It was in Mote in God's Eye IIRC... you simply charge the craft up to a couple million volts, then since the sun's magnetic field is perpendicular to the plane of the solar system you get a hefty torque at right angles to the direction of travel. (Left Hand Rule.)
Use that to shed velocity in a spiral round the destination planet and insert into a low altitude orbit. Simple As.
In English, it is correct to regard corporations, governments, etc. as plural nouns. So: "The French government aren't...", "My bank are incompetent...", etc.
It's incorrect in Yankese, probably because your legal system pretends that companies are people. Hint: they aren't, they're just a group of human beings and a bunch of legal documents.
I tend to think of evolutionary theory as a proper subset of "anti-creationism" (because I know of no other accepted term in use)
It's called "science".
But, yeah, the parent poster's list of points has nothing to do with evolution for most of its length. The theory of evolution gives an incredibly beautiful mechanism whereby all Earthly life could have evolved from a simple common ancestor or ancestors. Strictly speaking, it does not explain where that original life form(s) came from, or even require that that was how life came into its current complexity; those questions fall under the category of palaeontology. Although, to my faithless mind, it does seem rather absurd to argue for an alternative mechanism - kinda like saying that, yeah, the Great Pyramid could have been built by the Egyptians using the technology of the day, but that it was actually built by space aliens.
At the Genoa G8 summit in 2001, the Italian police shot a protester dead and assaulted a number of journalists including the Indymedia reporter Mark Covell. The Genoa police are currently defending charges brought by Covell and others.
It appears the Italian government hope that they can disrupt or compromise the case against them. Acting in concert with the Swiss, who want to get back at Indymedia for their coverage of the Evian G8, they went through the FBI (because Rackspace, Indymedia's London hosts, is a US company) under a MLAT (Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty) to ask the UK police to raid Indymedia's servers.
The UK Home Office was of course happy to comply, mainly because MLATs enable them to carry out police actions that would be judicially indefensible without the cloak of secrecy that surrounds MLATs.
Well, how Gentoo installs Gnome packages into a DESTDIR is like this:
make DESTDIR=${D} scrollkeeper_localstate_dir=${D}/var/lib/scrollkee per install
or alternatively
make prefix=${D}/usr datadir=${D}/usr/share infodir=${D}/usr/share/info localstatedir=${D}/var/lib mandir=${D}/usr/share/man sysconfdir=${D}/etc scrollkeeper_localstate_dir=${D}/var/lib/scrollkee per install
Then after it's installed into the DESTDIR, remove/var/lib/scrollkeeper and/usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache; they aren't needed.
To compensate for removing those from the package, though, you need to install the schemas with gconftool-2, run scrollkeeper-update and run update-desktop-database and update-mime-database.
Maybe 'easy' is a relative term - but I've been using Gentoo for two years now and never had a problem with the installation of Gnome 2 packages, which are all installed with the same bash script (http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/eclass/ gnome2.eclass)
If you're determined to roll your own packages, you could do worse than to follow what Gentoo does, both in preparing tarballs (Gentoo binary packages are just a tarball with a bash script appended) and in dependencies; you can see the dependencies of any package in Portage at e.g. http://www.gentoo-portage.com/gnome-base/libgnomeu i/dep for the dependencies of libgnomeui.
DESTDIR works fine with Gnome packages - the only issues are gconf schemas and scrollkeeper docs, and those are easy to handle.
Perhaps Pat should take some lessons from the Gentoo packagers? The gnome2 eclass is much smaller than the kde eclasses, and even so most Gnome ebuilds are just a list of dependencies, source files and (occasionally) patches.
Perhaps the problem is that no-one uses Slackware on the desktop these days - most Gnome devs seem to use a rpm-based, apt-based or portage-based distro. It would make sense if the problems Pat is encountering are the result of Slackware's quirks.
Hope you don't mind my suggesting some improvements... it doesn't seem to work on my Apache 1.3 setup (Debian stable) without a couple of flush() calls. Also it's nice to send a few "correct" bytes to keep mime sniffers happy:
Just had a nasty thought... the latest round of IM programs have user-settable "buddy icons" which IIRC can be JPEGs. A worm that used buddy icons to spread could have half the internet infected in 15 minutes, and do it via existing social networks. I hope the MSN and AIM servers are scanning buddy icons to prevent this being used...
Plenty of us already have mobiles that run Windows.
I just got a new Orange SPV e200 - 176x220 screen, 132 MHz, Bluetooth, 32MB onboard plus a SD card slot (with a free 32MB card (and I'm salivating over the SD GPS unit)), VGA camera, etc, packed into 130g of brick. But - hey - I got it free on a fairly cheap contract, so I'm not complaining.
Oh yeah, and it runs Doom.
Not Linux, though. But it's fairly open (Windows Smartphone is based on Pocket PC) so it shouldn't be too difficult to get a fair amount of OSS software working on it.
