At least they are doing *something*, which is a lot better than sitting at home in front of your computer complaining about minor hypocricies in the grand scheme of things of which they are are trying to acheive.
I disagree. They're opposition to certain things and their opinions are very often based on the misinterpretation of facts, and sometimes on plain superstition. Often, what they go about "doing" achives nothing other than to whip up public fear and hysteria over minor matters, put themselves and others directly in danger (e.g. inflatable boat intercepting container ships or scaling the containment building at Sizewell B nuclear power station), spreading propaganda and misinformation which is then believed as scientific fact by the gullable and naieve, and generally getting in the way of people who actually know what they're doing and usually doing good.
Their members are often confrontational and belligerent when you disagree with them and become irrational and aggressive. When I was young and impressionable, I though that the likes of Greenpeace were maybe doing good, and I admired them. When I grew up and learned a bit more about the world in general, I see them very differently. They are a political pressure group no different to any other. They are made up mainly of "alternative culture" people, often very young (under 25), with a grudge against mainstream society, unwilling or unable to rationally and impartially consider facts and unable to comprehend let alone to use the scientific method.
Very often, Greenpeace's loud and alarming "scientific" claims are later found to be nonsense when investigated by an impartial third party. Unfortunately, the news media favour sensationalism, so we don't get to hear much about it.
We're talking about the Cashmere Conflict here, which is now 55 years old and still not solved. Maybe you didn't notice the wars between India and Pakistan, but the nuclear armament of these nations happened quite recently. The fact that the donor is from India is indeed noticeable.
I'm not completely ignorant, and I realise that there us such a thing as a Cashmere Conflict. That's what I find so disappointing about this world. People still hold archaic views about nationality and territory. People can have their lives taken or neglected simply because they live on the wrong side of an arbitrary line somewhere.
It is of note because the donor is from India, and the child is Pakistani.
There's nothing quite like a bit of good old xenophobia and racism to make the world a miserable place. I can't believe that in this day and age, human society is so childish.
There are many alternatives out there, it's just that people son't seem to have the imagination (or the information) to consider them.
For example there are: Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, AIX, HP/UX and Apple OS/X on the desktop and server. Yes some are more suited to being one or the other, but they all work. Depending on who you get them from and under which terms you get varying degrees of support.
There are probably others too, but those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head before my full caffeine fix.
Really, it's time we as a society voted with our feet, so to speak. In the last 12 months, I know many people who have bought Apple laptops and are absolutely delighted. OK they're engineers, but their enthusiasm is filtering down to less technically-savvy friends and family. One guy I know bought his mum an ipod. She liked it so much, and was so fed up with Windows falkiness and viruses that she replaced her PeeCee with an Apple iBook. I'm a Linux and Solaris guy myself. We don't do Windows at home. My wife is a technophobe and an English techer. She uses GNOME on Slackware with absolutely no problems at all. It doesn't exhibit any of the weird behaviour that Windows does, it runs on prehistoric hardware (K6-2/500) quite nicely and doesn't get viruses. OpenOffice.org is good enough for her word processing needs. It reads and writes all the M$ Turd files she needs for work (and most of the teachers have a clue now and use PDFs anyway)...
So what excuse do you have for still using Windows? Why look to regulation to change things? Why not bring about the change yourslef?
No! But Sun is evil! Sun is in league with M$ and SCO to bring about a 1000 year reign in blood! Slashbot brain can't take any more.... timfoil helmet has ruptured... rotary spacewaves have penetrated.....Arrrggghhhh!!!!
If they managed to get a million laptops out the door before they noticed the problem, then it can't be that severe. It might set them back a few dimes though.
If you're running the world's most popular yet unstable OS, you're bound to write off unexplained glitches to the software. In this way, I'll wager many a duff memory component has been overlooked. Running a proper, more stable OS often exposes such problems.
Moderators go ahead and do your worst! Troll, Flamebait and Overrated. It's the truth, though.
There was a BBC comedy TV and Radio programme called Goodness Gracious Me, written and performed by Indians. It was superb.
One of the regular sketches involved a very patriotic Indian man and his young son. Whenever the son mentioned something, the father said it was Indian, had been done first in India, or was done by an Indian.
In one sketch, the small boy was reading in bed before going to sleep. His dad was watching over him. He was reading about Superman.
"Indian," his father kept saying.
"Superman can run faster than a train!" enthused the boy.
"Of course he is Indian," exclaimed the father, "Where else can you run faster than a train?"
So true. And "in a public place" is definitely an important part of that - when a build fails, everyone should be able to see the compilation error.
Another nice technique is to send a derogatory email to the person responsible cc'd to the entire company insulting his/her sexuality, ethnic background, football team, choice of clothes and lack of education and haircut and anything else you can think of.
I detest the Beatles and their drug-induced life-is-perfect-and-everyone-is-in-love music.
Stones
If I hear Brown-efffing-Sugar once more I swear I will not be responsible for my actions. (Note: avoid all pubs in Essex when they have "live music" on).
...and just read most of the replies here. They are along the lines of, "I'd throw away my life for but a fleeting glimpse of life in space."
Is life so cheap? Is this not what the holy people refer to as "selling your soul to the devil?" An eternity of nothingness for a brief glimpse of something forbidden?
The important thing is to document and share the knowledge so that life can go on.
Well, quite. So why does it have to be a fleeting, self-seriving sacrifice to experience bright lights and other eye-candy? I have to expose my cynicism here and say that I've heard that LSD can give the sort of experiences that some of the cowboys posting here seem to be craving,.
So, I ask you, is your sacrifice merely to see stars and galaxies without atmospheric attenuation for a brief second, or to advance society?
