Heightened sex drive and fertility... birth control makes it tougher to get pregnant, those who have sex more often should wind up with more children.... who, when older, might be predisposed to having sex more often.
From the article: "Others believe we could blend ourselves with machines in unprecedented ways -- turning natural-born humans into an endangered species."
Like... c-sections.
Oh and earlier sexual maturity... there's no longer a risk of killing the mother. With social safety nets, infant mortality and the ability to provide for the child is not an issue. Horrifying as it might seem.
Multiple births are also non-fatal these days, although fertility drugs make that tougher to determine if it is a factor.
If it were loaded with advertising or required a subscription, I would not buy it. If somebody could create an inexpensive unlocked PVR I'd be thrilled. It shouldn't be impossible.
The version I got then nagged me every 15 days to tell me that my virus definitions were out of date and that they only way I could fix it was to subscribe to their updates.
So I uninstalled it and installed Avast. No gaurantee that it is going to be free forever, but it solves the problem for at least a year.
And yeah, this should be part of the OS. You can't practically use a Windows machine without antivirus software.
Nope, I'm being serious. I was considering investing ages ago, Novell could kick Redhat's butt in this arena... so I thought I would see what SuSE looks like these days. For something like this, the website is a big part of the product... they really don't seem to have much differentiation from Redhat, that is, in their business model.
I think Novell's success is tied to SuSE's success... but the website looks like a corporation selling a Linux distro rather than a corporation sustaining and growing a Linux distro around and with the community. Is there some nuts and bolts SuSE hobbiest site that I'm missing? Kind of like what Redhat seems to be trying to address with Fedora?
I guess what I'm trying to say is that I shouldn't feel like I'm freeloading off Novell or contributing to a private corporation's profits by using/contributing to SuSE. To me a bit part of Linux has always been that you can fix the problems yourself. Opening incidents with SuSE or contacting SuSE technical support seems silly to me.
So I have to wonder why to recommend SuSE, or even use SuSE... then why to invest in Novell?
The only arguments I can find start with "Redhat sucks because..."
Not a chance, they'll collude and release the new technology in drips and drabs in order to stretch out the upgrade cycle as long as possible. It's all money.
There's a good reason to immediately involve the police. Some people get vengeful. If you go over and say "hello, I'm your neighbour from next door, I have a busy day tomorrow and I would like it if you could keep it down" you might just -- and quite often this is the case -- get a response of: "Fuck you get the hell off my property, come back and I'll kick your a&&" followed by the stereo turned up even louder, spit on your doorknobs, dog s(*# and garbage on your lawn for the next three years, nails in your car tires, and other miscellaneous crap.
Oh and every anonymous complaint from other neighbours will be attributd to you followed by letters threatening lawsuits for harassment.
From experience, I'd say it's better to be anonymous if you don't know the neighbour. The police shouldn't be pricks about it though... but that's why I mention gated communities.
He should be embarassed and ashamed. Not all neighbours are reasonable, but FFS, he's puting his stereo over the well being of his neighbour. What the hell is the matter with this righteous prick?
It's no wonder people move into gated communities.
Reuters: London, May 5 2005: A robot army of Jobs has descended upon the city. When asked for comment, bystanders could only say "truely, to loose 13,000 looks like carelessness"
I think the distinction made more sense 10 years ago when Wine was held alongside stuff like SoftPC, BOCHS and stuff like that.
The distinction was that the emulators were designed to emulate the CPU's instruction set, which resulted in dramatically worse performance, whereas Wine was restricted to the Intel architecture and just implemented the Win16/Win32s/Win32 API.
I don't think the distinction is all that meaningful anymore.
This is a discussion forum, we're supposed to speculate about things we know nothing about. I speculate that it's naive to expect that the people making decisions for companies have reasonable motives or know what they're doing.
Here's a better "wild-ass" guess: Airlines are led by people who recognize that large jets, while expensive, can be amortized as a loss over, for example 20 years.
However a large jet could boost an airline's safety record and profitability with almost complete certainty for 10 years. This is long enough for wise investors to cash out and decisionmakers to be promoted or commended before foisting off the pending disaster of an aging fleet of jumbos to their successors.
So this generation of aircraft manufacturers look good, and they can make this generation of airline leadership look good, all by foisting the risk of a few crashed jumbos onto a future generation.
To me, it seems more wise to keep a large enough number of aircraft in operation that they can be continually replaced over a multi-decade cycle while at the same time calculating in risk of premature failure which can be absorbed.
As an extreme example, any idiot can make millions flying one new jumbo jet from New York to Tokyo, but with only one jet, they can be broke any day, and the risk of that increases with every flight. Worse, when you're the pilot making a decision as to whether or not the airline will fly that day, you face the decision as to whether the company goes under or you fly a potentially dangerous aircraft.
