Greek philosophers theorized. No set-out tests, observations or proofs.
I'm not against gathering evidence, but a conclusion is the worst possible thing that can happen in science.
If one concludes that something is true, then the subject looses interest. People loose interest in the subject. Lines of research loose funding. The theory isn't challenged. Potential for advancement is lost.
"Nothing can be proved, only disproved."
Re:make 'find' for Konsole as it is in OpenStep
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I have no doubt it will be in 3.0.x, but it's unlikely for 2.2.1 for two reasons:
1. There are no doubt going to be many many "handy features" not hard to implement. It's like a graph...a few big features can take the same amount of time as a whole lot of little features.
2. The HeUnique probably already knew that, and therefore was probably asking for additions for 3.0.x.
Moral of the story? Think BIG! It'll be quite some time before KDE3 will come out, and there will be a lot of man-hours available for use in making the transition.
Re:Work with the GNOME people (and vice versa)
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WindowMaker allows you to embed both KDE and GNOME menus in your WindowMaker menus.
Re:Not quite clear what is missing...
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I discovered, quite by accident, that if you configure your X server to treat your desktop as one resolution, but run your screen at another, you can quite easily scroll from region to region on your screen.
That completely bypasses (and/or runs in addition to) any extra software pager.
Personally, I love Debian. I'm just frustrated that KDE 2.0+ has always been in "unstable" (a.k.a. "sid"). I don't have the time to do the upkeep that unstable requires.
How "worth it" would it be to manually install all the files and dependancies required to run KDE2?
I ran KDE2.0 when it came out, but that's when I had time for that amount of upkeep. (Though I didn't recover from perl breaking way back when. !lart the package maintainer who posted broken packages.)
The most likely solution would probably be a small laser-guided missile.
Quite effective, if you know what room of a building your trying to trash.
Such bombing systems have become prevailant since after the Vietnam War. Indiscriminate bombing got a deservedly bad rap, so now they take the trouble to tell the bomb exactly where they want it to go.
At 60 lbs, though, the best you could do would be the wartime equivalent of vandalism. Useful for sending a message, but not much more.
You'll run into problems when you combine the good vs. evil stance and the channel ops sytem. You'll quickly discover ops discriminating against anyone not of a specific karma range.
The real bummer is when you're an evil plunderer, in a peaceful mood, that happens across a county chock full of bounty hunters and a discriminating leader.
To balance this, maybe wars could be scheduled. (Watch, a town's head family declares a feud with a neighboring town's family, and a ghost town is born.)
I play Quake...Heck, I even try to help develop it. But I would love to see a game without goals.
I recently became interested in Dungeons & Dragons(r), and I noticed in the Dungeon Master's Guide that a bad DM leads his players around by the nose to the goal. Unfortunately, this is what almost every game designer does. Any game that doesn't put a ring in the player's nose tends to be branded as a puzzle game, aimed at those "more brainy."
I would absolutely love to see a game that didn't have a goal, even if it was proclaimed "pointless" by the gamers' tabloids.
One of the advantages to the old feudal system was that if you didn't like the way your town was run, you could (conceivably) go somewhere else. Nevermind the serf system.
There's probably another way out of town aside from the main road.
buy
Pronunciation: 'bI
to acquire possession, ownership, or rights to the use or services of by payment especially of money
rent
a usually fixed periodical return made by a tenant or occupant of property to the owner for the possession and use thereof; especially : an agreed sum paid at fixed intervals by a tenant to the landlord b : the amount paid by a hirer of personal property to the owner for the use thereof.
There's a difference. See if you can't figure out what it is.
Offloading the processing required to generate the modem signals frees up space in the laptop: Specialized processors(which non-winmodems use) take up space.
We should be thankful there aren't 'winnetworkcards' and 'winharddrives.' God help us if someone suggests a 'winvideocard.'
Incidentally, 'winharddrives' used to exist. They were called Winchester drives. Some of you might more easily recognize them as MFM drives.
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I'm going to venture a guess that the guy might have been making reference to materials' strength.
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Sorry to burst Your bubble, but there is ice at the poles. The most recent modeled estimates put the quantity at 6.6 billion tons.
This link has information on such ice, including where it came from, why it's important, and how it can survive.
My biggest problem with your article was use of words like "easier" and "faster." I saw no definitive words, no direct statements. Just statements of superiority over previous MS products. And some hints of superiority over non-MS products.
Having exactly 10 reasons gave cause for suspicion. And having only a few examples of corporations involved gave the suggestion that your data pool was awfully small.
