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kimchi (KDE Instant Messaging Client for Hire on the Internet)
No, that's not right either. It prohibits using anything which "is licensed pursuant to terms that: (x) create, or purport to create, obligations for Microsoft with respect to the Software or (y) grant, or purport to grant, to any third party any rights to or immunities under Microsoft?s intellectual property or proprietary rights in the Software". Since free tools touching SDK do not have those terms, it's fine to use them.
Yeah, SNO is definitely playing this up more than it should. We've known that some neutrinos have mass since Super-K - specifically that there was a mass difference between muon and tau neutrinos.
However, there had been no direct evidence for oscillations of electron neutrinos, which are the neutrinos produced by the sun and which are by far the most numerous neutrinos in the universe. The number of electron neutrinos detected from the sun was 1/3 of what solar models predicted. The SNO result shows that the total number of neutrinos of all flavours coming from the sun matches the solar models, and so the other 2/3 that were missing are oscillating into other flavours. So there must be a mass splitting between electron neutrinos and whatever neutrinos they're oscillating into. Therefore, those neutrinos must have mass.
So this is a new and significant result, but this is not the first direct piece of evidence for neutrino mass.
While you can back up a PDA, it's much easier to lose information. I've been wary of PDAs since I dropped a "personal organizer" (one of those PDA precursors from the late 80s / early 90s) on a hardwood floor and lost all the contact info I'd ever had.
A nice option would be to automatically duplicate the settings from the running kernel into the new kernel, only prompting for settings that are new or require changes. That would make kernel updates a lot more painless. Even for the advanced users that would mean they could spend less stuff on the trivial stuff and instead focus on the important stuff.
...which is presumably why the README tells you in big bold letters to do a 'make oldconfig' before you do anything else.:-)= Advanced users certainly do that.
However, it isn't automatic, and is probably more important for those who aren't used to recompiling their kernel regularly and therefore are less likely to know that the README is serious about that.;-) Which I think is your point. Is there any easy way to make it automatic?
What I always loved about Blake's 7 is that they weren't afraid to kill main characters. In Star Trek, if the lead is in dire straights and about to die with 10 minutes left, you know they'll pull out somehow. In Blake's 7, you didn't. It adds a whole new dimension.:-)=
Of course, they were also even worse than Dr Who about every planet looking an awful lot like a certain Welsh rock quarry.;-)
When I moved to Toronto in '93, CFNY was the second-best radio station I'd ever heard. Now it's a slightly better than average generic-alternative-station-called-The-Edge.
Incidentally, the best radio station I ever heard was in Vancouver. COAST 1040. The only good music AM station I ever knew. They kept getting turned down for an FM license because they couldn't prove that they needed the competitive advantage of being on FM, until eventually they went under in '93 or '94.
With all due respect, in what way is the so-called "reproductive right" of women being constrained?
In the US, you are free to choose to abort your fetus if you desire to do so.
The social status of women is limited?
Exactly. We are no longer in the repressive 1950s. He did not predict that reproductive rights would no longer be constrained.
But the process of generating the light is more like that which occurs in the sun. Atoms are bombarded by electrons and other minute projectiles, electrically excited in this way and made to glow.
While that is not how energy is generated in the sun, it is how fluorescent lights work! I think that qualifies as a definite hit.
Damn, that comment almost made me spray good
Canadian beer.. Although in all fairness, in my last trip to Oregon, I
had some great beers from the small brew-pubs...
See, that's the thing. When I first moved down to the States (from Canada), the microbrew revolution was just starting. Most beer was crap, but every now and then you could find something good. These days, you're guaranteed that the worst beer you'll have to drink is Sam Adams, and usually there are dozens of microbrews that make excellent beer. So progress marches on...:-)=
Of course, I'll only know whether to trust your judgement if you tell me which Canadian beer you're drinking.:-)=
And reproductive freedom, though that's arguably part of the same thing. But that was the biggest thing I noticed about it... I had mental whiplash when he suddenly talked about how Jane Dobson cleans her house.
While he's clearly only thinking technologically, his biggest misses clearly are social, and are misses not in that he makes a false prediction but in that he doesn't predict major changes.
In addition to the women's equality / reproductive rights issue, he completely misses the civil rights movement. He doesn't predict that in 2000 there are no more racially-discriminant laws. He doesn't predict the two income family unit as the most common. He doesn't predict the de-formalization of the workplace. He doesn't predict the zillionaire entertainer (musician / movie star / sports player).
