It's more dangerous because I can virtually assure myself not getting AIDS by not having sex, not sharing hypodermic needles, and avoiding other peoples' blood. I can sit next to an HIV positive person in an airplane without any danger of getting AIDS. The same CAN'T be said of SARS.
> We need a rescue system; some way to either get guys down without their vehicle, or a way to park 'em up there 'till we can get another vehicle in motion.
This point WAS being addressed by the European Space Agency when they were still considering their own shuttle. In fact, This Guy's project came out of that research.
On a side note, Michel's jump is to take place just a few miles from where I live.:-)
Amen! I remember the first time I ever heard the term "Canadian Bacon" (and remember, I was born, grew up, and still live in Canada) I was about 10 years old, our family was in Los Angeles (went to see Disneyland) and we went to order Pizza from Dominoes Pizza. One of the available toppings was "Canadian Bacon." I asked what that was, and was told "kinda like ham." Honestly, 10 years in Canada and I had never heard of "Canadian Bacon." Maybe it was an Eastern thing like Poutine.
Sure the recording process will suffer, but it won't be any worse than any other concert bootleg. In fact, done right, a board tape can sound just fine. As a sound guy, I have recorded many of the shows I have mixed. Combine that with high-speed CD duplicators, and you can have CDs ready 10 minutes after the show is done. This is a great idea and I hope it works out for them.
From reading post, it sounded like it went up 100 feet, tipped over, and smashed into the ground. The video shows a different story. That thing was going over right from liftoff. That's some pretty serious instability.
The external deployment clause is interesting to me. As I read it, if you use a modified OSL app on your website, you need to make your changes public. As I read the GPL, you don't need to make your changes public unless you distribute the binary.
Have you read the patent? The patent refers to a system where a mailserver which receives an email for an address no longer in use checks with _another_ server to determine the new address. Does Postfix do this? It doesn't seem all that useful to me, and possibly exploitable. (...my old scott.walde@sasknet.sk.ca doesn't work anymore. What's to stop someone else from registering a forward for that address to their own address and diverting mail that was intended for me. I haven't read the patent all the way through, so forgive me if they have thought of this.)
A few years back (1992-4) I worked as a counselor at a summer camp. We had a fairly strict policy about not letting kids phone home unless there was a really good reason. One of the kids in my cabin was given permission to phone home, but he then started crying. It took me a while to find out his problem: The phone at the camp was one of the classic rotary wall phones and he didn't know how to use it.
I would guess this kid was 8 or 9 at the time.
I dialed for him, and all was well. He'd be 16 to 19 now. I hope he's learned to use a rotary phone since then.
I know Christians aren't welcome on slashdot, but if you're going to quote him, please quote the entire thought. From the previous comma would do.
The Witch burnings, science vs. religion, and the crusades were never part of the "fundamental belief system of Christianity." Much of what the organized church today stands for is not part of the "fundamental belief system of Christianity." I think if you take an honest look, you will find the "fundamentals" have changed very little over 2000 years.
> Calgary and Edmonton were the first two cities in NA (maybe the world?) where you could get broadband at any residential address
When did Calgary and Edmonton get broadband? I got ADSL in Saskatoon in January 1997. Several of my friends got it a few months earlier. I thought we were the first.
I haven't used Mandrake for a few years now, but back in the 6.x days, they were using pgcc (Pentium optimized compiler, ~30% speed improvement over stock gcc at the time) and did a lot of work on ironing out problems compiling things with pgcc vs. gcc. That seemed pretty important at the time. Of course, my few remaining Mandrake 6 boxes have a hard time compiling anything current now...
If Australia's laws are anything like Canada's, it may not have been illegal anyways. See: http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/C-42/36498.html#rid-3 6621
and tell me if a CD copying kiosk would be illegal in Canada. I'm sure the record companies don't want the Canadian public to know about this law.
> I have a similar idea for my car. You could design an oil system so that once the car had been driven > more than 3000 miles, the car automatically drained all the oil from the drain pan and left > the engine without oil.
A friend's truck refuses to go faster than 60km/h (That's about 35mph) if you don't change the oil for a long time. (10000km, I think)
I don't see a problem with this type of protection. Of course, it's important to have warnings well in advance, rather than just "drop dead" once the time limit arrives.
