How will they handle the sex scene with the 15 year-old girl? Film it in Europe where such things are legal? This is a serious question, as anyone who's read the book knows!
They can easily work around this.
I submit the latest Lolita, Porkies, etc, etc, etc.
Let me qualify the following statement with my experience, I am a published writer on Open Source material. I cowrote a book on Samba for a few reasons.
1) Kicks, just to see if I could write a book. 2) Money 3) Fame, feedback, geek cred 4) To gain knowledge on Samba and networking.
Writing the book took a lot of my free time for a third of a year. The money was nice, but not especially lucrative. I've had little feedback on this book. I do understand Samba fairly well at this point.
If I understand the Open Source philosophy for programmers, you write code because you need something done. Once it's done, you share the code since it costs little to share it, gain a reputation as a good coder, and possibly parlay that into stock options or a career as a programmer.
The way I understand the Open Source philosophy for writers, you write something about something you know, you spend many hours cleaning it up to make it easy to understand, then you share it. I get little feedback, and I might get a job offer as a technical writer for far less than I'm making in my day job as a technical support person.
To me, it seems that if you want to make it in Open Source, be a programmer, not a writer.
How are you planning to give more cachet to Open Source writers, how are you planning to make it more desirable to make people spend countless hours writing Open Source?
aren't you the guy who was on the caldera user group list b*tching about this same thing not so long ago? if so you would know from there as the answer was told to you that at lilo type linux 3 which will put in the console mode so you could change the default run level.
Is to use the Partition Magic that's bundled with it to repartition a Windows workstation, and then try to install Caldera.
When that fails, often as not, I then install RedHat on the partition.
At least in OpenLinux 2.3, they give you the option of logging in in Failsafe mode after install, which is a small X-terminal. In 2.2 you had to initially log in under KDE, and if X wasn't setup perfectly, or you have an old video card and could only go 640x480, you were hosed.
I pitied the fools who did this and couldn't telnet in to change the default run level.
In a nutshell, Caldera is useful for the Partition Magic, has a pretty install, but has failed more often than not in my older hardware, mostly in the X setup (IBM P75 with S3 video card and NEC Multisync C400, generic P90 with garbage picked ISA VGA board and VGA monitor).
The odd thing is, looking for durable, transparently obvious storage methods is one of the most important things in long term data preservation.
If you pour hot grits in your lap, they biodegrade in a few weeks.
If your carve you dedication to hot grits pouring into stone, in the three different languges, making a Gritsetta Stone, your dedication will last centuries.
But the moderators always overreact when you talk about teenage girls.
You can't re-score "The Ring", not even the fire of the fiercest dragon, Ancalagon the Black could harm it. You must take it the Mount Doom, in the land of Mordor.
I guess it bothers me a little when I know for a fact that my cable, phone, gas, and electric companies are bonafide monopolies, being that I honestly don't have a choice on which I purchase.
In the Rochester, New York, USA area, attempts are being made to do away with these monopolies.
Cable has competition from the various satellite companies.
For a while, Tiem-Warner (the cable company), was offering telephone service through their cables, as competition to Frontier, the local landline company. Also, the numerous cellular companies in Rochester also offer competition.
The utilities are being regulated, so while their is only one set of gas and power lines to my house, owned by Rochester Gas and Electric, I has the option of being gas and electricity from several companies, with RG & E presumbly being paid to carry it.
Now, can I call Gateway and ask for a Celeron preloaded with Linux, or FreeBSD, or BeOS, or anything but Windows?
Lawyer: Look, if you formed a band and recorded your own version of Dark Side of the Moon, track for track, do you think that's legitimate unles you get permission?
Bad example, I think.
I'm not a lawyer, but I've paid them a lot of money last year.
You don't need anyone's permission to record a cover of a song, the illustrious Cecil Adams sets you straight on this one, all you have to do is notify the copyright's owner and pay a standard royalty.
And what is an album, but a collection of songs? You may need to change the title, however, perhaps Dark Thighs of the Moon?
