GNU was intended to solve the problem of their not being a free unixlike OS. Now there are like 50 but still no GNU. Maybe they should refocus on providing a great userland?
I live in Tennessee which lets you opt-out of phone solicitation. I have never had dinner interrupted since then. Talk to your state senator and try to get a similar law passed.
Those who forget the apple are doomed to reinvent it. Apple has been using large heatsink, air flow design, etc for ever since the blueg3 to keep there from being too many fans in the system.
However, an Apple still puts out much less heat overall and I notice the article didnt even try to find a quiet cdrom. I have 2 in my PC and both are loud as the dickens.
Apple once owned the edu market but nowadays it actually has to compete. Now, a teacher with a lab full of os9/osx.1 computers from a year ago wont be able to get budget moey to buy the jaguar upgrades. So apple is offering free jaguar to keep them happy. Jaguar is what osx.0 _should_ have been. Don't assume its just a bugfix upgrade.
Here are the facts for those who don't want to read all the spin.
There is a _federally financed_ report on bio-terror.
The government doesn't want it published because some someone decided the data may be sensitive/dangerous. (for good reason? for bad reason? we don't know obviously).
There is your dilemma in a nutshell. Is this really a science story? This is a politics story and the person who submitted it had a very misleading lead-in for it. Here is one for you that doesn't imply censorship of private research. "Federal government halts publishing of federally financed report".
Hey, give me a break, it was a few years back after all.:) I don't remember the exact beta when certain things were introduced. Beta1 and 2 are kinda lumped together in my memory. Beta3 is sort of distinct. Beta 4 and 5 are kinda blurred together for me too.
Okay, so guns stayed after you died. If someone with an AWP died near the enemy base, this gave them a big advantage after respawn (guns were expensive). So I started hitting the "drop gun" button which throws your weapon down in front of you and started chain picking up dropping my own gun and the other gun all the way back to my respawn. This kept my team from having to buy guns the next round. Then _everyone_ started doing it and before you knew it a team would have all AWPs and a total beatdown was in progress until the level changed. At one point I was on a team that stockpiled over 50 guns at our respawn. Needless to say after everyone started doing it they made guns dissapear at the end of a round.
There were probably about 50 people playing CS Beta 1 hardcore. Back then it was a much different mod. The teams for one thing were almost identical. So you would sit there and shoot a guy a bunch of times and then it would turn out he was a teammate (unless of coruse friendly fire was on, heheh). Chance also played a greater role. There was no head protection and a stray glock round from a mile away would kill you instantly. The money system was also very different and it was much harder to buy the best guns (and since chance played a larger role you didnt hold onto said gun very long).
My favourite memory was exploiting the map cs_siege. On this map there was a room with hostages that the CTs had to rescue. If the terrorists started losing and couldnt buy good guns, I would take all the hostages into said room. The only way into that room was a door. There was a window to that room that was unbreakable. I would spray a black spray over the window on the outside so the CTs couldnt see inside. Mind you, due to halflife mechanics, the terrors could see out of it fine, thus we had a sort of one way viewport. We would camp out there and just wait until a CT would bumble in (this first CT is usually the "rambo" who had a cable modem back before they were as common and he has a good gun and no time for teamplay). Voila, their LPB is down and we have his gun. Chances are, his gun shoots through walls and we just mow the rest down as they come into the room our window faces.
Later on, the window was made breakable and a vent was added to make another way into that room, but that was some of the funnest gaming I've ever had.
Despite what you hear on the Daily Show, SNL Weekend Update, or even these informed slashdot forums, John Ashcroft is a pretty good attorney general. You have to understand, Bush is too popular for the people who don't want him re-elected to go after. So who do they go after? Powell, Rice, Rumsfeld? No they all have more class than the president and the previous two combined. How about John Ashcroft who lost an election to a dead man? How about John Ashcroft who had his name dragged through the mud by his former colleages as they bowed to special interest pressure in his confirmation hearings.
The point is, John Ashcroft is getting ye olde' fascist/nazi/hamburglar/etc/etc meme slapped at him because he is the easiest target. If you take a look at his actual record you find a different story (as long as you arent wearing ACLU beer goggles). As many times as I see Ashcroft's name mentioned on slashdot, it is almost always contained in some cheap swipe instead of a real criticism based on the facts of his record.
Slashdot has become home to a large contingent of Bush haters who use red herring privacy scares and politcally motivated activism by groups like the ACLU to do their bashing. I have yet to see anyone explain the true privacy concern of a roving wiretap. This sort of "i blame the bush admin" and "john ashcroft is anti-privacy" garbage is just meme-creation and activism.
