Why arn't people discussing how to protect thrir kids from that?
The more I see of life the more I see apathy and it looks like 99% of the population doesn't really live in a waking state. They merely drift like automatons caught in a flow from one end of life to the other.
Either that or they can just go through your trash
Where I come from (UK) it's considered theft to remove something from someone's trash without asking consent. (I got a couple of PCs from a skip outside someone's house by knocking on the door and asking politely:-> )
So unless you're a homeless hobo, you're being tracked. Everywhere.
Hmmmm.... Possibly. But why the heck would anyone want to track me all the time? Seriously, I can't think why.
The really frightening thing is that there are people who really believe in that demons and witchcraft stuff, and want to spoil everyone's Hallowe'en fun. This is so sad.
You see, the "powers that be" have done a good job of engineering apathy through manufactured pop music and TV. Combine this with the fact that freedom and prosperity is being eroded gradually, the change is never painful enough to make the Great Unwashed sit up and take notice. People are quite happy living in their comfortable little conformist dream-lands. It has always been thus, and always will be. Let those that have insight be free. Let those that are ignorant remain safe in their bliss.
Some times the big, old dinosaur - whilest having the best of intentions - can bring about lumbering inertia and decay to the bright, young thing it purchases. SuSE did good in this case.
Oh, I don't know. From what I've seen of the inhabitants of Maldon, in Essex, there's still a lot of irrational fear and hatred going about... but that's just of each other on a Friday night. Goodness knows what they'd do to a buch of Danes visiting...
We need more people working on OpenOffice. OpenOffice is the only product that has a chance against MS Office.
Who's "we"?
The world needs more diversity of software. More choice not less. A healthy software ecosystem depends on a wide variety of different software, all suited to doing particular jobs well, not one or two giant monoliths trying to do everything, and doing it badly as a consequence.
File format compatability is needed. We're getting there, thanks to projects like OpenOffice.
One size does not fit all. For example, on a small machine for light-weight tasks, AbiWord might be appropriate. OpenOffice.org would be overkill (and might be too big to run on the hardware). In another case, people may want tight integration with KDE, hence KOffice.
It's refreshing to see that our Free and Open Source Software elders and betters continue to make such ground-breaking improvements at such a pace. Their innovation knows no bounds.
We were having a great time wearing tinfoil helmets and speculating about hostile alien superintelligences, and you go and be the party pooper with the facts!
Perhaps they can now focus on expanding their co-operation with SCO.
I have a tinfoil helmet too! Can I play?
Obviously Sun is soon going to be selling 64-way itanium machines running 64-bit Windows, while SCO kills of any semblance of UNIX, BSD and Linux business out there to let Microsoft rule the world, once and for all.
Just to clear up some terminology: A subcritical reactor is one in which the neutron flux is falling (and hence power is decreasing), critical is when it is constant (i.e. a self-sustaining chain reaction), and supercritical is when neutron flux is increasing (power is increasing).
None of these states are dangerous in themselves.
Their is another regieme of reactor operation called "prompt critical." This is due to the fact that not all of the thermal neutrons in the chain reaction are produced at the same time. Some are "delayed neutrons". If reactor reactivity is above a certain level (380mN IIRC), the effect of the delayed netrons is lost and the reactor becomes "prompt critical." Instead of power increasing in seconds, it increases in miliseconds. It is possible for reactor power to double in under 0.001 seconds. If your reactor is designed to operate at 1000MW thermal, you obviously have a problem if you go prompt critical.
Sorry if there are any inaccuracies in that, but I'm tired and it's been a few years since I studies Reactor Physics.
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What about medical text books?
The more I see of life the more I see apathy and it looks like 99% of the population doesn't really live in a waking state. They merely drift like automatons caught in a flow from one end of life to the other.
Where I come from (UK) it's considered theft to remove something from someone's trash without asking consent. (I got a couple of PCs from a skip outside someone's house by knocking on the door and asking politely :-> )
So unless you're a homeless hobo, you're being tracked. Everywhere.
