Anyone know what's happened to the Rotary Rocket Company? The website is unavailable. Have they folded? I hope not, as it was one of the coolest SSTO vehicles I've seen.
I know. It annoys the hell out of me too. Typos are one thing, but how people can go through life without understanding the differences between words like to and too, where and were, and there and their is beyond me. It's not really that hard. Are these people really as dumb as they sound?
Menace was never targetted at adults. It was targetted at kids. Lucas assumed all the people who saw Star Wars as kids had grown up. Evidently he was only half right, cos you're all still moaning like kids.
Do you complain about the lack of adult material in other films you take your kids to see? No? So why this one?
My point is, why is this news? I'm sure he's not the first, and he won't be the last.
Big deal.
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And pray for mercy on his soul.
I know this was meant as a joke, but really, whats the big deal here? He tried something else and prefers it to Linux. Good for him. Whatever floats your boat. Live and let live, etc etc.
Just as we accept the fact that we have people moving from other OSes to Linux, we'll also have to accept the fact that there may well be return traffic.
I understand it perfectly. I *will* just view the ads. I was speaking mainly about the future and the move for websites in general to make users pay for content and/or facilites.
And I have seen the ads. There were testing it earlier.
Ad just don't work. I have *never* bought anything from a banner on any website. More often than not I'm looking for information when I'm on the web, and impulse purchases are the last thing on my mind.
Also, there's no way I'll pay any amount to view a website. Call me a tight fisted git if you like, but there it is. There is always another news site to visit if this one becomes unusable. The only thing that really keeps me here is the comments. I find some very useful information in them on occasion.
So anyway, whats the long term solution? I'd be suprised if that many people pay for a subscription. 1000 pages? Geez, I reload at least 30 times a day. Wouldn't take me long to use up that limit.
Every other damn story on here ends with, "but what about the privacy concerns?". Is that all people have to worry about now? Yeah, the Microsoft thing is done with, they're bad, we know it, lets move on to whining about something else. Oh yeah, privacy, that'll keep us going for a year or two. Sheesh.
This just makes me wonder if the number of people working on Gnome has increased too much. There's been plenty of examples of throwing developers at a project to speed up development, only for it to have the opposite effect. It takes time for new developers to learn the innards of a project. I can only see this making things worse.
I gave up on coding for Gnome about 6 months ago because I got fed up chasing my tail with new and incompatabile libararies popping up every five minutes. It seems to me that this occurred because of a lack of communciation between all the developers. How adding a whole bunch more of them to the mix will help this is beyond me.
Having said all that, I hope it does work. Too much effort has gone into Gnome for it not to succeed. And I see KDE vs Gnome as a good thing. I think it keeps everyone on their toes.
Reminds me of something Billy Conolly said in an interview once. He said he wanted to have really tiny writing on his gravestone so that people would have to stand on his grave to read it. Then a pre-recorded voice would say "You're standing on my balls!". So damn funny!
Seems to me people wth a good sense of humour are still planning to make people laugh when they're gone. I guess Chuck falls into this category too. We'll still be laughing at his cartoons many years from now.
If you are worried about security, why would you let *any* automated install upgrade your configuration file. Thats what the diff ability is there for, so you can see what's changed and make the necessary modifications yourself. If you haven't read up on the new changes, why they're there and what else they affect, then just putting them in is a Really Dumb Idea (TM).
It's hardly a personal vendetta. I know a lot of people who think the same. And going off topic is par for the course around here. See, I'm doing it again.:P~
So whats new? America have been practising one thing and preaching another for years. Weapons and War seem to be an almost staple diet. The whole country is screwed up. Hey, its okay for young kids to own handguns, but hell, we don't want security cameras filming the public, that would just be an invasion of privacy.
Yeah, I'm, trolling. Yeah, I'll be modded down. But I still think America is fucked up.
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Moderators, this isn't a troll. Enough complaints have been made about this over time for it to be a justified request.
