Hmmm. There's something wrong when the "badness" of a crime is measured in dollar terms. As others have pointed out, raping someone probably would have got a less time.
No, that's even worse. A SMART will ricochet off most little trucks (unless it's stuck under a bullbar?) but an SUV to SUV collision is usually terminal for both drivers. Most SUVs don't crush too well so the impact passes to their occupants... If you want to crash into a Hummer, either drive a Semi or a safe but big sedan like an S-Class (more to absorb the impact).
The problem with your argument is that their ratings for those shows are zero anyway. They simply aren't showing them, and therefore they aren't losing any advertising revenue. And in all seriousness, people who download TV programs aren't going to be paying much attention to the Micky D's ads anyway...
Potentially, yes, the free-to-air stations could lose out, but that's happening because they're not competitive. They're in the business of selling eyeballs to advertisers, and if the eyeballs are going elsewhere,they need to change their game to get them back.
If there's something good on maybe I'll watch it (eg Crossing Jorden, Ren and Stimpy), but most of what we see here in NZ are reruns of The Simpsons and Friends, and 80s/90s blockbusters movies. That's just not competitive with what's available online.
It *potentially* hurting advertising sales for the TV networks. BUT, the TV networks don't play anything worthy over here anyway... so for me to download Farscape - ripped from an already free to air broadcast - will be hurting the sales of nobody.
If we have large electrical supply capability but poor batteries, what's wrong with putting inductive pickups in the road?
Surely we have switching devices that can activate the "track" as the car runs over it, minimizing electomagnetic pollution. You couldn't cover every road of course, but it would mean the main routes are catered to. I presume the issue is with charging for usage, but heavy vehicles have meters for similar purposes. Inductive electric cars could have a "charge meter that calls home and gets billed ever month or so.
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Because it looks so damn cool. The designer appears to have overdosed on Thunderbirds during his youth.
If we want to maintain the quality and stability that the Linux kernel has, we need to resist binary drivers.
Firstly, I agree. BUT if need to allow third party vendors to ship binary drivers (and maybe we do, in the IP crazy world) then a QNX user-space driver model might be smarter?
Expect LNG to quickly rise in price. We've had a good run on LPG and CNG here in NZ, but the gig is up. With rising Petrol (Gasoline) prices, consumers have moved to Diesel and LPG (CNG has been deprecated here). The result is of course that prices of both have risen disproportionately to Petrol. Market forces and all that.
So converting to LNG is a nice idea in the short term, but I think we really need to convert our existing fleets to Hydrogen gas and BioDiesel.
What would these people be willing to do in order to protect themselves from American weapons?
Why should they even have to?
Sure, develop the technology, but don't deploy anything unless there's an actual reason. Otherwise it's like holding a gun to your neighbours head and saying, "It's OK, I won't pull the trigger unless you piss me off".
Yes, but is it Novell's Linux distro, or is it Novell's desktop package? Just another distro doesn't excite me, no matter how well thought out it is.
What I want to see from these guys is built-in Netware logon support, eg a KDM or GDM auth module with drive mapping and all the rest. Something that can be rolled out on an LTSP infrastructure with diskless clients. Something to easily replace the thousands of Windows PCs so many schools and businesses are running with Novell's servers.
And if I had mod points, I would give them to you sir. This is all about BRANDING - not whether the latop and software actually work any good together or not.
I almost wonder if Linus needs to have a word with those guys about their brandname and possibly misleading use of his trademark.
Protect you from who? It's the rest of the world that's worried about the US, not the other way around. It certainly makes sense to have better information on a battlefield, but surely it's more about reducing casualties - especially "friendly fire" on both your own and allied troops.
Probably unneccessary. They have Mac versions as well, so most of the core code is likely already cross-platform. I doubt Adobe would have much trouble porting if they felt the market was there.
It's chicken and egg though - the people who use this software for a living (mostly) don't care what OS they run. PS and similar are tools, so if they can run it on a cheaper faster platform, they will... which is why the Windows versions have become so popular.
That's the job of the distro folks. Mandrake Galaxy is a pretty sane looking desktop, IMO, but there's no accounting for taste...
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I'm not so sure about that.
I'm a hacker, and I'm a little idealistic and somewhat optimistic. But I'm also rather good at seeing structures, and getting a feel for emerging patterns. That's a large part of what hacking is about.
If the patterns (in this case government and corporate policy changes and actions) are negative despite what I'm being told via the media, I notice. Just like many people didn't when the whole Nazi thing was going on in the beginning.
Funnily enough, as a non-US citizen this bothers me too. Government and especially commercial databases will have *lots* of information about non-US citizens, and we don't have the protection from your government that you folks do.
If I were Apple (and I'm not) I'd take an approach like Sun has with Solaris x86 - spec up a list of supported hardware, and leave it at that. Even limit it to x86-64 so that you're further reducing the number of chipsets and legacy crap you need to support. As said already, most of the peripheral stuff (USB, Firewire, etc) is already there and well standardised.
One of the better concepts for space travel and heavy lifting was the Prometheus concept. A huge spacecraft that drops nukes out the back and detonates them to push itself along.
The problem being that nuclear detonations are, um, somewhat hazardous and also politically incorrect. Imagine the same spacecraft design using radiationless antimatter explosions for propulsion.
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Hmmm. There's something wrong when the "badness" of a crime is measured in dollar terms. As others have pointed out, raping someone probably would have got a less time.
