I've been using *BSD for years starting with the first releases
of Berkeley's operating system. I've even got the tape with Tahoe
around somewhere.
But all my coworkers at the ISP where I work claimed Linux to be
the superior operating system of the next century which will
crush microsoft sometime.
Well, I was a little sceptical. But I've never used Linux before,
so I though that I should give it a try.
I ordered the newest Debian woody package, 'cos I wanted full IP6
support. No reason to keep with the old protocols. A few
days later a 15 CD set sighed by some guy named ZtaHma (at least
that was all I could make out of this strange signature) arrived.
I was very curious, so I started installing the stuff at my
Pentium IV at once. There I ran into the first troubles.
After selecting the package gcc-doc the package manager claimed
that there was a conflict with gcc-2.96 and gcc-3.0 and many
associated packages. This won't be of much trouble yet.
But it opened of list of all the "conflicting" packages which
were suddenly unselected by default. Still no problem there,
I could have reselected them at once, but I accidentially hit
the return key for selection which accepted the "default" and
all the selections were gone. This resulted in fucking around
later with constant package reinstalls, 'cos I never got all
unselected packages back and the apps started complaining about
missing "gcc-blurp" etc.
During install I wondered why there was no config options for
ip6, but such stuff with rather common with OSS software and
I prefer viing config files anyway. After full install
I noticed that there was no options for installing [xkg]dm
by default, but I won't call this a problem.
The problems turned out at different places.
I first tried to activate ip6 for my local links
bildo# ifconfig eth0 inet6 fec0::2/64 add
ifconfig: bad option inet6
WTF ? After some manpaging I found out that the Linux netutils
are really fucked up any use non standard parameters for ip6.
But however:
bildo# ifconfig eth0 add fec0::2/64
kernel doesn't support IP6
Bad news. I noticed that the standard kernel was optimized for
80386 with support for XT harddisks but without support for ip6.
So I had to recompile the entire kernel first. At this point
the "gcc-blurp" reinstall fun started as already mentioned above.
I was already a little wary at this point, this IP6 (EXPERIMENTIAL)
- 6 years after the first draft - didn't seemed very promising.
After compiling and booting ifconfig worked without trouble.
But tha bad surprise was arriving:
bildo# netstat -r
127.0.0.1 * 255.255.255.0 lo
Fuck ! Were was ip6 ??? Ifconfig said it was there ! Well I thought
it was a fucked netstat, so I tried a simple:
bildo# telnet::1
Trying::1...
Connection error: connection refused
bildo# telnet bildo
Trying bildo...
Bildo <debian 3.0pre (woddy)>
Today is a good day the mew the goat !
Login:
Well at least ip6 was working. But all apps seemed to be fucked up.
So I tried a last:
bildo# ping6::1
ping6 not found
At this point I slammed by keyboard into the TFT-Panel and turned
the computer off.
What remains to say ? Linux is obviously an operation system for amateurs and hobbiests
not for professional users. I reinstalled FreeBSD at my computer at once.
Had to do the installation via an serial cable to my old 386 though,
because my TFT-Panel and the keyboard are broken.
Jurassic Park is a book. A fiction. And in fact a very crappy one. I won't call it science fiction because science is actually lacking in there. And film was even worse. However they tried hard to achieve this.
The flies are not "mutated" but sterilized.
If you don't know the difference, then don't post articles about such topics.
A burst of radiation might cause genetic abberation but a) these flies are sterilized therefore cannot breed and b) the genetic changes are either minor or kill the individuals.
And you can construct strang chains of events that the mutation causes a gene which provides immunity to antibiotica which is transfered to bacteria by viruses but such events are so unlikely that the propability of bacteria developing such immunities on their own is much higher.
This article is the perfect example of these ecoheads who babble about "protecting the nature"
and argue by vague ideas and wrong data.
