If I see the word 'prolly' instead of 'probably' one more time I'll scream, is 'probably' so hard to spell? And you only save two letters!
Stamp it out before it's...
Although the submitter got it right, the article heading says "Fanless PC".
Let's see, where are the fans inside a normal PC? On the case sure. But also in the PSU, on the motherboard, and on the graphics card. Now maybe they have solutions for these, but this invariably means ripping off the supplied fans to fit the new heat pipes etc., thus completely voiding your warranties on those items. And if you just paid 400 bucks for the latest graphics card (which is by far the noisiest component in my current system), you might not want to do that!
So, while I certainly applaud any step forward in the quest for silence, the case on its own is by no means the end of it.
I'm amazed, I haven't seen diet mentioned once in this thread, or the previous one to do with children.
So to start with, cut the crap. No junk food, no fizzy pop, no processed sugar. Eat fresh fruit and vegetables, you know, real food. Make sure you get your recommended five helpings a day of those. Buy organic if possible. Oh, I'm afraid you'll have to ditch the coffee too, switch to herbal tea, or fresh fruit juice or just plain old water. Well that's for starters, do some googling (see below) to find more specifics for what other changes in your diet can help.
There's been some research done in the UK on diet in children. One study (sorry couldn't find a link) found a dramatic difference after only two weeks of changing their school lunch from junk to proper food. This was so successful that a number of schools are now making this a permanent change. As an aside on this, a teacher friend of mine says it's well known by teachers in general that school children are more difficult to handle after lunch, ie after their shots of junk food and sugar!
Now, having said all that, this may still not help, but it is certainly worth a try. If you can, get your family to change their diet in the same way. This will make it easier for you, and you'll all be healthier for it.
Good luck!
BTW, if you want to try googling for "adhd diet", go to google.co.uk first, and select 'pages from the UK'. Ritalin is not quite so common there as in the USA, and there've been some studies on diet, so you get useful hits more quickly (I know, I tried it).
inability and/or unwillingness of the Linux process manager, Linus Torvalds, to identify the intellectual property origins of contributed source code that comes in from those many different software developers. If source code is code copied from protected Unix code, there is no way for Linus Torvalds to identify that fact
Come on this is crap! Firstly saying "inability and/or unwillingness" followed by an explanation of why it's only the "inability" part that counts is just a cheap shot at Linus. Secondly, this applies to every company developing software. There's no way you can check if your coders are copying bits of code from somewhere else and then submitting it as their own work. Hey, SCO, when you do Unix development, do you compare all your source code against Linux with every release, to make sure there's no surreptitious copying going on from Linux into your code? Do you? Nah, thought not.
Redesigning Linux for use by demanding business customers "is not technologically feasible or even possible at the enterprise level without (a) a high degree of design coordination, (b) access to expensive and sophisticated design and testing equipment; (c) access to Unix code and development methods; (d) Unix architectural experience; and (e) a very significant financial investment
Well presumably this little lot is exactly what IBM (and numerous other sources) provides. It doesn't mean they're breaking the law though, it's their own money/experience/equipment they can do what they like with it.
The open-source technology IBM released "can be used for encryption, scientific research and weapons research,"
This one I find really scary. If this were to set any kind of precedent, it would seriously limit the kind of information you could publish on the internet. There are many many things that *could* be used by terrorists.
I guess we have to wait all the way until next April, on the first day of which we shall all be lauging at the jolly caper these SCO boys had thought up. What a wheeze eh! And we all fell for it. Haha...choke!!!
Let's assume that what we're all thinking is true, that this is just a complete FUD campaign to boost the stock price.
So far it's working pretty well, "SCO's shares have skyrocketed in the past year to $8.65, its latest close on Wednesday from a 52-week low of 60 cents."
So let's also assume that on friday, the top SCO guys are just going to dump their stock and disappear or something. Is this really legal?
I am not a lawyer (see notes 1 & 2), so please tell me someone. This must be dodgy dealing, or tacky trading, or impossibly inflating indexes, or some other illegal thing. Or can they just get off scot free.
Well, at least until the 1500 hundred companies and a certain company who inspired the name HAL come down on them like a ton of bricks for harming the industry).
Note 1 - "I am not a lawyer" means IANAL, for those of you who were wondering.
>You fuck with America and you sign your death warrant.
I think this is the kind of attitude I'm talking about.
>apologise to the murderers
Of course not, but you seem to have a hard time working out who the murderers actually are. You must be one of the 50% or so of Americans who think Saddam had something to do with 9/11 right?
WTF is this, field day for the 'toys for the boys' brigade. "Hey great, we can play soldiers and play with cool gadgets at the same time, I'm in heaven Ma!"
I mean, just exactly who are you afraid of, what is the point in all this?
If they spent even half this year's Pentagon budget on actually being nice to people and helping developing countries instead of bombing the crap out them, there wouldn't be any need for all that stuff.
You know, if you Americans are nice to people, they might like you. Go on, try it, it works, really!
>What the hell is a "high-risk" country America of course! After all, if a third world two bit one camel country like Iraq is a serious threat, so is half of the rest of the world. And don't forget the French!
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Stamp it out before it's
According to this piece (which seems to be all over the placethe logging, auditing and general security of the software is incredibly suspicious.
909000 to one? So I'll get hit by this thing before I win the national lottery jackpot! Guess I'll just go and rip up those tickets...
Oh, I thought this was going to be an SCO story. I'm sure we're going to see one soon with a similar title!
I once told someone that there were a million sunreaders. He said "did you have to tell me that", and walked away very depressed.
Unfortunately it's bloody true.
Did any one else read this as one item?