> There's no science here at all, just a pathetic rationalization of a biblical story. Even one "God fixed it" takes it out of science altogether.
While I agree with your factual statements which disprove the canopy theory, you seem to make one assumption which is simply false. You assume that the canopy theory is an attempt to rationalize a biblical story. The canopy theory was first proposed in 1874 by Isaac Vail, who was an evolutionist. Sure, creationists have tried to use this theory to support their arguement, but they used a theory originally proposed by the "other" camp. Science continually changes and disproves itself. (Quantum Physics, anyone?) Theories are just theories. We could get a whole lot more science done if we could get over our religious preconceptions (I'm talking about _both_ sides here) and simply look at facts. Humans just don't seem to work that way, though. And, NO, I don't buy all the "God Fixed It"s. If it's true, it can be proven scientifically.
Ever heard of the "Canopy Theory?" Search google for it. I'm not saying it's right or wrong. (Heck, my post was a semi-serious response to a certainly non-serious post.) I like reading about differing views. There's always some interesting stuff in it. Maybe even a tidbit of truth. (I first heard about the Canopy Theory in a book lent to me by a Young Earther concerned about my Old Earthness.)
Can anyone explain this? Was the stock 2.4.9 faster and more reliable than our current stable kernel? If there are stability and speed patches in the RH kernel, why haven't they been adopted in the standard kernel? How close is RHs 2.4.9 to Alan Cox's kernel? I'm assuming he has a strong influence on RHs kernel.
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It's more dangerous because I can virtually assure myself not getting AIDS by not having sex, not sharing hypodermic needles, and avoiding other peoples' blood. I can sit next to an HIV positive person in an airplane without any danger of getting AIDS. The same CAN'T be said of SARS.
This point WAS being addressed by the European Space Agency when they were still considering their own shuttle. In fact, This Guy's project came out of that research.
On a side note, Michel's jump is to take place just a few miles from where I live. :-)
> 4) And Canadian bacon is NOT real bacon
Amen! I remember the first time I ever heard the term "Canadian Bacon" (and remember, I was born, grew up, and still live in Canada) I was about 10 years old, our family was in Los Angeles (went to see Disneyland) and we went to order Pizza from Dominoes Pizza. One of the available toppings was "Canadian Bacon." I asked what that was, and was told "kinda like ham." Honestly, 10 years in Canada and I had never heard of "Canadian Bacon." Maybe it was an Eastern thing like Poutine.
Sure the recording process will suffer, but it won't be any worse than any other concert bootleg. In fact, done right, a board tape can sound just fine. As a sound guy, I have recorded many of the shows I have mixed. Combine that with high-speed CD duplicators, and you can have CDs ready 10 minutes after the show is done. This is a great idea and I hope it works out for them.
-srw
You're right. Any webform with a hidden tag with the word 'suckers' in it is probably not legit.
In gimp, go: Image->colors->levels
In the levels dialog, click on the Auto button.
It makes quite a difference.
If this screenshot is indicative of the whole movie, I'd agree with the complainers that there's a problem.
they're not clear about the fact there are two drives in the case!
From reading post, it sounded like it went up 100 feet, tipped over, and smashed into the ground. The video shows a different story. That thing was going over right from liftoff. That's some pretty serious instability.
A former client who worked at a Cancer Center used a cluster to simulate radiation treatments.
The external deployment clause is interesting to me. As I read it, if you use a modified OSL app on your website, you need to make your changes public. As I read the GPL, you don't need to make your changes public unless you distribute the binary.
I wonder how it deals with cross-border spam. That still seems to me to be the biggest problem to deal with.
Have you read the patent? The patent refers to a system where a mailserver which receives an email for an address no longer in use checks with _another_ server to determine the new address. Does Postfix do this? It doesn't seem all that useful to me, and possibly exploitable. (...my old scott.walde@sasknet.sk.ca doesn't work anymore. What's to stop someone else from registering a forward for that address to their own address and diverting mail that was intended for me. I haven't read the patent all the way through, so forgive me if they have thought of this.)
If you want to define "fundamentals" so narrowly, then the same is true for scientific inquiry as well.
