Gnome runs just fine on Solaris (the first time I used Gnome, it was on Solaris). It isn't particularly platform dependent. It even runs on Windows. I've not really used it on my Mac (why would I bother, the OS X desktop is just fine).
I've run KDE on OpenBSD as well as Linux. It seems to run just as well on OpenBSD.
What's that idiotic quote about Linux vs BSD users got to do with KDE? KDE is *not* a Linux desktop, it's a Unix deskopt (i.e. Linux, *BSD, AIX, Solaris etc.) I don't understand why *BSD users continuously whine about how Linux is 'trying to emulate Windows' when GNOME and KDE are *their* desktops, too.
By the way, I started with Linux in 1992. I started with Linux in 1992 because I loved Unix and wanted it on my PC.
Others have already replied on why the TV license is separate from general taxation. However, on the 'Keeping Up Appearances' side, the whole reason I support the TV license because the BBC isn't _just_ 'Keeping Up Appearances'; that is only a tiny part of the BBC's output. Instead, the BBC can produce material and take risks that commercial TV simply cannot take.
It also raises the game of commercial TV in Britain.
I lived in the USA for almost 7 years, so I've seen both sides. I'd get rid of my TV if we went to the same system as the US uses - very quickly I stopped watching TV in the US (the only reason I had cable was for internet access). Some of the stuff on TV was good in the US, but the frequency of advertising (even on pay-for cable channels) was so high it made it unwatchable. Put it this way - on Fox, you get one episode of 'The Simpsons' in a half hour slot. BBC2 put *two* episodes of the Simpsons in the same period. Commercial TV in Britain isn't: ads, start credits, ads, program, ads, program, ads, end credits, ads. Generally, a half hour slot on commercial TV in Britain is start credits, program, ads, program, end credits and possibly an ad break depending on the program. Vastly less advertising at a vastly lower frequency.
My first computer was the Sinclair ZX-81 with a whopping 1K of RAM. I think we got it some time around 1982 or so.
After that, I had a Spectrum+, and shortly after got online with a Prism VTX-5000 modem (1200 baud down, 75 baud up - I could type faster than it transmitted). We had a Prestel+Micronet subscription. All the supposedly 'new' things happening during the bubble (mainly online shopping) had already been done by Prestel+Micronet in 1986.
My modem access came to an abrupt end when I ran up a £200 telephone bill playing Shades (a multiuser game). Incidentally, Shades is still going.
Huh? He doesn't say anything of the sort! All the opinion piece says is leave the Internet as it is - a network that doesn't care what the packets contain, instead of making it such that (as a provider - not a subscriber) you have to pay extra to every ISP in the world to increase the priority of your packets.
The beauty of the Internet as it is now is that anyone can publish for next to nothing. A change where it is tiered such that providers pay each ISP to allow their traffic priority breaks this, and just turns it into glorified cable TV.
The VMM on Windows in particular is a bit nasty when it comes to how it decides to push pages out to swap. The Windows VMM only looks in the CPU's TLB to look for candidate pages to trim from a process's working set, and since this is only 64 page table entries - and recently used ones at that - it's not hard to get Windows into the situation where a process can have a gigantic working set, virtually all unused - but the VMM can't swap it out to let a process that actually needs that memory to get at it (and you get a swapping storm).
If you know about chemistry, you know how to blow stuff up and how to set fire to things that normally shouldn't catch fire. Blowing stuff up is every male's god given right!
Dunno about Google Earth (because it's Windows only), but the satellite imagery on Google Maps is in most instances severely out of date - the images I can recognise are all at least 5 years old.
The 1960s moon project was just an effort to get a man on the moon first at all costs, and beat the Russians. It was optimized purely to get that footprint and flag up there - not to do any real science or set up a real presence or Earth-Moon infrastructure.
