Something wrong with riding the Metro? You can step out of any Metro station and onto the steps of just about any monument, government building, or museum.
The 'experts' who cry that the sky is falling every time the wind blows a leaf to the ground have done a great disservice to the American society and security by magnifying privacy issues beyond reason. The Patriot Act is not perfect, indeed, but the privacy concerns that are always brought up by privacy watchdog groups are usually already handled effectively in the code itself.
If your watchdog barks at every breeze that rustles the trees, you aren't getting any good information from it. Maybe it's time to start looking for a new watchdog or to take security into your own hands.
Even if it was discovered that an asteroid were bound for earth, I don't think we've got any better idea than shooting a ragtag band of oil drillers up to the meteor to blow it up.
We probably could have had something in place to shoot such a threat down if we had fully funded the Star Wars MDS project, but sadly geopolitics killed that project.
It might be time to start thinking realistically about ways to deflect asteroids from Earth impact instead of relying on 'we worked it out using computer simulation' assurances.
Why not call them what they are, "non-profit sales teams"?
Here's a funny thought. The government saves money by not paying Microsoft licensing fees. Do they expect to return that windfall back to the tax payers?
MUDs are a dying genre. They are swiftly being replaced MMPORGS.
The whole text-based game industry is being replaced, or has been replaced, by games with visuals because there is no good reason to restrict gameplay to text-only when you can spruce it up with immersive graphical environments.
So with MUDs, someone decides to build one as a project and it gains a few players, but after a while everyone leaves and the MUD dies. Repeat every semester as some new college kid decides that he wants to build his own MUD.
So you end up with people inventing the same tech over and over, but never improving on the past projects because no one bothered to document their project the semester before. But also because the project is mostly intended to polish programming skills and try out some game design techniques, the game itself is hardly ever more than a proof of concept and it never captures the attention of gamers as much as Everquest or any other professionally-designed game.
We know that life can exist in the harshest environments here on Earth. There are extremophiles (no, not X-Games lovers) that live at the bottom of the ocean near tectonic vents where the temperatures are hundreds of degrees above what humans could stand. Not to mention that there isn't any light down there for photosynthesis or anything of the sort.
If life can exist there, it's more than likely that similar life could exist on Venus with its very extreme environment and bountiful liquid (unlike dry Mars).
Could the Soviet explorers have found primitive life there and for fear of starting widespread panic decided to keep the whole thing quiet. Just declare that Mars is the target for the future and keep Venus missions underwraps?
It's a little bit tin-foil inducing, but considering that Venus has water which we have 'decided' is one of the fundamental building blocks of life, could it be so far fetched that life spontaneously originated there on its own?
What is the purpose of PE except to separate the strong and physically endowed from the weak and genetically shortchanged?
While exercise is an important activity, should the schools be in the business of providing instruction in exercise? Even if so, should it be a requirement and should it be graded? A student with palsy will always fail through no fault of his own.
In the end, PE provides no preparation for life which other classes at least provide a semblence of. There is nothing that PE provides that cannot be acquired via after-school activities. There is no "how many situps can you do in one minute" tests for any job that one would reasonably encounter in the private sector.
PE has outlived its purpose and should be done away with. If the result is a generation of obese kids, then so be it.
The Free Software movement has gotten so large and so mainstream that I would think that conferences like this that highlight the 'separateness' of Free Software would eventually wither away. As more businesses pick up Free Software, the movement would become more prominent at true software conferences that cover the entire industry.
Free Software is not a product, but its products are products. Apache, Linux, Perl, these are all products and have a place to stand among commercial products like IIS, Windows, and Visual Studio.Net. Free Software, OTOH, only describes a group of software that really has nothing in common with each other except that they share a common license.
I would rather see the Apache booth at COMDEX and SD than at FOSDEM. The earlier we can throw the yoke of 'Free Software' from our backs, the earlier Free Software will fulfill its mission.
But this is very exciting. The idea that we could grow neurons on silicon is one of those big steps that looks to lead us into the Johnny Mnemonic world that Gibson was talking about just a couple stories prior to this one.
There is a song that says, "It only takes a spark to get a fire going". So too is it true that it only takes a couple neurons to start synapsing. As these true neural webs become more complicated, it would be interesting to see if any kind of emergent behavior was evident.
