This means the birth of the Crab Nebula was in the year 5446 BC. Mankind witnessed it 6,500 years later.
AIUI, it's customary in Astronomy to ignore the time it took for the light to reach us and consider that things in the sky happen when we see them happen. Not that they're not aware of it, it's just that it makes things easier to talk about, especially to laymen. In general, people either understand about the time lag and take it for granted, or neither understand nor care.
Same reason Linux isn't setup with SeLINUX or AppArmor setup as well as it can be & applied also, because iirc? Neither is - the user has to 'turn them on'...
I don't know what distro you use, but in both Fedora and Ubuntu, SeLinux is turned on by default, right out of the box.
Do you really think that Aunt Millie or Uncle Elmo has enough technical skill to read and understand the specifications? Do you even think that they're going to realize that they need to ask you to check out the computer they're looking at before they buy it? For that matter, do you want to go over the specs of every over-hyped, underpowered "Windows iCandy ready" computer your friends and family think they want to buy?
Linux does its best to work with as much hardware as it can, so the default condition is that it will probably work with whatever you have. Vista demands as much hardware as it can get, so the default is that it won't work with what you have unless that hardware's been designed with Vista in mind.
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Don't get me wrong, I really like bash, but the treatment of history is abysmal.
I guess that I must be weird or something. I don't expect bash to retain history from one invocation to the next, and I'm always surprised when it happens.
More likely it was asked for by some middle-manager in either HR or, as you suggest, in accounting. I can't see upper management approving it unless the company were teetering on the brink of collapse, and I'll believe that of Microsoft when I hear that there's a blizzard in Hell.
1-2 hrs. of work on the reader's part, for YEARS of stable, secure & FASTER uptime...
As compared to how Linux works right out of the box. Why does Windows have to be tweaked to be stable and secure? Why can't Microsoft make it that way in the first place?
Even better, boycott Wisconsin and buy Real California Cheese. Not only will it hit the governor right in his revenue stream, (Just like it did, I might add, when people did the same thing until they voted out Proxmire.) you'll be getting better cheese. After all, everybody knows that the best cheese comes from the best milk, and that comes from happy cows.
I'm not objecting to the addon as such, but as a matter of principle: if they're going to give you a plugin as part of the update, they should at least have the good manners to ask you first. And, in fact, I'm not going to go looking for it on my copy of Firefox, because it only applies to Windows, and I use Linux.
You are opting in to the update, not the Firefox extension. That's installed silently as part of the update. The only reason it was detected was that Firefox told him that it had been installed, after the fact. If it were, as you claim, opt-in, he would have been asked if he wanted it before it was installed. See the difference?
Neither do I, but then, we're probably not average Linux users. My sister's been using Ubuntu for over a year now. The other day, she had to download some better drivers for her printer. Even though the OEM's website gave complete instructions on how to install it, keystroke by keystroke, she still asked me to do it for her because she's never been comfortable with a CLI. If it's not in the Ubuntu repository and I'm not there to do the work, new software just doesn't get installed.
As far as reinstalling the OS goes, I dual-booted Windows/Linux for years before putting the childish toys of Gatesware behind me over a year ago. In all that time, I've had to reinstall because of mucking things up exactly twice, and I run Fedora, a geeky, unstable, constantly-changing distro. I don't even like restarting unless there's a kernel update; last time I did, I blew away over 23 days of uptime. If you're happy with nuking and reinstalling all the time, go for it. It's your box, not mine!
Security isn't as much of a battle among common Linux users and frankly, I wonder how lax we generally are.
The big problem, I think, would be the fact that most Linux users only install software from their distro's repositories. Most of them don't know how to unpack a tarball, go in with a terminal and use./configure, make, make install. Unless you can slip something in by having a time delay before it activates, I really don't see how you're going to get much penetration. Not saying it can't be done, just that it's not going to be easy.
I disagree. He tried diplomacy and for the most part, that failed because, as far as I can tell, the conservatives are unwilling to participate for fear of his success.
You completely misunderstand my point. I was talking about spending during the campaign, not what he's done since.
I do too, but I never bother any more. I used to receive mod points about twice a week. Then, just after the New! Improved! system went up, I stopped getting mod points at all. When they either give me back my mod points or go back to a real metamod system, I'll go back to metamoderating. What we have now is nothing more than a bad joke compared to the old version.
No, not really. BO probably would have won anyway, and it's not like I'm afraid of what he's going to do. It's more like getting a bit heavy-handed with an election that was his almost from the beginning.
The point is that both candidates agreed to abide by Federal Campaign Financing rules. Then, BO, or somebody on his staff realized how much more they could get from rich liberals if they broke their promise, and the rest, as they say, is history.
Which is why they outspent the Democrats in the recent election.
Oh, wait, the Republicans were the ones who kept their pledge to use only public financing. It was the Democrats who broke their word as soon as they realized that they could buy the election if they refused government funds. Never mind!
I'm subscribed to a site that pays me to fill out surveys. All surveys from one, specific client of theirs hang on the first page in Firefox, under Linux. Curious, I stopped the page and checked the source. It's trying endlessly to load Real Player Gold, and I use a Linux plugin instead.
Or that Windows Update only worked through Internet Explorer?
Well, what else do you expect? Windows Update works by taking advantage of a major security hole known as "ActiveX," and IE is the only browser that doesn't block it.
Maybe not, but John Carter, Warlord of Mars would have no reason to object. And, as he clearly outranks Marvin, I'm sure we'd have no trouble at all with it.
