(2) Your peace is not their peace. Radical Islamists want the world to be Moslem. Some others would prefer there to be NO Moslems. Some prefer equality of opportunity, while others prefer equality of poverty. Some want a modern world, while others will only be happy with a Year Zero Khmer Rouge-style approach. You can't make them all happy, simultaneously.
How on earth does a post promoting peace get modded as a troll, and this garbage gets modded up??
First off, Khmer Rouge was given money and weapons by your damn gov't, so start bitching about the right people. And try reading 'Manufacturing Consent' and seeing who the real terrorists in southeast asia were.
Second, the radical Islamists you're talking about don't want the world to become Muslim. The biggest freak of them all, bin Laden just wants the US to leave middle eastern countries alone. The US of course won't do that, so bin laden thinks it's ok to use deadly force.
The people that really dont want peace would be weapons manufacturing companies. As other people have pointed out, the weapons industry is worth hundreds of billions of dollars.
not yet it isn't. But that'll change thanks to the fud fest on/.
SB: Hey Bill, I just got a great idea!
BG: what's that Steve?
SB: I just saw it on a site called divide-dot...
BG: Uh, I think you mean slashdot...
SB: yeah, whatever, so why dont we turn XForms and XDoc into a pdf-killer format. Adobe is taking up too much market share and they deserve some competition.
BG: I dunno, they're already pretty entrenched.
SB: well I guess you're right. The research will cost about 100 million dollars....
BG: Why didn't you say so? [pulls out wallet...] Here you go...
Roll up monitors and roll up keyboards together with a small pc like the cappuccino could make a pretty good on the go solution. Now all we need are some portable fuel cells for power to complete the picture...
"How could the makers of such a thing sleep at night?"
No, no. Vampires sleep during the day.
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If this is really "A system that is complete and functional as soon as you finish installing" does it still gracefully handle the power of dpkg/apt through XandrosUpdate?
From the Xandros website:
* Advanced users can direct Xandros Update to point to other Debian package repositories including the Debian GNU/Linux servers.
I like the easy to use GNU/Linux distro's. I've been able to convert several of my friends to GNU/Linux by promoting such distro's (especially Mandrake). But I'm using Sid right now, and I also promote Debian. I might buy Xandros to give it a look... and once I buy a copy (or anyone else does for that matter) I can make it freely available to anyone I know... or heck, anyone that asks me for a copy... So you're telling me all you geeks that are complaining about no free d/l dont know a single person that would buy it and burn you a copy???
LINUX: your car gets great mileage and doesn't pollute too much. But it looks ugly, and the only people that appreciate it are others that drive cars that get great mileage and dont pollute. Oh, and there's always a guy running behind you yelling "GNU! GNU! GNU!"
'What if Malcolm X evangelized Macs? Would he really?' Some think he would.
hell no. Malcolm X, who actually again changed his name to El Hajj Malik El Shabazz, because he wanted to leave behind the X moniker after leaving the Nation of Islam. Of course he was also subsequently assassinated by members of the Nation of Islam (in front of his family no less). The movie is ok since it's something artistic, but to go further and use the memory of Malcolm X to sell computers is rather distasteful and disrespectful.
post an article about the company's horrible treatment of employees on slashdot, and then go to your former employer and threaten to name names if they dont double your package. And having a few million people melt their web servers would be a nice added touch...
I've been using it for quite some time, and I love it since it's nice and easy to use and very fast. But if you think that it will replace a company like Oracle, you're way off. MySQL is cool, but it can't handle nearly what Oracle or even DB2 can. Those bigger DB's run the biggest stuff for a reason. There's no way that MySQL (as it is today) could handle the loads that they do. It may happen in the future, but that's a ways off. There is no current threat at all to the big guys. Sure not everyone that uses the bigger DB's needs their full potential, so some could switch to MySQL. But the biggest databases will stay with the commercial vendors. But the GPL license isn't a problem, since you can buy commercial licenses for MySQL so that it can be distributed with non-free software. So that's a non-issue.
at all. We did this in one of our labs with the self-titled cyborg, Dr.Steve Mann, at University of Toronto. It was lab 5... you can see for yourself. The class websites are at....
well that's no surprise. HP has supported Debian quite a bit and they employee a few people that have been Debian project leaders including current leader Bdale Garbee.
enough mistakes made by human soldiers as it is? Won't trusting murderous weapons to robots be a serious risk? Seriously, already more civilians have been killed in Afghanistan in fighting the Taleban/Al Qaeda than were killed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. On top of the most recent bombing of a wedding ceremony by american pilots. How the hell are they going to stop robots from killing just as many if not more civilians in future attacks? I guess they think that as long as none of their soldiers are hurt, it doesn't matter how many others (civilians or not) are killed.
I'm not the only person that realizes that a klein bottle can't be made with lego? Or with anything that we know of... klein bottles can't really be represented in three dimensions...
‹shameless self promotion›
in university. Actually, I got to do it in class with the Cyberman himself, Steve Mann.
Dr.Mann liked it enough to put it on his website:)
http://wearcam.org/dusting/ece385fame2001/lcd/
‹/shamless self promotion›
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So, an XBox costs 20$ and comes with 10 games now?
no. But the XBox controller weighs 5 pounds...
(2) Your peace is not their peace. Radical Islamists want the world to be Moslem. Some others would prefer there to be NO Moslems. Some prefer equality of opportunity, while others prefer equality of poverty. Some want a modern world, while others will only be happy with a Year Zero Khmer Rouge-style approach. You can't make them all happy, simultaneously.
How on earth does a post promoting peace get modded as a troll, and this garbage gets modded up??
First off, Khmer Rouge was given money and weapons by your damn gov't, so start bitching about the right people. And try reading 'Manufacturing Consent' and seeing who the real terrorists in southeast asia were.