"Modifications to the OS core to prevent crashes"... sounds like bug fixes to me. I know guys who write patches the Linux kernel and send them in, and I have a funny feeling that the Linux kernel gets publicly released "modifications to the OS core to prevent crashes" a lot more often than any brand of Windows.
"comprehensive security"... hmm. A few things available for Linux that (more than?) equal the playing field: pgp, gpg, ssl-telnet, ssh, scp, IP tunneling over ssl, ssh, ssh over ssl, Netscape 128-bit encryption (and I'm sure there are more that I don't know about)
IntelliMirror? Sounds like home directories over NFS, if you ask me.
And it really does sound as if you copied it off MS's website...
If we make unsolicited email illegal, why not make unsolicited SMS messages illegal?
If we make unsolicited SMS messeges illegal, why not make unsolicited pages illegal?
Why not advance on to unsolicited voice mail?
How about unsolicited phone calls?
Unsolicited mail?
OK... now we've covered nearly all forms of communication. Let's head back the other way.
It is against the law to withhold a persons mail. (In the US.) Including unsolicited mail.
By that token, should it be unlawful to withhold a person's phone calls?
What about voicemail?
Pages?
SMS messages?
...email?
If the US courts behave liked their theory implies (act on precedent), we have a couple of results:
A) It will be illegal to withhold a person's sent mail because it would be withholding some other person's email.
B) (This one's chancy) It will be illegal to ban the sending of any email, because to ban the creation of an email message which would have been created had it not been banned is the same as withholding the receiver's email because the email would have been received otherwise.
Folks, I don't think this can be Justly(C 1789 US of A) resolved.
And it certainly can't be resolved while there are political borders. What's banned in one country isn't necessarily banned in another.
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He says that he doesn't expect it to work, and even understands why it won't.
He's doing it so that
A ) People will have a good time.
B ) People will be educated by learning about the hurdles involved.
And he's still enthusiastic, knowing it won't work. Maybe his goal isn't to get to name the Great Red Spot of the moon, but just to have a good time.
I guess that means we'll find a way to halt and reverse global warming. :)
Yay!
Greek philosophers theorized. No set-out tests, observations or proofs.
I'm not against gathering evidence, but a conclusion is the worst possible thing that can happen in science.
If one concludes that something is true, then the subject looses interest. People loose interest in the subject. Lines of research loose funding. The theory isn't challenged. Potential for advancement is lost.
"Nothing can be proved, only disproved."
I have no doubt it will be in 3.0.x, but it's unlikely for 2.2.1 for two reasons:
1. There are no doubt going to be many many "handy features" not hard to implement. It's like a graph...a few big features can take the same amount of time as a whole lot of little features.
2. The HeUnique probably already knew that, and therefore was probably asking for additions for 3.0.x.
Moral of the story? Think BIG! It'll be quite some time before KDE3 will come out, and there will be a lot of man-hours available for use in making the transition.
WindowMaker allows you to embed both KDE and GNOME menus in your WindowMaker menus.
I discovered, quite by accident, that if you configure your X server to treat your desktop as one resolution, but run your screen at another, you can quite easily scroll from region to region on your screen.
That completely bypasses (and/or runs in addition to) any extra software pager.
Personally, I love Debian. I'm just frustrated that KDE 2.0+ has always been in "unstable" (a.k.a. "sid"). I don't have the time to do the upkeep that unstable requires.
How "worth it" would it be to manually install all the files and dependancies required to run KDE2?
I ran KDE2.0 when it came out, but that's when I had time for that amount of upkeep. (Though I didn't recover from perl breaking way back when. !lart the package maintainer who posted broken packages.)
I'd be more worried about remembering to refill the coffee maker every time.
Ever try to get a hundred thousand people to subscribe to a service that doesn't exist yet? Soryy, but the .com boom is already past.
The most likely solution would probably be a small laser-guided missile.
Quite effective, if you know what room of a building your trying to trash.
Such bombing systems have become prevailant since after the Vietnam War. Indiscriminate bombing got a deservedly bad rap, so now they take the trouble to tell the bomb exactly where they want it to go.
At 60 lbs, though, the best you could do would be the wartime equivalent of vandalism. Useful for sending a message, but not much more.
I seem to recall the SR-71 Blackbird as being considered untouchable...until it was shot down.
In all fairness, I'll point out that the pilot had been forced to fly at a lower altitude due to an emergency.
virtually nothing could shoot it down, short of a rocket.
Well, as far as I know, there has never been a SAM (or an AAM) that was propellor or jet-powered. That pretty much cuts it down to rockets...
