It's great that there wern't websites back in the days of the Weimar Republic. They would have probably needed to upgrade DNS to fit all of those digits.
There is a fair bit of arrogance renaming someone else's measurements without using them yourself. What are you going to do next rename Bordeaux into Bordo so you can get your heads around other French concepts?
GPS muntions are prohibitively expensive for just about everyone else except the US.
No, you can build a satilite guided JDAM for less than $1K if you want. That is not the problem. The problem is that in order for them to be useful you need your own satilite navigation network which is where the prohibitive cost comes into it. There are only two such networks, GPS and GLONASS belonging to the two countries that have satilite guided bombs (as you would frigging expect). That is one of the main reasons that the EU is building this network at the moment, so that they can have a satilite coordinated military. The EU countries have no smart bombs and cruise missiles at the moment because they have no satilite network that they can rely on, no fucking dah! Why the hell else would they be building one?
What sort of a moron am I talking to? Did you comment just in order to prove my argument or did you honestly think you were making a legitimate point?
Satellite positioning networks have many applications, but most of them are military. They are used to guide cruise missiles and modern smart bombs, they are used to coordinate air-strikes and artillery barrages. A modern armed force would be quite stuck without this technology. While it is not likely that there will be a war between any European country and the US any time soon, relations between these two areas have become fairly shaky of late. Many right wing US politicians denounce the French and German governments quite openly and therefore these governments are not really sure that if they needed to defend themselves by firing GPS guided munitions that the US would not simply turn the system off.
While bush-walkers and sailors can safely rely on a foreign system to help them out, when you are going to war (as is disturbingly possible for almost any country at any point in time) it really helps to own your own equipment. I think this move to create their own system is very prudent.
Hmm, the largest nation on earth managed to get a human to orbit the earth twice before coming down alive in 1961. The largest nation on earth kept a fully operating space station orbiting the planet for twenty years. The largest nation on earth was the first to put robots on the moon. The largest nation on earth has flown countless missions to space to execute many experiments and successful satilite launches. The largest nation on earth has put probes on Venus, and surveyed mars with radar.
Most importantly the largest nation on earth pioneered the principles that Space Ship One will rely on. If you think this project even compares to the achievements of the Russian space program you are either very ignorent or very stupid.
I am not Russian or anything but I am sick of morons that can't tell the difference between launching a Cosmonaut for two round trips of the planet 43 years ago with the aid of possibly a single computer (not on board), primitive materials and theoretical equasions and flying a plane at a sub-orbital altitude with the aid of 40 years of space research to build from. Oh, and also the morons that can't tell the difference between putting people on the moon and "winning".
I of cause wish the Space Ship One Team luck, but they can never achieve such a victory for the human race as Gargarin did that day when he left the planet for the first time ever.
Gnome has remained ABI stable since 2.0 (two years ago). So basically any app less than 2 years old will run on a linux/gnome system. This is not nearly as good as XP, but it is still respectable. Gnome 2.8 will be released in september, and guess what it is ABI compatible with? Yes! 2.0, just like the version before was. And of cause one can install gnome 2.x libraries in parralel to gnome 1.x libraries, meaning that to upgrade one doesn't have to do anything like "hosing gnome"
Basically I think you are overstating the problem just a tad and being a little melodramatic. Yes, gnome isn't as ABI stable as Win32 but it is far from as bad as you make out. I know some very hard-core gnome core developers who are still using 2.0 because they have not been forced to upgrade and they can DEVELOP their components (for the 2.8 release) quite fine on their long-obsolete but still compatible systems.
I thought you said: "I couldn't find a job for almost 2 years in anything IT or related after getting laid in july of 2002". And my immediate thought was "how does someone expect to prove they are a propper geek if they go around having sex occasionally?".
I was at a lan party once, and someone brought along their cat empire cd. My mate asked to borrow it in order to rip it. He was warned against that by its owner because of the label. But when it was actually tried, it ripped perfectly without a single hitch. My explanation was that the copy protection was based on the most fundimental concept of copy protection circumvention: "where there is a will there is a way" and that Cat Empire merely attacks that will with it's content. Unfortunently I was surrounded by fans and I had many things thrown at me for the rest of the evening... I hate lan parties.
I have the distinct feeling I have been trolled. However I will continue regardless.
