Not necessarily. There are bacteria on Earth that live in volcanic vents, nuclear reactors, and other nasty places. Compared to the inside of a nuclear reactor, Mars is pretty benevolent.
As to evolution, there were single-celled and multi-celled microscopic organisms on Earth for hundreds of millions of years before conditions here became right for them to evolve past the micro stage. Martian bacteria might evolve, yes, but that doesn't mean the result would be reptiles or larger organisms, it could be nastier bacteria evolved to live in a high-UV, high temp contrast environment. One must not take evolution to mean solely the production of higher life-forms.
Of course that could also be construed to mean that Martian bacteria may not find us tasty, nor even find the human body (or any Earth life form) an environment conducive to their survival. In fact if they *have* evolved to live on Mars chances are they'd die pretty rapidly on Earth (not enough UV, not enough CO2, not enough of a temp cycle for reproduction, etc).
One thing I've had problems with is onboard S3 Savage4 video, which is included in a lot of mobo's nowadays. I still haven't found a driver which gives corruption free video in Mandrake or Redhat.
"Why have 6 instead of 4, surely you want to minimise these spikes? "
That's the idea, but the additional support is needed because of the weight of and stability requirements of the secondary equipment (which in some scopes such as Palomar's includes space for an observer in addition to camera and other equipment; the observer space has been eliminated in most modern scopes I believe).
*sigh*....I would just love to know why the patch that is supposed to fix this vulnerability apparently had no effect at all on Klez. If the patch isn't working with the new variants...well, that could be really messy.
I did confirm it on this customer's machine - the patch was definitely installed, more than six months ago. She didn't even know she had the virus until her ISP cut off her internet access because of spamming (one of the email addy's she had in her address book was the ISP's technical support address - ouch!)
Considering this:"senior management just finished buying up several failing companies and paying some large bonuses to themselves" perhaps they should start liquidating *executives*...
" Stupid shit like you're describing is why the US is STILL the strongest economy in the world, even in the middle of a depression"
But in the long run it's going to bite the US back hard; like what happened just before and during the Great Depression.
News like this not only has the effect of reducing employee confidance in corporate business models and honesty, it also reduces *consumer confidance* (witness the dot com bust, which is a large part of the reason we are in a depression).
Personally I quit working for companies like this more than a decade ago, went independent, and found my own peace. No, I don't make as much money as I could - but I don't have to put up with this crap either.
Anyone wondering if the next news item we'll see out of Divine is about a company employee "Going Postal"?
To the person who claimed that $30k/year is enough to live on and save money on: Well, that depends on the cost of living in your area, doesn't it? IOW if you live in a small town like me, you can easily live on that salary; whereeas if you live somewhere like LA or Denver, your rent for a nice family apartment will be half your take home pay after taxes....
If the adware is a "core part" of your application, then you are not selling a media player, you are selling adware (!) and simply bundling it with a media player to get people to download it so you can make money.
Whether or not it's legal or ethical is really irrelevant. It's foolish. The fact that you require Ad-Aware to be uninstalled to install your media player will be in every single review and comment about your product - and with the current flap over adware many and perhaps most people will simply refuse to buy or use the player.
If you were the only player on the market, or offered features the others don't, that would not be a big deal; but face it, there are literally dozens of other choices. You are essentially screwing yourself by requiring this. Remember, Ad-Aware has legitimate uses (I've seen adware -no names- that can cause system instabilities and occasionally hose up a installation thoroughly) - so what you are asking people to do is uninstall a useful tool simply to install a little-known media player.
Oh well, it's your product.....but I wouldn't count on it being popular.
I've replaced a half dozen of the Kenwood 72x drives at work over the last couple years - all dead. Seems they wore out within a year or so of purchase.
But compared to Microsoft's licensing, the GPL is practically a free lunch (not quite, but a helluva lot closer) which makes portability that much easier.
SB "Damn fingers, they keep capitalizing the word Microsoft.....
"Who the hell do you think you are, Al Gore? If so, thanks very much for your generous decision to release "the Web" into the public domain! I would hate to see "the Web" under some license!"
This really should be modded up, for political humor and pointing out the idiocy of current US government web policy.
SB
An anonymous post does not mean it's not good, just that the poster doesn't want a Rant of Trolls descending upon him/her like Hitchcock's birds. Yes, I have a beef with the AC mod. FY2. Sue me.
