I downloaded and installed the previous beta version for both SuSE and Win95. The two products were identical in look, feel and operation, except that the Linux version seemed a tad faster.
I am 58 and I was 20/400 in both eyes, with astigmatism, and I've been wearing glasses for nearly 50 years. Now I am 20/25 or slighly less in the left eye and about 20/25 or slightly more in the right. I have no problems with night vision. I wear blue-blocker sun glasses and I noticed that they improve my eyesight to 20/20 or better! As a programmer, I spend 8 hrs per day programming and then go home to my Linux system and put in another hour, with no problems. I swapped being very near-sighted but requiring glasses for both near and far seeing, to being far-sighted and using reading glasses for programming and reading - a more than equitable trade. For me I consider it a miracle of modern science for which I am thankful. Those who refuse to play with fire for fear of being burned will just have to enjoy the oxcart while the autos zoom by.
Your definition of Chaos merely means that you do not understand the topic. Dr. Lawranz (sp?), of MIT, proved that the problem has nothing to do with the 'number of variables' but on the idea of non-linear reactions. The "straw that broke the camel's back" sort of thing, or the butterfly flapping in Japan that causes a Tornado in Nebraska. Nova did an excellent piece on the subject for laymen and you can probably find it at your local library. It is worth the hour.
People that claim to be able to model the weather for predictions months or years into the future fall into two catagories: those who don't understand Chaos (or modeling) and those that have an politcal agenda. The former are merely wasting money and time. That latter sponser agi-prop events like the 2000 'environmental scientists' that signed the "Global Warming" letter a few years ago. It turns out, when their credentials were checked, that only 15 were actually weather scientists. Most were just the usualy assortment of leftist cause-joiners. A couple of months later several thousand (near 10 if I remember correctly) actual weather scientists, meteorologists, etc., signed a letter stating that Global Warming was a myth. It got no press coverage by the major media. It is interesting to note that WATER vapor has SEVEN TIMES the green-house power of CO2. It is also interesting to note that the same folks who are pushing Global Warming scenerios were the ones pushing Nuclear Winter twenty years ago. Then we were going to freeze to death if the H bomb or Population bomb went off. Their solution to both "problems" is identical - nanny government socialism and removal of individual liberties, for the children, of course. Same folks, same tune tune with different words but the same agenda. For folks who are really interested there are several books on chemical cycles and the global environment published before the politically correct virus infected academia) which detail the players: CO2, water, bicarbonates in the ocean, phtotsynthesis, etc., and give reaction rates (k values), with estitmates for cycle times. Reputable books also state their assumptions and define their constants, siting reproduced experimentation. Don't let them yank your chains, folks. JLK
Exactly right! If we knew where the money for the "survey" came from then we'd know why the results were the way they are. It reminds me of when Gates required a poll that would say that about 85% of users prefered something and a couple of weeks later a poll comes out saying exactly that. It's only during the DOJ trial when we peruse the MS email that we see the money trail between the desire and the results. Media manipulation is exactly what it is. You don't need to invoke "Evolution of the Web" explainations. Simple greed explains much.
The article is a pile of Penquin dodo and the comment about "being raped and plundered" is just so much flatulance. THE gpl keeps it free. If some corp decides to attach a bunch of binary crap to a copy of Linux that doesn't mean everyone has to buy it, unlike the present M$ model. RH, along with several other Internet IPOs will slide back down to the penny stock range before a year passes. Besides T-shirts, distros and service they have no other commodity for which most folks would be willing to pay. SuSE beats them by miles in distro quality, I've heard their service is poor. That only leaves the T-shirts. Five Billion for T-shirts? I doubt it.
Exactly! My job is to make my users happy! They don't need to know about 3NF, relation databases, parent-child relationships, objects, inheritance or any other techno terms. I design what they want and do it using the best design techniques at my command. The only time I "counsel" them is when they propose logical contradictions. In fact, they have supplied some of the best ideas towards solving some problems.
