost connections).
Then of course the install was agony. I was used to installing SunOS & VMS. The early fdisk for linux was PAINFUL. To make matters worse, there was no easy way to know how much would fit. The first time I installed it, I guessed wrong on the partition size & got most of the way through the install (changing ~90 floppies by hand) only to have the install fail because a partition was 5meg too small.
I don't understand why people don't like the linux industry. I think RedHat, VALinux, even Dell, IBM, etc. have done a lot for Linux. I'm glad they're there.
A couple nights ago I booted a poweredge 4400 with the RedHat 6.1 CD. In about 20 minutes I specified a bunch of RAID5 partitions, selected the packages to install, and then I went home. When I returned the next morning the Linux server was ready and waiting for me in the computer room.
You should never blame an application for crashing an OS. An OS should never crash as a result of some bug in an application. If it does, the problem is with the OS.
Woah! Careless or in a hurry? If you made a mistake because you were careless or in a hurry, why should I care about you losing your vote. This is important. You're supposed to take your time and be careful.
PS - For what it's worth, I think the electors should just go ahead & elect Gore. That's why the founding fathers set the system up this way - so that electors could correct the mistakes of the stupid people.
Nope. I would have been willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, but not anymore. Now that I've seen the ballot that everyone is complaining about, I think the news media have been exaggerating. That ballot is perfectly reasonable. It might not be the best possible configuration, but there is nothing wrong with it. Anyone who couldn't manage to vote correctly with that ballot should be declared mentally incompetent.
I just don't have any sympathy for anyone who could screw that up.
The high concentration of mistakes might just mean that there is a high concentration of incompetent voters in that area.
PS - Thanks for posting the link to the ballot.
Didn't you read the memo?
>You need interface anways, you can't just will
>the information from the cube.
You're assuming it won't have a "force of will" interface.
I think one problem with this is that the shareholders aren't all evil people making millions without doing any work. There are probably quite a few hard working people whose pension funds, retirement accounts, etc. will be wiped out. Not to mention a few thousand out of work employees.
One reason that punishing a corporation is so tricky is that it hurts lots of people who have very limited control over what the corporation does.
I'd bet the tires would be much more expensive as well.
You forgot weather.
Wait, are you saying that the french word for "bullshit" is "bullshit"? Wow. You'd think French would have its own way to say bullshit. Don't bulls shit in France?
Windows runs?
>I've always wondered how they would have managed to put the WOPR back to work after it had the realization that 'The only winning move is not to play'.
CTRL+ALT+DEL
Of course, the System Admin is the one person who is least likely to be thwarted by your use of PGP. Face it, the only thing that protects your privacy from your sustem administrator is the admin's professionalism. That & the fact that the admin doesn't have time to waste reading your email.
> To secure that right and achieve the requisite
> quality control over new human life, human
> conception and gestation will need to be brought
> fully into the bright light of laboratory,
> beneath which the child-to-be can be fertilized,
> nourished, pruned, weeded, watched, inspected,
> prodded, pinched, cajoled, injected, tested,
> rated, graded, approved, stamped, wrapped,
> sealed and delivered.
Most of the people I know would much rather make babies the old fashioned way. Even the people who go the lab method only do so when the old standard doesn't work for them.
And of course, very few people out there plan their reproduction enough to involve a lab:
"What do you mean you're pregnant? We only did it once"!
>Feh! Just the house-building junk.
I dunno, I always kind of liked those. There was a lot you could do with them (if you had the imagination). However, I always needed more. I've been dreaming of bulk-ordering these pieces for as long as I can remember.
Anyone who wants LEGO to expand the bulk catalog should buy as many bulk pieces as they can afford. If LEGO sees that they can sell them, they'll add more to the line.
> I still hold a grudge against my mom for giving
> my Legos away to charity when I "grew up"
Have her declared incompetent as soon as possible. That'll teach her.
I'm lucky. My parents knew better than to get rid of my Legos. I was also smart enough to marry someone who would allow me to keep purchasing them.
HINT: If you're married to someone who won't let you buy your own Lego sets, have a kid. Then you can play with your child's Legos. My son is only 2 years old & "his" collection is already almost as big as "mine". That also applies to model trains.
More than a year ago I had sun sales reps encouraging me to install sparc linux instead of solaris to take advantage of hardware supported under linux. They're also involved in porting their version of NFS to linux. I think Sun may be closer to the linux shift than you think.
> red/blue 3d glasses, vr gogles, and this technology are bloody useless to me
One of the ways to treat binocular vision problems is with vision training. Basically this involves strengthening the muscles of the eye and training the person to gain better control. The reason I bring it up is that my wife (an OD) has a computer with a set of 3D glasses which are used for certain exercises. So this (& similar) technology may be useful to you after all.
> Egypt was the breadbasket of Rome
If I'm wrong feel free to correct me, but I was under the impression that the Egyption deserts existed before Rome. The reason Egypt was the breadbasket of Rome was the Nile river. It provides plenty of water for irrigation & also flooded regularly, depositing rich soil on the land around the river. If something has caused a problem with farming in Egypt, I would look to the dam they built on the Nile.
FYI: I think some believe that Nile river flooding also encouraged the development of geometry in Egypt - the idea is that they needed a way to re-establish property lines after the seasonal floods washed away all markers.