I can see the point, but ultimately it makes me feel better knowing Folding/Genome@Home are producing useful data right now and providing a wealth of information to scientists. These are published in scientific journals, I belive, thus the group need not make money from any discoveries made by outside scientists using the data Folding/Genome collected. Space research is important, but I feel should be second place to the above as just now SETI is really just stabbing blindly in the dark hoping to find something.
Remember however, that there was also an extremely long period when the earth was hot and tropical, indeed from the birth of the earth to the first ice age was one helluva long time, longer than the ice age even? (Anyone know?)
Microsoft just bought the games software house Rare for $350M, their aiming to tie down software houses to the XBox now in a bid to get more exclusive games, this will help them in the long run. Not saying beat, but will greatly increase their chances over Sony.
Apart from the elements, its the fact its also "water" as opposed to Ice, thus within lifes temp limits to most extents which in turn leads to stronger possibilty of finding primitive life.
This is his point, open source is praised because anyone can view the source code and fix anything thats broken...you just proved how untrue this is in reality.
Not saying that you are wrong, but unless you know how they measured the results how can you simply assume that their wrong? Your post is pure speculation on the use of NAT and wireless, both of which exist in Europe you know.
If your still using Gnome over KDE what does it matter what it looks like? Microsoft realised the average user wants everything to be easily found/recognised, Redhat does too, the easier it is for someone to transfer from one thing to another the better all round, one of Linux's greatest failings in trying to attract the average user IS choices, let alone which Distro, theres seemingly unending choices/variations on the same types of software, at least this way the part where the average user will stay (The Desktop) either one they pick, they should find it easier to get around.
Your post just highlights your social inability. Just because you didnt like being in school and had only a few friends doesnt make it a bad establishment, it just didnt fit your social quirks, most kids dont like school for one reason or another. If you were -that- good and truly needed further education above and beyond the rest im sure it would have been provided. Just having a one track mind and wanting to look at programming manuals however is not a good all round learning system.
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I think trying to point out that The Simpson's goes along with "other high points of American culture" itself indicates that there is very little culture, past or present.
A number of times ive just unpacked open source software and used the software with no concern about the license, did I agree to it or not if I didnt even see it? You have to agree to something all the time in life before you actually get the product/service/whatever...At least displaying the license to the user your forcing them to acknowledge it if nothing else. Might be stupid example, but its like I put an agreement in your coat pocket without you knowing and then saying you must have agreed to it because its there.
Trance IS electronic music, just because you may not like it doesnt throw it out of the genre. While I like Drum & Bass also, the technical difficulty is far less, if you listen closely to tunes from each type, you can hear that -good- Trance has far more to it than -good- Drum & Bass.
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Im not blind, but I am in a wheelchair, and I hate the terms "handy-capable" n crap too...I went to school, got my Computer Science degree, got a job, house, car....I dont need some lame PC term to make it seem a bit better...in my experience alot of people with physical disabilities feel like they have been dealt a bad hand...but this day an age theres so much people can do if they put their mind to it.. While I agree some effort does need to be put in to making things equal for everyone, in real life, its not always possible, so you have to live with it, and say "Thank god im not Ginger!"
I know this is marked as a troll and will probably result in me getting marked the same way, but I have to agree..
Ive "known" about Linux and other OS for a long time, and use FreeBSD for all my servers, but I just -dont like- any of them as a desktop OS....Not saying their bad, I just dont like using them compared to Win2K. Perhaps in a few more years things will change.
The Bat ofcourse, seriously, check this mail client out, it has all the features you could want...Includes PGP encryption as standard too.
I use The Bat all the time.
If you -really- want your cycles to count, why not do something like the genome projects and Folding@Home? They are activly producing results now and assisting medical research.
And it seems to be going ok, they have their own multiplayer online game apparently called Legend Of Mir even which does well.
They do things like game and hardware reviews, visit tech/game shows, interviews with designers, coders, etc etc, it can be very intresting.. Does have its extreme times of crap and theres FAR too many competitions that take up 10min slots..
