Is it just me, or does anyone else think it's pretty stupid to check out "How to make a bomb in your basement" from the library or to order it online with your credit card? Isn't that the first think you learn in Anarchy 101, to read or photocopy the books at the library, or buy such books with cash at the local army suplus store?
Oh, and it's USA PATRIOT Act, USA PATRIOT being an acronym...
Nope. BIOS is not a word, it's an acryonym. Basic Input/Output System. Plural is Basic Input/Output Systems. The acronym is still BIOS, thus the possessive is still BIOS' with no final "S".
Pretty sure even under Canadian and UK grammar there'd be no final "S" since it is an acryonym, but could be wrong about that.
Yeah, it's one of my favorite short stories- I've always wondered if Asimov wrote it front to back, and came up with fantastic ending, or if he started with the ending and wrote up to it.
That and "Feeling of Power", where they 'rediscover' how to do math. Love those two. Well, ok, most of his short stories are good... but those two stick out in my mind.
Lexis Nexus and Westlaw don't own a monopoly on the law, but they do have a monopoly on publishing it via the internet.
No, there's no monopoly... we're talking two separate companies here, Lexis-Nexis, and Westlaw. They are rivals, both competing to provide services to lawyers and firms. The rivalry is pretty friendly from what I can see, since most large firms will use both. So... you can call it a duopoly, but they are competitors.
This is true... unless there is another mechanism that transforms some of the dark energy back to normal matter. This could result in a classic steady state model.
"Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry official Shuichi Tashiro said the subsidies will be doled out next fiscal year, which begins April 1."
Many Japanese companies end their Fiscal year on March 31st, which means their First quarter begins April 1st. It's not at all uncommon in Japan, nor in the US. Macromedia is one US company I can think of off the top of my head. I think it's for tax purposes, but it's been a long time since I took business 101...
Someone was first, with an item called the "iMac" 4.5 years ago...
Perhaps we should go back to 1991, and the PowerBook 100, which allowed you to leave the external floppy at home. Pretty radical idea in my opinion. The PB140 did have an internal superdrive; which was basically as good as not having a floppy since it broke down and wasn't worth repairing. Fantastic laptops, both of them!
I don't think we saw PC laptops without floppies for a few years after the PB100 was released.
Well, to make a bootable CD, you need a floppy drive with a bootable floppy in that drive to read from. So if you only have one puter, you still need a floppy drive to make bootable CDs.
You do have a good point. But until you have kids, you really have no idea how protective you have to be as a parent. It's just ignorance to say your parents didn't shelter you at all. Did they let you drink as much Coke as you wanted? Buy you every Disney toy you asked for? Let you eat at McDonalds every day? Of course not; they were sheltering you from the intense marketing of those companies. Really, it's difficult to comprehend unless you're actually a parent. And even then, you still do much of the sheltering automatically, it's just biological. Others you have to think about, others have to fight for.
It really depends on the child and the parents. What I'm saying is that it's not the responsibility of some morons on/. to decide what's best for the kid; it's the parent's decision. If the parents are incompetent, then the state takes over the kid. Sure, it's just his opinion. And it's just my opionion that the poster is an idiot with no personal experience to back up his opinion, and is just wasting all our time.
You are a bad parent. If you can't bring yourself to override your children in a case such as this, you're going to raise a bunch of self-centered losers. Consider becoming an adult. Children need that in a parent.
Idiot. Do you know why they are called children? Why they are considered dependents? Why kids cannot vote, why they can't drink, why they can't agree to contracts?
Because children are not mentally nor emotionally capable of handling the grim realities pumped out by the media. The job of the parents is to protect children from these horrid images until those kids are mature enough to understand. It is the job of the parents to shelter the kids from the harsh realities of life. To take the raw data and figure out how to put it into terms that the kid can 1. understand and 2. not scar them mentally or emotionally.
If you want to fuck your own kids up, that's fine, but don't tell other parents how to raise their own kids.