He doesn't set out to predict them, but the way he writes his account of life in 2000 shows that his social conceptions of 2000 are far off the mark.
Of course, the biggest thing he misses is the rise of the microbrew in the USA, making it finally possible to find good American beer!;-)
How long do you think the actual transition should take? I'd think maybe 5 years for the main systems, and maybe another 3 after that for the more minor functions (eg. secretaries' desktops). Quicker than that would seem awfully rushed, but technology will certainly change a lot during that time. Maybe 4 and 2 instead?
Ignoring the relative merits and demerits of this law...
180 days to completely switch systems?! Are they crazy? Large companies often have roll-out periods that long just moving to a different version of the same software! But for a national government to completely change the majority of software they use (unless the Argentine government is already very free software based, which I doubt - but someone correct me if I'm wrong!), including the OS, and all of the interoperations between all this software, and train all of the civil servants on the new systems in that length of time is wishful thinking.
He sensed that there was a problem with something connecting, that something wasn't being fulfilled either in a sexual, spiritual or emotional way.
And how exactly does MS Access get fulfilled in a sexual, spiritual or emotional way?! Submit philosophical queries? Connect to two databases at once, while a third is watching?
Hmmm, that last one actually sounds kind of like the problem they were having. Maybe there's something to this after all...;-)
This has come to mind a lot concerning Chinese manned space flight, which is expected to happen sometime within the next 5 years.
Would they announce an attempt beforehand? Or would they wait and see if it were successful first? The Americans could never afford the luxury of waiting to see if it were successful before they told the public it was happening because of the potential outcry, but the Chinese could conceivably do it. It's unlikely, but they may have already tried (and failed) to launch someone into space. The Chinese government has certainly been priming the world to expect an attempt within the next year or two.
I wonder how much a Chinese astronaut (anyone know what the Chinese version of astronaut/cosmonaut would be?) would kick the USA into being more ambitious about the manned space program?
I guess I'm used to thinking of modules as device drivers, since that's invariably what they're used for. So how do you turn a security feature into a module? How much does the module interface need to be expanded in order to implement something like that? Is there a way of extending the interface in such a way that it minimizes breakage to extant modules? What sorts of security features are we talking about here?
Ultimately, these issues are all going to get discussed in gory detail, but might as well start the discussion here...
Bif has two CD's out, the first one, titled "Bif Naked" is even better than "I Bifucus".
Well, if you want to get technical, there's more than that.;-)
Okenspay Ordway
Bif Naked
The original Canadian release of I Bificus
The second Canadian release of I Bificus with the Boomtang Boys remixes
The US release of I Bificus that was horribly remixed, but included I Died and Twitch
The Canadian release of 5 Songs and a Poem, which has Twitch:-)=
I'm not too big a fan of Okenspay Ordway, and the original Canadian IB is redundant since the second one is mixed right and also includes the Boomtang Boys remixes, but the rest are all well worth having.:-)=
microwaves are about the size of a water molicule [sic], and when they hit water, they make the molicules [sic] resonate, and create heat.
bzzzzzt! Try again.
Cooking microwaves run at a frequency of 2.45 GHz, which is a wavelength of 12cm. Water molecules are significantly smaller than 12cm.;-)
There are a number of rotational and (to a lesser extent) vibrational water transitions around 2.45 GHz which get smeared into a band in liquid water. The molecules absorb the microwaves to get into excited rotational states, and then collisionally de-excite during collisions with other molecules, thus distributing the energy into kinetic energy of the entire food.
Who is Bif Naked anyway? Never heard of the chap. Is he really naked?
No, she's not. But she makes damn good music... check out the album I Bificus. Here's her official site. Her breakout hit was Spaceman, but they remixed it horribly in the American release of IB. Fortunately, they made up for it by including Twitch, which is just as good.:-)=
I agree that looking for CS grads is a bad idea, but I would take a physical scientist over an engineer. Anyone going through a physical science degree (physics, chemistry, astronomy) these days is guaranteed to have significant programming experience, and it will be experience directly of the kind you are looking for. Moreover, they will be used to the kind of problem solving necessary. I find engineers are very good at applying things but not so good at problem solving.
