Why is water so damn important? Couldn't life be based upon a different liquid than water? A different solid than carbon?
What would you look for? How would you recognize it when you saw it?
We have a good understanding of life that is based on water and carbon, and we have no idea what life without water and organic carbon would be like.
There are thousands (hundreds of thousands?) of different chemical compounds on Mars, and you can't look at them all, so you look for the things you are most familiar with: organic compounds which contain hydrogen, oxygen and carbon, both of which can be detected from an earth-based spectrometer.
Not just for Macintosh...
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As a non-mac owner, I'd love to have access to a.MAC-like service which works for non-Mac users.
Seems that many of the.MAC services will work with any computer, as long as you have an iCal, LDAP & IMAP client. But that is probalby only 50% of the services.
On a local box at my house, I've considered setting up Apache+WebDAV, IMAP, LDAP & iCal servers; all available via a password-protected/SSL website, or via their normal protocol (with encryption, if possible).
But the devil is the integration of these services. I'm not sure where to start.
For the same reasons, I don't understand why retailers have stacks of CDs in bins. Just have a dupe machine in the back room with a digital color copier for the liner notes. While you are paying for your CD it's being created in the back room. Again, you cut a major expense by knocking out the distributor.
I have actually seen these in a few places.
In Disneyland, for example, there is a music store which makes custom CDs for you (but only for certain Disney music: Soundtracks, music from the rides, etc). You walk up to a computer terminal, select the tracks you want, and hit "Burn it baby".
The computer burns a CD for you (takes about 10 minutes), and you pick it up at the counter. No custom labels.
I got one CD of 15 tracks of music from the Haunted Mansion, and a bunch of music from other parts of the park.
The Haunted Mansion music real fun to use during Halloween. The music is plenty eerie, but doesn't scare the fsck out of the little trick-or-treaters.
Well, water guns could be much more effective in an office then TPS reports.
Re:Everything can be related to math.
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Yes, but you can break the logic operators into even smaller 1's and 0's...
The plus sign is simply two 1's criss-crossing each other.
The multiplication sign is the same thing as the plus sign, but at a 45-degree angle.
The division sign is a sideways '1' with very small 0's above and below it...
Re:The two are *definitely* related
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Fuck, and I've been recycling all of my wadded up paper.
Hell, instead of wadding up those "Thank you for submitting your resume. You will be contacted if your skills match the job requirements." type of letters in anger and frustration, I could be selling them for $10!!!
And I'll offer more then just wadded oragami like that cheapo. I mean the real stuff: paper wads, shredded paper, paper that I ripped into a million pieces, dipped in whiskey, set on fire and spit on the dead, charred remains.
Real emotion here folks. I'm the friggin "Pollock" of the wadded paper!!!
It is a small list of fixes. 10.2.5 was released less then 3 weeks ago, if memory serves.
Apple just needed to get the 10.2.6 patch out quickly, because it was a pretty signifigant bug for some people.
Since the fix is probably at the kernel level, the fix warrants it's own patch version.
This was my first real experience with an OS X problem. Took me 3 hours to figure out that my Godmother's G4 was crashing because of the USB hub. Pro bono, but at least I got some homecooked meals and some education out of the exchange:)
Re:Des Moines?
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Des Moines is cheap!
The $99 conference fee, Des Moines hotel fees and cost of meals for the whole weekend is going to cost less then on night in a hotel room in NYC or San Francisco.
The dividend tax cut is designed to make investment in corporations more attractive to everyone (not to save you $600). This will lower companies' cost of capital and allow them to take on more projects (and hence hire more people).
Sounds like Reagan's trickle-down economics, which increased the federal debt immensely, thereby pushing the economic problems of the 80's to the future generations. I fear that Bush's policies will do the same.
While I think that removing the dividend tax is a good thing in the long run, it does not address our immediate economic problems.
investment in corporations
Only the corporations who pay dividends. Right now, most corporations don't pay dividends to their investors.
The day after the dividend tax cut passes, every-man isn't going to hop out and purchase stock in Blue Chip companies. No, they'll slowly build their portfolio over time. It will take years for 'everyone' to benefit from this, and years more for them to see any signifigant benefit.
While the dividend tax cut may be a good thing in a few years, we need a solution now.
But if Bush wants a tax cut, why push so hard for a cut where only a small group of investors will see any immediate benefit?
I took the time to pry off and remap my powerbook keyboard's keys but I have no problem typing in Dvorak on a physically QWERTY mapped keyboard, and I know many others who don't have a problem doing so either
Guess I know a different crowd. I don't know anyone who wants take the time to rearrange their keyboard.
