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Has anyone ever analyzed why Linux took off and BSD didn't, and what role the license played in this?
See the Explaining BSD document on the FreeBSD site, particularly the mention of the AT&T court case against BSDI. That said, BSD has "taken off" - it's used in many embedded devices and in many roles as a server OS. For example, Yahoo! rely on FreeBSD as their principal server OS, as do many other companies with large numbers of webservers such as web hosting outfits (Pair Networks for example). Mac OS X undoubtedly bigger than Linux in terms of desktop usage, and is based on a 4.3BSD core which has been updated with code from NetBSD and FreeBSD.
Windows Minimum Requirements: OS: Windows 2000/XP/Vista Processor: 1.5Ghz Memory: 512MB Disc Space: 2.0GB Video Card: Radeon 8500/GeForce 3 (GeForce4MX not supported)
Linux Minimum Requirements: Same hardware as Windows Kernel 2.6 or higher(2.4 untested) glibc 2.3 X11R6 with 3D acceleration For x86_64 CPU, 32-bit environment must be installed
If you are seriously ill, you are likely bed ridden and pumped with cortizone, steroids and other drugs.
I've got TB, but I'm still working and got to the gym three to four times a week. Despite that, if I get swine flu it will likely kill me as the medication I'm taking impairs my immune system. So, I'm seriously ill (without completing the course of medication I'd likely be dead in twelve months), but definitely not bed ridden. Similar for many others with immune systems impaired by illness or event from nothing more than a bad diet.
The only answer is population control to the point where we massively lower the number of humans. I always assumed US gun laws and foreign policy were a step in that direction.
Very true. I was in the local corner shop (convenience store) at the weekend, and as I was queuing at the counter I noticed they stock pork scratchings. They're pig skin covered in seasoning and then deep fried. I added a pack to my shopping, but as the guy behind the counter went to pick them up to scan them he pulled his hand away with a disgusted look on his face. Now, I know they might not be to everyone's taste, but it seemed like an extreme reaction. Turns out he's a strict Muslim, and doesn't eat pork. But he chooses to sell pork scratchings in his shop, and can't bring himself to touch the sealed packet. Weird.
Just to back up what you've said, it's worth noting that some of the most famous body builders of recent years use low weights and a massive numbers of reps. This gives them great muscle tone as well as size, meaning that they don't have to do so much of the "cutting" before competitions that the more traditionally minded body builders have to do. Personally, I like pyramiding the weight more dramatically than most people. For instance, bench press 30lb for 30 reps then immediately jump to 100lb for 10 reps, 120lb for 8 reps 140 for 8 reps and push to collapse on 160lb (normally takes two to three reps). Most weight training books will recommend a much more conservative increment for the first set, but overall you'll lift more weight per session using a low weight/high rep approach.
Now imagine trying to do that with severe cravings for the food. The kind of cravings addicts have for their poison of choice.
If you just diet your body will rapidly adjust to the change in your intake of nutrients. Your metabolism will slow, and you will not lose a significant amount of weight unless you're pretty much starving yourself. Hence the hunger pangs when you diet enough to lose a noticable amount of weight. What you need to do is combine a better diet with exercise, and forget the excuses. Bad ankle? Swim. Ignore the weight training machines, you want to be pushing your body with cardiovascular exercise. You can get away with quite short sessions, as long as you push yourself hard for the duration of them.
As for diet, try to do a 50-30-20% balance between your intake of calories from protein, carbs and fat. Do not cut carbs (like the Atkins diet suggests), as that will leave you with liver problems. Do not cut fat entirely, as our body needs to get some of its calorific intake in that form, but try to avoid foods with crap like palm oil or hydrogenated vegetable fat in them. If you drink coffee, have it with skimmed milk and try to limit yourself to one a day. Replace soft drinks (including fruit juices) with water, as sugar is a little like cocaine, providing a very short boost in energy levels and then a craving for more sugar.
Never forget though, that exercise is the most important thing about losing weight ans staying in shape. I'm fundamentally a lazy person, but I get such a kick out of working out that I enjoy it and look forward to it. Perhaps with a few months effort (it takes at least three months to have a major impact), you'll feel the same.