Also, the complete Dark Side of the Moon album has been played in concert by groups that were not Pink Floyd, the cover band Phish famously (and a pretty good copy too, I have it) and well as countless Pink Floyd cover bands I imagine.
As far as point 2, I think they're planning on losing a few probes, with the cheaper and more numerous philosophy.
I recall reading a quote from the NASA directory saying that if they didn't lose at least one probe, they overengineered them and spent too much money.
I wasn't sure about 3, some people are serious about bringing it back.
What I don't understand is - what can radiation really do to the Galileo? I know the radiation we deal with on Earth is a whole different story then open space radiation, or the radiation around Jupiter.
Well, when the Galileo probe would get mad, it get really big, and green, and go on a destructive rampage.
You wouldn't like the Galileo probe when it got angry.
I thought that they were thinking of crashing Galileo so it wouldn't contaminate any of the moons (esp. Europa/Io).
They still are, it's in the article.
Yes, it's great to hear good news coming from NASA. I think that they should re-hire and un-retire the folks who churned out Voyager and Galileo for the next Mars probe. It seems the older crowd were more hands-on oriented and the newer guys more theory-oriented.
Well, the fact that the older guys had 10 times as much money to spend on Galileo, Voyager and Viking probably has something to do with it too.
Why not slingshot Galileo back to Mars? It's old, it's not the most technologically-advanced hunk of metal floating around, but by Gawd it works!
It probably doesn't have enough reaction mass to get to Mars, once your delta-vee is gone, you can't change your orbit.
Everyone will need to ride around in a motorized wheelchair and keep your body ridged, but then they'll require license numbers on such wheelchairs. You cannot beat the loss of privacy. We're all SOL and screwed.
Eventually, people will be encased in conical, wheeled vehicles from the moment of birth, for protection reasons.
The mind will eventually rebel against such treatment, causing irrational hatred and fear of non encased humanoids, and desiring to exterminate them.
It's okay, required reading if you're a Dune fanatic, you know, the sort of person who wraps themselves in cellophane before heading to the beach, and who vicously defends their 10 square feet of sand with a white plastic crysknife, like me.
It adds a lot of background to the story.
I don't think it's interesting enough to stand on it's own, and I don't intend to buy it unless I see it at a garage sale for $0.25.
It does raise some interesting questions and plot developments, and I'll probably read the next two when they come up to see how they get resolved.
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How will they handle the sex scene with the 15 year-old girl? Film it in Europe where such things are legal? This is a serious question, as anyone who's read the book knows!
They can easily work around this.
I submit the latest Lolita, Porkies, etc, etc, etc.
George
I've got a good line on the new surprise ending.
The astronaut, with the name of Stan, and his ape friend Kyle, ride up a beach on horseback and see the shattered Statue of Liberty.
Stan: "You've killed western civilization".
Kyle: "You bastards!"
George
Hey, I though this was a site by people I could relate to. Now where do I go?
I dunno, what's your couch look like?
Did you see the newest WiReD? Malda is in it, lying on an ugly couch.
Come on, just because you're a geek millionaire doesn't mean you can't have a nice couch.
George
ReplayTV has a 30 second fast forward button. Press it and you instantly move forward 30s.
I'm envisioning some fun with this one.
Buddy get's up to bathroom. FF to missed field goal, then back up a few minutes.
"Hey buddy, I bet you $5.00 he misses that field goal."
George
2 = 1 + 1
4 = 3 + 1
6 = 5 + 1, or 3 + 3
and so on
well, it's obvious to me, and I don't want to keep wasting your time,
Send me the money.
George
Is it Purim already?
My favorite day to be a wanna-hebe, time to get baked!
George
Deb,
Let me qualify the following statement with my experience, I am a published writer on Open Source material. I cowrote a book on Samba for a few reasons.
1) Kicks, just to see if I could write a book.
2) Money
3) Fame, feedback, geek cred
4) To gain knowledge on Samba and networking.
