What if we call it a draw and meet in the next conversation.. or do you want to create the longest thread in the history of slashdot?:-) Anyways, thanks for the chat, it has been very interesting.
PS: I pick the overwhelming influx of barbarian Mexicans - sounds fun:).
OK, there is some logic behind it, but this will never stop until all our recources have been converted into weapons. Have you ever played a game of risk that went completely out of hand and you had a few countries just adding armies upon armies (you know, where you have to use a second and even a third color)? In the end, you just spend a whole night throwing dice!
Anyway, I think that on a short term, your reasoning is sound, but on a long term, it leads to nowhere. How do you see it end?
But what nation is going to take on the US, who permanently have subs lurking to launch a nuclear attack in the event that the US would get destroyed? And how could orbital weapons stop a fool that isn't deterred by that?
I bet that by the time SCO is convicted the company will be bankrupt and all the money will have magically disappeared. If they aren't already planning this, I would be surprised.
From the article: Many customers are concerned about using Linux since they have become aware of the allegations that Linux is an unauthorized derivative work of the UNIX(R) operating system.
Why should anyone be concerned about allegations?? Everyone can make allegations! I am more concerned about criminal behaviour of companies!
I know that the Flash consists of 2 chips, and both of them contain an image of the flight software. I even think that after a reboot, it boots from the other image. When you're talking about RAM, do you mean Flash?
What filesystem is used? Is wear leveling being used? The directory structure is apparently stored in RAM during the day (why else would it use so much RAM?), that is a good thing for reducing wear on the flash system. But what's the number of writes on the flash chips? When will that number be reached?
Two more plausible answers are:* 1) a hacker trying out his new jamming device 2) a not understood phenomenon. Remember, we are only a couple millenia old (as civilizations) and only have limited radio experience (ok, it's 100+ years old, but not even a super-uber-nerd had a remote control at that time).
Nobody likes war, but you have to keep your guard up. If you don't, well... even Rome fell to barbarians in the end.
That's not entierly true.. Rome fell because of internal disputes and corruption. When those barbarians entered Rome, they found the emperor to be a (11y old iirc) kid!!!! Nobody else wanted to be an emperor because you'd get a knife between your ribs before you'd know. Rome rotted away from the inside, not because of external armies.
That's what they told me during my latin schooldays, at least..
As if China couldn't put space weapons in place.. what then? Would it still be a deterent then? Or would it have an offensive smell all of a sudden? The military has it's own jargon, with it's primary word being "enemy". "Humane" is missing from their lexicon, however..
You can get free beer at every brewery in Belgium! I have friends who go to Duvel every year to take the tour and "taste" the beer (a whole bunch of them, they rent a bus)! If you want to introduce foreigners to belgian beers, Stella is a bad start, IMHO. I recommend Leffe, Bush (bad name, great bear), Chimay, Queue de charue (give or take a spelling error),... Stella is just another pils!
Sure, but are there any good ones?:-P. There's no lack of bars in Brussels. Plus, it's only a few hendred metres from the ULB site, afterwards you can get to the hotel by taxi. And you'll need to, I've never left l'atelier totally sober, be warned!
If you go there, and you like beer, I can recommend l'atelier, a nearby bar with more than 200 (300?) beers, most of them belgian.. It's very cosy, too! Can be found at Rue Elise nr 77, 1050 brussels. At maporama you can locate it. It's not free, though:).
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Or is it general SF bashing? Most SF sucks, I hate this, I hate that, that is boring,... The fact is: most x suck, where x can be anything you like (TV programs,/. stories, people, hookers,...). Get over it and stay on topic next time.
It might be legal, but I don't see the point nor the ethics. Aren't there enough weapons already? The US has already won the arms race, yet they still want to enlarge that gap. Not everyone is pro-american, but with this behavour the US is feeding those people's fears.. Why do they need so much weapons if it isn't for world domination? Furthermore, an orbital weapon isn't useful against a terrorist, it's meant for war.
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NASA doesn't host the sites themselves. They used to do that but because of the load peaks when something interesting happens, they now let a company (forgot the name) take care of it. They have multiple servers serving NASA pages. Another advantage is that scientists now still can log in when a probe lands or makes a discovery.
But the things you describe here, are far more likely to occur with private/hidden camera's. A government camera cannot be used for posting pictures to a nosepicking fetish site or wathever.. Unless of course somebody is willing to sacrifice his job for this.. If such a thing were to happen, the media will jump on it! And their camera's are still more powerful than those puny surveillance camera's. I generally think a lot of people get hysterical about these isues without thinking about it for a minute. There are plenty of things people got hysterical about in the past, and now we laugh at them.
I offer 1 dollar. That's about ten times what it's worth! And I want Mc. Bribe with it, I always wanted to have a personal slave to go and fetch my stinky shoes!
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I ment resourses, sorry, typo.
:-) Anyways, thanks for the chat, it has been very interesting.
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What if we call it a draw and meet in the next conversation.. or do you want to create the longest thread in the history of slashdot?
PS: I pick the overwhelming influx of barbarian Mexicans - sounds fun
OK, there is some logic behind it, but this will never stop until all our recources have been converted into weapons. Have you ever played a game of risk that went completely out of hand and you had a few countries just adding armies upon armies (you know, where you have to use a second and even a third color)? In the end, you just spend a whole night throwing dice!