Second, the radical Islamists you're talking about don't want the world to become Muslim. The biggest freak of them all, bin Laden just wants the US to leave middle eastern countries alone. The US of course won't do that, so bin laden thinks it's ok to use deadly force.
The people that really dont want peace would be weapons manufacturing companies. As other people have pointed out, the weapons industry is worth hundreds of billions of dollars.
not yet it isn't. But that'll change thanks to the fud fest on /.
SB: Hey Bill, I just got a great idea!
BG: what's that Steve?
SB: I just saw it on a site called divide-dot...
BG: Uh, I think you mean slashdot...
SB: yeah, whatever, so why dont we turn XForms and XDoc into a pdf-killer format. Adobe is taking up too much market share and they deserve some competition.
BG: I dunno, they're already pretty entrenched.
SB: well I guess you're right. The research will cost about 100 million dollars....
BG: Why didn't you say so? [pulls out wallet...] Here you go...
just cut out the middle-man. Sell your own phone number to the companies. That'll show those telco's!
GNU/Linux edges it out in the performance... but we all know the real reason to use MacOS.
Roll up monitors and roll up keyboards together with a small pc like the cappuccino could make a pretty good on the go solution. Now all we need are some portable fuel cells for power to complete the picture...
Because union meetings would amount to drinking beer and eating pizza. And thus our union demands would amount to asking for more beer and pizza.
Because we as IT staff are cheap and plentiful. Just ask all the
because they're cheaper...?
See last response...
because we email each other crap and read pr0n.
Not enough pr0n?
"How could the makers of such a thing sleep at night?"
No, no. Vampires sleep during the day.
If this is really "A system that is complete and functional as soon as you finish installing" does it still gracefully handle the power of dpkg/apt through XandrosUpdate?
From the Xandros website:
* Advanced users can direct Xandros Update to point to other Debian package repositories including the Debian GNU/Linux servers.
I like the easy to use GNU/Linux distro's. I've been able to convert several of my friends to GNU/Linux by promoting such distro's (especially Mandrake).
But I'm using Sid right now, and I also promote Debian. I might buy Xandros to give it a look... and once I buy a copy (or anyone else does for that matter) I can make it freely available to anyone I know... or heck, anyone that asks me for a copy...
So you're telling me all you geeks that are complaining about no free d/l dont know a single person that would buy it and burn you a copy???
LINUX: your car gets great mileage and doesn't pollute too much. But it looks ugly, and the only people that appreciate it are others that drive cars that get great mileage and dont pollute.
Oh, and there's always a guy running behind you yelling "GNU! GNU! GNU!"
'What if Malcolm X evangelized Macs? Would he really?' Some think he would.
hell no. Malcolm X, who actually again changed his name to El Hajj Malik El Shabazz, because he wanted to leave behind the X moniker after leaving the Nation of Islam. Of course he was also subsequently assassinated by members of the Nation of Islam (in front of his family no less).
The movie is ok since it's something artistic, but to go further and use the memory of Malcolm X to sell computers is rather distasteful and disrespectful.
I certainly don't want *my* favorite sites dissappearing just because some amoral jackass decided he needs the money more than they do.
Then stop using Kazaa to steal warez and moviez you amoral jackass!
..links to FARC are bad... because FARC and other rebels in Columbia are the
only evil people there...
post an article about the company's horrible treatment of employees on slashdot, and then go to your former employer and threaten to name names if they dont double your package.
And having a few million people melt their web servers would be a nice added touch...
fill in the blank questions...
1. All your base are belong to ___ ?
I've been using it for quite some time, and I love it since it's nice and easy to use and very fast.
But if you think that it will replace a company like Oracle, you're way off. MySQL is cool, but it can't handle nearly what Oracle or even DB2 can.
Those bigger DB's run the biggest stuff for a reason. There's no way that MySQL (as it is today) could handle the loads that they do. It may happen in the future, but that's a ways off. There is no current threat at all to the big guys.
Sure not everyone that uses the bigger DB's needs their full potential, so some could switch to MySQL. But the biggest databases will stay with the commercial vendors.
But the GPL license isn't a problem, since you can buy commercial licenses for MySQL so that it can be distributed with non-free software. So that's a non-issue.
at all. We did this in one of our labs with the self-titled cyborg, Dr.Steve Mann, at University of Toronto. It was lab 5... you can see for yourself. The class websites are at....
http://eyetap.org/ece385/
http://wearcam.org/ece385/
if you know a little about device drivers, then this isn't very hard...
well that's no surprise. HP has supported Debian quite a bit and they employee a few people that have been Debian project leaders including current leader Bdale Garbee.
enough mistakes made by human soldiers as it is?
Won't trusting murderous weapons to robots be a serious risk? Seriously, already more civilians have been killed in Afghanistan in fighting the Taleban/Al Qaeda than were killed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. On top of the most recent bombing of a wedding ceremony by american pilots.
How the hell are they going to stop robots from killing just as many if not more civilians in future attacks? I guess they think that as long as none of their soldiers are hurt, it doesn't matter how many others (civilians or not) are killed.
Harry Potter: what you say?
Jeez, what a way to honour your country...
by misspelling *Delaware*!
I'm not the only person that realizes that a klein bottle can't be made with lego? Or with anything that we know of...
klein bottles can't really be represented in three dimensions...
"It's for geeks," said Faber Fedor, a New Jersey-based consultant who helps small businesses upgrade to Linux.
They correctly refer to it as "upgrading" when you install GNU/Linux over windoze...
‹shameless self promotion› in university. Actually, I got to do it in class with the Cyberman himself, Steve Mann. :)
Dr.Mann liked it enough to put it on his website
http://wearcam.org/dusting/ece385fame2001/lcd/
‹/shamless self promotion›