Anyone who doesn't get decent regular exercise will generally fall into one of those two categories. Which one depends primarily on your body type and diet. The body adapts to it's environment and nothing in the average geek environment tends to promote physical prowess.
What a fitting allusion; perhaps more so depending on how things play out.
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Actually, I think this has to be about the best suggestion you could give. Better interoperability between KDE and Gnome could only improve the situation for both desktops. Isn't The X Desktop Group supposed to be working on with KDE and Gnome on this? I haven't heard much about it in a while.
Apparently someone's just too lazy or too dumb to cover their tracks. I mean, how much trouble is it really to comp a writer for some rinky dink magazine to get a good review? If you're not willing to put forth that effort than you're just not even trying.
All U.S. Signals Intelligence activity falls under the United States Signals Intelligence Directives (USSIDs). These documents and the applicable Executive Orders very clearly delineate what can and cannot be collected and considerable attention is paid to an individuals reasonable expectation of privacy. This stuff is taken very seriously and careers end very quickly when people try to step over these bounds.
If anyone is really that interested just do a little research and put in a few FOIA requests if necesarry. Then if you choose to remain paranoid it will at least be well supported paranoia.
Actually, you may never have had problems but the version of Doublespace released with DOS 6.2 used faulty compression code. Hence the release of DOS 6.22 with Drivespace at no upgrade cost (MS wasn't even going to try to charge for that one).
I'm sorry, but I don't think you're making a very informed argument. Short of extremely suicidal actions on the part of the pilot, or gross mechanical failure, there is no way an EP3 could hit a fighter. It's like Semi outmaneuvering a Corvette. The Chinese pilot was, however, known to have a history of potentially wreckless behavior and regularly buzzing reconnaissance planes. The record of the U.S. plane's coordinates clearly show that they did not cross into Chinese airspace until well after the collision with the jet and an attempt to return to friendly airspace. I'm not implying that the pilot's actions were intentional or condoned by the Chinese government, but the fact remains that he was responsible for downing the U.S. plane over international waters. How then is there any question of who is in the wrong?
It'd never happen just because of the sheer cost. These birds are up for 12 to 16 hours at a time. The cost of keeping a team of fighter escorts up that long would be far too much. Besides, they're never supposed to fly close enough to unfriendly airspace for that to be an issue. This stuff has been going on safely for decades and this issue with China is really a freak mishap. Kinda spooky, though.
They were knocked down in international waters and forced to land in China. The crew was in no way invading Chinese airspace (according to international law) before the collision and the Chinese pilot was entirely responsible for the collision by any logical assessment. How is that really any different from being shot down?
As far as I understand it they make the forward error correction (cyclic redundancy checks I think) invalid. That way a CD-ROM will treat the data as invalid. Of course, that all has to do with the firmware on the drive itself, so new firmware can be written to ignore it. The same style of copy protection is used on Sony Play Station games. The real issue, that they mention in the article, is that many high end CD players will not be able to read the CD's. Basically, any of the CD players that do cataloging will probably choke on these things.
Your point is valid but I don't really agree with your conclusion. Capitalism and a democratic republic are not mutually exclusive notions.
The legislative process is intentionally slow; that actually helps even out the kinks. Just because it adapts slowly, though, doesn't mean it's not adapting. We elect our representatives to govern our behalf. If the representatives want to maintain their office they have to follow the will of the people. Regardless of how much money you wave in front of an elected official he's not likely to alienate his constituents. Given that I'd say that a small group that attempts to 'buy' the government will eventually be over-ruled by the will of the people.
The process is slow, but I genuinely think that it works.
I have no idea why this post got modded as insightful, but I'm getting sick of reading "Only in America" as an explanation for some recent display of stupidity concerning patents, licensing, copyrights or whatever. I don't know of any country that does not have to deal with individuals or groups that engage in unethical practices for personal gain without fear of repercusions because of some clever loophole or a vacuum in existing legislation. Our laws are not set in stone. They are shaped and changed as necessary according to legal precedents and new legislation. In the US, the best way to eliminate this kind of legalized extortion is through your legislative representation. As far as I can tell every other country has similar issues and similar methods for resolving them. That stated, someone else can have the soapbox now.
I actually made the IR grid in high school for a C64. The library at my school had a book with that project and others like converting an IBM selectric typewriter to a printer and building your own plotter. Ah, the nostalgia. Anyway, the IR grid was pretty functional and easy to build and code, but I'm not sure how durable it would be in a permanent setup.
I think the biggest issue comes down to convenient packaging, software installation, and a single consistent interface. If people want Linux to keep growing on the desktop, these three issues are extremely important. The variety offered by different distributions is a great thing, but it can also result in a lot of headaches. Any time you have a lack of standards or competing standards it causes confusion for the end users. That said, I think the Linux community is doing a good job of developing and incorporating standards on what is an extremely fast growing platform.
Headlines are generally slanted to catch the eye of the target audience; this is/. after all. What really bothers me is the idea that these kids will have a police record kept on file as a result of this incident. As a private institution, the school is within it's rights to suspend the children for their site, even though it's incredibly oppresive and narrow-minded of them. The police, however, have no reason to keep any record of this incident or allow it to reflect poorly on the two kids. The police involvement was the result of a simple syntax error and, unless the article leaves out some major details, I can see no reason why they would pursue this or state that these kids fit the profile of murderers. This kind of paranoia seems to me like would do nothing but increase the potential for violence in schools.
Actually, I find it more soothing to watch the Absynthe cloud as I pour in water through a strainer filled with sugar cubes. Come to think of it, midori is Japanese for green. Absynthe is green. Japan is one of the few countries where Absynthe is legaly consumed. I do believe you've revealed the genuine meaning behind this name.