Anyway, I think that on a short term, your reasoning is sound, but on a long term, it leads to nowhere. How do you see it end?
But what nation is going to take on the US, who permanently have subs lurking to launch a nuclear attack in the event that the US would get destroyed? And how could orbital weapons stop a fool that isn't deterred by that?
Here's an in-depth article describing that phenomenon. I never thought of it this way, but indeed it's analogy is striking!
I bet that by the time SCO is convicted the company will be bankrupt and all the money will have magically disappeared. If they aren't already planning this, I would be surprised.
From the article:
Many customers are concerned about using Linux since they have become aware of the allegations that Linux is an unauthorized derivative work of the UNIX(R) operating system.
Why should anyone be concerned about allegations?? Everyone can make allegations! I am more concerned about criminal behaviour of companies!
I know that the Flash consists of 2 chips, and both of them contain an image of the flight software. I even think that after a reboot, it boots from the other image. When you're talking about RAM, do you mean Flash?
I think the pseudocode goes something like this:
while not intruder_is_dead
move_to_intruder
eject
eject -t
done
What filesystem is used? Is wear leveling being used? The directory structure is apparently stored in RAM during the day (why else would it use so much RAM?), that is a good thing for reducing wear on the flash system. But what's the number of writes on the flash chips? When will that number be reached?
Two more plausible answers are:*
1) a hacker trying out his new jamming device
2) a not understood phenomenon. Remember, we are only a couple millenia old (as civilizations) and only have limited radio experience (ok, it's 100+ years old, but not even a super-uber-nerd had a remote control at that time).
(*: in order of plausibility)
.. but heck, who's going to moderate us? :)
Nobody likes war, but you have to keep your guard up. If you don't, well... even Rome fell to barbarians in the end.
That's not entierly true.. Rome fell because of internal disputes and corruption. When those barbarians entered Rome, they found the emperor to be a (11y old iirc) kid!!!! Nobody else wanted to be an emperor because you'd get a knife between your ribs before you'd know. Rome rotted away from the inside, not because of external armies.
That's what they told me during my latin schooldays, at least..
If China put some weapons into space it would be seen as a threat by the USA and probably most of NATO as well.
So why should China view this differently?
As for "Humane", I believe that is missing from China's lexicon, not ours.
That's just typical. Enemies are always demonized, because it's ok to kill an enemy. To kill another human being is something different..
As if China couldn't put space weapons in place.. what then? Would it still be a deterent then? Or would it have an offensive smell all of a sudden? The military has it's own jargon, with it's primary word being "enemy". "Humane" is missing from their lexicon, however..
You can get free beer at every brewery in Belgium! I have friends who go to Duvel every year to take the tour and "taste" the beer (a whole bunch of them, they rent a bus)! If you want to introduce foreigners to belgian beers, Stella is a bad start, IMHO. I recommend Leffe, Bush (bad name, great bear), Chimay, Queue de charue (give or take a spelling error),... Stella is just another pils!
Sure, but are there any good ones? :-P. There's no lack of bars in Brussels. Plus, it's only a few hendred metres from the ULB site, afterwards you can get to the hotel by taxi. And you'll need to, I've never left l'atelier totally sober, be warned!
If you go there, and you like beer, I can recommend l'atelier, a nearby bar with more than 200 (300?) beers, most of them belgian.. It's very cosy, too! Can be found at Rue Elise nr 77, 1050 brussels. At maporama you can locate it. It's not free, though :).
I looked it up.. The first page I found noted: Oddly, when Sturgeon's Law is cited, the final word is almost invariably changed to `crap'.
It's just that I don't like war, that's all..
Or is it general SF bashing? Most SF sucks, I hate this, I hate that, that is boring, ... /. stories, people, hookers, ...). Get over it and stay on topic next time.
The fact is: most x suck, where x can be anything you like (TV programs,
It might be legal, but I don't see the point nor the ethics. Aren't there enough weapons already? The US has already won the arms race, yet they still want to enlarge that gap. Not everyone is pro-american, but with this behavour the US is feeding those people's fears.. Why do they need so much weapons if it isn't for world domination? Furthermore, an orbital weapon isn't useful against a terrorist, it's meant for war.
NASA doesn't host the sites themselves. They used to do that but because of the load peaks when something interesting happens, they now let a company (forgot the name) take care of it. They have multiple servers serving NASA pages.
Another advantage is that scientists now still can log in when a probe lands or makes a discovery.
lindashdashdashs maybe??
I wonder how many bugfixes MS will receive as a result of this..
But the things you describe here, are far more likely to occur with private/hidden camera's. A government camera cannot be used for posting pictures to a nosepicking fetish site or wathever.. Unless of course somebody is willing to sacrifice his job for this.. If such a thing were to happen, the media will jump on it! And their camera's are still more powerful than those puny surveillance camera's.
I generally think a lot of people get hysterical about these isues without thinking about it for a minute. There are plenty of things people got hysterical about in the past, and now we laugh at them.
I've been eating a lot of onions lately.. I NEED this paint!
I offer 1 dollar. That's about ten times what it's worth! And I want Mc. Bribe with it, I always wanted to have a personal slave to go and fetch my stinky shoes!