I have great sources... climbers who have been going back and helping locals since the early days of the occupation. I find it amazing that only in the niches of climbing associations and a couple of human rights groups do you find people who know what goes on there. It's almost over though, I heard that there is almost nothing left of what was once Tibet..
And heck, what happened to the right of self determination? if those people don't want to drink Coke? that is their right no? 'cuz if we are going to force things down peoples throat then perhaps you should take a look at the world today and ask yourself why two-thirds of the planet is pissed off with the "west"!
Actually I once sent a mail to Broadcom asking why their chip in Airport Express card was not opened for Linux developers and they replied by saying they didn't want the responsability for people abusing their hardware in ways contrary to the law. They were implying that open source drivers allow you to wardrive.
I tried to convince them that they had nothing to do with that but alas, they never responded, not even to the compromise of releasing a binary driver.. I guess some companies just don't understand what the game is about.
who was a former truck driver in Tibet in the 60s and 70s, cool guy
gee I guess he had nothing to do with the brutal occupation and genocide of Tibet... any chinaman who worked in Tibet in the 60's/70's is hardly a "cool guy"!
Chinese law forbids these terms? Funny, I recently reviewed their constitution, pity it's illegal now...
The law doesn't forbid the terms, the Politburo does. A bunch of grey old commies who don't know that China is charging straight for the 21st century, whether they like it or not.
If I am going to a civilised place I drag my iBook along and use wireless service.
If I am going to less civilised places, I don't need to email or do anything with the computer.
I don't suggest people ssh into remote boxes. This would mean you need to allow ssh access from unknown ips. This could subject your box to attack. Always keep your box safe by using the hosts.allow and hosts.deny files. What you could do is to find a "secure" machine at your place of travel and call yer man back home to open the service for that ip. I do this on rare occasions, albeit many wireless network providers don't have all the ports open for customers.
Unless you really need to 'work' on the remote machine, leave it alone. Take your filofax with you. People don't steal those (anymore).
1. If everyone gets a degree, your degree means nothing and no job for you... in some parts of Europe this is the case and one masters is not enough for a good job.
2. ever heard of the IQ scale? it is a scale and it has a mid point around which the ditribution shows a standard pattern.. that mid point is IQ 100... This means that 50% of the population has an IQ 100 or below, these folks have trouble with fractions....
People are "bright"/"switched on" at around 120... go figure how many kids you want in your university.
3. If everyone gets a degree, who does the dishes?
And as if Lucas was leaching asimov... The robot is the clue and the true adversary of palpatine. R2 knows all and is always the one to initiate the important plot moves. R2 is obviously far far smarter than most of the biological lifeforms, not to mention any other artificial lifeform encountered in the whole series.
I suggest that the whole dang plot revolves around the little bugger. I further suggest that R2 serves as the full backup of Jedi Council knowledge and that is why he knows everything... The force flows strongly in this one...
Geesh.. I was thinking the other mash..
Through early morning fog I see
visions of the things to be
the pains that are withheld for me
I realize and I can see...
[chorus]:
That Microsoft is clueless
They bring on many changes
and I can take or leave it if I please.
I try to find a way to make
all our systems relate
without that ever-present slate
but now I know that it's too late, and...
[Chorus]
The unix shell is hard to play
I'm gonna learn it anyway
The Linux card I'll someday lay
so this is all I have to say.
[Chorus]
The only way to win is cheat
And lay it down before I'm beat
and to another give my seat
for that's the only painless feat.
[Chorus]
MASH
The sword of time will pierce our shells
It doesn't work when it begins
But as it works its way on in
The pain grows stronger...watch it grin, but...
[Chorus]
A brave man once requested me
to answer questions that are key
'can you fix my computer please'
and I replied 'oh why ask me?'
'Cause Microsoft is clueless
They bring on many changes
and I can take or leave it if I please....and you can do the same thing if you choose.
I am seriously considering sending the boxes to infinite loop with a "shove it Stevo" sticker... Have ditched my Apple stock, heck with what I made on that I can go surfing for a few months!
I am sorry, PPC is the superior architecture and anyone who is blazed by the mghz should go look at something shiny
Well you see when software patents are allowed to live their seedy lives, this happens..
It goes both ways, unfortunatly one way more often than the other.. many many years ago on a continent far far away, two accountants had geeked out and figured how to transfer their data out of their accounting system into a spreadsheet (123).. do you think they own the Intellectual Property to their invention? Wrong... who does? Big Mickey!
