I won't say that no Linux distro or program ever releases an emergency patch, but when they do, most users don't know it's an emergency. Why? Because unlike Microsoft, they don't try to stick to a once-a-month release schedule for patches, so they don't have to make a special announcement or tell the world that it's an emergency; they just release it along with whatever other patches, updates or upgrades happen to be available at the moment.
Another way of looking at it is that Microsoft gave SCO enough money that they could either continue the lawsuits or development, but not both and SCO itself decided to bet everything on the litigation.
I think your basic idea goes too far, but in this, at least, I agree. All business patents should be thrown out on the grounds that patents were never intended to protect ideas, just concrete applications of them. And, on the grounds that patent law originally specified that methods in and of themselves were not patentable, out go the software patents along with the rest. Do that, and most of the mess clears itself up.
I don't know about the rest of you, but as soon as I read "...crawl the Martian surface under steam from a nuclear powerplant..." my first thought was Steampunk! We're gonna send a steampunk probe to Mars!
I'm only a layman, but here's my guess: although Dark Matter doesn't directly interact with electromagnetic radiation, the gravity caused by its mass warps space just like all other gravity, and that warpage bends light.
Thanks to Hubble's ability to paint an incredibly dense picture of background galaxies, our statistics are based on a huge number of samples and we can trust them pretty thoroughly.
I'll go farther than that: I can remember how before the Hubble was launched, scientists didn't think we'd ever actually be able to observe the effect because it was too small to be imaged from any ground-based telescope.
The book was a lot better than the movie, if a little... drawn out
If so, the movie must have been even worse than I'd heard, because the book was absolute, utter crud. Hubbard couldn't be arsed to to make the story line plausible (The bit about one A-bomb after another blowing up inside a force field without destroying each other was probably the worst bit, unless you consider his ideas about how they mangled their math.) and his hero makes two-dimensional cut-out heroes look well fleshed out by comparison. Remember, when the book came out, the Hubbardites tried to buy a hugo award for it and couldn't even manage that!
We need an Internet where the same thing is possible.
You can do that right here in the USofA if you really want to. All you need to do is post from a Starbucks, McDonalds or someplace else with free WiFi.
On the Windows OS you can have windows maximized and simply swap between them using the taskbar.
The same is true with X, of course. Gnome, KDE, XFCE or whatever, that's always true. My point is that I don't see why you need that much screen real estate for every program. If you're (let's say) editing a config file based on suggestions on a web page, isn't it easier to keep your text editing window small enough that you can see your instructions while you're following them? Isn't that quicker and easier than swapping back and forth between two maximized windows?
No. Ubuntu gives you scary warnings then gives you what you need. Fedora does neither. You either have to track them down on your own or install third-party repos that have what you need. Not that it's hard, mind you, and there's lots of pointers to what you need, but Fedora is based on FOSS and only FOSS and that can be a tad intimidating for a new user. And, of course, it acts as a pons asinorum because the real lusers generally end up giving up and either going over to Ubuntu or back to Gatesware.
Nice. However, adding a terminal to the context menu in Gnome is simple: all you do is install a plugin and Bob's your uncle. The important point isn't how you do it; it's that you don't need an icon for it.
I once watched somebody with about eight windows open, all maximized. Instead of clicking on the button he needed on the task bar, he was minimizing them one after the other until the one he wanted was on top. IMO, a pointless waste of time.
Unlike Ubuntu, Fedora doesn't automatically install any of the un-free codecs you need and getting the drivers for ATI or nVidia cards is strictly up to you. And, I might add, although Fedora started out with a six month release cycle, it's more like nine now.
Maybe because ballistic missiles are, by definition, unsteered? Keep the target maneuvering and there's a good chance any single missile will miss. Hell, back in WW II, ships dodged bombs all the time, and the time from drop to impact was a lot shorter than the travel time of a missile!
Very often they are views like, "I don't think AGW is as fully proven as some people say it is," or, "Not all Republicans are tools of the devil," or, "President Bush wasn't owned and operated by Big Oil."
people with axes to grind will spend their modpoints grinding that axe, many of them without consideration for the actual content of the post.
Back in The Good Old Days, when meta-moderation actually judged the moderations, there was a way to correct this type of abuse. Now, of course, there's not, so abuse runs rampant.
