actually you would be wrong to think that alot of scientists are atheists.
A lot and many of the best are, some are outspokenly so:
Steven Weinberg (Nobel prize in physics - Electroweak Theory), Dick Feynmann (Nobel prize in physics - Quantum Electrodynamics), Murray Gell-Mann (Nobel prize in physics - Quarks) to name a few.
Others such as Einstein and Hawking cloak their atheism by referring to the totality of the laws of physics as God.
JWZ himself said it best: linux is only free if your time has no value.
jwz was comparing Linux to SGI Irix, not to Windows when he wrote that - http://www.jwz.org/doc/linux.html.
He wrote it in 1998 and was referring to trying to keep up with upgrading in the face of the rapid development of Linux
Context is all!
Fermi did a back of envelope calculation on this
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Fermi while he was working at LANL in the fifties concluded that intelligent life was very rare in the universe. A group of physicists were at their coffee break and joking about a Flying Saucer and alien cartoon in the New Yorker - when Fermi suddenly said "Were are they?".
His argument was if there were a number of intelligent alien civilizations in our galaxy - then there was a good statistical probability that some would be much more advanced than us. If they colonized the galaxy at moderate sub-light velocities (say 0.1c) then they would have colonized the entire galaxy in about 10^5 years. So if there were many extraterrestrial civilizations intelligent aliens should be here by now (he assumed that UFO phenomena were not produced by aliens).
This stuff is on the web - but I have forgotten the URL. Google "Fermi's question" and you should find it.
A disgruntled "whistleblower" could still screw you even if all your commercial software is kosher. They just have to load some warez on your machines themselves.
AFAIK rms has never said "you should be required by law to make your software free". His view is that we have a moral obligation to make our software free.
> "you must replace your propriety software with free software, software that lets you have those freedoms."
>When he says "must", he means it as in, "you will be required to use free software."
The use of the the word "must" indicates a moral imperative. If you don't replace your proprietary software - you won't be free, you will be enslaved. You are free to choose to be enslaved but you still have a moral responsibility to choose freedom.
Sorry about the exisentialism - but thats what it boils down to.
Well I've just summoned up the courage to wipe my Windows partition (I need the disk space to build ghemical anyway) - so now can I really dump Realplayer as a plugin for Mozilla.
Hell I'm writing this on an NT machine at work (at least I'm using Mozilla after a struggle to get through the corporate firewall) - better get back to some more corporate GNU/Linux evangelism.
"If this theory is proven, then there may exist solutions where electromagnetism can dynamically couple to space, time, and gravity, either
explaining existing effects or predicting new ones. In particular, such solutions could be applied to the goal of creating propulsive effects."
NASA already has some ideas already to explain this phenomena.
A few years ago NASA setup the Breakthrough Propulsion Project designed to provide seed funding to research into areas of fundamental physics that could provide the revolutionary drives for the starships of the future.
One of the research proposals on this site proposed a link between electrostatic potential and gravity: URL.
Their proposal concerns using NMR to examine the effect of an electrostatic potential on a proton as a clock - to test the theory.
However their conclusions are very pertinent to devices of the type described in the post:
"If this theory is proven, then there may exist solutions where electromagnetism can dynamically couple to space, time, and gravity, either
explaining existing effects or predicting new ones. In particular, such solutions could be applied to the goal of creating propulsive effects."
Bloat is not how many Gigs of hard drive you need to install all packages - on this basis Debian would be the most boated release ever.
Bloat is requiring ever more RAM and ever faster CPU's to run an OS and a reasonable set of apps.
On this basis while Linux does seem to be following the same increasingly bloated path as Windows at least you have an option of running a lean system with a windowmanager or light desktop environment such as Windowmaker or XFce respectively.
However I have given into bloat - at home away from this goddam Windows machine I run Gnome.
How would any university user know - they would not be GPL coders because of the NDA and fear of contamination. Perhaps Eben Moglen should find someone who can thoroughly examine the MS code who won't be writing anymore GPL code - but I guess MS would find some way of stopping that!
This whole move is designed to extend the Micro$oft tax from the PC to the web. It is part of the Hailstorm/Passport plan by Micro$oft to take control of the web and milk it. They have to do this in order to keep expanding their revenue streams now that the market is saturated with their "OS" and Office package.
If they fail in this then the whole bloated M$ edifice will collapse in a major stock crash. They know this - and this is why they are trying to buy up W3C in order to make their dirty work look respectable. Another criminal act by a criminal organization
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Hell I'll have to go back to the site - and sign in my religion as Chuch of Emacs.
