There does come a point in every middle-class person's life where they have to put aside the illusion that they are Star Fleet officers for a minute and start thinking and acting like Ferengee in order to ensure the survival of themselves, their friends, their dreams, and their culture.
I hope I die before I get old.
Or at least that I have better metaphors than Star Trek to help me through middle age.
Well of course that theory falls on its face when you consider that even without work animals, pulling or pushing a wheeled cart is far easier and scalable then any alternate mode of transportation.
And of course, that theory falls on its face when you look at how much primitive carts, with their solid wheels, weighed and you realize that, even empty, pulling them would be impractical at best without draft animals. The refinements which made wheels and carts lighter and stronger, came about as a result of centuries of use, after millenia of animal husbandry. And while your theory is down there, have it peruse a copy of Guns Germs & Steel, which can outline some of the geographic disadvantages faced by the meso-Americans.
They, particularly the Mayans, knew about rotary motion: they even used log rollers to move the massive blocks which formed their stoneworks. They were skilled soft-metal workers, masons and agriculturalists but they did not have the benefit of centuries of cultural diffusion which allowed the Egyptian, Macedonian, Persian and Roman empires to maintain a startling continuity of technics and knowledge. The Sumerian-invented wheel would have taken far longer to catch on if Eurasia had a topography similar to South America.
This my friend, would ensure the passerbyer's know why it is important to wear your seatbelts
Exactly! That's why capital punishment has such an amazing deterrent value. Oh, wait a minute...
I'd prefer people wear their seatbelts because an unrestrained passenger becomes a ~ 200lb kinetic energy weapon during sudden deceleration. Depending on where that person is sitting, he poses a threat to the other occupants and those of other cars if he's ejected from the vehicle.
Of course, it would be wonderful if all drivers did the "right" thing and buckled up out of their own sense of self-preservation and of responsibility but the obvious correlation between seatbelt use and decreased fatality, as well as costs to insurance companies, the health care system and society incurred by accident "victims", ensured that legistlators would pass laws making seatbelt use mandatory.
and more importantly, not drive wrecklessly.
I always try to drive wrecklessly, which is why I always wear my seatbelt.;o)
Perhaps, but still when a work is self-contained and does not make implicit references to concepts and ideas outside the subject (course) domain, then the person *should* be able to understand it (to a small degree) if they wish to pass.
Uh, could you give one example of such a work?
Everything I've ever read has depended on some kind of external context to establish its meaning.
I truly wish that I had time to dive back through Technics and Civilization, GG&S and Catastrophe, among others, to discuss Mezo-American technological progress. As you've hinted, it's a fascinating case of "what might have been".
The principles of rotary motion were known throughout both the "Old" and "New" worlds, but the development and use of the wheel was a technological outgrowth of the domestication of large herbivores such as kine, horses, water buffalo, etc.
The "New World" didn't have any large domesticable animals except for the llama which lives in regions too mountainous for wheeled vehicles.
Jared Diamond is a recent popularizer of this observation but he wasn't the only to make it. It's not that early Americans didn't "think" of the wheel: it's just that in the absence of large draft animals, they couldn't figure out how to use it in any practical way.
Frankly that car was not street legal, it shouldn't have been allowed on the highway
Informative? Whatever.
The U of T team had acquired the requisite permit and had standard vehicles equipped with yellow flashing lights travelling in front and behind the solar car. That makes the car "street legal" according to the Highway Traffic Act.
Frankly, had you read any of the articles, you would realize that this was an accident. If it had been a "regular" vehicle which had lost control in this manner, the driver would probably still be dead[1] but we wouldn't be discussing it on Slashdot.
[1] along with the driver of the minivan, in all likelihood
Stupid concept. I'll agree there -- it really didn't seem to work right, and this is probably one of the reasons so few people watched it first time around. It feels dumb.
My first exposure to Firefly was when I bought the DVD set on the strong recommendation of some friends. I think your opinion of the show would change if you watched the series in Whedon's intended shooting order.
Rent, beg or borrow the DVDs. Firefly deserves a second chance.
Slackware is a Linux distro. But it uses BSD-style initialization, hence no runlevels. You seem to be more familiar with SysV Unix-style distros such as Red Hat/Fedora, SuSe, Mandrake or Debian(?). Slack is a different beast.
