My favourate game used to be Stargate, the 'sequel' to Defender. I remember one of those How to Beat the Games books called it "tougher than flying a 747". It was tough. My best scores maxed out a little over 1E6, but a friend of mine could literally play as long as he could stay awake. Held the world record, twice. Does anyone know if this game still exists for one of those emulation programs?
Or, perhaps it is that some of the main points in Rand's work is overlooked, or misunderstood. Egoism, in the extent that most people understand it, isn't what she's promoting. She's promoting actions that are good for one's self. When you look at it that way, as scary as it is, how different is that from real Marxism? Someone forced to do something they don't want leads to alienation. When you do things you are good at and enjoy doing, it makes you feel good. Yet it's a selfish act.
Rand's philosophy brings to mind some ideas Heinlein put forth in one of his novels: that noone does anything they don't want to do. Ever. The thinking was something like this: it requires an act of will to do something, ergo, noone can do something they don't want to do. One might not like doing some action - one may even hate it - but one always makes the choice among the various alternatives.
So the mother/father doesn't sacrifice for the child out of love, but rather to avoid feeling like she/he is a bad parent. One doesn't give to charity or feed a hungry person out of compassion, but in order to make oneself feel good. This seems to go hand in hand with Rand's philosophy of enlightened self-interest, where selfish behaviour is not only preferred, but necessary. Sad. And not the kind of world I want to live in.
We've fixed that up for 7.0. (Pick custom install and select individual packages, then don't select anything).We're down to 30 or so packages in a minimal install.
Finally! I'm going to be setting up a firewall soon, and was thinking of using Debian, since the HD only has 500M/B, or so. With RH 6.2 it was going to be pretty tight. How much space will the minimal install take up?
This is why many of the routes go through the US, the individual global networks tend to cross-connect with each other within the US. Within the US, it's at least an approximately tight mesh. Outside of the US, most of the lines look like parallel spider-webs that only interconnect within the US.
Maybe this is what Carnivore is really about: global spying. It would explain why they would want their own box, since they certainly wouldn't want to tell the ISPs what to look for.
Spatial and geometric information is easier for most people than abstract mathematical information. Many people (in the States, at least) wouldn't know what distance a kilometer represents and some wouldn't be sure how to go south. Contrast that with concrete spatial data: "The gas station you're looking for is down that road; turn left onto Sycamore Street when you pass the Wal-Mart, then turn right onto Elm Street when you pass the bridge."
You harp on this 'spatial intelligence vs abstract intelligence' thing quite a bit, and it is rather irksome, since its a well-known fact in educational circles that advanced spatial and geometric skills go hand in hand with mathematical ability and abstract thought. As a previous author has pointed out (and you pointedly ignored), most peoples' stengths lie in narrative (as in speech-and-scenerio-based) skills. In fact, the scenerio you descirbe above highlights that. Describing places to go and directions to turn doesn't tax a person's spatial skills, since he doesn't really have to remember the relative positions of the locations. He doesn't develop a 'picture' of the path in his mind. Instead, he simply follows the recipe from your narrative. This is what makes a 'spoken' CLI (yes, I'm over-simplifying) so attractive to the Anit-Mac author: wouldn't it be easier to simply tell the computer to delete all the Kid Rock mp3s instead of having to point, click, and then drag them into the trash bin yourself? (This does beg the question of how Kid Rock mp3s found their way onto your computer, but nobody here is going to be overly judgemental of such things...). This would be a far more natural, and more useful, way to interct with the computer, requiring much less training on the part of the user. Throw in some advanced tools (that would require training and practise) like automated language-based scripting, and you're off to the races.
Also, let's talk about what negative mass entails: If you go for negative mass, I'll use the kiddie E=mc^2 and point out that negative mass would lead to having negative energy (don't confuse this with potential energy, or a negative differential).
begin(disclaimer) It's been about 4 years since I last took QM, and 5 years since relativity. end(disclaimer)
I don't disagree with what you say in general, but I don't think -mass would necessarily imply -energy. Einstein assumed mass was positive; if there are cases where it isn't, then use |m|, and the equation stands.
