> When I first loaded I thought, "where's the damn light come from"?
With no atmosphere on Moon, there is no heating up. No fireball. I would expect some rocks and dust to be thrown out from the impact crater, but no light.
Now I'm not saying microsfts documentation is any better, but they make up for it with consistency in the setup. Pretty much once things are set with M$ they are there. By example, You may not like the registry but its pretty consistent in how it works from win95 to win 2003.
Can you, please, briefly explain how a poorly configured DNS server generates more requests upwards then it gets from it's clients? My understanding of TFA is highier level DNS servers can't distinguish bogus DNS requests because they are comming from legitimate lower-level servers - it's sort like IP spoofing, but on a highier level. But vast amount of zombies are required in my opinion and GP is right. Huge amount of poorly maintained machines on the Internet is a problem.
he general public wants to stick a CD in the drive, click next a couple times, and have it just work.
Excuse me. They want to stick CD where? What is this drive you talk about? What is "click" and why should I do it someone "next" to me?
Ah you mean this object next to the keyboard with a cord sticking out of it, is called a mouse (do I need to feed it?). And it can have 1, 2, 3 or more buttons. In various shapes and positions. And sometimes the cord does not need to be there. And each of those buttons can be pressed shortly - which is called a click. But don't do it too rapidly beacause that would be double click. Also don't move the mouse while pressing the button. I won't go into deails about "Next". I just tell you that my father could not tell a difference between pressed and not-pressed button when he first saw it.
You are right. They want it to "just work". Unfortunatelly this goal is not realistic unless we come up with mind-reading computers. In the meanwhile we need to use this painfull procedure of "learning".
>Where did you find such a long/complex procedure for installing Java?
The procedure is artifically made complex.
1. You download the file from the internet.
2. You change the permissions on the file to be executable (that is a good thing, isn't it? We dont want to be every file downloaded from Internet instantly executable (or executed), right?)
3. You start it.
To GP: The change to root is not required if you install to directory where you have write permission. Moving the file from the download directory is not required. Deleting the install file is not required. Admitedly, making a web browser aware of java plugin, nor adding java to PATH are not an easy steps. That is the price to be paid due SUN providing single install file for all Linux distributions. Does Java installation on Windows change the PATH for you? Does Windows allow you to change which Jave compiler is used by default if you have more of them? Can you configure that for all users withoug doing logout/login as Administrator? So what exactly is easier on Windows here?
Who are you to tell the Linux Community they *have* to provide interface for binary drivers? You own your computer and you are free to write your own opearting system for it. And you are free to build it around proprietary drivers if you like.
By refusing binary drivers the community threatens to take the ball and go home. There is some threshold when this threat works or not in order get things going in the way community wants.
Generally the comunity wants more, affordable and better software for everyone. Can't blame them for that. If there was another way to get HW vendors to support OSS, most people would jump on that. But there isn't. And it is not sure whether the community force is big/important enough for this threat to have any impact. That is what this discussion is about.
The floods in central Europe broke records lasting hundreds of years. Repeatedly in 1998,1999, 2002 and now 2006. Just try searching for floods in Central Europe. Or prehaps for heavy snowfall this year. Or perhaps about the wild-fires in recent years. No. Never happened. In your basement.
If you have a BEC that consists of pure deuterium, use magnetic containment to prevent the BEC from expanding back out at all, raise the temperature as close to instantaneously as possible to the point where fusion can occur...
I think that it is easier to consider the kinetic energy of the bullet. Obviously as the bullet is travelling up it is changing its kinetic energy to potential energy. When it reaches the highiest point, it start changing the potential energy back to kinetic. At the ground level the kinetic energy will be the same as it was when it was fired - in ideal world that is. The question is how much of the energy will be lost due to air friction.
Why change this into a system which could encourage bureaucracy?
Not every system that is "not run by US" is "encouraging bureaucracy". However every day are popping up informations suggesting that US is not to be trusted any longer.
I did not say that Chinese "way ahead of us." (that was the GP). I just said that when comparing one should not underestimate Chines and overestimate NASA. We should be comparing the quality now and the missions from 10 or 15 years ago should not influence our judgment. Your sentence "I'm amazed the shuttles launch at all." pretty much confirms it.
They launched spacecraft on 15.10.2003 and 12.10.2005. And they seem to be able to keep the pace. If there is a report from Chinese space program it says: "China successfuly launched another space mission" the reports from NASA say: "After N years of delay NASA lanuched another space shuttle. Problems X and Y re-occured during start/landing. We cannot expect another launch for Z following years."
You can be very well proud of your space program. But it would be nice if you could demonstrate usefullness of your experience more often.
>> Can anyone honestly say that there are benefits to the average American citizen from the passage of the Patriot Act
>Can anyone honestly say that there are downsides to the average American citizen from the passage of the Patriot Act?
Did you, by any chance, notice what is this discussion about? Maybe reading the article is too much to ask for. Perhaps if you just have a look on the title...
Ok. Let's imagine there is international board consisting of US, French and China. The board gets a question:
Should we ban this nazi site? French: Yes, US&China: No. Votes: 2:1 - the site is not banned.
Next question: Should we ban this site talking about Taiwan? China: Yes. US&French: No. Votes: 2:1
Next question: Should we ban this site talking about abortion? US: Yes. China&French: No. Votes: 2:1.
