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That's only true if you count all the lisp files. Emacs' memory usage is dwarfed when compared to programs like most web browsers. People are working on making them embedded objects, why not a powerful text editor?
George Orwell noted in 1941: "In so far as it hampers the British war effort, British pacifism is on the side of the Nazis and German pacifism, if it exists, is on the side of Britain and
the USSR. Since pacifists have more freedom of action in countries where traces of democracy survive, pacifism can act more effectively against democracy than for it. Objectively the pacifist is pro-Nazi." Elsewhere he wrote of the "unadmitted
motive" of pacifism as being "hatred of western democracy and admiration of totalitarianism".
As far as I'm concerned the he is as correct today as he was sixty years ago.
I also thought that most of Sun's Gnome hackers were based out of their Dublin office. If that's the case, then that pretty much throws out the "it's because Gnome is [North] American product" argument.
Why yes I do given that it runs in the family. My dad is hypoglycemic too, and he certainly didn't get it by not having regular meals.
Are you one of those people who also insists that homeless people are just running a scam and that they go home at the end of the day in Porsches? Just curious, because you sure sound like one of them.
Actually, I've seen these scam artists with my own eyes leave their panhandling post walk a block or two and get in a car that is certainly better than the one I drive. True the guy passed out in an alley reeking of alcohol and his own shit isn't a Porsche driving con man, but I'm sure many of the 'will work for food' guys are. I mean, if illiterate non English speaking immigrants can find jobs, why the hell can't these guys? Probably because they can make more tax free and not have to do any reall work that way.
The starving people of Iraq only have Hussein to blame for their condition. It's obvious he has no problem letting them die if it makes him look good in the eyes of other radicals and it makes the whiny bleeding hearts in the West turn against their governments.
40 million? That was in one month alone. It was more like 125 million and it's been bumped up over 300 now.
On the Iraq side of things, if they are starving then why are the leading causes of death in that country heart disease and diabetes? IIRC, those are fat people diseases. IMHO, the people whining about the Iraqi sanctions should either shut up or do something to try to get Hussien out of power. Or are they in favor of letting a bastard like that stay in place
I know. Even with all the file sharing/piracy (depending on your point of view), they are still making obscene profits. IMHO, it all boils down to greed.
It's too bad that Rosen, Valenti, the other members of the RIAA, MPAA, and other icons of entertainment industry greed weren't holding their secret meetings on the top floor of the WTC on 9/11. Of course their PR firms would spin it that they died fighting digital terrorism or some other rot. Given their 'Screw other industries and the public' attitude, I certainly wouldn't miss them.
If they would take even half the money spent on crap legislation and copy protection and used to produce quality art, they wouldn't have a problem making a profit.
This is what the RIAA doesn't get. The bands themselves are the only ones who can convince users not to copy -- or have they forgotten that the bands exist apart from phony marketing images?
Given the prevalence of corporate fabricated boy bands and lip syncing
dancers/models, I'd say they just care about the marketing images and the
revenue of the here-today-forgotten-tomorrow music. Their industry
financial plans are built on the massive production of crap, so I'd say
that they don't give a rat's ass about any real musicians and haven't for
years.
I'm also like your friend. I removed any Metallica mp3s that I had for distribution via napster and have just about every CD they've made. However, that didn't stop me from creating 'disposable' copies of the CDs and having all of the songs on my computer as mp3s. While I value the music, I sure don't want to buy another CD if one gets stolen or damaged. Under the RIAA scheme, if a CD gets stolen or damaged and the record company doesn't create them anymore, I'm screwed unless I can find someone willing to sell me a used copy.
But what about the cost of the construction workers? The building materials are usually not the largest cost for the construction of a building. Given this is specialized construction, I am sure the number of construction companies able to build these structures are few and expensive. Would the school district want to pay to have the schools torn down and rebuilt every 20 years?
That's assuming that they last 20 years. What are they doing to resist being damaged due to vandalism? The biggest problem will not be the weather, but juvenille delinquents scarring the external shell causing water to enter and weaken the structure. A Polish friend of mine said that at one time vehicles in his country had bodies made of heavy cardboard/pressboard coated with enamel paint. It was ok until the paint cracked and water seeped in and caused it to rot and smell. He said he once saw a guy get so mad at his rotting car that he put his fists and feet through it and ripped it apart.
