On the other hand we have the dodo. Now if that species had adapted to being eaten by humans by evolving to be less... edible... then it would have survived.
Not to rain on your rant, but the dodo tasted so bad that the Dutch called it the Walgvogel ('loathsome bird'). It was probably predation by animals imported from Europe (pigs, rats, dogs etc.) that did it in.
What exactly do you mean by 'enlightened'? Isn't self-interest by definition egotistical and narrow-minded, ignoring a greater good and the interests of others?
From Wikipedia: "Enlightenment is becoming aware of the nature of the self through observation and reduction of one's ignorance. By observation of the self (our self) with detachment, we can become aware of its processes without being caught up in them. Doing such allows one to better interact with others and our environment."
I think the US [politicians & weapons manufactureres & military] will need this blinding light not to burn satellites, but to be able to observe their own ignorance, greed and anger, and create a better interactions with others and the environment not through fear and force, but through dialog and understanding.
The cost of a new fab is in the order of $ 3.5 billion; a bit steep for any but the biggest companies. And since so much money is involved I'm pretty sure a business does not want a competitor to run off with its research into the latest of chip technologies, decreasing chances of ever earning back their investments...
There's a small sticker stuck to the side of my iPod, it reads:
A pleine puisance, l'ecoute prolonguee du baladeur peut endommager l'oreille de l'utilisateur.
Langerer Gebrauch dieses Gerates bei voller Lautstarke kann zu Horschaden fuhren."
(there should be some diacricits in there, but I can't be a*sed to find them on the kbd - sorry)
Translated to English this means something like: "Long term usage of this apparatus at high volume can lead to hearing damage".
I bought this iPod in The Netherlands, but I'm pretty sure that there'll be a similar disclaimer for hardware sold in English-speaking countries. And if not on the hardware, then probably in the manual.
Seems to me the greedy bastard doesn't have much chance of getting richer over someone else's back.
Second-generation rewriteable products are due in 2007 or 2008, Murphy said
Releasing 1.5 TB disks would satisfy the storage market immediately. They first get people interested in the 'low density' variant, then those people will become greedy again for the higher density versions in 2007 or 2008.
Arch is not perfect and no matter what Archers might advocate to you in the forums or IRC, Arch is not for newbies
This would have been interesting news for geeks six, seven years ago. At that time I was writing my PPP scripts and XF86config etc. from scratch. I have come to value my time more, and let the established distro developers do the 'dirty' work. For doing that successfully I buy their product once in a while, and enjoy the great configuration management tools available now.
As far a package managers are concerned: the only time I ever messed up one was when I did an 'rpm -e rpm':-/
Right on time. I messed up my Centrino-based SUSE laptop yesterday evening. The previous version of ipw2100 was instable and kept restarting (PAYLOAD PACKAGE TO LARGE messages in system log). Tried ndiswrapper and that caused networking to fail altogether. I hope this version '1.0' fixes the payload issue.
Skype for Linux is lagging a few releases behind the Window$ version (0.92.12 versus 1.0.0.97), but I'm quite happy with it nonetheless (I'm 100% MS free, so I don't know which features I'm missing, anyway;) ).
/uses the SUSE 9 RPM on SUSE 9.1, no problems at all.
So the boundless resources of the universe could deliver the fuel for our greed. Great!
And we wouldn't have to worry about the waste we create either: we'd just stuff it into a large rocket and set the controls for the heart of the sun.
I fail to see how that would make my life better than that of the average American though...
They [the UN] have a hard enough time running peacekeeping missions in European countries
The UN might be more capable/powerful running those missions if the U.S. were paying their share of the contribution.
The U.S. had the single largest contribution to the idea of a global information network in the form of the Internet. If the rest of the world wants one of their own, let them create it themselves.
Ha, but a European guy invented HTML, without which 'American' internet would be pretty useless, wouldn't it?
I think inviting in sponsors is the beginning of the end of creativity and independence, especially when the sponsors are firms (as opposed to individuals).
By definition most companies want to make money, so when the invest in sponsoring they are likely to want something in return (why do you think the 'royalties' that TV companies must pay for sports evenets are so rediculously high - sponsors pay clubs $$$ for exposure to their name, so the clubs need to make bucks selling their game).
Maybe it starts with a small logo that can be clicked away, maybe it ends with the sponsor determining what can be installed next to 'their' software and what cannot...
I think I should point out that 'Fokker' was the name of the German-Dutch aircraft company
Dutch, that is. Anthony Fokker fled Germany at the end of the Great War and continued to build aircraft in The Netherlands till his death in 1939 (more info here).
Fokker Aircraft continued to design and build marvellous aircraft but selling them became a problem. Finally in 1996 (after the Dutch Gov't withdrew financial support and Deutsche Aerospace had bought it) they went bankrupt.
Stork now maintains Fokker aircraft.
So, more taxpayer's money is being wasted on projects with a debatable purpose and bad management.
If all the effort and money that's now being poured into the spacerace and technology push were to be invested in getting our act to getter on this earth, the quality of life of millions could be improved.
We just might not have to move to Mars if we'd spend more on sustainable development of energy sources, environmental issues, etc.
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The people of Springfield could make a killing.
If they'd put out the fire first.
McCarthyism came and went. Let's hope that the witch hunt for suspected terrorists is a fad, too.
From Wikipedia: "Enlightenment is becoming aware of the nature of the self through observation and reduction of one's ignorance. By observation of the self (our self) with detachment, we can become aware of its processes without being caught up in them. Doing such allows one to better interact with others and our environment."