Firstly, Little boy and fat man were both A-bombs, the N-bomb was developed far later and never used in actual warfare. Secondly they wern't guided, they were parachute retarded. Thirdly one of the reasons Hiroshima was chosen over Kyoto as the target of the first bomb is that Hiroshima had a larger amount of military infrastruture.
Forthly, the Japaneese started the war in the pacific. They invaded China, Malasia, Singapore and New Guinea amongst others. They sunk British and American merchant ships, they murdered millions of chineese civilians in cold blood, they carpet bombed Darwin, they starved POWs and they torpedoed American warships without declaring war. Basically they started an evil war, and the Americans had to nuke them in order to get them to stop. This is a little different than sending baloons over the pacific in order to help their tyranny over Asia to continue.
How many Polish sysadmins does it take to change all the lightbulbs in a hotel?
Two. One to install a single HUGE lightbulb in the center, and another to tell the management that it would be a lot brighter if they had a more "shallow" structure of rooms.
I like Gnome; I want it to be successful; I HAVE contributed to the project in numerous ways
You think that contributing to Gnome proves you like it? I spent probably 20-30 hours of the last week coding one of it's libraries and I still detest it:)
It will still need a method for actually tranferring the data. Something like Bluetooth, Wifi or Cables is needed to actually tranfer the data. The pen simply tells the computer to initiate the transfer, it doesn't actually copy data itself, that is up to the computers.
Have you thought about using an older version of KDE?
KDE3 is newer than even windows XP, it stands to reason it would be a little sluggish on older PCs. It is simply not fair to compare the latest version of a product against a version of another product that was actually designed to run on that vintage hardware. KDE1 is quite a usable little system, though. I don't think KDE has really improved much as far as usibility is conserned since then although the eycandy has got much nicer. Just like windows 98SE to XP (although granted XP pro is a bit more stable).
Your other option is of cause Gnome. Gnome seems to get a little lighter and far faster with each successive version which is a good thing because old versions ran like slugs (I'm talking REALLY bad).
There is more use to terminals than compiling your kernel over and over as well.
Just because someone has no need for a gui doesn't make them elitist. The grandparent post was mainly refering to experienced computer users. Obviously a beginner needs more help, but experianced users who use DEs (I use Gnome myself even though I like to think of myself as hardcore) do it mainly because it looks nice and it has gimmicks, that's why I have always either used Gnome or KDE and am not planning on giving them up.
One can achieve a lot through a text interface, it is not the only way to do things, but it is a legitimate way to do things, and for many people it is the most efficient way to do something. File operations are especially fast from the console. Things like spreadsheets and video editors can be invoked through the console with FVWM just fine.
I agree with the grandparent. If you have the skills to live without one, using a DE is a personal preference. I have chosen to use one because of my playful instinct and the grandparent has chosen not to use one because of their desire for efficiency. These are both legitimate causes of action.
It's a tradeoff for other concessions. Australians get agricultural deliverables as a result of this.
B.S.
The only places where Australia could stand to gain is exporting things that America is short on and therefore likely to buy. The main example is sugar cane. And what is the key agricultural product that is exculded from the free trade agreement? That's right, sugar cane! America already has wheat, they are famous for eating huge chunks of their own local meat, they have cheese, they have cotton, vegetable oil and all manner of things, the only thing that is in wanting with the agricultural production of the US is cheap sucrose
and that's just what we can't supply.
Face it, the majority of America is a fertile farming paridise, our production can't compare to theirs, why would they want to buy our agricultural goods? We could get better money continuing selling to Japan, China, the middle east and Europe (when they have BSE/CJD).
You are crazy if you think anything good could come of this.
Last time I checked Peter Garrett is a washed up alternative rock singer, as apposed to someone with power.
That said, he is running for my electorate, and although it pains me to say this, I am voting for him, even if it causes me to contempt myself for my entire life.
If housewives and streetbums are creating things like this long before it is created by the patenter, then the patenter has created nothing new, just done the same as many people have done before. Thus if the patenter was entitled to the profits of the "invention" then all who have accomplished the same feat must also be entitled to the same amount. As the others are innumerable then why should the patenter be entitled to anything as the procedes cannot reach everyone else.