I think that x86 Mac is attempting to threaten Linux. Apple is a very Linux unfriendly company with no moves to support anything that smells like linux. rather they are pushing their Open Source concept Darwin. Marklar (secret OSX/X86) program has reportedly fed enormously on the Darwin project and will continue to do so. By pushing their apps on a mass market platform it is obvious that the Apple digital lifestyle (iLife etc..) is coming to a Joe Bloe near you. Whether they will succeed to put a dent in Linux remains to be seen. For many commercial users OSX on X86 will be a great alternative for Windows and that is the main market. I would suggest to many x86 users to consider the move sincerely. However, as a recent x86/linux to Mac/PPC switcher I must say I am unhappy as I feel left in the cold. Not only has Linux/OpenSource on PPC been a slow mover, it now looks dead in the water. All future developement will be on x86 and even Bill Fink will have to acknowledge that much of his efforts have been in vain.
Oh well, my macs will be up for grabs (to be shoved up Stevo's you-know-what) as I move back to Fedora on 64bit.. I wanted OSX because it was 64 bit and Open Source.. I was a sucker, I believed the marketing... OSx's future is 32 bit and not nearly as OpenSource as their drumbeating would suggest..Why heck even Linus was using a PPC64...
Actually all PPC macs are now defunct. Not a sole developer is going to waste his time on a dead product. Mac sales will drop dramatically and I am sendming my mini and ibook to jobs by fedex! He knows where he can stuff'em. he wants us to use Intel? Great, I am switching back to Linux NOW, for f76ks sake all that time put into getting things to work on os-x/darwin??
Ya know, I was watching Return of the Jedi yesterday and this pussy-wimp ass attitude of "no I cannot kill him, that is not the Jedi way.." crap is so inconsistent... Jedi have no problem destroying Sith and clones on the battlefield but oh no, not in front of Palpatine... what is that some kind of Sith mind trick? And lets not get into the fact that Obi-wan has completely forgotten about Leia, ok he's old, he's dead whatever but Yoda breaks the news to (f)Luke?
Whilst I am ranting (morning, haven't had coffee yet) an A-wing slams into the bridge of the SSD and it tailspins straight into the d-star? Man, someone at Kuat Drive Yards should get fired...
No shit and what of the Ipods In EU??? My third Gen goes about 2 hours and then plops into oblivion.. oh well at least it doesn't threaten to blow me up or burn my gonads the way the iBook's battery reportedly threatened... recall... recall....
The only speed issue I have noticed, compared to my iBook which is of the same spec (1.25/512mb) is that the drive is a bit sluggish. This is due to the form factor and the cheap drive. When booting from firewire on an external full-spec drive it's blazingly fast. I can play Homeworld2 in high res and its good. Okay, you can't have fun with doom3 but then even on the x86 you need a hefty machine to do that properly. As far as video editing with iMovie and the other iLife apps, they work like a charm. But even with the slightly sluggish drive, day to day use of the thing is satisfyingly fast enough. It's not a weak cpu at all. It may be old in terms of it's lineage but it's still a great platform. I would think that the g4 chip would be enticing for other manufacturers as it is low cost now and offers great performance/power ratio. The iBook still goes for over 4 hours , sometimes 5 hours on a single charge for web/text/mail apps, and this puppy is over six months old. My last Acer (TM230) laptop had 1 hour on it's battery after 4 months!! But we digress.... the mini is cute, shiny and plugs into anything.. ohh that sounds almost gay... LOL! Seriously, go and play with one, you will want it.. millions do... you cannot resist... resistance is futile... you will be mac'ed... lower your shields and prepare to install Tiger.....
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I have great sources... climbers who have been going back and helping locals since the early days of the occupation. I find it amazing that only in the niches of climbing associations and a couple of human rights groups do you find people who know what goes on there. It's almost over though, I heard that there is almost nothing left of what was once Tibet.. And heck, what happened to the right of self determination? if those people don't want to drink Coke? that is their right no? 'cuz if we are going to force things down peoples throat then perhaps you should take a look at the world today and ask yourself why two-thirds of the planet is pissed off with the "west"!
