Since the original X-Wing game, and its various addons, I have not found any space combat game the matches. This might be it. And it's being developed for Linux. This is good. But, until I see a working game(not a self-running demo), I won't bet my paycheck on it. However, since the only computer games that I like are space combat sims(Descent, X-Wing, and so forth), I'm willing to invest my paycheck in it:) Dave
Being from Canada, I feel very upset over this nomination.
NOT!!:)
After listening to this song(shortly after the Oscar Nominations were announced), I love it:) It's bloody hilarious. I love it. I hope they get the award:)
I hope this doesn't work, I really do. Then maybe these corporations will look at their other ad campaigns(TV, Radio, print). Then they'll probably realize that they've saturated the market. Nobody watches ads any more. We've completely tuned them out. At least I have. Then maybe they'll send those billons on improving their products, so they won't need to tell people how good it is - they'll already know.
The Good: Linux will finally be a platform that game developers may consider. Many professional rendering programs may now be run in a hardware-accelerated fasion. With nVidia leading the way, perhaps other hardware vendors will provide support.
The Bad: In the interim, nVidia will be the main producer of Linux-accelerated hardware for video/3D. This gives them a good lead on other vendors, which may turn some companies off of the whole Linux thing, "Well, we're so far behind, why bother?".
The Ugly: The scenario is that nobody else develops Linux drivers. nVidia now has a stranglehold on the Linux video market.
I realize these are WAY off from reality, but they ARE possibilities. If in six months, nVidia is still the only provider of hardware-accelerated video cards for Linux, I'll be really worried.
Hey there. I wonder if Michael Cowplan will address this article in his upcoming interview? About the article: I agree, for the most part, with the author's position. Corel does seem to be jumping on the Linux bandwagon. However, I have always had the feeling that Corel was on the verge of breaking. It's just a feeling I get. Also, I feel the Linux may be Corel's Last Change(tm), because MS Office seems to have completely covered Windows-based desktops. There was a time when you attached documents using WordPerfect format in emails. Now it's all Office 97 and 2000. I hope they GPL(or at least LGPL) the Corel Suite. I realize it's unlikely, but with a value-added retail package including clipart, fonts, and other proprietary tools, I would probably buy the retail package. Corporations definetly would, I think, as well as the general populace(who probably couldn't download, compile, and install a suite sucessfully). Dave
I'm a proud Canadian citizen. Despite the "brain drain," I still feel that Canada produces top-notch hardware and software. However, many of our highly skilled people have taken jobs in the US and abroad because they get paid more. I must say, when offered nearly twice the pay, and with a lower cost of living in some US cities, I'd be tempted myself. My question: How dedicated are you to keeping Corel a Canadian company? Are there any political/business issues you wish to see resolved to help keep Corel a Canadian company?
As a follow-up, I'd just like to say that I'm 21 years old, hold a steady full-time job, and I'm also a part-time computer consultant. You might say I had a bit of a screwed up life, but I don't think so. I am an only(biological) child, but I've had step brothers and sisters come and go. I have(at the moment) twelve grandparents that send me cards for christmas(don't ask;)... Anyways, I truly and honestly feel that kids have got to be given the opportunity. A friend of mine has a beautiful daughter(just under a couple of years old), and they treat her like gold... But they don't really talk to her. They were worried that she wasn't learning how to speak very well... But you know what? When she talked to me, she did damn good, and her parents noticed it. I didn't baby-talk to her, and I didn't pinch her cheeks(mind you, I didn't talk about cars or computers, either. Just like any person, she has her own interests. Luckily we're both interested in shiny objects;), and she responded well.
You only get what you give. If you give someone responsibility, you get responsible actions back. If you give someone make-work, you get make-work back. If you give someone intelligent thoughts, you get intelligent thoughts back.
Keep in mind though, all these things are relative. For some people, "intelligent thought" is commenting on the various shades of hair available... But I digress.
Okay, okay, flamebait topic. But that's besides the point.