If I were particularly cynical, I'd recommend finding a local university with a well-respected but very hard physics department with assholes for professors. Then find a 2nd or 3rd-year grad student who is underpaid and miserable, and offer them a well-paying job doing essentially the same thing they've been doing. You and they will probably be happy with the results.
Yes, you've got the idea. They can hijack your connection and pretend to be you, but they're hijacking a connection of two machines sending seemingly random characters to each other.
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kink (Kink Is Not Kaim), or kinky
kuagmire (Kick Uselss AOL's Glutumus Maximus In the Rear End)
kimchi (KDE Instant Messaging Client for Hire on the Internet)
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I'm glad we're looking into new PVC technology... I need a pair of breathable black shiny pants for dancing. :)
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Though I'm not sure I want them to be pingable... or fingerable.
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VideoLAN has been reported to work on OS X.
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No, that's not right either. It prohibits using anything which "is licensed pursuant to terms that: (x) create, or purport to create, obligations for Microsoft with respect to the Software or (y) grant, or purport to grant, to any third party any rights to or immunities under Microsoft?s intellectual property or proprietary rights in the Software". Since free tools touching SDK do not have those terms, it's fine to use them.
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Yeah, SNO is definitely playing this up more than it should. We've known that some neutrinos have mass since Super-K - specifically that there was a mass difference between muon and tau neutrinos.
However, there had been no direct evidence for oscillations of electron neutrinos, which are the neutrinos produced by the sun and which are by far the most numerous neutrinos in the universe. The number of electron neutrinos detected from the sun was 1/3 of what solar models predicted. The SNO result shows that the total number of neutrinos of all flavours coming from the sun matches the solar models, and so the other 2/3 that were missing are oscillating into other flavours. So there must be a mass splitting between electron neutrinos and whatever neutrinos they're oscillating into. Therefore, those neutrinos must have mass.
So this is a new and significant result, but this is not the first direct piece of evidence for neutrino mass.
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While you can back up a PDA, it's much easier to lose information. I've been wary of PDAs since I dropped a "personal organizer" (one of those PDA precursors from the late 80s / early 90s) on a hardwood floor and lost all the contact info I'd ever had.
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...which is presumably why the README tells you in big bold letters to do a 'make oldconfig' before you do anything else. :-)= Advanced users certainly do that.
However, it isn't automatic, and is probably more important for those who aren't used to recompiling their kernel regularly and therefore are less likely to know that the README is serious about that. ;-) Which I think is your point. Is there any easy way to make it automatic?
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What I always loved about Blake's 7 is that they weren't afraid to kill main characters. In Star Trek, if the lead is in dire straights and about to die with 10 minutes left, you know they'll pull out somehow. In Blake's 7, you didn't. It adds a whole new dimension. :-)=
;-)
Of course, they were also even worse than Dr Who about every planet looking an awful lot like a certain Welsh rock quarry.
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Indeed. But by then it was a moot point. :-( Anyone else ever listen to COAST 1040? Greatest music selection I've ever heard.
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Hear hear.
When I moved to Toronto in '93, CFNY was the second-best radio station I'd ever heard. Now it's a slightly better than average generic-alternative-station-called-The-Edge.
Incidentally, the best radio station I ever heard was in Vancouver. COAST 1040. The only good music AM station I ever knew. They kept getting turned down for an FM license because they couldn't prove that they needed the competitive advantage of being on FM, until eventually they went under in '93 or '94.
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Exactly. We are no longer in the repressive 1950s. He did not predict that reproductive rights would no longer be constrained.
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Another hit: fluorescent lights
While that is not how energy is generated in the sun, it is how fluorescent lights work! I think that qualifies as a definite hit.
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See, that's the thing. When I first moved down to the States (from Canada), the microbrew revolution was just starting. Most beer was crap, but every now and then you could find something good. These days, you're guaranteed that the worst beer you'll have to drink is Sam Adams, and usually there are dozens of microbrews that make excellent beer. So progress marches on... :-)=
Of course, I'll only know whether to trust your judgement if you tell me which Canadian beer you're drinking. :-)=
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And reproductive freedom, though that's arguably part of the same thing. But that was the biggest thing I noticed about it... I had mental whiplash when he suddenly talked about how Jane Dobson cleans her house.
While he's clearly only thinking technologically, his biggest misses clearly are social, and are misses not in that he makes a false prediction but in that he doesn't predict major changes.