LOL! http://www.freetibet.org/ http://www.rfa.org/english/news/social/2005/04/08/ asia_pope/
http://www.chiesa.espressonline.it/dettaglio.jsp?i d=6974&eng=y
http://www.betterworldlinks.org/book79m.htm
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/04/11/china10447. htm
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1564 321029/002-8728960-6939207?v=glance
And I suppose all of these links are propaganda and lies?
and why have a picture of mao?
http://www.worldfuturefund.org/wffmaster/Reading/C hina/chinaonmao1981new.htm
Nice troll though..
Actually I once sent a mail to Broadcom asking why their chip in Airport Express card was not opened for Linux developers and they replied by saying they didn't want the responsability for people abusing their hardware in ways contrary to the law. They were implying that open source drivers allow you to wardrive.
I tried to convince them that they had nothing to do with that but alas, they never responded, not even to the compromise of releasing a binary driver.. I guess some companies just don't understand what the game is about.
There is a crew that worked on this...
Most of it runs on x86 already and you can download it here!
Chinese law forbids these terms? Funny, I recently reviewed their constitution, pity it's illegal now...
The law doesn't forbid the terms, the Politburo does. A bunch of grey old commies who don't know that China is charging straight for the 21st century, whether they like it or not.
If I am going to a civilised place I drag my iBook along and use wireless service.
If I am going to less civilised places, I don't need to email or do anything with the computer.
I don't suggest people ssh into remote boxes. This would mean you need to allow ssh access from unknown ips. This could subject your box to attack. Always keep your box safe by using the hosts.allow and hosts.deny files. What you could do is to find a "secure" machine at your place of travel and call yer man back home to open the service for that ip. I do this on rare occasions, albeit many wireless network providers don't have all the ports open for customers.
Unless you really need to 'work' on the remote machine, leave it alone. Take your filofax with you. People don't steal those (anymore).
Right... A couple of things to consider...
1. If everyone gets a degree, your degree means nothing and no job for you... in some parts of Europe this is the case and one masters is not enough for a good job.
2. ever heard of the IQ scale? it is a scale and it has a mid point around which the ditribution shows a standard pattern.. that mid point is IQ 100... This means that 50% of the population has an IQ 100 or below, these folks have trouble with fractions....
People are "bright"/"switched on" at around 120... go figure how many kids you want in your university.
3. If everyone gets a degree, who does the dishes?
Either that or get the emperor! Luke, use the force!
*yoda*
when open source code you have made as much as I, not as wealthy you will be!
*vader*
Luke, you will come to the Dark Side, you don't know the POWER of the Dark Side!
*emperor*
our latest version of the Force is more, powerful, darker and more stable than the previous version!
*Death Star Commander*
uh.. yes, it will be ready... soon
*vader*
You'd better redouble your efforts commander!
*Obi-wan*
Luke, soon you will see the force running on Intel!
*Chewbacca Torvalds*
Groooowoowoowww!!
Yeah man, life is my college...
If you are smart enough and your Psychological Typology has NTP in it... you may actually have the "vision thing"...
And as if Lucas was leaching asimov... The robot is the clue and the true adversary of palpatine. R2 knows all and is always the one to initiate the important plot moves. R2 is obviously far far smarter than most of the biological lifeforms, not to mention any other artificial lifeform encountered in the whole series.
I suggest that the whole dang plot revolves around the little bugger. I further suggest that R2 serves as the full backup of Jedi Council knowledge and that is why he knows everything... The force flows strongly in this one...
They don't. But I am sure Lenovo does somehow.
Geesh.. I was thinking the other mash.. Through early morning fog I see visions of the things to be the pains that are withheld for me I realize and I can see... [chorus]: That Microsoft is clueless They bring on many changes and I can take or leave it if I please. I try to find a way to make all our systems relate without that ever-present slate but now I know that it's too late, and... [Chorus] The unix shell is hard to play I'm gonna learn it anyway The Linux card I'll someday lay so this is all I have to say. [Chorus] The only way to win is cheat And lay it down before I'm beat and to another give my seat for that's the only painless feat. [Chorus] MASH The sword of time will pierce our shells It doesn't work when it begins But as it works its way on in The pain grows stronger...watch it grin, but... [Chorus] A brave man once requested me to answer questions that are key 'can you fix my computer please' and I replied 'oh why ask me?' 'Cause Microsoft is clueless They bring on many changes and I can take or leave it if I please. ...and you can do the same thing if you choose.
And if they did, it would be GPL and probably be called....
Yep.. gonads...
GNU/Gonads...
gonads.org??
Well you see when software patents are allowed to live their seedy lives, this happens..