Is it mostly due to the fact that most people learn to type first on QWERTY due to its popularity, and hence don't bother to learn anything else?
Yes.
QWERTY works good enough, and most people are familiar with it. Isn't that reason enough?
My god man, people in Europe (at least France, Germany, Switzerland and Austria) are fanatic about Pringles.
Often I'd go to a corner store or a kiosk to buy a bag of potato chips, but NO! All they had was pringles, candy and a bunch of small canned herbal drinks like "Redbull". Personally, I thought the "sexual vitality" drinks that came with a condom were very amusing.
I ate more pringles during my 3 weeks in Europe then in the last 3 years in America!
You're right. I can see this service being valuable to a tourist.
I was looking from my perspective: Living in/near San Francisco for 8 years, I couldn't see this service being very useful to me. Sure, access to resturant reviews would be nice, but whenever I'm out with my friends, we can come up with plenty of recomendations without the aid of a computer. And I can pick up a free paper and flip to the resturant review section.
In the short term, I do not see many tourists using this service. For all their inconvenience, a good map, guidebook, and phrasebook will cost you about $50 total and can fit in your pockets or a backpack. Sure, you don't have a GPS or a phone, but I'm not sure a GPS is necessary within a metro (There are maps at the train and underground stations. It's Paris, getting lost is fun! And you're pretty safe compared to an American city), and there are many pay phones (Many with web terminals).
Look up pervasive computing. Start to think outside the stupid screen/keyboard paradigm. If you have the infrastructure then the apps will come.
Not always. There needs to be enough demand for your service
The American telecom industry built a hell of alot of infrastructure, and many of those companies went out of business because there was no demand for their service.
How many groundbreaking wireless companies have gone out of business in the last couple decades?
Personally, I have little desire to pay $30 a month to carry a WIFI computer around with me all of the time. The best thing about computers is that you can get away from them.
Apparently to the portable potty at your local summer concert or festival.
I can see it now:
It's a summer concert, people drink alot of beer, the bathroom line is usually 15 minutes, you can see people crossing their legs they have to go so bad, and there you are, sitting on the damn toilet, browsing the web when you should be finishing your 'business'.
These porta-potties better have a secret back door for escaping...
how about a hot babe with all the nice bits PLUS an actual PERSONALITY?
Wrong. Treat me like I'm not a walking lump of hormones. I have an intelligent brain and I like to watch intelligent shows that don't use sex as a replacement for a storyline.
The sex factor in Enterprise was already overused from episode one. "Hey, I have a great idea, let's have T'Pol strip down to her underwear, and rub lotion all over the studly guy. And we'll make it the longest scene in the show, to show off the 'smart storyline'. That's gotta be original, and it will appeal to the intelligent women in the audience."
What the hell were they thinking? How the hell can I take this show seriously when they stoop so low?
I'd rather them focus on the storyline. There are dozens of TV shows with cute girls, even some with personality, but few of the shows are worth watching.
How about some good plots with believable struggles science. Time travel? Please...
I miss Babylon 5. Granted, the characters weren't very sexy, some of the acting was cheesy, and yes the Vorlon-Shadow war had a really stupid ending, but in general it had a good, consistant storyline which kept me coming back episode after episode. I have most of Season 3 & 4 on tape, and I still watch them.
Deep Space Nine got really damn good, and it had better actors then B5.
Does anyone use a MAC as an enterprise level server?
I've known a couple of businesses in San Francisco who have server farms made up of the dual-CPU Xserve machines. These are big dotcoms who are still in business, so I'm not sure if that qualifies as 'enterprise level'.
Good deal. Cheaper then their Sun machines, and you have good support. Downsides: No SCSI, no serial terminal, and no HW raid options (This was before Apple released their Xserve RAID).
This was an experiment to see if Xservers could be cheaper then the Sun options. Not sure what their decision was.
you have two other choices: adopt Linux; adopt Macs.
From a patching perspective. Why would this cost less? Macs and Linux still require patching, because ALL software has bugs.
Macs especially: Buying a whole new computer is more expensive then using your existing hardware. I don't see where you get the "Mac is cheaper" argument.
Slashdot Mirror
NDA lifted, and slashdot ... curtain ... dropped ...
on my computer monitor.
"Oahhh, just hook it to my veins!"
Why is water so damn important? Couldn't life be based upon a different liquid than water? A different solid than carbon?
What would you look for? How would you recognize it when you saw it?
We have a good understanding of life that is based on water and carbon, and we have no idea what life without water and organic carbon would be like.