There are those of use who do want to read Linux stories, but don't want to know about every release of the kernel. It's not as if theres a shortage of sites that have that information.
So send it up in tough durable containers in small parts on several different launches. Then collect it all when the vehicle is in orbit. Piece of cake. I'm sure they have a locker in the ISS they can bung a few containers of uranium in;-)
Yes, the Dome was a bad idea. Yes, most of the public thought so to. No, the government couldn't have cared less and went and spent the money anyway. On the other hand, it made for a good scene in the last Bond movie...;)
I haven't read the book, but I wasn't bowled over either. It *was* a very good film, the scenery and sets in particular were very impressive, but I was expecting to be blown away and I wasn't. It's not really my sort of genre though, I prefer hard sci-fi to fantasy, but nonetheless, it's not all I hoped it would be. I will go and see the other films, because I do want to know how the story ends, but I won't go out of my way to watch them again afterwards or buy them on video.
Well that's fine and dandy if all you do all day is move and resize windows and browse your disk. For the rest of us who actually use our computer to do something productive, the choice of OS has a lot to do with the programs that are required. Having said that, there are a lot of NT programs that I could use during my day-to-day admin duties, but Linux and it's associated programs offers me all I need.
None of what you miss there has anything to do with Linux per se. The hitting Y for yes is mostly an X toolkit issue. ALT-F4 is Window Manager territory. Right click is again Window Manager, but changing resolution is an X thing. None of this has anything at all to do with Linux. Linux doesn't need X, and X doesn't need Linux. They are seperate things.
Not for academic institutions. Before I left my previous job, I was connected to JANET, the Joint Academic Network. I could quite regularly download at over 1 megaBYTE/s from other universites. Granted many sites in the US were still slow, but my local Debian mirror was shit hot;-)
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Anyone know what's happened to the Rotary Rocket Company? The website is unavailable. Have they folded? I hope not, as it was one of the coolest SSTO vehicles I've seen.
I know. It annoys the hell out of me too. Typos are one thing, but how people can go through life without understanding the differences between words like to and too, where and were, and there and their is beyond me. It's not really that hard. Are these people really as dumb as they sound?
Is that from actual testing and benchmarks or a wild guess? Just interested...
Menace was never targetted at adults. It was targetted at kids. Lucas assumed all the people who saw Star Wars as kids had grown up. Evidently he was only half right, cos you're all still moaning like kids.
Do you complain about the lack of adult material in other films you take your kids to see? No? So why this one?
My point is, why is this news? I'm sure he's not the first, and he won't be the last.
And pray for mercy on his soul.
I know this was meant as a joke, but really, whats the big deal here? He tried something else and prefers it to Linux. Good for him. Whatever floats your boat. Live and let live, etc etc.
Just as we accept the fact that we have people moving from other OSes to Linux, we'll also have to accept the fact that there may well be return traffic.
I understand it perfectly. I *will* just view the ads. I was speaking mainly about the future and the move for websites in general to make users pay for content and/or facilites.
And I have seen the ads. There were testing it earlier.
Ad just don't work. I have *never* bought anything from a banner on any website. More often than not I'm looking for information when I'm on the web, and impulse purchases are the last thing on my mind.
Also, there's no way I'll pay any amount to view a website. Call me a tight fisted git if you like, but there it is. There is always another news site to visit if this one becomes unusable. The only thing that really keeps me here is the comments. I find some very useful information in them on occasion.
So anyway, whats the long term solution? I'd be suprised if that many people pay for a subscription. 1000 pages? Geez, I reload at least 30 times a day. Wouldn't take me long to use up that limit.
Every other damn story on here ends with, "but what about the privacy concerns?". Is that all people have to worry about now? Yeah, the Microsoft thing is done with, they're bad, we know it, lets move on to whining about something else. Oh yeah, privacy, that'll keep us going for a year or two. Sheesh.
