No, I think Gagarin was a hero.
Maybe I should have put quotes around 'stupid' but I thought my meaning was pretty clear - that Gagarin, and indeed all early astronauts, took significant risks which some paid the price for with their lives. Heck the astronauts we have today are still brave - space flight is not the safest form of travel!
Sorry if you're not able to parse English or infer meaning but this was blatantly obvious to me from reading the text.
Accessiblity of information does not mean explaining everything in words of one syllable.
It's not an original viewpoint but it is rather touching.
No one can deny the supreme magnitude of what was achieved, and in a scientific light this is fanatastic.
The political side was less savoury as the USSR milked the flight to show their 'superiority' for all it was worth, and yes I think this would be distasteful for any country.
The stuff about the discrimination is superfluous to all requirements and not a little patronising. Discrimination exists in all forms towards many types of people, not just Russians, women or Catholics.
But that wasn't the purpose of the 5K competition. If you want to see a competition where people code *useful* sites in 5K you're free to go found your own.
And why not? You'll probably get some decent entries.
Not if the NEW Amiga is any good, no.
I can't see any logical erason why an extra platform that can do good stuff is an inhereently bad thing.
it isn't - if the new Amiga is any good at what it is meant to do then the Amiga name is just as much a part of computing today as it was of computing 10-15 years ago.
Jesus, then we're all in for a lot of psychotherapy.
The story is pretty musing but I didn't imagine anyone would even begin to believe it was real.
Even if you could readily imagine a use for seriously lossy data compression it's pretty clear such a mad program would be an April Fool.
You may as well have had the software written by Olaf Pilor.
Would they supply icons for any other desktop environment? Now that Sun have officially embraced Gnome would we see future IEs for Solaris work nicely with that?
I doubt it, but I'd like to be proved wrong.
Yeah, keeping them is always an idea cos I still don't believe you I am afraid.
Old boxes do not get replaced only when they break they very often are thrown out for being too slow.
To be frank without some large business survey it's impossible to truly tell and we'll never kow the result from 1995 so...let's forget it, eh?;-)
The piece tries to make a good point about dynamic content that is generated by user input not being indexable which is true.
Search engines can't type things into forms and get results in an intelligent way.
It's just a shame that they get confused in their expressions.
Nice piece generally though. 550 billion wab pages is an awful lot..
Where are your figures?
This sounds absurd that in 1995 people would be using 286 machines more than any other.
Your point about lots of new people coming in at that time is a good one, but sems to invalidate your other point that the 286 was the most common processor in business machines.
Nope, you're wrong.
At least not from my horrendous experience with IE 5 on Solaris. I ran it on a dual-processor E250 with a gig of RAM. It was slower than Netscape 4, considerably.
It took about 10 seconds to start (same amount of time as Netscape, pretty much) and then it froze every 10 page views.
Netscape has been working alright, yes it goes wrong sometimes but not too many times.
IE 5, on the other hand, has been a steaming pile of manure.
On the other hand it works fantastically on Windows. IE 5 is my browser of choice for Windows work almost all the time and when it isn't I am using Mozilla, not NN 4/6.
Er, we're talking about the UK.
They're not allowed to give out my police records to just anyone around here.
There is a Data Protection Act for this.
And people say *we're* lacking in privacy....
How the hell can my employer get hold of my police records?
I know the planet Troll is a funny old place where the exact opposite happens to everywhere else but this is pretty special even for that.
European Convention on Human Rights, part of British law since October 2000 (Scotland actualy may have had it earlier) will stop any such persecution.
The very very very unlikely scenario of an extremist party coming to power would see them in serious trouble if they tried to pass any laws like that. Not they they would because thank god we have a tradtion of moderation in our political leanings. We didn't want Foot and we don't want Hague.
Hereditary peers - oh those 92 people in that chamber of 500-odd who can get overridden by the House of Commons whenever they get too annoying?
We have written human rights that are as good as anyone's and we're not doing too badly. When we need to lok at are the practical issues which really make a difference not the theoretical stuff.
I'm no-one's subject.
No this is totally disengenuous. I don't go around the street with my email showing on a big screen in front of me.
I do go around in public walking into shops and catching buses and stuff.