"It's for their own good - niggers wouldn't know what to do if they didn't have someone telling them what to do."
"Why do women need to vote? They'd only want more dresses and better soap."
Let's re-phrase these a wee bit:
"It's for their own good - children don't know what's pornography is wrong unless someone tells them."
"Why should kids have a say? All they'd want is more candy and less homework."
Get the idea? Children today are treated as second-class citizens. Oh, sorry, wait, they arn't even treated like citizens. So what are they? Property, for the most part(at least in the eyes of the law). Look closely at the precedents: blacks, women, jews, and all the others. All were thought to be inferior, and as soon as they were given the chance, they proved everyone wrong(well, those that accept proof, anyways). You often hear about "that very mature child" and the fourteen year old that people think is twenty.
Let's look at the "very mature child" first. All the mature children I met are mature because they were given the chance. Mainly, that chance was adversity. They were given the chance to speak their minds, to take action.
Let's look at the second case: someone who, for some reason, is thought to be older. That would be me. When I was 15, I was getting into bars ID-free, while my 19 year old friends were getting checked. I was given the chance to behave like a 19 year old, and I did. It had nothing to do with ME, just the way people saw me. They expected me to control my drinking(which I did - for the most part). I have too many examples to write here, but trust me, they are there.
To everyone who wants to "protect" our children: there is a line that has been crossed. It was crossed when censorware became a library tool. We are no longer protecting are children - we are oppressing them. It won't be long now...
Hey there... What's the plural form of universe? Damn! I digress!:)
I have an amateur background in special and general relativity(thanks to a great physics teacher in high school), and I've been wondering about this for a while, and here it is. I fly into a black hole. I pass the even horizon. Sure, nothing will ever see me again, but I can still see outside(sort of). Well, here's my question: If I'm being strung out like a strand of spagetti, but my frame of reference is incredibly scewed(that is, I look outside and can see galaxies rotating and spinning, because time is so much slower for me), Will I feel like I'm being stretched out? ARG! It's so hard to do this without math...
Let me try again:
I aim my ship directly for a singularity. As I move towards the center of this black hole, gravity starts stretching me out like a strand of spaghetti. However, in this gravitational well, both my length as well as my perception of time change. I become shorter, and everything outside seems to be moving very fast.
Question 1) Will the length dialation due to acceleration off-set the spaghetti-strand problem? Question 2) Since my frame of reference is different from the singularity's, and everything else for that matter, will I feel such a crushing gravity? Will it ease, because I am slower? Or will it be even more powerful, because I am slower?:)
You should have written a well-thought-out answer. It would have had more effect. I won't go into the specifics of your argument, AC, but I will wax a bit philisophical.
Maturity comes with responsibility. I hear often enough(and I've said it often enought) that children are "growing up faster than we did." This is mostly due to the responsibility that kids shoulder. School, part-time job, home, friends, and the added pressure of drugs and sex(especially sex - I've abstained for two and a half years because of immature girlfriends who jerked me around).
You say that we can't "tax" the system by sending every minor into "maturity" evaluation. Well, why the hell not? Look at driving. You're evaluated for that(at least in Canada - there are three basic licenses, starting very strictly[you have to drive with someone who has had their license for four years] to a full driving permit), and the system hasn't collapsed(yet). I think everyone should be asked some questions like, "Who's your country's leader," and "how many major political parties exist, what do they stand for, which do you support, if any, and why?" If the person being evaluated, I don't care WHAT age, can't answer those questions intelligently, he or she should not be allowed to vote.
I believe there is a basic flaw in most of the arguments presented by those who wish to allow censoring, and even by those who oppose it.
I live in Canada, and there is currently a debate about what's called the Young Offender's Act(YOA). It basically allows pretty much any crime commited by a minor to go unpunished. Obviously this system is fatally flawed. More than one kid has commited rape/murder/fraud/what-have-you, and gotten away with it.