This just makes me wonder if the number of people working on Gnome has increased too much. There's been plenty of examples of throwing developers at a project to speed up development, only for it to have the opposite effect. It takes time for new developers to learn the innards of a project. I can only see this making things worse.
I gave up on coding for Gnome about 6 months ago because I got fed up chasing my tail with new and incompatabile libararies popping up every five minutes. It seems to me that this occurred because of a lack of communciation between all the developers. How adding a whole bunch more of them to the mix will help this is beyond me.
Having said all that, I hope it does work. Too much effort has gone into Gnome for it not to succeed. And I see KDE vs Gnome as a good thing. I think it keeps everyone on their toes.
Reminds me of something Billy Conolly said in an interview once. He said he wanted to have really tiny writing on his gravestone so that people would have to stand on his grave to read it. Then a pre-recorded voice would say "You're standing on my balls!". So damn funny!
Seems to me people wth a good sense of humour are still planning to make people laugh when they're gone. I guess Chuck falls into this category too. We'll still be laughing at his cartoons many years from now.
If you are worried about security, why would you let *any* automated install upgrade your configuration file. Thats what the diff ability is there for, so you can see what's changed and make the necessary modifications yourself. If you haven't read up on the new changes, why they're there and what else they affect, then just putting them in is a Really Dumb Idea (TM).
It's hardly a personal vendetta. I know a lot of people who think the same. And going off topic is par for the course around here. See, I'm doing it again. :P~
So whats new? America have been practising one thing and preaching another for years. Weapons and War seem to be an almost staple diet. The whole country is screwed up. Hey, its okay for young kids to own handguns, but hell, we don't want security cameras filming the public, that would just be an invasion of privacy.
Yeah, I'm, trolling. Yeah, I'll be modded down. But I still think America is fucked up.
Moderators, this isn't a troll. Enough complaints have been made about this over time for it to be a justified request.
There are those of use who do want to read Linux stories, but don't want to know about every release of the kernel. It's not as if theres a shortage of sites that have that information.
Trouble is, if someone farts in the elevator, it's a damn long wait before you can open the door... ;)
That doesn't count. We all know aliens built them. Haven't you *seen* Stargate?! ;-)
So send it up in tough durable containers in small parts on several different launches. Then collect it all when the vehicle is in orbit. Piece of cake. I'm sure they have a locker in the ISS they can bung a few containers of uranium in ;-)
And about the extended services: Why do I suspect that it'll be an extra charge for those?
Hmmm.. let's see now. Could it be something to do with the fact that they're a business trying to make money?
Yes, the Dome was a bad idea. Yes, most of the public thought so to. No, the government couldn't have cared less and went and spent the money anyway. On the other hand, it made for a good scene in the last Bond movie... ;)
I haven't read the book, but I wasn't bowled over either. It *was* a very good film, the scenery and sets in particular were very impressive, but I was expecting to be blown away and I wasn't. It's not really my sort of genre though, I prefer hard sci-fi to fantasy, but nonetheless, it's not all I hoped it would be. I will go and see the other films, because I do want to know how the story ends, but I won't go out of my way to watch them again afterwards or buy them on video.
Mmmmmmm... forbidden squid... aarrrgggg...
Well that's fine and dandy if all you do all day is move and resize windows and browse your disk. For the rest of us who actually use our computer to do something productive, the choice of OS has a lot to do with the programs that are required. Having said that, there are a lot of NT programs that I could use during my day-to-day admin duties, but Linux and it's associated programs offers me all I need.
None of what you miss there has anything to do with Linux per se. The hitting Y for yes is mostly an X toolkit issue. ALT-F4 is Window Manager territory. Right click is again Window Manager, but changing resolution is an X thing. None of this has anything at all to do with Linux. Linux doesn't need X, and X doesn't need Linux. They are seperate things.
Not for academic institutions. Before I left my previous job, I was connected to JANET, the Joint Academic Network. I could quite regularly download at over 1 megaBYTE/s from other universites. Granted many sites in the US were still slow, but my local Debian mirror was shit hot ;-)