Not wanting to get marked flamebait, but alot of their reviews are better than the more common web site reviews ALA Slashdot/TomsHardware/Hexus etc.
"Extortion
\Ex*tor"tion\, n. [F. extorsion.] 1. The act of extorting; the act or practice of wresting anything from a person by force, by threats, or by any undue exercise of power; undue exaction; overcharge.
2. (Law) The offense committed by an officer who corruptly claims and takes, as his fee, money, or other thing of value, that is not due, or more than is due, or before it is due. --Abbott.
I even make purchases of sound cards/gfx cards depending on their color, nice black case, black DVD drive, black floppy drive, black sound card, black gfx card, black keyboard, black mouse, against my black desk. Getting to the point I have to move my monitor 10 feet away to let light escape!
Ive actually had zero problems with all my IBM drives, got about 500 gigs worth kicking about and not had a problem in 4 years. Always found their price to size ratio pretty nice.
Oh well change as good as a rest.
Although this is good news, does this not curb the "free" aspect? i.e look at this wonderful free OS, but we cant keep it going unless the users pay for it..
I know, at least the payments are done out of "love" for the OS and not simply forced upon a user, but still, I find it kind of funny and ironic. For all the hate that goes towards marketing people etc etc, I think they are needed to sell Linux to the main stream, no matter how good a coder you are, or how good the product is, Geeks dont make good sales people. No matter if it costs money or not, you still have to sell the idea of Linux.
"If it stops and decides it cannot deliver the possible life saving drugs"
I dont think this would happen, as the article states priority drugs, blood etc do NOT get given to the droid, nor drug rehab narcotics which someone else mentioned in another thread above. This droid is EXTREMLY useful however for taking the likes of mild pain killers back and forth and small drug treatments.
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I can see the point, but ultimately it makes me feel better knowing Folding/Genome@Home are producing useful data right now and providing a wealth of information to scientists. These are published in scientific journals, I belive, thus the group need not make money from any discoveries made by outside scientists using the data Folding/Genome collected. Space research is important, but I feel should be second place to the above as just now SETI is really just stabbing blindly in the dark hoping to find something.
Remember however, that there was also an extremely long period when the earth was hot and tropical, indeed from the birth of the earth to the first ice age was one helluva long time, longer than the ice age even? (Anyone know?)
Microsoft just bought the games software house Rare for $350M, their aiming to tie down software houses to the XBox now in a bid to get more exclusive games, this will help them in the long run. Not saying beat, but will greatly increase their chances over Sony.
Apart from the elements, its the fact its also "water" as opposed to Ice, thus within lifes temp limits to most extents which in turn leads to stronger possibilty of finding primitive life.
Just like the "World Series" etc, are any other countries actually involved? (Id like to know)
This is his point, open source is praised because anyone can view the source code and fix anything thats broken...you just proved how untrue this is in reality.
Not saying that you are wrong, but unless you know how they measured the results how can you simply assume that their wrong? Your post is pure speculation on the use of NAT and wireless, both of which exist in Europe you know.
If your still using Gnome over KDE what does it matter what it looks like? Microsoft realised the average user wants everything to be easily found/recognised, Redhat does too, the easier it is for someone to transfer from one thing to another the better all round, one of Linux's greatest failings in trying to attract the average user IS choices, let alone which Distro, theres seemingly unending choices/variations on the same types of software, at least this way the part where the average user will stay (The Desktop) either one they pick, they should find it easier to get around.
Your post just highlights your social inability. Just because you didnt like being in school and had only a few friends doesnt make it a bad establishment, it just didnt fit your social quirks, most kids dont like school for one reason or another. If you were -that- good and truly needed further education above and beyond the rest im sure it would have been provided. Just having a one track mind and wanting to look at programming manuals however is not a good all round learning system.
I think trying to point out that The Simpson's goes along with "other high points of American culture" itself indicates that there is very little culture, past or present.