How is this issue and censorship related? It is all based in how we view the children. In Canada, under the YOA, we basically say that children don't know what they're doing - they have no will of their own, and they are therefore excused of any crime they DO happen to commit. Censors seem to feel the same way, in a sense. Children don't know what they're seeing is "bad", so we must "protect" them.
I can't say that what I think is popular opinion, but I really think we should ask the kids. Any minor who I've talked to agrees that the YOA should be banished. Likewise, any minor that I've talked to thinks the net should be uncensored. And I've talked to pre-pubescent males who have(as of yet) no interest in porn.
Society(at least over here, in North America) treats pretty much anybody under 18 years old as non-sentient. I'm serious about that. NON-SENTIENT. We treat them like they have no will, no mind, no capacity for decision-making. To be able to make a good decision, all that's required is knowledge and experience. While minors may be lacking in experience, it is US who have denied them knowledge.
First and formost: I am not a window-manager/desktop zealot. I use the GNOME panel, "dfm" as my file manager, and Sawmill as my window manager. I use what suits me.
To be honest, I just switched to Sawmill because my machine is slow, and version 0.17 had the features I desperately wanted.
If you're willing to do a bit of work, Sawmill may be your answer. All of the configuration is done via the lisp scripting languange. That means pretty much anything the window manager is capable of can be assigned to a key-stroke. Thank you Microsoft!:) Those Three extra worthless keys they put on keyboards have come in handy. Pretty much every CTRL, ALT, and SHIFT combination has been taken by one program or another. Almost nobody touches the Win or WinMenu key. I use both my mouse and my keyboard, so I havn't use this key-binding feature to the fullest, but I only keep the GNOME side of things around because of its prettiness, and the task list. I launch all my programs through keybindings.
If you are interested in Sawmill, go to http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~john/sw/sawmill/inde x.html
As a warning, Sawmill is under very heavy development. I've never seen so fast a release cycle(I got 0.17 a week before 0.18 came out. To be honest, if 0.18 hadn't come out[with the ability to assign windows arbitrary properties], I would have switched back to Enlightenment). Good luck!
Oh, yeah. To answer the question about ergonomic keyboards, there is a keyboard I've seen that completely imobilizes your wrist. Actually, I sort of put it in an executive's desk. the keyboard itself is parallel to the floor, but there are two large hollows, hemispherical, with keys embedded on the curved surface. To install it in the desk, I took out a portion of the desktop, and dropped the keyboard in. Now the exec's arms and wrists rest more-or-less flat on the surface of his desk, and his fingers to all the moving. I don't know where he got that keyboard, though...
Personally, I wouldn't want to have a plane mounted on my property. But the fellow who has done this himself raises some very interesting points. The plane has been built to withstand flight. That's some pretty good engineering. This about it - they probably spend a good couple of billion designing these things. Now look at your average suburb house: it's a cookie-cutter type deal. They're pretty much worthless, structurally.
I always thought that when I got my own house, I would build it myself. There's simply no other way to guarantee that there will be something there for your children to inherit. But this plane thing raises an interesting alternative: with the fuselage in good condition, and a bit of maintenance now and then(unfortunatly this would require rather expensive paint), these things could last a heck of a long time.
Like I said before, I wouldn't want to mount it on my property. But what about putting it in my property? With a large enough fuselage, just bury half of it in your property, and that bugger ain't going nowhere. Good insulation, too. The cargo desk(below the passenger cabin) isn't high enough to stand in, so rip half of the passenger-section floor out, and make the cargo deck the floor for your new, quite large living area. Now we've got a split-level house, all nice and nifty, with a great deal of storage(the other half of the cargo deck). Of course, you could convert this into kids' rooms, but I'd want to be able to get in and out of there in a hurry, in case there's an emergency.
Now, take off the wings(you wouldn't want to try and bury those, would you?), keep the tail section(a bit of a look-out[anybody have pictures of tree forts in their minds?;]), and you've got a warm, well-built, solid, permanent residence.