"how can you claim that the people who wrote it knew what they were talking about? i don't think you have the right to have an m-16, ak47 or anything else. what use does anybody have for those, except to kill people? "
Duh!!! Brain-dead... That's what gun are for. Gee, I was only shot with a.22, I shouldn't be dead because it wasn't one of those awful assult rifles. What do law officers bring to shooting scenes? Guns, because they are more effecting than knives or begging at curbing bad guys. Why do they call'm bad guys? Because they don't respect the laws against illegal use of firearms. You are certainly the result of modern educational institutions. If you NEW constitution has the 1st amendment (you don't plan on doing away with that one too, do you?) how do you plan on keeping it? If the 2nd amendment goes you can kiss the first one good bye too.
Then check the Executive Order FDR signed in January of 1942. It authorized the FBI to use CENSUS data, in violation of the Census act and the will of congress. Those apposing the census act, at the time of its passage, claimed it would be abused eventually be abused by some future president. Using the census data FBI agents rounded up all American citizens of Japanese ancestry on the west coast and sent them to concentration camps in the desert for the remainder of the war. No similar actions was taken against Americans of German or Italian ancestry. It was for the preservation of the principals and liberties mentioned in the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Right that we went to war in the first place. To do what FDR did made a mockery of them, but no worse than the Supreme Court saying in the Dred Scott decision that "all men" doesn't include negros, or in Row vs Wade that a human fetus isn't a human being, or HUD threatening California homeowners with violations of homeless peoples civil rights simply because they went to court (sought due process) to prevent a homeless shelter from being built in their neighborhood. In other words, our fameous documents of freedom aren't worth the paper they are written on if those elected to "preserve, protect and defend" , degrade, lie and destroy those liberties. This is why the people I talk with show little respect for either political party- the reps seem to favor BG type capitalism and the dems favor Lenin type socialism and the lobbyists and special interest groups pay larges sums to buy of both sides.
What a mess. The reason: our elected representatives have as much moral fiber as those who elected them. We get the politicians we deserve.
Right! As Thomas Sowell put it: "Who is the first person called to the site of a shooting? Someone with a gun to counter the bad guy doing the shooting." If the 2nd Amendment doesn't include the common man neither does the 1st, and Freedom is farther down the toilet than you realize. BTW, do you remember what happened to the guy in the Chicken suit who heckled Bush? He went on to work in Clinton's Administration rummaging through 1000+ FBI files (for which no one has gone to jail... they can't even figure out who hired Hillary's two friends. Ya, right.) And, do you remember that Mexican-American couple that shouted questions about the bimbos at Clinton while he was visting the Dems in Chicago? Secret Security arrest, false accusations, lots of legel expense, IRS audits.... And this man, the most lying, dishonest, double-talking, newspeaking person ever to hold the office of President, is concerned about maintaining the freedom of the internet? You are also right... he and his administration (16 of 18 cabinet officers indicted and/or convicted) couldn't have gotten away with all the stuff he has done without a bunch of Reps and Dems turning a blind eye and ear, and the Dan Rathers of the media covering the crimes with puff interviews and reruns of Nixon and McArthy stuff, as if Clinton's crimes and abuse of power were not as bad as Nixon's. Clinton has made Nixon look like an amateur. And don't forget -- he'll destroy those liberties for the sake of the children.
YaST is ok. It is essentially a menu system to runs a set of perl wrappers that pass arguments to RPM to install, upgrade or remove packages. It also allows modification of several config files by modifying one file and then running SuSEConfig to distribute the settings to respective files. And, it allows adding packages that are not part of the CDROM set. It has some quirks - having to turn of DHCP to access base network settings, for example. One can also use 'tar' to add apps that aren't on the CDs. For installing binary apps or ones that don't require changing the environment or modifying existing config files the tar utility is an excellent tool.
