It's extraordinarily impractical to drive in suburbs with poor public transportation. "Driving is a privilege" is crap; driving is a practical necessity in many places.
"Exploded" is a bit of an understatement - the release of energy was on the scale of nuclear weapons. The prequels have muddied this a bit, but I swear that in the original series, the explosion happened in both the lasgun and the shield. (Otherwise, the lasgun would be an effective long-range weapon against large shielded targets, and Maud'dib's forces don't dare fire them on the Emperor's shielded ships at the end of Dune; they use atomics to bring the shields down instead.) In the prequels, they carry out the initial test using a spaceship and a shielded asteroid, and the spaceship doesn't explode. Wow, I just remembered how awesome Dune is as compared to the rest of the series...I think it's time for a reread.
I work for a company that makes hardware and software to monitor vehicle networks, and one of my coworkers tells me one protocol (Onstar? I am NOT sure) has a message to disable the brakes.
The justfication for point 1 is Occam's razor - evolution provides a reasonable explanation for the emergence of life. Given this explanation and the continuing trend of scientific explanations for phenomena previously explained only by religion, point 1's proponents see no reason to posit $deity.
Actually, if it went to infinity, you'd have zero cars in an infinite number of traffic jams, and thus no problems. If it is argued that a traffic jam implies one car, then you would still only have one car per "jam", which is again not a problem...
But...if the software that deals directly with the hardware (i.e., the kernel) is trashed, how is it possibly a good idea to give the hardware any commands, particularly hardware that probably contains critical data (i.e., the disk that you're dumping the memory to)? I contend that Microsoft, if it does what you say it does, got this one wrong.
How many people listened to CD's on their PS1, Dreamcast, Saturn or Sega-CD?
I'm almost ashamed to admit it, but I thought the PSX visualizations for music were cool and was disappointed that the PS2 didn't have them. I also use my GP32 as an OGG player...
The -f switch _means_ don't ask for confirmatio Not asking is the default behavior (except for read-only files), but it's not unusual for distros to alias rm to rm -i so it does ask. Of course, it will ask on every little file, so users (myself included) will just get in the habit of typing rm -rf instead of just rm -r.
You don't use icons or window frames? What? I don't quite understand what you are saying here. Really.
He probably means that he doesn't have any icons whatsoever on his desktop. This is easy to accomplish on Linux - don't run any software to put them there! (Nautilus, KDE equivalent thereof) I'm guessing that some minimalist window manager out there draws windows with no frames...I suspect twm but I didn't think it was THAT minimal.
Under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act passed by Congress in 1998, he could be fined anywhere from $750 to $150,000 for each violation, depending on the circumstances of the file-sharing. For example, a typical 20-gigabyte iPod can hold about 5000 songs. If you assume that just a tenth of the songs on that iPod were illegally downloaded, a lawsuit could cost the owner $75 million.
Isn't that just for SHARING the files?
I suggest forming a system of "cells".
1. Select your closest friends (4 to 5?).
2. Among you, designate a buddy, preferably the guy who lives closest to the library, as Library Dude.
3. Have Library Dude check out as many CDs as he can. and rip them with cdparanoia (or cdEx or EAC for you Windows people, I guess) to counter all the scratching.
4. Distribute QUALITY rips among yourselves. If you have to, have Library Dude or one of your cohorts burn a DVD weekly or bimonthly or monthly, whatever the rate turns out to be.
The caveat with this system is that the libraries tend not to have the newest of the new. Perhaps you can frequent your local used CD shop and swap original CDs with your friends' friends (whom you can't trust with any other part of the project), which is perfectly legal under first-sale doctrine. The benefit, on the other hand, is that you get entire albums and quality rips.
In fact, university clubs would be ideal for obtaining new material - form a "Music Listeners Group" and hold regular swap meets using members' existing stashes of legit music so you always have something new to put in the stereo; this might even eliminate the need to store the music, conceivably. Funds could also be pooled to procure used CDs and scratch-repair devices.
Hmm...I guess I never thought about it that way, as I'm not on dial-up. I quickly get upset with stable distributions because gaim gets out of date really quickly; I guess that's why I quit Mandrake way back when. Here's to testing!
I dunno, KDE seemed to be working just fine in Debian testing when I installed it for a friend. I don't need those fancy desktop environments as I just use IceWM, so I don't feel that Ubuntu has anything to offer me. What's wrong with Debian testing?
Perhaps these people don't have any ideas for original projects, but would still like to hone their programming skills. Joe Newbie can write his own editor, and people will use it or not depending on its quality. It's certainly not worse than doing nothing at all.
93.1 is now DOUG-FM, a "Jack FM" style station, meant to resemble an iPod on shuffle. This is as of April Fools' Day, to the dismay of many teens in my area. I like it.
There is no difference between cellphone access and wifi access in terms of what they can do (allow you to connect to a network and send/receive data).
You know, a cellphone (yours, anyway) is much more trackable than WiFi, as the company you're paying for service knows who made the call and roughly where it was made from. A WiFi provider can only know roughly where it was made from.
Yes, and stopping the light from reaching the observer's eyes would also cause the region to appear black. You actually need complete transparency and cleanliness for invisibility (i.e. passing light instead of stopping it).
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It's extraordinarily impractical to drive in suburbs with poor public transportation. "Driving is a privilege" is crap; driving is a practical necessity in many places.
