Having an option to login quickly in a kiosk-mode with only a limited number of apps or full desktop might come in handy.
Considering that Gnome 2 takes about five seconds to log in since I uninstalled all that zeitgeist crap and deleted the thumbnails directory on shutdown, I'm not sure how much faster you could make it.
Oh, but yeah, I guess Gnome 3 is going to take as long as KDE to load all its crap before I can do anything useful.
Thank you for faithfully illustrating my point. Now calculate the construction costs and timelines.
Either they're talking out of their backsides, or they need a lot more than 70 tons of stuff on the Moon. Astronauts are cheap -- heck, you'd find plenty of people willing to pay to be part of a construction crew on the Moon -- the expensive part is getting stuff there.
I would speculate that lots of slashdotters think the $20+ billion is a realistic figure that someone will one day cough up to do something like this.
I don't understand that number; if all they need is 70 tons of stuff on the Moon, then a few Falcon 9 Heavies should be able to put that there for a billion or so.
But they'd still take a very long time to get a return on their money from selling pizza to lunar tourists.
The difference is, people in Libya aren't afraid to take down their government by any means necessary.
You don't 'take down a government', you replace it with a different government. In this case it appears that NATO has been giving weapons to Islamic extremists, so odds are we're about to see a civil war between the different 'rebel' factions followed by Islamic government.
Maybe that'll be better than a wacko like Gaddafi, but I doubt they'll be any less censorious and oppressive.
Just think, if we still had the space shuttle, this would be a non-issue. Thanks US gov't!
Except the 'rescue plan' for the shuttle was that next time the heat shield was fatally damaged the crew would hang around at the space station until a couple of Soyuz capsules could take them back... otherwise you'd have to launch another shuttle and hope the same thing didn't happen on that launch.
The real truth is that this is what happens when you design a system with a single point of failure. Having lost a couple of rockets the Russians can now say they need billions to redesign components before the next Soyuz launch and NASA either pay up or leave ISS empty.
This a great story still repeated as fact by reactionary media when they get bored talking trash about Democrats.
Presumably the pro-Communist media who'd push such a story about Stupid Capitalist Americans 'talk trash' about Democrats because Obama's not far enough to the left for their taste?
And stopped doing so after finding out the hard way, that breathing in floating pieces of broken-off pencil cores is not the most pleasant experience.
And getting bits of graphite in electrical components (e.g. across the contacts of a switch) isn't a good idea either.
Whereas the Space Pen has almost certainly been a good investment for the company that developed it. Given the number I've seen for sale in museums and similar tourist spots (I had one myself as a kid but lost it) they must have made quite a few milion in sales on Earth.
YThis again leads back to my conclusion that people with a liberal mindset believe that resources are running out, and that they need to force change on other people.
No, you have that backwards. They want to force changes on other people and 'resource scarcity' is just a convenient excuse.
How many times have you seen liberals shouting about some disaster and demanding the adoption of free-market policies to solve it? Creating a problem so you can propose a solution which happens to be what you wanted in the first place has been a standard left-wing tactic since at least the 19th century.
So, for example, first you ban drilling for oil and then you shout about 'peak oil' and how it's going to kill everyone unless we start using public transport. You could just, you know, drill for more oil instead but that wouldn't achieve the real goal of pushing people onto public transport.
I really hope I'm a long way from Earth before some idiot decides to try one of these things. Otherwise I'll be getting out the skis because we'll be heading for a new ice age.
Though I did like the proposal in the 60s to use Apollo lunar modules to carry big mirrors into orbit which would reflect sunlight into the Vietnamese jungles at night. Abosolutely insane, but good fun.
Getting stuff down is not going to be a real problem. If we are talking about mining metals then you could go ultra-simple and just make a big ingot and then carefully shoot it at a desolate area (like the Mongolian steps).
Why not just eliminate the hassle and crash the asteroid there? Hiring Monoglians to mine the asteroid on Earth will be a lot cheaper than sending astronauts to mine it in space.
