Or are piles a secondary grouping according to metadata, with the files actually being saved into folders that are represented as different views? Sort of like a search result represented as an icon?
For the first time I am actually hoping that a company will get crushed under the iron fist of IBM. Armeggedon cannot be too far off!
Must be... a friend of mine got a call from LL Bean to say they an order from Hades for 20,000,000,000 parkas, and the customer was paying for rush delivery.
Don't go insulting Nigeria, now. Even the last three juntas and the colonial government don't deserve to have their reputations damaged by comparison to.... I can't type it.... 5pammer5.
Handspring sells such ROMs for the Springboard slot. My black Visor Deluxe has a 32 MB CF card with about 40 books in it, including H2G2 (I own more than one paper copy, so I don't see that as pirating).
Aesthetic
These are works that only have aesthetic value (in other words, they are the shiny things of the world). Stallman stated that a copyright system should allow a 2-3 year monopoly on such works (this means the RIAA could still do all it does but that you'd be allow to trade songs that were 3+ years old).
So in other words: Frank Herbert spent 6 years researching Dune, and another couple of years writing it. It didn't actually start making him money until at least 6 months after it was published (the original reviews were very negative). Stallman thinks he should only have gotten another 2 y 6 m worth of royalties, and then it would have been fair game for all publishers? Fsck that.
Of course, Stallman knows nothing about aesthetics. Just take a look at that beard!
That's what I said. I said "give this guy an extra mod point," i.e., he's good, "just because he knows his grammar well enough NOT to write 'off of'." I.e., "off" is correct, "off of" (the most common thing posted on slashdot) is wrong. Could you please RTFP next time?
Hell, give this guy an extra mod point just because he knows his grammar well enough not to write "off of"!!! That made my day!!! (What do you want, I used to be an English teacher.)
I think his point was that Lindows, at least, is marketing its ability to run MS software under Wine. Don't know why he brought SuSE into it, but then I don't follow SuSE much.
Unicode itself tops out at 21.1 bits per character; the UTFs top out at I think 6 8-bit bytes for astral plane characters in UTF-8. A sixfold increase ain't likely to be a hardship to anyone. And since there's pretty much enough room in Unicode for all the writing systems we're likely to discover on this planet, I don't think we'll have to worry about successors to Unicode for a long, long, long time.
Huh? Ever heard of Microsoft Windows XP? What exactly will I be missing in a Windows XP box that I would get in Apple?
Apple's drivers. Plug things in and they work. I spend about 1/2 of my time on each, and take my word for it, since Apple has a limited pool of hardware to be compatible with, Apple's support of that hardware is much cleaner.
Actually, doesn't it say it can launch microsatellites into orbit? I'm guessing the micros would have their own booster rockets and would be boosted from a high non-orbital trajectory. In other words, there's nothing there saying this thing can orbit, even without a satellite payload.
Depends upon how low your tricorder threshold is. Chem and rad sensing in general probably not that far away, but if you want the ability to do the kind of heavy-duty remote sensing they do in Trek, I think you'll have to wait 50-100 years or so. Amusing thing is that the communicator probably won't be separate from the tricorder.
From the viewpoint of NPR, there is no distinction between Free as in Freedom and Free as in Beer. And I'm sure they're thinking "well, it's easier to only support a limited number of formats." I wish they hadn't, but there it is. And I never, ever hear MS sponsorship on NPR, and I nearly always listen at 8 am. Probably your local station.
Two points worth raising: 1. the Iraqi oil reserve is widely viewed as under-exploited. 2. It's not about the oil *money*, but oil as a strategic resource; oil is actually far more valuable in a strategic sense than its market value which, given that it is a non-renewable resource, is probably not very realistic. And petroleum is used for a lot more than just energy.
Good posting, but weren't the Mongols and the Crusades basically contemporaneous? I remember that Saladin (who recovered Jerusalem from the Crusaders) was involved in some fighting in Syria against the Mongols.
