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Mac-Case Clone for PCs
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The picture the other poster linked to is nice, but to really appreciate it, I suggest you visit a computer store that sells Macs, find an understanding salesperson, and ask to have a look inside the case (even if you don't do it yourself, have them open it up). It's really a thing of beauty.
The Hacker's Diet is the first diet I've ever been on. I started gaining weight slowly at the beginning of 2000, when I got my first job in the tech industry (overnight NOC at a local ISP). In February, I heard a friend talking about how he'd lost an impressive amount of weight in an impressive amount of time with the Hacker's Diet, so I thought I'd give it a shot. I didn't really consider my weight to be a problem, but I thought it could very easily develop into a problem left unchecked. I'm right around 6'0" and was getting to about a 38 or so waist, developing a little shelf above the stomach, and had been getting stretch marks. I mean, it sounds pretty bad when I tell it like that, but there it is. Also, I'm not athletic and don't have muscles to speak of.
Now for the results. Feb 4 of this year, I started dieting, and I weighed 220 lbs. Today, Jul 9, I weighed myself at 162 lbs. I've had a target calorie intake of 1309, which is an estimated 750-calorie deficit, which should mean I'm losing 1.5 lbs/week. I must've underestimated the amount of calories I burn daily.
Anyway, I have absolutely zero complaints. I've lost 58 lbs. in 4 months and 5 days, so something's working.
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Klez: a closer look
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Without the regulations, planes would be falling out of the sky because some exec who knows nothing about aviation pushed too far.
Sorry to put it so bluntly, but I have to say, "Bullshit." Since the top brass in any company are, as you so succinctly put it, "forever pushing for that extra dollar of profit," I severely doubt that planes would commonly be "falling out of the sky." Do you realize how bloody expensive a plane crash is? Not just in terms of the destroyed equipment, but in terms of the compensation the airline winds up paying to each dead person's family. Not to mention that any airline that had planes constantly "falling out of the sky" would very quickly lose public confidence and would soon go out of business. It would be supremely idiotic for airlines to flout safety precautions in the name of a few extra clams on the ledger.
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Blogspace vs. NPR
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Actually, a friend of mine did just this. Granted, it wasn't to keep people from deep-linking to his site, but it's exactly the same principle and, as you can see, not at all hard to do.
(He's hosting this site behind a slow DSL line and people inlining his images was causing a big bandwidth drain. I don't think he cares about somebody copying images to their own server and using them there.)
I believe the splash screen is disabled by default on *nix. Try starting mozilla from the command line with 'mozilla -splash' to see it. I believe it is enabled by default on Windows; try launching it as 'mozilla -nosplash' to hide it.
The press release was a little shy on details, so I'm wondering: How are they doing this? Are they using their Wine modifications, or something else? I'd be excited as the next guy if this meant more Linux games. It might not be so good, however, if they use a Windows compatibility layer instead of making it a native executable.
Here's why: Suppose they have everything in their kit that they need to support all Windows games written for Windows versions from 95-XP. Great, right? That means that with just a little bit of effort, a vendor can release a Linux version of a game, giving us more games to play with. However, here's the downside: If by writing for Windows you can target both Windows and Linux (and whichever other platforms they support), then why would anyone write any native Linux programs? Then, in XP+1, Microsoft introduces major breakage into their API, such that it's a long time to get it working correctly with Trans{gaming,itive}'s kit. That means that potentially, there won't be any new Linux releases until they can get it fixed. And if they can't... Well, consider OS/2.
John Stenbit, an assistant secretary of defense and the Defense Department's chief information officer, said Microsoft has said using free software with commercial software might violate the intellectual-property rights of companies such as Microsoft. Stenbit said the issue is legally "murky."
How in blazes is anything "murky"? Is there anything that I, as a third party, can do that would undermine Disney Enterprises, Inc's copyright on one of their movies? Likewise, are their any rights that I can take away from Microsoft Corporation as a user of their software? Someone needs to put down the crackpipe, methinks.