What I like about SuSE is that the packages on the CD's are, for the most part, preconfigured to run with the SuSE system without tinkering. It is very well integrated. This is what is meant when refering to "fine German Engineering". I have been running SuSE since last September. SuSE has a mail-list that is very well attended and two or three SuSE staff members present (Lenz, Hurbert, Josh...) and several non-SuSE folks who are very knowledgeable. A *very* nice support group, very little trash posting or politics. Those that are complaining should join the english maillist and post their problem, after they RTFM. I think they will be pleasently suprised. The manual, BTW, is much more informative than manuals put out by other distro distributors, IMHO. When I was running RH, and now that I'm running SUSE, I am amazed at the problems people have with their setups which they blame on their distro. Most problems, IMO, stem not from the distro but from failing to RTFM, or the HOW-TO's. There are some problems that arise from the current Linux methodology which is foreign to people recently migrated to Linux from Windows. Caldera 2.2 and other distros seem to be trying to fill that gap. Once users are used to installing Caldera and then move over to another distro the pain may not be so great.
>And my point is that SuSE shifted the balance to doing constant releases. You surely remember that SuSE 6.1 came out in May, don't you?
That's why it's called a "subscription"! SuSE says that a subscription will be released every three or four months. I subscribed. I expect that SuSE will stick fairly close to that schedule. One doesn't have to subscribe. I could still be running 5.3 if I wanted to. No one forced me to upgrade to 6.0 or 6.1 nor has anyone put a gun to my head and demanded that I continue to 6.2. But I will. Obviously you won't, but there is no reason to complain about a choice that I make simply because it disagrees with yours.
Not even close.... While you can control some of the extras that Windows packs into their CD, there is a ton of stuff you have to install. True bloat. SuSe, on the other hand, can be minimally installed (as most other Linux distros can) and one can always but the $2 CD version at CheapBytes if one doesn't like to pay $30+ for 6 CDs.
I, however, am looking forward to receiving my subscription of SuSE 6.2 and consider it an excellent bargin even at SuSE's prices.
The Spirit of Linux says to me that I don't have to do things your way and you don't have to do things my way. It should also include the 11th commandment, "don't speak ill of another Linux user or distro, cause no one forces you to use the distro you've chosen"
Mindcraft is only proving its lapdog status to M$ and Bill Gates by posting such email on its site. This technique can work both ways. I cannot count the number of obscene and/or childish msgs that I have seen posted by M$ clones on this website, LinuxToday, and the various newsgroups. If a website were to begin posting those anti-Linux messages the effect would be the same, but in the opposite direction. We are at war, and propaganda counts.
So you think Mother Nature makes sure that the flow of heat among atoms and molecules only occurs when humans are doing "thermodynamics" experiments? What you probably mean to say is that Thermodynamics doesn't depend upon any specific laws of chemistry or physics but stands alone as a body of knowledge and experience. So, if your pet theory in chemistry disagrees with the one of the laws of thermodynamics then so much for your pet theory. Thermodynamics rules on the validity of any other area of science. 1st Law: dE = q + w Translation: you can't get out of a process more than what you put in. English translation: you can't win. 2nd Law: dS = dQ/T Translation: At a given temperature the change in disorder of a system is proportional to the change in heat content. English translation: You can't breakeven 3rd Law: To avoid discussions about adiabatics, simply say that 0K is impossible to reach. English translation: you can't get out of the game. These laws apply to any circumstance which involves matter interacting in any way at any temperature. Period. To say otherwise is to not understand how Carnot dervived the concept and how it has been enlarged upon since.
"Heat to a rolling boil" ???? Is that the boiling point of Carbon or the boiling point of Hydogen? It wouldn't matter anyway, because in an aqueous environment using CO2 and H2O, the heat of formation of CH4 is +20.34 Kg-cal per gmw, which means it's not spontaneous. What you're really refering to is that "experiment" in which methane, ammonia, water and electrical sparks (simulating lightening) reflux for several days and a tarry substance containing amino acids appears. From this we are supposed to jump to self-replicating molecules and spontaneous life. Quite a leap of faith....
