How about pedal power? With current interest in gyms and fitness in general, why not hook up all those rowing machines, cycles and steppers to generators instead of dissipating the energy as heat or wind?
Hell, your local fitness centre could change their business model by selling the energy to the grid, and do away with membership fees. Provide free 'power foods' for high use members and you've got a nice biomass energy plant.
Yes, it is very easy to adapt an, "if I can't apt-get it, I don't want it" attitude, especially when you first become aware of the plethora of software available in the various Debian and Fedora archives.
Of course, you are somewhat at the mercy of the whims of package maintainers (who are not necessarily always the software maintainers).
Personally, I am not "pro-life". I am "pro-choice", but there should be consequences for getting abortions. I mean, if people are stupid enough to get/cause pregnancy and do not *want* the child (ie. not a medical reason), then they should be able to get an abortion. Then you sterilize them so they will not make the mistake again.
Is this is a fair compromise for "your side"?
Not quite. It still results in a life being ended with no wrong done on their part, and them having no say in the matter. That is the essential axiom of "our side" - that every life begins at conception and is every bit as valuable as any other. It has nothing to do with trying to control people or the common "tell women what to do with their bodies".
Your solution does have some potential though - except put the kid up for adoption rather than killing him/her.
Do you really believe that your experiences and relationships are all that makes you more than just a "mass of cells"?
Do you even know when neural activity develops in people? 45 days, dude.
At 8 weeks in the womb you were completely formed: all of your organs were functioning, you even urinated and had finger prints. At this age you felt pain (you would have moved away from a needle had it been inserted at this point), you kicked, moved your feet, toes and fingers, and even made a strong fist. Yet your skull could have been crushed by a pair of tongs, your brain hygenically sucked out before the rest of you is expelled from your mother and put in the closest dumpster. Guess you got lucky, huh?
Excuse me while I go 'abort' that man who lives under the local railway bridge now, since he has no established relationships, and has no life experience besides a bottle.
More people have been killed in fighting over land than in the name of that "stupid Christian god". That doesn't make land evil, but by your implications, we should abolish all land.
Could we see an anti-military GPL that allows normal use except in orginizations who's express purpose is to kill people?
Not likely. RMS has already stated that Free Software should not be restricted from use for a particular purpose. He even used the example of Free Software being not restricted by use from either an abortion clinic or an anti-abortion campaigner.
Since abortion clinics in the US have killed more people last year than the US Army, Air Force, Navy and Marines together in the last 20 years, I would think it unlikely GPL software would be denied to the Navy.
Unless of course he doesn't consider unborn to be people, in which case he has much bigger problems, since it requires only one more step in logic to support killing babies and small children for convenience.
Agreed. Anyone who takes the time to study the Quaran in its fullness must conclude that Islam is evil to the core.
Please note I said Islam, not Muslims. They are generally decieved by promises of peace from the false god Allah. This is not a licence for genocide or racial discrimination.
Things aren't looking so rosey if you look at the chart in the article. Apparently IE usage has increased from 20 May 2004 to February 2005, and Firefox use has decreased.
If this carries on, IE will have 97% in just a few months...
Extensions for IE such as Avant and Maxthon can do pretty much everything that firefox can do (tabs, popup blocking, gestures), so don't get too comfortable with catching up based on a few features missing in the de facto standard.
Not everyone, sadly, cares about the free principles, open standards, etc.
The problem begins when you try to run that LAMP system on new hardware - or try to use semi-new features in PHP or MySQL (PHP's gd library comes to mind, but there's a ton of other examples).
Without serious modifications, Woody is not an option for these situations.
but at least give us a distro that we can use for almost-but-not-quite mission critical applications, like web servers for small businesses, or cyber cafe machines.
There is one very easy way the Debian team could achieve this: merge security patches into Testing at the same time as Stable and Unstable.
Why would this be a good idea? I can't be bothered re-iterating, so here's a paste from a prior post:
Stable? Sadly, not an option due to its complete lack of support for modern hardware or moderm features. It's a marvelous example of what computing should have been in 1997.
Unstable? Far too likely to break at the next apt-get upgrade.
Experimental? Same as Unstable, but worse.
Testing? Probably the best bet, though still not recommended for production use by Debian.org since it doesn't get timely security updates.
Yes, I thought that the article summary was very misleading, stating that black holes convert matter into hawking radiation. AFAIK, hawking radiation exists irrespective of whatever enters the black hole.
Hawking has even stated recently that (again, AFAIK) he now thinks that nothing ever actually does enter a black hole, it just appears to slow down to an infinetessimal speed as it approaches the event horizon. From the objects point of view, the event horizon appears to shrink farther away the closer it gets to it.
At least they could have applied some super-sampling to their small screenshots in the review. As they stand, they're ugly and completely unrepresentative.
Out of interest, do any browsers out there automatically super-sample when reducing images with the WIDTH and HEIGHT directives?
... members of the Horse, Cart and Manure-collection Guild have declared that cars, trucks and trains are too slow, do not travel very far, and are too unstable.
I know this reporter is going to stick with their technology just to be safe.
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How about pedal power? With current interest in gyms and fitness in general, why not hook up all those rowing machines, cycles and steppers to generators instead of dissipating the energy as heat or wind?
Hell, your local fitness centre could change their business model by selling the energy to the grid, and do away with membership fees. Provide free 'power foods' for high use members and you've got a nice biomass energy plant.
... zero point?
Yes, it is very easy to adapt an, "if I can't apt-get it, I don't want it" attitude, especially when you first become aware of the plethora of software available in the various Debian and Fedora archives.
Of course, you are somewhat at the mercy of the whims of package maintainers (who are not necessarily always the software maintainers).
I always liked this one.
