Law. Without legal significance, through having been previously decided or settled.
Of no practical importance; irrelevant.
Usage Note: As an adjective moot has come to be widely used to mean "no longer important, irrelevant," as in It's a purely moot question which corporation you make your rent check out to; Brown will get the money in either case. This usage may be originally the result of a misinterpretation of its legal sense in phrases such as a moot question. A number of critics have objected to this use, but it was accepted by 59 percent of the Usage Panel in the sentence The nominee himself chastised the White House for failing to do more to support him, but his concerns became moot when a number of Republicans announced that they, too, would oppose the nomination.
Actually, I find X with a simple window manager to be much more responsive than Win98 on my P166 with 32MB and Matrox Millenium II... unless it's doing something really processor intensive in which case the OS doesn't give the GUI higher priority like Windows does.
Of course the Millenium II drivers are very optimized, YMMV.
To me it's much more important that linux doesn't crash or thrash the drives for no reason and that I can script anything that I need to do on a regular basis.
But I'm an old school Unix hack who just uses X to hold up a bunch of terms and Netscape. I don't use DE's like gnome or kde which may being slowing you down.
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I went to UW Madison, my impression was that people were a lot more into beer and punk rock bands in dirty basements than sports.
Of course, that was probably just the people I hung out with... God I miss those days.
we literally cannot conceive of something which is entirely self-sustaining
hmmm... What about those blown glass spheres that contain a complete balanced biosphere? They've got like little shrimp and plants and water and air in them... no holes.
The last few versions of rxvt have "transparency" support. You may have to compile your own version if your distro doesn't compile it with that option...
Heheh. Did you notice the "link" to Maxtor at the bottom of the page? Apparently putting the text of a url in blue with an underline isn't the way to make an actual hyperlink... whodathunkit? LOL!
I'll tell you what's not cost effective: crash-happy, virus-toting, document-self-destructing, upgrade-cycle-locking Microsoft Office.
I consider it the height of irresponsibility for an IT director to "standardize" on Windows. That's a lot of company profits flowing straight to Redmond or into the shitter due to lost productivity.
I should know I have to support that crap every day. What a sorry excuse for professional software.
How is that different from any other group of people? You get 4 metal-heads in a room together and they are gonna argue that Judas Priest is better than Iron Maiden... (Black Sabbath is the best BTW, not that I'm a metal-head or anything:)
How about a fast-paced game of tag or hide-and-seek? The characters could be very athletic with cool levels to do gymnastic moves and dodges on (high-dives to underwater hiding places, nets and tightropes, cliffs to climb, etc.)
Or instead of tag, a race to collect the most "coins" or whatever, with ways to "trip" your opponent or mess up his path by cutting a rope bridge, etc.
Just had to comment. Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried" is a great read. I must recommend it for anyone reading this thread. And no I'm not going to spoil the secret either.:)
What about sex? Many people gladly trade money for sex =^). Or a threat to your health / life? That's probably a superior motivation.
Money is not the supreme motivator. A cow orker of mine just gave up a much higher paying job so he could have more time with his daughter. I would do the same for my son. Unfortunately there are too many people who live for money and that's just sad, not an argument for draconian laws.
You can't make people money by watching their TV channel... unless maybe you've got one of those Nielsen devices on your TV. The advertisers pay them in hopes of getting a return. There's no way to calculably measure how many people are influenced by a particular commercial.
I'm with you, man. I am dumbfounded at the hostility displayed here on Slashdot to a man that has done more than any other person on the planet to bring us these wonderful Free Linux systems (including Linus, there's a bit more to your average distro than just/vmlinuz).
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A lot has changed but it still looks pretty much the same.
As opposed to "not much has changed but it looks different and we're gonna pimp it as the best thing since sliced bread."
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
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- An ancient English meeting, especially a representative meeting of the freemen of a shire.
v. tr. mooted, mooting, moots.- Law.
A hypothetical case argued by law students as an exercise.-
- To bring up as a subject for discussion or debate.
- To discuss or debate. See Synonyms at broach1.
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adj.- Law.
To plead or argue (a case) in a moot court."Free your mind and your ass will follow"
Uses about 20MB... so what? Linux has better memory management and caching algorithms, still runs great with 32MB RAM.
