Couldn't food production be carbon neutral if it weren't for the use of fossil fuels in fertilizer production, transportation, etc. Couldn't bicycle production be carbon neutral if it weren't for the use of fossil fuels in the manufacturing process. Cow farts and methane? If cattle eat grass(not corn feed which is fertilizer heavy hence fossil fuel heavy) doesn't the grass capture green house emissions.
This just seems like nerds playing with mathematical calculations and global warming deniers taking stuff out of context to spread disinformation. The problem is fossil fuels or the taking or stored carbon and releasing it, not whether you ride a bike or not. I could be off base here, as I have done little research of my own into this topic, this all seems like a bunch of hot air or cow farts.
People contribute to open source projects for a complex web of reasons, they may love the challenge or the joy of programming in itself, but high on that list of reasons is the sense of accomplishment and approval people require as social beings from their peers. It is a denial of human nature, our essence as social animals, to say men or women don't or shouldn't need this cultural approval.
If males weren’t accepted as themselves in the FOSS they’d move on. Why should women be any different?
The technology industry, especially the FOSS community possibly because of its skewed younger demographic, is one large fraternity with avert and subtextual sexism at its heart.
One of course could lay the blame on internet anonymity or relegate the problem to just a small minority of actors, but you’d just be lying to yourself and ignoring the utterly pervasive sexist and fraternity like atmosphere that pervades throughout the whole FOSS community and the technology community at large. Code might be judged in open source projects by merit only, but that is as far as the egalitarian spirit goes. Not a single women in the technology industry, is judged by the wider male audience on her merits; instead it is how hot she is, or how she got her job because of her looks, or any other number of sexist judgements.
The problem doesn’t just stop there. It's the disparaging jokes, the sexual innuendo, the frat house culture, all of which we as a community seem to except and adopt as the social norm. It is a larger transgression to disparage some meaningless technology idea or method, than to spout sexist filth.
We have turned our community over to sexist assholes, not by any direct vote or action but by simply excepting herd-like the current social norms of the FOSS community. We really should be ashamed of ourselves.
You are correct in a sense. Corn ethanol is too inefficient for large scale use. In fact, it is too inefficient for feedstock use. Yet is still one of the primary sources of feedstock. Even though, genetically altered feedstock would be more efficient. Requiring less labor, less pesticides, and most importantly requiring less fertilizer. Fertilizer created from natural gas a fossil fuel, that are country has just hit its "Hubbert Peak" in. This is why we are building LNG or liquid natural gas facilities. Making us more dependent on foriegn sources of fuel.
However, cellulosic ethanol is not a "BAD BAD" idea. Broadly saying ethanol is bad leaves this out. In fact, cellulosic ethanol would work and potentially be as cheap as gas is currently. Plus the benefit of ethanol compared to other next-gen fuels, is ethanol(E85) and gasoline, the kind you get now, can run in the same engine fairly easily. Using flex fuel technologies.
I want to quickly say, the more you look at our(U.S.) and the World's problems from energy to agriculture. You realize we need more then just a new energy policy. We need another industrial revolution. One for the 21st century. The problems are bigger than most be think. We have to move a consuming, wasteful civilization, to one that has a net-plus or neutral effect on the natural world. Hopefully though, we don't have to wait for the 22nd century for that to happen.
Sorry but that is just a red herring. It doesn't even matter. Distributions whether for enterprise clustering or small floppy disk enviroments should still follow THE standards. As an example, this does mean those distributions MUST include X Windows libraries for instance. However if a distribution does include X Windows libraries. The LSB requires you don't put them/in/a/really/hard/to/find/path. The libraries go in standard locations, hence things just work.
You're absolutely correct. UNIX vendors tried this a long time ago and failed. The problem became you had multiple UNIX vendors accomplishing the same thing multiple different ways with no standards between them. This, of course, was one of the major downfalls of UNIX, and in part why it failed and how NT and Windows prevailed.
The Linux server world and ESPECIALLY the desktop world are falling into the same trap. Multiple vendors solving the same problem different ways. It is becoming more and more obvious that standardization is next big test of Linux. Linux will NEVER grow out of it's niche if vendors and developers don't start participating in standards.
I don't know why everyone in the open source community feels compelled in chasing behind Microsoft technologies, whether it be Mono or Wine. When I talk to people about the benefits of Linux and open source; I always seem to always mention Apache, Perl, and MySQL. I mention these products not because there based on or copied from Microsoft technology. It's because they are innovative open source projects. These open source projects do well not because there open source; but because there BETTER then there closed source counterparts.