It's a little harsh, but there's just enough reason in there to make many people stop and think. Many weeds survive by choking the life out of flowers and beneficial plants, so when we get weeds in our garden we rip them out of the ground and destroy them so that the flowers can thrive. If people decide that they want to be societies weeds, why not do the same thing?
And let me guess: you, or people like you, get to decide who's a weed, since there's no way you are one, right? This is wrong on so many levels and you are way too far gone to even try to explain them.
So I'll provide an example to kick things off. Take a look at here and check out the million pound dumptruck. They use electric motors for these beasts, and top speed with a full load is 40mph.
Electric motors are used along with deisel combustion engines for a couple of reasons: 1. Their massive low-end torque when compared to combustion engines. 1b.To avoid the added weight/complexity of the transmissions required for a straight combustion engine to drive-shaft approach. That's why you see diesel-electric trains, and not plain-old diesel. 2. Deisel cycle engines are quite efficient when running at a constant rpm, much more so than Otto cycle engines. So they make good power sources for electric generators.
I still believe that the available energy per pound of fuel is larger for Otto cylce engines than fuel cells. I distinctly remember doing the calcs in my thermo class, though that was about 5 years ago, and the details are a bit fuzzy at the moment. I don't have the time/inclination to go digging the material up again, so if you don't believe me, a 3rd year course in thermodynamics will enlighten you.
As for the your pollution argument: I did not endorse gasoline engines; I just pointed out a major reason why they are still around. Witness the failure of that GM electric vehicle a few years back.
The problem for most of us, I think, is availability
Actually, this is correct, but not in the way you think. The 'available' energy or 'availability' from an Otto cycle engine is much larger per unit mass of fuel than from fuel cells. We like power in our vehicles - for passing, for climbing hills, for peeling out after stop lights - and fuel cells just don't cut the mustard like a 302 can.
ObRant: I would kill for a Reveal Codes option for Microsoft Word, so that I don't need to "sacrifice letters" to get to one side or the other of a format-change boundary. And, no, "Show All" doesn't do what I want/need.
WP 7,8 and 9 all still have Reveal Codes. In fact, it's always been in the product. Why not give it a try? I prefer it to MS Word, myself.
Think about it, Corel would get a lot of kudos from the open source community, they could quickly have the best word processor for Linux and other (non MS) platforms and then they could start edging back in to the Windows market.
I don't see how this could possibly work for them. Open sourcing their software could help improve it on platforms like Linux, but on Windows the Corel Office Suite is an excellent product, every bit as good as MSO. Since that's the market they have to crack, open sourcing it would be pretty much useless. Making it a free (beer) product won't help their market share either since they're practically giving it away now. I can get WPSuite 9 from resellers here in Vancouver for less than CDN$100, while the MS product is going for >CDN$400. Naw, it looks like WPSuite is pretty much a perpetual niche product on Windows. On Linux, it could become the standard, but that still would make it a niche product over-all.
Do/you/ want to be distributing source code with your new mobile phone?
As I understand it, they wouldn't to distribute the source with every phone; they would simply have to make it available. So they post it on their web site, providing the URL with the product documentation. They'd be GPL compliant for the cost of a little ink and a small amount of space on a server. I don't see how that would be a problem for them.
i can only imagine that it had a good deal to do with consumer stupidity and a great deal to do with movie studio deals to put their movies on the inferior videotape format due to marketing and good ole $US.
Beta (Sony) lost out in the VCR market for the same reasons that Apple lost out in the PC market. Neither of them would license their technology. Both companies weren't content with owning the standard. They wanted to own the entire markets. The developers of VHS (Panasonic and JVC, I believe) licensed the standard to anyone who wanted it. The result? VHS was cheaper, and Beta lost out. Sony did eventually license Beta, but it was much too late.
