X was overly focused on the juicy technical aspects of the day (like networking) and stopped short of providing an application-ready windowing system.
Instead, focus on delivering 1) a rock-solid, high quality API and 2) a great-looking, high performance implementation for the common case - an app running locally on a PC.
Common case for X? Local PC? WTF are you talking about. X was designed for UNIX servers during the days when "Local PC" didn't even exist. I'm *very* glad that X is such a flexible and bullshit-free protocol. That's why you can have different desktop environments be it KDE, Gnome or even stuff like blackbox.
I had yet to crash X by passing some null value or whatever to the Server. Windows API, on the other hand, "solid" as you imply, craps out when you start passing NULLs to it. Heck, you can still crash the entire box by passing some weird numbers to the right functions!
Sorry, I'll take the simplicity and flexibility of the protocol over any copy&paste or drag&drop "standard".
a cold war where we nearly burnt ourselves to a cold crisp
Now if one side deemed the other as infidels and by killing them no matter what they would end up in paradise, well, I think you might want to delete that nearly from your point.
The point is not *how* many people died, but how much of a population died and how long did such conflicts last. The religious/ethnic type of conflicts last for generations, not years.
My record is about 5 seconds! I just connected to the internet with dialup, not even DSL/Cable, in Windows (should have known better, but I just needed to DL *one* 20k file and didn't want to reboot into Debian). After connect, before even being able to type the URL in the browser, there was the "Shuting down in..." message. Fucken nuts!
If you are a left wing nut (as opposed to a right wing nazi:), then remeber two things:
1 - A vote for 3rd party, is a vote for Bush
2 - Remeber Florida??
The Bush club seems to think in Black and White. Please don't do the same thing and keep saying "we got to pull out of Iraq NOW!". People like you, voting for a 3rd party, have voted Bush in last time. We have troops in Iraq because people like you voted for a 3rd party, and now you don't like it? That is not too much at stake? Just a trap? Please, learn from the mistakes of the past and try to fix them, not repeat them.
Just make up any damn password you want and then use it once to set up the ssh authorized key on the remove server. Then you can log in whenever you want.
Oh, and when you need console access, well, just boot directory into/bin/sh, change the root password, reboot, fix the box, change the password back to something crazzy. [done]:)
He may be full of a lot of hot air, but it still requires some sort of fossil fuel to heat a mansion in New England (heating oil, gas, etc.).
Ever heard of geothermal heating? Works here (central Canada) and it gets 40 below in winter. Works even better for cooling in summer. Just switch the heat pump the other way:)
Life is just another process in the universe. There is *nothing* special about it. It occurs spontaneously under right circumstances (like rust or fire), and those circumstances don't need to be that specific! For example, Earth 3 billion years ago looked nothing like it does today. You might as well be on Mars. Yet life existed and flurished.
The question is not whether there is any life "out there". That is a "no-brainer". The question is What is the purpose of life?. I mean, what is the purpose of rust? Rust and life - two processes that we look at being so different may be more similar than you think.
Because Quebec has screwed up laws about all sorts of contests. Most of the time you will see this disclaimer "Not valid for residents of Quebec". It not shocking.
And there are x-ray scanners for the radiation stuff... speakers for the magnetic fields... etc
X-ray scanners are quite weak and will do nothing. You get more problems with the background radiation which can be more ionizing to RAM. Things like muons (heavy electrons) can flip a gate or two if lucky. X-ray will do nothing. At least at the levels that people survive.
As to magnetic fields, well, check out the MRI machines. Those have a huge magnetic field and there is the ramp (magnetic field getting changed type of ramp) in the scan area of a quite large amount.
Exactly how is a magnetic field going to damage a memory card (short of some huge magnet that just crushes the package)? They're not disk-based, they're just static RAM.
When you move though a magnetic field, that induces a voltage which could mess up the memory card. That is, don't bring your camera to a MRI machine (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance describes it better but people freaked out about the word "Nuclear"!)
It is not the magnetic field that does the damage. It is always the rate of change of the magnetic field that is the problem (its gradient). This is how power plants make the electrons flow from the wall socket:)
I'm trying to give a sense of scale to how hard the problems are here. The problem is just barely technologically tractable - that's why it costs a fortune, and you get so many failed projects
So we should just give up? Nuke the planet and be over with it?