Of course that rather demonstrates the insanity of the idea; we have lots and lots of rocks on Earth already. Unless the asteroid is known to have some rare elements in significant concentrations you'll find many better places to dig right here.
So I can then conclude that all you Apple-haters have personally investigated the source of your motherboards, memory, GPUs, cases, and power supplies of the environmentally-perfect PCs you are using to bash Apple upon?
No, we just don't care. We aren't claiming to be 'socially responsible', whereas according to the summary Apple apparently is.
To fix this problem, we have to DEMAND that imported goods are manufactured under the same rules and regulations required by US law, and charge import duties or refuse entry for all products that do not comply with US Law. Fair Trade, not Free Trade.
So you talk about LIBERTY and then demand that the government prohibit people from trading with others outside the country who you don't like. Interesting.
How about you only buy products from companies who adopt policies you like? If you're right and most people want to pay more for the things they buy then that will automatically lead to companies adopting those policies.
But, of course, you and I both know that won't happen, which is why you want to prohibit people from buying from companies you don't like.
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Having an option to login quickly in a kiosk-mode with only a limited number of apps or full desktop might come in handy.
Considering that Gnome 2 takes about five seconds to log in since I uninstalled all that zeitgeist crap and deleted the thumbnails directory on shutdown, I'm not sure how much faster you could make it.
Oh, but yeah, I guess Gnome 3 is going to take as long as KDE to load all its crap before I can do anything useful.
depends on how you count it (there was nothing wrong with windows 2000, nor was windows 95 or windows 98 the "skipable" release)
You forgot Win95 OSR2. Aka 'you have to buy a new PC if you want USB support'.
Thank you for faithfully illustrating my point. Now calculate the construction costs and timelines.
Either they're talking out of their backsides, or they need a lot more than 70 tons of stuff on the Moon. Astronauts are cheap -- heck, you'd find plenty of people willing to pay to be part of a construction crew on the Moon -- the expensive part is getting stuff there.
Which is fine, really, considering that all you need for "keyboard and mouse" is just a bluetooth keyboard for the tablets.
So you end up with an expensive, underpowered laptop with lousy ergonomics. Sounds like a win!
The fact is that it's hard to justify paying laptop prices for what is seen as a luxury item.
Ah, but if you're an Apple cultist then a tablet isn't an expensive alternative to a laptop, it's a cheap alternative to a Mac laptop.
I would speculate that lots of slashdotters think the $20+ billion is a realistic figure that someone will one day cough up to do something like this.
I don't understand that number; if all they need is 70 tons of stuff on the Moon, then a few Falcon 9 Heavies should be able to put that there for a billion or so.
But they'd still take a very long time to get a return on their money from selling pizza to lunar tourists.
Is it going to start throwing chairs?
The difference is, people in Libya aren't afraid to take down their government by any means necessary.
You don't 'take down a government', you replace it with a different government. In this case it appears that NATO has been giving weapons to Islamic extremists, so odds are we're about to see a civil war between the different 'rebel' factions followed by Islamic government.
Maybe that'll be better than a wacko like Gaddafi, but I doubt they'll be any less censorious and oppressive.
"If you think it's nice that you can remove the DigiNotar CA, imagine a world where you couldn't, and they knew you couldn't. That's DNSSEC."
Is it just me, or does this make no sense to anyone else either?
Just think, if we still had the space shuttle, this would be a non-issue. Thanks US gov't!
Except the 'rescue plan' for the shuttle was that next time the heat shield was fatally damaged the crew would hang around at the space station until a couple of Soyuz capsules could take them back... otherwise you'd have to launch another shuttle and hope the same thing didn't happen on that launch.
The real truth is that this is what happens when you design a system with a single point of failure. Having lost a couple of rockets the Russians can now say they need billions to redesign components before the next Soyuz launch and NASA either pay up or leave ISS empty.
This a great story still repeated as fact by reactionary media when they get bored talking trash about Democrats.
Presumably the pro-Communist media who'd push such a story about Stupid Capitalist Americans 'talk trash' about Democrats because Obama's not far enough to the left for their taste?