It goes both ways, unfortunatly one way more often than the other.. many many years ago on a continent far far away, two accountants had geeked out and figured how to transfer their data out of their accounting system into a spreadsheet (123).. do you think they own the Intellectual Property to their invention? Wrong... who does? Big Mickey!
I think that x86 Mac is attempting to threaten Linux. Apple is a very Linux unfriendly company with no moves to support anything that smells like linux. rather they are pushing their Open Source concept Darwin. Marklar (secret OSX/X86) program has reportedly fed enormously on the Darwin project and will continue to do so. By pushing their apps on a mass market platform it is obvious that the Apple digital lifestyle (iLife etc..) is coming to a Joe Bloe near you. Whether they will succeed to put a dent in Linux remains to be seen. For many commercial users OSX on X86 will be a great alternative for Windows and that is the main market. I would suggest to many x86 users to consider the move sincerely. However, as a recent x86/linux to Mac/PPC switcher I must say I am unhappy as I feel left in the cold. Not only has Linux/OpenSource on PPC been a slow mover, it now looks dead in the water. All future developement will be on x86 and even Bill Fink will have to acknowledge that much of his efforts have been in vain.
... OSx's future is 32 bit and not nearly as OpenSource as their drumbeating would suggest..Why heck even Linus was using a PPC64...
Oh well, my macs will be up for grabs (to be shoved up Stevo's you-know-what) as I move back to Fedora on 64bit.. I wanted OSX because it was 64 bit and Open Source.. I was a sucker, I believed the marketing
Yeah.. and will swap Mini for a Apple Pentium 4..
Sheesh.. I'm still not over this..
Anyone have download mirrors for the keynote? My connection sucks bumsickle and streaming hangs..
Actually all PPC macs are now defunct. Not a sole developer is going to waste his time on a dead product. Mac sales will drop dramatically and I am sendming my mini and ibook to jobs by fedex! He knows where he can stuff'em. he wants us to use Intel? Great, I am switching back to Linux NOW, for f76ks sake all that time put into getting things to work on os-x/darwin??
Ya know, I was watching Return of the Jedi yesterday and this pussy-wimp ass attitude of "no I cannot kill him, that is not the Jedi way.." crap is so inconsistent... Jedi have no problem destroying Sith and clones on the battlefield but oh no, not in front of Palpatine... what is that some kind of Sith mind trick? And lets not get into the fact that Obi-wan has completely forgotten about Leia, ok he's old, he's dead whatever but Yoda breaks the news to (f)Luke?
Whilst I am ranting (morning, haven't had coffee yet) an A-wing slams into the bridge of the SSD and it tailspins straight into the d-star? Man, someone at Kuat Drive Yards should get fired...
No shit and what of the Ipods In EU???
My third Gen goes about 2 hours and then plops into oblivion.. oh well at least it doesn't threaten to blow me up or burn my gonads the way the iBook's battery reportedly threatened... recall... recall....
The answer is always but a link away.. *yoda*
when languages as many speak as do I, not so clear present yourself will you
What happens when the 6ft4 200lb Jock uses Linux and compiles kernels when not surfing?
;)
Not all Linux geeks are wimps
Ok I will concede to a RMS hairstyle..
Erhmm. I challenge the performance of Apache, MySQL and Oracle... 2.6Linux vs. Win32
The only speed issue I have noticed, compared to my iBook which is of the same spec (1.25/512mb) is that the drive is a bit sluggish. This is due to the form factor and the cheap drive. When booting from firewire on an external full-spec drive it's blazingly fast. I can play Homeworld2 in high res and its good. Okay, you can't have fun with doom3 but then even on the x86 you need a hefty machine to do that properly. As far as video editing with iMovie and the other iLife apps, they work like a charm. But even with the slightly sluggish drive, day to day use of the thing is satisfyingly fast enough. It's not a weak cpu at all. It may be old in terms of it's lineage but it's still a great platform. I would think that the g4 chip would be enticing for other manufacturers as it is low cost now and offers great performance /power ratio. The iBook still goes for over 4 hours , sometimes 5 hours on a single charge for web/text/mail apps, and this puppy is over six months old. My last Acer (TM230) laptop had 1 hour on it's battery after 4 months!! But we digress.... the mini is cute, shiny and plugs into anything.. ohh that sounds almost gay... LOL! Seriously, go and play with one, you will want it.. millions do... you cannot resist... resistance is futile... you will be mac'ed... lower your shields and prepare to install Tiger.....