We have over 6 billion people on the planet. Soon enough this number might just double. If you think getting to Mars is difficult, then try to solve the problem of 12 billion people flushing the toilet at the same time! (ie. each day a city the size of New York covered in shit). And no, you can't just dump it in the ocean and hope for the best, as we seem to be doing now.
If you cannot solve a simple problem to try to somehow live on Mars within the next few decades, then I am not very confident that we will survive on *this* planet.
PS. The argument that it costs a fortune is crap. A country like US spends over $400 billion per year on more "creative" ways to kill and spead uranium on this planet ("depleted" and otherwise), why can't it get together with others, settle their differences, in put most of the money into more creative projects?
And haven't you thought that spending on things like NASA might pay in the future? You know, the things known as microchips? If we didn't go to the Moon, we might still be using room size computers and IBMs vision of world market domination with a "dozen or so" computers might be realized:) And there would not no Doom 3!!:)
According to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the US has a little more than 7,000 warheads. Russia has roughly 6,000 warheads.
And you need like 100 to blow up the world. (ie. nuclear winter) So what are the rest for?
The US is also probably a decade or two away from a real arms race with China. I see incentive there for maintaining the level of nuclear weapons. More likely, the US will upgrade its nuclear arsenal to more precise lower-yield weapons since these would be more in line with the tactics of the rest of the military.
OMG!! You people are fucking crazy. Instead of saying "there will be an arms race with China", why not prevent it from happening in the first place? This is not the stone age. We can, for the first time, communicate in a *global* fashion. There is no need for 7000 warheads, or even 1000 warheads to be a deterrant.
But, the Republicans will just bitch how wasteful NASA is with 1 or 2 billion, and put another 100 billion into their own destruction (hmmm, "defence"!).
Just so no one is confused, GPL has nothing to do with "public domain" or "signing over copyright". It is a license that a copyright holder puts on the work.
Maybe we should use XHTML because HTML is ancient and broken? Furtheremore, CSS must be pushed to replace most of the format specifications. XHTML+CSS actually simplify the rules by which browsers format text.
It's not that I hate Microsoft. However, I am aware of the company's record of adopting standards and then breaking them. Remember 'embrace and extend'?
This does not work if you are a minor player. Microsoft is a minor player in e-mail servers. This is also the reason why Microsoft wants to adopt SPF instead of creating something themselves.
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Holy smokes! Mod parent up as "Interesting" (hint,hint). Now, where are my mod points? Doh!
Instead, focus on delivering 1) a rock-solid, high quality API and 2) a great-looking, high performance implementation for the common case - an app running locally on a PC.
Common case for X? Local PC? WTF are you talking about. X was designed for UNIX servers during the days when "Local PC" didn't even exist. I'm *very* glad that X is such a flexible and bullshit-free protocol. That's why you can have different desktop environments be it KDE, Gnome or even stuff like blackbox.
I had yet to crash X by passing some null value or whatever to the Server. Windows API, on the other hand, "solid" as you imply, craps out when you start passing NULLs to it. Heck, you can still crash the entire box by passing some weird numbers to the right functions!
Sorry, I'll take the simplicity and flexibility of the protocol over any copy&paste or drag&drop "standard".
Walk around and find the max signal strenth location. A house is probably located there :)
No.
Now if one side deemed the other as infidels and by killing them no matter what they would end up in paradise, well, I think you might want to delete that nearly from your point.
The point is not *how* many people died, but how much of a population died and how long did such conflicts last. The religious/ethnic type of conflicts last for generations, not years.
My record is about 5 seconds! I just connected to the internet with dialup, not even DSL/Cable, in Windows (should have known better, but I just needed to DL *one* 20k file and didn't want to reboot into Debian). After connect, before even being able to type the URL in the browser, there was the "Shuting down in..." message. Fucken nuts!
The Olympics are about dope & roids, and how many medals a country gets would depend on how much dope the athetes are^H^H^H use.
I for one welcome our Soviet^H^H^H American overlords. "Papers please!"
You can use IPSec. But for a *regular* phone (or VoIP), encryption doesn't matter because you cannot trust the phone company.
1 - A vote for 3rd party, is a vote for Bush
2 - Remeber Florida??