Hmmmm.... Possibly. But why the heck would anyone want to track me all the time? Seriously, I can't think why.
No, they'd rather they played xbill.
...and if you like Billy Corgan, you sometimes get 7 (different) sings on the CD single, and it only costs 3.99 or whatever :-)
Well, if you're like me you last used DOS and Windows at home in 1996 and at work in 2000 (NT4). Ignorance is therefore inevitable.
The really frightening thing is that there are people who really believe in that demons and witchcraft stuff, and want to spoil everyone's Hallowe'en fun. This is so sad.
Because Bill thought that VMS with a GUI would be better, and he doesn't want to lose face now.
My sentiments entirely.
Are you just a good ol' boy, never meanin' no harm? Have you always been in trouble with the law since the day you was born?
Surely I can't be the only one who keeps seeing "Foghorn Leghorn" instead of "Longhorn?"
Why travel to work when you can telework?
You see, the "powers that be" have done a good job of engineering apathy through manufactured pop music and TV. Combine this with the fact that freedom and prosperity is being eroded gradually, the change is never painful enough to make the Great Unwashed sit up and take notice. People are quite happy living in their comfortable little conformist dream-lands. It has always been thus, and always will be. Let those that have insight be free. Let those that are ignorant remain safe in their bliss.
Some times the big, old dinosaur - whilest having the best of intentions - can bring about lumbering inertia and decay to the bright, young thing it purchases. SuSE did good in this case.
*sigh*
I'm waiting for the Second Coming and Christmas.
Oh, I don't know. From what I've seen of the inhabitants of Maldon, in Essex, there's still a lot of irrational fear and hatred going about... but that's just of each other on a Friday night. Goodness knows what they'd do to a buch of Danes visiting...
Who's "we"?
The world needs more diversity of software. More choice not less. A healthy software ecosystem depends on a wide variety of different software, all suited to doing particular jobs well, not one or two giant monoliths trying to do everything, and doing it badly as a consequence.
File format compatability is needed. We're getting there, thanks to projects like OpenOffice.
One size does not fit all. For example, on a small machine for light-weight tasks, AbiWord might be appropriate. OpenOffice.org would be overkill (and might be too big to run on the hardware). In another case, people may want tight integration with KDE, hence KOffice.
Please, less of the zealotry and more pragmatism.
It's refreshing to see that our Free and Open Source Software elders and betters continue to make such ground-breaking improvements at such a pace. Their innovation knows no bounds.
Never mind that, they haven't invented smell-o-vision yet.
Which scientific theory predicts monoliths around Jupiter? :-)
We were having a great time wearing tinfoil helmets and speculating about hostile alien superintelligences, and you go and be the party pooper with the facts!
I have a tinfoil helmet too! Can I play?
Obviously Sun is soon going to be selling 64-way itanium machines running 64-bit Windows, while SCO kills of any semblance of UNIX, BSD and Linux business out there to let Microsoft rule the world, once and for all.
The plan is nearly complete.
What power station do you work at?
Just to clear up some terminology: A subcritical reactor is one in which the neutron flux is falling (and hence power is decreasing), critical is when it is constant (i.e. a self-sustaining chain reaction), and supercritical is when neutron flux is increasing (power is increasing).
None of these states are dangerous in themselves.
Their is another regieme of reactor operation called "prompt critical." This is due to the fact that not all of the thermal neutrons in the chain reaction are produced at the same time. Some are "delayed neutrons". If reactor reactivity is above a certain level (380mN IIRC), the effect of the delayed netrons is lost and the reactor becomes "prompt critical." Instead of power increasing in seconds, it increases in miliseconds. It is possible for reactor power to double in under 0.001 seconds. If your reactor is designed to operate at 1000MW thermal, you obviously have a problem if you go prompt critical.
Sorry if there are any inaccuracies in that, but I'm tired and it's been a few years since I studies Reactor Physics.