Anyway, Islamic science was heavily influenced by the Greeks, as was the science of the European Renaissance. What people have to keep in mind is that Islam is fundamentally a WESTERN cultural phenomenon, deriving a lot of its background from Judaism and Hellenism. The bizarre idea that Islam is "oriental" (i.e., non-Western), aside from the stupidities of ideas of the oriental themselves, makes it easy to alienate Islamic thought from your own. The reality is that the Islamic world has more in common with the European world that it has that differs.
He's not talking about Hanuman, the Hindu god in the form of a monkey. He's talking about "Journey to the West," a Chinese novel (there's a translation available by Waley entitled "Monkey", and there was a very bad adaptation on NBC a few years ago which reset the whole thing in a kind of magical present with a western main character). The character of the Monkey in that novel is effectively a god. However, I don't know if you could call the novel exclusively Buddhist, even though the idea of the "Journey to the West" was iirc to obtain Buddhist scriptures.
Remember that Buddhism is an offshoot of Hinduism, as Christianity and Islam are offshoots of Judaism. And remember that nearly all Buddhist sects recognize saints, etc. There are some contemporary forms of Buddhism which are largely stripped of any real metaphysics, but there are also contemporary forms of Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Hinduism of which that could be said.
The low number of genes [means] that there is no genetic basis for race.
Totally not true. Of course race has a genetic basis. It is inherited, after all. Black people have black children. It just means that the number of genes necessary to determine race is smaller than we thought.
You're mistaking skin color for race. Race is the concept that the human species is broken up into a number of sub-species which can be easily identified by their skin color and other phenotypic characteristics. Is the number of characteristics that are associated with skin color large, or small? If large, race is a biological category; if small, race is not a biological category, and skin color is just a separate phenotypic characteristic like eye color, hair color, etc. The number of associated characteristics seems to be small, which would invalidate "race" as a biological category.
Slashdot Mirror
Or are piles a secondary grouping according to metadata, with the files actually being saved into folders that are represented as different views? Sort of like a search result represented as an icon?
For the first time I am actually hoping that a company will get crushed under the iron fist of IBM. Armeggedon cannot be too far off!
Must be ... a friend of mine got a call from LL Bean to say they an order from Hades for 20,000,000,000 parkas, and the customer was paying for rush delivery.
McBride: We will use our best efforts to protect our source code.
So they're claiming that Linux's SOURCE is copied from Unix?
Don't go insulting Nigeria, now. Even the last three juntas and the colonial government don't deserve to have their reputations damaged by comparison to .... I can't type it .... 5pammer5.
Handspring sells such ROMs for the Springboard slot. My black Visor Deluxe has a 32 MB CF card with about 40 books in it, including H2G2 (I own more than one paper copy, so I don't see that as pirating).
Aesthetic These are works that only have aesthetic value (in other words, they are the shiny things of the world). Stallman stated that a copyright system should allow a 2-3 year monopoly on such works (this means the RIAA could still do all it does but that you'd be allow to trade songs that were 3+ years old).
So in other words: Frank Herbert spent 6 years researching Dune, and another couple of years writing it. It didn't actually start making him money until at least 6 months after it was published (the original reviews were very negative). Stallman thinks he should only have gotten another 2 y 6 m worth of royalties, and then it would have been fair game for all publishers? Fsck that.
Of course, Stallman knows nothing about aesthetics. Just take a look at that beard!
That's what I said. I said "give this guy an extra mod point," i.e., he's good, "just because he knows his grammar well enough NOT to write 'off of'." I.e., "off" is correct, "off of" (the most common thing posted on slashdot) is wrong. Could you please RTFP next time?
You do realize that someone will try to submit this to one of the Mac rumors sites as a legitimate story, right?
Hell, give this guy an extra mod point just because he knows his grammar well enough not to write "off of"!!!
That made my day!!!
(What do you want, I used to be an English teacher.)
I think his point was that Lindows, at least, is marketing its ability to run MS software under Wine. Don't know why he brought SuSE into it, but then I don't follow SuSE much.
And last I checked, the GPL doesn't restrict the use of GPL apps to GPL OSes: for instance, noone seems to mind that I run emacs on Windows.
Unicode itself tops out at 21.1 bits per character; the UTFs top out at I think 6 8-bit bytes for astral plane characters in UTF-8. A sixfold increase ain't likely to be a hardship to anyone. And since there's pretty much enough room in Unicode for all the writing systems we're likely to discover on this planet, I don't think we'll have to worry about successors to Unicode for a long, long, long time.