Personally I doubt that the sterilized flies will eradicate the natural population - the lifespan of y fly is rather short and theses individual cannot breed. This seems to be a crackhead idea from the atomic energy agency.
When you look at this paper you see that less than 50% reach the praktical use phase at 2002.
So claiming 85% accurateness is a scam, the "research" and "development phase" doesn't mean anything decent is done. Just some buggers in some labs are working on these topic, it's not secure that there will be any results.
Let's take an example: I'm working at the
warp-drive all in my spare time. If he predicted "warp-drive research" at 1991 then we would be "correct".
Does anyone here know why Intel named this processor with such a strange name ?
Everybody associates Itanium with Italy - a country with Mafia, corrupt goverment and now a right wing pre-dictator president.
More literally minded people might associate Itanium with Itaka - the homeland of Odysseus a greek hero who drove gods mad and never made it home in time.
So why this strange name which everybody associates with negative effects ?
Does the Itanium has timing problems ?
Does it drive the users crazy ?
Does it corrupt the operating systems and make viruses take over the system ?
Does it suppress all program which don't use right aligned doubles ?
> So just remember: when you approach a girl, you're not competeing against the other guys; you're competeing against her vibrator. And she knows what it can do for her. So offer her more.
Like two vibrators ? Or even better n+1 ?
Sorry, couldn't resist.
It's not about Linux or Windows being better or cheaper.
The US has admitted that they spy their allies.
So why using an US system ? That's a raving security problem. You never know how much backdoor-infested such a system might be. And even code audits won't help with a system with millions of lines of code. They won't never find any decent hidden backdoor.
The Linux question is about security not about money. However nobody admits this because they don't want to piss off the US.
All music playing devices have an analog output - the speakers.
Nothing is easier to rip that sample this output
and therefore rip the content. Unless we have some kind of digital speakers, I don't see why the recording industry even brothers with such "copy protection". It only scares away customers.
Yes, there is a quality loss when sampling the analog output, but there is also a quality loss with MP3 and noone seems care about this.
In Europe we have information protecting laws which forbid such things. And we have these laws because some dudes sued at the constitutional courts and these court order the goverments to make such laws. You didn't fight for such things and claimed it to be "overregulation". And now your govs are fucking you up. So don't wine about being oppressed. Freedom is something you have to fight for. Everyday.
Yes the answer is easy.
Because of Linux. But not in the way you expect it to be.
Many people on slashdot are from the US and therefore not familiar with European mythology.
The penguin is the traditional bird on death.
These pre-cristian traditions are very strong, especially in the nordic countries Norway, Sweden and Finland. You can very often find pictures even in churches showing a penguin with a scythe as a symbol for death and destructions. Just take the next medivial arts book and look for the picture of "Riders of the apocalypse" by Alrecht Duerer. If you look hard enough you see that one of the riders is in fact a penguin.
Most of you US guys will associate a skeleton with a agricultural tool as the grim reaper. That's because the climate in the regions where the first settlers landed is rather warm and there are no penguins. So this old European tradition did out in the US.
I always wondered why Linus selected the bird of death as a mascot for linux. Perhaps he did feel unconsciously that most commercial free software attempts will die a cruel death - just take a look at Loki or all the BSD troubles. So with the morbid mascot I suppose that most commercial Linux activities will die. Nobody in Europe will buy products from morbid companies. And above all a black bird with a scythe will stand and smile.
BTW: Why are so many penguin pictures on some of the stories ? Are these about dead people ?
Otherwise there won't be any nerds on this planet.
It's a well know fact that non nerds breed more and faster and lead healthier lifes.
(Fresh air is heathly despite what your parents told you.)
I just saw some sad news on TV.
Astrid Lingren, infamous writer, died today.
I'm sure all slashdot readers will miss her.
If you didn't enoy her works, you are a complete moron. A true swedish icon.
In Germany you can sue for some compensation if they throw you out. In fact it's very common that companies pay some money if they fire people. I must admit that I don't know the exact details how much all these things are unified all over Europe already, but I suspect that this IS possible in Sweden, too.