In addition to the women's equality / reproductive rights issue, he completely misses the civil rights movement. He doesn't predict that in 2000 there are no more racially-discriminant laws. He doesn't predict the two income family unit as the most common. He doesn't predict the de-formalization of the workplace. He doesn't predict the zillionaire entertainer (musician / movie star / sports player).
He doesn't set out to predict them, but the way he writes his account of life in 2000 shows that his social conceptions of 2000 are far off the mark.
Of course, the biggest thing he misses is the rise of the microbrew in the USA, making it finally possible to find good American beer! ;-)
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Oops. I stand corrected. :-)=
How long do you think the actual transition should take? I'd think maybe 5 years for the main systems, and maybe another 3 after that for the more minor functions (eg. secretaries' desktops). Quicker than that would seem awfully rushed, but technology will certainly change a lot during that time. Maybe 4 and 2 instead?
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Ignoring the relative merits and demerits of this law...
180 days to completely switch systems?! Are they crazy? Large companies often have roll-out periods that long just moving to a different version of the same software! But for a national government to completely change the majority of software they use (unless the Argentine government is already very free software based, which I doubt - but someone correct me if I'm wrong!), including the OS, and all of the interoperations between all this software, and train all of the civil servants on the new systems in that length of time is wishful thinking.
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The /. subject length cutoff did a fun job with that one. :-)=
I'm all for laws prohibiting BS!
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And how exactly does MS Access get fulfilled in a sexual, spiritual or emotional way?! Submit philosophical queries? Connect to two databases at once, while a third is watching?
Hmmm, that last one actually sounds kind of like the problem they were having. Maybe there's something to this after all... ;-)
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This has come to mind a lot concerning Chinese manned space flight, which is expected to happen sometime within the next 5 years.
Would they announce an attempt beforehand? Or would they wait and see if it were successful first? The Americans could never afford the luxury of waiting to see if it were successful before they told the public it was happening because of the potential outcry, but the Chinese could conceivably do it. It's unlikely, but they may have already tried (and failed) to launch someone into space. The Chinese government has certainly been priming the world to expect an attempt within the next year or two.
I wonder how much a Chinese astronaut (anyone know what the Chinese version of astronaut/cosmonaut would be?) would kick the USA into being more ambitious about the manned space program?
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I guess I'm used to thinking of modules as device drivers, since that's invariably what they're used for. So how do you turn a security feature into a module? How much does the module interface need to be expanded in order to implement something like that? Is there a way of extending the interface in such a way that it minimizes breakage to extant modules? What sorts of security features are we talking about here?
Ultimately, these issues are all going to get discussed in gory detail, but might as well start the discussion here...
Well, if you want to get technical, there's more than that. ;-)
I'm not too big a fan of Okenspay Ordway, and the original Canadian IB is redundant since the second one is mixed right and also includes the Boomtang Boys remixes, but the rest are all well worth having. :-)=
bzzzzzt! Try again.
Cooking microwaves run at a frequency of 2.45 GHz, which is a wavelength of 12cm. Water molecules are significantly smaller than 12cm. ;-)
There are a number of rotational and (to a lesser extent) vibrational water transitions around 2.45 GHz which get smeared into a band in liquid water. The molecules absorb the microwaves to get into excited rotational states, and then collisionally de-excite during collisions with other molecules, thus distributing the energy into kinetic energy of the entire food.
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No, she's not. But she makes damn good music... check out the album I Bificus. Here's her official site. Her breakout hit was Spaceman, but they remixed it horribly in the American release of IB. Fortunately, they made up for it by including Twitch, which is just as good. :-)=
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I agree that looking for CS grads is a bad idea, but I would take a physical scientist over an engineer. Anyone going through a physical science degree (physics, chemistry, astronomy) these days is guaranteed to have significant programming experience, and it will be experience directly of the kind you are looking for. Moreover, they will be used to the kind of problem solving necessary. I find engineers are very good at applying things but not so good at problem solving.
If I were particularly cynical, I'd recommend finding a local university with a well-respected but very hard physics department with assholes for professors. Then find a 2nd or 3rd-year grad student who is underpaid and miserable, and offer them a well-paying job doing essentially the same thing they've been doing. You and they will probably be happy with the results.
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Yes, you've got the idea. They can hijack your connection and pretend to be you, but they're hijacking a connection of two machines sending seemingly random characters to each other.
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