Consideration can be a promise to do something there is no legal obligation to do, or a promise to not do something there is a legal right to do. Promises to exchange money, goods,or services are forms of consideration. All parties in an agreement must give consideration in order to create a contract, but courts typically do not look at the adequacy of consideration unless there is evidence of some type of wrongdoing by the party benefiting most from the contract.
IANbyanymeasAL, but it seems to me that according to the bold section, the L/GPL are valid. The user gives up his/her right to publish under another license any modifications to the code s/he writes or may write. The consideration granted is the republication under the L/GPL of any distributed derived works.
Maybe you should do some more leading edge research and you'd find out that GNU is not much of an Operating System.
Actually, it is more accurate to describe GNU as the operating system, since when Linus started writing Linux all GNU lacked was the kernel. Linux is the kernel that completed the GNU OS.
"If you handed these same people a machine with an unpartitioned drive and a windows disk, they would obviously have the same problems."
This depends. With the Windows 98 Upgrade, if you did this, and they didn't know what they were doing - by this I mean how to use DOS fdisk and format - they would simply fail and not have a clue why.
I bought a new hard drive and decided to go for a complete, clean re-install to re-organize my partitions (and have Win and Linux live on separate disks). The new drive came unformatted, and the Win 98 Upgrade installation simply hung there, with an incompletely printed error message indicating that Windows needed something.
If one of my friends was doing this, my phone would have rung 2 mintues later, guaranteed.
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My favourate game used to be Stargate, the 'sequel' to Defender. I remember one of those How to Beat the Games books called it "tougher than flying a 747". It was tough. My best scores maxed out a little over 1E6, but a friend of mine could literally play as long as he could stay awake. Held the world record, twice. Does anyone know if this game still exists for one of those emulation programs?
Or, perhaps it is that some of the main points in Rand's work is overlooked, or misunderstood. Egoism, in the extent that most people understand it, isn't what she's promoting. She's promoting actions that are good for one's self. When you look at it that way, as scary as it is, how different is that from real Marxism? Someone forced to do something they don't want leads to alienation. When you do things you are good at and enjoy doing, it makes you feel good. Yet it's a selfish act.
Rand's philosophy brings to mind some ideas Heinlein put forth in one of his novels: that noone does anything they don't want to do. Ever. The thinking was something like this: it requires an act of will to do something, ergo, noone can do something they don't want to do. One might not like doing some action - one may even hate it - but one always makes the choice among the various alternatives.
So the mother/father doesn't sacrifice for the child out of love, but rather to avoid feeling like she/he is a bad parent. One doesn't give to charity or feed a hungry person out of compassion, but in order to make oneself feel good. This seems to go hand in hand with Rand's philosophy of enlightened self-interest, where selfish behaviour is not only preferred, but necessary.
Sad.
And not the kind of world I want to live in.
Moderate this UP!
>I also like a minimalist base install
We've fixed that up for 7.0. (Pick custom install and select individual packages, then don't select anything).We're down to 30 or so packages in a minimal install.
Finally! I'm going to be setting up a firewall soon, and was thinking of using Debian, since the HD only has 500M/B, or so. With RH 6.2 it was going to be pretty tight. How much space will the minimal install take up?
Bun
This is why many of the routes go through the US, the individual global networks tend to cross-connect with each other within the US. Within the US, it's at least an approximately tight mesh. Outside of the US, most of the lines look like parallel spider-webs that only interconnect within the US.
Maybe this is what Carnivore is really about: global spying. It would explain why they would want their own box, since they certainly wouldn't want to tell the ISPs what to look for.
Spatial and geometric information is easier for most people than abstract mathematical information. Many people (in the States, at least) wouldn't know what distance a kilometer represents and some wouldn't be sure how to go south. Contrast that with concrete spatial data: "The gas station you're looking for is down that road; turn left onto Sycamore Street when you pass the Wal-Mart, then turn right onto Elm Street when you pass the bridge."
