Also, the 747 three planes to the nw of the Starships is one of the aircraft NASA uses to transport the shuttle. You can just barely make out the support structure.
Interestingly, all of the remaining Starships are parked about 20 miles from me at Pinal Airpark northwest of Tucson waiting to be destroyed. You can see them parked in a kind of herringbone pattern here
God, tell me about it. Neither my girlfriend nor I can fall asleep now without the radio tuned to that damn show. I'll never forget the time they dropped that microphone down the mine shaft and "recorded the sounds of hell".
You can listen to them via streaming audio, but you can't record them unless you use something like vsound. I'm imagining the poster won't have internet access in his car.
My favorite "story" radio show is This American Life. You can download the shows from Audible for a fee, or, if you're using Linux, you could use something like VSound to get them for free.
Come on, all the GTA games (and particularly GTA III) have been subjected to intense criticism over the level of violence. I'm sure the same congressmen pushing for an investigation (which is asinie, btw) would decry the level of violence as well.
The real question is what was Rockstar doing wasting their time making a lame minigame depicting simulated sex between fully clothed people? I would've expected more from them, frankly.
Not only that. Think about all the people in foreign countries that had contact with her, maybe even worked with her. Now suppose those people live in countries with not-so-friendly, not-so-concerned-with-human-rights governments. What about them? Make no mistake: outing an agent doesn't just consign them to a desk job for the rest of their lives. In some ways, they're the ones least affected by it. It endangers the lives of countless others in very real ways.
Thanks for the info. Had I known all this a few months ago I would have gone with Debian for our office server. I needed newer packages then what was in stable *and* security updates, and didn't think I could get both.
I also wanted the root partition on a software raid, which seemed to involve jumping through a lot of hoops with Debian, but that's another story.
the joke at the end of your post was actually close to the truth -- people really do want debian stable to be stable feature wise
Actually, I wasn't joking, I wasn't sure if that was really the goal of stable or not.
Granted, I haven't poked around the Debian website in a while, but it seems like they could do a little better job of explaining that. It was always my impression that you didn't get security updates with 'testing' and 'unstable'. Perhaps they should make more of a point of stating that you do, in fact, get security updates with testing and unstable, perhaps even sooner than in stable, but that the behavior/features of the program may change.
Anyway, sorry if I seem totally clueless. I've never really seen anyone explain the stable feature set vs. "no crashes" distinction before.
I wonder, if unstable get's the "latest and greatest", so to speak, are there times that it gets security fixes before "stable"? The article mentions that Gentoo got a fix before Debian, presumably when it was fixed upstream. Did Debian unstable get the fix at the same time?
I wonder whether it's that, combined with the effort required to backport security fixes to versions that are often (let's face it) several years old. I'm not trying to start a flamewar, but I'm curious, why does backporting a security fix make for a more "stable" program then simply embracing a new version of the software that's been fixed upstream? It seems like the upstream people would do a better job anyway, as they are presumably more familiar with the software to begin with. Or is it when the Debian people say "stable", they mean a stable feature set and not necessarily stable security-wise?
But seriously, I haven't read all that much about Longhorn and I didn't know it was going to support rescalable windows. That *is* nice.
One thing that Windows has always done better, in my opinion, is provide options to people with disabilities. My parents are starting to develop fairly bad eyesight, and I recently set up a Mac Mini for them. I don't have a lot of Mac experience, and I was surprised that when I looked around for some kind of default, system-wide font size, I couldn't find one. As far as I could tell, the font size had to be set in each application individually. Rescalable windows a la Longhorn would be a great help to people like my parents.
How is abolitionism, which by definition was trying to change the status quo, be considered fundamentalist under that definition? Did the abolitionists not consider the abolition of slavery to be "progress"?
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Sure, but the irony is that he's spending millions on this new studio at the same time he's trying to shed his techno-geek image and show himself as a guy who just wants to make small art films, like Indiana Jones IV.
Well, you could read TFA where it says "Then there are those who scoff that this is an illusion at all. They, at least, can be proved wrong. Hold a coin up to a low-lying moon to and compare differences in size. Any difference will remain exactly the same, as one traces the trajectory of the moon through the night."
Because the atmosphere is denser at the surface, the denser atmophere has a greater lens effect?
Nope, if you take a picture of the "large" moon at the horizon, and then take a picture of the
"small" moon directly overhead with the same settings, they're exactly the same size on the image/photo.
Why would I want to replace it with a more general OS and an app hastily written by a few people?
Well, first off, if I understand TFA correctly, you're not replacing OS - the two of them live side by side.
If I want to make a "studio-quality" recording, I'm not going to use an iPod and a regular old microphone. If I want to play tetris, pong, etc, I'll use my PDA with its nice big touchscreen and more suitable hardware buttons instead of my iPod with its tiny screen and clickwheel.
Which is fine, but what about those of us that don't have a PDA (I know - on/. even!) or a handheld game machine? What about those of us that don't want to carry around 4 different devices? You're right about the interface being sub-optimal, but there have been plenty of times I've been sitting on an airplane, having read "Sky Mall" for the 5th time, wishing I had something on the iPod other than Breakout (I have a 1G still going strong). At 5mb, I'd be happy with just about anything.
But what about three months down the road when the new improved version comes out? Windows doesn't necessarily face this because of an ever-lengthening release cycle, but Apple seems to release every year. People may not face it when they first buy the computer, but they will face it eventually.
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Also, the 747 three planes to the nw of the Starships is one of the aircraft NASA uses to transport the shuttle. You can just barely make out the support structure.