No, a tautology is the equivalent of the equation a = a such as in the comment, "That water is wet." A redundancy is saying the same thing more than once, or something that somebody else already said. Quite a difference, really.
No. Translate the words in the order you see them, and you get "The The Tar Tar Pits." What you're doing is moving things around to come out the way you want.
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AIUI, it's customary in Astronomy to ignore the time it took for the light to reach us and consider that things in the sky happen when we see them happen. Not that they're not aware of it, it's just that it makes things easier to talk about, especially to laymen. In general, people either understand about the time lag and take it for granted, or neither understand nor care.
I don't know what distro you use, but in both Fedora and Ubuntu, SeLinux is turned on by default, right out of the box.
Do you really think that Aunt Millie or Uncle Elmo has enough technical skill to read and understand the specifications? Do you even think that they're going to realize that they need to ask you to check out the computer they're looking at before they buy it? For that matter, do you want to go over the specs of every over-hyped, underpowered "Windows iCandy ready" computer your friends and family think they want to buy?
Linux does its best to work with as much hardware as it can, so the default condition is that it will probably work with whatever you have. Vista demands as much hardware as it can get, so the default is that it won't work with what you have unless that hardware's been designed with Vista in mind.
I guess that I must be weird or something. I don't expect bash to retain history from one invocation to the next, and I'm always surprised when it happens.
More likely it was asked for by some middle-manager in either HR or, as you suggest, in accounting. I can't see upper management approving it unless the company were teetering on the brink of collapse, and I'll believe that of Microsoft when I hear that there's a blizzard in Hell.
As compared to how Linux works right out of the box. Why does Windows have to be tweaked to be stable and secure? Why can't Microsoft make it that way in the first place?
Even better, boycott Wisconsin and buy Real California Cheese. Not only will it hit the governor right in his revenue stream, (Just like it did, I might add, when people did the same thing until they voted out Proxmire.) you'll be getting better cheese. After all, everybody knows that the best cheese comes from the best milk, and that comes from happy cows.
I'm not objecting to the addon as such, but as a matter of principle: if they're going to give you a plugin as part of the update, they should at least have the good manners to ask you first. And, in fact, I'm not going to go looking for it on my copy of Firefox, because it only applies to Windows, and I use Linux.
You are opting in to the update, not the Firefox extension. That's installed silently as part of the update. The only reason it was detected was that Firefox told him that it had been installed, after the fact. If it were, as you claim, opt-in, he would have been asked if he wanted it before it was installed. See the difference?
Neither do I, but then, we're probably not average Linux users. My sister's been using Ubuntu for over a year now. The other day, she had to download some better drivers for her printer. Even though the OEM's website gave complete instructions on how to install it, keystroke by keystroke, she still asked me to do it for her because she's never been comfortable with a CLI. If it's not in the Ubuntu repository and I'm not there to do the work, new software just doesn't get installed.
As far as reinstalling the OS goes, I dual-booted Windows/Linux for years before putting the childish toys of Gatesware behind me over a year ago. In all that time, I've had to reinstall because of mucking things up exactly twice, and I run Fedora, a geeky, unstable, constantly-changing distro. I don't even like restarting unless there's a kernel update; last time I did, I blew away over 23 days of uptime. If you're happy with nuking and reinstalling all the time, go for it. It's your box, not mine!
The big problem, I think, would be the fact that most Linux users only install software from their distro's repositories. Most of them don't know how to unpack a tarball, go in with a terminal and use ./configure, make, make install. Unless you can slip something in by having a time delay before it activates, I really don't see how you're going to get much penetration. Not saying it can't be done, just that it's not going to be easy.
I grew up in Los Angeles. Anything under 1,000,000 people is small by my standards you insensitive clod!
You completely misunderstand my point. I was talking about spending during the campaign, not what he's done since.
I do too, but I never bother any more. I used to receive mod points about twice a week. Then, just after the New! Improved! system went up, I stopped getting mod points at all. When they either give me back my mod points or go back to a real metamod system, I'll go back to metamoderating. What we have now is nothing more than a bad joke compared to the old version.
No, not really. BO probably would have won anyway, and it's not like I'm afraid of what he's going to do. It's more like getting a bit heavy-handed with an election that was his almost from the beginning.
The point is that both candidates agreed to abide by Federal Campaign Financing rules. Then, BO, or somebody on his staff realized how much more they could get from rich liberals if they broke their promise, and the rest, as they say, is history.
Oh, wait, the Republicans were the ones who kept their pledge to use only public financing. It was the Democrats who broke their word as soon as they realized that they could buy the election if they refused government funds. Never mind!
I'm subscribed to a site that pays me to fill out surveys. All surveys from one, specific client of theirs hang on the first page in Firefox, under Linux. Curious, I stopped the page and checked the source. It's trying endlessly to load Real Player Gold, and I use a Linux plugin instead.
Well, what else do you expect? Windows Update works by taking advantage of a major security hole known as "ActiveX," and IE is the only browser that doesn't block it.
Isn't that a contradiction in terms? The whole problem with IE7 is, it's not standards compliant.
Maybe not, but John Carter, Warlord of Mars would have no reason to object. And, as he clearly outranks Marvin, I'm sure we'd have no trouble at all with it.
What they have there is automated ATM machines where you can use your personal PIN number to identify yourself.
No, a tautology is the equivalent of the equation a = a such as in the comment, "That water is wet." A redundancy is saying the same thing more than once, or something that somebody else already said. Quite a difference, really.
No. Translate the words in the order you see them, and you get "The The Tar Tar Pits." What you're doing is moving things around to come out the way you want.