Your main problem seems to be that you never talked to a decent laywer. Hire and fire randomly is US, not Europe.
When a company fires people in Europe because of getting sick they can be sued.
You can sue that you get your job back or that they'll have to pay you LOTS of money.
And that's European law, Sweden should be even more thight with such things.
So if they were firing people for getting sick as you claimed, why hadn't they been sued to death ?
AFAIK you could sue them even for the overnight work, employee protection IS very good in Europe.
...the gcc isn't the most 31337 compiler out there.
I've seen the gcc slowing down programs on a Atlon 800 MHz down to the performance of a 400 Pentium III (II ?) (scientific apps).
But isn't the main strength of the gcc it's crosscompiling abilities ? Never heard of any compiler supporting so much platforms.
I know this is OT but there are things which must be said and
they must be said loud.
I'm reading slashdot for a very long time, but lately more and
"slashdot suck"/"die slashdot die" posts turn up here and they
didn't even got modded down to -5 immediately. I can't stand
this anymore.
Slashdot was the best news site for geeks on the internet for
years, is the best now and will be the best
in the next 10 years. Some points are usually critized about slashdot
and I'll discuss them now and show how these "critics" are all
just crackpipe rants.
Some people rant about the "low quality"
of slashdot but this is nonsense. Slashdot features interesting
and high level topics. If you don't agree you are either too stupid
to understand the stories posted here or you are some artsy-fartsy
ivory-tower scientist who has no clue what's going on in the real
world and occupies himself all the time with useless artifical
academic problems.
Some people rant about the missing "originality" of the stories,
because slashdot summarizes the stories and other sites and posts
the summaries here. Firstly there is always a link to the original
story, so this "stealing content" argument is all nonsense.
Secondly the summary enables you to discuss the topic without chewing
through a long boring, artsy-fartsy article of e.g. the N.Y. Times.
Thirdly slashdot collects information form all different sites a normal
geek would never visit, because e.g. they want some privacy tainting
"free" registration (not free, because you pay with information
about you social behavior) or they grossly advertise for companies like
Microsoft.
Some people rant about the spelling in the articles. This
is the most anally fixiated argument I ever heard. No real geek
cares about your spelling. It's important what you have to say
and not how you say it. And I'm sure Taco and co. would have
added a spell checker to slashdot already, but every decent
programmer (not VB jerks) knows how difficult it is to intergrate
external programs into server side perl code in a secure way
(or do you want slashdot h4x0r3d ?).
Some people rant about John Katz. This is nonsense too.
John is the best colummn writer on slashdot. If you don't agree
you are surely too stupid to understand his marvelously written articles
or you envy him for his surpreme literal skills.
John is the only top level journalist who ever had cared about geeks
and their lifes. Many people rant about this hellmouth book, but don't
you see that it serves to draw attention to the torture and cruelity
geek undergo in their lifes because "they don't fit in" ???
I think just for his effords to make the lifes of geeks better
in a cruel and heartless society he should get at least the pulitzer
price. He also earns this prices for his high quality contributions
to journalism.
Some people rant about the hypocracy on slashdot towards
open software. But this is nonsense. Open software is much better
than any form of closed software always.
Because it doesn't get the support from the PR drones of big companies
it can use all help it gets from everywhere.
So it is 100 percent ok to be much
more critical towards closed software. And being too critical is not
much loss because even good closed software is just the lesser evil.
Who are these people who critize slashdot all the time ?
Well I think we know them all - they are the very same bullies
who tortured you in school, low brained meat-heads and
trend slime. People who can't stand all people
who don't fit into their shallow ideals of ideal poeple.
They can't stand that geeks have a save place where they can exchange
their ideas.
They can't stand that geeks earn much more and are much better off
with their high level jobs as web programmers and network admins.
