Or else I could just slap the GPL on the leaked Windows Source Code and say "ha, well it's GPL now"
What actually happened is more like Microsoft themselves officially releasing Windows Source Code as GPL and making it available for download from www.microsoft.com. Then four years later suddenly going "oops, we didn't mean it".
NL2 expands when heated. The tanks have pressure release valves but I doubt they would be able to vent enough to prevent a rupture in a fire. Hence, exploding canisters.
You smugly criticize the BBC as being "scientifically ignorant", yet you expose your own bottomless pit of ignorance yourself for the whole world to see. Oh the irony...
good lord, send garry trudeau and berkeley breathed straight to jail then! they reproduced the presidential seal in their cartoons, which were in print, and for profit no less.
the bush administration is the only administration so thin skinned and paranoid that they feel a need to bully critics like this. fits in very nicely with their overall intimidation tactics though.
cnn (and msnbc, etc) often use the presidential seal in online web stories as well, even in stories critical of the presidency. it's not just a matter of "filming in front of the seal".
saturday night live has used the seal in parodies as well. with actors doing presidential impressions. snl is most certainly for-profit.
hell, garry trudeau (doonebury) has used the presidential seal in cartoons. for commercial gain!
further, the onion has been using the seal in political parodies for a long time. this is the first administration so uptight and oparanoid about criticism that they feel it necessary to bully the onion.
this c&d has no legal ground, but like all other such c&d, it is merely a tool to intimidate and bully critics. (see digital convergence's c&d tactics for an exact example of the same methods). it does fit in with the overall pattern of behavior from this administration's tactics of bullying critics though.
it is nice to have absolute confirmation that this administration is upset by the onion's parodies.
the point is mysql is popular because it meets 99% of users needs. most people dont run large enough databases to make a difference. those 1% will choose postgresql or whatever. go ahead and rant about triggers, stored procedures, etc. but the typical usage (personal websites, blogs, forums, wikis, etc) simply don't need them. and that's why mysql does so well -- it meets the 99% head on with no fuss.
because 99% of users don't need them? sort of like php -- sure java might be "better", but php does 99% of what users need and does it without the heavy lifting required to get java working.
also, stored procs are considered bad form in sql (besides the point there's no standard for them yet).
Coal plants can be built with scrubbers that clean out all that toxic crud. It's just that they aren't because then they wouldn't make as much money operating them.
No actually they are built with those scrubbers you talk about. If they didn't, they wouldn't be allowed to operate at all.
The problem is that even if you remove 99% of all "toxic crud" (a feat in itself) the sheer volume of material that's shipped through those stacks means there's still a significant amount that makes it into the environment. Multiply by the tens of thousands of power plants across north america alone. It adds up.
Even if the effort succeeds how comfortable will you feel having a nuclear powered space ship or even several space ships each the size of a large nuclear submarine and their nuclear powered support facilities in earth orbit?
about as comfortable as I feel about the thousands of tons of radioactive uranium, thorium, iodine, and other elements spewed into the atmosphere every year by coal fired power plants. even if the nuclear powered spacecraft had a catastrophic failure and re-entered, it would be a mere miniscule drop in the ocean compared to what's already being dumped into the environment.
This isn't an attempt at something nouveau and ground-breaking engineering-wise
until there's some fantastic new propulsion technology, ground-breaking engineering isn't going to happen anyway. there's only so much you can do within the bounds of chemical rockets. nuclear propulsion is politically off-limits, and ion engines haven't scaled to multi-ton spacecraft yet.
your awesome logic and irrefutable arguments have completely convinced me sir. thank you for setting me straight. i wish all slashdot posts were as well reasoned and concise as yours.