Why do people think this is directly targetting the ipod?
Hard-disk based player != ipod
And do MS really believe WMA is CD quality at 64kbps?
According to that page:
* Approximate figures based on CD-quality WMA (64 Kbps)
Ooer, you could be right there - no wonder I couldn't find a direct quote :)
Personally, I am not "pro-life". I am "pro-choice", but there should be consequences for getting abortions. I mean, if people are stupid enough to get/cause pregnancy and do not *want* the child (ie. not a medical reason), then they should be able to get an abortion. Then you sterilize them so they will not make the mistake again.
Is this is a fair compromise for "your side"?
Not quite. It still results in a life being ended with no wrong done on their part, and them having no say in the matter. That is the essential axiom of "our side" - that every life begins at conception and is every bit as valuable as any other. It has nothing to do with trying to control people or the common "tell women what to do with their bodies".
Your solution does have some potential though - except put the kid up for adoption rather than killing him/her.
I am curious:
Do you really believe that your experiences and relationships are all that makes you more than just a "mass of cells"?
Do you even know when neural activity develops in people? 45 days, dude.
At 8 weeks in the womb you were completely formed: all of your organs were functioning, you even urinated and had finger prints. At this age you felt pain (you would have moved away from a needle had it been inserted at this point), you kicked, moved your feet, toes and fingers, and even made a strong fist. Yet your skull could have been crushed by a pair of tongs, your brain hygenically sucked out before the rest of you is expelled from your mother and put in the closest dumpster. Guess you got lucky, huh?
Excuse me while I go 'abort' that man who lives under the local railway bridge now, since he has no established relationships, and has no life experience besides a bottle.
abortion clinics haven't killed a single person.
neither did the workers at Auschwitz, eh?
It's easy to de-humanize, isn't it. It's usually the first step in justifying murder.
I don't have recent military stats on hand but you might find these informative:
/ www.nrlc.org/abortion/facts/abortionstats.h tml
http://www.htmlbible.com/abortstats.htm
http:/
More people have been killed in fighting over land than in the name of that "stupid Christian god". That doesn't make land evil, but by your implications, we should abolish all land.
Could we see an anti-military GPL that allows normal use except in orginizations who's express purpose is to kill people?
Not likely. RMS has already stated that Free Software should not be restricted from use for a particular purpose. He even used the example of Free Software being not restricted by use from either an abortion clinic or an anti-abortion campaigner.
Since abortion clinics in the US have killed more people last year than the US Army, Air Force, Navy and Marines together in the last 20 years, I would think it unlikely GPL software would be denied to the Navy.
Unless of course he doesn't consider unborn to be people, in which case he has much bigger problems, since it requires only one more step in logic to support killing babies and small children for convenience.
I think the GP was asking for the patch. Where is the 1.0.1 -> 1.0.2 patch?
It seems a bit silly and a waste of bandwidth that everyone wanting to update FF needs to download an entire new version.
Agreed. Anyone who takes the time to study the Quaran in its fullness must conclude that Islam is evil to the core.
Please note I said Islam, not Muslims. They are generally decieved by promises of peace from the false god Allah. This is not a licence for genocide or racial discrimination.
Good point.
I concede there is still a bit of a gap.
Things aren't looking so rosey if you look at the chart in the article. Apparently IE usage has increased from 20 May 2004 to February 2005, and Firefox use has decreased.
If this carries on, IE will have 97% in just a few months...
With Athlon64s and Opterons we're fully set up.
Sorry Intel, we're all AMD here now.
I just hope that they keep innovating.
Extensions for IE such as Avant and Maxthon can do pretty much everything that firefox can do (tabs, popup blocking, gestures), so don't get too comfortable with catching up based on a few features missing in the de facto standard.
Not everyone, sadly, cares about the free principles, open standards, etc.
Interesting.
Do you know what causes gravity?
Please enlighten us, since nobody else yet knows.
The problem begins when you try to run that LAMP system on new hardware - or try to use semi-new features in PHP or MySQL (PHP's gd library comes to mind, but there's a ton of other examples).
Without serious modifications, Woody is not an option for these situations.
but at least give us a distro that we can use for almost-but-not-quite mission critical applications, like web servers for small businesses, or cyber cafe machines.
There is one very easy way the Debian team could achieve this: merge security patches into Testing at the same time as Stable and Unstable.
Why would this be a good idea? I can't be bothered re-iterating, so here's a paste from a prior post:
Stable? Sadly, not an option due to its complete lack of support for modern hardware or moderm features. It's a marvelous example of what computing should have been in 1997.
Unstable? Far too likely to break at the next apt-get upgrade.
Experimental? Same as Unstable, but worse.
Testing? Probably the best bet, though still not recommended for production use by Debian.org since it doesn't get timely security updates.
Yes, I thought that the article summary was very misleading, stating that black holes convert matter into hawking radiation. AFAIK, hawking radiation exists irrespective of whatever enters the black hole.
Hawking has even stated recently that (again, AFAIK) he now thinks that nothing ever actually does enter a black hole, it just appears to slow down to an infinetessimal speed as it approaches the event horizon. From the objects point of view, the event horizon appears to shrink farther away the closer it gets to it.
Or something. My head hurts.
At least they could have applied some super-sampling to their small screenshots in the review. As they stand, they're ugly and completely unrepresentative.
Out of interest, do any browsers out there automatically super-sample when reducing images with the WIDTH and HEIGHT directives?
... members of the Horse, Cart and Manure-collection Guild have declared that cars, trucks and trains are too slow, do not travel very far, and are too unstable.
I know this reporter is going to stick with their technology just to be safe.
... anyone care to fill us in on what the big dig is?
So long, AOL, we barely knew you.
Why is this a problem?