It's a real pity you missed "Children of Dune", and the God Emperor of Dune, Leto II. Some say that an immortal human-sandworm hybrid is not entirely credible-- but I say they are too blind to see our future.
You haven't read Frank Herbert until you've read "Helstrom's Hive" (the next step in human society apperently involves the creation of a human-ant hybrid that can live and work as part of a hive mind) or the "Santaroga Barrier"-- better living through halucinogenic mushrooms.
My favorite bit of A Deepness in the Sky was the concept of programmer-archeologist. Imagine debugging a computer program that's 5,000 years in the making.
Putting aside the BSD license for a second, perhaps it would be more in keeping with Freedom 0 to deny development licences for immoral purpose. In other words, if you want to use an program managed by such a license, as is, to support torture, or manage a censorship program, go ahead. But should you wish to modify such code to support such nefarious activities, you had better start coding yourself. Or you can snag a existing project from OpenBSD or FSF....
IIRC, the CoDC has published code that opens and exploits back doors in Windows (back orifice) and hactivismo's latest project is a stenography application. Both such products can easily be used for illicit purposes. Perhaps some people believe that some illicit practices (running a peaceful, underground political movement in an authoritarian state), are better than others (running a child prostitution ring, bombing civilian targets, etc.)
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Whatever happened to having "paid one's debt to society"? 1. Commit Arson against your employer. 2. Pay 50 million in fines and compensatory damages 3. After having repaid the debt to society, find a job. 4 PROFIT!!!
Sounds like a plan to me. I'll get the kerosene.
Why Berlin is now called Fresco
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Fresco consists of a number of interlocking projects, each named after an city (Berlin, Warsaw, Prague, Babylon). The "Berlin" program was the window server, as well as the entire project. To avoid confusion, the project name was changed to "Fresco". The window server is still called "Berlin".
Hmm. Perhaps you should show us your design for an RGB printer. Perhaps you should demonstrate which combinations of Red, Green, and Blue ink produce Yellows. Perhaps you should further demonstrate how you manage to produce blacks cheaply and without misalignment.
Keillor was actually born in Anoka, Minn. Lake Wobegon is fictional.
I used to think some of the traditions of Lake Wobegon, such as the "Son's of Knute Ice Melt contest" were quaint and comical. Then I read Gaiman's American Gods, and was enlightened as to the real purpose of such ice melt contests.
The Indonesian fires were started for land clearance purposes (slash and burn agriculture). Because of the heat, (El nino), the fires spread out of control. Much of the fire was fueled not by forests, but by peat. The natural state of peat bog forests is rather swampy-- but humans drained these swamps.
The carbon release estimates, btw, vary from 0.81 to 2.57 billion (I'm not sure if that's a british billion) tonnes. The low estimate corresponds to 13 percent of annual fossil fuel consumption, the high to 40%.
It's a beautiful cycle of change and renewal, only if you ignore the other environmental effects of large scale shipping through the northwest passage. oils spills, bilge water transfers, behavioral changes in the wildlife, etc.
Hah. That's nothing. I overclocked my mouse sensor to 10x. Of course, my palm is occasionally injured by the blades of the cooling fan, but I found the extra precision is useful for negotiating a bloody mousepad...
The Federalist Papers were authored by the pseudonymous "Publius" (Now believed to be James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay.) Similarly, various opposing views were published by Agrippa, Brutus, Cato, etc
And in case nobody remembers, Windows 95 scared the s**t out of Unix vendors, who up until then were rather confident in their superiority of GUI design.
Superiority? I seem to recall that the Window 3.1 interface had a lot in common with Motif. Window95 finally brought smaller widgets to Windows (imitating, in some respects, the Macintosh), but it also continued that dreary grey colour scheme.
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paper burns at 451 degrees F (232 Celsius)
media starts to melt at 125 degrees F (52 Celsius)
A fireproof safe thats rated for paper storage only isn't going to cut it.
wow: that's terse.
Unfortunately, this algorithm (4*arctan(1), for those of you who don't use bc), doesn't converge as swiftly as the Kanada method.
Go on! I dare you:
echo "scale=124000000000;4*a(1);"|bc -l
Call John Poindexter at his home:1-301-424-6613.
Tell him how you really feel by sending him a letter:
John M. and Linda Poindexter
10 Barrington Fare, Rockville, MD, 20850
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source 2
Perhaps monochrome images (where width and height are both prime) would be even more useful.
It's a real pity you missed "Children of Dune", and the God Emperor of Dune, Leto II. Some say that an immortal human-sandworm hybrid is not entirely credible-- but I say they are too blind to see our future.