Also, with the current political and scientific climate as it is, this could be the first step to replicating a nervous system without having to rely on fetuses for stem cells. It requires no human cloning and holds immense promise.
It would definitely be cool to have a couple of these chips implanted to enhance the base memory that we are kitted with at birth, that's for sure!
It's a label. It spells out explicitly that the product is covered by copyright and it also specifies the maximum penalty for violation of the copyright.
Although he's not really well known nor as critically acclaimed, I really like Kilgore Trout. I don't think his books are in print anymore, he died a few years back.
Start with Scotch. Though it seems more expensive up front, you don't have to drink as much to learn an appreciation for the pleasantries of the drink.
By drinking scotch you will gain a taste for the various flavors in the drink. Tastes like 'peaty', 'earthy', and 'oaky' are common descriptions of the flavors of whiskey. To enjoy it, you don't toss back shot after shot, rather you would sip and let the flavors spread on your palate. Though quite offensive at first, whiskey becomes delightful once you have developed a sense of what it is that you are tasting.
You can use the same slow tasting technique with wine. It's much less harsh than whiskey and it has many more flavors. The process of learning to enjoy whiskey will help immensely in your appreciation of wine.
It will at least help wean you off of White Zin, if nothing else.
At Neverland ranch, Jackson is hard at work molesting children.
Does anyone else think that Lucas is completely driven by his own vanity? The prequels were just the start of this latest push, now he's getting into wine. The boutique wine boom is over already! Let's at least pray that he hires a professional vintner to handle the winemaking. God help us if he decides to make it himself.
It'll probably end up too sweet and more geared towards kids than adult drinkers. Seems like Jackson and Lucas have more in common than it seems...
While no one would ever accuse Perl of being single minded and focused, until Perl5 it was a fairly coherent language.
I understand that Perl6 is supposedly an evolution of the language, but there are so many suggestions for so many features and changes that the language itself seems to suffer from the too many cooks problem. With everyone and their brother suggesting features, the language itself becomes a mish mash of these features without a central theme tying it all together. Even if you said that DWIM was the central theme, can you really justify that when WIM is not what the language does because the feature that I'm using was designed by someone who had a completely different idea of what he meant?
In the past Perl has added functionality that was useful and you can see where the language has its partitions. Base Perl (datatypes, simple arithmetic, simple string manipulation), nested datastructures, regexes, OO, and so on. While admittedly a mess, each addition to the language brought more power and ease. Perl6, OTOH, seems to be adding feature after feature without regard to whether it makes the language easier to use, only more powerful.
So you end up with a new interpreter that won't run your old scripts without modifying the scripts. At the very least it should automatically default to Perl5 syntax unless otherwise told to use Perl6 syntax. Unfortunately, in the push to evolve, Larry and Damian (and the rest of the lunatics) have foregone automatic backwards compatibility.
I wish I could wrap my head around even the smallest part of the kernel. There is so much code in there and aside from main(), it is hard to find a good place to start studying.
I don't support this latest measure as I find the inclusion of such an invasive device completely inappropriate, but I think that something must be done to curb the plague of drunk driving in America.
New Mexico is especially vulnerable to this because of its long straight highways which lure even the most level-headed driver into thinking that one or two drinks couldn't hurt too much.
Too often, those two drinks are the difference between making it home safe and killing an entire family in a horrific accident.
I think that there should be measures put in place to curb drunk driving, and I think they should be mandatory, but I also believe that as long as they are invasive (as this requirement is) then they are useless. The measures must be invisible but accurate. A sensor that detected the level of alcohol in the air of the car would be appropriate, but anything that required user interaction is entirely inappropriate.
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No discount could be deep enough to accept anything but a full installation of Windows.
If users want an OS that is stripped down, they can install Linux.
Something wrong with riding the Metro? You can step out of any Metro station and onto the steps of just about any monument, government building, or museum.
The 'experts' who cry that the sky is falling every time the wind blows a leaf to the ground have done a great disservice to the American society and security by magnifying privacy issues beyond reason. The Patriot Act is not perfect, indeed, but the privacy concerns that are always brought up by privacy watchdog groups are usually already handled effectively in the code itself.
