It's been said many times before here, but we have to take risks if we want to explore and expand in new areas. We are still relatively new to space travel, even getting people into orbit is something that we don't have a great deal of experience with, so of course there are risks and dangers to overcome.
As a poster above me said, these astronauts are fully aware of what can go wrong, yet they still volunteer themeselves for the job. They have a choice over risking their lives to further the human race, and bravely, they take it. If we, as a species, never took on tasks that involved risks and dangers, we would have progressed nowhere.
I'm not saying safety issues should be overlooked, or brushed to one side here, it's important we get these people back to Earth safely, but it's also important that we don't let ourselves be held back by fear of what _might_ or _could_ happen.
The Hubble is arguably one of NASA's greatest missions, and to let it wither and die in space because a previous shuttle mission ended in disaster, would just be foolish in my eyes. I really do hope they do send up a maintanence mission so the Hubble may continue operation, and I wish all those involved the best of luck, you are truely the pioneers of our age.
NavyNOS is actually a pretty good Live CD based on Gentoo. I've not used it a great deal, but enough to tell you that the default WM is fluxbox with a sleek theme and background, and it comes with an installer script to make a Gentoo HD install alot quicker for those who are concerned about it.
GUI frontends for partition editing, portage (Porthole IIRC) and the Gentoo file browser are there by default on top of the usual suspects and a few extra net/security apps.
Yeah, I'm with Blueyonder too, have been for a few years. I only noticed about a week or so ago that they had upgraded my line from 1.5mbps to 2mbps, pretty sweet considering it only went from 1mbps to 1.5mbps a few months ago.
Would be nice to have a slightly higher upstream, although they offer that with their 4mbps package which I might switch over to soon anyway.
"If any of you here are in advertising or marketing..... kill yourselves."
I have to "interface" with the AdExecs on a regular basis at work, and they are so god damn annoying. Always sitting around "doing lunch" whilst creating "PowerPoints" to present to the upper-echelons of management, showing how they have "factored-in" their latest and greatest "thinking outside-of-the-box".
Makes me so enraged I want to throw up and shoot them at the same time. Grrr.
I guess what really pisses me off is the fact that they get paid to do the same basic job I do. Bullshit the bosses;)
Agreed. I didn't use to watch much of Sky 1, except for the odd Simpsons episode whilst waffing down my dinner, but lately it has picked up a hell of alot.
Between Sky 1 and Sky 1 Mix, re-run wise we get Family Guy, Stargate SG-1 (just started showing the originals again, strange to see how much younger Richard Dean Anderson looked back in Series 1), X-Files, South Park, Futurama, The Simpsons, ST:TNG, Voyager, SG:Enterprise, 24 etc. They also seem to show alot of good new shows regularly so things don't seem too stale. Sky 1 is practically the sole reason I've kept my Sattellite subscription, sure don't need it for the porn since I had broadband installed;)
I'm suprised we are ahead of the US with Stargate Atlantis and SG:1, and BSG. I can't remember the last time new Sci-Fi aired here before the states. They are all great shows too.
One of the main things I like about BSG is that it has guts for TV Sci-Fi. There is rarely a happy ending to each episode, always a new darker plot unveiling behind the scenes even when things appear to be looking up, there is little of the standard Sci-Fi cheese factor. I thought the space / combat scenes were done very nicely too.
"In our research with consumers, content-on-demand is the killer app. They like the idea of paying only for what they watch." The trick, he figures, is to work out a solution before the audience for illegal downloading becomes truly huge. He figures the networks have 10 years.
Sounds like a very liberal estimate. I'd say that illegal downloading has already become pretty "huge". If it wasn't, what are the MPAA/RIAA getting so worked up about, and why are all these TV executives commenting on it in the first place?
Later in the article they discuss the takedown notice Dreamworks sent to ThePirateBay.org concerning Shrek 2, for those of you who havn't already, and are interested to read the letter (and the hilarious response), check it out here:
The original Star Wars movies are damn good movies, but I think alot of people here forget that when they were first released, they were children or teenagers.
I've said this before and got modded down for it, but screw it. The new Star Wars films aren't really geared towards children any less than the originals were. Sure, Jar Jar is a stupid and annoying character to watch, but C3P0 was also an irritating bastard in the first films, providing childish humour and no-brainer script to the movies.
As for everyone claiming they know they will be dissapointed by this movie, you will only be dissapointed if you go in thinking the movie is going to be a great film. If you know that it won't, they you won't be dissapointed.
Take the movies at face value. They are all certified for younger audiences, even the originals, therefore its pretty safe to assume alot of the content will not only be suitable for younger viewers, but also more enjoyable for them.
Yeah yeah..... mod me down as troll or flamebait just like every time I don't just spit out "Lucas is evil and has destroyed my life" on Star Wars related discussions:P
Comedic God. No doubt, I've made it my personal crusade to edumacate all my friends and colleagues with his shows and audio tapes, not one single person has failed to laugh all the way through yet.
