I don't know about you but loss of Columbia had a massive emotional impact on me. I was among the millions that watched the first launch live on TV. We, all impatient human beings interested in space exploration, not just the US citizens, were expecting a new era in space exploration and Columbia was supposed to be first vehicle of the series that would bring that new era.
Of course we were disillusioned well before the disintegration. The enlightened knew shuttle was going nowhere even before the first flight. Still, both the Columbia and the space shuttle program was something many people was emotionally attached to. Compare that with Brazil's space program, nobody except a few enthusiastic haven't even heard of.
Neither seven people nor sixteen are significant in the grand scheme of the things. There are six and a half billion of us and we are cheap and fun to produce if need more. It was the loss of a shuttle, loss of the first shuttle that we (at least non-PC among us) mourned.
I'm a Turkish citizen with Turkic origin. I never had to show my passport during my travels inside Schengen countries since, I guess, 1995. And I didn't try not showing it either. You attribute too much racism to EU. Germany, in my experience, is by far the most racist of the bunch and you now it is not really that much.
The visa process is another matter though. I hate to have to prove my EU-entry-worthiness each and every time I want to travel there. A visa from Germany is the hardest to get but I think that has more to do with number of turkish immigrants there than racist policies.
ESA is not an EU agency. In fact the information is just one click away from your link:
Who belongs to ESA?
ESA's 15 Member States are Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Canada has special status and participates in some projects under a cooperation agreement. As can be seen from this list, not all member countries of the European Union are members of ESA and not all ESA Member States are members of the EU. ESA is an entirely independent organisation although it maintains close ties with the EU with whom it shares a joint space strategy.
I'm glad to see this sort of thing happening, but I am a little disappointed that Adobe didn't port its code to linux natively.
If wine can run photoshop, adobe can port to linux with a single recompile. Of course, that is not so wonderfully useful as the binary would run only marginally better than running windows photoshop under wine. But that allows adobe to port photoshop only partially (like borland did with kylix) and have a fully working linux port.
So, this is good news for a native linux photoshop.
However, I don't think adobe is interested in porting photoshop. If they were, they would have ported OS X version by now.
I just love clicking 'Start' and having it take 2-3 minutes to come up sometimes. I haven't the foggiest as to why this happens. It's usually over a Terminal Services session though.
I have excellent news for you: try 2.6.0-test{1,2} and enjoy the delay. Unfortunately, mm series are already lacking the feature and there is a good chance newer 2.6.0's will miss it too.
KDE, thanks to its reusable GUI objects, is very consistent. You need to break consistency consciously if you are using KDevelop to build something looking odd, which is rarely done without a good reason. KOffice, KMail and Konstruct are becoming very fine applications; IMHO Konqueror of KDE 3.2 is already better than mozilla. Except GIMP, these four applications sum up what is still missing from a feasible all KDE setup (eliinating openoffice, evolution, mozilla/firebird inconsistencies.) When that happens KDE will have as much consistency as windows, if not more (consider MS Office.)
That one is real. Soviet's initial bioweapon testing area was an island on the Aral Sea. For all we know it still has dangerous, live, no-more-weaponized patogens.
OTOH, for live ex-bioweapon stuff, Africa is far more accessible.
In windows NT 4.0, 2k and XP only video and network drivers are in kernel space. Before that no NT drivers were in kernel space and it was a true ukernel. In contrast Linux always had and always will (unless Linus changes his priorities from speed to reliability) execute all drivers (just like *BSD, and almost every other UNIX around) in kernel space. That is what a monolithic kernel means.
Of course, 9x series is another matter entirely. They follow unix model of allowing every device driver to take down whole system.
Monitoring sounds like a good idea but if you can't do anything about it, it is kind of useless.
The first step should be determining whether those "frequency of impact by size" numbers are accurate and what the distribution of of impacts are - in terms of frequency and mass. One doesn't need to monitor all (dangerous) sizes for this estimate.
The second thing should be deciding whether the estimated risk merit development of technology to deflect asteroids.
Only after the technology is developed it makes sense to monitor all dangerous sizes. We are not at this stage yet.
Although that might be a factor, I think the most important factor why linux has wider adoption in governments compared to private sector is the fact that linux is easier to deploy in quantity.
Wine runs much better (read: faster) on 2.5.x kernels. Wine also runs MS Office on Linux and running MS Office on wine is faster than running OOo 1.0.x natively on 2.4 kernels.
And in collected stories series. I can't verify it right now, as I'm at work. But I've read very few PKD short fiction outside of five volume collected stories and I remember the story.
Thanks. Under/var/log/kernel/ I found that there was a "Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address at blahblah" error, which I guess is relatedf to USB memory leak fixed in 2.6.test1 Compiling it right now.
I was hoping (but not really expecting) something simpler. I don't have multi-monitor capability on video card, nor have a spare card. I can't fit another computer in that room, what is the maximum length a null modem cable can be? Also is it possible to redirect only output to serial console?
OK, yesterday I was testing 2.5.75. Helpfully, the computer locked up and gave me an opportunity to send a bug report. So far so good. Only that I was in X, I wasn't doing anything particularly interesting or demanding (was playing kbounce), the panic report (if there was one) probably went to tty1 and I have no idea why the computer locked up. How do you report a bug when you can't see what went wrong with the kernel?
