Sadly, no - circa 56-58 I think. I've been meaning to get round to thinking about how to get them digitised for some time, now. Actually it was about 1993 when I first sat down to calculate the disk space needed to digitise all my non-replaceable cassette tapes and a couple of vinyl LPs that aren't available on CD, digitise a few thousand photographic prints and possibly even old home videos as well.
So you, who are only now in 2007 discovering the migrating servers to Linux is a good idea, do not think Linux is ready for the desktop? Hmmm, well I have to point out that some of us are further along the adoption curve than that. I've been using a Linux desktop for work (not excluding dev work - I was on Linux for that 7 years ago) for the last four years and it just gets better and better. We're now seriously considering a pilot scheme using custom locked-down Linux desktops for some non-tech staff at work. (It's easiest for people who are in web apps and UIs 7 hours of 8; it's the so-called "power user" types, who've got a lot more invested in learning all the sekrit microsoft l337 tricks'n'tips that are the problem.)
Actually he major problem is incidental music. It's easy to license someone else's copyright work for broadcast, (read: streaming) but a downloadable file that you can save and play back many times counts as distribution. (Yes, the law in the UK has not caught up to the fact that broadcasts can be recorded. My Dad has some old reel-to-reel tapes of 1950s Goon Shows he made at the time, so it's not terribly new idea...)
according to tradition?
The history of every major galactic civilization has passed through three distinct and recognisable phases: those of survival, inquiry, and sophistication. Otherwise known as the 'How', 'Why', and 'Where' phases. For instance, the first phase is characterised by the question: "How can we eat?" The second by the question: "Why do we eat?" And the third by the question: "Where should we have lunch?" The history of warfare is similarly subdivided though here the phases are retribution, anticipation, and diplomacy. Thus, retribution: "I'm going to kill you because you killed my brother." Anticipation: "I'm going to kill you because I killed your brother." And diplomacy: "I'm going to kill my brother and then kill you on the pretext that your brother did it." Meanwhile, the Earthman Arthur Dent, to whom all this can be of only academic interest, as his only brother was long ago nibbled to death by an okapi, is about to be plunged into a real intergalactic war. (hitch-hiker, Fit the Sixth.)
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I don't have a problem handing the keys to the authorities provided they can give me a good reason they need them (I really don't enjoy handing out trade secrets, you know...), but what if I just simply and plainly cannot? Then you go to jail. If you're thinking "But that means the police can basically throw anyone who owns a computer into jail whenever they feel like it" - you've understood the big problem with this law.
Here's an excellent book on the Soviet space program, written waay back in 1981; I picked it up in a second hand shop a few years later and was completely engrossed. Oberg's ability to stitch together a fairly comprehensive history of the then still highly secretive Soviet spac program from public open source material is excellent, and the revelations about the early catastrophes (like the launch pad explosion that wiped out 200 of the best launch technicians and engineers they had, plus the head of the entire ICBM program, and the tragic deaths of various cosmonauts) were amazing to me, 20 years ago anyway.
Me - well, I guess it sucks if you've paid a lot of money, and now you're surprised or something. "Real owner of proprietary system in taking advantage of rights SHOCK!!" It's like people acting surprised that Microsoft installed a stealth update that's wrecked a few systems, even when they turned off automatic updates. Perhaps a few more people will now understand why closed proprietary is intrinsically evil, regardless of whether it's actually convenient for you right now or not.
Fuck the spirit of the fucking GPL. [...]
If I understand this right,..
You don't understand this right.
What you're talking about is, in crudely generalistic terms, the difference between the BSD and GPL licenses. If you don't like the GPL, don't use software licensed under it. Or just don't release your own code under it; no-one's forcing you to do so. But to use a system that wouldn't exist without the GPL and then whine about something you obviously don't understand just makes you sound like a twat.
The enormous and irrational bias on/. against anything even remotely affiliated with Microsoft is pathetic and reflects very poorly on the people of the free/open software community. What, pray tell, is irrational about distrusting a corporation that would like to drive Free software out of existence?
it is for sure that some people in the FOS community would prefer to see Microsoft products just vanish from the enterprises, Many of us would prefer to see all proprietary non-Free software vanish from everywhere.
I think it would be a sign of maturity that the FOS community accepted the facts of life. Then you clearly don't understand the first thing about the free software you're presumably using.
I usually have a 5 - 10 minute nap at my desk after lunch. It's perfectly normal and natural, I refuse to be apologetic about it (even after co-workers stuck postit notes on me, took pics and stuck them on the noticeboard *) ) and anyone who doesn't like it can piss off. Luckily the war between workers and management at my employer is at a happy state of silent truce; we slog our guts out to help the boss buy a new Bentley, they don't fire us for minor infractions of rules. (I work in security and I've argued several times against aggressively trying to prevent people listening to music. What's the point? We can only manage with the consent of the managed...)
No, (from the summary anyway) there's a big difference. MWI is just a description; Deutsch seems to have *derived* MWI from the wave function. Which would be a big deal, I think.
