Also, people, don't forget that Atheism is no less a _religion_ than any other. Or that's what my philosophy professor (also doctored in physics) used to say. It is well established that you cannot prove the non-existance of god any more than you can prove his existance. You may only believe one way or another. If you want to be all politically correct and stuff you may say - "I don't know whether god exists or not, but I gonna respect people believing both ways". But the science does not have a lot to do with explaining the world but more to do with describing it - people from Newton (extremely cool guy), Pascal (very smart guy, read their articles, lots of fun!)), and Darwin to (supposedly) Einstein used to understand that pretty clearly, the fact that you figure out a formula describing a gravity force (seemingly right) and name the things ("force", "gravity") does not help explaining _why_ the hell things attract; to put it all in a primitive way. And as for cosmogonics - every story a tribe in African jungle would tell you about the world's creation IMO would be better than "there was _nothing_, it _exploded_, and everything came to be". But maybe it's just me.
Untrue. I live in Russia now and when comparing food prices with a friend of mine living in Washington, DC suburbs... well, maybe at average they are 70% of US's. But _quality_ food in Russia, generally, costs the same or more compared with the same quality food in US. Meat, in particular, is _very_ expensive in Russia. 10 years ago you would be right, though.
The previous crew has apparently eaten all the meat and tasties. All is left in abundance now is some confectionery and some juices if I recall correctly what I read yesterday. Now you see - when your mom was telling you to eat it all and not to pick your food she, in fact, was preparing you to be a spaceman one day.
What I find pretty amusing is that it looks like this: UNIX, a system intended (or at least that made its name) to run big-iron machines, with first class multiprocessing and multiuser facilities at its core, now in your handheld, phone, and RSN toaster! I dunno, maybe it's ok but it does sound bizarre. I guess I'm nostalgic for simple(r) systems.
Images taken just before and after the above frame show no streak or flash. The light pole near the flash has been inspected and does not show any damage, although the light inside was not working.
Can we reasonably say that it was just a light bulb blowing off? Streak? Boy, for sure when I get a bright lamp in the frame I have all kinds of streaks going off it on the picture. So - I'd say it's either an optical or digicam artifact caused by the flash.
Any reason you insist on Open _Source_? Are you going to hack on it / compile your own version? Or are you just expecting others to do it? If so - why would that matter to you whether it's Open Source or just free as in beer? I just ask because I kinda believe / am interested in "cheap software model". I mean - > $100 is outrageous for an OS that includes basically nothing and sold in close to billion numbers. OTOH - $10 would be a fair price and still may give developers some incentive to work on it (no personalized support obligations, of course). >$1000-$3000 for a basic development tools package is insane. In the same time I would gladly pay $100 for those parts that I use and please keep the bloat added to make it filling the whole CD (or several) out. I don't intend to troll but many, many OSS stuff suffer from this syndrome - developers did something they felt like fun to do and then - pretty understandably - ran out of steam. I wonder whether having an income comparable to a day job salary would make them more concentrated, or not?
Shit. Read the text - where does he "pretend that Linux belongs to RH"? He says that it's down to three players in OSs - Win, Solaris, and _a_ Linux distro from RedHat. What? It's his opinion (funny one - definitely _overall_ MacOSX is no less a player than Solaris, but nonetheless). He does not say that RedHat owns Linux - or so I read - he just says that he does not consider SuSE's Linux, Slackware's Linux etc to be competitors to Solaris.
BTW - Solaris looked to be a nice system last I mingled with it, but marketing is marketing. Also - no need to bash RH more than they deserve, they still probably have their karmic value in black, despite the "let's make a name and then charge the suckers" move of recent times. But that's the nature of businesses, I realistically expect Google, for example, to pull the same in due time.
Strangely, it was no less useful and/or fun. In 1998 I could've probably spend a solid hour a day (time permitting) checking the (free!) sites I liked. That's not counting USENET. Now - can you name 20 non-subscription sites you'd think would be of interest for checking periodically? It has become like TV - tons of channels, megatons of ads, and nothing on. Yes, an ocean an inch deep indeed.
What a milestone. Or not? Is it any wonder that now there are more registered names than before? Would you expect inverse? Let's post this kind of stuff every month!
And then - I'm sure they are counting only 2nd level names, right? And country-specific names are not included, are they? informatics.uni.edu and economics.uni.edu are counted as one? the-company.com and thecompany.com are counted as two?
Finally - what constitutes a "live" web-site? "Under construction" counts? And why a web-site? Is there a rules that every resolved domain name should have a web-server at port 80?
Slashdot Mirror
Calling other people (who I think you don't even know) "idiots", is it a "moral" or "immoral" thing to do in your world?
Also, people, don't forget that Atheism is no less a _religion_ than any other. Or that's what my philosophy professor (also doctored in physics) used to say. It is well established that you cannot prove the non-existance of god any more than you can prove his existance. You may only believe one way or another. If you want to be all politically correct and stuff you may say - "I don't know whether god exists or not, but I gonna respect people believing both ways". But the science does not have a lot to do with explaining the world but more to do with describing it - people from Newton (extremely cool guy), Pascal (very smart guy, read their articles, lots of fun!)), and Darwin to (supposedly) Einstein used to understand that pretty clearly, the fact that you figure out a formula describing a gravity force (seemingly right) and name the things ("force", "gravity") does not help explaining _why_ the hell things attract; to put it all in a primitive way. And as for cosmogonics - every story a tribe in African jungle would tell you about the world's creation IMO would be better than "there was _nothing_, it _exploded_, and everything came to be". But maybe it's just me.