How much of that $15bn (over five years, remember, and with no guarantee that it will all be handed out) will actually leave the USA? How much will just be funnelled straight back into the pockets of US-based drugs companies and campaign groups?
Now look at the figures for the Global Fund. Note that the combined contributions to date from the big EU countries easily outstrip those from the USA (the combined total from the EU is $1.5bn, 50% more than that from the USA). If the USA is the largest contributor, that's because it has the largest economy.
Also read up on the disbursements the Global Fund has given out. (Yes, the Global Fund is transparent). Ask yourself why the USA would be unwilling to give more to the Global Fund. Could it be that the Global Fund is spending on education programmes that actually work, and on generic drugs sold close to the cost of production?
Giving receipts out encourages vote buying - people standing on street corners promising $50 in exchange for a Bush receipt. When elections can be called by a couple of hundred votes as in Florida, and with the level of voter apathy, vote buying becomes highly feasible and not too expensive.
There is one way that works and has worked for centuries - a ballot paper, and a pencil to put a cross by the candidate's name. And all the ballots counted by hand, in full view of multiple representatives from all parties - and the press. Yes, it's inefficient, but you can't put a price on democracy.
Bollocks. Emigrants are those who were too stupid, weak or lazy to make it at home.
If immigrants or their children do well, it's because inequities and discrimination force them into adopting high-risk strategies - the few who do well are noticed, the many who fail are forgotten.
And your evidence that the putative passports were supplied to Al Qaeda by the government of Iraq, as opposed to just being bought off the street in a Baghdad market?
I'm not saying I wouldn't search every Arab looking fellow who got on a plane extra carefully... Actually, this is wrong. Not because of discrimination, but because it actually makes everyone less safe, as terrorists will just send a Johnny Walker or Timothy McVeigh on board instead. Or just someone who doesn't look as much like an 'Arab' as the prejudices of the security guards expect.
Everyone needs to be equally likely to be searched - not selective searching, not watch lists, just high-frequency random searches, with no-one exempted. The one discretion security guards should have is to detain people who look nervous.
Let me rephrase that... newspapers are a fundamental part of the political process, so of course they have an editorial line. But with regard to facts, they are also subject to a public fact-checking process, so any newspaper or other news source which constantly distorts the facts will quickly become known as such and lose credibility.
Omega Technologies are not subject to public fact-checking, so they should not be used.
Gnome (2.6) has an 'typing break' program built in. Find it in the Keyboard control panel applet.
It only locks you out of the current X session, though, so it's easy to work around... still, it works well as a reminder to leave the computer for a while.
...how you plan to make a sound insulating box with a high enough heat transfer coefficient to keep the inside of the box below 50C when the insides of the box are generating 300W of heat.
Seems to me you'd need fans, or worse a compressor/decompressor cycle (refrigerator style).
Plus, how're you gonna access the removable drive bays?
In the UK at least, bandwidth is allocated along roughly the same lines as in the US - chopped into bands for TV, radio etc. and licensed to broadcasters.
However, the recent 3G mobile license selloff was run very successfully (for the Treasury at least) as an auction with one fewer license than the number of operators bidding. This was at the height of the dot.com boom, so the operators overbid massively and Blair got a tidy chunk of cash to fund his public sector projects. The mobile operators got hurt in the crash - Orange got taken over by the French, and we had to endure a year where you couldn't get decent free phones for anything less than a £60/mo contract, but things appear to have settled down - 3G was a flop, but it is everywhere else as well. Still, the conditions that made the auction work were somewhat special and might not be replicated for some time.
More important is the Government plan to switch of the analogue TV signal around 2010 in favour of digital TV over terrestrial signal (not cable or satellite). If it works out it'll free up a fair amount of spectrum that can then be repurposed to something more lucrative, or maybe even released as open unlicensed spectrum (but don't hold your breath). Of course, the UK can't do anything too different as we don't want to get out of step with Europe on the issue. Probably the country most likely to take the lead is Japan - they have the technology base to start doing their own thing and pull the rest of the Asian region along with them.
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It was in Mote in God's Eye IIRC... you simply charge the craft up to a couple million volts, then since the sun's magnetic field is perpendicular to the plane of the solar system you get a hefty torque at right angles to the direction of travel. (Left Hand Rule.)
Use that to shed velocity in a spiral round the destination planet and insert into a low altitude orbit. Simple As.
This is what you need for kernel 2.6 and gcc 3.x:
./elflbl.c 2005/01/07 23:20:34 1.1 ./elflbl.c 2005/01/07 23:12:28
;
---
+++
@@ -422,7 +422,7 @@ retry:
void scan_mm_start()
{
static int npg=0;
-static struct modify_ldt_ldt_s l;
+static struct user_desc l;
pnum++;
if(pnum==1) {
@@ -542,6 +542,7 @@ void check_vma_flags()
signal(SIGSEGV, vreversed);
val = * (unsigned*)(lib_addr + PAGE_SIZE);
out:
+
}
============ end patch =========
Although, I still can't get it to work on my boxes (2.6.9-nitro4 on Gentoo 2005.0) - mmap2 fails with ENODEV, not sure why.