I think the novelty of this idea is cool - but I think the engineering pluses are really what makes it attractive to me. With a 747 fuselage, you'd have a HUGE amount of living space, and pretty burglar-proof.
I read a post that mentioned a few things: namely broken windows, fire-escape problems, and the galley. For the first: Those windows are STURDY. Don't forget, these windows are made to withstand low are pressure. The second problem(that of getting out when there is a fire), is more interesting. This is a house, not an airplane. My house would be just as difficult to get out of. I'd have to go through four different rooms to get to the nearest door. And I'm on the ground level of my house. What about the people on the second floor? As for the galley - that problem is easy to fix. Don't use the plane's galley. Make a bigger one.:)
Actually, it's supposed to be done on paper, and the sevens should be arranged pyramid-fasion. Apparently, 90% of people say "carrot". I said brocolli(sp?). There are other tests similar to this one, and some I answer in the expected manner, some not. It sounds like, according to the "premise" of the violence test, I would fail it. But I'm not violent. I've never been in a real fight, and the times when I've been faced with one, I've said simply: "Go ahead, beat me. Let's see how big that proves you are, or if that makes you feel good." This test bothers me, because these tests are not 100% accurate - there will be exceptions. Granted, it doesn't sound like they'll summarily expel someone based on the results, I am afraid that that could happen. Then I'm screwed.
Thank you, George Orwell, for letting us go at least another 15 years without this sort of thing, thanks to your wisdom. Maybe we can last another 15.
Hey there - the other architectures take up very little space(at least uncompressed). All told, the non-i386 architectures take up 8.172 megs(v. 2.2.12). The i386 arch. tree takes up 3.9(which is pretty big, in comparison to the 8.172 for all other 7 architectures combined). So, given that(uncompressed) the source tree takes up 73Megs, I think that it's reasonable to have just over 10% of that for different architectures. It's just so much easier that way:)
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Since the original X-Wing game, and its various addons, I have not found any space combat game the matches. This might be it. And it's being developed for Linux. This is good. But, until I see a working game(not a self-running demo), I won't bet my paycheck on it. However, since the only computer games that I like are space combat sims(Descent, X-Wing, and so forth), I'm willing to invest my paycheck in it :) Dave
Being from Canada, I feel very upset over this nomination.
:)
:) It's bloody hilarious. I love it. I hope they get the award :)
NOT!!
After listening to this song(shortly after the Oscar Nominations were announced), I love it
Dave
I hope this doesn't work, I really do. Then maybe these corporations will look at their other ad campaigns(TV, Radio, print). Then they'll probably realize that they've saturated the market. Nobody watches ads any more. We've completely tuned them out. At least I have. Then maybe they'll send those billons on improving their products, so they won't need to tell people how good it is - they'll already know.
The Good:
Linux will finally be a platform that game developers may consider. Many professional rendering programs may now be run in a hardware-accelerated fasion. With nVidia leading the way, perhaps other hardware vendors will provide support.
The Bad:
In the interim, nVidia will be the main producer of Linux-accelerated hardware for video/3D. This gives them a good lead on other vendors, which may turn some companies off of the whole Linux thing, "Well, we're so far behind, why bother?".
The Ugly:
The scenario is that nobody else develops Linux drivers. nVidia now has a stranglehold on the Linux video market.
I realize these are WAY off from reality, but they ARE possibilities. If in six months, nVidia is still the only provider of hardware-accelerated video cards for Linux, I'll be really worried.
