Yeah its great. I'm gonna build a compact centrino, or maybe duron box with at leat 512 ddr, and latest high end nVidia, it'll all cost me > $1000, and then I'll sell it next year for a tenner!
Re:Of all the interesting moons in this solar syst
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I really believe thatss what Bush administration wants from space program - American domination of the future resources of the world. Oil reserves may be exhausted by 2050. But if they are correct about the composition of Titan's atmosphere, then thats probably the place to focus on. Physicists are interested in planets like Jupiter, chemists can leaarn allot from planets like Titan. Mars has plenty to keep geologists, and physical geographers happy. And they all have plenty to amuse meteorologists, SETI buffs, and space historian types....
I see your point though. They all pale in comparison to the incredible diversity found on terra firma - Earth.
If ET ever does want to visit this solar system, you can be pretty sure he'll go straight for Earth!!
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Yeah.. lets turn Titan into a planet sized brewery. Its got all the chemicals we need in abundance. With all that Etane, we can produce the ethanol needed for a good beer. Extraterrestrial beer!! I wanna drink!
It might just slap the EU back into line a bit as well, considering that MS will *spend* $2B to *possibly get* an advantage. What was that fine again ?
As far as I know, it was around $6 B. which is a
pretty nice price for killing off M$ and Linux network compatibility etc. in th EU
Theres a price to pay for everything though.
This is the price Sun have to pay..
But, doing away with cynicism, it _is_ good that
M$ windows will ship (probably) with lots
of 3rd party multimedia s/w eg. Real etc..
I think
Nooo, Please don't let it be true. Mistaking an assembly programmer for a script kiddy.
That would be like.. my god there is no analogy to say what that would be like
Argggh, the thought
The more I think about it, the more I think "COMPUTERS ARE NOT FOR PEOPLE UNTIL THERE IS COMPULSARY COMPUTER LITERACY FOR EVERYONE OF ALL AGES AND COMPULSARY COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION IN SCHOOLS FOR EVERY SCHOOL YEAR"
And that's all some developer jobs are until u eventually find out if its production line and springbord to better things or just a plain production line!
That's the beauty of O/S development. It really is YOUR fault if it's a bad project to work on because lets face it, you can easily go and do something else like, I don't know, sell hotdogs.
It's up to you. You have no excuse. I believe O/S development is far more fulfilling and people who practice it are happier : )
Thats my worry. Theres a big differnce between the dude that makes VB compilers and the 1 who uses them. In older times, alas, there was not that much difference. The writer of compilers was often the writer of programs that run from it.. This gulf will only widen so eventually, when the whole thing breaks down - with nobody to fix it - we will go back to the stone age!!
That's not so. Variety is the spice of life. It's better to have loads of different models - they still become interoperable in the end anyway i.e. Samba etc. i don't understand this idea of making everything generic for lazy way out. Keep the options/choices open.
I agree and appreciate your comments, this is a problem but,
Don't be quite so pessimistic. Yes, M$ would undoubtedly charge heavy royalties to 3rd. party software that uses it's API's. Yes, this would be bad for Samba, but what makes you so sure big E.U business will choose M$ over Linux/Unix etx. This really would effect the latter too. Part of the future of Linux etc. depends on communication with the enemy, but we cannot be sure that big business will inevitably choose M$ over Linux although I'm sure many would.
So what else does this effect or set up precedence for?
WineX, I presume - big time. Transgamings version of the Windows API might not have a future in the E.U. etc. Could this mean an end for DirectX games on Linux? Could it promote the death of Linux as a future alternative gamimg/3d environment to Windows?
I don't know. I'm asking you.
Somebody tell me, cause thats what it sounds like.
I certainly think $600 million would be a bargain for M$ if thats the case..
But I do believe in the future if this does happen, the E.U. would introduce legislation to make the delivery of these API's flexible and open. Who knows??
Manned fight, pff. I propose sending chimps. They have desensitised and deglorified space so much, and made space stationexistence so inhumane, that chimps would be best suited to this roll. I propose sending George W. with a 1 way high-risk landing on Mars. Finally we'll know whethers monkeys can be trained to sort small screws in space.!!
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah just add a couple of gattling guns to each side an voila -
a bike to kick the A-Team van, or Kit's ass.
p.s. I do love the A-Team van.
A really cool waist-length black leather jacket would be a must if you ride that thing though.
Can you really see someone in denim matching that futuristic lookin thing!
Yeah its great.
I'm gonna build a compact centrino, or maybe duron box with at leat 512 ddr, and latest high end nVidia, it'll all cost me > $1000, and then I'll sell it next year for a tenner!
Sorry, that $600 m not $6 B, oops
I really believe thatss what Bush administration wants from space program - American domination of the future resources of the world. Oil reserves may be exhausted by 2050. But if they are correct about the composition of Titan's atmosphere, then thats probably the place to focus on.