No, that's even worse. A SMART will ricochet off most little trucks (unless it's stuck under a bullbar?) but an SUV to SUV collision is usually terminal for both drivers. Most SUVs don't crush too well so the impact passes to their occupants... If you want to crash into a Hummer, either drive a Semi or a safe but big sedan like an S-Class (more to absorb the impact).
The problem with your argument is that their ratings for those shows are zero anyway. They simply aren't showing them, and therefore they aren't losing any advertising revenue. And in all seriousness, people who download TV programs aren't going to be paying much attention to the Micky D's ads anyway...
Potentially, yes, the free-to-air stations could lose out, but that's happening because they're not competitive. They're in the business of selling eyeballs to advertisers, and if the eyeballs are going elsewhere,they need to change their game to get them back.
If there's something good on maybe I'll watch it (eg Crossing Jorden, Ren and Stimpy), but most of what we see here in NZ are reruns of The Simpsons and Friends, and 80s/90s blockbusters movies. That's just not competitive with what's available online.
It *potentially* hurting advertising sales for the TV networks. BUT, the TV networks don't play anything worthy over here anyway... so for me to download Farscape - ripped from an already free to air broadcast - will be hurting the sales of nobody.
If we have large electrical supply capability but poor batteries, what's wrong with putting inductive pickups in the road?
Surely we have switching devices that can activate the "track" as the car runs over it, minimizing electomagnetic pollution. You couldn't cover every road of course, but it would mean the main routes are catered to. I presume the issue is with charging for usage, but heavy vehicles have meters for similar purposes. Inductive electric cars could have a "charge meter that calls home and gets billed ever month or so.
Because it looks so damn cool. The designer appears to have overdosed on Thunderbirds during his youth.
If we want to maintain the quality and stability that the Linux kernel has, we need to resist binary drivers.
Firstly, I agree. BUT if need to allow third party vendors to ship binary drivers (and maybe we do, in the IP crazy world) then a QNX user-space driver model might be smarter?
Expect LNG to quickly rise in price. We've had a good run on LPG and CNG here in NZ, but the gig is up. With rising Petrol (Gasoline) prices, consumers have moved to Diesel and LPG (CNG has been deprecated here). The result is of course that prices of both have risen disproportionately to Petrol. Market forces and all that.
So converting to LNG is a nice idea in the short term, but I think we really need to convert our existing fleets to Hydrogen gas and BioDiesel.
What would these people be willing to do in order to protect themselves from American weapons?
Why should they even have to?
Sure, develop the technology, but don't deploy anything unless there's an actual reason. Otherwise it's like holding a gun to your neighbours head and saying, "It's OK, I won't pull the trigger unless you piss me off".
Yes, but is it Novell's Linux distro, or is it Novell's desktop package? Just another distro doesn't excite me, no matter how well thought out it is.
What I want to see from these guys is built-in Netware logon support, eg a KDM or GDM auth module with drive mapping and all the rest. Something that can be rolled out on an LTSP infrastructure with diskless clients. Something to easily replace the thousands of Windows PCs so many schools and businesses are running with Novell's servers.
And if I had mod points, I would give them to you sir. This is all about BRANDING - not whether the latop and software actually work any good together or not.
I almost wonder if Linus needs to have a word with those guys about their brandname and possibly misleading use of his trademark.
Protect you from who? It's the rest of the world that's worried about the US, not the other way around. It certainly makes sense to have better information on a battlefield, but surely it's more about reducing casualties - especially "friendly fire" on both your own and allied troops.
Surely "all" this means is KDE and Gnome support needs to be integrated?
Probably unneccessary. They have Mac versions as well, so most of the core code is likely already cross-platform. I doubt Adobe would have much trouble porting if they felt the market was there.
It's chicken and egg though - the people who use this software for a living (mostly) don't care what OS they run. PS and similar are tools, so if they can run it on a cheaper faster platform, they will... which is why the Windows versions have become so popular.
Bitter irony? Possibly painful truth, guessing from your mod score...
That's the job of the distro folks. Mandrake Galaxy is a pretty sane looking desktop, IMO, but there's no accounting for taste...
I'm not so sure about that.
I'm a hacker, and I'm a little idealistic and somewhat optimistic. But I'm also rather good at seeing structures, and getting a feel for emerging patterns. That's a large part of what hacking is about.
If the patterns (in this case government and corporate policy changes and actions) are negative despite what I'm being told via the media, I notice. Just like many people didn't when the whole Nazi thing was going on in the beginning.
Ok, so if not scientists... how about politicians? I'm sure they'd be keen for that, right?
The problem IMHO isn't too much CO2, it's not enough plant life on the planet to soak it up.
Funnily enough, as a non-US citizen this bothers me too. Government and especially commercial databases will have *lots* of information about non-US citizens, and we don't have the protection from your government that you folks do.
If I were Apple (and I'm not) I'd take an approach like Sun has with Solaris x86 - spec up a list of supported hardware, and leave it at that. Even limit it to x86-64 so that you're further reducing the number of chipsets and legacy crap you need to support. As said already, most of the peripheral stuff (USB, Firewire, etc) is already there and well standardised.
How about a Fat to Methane convertor? Do something useful with those Boomers who put us in this position...
Next stop, orbit. And 50 million dollars. Greater risks require greater rewards.
One of the better concepts for space travel and heavy lifting was the Prometheus concept. A huge spacecraft that drops nukes out the back and detonates them to push itself along.
The problem being that nuclear detonations are, um, somewhat hazardous and also politically incorrect. Imagine the same spacecraft design using radiationless antimatter explosions for propulsion.
...in JAPAN! But in the US, you probably can be.