A number of times ive just unpacked open source software and used the software with no concern about the license, did I agree to it or not if I didnt even see it?
You have to agree to something all the time in life before you actually get the product/service/whatever...At least displaying the license to the user your forcing them to acknowledge it if nothing else.
Might be stupid example, but its like I put an agreement in your coat pocket without you knowing and then saying you must have agreed to it because its there.
Trance IS electronic music, just because you may not like it doesnt throw it out of the genre. While I like Drum & Bass also, the technical difficulty is far less, if you listen closely to tunes from each type, you can hear that -good- Trance has far more to it than -good- Drum & Bass.
Im not blind, but I am in a wheelchair, and I hate the terms "handy-capable" n crap too...I went to school, got my Computer Science degree, got a job, house, car....I dont need some lame PC term to make it seem a bit better...in my experience alot of people with physical disabilities feel like they have been dealt a bad hand...but this day an age theres so much people can do if they put their mind to it..
While I agree some effort does need to be put in to making things equal for everyone, in real life, its not always possible, so you have to live with it, and say "Thank god im not Ginger!"
SuSE is the distro the German government are using with this new IBM deal apparently, according to the BBC Here
What he said...
I know this is marked as a troll and will probably result in me getting marked the same way, but I have to agree.. Ive "known" about Linux and other OS for a long time, and use FreeBSD for all my servers, but I just -dont like- any of them as a desktop OS....Not saying their bad, I just dont like using them compared to Win2K. Perhaps in a few more years things will change.
The Bat ofcourse, seriously, check this mail client out, it has all the features you could want...Includes PGP encryption as standard too. I use The Bat all the time.
If you -really- want your cycles to count, why not do something like the genome projects and Folding@Home? They are activly producing results now and assisting medical research.
And it seems to be going ok, they have their own multiplayer online game apparently called Legend Of Mir even which does well.
They do things like game and hardware reviews, visit tech/game shows, interviews with designers, coders, etc etc, it can be very intresting.. Does have its extreme times of crap and theres FAR too many competitions that take up 10min slots..
Not wanting to get marked flamebait, but alot of their reviews are better than the more common web site reviews ALA Slashdot/TomsHardware/Hexus etc.
From Dictionary.com
"Extortion \Ex*tor"tion\, n. [F. extorsion.] 1. The act of extorting; the act or practice of wresting anything from a person by force, by threats, or by any undue exercise of power; undue exaction; overcharge.
2. (Law) The offense committed by an officer who corruptly claims and takes, as his fee, money, or other thing of value, that is not due, or more than is due, or before it is due. --Abbott.
3. That which is extorted or exacted by force. "
I even make purchases of sound cards/gfx cards depending on their color, nice black case, black DVD drive, black floppy drive, black sound card, black gfx card, black keyboard, black mouse, against my black desk. Getting to the point I have to move my monitor 10 feet away to let light escape!
Ive actually had zero problems with all my IBM drives, got about 500 gigs worth kicking about and not had a problem in 4 years. Always found their price to size ratio pretty nice. Oh well change as good as a rest.
Trying to be a smartass when you don't know your facts just makes you look stupid.
Agreed, be quiet.
Although this is good news, does this not curb the "free" aspect? i.e look at this wonderful free OS, but we cant keep it going unless the users pay for it.. I know, at least the payments are done out of "love" for the OS and not simply forced upon a user, but still, I find it kind of funny and ironic. For all the hate that goes towards marketing people etc etc, I think they are needed to sell Linux to the main stream, no matter how good a coder you are, or how good the product is, Geeks dont make good sales people. No matter if it costs money or not, you still have to sell the idea of Linux.
"If it stops and decides it cannot deliver the possible life saving drugs" I dont think this would happen, as the article states priority drugs, blood etc do NOT get given to the droid, nor drug rehab narcotics which someone else mentioned in another thread above. This droid is EXTREMLY useful however for taking the likes of mild pain killers back and forth and small drug treatments.