There's this thing called the Internet right? And then there's another thing called the World Wide Web that runs on it. Still with me? Well, there are websites called "search engines". Can you guess what they do? That's right - you can search for references.
They've effectively been there already. It was when Netscape started talking about the browser being the "new desktop" that Microsoft started to see them as a serious threat. Cue the purchase of Spry Mosaic, its rebranding as Internet Explorer and attempt to extinguish Netscape by bundling it with Windows.
Lundstrom supposedly also suggested in an email to move The Pirate Bay's operations to Argentina.
Somewhat appropriate considering Lundstrom's links to neo Nazi politics (which unlike the degree of his financial involvement in TPB, aren't disputed). Perhaps they could have named the move "The ODESSA Project".
Well I ain't got a fucking problem, I just love to say fuck And I don't care who's around me, I could really give a fuck And I don't care if you're my mother, Or my motherfucking father I could really give a fuck now, That ain't my motherfucking problem
Oh, yeah I love to say fuck when I'm driving in my car Fuck when I'm walking in the fucking park Fuck you if you don't like what I say I love to say fuck every fucking day Oh yeah
I love to say fuck
Well I hope I don't offend you, When I say the word fuck I guess you had it coming to you, You're such a worthless little fuck And I don't care if you're my mother, Or my motherfucking father I could really give a fuck now, That ain't my motherfucking problem
Oh, yeah I love to say fuck when I'm driving in my car Fuck when I'm walking in the fucking park Fuck you if you don't like what I say I love to say fuck every fucking day Oh yeah
I love to say fuck
Well I ain't got a fucking problem, I just love to say fuck And I don't care who's around me, I could really give a fuck And I don't care if you're my mother, Or my motherfucking father I could really give a fuck now, That ain't my motherfucking problem
Oh, yeah I love to say fuck when I'm driving in my car Fuck when I'm walking in the fucking park Fuck you if you don't like what I say I love to say fuck every fucking day Oh yeah
I love to say fuck
F.U.C.K. every fucking day (Fuck fuck fuck fuck)
Fuck
One nation under fuck with liberty fucking justice for all
If you owned a company that had spent decades building a reputation for quality children's toys would you sit idly by while someone appropriated the name for a site dedicated to using your building blocks to create pornographic images and stop-motion animation movies for people with a Lego fetish?
Yes, but then I have a sense of humour. I didn't think the site was for people with a "Lego fetish" though - I just thought it was meant to be amusing.
Why do indians (hindus not natives) so love dot net?
I assume you meant "American" rather than "native", as there are an awful lot of people native to the Indian sub-continent who are hindus...
Anyway, your comment about Indians liking.NET struck a chord with me. My company outsourced some work to India, specifying that the work be done in Java. The moment the contract was signed, the outsourcing firm rang me up and asked which server would be hosting their.NET code. Muppets. That was a three month project which is still dragging on over a year later as they've yet to deliver code that doesn't throw an exception at start up.
Does any other slashdotters have nice anecdotes from their computing day?
Well, I've just taken a dump as I'm about to go home, and as our DBA says there's nothing quite as satisfying as logging out while still on company time.
Evolution is written in C. It's another of Miguel's "abandoned" projects, as the man seems to be pathologically incapable of working on something until it's mature (see Gnumeric, the Bonobo component system for GNOME, Evolution).
No. Based on experience with a former girlfriend, I can safely say that it makes a terrible mess of the sheets. And at least with some women, menstrual discharge can smell decidedly unpleasant.
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Has anyone ever analyzed why Linux took off and BSD didn't, and what role the license played in this?
See the Explaining BSD document on the FreeBSD site, particularly the mention of the AT&T court case against BSDI. That said, BSD has "taken off" - it's used in many embedded devices and in many roles as a server OS. For example, Yahoo! rely on FreeBSD as their principal server OS, as do many other companies with large numbers of webservers such as web hosting outfits (Pair Networks for example). Mac OS X undoubtedly bigger than Linux in terms of desktop usage, and is based on a 4.3BSD core which has been updated with code from NetBSD and FreeBSD.
It's just the F3 Lightning, no 5 on the end.
Oh, you didn't mean that Lightning interceptor?