The Second Law no longer requires a "closed system" to be valid. The November 1987 issue of Science (if I remember right) discussed the proof of the validity of the Second Law in a gas confined in two dimensions, and the authors indicated they would be soon ready to establish that the Second Law is valid for an unconfinded gas in three dimensions, also. I never followed the proof so I don't know if they published the proof for three dimensions, but they gave 1991 as an approximate deadline.
You can download from the nasa images website both the old picture, which appears to show a 'face', and the most recent one, taken of that same spot with a more powerful camera. The more recent picture shows the 'face' was really just a play of light and shadows that would only 'appear' to be a face from the perspective that the first photo just happended to be at. That mars ever had any life at all, intelligent or not, remains to be proven. In fact, mars may have been 'seeded' by ejecta from earth impacts that carried bacteria back out into space where the bacteria could be desicated and blown by the solar wind to mars. In those earlier times the bacteria may have flurished in some area which was then hit by an asteroid (the southern impact point?) whose ejecta included rocks containing 'martian' bacteria that was pulled back to earth by solar gravity, only to land on that antartic and give some scientists a chance for 15 minutes of fame.
Plus some leakage from the Rocky Flats nuclear facility. I have some family living about 1 1/2 miles from RF. All four family members have had thyroid problems, plus many of the neighbors. Property values are in the toilet and they can't move. A few years ago, when I visited, there was a big gov coverup and a quashing of a federal grand jury investigating the contanimation and the fact that about 30 Kilos of Plutionium are "lost". A couple of jury members (anononymously) said the jury was forced to return no-bills and threatened with imprisonment if they *ever* discussed what went on. So, alititude is only part of the problem at Denver.
to wonder about Sun's committment to Linux and the Open Source movement. In fact, the latest (April 99) listing of the software that powers the Internet shows that Linux has increased its percentage from the last quarter by almost exactly the total of the percentages of loss by Sun and the other unicies. Sun's CEO is seeing the writing on the wall: Linux is a threat not only to M$ but to other propriatary software also. They sat back on their 'system' and just raked in cash from exhorbant license fees, without adding to the features or ease of use of their OS, and let the Penguin swim right on by. Now, the Penquin is leading and the Sun is sinking in the West.
I was very active selling Apples and writing Apple BASIC apps to run on them in the early 80's. My memory of XENIX was that it appeared as the OS on a model or two of Radio Shacks's computers, but never made a big dent. I think this is the "suprise" the author refers to when he says that XENIX had the largest "market share" of UNIXies at the time. As I also remember, that market share was largely home and very small business. So, M$ gets praise for having the "largest" market share of UNIX computers in the early 80s even though they were personal-home computers, and Linux gets dissed because a large part of it's market share is personal-home computers. How do you say "double standard" children? At the government agency where I program, my self and many others installed NT 4.0 on our workstation when it first came out. As the months passed we reverted back to Win95 because of problems relating to speed, stability and NT's "user friendlyness" forcing us to do things in ways we didn't want to do them, I guess to protect us from ourselves. "User friendly" gets in the way when it assumes that every user is an idiot who has to have their hand held (or slapped) all the time. A couple of weeks ago we installed our first Linux server, replacing the NT that had held our Oracle 8 database. Results: an immediate four-fold increase in speed and the nearly daily reboots have ceased. When app development issues (which language, which toolkits, which Xclient, which VCS) get resolved by the suits it is my belief that 30+ servers and 300+ workstations are going to get a drastic overhaul. All from one CD. The economics and the speed and stability are going to force it.
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I downloaded and installed the previous beta version for both SuSE and Win95. The two products were identical in look, feel and operation, except that the Linux version seemed a tad faster.
