"Support democracy and free trade in the middle east. These things will promote peace more than any peace summit."
Because, of course, the way to solve other people's problems is to reshape them in our image. Worked for Native Americ-, er, Japane-, uh, Vietna-, um, Latin Americ-,...
"I can modify and submit changes to the source code for free."
Except, I believe that the Apple license does not give you *ownership* of that code. You can make the changes and submit them, but then they're *theirs* not yours. That is the big difference. I may be wrong here, but that's the last I heard on that license. Nobody says you don't have to like it. More companies allowing people to view their source is great. Just don't bless it as "Open Source" or "Free Software".
In all seriousness, I am still puzzled as to how crosshairs *etched in the glass of lunar module cameras* managed to get *obscured by scenery in the photographs*. This must be some new NASA technology. I'm boggled.
MP3 is already out of date. The MPEG 4 AAC audio codec is (or should be) the successor. I think it's been time for a while now to throw out MP3s...it was already old technology when it hit big.
"Come to think of it, "cant" and "can't" are both prefectly acceptable words throughout the UK, at least in my experience, and I can't see why the "K" would make a difference."
Perhaps because people didn't want the name of the text editor being a homonym for "Can't"?
Oh, ok, it's called "surveillance"...I'll tell that to the raving horde of slashdotters next time an article about government "surveillance" of citezenry comes up. I'll just tell em "there's not a thing in the world wrong with that". Peeping toms should agree too.
Look, China doesn't like it that we spy on them, and we don't like it that while spying on them one of their fighters crashed into our spy plane. I don't see it as unreasonable for both parties to apologize for the respective actions. That doesn't mean that either side will stop, nor say anything about my opinion in the matter. If a Japanese fighter smashed into a Chinese spy plane it'd be the same deal.
The Manufacturer and Builder Volume 13, Issue 1
January 1881
Pneumatic Tubes Supersede Cash Boys
The incessant calls for cash boys, which formerly made shopping in our larger establishments so wearisome, if not exasperating, were silenced and the terrors of shoppers greatly mitigated by the introduction of electric calls. An enterprising Philadelphian, Mr. John Wanamaker, has gone a step further, and displaced the dusty skurrying of cash boys and cash girls by a system of pneumatic tubes. Under the new system, an inspector and wrapper is stationed at each counter, who will receive the money and goods the seller's check. While goods are being wrapped up, the cash, with the proper vouchers, will be transmitted toa centrally located cashier, who will return the change through the proper tube. There are two such tubes leading from each counter to the cashier's inclosure. One of the tubes is to carry the money to the cashier, and the other is to return the change and accompanying check to the counter again. The "carriers" which work inside the tubes are little cylindrical boxes of sheet steel, line with green baize, and protected at each end by diminutive felt cushions. Each carrier is of the exact diameter of a silver dollar, and is capable of holding thirty of the latter pieces, or a much larger sum. By means of steam engine and exhaust pump in the cellar, with proper attachments leading therefrom, the air is being constantly exhausted at the cashier's end of the tube and at the coutner end of the tube of each pair, and when a "carrier" is placed in the mouth of either tube, it is immediately drawn to the other end, and is there delivered automatically by an apparatus devised for that purpose. This system not only saves time and noise, but the wages of an army of boys or girls, besides discharging a large amount of fresh air into the building, greatly improving ventilation.
Pneumatic tubes, the Amazing Revolution of the late 19th century! Why, it's "pneumati-commerce"! And it even freshens the air! Does e-commerce do that?
Don't steal this idea because I'm going to patent it and make lots of money, but here it is:
Everything2 is great for recording encyclopedic sort of knownledge. What I'd really like to see is something that is designed just like Everything2, but instead it records *experiences*. Everybody writes experience and event nodes, and eventually we have a living history of everything that ever happened. Sure a lot of that will be irrelevant, but just think of all the correlations and connections that could be made. Sort of like 6 degrees of separation, but for real life events.
The Russians really have had minimal success in their space program. For example, they never made it to the moon like we did. Also, they had numerous disasters aboard the Mir space station, only to have it plummet out of orbit last month!
BS. The Russians were always the most advanced, and if it weren't for their current economic situation they'd probably continue to be. Mir lasted about three times it's initial lifespan. It's a testament to great engineering. It took an absolutely obscene amount of money for the US to make it to the moon, and we haven't been back since. With the same X billions of dollars, I'm sure Russia could have done the same.
It has little to do with "object orientation" also. It has to do with the security system. Whether code is reused or not does not matter...if vulnerable applications are run with powerful privelages, bad things will happen.
