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Well they can kiss my contribution goodbye...for the exact same reasons I refuse to sign up to a Passport account and refuse to permit my kids to use hotmail accounts or anything else tainted by similar legal agreements...
try running that comment past me again... I live in a cold climate... the heat from the computers contributes to my heating budget for my flat... saves me from putting other sources of heat on.
Oh and I've got stuff in use that most ms-windows users would have tossed out into the skip long ago cos the latest and greatest from One Redmond Way ran like a sloth on it... so the energy/raw materials/resources used to manufacture the components in my machines is not wasted in a landfill. My way is a heck of a lot greener that that of those users locked into the constant upgrade cycle to keep their stuff running at a usable speed with ms-windows latest and greatest versions...
"I've seen a lot of linux systems that boot into windows faster than they boot linux and start up gnome or kde."
Rather irrelevant when you consider the uptimes of Linux vs windows... currently I'm at 20.7 days uptime on this new SuSE 9.0 install and that's since first reboot from install and I've spent some ten days in this KDE session... oh and I've got a gnome session running on the other desktop (Ctrl Alt F8) as well as an XFCE session going as well (Ctrl Alt F9)... oh and my Mandrake 9.2 box has got some 25 days solid in one KDE session...
So reboot and KDE/gnome startup times become irrelevant when measured against how long those sessions actually stay up...
"The pills are antioxidants, and regularly sold as health supplements. I dont think it is putting the soldiers at risk."
Ah but... the pills may not be putting the marines at risk, but the trial will involve using marines with just the pills versus a group of marines with conventional ear protection versus a control group of marines with NO hearing protection at all... In other words, someone's hearing IS going to be damaged in this trial, and the marines are not in a position to make informed consent as they are under orders and cannot refuse.
"but do soldiers use hearing protection at the firing range?"
I think you'll find that it's mandatory under healt and safety at work legislation... I worked on the flightline and in an engine test house for a large chunk of my career. Ear defenders were issued and were to be worn at all times when the noise was above a certain threshold... (if you have to shout to be understood at a range of one metre then it's too loud and protection must be worn). I can happily say that I still have good hearing for my age considering what I was exposed to...
What scares me about this pill is the trials... are they going to deliberately issue only pills to a trial group of marines??? Those marines are in no position to make an informed choice and properly volunteer for the trial.
I missed spotting that the post I was answering was offtopic... I thought they were wittering on about a download link for winamp5 for OS X... I DID NOT SPOT THE ITUNES REF...
OK... where's the Linux version??????? Producing a version for Mac OSX means that they have NO excuse for not producing a Linux version... I want to dump XMMS
not relevant to my comment... You'll notice I didn't comment on him being an ass at all. In fact, I'm not in a position to call him an ass but those who are bitching about him have got the solution in their own sticky little mitts...
Just imagine if it were a highly usefull but entirely closed source piece of utility software that had problems, you knew what they were, but the author refused to fix them... you'd be up the swannee then without a paddle.
"but there are alot of things wrong with cdrecord that could be fixed and he simply refuses to do it"
Why does he have to fix it??? You have the source code... isn't that what all the fuss is about Open Sorce Software... the big advantage you have in having the source code available???
If he ain't gonna fix it, then fork it and get on with it...
Icecrete... you can make it structural then and also use it as a shield against micro-meteoroids...
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get yourself another box then... just for games... and you can use the Linux one to share it's connection and do double duty as a firewall in the process...
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"I just don't get this attitude. So it's the WORLD that should change to accommodate the views held by the free software camp"
The world is changing... it's just you stick in the muds who're not...
"Ever since I installed W2K I have never seen the blue screen again"
nah... it just spontaneously reboots instead...
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To avoid being slashdotted...
Well they can kiss my contribution goodbye...for the exact same reasons I refuse to sign up to a Passport account and refuse to permit my kids to use hotmail accounts or anything else tainted by similar legal agreements...
Oh and I've got stuff in use that most ms-windows users would have tossed out into the skip long ago cos the latest and greatest from One Redmond Way ran like a sloth on it... so the energy/raw materials/resources used to manufacture the components in my machines is not wasted in a landfill. My way is a heck of a lot greener that that of those users locked into the constant upgrade cycle to keep their stuff running at a usable speed with ms-windows latest and greatest versions...
Rather irrelevant when you consider the uptimes of Linux vs windows... currently I'm at 20.7 days uptime on this new SuSE 9.0 install and that's since first reboot from install and I've spent some ten days in this KDE session... oh and I've got a gnome session running on the other desktop (Ctrl Alt F8) as well as an XFCE session going as well (Ctrl Alt F9)... oh and my Mandrake 9.2 box has got some 25 days solid in one KDE session...
So reboot and KDE/gnome startup times become irrelevant when measured against how long those sessions actually stay up...
Ah but... the pills may not be putting the marines at risk, but the trial will involve using marines with just the pills versus a group of marines with conventional ear protection versus a control group of marines with NO hearing protection at all... In other words, someone's hearing IS going to be damaged in this trial, and the marines are not in a position to make informed consent as they are under orders and cannot refuse.
I think you'll find that it's mandatory under healt and safety at work legislation...
I worked on the flightline and in an engine test house for a large chunk of my career. Ear defenders were issued and were to be worn at all times when the noise was above a certain threshold... (if you have to shout to be understood at a range of one metre then it's too loud and protection must be worn). I can happily say that I still have good hearing for my age considering what I was exposed to...
What scares me about this pill is the trials... are they going to deliberately issue only pills to a trial group of marines??? Those marines are in no position to make an informed choice and properly volunteer for the trial.
He's a spanner short of a toolset...
The scroll bar's in the wrong place then... bummer...
There's several spanners loose up there along with a Hassleblad camera...
They can't easily pirate MS-Office anymore... and any that do should have their contracts to work terminated for breach of company IT policy.
I missed spotting that the post I was answering was offtopic... I thought they were wittering on about a download link for winamp5 for OS X... I DID NOT SPOT THE ITUNES REF...
OK... where's the Linux version??????? Producing a version for Mac OSX means that they have NO excuse for not producing a Linux version... I want to dump XMMS
It will be brought to it's knees from the sheer mass of freeloading P2P traffic, not to mention all the worms looking for fresh hosts to infect.
on that page there are links to several actual usages of Linux in space.
What??? the fat, jackbooted Coca-Cola version???
not relevant to my comment... You'll notice I didn't comment on him being an ass at all. In fact, I'm not in a position to call him an ass but those who are bitching about him have got the solution in their own sticky little mitts...
Just imagine if it were a highly usefull but entirely closed source piece of utility software that had problems, you knew what they were, but the author refused to fix them... you'd be up the swannee then without a paddle.
Why does he have to fix it??? You have the source code... isn't that what all the fuss is about Open Sorce Software... the big advantage you have in having the source code available???
If he ain't gonna fix it, then fork it and get on with it...
Icecrete... you can make it structural then and also use it as a shield against micro-meteoroids...
get yourself another box then... just for games... and you can use the Linux one to share it's connection and do double duty as a firewall in the process...
The world is changing... it's just you stick in the muds who're not...
nah... it just spontaneously reboots instead...
is backseat drivers...
The Tengwar script was invented by the philologist and author J. R. R. Tolkien as part of the mythological world he created
So you can have an Elvish localisation as well :)
I'd love to do that one but it's bl00dy ms-windows only... so for now I'll stick with crunching seti units... and see what they switch to later.
naDev... tlhIngan Hol ngaq (Klingon language support)
But perfectly adapted for "flying" underwater...