True. However x86s do have RISC-like cores, can reach (and surpass) current RISC CPUs both in speed and processing power per heat generated metric, despite what author of OSNews article claims. That x86 CPUs do use a fair amount of hardware because of their ISA is irrelevant.
It is not that x86 as an ISA is better than RISCs, it is just that current x86 implementations are not in any way worse than RISC cpus of comparable price. In fact, before PPC970 x86 CPUs were significantly more advanced.
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Of course we were disillusioned well before the disintegration. The enlightened knew shuttle was going nowhere even before the first flight. Still, both the Columbia and the space shuttle program was something many people was emotionally attached to. Compare that with Brazil's space program, nobody except a few enthusiastic haven't even heard of.
Neither seven people nor sixteen are significant in the grand scheme of the things. There are six and a half billion of us and we are cheap and fun to produce if need more. It was the loss of a shuttle, loss of the first shuttle that we (at least non-PC among us) mourned.
The visa process is another matter though. I hate to have to prove my EU-entry-worthiness each and every time I want to travel there. A visa from Germany is the hardest to get but I think that has more to do with number of turkish immigrants there than racist policies.
Who belongs to ESA? ESA's 15 Member States are Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Canada has special status and participates in some projects under a cooperation agreement. As can be seen from this list, not all member countries of the European Union are members of ESA and not all ESA Member States are members of the EU. ESA is an entirely independent organisation although it maintains close ties with the EU with whom it shares a joint space strategy.
I'm an engineer. The question is irrelevant, which actually was my point. Pity, I couldn't get it across.
I have taken a few courses on philosophy of mind and read more than two books on the subject. I still have no reasonable explanation to that.
And you define self awareness as?
Does it run Quake^H^H^H^H^HDoom 3?
Solution to second problem is left as an exercise to the /. reader. Several hints may be found on google.
2 - Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldricht (sp?)
3 - Martian Time Slip
The Man in the High Castle is fine but way overrated. I won't go as far as recommending not reading it but reading it shouldn't be a priority.
What about you explaining us anything that was professional about linux 10 years ago?
If wine can run photoshop, adobe can port to linux with a single recompile. Of course, that is not so wonderfully useful as the binary would run only marginally better than running windows photoshop under wine. But that allows adobe to port photoshop only partially (like borland did with kylix) and have a fully working linux port.
So, this is good news for a native linux photoshop.
However, I don't think adobe is interested in porting photoshop. If they were, they would have ported OS X version by now.
I have excellent news for you: try 2.6.0-test{1,2} and enjoy the delay. Unfortunately, mm series are already lacking the feature and there is a good chance newer 2.6.0's will miss it too.
KDE, thanks to its reusable GUI objects, is very consistent. You need to break consistency consciously if you are using KDevelop to build something looking odd, which is rarely done without a good reason. KOffice, KMail and Konstruct are becoming very fine applications; IMHO Konqueror of KDE 3.2 is already better than mozilla. Except GIMP, these four applications sum up what is still missing from a feasible all KDE setup (eliinating openoffice, evolution, mozilla/firebird inconsistencies.) When that happens KDE will have as much consistency as windows, if not more (consider MS Office.)
OTOH, for live ex-bioweapon stuff, Africa is far more accessible.
Now please invent a device that can tell whether someone is overweight or anorexic.
Of course, 9x series is another matter entirely. They follow unix model of allowing every device driver to take down whole system.
The first step should be determining whether those "frequency of impact by size" numbers are accurate and what the distribution of of impacts are - in terms of frequency and mass. One doesn't need to monitor all (dangerous) sizes for this estimate.
The second thing should be deciding whether the estimated risk merit development of technology to deflect asteroids.
Only after the technology is developed it makes sense to monitor all dangerous sizes. We are not at this stage yet.
Although that might be a factor, I think the most important factor why linux has wider adoption in governments compared to private sector is the fact that linux is easier to deploy in quantity.
Catch you on the metamod +5 funny guys.
And in collected stories series. I can't verify it right now, as I'm at work. But I've read very few PKD short fiction outside of five volume collected stories and I remember the story.
Thanks. Under /var/log/kernel/ I found that there was a "Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address at blahblah" error, which I guess is relatedf to USB memory leak fixed in 2.6.test1 Compiling it right now.
Perhaps I should just learn to read morse code.
OK, yesterday I was testing 2.5.75. Helpfully, the computer locked up and gave me an opportunity to send a bug report. So far so good. Only that I was in X, I wasn't doing anything particularly interesting or demanding (was playing kbounce), the panic report (if there was one) probably went to tty1 and I have no idea why the computer locked up. How do you report a bug when you can't see what went wrong with the kernel?
If there is any progress, the new language should be at least ++C. You see, C++ is better than C but all you have is the C before C++.
It is not that x86 as an ISA is better than RISCs, it is just that current x86 implementations are not in any way worse than RISC cpus of comparable price. In fact, before PPC970 x86 CPUs were significantly more advanced.