And then it will be a larger airport, then all airports, then other 'high-security' areas. And at each point people will say "well, it's only a little different than before", and take each incremental assault on our liberty until we're all wearing dog collars everywhere, all the time.
I can tickle myself. I'm not kidding. I've tested by trying to not burst out into laughter when tickling my feet. It doesn't take long before I start laughing in spite of my efforts not to, and soon I can hardly bring myself to keep up the tickling. I should edit that wiki... Oh, wait. It already says 'most', not 'all' people can't tickle themselves.
Anyway, since tickling is far better than hugging we should all talk about tickling instead.
Both Debian and Ubuntu make patches to Firefox. The difference now will be that Debian can make theirs immediately and put the changed version into repositories, while Ubuntu will have to ask Mozilla if their patches are ok and wait for an answer.
So now Ubuntu users will wait longer for patches to get to them. But hey, they still get to call it Firefox. Woohoo.
FTA: There is an ongoing effort to negotiate with Marvell for the right to freely redistribute this proprietary code, while at the same time some OLPC-contracted developers have signed a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) to access Marvell's hardware documentation in order to create a free software replacement for it.
It's not the hardware that is proprietary, it's the current firmware that works with it. Marvell is okay with developers writing Free firmware for the hardware, but to do so the developers would have to see the hardware docs. Marvell doesn't want the documentation out in the open for everyone to see, so the developers have to sign an NDA.
Note to anti-RMS trolls: if you RTFAs you'd see that Stallman and Theo are not spewing anything and, in fact, are quite civil about it. They never suggest that it should be nothing at all instead of proprietary. They state their objections and their suggestions.
RMS even states that some OSS developers signing NDAs (a big no-no to him) so that they can see the specs in order to write Free firmware may be a solution. Hmm, sounds like a COMPROMISE.
You're obviously confused by the concept of posting something that relates in any way to what you're replying to. Who said anything about an "average home PC" or "average" PC user? Not me. I was merely recalling a personal anecdote of how fast an upatched machine can get hit.
So by unprotected, they mean some old installation without any recent patches, not a patched machine with no firewall. Scared me for a moment.
I can attest (I'm sure many can) to how fast an unpatched XP machine gets hit. I have an installation disc from 2002 (sp1). When I use it I install with the ethernet cable unplugged. After install I plug in the ethernet and go straight away to Windows update but still, on the last go, within 5 minutes I got a somewhat obviously (to me) fake and malicious pop-up telling me I'd better click on it to protect my computer.
Standard computer design generally lets most any program access any file stored anywhere on the machine. That is one reason why flaws in programs can be exploited by outsiders to steal or erase private information.
I guess they think the insecurity is hardwired. And then they go on to act as if the OLPC being secure is unrelated with the fact that it runs Linux.
There are debates here all the time about how hard it should be to immigrate. In general, most immigrants are educated. One of the main issues now is that it's too hard for professionals to get their credentials recognized, and they end up driving taxis.
Anyway, in regards to your experience. It may be possible that to those fast-food workers it was you who had the hard to understand accent. Maybe someone born and raised in Toronto can understand you just fine, but they'll still detect an accent. For someone who speaks english as a second language, and is used to hearing Canadians, I can understand how some American accents could be hard to understand. I myself have never had a problem with a fast-food worker of any nationality getting my order right. But I'm not from North Dakota.
Energy did (and does) turn into matter and anti-matter, and vice versa (matter+anti-matter->energy). In the beginning, if energy had done both matter and anti-matter in exactly equal parts there would have been a continuing creation and annihilation of matter and no large scale structure would exist in the universe. It would be mostly energy in the form of light.
One of my first conversations with one of my new co-workers in the UK was me telling him how I didn't have enough pants here and had to keep wearing the same pants several times a week.
That's unfortunate. I've never seen a wikipedia article so wrong. They left out damn near half the globe. Well, at second glance I see that it's for native english speakers only. Maybe it doesn't count people who grow up speaking two languages, or countries with multiple official languages.
Anyway, what makes it wrong or misleading is that
there are literally hundreds of millions of english speakers in Africa, Asia and the caribbean living in former British colonies. Since they only got their independence about half a century ago their english is closest to British. Here's a wiki that includes all speakers. Notice that India alone has more english speakers than the U.S., and yes, they spell it 'colour'.
So, given that American english is not used by more people or more countries, it is not the principle dialect of the language.
That link doesn't actually have any info, but this one does even though it's just the article for a play of the same name.
The term Great White Hope is used today to describe something which people are hoping for and putting all their weight behind (in this case Microsoft with these RPGs) but that has little chance of succeeding (I assume because Japan is Sony land).
The original Great White Hope was any white boxer who could beat black Jack Johnson. It carries racist implications becasue a) It was a racist time period where people rooted for a particular boxer just because they didn't like the colour of the other boxer's skin. b) Since no Great White Hope came along to beat Jack Johnson, the term implies a lost cause and reminds us of the stereotype that whites are no good at boxing.