Patents were created to allow an inventor to have exclusive use of their invention for a limited amount of time to encorage people to put effort into inventing things. What the patent system was not designed for is to encorage people to take patents on things that other people have invented or are obvious through normal human intuition. An inventor is someone who creates something new that will really help consumers. An inventor is not simply someone who puts through paperwork for things that seem obvious. If this was what the patent system was for it would be pointless because it would only be a device for promoting monopolies rather than encouraging innovation.
Personally I think that if someone deserves a 16 year monopoly it is because they have put the time and persperation into an invention and achieved something that may never have been achieved if they didn't, simply marketing an obvious concept hardly qualifies.
Australia Post put their charge up to 50c a while ago. I didn't actually realise myself until long after they changed because I don't use the postal service much anymore.
It's funny how the internet can make you ignorent of such things.
One of them is automatically invoked when the middle mouse button is used or text is selected, another has to be manually invoked (in KDE and Gnome with ctrl+c/ctrl+v)
I believe that getting reasonable on crime is the job of the judiciary. Every time I have seen a punishment get milder it seems it is based on common, rather than statutory law.
Politicians need to butch up to get elected every few years in a public pissing match. A Judge's merit is not found by slinging bullshit every election but by being fair. Where I come from judges are appointed for life, the only way they can loose their job is by making bad choices, therefore a judge has nothing to gain by promising to crucify small time pot dealers in a publicity grab.
If a house is outfitted with plumbing, nobody stops other people from simply copying how the pipes are set up. Plumbers do not cover their pipes with a giant box so nobody can see which pipes are connected to what.
Payware has nothing to do with going to peoples houses and charging for setting computers up and free software has nothing to do with going to peoples houses and setting up things for free. What it is about is creating a single design that may be copied for free or for money. This replication takes an amount of effort bordering around zero, plumbing however takes quite a lot of effort from the tradesman in each instalation.
This debate is about information, this is why comparisons with other trades will not work. The only part of plumbing that software can really be compared to is the basic design. In software this basic design changes with every competing product, with plumbing this basic design has been in place since the third palace of Knossos in Crete was built with running hot and cold water and some semblance of flushing toilets in around 1700 B.C. In plumbing this basic design of tap valves, manifolds, U-bends and O-rings is available to everyone. In software, many people seek to restrict the usage of their own basic designs to those who have payed for it. Plumbers don't hide their information, and software engineers are not expected to install their information on people's PCs. This is why your comparison and similar comparisons are wholly invalid and frankly getting quite tiring and repetitive.
I think this story was about power for the electrical grid. You know, the stuff that powers lights, trains and heavy industry.
You hardly could think that lovelock was advocating a reactor in personal automobiles when he made his plea. Portable power is another issue entirely. Of cause we are running out of oil far quicker than we are running out of coal but you must remember that in places like Calefornia oil is used for power generation, and all over the world coal power plants are pumping out CO2, SO2 and other nasty chemicals. Hydro electric power plants are distroying delicate ecosystems by rediverting water. We need to make our electricity in a better way almost as much as we need to power our cars in a different way.
The power from these ugly solar-thermal power plants will be transported through wires in the same way as the nuclear power plants being discussed and hopefully it will mean that we might be able to shut down a few of Australia's power plants, mainly poluting coal plants and scarring hydroelectric plants. This particualar project is in a rather good position to supply the city of Adelade SA. It also is rather close to the Aluminium smelting plant at Portland Vic. (a process that take an obscene amount of energy).
These towers are very close to high energy demands and will be able to provent a hell of a lot of polution.
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It's great that there wern't websites back in the days of the Weimar Republic. They would have probably needed to upgrade DNS to fit all of those digits.
You will notice however that throughout all of the flying circus episodes they only actually let him speak twice.
There is a fair bit of arrogance renaming someone else's measurements without using them yourself. What are you going to do next rename Bordeaux into Bordo so you can get your heads around other French concepts?
I would much rather face a 6 foot crock than a 2 metre crock. We are talking about an extra 200mm on the end of it, enough to make a real difference.
No, you can build a satilite guided JDAM for less than $1K if you want. That is not the problem. The problem is that in order for them to be useful you need your own satilite navigation network which is where the prohibitive cost comes into it. There are only two such networks, GPS and GLONASS belonging to the two countries that have satilite guided bombs (as you would frigging expect). That is one of the main reasons that the EU is building this network at the moment, so that they can have a satilite coordinated military. The EU countries have no smart bombs and cruise missiles at the moment because they have no satilite network that they can rely on, no fucking dah! Why the hell else would they be building one?