"Exploded" is a bit of an understatement - the release of energy was on the scale of nuclear weapons. The prequels have muddied this a bit, but I swear that in the original series, the explosion happened in both the lasgun and the shield. (Otherwise, the lasgun would be an effective long-range weapon against large shielded targets, and Maud'dib's forces don't dare fire them on the Emperor's shielded ships at the end of Dune; they use atomics to bring the shields down instead.) In the prequels, they carry out the initial test using a spaceship and a shielded asteroid, and the spaceship doesn't explode. Wow, I just remembered how awesome Dune is as compared to the rest of the series...I think it's time for a reread.
I work for a company that makes hardware and software to monitor vehicle networks, and one of my coworkers tells me one protocol (Onstar? I am NOT sure) has a message to disable the brakes.
Since when can the iPod play OGG? OGG is not FLAC, although FLAC can be contained within OGG instead of Vorbis.
The justfication for point 1 is Occam's razor - evolution provides a reasonable explanation for the emergence of life. Given this explanation and the continuing trend of scientific explanations for phenomena previously explained only by religion, point 1's proponents see no reason to posit $deity.
"drive time" isn't the same number of syllables as "radio"...it would sound better if it was.
Actually, if it went to infinity, you'd have zero cars in an infinite number of traffic jams, and thus no problems. If it is argued that a traffic jam implies one car, then you would still only have one car per "jam", which is again not a problem...
But...if the software that deals directly with the hardware (i.e., the kernel) is trashed, how is it possibly a good idea to give the hardware any commands, particularly hardware that probably contains critical data (i.e., the disk that you're dumping the memory to)? I contend that Microsoft, if it does what you say it does, got this one wrong.
How many people listened to CD's on their PS1, Dreamcast, Saturn or Sega-CD?
I'm almost ashamed to admit it, but I thought the PSX visualizations for music were cool and was disappointed that the PS2 didn't have them. I also use my GP32 as an OGG player...
That's not just plain ol' Makefiles like we were talking about, that there is GNU autotools at work.
The -f switch _means_ don't ask for confirmatio Not asking is the default behavior (except for read-only files), but it's not unusual for distros to alias rm to rm -i so it does ask. Of course, it will ask on every little file, so users (myself included) will just get in the habit of typing rm -rf instead of just rm -r.
I had a friend who typed rm -rf *>tar instead of rm -rf *.tar. He was left with an empty file named tar and a whole lot of space to keep it...
Then why is the Verizon guy talking about cell phones?
You don't use icons or window frames? What? I don't quite understand what you are saying here. Really.
He probably means that he doesn't have any icons whatsoever on his desktop. This is easy to accomplish on Linux - don't run any software to put them there! (Nautilus, KDE equivalent thereof) I'm guessing that some minimalist window manager out there draws windows with no frames...I suspect twm but I didn't think it was THAT minimal.
Under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act passed by Congress in 1998, he could be fined anywhere from $750 to $150,000 for each violation, depending on the circumstances of the file-sharing. For example, a typical 20-gigabyte iPod can hold about 5000 songs. If you assume that just a tenth of the songs on that iPod were illegally downloaded, a lawsuit could cost the owner $75 million.
Isn't that just for SHARING the files?
1. Select your closest friends (4 to 5?).
2. Among you, designate a buddy, preferably the guy who lives closest to the library, as Library Dude.
3. Have Library Dude check out as many CDs as he can. and rip them with cdparanoia (or cdEx or EAC for you Windows people, I guess) to counter all the scratching.
4. Distribute QUALITY rips among yourselves. If you have to, have Library Dude or one of your cohorts burn a DVD weekly or bimonthly or monthly, whatever the rate turns out to be.
The caveat with this system is that the libraries tend not to have the newest of the new. Perhaps you can frequent your local used CD shop and swap original CDs with your friends' friends (whom you can't trust with any other part of the project), which is perfectly legal under first-sale doctrine. The benefit, on the other hand, is that you get entire albums and quality rips.
In fact, university clubs would be ideal for obtaining new material - form a "Music Listeners Group" and hold regular swap meets using members' existing stashes of legit music so you always have something new to put in the stereo; this might even eliminate the need to store the music, conceivably. Funds could also be pooled to procure used CDs and scratch-repair devices.
Hmm...I guess I never thought about it that way, as I'm not on dial-up. I quickly get upset with stable distributions because gaim gets out of date really quickly; I guess that's why I quit Mandrake way back when. Here's to testing!
I dunno, KDE seemed to be working just fine in Debian testing when I installed it for a friend. I don't need those fancy desktop environments as I just use IceWM, so I don't feel that Ubuntu has anything to offer me. What's wrong with Debian testing?
Seeing the next movie costs at least 5 times less than the next game, in addition to the fact that the next game is likely to require new hardware.
They aren't - the Nintendo 64 shipped with no games AND no menu system - you HAD to have a cartridge to do anything with it.
Perhaps these people don't have any ideas for original projects, but would still like to hone their programming skills. Joe Newbie can write his own editor, and people will use it or not depending on its quality. It's certainly not worse than doing nothing at all.
93.1 is now DOUG-FM, a "Jack FM" style station, meant to resemble an iPod on shuffle. This is as of April Fools' Day, to the dismay of many teens in my area. I like it.
Yes, and stopping the light from reaching the observer's eyes would also cause the region to appear black. You actually need complete transparency and cleanliness for invisibility (i.e. passing light instead of stopping it).
Keeps us in practice cracking new architectures so we have a fighting chance against Trusted Computing et al.