You haven't read Frank Herbert until you've read "Helstrom's Hive" (the next step in human society apperently involves the creation of a human-ant hybrid that can live and work as part of a hive mind) or the "Santaroga Barrier"-- better living through halucinogenic mushrooms.
I've heard the english translations of his books are no good.
The english translation of "Solaris" is translated from the French translation of Lem's polish novel.
Gender swapping-- that's probably I will fear no evil. I'm not to sure of the others.
My favorite bit of A Deepness in the Sky was the concept of programmer-archeologist. Imagine debugging a computer program that's 5,000 years in the making.
Putting aside the BSD license for a second, perhaps it would be more in keeping with Freedom 0 to deny development licences for immoral purpose. In other words, if you want to use an program managed by such a license, as is, to support torture, or manage a censorship program, go ahead. But should you wish to modify such code to support such nefarious activities, you had better start coding yourself. Or you can snag a existing project from OpenBSD or FSF....
IIRC, the CoDC has published code that opens and exploits back doors in Windows (back orifice) and hactivismo's latest project is a stenography application. Both such products can easily be used for illicit purposes. Perhaps some people believe that some illicit practices (running a peaceful, underground political movement in an authoritarian state), are better than others (running a child prostitution ring, bombing civilian targets, etc.)
On some premium articles, there may be an option to get a "day pass" in return for viewing a large advertisement-- it's four pages which must be clicked through. At the end, Salon deposits a cookie which allows access to premium articles for a day.
Whatever happened to having "paid one's debt to society"?
1. Commit Arson against your employer.
2. Pay 50 million in fines and compensatory damages
3. After having repaid the debt to society, find a job.
4 PROFIT!!!
Sounds like a plan to me. I'll get the kerosene.
Fresco consists of a number of interlocking projects, each named after an city (Berlin, Warsaw, Prague, Babylon). The "Berlin" program was the window server, as well as the entire project. To avoid confusion, the project name was changed to "Fresco". The window server is still called "Berlin".
Read the book. I don't post major spoilers to slashdot.
Hmm. Perhaps you should show us your design for an RGB printer. Perhaps you should demonstrate which combinations of Red, Green, and Blue ink produce Yellows. Perhaps you should further demonstrate how you manage to produce blacks cheaply and without misalignment.
What, you have a problem with "Let's Roll" brand dinner rolls?
Keillor was actually born in Anoka, Minn. Lake Wobegon is fictional.
I used to think some of the traditions of Lake Wobegon, such as the "Son's of Knute Ice Melt contest" were quaint and comical. Then I read Gaiman's American Gods, and was enlightened as to the real purpose of such ice melt contests.
The Indonesian fires were started for land clearance purposes (slash and burn agriculture). Because of the heat, (El nino), the fires spread out of control. Much of the fire was fueled not by forests, but by peat. The natural state of peat bog forests is rather swampy-- but humans drained these swamps.
The carbon release estimates, btw, vary from 0.81 to 2.57 billion (I'm not sure if that's a british billion) tonnes. The low estimate corresponds to 13 percent of annual fossil fuel consumption, the high to 40%.
It's a beautiful cycle of change and renewal, only if you ignore the other environmental effects of large scale shipping through the northwest passage. oils spills, bilge water transfers, behavioral changes in the wildlife, etc.
John Baez has a good link filled article on the subject. Interestingly, the editors of Classical and Quantum Gravity have distanced themselves from the Bogdanovs' article.
I have a microsoft optical mouse. works fine on shiny/mirror surfaces, such as the data (silver) side of a CD
Does the CD work after you've scratched it up after several hours of mousepad duty?
Hah. That's nothing. I overclocked my mouse sensor to 10x. Of course, my palm is occasionally injured by the blades of the cooling fan, but I found the extra precision is useful for negotiating a bloody mousepad...
Copyrights aren't perpetual. The Gutenberg project aims to publish books that are no longer, or have never been under copyright.
The Federalist Papers were authored by the pseudonymous "Publius" (Now believed to be James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay.) Similarly, various opposing views were published by Agrippa, Brutus, Cato, etc
Not as clunky, and I prefer GTK over Adobe's fugly widget set.
Just for the record, Adobe's "fugly" widget set would be OSI/Motif.
And in case nobody remembers, Windows 95 scared the s**t out of Unix vendors, who up until then were rather confident in their superiority of GUI design.
Superiority? I seem to recall that the Window 3.1 interface had a lot in common with Motif. Window95 finally brought smaller widgets to Windows (imitating, in some respects, the Macintosh), but it also continued that dreary grey colour scheme.