The Police can only see what everyone else can see already - that I'm just a normal person. They aren't seeing anything private.
The only way it could be abused is if they used it to try and falsely implicate me in a crime. That's fine but my human rights are stated clearly under law and I have the right to a fair trial.
If CCTV is so inneffective then it can't be covering everything, so surely this is either a case for putting up more OR it's good news for those who don't want to be filmed everywhere.
There was no way a CCTV camera could have stopped the death of James Bulger because CCTV cameras aren't equipped with stun grenades and nets.
If you want a good example then look at the case of the Brixton pub bombing.
You have a funny definition of freedom if you class it as not being monitored. Perhaps other people on the street should shield their eyes from me as I walk by in case they see me, which is exactly what a camera does. Neither restrict me.
Britain has a bad image with drooling idiots who think WWF is real and who haven't ever left their home town. If they actually thought for more than 5 seconds or met someone from there they might take a different view. Then again maybe they wouldn't.
The real brain drain in the UK is coming from low pay. People are more than happy to live in a society where our basic human rights are enshrined within law but kids don't take guns into classrooms.
Er...unethical in the sense that every single author of the software they sell their services for has given them permission to sell that software?
Is this Slashdot or some Microsoft discussion board?
This isn't traditonal industry and we're busy ensuring the ignorant proponents of the "things must stay as they are" frame of mind don't win the day.
>It should be clear from this paragraph that RMS >is only interested in his own freedom, not your >freedom. In particular, not your freedom to >refuse to share.
You think RMS would like to FORCE people to use the GPL?
Did it not occur to you that he might have wanted to replace it without forcing anyone?
Oh no, you're a troll...
Redhat make lots in turnover, but we all know they are in the red.
You know, even if the forway of Free Software into the business world turns out to have a calamitous ending it DOES mean that the software involved has had a shed load more attention heaped upon it and will therefore be much improved from what it was.
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No, I think Gagarin was a hero.
Maybe I should have put quotes around 'stupid' but I thought my meaning was pretty clear - that Gagarin, and indeed all early astronauts, took significant risks which some paid the price for with their lives. Heck the astronauts we have today are still brave - space flight is not the safest form of travel!
Sorry if you're not able to parse English or infer meaning but this was blatantly obvious to me from reading the text.
Accessiblity of information does not mean explaining everything in words of one syllable.
It's not an original viewpoint but it is rather touching.
No one can deny the supreme magnitude of what was achieved, and in a scientific light this is fanatastic.
The political side was less savoury as the USSR milked the flight to show their 'superiority' for all it was worth, and yes I think this would be distasteful for any country.
The stuff about the discrimination is superfluous to all requirements and not a little patronising. Discrimination exists in all forms towards many types of people, not just Russians, women or Catholics.
Stupid, staggeringly brave to go up in what were probably seriously dangeous spacecraft, Russians.
But that wasn't the purpose of the 5K competition. If you want to see a competition where people code *useful* sites in 5K you're free to go found your own.
And why not? You'll probably get some decent entries.
Er...what about http://www.the5k.org/about.asp and the attendant explanation of what the site is about?
You really ought to look a little harder.
Not if the NEW Amiga is any good, no.
I can't see any logical erason why an extra platform that can do good stuff is an inhereently bad thing.
it isn't - if the new Amiga is any good at what it is meant to do then the Amiga name is just as much a part of computing today as it was of computing 10-15 years ago.
Jesus, then we're all in for a lot of psychotherapy.
The story is pretty musing but I didn't imagine anyone would even begin to believe it was real.
Even if you could readily imagine a use for seriously lossy data compression it's pretty clear such a mad program would be an April Fool.
You may as well have had the software written by Olaf Pilor.
Would they supply icons for any other desktop environment? Now that Sun have officially embraced Gnome would we see future IEs for Solaris work nicely with that?
I doubt it, but I'd like to be proved wrong.
Yeah, keeping them is always an idea cos I still don't believe you I am afraid. ;-)
Old boxes do not get replaced only when they break they very often are thrown out for being too slow.
To be frank without some large business survey it's impossible to truly tell and we'll never kow the result from 1995 so...let's forget it, eh?