Many of their 'failed' projects are in fact doable.
they are trying to replicate urban legends, using the exact claims and setting from the urban legend. they are not trying to prove that such things are impossible, just very unlikely as claimed in the urban legend.
however a lot of them are spot on. for example ice bullets. a lot of people are angered by their conclusion that ice bullets are bogus, but anyone with even a basic background in physics will realize why ice bullets won't and can't ever work.
it was also interesting they proved that you could in fact escape from alcatraz on a rubber raft made from raincoats.
and sure, a plywood parachute is theoretically possible, but highly unlikely -- especially as claimed in the urban legend.
Were antibiotics seen as a moral issue by Christians? No.
Actually, yes. They were considered "violating god's will", eg god wants this person to die, who are you to interfere with god's will? Pretty amazing, but that's the reasoning put forth by christians. Jenner's cowpox vaccine was objected to on the same grounds by christians, and they had no moral objections to using fearmongering like "the cowpox vaccine turns you into a cow" in order to scare people away from taking it.
Has anything changed between jenner and today? Not really. christians still use fearmongering / "god's will" as arguments against.. well, just about anything they disagree with. The christian fearmongering nonsense will lose out in the end, but it will leave many dead / injured / suffering people in their wake, and that's the real tragedy.
horse & buggy manufacturers supressed the automobile. iron lung manufacturers supressed jonas salk. candle manufacturers supressed thomas edison. automobile manufacturers supressed the wright brothers.
as the saying goes, amazing claims require amazing evidence. so where is it? let's see some evidence. otherwise it's no better than hollering about UFOs and aliens.
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But seriously, most of them sound very dodgy, and the JFS issue has already been looked over by people better then SCO.
That's not hard. anyone is better than SCO.
Or else I could just slap the GPL on the leaked Windows Source Code and say "ha, well it's GPL now"
What actually happened is more like Microsoft themselves officially releasing Windows Source Code as GPL and making it available for download from www.microsoft.com. Then four years later suddenly going "oops, we didn't mean it".
so SCO deliberately misrepresented their position when they endorsed errno.h in FIPS 151-2?
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standard MAY !=free
nowhere in the article does it imply the explosions or LN2 caused the fire. rather it implies the explosions were a result of the fire.
Since you're a freaking moron.
LN2 + heat = expansion. LN2 + sealed tank + heat = boom.
NL2 expands when heated. The tanks have pressure release valves but I doubt they would be able to vent enough to prevent a rupture in a fire. Hence, exploding canisters.
You smugly criticize the BBC as being "scientifically ignorant", yet you expose your own bottomless pit of ignorance yourself for the whole world to see. Oh the irony...
now happily at a start-up
working at microsoft sucked that badly?
not to mention all the #pragma :-(
:-)
... )) helped find a ton of unsolved bugs in win32 code I ported.
switching from VS to GCC at least gets you a c99 compliant compiler
also little GCC things like __attribute__((format(printf
sometimes slow on machines under 50 MHz
:-(
good lord, I remember running it on 8mhz macs...
sure would be nice if microsoft had a c99 compliant compiler. i guess you can always plug in mingw32 though.
VS encourages a lot of very bad coding and design habits. the lack of c99 compliance doesn't help either.
good lord, send garry trudeau and berkeley breathed straight to jail then! they reproduced the presidential seal in their cartoons, which were in print, and for profit no less.
the bush administration is the only administration so thin skinned and paranoid that they feel a need to bully critics like this. fits in very nicely with their overall intimidation tactics though.
cnn (and msnbc, etc) often use the presidential seal in online web stories as well, even in stories critical of the presidency. it's not just a matter of "filming in front of the seal".
saturday night live has used the seal in parodies as well. with actors doing presidential impressions. snl is most certainly for-profit.
hell, garry trudeau (doonebury) has used the presidential seal in cartoons. for commercial gain!
further, the onion has been using the seal in political parodies for a long time. this is the first administration so uptight and oparanoid about criticism that they feel it necessary to bully the onion.
this c&d has no legal ground, but like all other such c&d, it is merely a tool to intimidate and bully critics. (see digital convergence's c&d tactics for an exact example of the same methods). it does fit in with the overall pattern of behavior from this administration's tactics of bullying critics though.