They can't stand that geeks have created a superior software system,
GNU/Linux and *BSD, that's why they are advocating MS products.
They can't let live geeks in peace and therefore are making trouble
here on slashdot.
Yes, I know this will modded down, but I don't care about karma
and like I said in the beginning there are some things which just
must be said.
What will be left if all information access will be restricted by local laws and economic interests ?
No more free connection to the whole world.
And don't think that this will apply by the laissez-faire rule: what's not forbidden is allowed.
Connectivity to/from non 100% legal correct countries will soon be 100% crippled leaving nothing but CNN, AOL and MSN crap. I just wonder if they'll restrict access to linux/BSD sites, too. With theses system being "h4X0r" systems.
The mag-lev system uses very strong magnetic fields at a relatively high frequency.
These frequencies are suspected to cause resonaces in the metallic core of earth, which creates earth's magnetic field.
The energy payloads used before for mag-lev trains etc. are relatively small, so that gravitational e-m wave reflection and refraction consumes these energy amounts and they have no effect. For space launches however you need very much energy which won't be consumed completely. So the energy will add up over several launches over time and will increase the earth core resonace oscillation steadily. At low energy levels this will cause an increased number and stronger earthquakes. But if large payloads are used this is much more dangerous, because the oscillation will break apart earths silicate hull and earth will break in little pieces. The asteriod belt is suspected to be created by a planet breaking apart due to core oscillations. See Eisenberg/Pronellis works on this.
With the rise of all these computer generated images in film there might be no real actors soon !!! This is very bad !
Real actors often act as projection surfaces for the phantasies of people like Natalie Portman.
I doubt that CG actors will do the same, at least they are really artificial.
Also actors act as role model for little children making them bright, healthy and law-abiding citizens. Without real live actor these will be gone. The only role models for little children will be the other people they see on news on TV - politicians and terrorists.
Would you like George "Duyba" Bush, Tony Blair or even Osama bin Laden to be a role model for your children ?
So all these CG movies are really very bad and might lead to reduction of morale in the free modern western civilization.
The main market for spread sheet apps should be accounting etc.
Does anyone use linux spreadsheet apps for such professional purposes ?
Managing private stuff doesn't count.
Would be interesting to know if linux does penetrate such conservative/ non-IT markets.
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I've been using *BSD for years starting with the first releases of Berkeley's operating system. I've even got the tape with Tahoe around somewhere. But all my coworkers at the ISP where I work claimed Linux to be the superior operating system of the next century which will crush microsoft sometime.
Well, I was a little sceptical. But I've never used Linux before, so I though that I should give it a try. I ordered the newest Debian woody package, 'cos I wanted full IP6 support. No reason to keep with the old protocols. A few days later a 15 CD set sighed by some guy named ZtaHma (at least that was all I could make out of this strange signature) arrived.
I was very curious, so I started installing the stuff at my Pentium IV at once. There I ran into the first troubles. After selecting the package gcc-doc the package manager claimed that there was a conflict with gcc-2.96 and gcc-3.0 and many associated packages. This won't be of much trouble yet. But it opened of list of all the "conflicting" packages which were suddenly unselected by default. Still no problem there, I could have reselected them at once, but I accidentially hit the return key for selection which accepted the "default" and all the selections were gone. This resulted in fucking around later with constant package reinstalls, 'cos I never got all unselected packages back and the apps started complaining about missing "gcc-blurp" etc.