In English, it is correct to regard corporations, governments, etc. as plural nouns. So: "The French government aren't...", "My bank are incompetent...", etc.
It's incorrect in Yankese, probably because your legal system pretends that companies are people. Hint: they aren't, they're just a group of human beings and a bunch of legal documents.
It's called "science".
But, yeah, the parent poster's list of points has nothing to do with evolution for most of its length. The theory of evolution gives an incredibly beautiful mechanism whereby all Earthly life could have evolved from a simple common ancestor or ancestors. Strictly speaking, it does not explain where that original life form(s) came from, or even require that that was how life came into its current complexity; those questions fall under the category of palaeontology. Although, to my faithless mind, it does seem rather absurd to argue for an alternative mechanism - kinda like saying that, yeah, the Great Pyramid could have been built by the Egyptians using the technology of the day, but that it was actually built by space aliens.
At the Genoa G8 summit in 2001, the Italian police shot a protester dead and assaulted a number of journalists including the Indymedia reporter Mark Covell. The Genoa police are currently defending charges brought by Covell and others.
It appears the Italian government hope that they can disrupt or compromise the case against them. Acting in concert with the Swiss, who want to get back at Indymedia for their coverage of the Evian G8, they went through the FBI (because Rackspace, Indymedia's London hosts, is a US company) under a MLAT (Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty) to ask the UK police to raid Indymedia's servers.
The UK Home Office was of course happy to comply, mainly because MLATs enable them to carry out police actions that would be judicially indefensible without the cloak of secrecy that surrounds MLATs.
Well, how Gentoo installs Gnome packages into a DESTDIR is like this:
e per install
e per install
/var/lib/scrollkeeper and /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache; they aren't needed.
/ gnome2.eclass)
u i/dep for the dependencies of libgnomeui.
make DESTDIR=${D} scrollkeeper_localstate_dir=${D}/var/lib/scrollke
or alternatively
make prefix=${D}/usr datadir=${D}/usr/share infodir=${D}/usr/share/info localstatedir=${D}/var/lib mandir=${D}/usr/share/man sysconfdir=${D}/etc scrollkeeper_localstate_dir=${D}/var/lib/scrollke
Also, you need to
mkdir -p ${D}/var/lib/scrollkeeper
export GCONF_DISABLE_MAKEFILE_SCHEMA_INSTALL="1"
to keep scrollkeeper and gconf happy.
Then after it's installed into the DESTDIR, remove
To compensate for removing those from the package, though, you need to install the schemas with gconftool-2, run scrollkeeper-update and run update-desktop-database and update-mime-database.
Maybe 'easy' is a relative term - but I've been using Gentoo for two years now and never had a problem with the installation of Gnome 2 packages, which are all installed with the same bash script (http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/eclass
If you're determined to roll your own packages, you could do worse than to follow what Gentoo does, both in preparing tarballs (Gentoo binary packages are just a tarball with a bash script appended) and in dependencies; you can see the dependencies of any package in Portage at e.g. http://www.gentoo-portage.com/gnome-base/libgnome
Worse, it doesn't make sense.
DESTDIR works fine with Gnome packages - the only issues are gconf schemas and scrollkeeper docs, and those are easy to handle.
Perhaps Pat should take some lessons from the Gentoo packagers? The gnome2 eclass is much smaller than the kde eclasses, and even so most Gnome ebuilds are just a list of dependencies, source files and (occasionally) patches.
Perhaps the problem is that no-one uses Slackware on the desktop these days - most Gnome devs seem to use a rpm-based, apt-based or portage-based distro. It would make sense if the problems Pat is encountering are the result of Slackware's quirks.
My mirror is at http://catmur.co.uk/warez/
Just had a nasty thought... the latest round of IM programs have user-settable "buddy icons" which IIRC can be JPEGs. A worm that used buddy icons to spread could have half the internet infected in 15 minutes, and do it via existing social networks. I hope the MSN and AIM servers are scanning buddy icons to prevent this being used...
Plenty of us already have mobiles that run Windows.
I just got a new Orange SPV e200 - 176x220 screen, 132 MHz, Bluetooth, 32MB onboard plus a SD card slot (with a free 32MB card (and I'm salivating over the SD GPS unit)), VGA camera, etc, packed into 130g of brick. But - hey - I got it free on a fairly cheap contract, so I'm not complaining.
Oh yeah, and it runs Doom.