I saw earlier in SuprNova IRC that the topic stated:
Now talking in #suprnova.org
Topic is 'SuprNova is from today on DOWN. It will not be returning in any way that we know it now. We are very sorry for this, but it is not possible any other way. Thank you all for all your help! SuprNova crew '
* Set by sloncek on Sun Dec 19 16:08:10
I knew it was serious as sloncek is the owner of SN and doesn't fool about with the topics much (unless its April 1st).
The thing that affects me most is that we at TLMP get a large portion of our traffic for Linux ISO torrents from SuprNova's listings.
Anyway, there are other sites, and much like when SR was taken down a couple of years ago, one of them will likely take the traffic and fill the void. Where there is demand, there is supply.
Anyone have any more information as to why this happened? Is it anything to do with the developement of Exeem? I can't see it being as simple as the MPAA taking legal action, as AFAIK they have little influence in Slovenia where it is hosted, and they have whethered alot of copyright group's actions fine until now....
More towards Cheltenham, just past the Racecourse. I work in Cheltenham town, lived around here all my life.
I actually had an interview at GCHQ a couple of years ago too, was for an I.T. support position, but they had so many people apply for the vacancy, I guess I just didn't stand out enough to get the job.
Yeah you are right.... "Bloodyhellthatsa Fuckinginsanlyhumongous Gun".
At least, thats what my friend said oh so many years back when I first showed him Doom in all its pixelated glory.... he was on the receiving end of it:)
My father still tries to control his PC with the stereo remote.
I won't let them use Windows purely because it would get trashed with spyware, adware and trojans, instead, they get a Slack 10 / KDE install and a nice low UID user with SSHd setup so I can log in as root remotely and fix anything if needed, and easily upgrade and install applications and the kernel.
For a low-low price of just $699 + a small piece of your soul, independent studies conducted by the impartial group, Forester, have shown this internet license has a lower TCO than its open source competetitors, click here for more info.
Myself and Matt from The Linux Mirror Project run BitTorrent 24/7/365, seeding out from 4 servers on 100mbps pipes, and thats just for the Linux ISO torrents, I also am usually running it from home a good 18 hours a day.
The thing to consider is that unlike Kazaa-like networks where the big bad *AA could search for their albums / movies and find out how many illegal files a user has by viewing their shared folder, torrents exist only for a single entity at a time, so the *AA trying to sue someone for downloading [insert crappy pop album here] would only be able to sue for that particular infringment, and they wouldn't be able to prove the user has 10,000 other albums on their system.
This, I would think, makes it dramatically harder, and alot less financially viable for them to start dragging BitTorrent users downloading illegal files into court, and is probably why it hasn't happened yet.
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As a poster above me said, these astronauts are fully aware of what can go wrong, yet they still volunteer themeselves for the job. They have a choice over risking their lives to further the human race, and bravely, they take it. If we, as a species, never took on tasks that involved risks and dangers, we would have progressed nowhere.
I'm not saying safety issues should be overlooked, or brushed to one side here, it's important we get these people back to Earth safely, but it's also important that we don't let ourselves be held back by fear of what _might_ or _could_ happen.
The Hubble is arguably one of NASA's greatest missions, and to let it wither and die in space because a previous shuttle mission ended in disaster, would just be foolish in my eyes. I really do hope they do send up a maintanence mission so the Hubble may continue operation, and I wish all those involved the best of luck, you are truely the pioneers of our age.
GUI frontends for partition editing, portage (Porthole IIRC) and the Gentoo file browser are there by default on top of the usual suspects and a few extra net/security apps.
We have a torrent up for it here if anyone is interested:
The Linux Mirror Project - NavyNos 2005.01 torrent
Homepage here:
http://navynos.linux.pl/
This is the only Gentoo based Live CD that I'm aware of, if anyone knows of another, please enlighten me.
Mein eyes! Ze goggles do nothing!
Would be nice to have a slightly higher upstream, although they offer that with their 4mbps package which I might switch over to soon anyway.
I guess what really pisses me off is the fact that they get paid more to do the same basic job I do. Bullshit the bosses
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P.S. I'd like to welcome our new empowering business-focused fresh-thinking up-sized buzzword overlords.
I have to "interface" with the AdExecs on a regular basis at work, and they are so god damn annoying. Always sitting around "doing lunch" whilst creating "PowerPoints" to present to the upper-echelons of management, showing how they have "factored-in" their latest and greatest "thinking outside-of-the-box".
Makes me so enraged I want to throw up and shoot them at the same time. Grrr.
I guess what really pisses me off is the fact that they get paid to do the same basic job I do. Bullshit the bosses ;)
Guess its likely to be a while before we see a fix for this then. :(
I'm not a coder, so forgive my ignorance, but how can it be that this is such a hard bug to fix? This is a legitimate question, not rhetoric.
Surely there must be a way of clearing the tab cache when it is closed?