During install I wondered why there was no config options for ip6, but such stuff with rather common with OSS software and I prefer viing config files anyway. After full install I noticed that there was no options for installing [xkg]dm by default, but I won't call this a problem. The problems turned out at different places. I first tried to activate ip6 for my local links ::1 ::1... ::1
bildo# ifconfig eth0 inet6 fec0::2/64 add
ifconfig: bad option inet6
WTF ? After some manpaging I found out that the Linux netutils are really fucked up any use non standard parameters for ip6. But however:
bildo# ifconfig eth0 add fec0::2/64
kernel doesn't support IP6
Bad news. I noticed that the standard kernel was optimized for 80386 with support for XT harddisks but without support for ip6. So I had to recompile the entire kernel first. At this point the "gcc-blurp" reinstall fun started as already mentioned above. I was already a little wary at this point, this IP6 (EXPERIMENTIAL) - 6 years after the first draft - didn't seemed very promising. After compiling and booting ifconfig worked without trouble. But tha bad surprise was arriving:
bildo# netstat -r
127.0.0.1 * 255.255.255.0 lo
Fuck ! Were was ip6 ??? Ifconfig said it was there ! Well I thought it was a fucked netstat, so I tried a simple:
bildo# telnet
Trying
Connection error: connection refused
bildo# telnet bildo
Trying bildo...
Bildo <debian 3.0pre (woddy)>
Today is a good day the mew the goat !
Login:
Well at least ip6 was working. But all apps seemed to be fucked up. So I tried a last:
bildo# ping6
ping6 not found
At this point I slammed by keyboard into the TFT-Panel and turned the computer off.
What remains to say ?
Linux is obviously an operation system for amateurs and hobbiests not for professional users. I reinstalled FreeBSD at my computer at once. Had to do the installation via an serial cable to my old 386 though, because my TFT-Panel and the keyboard are broken.
You are thaught calculus because it makes you a superior lifeform.
Jurassic Park is a book. A fiction. And in fact a very crappy one. I won't call it science fiction because science is actually lacking in there. And film was even worse. However they tried hard to achieve this.
If you don't know the difference, then don't post articles about such topics.
A burst of radiation might cause genetic abberation but a) these flies are sterilized therefore cannot breed and b) the genetic changes are either minor or kill the individuals.
And you can construct strang chains of events that the mutation causes a gene which provides immunity to antibiotica which is transfered to bacteria by viruses but such events are so unlikely that the propability of bacteria developing such immunities on their own is much higher.
This article is the perfect example of these ecoheads who babble about "protecting the nature" and argue by vague ideas and wrong data.
Personally I doubt that the sterilized flies will eradicate the natural population - the lifespan of y fly is rather short and theses individual cannot breed. This seems to be a crackhead idea from the atomic energy agency.
So claiming 85% accurateness is a scam, the "research" and "development phase" doesn't mean anything decent is done. Just some buggers in some labs are working on these topic, it's not secure that there will be any results.
Let's take an example: I'm working at the warp-drive all in my spare time. If he predicted "warp-drive research" at 1991 then we would be "correct".
Does anyone here know why Intel named this processor with such a strange name ?
Everybody associates Itanium with Italy - a country with Mafia, corrupt goverment and now a right wing pre-dictator president.
More literally minded people might associate Itanium with Itaka - the homeland of Odysseus a greek hero who drove gods mad and never made it home in time.
So why this strange name which everybody associates with negative effects ?
Does the Itanium has timing problems ?
Does it drive the users crazy ?
Does it corrupt the operating systems and make viruses take over the system ?
Does it suppress all program which don't use right aligned doubles ?
Like two vibrators ? Or even better n+1 ?
Sorry, couldn't resist.
It's not about Linux or Windows being better or cheaper.
The US has admitted that they spy their allies. So why using an US system ? That's a raving security problem. You never know how much backdoor-infested such a system might be. And even code audits won't help with a system with millions of lines of code. They won't never find any decent hidden backdoor.
The Linux question is about security not about money. However nobody admits this because they don't want to piss off the US.
Decentralization is a communist idea.
All music playing devices have an analog output - the speakers. Nothing is easier to rip that sample this output and therefore rip the content. Unless we have some kind of digital speakers, I don't see why the recording industry even brothers with such "copy protection". It only scares away customers. Yes, there is a quality loss when sampling the analog output, but there is also a quality loss with MP3 and noone seems care about this.
