> You can believe in God AND evolution. Catholic church has supported the theory for a long time. Yep: it seems that belief in multiple mutually exclusive theories is a feature of many religions. I never could get a handle on that !
> Okay, so my mom uses a program to help her with her quilting. Who in the hell is going to write that for her if no one is paid to do it?
Well the first hit from http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=quilting+program+free is a free quilting program !! And many more follow. (And IIRC Stallmans views have nothing to do with who gets paid for what, just that the source code should be available for free (and long before Linux et al he made money from selling tapes of Free Software).)
Germany: "Das Recht am eigenen Bild oder Bildnisrecht ist eine besondere Ausprägung des allgemeinen Persönlichkeitsrechts. Es besagt, dass jeder Mensch grundsätzlich selbst darüber bestimmen darf, ob überhaupt und in welchem Zusammenhang Bilder von ihm veröffentlicht werden ( 22 Satz 1 Kunsturheberrechtsgesetz (KUG/KunstUrhG))."
Google: "The right to their own image or likeness right is a specific expression of personal rights. It states that every person must, in principle even to decide whether to be published at all and the context in which images of him ( 22 sentence 1 Art Copyright Act (KUG / KunstUrhG))."
If you are on Linux then the most recently used files should be buffered in RAM anyway (maybe newer Windows are better at this now.). (Of course you can help your kernel by closing unused apps to free up RAM to be used for file buffering.)
> Everybody wants cheap energy Wrong: people want, for example, warm houses. Whether that comes from pumping energy in, or insulating it to prevent energy leaving it is irrelevance. You can invest in energy saving, and not need cheap energy.
Firstly I confess to never having heard of Thorium as a nuclear fuel. But if your best references are a *business* reporter for a right-wing, reactionary newspaper, a business advocacy group, and a Wikipedia page that includes a quote from an engineer: "meaning one that will produce and consume about the same amounts of fuel," then you have not convinced me, for one !!
I am guessing that what the parent real wants is what I would like: the ability to boot directly into the OS (esp. Linux), and not via a 2 stage boot via the BIOS.
Maybe it is some strange (!!) American usage of English, but to me "flatter than a pancake" is a measure of undulations (i.e. a lack of), for example in the landscape. It is not a measure of thickness. E.g. the ice on the lake could be 1m thick, but is usually flat as a pancake !
> The military still uses paper tape in some limited capacity. It has the advantage of being electromagnetic pulse proof, and in a hermetically sealed container it has an almost unlimited lifespan.
I think you will find they use paper for development, but then Mylar for the deliverable.
I really hope this takes off, but I suspect that by the time Microsoft, the hardware manufactures and retailers have made their "representations" to the government it will die before it starts. I think these kind of initiatives will, unfortunately, remain with charities and keen individuals at a local level.
I know this is Slashdot, but talk about anti-UN scaremongering. Firstly it a news report, not a UN statement. It is *one* country *suggesting* a committee that may (or may not) *attempt* to exert control. And 4 other countries *appear* to be in favour (presumably of the committee and not the control). What the heck does *appear* mean in this case ? Not exactly about to be policy is it !!
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> Believe it or not, some of us are still using and extending OS9.
When I read that on Slashdot, then, yes, I do believe it ;-)
> Identity management: ... keep you signed in to websites via an integrated identity manager and even support multiple sign-ons at the same time.
IIRC this feature was requested by someone in the US Army ?
I was wondering if, post earthquake, they will now have to re-map Japan ?
> I wouldn't be surprised if the German data
Peter Pedant points out that GOCE is an ESA mission, so I assume the data is owned by ESA, not Germany.
http://earth.esa.int/dataproducts/accessingeodata/ suggests some data is free, other requires ESA approval.
Or use this Java app: http://earth.esa.int/EOLi/EOLi.html ?
Peter Pedant says it is not 3D: it is pseudo-3D, but I guess that does not sound good on the box !
> Rolled up things are an inefficient use of space.
But it would look cool next to your Latte, and that is what sells Apples ;-)
I am pretty sure Venice should be counted as "modern" and it is not just "petrol car" free but totally car free :-)
> You can believe in God AND evolution. Catholic church has supported the theory for a long time.