Nope. I've run linux on a board where the top end of the memory was uncached and it runs like a dog. This is mentioned in linux/Documentation/memory.txt. The 2.4.x kernels have the slram driver that will limit the kernel to only use the cached ram for normal purposes and treat the uncached ram as a block device. It's in the MTD section. This will allow you to use it as swap or as a ram disk. Patches exist for the 2.2.x kernels, but it appears that the web pages for them have disappeared.
Howstuffworks has a page about clearing landmines and here is another page that describes how it can be done. The US Army even has a page about different ways to detect and remove mines. There is a UK company/charity that is developing an anti-mine robot. During the Gulf War, the military used small rockets to shoot lengths of explosive cord into a mine field. When the cord exploded, it would detonate the mines near the surface. Detonation of fuel-air bombs is another technique that I've heard about. Unfortnately, most of the land mine resources on the web that I've found appear to be charity/activist pages about the need to get rid of land mines, but very little on how to actually do it.
I don't see what the big deal is. I've been able to do all those things with emacs several years ago (some probably a decade ago). I also hope the network editing isn't just limited to the insecure FTP. I like being able to edit files and run compiles over the network with ssh/scp using emacs with the tramp lisp module.
This or this BBC story makes it sounds like no one in that country really likes the Taliban either. The people weren't using drugs that much as much as they were producing them. The Taliban only banned the growth of opium poppies after UN pressure. Taxing drug farmers was a major source of income for the Taliban. Most of the production drop is probably due to the drought and even then, Russia is still intercepting drugs along the Afghanistan border. Also, for the last two years, the US was the country that provided the most aid (mostly food) to Afghanistan.
You forget that there are people in Afghanistan who are fighting the Taliban. Many Afghans don't like the Taliban and want to kick the Arabs out of the country too. The Taliban have turned Afghanistan into an absolute madhouse and are carrying on their own scorched earth campaign against the population. The BBC has a good summary here
and here.
The anticipated US strikes are only one reason people are trying to flee.
The South Vietnamese government was corrupt and weren't liked by the citizens of that country. The probjem with Afghanistan is the uncertainly of who would fill the power vacuum once the US destroys the Taliban. Many want their exiled king to return, but that's probably a long shot.
They were ambushed by the troops of rebel leader Mohammed Farah Aidid and members of Al Qaeda. They were led into the trap by a informer that was also on bin Laden's payroll. It also didn't hurt that bin Laden's and Aidid's officers had the US codes and other information leaked by the local UN office. If you are rapelling onto a rooftop surrounded by people waiting to open up a crossfire, it doesn't matter how elite you are. The Somalian operation was also notoriously hamstrung by operational conditions placed on it by Washington.
According to Information Week article, starting last month most of the USPS Priority and Express mail is being hauled by FedEx for the USPS in exchange for having FedEx drop boxes for returned goods at post offices across the US.
But having a backdoor into the crypto algorithm has dangers too. If there is a backdoor there are chances that someone other than the govt will figure it out and exploit it. On the other hand, if the requirement for the backdoor was just that one always had to encrypt for multiple recipients and having the Justice Department (or whatever national ministry for other countries) as one of the recipients, it probably wouldn't be as bad from a software standpoint. However, other problems concerning the management of the global Federal encryption key will pop up.
Unfortunately, many of the policy makers view software as a commercial activity and would probably adopt some closed source set of software and using anything else could be considered illegal. All of which would help MS get more hooks into controlling everything. Which is not only bad from a freedom standpoint, it's also bad if the next wave of terrorists decides to fly some planes into the Redmond campus.
However, it still stinks that I can't just buy one phone that I like and use that one phone with any cellular network that I choose. I either have to buy a phone from the cellular provider or buy a used phone from someone that did. If there is a phone that works with all of the US cell networks, please let me know.
Since Intel is primarily in the business of selling hardware, why don't they take some of this technology and help speed up gcc? This might help them win back some linux users who switched to AMD.
No, I think they really want people to repent and change their ways. They want to be paid at some point along the way too, which is one reason I don't like many evangelists, esp. television ones. Many appear to be more concerned with building up their own little empires than teaching God's Word.
The "Hate the sin, love the sinner" concept is a bit tricky when a person defines themselves by the sin and revel in it. Some people take this too far and give up on trying to distinguish between the person and the actions. On the other end of the spectrum, people take the warm & fuzzy "God is love" concept and twist it into tolerating anything on the basis of "we are supposed to love everyone and if we tell someone they're doing something wrong, we're being judgemental not loving" which pulls in "judge not, lest ye be judged also" into the fray too. IMHO, the latter has more to do with trying to stop people from being judge, jury and executioner than those who want to warn others of errors.