Because of Linux. But not in the way you expect it to be.
Many people on slashdot are from the US and therefore not familiar with European mythology. The penguin is the traditional bird on death. These pre-cristian traditions are very strong, especially in the nordic countries Norway, Sweden and Finland. You can very often find pictures even in churches showing a penguin with a scythe as a symbol for death and destructions. Just take the next medivial arts book and look for the picture of "Riders of the apocalypse" by Alrecht Duerer. If you look hard enough you see that one of the riders is in fact a penguin.
Most of you US guys will associate a skeleton with a agricultural tool as the grim reaper. That's because the climate in the regions where the first settlers landed is rather warm and there are no penguins. So this old European tradition did out in the US.
I always wondered why Linus selected the bird of death as a mascot for linux. Perhaps he did feel unconsciously that most commercial free software attempts will die a cruel death - just take a look at Loki or all the BSD troubles. So with the morbid mascot I suppose that most commercial Linux activities will die. Nobody in Europe will buy products from morbid companies. And above all a black bird with a scythe will stand and smile.
BTW: Why are so many penguin pictures on some of the stories ? Are these about dead people ?
Otherwise there won't be any nerds on this planet.
It's a well know fact that non nerds breed more and faster and lead healthier lifes.
(Fresh air is heathly despite what your parents told you.)
I just saw some sad news on TV.
Astrid Lingren, infamous writer, died today.
I'm sure all slashdot readers will miss her.
If you didn't enoy her works, you are a complete moron. A true swedish icon.
In Germany you can sue for some compensation if they throw you out. In fact it's very common that companies pay some money if they fire people. I must admit that I don't know the exact details how much all these things are unified all over Europe already, but I suspect that this IS possible in Sweden, too. Your main problem seems to be that you never talked to a decent laywer. Hire and fire randomly is US, not Europe.
When a company fires people in Europe because of getting sick they can be sued.
You can sue that you get your job back or that they'll have to pay you LOTS of money.
And that's European law, Sweden should be even more thight with such things.
So if they were firing people for getting sick as you claimed, why hadn't they been sued to death ?
AFAIK you could sue them even for the overnight work, employee protection IS very good in Europe.
...the gcc isn't the most 31337 compiler out there. I've seen the gcc slowing down programs on a Atlon 800 MHz down to the performance of a 400 Pentium III (II ?) (scientific apps).
But isn't the main strength of the gcc it's crosscompiling abilities ? Never heard of any compiler supporting so much platforms.
They made of lot of claims that they support open source etc.
I'm reading slashdot for a very long time, but lately more and "slashdot suck"/"die slashdot die" posts turn up here and they didn't even got modded down to -5 immediately. I can't stand this anymore.
Slashdot was the best news site for geeks on the internet for years, is the best now and will be the best in the next 10 years. Some points are usually critized about slashdot and I'll discuss them now and show how these "critics" are all just crackpipe rants.
- Some people rant about the "low quality"
of slashdot but this is nonsense. Slashdot features interesting
and high level topics. If you don't agree you are either too stupid
to understand the stories posted here or you are some artsy-fartsy
ivory-tower scientist who has no clue what's going on in the real
world and occupies himself all the time with useless artifical
academic problems.
- Some people rant about the missing "originality" of the stories,
because slashdot summarizes the stories and other sites and posts
the summaries here. Firstly there is always a link to the original
story, so this "stealing content" argument is all nonsense.
Secondly the summary enables you to discuss the topic without chewing
through a long boring, artsy-fartsy article of e.g. the N.Y. Times.
Thirdly slashdot collects information form all different sites a normal
geek would never visit, because e.g. they want some privacy tainting
"free" registration (not free, because you pay with information
about you social behavior) or they grossly advertise for companies like
Microsoft.