I am 58 and I was 20/400 in both eyes, with astigmatism, and I've been wearing glasses for nearly 50 years. Now I am 20/25 or slighly less in the left eye and about 20/25 or slightly more in the right. I have no problems with night vision. I wear blue-blocker sun glasses and I noticed that they improve my eyesight to 20/20 or better! As a programmer, I spend 8 hrs per day programming and then go home to my Linux system and put in another hour, with no problems. I swapped being very near-sighted but requiring glasses for both near and far seeing, to being far-sighted and using reading glasses for programming and reading - a more than equitable trade. For me I consider it a miracle of modern science for which I am thankful. Those who refuse to play with fire for fear of being burned will just have to enjoy the oxcart while the autos zoom by.
He's now trying to save face after his ego trip blew up in it.
Your definition of Chaos merely means that you do not understand the topic. Dr. Lawranz (sp?), of MIT, proved that the problem has nothing to do with the 'number of variables' but on the idea of non-linear reactions. The "straw that broke the camel's back" sort of thing, or the butterfly flapping in Japan that causes a Tornado in Nebraska. Nova did an excellent piece on the subject for laymen and you can probably find it at your local library. It is worth the hour.
People that claim to be able to model the weather for predictions months or years into the future fall into two catagories: those who don't understand Chaos (or modeling) and those that have an politcal agenda. The former are merely wasting money and time. That latter sponser agi-prop events like the 2000 'environmental scientists' that signed the "Global Warming" letter a few years ago. It turns out, when their credentials were checked, that only 15 were actually weather scientists. Most were just the usualy assortment of leftist cause-joiners. A couple of months later several thousand (near 10 if I remember correctly) actual weather scientists, meteorologists, etc., signed a letter stating that Global Warming was a myth. It got no press coverage by the major media.
It is interesting to note that WATER vapor has SEVEN TIMES the green-house power of CO2.
It is also interesting to note that the same folks who are pushing Global Warming scenerios were the ones pushing Nuclear Winter twenty years ago. Then we were going to freeze to death if the H bomb or Population bomb went off. Their solution to both "problems" is identical - nanny government socialism and removal of individual liberties, for the children, of course. Same folks, same tune tune with different words but the same agenda.
For folks who are really interested there are several books on chemical cycles and the global environment published before the politically correct virus infected academia) which detail the players: CO2, water, bicarbonates in the ocean, phtotsynthesis, etc., and give reaction rates (k values), with estitmates for cycle times. Reputable books also state their assumptions and define their constants, siting reproduced experimentation.
Don't let them yank your chains, folks.
JLK
Exactly right!
If we knew where the money for the "survey" came from then we'd know why the results were the way they are.
It reminds me of when Gates required a poll that would say that about 85% of users prefered something and a couple of weeks later a poll comes out saying exactly that. It's only during the DOJ trial when we peruse the MS email that we see the money trail between the desire and the results.
Media manipulation is exactly what it is. You don't need to invoke "Evolution of the Web" explainations. Simple greed explains much.
The article is a pile of Penquin dodo and the comment about "being raped and plundered" is just so much flatulance.
THE gpl keeps it free. If some corp decides to attach a bunch of binary crap to a copy of Linux that doesn't mean everyone has to buy it, unlike the present M$ model.
RH, along with several other Internet IPOs will slide back down to the penny stock range before a year passes. Besides T-shirts, distros and service they have no other commodity for which most folks would be willing to pay. SuSE beats them by miles in distro quality, I've heard their service is poor. That only leaves the T-shirts. Five Billion for T-shirts?
I doubt it.
Exactly!
My job is to make my users happy!
They don't need to know about 3NF, relation databases, parent-child relationships, objects, inheritance or any other techno terms. I design what they want and do it using the best design techniques at my command. The only time I "counsel" them is when they propose logical contradictions. In fact, they have supplied some of the best ideas towards solving some problems.
"how can you claim that the people who wrote it knew what they were talking about? i don't think you have the right to have an m-16, ak47 or anything else. what use does anybody have for those, except to kill people? "
.22, I shouldn't be dead because it wasn't one of those awful assult rifles.
