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Giving a license != giving ownership.
Well, they sure jumped on Web 2.0 pretty fast. Every moron with a webserver and an AJAX book seems to be doing some web crap these days.
Oh, and it's Internet2. Because Internet2 already exists.
Maybe you missed what I said in stating the importance of the INTERNET over the importance of TV in providing the same services. Perhaps you should be more concerned that the rest of the kids in your childs age group are comfortably using the internet as a replacement for TV, while your children are starting blankly at a screen.
Yes, I find that having kids stare blankly at a monitor, watching whatever stupid low-resolution crap is on Youtube is MUCH better than TV. Or playing flash games all day. Because this is how most kids use the Internet.
My old VT220 terminal gives off the smell of ozone for the first minute or two after I power it on... I find it rather nice for that short amount of time.
I think the Gibson is scheduled to be replaced. At least if the scene in Breach, where the Chris Cooper character storms into the CIA server room and demands that all the equipment be replaced with "mumble mumble Red Hat Linux Enterprise 5! mumble mumble Gigabit! mumble mumble" is any indication.
You laugh, but at the national lab where I work, Red Hat Enterprise 5 is one of the "official" desktop systems. Your tax dollars at work. Of course, my colleagues and I all run Debian, Gentoo, Ubuntu, Fedora, and/or Plan 9.
I read that article a couple days ago. I like how ESR kinda makes himself out to be some sort of puppetmaster, pulling strings and performing delicate feats of social engineering to singlehandedly bring about the current state of affairs.
Will: So this is my new game, Pee. Basically I'm going to pee on every one of you, and you're going to love every second of it. That's my design. And you decide what you want to do with the pee. We're not telling you how to enjoy it. I leave that up to you guys. You're going to create your own unique experiences with my pee. You're all going to do something different. How will you react to that? This guy, he might get some pee in his eye. That's completely different from pee in your hair, and that's exciting to me as a game designer. Fans: Will Wright! Please pee on us!
It would be even funnier if the Mighty Mouse didn't suck so hard that various/. nerds have been cheating on their vacuums with it...
Seriously, though, that little trackball thingy on top is crap, and the lack of click-chording capabilities is an *absolute* deal-breaker for me. (For those of you who haven't heard of it, chording is where you click multiple buttons at the same time. Plan 9 makes heavy use of it)
That said, I'm sure the Mighty Mouse will work for Spore. But real men will continue to use true three-button mice, with three distinct buttons and no clicky rolly thing in the middle.
No, i mean stupid. I see nothing awesome in the building of machine which kills everyone on the ground in it's flight path and spreading radioactive material all over it just before it's drops several nuclear warheads on it's primary target. There is nothing awesome in such a machine, except the unbelievable assholeness of it's creators.
Read the articles you linked. The "path of destruction" is created by flying only a couple hundred meters above the ground--something you would definitely avoid while over friendly territory; takeoff is done with solid fuel boosters. The wikipedia article says, "Contrary to some reports, the exhaust of the engine would not itself be highly radioactive."; the other page conflicts this with "Additionally, the nuclear ramjet continuously left a trail of highly radioactive dust, which would seriously contaminate the area below the missile." One of these is true; which is hard to tell, since atomic-haters like to basically make up danger, while nuclear supporters will downplay any real threats.
It's people who wet themselves every time the words "nuclear power" are spoken that killed cheap electricity and such things as the NERVA engine.
Great idea, until in a HAL-esque moment the AI decides that the only way to have safe flights is to have no passengers, which leads to the obvious solution of KILL ALL HUMANS!
Let me assure you, he's not above scrounging lifts in such cars. And then spending the journey lambasting the driver for the way they earns a living to support their family (writing proprietary software).
Have you had a personal experience like this with Stallman? I'd be interested to hear it.
Is that most people seem unable to do very well in two dimensions; drive the freeway much? Everyone thinks a flying car would be GREAT because they envision themselves as the only people having one. Now imagine the sky over San Francisco completely packed with these things. You take off in the morning, and instead of just looking two ways before getting onto a street, you have to check above you and on all sides before lifting into the air, only to be smashed into by some hippie who just came through that patch of fog. Oh, and then you fall 50 feet to the ground and explode. "The solution is to have predetermined lanes of travel for flying cars!", you say? I know, we can call them "sky-roads", and there will be on-patterns and off-patterns and little narrow residential sky-roads, and of course for safety you will all fly at the same altitude.
It's ok. Republican's don't believe in science. He'll never read this.
Apparently Democrats don't believe in grammar? Oh, and if you're actually Green Party or Socialist, I apologize--I swear I'll mock you just as much as you deserve as soon as I get the chance. I'm just really busy right now; you know how it gets with work and all that... unless you're a Socialist, in which case you're probably late for your Art History 233 class.
I think that's probably what DEC was going for--you're not using a Teletype or DECwriter, gotta know the key is being pressed. I wouldn't have minded the sound, but my roommate instantly swore to kill me unless I shut it off, so it's off now. Besides, I don't really fiddle with DECwindows much anyway.
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According to the Terms of Service at the bottom of the page, by posting pictures to flickr you give them a license to use said pictures in the promotion of the site. From the ToS: Yahoo! does not claim ownership of Content you submit or make available for inclusion on the Service..
Giving a license != giving ownership.
Well, they sure jumped on Web 2.0 pretty fast. Every moron with a webserver and an AJAX book seems to be doing some web crap these days.