Dave
Hey there. I wonder if Michael Cowplan will address this article in his upcoming interview? About the article: I agree, for the most part, with the author's position. Corel does seem to be jumping on the Linux bandwagon. However, I have always had the feeling that Corel was on the verge of breaking. It's just a feeling I get. Also, I feel the Linux may be Corel's Last Change(tm), because MS Office seems to have completely covered Windows-based desktops. There was a time when you attached documents using WordPerfect format in emails. Now it's all Office 97 and 2000. I hope they GPL(or at least LGPL) the Corel Suite. I realize it's unlikely, but with a value-added retail package including clipart, fonts, and other proprietary tools, I would probably buy the retail package. Corporations definetly would, I think, as well as the general populace(who probably couldn't download, compile, and install a suite sucessfully). Dave
I'm a proud Canadian citizen. Despite the "brain drain," I still feel that Canada produces top-notch hardware and software. However, many of our highly skilled people have taken jobs in the US and abroad because they get paid more. I must say, when offered nearly twice the pay, and with a lower cost of living in some US cities, I'd be tempted myself. My question: How dedicated are you to keeping Corel a Canadian company? Are there any political/business issues you wish to see resolved to help keep Corel a Canadian company?
Dave
As a follow-up, I'd just like to say that I'm 21 years old, hold a steady full-time job, and I'm also a part-time computer consultant. You might say I had a bit of a screwed up life, but I don't think so. I am an only(biological) child, but I've had step brothers and sisters come and go. I have(at the moment) twelve grandparents that send me cards for christmas(don't ask ;)... Anyways, I truly and honestly feel that kids have got to be given the opportunity. A friend of mine has a beautiful daughter(just under a couple of years old), and they treat her like gold... But they don't really talk to her. They were worried that she wasn't learning how to speak very well... But you know what? When she talked to me, she did damn good, and her parents noticed it. I didn't baby-talk to her, and I didn't pinch her cheeks(mind you, I didn't talk about cars or computers, either. Just like any person, she has her own interests. Luckily we're both interested in shiny objects ;), and she responded well.
You only get what you give. If you give someone responsibility, you get responsible actions back. If you give someone make-work, you get make-work back. If you give someone intelligent thoughts, you get intelligent thoughts back.
Keep in mind though, all these things are relative. For some people, "intelligent thought" is commenting on the various shades of hair available... But I digress.
Dave
Okay, okay, flamebait topic. But that's besides the point.
...
"It's for their own good - niggers wouldn't know what to do if they didn't have someone telling them what to do."
"Why do women need to vote? They'd only want more dresses and better soap."
Let's re-phrase these a wee bit:
"It's for their own good - children don't know what's pornography is wrong unless someone tells them."
"Why should kids have a say? All they'd want is more candy and less homework."
Get the idea? Children today are treated as second-class citizens. Oh, sorry, wait, they arn't even treated like citizens. So what are they? Property, for the most part(at least in the eyes of the law). Look closely at the precedents: blacks, women, jews, and all the others. All were thought to be inferior, and as soon as they were given the chance, they proved everyone wrong(well, those that accept proof, anyways). You often hear about "that very mature child" and the fourteen year old that people think is twenty.
Let's look at the "very mature child" first. All the mature children I met are mature because they were given the chance. Mainly, that chance was adversity. They were given the chance to speak their minds, to take action.
Let's look at the second case: someone who, for some reason, is thought to be older. That would be me. When I was 15, I was getting into bars ID-free, while my 19 year old friends were getting checked. I was given the chance to behave like a 19 year old, and I did. It had nothing to do with ME, just the way people saw me. They expected me to control my drinking(which I did - for the most part). I have too many examples to write here, but trust me, they are there.
To everyone who wants to "protect" our children: there is a line that has been crossed. It was crossed when censorware became a library tool. We are no longer protecting are children - we are oppressing them. It won't be long now
Dave
Hey there... What's the plural form of universe? Damn! I digress! :)
:)
I have an amateur background in special and general relativity(thanks to a great physics teacher in high school), and I've been wondering about this for a while, and here it is. I fly into a black hole. I pass the even horizon. Sure, nothing will ever see me again, but I can still see outside(sort of). Well, here's my question: If I'm being strung out like a strand of spagetti, but my frame of reference is incredibly scewed(that is, I look outside and can see galaxies rotating and spinning, because time is so much slower for me), Will I feel like I'm being stretched out? ARG! It's so hard to do this without math...