Elite. So much so, that I'm now the Linux maintainer for the tribute game, Oolite (originally for Mac OS X). Oolite is an open source Elite clone written in Objective C and Cocoa for the Mac, GNUstep for Linux/BSD. Oolite is extensible with scripts and new ships, too.
http://oolite-linux.berlios.de/ - for the Linux binary installer (autopackage or tarball, your choice - has *no* dependencies for most distros) and source code. http://oolite.aegidian.org/ - for the Mac OS X version. A windows port is also under way (currently in alpha, you can get it from ftp.alioth.net/oolite)
Hrm. Just imagine if these root kits were destructive to the BIOS. The amount of spam would fall by an order of magnitude overnight, since the malware would be taking out the spam zombies.
The issue here is mainly that the person was *distributing* these files, not that they merely had them on their hard disk for private listening. Naturally, the damages will be larger for distributing files illegally rather than merely having them.
"More people die getting hit by cars a day..." is a particularly pointless comparison: hundreds of millions travel by car every day, whereas only a handful of astronauts fly per year.
The Space Shuttle is not safe by any stretch of imagination: so far, the track record is an average of one total loss for every 50 flights. (Would anyone ever drive if there was one fatal car accident for every 50 car journeys, or would anyone ever fly if an airliner went down on average once per 50 flights?)
I think that is entirely normal for a human, actually. The only people I know who remember names on 'first contact' are marketing/sales types (and I think their trick is to just use mnemonics or other memory jogging tricks).
Variable call rates did not make that (huge) of a difference (although time charges would have contributed). Internet access in the UK was pretty popular in 1997 - guess what, at the time, British Telecom charged variable rates for local calls to your ISP.
The real reason for such little French take up in 1997 was the French language - there were virtually no French language websites, so there was no real reason for a French person to go on the Internet. Once the content was there in French, takeup proceeded smartly.
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Of course there will be stringent checks, and due to the backlog, will take 6-8 weeks to be completed. In the meantime, you are an unperson.
Gnome runs just fine on Solaris (the first time I used Gnome, it was on Solaris). It isn't particularly platform dependent. It even runs on Windows. I've not really used it on my Mac (why would I bother, the OS X desktop is just fine).
I've run KDE on OpenBSD as well as Linux. It seems to run just as well on OpenBSD.
That sound was the sound of you totally missing the point.
What's that idiotic quote about Linux vs BSD users got to do with KDE? KDE is *not* a Linux desktop, it's a Unix deskopt (i.e. Linux, *BSD, AIX, Solaris etc.) I don't understand why *BSD users continuously whine about how Linux is 'trying to emulate Windows' when GNOME and KDE are *their* desktops, too.
By the way, I started with Linux in 1992. I started with Linux in 1992 because I loved Unix and wanted it on my PC.
Is it just me or is Viiv a really stupid name?
Others have already replied on why the TV license is separate from general taxation. However, on the 'Keeping Up Appearances' side, the whole reason I support the TV license because the BBC isn't _just_ 'Keeping Up Appearances'; that is only a tiny part of the BBC's output. Instead, the BBC can produce material and take risks that commercial TV simply cannot take.
It also raises the game of commercial TV in Britain.
I lived in the USA for almost 7 years, so I've seen both sides. I'd get rid of my TV if we went to the same system as the US uses - very quickly I stopped watching TV in the US (the only reason I had cable was for internet access). Some of the stuff on TV was good in the US, but the frequency of advertising (even on pay-for cable channels) was so high it made it unwatchable. Put it this way - on Fox, you get one episode of 'The Simpsons' in a half hour slot. BBC2 put *two* episodes of the Simpsons in the same period. Commercial TV in Britain isn't: ads, start credits, ads, program, ads, program, ads, end credits, ads. Generally, a half hour slot on commercial TV in Britain is start credits, program, ads, program, end credits and possibly an ad break depending on the program. Vastly less advertising at a vastly lower frequency.
My first computer was the Sinclair ZX-81 with a whopping 1K of RAM. I think we got it some time around 1982 or so.
After that, I had a Spectrum+, and shortly after got online with a Prism VTX-5000 modem (1200 baud down, 75 baud up - I could type faster than it transmitted). We had a Prestel+Micronet subscription. All the supposedly 'new' things happening during the bubble (mainly online shopping) had already been done by Prestel+Micronet in 1986.