There are thousands (hundreds of thousands?) of different chemical compounds on Mars, and you can't look at them all, so you look for the things you are most familiar with: organic compounds which contain hydrogen, oxygen and carbon, both of which can be detected from an earth-based spectrometer.
As a non-mac owner, I'd love to have access to a .MAC-like service which works for non-Mac users.
.MAC services will work with any computer, as long as you have an iCal, LDAP & IMAP client. But that is probalby only 50% of the services.
Seems that many of the
On a local box at my house, I've considered setting up Apache+WebDAV, IMAP, LDAP & iCal servers; all available via a password-protected/SSL website, or via their normal protocol (with encryption, if possible).
But the devil is the integration of these services. I'm not sure where to start.
For the same reasons, I don't understand why retailers have stacks of CDs in bins. Just have a dupe machine in the back room with a digital color copier for the liner notes. While you are paying for your CD it's being created in the back room. Again, you cut a major expense by knocking out the distributor.
I have actually seen these in a few places.
In Disneyland, for example, there is a music store which makes custom CDs for you (but only for certain Disney music: Soundtracks, music from the rides, etc). You walk up to a computer terminal, select the tracks you want, and hit "Burn it baby".
The computer burns a CD for you (takes about 10 minutes), and you pick it up at the counter. No custom labels.
I got one CD of 15 tracks of music from the Haunted Mansion, and a bunch of music from other parts of the park.
The Haunted Mansion music real fun to use during Halloween. The music is plenty eerie, but doesn't scare the fsck out of the little trick-or-treaters.
Well, water guns could be much more effective in an office then TPS reports.
Yes, but you can break the logic operators into even smaller 1's and 0's...
The plus sign is simply two 1's criss-crossing each other.
The multiplication sign is the same thing as the plus sign, but at a 45-degree angle.
The division sign is a sideways '1' with very small 0's above and below it...
Fuck, and I've been recycling all of my wadded up paper.
Hell, instead of wadding up those "Thank you for submitting your resume. You will be contacted if your skills match the job requirements." type of letters in anger and frustration, I could be selling them for $10!!!
And I'll offer more then just wadded oragami like that cheapo. I mean the real stuff: paper wads, shredded paper, paper that I ripped into a million pieces, dipped in whiskey, set on fire and spit on the dead, charred remains.
Real emotion here folks. I'm the friggin "Pollock" of the wadded paper!!!
-= Stefan
Two questions:
- Why are the permisions not installed correctly in the first place?
- Why is it called 'repair permissions', when it actually runs a slew of other tests like fsck?
It is a small list of fixes. 10.2.5 was released less then 3 weeks ago, if memory serves.
:)
Apple just needed to get the 10.2.6 patch out quickly, because it was a pretty signifigant bug for some people.
Since the fix is probably at the kernel level, the fix warrants it's own patch version.
This was my first real experience with an OS X problem. Took me 3 hours to figure out that my Godmother's G4 was crashing because of the USB hub. Pro bono, but at least I got some homecooked meals and some education out of the exchange
Des Moines is cheap!
The $99 conference fee, Des Moines hotel fees and cost of meals for the whole weekend is going to cost less then on night in a hotel room in NYC or San Francisco.
The dividend tax cut is designed to make investment in corporations more attractive to everyone (not to save you $600). This will lower companies' cost of capital and allow them to take on more projects (and hence hire more people).
Sounds like Reagan's trickle-down economics, which increased the federal debt immensely, thereby pushing the economic problems of the 80's to the future generations. I fear that Bush's policies will do the same.
While I think that removing the dividend tax is a good thing in the long run, it does not address our immediate economic problems.
investment in corporations
Only the corporations who pay dividends. Right now, most corporations don't pay dividends to their investors.
The day after the dividend tax cut passes, every-man isn't going to hop out and purchase stock in Blue Chip companies. No, they'll slowly build their portfolio over time. It will take years for 'everyone' to benefit from this, and years more for them to see any signifigant benefit.
While the dividend tax cut may be a good thing in a few years, we need a solution now.
But if Bush wants a tax cut, why push so hard for a cut where only a small group of investors will see any immediate benefit?
Why not lower taxes for everyone?
I took the time to pry off and remap my powerbook keyboard's keys but I have no problem typing in Dvorak on a physically QWERTY mapped keyboard, and I know many others who don't have a problem doing so either
Guess I know a different crowd. I don't know anyone who wants take the time to rearrange their keyboard.
Is it mostly due to the fact that most people learn to type first on QWERTY due to its popularity, and hence don't bother to learn anything else?
Yes.
QWERTY works good enough, and most people are familiar with it. Isn't that reason enough?