Duh!!! Brain-dead... That's what gun are for.
Gee, I was only shot with a
What do law officers bring to shooting scenes? Guns, because they are more effecting than knives or begging at curbing bad guys. Why do they call'm bad guys? Because they don't respect the laws against illegal use of firearms.
You are certainly the result of modern educational institutions.
If you NEW constitution has the 1st amendment (you don't plan on doing away with that one too, do you?) how do you plan on keeping it? If the 2nd amendment goes you can kiss the first one good bye too.
Then check the Executive Order FDR signed in January of 1942. It authorized the FBI to use CENSUS data, in violation of the Census act and the will of congress. Those apposing the census act, at the time of its passage, claimed it would be abused eventually be abused by some future president.
Using the census data FBI agents rounded up all American citizens of Japanese ancestry on the west coast and sent them to concentration camps in the desert for the remainder of the war. No similar actions was taken against Americans of German or Italian ancestry.
It was for the preservation of the principals and liberties mentioned in the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Right that we went to war in the first place. To do what FDR did made a mockery of them, but no worse than the Supreme Court saying in the Dred Scott decision that "all men" doesn't include negros, or in Row vs Wade that a human fetus isn't a human being, or HUD threatening California homeowners with violations of homeless peoples civil rights simply because they went to court (sought due process) to prevent a homeless shelter from being built in their neighborhood.
In other words, our fameous documents of freedom aren't worth the paper they are written on if those elected to "preserve, protect and defend" , degrade, lie and destroy those liberties.
This is why the people I talk with show little respect for either political party- the reps seem to favor BG type capitalism and the dems favor Lenin type socialism and the lobbyists and special interest groups pay larges sums to buy of both sides.
What a mess. The reason: our elected representatives have as much moral fiber as those who elected them. We get the politicians we deserve.
Right! As Thomas Sowell put it: "Who is the first person called to the site of a shooting? Someone with a gun to counter the bad guy doing the shooting."
If the 2nd Amendment doesn't include the common man neither does the 1st, and Freedom is farther down the toilet than you realize.
BTW, do you remember what happened to the guy in the Chicken suit who heckled Bush? He went on to work in Clinton's Administration rummaging through 1000+ FBI files (for which no one has gone to jail... they can't even figure out who hired Hillary's two friends. Ya, right.)
And, do you remember that Mexican-American couple that shouted questions about the bimbos at Clinton while he was visting the Dems in Chicago? Secret Security arrest, false accusations, lots of legel expense, IRS audits....
And this man, the most lying, dishonest, double-talking, newspeaking person ever to hold the office of President, is concerned about maintaining the freedom of the internet?
You are also right... he and his administration (16 of 18 cabinet officers indicted and/or convicted) couldn't have gotten away with all the stuff he has done without a bunch of Reps and Dems turning a blind eye and ear, and the Dan Rathers of the media covering the crimes with puff interviews and reruns of Nixon and McArthy stuff, as if Clinton's crimes and abuse of power were not as bad as Nixon's. Clinton has made Nixon look like an amateur.
And don't forget -- he'll destroy those liberties for the sake of the children.
YaST is ok.
It is essentially a menu system to runs a set of perl wrappers that pass arguments to RPM to install, upgrade or remove packages. It also allows modification of several config files by modifying one file and then running SuSEConfig to distribute the settings to respective files. And, it allows adding packages that are not part of the CDROM set. It has some quirks - having to turn of DHCP to access base network settings, for example.
One can also use 'tar' to add apps that aren't on the CDs. For installing binary apps or ones that don't require changing the environment or modifying existing config files the tar utility is an excellent tool.
