At least, in the current system, the library might be able to contact you in case you just forgot to return it. I've returned items after a library contact because I forgot I still had them.
I agree it's not much different, but there is a slightly better chance of return with the current system.
Let's say libraries had the resources to implement this. There is no replacing an out-of-print book, even if it originally cost less that the deposit amount.
I'm all for hacking code, but the art would be better suited to securing systems and spreading the knowledge of how to secure, instead of teaching an army of script kiddies to be a leet hax0rz.
How do we know how to secure systems if someone isn't trying to crack them?
I have a old Sun Sparc 5 Running SUSE Linux. It's a LAMP (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP) machine that stores and serves databased information to our corporate intranet. The database is on mirrored 1gig Sun Unipack drives. If you design a small/medium sized database correctly, this is plenty of power. All parts were taken from the junk heap. And yes, this database is backed up every day, just in case the 8 year old drives give out some day.
I remember when I got the first Sparc5. I had the fastest computer in the building. Those were the days...
I assume he will be taught standard sign language. There are hundreds of thousands of persons who already know this language. But having a way to also communicate vocally would be beneficial too. The down side to this is comprehension on the part of others is most probably limited to close family and friends.
Might this language be beneficial to person who use a electronic voice box?
It's the distro I use at home and at the server farm with which I work at my job. All of us systems persons at work could build our own distro if we wanted (we're all LI/U-NIX geeks). When Red Hat gets us 95% of the way there, we have no reason to build our own ($t2 - $t1 = $money). I don't build my own distro at home, because I have a life (as hard as that is to believe). I started to build my own Linux-from-scratch, but other committments got in the way (wife, family, etc.), so I decided to load up RH.
We chose Red Hat, because at the time we introduced Linux to the server farm, RH7.2 was the best ready -made distro for our purposes (with only a few tweaks). Now, other distros, I'm sure, would do just dandy, but RH is our standard and there is no reason to switch except for the sake of switching.
I now run tweaked RH9 (KDE) at home. The more I use it, the more I wonder why we don't dump MS all together at work. Maybe someday...
Anyway, It is good to see a open source based company actually making a profit. One of the major factors when making major corporate purchases is if it believes the company will be there 10-20 years from now. Up to a few years ago, MS was the only one (maybe Apple?) that could claim that on the desktop OS side, where the big money is. Now maybe RH, SuSe, and if the East Asian aggreement materializes, we'll have three more "solid" companys to choose from for OSs in the corporate world.
My wife and I (both MS Office users) had little problem switching to OpenOffice on Linux. RedHat/KDE/OpenOffice passed the wife test with flying colors. Yes, a Slashdot reader is actually married!
The interface is pretty much the same. She still uses MS Office at her work and does some fairly complex formatting (a grant writer). She's had little or no trouble moving documents back and forth. I was able to install OpenOffice at work and have no problems with the MS doc standards at work. For the most part, all of the documents I work with are fairly simple text or spreadsheets. I LOVE the save as PDF button. Our VP of Technology loves that too. Now if he could only convince the rest of the corporation...
I'm not a true Star Wars geek, but I play one on TV. Since I saw AOTC last week, I wondered why I didn't enjoy it as much as the old ones. Yesterday, I again watched ROTJ (original cut) in order to figure out why.
I do agree that part of it was the lack of a Han Solo character. But also, for me, it is that the Jedi were turned into a bunch of sabre wielding fighters and not much more. In the first three movies (IV - VI), the Jedi were more mystical. They had an aura of being powerful and wise. ATOC and definitely dispels this magical aura. The only Jedi that seems to retain this aura is Yoda, even though watching him lead an army made me cringe in my seat. He's supposed to be this wise non-violent sage. The rest of the Jedi were seemingly, shoot first-ask questions later. Very un-Jedilike, in my opinion. When Luke faces Vader and the Emperor at the end of ROTJ, he willfully gives up his lightsabre. He does not use the "shoot first" mentality of the AOTC Jedi. He consistantly uses the good-side-of-the-force approach of non-violence.
The other thing was the slathering of puny jokes and site gags that ran throughout IV-VI. I'll never forget the five second setting shot of Jabba's lair in ROTJ. The one where a frog-like creature catches a bug, eats it, and proceeds to burp. I don't remember seeing anything like that in I or II.
Another thing that is lacking is the suspense factor. Simple things like scene in ROTJ where Darth Vader walks off his transport and confronts the guy in charge of the Death Star construction. The movie takes the time to allow you feel the emotions of fear and dread that the guy was feeling. The length of time it takes for that whole scene to develop was much longer than any tension buildup in AOTC scenes. AOTC was whittled down to an action flick. Watch the climax lightsabre fight between Luke and Vader from TESB and the climax lightsabre fight between Yoda and Dooku in AOTC. You'll see what I mean.
Part of the mystique of Lord Vader was that the original series allows you to let your mind wander and build up a myth about just how evil he could be. I don't get that feeling about any of the evil characters in I or II. Why? I don't think the movies allow for this kind of wonderment. It moves too quickly. I believe this is one of the reasons Darth Vader is still the ultimate Star Wars villan, and one of the great movie villans of all time.
I once heard the original Star Wars trilogy (IV-VI) described as a space opera. I could not imagine this new (eventual) trilogy decribed as such.
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At least, in the current system, the library might be able to contact you in case you just forgot to return it. I've returned items after a library contact because I forgot I still had them.
I agree it's not much different, but there is a slightly better chance of return with the current system.
