It would be nice to integrate the already taken shots of The Hobbit that appear in LOTR, but Ian Holm could be a little old to play a young hobbit for a full movie.
Americans like you would learn to spell the word 'Iraq'
South-Americans like me know that Irak is the name of the country in spanish, but sometimes I'm not that aware of small changes in proper names between languages, is somewhat harder than translate normal words.
Oh, I know... USA lost the war and the new America president is Saddam Hussein. Or better. Bush and Saddam reached a truce ezchanging countries. so now Saddam is the president of USA and Bush of Irak.
Don't know if this will be funny, just ask how funny felt the gentoo fans about a rpm migration (at least it could had been a migration to.deb)
Download open source program is boring, where is the excitement? the sensation of danger, doing something illegal, doing something behind the usual channels?
For windows users this way to download an er.. "unnoficial" way to obtain the official redhat would be as running kazaa, edonkey, or similar, in a legal way, to get a software that should be free but they feel as they should be paying for.
That is the key for linux adoption, not giving distributions as something so free to windows users, but show them in the same way that pirated software, this will give value to it and after all the effort getting it, they will appreciate the software more, will try actually to install it, and maybe they will adopt it as their official OS.
I think that if that kind of thing were available today, we would not have any news of the war from the field. With the same point of view, could be security reccomendations against this (in times of peace, you always have terrorism). And all this concerns, are just in the military point of view, could be more more universal objections.
The Culture series of Iain Banks is a good example of future of AI in SciFi, and also integration of this with "normal" humans. I readed only the first 3 of the serie (Consider Phlebas, The Player of Games and Use of Weapons) and they are excelent.
more than the package versions, most of the things that the author says that are "new" to the distribution itself seems to be already in 8.1 (yast2 package manager, the desktop, the menus, boot, etc).
New packages are important, but I have them installed in 8.1 already, and the changes that should matter should be in what differenciate this distribute to the others, and itself in previous versions
I think that the reason is more big packages released recently (KDE 3.1, Mozilla 1.3, GNOME 2.2, XFree 4.3, etc) and a big amount of critical packages fixed (sendmail, samba, etc).
And, of course, time since their last release. If well they don't have to release at the same time, the previous factors helps to do some kind of syncronization (be because "lets release a new version now that package XX version YY is released" or "release now because the ZZ distribution have the XX package version YY and we don't")
If I buy an apple that clearly shows that is rotten, I try to eat it and don't like it, is my fault, I should have seen that is rotten. But I can't say that the apple is rotten, start to eat it, and is rotten, I will stop buying apples for the rest of my life because I can't determine when they are rotten or not.
With protected CDs is the same, if I can't tell watching it that it will not work for whatever way I plan to use it, I simply will stop buying CDs, being protected or not. As long this CDs comes conveniently labeled with warnings on the risks on no use that one could find, that protection will be ok, but if not, this kind of protection will only push people to not buy music anymore.
The article title left almost nothing to imagination. Jokes will spread all around, like that the next problem will appear as reported by "Monitor 9 from Outer Space", or if the next mission have an astronaut with religious conviction will say "somebody watch for me up there".
The problem with life is that it tend to prevail, so the bugs/bacteria/virii you made could be here for years, there is no service pack that fix magically those mistakes (well, computer worms also seems be here to stay, an example of "art" imitating life). A mistake in that kind of things and we all could be history.
Missile protection from asteroids? And if it was an alien ship in a peaceful mission bringing us a new free eternal energy source, the fountain of youth and health, a way to make food from sand and stones and the galactic encyclopedia?
I think that in the last year I saw a movie where US destroyed a "meteor" that was an alien ship and that was the beginning of the end.
Of course, we should have some protection, but before of this we should have better detection of what we are pointing at.
At least from the last months, the main source of spam is not china based open relays, but anywhere in the world.
But if I would give a spam score to mails based in content, I would mark as spam all that in the text have mails or websites whose IPs are located inside China.
One of the biggest problem of spam is that you could lose legitimate mail because is lost in the big amount of spam you received or got deleted with all the spam you deleted, or spam filled your mail quota and legitimate mail got rejected.
Putting some obstacle on the reception of legitimate mail (er, like "you should pay an stamp to send mail to me") will have the same effect, so you are changing the definition of the problem, but not really solving it. It can be minimized using friendly or not troble-making confirmations (like TMDA's "reply to this to be in my whitelist") but you must be concious that it could lead to the same kind of the main damage that spam do.
How much drastically could this tape change the reconstruction of the problem that is already done. There are even timelines of how things happened, when the problem started, what sensors stopped to report, and almost all that happened till it was too late. Thit last 14 extra seconds will only show the last parts of destruction, but should not change what is already know about what happened, what caused all, and most of how it propagates in the ship.
It was pushed from second half of 2001, to early 2002, to second half 2002, and finally will be launched in April. With that kind of delays well it could include Duke Nukem Forever.
I think that Microsoft should change the way they name releases... instead of say, i.e. "it goes Gold", say "it condensated" (from the vapor it was all those years, I mean)... saying that "it goes Solid" in the same way of thinking would be misleading, there is nothing solid in a new released Windows until there is a big amount of service packs applied.