What sort of a moron am I talking to? Did you comment just in order to prove my argument or did you honestly think you were making a legitimate point?
While bush-walkers and sailors can safely rely on a foreign system to help them out, when you are going to war (as is disturbingly possible for almost any country at any point in time) it really helps to own your own equipment. I think this move to create their own system is very prudent.
Most importantly the largest nation on earth pioneered the principles that Space Ship One will rely on. If you think this project even compares to the achievements of the Russian space program you are either very ignorent or very stupid.
I am not Russian or anything but I am sick of morons that can't tell the difference between launching a Cosmonaut for two round trips of the planet 43 years ago with the aid of possibly a single computer (not on board), primitive materials and theoretical equasions and flying a plane at a sub-orbital altitude with the aid of 40 years of space research to build from. Oh, and also the morons that can't tell the difference between putting people on the moon and "winning".
I of cause wish the Space Ship One Team luck, but they can never achieve such a victory for the human race as Gargarin did that day when he left the planet for the first time ever.
Basically I think you are overstating the problem just a tad and being a little melodramatic. Yes, gnome isn't as ABI stable as Win32 but it is far from as bad as you make out. I know some very hard-core gnome core developers who are still using 2.0 because they have not been forced to upgrade and they can DEVELOP their components (for the 2.8 release) quite fine on their long-obsolete but still compatible systems.
I thought you said: "I couldn't find a job for almost 2 years in anything IT or related after getting laid in july of 2002". And my immediate thought was "how does someone expect to prove they are a propper geek if they go around having sex occasionally?".
I was at a lan party once, and someone brought along their cat empire cd. My mate asked to borrow it in order to rip it. He was warned against that by its owner because of the label. But when it was actually tried, it ripped perfectly without a single hitch. My explanation was that the copy protection was based on the most fundimental concept of copy protection circumvention: "where there is a will there is a way" and that Cat Empire merely attacks that will with it's content. Unfortunently I was surrounded by fans and I had many things thrown at me for the rest of the evening... I hate lan parties.
Firstly, Little boy and fat man were both A-bombs, the N-bomb was developed far later and never used in actual warfare. Secondly they wern't guided, they were parachute retarded. Thirdly one of the reasons Hiroshima was chosen over Kyoto as the target of the first bomb is that Hiroshima had a larger amount of military infrastruture.
Forthly, the Japaneese started the war in the pacific. They invaded China, Malasia, Singapore and New Guinea amongst others. They sunk British and American merchant ships, they murdered millions of chineese civilians in cold blood, they carpet bombed Darwin, they starved POWs and they torpedoed American warships without declaring war. Basically they started an evil war, and the Americans had to nuke them in order to get them to stop. This is a little different than sending baloons over the pacific in order to help their tyranny over Asia to continue.
Two. One to install a single HUGE lightbulb in the center, and another to tell the management that it would be a lot brighter if they had a more "shallow" structure of rooms.
You think that contributing to Gnome proves you like it? I spent probably 20-30 hours of the last week coding one of it's libraries and I still detest it :)
It will still need a method for actually tranferring the data. Something like Bluetooth, Wifi or Cables is needed to actually tranfer the data. The pen simply tells the computer to initiate the transfer, it doesn't actually copy data itself, that is up to the computers.
KDE3 is newer than even windows XP, it stands to reason it would be a little sluggish on older PCs. It is simply not fair to compare the latest version of a product against a version of another product that was actually designed to run on that vintage hardware. KDE1 is quite a usable little system, though. I don't think KDE has really improved much as far as usibility is conserned since then although the eycandy has got much nicer. Just like windows 98SE to XP (although granted XP pro is a bit more stable).
Your other option is of cause Gnome. Gnome seems to get a little lighter and far faster with each successive version which is a good thing because old versions ran like slugs (I'm talking REALLY bad).
Just because someone has no need for a gui doesn't make them elitist. The grandparent post was mainly refering to experienced computer users. Obviously a beginner needs more help, but experianced users who use DEs (I use Gnome myself even though I like to think of myself as hardcore) do it mainly because it looks nice and it has gimmicks, that's why I have always either used Gnome or KDE and am not planning on giving them up.
