Whence did the title of this story come?
I pity whomever tries to use rarely-used inquisitives in English.
"Wherefore" essentially means "why" (it's actually more like "for what reason" but that's roughly "why"). Hence when Juliet asked "Wherefore art thou Romeo?" she asked (in modern parlance) "Why are you Romeo?" She was upset that he had to be born of the sworn enemies of her family. She was *not* asking where Romeo was at that moment.
So the question is, what did the poster mean by "Openlindows.com: Wherefore art thou? Either he's really smart and means by this to ask why such a thing exists ("why are you" ~ "why do you exist") or he doesn't know what "wherefore" means and just wants a catchy title. I bet it's the latter.
So the question is, wherefore exists such an editor as to use this title?
By the way, openlindows sounds like a really good idea to me - it allows an easy way for lindows users (presumably less knowledgeable about software than most linux or unix users) to get acquainted with the idea of open source software and development. Sure, most of the users won't be developing themselves, but that's true for linux anyway.
Or take option c), and keep paying the Russians to launch things and slide them a bit more money to increase the number of space station supply launches.
Manned space flight is a use-or-lose technology - so long as we keep the staff and expertise in Cape Kennedy and Texas, we can keep doing it. The problem with paying the Russians to do it is, if we do this long enough we'll lose the ability to launch people ourselves. In many ways the shuttles are far less impressive than the Saturn V moon rockets; we've already lost the ability to send humans out of low-earth orbit.
I think the shuttles suck; always have. As a little kid I used to watch the last Saturn V launches and was sad when they stopped in favor of the shuttles. The shuttles have nowhere near the lifting capacity of the Saturn Vs, they are far more prone to failure, more complex, and not much more reusable (large parts of the shuttles are rebuilt between flights). Still, the shuttles are better than no US manned space program, if nothing else just because they keep us sharp with the process. Ideally they need to design something new; but if that doesn't happen before we lose another shuttle, then they need to either (a) build another shuttle; or (b) dust off the plans and restart building the geminis and/or apollos.
The Office Space reference *did* say "collar", but I think your parent poster was implying that these resort prisons have a distinct lack of diversity about them...
You know, you deal coke and you go to a resort prison for two years. You deal crack and you go to a pound-you-in-the-ass prison for 20.
I build furniture. It's very fun - it allows my technical mind to still work, but in a totally different way. Instead of searching through lines of code, I feed boards through big saws. When I talk about putting something through the router, it means feeding the side of a board against a really sharp blade spinning at 25,000 RPM.
I think most technical people need a hobby that still engages their technical mind but doesn't necessarily have anything to do with technology in the normal sense.
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Based on that description, I think they call them ex-girlfriends.
Either that, or Phyllis Schlafly. You misogynistic bastard.
Based on that description, I think they call them ex-girlfriends.
Either that, or Phyllis Schlafly.
Whence did the title of this story come? I pity whomever tries to use rarely-used inquisitives in English. "Wherefore" essentially means "why" (it's actually more like "for what reason" but that's roughly "why"). Hence when Juliet asked "Wherefore art thou Romeo?" she asked (in modern parlance) "Why are you Romeo?" She was upset that he had to be born of the sworn enemies of her family. She was *not* asking where Romeo was at that moment. So the question is, what did the poster mean by "Openlindows.com: Wherefore art thou? Either he's really smart and means by this to ask why such a thing exists ("why are you" ~ "why do you exist") or he doesn't know what "wherefore" means and just wants a catchy title. I bet it's the latter. So the question is, wherefore exists such an editor as to use this title? By the way, openlindows sounds like a really good idea to me - it allows an easy way for lindows users (presumably less knowledgeable about software than most linux or unix users) to get acquainted with the idea of open source software and development. Sure, most of the users won't be developing themselves, but that's true for linux anyway.
Or take option c), and keep paying the Russians to launch things and slide them a bit more money to increase the number of space station supply launches.
Manned space flight is a use-or-lose technology - so long as we keep the staff and expertise in Cape Kennedy and Texas, we can keep doing it. The problem with paying the Russians to do it is, if we do this long enough we'll lose the ability to launch people ourselves. In many ways the shuttles are far less impressive than the Saturn V moon rockets; we've already lost the ability to send humans out of low-earth orbit.
I think the shuttles suck; always have. As a little kid I used to watch the last Saturn V launches and was sad when they stopped in favor of the shuttles. The shuttles have nowhere near the lifting capacity of the Saturn Vs, they are far more prone to failure, more complex, and not much more reusable (large parts of the shuttles are rebuilt between flights). Still, the shuttles are better than no US manned space program, if nothing else just because they keep us sharp with the process. Ideally they need to design something new; but if that doesn't happen before we lose another shuttle, then they need to either (a) build another shuttle; or (b) dust off the plans and restart building the geminis and/or apollos.
The Office Space reference *did* say "collar", but I think your parent poster was implying that these resort prisons have a distinct lack of diversity about them... You know, you deal coke and you go to a resort prison for two years. You deal crack and you go to a pound-you-in-the-ass prison for 20.
I build furniture. It's very fun - it allows my technical mind to still work, but in a totally different way. Instead of searching through lines of code, I feed boards through big saws. When I talk about putting something through the router, it means feeding the side of a board against a really sharp blade spinning at 25,000 RPM. I think most technical people need a hobby that still engages their technical mind but doesn't necessarily have anything to do with technology in the normal sense.