It would have to rely on ambient wind, then. Not much oxygen to go around as a fuel component.
I think the idea is that you can really screw up your life in the game, and lead a perfectly normal life in reality. (Or vise versa)
The only reason anyone plays Quake is because they can't logically do these things in reality.
You'll run into problems when you combine the good vs. evil stance and the channel ops sytem. You'll quickly discover ops discriminating against anyone not of a specific karma range.
The real bummer is when you're an evil plunderer, in a peaceful mood, that happens across a county chock full of bounty hunters and a discriminating leader.
To balance this, maybe wars could be scheduled. (Watch, a town's head family declares a feud with a neighboring town's family, and a ghost town is born.)
I play Quake...Heck, I even try to help develop it. But I would love to see a game without goals.
I recently became interested in Dungeons & Dragons(r), and I noticed in the Dungeon Master's Guide that a bad DM leads his players around by the nose to the goal. Unfortunately, this is what almost every game designer does. Any game that doesn't put a ring in the player's nose tends to be branded as a puzzle game, aimed at those "more brainy."
I would absolutely love to see a game that didn't have a goal, even if it was proclaimed "pointless" by the gamers' tabloids.
One of the advantages to the old feudal system was that if you didn't like the way your town was run, you could (conceivably) go somewhere else. Nevermind the serf system.
There's probably another way out of town aside from the main road.
buy
Pronunciation: 'bI
to acquire possession, ownership, or rights to the use or services of by payment especially of money
rent
a usually fixed periodical return made by a tenant or occupant of property to the owner for the possession and use thereof; especially : an agreed sum paid at fixed intervals by a tenant to the landlord b : the amount paid by a hirer of personal property to the owner for the use thereof.
There's a difference. See if you can't figure out what it is.
All I want to be able to do is code C and compile. Heck, I'm not even going to insist on being able to run X!
What works for that?
Offloading the processing required to generate the modem signals frees up space in the laptop: Specialized processors(which non-winmodems use) take up space.
We should be thankful there aren't 'winnetworkcards' and 'winharddrives.' God help us if someone suggests a 'winvideocard.'
Incidentally, 'winharddrives' used to exist. They were called Winchester drives. Some of you might more easily recognize them as MFM drives.
I'm going to venture a guess that the guy might have been making reference to materials' strength.
Sorry to burst Your bubble, but there is ice at the poles. The most recent modeled estimates put the quantity at 6.6 billion tons.
This link has information on such ice, including where it came from, why it's important, and how it can survive.
My biggest problem with your article was use of words like "easier" and "faster." I saw no definitive words, no direct statements. Just statements of superiority over previous MS products. And some hints of superiority over non-MS products.
... sounds like bug fixes to me. I know guys who write patches the Linux kernel and send them in, and I have a funny feeling that the Linux kernel gets publicly released "modifications to the OS core to prevent crashes" a lot more often than any brand of Windows.
... hmm. A few things available for Linux that (more than?) equal the playing field: pgp, gpg, ssl-telnet, ssh, scp, IP tunneling over ssl, ssh, ssh over ssl, Netscape 128-bit encryption (and I'm sure there are more that I don't know about)
Having exactly 10 reasons gave cause for suspicion. And having only a few examples of corporations involved gave the suggestion that your data pool was awfully small.
"Modifications to the OS core to prevent crashes"
"comprehensive security"
IntelliMirror? Sounds like home directories over NFS, if you ask me.
And it really does sound as if you copied it off MS's website...
Sounds like a driver written in Java, if you ask me.
This makes me wonder:
If we make unsolicited email illegal, why not make unsolicited SMS messages illegal?
If we make unsolicited SMS messeges illegal, why not make unsolicited pages illegal?
Why not advance on to unsolicited voice mail?
How about unsolicited phone calls?
Unsolicited mail?
OK... now we've covered nearly all forms of communication. Let's head back the other way.
It is against the law to withhold a persons mail. (In the US.) Including unsolicited mail.
By that token, should it be unlawful to withhold a person's phone calls?
What about voicemail?
Pages?
SMS messages?
...email?
If the US courts behave liked their theory implies (act on precedent), we have a couple of results:
A) It will be illegal to withhold a person's sent mail because it would be withholding some other person's email.
B) (This one's chancy) It will be illegal to ban the sending of any email, because to ban the creation of an email message which would have been created had it not been banned is the same as withholding the receiver's email because the email would have been received otherwise.
Folks, I don't think this can be Justly(C 1789 US of A) resolved.
And it certainly can't be resolved while there are political borders. What's banned in one country isn't necessarily banned in another.