Writing the book took a lot of my free time for a third of a year. The money was nice, but not especially lucrative. I've had little feedback on this book. I do understand Samba fairly well at this point.
If I understand the Open Source philosophy for programmers, you write code because you need something done. Once it's done, you share the code since it costs little to share it, gain a reputation as a good coder, and possibly parlay that into stock options or a career as a programmer.
The way I understand the Open Source philosophy for writers, you write something about something you know, you spend many hours cleaning it up to make it easy to understand, then you share it. I get little feedback, and I might get a job offer as a technical writer for far less than I'm making in my day job as a technical support person.
To me, it seems that if you want to make it in Open Source, be a programmer, not a writer.
How are you planning to give more cachet to Open Source writers, how are you planning to make it more desirable to make people spend countless hours writing Open Source?
George
Now where did I put that stainless-steel hanky...
From the back pages of classic National Lampoon, when it was funny, Politeness Man has returned!
And boy, how we need you!
Yer Fan,
George
The plural of Lego is Lego.
No S!!!!
George
aren't you the guy who was on the caldera user group list b*tching about this same thing not so long ago? if so you would know from there as the answer was told to you that at lilo type linux 3 which will put in the console mode so you could change the default run level.
Nope, wasn't me, but thanks for the tip!
George
If I can't afford an ethernet card, I can't afford a CDROM either. If you want, you can email one to me.
You can't afford $5 to $10 for a used NE2000 clone from your local PC Parts shop?
Dang, do sell some plasma or something.
Seriously, used NIC's are dirt cheap.
George
Boxers??? Don't the sides of your scrotum get sweaty?? And doesn't your penis tend to fall out? Sheesh, give me briefs any day.
Actuallly, the sweaty and falling out feeling I tend to find with briefs. Not to mention the binding.
With boxers, everything just hangs loose, like god intended to. Plus, they come in silk.
George
Is to use the Partition Magic that's bundled with it to repartition a Windows workstation, and then try to install Caldera.
When that fails, often as not, I then install RedHat on the partition.
At least in OpenLinux 2.3, they give you the option of logging in in Failsafe mode after install, which is a small X-terminal. In 2.2 you had to initially log in under KDE, and if X wasn't setup perfectly, or you have an old video card and could only go 640x480, you were hosed.
I pitied the fools who did this and couldn't telnet in to change the default run level.
In a nutshell, Caldera is useful for the Partition Magic, has a pretty install, but has failed more often than not in my older hardware, mostly in the X setup (IBM P75 with S3 video card and NEC Multisync C400, generic P90 with garbage picked ISA VGA board and VGA monitor).
George
The odd thing is, looking for durable, transparently obvious storage methods is one of the most important things in long term data preservation.
If you pour hot grits in your lap, they biodegrade in a few weeks.
If your carve you dedication to hot grits pouring into stone, in the three different languges, making a Gritsetta Stone, your dedication will last centuries.
But the moderators always overreact when you talk about teenage girls.
You can't re-score "The Ring", not even the fire of the fiercest dragon, Ancalagon the Black could harm it. You must take it the Mount Doom, in the land of Mordor.
George
I guess it bothers me a little when I know for a fact that my cable, phone, gas, and electric companies are bonafide monopolies, being that I honestly don't have a choice on which I purchase.
In the Rochester, New York, USA area, attempts are being made to do away with these monopolies.
Cable has competition from the various satellite companies.
For a while, Tiem-Warner (the cable company), was offering telephone service through their cables, as competition to Frontier, the local landline company. Also, the numerous cellular companies in Rochester also offer competition.
The utilities are being regulated, so while their is only one set of gas and power lines to my house, owned by Rochester Gas and Electric, I has the option of being gas and electricity from several companies, with RG & E presumbly being paid to carry it.
Now, can I call Gateway and ask for a Celeron preloaded with Linux, or FreeBSD, or BeOS, or anything but Windows?
