Another advantage is that some movies just look better on the big screen, e.g. "Revenge of the Sith". Yeah, I know, some people have enormous home projector and all that... and if you factor that cost in, you have to rent a ton of movies before the cost drops below that $10 ticket price (and by the way, that sounds pretty extreme. I just paid something like $7.50 for a weeknite "Sith" ticket).
I live near a college town where they show movies on campus in a pretty nice theater. Almost every time I go I run into someone I know, hang out a bit and chat, maybe grab dessert after the movie. It can become a social event, even if I went to the movie alone.
A warrior will never go against a tank, as they are not balanced. The two do not belong in the same game world.
I had to read this a couple of times to figure out what you are talking about. In MMORPG a warrior IS a "tank". The term "tank" refers to a character that has the ability to survive lots of attacks... basically lots of hitpoints and armor. So you get your pure warrior or warrior-caster hybrids as tanks.
Maybe I should RTFA and find out, but maybe they don't say...
I don't know whether they say in TFA, but if you had even bothered to read the summary you'd have seen the following:
"A potential solution that astronomers have suggested is to install a miniture cell transceiver on each airplane, called a picocell, that would act as a relay using a frequency that wouldn't interfere with their work."
Years ago someone at work picked up the ceramic communal candy bowl to wash it out. Turned out that taped under the bowl was a small sheet with some ancient passwords. It was a VERY good hiding place.
I predict that in the future everything is gonna be open source and *almost free*.
Isn't going to happen, at least not in the next 20-30 years. Here's the deal: OSS has been around quite a while now, and all it's provided competitive options for are either tools that pretty much everyone uses, like text editors, or stuff that's of interest to programmers, like computer operating systems and associated tools.
There are lots of areas that are more specialized where it's just hard to imagine that there will be sufficient motivation to produce and maintain OSS. I work for a software company that produces a complete package for a manufacturing sector. I guarantee you that we aren't going to see competition from OSS in my lifetime.
Lesse, they don't want to enforce the "buy something or get out" rule? Their loss...
This is rated +4 insightful????? How about "it's bad for business to piss off customers"? Seems like they had a tough problem and they came up with a good, thoughtful solution.
The only 70s SF shows of any significance I can think of that came out before Star Wars were Space:1999, another timeless classic that has aged quite well;
You're kidding, right? Space: 1999 was on a par with Lost in Space. If the Razzies had existed back then (and maybe they did) it would have gotten worst plots, worst acting, worst special effects, and probably a lifetime worst achievement award
You can't build Free Software on a non-Free foundation
Of course you can. Stallman himself points out that that's how free software was developed. If the first free software had had to wait for the first free user to toggle the first free monitor and free assembler into memory one byte at a time, there wouldn't be any free software. Free software was built on back of unliberated software.
If science texts have to give equal time to religion, perhaps the gov could require that all religious texts have a prominent notice that "God" is merely an unproven theory?
God forbid someone imagine that the Civil War was about slavery, when we all know that it was the Trilateral Commission setting things up for the Bushes to establish a dynasty 140 years later.
I don't recall the exact timeline, but the original article mentioned that the Bk folk and Linus tried to come to some sort of terms that would satisfy Tridge. Given that this tool was made available a month ago, I suspect that it wasn't created to "undercut Tridge" but rather in an attempt to placate him. Apparently that attempt wasn't successful.
Ok, I don't read The Register much, but the titles of the "related articles" caught my eye. Pretty tough to figure out which side they are on:
'Cool it, Linus' - Bruce Perens
Torvalds knifes Tridgell
The Larry and Linus Show: personalities vs principles?
Linus Torvalds in bizarre attack on open source
Linus Torvalds defers closed source crunch
Tridge worked on a project that was "fed" by "free as in beer" software from Bitkeeper. Tridge chose to do actions that he knew would end the use of Bitkeeper. No, Tridge isn't a dog and he didn't literally bite anyone's hand. No one had to go for a rabies shot.