How's Win2000 with 32MB?
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
Actually, I find X with a simple window manager to be much more responsive than Win98 on my P166 with 32MB and Matrox Millenium II... unless it's doing something really processor intensive in which case the OS doesn't give the GUI higher priority like Windows does.
Of course the Millenium II drivers are very optimized, YMMV.
To me it's much more important that linux doesn't crash or thrash the drives for no reason and that I can script anything that I need to do on a regular basis.
But I'm an old school Unix hack who just uses X to hold up a bunch of terms and Netscape. I don't use DE's like gnome or kde which may being slowing you down.
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
I went to UW Madison, my impression was that people were a lot more into beer and punk rock bands in dirty basements than sports.
Of course, that was probably just the people I hung out with... God I miss those days.
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
Eek! Motion sensors?
Please be very careful to make sure they are turned off before approaching them.
chop chop chop
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
I agree. fvwm2 is my wm of choice. I was just stating a fact.
BTW I AM Ed Gein, muahahaha.
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
Well, yes but all the fvwm code is long gone...
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
I see... well I tried.
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
we literally cannot conceive of something which is entirely self-sustaining
hmmm... What about those blown glass spheres that contain a complete balanced biosphere? They've got like little shrimp and plants and water and air in them... no holes.
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
The last few versions of rxvt have "transparency" support. You may have to compile your own version if your distro doesn't compile it with that option...
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
Heheh. Did you notice the "link" to Maxtor at the bottom of the page? Apparently putting the text of a url in blue with an underline isn't the way to make an actual hyperlink... whodathunkit? LOL!
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
Man, you sound exactly like me. I think our problem is probably a serious lack of self-promotion skills, and an unwillingness to lie to get a job.
Of course, that could just be me :)
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
Heh. Right.
I'll tell you what's not cost effective: crash-happy, virus-toting, document-self-destructing, upgrade-cycle-locking Microsoft Office.
I consider it the height of irresponsibility for an IT director to "standardize" on Windows. That's a lot of company profits flowing straight to Redmond or into the shitter due to lost productivity.
I should know I have to support that crap every day. What a sorry excuse for professional software.
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
What a predictable post. That was so utterly predictable that even I, an American, am slightly embarassed... even though it's true >:^)
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
How is that different from any other group of people? You get 4 metal-heads in a room together and they are gonna argue that Judas Priest is better than Iron Maiden... (Black Sabbath is the best BTW, not that I'm a metal-head or anything :)
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
How about a fast-paced game of tag or hide-and-seek? The characters could be very athletic with cool levels to do gymnastic moves and dodges on (high-dives to underwater hiding places, nets and tightropes, cliffs to climb, etc.)
Or instead of tag, a race to collect the most "coins" or whatever, with ways to "trip" your opponent or mess up his path by cutting a rope bridge, etc.
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
I always have javascript turned off. You know what I do when I find a site that is broken without javascript? I leave and never come back.
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
Just had to comment. Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried" is a great read. I must recommend it for anyone reading this thread. And no I'm not going to spoil the secret either. :)
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
Paganism accepts that there is no one truth, so there is no one correct way.
So what you saying is that it's kind of like Perl?
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
LOL!
I love your sig.
Sorry, I just had to comment on it as it brought back many fond memories of gory valentines from my cats.
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
They don't have to distribute the source until they start distributing the binaries. AFAIK no one has one yet.
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
Can't beat money as a motivation, mate...
What about sex? Many people gladly trade money for sex =^). Or a threat to your health / life? That's probably a superior motivation.
Money is not the supreme motivator. A cow orker of mine just gave up a much higher paying job so he could have more time with his daughter. I would do the same for my son. Unfortunately there are too many people who live for money and that's just sad, not an argument for draconian laws.
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
You can't make people money by watching their TV channel... unless maybe you've got one of those Nielsen devices on your TV. The advertisers pay them in hopes of getting a return. There's no way to calculably measure how many people are influenced by a particular commercial.
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
I'm with you, man. I am dumbfounded at the hostility displayed here on Slashdot to a man that has done more than any other person on the planet to bring us these wonderful Free Linux systems (including Linus, there's a bit more to your average distro than just /vmlinuz).
I just don't get it... it's truly sad.
"Free your mind and your ass will follow"