I think the US [politicians & weapons manufactureres & military] will need this blinding light not to burn satellites, but to be able to observe their own ignorance, greed and anger, and create a better interactions with others and the environment not through fear and force, but through dialog and understanding.
The cost of a new fab is in the order of $ 3.5 billion; a bit steep for any but the biggest companies. And since so much money is involved I'm pretty sure a business does not want a competitor to run off with its research into the latest of chip technologies, decreasing chances of ever earning back their investments...
Microsoft will introduce a search engine better than Google in six months in the United States and Britain followed by Europe
Last time I checked, Britain was still in Europe. Did Microsoft's search engine tell them different?
(there should be some diacricits in there, but I can't be a*sed to find them on the kbd - sorry)
Translated to English this means something like: "Long term usage of this apparatus at high volume can lead to hearing damage".
I bought this iPod in The Netherlands, but I'm pretty sure that there'll be a similar disclaimer for hardware sold in English-speaking countries. And if not on the hardware, then probably in the manual.
Seems to me the greedy bastard doesn't have much chance of getting richer over someone else's back.
Witness the demise of morals and the US justice system.
Witness the rise of sheister-dom.
Sheesh.
I love cheese.
Cheese is good.
"they [Arabic Islam] developed our modern mathematical characters and the idea of 0."
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This is actually not true: the concept of zero originates with Hinduism, around the 7th centure BC.:
http://www.udupipages.com/book/hindhu.html
http://www.atributetohinduism.com/Advanced_Concep
that seems kind low
That is because
Second-generation rewriteable products are due in 2007 or 2008, Murphy said
Releasing 1.5 TB disks would satisfy the storage market immediately. They first get people interested in the 'low density' variant, then those people will become greedy again for the higher density versions in 2007 or 2008.
[i]this will help biologists to better understand nuclear processes[/i]
Nucular - it's nucular.
Arch is not perfect and no matter what Archers might advocate to you in the forums or IRC, Arch is not for newbies
:-/
This would have been interesting news for geeks six, seven years ago. At that time I was writing my PPP scripts and XF86config etc. from scratch. I have come to value my time more, and let the established distro developers do the 'dirty' work.
For doing that successfully I buy their product once in a while, and enjoy the great configuration management tools available now.
As far a package managers are concerned: the only time I ever messed up one was when I did an 'rpm -e rpm'
Right on time. I messed up my Centrino-based SUSE laptop yesterday evening. The previous version of ipw2100 was instable and kept restarting (PAYLOAD PACKAGE TO LARGE messages in system log). Tried ndiswrapper and that caused networking to fail altogether.
I hope this version '1.0' fixes the payload issue.
Skype for Linux is lagging a few releases behind the Window$ version (0.92.12 versus 1.0.0.97), but I'm quite happy with it nonetheless (I'm 100% MS free, so I don't know which features I'm missing, anyway ;) ).
/uses the SUSE 9 RPM on SUSE 9.1, no problems at all.
After manual changes you should run SuSEconfig.
So the boundless resources of the universe could deliver the fuel for our greed. Great! And we wouldn't have to worry about the waste we create either: we'd just stuff it into a large rocket and set the controls for the heart of the sun.
I fail to see how that would make my life better than that of the average American though...
--Stachel
The UN might be more capable/powerful running those missions if the U.S. were paying their share of the contribution.
The U.S. had the single largest contribution to the idea of a global information network in the form of the Internet. If the rest of the world wants one of their own, let them create it themselves.
Ha, but a European guy invented HTML, without which 'American' internet would be pretty useless, wouldn't it?
--Stachel
He explained that the further from the blast the lesser the effects until only a faint bang is audible.
Wow, this guy's got amazing powers of observation!
--Stachel
Our solution was sponsoring
I think inviting in sponsors is the beginning of the end of creativity and independence, especially when the sponsors are firms (as opposed to individuals).
By definition most companies want to make money, so when the invest in sponsoring they are likely to want something in return (why do you think the 'royalties' that TV companies must pay for sports evenets are so rediculously high - sponsors pay clubs $$$ for exposure to their name, so the clubs need to make bucks selling their game).
Maybe it starts with a small logo that can be clicked away, maybe it ends with the sponsor determining what can be installed next to 'their' software and what cannot...
--Stachel
I think I should point out that 'Fokker' was the name of the German-Dutch aircraft company
Dutch, that is. Anthony Fokker fled Germany at the end of the Great War and continued to build aircraft in The Netherlands till his death in 1939 (more info here).
Fokker Aircraft continued to design and build marvellous aircraft but selling them became a problem. Finally in 1996 (after the Dutch Gov't withdrew financial support and Deutsche Aerospace had bought it) they went bankrupt.
Stork now maintains Fokker aircraft.
-- Stachel
I don't know why they don't just farm all the fish we eat anyway, just like they do with cows.
Farming of fish has its downsides, too. In this article it is explained how escaping farmed salmon threaten the reproduction of wild salmon.
Also, farmed salmon are fed pellets which are made from other sea-living critters, moving the threat of overfishing down the foodchain.
So, more taxpayer's money is being wasted on projects with a debatable purpose and bad management.
If all the effort and money that's now being poured into the spacerace and technology push were to be invested in getting our act to getter on this earth, the quality of life of millions could be improved.
We just might not have to move to Mars if we'd spend more on sustainable development of energy sources, environmental issues, etc.
Call me naieve.
--Stachel