I don't think it's considered particularly offensive by anyone, but it's still a weird phrase to use nowadays. Without the context, it doesn't really get the point across. It probably is apt for the situation here though.
To the people who modded this guy down: commenting on the prose of the summary is a well accepted tradition here at/. If you don't like what was said, then mod it overrated, or better yet, argue.
Holy shit, thats crazy. He's lucky grad students aren't the fighting type, else he might have got some payback from the rest of his group.
Grad school may have sucked but I probably only though about faking data as often as I though about cutting off a finger. I bet faking the data on my kind of experiment would have been possible, but it would have taken a lot of effort. Maybe as much as just doing the damn experiment.
You can't cheat off of someone when you're trying to come up with interesting physics experiments, and then trying to perform them and write a thesis about it.
Maybe if I had had a way of cheating I wouldn't have taken 7 years to graduate.
That's comforting that not too much depends on these supernovae. I had thought they were the beginning and end to many of the measurements we have on the universe.
The observation suggests supernovae of this type are not "standard candles" as previously thought, which could affect their use as probes of dark energy - the mysterious force causing the expansion of the universe to accelerate.
If true, this wouldn't just affect their use as probes of dark energy. These standard candles are used to tell how far away things are and how fast they are moving. The age of the universe could be in doubt.
But I have a hunch this particular supernova will turn out to be an anomaly. Not that I'm a astrophysicist or anything.
In addition to what RidiculousPie said, I intentionally left out the part (for dramatic effect, I was trying to be more funny than insightful) about how the neutron scenario probability was a cumulative probability. So over the next many millions of years (I forgot how many) that death by rouge neutron star is more probable than me winning the lottery today.
i know the odds of actually winning is very small...
At a physics talk I heard a speaker explain how the chances of winning the lottery are smaller than the chance that a neutron star will pass through our solar sytem close enough to us to capture the earth and pull us away from the sun, thus dooming us to a dark and brief future.
That is a shame, but now that you point it out, I think it's encouraging that there's an article that advocates Linux not because of its lack of crap that you get with Windows, but because of the good stuff you get with Linux. It's like saying even if Windows didn't have these faults Linux would still be worth using.
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And then it will be a larger airport, then all airports, then other 'high-security' areas. And at each point people will say "well, it's only a little different than before", and take each incremental assault on our liberty until we're all wearing dog collars everywhere, all the time.
I can tickle myself. I'm not kidding. I've tested by trying to not burst out into laughter when tickling my feet. It doesn't take long before I start laughing in spite of my efforts not to, and soon I can hardly bring myself to keep up the tickling. I should edit that wiki... Oh, wait. It already says 'most', not 'all' people can't tickle themselves.
Anyway, since tickling is far better than hugging we should all talk about tickling instead.
Both Debian and Ubuntu make patches to Firefox. The difference now will be that Debian can make theirs immediately and put the changed version into repositories, while Ubuntu will have to ask Mozilla if their patches are ok and wait for an answer.
So now Ubuntu users will wait longer for patches to get to them. But hey, they still get to call it Firefox. Woohoo.
FTA: There is an ongoing effort to negotiate with Marvell for the right to freely redistribute this proprietary code, while at the same time some OLPC-contracted developers have signed a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) to access Marvell's hardware documentation in order to create a free software replacement for it.
It's not the hardware that is proprietary, it's the current firmware that works with it. Marvell is okay with developers writing Free firmware for the hardware, but to do so the developers would have to see the hardware docs. Marvell doesn't want the documentation out in the open for everyone to see, so the developers have to sign an NDA.
Note to anti-RMS trolls: if you RTFAs you'd see that Stallman and Theo are not spewing anything and, in fact, are quite civil about it. They never suggest that it should be nothing at all instead of proprietary. They state their objections and their suggestions.
RMS even states that some OSS developers signing NDAs (a big no-no to him) so that they can see the specs in order to write Free firmware may be a solution. Hmm, sounds like a COMPROMISE.
You're obviously confused by the concept of posting something that relates in any way to what you're replying to. Who said anything about an "average home PC" or "average" PC user? Not me. I was merely recalling a personal anecdote of how fast an upatched machine can get hit.
So by unprotected, they mean some old installation without any recent patches, not a patched machine with no firewall. Scared me for a moment.
I can attest (I'm sure many can) to how fast an unpatched XP machine gets hit. I have an installation disc from 2002 (sp1). When I use it I install with the ethernet cable unplugged. After install I plug in the ethernet and go straight away to Windows update but still, on the last go, within 5 minutes I got a somewhat obviously (to me) fake and malicious pop-up telling me I'd better click on it to protect my computer.
Standard computer design generally lets most any program access any file stored anywhere on the machine. That is one reason why flaws in programs can be exploited by outsiders to steal or erase private information.
I guess they think the insecurity is hardwired. And then they go on to act as if the OLPC being secure is unrelated with the fact that it runs Linux.