A lot and many of the best are, some are outspokenly so:
Steven Weinberg (Nobel prize in physics - Electroweak Theory), Dick Feynmann (Nobel prize in physics - Quantum Electrodynamics), Murray Gell-Mann (Nobel prize in physics - Quarks) to name a few.
Others such as Einstein and Hawking cloak their atheism by referring to the totality of the laws of physics as God.
jwz was comparing Linux to SGI Irix, not to Windows when he wrote that - http://www.jwz.org/doc/linux.html.
He wrote it in 1998 and was referring to trying to keep up with upgrading in the face of the rapid development of Linux
Context is all!
His argument was if there were a number of intelligent alien civilizations in our galaxy - then there was a good statistical probability that some would be much more advanced than us. If they colonized the galaxy at moderate sub-light velocities (say 0.1c) then they would have colonized the entire galaxy in about 10^5 years. So if there were many extraterrestrial civilizations intelligent aliens should be here by now (he assumed that UFO phenomena were not produced by aliens).
This stuff is on the web - but I have forgotten the URL. Google "Fermi's question" and you should find it.
A disgruntled "whistleblower" could still screw you even if all your commercial software is kosher. They just have to load some warez on your machines themselves.
I'll still worship at the Church of Emacs on Gnome.
Sun buys ailing Gateway - how about that for a thought.
Back to my powerful Gnome interface with 6 virtual desktops with all my currently in-use apps carefully laid out where I see them with the pager.
Windows it just doesn't cut it as a desktop - it's maimed!
> "you must replace your propriety software with free software, software that lets you have those freedoms."
>When he says "must", he means it as in, "you will be required to use free software."
The use of the the word "must" indicates a moral imperative. If you don't replace your proprietary software - you won't be free, you will be enslaved. You are free to choose to be enslaved but you still have a moral responsibility to choose freedom.
Sorry about the exisentialism - but thats what it boils down to.
Well I've just summoned up the courage to wipe my Windows partition (I need the disk space to build ghemical anyway) - so now can I really dump Realplayer as a plugin for Mozilla.
Hell I'm writing this on an NT machine at work (at least I'm using Mozilla after a struggle to get through the corporate firewall) - better get back to some more corporate GNU/Linux evangelism.
Be seeing ya
www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/bpp/summ.htm#Ringermacher Task
The proposal concludes:
"If this theory is proven, then there may exist solutions where electromagnetism can dynamically couple to space, time, and gravity, either explaining existing effects or predicting new ones. In particular, such solutions could be applied to the goal of creating propulsive effects."
A few years ago NASA setup the Breakthrough Propulsion Project designed to provide seed funding to research into areas of fundamental physics that could provide the revolutionary drives for the starships of the future.
One of the research proposals on this site proposed a link between electrostatic potential and gravity: URL.
Their proposal concerns using NMR to examine the effect of an electrostatic potential on a proton as a clock - to test the theory. However their conclusions are very pertinent to devices of the type described in the post:
"If this theory is proven, then there may exist solutions where electromagnetism can dynamically couple to space, time, and gravity, either explaining existing effects or predicting new ones. In particular, such solutions could be applied to the goal of creating propulsive effects."
Bloat is not how many Gigs of hard drive you need to install all packages - on this basis Debian would be the most boated release ever. Bloat is requiring ever more RAM and ever faster CPU's to run an OS and a reasonable set of apps. On this basis while Linux does seem to be following the same increasingly bloated path as Windows at least you have an option of running a lean system with a windowmanager or light desktop environment such as Windowmaker or XFce respectively. However I have given into bloat - at home away from this goddam Windows machine I run Gnome.
How would any university user know - they would not be GPL coders because of the NDA and fear of contamination. Perhaps Eben Moglen should find someone who can thoroughly examine the MS code who won't be writing anymore GPL code - but I guess MS would find some way of stopping that!
This whole move is designed to extend the Micro$oft tax from the PC to the web. It is part of the Hailstorm/Passport plan by Micro$oft to take control of the web and milk it. They have to do this in order to keep expanding their revenue streams now that the market is saturated with their "OS" and Office package.
If they fail in this then the whole bloated M$ edifice will collapse in a major stock crash. They know this - and this is why they are trying to buy up W3C in order to make their dirty work look respectable. Another criminal act by a criminal organization