If the crew of the ISS has to come down in the Soyuz, where would they land? In the US or in Russia?
It depends. In an non-emergency, the Soyuz capsule will probably land in the usual recovery sites in Russia, since they are the best equipped to handle the recovery.
If it has to come down without waiting for a re-entry window, it can come down practically anywhere; it's designed to land on solid ground, but can also handle (though apparently not too well) water landings.
Though, they may HAVE to do the next one. Even if it is very dangerous, after all the alternative is have them die up there.
There is a soyuz capsule attached to the ISS as a lifeboat. So there is no rush to get the shuttle flying again (assuming it gets grounded). However, it's doubtful the ISS program can continue depending entirely on the Russian rockets without heavy lift capabilities. Without the shuttle, they'll probably put the ISS on hold.
but, with a crew on the Space Station, a long delay will not be possible this time.
Do you know anything about the ISS? The reason there's only three crew members? Because the Soyuz "lifeboat" attached to the ISS to be used in case of an emergency can only hold three people.
So no, there is no rush to get the shuttle back in service to retrieve the ISS crew, the crew can easily return on the Soyuz capsule. However, once the lifeboat is used, they won't leave the station manned without a replacement.
Considering the financial woes of the Russians, it's likely NASA will shut down the ISS until the shuttle program is back up and running.
Remember to that radar was instrumental in locating, tracking, and somewhat in the sinking of the Bismarck. It helped keep battle groups together, helped guide battleship and cruiser fire, helped locate u-boats. The largest and most effective use of radar during WW2 was at sea.
"File sharing is illegal - you are paying nothing for something."
No, file sharing is _NOT_ illegal. Copying and distributed copyrighted works is illegal. There's a world of difference between the two.
Not quite- copying and distributing copyrighted works... without consent of the copyright holder... is illegal.
Funny, I never mentioned I was overruled. My boss and the CTO did both agree with my analysis; otherwise there would be no need to say they insisted and the CTO finally relented. So no, I was never overruled. My analysis went to my boss, then to the CTO; so you could say my boss was overruled, but mostly the CTO just changed his mind.
Maybe most administrators don't work hands on with their users. Maybe most administrators haven't had graphic design business or web design businesses? Maybe most administrators don't remember when PS was Mac only, when it didn't support layers, don't understand or work with as many apps? Maybe the problem is as soon as anyone mentions they're a windows administrator, people just assume all they know is what was required to pass the MCSEs.
How do CTO's respond to whining? Guess it depends on the CTO, I haven't met too many. But what's a few hundred bucks compared to keeping a few people from calling you once a day for a week?
And hell, that wasn't even the poing of the original post. I don't care that they're getting photoshop, it's not my money. But as long as there are users who get their way, as long as money is less important than keeping people from whining and getting what they want, then how will Linux break into such environments? That was my original point.
They are professionals, and probably have a better idea of what they *need* than you do.
Stop trying to promote your business and think for a moment that as an administrator I might just damn well know what I'm talking about, might know the capabilities my users. That, since the software request comes through me first, I might just have evaluated their needs and their experience and decided they did not need photoshop. That if they had a legitimate need, I wouldn't have any need to complain. Jeez.
Folks that don't know the difference between a gif and a jpeg don't *need* photoshop.
I have a few users who said they absolutely need photoshop for web graphics. They absolutely insisted. Insisted right past me, past my boss, right to the CTO. The CTO got sick of hearing their whining that they *needed* photoshop and we spent several thousand dollars to placate them, instead of a few hundred for Paint Shop Pro. Sure, we could have given them Linux and GIMP, but no, these folks needed Photoshop.
How much money is wasted because users *need* MS Office? Need Photoshop?
It seems kinda odd to me that only a few dozen companies are a part of the BSA
That's easy enough. What software is most frequently pirated? Windows. Office. Visual Studio. Photoshop. Illustrator. AutoCAD. ColdFusion. The big apps that cost lots of money, the companies are all members of the BSA. Then things like NAV and McAfee Antivirus, Quicken, stuff people hand to friends without a second thought.
