my opinion is to leave the area of the WTC (more or less) free space with a wall with all names of those who died, maybe above that on a second level a second wall for the brave fireworkers and policemen.
I'm wondering why we (the/. readers) are still caring about M$. Sure for some 95% of the world's user M$ might be important but for the enlightened 5% who use GNU/Linux or *BSD M$ doesn't offer any products and so M$ misses these 5% totally.
M$ is ignoring the most important 5% because I'm sure that we a will 95% of the system admins in a few years. We'll be those who decide which software to "buy" and install.
you forgot the tactical nuclear weapons that are included in satellite costs.
Of course you could buy them on a second hand fair in Russia but don't forget the packing and sending costs to USA which will increase the total costs in a way that the domestic nuclear weapons are available for the same price.
And if you buy US-weapons and they fail (let's say you hit Seattle instead of Redmont) you can get enough money from the company to buy 10 new satellites.
No doubt, there are 15-year-old who know a lot about computer, personally I started with computers at the same age, took me 2yrs till I got to Linux and now with 19 I can say that I know more than 99% of the computer user. It doesn't matter when you started only how much time you invested, I did a lot, spent (and will spend) most of my time for working out how this and that works. If I look back to what I knew one year or even two yrs ago I see that my skills improved in the last months more than ever.
If you're young you can learn easier and faster (that's a fact) but you don't have the energy and power to concentrate at one thing like the elder one has. In my first two yrs I've looked into everything, from raytracing (PovRAY) to programming (basic, c, pascal), and always some games (something I stopped months ago). I saw a lot things but took none of these really important and so I started them but didn't finish.
In these days I can easily concentrate at one or two things (PHP/websites and translations for various programms). My skills aren't that broad anymore but deeper.
For me that's more important!
Slashdot Mirror
next time I'll tag it [FUN]
promised
my opinion is to leave the area of the WTC (more or less) free space with a wall with all names of those who died, maybe above that on a second level a second wall for the brave fireworkers and policemen.
maybe they could also supply wings so the building could fly away before the airplane hits in it.
If not, I'm sure some Ex-US-President allready ordered :-)
And I also would like one of them.
I think that at least 10k died. Not only the people who work there, but also many brave fireworker are still missing :-(
I'm wondering why we (the /. readers) are still caring about M$. Sure for some 95% of the world's user M$ might be important but for the enlightened 5% who use GNU/Linux or *BSD M$ doesn't offer any products and so M$ misses these 5% totally.
M$ is ignoring the most important 5% because I'm sure that we a will 95% of the system admins in a few years. We'll be those who decide which software to "buy" and install.
you forgot US Ex-Vice-President Gore:
"I invented the internet"
you forgot the tactical nuclear weapons that are included in satellite costs.
Of course you could buy them on a second hand fair in Russia but don't forget the packing and sending costs to USA which will increase the total costs in a way that the domestic nuclear weapons are available for the same price.
And if you buy US-weapons and they fail (let's say you hit Seattle instead of Redmont) you can get enough money from the company to buy 10 new satellites.
slashdot - more than just a dot in the sky
A bomb shelter would really would be cool, not only for "storing" my lil brother there but also for playing HalfLife in a more realistic area ;-)
No doubt, there are 15-year-old who know a lot about computer, personally I started with computers at the same age, took me 2yrs till I got to Linux and now with 19 I can say that I know more than 99% of the computer user. It doesn't matter when you started only how much time you invested, I did a lot, spent (and will spend) most of my time for working out how this and that works. If I look back to what I knew one year or even two yrs ago I see that my skills improved in the last months more than ever.
If you're young you can learn easier and faster (that's a fact) but you don't have the energy and power to concentrate at one thing like the elder one has. In my first two yrs I've looked into everything, from raytracing (PovRAY) to programming (basic, c, pascal), and always some games (something I stopped months ago). I saw a lot things but took none of these really important and so I started them but didn't finish.
In these days I can easily concentrate at one or two things (PHP/websites and translations for various programms). My skills aren't that broad anymore but deeper.
For me that's more important!
rm also reduces a file's size to 0%, it's much better. To test it try "rm -Rf /" ;-)
Yeah, I hope that Debian will stay the beloved dist I'm used to. But now I'll go and draw some SuSE and RedHats to Debian ;-)