Physicists are interested in planets like Jupiter, chemists can leaarn allot from planets like Titan. Mars has plenty to keep geologists, and physical geographers happy. And they all have plenty to amuse meteorologists, SETI buffs, and space historian types....
I see your point though. They all pale in comparison to the incredible diversity found on terra firma - Earth.
If ET ever does want to visit this solar system, you can be pretty sure he'll go straight for Earth!!
Yeah.. lets turn Titan into a planet sized brewery. Its got all the chemicals we need in abundance. With all that Etane, we can produce the ethanol needed for a good beer. Extraterrestrial beer!! I wanna drink!
Linux cheerleaders, I like it
We can make Tux pom poms!!
oggdrop.exe - now theres a UI
u can be proud of.
I love watching the fish spin round in circles
like he's confused or something!
All the former Soviet block countries, (Russia - St. Peterberg University, Poland - Warsaw University) did best ..followed by US institutions,.. ahem
And u thaught u had'em beat.
I blame George W. for sending a wave of negative accademic karma, thus destabilising engineering colleges all over America.
What was the right thing to do, morally?
Ask SCO!
It might just slap the EU back into line a bit as well, considering that MS will *spend* $2B to *possibly get* an advantage. What was that fine again ?
As far as I know, it was around $6 B. which is a pretty nice price for killing off M$ and Linux network compatibility etc. in th EU
Theres a price to pay for everything though. This is the price Sun have to pay..
But, doing away with cynicism, it _is_ good that M$ windows will ship (probably) with lots of 3rd party multimedia s/w eg. Real etc.. I think
Hey, I reah /.
I'll f***ing hund u u liddle bitch
Nooo,
.. my god there is no analogy to say what that would be like
Please don't let it be true.
Mistaking an assembly programmer for a script kiddy.
That would be like
Argggh, the thought
The more I think about it, the more I think "COMPUTERS ARE NOT FOR PEOPLE UNTIL THERE IS COMPULSARY COMPUTER LITERACY FOR EVERYONE OF ALL AGES AND COMPULSARY COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION IN SCHOOLS FOR EVERY SCHOOL YEAR"
Bingo,
And that's all some developer jobs are until u eventually find out if its production line and springbord to better things or just a plain production line!
That's the beauty of O/S development. It really is YOUR fault if it's a bad project to work on because lets face it, you can easily go and do something else like, I don't know, sell hotdogs.
It's up to you. You have no excuse. I believe O/S
development is far more fulfilling and people who practice it are happier : )
Thats my worry. Theres a big differnce between
the dude that makes VB compilers and the 1 who uses them. In older times, alas, there was not that much difference. The writer of compilers was often the writer of programs that run from it..
This gulf will only widen so eventually, when the whole thing breaks down - with nobody to fix it - we will go back to the stone age!!
Yes,
And he intends for this speech recognition s/w to
take up no more than 64k of memory - just like
WinXp.
So near.. ..and yey so00oo far!!
..and then fly to the moon!
Come fly with me, lets fly, lets fly away....oo
I hope the windows will be circular and the detination - anywhere, so long as its via Saturn and Jupiter..
That's not so.
Variety is the spice of life. It's better to have loads of different models - they still become interoperable in the end anyway i.e. Samba etc.
i don't understand this idea of making everything generic for lazy way out. Keep the options/choices open.
Booooo
Wrong. You are making the assumption that we ..
are
I'm too tired to argue with you!
Sorry
Oui,....Non!!
Why you should coose #@MS@# office over OO.org
If Billy tells you to sit down and read out the above 1 million times you will have the answer.
Qapla' hospital! - Youv'e never been??
I agree and appreciate your comments, this is a problem but,
/3d environment to Windows?
Don't be quite so pessimistic. Yes, M$ would undoubtedly charge heavy royalties to 3rd. party software that uses it's API's. Yes, this would be bad for Samba, but what makes you so sure big E.U business will choose M$ over Linux/Unix etx. This really would effect the latter too. Part of the future of Linux etc. depends on communication with the enemy, but we cannot be sure that big business will inevitably choose M$ over Linux although I'm sure many would.
So what else does this effect or set up precedence for?
WineX, I presume - big time.
Transgamings version of the Windows API might not have a future in the E.U. etc.
Could this mean an end for DirectX games on Linux?
Could it promote the death of Linux as a future alternative gamimg
I don't know. I'm asking you.
Somebody tell me, cause thats what it sounds like.
I certainly think $600 million would be a bargain for M$ if thats the case..
But I do believe in the future if this does happen, the E.U. would introduce legislation to make the delivery of these API's flexible
and open. Who knows??
Yeah but he'll settle for being the first chimp in space..!
Manned fight, pff.
I propose sending chimps. They have desensitised and deglorified space so much, and made space stationexistence so inhumane, that chimps would be best suited to this roll. I propose sending George W. with a 1 way high-risk landing on Mars. Finally we'll know whethers monkeys can be trained to sort small screws in space.!!