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I disagree. They're opposition to certain things and their opinions are very often based on the misinterpretation of facts, and sometimes on plain superstition. Often, what they go about "doing" achives nothing other than to whip up public fear and hysteria over minor matters, put themselves and others directly in danger (e.g. inflatable boat intercepting container ships or scaling the containment building at Sizewell B nuclear power station), spreading propaganda and misinformation which is then believed as scientific fact by the gullable and naieve, and generally getting in the way of people who actually know what they're doing and usually doing good.
Their members are often confrontational and belligerent when you disagree with them and become irrational and aggressive. When I was young and impressionable, I though that the likes of Greenpeace were maybe doing good, and I admired them. When I grew up and learned a bit more about the world in general, I see them very differently. They are a political pressure group no different to any other. They are made up mainly of "alternative culture" people, often very young (under 25), with a grudge against mainstream society, unwilling or unable to rationally and impartially consider facts and unable to comprehend let alone to use the scientific method.
Very often, Greenpeace's loud and alarming "scientific" claims are later found to be nonsense when investigated by an impartial third party. Unfortunately, the news media favour sensationalism, so we don't get to hear much about it.
I was wondering if the evil radiation from the wifi transmitters disrupts the good vibes and cosmic chakra energies of the lay-lines?
I'm not completely ignorant, and I realise that there us such a thing as a Cashmere Conflict. That's what I find so disappointing about this world. People still hold archaic views about nationality and territory. People can have their lives taken or neglected simply because they live on the wrong side of an arbitrary line somewhere.
There's nothing quite like a bit of good old xenophobia and racism to make the world a miserable place. I can't believe that in this day and age, human society is so childish.
Marathon once changed its name to Snickers. Opal Fruits became Starburst. The Splicer sank without trace. What happened to Spangles?
Breakin' the law, breakin' the law!
Presumably your bicycle has a gas turbine?
Isn't that what WINE is for?
For example there are: Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, AIX, HP/UX and Apple OS/X on the desktop and server. Yes some are more suited to being one or the other, but they all work. Depending on who you get them from and under which terms you get varying degrees of support.
There are probably others too, but those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head before my full caffeine fix.
Really, it's time we as a society voted with our feet, so to speak. In the last 12 months, I know many people who have bought Apple laptops and are absolutely delighted. OK they're engineers, but their enthusiasm is filtering down to less technically-savvy friends and family. One guy I know bought his mum an ipod. She liked it so much, and was so fed up with Windows falkiness and viruses that she replaced her PeeCee with an Apple iBook. I'm a Linux and Solaris guy myself. We don't do Windows at home. My wife is a technophobe and an English techer. She uses GNOME on Slackware with absolutely no problems at all. It doesn't exhibit any of the weird behaviour that Windows does, it runs on prehistoric hardware (K6-2/500) quite nicely and doesn't get viruses. OpenOffice.org is good enough for her word processing needs. It reads and writes all the M$ Turd files she needs for work (and most of the teachers have a clue now and use PDFs anyway)...
So what excuse do you have for still using Windows? Why look to regulation to change things? Why not bring about the change yourslef?
Game over. Insert Coin to Play.
As big as the garlic naan at the Nosheen Tandori in Ellon. :-) (That's nearly as big as the sub-continent for the uninitiated.)
Give it a good spanking. That will soon stop it.
If you're running the world's most popular yet unstable OS, you're bound to write off unexplained glitches to the software. In this way, I'll wager many a duff memory component has been overlooked. Running a proper, more stable OS often exposes such problems.
Moderators go ahead and do your worst! Troll, Flamebait and Overrated. It's the truth, though.
You Scottish git!
Why don't you just get memtest86? It runs on the bare metal without an OS.
How very interesting. I would have thought that everything would be GUI-based at Microsoft.
One of the regular sketches involved a very patriotic Indian man and his young son. Whenever the son mentioned something, the father said it was Indian, had been done first in India, or was done by an Indian.
In one sketch, the small boy was reading in bed before going to sleep. His dad was watching over him. He was reading about Superman.
"Indian," his father kept saying.
"Superman can run faster than a train!" enthused the boy.
"Of course he is Indian," exclaimed the father, "Where else can you run faster than a train?"
I'll get my coat....
Please, don't tell my boss. He might replace me with a damned satellite. :-(
Another nice technique is to send a derogatory email to the person responsible cc'd to the entire company insulting his/her sexuality, ethnic background, football team, choice of clothes and lack of education and haircut and anything else you can think of.
What's that in EBCDIC? Thanks to this man, we no longer have to suffer under its baroque insanity!
What about the Country and Western version of Enter Sandman? Oh wait, that's the original! :-)
I detest the Beatles and their drug-induced life-is-perfect-and-everyone-is-in-love music.
Stones
If I hear Brown-efffing-Sugar once more I swear I will not be responsible for my actions. (Note: avoid all pubs in Essex when they have "live music" on).
pico is teh evil sux0rs! You must use GNU nano!
Is life so cheap? Is this not what the holy people refer to as "selling your soul to the devil?" An eternity of nothingness for a brief glimpse of something forbidden?
The important thing is to document and share the knowledge so that life can go on.
Well, quite. So why does it have to be a fleeting, self-seriving sacrifice to experience bright lights and other eye-candy? I have to expose my cynicism here and say that I've heard that LSD can give the sort of experiences that some of the cowboys posting here seem to be craving,.
So, I ask you, is your sacrifice merely to see stars and galaxies without atmospheric attenuation for a brief second, or to advance society?
Like this here ReactOS thing?