... and although I run NetBSD, for $5 it's worth buying just to see if it runs under Linux emulation.
Windows Minimum Requirements:
OS: Windows 2000/XP/Vista
Processor: 1.5Ghz
Memory: 512MB
Disc Space: 2.0GB
Video Card: Radeon 8500/GeForce 3
(GeForce4MX not supported)
Linux Minimum Requirements:
Same hardware as Windows
Kernel 2.6 or higher(2.4 untested)
glibc 2.3
X11R6 with 3D acceleration
For x86_64 CPU, 32-bit environment
must be installed
If you are seriously ill, you are likely bed ridden and pumped with cortizone, steroids and other drugs.
I've got TB, but I'm still working and got to the gym three to four times a week. Despite that, if I get swine flu it will likely kill me as the medication I'm taking impairs my immune system. So, I'm seriously ill (without completing the course of medication I'd likely be dead in twelve months), but definitely not bed ridden. Similar for many others with immune systems impaired by illness or event from nothing more than a bad diet.
The only answer is population control to the point where we massively lower the number of humans. I always assumed US gun laws and foreign policy were a step in that direction.
Superstition is a funny thing at times.
Very true. I was in the local corner shop (convenience store) at the weekend, and as I was queuing at the counter I noticed they stock pork scratchings. They're pig skin covered in seasoning and then deep fried. I added a pack to my shopping, but as the guy behind the counter went to pick them up to scan them he pulled his hand away with a disgusted look on his face. Now, I know they might not be to everyone's taste, but it seemed like an extreme reaction. Turns out he's a strict Muslim, and doesn't eat pork. But he chooses to sell pork scratchings in his shop, and can't bring himself to touch the sealed packet. Weird.
Just to back up what you've said, it's worth noting that some of the most famous body builders of recent years use low weights and a massive numbers of reps. This gives them great muscle tone as well as size, meaning that they don't have to do so much of the "cutting" before competitions that the more traditionally minded body builders have to do. Personally, I like pyramiding the weight more dramatically than most people. For instance, bench press 30lb for 30 reps then immediately jump to 100lb for 10 reps, 120lb for 8 reps 140 for 8 reps and push to collapse on 160lb (normally takes two to three reps). Most weight training books will recommend a much more conservative increment for the first set, but overall you'll lift more weight per session using a low weight/high rep approach.
Now imagine trying to do that with severe cravings for the food. The kind of cravings addicts have for their poison of choice.
If you just diet your body will rapidly adjust to the change in your intake of nutrients. Your metabolism will slow, and you will not lose a significant amount of weight unless you're pretty much starving yourself. Hence the hunger pangs when you diet enough to lose a noticable amount of weight. What you need to do is combine a better diet with exercise, and forget the excuses. Bad ankle? Swim. Ignore the weight training machines, you want to be pushing your body with cardiovascular exercise. You can get away with quite short sessions, as long as you push yourself hard for the duration of them.
As for diet, try to do a 50-30-20% balance between your intake of calories from protein, carbs and fat. Do not cut carbs (like the Atkins diet suggests), as that will leave you with liver problems. Do not cut fat entirely, as our body needs to get some of its calorific intake in that form, but try to avoid foods with crap like palm oil or hydrogenated vegetable fat in them. If you drink coffee, have it with skimmed milk and try to limit yourself to one a day. Replace soft drinks (including fruit juices) with water, as sugar is a little like cocaine, providing a very short boost in energy levels and then a craving for more sugar.
Never forget though, that exercise is the most important thing about losing weight ans staying in shape. I'm fundamentally a lazy person, but I get such a kick out of working out that I enjoy it and look forward to it. Perhaps with a few months effort (it takes at least three months to have a major impact), you'll feel the same.
Evidence to back up your claims?
There's this thing called the Internet right? And then there's another thing called the World Wide Web that runs on it. Still with me? Well, there are websites called "search engines". Can you guess what they do? That's right - you can search for references.
Fuckwit.
Sad? No, actually it's annoying. Bill Gates never actually said what you think he said.
The Java VM was a good idea, but Sun never bothered to port other languages to it.
What, languages like Groovy, Scala and Python? Sun may not have ported all the languages that run on the JVM, but there are plenty of them.