If your watchdog barks at every breeze that rustles the trees, you aren't getting any good information from it. Maybe it's time to start looking for a new watchdog or to take security into your own hands.
What kinds of changes in SELinux would be NOT welcome in mainstream Linux distros?
Even if it was discovered that an asteroid were bound for earth, I don't think we've got any better idea than shooting a ragtag band of oil drillers up to the meteor to blow it up.
We probably could have had something in place to shoot such a threat down if we had fully funded the Star Wars MDS project, but sadly geopolitics killed that project.
It might be time to start thinking realistically about ways to deflect asteroids from Earth impact instead of relying on 'we worked it out using computer simulation' assurances.
Why not call them what they are, "non-profit sales teams"?
Here's a funny thought. The government saves money by not paying Microsoft licensing fees. Do they expect to return that windfall back to the tax payers?
If your email is indistuinguishable from spam by a human, perhaps the problem isn't the receiver. It's the sender.
Forgive me if I don't feel any pity that some moron's email gets filtered to the junk bin because I couldn't discern it from spam.
Did they do anything besides present their technology? What financial incentives did the UN gain from ebXML?
MUDs are a dying genre. They are swiftly being replaced MMPORGS.
The whole text-based game industry is being replaced, or has been replaced, by games with visuals because there is no good reason to restrict gameplay to text-only when you can spruce it up with immersive graphical environments.
So with MUDs, someone decides to build one as a project and it gains a few players, but after a while everyone leaves and the MUD dies. Repeat every semester as some new college kid decides that he wants to build his own MUD.
So you end up with people inventing the same tech over and over, but never improving on the past projects because no one bothered to document their project the semester before. But also because the project is mostly intended to polish programming skills and try out some game design techniques, the game itself is hardly ever more than a proof of concept and it never captures the attention of gamers as much as Everquest or any other professionally-designed game.
We know that life can exist in the harshest environments here on Earth. There are extremophiles (no, not X-Games lovers) that live at the bottom of the ocean near tectonic vents where the temperatures are hundreds of degrees above what humans could stand. Not to mention that there isn't any light down there for photosynthesis or anything of the sort.
If life can exist there, it's more than likely that similar life could exist on Venus with its very extreme environment and bountiful liquid (unlike dry Mars).
Could the Soviet explorers have found primitive life there and for fear of starting widespread panic decided to keep the whole thing quiet. Just declare that Mars is the target for the future and keep Venus missions underwraps?
It's a little bit tin-foil inducing, but considering that Venus has water which we have 'decided' is one of the fundamental building blocks of life, could it be so far fetched that life spontaneously originated there on its own?
And drown at the bottom of the ocean?
Count me out!
Why associate with with Windows at all?
With a little more imagination I bet they could come up with an even better name than wxWidgets.
What is the purpose of PE except to separate the strong and physically endowed from the weak and genetically shortchanged?
While exercise is an important activity, should the schools be in the business of providing instruction in exercise? Even if so, should it be a requirement and should it be graded? A student with palsy will always fail through no fault of his own.
In the end, PE provides no preparation for life which other classes at least provide a semblence of. There is nothing that PE provides that cannot be acquired via after-school activities. There is no "how many situps can you do in one minute" tests for any job that one would reasonably encounter in the private sector.
PE has outlived its purpose and should be done away with. If the result is a generation of obese kids, then so be it.
And Nausicaa wears no underwear. Not that I was looking or anything...
Don't pay any attention to the stacks of Sailor Moon and tentacle porn DVDs under my bed!
The Free Software movement has gotten so large and so mainstream that I would think that conferences like this that highlight the 'separateness' of Free Software would eventually wither away. As more businesses pick up Free Software, the movement would become more prominent at true software conferences that cover the entire industry.
Free Software is not a product, but its products are products. Apache, Linux, Perl, these are all products and have a place to stand among commercial products like IIS, Windows, and Visual Studio.Net. Free Software, OTOH, only describes a group of software that really has nothing in common with each other except that they share a common license.
I would rather see the Apache booth at COMDEX and SD than at FOSDEM. The earlier we can throw the yoke of 'Free Software' from our backs, the earlier Free Software will fulfill its mission.