What I find interesting is that you don't find PC game makers on the list of members. I wonder why?
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Clearly, we need a new icon for this type of story. What picture would work for "you've got to be fucking kidding".
Why not use the same one as the Microsoft stories?
Any subtle change could incriminate the wrong person.
The chances are incredibly slim of that ever happening by accident. The chances that your fingerprint is mis-enhanced to say include a bifurcation, and that print matches someone in your neighborhood is almost zero. Maybe slightly higher that it matches someone in the world, but how many of those people would be fingerprinted and a possible suspect?
That's why fingerprints work because they have so many unique points, you only need to check a few of those points to get a positive match. Unless the enhancements are made deliberately, the chances of a misidentification are very, very small.
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The negative G's pop you out of your seat for a split second, and basically makes you feel weightless.
There are no "negative g" forces. Negative G means the force meter is turned upside down! When travelling on the inside of a curve, the centrifugal force presses you into the seat. Hanging on the outside of that curve, with your head towards the track, you also have "positive g's". Hang your head away from the track, and you have "negative g's".
The "weightless" sensation can be simulated as well- what do you you think the roller coaster is doing by the way? It is propelling you into the air at a certain velocity and arc, then dropping away at a tighter arc so your body momentarily flies away from the seat (before the harness catches you). The robot arm could easily do this, albiet not for an extend amount of time.
Suncom TAC-2 is still as good as new. It's indestructible. It cannot fail. It cannot be harmed. Its connectors are pure simplicity. It is the sole undefeated champion of the joystick world.
Heh heh... maybe you never played "Summer Games"? No joystick, however sturdy lasted more than a few sessions of Summer Games! I went through a few different types back then, but the cheap, atari joystick was still the best for that game.
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Is it just me, or does anyone else think it's pretty stupid to check out "How to make a bomb in your basement" from the library or to order it online with your credit card? Isn't that the first think you learn in Anarchy 101, to read or photocopy the books at the library, or buy such books with cash at the local army suplus store?
Oh, and it's USA PATRIOT Act, USA PATRIOT being an acronym...
That should be "Bios's Days Are Numbered."
Nope. BIOS is not a word, it's an acryonym. Basic Input/Output System. Plural is Basic Input/Output Systems. The acronym is still BIOS, thus the possessive is still BIOS' with no final "S".
Pretty sure even under Canadian and UK grammar there'd be no final "S" since it is an acryonym, but could be wrong about that.
So if we switch the FOXP gene on in animals, will they gain speech and art and stuff?
Yeah... then we'll see FOX network air "When Animals Paint!"
Yeah, it's one of my favorite short stories- I've always wondered if Asimov wrote it front to back, and came up with fantastic ending, or if he started with the ending and wrote up to it.
That and "Feeling of Power", where they 'rediscover' how to do math. Love those two. Well, ok, most of his short stories are good... but those two stick out in my mind.
Lexis Nexus and Westlaw don't own a monopoly on the law, but they do have a monopoly on publishing it via the internet.
No, there's no monopoly... we're talking two separate companies here, Lexis-Nexis, and Westlaw. They are rivals, both competing to provide services to lawyers and firms. The rivalry is pretty friendly from what I can see, since most large firms will use both. So... you can call it a duopoly, but they are competitors.
This is true... unless there is another mechanism that transforms some of the dark energy back to normal matter. This could result in a classic steady state model.
"Let there be light"
"Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry official Shuichi Tashiro said the subsidies will be doled out next fiscal year, which begins April 1."
Many Japanese companies end their Fiscal year on March 31st, which means their First quarter begins April 1st. It's not at all uncommon in Japan, nor in the US. Macromedia is one US company I can think of off the top of my head. I think it's for tax purposes, but it's been a long time since I took business 101...
Someone was first, with an item called the "iMac" 4.5 years ago...