The only way I can think of that using Free Software would "violate [Microsoft's] intellectual property rights" would be if their EULA or contract with their customer prohibited it. But that's not even a matter of intellectual property rights[1], that would be contract law (in the case of an actual contract, or if we assume that EULAs are, in fact, legally binding).
Now, I understand why Microsoft is trying to muddy the waters, but why in the world is the DoD playing along?
[1]Remember, the all-encompassing phrase "intellectual property" covers three nebulously-related yet disparate parts of the law: trademarks, copyrights, and patents. It does not refer to contracts, in the common usage of the term.
No kidding. Note also that the seller has zero feedback and has changed his username in the last 30 days. From 2001-10-29 through 2002-05-13, the name was "thecelebritywarehouse". Since May 13, the username has been "flight-technologies". Something just doesn't smell right...
I don't doubt that in another 30 years' time, the present day will be considered "the early days of the 'net", but relative to now, "early days" doesn't cover 3 years ago.
By letting people exchange music at no charge, Napster exploded in popularity. That engendered the ire of the record industry even as Napster helped shape the early days of the Internet.
Where's this reporter been? Let's see... Napster came along about 30 years after the "early days of the Internet". What gives?
This isn't intended to be flamebait, but watching Napster now is like watching someone you once knew who was vibrant and healthy who is now just lying there on life support. It's morbid really. Someone needs to have the courage to just pull the plug.
(Click a distribution (stable, testing, unstable) for a package description.)
These are just the ones that have the string 'apt' somewhere in their Dependencies: line. I'm sure there are others, like Feta, a Front-End To Apt, which is still in development (there's an intent to package currently filed for it).
Theoretically, it wouldn't make any difference whether or not it was repealed:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
See that? It doesn't say that "the people are granted the freedom of speech", it says that their (pre-existing) freedom of speech is not to be abridged! Besides this, the ninth and tenth amendments guarantees that whatever powers and rights the government is not delegated by the rest of the Constitution belong to the people (and the states).
Now, in practice, I'd grant that you're probably right. It's a damn shame how the interstate commerce clause has been abused and the ninth and tenth amendments ignored. It saddens me, it really does...
Only tangentially related to your post, but if you want to refer to fuckedcompany.com without swearing, just use f---edcompany.com. It's owned by the same guy and points to the same place.
Just a note. It's a subtle distinction, but a very important one.
Rights are not granted by the Constitution; they are enumerated by it.
Think about it for a moment. The Founding Fathers went into it with the attitude that [people] are granted certain inalienable rights by their Creator. This means that there are certain rights which are never to be infringed upon by governments, and that all people have these rights merely by drawing breath. This presumption is embodied in the 9th amendment.
You can download a couple of floppies with Debian and get started, as well. Personally, I like to go ahead and download the base system (~20MB) and make it available from another machine on my network. Saves time once you get into the install.
After that, apt-get your way to whatever kind of setup you want...
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The picture the other poster linked to is nice, but to really appreciate it, I suggest you visit a computer store that sells Macs, find an understanding salesperson, and ask to have a look inside the case (even if you don't do it yourself, have them open it up). It's really a thing of beauty.
I dunno, I'm kinda partial to this one, myself. :-)
Make that close to two decades. My first car was a 1984 model, and it had both MPH and KPH.
Now for the results. Feb 4 of this year, I started dieting, and I weighed 220 lbs. Today, Jul 9, I weighed myself at 162 lbs. I've had a target calorie intake of 1309, which is an estimated 750-calorie deficit, which should mean I'm losing 1.5 lbs/week. I must've underestimated the amount of calories I burn daily.
Anyway, I have absolutely zero complaints. I've lost 58 lbs. in 4 months and 5 days, so something's working.
Try this to get started.