Interestingly, all of the remaining Starships are parked about 20 miles from me at Pinal Airpark northwest of Tucson waiting to be destroyed. You can see them parked in a kind of herringbone pattern here
No kidding - it looks exactly like every other Gnome theme released in the last 3 years... except it's grey!
Incidently, there's a really good wikipedia article on Art Bell.
God, tell me about it. Neither my girlfriend nor I can fall asleep now without the radio tuned to that damn show. I'll never forget the time they dropped that microphone down the mine shaft and "recorded the sounds of hell".
Good Lord, you're right. I can't believe I wasted all that time with vsound; 1 hour to record a 1 hour show.
You can listen to them via streaming audio, but you can't record them unless you use something like vsound. I'm imagining the poster won't have internet access in his car.
My favorite "story" radio show is This American Life. You can download the shows from Audible for a fee, or, if you're using Linux, you could use something like VSound to get them for free.
Come on, all the GTA games (and particularly GTA III) have been subjected to intense criticism over the level of violence. I'm sure the same congressmen pushing for an investigation (which is asinie, btw) would decry the level of violence as well.
The real question is what was Rockstar doing wasting their time making a lame minigame depicting simulated sex between fully clothed people? I would've expected more from them, frankly.
Not true. The CIA turned it over to the Justice Department, so apparently they believe that a crime may have been committed.
Not only that. Think about all the people in foreign countries that had contact with her, maybe even worked with her. Now suppose those people live in countries with not-so-friendly, not-so-concerned-with-human-rights governments. What about them? Make no mistake: outing an agent doesn't just consign them to a desk job for the rest of their lives. In some ways, they're the ones least affected by it. It endangers the lives of countless others in very real ways.
Dammit! Where are my mod points?
I also wanted the root partition on a software raid, which seemed to involve jumping through a lot of hoops with Debian, but that's another story.
Actually, I wasn't joking, I wasn't sure if that was really the goal of stable or not.
Granted, I haven't poked around the Debian website in a while, but it seems like they could do a little better job of explaining that. It was always my impression that you didn't get security updates with 'testing' and 'unstable'. Perhaps they should make more of a point of stating that you do, in fact, get security updates with testing and unstable, perhaps even sooner than in stable, but that the behavior/features of the program may change.
Anyway, sorry if I seem totally clueless. I've never really seen anyone explain the stable feature set vs. "no crashes" distinction before.
I wonder, if unstable get's the "latest and greatest", so to speak, are there times that it gets security fixes before "stable"? The article mentions that Gentoo got a fix before Debian, presumably when it was fixed upstream. Did Debian unstable get the fix at the same time?
I wonder whether it's that, combined with the effort required to backport security fixes to versions that are often (let's face it) several years old. I'm not trying to start a flamewar, but I'm curious, why does backporting a security fix make for a more "stable" program then simply embracing a new version of the software that's been fixed upstream? It seems like the upstream people would do a better job anyway, as they are presumably more familiar with the software to begin with. Or is it when the Debian people say "stable", they mean a stable feature set and not necessarily stable security-wise?
But seriously, I haven't read all that much about Longhorn and I didn't know it was going to support rescalable windows. That *is* nice.
One thing that Windows has always done better, in my opinion, is provide options to people with disabilities. My parents are starting to develop fairly bad eyesight, and I recently set up a Mac Mini for them. I don't have a lot of Mac experience, and I was surprised that when I looked around for some kind of default, system-wide font size, I couldn't find one. As far as I could tell, the font size had to be set in each application individually. Rescalable windows a la Longhorn would be a great help to people like my parents.
Longhorn will have resizable windows? OMG! Where do I sign up?
How is abolitionism, which by definition was trying to change the status quo, be considered fundamentalist under that definition? Did the abolitionists not consider the abolition of slavery to be "progress"?
Sure, but the irony is that he's spending millions on this new studio at the same time he's trying to shed his techno-geek image and show himself as a guy who just wants to make small art films, like Indiana Jones IV.
Well, you could read TFA where it says "Then there are those who scoff that this is an illusion at all. They, at least, can be proved wrong. Hold a coin up to a low-lying moon to and compare differences in size. Any difference will remain exactly the same, as one traces the trajectory of the moon through the night."
It is not larger.
Nope, if you take a picture of the "large" moon at the horizon, and then take a picture of the "small" moon directly overhead with the same settings, they're exactly the same size on the image/photo.
Well, first off, if I understand TFA correctly, you're not replacing OS - the two of them live side by side.
If I want to make a "studio-quality" recording, I'm not going to use an iPod and a regular old microphone. If I want to play tetris, pong, etc, I'll use my PDA with its nice big touchscreen and more suitable hardware buttons instead of my iPod with its tiny screen and clickwheel.
Which is fine, but what about those of us that don't have a PDA (I know - on /. even!) or a handheld game machine? What about those of us that don't want to carry around 4 different devices? You're right about the interface being sub-optimal, but there have been plenty of times I've been sitting on an airplane, having read "Sky Mall" for the 5th time, wishing I had something on the iPod other than Breakout (I have a 1G still going strong). At 5mb, I'd be happy with just about anything.
Amen to that! I can at least remember different areas and events in HL2. Doom 3 was the same level over and over and over and over again.
But what about three months down the road when the new improved version comes out? Windows doesn't necessarily face this because of an ever-lengthening release cycle, but Apple seems to release every year. People may not face it when they first buy the computer, but they will face it eventually.