There are debates here all the time about how hard it should be to immigrate. In general, most immigrants are educated. One of the main issues now is that it's too hard for professionals to get their credentials recognized, and they end up driving taxis.
Anyway, in regards to your experience. It may be possible that to those fast-food workers it was you who had the hard to understand accent. Maybe someone born and raised in Toronto can understand you just fine, but they'll still detect an accent. For someone who speaks english as a second language, and is used to hearing Canadians, I can understand how some American accents could be hard to understand. I myself have never had a problem with a fast-food worker of any nationality getting my order right. But I'm not from North Dakota.
Energy did (and does) turn into matter and anti-matter, and vice versa (matter+anti-matter->energy). In the beginning, if energy had done both matter and anti-matter in exactly equal parts there would have been a continuing creation and annihilation of matter and no large scale structure would exist in the universe. It would be mostly energy in the form of light.
One of my first conversations with one of my new co-workers in the UK was me telling him how I didn't have enough pants here and had to keep wearing the same pants several times a week.
That's unfortunate. I've never seen a wikipedia article so wrong. They left out damn near half the globe. Well, at second glance I see that it's for native english speakers only. Maybe it doesn't count people who grow up speaking two languages, or countries with multiple official languages.
Anyway, what makes it wrong or misleading is that there are literally hundreds of millions of english speakers in Africa, Asia and the caribbean living in former British colonies. Since they only got their independence about half a century ago their english is closest to British. Here's a wiki that includes all speakers. Notice that India alone has more english speakers than the U.S., and yes, they spell it 'colour'.
So, given that American english is not used by more people or more countries, it is not the principle dialect of the language.
Makes sense. I left the states in '98 and my rights are still (mostly) intact.
And to the person who modded that down: I gave an explanation of how the term relates to the actual article. How is that off-topic?
Go ahead, mod this down too instead of arguing. Coward.
That link doesn't actually have any info, but this one does even though it's just the article for a play of the same name.
/. If you don't like what was said, then mod it overrated, or better yet, argue.
The term Great White Hope is used today to describe something which people are hoping for and putting all their weight behind (in this case Microsoft with these RPGs) but that has little chance of succeeding (I assume because Japan is Sony land).
The original Great White Hope was any white boxer who could beat black Jack Johnson. It carries racist implications becasue
a) It was a racist time period where people rooted for a particular boxer just because they didn't like the colour of the other boxer's skin.
b) Since no Great White Hope came along to beat Jack Johnson, the term implies a lost cause and reminds us of the stereotype that whites are no good at boxing.
I don't think it's considered particularly offensive by anyone, but it's still a weird phrase to use nowadays. Without the context, it doesn't really get the point across. It probably is apt for the situation here though.
To the people who modded this guy down: commenting on the prose of the summary is a well accepted tradition here at
1984 was made into a movie, so I guess they're right.
Holy shit, thats crazy. He's lucky grad students aren't the fighting type, else he might have got some payback from the rest of his group.
Grad school may have sucked but I probably only though about faking data as often as I though about cutting off a finger. I bet faking the data on my kind of experiment would have been possible, but it would have taken a lot of effort. Maybe as much as just doing the damn experiment.
You can't cheat off of someone when you're trying to come up with interesting physics experiments, and then trying to perform them and write a thesis about it. Maybe if I had had a way of cheating I wouldn't have taken 7 years to graduate.
Unless.... I could have faked that data!
Goddammit
That's comforting that not too much depends on these supernovae. I had thought they were the beginning and end to many of the measurements we have on the universe.
Man this so makes me want to get all tricked out with a Zune and windows break-my-media center..
Then, I will hug some snakes... yes. I will hug and kiss some poisonous snakes.
Now that's sarcasm!
The observation suggests supernovae of this type are not "standard candles" as previously thought, which could affect their use as probes of dark energy - the mysterious force causing the expansion of the universe to accelerate.
If true, this wouldn't just affect their use as probes of dark energy. These standard candles are used to tell how far away things are and how fast they are moving. The age of the universe could be in doubt.
But I have a hunch this particular supernova will turn out to be an anomaly. Not that I'm a astrophysicist or anything.
For bleu stars the probability goes up by 45%, but for jaune it drops by 20%. Vert stars are so rare that the probability drops nearly to 0.
In addition to what RidiculousPie said, I intentionally left out the part (for dramatic effect, I was trying to be more funny than insightful) about how the neutron scenario probability was a cumulative probability. So over the next many millions of years (I forgot how many) that death by rouge neutron star is more probable than me winning the lottery today.
i know the odds of actually winning is very small...
At a physics talk I heard a speaker explain how the chances of winning the lottery are smaller than the chance that a neutron star will pass through our solar sytem close enough to us to capture the earth and pull us away from the sun, thus dooming us to a dark and brief future.
I play sometimes too...
That is a shame, but now that you point it out, I think it's encouraging that there's an article that advocates Linux not because of its lack of crap that you get with Windows, but because of the good stuff you get with Linux. It's like saying even if Windows didn't have these faults Linux would still be worth using.