I have all of those plus the Crossover plugin and they all work fine, even in Galeon. The Java plugin for Mozilla is different than the one for NS 4.x. You may want to check to see what your system is using for the MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME environment variable. If you installed it using the rpms, that is set to/usr/lib/mozilla and the location for system wide plugins is going to be/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. If you want to put them someplace else, I _think_ you can as long as you set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include the directories where you actually installed the plugins.
I tried this with Galeon 0.11.4 and it took about 45-50 seconds to loop through the test. At the end of the test, the browser opened the last two windows and just sat there for a minute or so and didn't redraw anything. I had thought it crashed at first.
If one has the "Open Popups in Tabs" option set, the test takes about 7 seconds.
If you have 192M of RAM on your laptop and you still feel that it's slow, the problem isn't due to lack of RAM. I've used earlier releases on machines with only 64M and it worked fine.
If you have ever read the Old Testament or went to Sunday school and
paid any attention, you would recognize what he's talking about. The OT
has several cause and effect patterns that are basically:
The
Tribes of Israel are obedient to God and follow the Laws and Commandments.
God is pleased with this and blesses them with prosperity, victory over
enemies, etc.
Over time the people become arrogant, more secular,
believe their wealth & power have nothing to do with God, worship false
religions, become disobedient, etc. They either intentionally disregard their terms of the
covenant or forget them. Prophets warn the populace they are risking
destruction unless they repent, but are dismissed as nut cases.
God is
displeased with this and restricts his blessings.
Without God's
blessings, the Tribes encounter severe tribulations or damage from internal
and/or external forces.
Falwell and Robertson are pointing out what they believe are the
behaviors/actions in our society that is a part of step 3 and which have
lead to steps 4 and 5. As preachers, they want the populace to repent and
stay in steps 1 and 2.
You mean something like SubTropolis or Parkville Commercial Underground? The Homestake gold mine in Lead, SD is being turned into a lab 8000 feet below the surface.
There are other examples at www.subsurfacebuildings.com.
While using retrofitted mines may be cost effective, I doubt they would be cheap as building a skyscraper if it was done from scratch. One also has to remember, that there is a considerable amount of underground construction in Manhatten as it is. Sioux Falls is nice, but the buildings aren't as awe inspiring as those found in NYC.
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That's only true if you count all the lisp files. Emacs' memory usage is dwarfed when compared to programs like most web browsers. People are working on making them embedded objects, why not a powerful text editor?
I pulled it out of a recent Sunday Times piece
As far as I'm concerned the he is as correct today as he was sixty years ago.I also thought that most of Sun's Gnome hackers were based out of their Dublin office. If that's the case, then that pretty much throws out the "it's because Gnome is [North] American product" argument.
Do you even know any diabetics?
Why yes I do given that it runs in the family. My dad is hypoglycemic too, and he certainly didn't get it by not having regular meals.
Are you one of those people who also insists that homeless people are just running a scam and that they go home at the end of the day in Porsches? Just curious, because you sure sound like one of them.
Actually, I've seen these scam artists with my own eyes leave their panhandling post walk a block or two and get in a car that is certainly better than the one I drive. True the guy passed out in an alley reeking of alcohol and his own shit isn't a Porsche driving con man, but I'm sure many of the 'will work for food' guys are. I mean, if illiterate non English speaking immigrants can find jobs, why the hell can't these guys? Probably because they can make more tax free and not have to do any reall work that way.
The starving people of Iraq only have Hussein to blame for their condition. It's obvious he has no problem letting them die if it makes him look good in the eyes of other radicals and it makes the whiny bleeding hearts in the West turn against their governments.
40 million? That was in one month alone. It was more like 125 million and it's been bumped up over 300 now.
On the Iraq side of things, if they are starving then why are the leading causes of death in that country heart disease and diabetes? IIRC, those are fat people diseases. IMHO, the people whining about the Iraqi sanctions should either shut up or do something to try to get Hussien out of power. Or are they in favor of letting a bastard like that stay in place
I know. Even with all the file sharing/piracy (depending on your point of view), they are still making obscene profits. IMHO, it all boils down to greed.