We shouldn't lag behind and chase Microsoft's coattails. We should instead innovate; create our own.NET our own technologies, and make them BETTER then their closed-source counterparts. That's the only way we win. You cannot win a race by chasing your enemy. You must pull ahead.
The first Halo didn't have any puzzles nor I doubt will the second. Watch the in game demo and you'll see there is definately enough shooting and killing things to satisfy your rage.
Bungie has always been about making games with an incredible single player experience with an incredible story. Marathon, one of Bungie's first games, came out around 8 years ago, and people still argue about the story. The whole Doom series, Quake, and even Half-life just get boring after playing the single player once. What keeps people coming back is a good story. Not just mindless action; why are there zombies again?
I'm glad a company like Bungie is actually pushing the envelope of what a good game actually is. Not just the same old game with better graphics.
Doom 3 preview is just the same old thing with just better graphics. Not to flame but I mean come on, when you start the preview of with "And then something went terribly wrong", it just sounds like another Friday the Thriteenth movie.
On the other hand, watch the E3 "in game demo" of Halo 2 and you'll be absolutely stunned. There really aren't any words to describe the coolness of this game. This game is going to be absolutely incredible.
Search KaZaa for halo2, halo2demo or halo 2 demo; and you should find the bootlegged video of the demo.
I can see how NASA plan came into effect, it was a simple meeting between George Tenet(CIA Director) and Donald Rumsfeld.
Rumsfeld: Tenet where is Osama Bin Laden? Tenet: I have no clue! Maybe he's on the Moon? Hah. Rumsfeld: Really?
Later that night...
Rumsfeld: Mr. President, I know where Osama Bin Laden is. Bush: Where? Rumsfeld: On the Moon! Bush: BOMB THEM!!!
Linus is right but...
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I think Linux forgot, when most people talk of Linux they mean not the Kernel but distributions like Red Hat, SuSE, or Mandrake. I think Linus is mistaking that the argument has to do with the Kernel. The Linux Kernel would be able to support DRM technology as Linus pointed out, but Linux distributions would have no way of distributing Linux DRM technology.
DRM products are closed source programs, which can't be reversed engineering because there protected by the DMCA. DRM will effectively lock out Linux distributions from all future media and could destroy the Linux market.
Child pornography is a major problem, but the problem isn't solved by stupid legislation. Why do we needs laws punishing ISP's and not the child pornographers themselves?
Why don't we instead of making new dumb laws? Why don't we just trace the money these child pornography companies make and catch the real criminals?
Pushing the work over to the private sector so the government doesn't have to actually do detective work. Just seems stupid.
I've never liked the fact that CERT was more or less an exclusive security club. It's obvious that hackers monitor the mailing list and know the vulnerablities before majority of everyone else in the world.
CERT should instead, stick with helping behind the scenes coordination between security agencies like eEye and software companies; and should stop publishing unfixed problems to a CERT's underground mailing list.
The soldiers/spy/diplomat would have the same problem we had in the gulf war with laser guided bombs. A little sand storm, clouds, rain, anything other then nice weather your screwed. Not to mention, how would these things would work in buildings?
Wouldn't a better solution be cellphones which support heavy encryption?
Jason Yates
Pumpkin Chunking!!
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The do this yearly a little south of where I live. If your in the Delaware valley, you have to check it out. Theres nothing like watching a pumpkin travel a mile!
I'm really rooting for this video format, and have been following it's development pretty closely. If theres one area that needs to be standardized it's this one. I'm tired of having 3 bloatware programs(real,quicktime,wmp) just to watch streaming videos, and not even going to talk about watching them on Linux.
But a format like this one causes standardization which creates interoperability. Which would make life easy for the consumer, but goes against certain corporate agenda's. So it's doubtful this format will take off for awhile.
First of, I think one of the best features Linux has can hurt it in this area. Personally if I was a hacker. I'd rather root a Linux just because it's easier to administer remotely.
Secondly, hackers pretty much all run BSD or Linux. Script kiddies are going to hack what they know and sadly that is Linux.
Slashdot Mirror
Am I missing something?
Couldn't food production be carbon neutral if it weren't for the use of fossil fuels in fertilizer production, transportation, etc.
Couldn't bicycle production be carbon neutral if it weren't for the use of fossil fuels in the manufacturing process.
Cow farts and methane? If cattle eat grass(not corn feed which is fertilizer heavy hence fossil fuel heavy) doesn't the grass capture green house emissions.