And stopped doing so after finding out the hard way, that breathing in floating pieces of broken-off pencil cores is not the most pleasant experience.
And getting bits of graphite in electrical components (e.g. across the contacts of a switch) isn't a good idea either.
Whereas the Space Pen has almost certainly been a good investment for the company that developed it. Given the number I've seen for sale in museums and similar tourist spots (I had one myself as a kid but lost it) they must have made quite a few milion in sales on Earth.
All the recent news about the possibility of leaving ISS uninhabited got me to thinking....
Is there a lock on the door?
Imagine if you went for a spacewalk and locked yourself out... you couldn't exactly open a window to climb back inside :).
YThis again leads back to my conclusion that people with a liberal mindset believe that resources are running out, and that they need to force change on other people.
No, you have that backwards. They want to force changes on other people and 'resource scarcity' is just a convenient excuse.
How many times have you seen liberals shouting about some disaster and demanding the adoption of free-market policies to solve it? Creating a problem so you can propose a solution which happens to be what you wanted in the first place has been a standard left-wing tactic since at least the 19th century.
So, for example, first you ban drilling for oil and then you shout about 'peak oil' and how it's going to kill everyone unless we start using public transport. You could just, you know, drill for more oil instead but that wouldn't achieve the real goal of pushing people onto public transport.
And repeat the whole damn shit again? No thank you.
We're quite happy for you to stay behind while we take over the rest of the universe.
I really hope I'm a long way from Earth before some idiot decides to try one of these things. Otherwise I'll be getting out the skis because we'll be heading for a new ice age.
Though I did like the proposal in the 60s to use Apollo lunar modules to carry big mirrors into orbit which would reflect sunlight into the Vietnamese jungles at night. Abosolutely insane, but good fun.
Getting stuff down is not going to be a real problem. If we are talking about mining metals then you could go ultra-simple and just make a big ingot and then carefully shoot it at a desolate area (like the Mongolian steps).
Why not just eliminate the hassle and crash the asteroid there? Hiring Monoglians to mine the asteroid on Earth will be a lot cheaper than sending astronauts to mine it in space.
Of course that rather demonstrates the insanity of the idea; we have lots and lots of rocks on Earth already. Unless the asteroid is known to have some rare elements in significant concentrations you'll find many better places to dig right here.
There are cars made in the US which cost less than $14,000.
They'd cost $100,000 if they had an Apple logo on the back.
No regulations on worker rights, human rights, or environmental rights.
What else do you expect from a bunch of commies?
So I can then conclude that all you Apple-haters have personally investigated the source of your motherboards, memory, GPUs, cases, and power supplies of the environmentally-perfect PCs you are using to bash Apple upon?
No, we just don't care. We aren't claiming to be 'socially responsible', whereas according to the summary Apple apparently is.
To fix this problem, we have to DEMAND that imported goods are manufactured under the same rules and regulations required by US law, and charge import duties or refuse entry for all products that do not comply with US Law. Fair Trade, not Free Trade.
So you talk about LIBERTY and then demand that the government prohibit people from trading with others outside the country who you don't like. Interesting.
How about you only buy products from companies who adopt policies you like? If you're right and most people want to pay more for the things they buy then that will automatically lead to companies adopting those policies.
But, of course, you and I both know that won't happen, which is why you want to prohibit people from buying from companies you don't like.
I don't think they can be truly called Communists in any meaningful sense of the word.
Well, except in the 'what communism means in the real world rather than some happy fluffy fantasy where human nature doesn't exist' sense.
You're right, of course one of the most secretive and highly funded organizations in the world would disclose their knowledge.
Yes, of course. Not saying that they can break AES is CLEAR PROOF that they can.
I'm still wondering why I can't -Xmx"as much as you bloody well need"...
It's the joy of garbage collection. If you did that then your system would run out of RAM whenever you ran two Java programs at the same time.
Please list reasons why they would they disclose the fact that they can break AES256. Thank you.
Yes, of course. Not saying that they can break AES is CLEAR PROOF that they can.