Let me try again:
I aim my ship directly for a singularity. As I move towards the center of this black hole, gravity starts stretching me out like a strand of spaghetti. However, in this gravitational well, both my length as well as my perception of time change. I become shorter, and everything outside seems to be moving very fast.
Question 1) Will the length dialation due to acceleration off-set the spaghetti-strand problem?
Question 2) Since my frame of reference is different from the singularity's, and everything else for that matter, will I feel such a crushing gravity? Will it ease, because I am slower? Or will it be even more powerful, because I am slower?
Whew. Hope this doesn't get moderated too high.
Dave
You should have written a well-thought-out answer. It would have had more effect. I won't go into the specifics of your argument, AC, but I will wax a bit philisophical.
Maturity comes with responsibility. I hear often enough(and I've said it often enought) that children are "growing up faster than we did." This is mostly due to the responsibility that kids shoulder. School, part-time job, home, friends, and the added pressure of drugs and sex(especially sex - I've abstained for two and a half years because of immature girlfriends who jerked me around).
You say that we can't "tax" the system by sending every minor into "maturity" evaluation. Well, why the hell not? Look at driving. You're evaluated for that(at least in Canada - there are three basic licenses, starting very strictly[you have to drive with someone who has had their license for four years] to a full driving permit), and the system hasn't collapsed(yet). I think everyone should be asked some questions like, "Who's your country's leader," and "how many major political parties exist, what do they stand for, which do you support, if any, and why?" If the person being evaluated, I don't care WHAT age, can't answer those questions intelligently, he or she should not be allowed to vote.
I believe there is a basic flaw in most of the arguments presented by those who wish to allow censoring, and even by those who oppose it.
I live in Canada, and there is currently a debate about what's called the Young Offender's Act(YOA). It basically allows pretty much any crime commited by a minor to go unpunished. Obviously this system is fatally flawed. More than one kid has commited rape/murder/fraud/what-have-you, and gotten away with it.
How is this issue and censorship related? It is all based in how we view the children. In Canada, under the YOA, we basically say that children don't know what they're doing - they have no will of their own, and they are therefore excused of any crime they DO happen to commit. Censors seem to feel the same way, in a sense. Children don't know what they're seeing is "bad", so we must "protect" them.
I can't say that what I think is popular opinion, but I really think we should ask the kids. Any minor who I've talked to agrees that the YOA should be banished. Likewise, any minor that I've talked to thinks the net should be uncensored. And I've talked to pre-pubescent males who have(as of yet) no interest in porn.
Society(at least over here, in North America) treats pretty much anybody under 18 years old as non-sentient. I'm serious about that. NON-SENTIENT. We treat them like they have no will, no mind, no capacity for decision-making. To be able to make a good decision, all that's required is knowledge and experience. While minors may be lacking in experience, it is US who have denied them knowledge.
Dave B. Harris
First and formost: I am not a window-manager/desktop zealot. I use the GNOME panel, "dfm" as my file manager, and Sawmill as my window manager. I use what suits me.
:) Those Three extra worthless keys they put on keyboards have come in handy. Pretty much every CTRL, ALT, and SHIFT combination has been taken by one program or another. Almost nobody touches the Win or WinMenu key. I use both my mouse and my keyboard, so I havn't use this key-binding feature to the fullest, but I only keep the GNOME side of things around because of its prettiness, and the task list. I launch all my programs through keybindings.
e x.html
To be honest, I just switched to Sawmill because my machine is slow, and version 0.17 had the features I desperately wanted.
If you're willing to do a bit of work, Sawmill may be your answer. All of the configuration is done via the lisp scripting languange. That means pretty much anything the window manager is capable of can be assigned to a key-stroke. Thank you Microsoft!
If you are interested in Sawmill, go to http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~john/sw/sawmill/ind
As a warning, Sawmill is under very heavy development. I've never seen so fast a release cycle(I got 0.17 a week before 0.18 came out. To be honest, if 0.18 hadn't come out[with the ability to assign windows arbitrary properties], I would have switched back to Enlightenment). Good luck!