Perhaps we should go back to 1991, and the PowerBook 100, which allowed you to leave the external floppy at home. Pretty radical idea in my opinion. The PB140 did have an internal superdrive; which was basically as good as not having a floppy since it broke down and wasn't worth repairing. Fantastic laptops, both of them!
I don't think we saw PC laptops without floppies for a few years after the PB100 was released.
Well, to make a bootable CD, you need a floppy drive with a bootable floppy in that drive to read from. So if you only have one puter, you still need a floppy drive to make bootable CDs.
You do have a good point. But until you have kids, you really have no idea how protective you have to be as a parent. It's just ignorance to say your parents didn't shelter you at all. Did they let you drink as much Coke as you wanted? Buy you every Disney toy you asked for? Let you eat at McDonalds every day? Of course not; they were sheltering you from the intense marketing of those companies. Really, it's difficult to comprehend unless you're actually a parent. And even then, you still do much of the sheltering automatically, it's just biological. Others you have to think about, others have to fight for.
/. to decide what's best for the kid; it's the parent's decision. If the parents are incompetent, then the state takes over the kid. Sure, it's just his opinion. And it's just my opionion that the poster is an idiot with no personal experience to back up his opinion, and is just wasting all our time.
It really depends on the child and the parents. What I'm saying is that it's not the responsibility of some morons on
You are a bad parent. If you can't bring yourself to override your children in a case such as this, you're going to raise a bunch of self-centered losers. Consider becoming an adult. Children need that in a parent.
Idiot. Do you know why they are called children? Why they are considered dependents? Why kids cannot vote, why they can't drink, why they can't agree to contracts?
Because children are not mentally nor emotionally capable of handling the grim realities pumped out by the media. The job of the parents is to protect children from these horrid images until those kids are mature enough to understand. It is the job of the parents to shelter the kids from the harsh realities of life. To take the raw data and figure out how to put it into terms that the kid can 1. understand and 2. not scar them mentally or emotionally.
If you want to fuck your own kids up, that's fine, but don't tell other parents how to raise their own kids.
If the crew of the ISS has to come down in the Soyuz, where would they land? In the US or in Russia?
It depends. In an non-emergency, the Soyuz capsule will probably land in the usual recovery sites in Russia, since they are the best equipped to handle the recovery.
If it has to come down without waiting for a re-entry window, it can come down practically anywhere; it's designed to land on solid ground, but can also handle (though apparently not too well) water landings.
Though, they may HAVE to do the next one. Even if it is very dangerous, after all the alternative is have them die up there.
There is a soyuz capsule attached to the ISS as a lifeboat. So there is no rush to get the shuttle flying again (assuming it gets grounded). However, it's doubtful the ISS program can continue depending entirely on the Russian rockets without heavy lift capabilities. Without the shuttle, they'll probably put the ISS on hold.
but, with a crew on the Space Station, a long delay will not be possible this time.
Do you know anything about the ISS? The reason there's only three crew members? Because the Soyuz "lifeboat" attached to the ISS to be used in case of an emergency can only hold three people.
So no, there is no rush to get the shuttle back in service to retrieve the ISS crew, the crew can easily return on the Soyuz capsule. However, once the lifeboat is used, they won't leave the station manned without a replacement.
Considering the financial woes of the Russians, it's likely NASA will shut down the ISS until the shuttle program is back up and running.
Remember to that radar was instrumental in locating, tracking, and somewhat in the sinking of the Bismarck. It helped keep battle groups together, helped guide battleship and cruiser fire, helped locate u-boats. The largest and most effective use of radar during WW2 was at sea.
"File sharing is illegal - you are paying nothing for something." No, file sharing is _NOT_ illegal. Copying and distributed copyrighted works is illegal. There's a world of difference between the two.
Not quite- copying and distributing copyrighted works... without consent of the copyright holder... is illegal.
Funny, I never mentioned I was overruled. My boss and the CTO did both agree with my analysis; otherwise there would be no need to say they insisted and the CTO finally relented. So no, I was never overruled. My analysis went to my boss, then to the CTO; so you could say my boss was overruled, but mostly the CTO just changed his mind.