Oh, and it's Internet2. Because Internet2 already exists.
Speed of light in a vacuum is a constant. Bending light around a galaxy cluster will not slow down the light, it'll just send it on a different path.
I know, we'll call it Internet2!
But... but... Linux is ABSOLUTELY SECURE, right?
My dot-matrix parallel printer will never turn on me like that!
Screeeeeeeech
Maybe you missed what I said in stating the importance of the INTERNET over the importance of TV in providing the same services. Perhaps you should be more concerned that the rest of the kids in your childs age group are comfortably using the internet as a replacement for TV, while your children are starting blankly at a screen.
Yes, I find that having kids stare blankly at a monitor, watching whatever stupid low-resolution crap is on Youtube is MUCH better than TV. Or playing flash games all day. Because this is how most kids use the Internet.
Thanks for the advice. I'll pick up a can of compressed air next time I'm out (and help get rid of that pesky atmospheric ozone in the process!).
The Odor Out of Space!
My old VT220 terminal gives off the smell of ozone for the first minute or two after I power it on... I find it rather nice for that short amount of time.
This is your nmap! There are many like it, but this one is yours!
I think the Gibson is scheduled to be replaced. At least if the scene in Breach, where the Chris Cooper character storms into the CIA server room and demands that all the equipment be replaced with "mumble mumble Red Hat Linux Enterprise 5! mumble mumble Gigabit! mumble mumble" is any indication.
You laugh, but at the national lab where I work, Red Hat Enterprise 5 is one of the "official" desktop systems. Your tax dollars at work. Of course, my colleagues and I all run Debian, Gentoo, Ubuntu, Fedora, and/or Plan 9.
I read that article a couple days ago. I like how ESR kinda makes himself out to be some sort of puppetmaster, pulling strings and performing delicate feats of social engineering to singlehandedly bring about the current state of affairs.
Will: So this is my new game, Pee. Basically I'm going to pee on every one of you, and you're going to love every second of it. That's my design. And you decide what you want to do with the pee. We're not telling you how to enjoy it. I leave that up to you guys. You're going to create your own unique experiences with my pee. You're all going to do something different. How will you react to that? This guy, he might get some pee in his eye. That's completely different from pee in your hair, and that's exciting to me as a game designer.
Fans: Will Wright! Please pee on us!
Penny Arcade, of course.
It would be even funnier if the Mighty Mouse didn't suck so hard that various /. nerds have been cheating on their vacuums with it...
Seriously, though, that little trackball thingy on top is crap, and the lack of click-chording capabilities is an *absolute* deal-breaker for me. (For those of you who haven't heard of it, chording is where you click multiple buttons at the same time. Plan 9 makes heavy use of it)
That said, I'm sure the Mighty Mouse will work for Spore. But real men will continue to use true three-button mice, with three distinct buttons and no clicky rolly thing in the middle.
Read the articles you linked. The "path of destruction" is created by flying only a couple hundred meters above the ground--something you would definitely avoid while over friendly territory; takeoff is done with solid fuel boosters. The wikipedia article says, "Contrary to some reports, the exhaust of the engine would not itself be highly radioactive."; the other page conflicts this with "Additionally, the nuclear ramjet continuously left a trail of highly radioactive dust, which would seriously contaminate the area below the missile." One of these is true; which is hard to tell, since atomic-haters like to basically make up danger, while nuclear supporters will downplay any real threats.
It's people who wet themselves every time the words "nuclear power" are spoken that killed cheap electricity and such things as the NERVA engine.
Could have all been prevented by *not* saying "Rotate the pod, HAL". Congratulations, now the nutty computer is staring at the closed door of the pod.
Great idea, until in a HAL-esque moment the AI decides that the only way to have safe flights is to have no passengers, which leads to the obvious solution of KILL ALL HUMANS!
And no, I'm not actually afraid of AI
Have you had a personal experience like this with Stallman? I'd be interested to hear it.
Is that most people seem unable to do very well in two dimensions; drive the freeway much? Everyone thinks a flying car would be GREAT because they envision themselves as the only people having one. Now imagine the sky over San Francisco completely packed with these things. You take off in the morning, and instead of just looking two ways before getting onto a street, you have to check above you and on all sides before lifting into the air, only to be smashed into by some hippie who just came through that patch of fog. Oh, and then you fall 50 feet to the ground and explode. "The solution is to have predetermined lanes of travel for flying cars!", you say? I know, we can call them "sky-roads", and there will be on-patterns and off-patterns and little narrow residential sky-roads, and of course for safety you will all fly at the same altitude.
Apparently Democrats don't believe in grammar? Oh, and if you're actually Green Party or Socialist, I apologize--I swear I'll mock you just as much as you deserve as soon as I get the chance. I'm just really busy right now; you know how it gets with work and all that... unless you're a Socialist, in which case you're probably late for your Art History 233 class.
I know that Plan B is based on Plan 9. I was talking about Plan B the operating system vs. Plan B the "retroactive birth control" pill.
You laugh, but Plan B already exists. http://lsub.org/
Unfortunate name, yes. I wonder which one is earlier.
The program in the lower right is scat(7). Comes on the install cd.
I think that's probably what DEC was going for--you're not using a Teletype or DECwriter, gotta know the key is being pressed. I wouldn't have minded the sound, but my roommate instantly swore to kill me unless I shut it off, so it's off now. Besides, I don't really fiddle with DECwindows much anyway.