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Anyone who doesn't get decent regular exercise will generally fall into one of those two categories. Which one depends primarily on your body type and diet. The body adapts to it's environment and nothing in the average geek environment tends to promote physical prowess.
What a fitting allusion; perhaps more so depending on how things play out.
Actually, I think this has to be about the best suggestion you could give. Better interoperability between KDE and Gnome could only improve the situation for both desktops. Isn't The X Desktop Group supposed to be working on with KDE and Gnome on this? I haven't heard much about it in a while.
Apparently someone's just too lazy or too dumb to cover their tracks. I mean, how much trouble is it really to comp a writer for some rinky dink magazine to get a good review? If you're not willing to put forth that effort than you're just not even trying.
All U.S. Signals Intelligence activity falls under the United States Signals Intelligence Directives (USSIDs). These documents and the applicable Executive Orders very clearly delineate what can and cannot be collected and considerable attention is paid to an individuals reasonable expectation of privacy. This stuff is taken very seriously and careers end very quickly when people try to step over these bounds.
If anyone is really that interested just do a little research and put in a few FOIA requests if necesarry. Then if you choose to remain paranoid it will at least be well supported paranoia.
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Actually, you may never have had problems but the version of Doublespace released with DOS 6.2 used faulty compression code. Hence the release of DOS 6.22 with Drivespace at no upgrade cost (MS wasn't even going to try to charge for that one).
I'm sorry, but I don't think you're making a very informed argument. Short of extremely suicidal actions on the part of the pilot, or gross mechanical failure, there is no way an EP3 could hit a fighter. It's like Semi outmaneuvering a Corvette. The Chinese pilot was, however, known to have a history of potentially wreckless behavior and regularly buzzing reconnaissance planes. The record of the U.S. plane's coordinates clearly show that they did not cross into Chinese airspace until well after the collision with the jet and an attempt to return to friendly airspace. I'm not implying that the pilot's actions were intentional or condoned by the Chinese government, but the fact remains that he was responsible for downing the U.S. plane over international waters.
How then is there any question of who is in the wrong?
It'd never happen just because of the sheer cost. These birds are up for 12 to 16 hours at a time. The cost of keeping a team of fighter escorts up that long would be far too much. Besides, they're never supposed to fly close enough to unfriendly airspace for that to be an issue. This stuff has been going on safely for decades and this issue with China is really a freak mishap. Kinda spooky, though.
They were knocked down in international waters and forced to land in China. The crew was in no way invading Chinese airspace (according to international law) before the collision and the Chinese pilot was entirely responsible for the collision by any logical assessment.
How is that really any different from being shot down?
As far as I understand it they make the forward error correction (cyclic redundancy checks I think) invalid. That way a CD-ROM will treat the data as invalid. Of course, that all has to do with the firmware on the drive itself, so new firmware can be written to ignore it. The same style of copy protection is used on Sony Play Station games. The real issue, that they mention in the article, is that many high end CD players will not be able to read the CD's. Basically, any of the CD players that do cataloging will probably choke on these things.
Your point is valid but I don't really agree with your conclusion. Capitalism and a democratic republic are not mutually exclusive notions.
The legislative process is intentionally slow; that actually helps even out the kinks. Just because it adapts slowly, though, doesn't mean it's not adapting. We elect our representatives to govern our behalf. If the representatives want to maintain their office they have to follow the will of the people. Regardless of how much money you wave in front of an elected official he's not likely to alienate his constituents. Given that I'd say that a small group that attempts to 'buy' the government will eventually be over-ruled by the will of the people.
The process is slow, but I genuinely think that it works.
I have no idea why this post got modded as insightful, but I'm getting sick of reading "Only in America" as an explanation for some recent display of stupidity concerning patents, licensing, copyrights or whatever. I don't know of any country that does not have to deal with individuals or groups that engage in unethical practices for personal gain without fear of repercusions because of some clever loophole or a vacuum in existing legislation. Our laws are not set in stone. They are shaped and changed as necessary according to legal precedents and new legislation. In the US, the best way to eliminate this kind of legalized extortion is through your legislative representation. As far as I can tell every other country has similar issues and similar methods for resolving them. That stated, someone else can have the soapbox now.
I actually made the IR grid in high school for a C64. The library at my school had a book with that project and others like converting an IBM selectric typewriter to a printer and building your own plotter. Ah, the nostalgia. Anyway, the IR grid was pretty functional and easy to build and code, but I'm not sure how durable it would be in a permanent setup.
I think the biggest issue comes down to convenient packaging, software installation, and a single consistent interface. If people want Linux to keep growing on the desktop, these three issues are extremely important. The variety offered by different distributions is a great thing, but it can also result in a lot of headaches. Any time you have a lack of standards or competing standards it causes confusion for the end users. That said, I think the Linux community is doing a good job of developing and incorporating standards on what is an extremely fast growing platform.
Headlines are generally slanted to catch the eye of the target audience; this is /. after all. What really bothers me is the idea that these kids will have a police record kept on file as a result of this incident. As a private institution, the school is within it's rights to suspend the children for their site, even though it's incredibly oppresive and narrow-minded of them. The police, however, have no reason to keep any record of this incident or allow it to reflect poorly on the two kids. The police involvement was the result of a simple syntax error and, unless the article leaves out some major details, I can see no reason why they would pursue this or state that these kids fit the profile of murderers. This kind of paranoia seems to me like would do nothing but increase the potential for violence in schools.
Actually, I find it more soothing to watch the Absynthe cloud as I pour in water through a strainer filled with sugar cubes. Come to think of it, midori is Japanese for green. Absynthe is green. Japan is one of the few countries where Absynthe is legaly consumed. I do believe you've revealed the genuine meaning behind this name.