They've effectively been there already. It was when Netscape started talking about the browser being the "new desktop" that Microsoft started to see them as a serious threat. Cue the purchase of Spry Mosaic, its rebranding as Internet Explorer and attempt to extinguish Netscape by bundling it with Windows.
I'm just off to the office toilets with a copy of The Sun to "improve my fertility".
From that article:
Lundstrom supposedly also suggested in an email to move The Pirate Bay's operations to Argentina.
Somewhat appropriate considering Lundstrom's links to neo Nazi politics (which unlike the degree of his financial involvement in TPB, aren't disputed). Perhaps they could have named the move "The ODESSA Project".
Enter Carl Lundström.
Ah yes, the one with interesting political affiliations.
Murderdolls - I Love To Say Fuck
FUCK
Well I ain't got a fucking problem, I just love to say fuck
And I don't care who's around me, I could really give a fuck
And I don't care if you're my mother, Or my motherfucking father
I could really give a fuck now, That ain't my motherfucking problem
Oh, yeah
I love to say fuck when I'm driving in my car
Fuck when I'm walking in the fucking park
Fuck you if you don't like what I say
I love to say fuck every fucking day
Oh yeah
I love to say fuck
Well I hope I don't offend you, When I say the word fuck
I guess you had it coming to you, You're such a worthless little fuck
And I don't care if you're my mother, Or my motherfucking father
I could really give a fuck now, That ain't my motherfucking problem
Oh, yeah
I love to say fuck when I'm driving in my car
Fuck when I'm walking in the fucking park
Fuck you if you don't like what I say
I love to say fuck every fucking day
Oh yeah
I love to say fuck
Well I ain't got a fucking problem, I just love to say fuck
And I don't care who's around me, I could really give a fuck
And I don't care if you're my mother, Or my motherfucking father
I could really give a fuck now, That ain't my motherfucking problem
Oh, yeah
I love to say fuck when I'm driving in my car
Fuck when I'm walking in the fucking park
Fuck you if you don't like what I say
I love to say fuck every fucking day
Oh yeah
I love to say fuck
F.U.C.K. every fucking day (Fuck fuck fuck fuck)
Fuck
One nation under fuck with liberty fucking justice for all
If you owned a company that had spent decades building a reputation for quality children's toys would you sit idly by while someone appropriated the name for a site dedicated to using your building blocks to create pornographic images and stop-motion animation movies for people with a Lego fetish?
Yes, but then I have a sense of humour. I didn't think the site was for people with a "Lego fetish" though - I just thought it was meant to be amusing.
She has pajamas and outfits that are 10 or 12 years old,' he said.
That's nothing, I work in an office with some programmers who haven't changed their outfits in over twenty years.
Why do indians (hindus not natives) so love dot net?
I assume you meant "American" rather than "native", as there are an awful lot of people native to the Indian sub-continent who are hindus...
Anyway, your comment about Indians liking .NET struck a chord with me. My company outsourced some work to India, specifying that the work be done in Java. The moment the contract was signed, the outsourcing firm rang me up and asked which server would be hosting their .NET code. Muppets. That was a three month project which is still dragging on over a year later as they've yet to deliver code that doesn't throw an exception at start up.
Does any other slashdotters have nice anecdotes from their computing day?
Well, I've just taken a dump as I'm about to go home, and as our DBA says there's nothing quite as satisfying as logging out while still on company time.
Evolution is written in C. It's another of Miguel's "abandoned" projects, as the man seems to be pathologically incapable of working on something until it's mature (see Gnumeric, the Bonobo component system for GNOME, Evolution).
Applications that can be run in the browser or installed on the desktop? Java's had both for many years (applets and webstart).
Ability to update desktop apps? Webstart again.
Access to a rich, general purpose library? Yup, Java provides that - and it's very similar to .NET for some reason.
So suddenly the old thing is the new thing.
What was your hand doing with the painters?
It's a British expression for menstruation. Alternatives include:
I suggest you check out The Profanisaurus for the full list
As in, not with you?
No. Based on experience with a former girlfriend, I can safely say that it makes a terrible mess of the sheets. And at least with some women, menstrual discharge can smell decidedly unpleasant.