This just seems like nerds playing with mathematical calculations and global warming deniers taking stuff out of context to spread disinformation. The problem is fossil fuels or the taking or stored carbon and releasing it, not whether you ride a bike or not. I could be off base here, as I have done little research of my own into this topic, this all seems like a bunch of hot air or cow farts.
People contribute to open source projects for a complex web of reasons, they may love the challenge or the joy of programming in itself, but high on that list of reasons is the sense of accomplishment and approval people require as social beings from their peers. It is a denial of human nature, our essence as social animals, to say men or women don't or shouldn't need this cultural approval.
If males weren’t accepted as themselves in the FOSS they’d move on. Why should women be any different?
The technology industry, especially the FOSS community possibly because of its skewed younger demographic, is one large fraternity with avert and subtextual sexism at its heart.
One of course could lay the blame on internet anonymity or relegate the problem to just a small minority of actors, but you’d just be lying to yourself and ignoring the utterly pervasive sexist and fraternity like atmosphere that pervades throughout the whole FOSS community and the technology community at large. Code might be judged in open source projects by merit only, but that is as far as the egalitarian spirit goes. Not a single women in the technology industry, is judged by the wider male audience on her merits; instead it is how hot she is, or how she got her job because of her looks, or any other number of sexist judgements.
The problem doesn’t just stop there. It's the disparaging jokes, the sexual innuendo, the frat house culture, all of which we as a community seem to except and adopt as the social norm. It is a larger transgression to disparage some meaningless technology idea or method, than to spout sexist filth.
We have turned our community over to sexist assholes, not by any direct vote or action but by simply excepting herd-like the current social norms of the FOSS community. We really should be ashamed of ourselves.
You are correct in a sense. Corn ethanol is too inefficient for large scale use. In fact, it is too inefficient for feedstock use. Yet is still one of the primary sources of feedstock. Even though, genetically altered feedstock would be more efficient. Requiring less labor, less pesticides, and most importantly requiring less fertilizer. Fertilizer created from natural gas a fossil fuel, that are country has just hit its "Hubbert Peak" in. This is why we are building LNG or liquid natural gas facilities. Making us more dependent on foriegn sources of fuel. However, cellulosic ethanol is not a "BAD BAD" idea. Broadly saying ethanol is bad leaves this out. In fact, cellulosic ethanol would work and potentially be as cheap as gas is currently. Plus the benefit of ethanol compared to other next-gen fuels, is ethanol(E85) and gasoline, the kind you get now, can run in the same engine fairly easily. Using flex fuel technologies. I want to quickly say, the more you look at our(U.S.) and the World's problems from energy to agriculture. You realize we need more then just a new energy policy. We need another industrial revolution. One for the 21st century. The problems are bigger than most be think. We have to move a consuming, wasteful civilization, to one that has a net-plus or neutral effect on the natural world. Hopefully though, we don't have to wait for the 22nd century for that to happen.
Sorry but that is just a red herring. It doesn't even matter. Distributions whether for enterprise clustering or small floppy disk enviroments should still follow THE standards. As an example, this does mean those distributions MUST include X Windows libraries for instance. However if a distribution does include X Windows libraries. The LSB requires you don't put them /in/a/really/hard/to/find/path. The libraries go in standard locations, hence things just work.
You're absolutely correct. UNIX vendors tried this a long time ago and failed. The problem became you had multiple UNIX vendors accomplishing the same thing multiple different ways with no standards between them. This, of course, was one of the major downfalls of UNIX, and in part why it failed and how NT and Windows prevailed.
The Linux server world and ESPECIALLY the desktop world are falling into the same trap. Multiple vendors solving the same problem different ways. It is becoming more and more obvious that standardization is next big test of Linux. Linux will NEVER grow out of it's niche if vendors and developers don't start participating in standards.
I don't know why everyone in the open source community feels compelled in chasing behind Microsoft technologies, whether it be Mono or Wine. When I talk to people about the benefits of Linux and open source; I always seem to always mention Apache, Perl, and MySQL. I mention these products not because there based on or copied from Microsoft technology. It's because they are innovative open source projects. These open source projects do well not because there open source; but because there BETTER then there closed source counterparts.
.NET our own technologies, and make them BETTER then their closed-source counterparts. That's the only way we win. You cannot win a race by chasing your enemy. You must pull ahead.
We shouldn't lag behind and chase Microsoft's coattails. We should instead innovate; create our own
Anyone else want to punch this Darl McBride guy right in the FACE?