You harp on this 'spatial intelligence vs abstract intelligence' thing quite a bit, and it is rather irksome, since its a well-known fact in educational circles that advanced spatial and geometric skills go hand in hand with mathematical ability and abstract thought. As a previous author has pointed out (and you pointedly ignored), most peoples' stengths lie in narrative (as in speech-and-scenerio-based) skills. In fact, the scenerio you descirbe above highlights that. Describing places to go and directions to turn doesn't tax a person's spatial skills, since he doesn't really have to remember the relative positions of the locations. He doesn't develop a 'picture' of the path in his mind. Instead, he simply follows the recipe from your narrative. This is what makes a 'spoken' CLI (yes, I'm over-simplifying) so attractive to the Anit-Mac author: wouldn't it be easier to simply tell the computer to delete all the Kid Rock mp3s instead of having to point, click, and then drag them into the trash bin yourself? (This does beg the question of how Kid Rock mp3s found their way onto your computer, but nobody here is going to be overly judgemental of such things...). This would be a far more natural, and more useful, way to interct with the computer, requiring much less training on the part of the user. Throw in some advanced tools (that would require training and practise) like automated language-based scripting, and you're off to the races.
Also, let's talk about what negative mass entails: If you go for negative mass, I'll use the kiddie E=mc^2 and point out that negative mass would lead to having negative energy (don't confuse this with potential energy, or a negative differential).
begin(disclaimer) It's been about 4 years since I last took QM, and 5 years since relativity. end(disclaimer)
I don't disagree with what you say in general, but I don't think -mass would necessarily imply -energy. Einstein assumed mass was positive; if there are cases where it isn't, then use |m|, and the equation stands.
Tesla just slowly went insane, and now his work only appeals to fringe types.
I'm no Tesla fanatic, but last I checked, multiphase AC generators and motors were in pretty widespread use.
Give credit where it's due.
I think he may be confused with Bell, who did some work in Canada.
I'd like to know what kind of idiot moderator would bump ridiculous trash like this up to a +1.
He was kidding.
It's a little harsh, but there's just enough reason in there to make many people stop and think. Many weeds survive by choking the life out of flowers and beneficial plants, so when we get weeds in our garden we rip them out of the ground and destroy them so that the flowers can thrive. If people decide that they want to be societies weeds, why not do the same thing?
And let me guess: you, or people like you, get to decide who's a weed, since there's no way you are one, right? This is wrong on so many levels and you are way too far gone to even try to explain them.
So I'll provide an example to kick things off. Take a look at here and check out the million pound dumptruck. They use electric motors for these beasts, and top speed with a full load is 40mph.
Electric motors are used along with deisel combustion engines for a couple of reasons:
1. Their massive low-end torque when compared to combustion engines.
1b.To avoid the added weight/complexity of the transmissions required for a straight combustion engine to drive-shaft approach. That's why you see diesel-electric trains, and not plain-old diesel.
2. Deisel cycle engines are quite efficient when running at a constant rpm, much more so than Otto cycle engines. So they make good power sources for electric generators.
I still believe that the available energy per pound of fuel is larger for Otto cylce engines than fuel cells. I distinctly remember doing the calcs in my thermo class, though that was about 5 years ago, and the details are a bit fuzzy at the moment. I don't have the time/inclination to go digging the material up again, so if you don't believe me, a 3rd year course in thermodynamics will enlighten you.
As for the your pollution argument: I did not endorse gasoline engines; I just pointed out a major reason why they are still around. Witness the failure of that GM electric vehicle a few years back.
The problem for most of us, I think, is availability
Actually, this is correct, but not in the way you think. The 'available' energy or 'availability' from an Otto cycle engine is much larger per unit mass of fuel than from fuel cells. We like power in our vehicles - for passing, for climbing hills, for peeling out after stop lights - and fuel cells just don't cut the mustard like a 302 can.