Sorry to put it so bluntly, but I have to say, "Bullshit." Since the top brass in any company are, as you so succinctly put it, "forever pushing for that extra dollar of profit," I severely doubt that planes would commonly be "falling out of the sky." Do you realize how bloody expensive a plane crash is? Not just in terms of the destroyed equipment, but in terms of the compensation the airline winds up paying to each dead person's family. Not to mention that any airline that had planes constantly "falling out of the sky" would very quickly lose public confidence and would soon go out of business. It would be supremely idiotic for airlines to flout safety precautions in the name of a few extra clams on the ledger.
(He's hosting this site behind a slow DSL line and people inlining his images was causing a big bandwidth drain. I don't think he cares about somebody copying images to their own server and using them there.)
Interesting idea, but Wal*Mart is still selling the "PCs Without Windows".
I believe the splash screen is disabled by default on *nix. Try starting mozilla from the command line with 'mozilla -splash' to see it. I believe it is enabled by default on Windows; try launching it as 'mozilla -nosplash' to hide it.
Here's an idea: If you don't want to be fired for reading Slashdot at work, don't read Slashdot at work.
Thank you.
Actually, no, RedHat's not LSB-compliant. That's planned for 8.0, though.
Here's why: Suppose they have everything in their kit that they need to support all Windows games written for Windows versions from 95-XP. Great, right? That means that with just a little bit of effort, a vendor can release a Linux version of a game, giving us more games to play with. However, here's the downside: If by writing for Windows you can target both Windows and Linux (and whichever other platforms they support), then why would anyone write any native Linux programs? Then, in XP+1, Microsoft introduces major breakage into their API, such that it's a long time to get it working correctly with Trans{gaming,itive}'s kit. That means that potentially, there won't be any new Linux releases until they can get it fixed. And if they can't... Well, consider OS/2.
Any thoughts?
The only way I can think of that using Free Software would "violate [Microsoft's] intellectual property rights" would be if their EULA or contract with their customer prohibited it. But that's not even a matter of intellectual property rights[1], that would be contract law (in the case of an actual contract, or if we assume that EULAs are, in fact, legally binding).
Now, I understand why Microsoft is trying to muddy the waters, but why in the world is the DoD playing along?
[1]Remember, the all-encompassing phrase "intellectual property" covers three nebulously-related yet disparate parts of the law: trademarks, copyrights, and patents. It does not refer to contracts, in the common usage of the term.
No kidding. Note also that the seller has zero feedback and has changed his username in the last 30 days. From 2001-10-29 through 2002-05-13, the name was "thecelebritywarehouse". Since May 13, the username has been "flight-technologies". Something just doesn't smell right...
You make an excellent point, though.
Fare thee well.
GUI-based:
Console-based:
WWW-based:
(Click a distribution (stable, testing, unstable) for a package description.)
These are just the ones that have the string 'apt' somewhere in their Dependencies: line. I'm sure there are others, like Feta, a Front-End To Apt, which is still in development (there's an intent to package currently filed for it).
Now, in practice, I'd grant that you're probably right. It's a damn shame how the interstate commerce clause has been abused and the ninth and tenth amendments ignored. It saddens me, it really does...
Sometimes.
(SPARC hardware is a thing of beauty, it really is. I wish x86 had these kinds of capabilities. (Net booting, not floppy booting.))
Only tangentially related to your post, but if you want to refer to fuckedcompany.com without swearing, just use f---edcompany.com. It's owned by the same guy and points to the same place.
Rights are not granted by the Constitution; they are enumerated by it.
Think about it for a moment. The Founding Fathers went into it with the attitude that [people] are granted certain inalienable rights by their Creator . This means that there are certain rights which are never to be infringed upon by governments, and that all people have these rights merely by drawing breath. This presumption is embodied in the 9th amendment.
Just felt like I needed to say that.
If you can wait a bit for them to get it in stock, you can order it from bookpool and save yourself a bit of cash.
After that, apt-get your way to whatever kind of setup you want...