Also the name had changed even more than the projected release date, first Whistler, next Windows 2002 Server, next Windows.Net Server, then Windows.Net Server 2003, and the final name is Windows Server 2003. I wonder if their own "mutating penguin" ad gives them some inspiration for this name and date changes.
Microsoft knows it better. After all, the actual problems are with users executing viruses and trojans, so giving control to Microsoft will keep users safe.
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Check Freshmeat's Duke Nukem Forever project page. Seems that it was released today.
It would be nice to integrate the already taken shots of The Hobbit that appear in LOTR, but Ian Holm could be a little old to play a young hobbit for a full movie.
Is not deja vu... is just a bug in the Matrix, or maybe just Agent Taco playing with us.
South-Americans like me know that Irak is the name of the country in spanish, but sometimes I'm not that aware of small changes in proper names between languages, is somewhat harder than translate normal words.
Don't know if this will be funny, just ask how funny felt the gentoo fans about a rpm migration (at least it could had been a migration to .deb)
For windows users this way to download an er.. "unnoficial" way to obtain the official redhat would be as running kazaa, edonkey, or similar, in a legal way, to get a software that should be free but they feel as they should be paying for.
That is the key for linux adoption, not giving distributions as something so free to windows users, but show them in the same way that pirated software, this will give value to it and after all the effort getting it, they will appreciate the software more, will try actually to install it, and maybe they will adopt it as their official OS.
... Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL, from O'Reilly. It not have the same focus as this book, but will give also a lot of useful concepts.
I think that if that kind of thing were available today, we would not have any news of the war from the field. With the same point of view, could be security reccomendations against this (in times of peace, you always have terrorism). And all this concerns, are just in the military point of view, could be more more universal objections.
The Culture series of Iain Banks is a good example of future of AI in SciFi, and also integration of this with "normal" humans. I readed only the first 3 of the serie (Consider Phlebas, The Player of Games and Use of Weapons) and they are excelent.
New packages are important, but I have them installed in 8.1 already, and the changes that should matter should be in what differenciate this distribute to the others, and itself in previous versions
And, of course, time since their last release. If well they don't have to release at the same time, the previous factors helps to do some kind of syncronization (be because "lets release a new version now that package XX version YY is released" or "release now because the ZZ distribution have the XX package version YY and we don't")
With protected CDs is the same, if I can't tell watching it that it will not work for whatever way I plan to use it, I simply will stop buying CDs, being protected or not. As long this CDs comes conveniently labeled with warnings on the risks on no use that one could find, that protection will be ok, but if not, this kind of protection will only push people to not buy music anymore.
The article title left almost nothing to imagination. Jokes will spread all around, like that the next problem will appear as reported by "Monitor 9 from Outer Space", or if the next mission have an astronaut with religious conviction will say "somebody watch for me up there".
The problem with life is that it tend to prevail, so the bugs/bacteria/virii you made could be here for years, there is no service pack that fix magically those mistakes (well, computer worms also seems be here to stay, an example of "art" imitating life). A mistake in that kind of things and we all could be history.
And now seems that one has return.
I think that in the last year I saw a movie where US destroyed a "meteor" that was an alien ship and that was the beginning of the end.
Of course, we should have some protection, but before of this we should have better detection of what we are pointing at.
... banning firewalls, privacy, and even accesibility? Is like avoiding spam banning the use of email.
But if I would give a spam score to mails based in content, I would mark as spam all that in the text have mails or websites whose IPs are located inside China.
"A small step for a man, a giant leap for mankind"
Putting some obstacle on the reception of legitimate mail (er, like "you should pay an stamp to send mail to me") will have the same effect, so you are changing the definition of the problem, but not really solving it. It can be minimized using friendly or not troble-making confirmations (like TMDA's "reply to this to be in my whitelist") but you must be concious that it could lead to the same kind of the main damage that spam do.
How much drastically could this tape change the reconstruction of the problem that is already done. There are even timelines of how things happened, when the problem started, what sensors stopped to report, and almost all that happened till it was too late. Thit last 14 extra seconds will only show the last parts of destruction, but should not change what is already know about what happened, what caused all, and most of how it propagates in the ship.
I think that Microsoft should change the way they name releases... instead of say, i.e. "it goes Gold", say "it condensated" (from the vapor it was all those years, I mean)... saying that "it goes Solid" in the same way of thinking would be misleading, there is nothing solid in a new released Windows until there is a big amount of service packs applied.
Also the name had changed even more than the projected release date, first Whistler, next Windows 2002 Server, next Windows .Net Server, then Windows .Net Server 2003, and the final name is Windows Server 2003. I wonder if their own "mutating penguin" ad gives them some inspiration for this name and date changes.
RMS as a update to Windows? That sounds very scary, either when RMS is Stallman, or RMS is Rights Managements Services.
Microsoft knows it better. After all, the actual problems are with users executing viruses and trojans, so giving control to Microsoft will keep users safe.