The excellent online guide does have a section which discusses how to set up window managers and desktop environments using both the startx/.xinitrc and gdm/kdm/xdm methods. Try running xwmconfig as root and your users will be greeted by a graphical login.
What you want is provided by xdm, kdm or gdm, depending on your configuration.
I hate it when a system defaults to a graphical boot, but that's me. The CLI gives my spouse the creeping willies. Our compromise: her.bashrc tests if it is being called from a login shell and then invokes startx automatically. I like the fact that Slack gives me the opportunity to set this up for myself instead of making a decision for me which I later have to undo.
Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrixed channel is. You have to hear it for yourself. This is your last chance. After this there is no turning back. You take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes...
Slackware does not do automatic hardware detection and configuration.
As a minor correction: I've been using Slack since 8.1, so that makes me a young pup, but when I installed -current on my new Athlon XP, the install program correctly probed for and configured my system to load modules for USB, my SIS onboard NIC and onboard sound. Of course I had to configure X, but I expected that. I was actually mildly disappointed the first time I installed Slackware and everything worked since I had girded myself for battle and expected far more f*ckery.
My personal datapoint suggests that Slack takes 20min-1h to install, 1 day to "customize" and then, except for security updates, I just use it for 9-12 months at which point I can upgrade again.
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There does come a point in every middle-class person's life where they have to put aside the illusion that they are Star Fleet officers for a minute and start thinking and acting like Ferengee in order to ensure the survival of themselves, their friends, their dreams, and their culture.
I hope I die before I get old.
Or at least that I have better metaphors than Star Trek to help me through middle age.
Well of course that theory falls on its face when you consider that even without work animals, pulling or pushing a wheeled cart is far easier and scalable then any alternate mode of transportation.
And of course, that theory falls on its face when you look at how much primitive carts, with their solid wheels, weighed and you realize that, even empty, pulling them would be impractical at best without draft animals. The refinements which made wheels and carts lighter and stronger, came about as a result of centuries of use, after millenia of animal husbandry. And while your theory is down there, have it peruse a copy of Guns Germs & Steel, which can outline some of the geographic disadvantages faced by the meso-Americans.
They, particularly the Mayans, knew about rotary motion: they even used log rollers to move the massive blocks which formed their stoneworks. They were skilled soft-metal workers, masons and agriculturalists but they did not have the benefit of centuries of cultural diffusion which allowed the Egyptian, Macedonian, Persian and Roman empires to maintain a startling continuity of technics and knowledge. The Sumerian-invented wheel would have taken far longer to catch on if Eurasia had a topography similar to South America.
This my friend, would ensure the passerbyer's know why it is important to wear your seatbelts
Exactly! That's why capital punishment has such an amazing deterrent value. Oh, wait a minute...
I'd prefer people wear their seatbelts because an unrestrained passenger becomes a ~ 200lb kinetic energy weapon during sudden deceleration. Depending on where that person is sitting, he poses a threat to the other occupants and those of other cars if he's ejected from the vehicle.
Of course, it would be wonderful if all drivers did the "right" thing and buckled up out of their own sense of self-preservation and of responsibility but the obvious correlation between seatbelt use and decreased fatality, as well as costs to insurance companies, the health care system and society incurred by accident "victims", ensured that legistlators would pass laws making seatbelt use mandatory.
and more importantly, not drive wrecklessly.
I always try to drive wrecklessly, which is why I always wear my seatbelt.Perhaps, but still when a work is self-contained and does not make implicit references to concepts and ideas outside the subject (course) domain, then the person *should* be able to understand it (to a small degree) if they wish to pass.
Uh, could you give one example of such a work?
Everything I've ever read has depended on some kind of external context to establish its meaning.
I truly wish that I had time to dive back through Technics and Civilization, GG&S and Catastrophe, among others, to discuss Mezo-American technological progress. As you've hinted, it's a fascinating case of "what might have been".
The principles of rotary motion were known throughout both the "Old" and "New" worlds, but the development and use of the wheel was a technological outgrowth of the domestication of large herbivores such as kine, horses, water buffalo, etc.