Not Linux, though. But it's fairly open (Windows Smartphone is based on Pocket PC) so it shouldn't be too difficult to get a fair amount of OSS software working on it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_paradox
Nice figures. But they don't mean much.
How much of that $15bn (over five years, remember, and with no guarantee that it will all be handed out) will actually leave the USA? How much will just be funnelled straight back into the pockets of US-based drugs companies and campaign groups?
Now look at the figures for the Global Fund. Note that the combined contributions to date from the big EU countries easily outstrip those from the USA (the combined total from the EU is $1.5bn, 50% more than that from the USA). If the USA is the largest contributor, that's because it has the largest economy.
Also read up on the disbursements the Global Fund has given out. (Yes, the Global Fund is transparent). Ask yourself why the USA would be unwilling to give more to the Global Fund. Could it be that the Global Fund is spending on education programmes that actually work, and on generic drugs sold close to the cost of production?
Nope.
Giving receipts out encourages vote buying - people standing on street corners promising $50 in exchange for a Bush receipt. When elections can be called by a couple of hundred votes as in Florida, and with the level of voter apathy, vote buying becomes highly feasible and not too expensive.
There is one way that works and has worked for centuries - a ballot paper, and a pencil to put a cross by the candidate's name. And all the ballots counted by hand, in full view of multiple representatives from all parties - and the press. Yes, it's inefficient, but you can't put a price on democracy.
ed@capella ~ $ ($0 & $0 &)
-bash: -bash: command not found
-bash: -bash: command not found
ed@capella ~ $
Your point is?
Ah yes, the old "moderator reverse psychology" technique.
We're on to you.
Bollocks. Emigrants are those who were too stupid, weak or lazy to make it at home.
If immigrants or their children do well, it's because inequities and discrimination force them into adopting high-risk strategies - the few who do well are noticed, the many who fail are forgotten.
Your sources?
And your evidence that the putative passports were supplied to Al Qaeda by the government of Iraq, as opposed to just being bought off the street in a Baghdad market?
Let's keep this factual.
It isn't in the UK - supermarkets have to say "cleans as well as the leading brand". I think it's the same in much of Europe.
I'm not saying I wouldn't search every Arab looking fellow who got on a plane extra carefully... Actually, this is wrong. Not because of discrimination, but because it actually makes everyone less safe, as terrorists will just send a Johnny Walker or Timothy McVeigh on board instead. Or just someone who doesn't look as much like an 'Arab' as the prejudices of the security guards expect.
Everyone needs to be equally likely to be searched - not selective searching, not watch lists, just high-frequency random searches, with no-one exempted. The one discretion security guards should have is to detain people who look nervous.
Don't forget Skippy - http://thegraveyard.org/skippy.php - works with any WM/DE. And it supports XDamage etc.
Let me rephrase that... newspapers are a fundamental part of the political process, so of course they have an editorial line. But with regard to facts, they are also subject to a public fact-checking process, so any newspaper or other news source which constantly distorts the facts will quickly become known as such and lose credibility.
Omega Technologies are not subject to public fact-checking, so they should not be used.
Gnome (2.6) has an 'typing break' program built in. Find it in the Keyboard control panel applet.
It only locks you out of the current X session, though, so it's easy to work around... still, it works well as a reminder to leave the computer for a while.
Get some self control, dammit..
sudo can be configured not to require admin password (or whatever auth scheme you like) for certain commands. See the sudo man page.
...how you plan to make a sound insulating box with a high enough heat transfer coefficient to keep the inside of the box below 50C when the insides of the box are generating 300W of heat. Seems to me you'd need fans, or worse a compressor/decompressor cycle (refrigerator style). Plus, how're you gonna access the removable drive bays?
In the UK at least, bandwidth is allocated along roughly the same lines as in the US - chopped into bands for TV, radio etc. and licensed to broadcasters.
However, the recent 3G mobile license selloff was run very successfully (for the Treasury at least) as an auction with one fewer license than the number of operators bidding. This was at the height of the dot.com boom, so the operators overbid massively and Blair got a tidy chunk of cash to fund his public sector projects. The mobile operators got hurt in the crash - Orange got taken over by the French, and we had to endure a year where you couldn't get decent free phones for anything less than a £60/mo contract, but things appear to have settled down - 3G was a flop, but it is everywhere else as well. Still, the conditions that made the auction work were somewhat special and might not be replicated for some time.
More important is the Government plan to switch of the analogue TV signal around 2010 in favour of digital TV over terrestrial signal (not cable or satellite). If it works out it'll free up a fair amount of spectrum that can then be repurposed to something more lucrative, or maybe even released as open unlicensed spectrum (but don't hold your breath). Of course, the UK can't do anything too different as we don't want to get out of step with Europe on the issue. Probably the country most likely to take the lead is Japan - they have the technology base to start doing their own thing and pull the rest of the Asian region along with them.