Your post doesn't have anything to do with the parent post that I was referring to. Apparently you didn't have time to read it. Just to make it easy for you, here's most of the post I was referring to. Note that it doesn't have any reference to licenses. Licensing is not an issue.
Hardly. I think the wrong here isn't the reverse engineering, even if that's what got McVoy's panties in a twist.
I think the wrong is accepting BitKeeper's generosity and then continuing to do things that attack the revenue model that keeps BitKeeper in business. The right thing to do would have been to let BitKeeper know that Linus, et al, were thankful for BitKeeper's help, but they switching over to a new, GPLed system. Then if BitKeeper were pricks about the switch, sure, reverse-engineering would have been fine.
This is pretty basic don't-bite-the-hand-that-feeds-you stuff, and I'm sad that it came to this.
You use your car to travel. You don't give a care what processor is in the engine. Other people use their computers to do tasks, not to dick around with the operating system.
I had an eye opening experience recently of helping a woman in her 90's get her first experience with a computer. Guess what: she neither knew nor cared about the difference between Windows and Linux, or whether she was running Debian or Mandrake. She wanted to see pictures of her great-grandchildren. And that does not make her dumb.
Your attitude, on the other hand, doesn't say much for you
If I guy just wants to get to the supermarket but can't tell the difference between a car and a truck, or between a stickshift and an automatic then he is stupid.
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Anybody who is trying to get computer work done but does not care about the OS is stupid and should immediately be fired.
What processors and O/S are running in your car engine? You don't know? You say you just want to use your car to travel and get places? Sorry, you must be stupid not to care about stuff like that. You should't be permitted to drive
Mod the parent up to the sky. I can't believe the number of posts from people who think that someone who wants to simply get work done on their computer and doesn't care about the O/S is stupid.
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They didn't really stop making Coffee Coffee Buzz Buzz Buzz did they? My favorite dessert is a hot fudge sundae with that ice cream. As you eat your eyeballs roll back in your head.
As for me, I prefer them because it hurts my hand to strain when clicking a right-mouse button.
Maybe you've been using a lousy 2 button mouse. On my mouse, my first 2 fingers rest naturally on the 2 buttons. It's no harder to click one than to click the other. It's WAY more strain to hold down the control key. Of course, I've never forgiven IBM for moving the ctrl key from its perfect spot just to the left of 'A', but that's a different story.
Hell, why even wipe your own ass? Are you a programmer or an ass-wiper? You can probably find someone to wipe your ass for $20
Most people have a pretty good idea of how to wipe. The number of people who can successfully write software is pretty limited. You might compare it to "why should you hire an airplane pilot... why not just sit at the controls and cross your fingers"
The problem is that it's really easy to hire a couple of hotshots fresh out of school who are just sure that they know java and websites so how hard can an accounting and inventory app be? A year down the road, you've got something that doesn't work. If you are lucky, your company throws it away... if you are unlucky, you use it, no matter what.
I'm reminded of the Japanese 5th generation AI / language project of the 90s... that was going to somehow revolutionize everything. Anyone hear about that in the last few years?
Sigh. Another "trillion dollars" drone. How about reality which is more on the order of 25-40 billion for the full development up to and including the first mission, and 5-7 billion per mission after that.
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I'd suggest you do the same. ALL of the existing evidence is that simply getting a crew to Mars and back would be enormously expensive. A self-sustaining colony, even more so.
Do you realize what would be involved in "getting the deserts to bloom"?!? Yeah only a small bit of terraforming the Earth to get the weather patterns to change or to enclose the deserts to eliminate natural weather as a factor, or control of the weather on a near continuous basis. Do you have any idea of the costs involved in that?
That's EXACTLY my point... getting the deserts to bloom would be hideously expensive, but still less than getting any significant chunk of Mars to be habitable. If anyone can explain how it's easier to get some chunk of Mars habitable than to make chunks of Earth habitable I'd love to hear it.