ObRant: I would kill for a Reveal Codes option for Microsoft Word, so that I don't need to "sacrifice letters" to get to one side or the other of a format-change boundary. And, no, "Show All" doesn't do what I want/need.
WP 7,8 and 9 all still have Reveal Codes. In fact, it's always been in the product. Why not give it a try? I prefer it to MS Word, myself.
Think about it, Corel would get a lot of kudos from the open source community, they could quickly have the best word processor for Linux and other (non MS) platforms and then they could start edging back in to the Windows market.
I don't see how this could possibly work for them. Open sourcing their software could help improve it on platforms like Linux, but on Windows the Corel Office Suite is an excellent product, every bit as good as MSO. Since that's the market they have to crack, open sourcing it would be pretty much useless. Making it a free (beer) product won't help their market share either since they're practically giving it away now. I can get WPSuite 9 from resellers here in Vancouver for less than CDN$100, while the MS product is going for >CDN$400. Naw, it looks like WPSuite is pretty much a perpetual niche product on Windows. On Linux, it could become the standard, but that still would make it a niche product over-all.
Cheers
Do /you/ want to be distributing source code with your new mobile phone?
As I understand it, they wouldn't to distribute the source with every phone; they would simply have to make it available. So they post it on their web site, providing the URL with the product documentation. They'd be GPL compliant for the cost of a little ink and a small amount of space on a server. I don't see how that would be a problem for them.
i can only imagine that it had a good deal to do with consumer stupidity and a great deal to do with movie studio deals to put their movies on the inferior videotape format due to marketing and good ole $US.
Beta (Sony) lost out in the VCR market for the same reasons that Apple lost out in the PC market. Neither of them would license their technology. Both companies weren't content with owning the standard. They wanted to own the entire markets. The developers of VHS (Panasonic and JVC, I believe) licensed the standard to anyone who wanted it. The result? VHS was cheaper, and Beta lost out. Sony did eventually license Beta, but it was much too late.
Cheers,
Bun
Consideration can be a promise to do something there is no legal obligation to do, or a promise to not do something there is a legal right to do. Promises to exchange money, goods,or services are forms of consideration. All parties in an agreement must give consideration in order to create a contract, but courts typically do not look at the adequacy of consideration unless there is evidence of some type of wrongdoing by the party benefiting most from the contract.
IANbyanymeasAL, but it seems to me that according to the bold section, the L/GPL are valid. The user gives up his/her right to publish under another license any modifications to the code s/he writes or may write. The consideration granted is the republication under the L/GPL of any distributed derived works.
Regards,
Bun
Does anyone know if there is support for the Promise ATA66 controllers? SuSE 6.3 has it, but for some reason, it was left out of RH 6.1.
Regards,
Bun
Anyone know if there will be built-in support for the Promise ATA-66 controllers?
Regards,
Bun
Maybe you should do some more leading edge research and you'd find out that GNU is not much of an Operating System.
Actually, it is more accurate to describe GNU as the operating system, since when Linus started writing Linux all GNU lacked was the kernel. Linux is the kernel that completed the GNU OS.
Regards,
Bun
' "Wer nicht hören will muss fühlen!"
(Who don't want's to listen must suffer)
Anyone have a better translation for this? '
"Who will not listen, will surely suffer."
Cheers,
Bun
"If you handed these same people a machine with an unpartitioned drive and a windows disk, they would obviously have the same problems."
This depends. With the Windows 98 Upgrade, if you did this, and they didn't know what they were doing - by this I mean how to use DOS fdisk and format - they would simply fail and not have a clue why.
I bought a new hard drive and decided to go for a complete, clean re-install to re-organize my partitions (and have Win and Linux live on separate disks). The new drive came unformatted, and the Win 98 Upgrade installation simply hung there, with an incompletely printed error message indicating that Windows needed something.
If one of my friends was doing this, my phone would have rung 2 mintues later, guaranteed.
Regards,
Bun