Slashdot Mirror
With no atmosphere on Moon, there is no heating up. No fireball. I would expect some rocks and dust to be thrown out from the impact crater, but no light.
Try this page or any links on it.
aka C|N>K
Can you, please, briefly explain how a poorly configured DNS server generates more requests upwards then it gets from it's clients? My understanding of TFA is highier level DNS servers can't distinguish bogus DNS requests because they are comming from legitimate lower-level servers - it's sort like IP spoofing, but on a highier level. But vast amount of zombies are required in my opinion and GP is right. Huge amount of poorly maintained machines on the Internet is a problem.
(As mentioned in another thread here:) Do you need Excel or do you need a spreadsheet?
Excuse me. They want to stick CD where? What is this drive you talk about? What is "click" and why should I do it someone "next" to me?
Ah you mean this object next to the keyboard with a cord sticking out of it, is called a mouse (do I need to feed it?). And it can have 1, 2, 3 or more buttons. In various shapes and positions. And sometimes the cord does not need to be there. And each of those buttons can be pressed shortly - which is called a click. But don't do it too rapidly beacause that would be double click. Also don't move the mouse while pressing the button. I won't go into deails about "Next". I just tell you that my father could not tell a difference between pressed and not-pressed button when he first saw it.
You are right. They want it to "just work". Unfortunatelly this goal is not realistic unless we come up with mind-reading computers. In the meanwhile we need to use this painfull procedure of "learning".
The procedure is artifically made complex.
1. You download the file from the internet.
2. You change the permissions on the file to be executable (that is a good thing, isn't it? We dont want to be every file downloaded from Internet instantly executable (or executed), right?)
3. You start it.
To GP: The change to root is not required if you install to directory where you have write permission. Moving the file from the download directory is not required. Deleting the install file is not required. Admitedly, making a web browser aware of java plugin, nor adding java to PATH are not an easy steps. That is the price to be paid due SUN providing single install file for all Linux distributions. Does Java installation on Windows change the PATH for you? Does Windows allow you to change which Jave compiler is used by default if you have more of them? Can you configure that for all users withoug doing logout/login as Administrator? So what exactly is easier on Windows here?
Who are you to tell the Linux Community they *have* to provide interface for binary drivers? You own your computer and you are free to write your own opearting system for it. And you are free to build it around proprietary drivers if you like.
By refusing binary drivers the community threatens to take the ball and go home. There is some threshold when this threat works or not in order get things going in the way community wants. Generally the comunity wants more, affordable and better software for everyone. Can't blame them for that. If there was another way to get HW vendors to support OSS, most people would jump on that. But there isn't. And it is not sure whether the community force is big/important enough for this threat to have any impact. That is what this discussion is about.
You think so? Never materialized? Huh?
The floods in central Europe broke records lasting hundreds of years. Repeatedly in 1998,1999, 2002 and now 2006. Just try searching for floods in Central Europe. Or prehaps for heavy snowfall this year. Or perhaps about the wild-fires in recent years. No. Never happened. In your basement.
Don't worry, they are still there http://www.google.com/search?q=my+assets
If you have a BEC that consists of pure deuterium, use magnetic containment to prevent the BEC from expanding back out at all, raise the temperature as close to instantaneously as possible to the point where fusion can occur...
'kay. Got it. What next?
I think that it is easier to consider the kinetic energy of the bullet. Obviously as the bullet is travelling up it is changing its kinetic energy to potential energy. When it reaches the highiest point, it start changing the potential energy back to kinetic. At the ground level the kinetic energy will be the same as it was when it was fired - in ideal world that is. The question is how much of the energy will be lost due to air friction.
Not every system that is "not run by US" is "encouraging bureaucracy". However every day are popping up informations suggesting that US is not to be trusted any longer.
Like ... living in a wrong (as in 'less wealthier') country.
You can say what you want. But you can't make me listen. If you do you are in breach of my rights.
Nice argument against biometric data in ID cards and passports,btw. Nice to know it's got a name.
I did not say that Chinese "way ahead of us." (that was the GP). I just said that when comparing one should not underestimate Chines and overestimate NASA. We should be comparing the quality now and the missions from 10 or 15 years ago should not influence our judgment. Your sentence "I'm amazed the shuttles launch at all." pretty much confirms it.
You can be very well proud of your space program. But it would be nice if you could demonstrate usefullness of your experience more often.
What do you do when you don't like the one they made?
See kerberos. Hopefully the nature of XML can prevent this.
So you mean that persons harrased by FBI were not average? Or you need to have more than 50% of US citzens harrased to be concerned?
>Can anyone honestly say that there are downsides to the average American citizen from the passage of the Patriot Act?
Did you, by any chance, notice what is this discussion about? Maybe reading the article is too much to ask for. Perhaps if you just have a look on the title ...
It is not that bad.
Should we ban this nazi site? French: Yes, US&China: No. Votes: 2:1 - the site is not banned.
Next question: Should we ban this site talking about Taiwan? China: Yes. US&French: No. Votes: 2:1
Next question: Should we ban this site talking about abortion? US: Yes. China&French: No. Votes: 2:1.
Hm?