It's too bad that Rosen, Valenti, the other members of the RIAA, MPAA, and other icons of entertainment industry greed weren't holding their secret meetings on the top floor of the WTC on 9/11. Of course their PR firms would spin it that they died fighting digital terrorism or some other rot. Given their 'Screw other industries and the public' attitude, I certainly wouldn't miss them.
If they would take even half the money spent on crap legislation and copy protection and used to produce quality art, they wouldn't have a problem making a profit.
This is what the RIAA doesn't get. The bands themselves are the only ones who can convince users not to copy -- or have they forgotten that the bands exist apart from phony marketing images?
Given the prevalence of corporate fabricated boy bands and lip syncing dancers/models, I'd say they just care about the marketing images and the revenue of the here-today-forgotten-tomorrow music. Their industry financial plans are built on the massive production of crap, so I'd say that they don't give a rat's ass about any real musicians and haven't for years.
I'm also like your friend. I removed any Metallica mp3s that I had for distribution via napster and have just about every CD they've made. However, that didn't stop me from creating 'disposable' copies of the CDs and having all of the songs on my computer as mp3s. While I value the music, I sure don't want to buy another CD if one gets stolen or damaged. Under the RIAA scheme, if a CD gets stolen or damaged and the record company doesn't create them anymore, I'm screwed unless I can find someone willing to sell me a used copy.
But what about the cost of the construction workers? The building materials are usually not the largest cost for the construction of a building. Given this is specialized construction, I am sure the number of construction companies able to build these structures are few and expensive. Would the school district want to pay to have the schools torn down and rebuilt every 20 years?
That's assuming that they last 20 years. What are they doing to resist being damaged due to vandalism? The biggest problem will not be the weather, but juvenille delinquents scarring the external shell causing water to enter and weaken the structure. A Polish friend of mine said that at one time vehicles in his country had bodies made of heavy cardboard/pressboard coated with enamel paint. It was ok until the paint cracked and water seeped in and caused it to rot and smell. He said he once saw a guy get so mad at his rotting car that he put his fists and feet through it and ripped it apart.
Nope. I've run linux on a board where the top end of the memory was uncached and it runs like a dog. This is mentioned in linux/Documentation/memory.txt. The 2.4.x kernels have the slram driver that will limit the kernel to only use the cached ram for normal purposes and treat the uncached ram as a block device. It's in the MTD section. This will allow you to use it as swap or as a ram disk. Patches exist for the 2.2.x kernels, but it appears that the web pages for them have disappeared.
Howstuffworks has a page about clearing landmines and here is another page that describes how it can be done. The US Army even has a page about different ways to detect and remove mines. There is a UK company/charity that is developing an anti-mine robot. During the Gulf War, the military used small rockets to shoot lengths of explosive cord into a mine field. When the cord exploded, it would detonate the mines near the surface. Detonation of fuel-air bombs is another technique that I've heard about. Unfortnately, most of the land mine resources on the web that I've found appear to be charity/activist pages about the need to get rid of land mines, but very little on how to actually do it.
I don't see what the big deal is. I've been able to do all those things with emacs several years ago (some probably a decade ago). I also hope the network editing isn't just limited to the insecure FTP. I like being able to edit files and run compiles over the network with ssh/scp using emacs with the tramp lisp module.
This or this BBC story makes it sounds like no one in that country really likes the Taliban either. The people weren't using drugs that much as much as they were producing them. The Taliban only banned the growth of opium poppies after UN pressure. Taxing drug farmers was a major source of income for the Taliban. Most of the production drop is probably due to the drought and even then, Russia is still intercepting drugs along the Afghanistan border. Also, for the last two years, the US was the country that provided the most aid (mostly food) to Afghanistan.
You forget that there are people in Afghanistan who are fighting the Taliban. Many Afghans don't like the Taliban and want to kick the Arabs out of the country too. The Taliban have turned Afghanistan into an absolute madhouse and are carrying on their own scorched earth campaign against the population. The BBC has a good summary here and here. The anticipated US strikes are only one reason people are trying to flee.
The South Vietnamese government was corrupt and weren't liked by the citizens of that country. The probjem with Afghanistan is the uncertainly of who would fill the power vacuum once the US destroys the Taliban. Many want their exiled king to return, but that's probably a long shot.
They were ambushed by the troops of rebel leader Mohammed Farah Aidid and members of Al Qaeda. They were led into the trap by a informer that was also on bin Laden's payroll. It also didn't hurt that bin Laden's and Aidid's officers had the US codes and other information leaked by the local UN office. If you are rapelling onto a rooftop surrounded by people waiting to open up a crossfire, it doesn't matter how elite you are. The Somalian operation was also notoriously hamstrung by operational conditions placed on it by Washington.
