Yeah, this is something that the open source movement has had for a while. It used to be called the FSF. You know, the guys that want you to sign over your copyrights so they can defend them for you. I guess they spent my donation money on pizza and Bawls, because they haven't done much here.
Go RH... your OS is bloated, but your heart is in the right place.
The pet store was selling them for 5 a piece. I thought that odd since they were normally a couple thousand each. I decided not to look a gift horse in the mouth. I bought 200. I like monkeys.
I took my 200 monkeys home. I have a big car. I let one drive. His name was Sigmund. He was retarded. In fact, none of them were really bright. They kept punching themselves in their genitals. I laughed. Then they punched my genitals. I stopped laughing.
I herded them into my room. They didn't adapt very well to their new environment. They would screech, hurl themselves off of the couch at high speeds and slam into the wall. Although humorous at first, the spectacle lost its novelty halfway into its third hour.
Two hours later I found out why all the monkeys were so inexpensive: they all died. No apparent reason. They all just sorta' dropped dead. Kinda' like when you buy a goldfish and it dies five hours later. Damn cheap monkeys.
I didn't know what to do. There were 200 dead monkeys lying all over my room, on the bed, in the dresser, hanging from my bookcase. It looked like I had 200 throw rugs.
I tried to flush one down the toilet. It didn't work. It got stuck. Then I had one dead, wet monkey and 199 dead, dry monkeys.
I tried pretending that they were just stuffed animals. That worked for a while, that is until they began to decompose. It started to smell real bad.
I had to pee but there was a dead monkey in the toilet and I didn't want to call the plumber. I was embarrassed.
I tried to slow down the decomposition by freezing them. Unfortunately there was only enough room for two monkeys at a time so I had to change them every 30 seconds. I also had to eat all the food in the freezer so it didn't all go bad.
I tried burning them. Little did I know my bed was flammable. I had to extinguish the fire.
Then I had one dead, wet monkey in my toilet, two dead, frozen monkeys in my freezer, and 197 dead, charred monkeys in a pile on my bed. The odor wasn't improving.
I became agitated at my inability to dispose of my monkeys and to use the bathroom. I severely beat one of my monkeys. I felt better.
I tried throwing them way but the garbage man said that the city wasn't allowed to dispose of charred primates. I told him that I had a wet one. He couldn't take that one either. I didn't bother asking about the frozen ones.
I finally arrived at a solution. I gave them out as Christmas gifts. My friends didn't know quite what to say. They pretended that they like them but I could tell they were lying. Ingrates. So I punched them in the genitals.
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We actually just recently did a demonstration of streaming video of rather high quality at the Houston Wireless Users Group meeting. Parts of the presentation are here and the quality was extremely good (full-screen, 30fps). It was done with multicast to a coffee house full of users, while we all surfed the web, etc. No bandwidth problems.
Actually, I've seen many shuttle landings, and it doesn't come in anywhere near Mach 1.
From NASA
"The orbiter differs in at least one major aspect from conventional aircraft; it is unpowered during re-entry and landing so its high-speed glide must be perfectly executed the first time -- there is no go-around capability. The orbiter touchdown speed is 213 to 226 miles (343 to 364 kilometers) per hour."
I agree that the original DOS terminology may not be the most precise, its the idea I'm arguing for. Specifically, the "Retry" option. "Stop Now" and "Ignore Error" are already basically your 2 options under YaST2. (You can hit "Abort" and cancel the whole install or just keep going, the default)
I don't care if they call it "Retry Package" or "Try Again, Something in Your System Is Fscked", I just don't want to have to start all over again or end up with an unusable system.
I'm a big SuSE fan. Loved 7.3 (and will be going back to it tonight) but I've had a serious problem with 8.0. I won't go into all the details, but I'd like to point out one major problem I've had.
YaST2 has been hailed lately (and I have in the past liked it as well) as one of the easiest installation tools out there. I agree the installation options are very well laid out and easy to understand. My one problem though, has to do with the handling of package errors.
I installed 8.0 a few days ago on my laptop and had a problem-free install. However, the next time I installed it, I had several package problems. No big deal usually, just install them later. Problem is, I had errors on the YaST2 modules. Which are the last packages installed off the first disk. I had waited for 1.3 GB worth of packages for nothing. System won't boot. Nothing.
Question : Is it that hard to implement an "Abort, Retry, Fail?" option? I'd like to do my install in one sitting instead of having to repeatedly go back, look at the logs to see what failed, and install them again.