If the costs are as low as you say, if the opportunity is as great and as obvious as you say, I'm sure some company or consortium of companies will be formed to take advantage of it. Bill could probably fund it out of his pocket. But I wouldn't hold my breath.
I still think that the "gee we need to get off this rock, an asteroid might hit us" is just a coverup for "wow it would be cool to be on Mars". In the immediate future (say next 50-100 years) the major threats to humanity are self-induced: war, engineered plagues, global warming, etc.
The probably of an asteroid hitting that is large enough to cause global catastrophy is very low. By your own standards, if an asteroid hits and only wipes out 90% of all life, a "pocket of humanity" survives and we move on.
If we're really worried about global killer asteroids, fund asteroid searching and developing methods of moving them. Infinitely cheaper and has the benefit of saving billions of lives.
I like space exploration as much as the next guy. I think that *someday* humanity will be walking other worlds in our solar system. But someone has to make a good case for spending the $$$$$$$$$ on manned missions instead of robots, and so far that just isn't happening.
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Another advantage is that some movies just look better on the big screen, e.g. "Revenge of the Sith". Yeah, I know, some people have enormous home projector and all that... and if you factor that cost in, you have to rent a ton of movies before the cost drops below that $10 ticket price (and by the way, that sounds pretty extreme. I just paid something like $7.50 for a weeknite "Sith" ticket).
I live near a college town where they show movies on campus in a pretty nice theater. Almost every time I go I run into someone I know, hang out a bit and chat, maybe grab dessert after the movie. It can become a social event, even if I went to the movie alone.
I had to read this a couple of times to figure out what you are talking about. In MMORPG a warrior IS a "tank". The term "tank" refers to a character that has the ability to survive lots of attacks... basically lots of hitpoints and armor. So you get your pure warrior or warrior-caster hybrids as tanks.
I don't know whether they say in TFA, but if you had even bothered to read the summary you'd have seen the following:
Years ago someone at work picked up the ceramic communal candy bowl to wash it out. Turned out that taped under the bowl was a small sheet with some ancient passwords. It was a VERY good hiding place.
Isn't going to happen, at least not in the next 20-30 years. Here's the deal: OSS has been around quite a while now, and all it's provided competitive options for are either tools that pretty much everyone uses, like text editors, or stuff that's of interest to programmers, like computer operating systems and associated tools.
There are lots of areas that are more specialized where it's just hard to imagine that there will be sufficient motivation to produce and maintain OSS. I work for a software company that produces a complete package for a manufacturing sector. I guarantee you that we aren't going to see competition from OSS in my lifetime.
This is rated +4 insightful????? How about "it's bad for business to piss off customers"? Seems like they had a tough problem and they came up with a good, thoughtful solution.
You're kidding, right? Space: 1999 was on a par with Lost in Space. If the Razzies had existed back then (and maybe they did) it would have gotten worst plots, worst acting, worst special effects, and probably a lifetime worst achievement award
Of course you can. Stallman himself points out that that's how free software was developed. If the first free software had had to wait for the first free user to toggle the first free monitor and free assembler into memory one byte at a time, there wouldn't be any free software. Free software was built on back of unliberated software.
If science texts have to give equal time to religion, perhaps the gov could require that all religious texts have a prominent notice that "God" is merely an unproven theory?
God forbid someone imagine that the Civil War was about slavery, when we all know that it was the Trilateral Commission setting things up for the Bushes to establish a dynasty 140 years later.
I don't recall the exact timeline, but the original article mentioned that the Bk folk and Linus tried to come to some sort of terms that would satisfy Tridge. Given that this tool was made available a month ago, I suspect that it wasn't created to "undercut Tridge" but rather in an attempt to placate him. Apparently that attempt wasn't successful.
Ah, that explains the "Torvalds knifes Tridgell" article title. I guess Linus won't be submitting too many kernel patches from jail.