One can achieve a lot through a text interface, it is not the only way to do things, but it is a legitimate way to do things, and for many people it is the most efficient way to do something. File operations are especially fast from the console. Things like spreadsheets and video editors can be invoked through the console with FVWM just fine.
I agree with the grandparent. If you have the skills to live without one, using a DE is a personal preference. I have chosen to use one because of my playful instinct and the grandparent has chosen not to use one because of their desire for efficiency. These are both legitimate causes of action.
The only places where Australia could stand to gain is exporting things that America is short on and therefore likely to buy. The main example is sugar cane. And what is the key agricultural product that is exculded from the free trade agreement? That's right, sugar cane! America already has wheat, they are famous for eating huge chunks of their own local meat, they have cheese, they have cotton, vegetable oil and all manner of things, the only thing that is in wanting with the agricultural production of the US is cheap sucrose and that's just what we can't supply.
Face it, the majority of America is a fertile farming paridise, our production can't compare to theirs, why would they want to buy our agricultural goods? We could get better money continuing selling to Japan, China, the middle east and Europe (when they have BSE/CJD).
You are crazy if you think anything good could come of this.
That said, he is running for my electorate, and although it pains me to say this, I am voting for him, even if it causes me to contempt myself for my entire life.
Patents were created to allow an inventor to have exclusive use of their invention for a limited amount of time to encorage people to put effort into inventing things. What the patent system was not designed for is to encorage people to take patents on things that other people have invented or are obvious through normal human intuition. An inventor is someone who creates something new that will really help consumers. An inventor is not simply someone who puts through paperwork for things that seem obvious. If this was what the patent system was for it would be pointless because it would only be a device for promoting monopolies rather than encouraging innovation.
Personally I think that if someone deserves a 16 year monopoly it is because they have put the time and persperation into an invention and achieved something that may never have been achieved if they didn't, simply marketing an obvious concept hardly qualifies.
It's funny how the internet can make you ignorent of such things.
One of them is automatically invoked when the middle mouse button is used or text is selected, another has to be manually invoked (in KDE and Gnome with ctrl+c/ctrl+v)
Politicians need to butch up to get elected every few years in a public pissing match. A Judge's merit is not found by slinging bullshit every election but by being fair. Where I come from judges are appointed for life, the only way they can loose their job is by making bad choices, therefore a judge has nothing to gain by promising to crucify small time pot dealers in a publicity grab.
To be fair OOo wasn't actually created by the open source movement, only improved.
Payware has nothing to do with going to peoples houses and charging for setting computers up and free software has nothing to do with going to peoples houses and setting up things for free. What it is about is creating a single design that may be copied for free or for money. This replication takes an amount of effort bordering around zero, plumbing however takes quite a lot of effort from the tradesman in each instalation.
This debate is about information, this is why comparisons with other trades will not work. The only part of plumbing that software can really be compared to is the basic design. In software this basic design changes with every competing product, with plumbing this basic design has been in place since the third palace of Knossos in Crete was built with running hot and cold water and some semblance of flushing toilets in around 1700 B.C. In plumbing this basic design of tap valves, manifolds, U-bends and O-rings is available to everyone. In software, many people seek to restrict the usage of their own basic designs to those who have payed for it. Plumbers don't hide their information, and software engineers are not expected to install their information on people's PCs. This is why your comparison and similar comparisons are wholly invalid and frankly getting quite tiring and repetitive.
You hardly could think that lovelock was advocating a reactor in personal automobiles when he made his plea. Portable power is another issue entirely. Of cause we are running out of oil far quicker than we are running out of coal but you must remember that in places like Calefornia oil is used for power generation, and all over the world coal power plants are pumping out CO2, SO2 and other nasty chemicals. Hydro electric power plants are distroying delicate ecosystems by rediverting water. We need to make our electricity in a better way almost as much as we need to power our cars in a different way.
The power from these ugly solar-thermal power plants will be transported through wires in the same way as the nuclear power plants being discussed and hopefully it will mean that we might be able to shut down a few of Australia's power plants, mainly poluting coal plants and scarring hydroelectric plants. This particualar project is in a rather good position to supply the city of Adelade SA. It also is rather close to the Aluminium smelting plant at Portland Vic. (a process that take an obscene amount of energy).
These towers are very close to high energy demands and will be able to provent a hell of a lot of polution.