You don't have to wait much longer for the PC version of Halo. Check out Halo PC FAQ on Bungie's web site.
The first Halo didn't have any puzzles nor I doubt will the second. Watch the in game demo and you'll see there is definately enough shooting and killing things to satisfy your rage.
Bungie has always been about making games with an incredible single player experience with an incredible story. Marathon, one of Bungie's first games, came out around 8 years ago, and people still argue about the story. The whole Doom series, Quake, and even Half-life just get boring after playing the single player once. What keeps people coming back is a good story. Not just mindless action; why are there zombies again?
I'm glad a company like Bungie is actually pushing the envelope of what a good game actually is. Not just the same old game with better graphics.
Doom 3 preview is just the same old thing with just better graphics. Not to flame but I mean come on, when you start the preview of with "And then something went terribly wrong", it just sounds like another Friday the Thriteenth movie.
On the other hand, watch the E3 "in game demo" of Halo 2 and you'll be absolutely stunned. There really aren't any words to describe the coolness of this game. This game is going to be absolutely incredible.
Search KaZaa for halo2, halo2demo or halo 2 demo; and you should find the bootlegged video of the demo.
I don't know about anyone else, but I'm not having any trouble getting to the servers?
This french site has the movies mirrored.
o ad &filtre1=Video&filtre2=1
http://www.halo-game.com/index.php?de=0&p=downl
I can see how NASA plan came into effect, it was a simple meeting between George Tenet(CIA Director) and Donald Rumsfeld.
Rumsfeld: Tenet where is Osama Bin Laden?
Tenet: I have no clue! Maybe he's on the Moon? Hah.
Rumsfeld: Really?
Later that night...
Rumsfeld: Mr. President, I know where Osama Bin Laden is.
Bush: Where?
Rumsfeld: On the Moon!
Bush: BOMB THEM!!!
I think Linux forgot, when most people talk of Linux they mean not the Kernel but distributions like Red Hat, SuSE, or Mandrake. I think Linus is mistaking that the argument has to do with the Kernel. The Linux Kernel would be able to support DRM technology as Linus pointed out, but Linux distributions would have no way of distributing Linux DRM technology.
DRM products are closed source programs, which can't be reversed engineering because there protected by the DMCA. DRM will effectively lock out Linux distributions from all future media and could destroy the Linux market.
Child pornography is a major problem, but the problem isn't solved by stupid legislation. Why do we needs laws punishing ISP's and not the child pornographers themselves?
Why don't we instead of making new dumb laws? Why don't we just trace the money these child pornography companies make and catch the real criminals?
Pushing the work over to the private sector so the government doesn't have to actually do detective work. Just seems stupid.
I've never liked the fact that CERT was more or less an exclusive security club. It's obvious that hackers monitor the mailing list and know the vulnerablities before majority of everyone else in the world.
CERT should instead, stick with helping behind the scenes coordination between security agencies like eEye and software companies; and should stop publishing unfixed problems to a CERT's underground mailing list.
Here's how to hack any AOL account, for educational purposes only.
The soldiers/spy/diplomat would have the same problem we had in the gulf war with laser guided bombs. A little sand storm, clouds, rain, anything other then nice weather your screwed. Not to mention, how would these things would work in buildings?
Wouldn't a better solution be cellphones which support heavy encryption?
Jason Yates
The do this yearly a little south of where I live. If your in the Delaware valley, you have to check it out. Theres nothing like watching a pumpkin travel a mile!
/ 20 01/11/02itsahighflyingf.htmlm pionshippunkinchunkin.com/
http://www.delawareonline.com/newsjournal/local
http://www.worldcha
I'm really rooting for this video format, and have been following it's development pretty closely. If theres one area that needs to be standardized it's this one. I'm tired of having 3 bloatware programs(real,quicktime,wmp) just to watch streaming videos, and not even going to talk about watching them on Linux.
But a format like this one causes standardization which creates interoperability. Which would make life easy for the consumer, but goes against certain corporate agenda's. So it's doubtful this format will take off for awhile.
First of, I think one of the best features Linux has can hurt it in this area. Personally if I was a hacker. I'd rather root a Linux just because it's easier to administer remotely.
Secondly, hackers pretty much all run BSD or Linux. Script kiddies are going to hack what they know and sadly that is Linux.
-Jason Yates
Some more info on,
http://feynman.princeton.edu/~steinh/
Check out, http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-847712.html and SuSe already supports it, http://www.suse.com/us/press/press_releases/archiv e02/x86_64.html
-Jason Yates