The Bush club seems to think in Black and White. Please don't do the same thing and keep saying "we got to pull out of Iraq NOW!". People like you, voting for a 3rd party, have voted Bush in last time. We have troops in Iraq because people like you voted for a 3rd party, and now you don't like it? That is not too much at stake? Just a trap? Please, learn from the mistakes of the past and try to fix them, not repeat them.
In other news, "I can't wait for the Radeon 35750, it;s going to be sooo much better. :-)
Seriously, can't they figure out a new name already?"
Oh, and when you need console access, well, just boot directory into /bin/sh, change the root password, reboot, fix the box, change the password back to something crazzy. [done] :)
Ever heard of geothermal heating? Works here (central Canada) and it gets 40 below in winter. Works even better for cooling in summer. Just switch the heat pump the other way :)
Not to mention the benefits of tuning your ticker and burning that spare tire.
The question is not whether there is any life "out there". That is a "no-brainer". The question is What is the purpose of life?. I mean, what is the purpose of rust? Rust and life - two processes that we look at being so different may be more similar than you think.
Because Quebec has screwed up laws about all sorts of contests. Most of the time you will see this disclaimer "Not valid for residents of Quebec". It not shocking.
Don't know about French laws though.
X-ray scanners are quite weak and will do nothing. You get more problems with the background radiation which can be more ionizing to RAM. Things like muons (heavy electrons) can flip a gate or two if lucky. X-ray will do nothing. At least at the levels that people survive.
As to magnetic fields, well, check out the MRI machines. Those have a huge magnetic field and there is the ramp (magnetic field getting changed type of ramp) in the scan area of a quite large amount.
When you move though a magnetic field, that induces a voltage which could mess up the memory card. That is, don't bring your camera to a MRI machine (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance describes it better but people freaked out about the word "Nuclear"!)
It is not the magnetic field that does the damage. It is always the rate of change of the magnetic field that is the problem (its gradient). This is how power plants make the electrons flow from the wall socket :)
With the way that most dress (at least sometimes), don't they already know?
So we should just give up? Nuke the planet and be over with it?
We have over 6 billion people on the planet. Soon enough this number might just double. If you think getting to Mars is difficult, then try to solve the problem of 12 billion people flushing the toilet at the same time! (ie. each day a city the size of New York covered in shit). And no, you can't just dump it in the ocean and hope for the best, as we seem to be doing now.
If you cannot solve a simple problem to try to somehow live on Mars within the next few decades, then I am not very confident that we will survive on *this* planet.
PS. The argument that it costs a fortune is crap. A country like US spends over $400 billion per year on more "creative" ways to kill and spead uranium on this planet ("depleted" and otherwise), why can't it get together with others, settle their differences, in put most of the money into more creative projects?
And haven't you thought that spending on things like NASA might pay in the future? You know, the things known as microchips? If we didn't go to the Moon, we might still be using room size computers and IBMs vision of world market domination with a "dozen or so" computers might be realized :) And there would not no Doom 3!! :)
Instead of very low latency, I would prefer no lost packets and *smooth* motion, and not that jagged back and forth you sometimes get! Ouch!
And you need like 100 to blow up the world. (ie. nuclear winter) So what are the rest for?
The US is also probably a decade or two away from a real arms race with China. I see incentive there for maintaining the level of nuclear weapons. More likely, the US will upgrade its nuclear arsenal to more precise lower-yield weapons since these would be more in line with the tactics of the rest of the military.
OMG!! You people are fucking crazy. Instead of saying "there will be an arms race with China", why not prevent it from happening in the first place? This is not the stone age. We can, for the first time, communicate in a *global* fashion. There is no need for 7000 warheads, or even 1000 warheads to be a deterrant.
But, the Republicans will just bitch how wasteful NASA is with 1 or 2 billion, and put another 100 billion into their own destruction (hmmm, "defence"!).
Just so no one is confused, GPL has nothing to do with "public domain" or "signing over copyright". It is a license that a copyright holder puts on the work.
Maybe we should use XHTML because HTML is ancient and broken? Furtheremore, CSS must be pushed to replace most of the format specifications. XHTML+CSS actually simplify the rules by which browsers format text.
This does not work if you are a minor player. Microsoft is a minor player in e-mail servers. This is also the reason why Microsoft wants to adopt SPF instead of creating something themselves.