I have gone so far as to say that 'Linux' is actually a toolkit for building a kernel, and with 'GNU' is a collection of tools for building an operating system. Fedora uses those tools one way, Debian another, and Linspire quite another entirely.
I doubt that the kernel running on very many Linux systems is the same as on this laptop, but on my XP machine at work, I can confidently say that it's the exact kernel used by millions.
(where 'this' is renaming an open file, replacing it with a new version, thus allowing an app that has the old version open to continue until it closes the file handle.)
There is nothing inherent in FAT that prohibits this. Once a program opens a file, it has a file handle. That handle can point equally well to the old file under a new name (C:\windows\oldlibs\foo.1.3.24.dll) until the app closes it. If you do it right, you can even have a mechanism to sleep until all handles on a file have been released. It just requires someone to decide that it's worth doing.
I buy groceries once a week...I fill up the front seat and floorboard of my car easily...and if I buy charcoal, and a couple of other things (not counting if I'm having a party)...well, It takes me 5-6 trips to the car to the house to unload it all. I don't see how this would be practical for living if you had to haul all this stuff back and forth between the grocery store, and the station, and from the station to the house.
If you read the whole presentation, you saw that they contemplated special cargo units or vehicles with space to hold a bicycle or other personal short range vehicle. In order for this system to replace your automobile, either the grocery store will have to be willing to let you take the cart home (deposit required, etc.), or you'll have to buy your own. It might not look exactly like carts do now - it will probably be a design that collapses flat for storage when you get home with it - but you'll roll this unit into either the PMT you're riding or a cargo unit that follows the passenger unit you're in. I think a good design would use something like the 'stow and go' seating that's popular on mini-vans. The carts could be sized to occupy the space vacated by a stowed seat.
If it is separate cargo unit, the system might be designed to couple the two cars together into a mini 'train'. Such flexibility would also be handy for larger groups who want to travel together.
It might also help to do away with the admonition against vehicles for more than 3 people -- there are too many times that 4 people travel together. A basic vehicle with 4 spaces for either people or cargo would work nicely when two people travel together with their bicycles across the cargo spaces behind them.
The Internet is now a global network, whether you Americans like it or not
a global network with root DNS servers under the control of USGOV. I think it's great that we let the rest of the world connect to our Internet and all, but that doesn't confer ownership.
The comedy 'the Internet is ours' replies are killing me!
Nobody seriously suggests that I 'own' Comedy Central because I watch South Park and The Daily Show. It remains Viacom's property.
If the rest of the world doesn't want to be a part of our DNS, they can set up their own. But we already have ccTLDs that expressly give such authority to governments. What do you want for nothing, a rubber biscuit?
have all student's submit there home-work as slashdot comments and see if that helps much at all, non north americain countrys could outsouce the studens eductation to us. there has too be at least 300k out of work teachers and if they teach 10 students each thats like a millin people taugt really good. because we have very really good education here.
The nunmber of spelling and grammar errors exceeds my patience in enumerating them. Let's start by saying that the apostrophe does not connote 'more than one' except when referring to individual letters ("Make sure you dot all your i's and cross all your t's."). There are easily a dozen other obvious errors, which suggests that they may have been made deliberately.
I award you no points, and may God have mercy upon your soul.
I consider any AP with a non-default broadcast SSID (that isn't something like "NoLeechers" to be intended for public use.
Yes, I know that.
The question was, why do you assume you are not unwanted?
The key word is 'broadcast'. The WAP sends out a radio signal, encoded in which the information about how to access it. It sounds to me like it's an invitation to do so. If my computer acts on that information and the WAP grants me access, gives me an IP address, subnet mask, default gateway, a couple of DNS servers... it tends to confirm the idea that I'm not unwanted. If you don't want me to access your WAP, you don't advertize it, turn off encryption, and allow just anyone to connect. In short, you don't authorize the connection.
"Who says the GPS device needs to be going the same speed as my car?"
I don't think anyone expects civilian GPS to be used to measure speed. It's pretty clear that the purpose of the GPS in this system is to consult a database that shows what the speed limit is based on the longitude and latitude. The major technical hurdle would seem to be the case where two or more roads with different speed limits intersect within the margin of error; I would hope that the database showed the highest speed limit of those possible.
When you notice that hazard, you maybe have a fraction of a second to decide that speeding up is the only away to avoid it. The time required to remember how to override the system may exceed that fraction.
Duh. In order to have even age distribution as a stable situation, everyone would have to live exactly the same time. Even the society depicted in Logan's Run would not have had perfect age distribution -- due to deaths before the age of 'renewal' there would always be more people at younger ages.
I see this point brought up a lot and its just wrong. 99.9% of users can't read source code and can't modify programs in any meaningful way, and they gain nothing from having a program be open source.
I think you might be exaggerating just a teeny bit with that '99.9%' figure, so I'll change that a bit for this analogy...
The overwhelming majority of drivers can't change their oil, can't do tuneups or diagnose mechanical problems, and they gain nothing from having a car with open specs for oil, spark plugs, or diagnostic codes. They should just take the car to the dealer for service.
This completely ignores the value to the driver of opening things up so that Jiffy-Lube can do his oil change, or Precision Tune his tuneup. The competition from other companies keeps Mr. Goodwrench honest.
Furthermore, a large part of the value of open source isn't even the ability to modify the code - it's the ability to see how it works so as to understand why it doesn't always do what you intend. Pehaps the reason I think that way is because I do tech support for a living, and being able to see what the program is trying to do helps me to figure out why it broke. When I don't have source code, I often have to refer to the devs and hope they can figure it out.