In John Ashcroft's first big privacy test, he passed! Forces tried to get Ashcroft to open up the background check database for firearms (essentially turning the database into a firewarms registration database) and he opposed it. His perpetual politically motivated critics actually called this "responding to the gun lobby". And yes, I saw some of that very shilling on slashdot.
I seem to see this frustration in a lot of people. They have a problem reconciling a war without an actual nationality we are to be at war with. All I can say is you might need to expand your horizons because non-national militant groups may be the most common foe we face in this new millenium. I think it was forward looking of congress to deal with this and they may not have gotten it perfect in the first draft but they rarely do with anything.
Large land mammals are basically a relic. Natural selection has weeded most species out. Even without the encroachment of man into their world, I think the elephant is a species that will probably eventually die out. With the africa continent slowly turning into desert, I am not sure what can be done to preserve the natural wild african elephant.
In the future, the only place to find elephants may be in zoos or ivory ranches.
So what if rh8 KDE really is crippleware? What is the big deal? I am sad that Bero would take such a thing so personally and to such an extreme. He can easily maintain his own personal virginal KDE rpms.
Sadly, I think more and more people are becoming polarized in their software views where things must be "their way" or "no way".
Shark reproduction is still pretty much voodoo to the scientific community. Take the white shark, we know zilch about them. Only after we attached some gps units to some white sharks did we discover that they like to take little trips down into the abyss now and then (and we we have no clue why they do it or what they eat while down there).
All in all, I suspect there is nothing miraculous about reproduction. My guess is either the shark has weird 6 year gestation or that the shark was a builtin survival mechanism where if it does not produce offspring for a long time it essentially clones itself by reproducing from its own sole DNA.
It's an OSDN (tm) tinfoil hat for helping block out the RF waves the evil transnational corporations are using to control you. Let your friends call you an irrational alarmist but you know down deep inside that they are just agents of the corporate overlords.
Hawking and others have allowed for the presence of God in cosmology. Why is it that some people have a problem reconciling cosmology with their God? Did God create the universe with a big bang? Perhaps.... Why don't we observe the universe together and see instead of digging in and rejecting these ideas outright.
I just don't understand people who say that they believe in a God who created the universe but close their ears against any attempt to see how he did so.
China is still pretty much virgin fossil country. I have read in the past that expeditions have a hard time getting in. There have been great fossil discoveries in China in the past 15 years and I only hope that we find more interesting fossils like this in the future.
The original King James Bible had the apocryphal texts in it as non-canonical addons. Your modern King James edition does not. The Jehovah's Witnesses have a modified Bible and so do other denominations. So, which Bible is the one that has not undergone change?
One of my biggest gripes with fundamental christianity (which I was raised in btw) is the hypocritical idolatry of the Bible. The Bible is just a book assembled by man. A great book but it has no magical powers and cannot fight vampires.
I think part of the root of this hypocrisy is various references in the Bible to the "word of god". Now, at the time those particular verses were written; there was no Bible. Yet people assume these were forward looking statements covering the Bible. If you really believe in a God that transcends the physical world, why put so much faith in a stack of paper that you are probably interpreting out of its own historical context and doing so poorly?
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It has been a few years since I got tricked by a goatse.cx link. I hope your happy.
GNU was intended to solve the problem of their not being a free unixlike OS. Now there are like 50 but still no GNU. Maybe they should refocus on providing a great userland?
I live in Tennessee which lets you opt-out of phone solicitation. I have never had dinner interrupted since then. Talk to your state senator and try to get a similar law passed.
Gee, I hate being the guy pointing that out.
All of the PPC distros that are mainstream are based on x86 distros which are LSB certified or near compliant.
However, an Apple still puts out much less heat overall and I notice the article didnt even try to find a quiet cdrom. I have 2 in my PC and both are loud as the dickens.
Apple once owned the edu market but nowadays it actually has to compete. Now, a teacher with a lab full of os9/osx.1 computers from a year ago wont be able to get budget moey to buy the jaguar upgrades. So apple is offering free jaguar to keep them happy. Jaguar is what osx.0 _should_ have been. Don't assume its just a bugfix upgrade.
Federal funds _always_ have catches. Welcome to the real world friend. This is why some institutions hate using them.
There is a _federally financed_ report on bio-terror.
The government doesn't want it published because some someone decided the data may be sensitive/dangerous. (for good reason? for bad reason? we don't know obviously).