Of course, the +++ escape should obviously only ever work on the sent data, so the NO CARRIER hack could only work with ridiculously stupid modem firmware.
That's why you use ping. The victim machine sends the +++ATH0^M in the reply packet.
He said "usually" Winmodems, I've seen a few non-winmodems subject to this kind of attack.
Like others posted, the real Hayes protocol demands a 3-second delay before dropping to command mode after the "+++" is entered. The modems really sucked:-)
For CRT/LCD comparisions, be sure to add in the the savings in going rent per square foot for downtown properties in <insert urban center>
If you can add 10 sq ft to your living room for $2k by hanging an LCD over your sofa, and putting your DVD player in an end table, it might be worth it.
Smaller planes are not only faster to load/unload, but there is less impact if a pilot sends a plane in for service.
I don't understand the need for these huge jets. I doubt I'll see lower ticket prices, and I prefer cramped window seats to slightly less cramped asile seats anyways.
Enough of a the country supported Bush that he is, with no doubt in my mind a leader which represents a majority viewpoint in the U.S. as expressed through the limits of the U.S. democratic system.
I'm quite sure that the latest round of Republocrat elections led the Republican party to choose to differentiate itself from the Democrats by espousing fine traditional Catholic values including tolerance and respect for their neighbours, oh and legal enforcement of Catholic morals regarding abortion and gay marriage. Bush was a perfect leader for this given his track record in Texas.
The Democrats weren't very sharp to fail to parrot those issues. Having been soundly defeated, they probably will do so during the next U.S. federal election, restoring the flip-flop of the two party system.
My point about gun toting catholics with rabbit-ear antennae was only that they matter, not that they necessarily got Bush elected... sorry to imply that I thought it mattered which of the two parties won.
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Heightened sex drive and fertility... birth control makes it tougher to get pregnant, those who have sex more often should wind up with more children.... who, when older, might be predisposed to having sex more often.
From the article: "Others believe we could blend ourselves with machines in unprecedented ways -- turning natural-born humans into an endangered species."
Like... c-sections.
Oh and earlier sexual maturity... there's no longer a risk of killing the mother. With social safety nets, infant mortality and the ability to provide for the child is not an issue. Horrifying as it might seem.
Multiple births are also non-fatal these days, although fertility drugs make that tougher to determine if it is a factor.
It's all speculation of course.
Because the idea was lifted from 1984!
I think the implication is that if you turn in your friends and neighbours das Fathercorp will look favourably upon your actions.
It was a horrible way to say it though :-)
That's not inexpensive :-)
If it were loaded with advertising or required a subscription, I would not buy it. If somebody could create an inexpensive unlocked PVR I'd be thrilled. It shouldn't be impossible.
The version I got then nagged me every 15 days to tell me that my virus definitions were out of date and that they only way I could fix it was to subscribe to their updates.
So I uninstalled it and installed Avast. No gaurantee that it is going to be free forever, but it solves the problem for at least a year.
And yeah, this should be part of the OS. You can't practically use a Windows machine without antivirus software.
They might still be selling the console at a (near) loss and making money from the games?
If it's a PVR, I would buy one and never buy any games for it :-)
The old Macintoshes had 9" monochrome CRTs (which put them well under 9" of course). They were quite usable.
This thing seems to be more in line with the Mac than a notebook or PDA. Transportable and designed for business. No HDD (stock) either :-)
...which of course makes me wonder why it's so hard to make a cheap, cheap computer.
Nope, I'm being serious. I was considering investing ages ago, Novell could kick Redhat's butt in this arena... so I thought I would see what SuSE looks like these days. For something like this, the website is a big part of the product... they really don't seem to have much differentiation from Redhat, that is, in their business model.
I think Novell's success is tied to SuSE's success... but the website looks like a corporation selling a Linux distro rather than a corporation sustaining and growing a Linux distro around and with the community. Is there some nuts and bolts SuSE hobbiest site that I'm missing? Kind of like what Redhat seems to be trying to address with Fedora?
I guess what I'm trying to say is that I shouldn't feel like I'm freeloading off Novell or contributing to a private corporation's profits by using/contributing to SuSE. To me a bit part of Linux has always been that you can fix the problems yourself. Opening incidents with SuSE or contacting SuSE technical support seems silly to me.
So I have to wonder why to recommend SuSE, or even use SuSE... then why to invest in Novell?
The only arguments I can find start with "Redhat sucks because..."
Not a chance, they'll collude and release the new technology in drips and drabs in order to stretch out the upgrade cycle as long as possible. It's all money.
Novell impressed me when they bought SuSE. But what have they done with it since?