The "New World" didn't have any large domesticable animals except for the llama which lives in regions too mountainous for wheeled vehicles.
Jared Diamond is a recent popularizer of this observation but he wasn't the only to make it. It's not that early Americans didn't "think" of the wheel: it's just that in the absence of large draft animals, they couldn't figure out how to use it in any practical way.
Frankly that car was not street legal, it shouldn't have been allowed on the highway
Informative? Whatever.
The U of T team had acquired the requisite permit and had standard vehicles equipped with yellow flashing lights travelling in front and behind the solar car. That makes the car "street legal" according to the Highway Traffic Act.
Frankly, had you read any of the articles, you would realize that this was an accident. If it had been a "regular" vehicle which had lost control in this manner, the driver would probably still be dead[1] but we wouldn't be discussing it on Slashdot.
[1] along with the driver of the minivan, in all likelihood
Until the SUV rolled over.
Tinfoil is like, soooo 90's. Take that, evil mind-reading overlords.
Does this mean I'm allowed to drink on the job today?
Of course. Why should today be any different?
Bah, how does this stuff get modded up?
"Baroreceptor" is a very exciting word. And there's no "+1 Sexy" mod.
How'd you manage to sleep through the autopsy?Or the embalming?
But really every plot could have been done just as easily in the 1870s rather than the 2700s (or whenever it was meant to be)
Absolutely. Out of gas reminded me of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in exactly the same way that Moby Dick didn't.
Stupid concept. I'll agree there -- it really didn't seem to work right, and this is probably one of the reasons so few people watched it first time around. It feels dumb.
My first exposure to Firefly was when I bought the DVD set on the strong recommendation of some friends. I think your opinion of the show would change if you watched the series in Whedon's intended shooting order.
Rent, beg or borrow the DVDs. Firefly deserves a second chance.
i would...no question...pay 150$ a year for a dvd set with the entire season on it
Send me the $150. I'll ship you a DVD set of the entire first season of Firefly.
This is a limited time offer. You must act now! Operators are standing by.
Bullsh*t.
I just checked with the IGC and both the Earth and the moon are to be demolished in order to make room for a new hyperspace bypass.
It's always a good idea to cd into the source directory and then:
or
... before you do anything else.
I thought Slackware was Linux
Slackware is a Linux distro. But it uses BSD-style initialization, hence no runlevels. You seem to be more familiar with SysV Unix-style distros such as Red Hat/Fedora, SuSe, Mandrake or Debian(?). Slack is a different beast.
The excellent online guide does have a section which discusses how to set up window managers and desktop environments using both the startx/.xinitrc and gdm/kdm/xdm methods. Try running xwmconfig as root and your users will be greeted by a graphical login.
HTH
AFAIK, Slack does not use "run levels" per se.
What you want is provided by xdm, kdm or gdm, depending on your configuration.
I hate it when a system defaults to a graphical boot, but that's me. The CLI gives my spouse the creeping willies. Our compromise: her .bashrc tests if it is being called from a login shell and then invokes startx automatically. I like the fact that Slack gives me the opportunity to set this up for myself instead of making a decision for me which I later have to undo.
I think he wants us to call him "H-Diddy" now.
Have to agree with you there.
Firefly has pretty much spoiled any other series SF for me.
What's a matrixed channel?
Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrixed channel is. You have to hear it for yourself. This is your last chance. After this there is no turning back. You take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes...
You could download what you need from the -current/RC10-1 tree and follow the simple instructions to create your own ISO.
This is just a release candidate folks.
Slackware does not do automatic hardware detection and configuration.
As a minor correction: I've been using Slack since 8.1, so that makes me a young pup, but when I installed -current on my new Athlon XP, the install program correctly probed for and configured my system to load modules for USB, my SIS onboard NIC and onboard sound. Of course I had to configure X, but I expected that. I was actually mildly disappointed the first time I installed Slackware and everything worked since I had girded myself for battle and expected far more f*ckery.
My personal datapoint suggests that Slack takes 20min-1h to install, 1 day to "customize" and then, except for security updates, I just use it for 9-12 months at which point I can upgrade again.
In the same way that a cigarette is a "nicotine delivery agent."