At any rate, Deutsch must be good - he's one of the handful of theorists I've heard of, along with Witten, Green, Turok, Hawking, er... a couple of others, it's on the tip of my tongue,.. oh, YOU know, whatsisname,...
I have a tape (yes, cassette tapes - remember those?) of a BBC Radio 4 science doc from 18 months or so ago which I taped for the bit where they interviewed Jim Bell & some other MER people, and also looked round the JPL robotics lab; they mentioned this one, and also something called ATHLETE (google it up) and another gizmo described as looking like a robotic spider with multiple articulated arms, intended for EVA work around the ISS or similar structures, whose name I forget. They were just proof-of-concept work at that stage of course, not funded or anything.
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Sadly, no - circa 56-58 I think. I've been meaning to get round to thinking about how to get them digitised for some time, now. Actually it was about 1993 when I first sat down to calculate the disk space needed to digitise all my non-replaceable cassette tapes and a couple of vinyl LPs that aren't available on CD, digitise a few thousand photographic prints and possibly even old home videos as well.
I think you meant: Yeeeeeeaaaaaaaaa -- *BOOM!*
Murgatroyd's Second Law of IT Procurement: Never Buy Anything With The Word "Enterprise" In The Product Name
So you, who are only now in 2007 discovering the migrating servers to Linux is a good idea, do not think Linux is ready for the desktop? Hmmm, well I have to point out that some of us are further along the adoption curve than that. I've been using a Linux desktop for work (not excluding dev work - I was on Linux for that 7 years ago) for the last four years and it just gets better and better. We're now seriously considering a pilot scheme using custom locked-down Linux desktops for some non-tech staff at work. (It's easiest for people who are in web apps and UIs 7 hours of 8; it's the so-called "power user" types, who've got a lot more invested in learning all the sekrit microsoft l337 tricks'n'tips that are the problem.)
Actually he major problem is incidental music. It's easy to license someone else's copyright work for broadcast, (read: streaming) but a downloadable file that you can save and play back many times counts as distribution. (Yes, the law in the UK has not caught up to the fact that broadcasts can be recorded. My Dad has some old reel-to-reel tapes of 1950s Goon Shows he made at the time, so it's not terribly new idea...)
Or use this handy script.
Who do you reckon would win in a fight, the Balrog or Cthulhu? ("Nine qualudes on the squid!")
Don't spoil it for the kids.
Barman? Just leave me the bottle.
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Thanks! I'll take two raspberry flavour ones, and a Mivvi please.
Here's an excellent book on the Soviet space program, written waay back in 1981; I picked it up in a second hand shop a few years later and was completely engrossed. Oberg's ability to stitch together a fairly comprehensive history of the then still highly secretive Soviet spac program from public open source material is excellent, and the revelations about the early catastrophes (like the launch pad explosion that wiped out 200 of the best launch technicians and engineers they had, plus the head of the entire ICBM program, and the tragic deaths of various cosmonauts) were amazing to me, 20 years ago anyway.
Me - well, I guess it sucks if you've paid a lot of money, and now you're surprised or something. "Real owner of proprietary system in taking advantage of rights SHOCK!!" It's like people acting surprised that Microsoft installed a stealth update that's wrecked a few systems, even when they turned off automatic updates. Perhaps a few more people will now understand why closed proprietary is intrinsically evil, regardless of whether it's actually convenient for you right now or not.
Nay!
[...]
If I understand this right,.. You don't understand this right. What you're talking about is, in crudely generalistic terms, the difference between the BSD and GPL licenses. If you don't like the GPL, don't use software licensed under it. Or just don't release your own code under it; no-one's forcing you to do so. But to use a system that wouldn't exist without the GPL and then whine about something you obviously don't understand just makes you sound like a twat.
Sorry to put that so harshly ;p
I usually have a 5 - 10 minute nap at my desk after lunch. It's perfectly normal and natural, I refuse to be apologetic about it (even after co-workers stuck postit notes on me, took pics and stuck them on the noticeboard *) ) and anyone who doesn't like it can piss off. Luckily the war between workers and management at my employer is at a happy state of silent truce; we slog our guts out to help the boss buy a new Bentley, they don't fire us for minor infractions of rules. (I work in security and I've argued several times against aggressively trying to prevent people listening to music. What's the point? We can only manage with the consent of the managed...)
Paging David Deutsch! You're an idiot; you must be, u19925 says so on Slashdot.
At any rate, Deutsch must be good - he's one of the handful of theorists I've heard of, along with Witten, Green, Turok, Hawking, er... a couple of others, it's on the tip of my tongue,.. oh, YOU know, whatsisname,...
I have a tape (yes, cassette tapes - remember those?) of a BBC Radio 4 science doc from 18 months or so ago which I taped for the bit where they interviewed Jim Bell & some other MER people, and also looked round the JPL robotics lab; they mentioned this one, and also something called ATHLETE (google it up) and another gizmo described as looking like a robotic spider with multiple articulated arms, intended for EVA work around the ISS or similar structures, whose name I forget. They were just proof-of-concept work at that stage of course, not funded or anything.
Call me back when you've got a simple, easily-deployable way of getting to the surface of Mars.
...these are just implementation details, rather than matters of principle.