What I like about SuSE is that the packages on the CD's are, for the most part, preconfigured to run with the SuSE system without tinkering. It is very well integrated. This is what is meant when refering to "fine German Engineering". I have been running SuSE since last September. SuSE has a mail-list that is very well attended and two or three SuSE staff members present (Lenz, Hurbert, Josh...) and several non-SuSE folks who are very knowledgeable. A *very* nice support group, very little trash posting or politics. Those that are complaining should join the english maillist and post their problem, after they RTFM. I think they will be pleasently suprised. The manual, BTW, is much more informative than manuals put out by other distro distributors, IMHO.
When I was running RH, and now that I'm running SUSE, I am amazed at the problems people have with their setups which they blame on their distro. Most problems, IMO, stem not from the distro but from failing to RTFM, or the HOW-TO's. There are some problems that arise from the current Linux methodology which is foreign to people recently migrated to Linux from Windows. Caldera 2.2 and other distros seem to be trying to fill that gap. Once users are used to installing Caldera and then move over to another distro the pain may not be so great.
>And my point is that SuSE shifted the balance to doing constant releases. You surely remember that SuSE 6.1 came out in May, don't you?
That's why it's called a "subscription"! SuSE says that a subscription will be released every three or four months. I subscribed. I expect that SuSE will stick fairly close to that schedule. One doesn't have to subscribe. I could still be running 5.3 if I wanted to. No one forced me to upgrade to 6.0 or 6.1 nor has anyone put a gun to my head and demanded that I continue to 6.2. But I will. Obviously you won't, but there is no reason to complain about a choice that I make simply because it disagrees with yours.
Not even close....
While you can control some of the extras that Windows packs into their CD, there is a ton of stuff you have to install. True bloat.
SuSe, on the other hand, can be minimally installed (as most other Linux distros can) and one can always but the $2 CD version at CheapBytes if one doesn't like to pay $30+ for 6 CDs.
I, however, am looking forward to receiving my subscription of SuSE 6.2 and consider it an excellent bargin even at SuSE's prices.
The Spirit of Linux says to me that I don't have to do things your way and you don't have to do things my way. It should also include the 11th commandment, "don't speak ill of another Linux user or distro, cause no one forces you to use the distro you've chosen"
http://www.starbridgesystems.com/home/mainpage.htm
The Starbridge Systems computer uses "VIVA", an operating system that reconfigures the CPU on the fly, supposedly allowing huge speed increases.
Unless, of course, the individual is a communist or Nazi..., then it merely become a reminder.
Mindcraft is only proving its lapdog status to M$ and Bill Gates by posting such email on its site.
This technique can work both ways.
I cannot count the number of obscene and/or childish msgs that I have seen posted by M$ clones on this website, LinuxToday, and the various newsgroups. If a website were to begin posting those anti-Linux messages the effect would be the same, but in the opposite direction.
We are at war, and propaganda counts.
So you think Mother Nature makes sure that the flow of heat among atoms and molecules only occurs when humans are doing "thermodynamics" experiments? What you probably mean to say is that Thermodynamics doesn't depend upon any specific laws of chemistry or physics but stands alone as a body of knowledge and experience. So, if your pet theory in chemistry disagrees with the one of the laws of thermodynamics then so much for your pet theory. Thermodynamics rules on the validity of any other area of science.
1st Law: dE = q + w Translation: you can't get out of a process more than what you put in. English translation: you can't win.
2nd Law: dS = dQ/T Translation: At a given temperature the change in disorder of a system is proportional to the change in heat content. English translation: You can't breakeven
3rd Law: To avoid discussions about adiabatics, simply say that 0K is impossible to reach. English translation: you can't get out of the game.
These laws apply to any circumstance which involves matter interacting in any way at any temperature. Period. To say otherwise is to not understand how Carnot dervived the concept and how it has been enlarged upon since.
"Heat to a rolling boil" ????
Is that the boiling point of Carbon or the boiling point of Hydogen? It wouldn't matter anyway, because in an aqueous environment using CO2 and H2O, the heat of formation of CH4 is +20.34 Kg-cal per gmw, which means it's not spontaneous.