Huh? Ever heard of Microsoft Windows XP? What exactly will I be missing in a Windows XP box that I would get in Apple?
Apple's drivers. Plug things in and they work. I spend about 1/2 of my time on each, and take my word for it, since Apple has a limited pool of hardware to be compatible with, Apple's support of that hardware is much cleaner.
Saw a 15 in. iMac at Microcenter in Cambridge for $899 yesterday.
My understanding is that you are in orbit (by definition) if you complete a full orbit of the earth before you make the downward plunge.
I'm not a rocket scientist myself - though surrounded by them on all sides.
IHBT
Actually, doesn't it say it can launch microsatellites into orbit? I'm guessing the micros would have their own booster rockets and would be boosted from a high non-orbital trajectory. In other words, there's nothing there saying this thing can orbit, even without a satellite payload.
And this thing isn't intended to reach orbit, only the 100 km limit imposed by the X Prize (a Shepherd-style flight).
Depends upon how low your tricorder threshold is. Chem and rad sensing in general probably not that far away, but if you want the ability to do the kind of heavy-duty remote sensing they do in Trek, I think you'll have to wait 50-100 years or so. Amusing thing is that the communicator probably won't be separate from the tricorder.
From the viewpoint of NPR, there is no distinction between Free as in Freedom and Free as in Beer. And I'm sure they're thinking "well, it's easier to only support a limited number of formats." I wish they hadn't, but there it is. And I never, ever hear MS sponsorship on NPR, and I nearly always listen at 8 am. Probably your local station.
Google OGG Vorbis. It is free software (free as in speech). And search that phrase (free software free as in speech) while you're at it.
Two points worth raising: 1. the Iraqi oil reserve is widely viewed as under-exploited. 2. It's not about the oil *money*, but oil as a strategic resource; oil is actually far more valuable in a strategic sense than its market value which, given that it is a non-renewable resource, is probably not very realistic. And petroleum is used for a lot more than just energy.
Good posting, but weren't the Mongols and the Crusades basically contemporaneous? I remember that Saladin (who recovered Jerusalem from the Crusaders) was involved in some fighting in Syria against the Mongols.
Anyway, Islamic science was heavily influenced by the Greeks, as was the science of the European Renaissance. What people have to keep in mind is that Islam is fundamentally a WESTERN cultural phenomenon, deriving a lot of its background from Judaism and Hellenism. The bizarre idea that Islam is "oriental" (i.e., non-Western), aside from the stupidities of ideas of the oriental themselves, makes it easy to alienate Islamic thought from your own. The reality is that the Islamic world has more in common with the European world that it has that differs.
He's not talking about Hanuman, the Hindu god in the form of a monkey. He's talking about "Journey to the West," a Chinese novel (there's a translation available by Waley entitled "Monkey", and there was a very bad adaptation on NBC a few years ago which reset the whole thing in a kind of magical present with a western main character). The character of the Monkey in that novel is effectively a god. However, I don't know if you could call the novel exclusively Buddhist, even though the idea of the "Journey to the West" was iirc to obtain Buddhist scriptures.
Remember that Buddhism is an offshoot of Hinduism, as Christianity and Islam are offshoots of Judaism. And remember that nearly all Buddhist sects recognize saints, etc. There are some contemporary forms of Buddhism which are largely stripped of any real metaphysics, but there are also contemporary forms of Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Hinduism of which that could be said.
The low number of genes [means] that there is no genetic basis for race.
Totally not true. Of course race has a genetic basis. It is inherited, after all. Black people have black children. It just means that the number of genes necessary to determine race is smaller than we thought.
You're mistaking skin color for race. Race is the concept that the human species is broken up into a number of sub-species which can be easily identified by their skin color and other phenotypic characteristics. Is the number of characteristics that are associated with skin color large, or small? If large, race is a biological category; if small, race is not a biological category, and skin color is just a separate phenotypic characteristic like eye color, hair color, etc. The number of associated characteristics seems to be small, which would invalidate "race" as a biological category.