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I won't say that no Linux distro or program ever releases an emergency patch, but when they do, most users don't know it's an emergency. Why? Because unlike Microsoft, they don't try to stick to a once-a-month release schedule for patches, so they don't have to make a special announcement or tell the world that it's an emergency; they just release it along with whatever other patches, updates or upgrades happen to be available at the moment.
Another way of looking at it is that Microsoft gave SCO enough money that they could either continue the lawsuits or development, but not both and SCO itself decided to bet everything on the litigation.
Personally, I'd rather he were suspended by the neck until dead.
Thank you. I sit corrected.
I think your basic idea goes too far, but in this, at least, I agree. All business patents should be thrown out on the grounds that patents were never intended to protect ideas, just concrete applications of them. And, on the grounds that patent law originally specified that methods in and of themselves were not patentable, out go the software patents along with the rest. Do that, and most of the mess clears itself up.
I don't know about the rest of you, but as soon as I read "...crawl the Martian surface under steam from a nuclear powerplant..." my first thought was Steampunk! We're gonna send a steampunk probe to Mars!
I'm only a layman, but here's my guess: although Dark Matter doesn't directly interact with electromagnetic radiation, the gravity caused by its mass warps space just like all other gravity, and that warpage bends light.
I'll go farther than that: I can remember how before the Hubble was launched, scientists didn't think we'd ever actually be able to observe the effect because it was too small to be imaged from any ground-based telescope.
If so, the movie must have been even worse than I'd heard, because the book was absolute, utter crud. Hubbard couldn't be arsed to to make the story line plausible (The bit about one A-bomb after another blowing up inside a force field without destroying each other was probably the worst bit, unless you consider his ideas about how they mangled their math.) and his hero makes two-dimensional cut-out heroes look well fleshed out by comparison. Remember, when the book came out, the Hubbardites tried to buy a hugo award for it and couldn't even manage that!
You can do that right here in the USofA if you really want to. All you need to do is post from a Starbucks, McDonalds or someplace else with free WiFi.
Personally, I've always found the name Twitter appropriate because AFAICT Twitter is just for twits.
Not for me. I hardly ever maximize any window, except for certain games so there's always part of my desktop visible.
The same is true with X, of course. Gnome, KDE, XFCE or whatever, that's always true. My point is that I don't see why you need that much screen real estate for every program. If you're (let's say) editing a config file based on suggestions on a web page, isn't it easier to keep your text editing window small enough that you can see your instructions while you're following them? Isn't that quicker and easier than swapping back and forth between two maximized windows?
And that, my friend, is the perfect answer to your suggestion.
No. Ubuntu gives you scary warnings then gives you what you need. Fedora does neither. You either have to track them down on your own or install third-party repos that have what you need. Not that it's hard, mind you, and there's lots of pointers to what you need, but Fedora is based on FOSS and only FOSS and that can be a tad intimidating for a new user. And, of course, it acts as a pons asinorum because the real lusers generally end up giving up and either going over to Ubuntu or back to Gatesware.
Nice. However, adding a terminal to the context menu in Gnome is simple: all you do is install a plugin and Bob's your uncle. The important point isn't how you do it; it's that you don't need an icon for it.
I once watched somebody with about eight windows open, all maximized. Instead of clicking on the button he needed on the task bar, he was minimizing them one after the other until the one he wanted was on top. IMO, a pointless waste of time.
Who need an icon for a terminal window? I just right-click on the desktop and select Open Terminal from the context menu.
Unlike Ubuntu, Fedora doesn't automatically install any of the un-free codecs you need and getting the drivers for ATI or nVidia cards is strictly up to you. And, I might add, although Fedora started out with a six month release cycle, it's more like nine now.
Why? What's the point of having more than one window open if everything's always maximized? I've seen it many times, but I've never understood it.
Why? Fedora comes out with new versions every nine months or so and it's not anywhere near as new-luser friendly as Ubuntu.
And what, pray tell, have you done for your country, or have you just spent your life asking what your country can do for you?
Maybe because ballistic missiles are, by definition, unsteered? Keep the target maneuvering and there's a good chance any single missile will miss. Hell, back in WW II, ships dodged bombs all the time, and the time from drop to impact was a lot shorter than the travel time of a missile!
Very often they are views like, "I don't think AGW is as fully proven as some people say it is," or, "Not all Republicans are tools of the devil," or, "President Bush wasn't owned and operated by Big Oil."
Back in The Good Old Days, when meta-moderation actually judged the moderations, there was a way to correct this type of abuse. Now, of course, there's not, so abuse runs rampant.