BTW, me, I'm Christian (Orthodox).
I'm afraid in 100 years time we will also never dream space exporation would be possible. Space exploration? Huh! It's so 1960s.
Untrue. I live in Russia now and when comparing food prices with a friend of mine living in Washington, DC suburbs... well, maybe at average they are 70% of US's. But _quality_ food in Russia, generally, costs the same or more compared with the same quality food in US. Meat, in particular, is _very_ expensive in Russia. 10 years ago you would be right, though.
The previous crew has apparently eaten all the meat and tasties. All is left in abundance now is some confectionery and some juices if I recall correctly what I read yesterday. Now you see - when your mom was telling you to eat it all and not to pick your food she, in fact, was preparing you to be a spaceman one day.
Can confirm ICQ rule. _Everybody_ using 'Net around here use ICQ. I wonder whether AIM is a US-bound kind of "monopoly".
Gee, do you Linux morons rip off every idea and replace it with a half-assed ugly implementation?
Richard, is that you? : )
Wait till Flash creeps into your server room! Enterprise Flash Beans (with full antialiasing) - woo-hoo!
You forgot the single most important one!
* MP4-over-cable-to-HDD
Do you have balls cooler? ... No, not ball bearing.
Ok, I'll nitpick: do email messages qualify as "documents" from your first bullet definition? Doesn't that make email... "viruses" viruses?
Of course, it's not that shady programs do NOT attack non-shady characters and non-shady tactics.
What I find pretty amusing is that it looks like this: UNIX, a system intended (or at least that made its name) to run big-iron machines, with first class multiprocessing and multiuser facilities at its core, now in your handheld, phone, and RSN toaster! I dunno, maybe it's ok but it does sound bizarre. I guess I'm nostalgic for simple(r) systems.
It's for the head, not dickhead.
Given the reality it should be rather like this:
"OK, for the last time, Mom and Dad
1) Don't take candy from strangers.
2) Don't open email attachments from strangers.
-children"
I'm not sure about 1 though.
Good, so, what _is_ the solution?
(Not just for you but for the whole Net, I should add).
Please read!
DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE!
This is not a TROJAN! You may think it's TROJAN, I know, I did.... (etc)
From the article:
Images taken just before and after the above frame show no streak or flash. The light pole near the flash has been inspected and does not show any damage, although the light inside was not working.
Can we reasonably say that it was just a light bulb blowing off? Streak? Boy, for sure when I get a bright lamp in the frame I have all kinds of streaks going off it on the picture. So - I'd say it's either an optical or digicam artifact caused by the flash.
Any reason you insist on Open _Source_? Are you going to hack on it / compile your own version? Or are you just expecting others to do it? If so - why would that matter to you whether it's Open Source or just free as in beer? I just ask because I kinda believe / am interested in "cheap software model". I mean - > $100 is outrageous for an OS that includes basically nothing and sold in close to billion numbers. OTOH - $10 would be a fair price and still may give developers some incentive to work on it (no personalized support obligations, of course). >$1000-$3000 for a basic development tools package is insane. In the same time I would gladly pay $100 for those parts that I use and please keep the bloat added to make it filling the whole CD (or several) out. I don't intend to troll but many, many OSS stuff suffer from this syndrome - developers did something they felt like fun to do and then - pretty understandably - ran out of steam. I wonder whether having an income comparable to a day job salary would make them more concentrated, or not?
Since when have normal, sane people known anything about unix?
Since seventies?
Shit. Read the text - where does he "pretend that Linux belongs to RH"? He says that it's down to three players in OSs - Win, Solaris, and _a_ Linux distro from RedHat. What? It's his opinion (funny one - definitely _overall_ MacOSX is no less a player than Solaris, but nonetheless). He does not say that RedHat owns Linux - or so I read - he just says that he does not consider SuSE's Linux, Slackware's Linux etc to be competitors to Solaris.
BTW - Solaris looked to be a nice system last I mingled with it, but marketing is marketing. Also - no need to bash RH more than they deserve, they still probably have their karmic value in black, despite the "let's make a name and then charge the suckers" move of recent times. But that's the nature of businesses, I realistically expect Google, for example, to pull the same in due time.
Strangely, it was no less useful and/or fun. In 1998 I could've probably spend a solid hour a day (time permitting) checking the (free!) sites I liked. That's not counting USENET. Now - can you name 20 non-subscription sites you'd think would be of interest for checking periodically? It has become like TV - tons of channels, megatons of ads, and nothing on. Yes, an ocean an inch deep indeed.
FIND THE FISH!
And it went, wherever I, did go.
How do we blame Microsoft for it? Alternatively, what does it have to do with /. ? Not in the "politics" section even.
Also - I don't know whether Hiroshima counts as an "accident" but it was much worse.
What a milestone. Or not? Is it any wonder that now there are more registered names than before? Would you expect inverse? Let's post this kind of stuff every month!
And then - I'm sure they are counting only 2nd level names, right? And country-specific names are not included, are they? informatics.uni.edu and economics.uni.edu are counted as one? the-company.com and thecompany.com are counted as two?
Finally - what constitutes a "live" web-site? "Under construction" counts? And why a web-site? Is there a rules that every resolved domain name should have a web-server at port 80?