it is nice to have absolute confirmation that this administration is upset by the onion's parodies.
the point is mysql is popular because it meets 99% of users needs. most people dont run large enough databases to make a difference. those 1% will choose postgresql or whatever. go ahead and rant about triggers, stored procedures, etc. but the typical usage (personal websites, blogs, forums, wikis, etc) simply don't need them. and that's why mysql does so well -- it meets the 99% head on with no fuss.
in other words, you choose your tools because of political reasons, and not because it's the right tool for the job. nice.
because 99% of users don't need them? sort of like php -- sure java might be "better", but php does 99% of what users need and does it without the heavy lifting required to get java working.
also, stored procs are considered bad form in sql (besides the point there's no standard for them yet).
Coal plants can be built with scrubbers that clean out all that toxic crud. It's just that they aren't because then they wouldn't make as much money operating them.
No actually they are built with those scrubbers you talk about. If they didn't, they wouldn't be allowed to operate at all.
The problem is that even if you remove 99% of all "toxic crud" (a feat in itself) the sheer volume of material that's shipped through those stacks means there's still a significant amount that makes it into the environment. Multiply by the tens of thousands of power plants across north america alone. It adds up.
Even if the effort succeeds how comfortable will you feel having a nuclear powered space ship or even several space ships each the size of a large nuclear submarine and their nuclear powered support facilities in earth orbit?
about as comfortable as I feel about the thousands of tons of radioactive uranium, thorium, iodine, and other elements spewed into the atmosphere every year by coal fired power plants. even if the nuclear powered spacecraft had a catastrophic failure and re-entered, it would be a mere miniscule drop in the ocean compared to what's already being dumped into the environment.
This isn't an attempt at something nouveau and ground-breaking engineering-wise
until there's some fantastic new propulsion technology, ground-breaking engineering isn't going to happen anyway. there's only so much you can do within the bounds of chemical rockets. nuclear propulsion is politically off-limits, and ion engines haven't scaled to multi-ton spacecraft yet.
your awesome logic and irrefutable arguments have completely convinced me sir. thank you for setting me straight. i wish all slashdot posts were as well reasoned and concise as yours.
Many of their 'failed' projects are in fact doable.
they are trying to replicate urban legends, using the exact claims and setting from the urban legend. they are not trying to prove that such things are impossible, just very unlikely as claimed in the urban legend.
however a lot of them are spot on. for example ice bullets. a lot of people are angered by their conclusion that ice bullets are bogus, but anyone with even a basic background in physics will realize why ice bullets won't and can't ever work.
it was also interesting they proved that you could in fact escape from alcatraz on a rubber raft made from raincoats.
and sure, a plywood parachute is theoretically possible, but highly unlikely -- especially as claimed in the urban legend.
not really.
Were antibiotics seen as a moral issue by Christians? No.
Actually, yes. They were considered "violating god's will", eg god wants this person to die, who are you to interfere with god's will? Pretty amazing, but that's the reasoning put forth by christians. Jenner's cowpox vaccine was objected to on the same grounds by christians, and they had no moral objections to using fearmongering like "the cowpox vaccine turns you into a cow" in order to scare people away from taking it.
Has anything changed between jenner and today? Not really. christians still use fearmongering / "god's will" as arguments against.. well, just about anything they disagree with. The christian fearmongering nonsense will lose out in the end, but it will leave many dead / injured / suffering people in their wake, and that's the real tragedy.
Carrying your reasoning to its logical conclusion, abstinence is equally immoral.
Bring on the mandatory must-have-sex-every-waking-moment laws!
horse & buggy manufacturers supressed the automobile.
iron lung manufacturers supressed jonas salk.
candle manufacturers supressed thomas edison.
automobile manufacturers supressed the wright brothers.
as the saying goes, amazing claims require amazing evidence. so where is it? let's see some evidence. otherwise it's no better than hollering about UFOs and aliens.