My modem access came to an abrupt end when I ran up a £200 telephone bill playing Shades (a multiuser game). Incidentally, Shades is still going.
Huh? He doesn't say anything of the sort! All the opinion piece says is leave the Internet as it is - a network that doesn't care what the packets contain, instead of making it such that (as a provider - not a subscriber) you have to pay extra to every ISP in the world to increase the priority of your packets.
The beauty of the Internet as it is now is that anyone can publish for next to nothing. A change where it is tiered such that providers pay each ISP to allow their traffic priority breaks this, and just turns it into glorified cable TV.
Making work hell to cause someone to quit is called constructive dismissal, and is illegal in most jurisdictions that I know of.
The aircraft IS ultra light weight for a flight of this distance.
The VMM on Windows in particular is a bit nasty when it comes to how it decides to push pages out to swap. The Windows VMM only looks in the CPU's TLB to look for candidate pages to trim from a process's working set, and since this is only 64 page table entries - and recently used ones at that - it's not hard to get Windows into the situation where a process can have a gigantic working set, virtually all unused - but the VMM can't swap it out to let a process that actually needs that memory to get at it (and you get a swapping storm).
If you know about chemistry, you know how to blow stuff up and how to set fire to things that normally shouldn't catch fire. Blowing stuff up is every male's god given right!
Dunno about Google Earth (because it's Windows only), but the satellite imagery on Google Maps is in most instances severely out of date - the images I can recognise are all at least 5 years old.
The 1960s moon project was just an effort to get a man on the moon first at all costs, and beat the Russians. It was optimized purely to get that footprint and flag up there - not to do any real science or set up a real presence or Earth-Moon infrastructure.
To do it properly WILL take more time.
It's difficult to outsource people to India who need physical access to your domestic locations.
What's worse is that to chav "culture", ignorance and lack of intelligence is something to somehow aspire to. These people are proud of being thick.
Elite. So much so, that I'm now the Linux maintainer for the tribute game, Oolite (originally for Mac OS X). Oolite is an open source Elite clone written in Objective C and Cocoa for the Mac, GNUstep for Linux/BSD. Oolite is extensible with scripts and new ships, too.
http://oolite-linux.berlios.de/ - for the Linux binary installer (autopackage or tarball, your choice - has *no* dependencies for most distros) and source code.
http://oolite.aegidian.org/ - for the Mac OS X version.
A windows port is also under way (currently in alpha, you can get it from ftp.alioth.net/oolite)
Miles flown isn't a very useful safety measure for the shuttle. Hours flown would be better.
I wish they could come up with a better acronym. I always read it as "Gilbert", which probably isn't the intention.
Hrm. Just imagine if these root kits were destructive to the BIOS. The amount of spam would fall by an order of magnitude overnight, since the malware would be taking out the spam zombies.
The issue here is mainly that the person was *distributing* these files, not that they merely had them on their hard disk for private listening. Naturally, the damages will be larger for distributing files illegally rather than merely having them.
"More people die getting hit by cars a day..." is a particularly pointless comparison: hundreds of millions travel by car every day, whereas only a handful of astronauts fly per year.
The Space Shuttle is not safe by any stretch of imagination: so far, the track record is an average of one total loss for every 50 flights. (Would anyone ever drive if there was one fatal car accident for every 50 car journeys, or would anyone ever fly if an airliner went down on average once per 50 flights?)
I think that is entirely normal for a human, actually. The only people I know who remember names on 'first contact' are marketing/sales types (and I think their trick is to just use mnemonics or other memory jogging tricks).
Of course Google has a choice. They can choose to not do business in China. They are simply yet another amoral corporation.
Variable call rates did not make that (huge) of a difference (although time charges would have contributed). Internet access in the UK was pretty popular in 1997 - guess what, at the time, British Telecom charged variable rates for local calls to your ISP.
The real reason for such little French take up in 1997 was the French language - there were virtually no French language websites, so there was no real reason for a French person to go on the Internet. Once the content was there in French, takeup proceeded smartly.