My god man, people in Europe (at least France, Germany, Switzerland and Austria) are fanatic about Pringles.
Often I'd go to a corner store or a kiosk to buy a bag of potato chips, but NO! All they had was pringles, candy and a bunch of small canned herbal drinks like "Redbull". Personally, I thought the "sexual vitality" drinks that came with a condom were very amusing.
I ate more pringles during my 3 weeks in Europe then in the last 3 years in America!
Kettle chips... mmmm...
You're right. I can see this service being valuable to a tourist.
I was looking from my perspective: Living in/near San Francisco for 8 years, I couldn't see this service being very useful to me. Sure, access to resturant reviews would be nice, but whenever I'm out with my friends, we can come up with plenty of recomendations without the aid of a computer. And I can pick up a free paper and flip to the resturant review section.
In the short term, I do not see many tourists using this service. For all their inconvenience, a good map, guidebook, and phrasebook will cost you about $50 total and can fit in your pockets or a backpack. Sure, you don't have a GPS or a phone, but I'm not sure a GPS is necessary within a metro (There are maps at the train and underground stations. It's Paris, getting lost is fun! And you're pretty safe compared to an American city), and there are many pay phones (Many with web terminals).
Look up pervasive computing. Start to think outside the stupid screen/keyboard paradigm. If you have the infrastructure then the apps will come.
Not always. There needs to be enough demand for your service
The American telecom industry built a hell of alot of infrastructure, and many of those companies went out of business because there was no demand for their service.
How many groundbreaking wireless companies have gone out of business in the last couple decades?
Personally, I have little desire to pay $30 a month to carry a WIFI computer around with me all of the time. The best thing about computers is that you can get away from them.
I think his intent was to be contraversial.
I mean, calling it 'SATAN' instead of something like 'Cute Puppy Dog Network Analysis Tool' is a reflection of his intent.
That said, I'm really happy that tools like SATAN exist now. Scanning your own network is a great way to learn about network security.
Apparently to the portable potty at your local summer concert or festival.
I can see it now:
It's a summer concert, people drink alot of beer, the bathroom line is usually 15 minutes, you can see people crossing their legs they have to go so bad, and there you are, sitting on the damn toilet, browsing the web when you should be finishing your 'business'.
These porta-potties better have a secret back door for escaping...
And if you ask alot of former SCO employees, there are many rumors of Linux code in the SCO kernel!
So, it's a fair trade!
Hillarious... I really missed my chance at a good pun! How could I have missed it!
More like:
"It's dead Jim, let's kick it around some more."
"It's dead Jim. But this is StarTrek, so we can solve the problem by 'modulating the frequency'."
how about a hot babe with all the nice bits PLUS an actual PERSONALITY?
Wrong. Treat me like I'm not a walking lump of hormones. I have an intelligent brain and I like to watch intelligent shows that don't use sex as a replacement for a storyline.
The sex factor in Enterprise was already overused from episode one. "Hey, I have a great idea, let's have T'Pol strip down to her underwear, and rub lotion all over the studly guy. And we'll make it the longest scene in the show, to show off the 'smart storyline'. That's gotta be original, and it will appeal to the intelligent women in the audience."
What the hell were they thinking? How the hell can I take this show seriously when they stoop so low?
I'd rather them focus on the storyline. There are dozens of TV shows with cute girls, even some with personality, but few of the shows are worth watching.
How about some good plots with believable struggles science. Time travel? Please...
I miss Babylon 5. Granted, the characters weren't very sexy, some of the acting was cheesy, and yes the Vorlon-Shadow war had a really stupid ending, but in general it had a good, consistant storyline which kept me coming back episode after episode. I have most of Season 3 & 4 on tape, and I still watch them.
Deep Space Nine got really damn good, and it had better actors then B5.
Well, it certainly is more socially acceptable than damning them
From their silence, we can tell that the socks don't care one way or another.
Does anyone use a MAC as an enterprise level server?
I've known a couple of businesses in San Francisco who have server farms made up of the dual-CPU Xserve machines. These are big dotcoms who are still in business, so I'm not sure if that qualifies as 'enterprise level'.
Good deal. Cheaper then their Sun machines, and you have good support. Downsides: No SCSI, no serial terminal, and no HW raid options (This was before Apple released their Xserve RAID).
This was an experiment to see if Xservers could be cheaper then the Sun options. Not sure what their decision was.
you have two other choices: adopt Linux; adopt Macs.
From a patching perspective. Why would this cost less? Macs and Linux still require patching, because ALL software has bugs.
Macs especially: Buying a whole new computer is more expensive then using your existing hardware. I don't see where you get the "Mac is cheaper" argument.