What you're really refering to is that "experiment" in which methane, ammonia, water and electrical sparks (simulating lightening) reflux for several days and a tarry substance containing amino acids appears. From this we are supposed to jump to self-replicating molecules and spontaneous life. Quite a leap of faith....
The Second Law no longer requires a "closed system" to be valid. The November 1987 issue of Science (if I remember right) discussed the proof of the validity of the Second Law in a gas confined in two dimensions, and the authors indicated they would be soon ready to establish that the Second Law is valid for an unconfinded gas in three dimensions, also. I never followed the proof so I don't know if they published the proof for three dimensions, but they gave 1991 as an approximate deadline.
You can download from the nasa images website both the old picture, which appears to show a 'face', and the most recent one, taken of that same spot with a more powerful camera.
The more recent picture shows the 'face' was really just a play of light and shadows that would only 'appear' to be a face from the perspective that the first photo just happended to be at.
That mars ever had any life at all, intelligent or not, remains to be proven. In fact, mars may have been 'seeded' by ejecta from earth impacts that carried bacteria back out into space where the bacteria could be desicated and blown by the solar wind to mars. In those earlier times the bacteria may have flurished in some area which was then hit by an asteroid (the southern impact point?) whose ejecta included rocks containing 'martian' bacteria that was pulled back to earth by solar gravity, only to land on that antartic and give some scientists a chance for 15 minutes of fame.
because I read where the M$ monopoly was costing the consumer $50 Billion .....
Plus some leakage from the Rocky Flats nuclear facility. I have some family living about 1 1/2 miles from RF. All four family members have had thyroid problems, plus many of the neighbors. Property values are in the toilet and they can't move. A few years ago, when I visited, there was a big gov coverup and a quashing of a federal grand jury investigating the contanimation and the fact that about 30 Kilos of Plutionium are "lost". A couple of jury members (anononymously) said the jury was forced to return no-bills and threatened with imprisonment if they *ever* discussed what went on. So, alititude is only part of the problem at Denver.
to wonder about Sun's committment to Linux and the Open Source movement.
In fact, the latest (April 99) listing of the software that powers the Internet shows that Linux has increased its percentage from the last quarter by almost exactly the total of the percentages of loss by Sun and the other unicies. Sun's CEO is seeing the writing on the wall: Linux is a threat not only to M$ but to other propriatary software also. They sat back on their 'system' and just raked in cash from exhorbant license fees, without adding to the features or ease of use of their OS, and let the Penguin swim right on by. Now, the Penquin is leading and the Sun is sinking in the West.
That only proves that NT executed the BABBIT API call without warning! That's why you can't trust it - it's so unstable.
I was very active selling Apples and writing Apple BASIC apps to run on them in the early 80's. My memory of XENIX was that it appeared as the OS on a model or two of Radio Shacks's computers, but never made a big dent. I think this is the "suprise" the author refers to when he says that XENIX had the largest "market share" of UNIXies at the time. As I also remember, that market share was largely home and very small business. So, M$ gets praise for having the "largest" market share of UNIX computers in the early 80s even though they were personal-home computers, and Linux gets dissed because a large part of it's market share is personal-home computers.
How do you say "double standard" children?
At the government agency where I program, my self and many others installed NT 4.0 on our workstation when it first came out. As the months passed we reverted back to Win95 because of problems relating to speed, stability and NT's "user friendlyness" forcing us to do things in ways we didn't want to do them, I guess to protect us from ourselves. "User friendly" gets in the way when it assumes that every user is an idiot who has to have their hand held (or slapped) all the time.
A couple of weeks ago we installed our first Linux server, replacing the NT that had held our Oracle 8 database. Results: an immediate four-fold increase in speed and the nearly daily reboots have ceased.
When app development issues (which language, which toolkits, which Xclient, which VCS) get resolved by the suits it is my belief that 30+ servers and 300+ workstations are going to get a drastic overhaul. All from one CD. The economics and the speed and stability are going to force it.