" Sorry, but selling GPL'd software is pointless. One guy will buy it for whatever it costs and then post it up on some website or on Kazaa and it'll spread if enough people want it. "
Where is this different from commercially licensed software? I fail to understand your point.
where, if you search the page, you find, about 3/4 down:
" And so that's where we part company. We say there should be an eco-system so something like VSB, which is a free form of UNIX, but it's not "
Read The Fucking Article.
I submit to Slashdot that if Microsoft has published this on their website, put up with public commentary on it (which I imagine was tremendous) and HAS NOT ISSUED A CORRECTION, that it stands as comments made.
Over 22 years of watching all this insanity, I have yet to see Bill Gates make any speech in public where he did not make at least one, and usually more, really stupid mistakes. Now some of you microserfs can believe that it's "transcription error" but IMO either he has hired McDonald's personnel for his script writing, or he has no idea what he is talking about. Any takers for a debate on that?
Sheesh.
SB
Where the fuck does he get off calling the computer world an 'ecosystem'? That is ignorance at it's finest. "ecosystem"="ecology" which refers to living things, not the global computer network.
I am stunned. Astounded. Totally thrown out of whack by the fact that this above post got modded +5 Funny. Methinks that a human moderator actually READ THE POST. I personally found it hilarious.
What I didn't find hilarious was that between loading the page again, reading down (about 2 minutes) and clicking reply, the post somehow got modded from 5 Funny to 3. WTF?
Slashdot Mirror
Not necessarily. There are bacteria on Earth that live in volcanic vents, nuclear reactors, and other nasty places. Compared to the inside of a nuclear reactor, Mars is pretty benevolent.
As to evolution, there were single-celled and multi-celled microscopic organisms on Earth for hundreds of millions of years before conditions here became right for them to evolve past the micro stage. Martian bacteria might evolve, yes, but that doesn't mean the result would be reptiles or larger organisms, it could be nastier bacteria evolved to live in a high-UV, high temp contrast environment. One must not take evolution to mean solely the production of higher life-forms.
Of course that could also be construed to mean that Martian bacteria may not find us tasty, nor even find the human body (or any Earth life form) an environment conducive to their survival. In fact if they *have* evolved to live on Mars chances are they'd die pretty rapidly on Earth (not enough UV, not enough CO2, not enough of a temp cycle for reproduction, etc).
SB
One thing I've had problems with is onboard S3 Savage4 video, which is included in a lot of mobo's nowadays. I still haven't found a driver which gives corruption free video in Mandrake or Redhat.
If anyone knows of a fix for this.......
SB
because they're cheaper
Actually PCTel (among the cheapest softmodems available) has had linux drivers for some time. (http://www.linmodems.org/)
They're junk modems tho. Many ISPs (at least in the states) don't work too well with them, and they tend to fail within a year or so IME.
SB
"Why have 6 instead of 4, surely you want to minimise these spikes? "
That's the idea, but the additional support is needed because of the weight of and stability requirements of the secondary equipment (which in some scopes such as Palomar's includes space for an observer in addition to camera and other equipment; the observer space has been eliminated in most modern scopes I believe).
SB
*STEP AWAY FROM THE COMPUTER*
Now...go outside.
Stretch.
Breath the unfiltered air. Feel the sunshine on your face. Ogle a passing girl. Let the breeze ruffle your hair.
There is Life Outside Slashdot. This may be only a hypothesis for some of us...but it can be proven....I think.
*mod parent -1, No Life*
SB
... "Windows powers this or that"
Feel free to do so!!!
SB
Of course there are two other likely possibilities:
We've already found something but:
1) It's lost in the information glut, or
2) We won't recognize it! It's encrypted!
SB
Sad. So sad.
SB
*sigh*....I would just love to know why the patch that is supposed to fix this vulnerability apparently had no effect at all on Klez. If the patch isn't working with the new variants...well, that could be really messy.
I did confirm it on this customer's machine - the patch was definitely installed, more than six months ago. She didn't even know she had the virus until her ISP cut off her internet access because of spamming (one of the email addy's she had in her address book was the ISP's technical support address - ouch!)
SB
Considering this:"senior management just finished buying up several failing companies and paying some large bonuses to themselves" perhaps they should start liquidating *executives*...
SB
" Stupid shit like you're describing is why the US is STILL the strongest economy in the world, even in the middle of a depression"
But in the long run it's going to bite the US back hard; like what happened just before and during the Great Depression.
News like this not only has the effect of reducing employee confidance in corporate business models and honesty, it also reduces *consumer confidance* (witness the dot com bust, which is a large part of the reason we are in a depression).
Personally I quit working for companies like this more than a decade ago, went independent, and found my own peace. No, I don't make as much money as I could - but I don't have to put up with this crap either.