Just a thought. Sorry for the rant, but it kind of took away my evening last night.:)
"What really scares me is that your elected officials believe that this is the solution!"
Unfortunately, this "White House CIO" as he calls himself, is not an "elected official". He appears to be nothing more than a Bush appointee, who probably just answers to Bush and the cabinet, with little congressional oversight.
"How can the music/movie industry do the same thing? Do you get a free copy of Staind's latest album with a free copy of "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" when you buy a computer?"
They already DO do this. Many of the DVD player manufacturers have deals where if you buy model X at store Y, you get Z DVD's for free.
Pursuant to Delaware law, Be will continue to exist for three years after the dissolution becomes effective or for such longer period as the Delaware Court of Chancery shall direct, solely for the purposes of prosecuting and defending lawsuits (including but not limited to pursuing its antitrust case against Microsoft), settling and closing its business in an orderly manner, disposing of any remaining property, discharging its liabilities and distributing to its stockholders any remaining assets, but not for the purpose of continuing any business. In accordance with the plan of dissolution, after payment in full of all claims finally determined to be due, Be will make distributions of any remaining assets (including assets acquired after the record date), if any, only to stockholders of record as of the record date.
I'm not a doctor or a pharmacologist, but since when have opiates been a performance-enhancing drug? The article seems to make a leap from catching cheaters in sporting events to testing for opiates. I didn't see anything connecting the two. The only point it made was that opiates can be used in rehab, which is obvious, but I've never heard of someone gaining a competitive edge by being smacked out on morphine.
OK, so Brett Favre had a good season while high on hydrocodone, but I doubt you'll see many players from other sports where speed, agility and mental clarity are more important than avoiding pain using these drugs.
OK, so I didn't feel like writing out JavaScript twice. You'll probably notice that I also used horrible grammer in that sentence. It was supposed to be a joke / movie reference. I'm sorry that it annoyed you so much that you felt the need to curse at me. Have some coffee and a fine day.
I can live with the JavaScript failures. I don't need no stinking Java in my web pages. Konqueror has been my browser of choice for quite a while (if I can't get away with using lynx).
As far as I can tell from reading their new policy and the FAQ, NOTHING really changed here. These changes were already made in their last revision, they simply changed language to clarify the existing changes. It was the last round of changes that really screwed their customers.
I don't care much (except for the fact that I hate to see ANY privacy lost), they aren't selling my info, eBay was never my thing.
Maybe someone can inform me, because I obviously don't know...
Why would companies like Lucent and Cisco be so opposed to this? With purchases of new hardware shrinking along with the economy, wouldn't these equipment makers be in a perfect position to benefit from adaptation of IPv6? Its supposed to be all about the money...
I can understand ISPs and other internet-intensive companies not wanting to pay for the upgrade, but I'd still expect a push from the hardware makers.
"Those fluent in two languages rarely mix them up."
IANALR (I am not a linguistics researcher), but in my experience, most people always seem to be more fluent in one toungue than another. There are many bilingual individuals I've met who constantly jump back and forth between languages mid-sentence (especially when angry/ranting/upset). The article doesn't go into enough depth on this for me.
My father signed up for their service a few months back, despite the fact that I told him it was a bad idea (I had read the articles questioning their legitimacy). I guess he has a report to file when he gets back in town now.
This is exactly why I hope the US NEVER gets 3G! I want my phone to do one thing: make and receive phone calls. If I can hook a modem or such to it and transfer data, thats great... but through another device! I don't want everything in my phone; not my PDA, not my web browser, just a phone.
*sigh*
Realistically, I know that we will be getting something (probably not true 3G by the time its all done, but something similar) and I will have to switch phones if I want one at all.
Some other interesting aspects of the upgrade that are barely touched in this article are mentioned over here at cnn. Looking for Black Holes? Looking at weather patterns in our own solar system?
Definitely cool stuff. The Hubble has needed this upgrade for a while!
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In the rare case of a tie, the lower court's opinion stands.
Its been changed from groklaw.com to groklaw.net and moved over to Ibiblio. I don't think we have much to worry about from now on ...
Yeah, this is something that the open source movement has had for a while. It used to be called the FSF. You know, the guys that want you to sign over your copyrights so they can defend them for you. I guess they spent my donation money on pizza and Bawls, because they haven't done much here.
... your OS is bloated, but your heart is in the right place.
Go RH
You mean like this? Free international listing of public / open wireless internet nodes ...
I like monkeys.