Yep: it seems that belief in multiple mutually exclusive theories is a feature of many religions. I never could get a handle on that !
> Okay, so my mom uses a program to help her with her quilting. Who in the hell is going to write that for her if no one is paid to do it?
Well the first hit from http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=quilting+program+free is a free quilting program !! And many more follow.
(And IIRC Stallmans views have nothing to do with who gets paid for what, just that the source code should be available for free (and long before Linux et al he made money from selling tapes of Free Software).)
Germany: "Das Recht am eigenen Bild oder Bildnisrecht ist eine besondere Ausprägung des allgemeinen Persönlichkeitsrechts. Es besagt, dass jeder Mensch grundsätzlich selbst darüber bestimmen darf, ob überhaupt und in welchem Zusammenhang Bilder von ihm veröffentlicht werden ( 22 Satz 1 Kunsturheberrechtsgesetz (KUG/KunstUrhG))."
Google: "The right to their own image or likeness right is a specific expression of personal rights. It states that every person must, in principle even to decide whether to be published at all and the context in which images of him ( 22 sentence 1 Art Copyright Act (KUG / KunstUrhG))."
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recht_am_eigenen_Bild
If you are on Linux then the most recently used files should be buffered in RAM anyway (maybe newer Windows are better at this now.). (Of course you can help your kernel by closing unused apps to free up RAM to be used for file buffering.)
> Everybody wants cheap energy
Wrong: people want, for example, warm houses. Whether that comes from pumping energy in, or insulating it to prevent energy leaving it is irrelevance. You can invest in energy saving, and not need cheap energy.
Firstly I confess to never having heard of Thorium as a nuclear fuel.
But if your best references are a *business* reporter for a right-wing, reactionary newspaper, a business advocacy group, and a Wikipedia page that includes a quote from an engineer: "meaning one that will produce and consume about the same amounts of fuel," then you have not convinced me, for one !!
> What's so wrong with your motherboard's BIOS?
I am guessing that what the parent real wants is what I would like: the ability to boot directly into the OS (esp. Linux), and not via a 2 stage boot via the BIOS.
A beer to be drunk in space: now that is what I call limiting your market ;-)
> This just goes to underline that QA does not exist in the software world.
My 24 years in the software industry tell me that QA is available: the customer just has to be prepared to pay for it !
Maybe it is some strange (!!) American usage of English, but to me "flatter than a pancake" is a measure of undulations (i.e. a lack of), for example in the landscape. It is not a measure of thickness. E.g. the ice on the lake could be 1m thick, but is usually flat as a pancake !
> Neither floor mats nor sticky pedals prevent someone from stomping the brakes
And selecting neutral.
> The military still uses paper tape in some limited capacity. It has the advantage of being electromagnetic pulse proof, and in a hermetically sealed container it has an almost unlimited lifespan.
I think you will find they use paper for development, but then Mylar for the deliverable.
I am pretty sure that no-one uses "vi" any more: luckily Xemacs has a vi mode !!
So maybe by 2400 society will be back to how it was in 1400 ? The New Middle Ages ?
I really hope this takes off, but I suspect that by the time Microsoft, the hardware manufactures and retailers have made their "representations" to the government it will die before it starts.
I think these kind of initiatives will, unfortunately, remain with charities and keen individuals at a local level.
I know this is Slashdot, but talk about anti-UN scaremongering.
Firstly it a news report, not a UN statement. It is *one* country *suggesting* a committee that may (or may not) *attempt* to exert control. And 4 other countries *appear* to be in favour (presumably of the committee and not the control). What the heck does *appear* mean in this case ?
Not exactly about to be policy is it !!
Well I certainly hope they have also removed that disgusting "novel" Lady Chatterley's Lover :-)
> There is some pretty strange canon to support the abbreviation...
I am not an expert, but I thought the term "Dr Who" came from the oft used lines, variants of:
> And you are ?
> I am The Doctor
> Doctor Who ?
> No, just "The Doctor"