But this is very exciting. The idea that we could grow neurons on silicon is one of those big steps that looks to lead us into the Johnny Mnemonic world that Gibson was talking about just a couple stories prior to this one.
There is a song that says, "It only takes a spark to get a fire going". So too is it true that it only takes a couple neurons to start synapsing. As these true neural webs become more complicated, it would be interesting to see if any kind of emergent behavior was evident.
Also, with the current political and scientific climate as it is, this could be the first step to replicating a nervous system without having to rely on fetuses for stem cells. It requires no human cloning and holds immense promise.
It would definitely be cool to have a couple of these chips implanted to enhance the base memory that we are kitted with at birth, that's for sure!
It's a label.
It spells out explicitly that the product is covered by copyright and it also specifies the maximum penalty for violation of the copyright.
No harm, no foul.
Slowly, slowly, we slide down this long road. Don't close your eyes, you'll miss the whole thing.
Although he's not really well known nor as critically acclaimed, I really like Kilgore Trout. I don't think his books are in print anymore, he died a few years back.
So it goes.
Start with Scotch. Though it seems more expensive up front, you don't have to drink as much to learn an appreciation for the pleasantries of the drink.
By drinking scotch you will gain a taste for the various flavors in the drink. Tastes like 'peaty', 'earthy', and 'oaky' are common descriptions of the flavors of whiskey. To enjoy it, you don't toss back shot after shot, rather you would sip and let the flavors spread on your palate. Though quite offensive at first, whiskey becomes delightful once you have developed a sense of what it is that you are tasting.
You can use the same slow tasting technique with wine. It's much less harsh than whiskey and it has many more flavors. The process of learning to enjoy whiskey will help immensely in your appreciation of wine.
It will at least help wean you off of White Zin, if nothing else.
At Neverland ranch, Jackson is hard at work molesting children.
Does anyone else think that Lucas is completely driven by his own vanity? The prequels were just the start of this latest push, now he's getting into wine. The boutique wine boom is over already! Let's at least pray that he hires a professional vintner to handle the winemaking. God help us if he decides to make it himself.
It'll probably end up too sweet and more geared towards kids than adult drinkers. Seems like Jackson and Lucas have more in common than it seems...
While no one would ever accuse Perl of being single minded and focused, until Perl5 it was a fairly coherent language.
I understand that Perl6 is supposedly an evolution of the language, but there are so many suggestions for so many features and changes that the language itself seems to suffer from the too many cooks problem. With everyone and their brother suggesting features, the language itself becomes a mish mash of these features without a central theme tying it all together. Even if you said that DWIM was the central theme, can you really justify that when WIM is not what the language does because the feature that I'm using was designed by someone who had a completely different idea of what he meant?
In the past Perl has added functionality that was useful and you can see where the language has its partitions. Base Perl (datatypes, simple arithmetic, simple string manipulation), nested datastructures, regexes, OO, and so on. While admittedly a mess, each addition to the language brought more power and ease. Perl6, OTOH, seems to be adding feature after feature without regard to whether it makes the language easier to use, only more powerful.
So you end up with a new interpreter that won't run your old scripts without modifying the scripts. At the very least it should automatically default to Perl5 syntax unless otherwise told to use Perl6 syntax. Unfortunately, in the push to evolve, Larry and Damian (and the rest of the lunatics) have foregone automatic backwards compatibility.
I'll probably migrate, but not for a while.
I wish I could wrap my head around even the smallest part of the kernel. There is so much code in there and aside from main(), it is hard to find a good place to start studying.
Would these tests be a good starting place?
I love Debian
Then why don't you marry it, you filthy hippy?!
Touche!
I don't support this latest measure as I find the inclusion of such an invasive device completely inappropriate, but I think that something must be done to curb the plague of drunk driving in America.
New Mexico is especially vulnerable to this because of its long straight highways which lure even the most level-headed driver into thinking that one or two drinks couldn't hurt too much.
Too often, those two drinks are the difference between making it home safe and killing an entire family in a horrific accident.
I think that there should be measures put in place to curb drunk driving, and I think they should be mandatory, but I also believe that as long as they are invasive (as this requirement is) then they are useless. The measures must be invisible but accurate. A sensor that detected the level of alcohol in the air of the car would be appropriate, but anything that required user interaction is entirely inappropriate.