George
Lawyer: Look, if you formed a band and recorded your own version of Dark Side of the Moon, track for track, do you think that's legitimate unles you get permission?
Bad example, I think.
I'm not a lawyer, but I've paid them a lot of money last year.
You don't need anyone's permission to record a cover of a song, the illustrious Cecil Adams sets you straight on this one, all you have to do is notify the copyright's owner and pay a standard royalty.
And what is an album, but a collection of songs? You may need to change the title, however, perhaps Dark Thighs of the Moon?
Also, the complete Dark Side of the Moon album has been played in concert by groups that were not Pink Floyd, the cover band Phish famously (and a pretty good copy too, I have it) and well as countless Pink Floyd cover bands I imagine.
George
Yer welcome,
As far as point 2, I think they're planning on losing a few probes, with the cheaper and more numerous philosophy.
I recall reading a quote from the NASA directory saying that if they didn't lose at least one probe, they overengineered them and spent too much money.
I wasn't sure about 3, some people are serious about bringing it back.
George
What I don't understand is - what can radiation really do to the Galileo? I know the radiation we deal with on Earth is a whole different story then open space radiation, or the radiation around Jupiter.
Well, when the Galileo probe would get mad, it get really big, and green, and go on a destructive rampage.
You wouldn't like the Galileo probe when it got angry.
George
I thought that they were thinking of crashing Galileo so it wouldn't contaminate any of the moons (esp. Europa/Io).
They still are, it's in the article.
Yes, it's great to hear good news coming from NASA. I think that they should re-hire and un-retire the folks who churned out Voyager and Galileo for the next Mars probe. It seems the older crowd were more hands-on oriented and the newer guys more theory-oriented.
Well, the fact that the older guys had 10 times as much money to spend on Galileo, Voyager and Viking probably has something to do with it too.
Why not slingshot Galileo back to Mars? It's old, it's not the most technologically-advanced hunk of metal floating around, but by Gawd it works!
It probably doesn't have enough reaction mass to get to Mars, once your delta-vee is gone, you can't change your orbit.
George
Everyone will need to ride around in a motorized wheelchair and keep your body ridged, but then they'll require license numbers on such wheelchairs. You cannot beat the loss of privacy. We're all SOL and screwed.
Eventually, people will be encased in conical, wheeled vehicles from the moment of birth, for protection reasons.
The mind will eventually rebel against such treatment, causing irrational hatred and fear of non encased humanoids, and desiring to exterminate them.
Particular Dr. types.
George
Hmm, I think Ballmer would make a good Baron, and then maybe Gates as Fenring, the rabbit demeanored guy with the heart of a killer.
And Melinda would be a good Countess Margot.
Would this make Linus and Tove Paul and Chani respectively?
George
I won't even touch the cellophane. Literally.
Geez, you can be a Trek fanatic, wear a Star Fleet uniform all the time and even get selected for Jury Duty, no one thinks you're a nut.
You can talk Star Wars all day, even carry around a light saber and people think you're eccentric.
But if you get infatuated with Dune, well, that's something else.
You should see the looks I get when I go out in my cellophane still suit.
For some strange reason, people are reluctant to drink my recycled water, come on, the solar still works fine.
As far as the white plastic crysknife, well metal doesn't work, and ivory is banned, so plastic it has to be.
And cinnamon as spice works for smell, but it's hard to impress people with the scarcity of it when you can but 2 oz bottles at KMart for $1.79.
George
metaphor, metaphor, metaphor, no comparisons
fremen = geeks as
spice = information as
navigator = marketroids
George
I borrowed it from our library.
It's okay, required reading if you're a Dune fanatic, you know, the sort of person who wraps themselves in cellophane before heading to the beach, and who vicously defends their 10 square feet of sand with a white plastic crysknife, like me.
It adds a lot of background to the story.
I don't think it's interesting enough to stand on it's own, and I don't intend to buy it unless I see it at a garage sale for $0.25.
It does raise some interesting questions and plot developments, and I'll probably read the next two when they come up to see how they get resolved.
George