There is your dilemma in a nutshell. Is this really a science story? This is a politics story and the person who submitted it had a very misleading lead-in for it. Here is one for you that doesn't imply censorship of private research. "Federal government halts publishing of federally financed report".
Hey, give me a break, it was a few years back after all. :) I don't remember the exact beta when certain things were introduced. Beta1 and 2 are kinda lumped together in my memory. Beta3 is sort of distinct. Beta 4 and 5 are kinda blurred together for me too.
Okay, so guns stayed after you died. If someone with an AWP died near the enemy base, this gave them a big advantage after respawn (guns were expensive). So I started hitting the "drop gun" button which throws your weapon down in front of you and started chain picking up dropping my own gun and the other gun all the way back to my respawn. This kept my team from having to buy guns the next round. Then _everyone_ started doing it and before you knew it a team would have all AWPs and a total beatdown was in progress until the level changed. At one point I was on a team that stockpiled over 50 guns at our respawn. Needless to say after everyone started doing it they made guns dissapear at the end of a round.
My favourite memory was exploiting the map cs_siege. On this map there was a room with hostages that the CTs had to rescue. If the terrorists started losing and couldnt buy good guns, I would take all the hostages into said room. The only way into that room was a door. There was a window to that room that was unbreakable. I would spray a black spray over the window on the outside so the CTs couldnt see inside. Mind you, due to halflife mechanics, the terrors could see out of it fine, thus we had a sort of one way viewport. We would camp out there and just wait until a CT would bumble in (this first CT is usually the "rambo" who had a cable modem back before they were as common and he has a good gun and no time for teamplay). Voila, their LPB is down and we have his gun. Chances are, his gun shoots through walls and we just mow the rest down as they come into the room our window faces.
Later on, the window was made breakable and a vent was added to make another way into that room, but that was some of the funnest gaming I've ever had.
The point is, John Ashcroft is getting ye olde' fascist/nazi/hamburglar/etc/etc meme slapped at him because he is the easiest target. If you take a look at his actual record you find a different story (as long as you arent wearing ACLU beer goggles). As many times as I see Ashcroft's name mentioned on slashdot, it is almost always contained in some cheap swipe instead of a real criticism based on the facts of his record.
In John Ashcroft's first big privacy test, he passed! Forces tried to get Ashcroft to open up the background check database for firearms (essentially turning the database into a firewarms registration database) and he opposed it. His perpetual politically motivated critics actually called this "responding to the gun lobby". And yes, I saw some of that very shilling on slashdot.
I seem to see this frustration in a lot of people. They have a problem reconciling a war without an actual nationality we are to be at war with. All I can say is you might need to expand your horizons because non-national militant groups may be the most common foe we face in this new millenium. I think it was forward looking of congress to deal with this and they may not have gotten it perfect in the first draft but they rarely do with anything.
In the future, the only place to find elephants may be in zoos or ivory ranches.
Sadly, I think more and more people are becoming polarized in their software views where things must be "their way" or "no way".
Now I am stuck with a whole warehouse full of landmine scented aftershave.
All in all, I suspect there is nothing miraculous about reproduction. My guess is either the shark has weird 6 year gestation or that the shark was a builtin survival mechanism where if it does not produce offspring for a long time it essentially clones itself by reproducing from its own sole DNA.
His cartoons in Mad magazine were the best!
It's an OSDN (tm) tinfoil hat for helping block out the RF waves the evil transnational corporations are using to control you. Let your friends call you an irrational alarmist but you know down deep inside that they are just agents of the corporate overlords.
I just don't understand people who say that they believe in a God who created the universe but close their ears against any attempt to see how he did so.
I think this means a whole section of books at Barnes and Noble will need to be moved into the "fiction" section.
China is still pretty much virgin fossil country. I have read in the past that expeditions have a hard time getting in. There have been great fossil discoveries in China in the past 15 years and I only hope that we find more interesting fossils like this in the future.
One of my biggest gripes with fundamental christianity (which I was raised in btw) is the hypocritical idolatry of the Bible. The Bible is just a book assembled by man. A great book but it has no magical powers and cannot fight vampires.
I think part of the root of this hypocrisy is various references in the Bible to the "word of god". Now, at the time those particular verses were written; there was no Bible. Yet people assume these were forward looking statements covering the Bible. If you really believe in a God that transcends the physical world, why put so much faith in a stack of paper that you are probably interpreting out of its own historical context and doing so poorly?
To each his own though....... I could be wrong.