The piece tries to make a good point about dynamic content that is generated by user input not being indexable which is true.
Search engines can't type things into forms and get results in an intelligent way.
It's just a shame that they get confused in their expressions.
Nice piece generally though. 550 billion wab pages is an awful lot..
Where are your figures?
This sounds absurd that in 1995 people would be using 286 machines more than any other.
Your point about lots of new people coming in at that time is a good one, but sems to invalidate your other point that the 286 was the most common processor in business machines.
Nope, you're wrong.
At least not from my horrendous experience with IE 5 on Solaris. I ran it on a dual-processor E250 with a gig of RAM. It was slower than Netscape 4, considerably.
It took about 10 seconds to start (same amount of time as Netscape, pretty much) and then it froze every 10 page views.
Netscape has been working alright, yes it goes wrong sometimes but not too many times.
IE 5, on the other hand, has been a steaming pile of manure.
On the other hand it works fantastically on Windows. IE 5 is my browser of choice for Windows work almost all the time and when it isn't I am using Mozilla, not NN 4/6.
Er, we're talking about the UK.
They're not allowed to give out my police records to just anyone around here.
There is a Data Protection Act for this.
And people say *we're* lacking in privacy....
How the hell can my employer get hold of my police records?
I know the planet Troll is a funny old place where the exact opposite happens to everywhere else but this is pretty special even for that.
European Convention on Human Rights, part of British law since October 2000 (Scotland actualy may have had it earlier) will stop any such persecution.
The very very very unlikely scenario of an extremist party coming to power would see them in serious trouble if they tried to pass any laws like that. Not they they would because thank god we have a tradtion of moderation in our political leanings. We didn't want Foot and we don't want Hague.
Hereditary peers - oh those 92 people in that chamber of 500-odd who can get overridden by the House of Commons whenever they get too annoying?
We have written human rights that are as good as anyone's and we're not doing too badly. When we need to lok at are the practical issues which really make a difference not the theoretical stuff.
I'm no-one's subject.
No this is totally disengenuous. I don't go around the street with my email showing on a big screen in front of me.
I do go around in public walking into shops and catching buses and stuff.
The Police can only see what everyone else can see already - that I'm just a normal person. They aren't seeing anything private.
The only way it could be abused is if they used it to try and falsely implicate me in a crime. That's fine but my human rights are stated clearly under law and I have the right to a fair trial.
If CCTV is so inneffective then it can't be covering everything, so surely this is either a case for putting up more OR it's good news for those who don't want to be filmed everywhere.
There was no way a CCTV camera could have stopped the death of James Bulger because CCTV cameras aren't equipped with stun grenades and nets.
If you want a good example then look at the case of the Brixton pub bombing.
That's fair - he shouldn't presume to speak for everyone but most people do not mind CCTV cameras as they're not falling into the paranoia trap.
You have a funny definition of freedom if you class it as not being monitored. Perhaps other people on the street should shield their eyes from me as I walk by in case they see me, which is exactly what a camera does. Neither restrict me.
Britain has a bad image with drooling idiots who think WWF is real and who haven't ever left their home town. If they actually thought for more than 5 seconds or met someone from there they might take a different view. Then again maybe they wouldn't.
The real brain drain in the UK is coming from low pay. People are more than happy to live in a society where our basic human rights are enshrined within law but kids don't take guns into classrooms.
If you get a chance to metamoderate, use it.
Er...unethical in the sense that every single author of the software they sell their services for has given them permission to sell that software?
Is this Slashdot or some Microsoft discussion board?
This isn't traditonal industry and we're busy ensuring the ignorant proponents of the "things must stay as they are" frame of mind don't win the day.
>It should be clear from this paragraph that RMS >is only interested in his own freedom, not your >freedom. In particular, not your freedom to >refuse to share.
You think RMS would like to FORCE people to use the GPL?
Did it not occur to you that he might have wanted to replace it without forcing anyone?
Oh no, you're a troll...
Redhat make lots in turnover, but we all know they are in the red.
You know, even if the forway of Free Software into the business world turns out to have a calamitous ending it DOES mean that the software involved has had a shed load more attention heaped upon it and will therefore be much improved from what it was.