There's a good reason to immediately involve the police. Some people get vengeful. If you go over and say "hello, I'm your neighbour from next door, I have a busy day tomorrow and I would like it if you could keep it down" you might just -- and quite often this is the case -- get a response of: "Fuck you get the hell off my property, come back and I'll kick your a&&" followed by the stereo turned up even louder, spit on your doorknobs, dog s(*# and garbage on your lawn for the next three years, nails in your car tires, and other miscellaneous crap.
Oh and every anonymous complaint from other neighbours will be attributd to you followed by letters threatening lawsuits for harassment.
From experience, I'd say it's better to be anonymous if you don't know the neighbour. The police shouldn't be pricks about it though... but that's why I mention gated communities.
Yeah, I love his line:
He should be embarassed and ashamed. Not all neighbours are reasonable, but FFS, he's puting his stereo over the well being of his neighbour. What the hell is the matter with this righteous prick?
It's no wonder people move into gated communities.
Reuters: London, May 5 2005: A robot army of Jobs has descended upon the city. When asked for comment, bystanders could only say "truely, to loose 13,000 looks like carelessness"
I think the distinction made more sense 10 years ago when Wine was held alongside stuff like SoftPC, BOCHS and stuff like that.
The distinction was that the emulators were designed to emulate the CPU's instruction set, which resulted in dramatically worse performance, whereas Wine was restricted to the Intel architecture and just implemented the Win16/Win32s/Win32 API.
I don't think the distinction is all that meaningful anymore.
Whoops, "developers" that is, need them to anticipate graphics performance a couple years into the future.
For one, need them to anticipate graphics performance a couple years into the future.
Average gamers though... yeah, I don't see the point.
It's either non-infrared electromagnetic radiation or a desparate plea not to be picked on by the the Slashdot accuracy police.
No, you sit on the old T.V.
This is a discussion forum, we're supposed to speculate about things we know nothing about. I speculate that it's naive to expect that the people making decisions for companies have reasonable motives or know what they're doing.
Here's a better "wild-ass" guess: Airlines are led by people who recognize that large jets, while expensive, can be amortized as a loss over, for example 20 years.
However a large jet could boost an airline's safety record and profitability with almost complete certainty for 10 years. This is long enough for wise investors to cash out and decisionmakers to be promoted or commended before foisting off the pending disaster of an aging fleet of jumbos to their successors.
So this generation of aircraft manufacturers look good, and they can make this generation of airline leadership look good, all by foisting the risk of a few crashed jumbos onto a future generation.
To me, it seems more wise to keep a large enough number of aircraft in operation that they can be continually replaced over a multi-decade cycle while at the same time calculating in risk of premature failure which can be absorbed.
As an extreme example, any idiot can make millions flying one new jumbo jet from New York to Tokyo, but with only one jet, they can be broke any day, and the risk of that increases with every flight. Worse, when you're the pilot making a decision as to whether or not the airline will fly that day, you face the decision as to whether the company goes under or you fly a potentially dangerous aircraft.
Of course, the +++ escape should obviously only ever work on the sent data, so the NO CARRIER hack could only work with ridiculously stupid modem firmware.
That's why you use ping. The victim machine sends the +++ATH0^M in the reply packet.
He said "usually" Winmodems, I've seen a few non-winmodems subject to this kind of attack.
Like others posted, the real Hayes protocol demands a 3-second delay before dropping to command mode after the "+++" is entered. The modems really sucked :-)
For CRT/LCD comparisions, be sure to add in the the savings in going rent per square foot for downtown properties in <insert urban center>
If you can add 10 sq ft to your living room for $2k by hanging an LCD over your sofa, and putting your DVD player in an end table, it might be worth it.
I guess that's all "stylishness" though :-)
Smaller planes are not only faster to load/unload, but there is less impact if a pilot sends a plane in for service.
I don't understand the need for these huge jets. I doubt I'll see lower ticket prices, and I prefer cramped window seats to slightly less cramped asile seats anyways.
Enough of a the country supported Bush that he is, with no doubt in my mind a leader which represents a majority viewpoint in the U.S. as expressed through the limits of the U.S. democratic system.
I'm quite sure that the latest round of Republocrat elections led the Republican party to choose to differentiate itself from the Democrats by espousing fine traditional Catholic values including tolerance and respect for their neighbours, oh and legal enforcement of Catholic morals regarding abortion and gay marriage. Bush was a perfect leader for this given his track record in Texas.
The Democrats weren't very sharp to fail to parrot those issues. Having been soundly defeated, they probably will do so during the next U.S. federal election, restoring the flip-flop of the two party system.
My point about gun toting catholics with rabbit-ear antennae was only that they matter, not that they necessarily got Bush elected... sorry to imply that I thought it mattered which of the two parties won.