My understanding is that NASA is going to be focusing on tasks in which there's no money (or incentive for private investment) at the moment. Basically, that means exploration. The rest (research, tourism) can be done privately.
For the vast majority of human history, the penalty for pretty much anything was death. No questions asked. That's the default. If you can't live by the rules, you're out of the tribe... the hard way.
"An eye for an eye" is an advanced, progressive, touchy-feely principle made popular by Hammurabi about 6000 years ago.
Everyone conveniently forgets that when we let Saddam off the hook in '91, one of the conditions was that he would have to prove that he had no weapons.
At some point, we had to say "enough" to his gamesmanship, and make good on the resolutions to do something about it.
Just because it looks like he was screwing with us instead of building weapons doesn't mean the casus bella was wrong. The ball was in Saddam's court.
Playing devil's advocate here: if those songs were public domain, and the record company could make no money from a big re-release, how would we get those songs in the new, high-quality format?
The linked article is fascinating; it actually doesn't have anything to do with Microsoft.
Apparently the OS/2 betas used Star Trek names "Klingon", "Ferengi". When IBM decided to make "Warp" the official name of the product and launch it with a spacey futuristic marketing theme (right down to Patrick Stewart), Paramount got ticked and IBM dropped the space theme.
This was a problem. Without a cool futuristic concept tied to the word and the product, IBM had to rely on the traditional meanings of the word. Like "bent." "Twisted." "Warped" out of shape. And other, less conventional meanings. For instance, if you were alive during the 1960s (if you remember the 1960s), "warped" was something you became after ingesting certain substances that time and experience have shown to be bad for memory recall and possibly your genetic heritage.
We give the UN so f***ing much money it's not even funny. It exists because US taxpayers foot the bill. I don't think we would turn around and ask them for money for something else...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the max amperage on USB is 500mA. Over 5V, that means the device burns at most 2.5W. Doesn't seem like the change in battery life would be too drastic.
Have Linux users been better trained to respect licenses?
Once upon a time, I was a Windows user in the habit of pirating (mainly because I was a kid with no money). Now that I've been on the Linux bandwagon for a some years, I use Free tools by default, and if there's an application that's useful and nice that costs money (VMWare, TransGaming, etc), I buy it.
I think Linux people may realize that the license is what ties us together, and that by pirating software we undermine our community as well as erode our major advantage over some of the evil closed source people.
What's taken everyone so long to realize the huge crisis in the oil supply? Everybody knows that at any given time, there's only a 40 years' supply of oil in the world. It's been that way for decades!
I'm the administrator at the Westbank Community Library in Austin. We've got 25 public access Dells and for years we dealt with the exact problems you describe: glitches, bluescreens, lack of uniformity, lock-down software not functioning perfectly.
The solution: Linux. Not in a thin client situation, but re-syncing each night with systemimager.
The X startup files are set to erase the home directory and replace it with the prototype copy every logout, which means guests can even use the hard drive for temporary storage.
KDE is in Kiosk mode, just to prevent shell access and simplify the interface. Since the home directory is erased at logout, the user is perfectly free to configure Firefox (or whatever other app) however he wants, because it only affects that session.
We've got OpenOffice as well as Crossover to run MS-Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
It's Debian stable with a few backports, and it's extremely low maintenance.
If anything breaks, stick the "Fix It" floppy in, it formats the hard drive and transfers everything over. The other day I swapped out a dying hard drive, let it boot from the floppy, and the machine was up and running again. 5 minutes of work.
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No, no, for peace. Poorly worded, I suppose.
That's two huge blows for peace in the Middle East in as many weeks: the election of W, and the death of Arafat.
My understanding is that NASA is going to be focusing on tasks in which there's no money (or incentive for private investment) at the moment. Basically, that means exploration. The rest (research, tourism) can be done privately.
"An eye for an eye" is an advanced, progressive, touchy-feely principle made popular by Hammurabi about 6000 years ago.
What's to dislike about KMail? I think it's great.
Well, it doesn't say the content has to be displayed. As long as it downloads google.com, maybe it would be OK.
At some point, we had to say "enough" to his gamesmanship, and make good on the resolutions to do something about it.
Just because it looks like he was screwing with us instead of building weapons doesn't mean the casus bella was wrong. The ball was in Saddam's court.
Kirk: No, I'm from Iowa; I only work in outer space.
What do you think "Nazi" was short for? That's right, "National Socialism".
We don't have access to the analog masters...
Candidates with the more supporters are more likely to a) win and b) have more contributors.
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There's a huge difference between:
1) hiring the labor of others with your own hard-earned canned labor (money)
and
2) waiting around for a handout to be able to hire that same labor.
The kind of dependency he's talking about is #2.
This guy's hit the nail on the head.
Works for me, FireFox 0.9.3. Maybe it's a JPEG library issue? I'm on Gentoo for what it's worth.
Apparently the OS/2 betas used Star Trek names "Klingon", "Ferengi". When IBM decided to make "Warp" the official name of the product and launch it with a spacey futuristic marketing theme (right down to Patrick Stewart), Paramount got ticked and IBM dropped the space theme.
We give the UN so f***ing much money it's not even funny. It exists because US taxpayers foot the bill. I don't think we would turn around and ask them for money for something else...
I'll be dollars to doughnuts that there are thousands and thousands of public access computers that will be running this program for many years.
A Knoppix CD is a great idea.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the max amperage on USB is 500mA. Over 5V, that means the device burns at most 2.5W. Doesn't seem like the change in battery life would be too drastic.
We're talking about people who want to install from the absolute latest Windows CD, and they have to take severe steps to avoid getting 0wned.
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Once upon a time, I was a Windows user in the habit of pirating (mainly because I was a kid with no money). Now that I've been on the Linux bandwagon for a some years, I use Free tools by default, and if there's an application that's useful and nice that costs money (VMWare, TransGaming, etc), I buy it.
I think Linux people may realize that the license is what ties us together, and that by pirating software we undermine our community as well as erode our major advantage over some of the evil closed source people.
What's taken everyone so long to realize the huge crisis in the oil supply? Everybody knows that at any given time, there's only a 40 years' supply of oil in the world. It's been that way for decades!
The solution: Linux. Not in a thin client situation, but re-syncing each night with systemimager.
The X startup files are set to erase the home directory and replace it with the prototype copy every logout, which means guests can even use the hard drive for temporary storage.
KDE is in Kiosk mode, just to prevent shell access and simplify the interface. Since the home directory is erased at logout, the user is perfectly free to configure Firefox (or whatever other app) however he wants, because it only affects that session.
We've got OpenOffice as well as Crossover to run MS-Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
It's Debian stable with a few backports, and it's extremely low maintenance.
If anything breaks, stick the "Fix It" floppy in, it formats the hard drive and transfers everything over. The other day I swapped out a dying hard drive, let it boot from the floppy, and the machine was up and running again. 5 minutes of work.