Slashdot Mirror
...are belong to us
And just recently I had a DVD that I purchased and wanted to watch on my Linux box so I used DeCSS. Weeeeee!
Congratulations, you've been co-opted. Now go get your standard issue pair of GAP khakis and reversible Old Navy jacket.
If this is a troll, it sure is funny.
"Your time is done. The future is ours."
YOU HAVE NO CHANCE TO ESCAPE! MAKE YOUR TIME! FOR GREAT JUSTICE!
"hawk, who still refers to "Red China," and will be boycotting all mainland chinese goods for a full year"
Good luck.
Amen ;)
Wow, thanks alot!...too bad users can't give karma to other users directly ;)
Since Slashdot is naturally my personal Linux support site, let me pose this problem:
ThinkPad 755CX, 24 MB RAM
PCMCIA install through FTP
Error: "You do not have enough RAM to install Red Hat Linux on this machine"
Tried "boot: linux mem=24M", didn't work.
Any ideas?
(RedHat support and searching on the major search engines turns up zilch)
"Mohammad Ali had 10,000 slaves put to death when he died."
Wow, I knew he was an amazing boxer, but I didn't know he was *that* mean...
"Support democracy and free trade in the middle east. These things will promote peace more than any peace summit."
...
Because, of course, the way to solve other people's problems is to reshape them in our image. Worked for Native Americ-, er, Japane-, uh, Vietna-, um, Latin Americ-,
Wow, that's ironic, seeing as in the United States, sex trafficking is now considered the third largest source of profits for organized crime, behind only drugs and guns, generating billions of dollars annually.
"I can modify and submit changes to the source code for free."
Except, I believe that the Apple license does not give you *ownership* of that code. You can make the changes and submit them, but then they're *theirs* not yours. That is the big difference. I may be wrong here, but that's the last I heard on that license. Nobody says you don't have to like it. More companies allowing people to view their source is great. Just don't bless it as "Open Source" or "Free Software".
In all seriousness, I am still puzzled as to how crosshairs *etched in the glass of lunar module cameras* managed to get *obscured by scenery in the photographs*. This must be some new NASA technology. I'm boggled.
I actually have been receiving dead-tree catalogues of tools from Amazon. I didn't realize it until recently, but that's pretty damn ironic.
As a matter of fact, women consume less oxygen and spend less energy, so they are ideal for space flight.
MP3 is already out of date. The MPEG 4 AAC audio codec is (or should be) the successor. I think it's been time for a while now to throw out MP3s...it was already old technology when it hit big.
"Come to think of it, "cant" and "can't" are both prefectly acceptable words throughout the UK, at least in my experience, and I can't see why the "K" would make a difference."
Perhaps because people didn't want the name of the text editor being a homonym for "Can't"?
Oh, ok, it's called "surveillance"...I'll tell that to the raving horde of slashdotters next time an article about government "surveillance" of citezenry comes up. I'll just tell em "there's not a thing in the world wrong with that". Peeping toms should agree too.
Look, China doesn't like it that we spy on them, and we don't like it that while spying on them one of their fighters crashed into our spy plane. I don't see it as unreasonable for both parties to apologize for the respective actions. That doesn't mean that either side will stop, nor say anything about my opinion in the matter. If a Japanese fighter smashed into a Chinese spy plane it'd be the same deal.
Pneumatic tubes, the Amazing Revolution of the late 19th century! Why, it's "pneumati-commerce"! And it even freshens the air! Does e-commerce do that?
Don't steal this idea because I'm going to patent it and make lots of money, but here it is:
Everything2 is great for recording encyclopedic sort of knownledge. What I'd really like to see is something that is designed just like Everything2, but instead it records *experiences*. Everybody writes experience and event nodes, and eventually we have a living history of everything that ever happened. Sure a lot of that will be irrelevant, but just think of all the correlations and connections that could be made. Sort of like 6 degrees of separation, but for real life events.
How about *we* apologize for spying, and *they* apologize for crashing a fighter into our spy plane?
Seems fair to me.
BS. The Russians were always the most advanced, and if it weren't for their current economic situation they'd probably continue to be. Mir lasted about three times it's initial lifespan. It's a testament to great engineering. It took an absolutely obscene amount of money for the US to make it to the moon, and we haven't been back since. With the same X billions of dollars, I'm sure Russia could have done the same.
man, you could have waited one more day
It has little to do with "object orientation" also. It has to do with the security system. Whether code is reused or not does not matter...if vulnerable applications are run with powerful privelages, bad things will happen.