Oh, yeah. To answer the question about ergonomic keyboards, there is a keyboard I've seen that completely imobilizes your wrist. Actually, I sort of put it in an executive's desk. the keyboard itself is parallel to the floor, but there are two large hollows, hemispherical, with keys embedded on the curved surface. To install it in the desk, I took out a portion of the desktop, and dropped the keyboard in. Now the exec's arms and wrists rest more-or-less flat on the surface of his desk, and his fingers to all the moving. I don't know where he got that keyboard, though...
Dave
Personally, I wouldn't want to have a plane mounted on my property. But the fellow who has done this himself raises some very interesting points. The plane has been built to withstand flight. That's some pretty good engineering. This about it - they probably spend a good couple of billion designing these things. Now look at your average suburb house: it's a cookie-cutter type deal. They're pretty much worthless, structurally.
;]), and you've got a warm, well-built, solid, permanent residence.
:)
I always thought that when I got my own house, I would build it myself. There's simply no other way to guarantee that there will be something there for your children to inherit. But this plane thing raises an interesting alternative: with the fuselage in good condition, and a bit of maintenance now and then(unfortunatly this would require rather expensive paint), these things could last a heck of a long time.
Like I said before, I wouldn't want to mount it on my property. But what about putting it in my property? With a large enough fuselage, just bury half of it in your property, and that bugger ain't going nowhere. Good insulation, too. The cargo desk(below the passenger cabin) isn't high enough to stand in, so rip half of the passenger-section floor out, and make the cargo deck the floor for your new, quite large living area. Now we've got a split-level house, all nice and nifty, with a great deal of storage(the other half of the cargo deck). Of course, you could convert this into kids' rooms, but I'd want to be able to get in and out of there in a hurry, in case there's an emergency.
Now, take off the wings(you wouldn't want to try and bury those, would you?), keep the tail section(a bit of a look-out[anybody have pictures of tree forts in their minds?
I think the novelty of this idea is cool - but I think the engineering pluses are really what makes it attractive to me. With a 747 fuselage, you'd have a HUGE amount of living space, and pretty burglar-proof.
I read a post that mentioned a few things: namely broken windows, fire-escape problems, and the galley. For the first: Those windows are STURDY. Don't forget, these windows are made to withstand low are pressure. The second problem(that of getting out when there is a fire), is more interesting. This is a house, not an airplane. My house would be just as difficult to get out of. I'd have to go through four different rooms to get to the nearest door. And I'm on the ground level of my house. What about the people on the second floor? As for the galley - that problem is easy to fix. Don't use the plane's galley. Make a bigger one.
Dave
Hmmm... Has anyone ever been given this test?:
7
77
777
7777
Now, name a vegetable.
Actually, it's supposed to be done on paper, and the sevens should be arranged pyramid-fasion. Apparently, 90% of people say "carrot". I said brocolli(sp?). There are other tests similar to this one, and some I answer in the expected manner, some not. It sounds like, according to the "premise" of the violence test, I would fail it. But I'm not violent. I've never been in a real fight, and the times when I've been faced with one, I've said simply: "Go ahead, beat me. Let's see how big that proves you are, or if that makes you feel good." This test bothers me, because these tests are not 100% accurate - there will be exceptions. Granted, it doesn't sound like they'll summarily expel someone based on the results, I am afraid that that could happen. Then I'm screwed.
Thank you, George Orwell, for letting us go at least another 15 years without this sort of thing, thanks to your wisdom. Maybe we can last another 15.
Dave
Hey there - the other architectures take up very little space(at least uncompressed). All told, the non-i386 architectures take up 8.172 megs(v. 2.2.12). The i386 arch. tree takes up 3.9(which is pretty big, in comparison to the 8.172 for all other 7 architectures combined). So, given that(uncompressed) the source tree takes up 73Megs, I think that it's reasonable to have just over 10% of that for different architectures. It's just so much easier that way :)