- Some people rant about the spelling in the articles. This
is the most anally fixiated argument I ever heard. No real geek
cares about your spelling. It's important what you have to say
and not how you say it. And I'm sure Taco and co. would have
added a spell checker to slashdot already, but every decent
programmer (not VB jerks) knows how difficult it is to intergrate
external programs into server side perl code in a secure way
(or do you want slashdot h4x0r3d ?).
- Some people rant about John Katz. This is nonsense too.
John is the best colummn writer on slashdot. If you don't agree
you are surely too stupid to understand his marvelously written articles
or you envy him for his surpreme literal skills.
John is the only top level journalist who ever had cared about geeks
and their lifes. Many people rant about this hellmouth book, but don't
you see that it serves to draw attention to the torture and cruelity
geek undergo in their lifes because "they don't fit in" ???
I think just for his effords to make the lifes of geeks better
in a cruel and heartless society he should get at least the pulitzer
price. He also earns this prices for his high quality contributions
to journalism.
- Some people rant about the hypocracy on slashdot towards
open software. But this is nonsense. Open software is much better
than any form of closed software always.
Because it doesn't get the support from the PR drones of big companies
it can use all help it gets from everywhere.
So it is 100 percent ok to be much
more critical towards closed software. And being too critical is not
much loss because even good closed software is just the lesser evil.
Who are these people who critize slashdot all the time ?Well I think we know them all - they are the very same bullies who tortured you in school, low brained meat-heads and trend slime. People who can't stand all people who don't fit into their shallow ideals of ideal poeple.
They can't stand that geeks have a save place where they can exchange their ideas.
They can't stand that geeks earn much more and are much better off with their high level jobs as web programmers and network admins.
They can't stand that geeks have created a superior software system, GNU/Linux and *BSD, that's why they are advocating MS products.
They can't let live geeks in peace and therefore are making trouble here on slashdot.
Yes, I know this will modded down, but I don't care about karma and like I said in the beginning there are some things which just must be said.
Why can't they understand that a direct plug into the visual cortex is much better ?
And it will not only help the blind but everyone.
...commerce killed the internet star.
What will be left if all information access will be restricted by local laws and economic interests ?
No more free connection to the whole world.
And don't think that this will apply by the laissez-faire rule: what's not forbidden is allowed.
Connectivity to/from non 100% legal correct countries will soon be 100% crippled leaving nothing but CNN, AOL and MSN crap. I just wonder if they'll restrict access to linux/BSD sites, too. With theses system being "h4X0r" systems.
These frequencies are suspected to cause resonaces in the metallic core of earth, which creates earth's magnetic field.
The energy payloads used before for mag-lev trains etc. are relatively small, so that gravitational e-m wave reflection and refraction consumes these energy amounts and they have no effect. For space launches however you need very much energy which won't be consumed completely. So the energy will add up over several launches over time and will increase the earth core resonace oscillation steadily. At low energy levels this will cause an increased number and stronger earthquakes. But if large payloads are used this is much more dangerous, because the oscillation will break apart earths silicate hull and earth will break in little pieces. The asteriod belt is suspected to be created by a planet breaking apart due to core oscillations. See Eisenberg/Pronellis works on this.
So I think we such think twice before using this.
This is very bad !
Real actors often act as projection surfaces for the phantasies of people like Natalie Portman. I doubt that CG actors will do the same, at least they are really artificial.
Also actors act as role model for little children making them bright, healthy and law-abiding citizens.
Without real live actor these will be gone. The only role models for little children will be the other people they see on news on TV - politicians and terrorists.
Would you like George "Duyba" Bush, Tony Blair or even Osama bin Laden to be a role model for your children ?
So all these CG movies are really very bad and might lead to reduction of morale in the free modern western civilization.
The main market for spread sheet apps should be accounting etc.
Does anyone use linux spreadsheet apps for such professional purposes ?
Managing private stuff doesn't count.
Would be interesting to know if linux does penetrate such conservative/ non-IT markets.
And here is something I always wanted to do. (No goatse link, really)