Anyone wondering if the next news item we'll see out of Divine is about a company employee "Going Postal"?
To the person who claimed that $30k/year is enough to live on and save money on: Well, that depends on the cost of living in your area, doesn't it? IOW if you live in a small town like me, you can easily live on that salary; whereeas if you live somewhere like LA or Denver, your rent for a nice family apartment will be half your take home pay after taxes....
SB
"uninstall a core part of my application"
If the adware is a "core part" of your application, then you are not selling a media player, you are selling adware (!) and simply bundling it with a media player to get people to download it so you can make money.
Foolish.
SB
Whether or not it's legal or ethical is really irrelevant. It's foolish. The fact that you require Ad-Aware to be uninstalled to install your media player will be in every single review and comment about your product - and with the current flap over adware many and perhaps most people will simply refuse to buy or use the player.
If you were the only player on the market, or offered features the others don't, that would not be a big deal; but face it, there are literally dozens of other choices. You are essentially screwing yourself by requiring this. Remember, Ad-Aware has legitimate uses (I've seen adware -no names- that can cause system instabilities and occasionally hose up a installation thoroughly) - so what you are asking people to do is uninstall a useful tool simply to install a little-known media player.
Oh well, it's your product.....but I wouldn't count on it being popular.
SB
2 x 10 ^ 4 Natalie Portman hairdos!
I'm wondering....does Yoda have a *short* lightsaber?
In all seriousness, the battle scenes in the trailers look
fantastic....
"This is what, the 4th arm-cutting incident in the series? "
;-)
Lightsabers are dangerous.
Don't wave it at Daddy, because Daddy will get very, very angry...
Really, I suspect losing a limb or two (or three) would be very common lightsaber injuries.....
I've replaced a half dozen of the Kenwood 72x drives at work over the last couple years - all dead. Seems they wore out within a year or so of purchase.
SB
But compared to Microsoft's licensing, the GPL is practically a free lunch (not quite, but a helluva lot closer) which makes portability that much easier.
SB
"Damn fingers, they keep capitalizing the word Microsoft.....
How about:
Moderate this .|..
sb
"He will buy the government if he has to"
;-)
He has already bought the DOJ, but I suspect that the states will be a little tougher proposition.
SB
"Who the hell do you think you are, Al Gore? If so, thanks very much for your generous decision to release "the Web" into the public domain! I would hate to see "the Web" under some license!"
This really should be modded up, for political humor and pointing out the idiocy of current US government web policy.
SB
An anonymous post does not mean it's not good, just that the poster doesn't want a Rant of Trolls descending upon him/her like Hitchcock's birds. Yes, I have a beef with the AC mod. FY2. Sue me.
" Sorry, but selling GPL'd software is pointless. One guy will buy it for whatever it costs and then post it up on some website or on Kazaa and it'll spread if enough people want it. "
Where is this different from commercially licensed software? I fail to understand your point.
SB
Mod parent up, for this:
"The source, after all, is the truest documentation of how the code works."
Which is an indisputable fact.
SB
If you'd been troubleshooting frivolous windows problems as long as I have, you would understand.
SB
Dumbass.
2 /0 4-17glc.asp
Note the URL. It it MICROSOFT'S WEB SITE:
http://www.microsoft.com/billgates/speeches/200
where, if you search the page, you find, about 3/4 down:
" And so that's where we part company. We say there should be an eco-system so something like VSB, which is a free form of UNIX, but it's not "
Read The Fucking Article.
I submit to Slashdot that if Microsoft has published this on their website, put up with public commentary on it (which I imagine was tremendous) and HAS NOT ISSUED A CORRECTION, that it stands as comments made.
Over 22 years of watching all this insanity, I have yet to see Bill Gates make any speech in public where he did not make at least one, and usually more, really stupid mistakes. Now some of you microserfs can believe that it's "transcription error" but IMO either he has hired McDonald's personnel for his script writing, or he has no idea what he is talking about. Any takers for a debate on that?
Sheesh.
SB
Where the fuck does he get off calling the computer world an 'ecosystem'? That is ignorance at it's finest. "ecosystem"="ecology" which refers to living things, not the global computer network.
OMG.
I am stunned. Astounded. Totally thrown out of whack by the fact that this above post got modded +5 Funny. Methinks that a human moderator actually READ THE POST. I personally found it hilarious.
What I didn't find hilarious was that between loading the page again, reading down (about 2 minutes) and clicking reply, the post somehow got modded from 5 Funny to 3. WTF?
Great rant!!!
SB