The pet store was selling them for 5 a piece. I thought that odd since they were normally a couple thousand each. I decided not to look a gift horse in the mouth. I bought 200. I like monkeys.
I took my 200 monkeys home. I have a big car. I let one drive. His name was Sigmund. He was retarded. In fact, none of them were really bright. They kept punching themselves in their genitals. I laughed. Then they punched my genitals. I stopped laughing.
I herded them into my room. They didn't adapt very well to their new environment. They would screech, hurl themselves off of the couch at high speeds and slam into the wall. Although humorous at first, the spectacle lost its novelty halfway into its third hour.
Two hours later I found out why all the monkeys were so inexpensive: they all died. No apparent reason. They all just sorta' dropped dead. Kinda' like when you buy a goldfish and it dies five hours later. Damn cheap monkeys.
I didn't know what to do. There were 200 dead monkeys lying all over my room, on the bed, in the dresser, hanging from my bookcase. It looked like I had 200 throw rugs.
I tried to flush one down the toilet. It didn't work. It got stuck. Then I had one dead, wet monkey and 199 dead, dry monkeys.
I tried pretending that they were just stuffed animals. That worked for a while, that is until they began to decompose. It started to smell real bad.
I had to pee but there was a dead monkey in the toilet and I didn't want to call the plumber. I was embarrassed.
I tried to slow down the decomposition by freezing them. Unfortunately there was only enough room for two monkeys at a time so I had to change them every 30 seconds. I also had to eat all the food in the freezer so it didn't all go bad.
I tried burning them. Little did I know my bed was flammable. I had to extinguish the fire.
Then I had one dead, wet monkey in my toilet, two dead, frozen monkeys in my freezer, and 197 dead, charred monkeys in a pile on my bed. The odor wasn't improving.
I became agitated at my inability to dispose of my monkeys and to use the bathroom. I severely beat one of my monkeys. I felt better.
I tried throwing them way but the garbage man said that the city wasn't allowed to dispose of charred primates. I told him that I had a wet one. He couldn't take that one either. I didn't bother asking about the frozen ones.
I finally arrived at a solution. I gave them out as Christmas gifts. My friends didn't know quite what to say. They pretended that they like them but I could tell they were lying. Ingrates. So I punched them in the genitals.
I like monkeys
[ Reply to This | Parent ] Moderation Totals: Offtopic=23, Flamebait=7, Troll=14, Redundant=3, Insightful=8, Interesting=5, Informative=7, Funny=37, Overrated=11, Underrated=5, Total=120.
We actually just recently did a demonstration of streaming video of rather high quality at the Houston Wireless Users Group meeting. Parts of the presentation are here and the quality was extremely good (full-screen, 30fps). It was done with multicast to a coffee house full of users, while we all surfed the web, etc. No bandwidth problems.
Actually, I've seen many shuttle landings, and it doesn't come in anywhere near Mach 1.
From
NASA
"The orbiter differs in at least one major aspect from conventional aircraft; it is unpowered during re-entry and landing so its high-speed glide must be perfectly executed the first time -- there is no go-around capability. The orbiter touchdown speed is 213 to 226 miles (343 to 364 kilometers) per hour."
I agree that the original DOS terminology may not be the most precise, its the idea I'm arguing for. Specifically, the "Retry" option. "Stop Now" and "Ignore Error" are already basically your 2 options under YaST2. (You can hit "Abort" and cancel the whole install or just keep going, the default)
I don't care if they call it "Retry Package" or "Try Again, Something in Your System Is Fscked", I just don't want to have to start all over again or end up with an unusable system.
I'm a big SuSE fan. Loved 7.3 (and will be going back to it tonight) but I've had a serious problem with 8.0. I won't go into all the details, but I'd like to point out one major problem I've had.
:)
YaST2 has been hailed lately (and I have in the past liked it as well) as one of the easiest installation tools out there. I agree the installation options are very well laid out and easy to understand. My one problem though, has to do with the handling of package errors.
I installed 8.0 a few days ago on my laptop and had a problem-free install. However, the next time I installed it, I had several package problems. No big deal usually, just install them later. Problem is, I had errors on the YaST2 modules. Which are the last packages installed off the first disk. I had waited for 1.3 GB worth of packages for nothing. System won't boot. Nothing.
Question : Is it that hard to implement an "Abort, Retry, Fail?" option? I'd like to do my install in one sitting instead of having to repeatedly go back, look at the logs to see what failed, and install them again.