1. You'll notice that I didn't say anything about science. (Don't confuse me with the person who started this thread.)
2. "Fundamental" is, by definition, narrow.
-srw
True story:
A few years back (1992-4) I worked as a counselor at a summer camp. We had a fairly strict policy about not letting kids phone home unless there was a really good reason. One of the kids in my cabin was given permission to phone home, but he then started crying. It took me a while to find out his problem: The phone at the camp was one of the classic rotary wall phones and he didn't know how to use it.
I would guess this kid was 8 or 9 at the time.
I dialed for him, and all was well. He'd be 16 to 19 now. I hope he's learned to use a rotary phone since then.
-srw
I know Christians aren't welcome on slashdot, but if you're going to quote him, please quote the entire thought. From the previous comma would do.
The Witch burnings, science vs. religion, and the crusades were never part of the "fundamental belief system of Christianity." Much of what the organized church today stands for is not part of the "fundamental belief system of Christianity." I think if you take an honest look, you will find the "fundamentals" have changed very little over 2000 years.
> Calgary and Edmonton were the first two cities in NA (maybe the world?) where you could get broadband at any residential address
When did Calgary and Edmonton get broadband? I got ADSL in Saskatoon in January 1997. Several of my friends got it a few months earlier. I thought we were the first.
I haven't used Mandrake for a few years now, but back in the 6.x days, they were using pgcc (Pentium optimized compiler, ~30% speed improvement over stock gcc at the time) and did a lot of work on ironing out problems compiling things with pgcc vs. gcc. That seemed pretty important at the time. Of course, my few remaining Mandrake 6 boxes have a hard time compiling anything current now...
If Australia's laws are anything like Canada's, it may not have been illegal anyways. See:3 6621
http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/C-42/36498.html#rid-
and tell me if a CD copying kiosk would be illegal in Canada. I'm sure the record companies don't want the Canadian public to know about this law.
> Four US stealth fighters, or 40 stealth bombers.
Oh, oh... don't give bill any ideas now...
> I have a similar idea for my car. You could design an oil system so that once the car had been driven
> more than 3000 miles, the car automatically drained all the oil from the drain pan and left
> the engine without oil.
A friend's truck refuses to go faster than 60km/h (That's about 35mph) if you don't change the oil for a long time. (10000km, I think)
I don't see a problem with this type of protection. Of course, it's important to have warnings well in advance, rather than just "drop dead" once the time limit arrives.
-srw
Uh, who's DAVE MacKenzie? Perhaps you meant Bob? Take off, eh?
> Load code did not set personality for
> binaries without an interpreter: This was
> breaking static apps on several archs
Okay, but Which architectures does this affect? It might be nice to know.
> There's no science here at all, just a pathetic rationalization of a biblical story. Even one "God fixed it" takes it out of science altogether.
While I agree with your factual statements which disprove the canopy theory, you seem to make one assumption which is simply false. You assume that the canopy theory is an attempt to rationalize a biblical story. The canopy theory was first proposed in 1874 by Isaac Vail, who was an evolutionist. Sure, creationists have tried to use this theory to support their arguement, but they used a theory originally proposed by the "other" camp. Science continually changes and disproves itself. (Quantum Physics, anyone?) Theories are just theories. We could get a whole lot more science done if we could get over our religious preconceptions (I'm talking about _both_ sides here) and simply look at facts. Humans just don't seem to work that way, though. And, NO, I don't buy all the "God Fixed It"s. If it's true, it can be proven scientifically.
Ever heard of the "Canopy Theory?" Search google for it. I'm not saying it's right or wrong. (Heck, my post was a semi-serious response to a certainly non-serious post.) I like reading about differing views. There's always some interesting stuff in it. Maybe even a tidbit of truth. (I first heard about the Canopy Theory in a book lent to me by a Young Earther concerned about my Old Earthness.)
Can anyone explain this? Was the stock 2.4.9 faster and more reliable than our current stable kernel? If there are stability and speed patches in the RH kernel, why haven't they been adopted in the standard kernel? How close is RHs 2.4.9 to Alan Cox's kernel? I'm assuming he has a strong influence on RHs kernel.