That's not possible. No matter how good the chances are, there's always a possiblilty of something that kills every human on the planet. At worst, that something also kills every human on every other planet and moon we settle, making the chance of survival the same as if we didn't bother to settle them. But whatever chance there is that all humans on Earth die, but just one of the colonies survives, is the reason why we have to get out there.
The dinosaurs are extinct because they didn't have a space program.
You know the old saying about putting all your eggs in one basket...
The summary says that Utah ISPs must offer to customers a way to prevent access to a list of websites provided by the state AG
This is so simple.
Dear Customer. In order to block access to sites that the Attorney General's office deems to be inappropriate content for children, use one of the following two methods:
Contact the Attorney General's office for the IP addresses of Domain Name Servers designed to restrict access to the sites currently on the AG's list, to manually override the ones we offer to give you access to the Internet.
If the Attorney General's office is unwilling or unable to provide such filtered DNS based on the current list, disconnect your telephone line or network cable, as appropriate, from your modem,, and only connect it when you want unfiltered access.
I always assume reporters are at fault for what's in a story. Once a local TV reporter interviewed my wife for probably half an hour, and managed to use three whole words of it on the air.
It is within the power of each house of Congress to enact a kind of line-item veto that would absolutely be constitutional, because the constitution gives each house the power to make its own rules:
When a vote in the [House|Senate] to override a veto fails, and the veto message transmitted to the Congress by the President of the United States shall have included his recommendation that one or more amendments to the bill would resolve his objections thereto, the question before the [House|Senate] at that time will be whether to adopt the bill as amended in accordance therewith. Such Question shall be debatable but not amendable.
If such a question be adopted by the [Senate|House], upon certification of same to the [Speaker|President], the question of concurrence therewith shall come immediately before the [House|Senate], and be debatable but not amendable.
Either chamber could adopt the above rule without waiting on the other to join in.
You're happy and congratulating yourselves for censorship.
I'm really tired of people who think it's 'censorship' to exercise editorial discretion.
MOG is free to write whatever she wants, and have it published by anyone who agrees to her terms for doing so.
We are free to read it, or not, as our tastes dictate
That means there is no censorship taking place.
Now, here's your homework assignment: Go talk to someone who lived behind the Iron Curtain and was only able to read 'Truth' (the English translation of 'Pravda') that was approved by the Party censors, or perhaps someone who had a relative or friend that was critical of the ruling regimes of various countries, that just 'disappeared' one night. Then come in here and talk about censorship.
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I doubt that the kernel running on very many Linux systems is the same as on this laptop, but on my XP machine at work, I can confidently say that it's the exact kernel used by millions.
There is nothing inherent in FAT that prohibits this. Once a program opens a file, it has a file handle. That handle can point equally well to the old file under a new name (C:\windows\oldlibs\foo.1.3.24.dll) until the app closes it. If you do it right, you can even have a mechanism to sleep until all handles on a file have been released. It just requires someone to decide that it's worth doing.
The call me The Monster
Harder than (a) Hammer
I'm a mean SOB and a bad mama-jamma!
Say I'm insensitive
Crude and ruth-
less; pullin' no punches
Nothin's harder than TRUTH!
When I see fools
I'm a straight shooter
I mo(w)-dem down
On my computer.
Word to yo' mama. Peace out.
Da Monsta gots to get back to the Benjamins, a-aight boyeee?
Total Recall Ever since I saw those giant panels of digital wallpaper that Ahnold had on Mars, I've wanted them for my own walls.
If the rest of the world doesn't want to be a part of our DNS, they can set up their own. But we already have ccTLDs that expressly give such authority to governments. What do you want for nothing, a rubber biscuit?
I award you no points, and may God have mercy upon your soul.
I don't think anyone expects civilian GPS to be used to measure speed. It's pretty clear that the purpose of the GPS in this system is to consult a database that shows what the speed limit is based on the longitude and latitude. The major technical hurdle would seem to be the case where two or more roads with different speed limits intersect within the margin of error; I would hope that the database showed the highest speed limit of those possible.
When you notice that hazard, you maybe have a fraction of a second to decide that speeding up is the only away to avoid it. The time required to remember how to override the system may exceed that fraction.
Furthermore, a large part of the value of open source isn't even the ability to modify the code - it's the ability to see how it works so as to understand why it doesn't always do what you intend. Pehaps the reason I think that way is because I do tech support for a living, and being able to see what the program is trying to do helps me to figure out why it broke. When I don't have source code, I often have to refer to the devs and hope they can figure it out.
The dinosaurs are extinct because they didn't have a space program.
You know the old saying about putting all your eggs in one basket...
I always assume reporters are at fault for what's in a story. Once a local TV reporter interviewed my wife for probably half an hour, and managed to use three whole words of it on the air.
- MOG is free to write whatever she wants, and have it published by anyone who agrees to her terms for doing so.
- We are free to read it, or not, as our tastes dictate
That means there is no censorship taking place.Now, here's your homework assignment: Go talk to someone who lived behind the Iron Curtain and was only able to read 'Truth' (the English translation of 'Pravda') that was approved by the Party censors, or perhaps someone who had a relative or friend that was critical of the ruling regimes of various countries, that just 'disappeared' one night. Then come in here and talk about censorship.
Hah! Real men use dd