Ok, I don't read The Register much, but the titles of the "related articles" caught my eye. Pretty tough to figure out which side they are on:
Tridge worked on a project that was "fed" by "free as in beer" software from Bitkeeper. Tridge chose to do actions that he knew would end the use of Bitkeeper. No, Tridge isn't a dog and he didn't literally bite anyone's hand. No one had to go for a rabies shot.
Your post doesn't have anything to do with the parent post that I was referring to. Apparently you didn't have time to read it. Just to make it easy for you, here's most of the post I was referring to. Note that it doesn't have any reference to licenses. Licensing is not an issue.
I sure hope someone mods the parent up because it captures the core issue.
You use your car to travel. You don't give a care what processor is in the engine. Other people use their computers to do tasks, not to dick around with the operating system.
I had an eye opening experience recently of helping a woman in her 90's get her first experience with a computer. Guess what: she neither knew nor cared about the difference between Windows and Linux, or whether she was running Debian or Mandrake. She wanted to see pictures of her great-grandchildren. And that does not make her dumb.
Your attitude, on the other hand, doesn't say much for you
What processors and O/S are running in your car engine? You don't know? You say you just want to use your car to travel and get places? Sorry, you must be stupid not to care about stuff like that. You should't be permitted to drive
Mod the parent up to the sky. I can't believe the number of posts from people who think that someone who wants to simply get work done on their computer and doesn't care about the O/S is stupid.
They didn't really stop making Coffee Coffee Buzz Buzz Buzz did they? My favorite dessert is a hot fudge sundae with that ice cream. As you eat your eyeballs roll back in your head.
Maybe you've been using a lousy 2 button mouse. On my mouse, my first 2 fingers rest naturally on the 2 buttons. It's no harder to click one than to click the other. It's WAY more strain to hold down the control key. Of course, I've never forgiven IBM for moving the ctrl key from its perfect spot just to the left of 'A', but that's a different story.
Most people have a pretty good idea of how to wipe. The number of people who can successfully write software is pretty limited. You might compare it to "why should you hire an airplane pilot... why not just sit at the controls and cross your fingers"
The problem is that it's really easy to hire a couple of hotshots fresh out of school who are just sure that they know java and websites so how hard can an accounting and inventory app be? A year down the road, you've got something that doesn't work. If you are lucky, your company throws it away... if you are unlucky, you use it, no matter what.
I'm reminded of the Japanese 5th generation AI / language project of the 90s... that was going to somehow revolutionize everything. Anyone hear about that in the last few years?
I'd suggest you do the same. ALL of the existing evidence is that simply getting a crew to Mars and back would be enormously expensive. A self-sustaining colony, even more so.
That's EXACTLY my point... getting the deserts to bloom would be hideously expensive, but still less than getting any significant chunk of Mars to be habitable. If anyone can explain how it's easier to get some chunk of Mars habitable than to make chunks of Earth habitable I'd love to hear it.
If the costs are as low as you say, if the opportunity is as great and as obvious as you say, I'm sure some company or consortium of companies will be formed to take advantage of it. Bill could probably fund it out of his pocket. But I wouldn't hold my breath.
I still think that the "gee we need to get off this rock, an asteroid might hit us" is just a coverup for "wow it would be cool to be on Mars". In the immediate future (say next 50-100 years) the major threats to humanity are self-induced: war, engineered plagues, global warming, etc.
The probably of an asteroid hitting that is large enough to cause global catastrophy is very low. By your own standards, if an asteroid hits and only wipes out 90% of all life, a "pocket of humanity" survives and we move on.
If we're really worried about global killer asteroids, fund asteroid searching and developing methods of moving them. Infinitely cheaper and has the benefit of saving billions of lives.
I like space exploration as much as the next guy. I think that *someday* humanity will be walking other worlds in our solar system. But someone has to make a good case for spending the $$$$$$$$$ on manned missions instead of robots, and so far that just isn't happening.