According to Information Week article, starting last month most of the USPS Priority and Express mail is being hauled by FedEx for the USPS in exchange for having FedEx drop boxes for returned goods at post offices across the US.
But having a backdoor into the crypto algorithm has dangers too. If there is a backdoor there are chances that someone other than the govt will figure it out and exploit it. On the other hand, if the requirement for the backdoor was just that one always had to encrypt for multiple recipients and having the Justice Department (or whatever national ministry for other countries) as one of the recipients, it probably wouldn't be as bad from a software standpoint. However, other problems concerning the management of the global Federal encryption key will pop up.
Unfortunately, many of the policy makers view software as a commercial activity and would probably adopt some closed source set of software and using anything else could be considered illegal. All of which would help MS get more hooks into controlling everything. Which is not only bad from a freedom standpoint, it's also bad if the next wave of terrorists decides to fly some planes into the Redmond campus.
However, it still stinks that I can't just buy one phone that I like and use that one phone with any cellular network that I choose. I either have to buy a phone from the cellular provider or buy a used phone from someone that did. If there is a phone that works with all of the US cell networks, please let me know.
Since Intel is primarily in the business of selling hardware, why don't they take some of this technology and help speed up gcc? This might help them win back some linux users who switched to AMD.
No, I think they really want people to repent and change their ways. They want to be paid at some point along the way too, which is one reason I don't like many evangelists, esp. television ones. Many appear to be more concerned with building up their own little empires than teaching God's Word.
The "Hate the sin, love the sinner" concept is a bit tricky when a person defines themselves by the sin and revel in it. Some people take this too far and give up on trying to distinguish between the person and the actions. On the other end of the spectrum, people take the warm & fuzzy "God is love" concept and twist it into tolerating anything on the basis of "we are supposed to love everyone and if we tell someone they're doing something wrong, we're being judgemental not loving" which pulls in "judge not, lest ye be judged also" into the fray too. IMHO, the latter has more to do with trying to stop people from being judge, jury and executioner than those who want to warn others of errors.
I have all of those plus the Crossover plugin and they all work fine, even in Galeon. The Java plugin for Mozilla is different than the one for NS 4.x. You may want to check to see what your system is using for the MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME environment variable. If you installed it using the rpms, that is set to /usr/lib/mozilla and the location for system wide plugins is going to be /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins. If you want to put them someplace else, I _think_ you can as long as you set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include the directories where you actually installed the plugins.
I tried this with Galeon 0.11.4 and it took about 45-50 seconds to loop through the test. At the end of the test, the browser opened the last two windows and just sat there for a minute or so and didn't redraw anything. I had thought it crashed at first.
If one has the "Open Popups in Tabs" option set, the test takes about 7 seconds.
If you have 192M of RAM on your laptop and you still feel that it's slow, the problem isn't due to lack of RAM. I've used earlier releases on machines with only 64M and it worked fine.
If you have ever read the Old Testament or went to Sunday school and paid any attention, you would recognize what he's talking about. The OT has several cause and effect patterns that are basically:
- The
Tribes of Israel are obedient to God and follow the Laws and Commandments.
- God is pleased with this and blesses them with prosperity, victory over
enemies, etc.
- Over time the people become arrogant, more secular,
believe their wealth & power have nothing to do with God, worship false
religions, become disobedient, etc. They either intentionally disregard their terms of the
covenant or forget them. Prophets warn the populace they are risking
destruction unless they repent, but are dismissed as nut cases.
- God is
displeased with this and restricts his blessings.
- Without God's
blessings, the Tribes encounter severe tribulations or damage from internal
and/or external forces.
Falwell and Robertson are pointing out what they believe are the behaviors/actions in our society that is a part of step 3 and which have lead to steps 4 and 5. As preachers, they want the populace to repent and stay in steps 1 and 2.You mean something like SubTropolis or Parkville Commercial Underground? The Homestake gold mine in Lead, SD is being turned into a lab 8000 feet below the surface. There are other examples at www.subsurfacebuildings.com. While using retrofitted mines may be cost effective, I doubt they would be cheap as building a skyscraper if it was done from scratch. One also has to remember, that there is a considerable amount of underground construction in Manhatten as it is. Sioux Falls is nice, but the buildings aren't as awe inspiring as those found in NYC.