Just a thought. Sorry for the rant, but it kind of took away my evening last night.
"What really scares me is that your elected officials believe that this is the solution!"
Unfortunately, this "White House CIO" as he calls himself, is not an "elected official". He appears to be nothing more than a Bush appointee, who probably just answers to Bush and the cabinet, with little congressional oversight.
You can stop a SpamBot, but can you stop a /.'ing?
"How can the music/movie industry do the same thing? Do you get a free copy of Staind's latest album with a free copy of "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" when you buy a computer?"
They already DO do this. Many of the DVD player manufacturers have deals where if you buy model X at store Y, you get Z DVD's for free.
From the statement:
:) )
Pursuant to Delaware law, Be will continue to exist for three years after the dissolution becomes effective or for such longer period as the Delaware Court of Chancery shall direct, solely for the purposes of prosecuting and defending lawsuits (including but not limited to pursuing its antitrust case against Microsoft), settling and closing its business in an orderly manner, disposing of any remaining property, discharging its liabilities and distributing to its stockholders any remaining assets, but not for the purpose of continuing any business. In accordance with the plan of dissolution, after payment in full of all claims finally determined to be due, Be will make distributions of any remaining assets (including assets acquired after the record date), if any, only to stockholders of record as of the record date.
(Also, see my post above
At least they still get to spend the next three years trying to tie up some of those MS lawyers!
I'm not a doctor or a pharmacologist, but since when have opiates been a performance-enhancing drug? The article seems to make a leap from catching cheaters in sporting events to testing for opiates. I didn't see anything connecting the two. The only point it made was that opiates can be used in rehab, which is obvious, but I've never heard of someone gaining a competitive edge by being smacked out on morphine.
OK, so Brett Favre had a good season while high on hydrocodone, but I doubt you'll see many players from other sports where speed, agility and mental clarity are more important than avoiding pain using these drugs.
OK, so I didn't feel like writing out JavaScript twice. You'll probably notice that I also used horrible grammer in that sentence. It was supposed to be a joke / movie reference. I'm sorry that it annoyed you so much that you felt the need to curse at me. Have some coffee and a fine day.
I can live with the JavaScript failures. I don't need no stinking Java in my web pages. Konqueror has been my browser of choice for quite a while (if I can't get away with using lynx).
As far as I can tell from reading their new policy and the FAQ, NOTHING really changed here. These changes were already made in their last revision, they simply changed language to clarify the existing changes. It was the last round of changes that really screwed their customers.
I don't care much (except for the fact that I hate to see ANY privacy lost), they aren't selling my info, eBay was never my thing.
Thank you, sir! I knew there had to be a logical explaination and it had to have something to do with $$.
Maybe someone can inform me, because I obviously don't know ...
...
Why would companies like Lucent and Cisco be so opposed to this? With purchases of new hardware shrinking along with the economy, wouldn't these equipment makers be in a perfect position to benefit from adaptation of IPv6? Its supposed to be all about the money
I can understand ISPs and other internet-intensive companies not wanting to pay for the upgrade, but I'd still expect a push from the hardware makers.
From the article:
"Those fluent in two languages rarely mix them up."
IANALR (I am not a linguistics researcher), but in my experience, most people always seem to be more fluent in one toungue than another. There are many bilingual individuals I've met who constantly jump back and forth between languages mid-sentence (especially when angry/ranting/upset). The article doesn't go into enough depth on this for me.
Is the entire study online? Anyone with a link?
You just knew it couldn't be true ...
My father signed up for their service a few months back, despite the fact that I told him it was a bad idea (I had read the articles questioning their legitimacy). I guess he has a report to file when he gets back in town now.
Tsk, Tsk.
This is exactly why I hope the US NEVER gets 3G! I want my phone to do one thing: make and receive phone calls. If I can hook a modem or such to it and transfer data, thats great ... but through another device! I don't want everything in my phone; not my PDA, not my web browser, just a phone.
*sigh*
Realistically, I know that we will be getting something (probably not true 3G by the time its all done, but something similar) and I will have to switch phones if I want one at all.
Damn.
Some other interesting aspects of the upgrade that are barely touched in this article are mentioned over here at cnn. Looking for Black Holes? Looking at weather patterns in our own solar system? Definitely cool stuff. The Hubble has needed this upgrade for a while!
If they "fix" the settlement arangement much more, its going to end up as a slap on the ass. Possibly followed by a big high-5.
DOJ: "Go team Microsoft!"