...that 42 is the answer, not the question!!!
"Would you like a cup of earl grey?".
"42?"
Although the submitter got it right, the article heading says "Fanless PC".
Let's see, where are the fans inside a normal PC? On the case sure. But also in the PSU, on the motherboard, and on the graphics card.
Now maybe they have solutions for these, but this invariably means ripping off the supplied fans to fit the new heat pipes etc., thus completely voiding your warranties on those items. And if you just paid 400 bucks for the latest graphics card (which is by far the noisiest component in my current system), you might not want to do that!
So, while I certainly applaud any step forward in the quest for silence, the case on its own is by no means the end of it.
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we're talking about BEER here!
So to start with, cut the crap. No junk food, no fizzy pop, no processed sugar. Eat fresh fruit and vegetables, you know, real food. Make sure you get your recommended five helpings a day of those. Buy organic if possible. Oh, I'm afraid you'll have to ditch the coffee too, switch to herbal tea, or fresh fruit juice or just plain old water. Well that's for starters, do some googling (see below) to find more specifics for what other changes in your diet can help.
There's been some research done in the UK on diet in children. One study (sorry couldn't find a link) found a dramatic difference after only two weeks of changing their school lunch from junk to proper food. This was so successful that a number of schools are now making this a permanent change. As an aside on this, a teacher friend of mine says it's well known by teachers in general that school children are more difficult to handle after lunch, ie after their shots of junk food and sugar!
Now, having said all that, this may still not help, but it is certainly worth a try. If you can, get your family to change their diet in the same way. This will make it easier for you, and you'll all be healthier for it.
Good luck!
BTW, if you want to try googling for "adhd diet", go to google.co.uk first, and select 'pages from the UK'. Ritalin is not quite so common there as in the USA, and there've been some studies on diet, so you get useful hits more quickly (I know, I tried it).
Come on this is crap! Firstly saying "inability and/or unwillingness" followed by an explanation of why it's only the "inability" part that counts is just a cheap shot at Linus. Secondly, this applies to every company developing software. There's no way you can check if your coders are copying bits of code from somewhere else and then submitting it as their own work. Hey, SCO, when you do Unix development, do you compare all your source code against Linux with every release, to make sure there's no surreptitious copying going on from Linux into your code? Do you? Nah, thought not.
Redesigning Linux for use by demanding business customers "is not technologically feasible or even possible at the enterprise level without (a) a high degree of design coordination, (b) access to expensive and sophisticated design and testing equipment; (c) access to Unix code and development methods; (d) Unix architectural experience; and (e) a very significant financial investment
Well presumably this little lot is exactly what IBM (and numerous other sources) provides. It doesn't mean they're breaking the law though, it's their own money/experience/equipment they can do what they like with it.
The open-source technology IBM released "can be used for encryption, scientific research and weapons research,"
This one I find really scary. If this were to set any kind of precedent, it would seriously limit the kind of information you could publish on the internet. There are many many things that *could* be used by terrorists.
I guess we have to wait all the way until next April, on the first day of which we shall all be lauging at the jolly caper these SCO boys had thought up. What a wheeze eh! And we all fell for it. Haha...choke!!!
>Linux-spirit
Is that similar to that old Janx spirit?
So far it's working pretty well, "SCO's shares have skyrocketed in the past year to $8.65, its latest close on Wednesday from a 52-week low of 60 cents."
So let's also assume that on friday, the top SCO guys are just going to dump their stock and disappear or something. Is this really legal?
I am not a lawyer (see notes 1 & 2), so please tell me someone. This must be dodgy dealing, or tacky trading, or impossibly inflating indexes, or some other illegal thing. Or can they just get off scot free.
Well, at least until the 1500 hundred companies and a certain company who inspired the name HAL come down on them like a ton of bricks for harming the industry).
Note 1 - "I am not a lawyer" means IANAL, for those of you who were wondering.
And it's guaranteed that after lying in the desert for ten years, it won't go off when a child picks it up? Or when his dad drives a tractor over it?
Cluster bombs are *supposed* to explode on impact, but on average 5 percent do not detonate. So much for the guarantee!
Yeah right!. Or try this one!
>You fuck with America and you sign your death warrant.
I think this is the kind of attitude I'm talking about.
>apologise to the murderers
Of course not, but you seem to have a hard time working out who the murderers actually are. You must be one of the 50% or so of Americans who think Saddam had something to do with 9/11 right?
WTF is this, field day for the 'toys for the boys' brigade. "Hey great, we can play soldiers and play with cool gadgets at the same time, I'm in heaven Ma!"
I mean, just exactly who are you afraid of, what is the point in all this?
If they spent even half this year's Pentagon budget on actually being nice to people and helping developing countries instead of bombing the crap out them, there wouldn't be any need for all that stuff.
You know, if you Americans are nice to people, they might like you. Go on, try it, it works, really!
Oh, I forgot, the US doesn't sign international treaties that actually help to make the world a safer place!
GO AHEAD... MAKE MY DAY!
Hey, they did go ahead. Well, you know what happens next!
Oh shame, SCO have been /.ed! Cache anyone?
"The lawsuit was seen as indirect supporting our position on the value of IP" ......
"The license was not seen as a way to underwrite SCO's legal fees"
Just a wee contradiction here. Perhaps that 'not' slipped into the second sentence by accident!!
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I like this part of the article:
"agreed to expedite oral arguments"
Oral arguments persuade me every time!
Exactly. All you need is a 1 cent coin, and a, er, zero cent coin!
>What the hell is a "high-risk" country
America of course! After all, if a third world two bit one camel country like Iraq is a serious threat, so is half of the rest of the world.
And don't forget the French!