Between Sky 1 and Sky 1 Mix, re-run wise we get Family Guy, Stargate SG-1 (just started showing the originals again, strange to see how much younger Richard Dean Anderson looked back in Series 1), X-Files, South Park, Futurama, The Simpsons, ST:TNG, Voyager, SG:Enterprise, 24 etc. They also seem to show alot of good new shows regularly so things don't seem too stale. Sky 1 is practically the sole reason I've kept my Sattellite subscription, sure don't need it for the porn since I had broadband installed ;)
I'm suprised we are ahead of the US with Stargate Atlantis and SG:1, and BSG. I can't remember the last time new Sci-Fi aired here before the states. They are all great shows too.
One of the main things I like about BSG is that it has guts for TV Sci-Fi. There is rarely a happy ending to each episode, always a new darker plot unveiling behind the scenes even when things appear to be looking up, there is little of the standard Sci-Fi cheese factor. I thought the space / combat scenes were done very nicely too.
Haha, yeah right! If only my mod points hadn't just expired, you'd get +1 fucking hilarious. ;)
"In our research with consumers, content-on-demand is the killer app. They like the idea of paying only for what they watch." The trick, he figures, is to work out a solution before the audience for illegal downloading becomes truly huge. He figures the networks have 10 years.
Sounds like a very liberal estimate. I'd say that illegal downloading has already become pretty "huge". If it wasn't, what are the MPAA/RIAA getting so worked up about, and why are all these TV executives commenting on it in the first place?
Later in the article they discuss the takedown notice Dreamworks sent to ThePirateBay.org concerning Shrek 2, for those of you who havn't already, and are interested to read the letter (and the hilarious response), check it out here:
Dreamworks Takedown Notice & Response
I've said this before and got modded down for it, but screw it. The new Star Wars films aren't really geared towards children any less than the originals were. Sure, Jar Jar is a stupid and annoying character to watch, but C3P0 was also an irritating bastard in the first films, providing childish humour and no-brainer script to the movies.
As for everyone claiming they know they will be dissapointed by this movie, you will only be dissapointed if you go in thinking the movie is going to be a great film. If you know that it won't, they you won't be dissapointed.
Take the movies at face value. They are all certified for younger audiences, even the originals, therefore its pretty safe to assume alot of the content will not only be suitable for younger viewers, but also more enjoyable for them.
Yeah yeah..... mod me down as troll or flamebait just like every time I don't just spit out "Lucas is evil and has destroyed my life" on Star Wars related discussions :P
The man was pure genius.
Who knows, but we get a fair bit of traffic coming from suprnova, and we only serve out legal ISO's.
Now talking in #suprnova.org
Topic is 'SuprNova is from today on DOWN. It will not be returning in any way that we know it now. We are very sorry for this, but it is not possible any other way. Thank you all for all your help! SuprNova crew '
* Set by sloncek on Sun Dec 19 16:08:10
I knew it was serious as sloncek is the owner of SN and doesn't fool about with the topics much (unless its April 1st).
The thing that affects me most is that we at TLMP get a large portion of our traffic for Linux ISO torrents from SuprNova's listings.
Anyway, there are other sites, and much like when SR was taken down a couple of years ago, one of them will likely take the traffic and fill the void. Where there is demand, there is supply.
Anyone have any more information as to why this happened? Is it anything to do with the developement of Exeem? I can't see it being as simple as the MPAA taking legal action, as AFAIK they have little influence in Slovenia where it is hosted, and they have whethered alot of copyright group's actions fine until now....
I actually had an interview at GCHQ a couple of years ago too, was for an I.T. support position, but they had so many people apply for the vacancy, I guess I just didn't stand out enough to get the job.
Gilesx, interesting, I live about 2 miles away from the GCHQ Cheltenham "donut" building, small world eh?
At least, thats what my friend said oh so many years back when I first showed him Doom in all its pixelated glory.... he was on the receiving end of it :)
When we have free sites like goatse, lemonparty and tubgirl?
I won't let them use Windows purely because it would get trashed with spyware, adware and trojans, instead, they get a Slack 10 / KDE install and a nice low UID user with SSHd setup so I can log in as root remotely and fix anything if needed, and easily upgrade and install applications and the kernel.
Yes, those damn systemverzeichnis! We all get very fuendig when dealing with them.
For listening to MP3s the Windows codec was correct, but it offered only limited Encodierungsfunktionen
Its a well known industry fact that lack of Encodierungsfunktionen causes loss of sound quality.
Then one sees first only letter salad
Mmmm ASCII salad. Goes great with chicken and a glass of red wine so I'm told.
That might only in talking moon for the Windows the Media Player responsible person
Ummm... moon wha?
The statement of Microsoft is still pending, times sees, what says Microsoft for this.
It's true! German Yoda does exist! And he's working for a PC magazine. I knew it!
The thing to consider is that unlike Kazaa-like networks where the big bad *AA could search for their albums / movies and find out how many illegal files a user has by viewing their shared folder, torrents exist only for a single entity at a time, so the *AA trying to sue someone for downloading [insert crappy pop album here] would only be able to sue for that particular infringment, and they wouldn't be able to prove the user has 10,000 other albums on their system.
This, I would think, makes it dramatically harder, and alot less financially viable for them to start dragging BitTorrent users downloading illegal files into court, and is probably why it hasn't happened yet.
It's so pathetic. When does it all end?
Cases are for whimps! ;)