Let's say libraries had the resources to implement this. There is no replacing an out-of-print book, even if it originally cost less that the deposit amount.
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- KDE will be outsourced to India.
I'm all for hacking code, but the art would be better suited to securing systems and spreading the knowledge of how to secure, instead of teaching an army of script kiddies to be a leet hax0rz.
How do we know how to secure systems if someone isn't trying to crack them?
Hopefully soon the design will make it in to your home PC, allowing them to run much quieter.
Yup. Magnets right next to the disk drive. That's smart!
If all Sco's operating officers are put in jail whos going to write all the checks for the lawsuits?
Microsoft
I have a old Sun Sparc 5 Running SUSE Linux. It's a LAMP (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP) machine that stores and serves databased information to our corporate intranet. The database is on mirrored 1gig Sun Unipack drives. If you design a small/medium sized database correctly, this is plenty of power. All parts were taken from the junk heap. And yes, this database is backed up every day, just in case the 8 year old drives give out some day.
I remember when I got the first Sparc5. I had the fastest computer in the building. Those were the days...
I assume he will be taught standard sign language. There are hundreds of thousands of persons who already know this language. But having a way to also communicate vocally would be beneficial too. The down side to this is comprehension on the part of others is most probably limited to close family and friends.
Might this language be beneficial to person who use a electronic voice box?
We have this in Chicago already.
http://www.chicagotransitauthority.com/
It's the distro I use at home and at the server farm with which I work at my job. All of us systems persons at work could build our own distro if we wanted (we're all LI/U-NIX geeks). When Red Hat gets us 95% of the way there, we have no reason to build our own ($t2 - $t1 = $money). I don't build my own distro at home, because I have a life (as hard as that is to believe). I started to build my own Linux-from-scratch, but other committments got in the way (wife, family, etc.), so I decided to load up RH.
We chose Red Hat, because at the time we introduced Linux to the server farm, RH7.2 was the best ready -made distro for our purposes (with only a few tweaks). Now, other distros, I'm sure, would do just dandy, but RH is our standard and there is no reason to switch except for the sake of switching.
I now run tweaked RH9 (KDE) at home. The more I use it, the more I wonder why we don't dump MS all together at work. Maybe someday...
Anyway, It is good to see a open source based company actually making a profit. One of the major factors when making major corporate purchases is if it believes the company will be there 10-20 years from now. Up to a few years ago, MS was the only one (maybe Apple?) that could claim that on the desktop OS side, where the big money is. Now maybe RH, SuSe, and if the East Asian aggreement materializes, we'll have three more "solid" companys to choose from for OSs in the corporate world.
My wife and I (both MS Office users) had little problem switching to OpenOffice on Linux. RedHat/KDE/OpenOffice passed the wife test with flying colors. Yes, a Slashdot reader is actually married!
The interface is pretty much the same. She still uses MS Office at her work and does some fairly complex formatting (a grant writer). She's had little or no trouble moving documents back and forth. I was able to install OpenOffice at work and have no problems with the MS doc standards at work. For the most part, all of the documents I work with are fairly simple text or spreadsheets. I LOVE the save as PDF button. Our VP of Technology loves that too. Now if he could only convince the rest of the corporation...
I'm not a true Star Wars geek, but I play one on TV. Since I saw AOTC last week, I wondered why I didn't enjoy it as much as the old ones. Yesterday, I again watched ROTJ (original cut) in order to figure out why.
I do agree that part of it was the lack of a Han Solo character. But also, for me, it is that the Jedi were turned into a bunch of sabre wielding fighters and not much more. In the first three movies (IV - VI), the Jedi were more mystical. They had an aura of being powerful and wise. ATOC and definitely dispels this magical aura. The only Jedi that seems to retain this aura is Yoda, even though watching him lead an army made me cringe in my seat. He's supposed to be this wise non-violent sage. The rest of the Jedi were seemingly, shoot first-ask questions later. Very un-Jedilike, in my opinion. When Luke faces Vader and the Emperor at the end of ROTJ, he willfully gives up his lightsabre. He does not use the "shoot first" mentality of the AOTC Jedi. He consistantly uses the good-side-of-the-force approach of non-violence.
The other thing was the slathering of puny jokes and site gags that ran throughout IV-VI. I'll never forget the five second setting shot of Jabba's lair in ROTJ. The one where a frog-like creature catches a bug, eats it, and proceeds to burp. I don't remember seeing anything like that in I or II.
Another thing that is lacking is the suspense factor. Simple things like scene in ROTJ where Darth Vader walks off his transport and confronts the guy in charge of the Death Star construction. The movie takes the time to allow you feel the emotions of fear and dread that the guy was feeling. The length of time it takes for that whole scene to develop was much longer than any tension buildup in AOTC scenes. AOTC was whittled down to an action flick. Watch the climax lightsabre fight between Luke and Vader from TESB and the climax lightsabre fight between Yoda and Dooku in AOTC. You'll see what I mean.
Part of the mystique of Lord Vader was that the original series allows you to let your mind wander and build up a myth about just how evil he could be. I don't get that feeling about any of the evil characters in I or II. Why? I don't think the movies allow for this kind of wonderment. It moves too quickly. I believe this is one of the reasons Darth Vader is still the ultimate Star Wars villan, and one of the great movie villans of all time.
I once heard the original Star Wars trilogy (IV-VI) described as a space opera. I could not imagine this new (eventual) trilogy decribed as such.