Maybe most administrators don't work hands on with their users. Maybe most administrators haven't had graphic design business or web design businesses? Maybe most administrators don't remember when PS was Mac only, when it didn't support layers, don't understand or work with as many apps? Maybe the problem is as soon as anyone mentions they're a windows administrator, people just assume all they know is what was required to pass the MCSEs.
How do CTO's respond to whining? Guess it depends on the CTO, I haven't met too many. But what's a few hundred bucks compared to keeping a few people from calling you once a day for a week?
And hell, that wasn't even the poing of the original post. I don't care that they're getting photoshop, it's not my money. But as long as there are users who get their way, as long as money is less important than keeping people from whining and getting what they want, then how will Linux break into such environments? That was my original point.
They are professionals, and probably have a better idea of what they *need* than you do.
Stop trying to promote your business and think for a moment that as an administrator I might just damn well know what I'm talking about, might know the capabilities my users. That, since the software request comes through me first, I might just have evaluated their needs and their experience and decided they did not need photoshop. That if they had a legitimate need, I wouldn't have any need to complain. Jeez.
Folks that don't know the difference between a gif and a jpeg don't *need* photoshop.
I have a few users who said they absolutely need photoshop for web graphics. They absolutely insisted. Insisted right past me, past my boss, right to the CTO. The CTO got sick of hearing their whining that they *needed* photoshop and we spent several thousand dollars to placate them, instead of a few hundred for Paint Shop Pro. Sure, we could have given them Linux and GIMP, but no, these folks needed Photoshop.
How much money is wasted because users *need* MS Office? Need Photoshop?
but we will probably see cell phones with nVidia chipsets rivaling our currently mid/high range graphics cards in the next five years.
Heh heh...
"Hello? Speak up, I can't hear you! What? You gotta speak up, I can't hear you over the cooling fan noise!"
It seems kinda odd to me that only a few dozen companies are a part of the BSA
That's easy enough. What software is most frequently pirated? Windows. Office. Visual Studio. Photoshop. Illustrator. AutoCAD. ColdFusion. The big apps that cost lots of money, the companies are all members of the BSA. Then things like NAV and McAfee Antivirus, Quicken, stuff people hand to friends without a second thought.
What I find interesting is that you don't find PC game makers on the list of members. I wonder why?
Clearly, we need a new icon for this type of story. What picture would work for "you've got to be fucking kidding".
Why not use the same one as the Microsoft stories?
Any subtle change could incriminate the wrong person.
The chances are incredibly slim of that ever happening by accident. The chances that your fingerprint is mis-enhanced to say include a bifurcation, and that print matches someone in your neighborhood is almost zero. Maybe slightly higher that it matches someone in the world, but how many of those people would be fingerprinted and a possible suspect?
That's why fingerprints work because they have so many unique points, you only need to check a few of those points to get a positive match. Unless the enhancements are made deliberately, the chances of a misidentification are very, very small.
The negative G's pop you out of your seat for a split second, and basically makes you feel weightless.
There are no "negative g" forces. Negative G means the force meter is turned upside down! When travelling on the inside of a curve, the centrifugal force presses you into the seat. Hanging on the outside of that curve, with your head towards the track, you also have "positive g's". Hang your head away from the track, and you have "negative g's".
The "weightless" sensation can be simulated as well- what do you you think the roller coaster is doing by the way? It is propelling you into the air at a certain velocity and arc, then dropping away at a tighter arc so your body momentarily flies away from the seat (before the harness catches you). The robot arm could easily do this, albiet not for an extend amount of time.
Suncom TAC-2 is still as good as new. It's indestructible. It cannot fail. It cannot be harmed. Its connectors are pure simplicity. It is the sole undefeated champion of the joystick world.
Heh heh... maybe you never played "Summer Games"? No joystick, however sturdy lasted more than a few sessions of Summer Games! I went through a few different types back then, but the cheap, atari joystick was still the best for that game.