"It's not just about porn--it's about any unusual sexual behavior. I wouldn't be surprised if there was some discussion about porn causing homosexuality, or homosexuality causing porn, or homosexuals consuming a majority of porn, or whatever."
Frankly I would not be surprised if there were some kind of correlation between homosexuality and pornography consumption. There's probably a correlation between pornography consumption and any sexual practice that's even remotely unusual, simply because people that can't overcome social norms won't do either.
The only question is if it's unhealthy.
Thank you for your insightful and informative comment. I see that you've recieved the modding that you deserve.
"I doubt blimps *above* the clouds are going to be much good at getting signals through the clouds..."
The blimp can use radio and microwave to talk to the ground and lasers to talk to the satelite. A tight signal is not needed to talk to the ground because the blimp is much closer.
One of the limitations for geosynchronous satelites is that their proximity to each other is limited due to the unavoidable spread of the signal. Shorter wavelength means a tighter signal, which means more satelites.
Of course... cloud cover is a problem, but there are ways around that (like those robot blimps that loiter in a given area above the clouds).
As I said, the installation instructions on both are outstanding. Where the BSDs pull ahead is the man pages. Every aspect of the system is meticulously documented, in an accessible and concise way.
Gentoo specific things tend to be documented well, but things inherited from other Linuxes tend to inherit their documentation as well, which is poor. The Gentoo guides tell you magic invocations, sometimes even several alternatives, but the actual man (or info) page for the tool is just as weak as other Linuxes. It's a lot worse for the C library and system call man pages.
Gentoo docs are better than most Linuxes (at least the ones I've tried), but that's not saying much.
"A release announcement means virtually nothing to me. I previously used SuSE, and the system would slowly start to show its age."
Some awareness of the current state of things is required, as things have a higher probability of breaking when they're trying to put everything together for a release.
"Excellent docs. Gentoo has much better docs than either Debian or the BSDs"
That's bull. I can't speak to Debian's docs, but the claim that Gentoo has better docs than the BSDs is bull. The install howto is equal to the BSDs (eg, outstanding), but the docs once the system is running aren't even comparable. I've never seen any UNIX with docs comparable to a BSD.
Nobody cares that you compile things form source. It's the inappropriate evangelism.
Gentoo users have a tendency (not true of all users, but enough) to be so in love with the flexibility that they can't put themselves in the place of other users with different needs.
"If I have a Windows computer without IE on it, I have to pay money to get the latest version of IE. That is, IE is not free."
The latest version of IE supports all versions of Windows from 98 on. It is a free download in all cases. Therefore, what you are saying is inaccurate.
New versions are no-cost downloads for supported versions of Windows.
IE is also a no-cost download for MacOS
All browsers are affected by various security issues. Need I remind you that the current version of Mozilla is 1.7.3? This is solely due to security issues.
The money-delta between using Mozilla on Windows and IE on Windows is $0.00. It's free enough for the purposes of this discussion.
The problem is that customers, even if it's a small minority, are starting to switch. Regardless of Dell's marketing practices.
Intel won't have an answer for Opterons until 2006 or so. Until then, I think Dell just expects them to eat the loss.
As a backup, they probably are willing to start selling Opterons. I don't think they'll lose the special pricing deal with Intel if they do that, simply because there's no one else to buy the chips if Dell doesn't want them. Even if the desktop systems were partially switched, it would hugely benefit AMD and wouldn't affect Dell, but would hurt Intel badly.
So, as others have said, the libraries are there to stay, but it seems that iexplore.exe can go. Of course, the obstinant users in question can simply do what you did and use the the shell to get something very much IE back.
To be fair though, Konqueror lets you do the same thing, and I'm sure Apple will have Safari and Finder rolled together completely in a few more years.:)
The reason it works like it does is because the stores know they should never get in the way of the impulse buy. For women it's clothes, for it's gadgets (with exceptions to both). If you know you can return it, then you put a lot less thought into it and ultimately this benefits the store.
People that think about their purchases are basically beside the point. They'll only return something if it's deffective.
What I don't understand is why it's an arbitrary value rather than a ratio.
That could potentially be an issue, but it's also possible for a group of developers to work on their own branch, bringing in changes from CURRENT from time to time. SMP on OpenBSD took longer than the 6-month release interval, so there was a seperate SMP branch until the work was close enough to completion to make it into a release.
The price the market will bear is lower when the movie sucks.
Note: I'm not using this as a justification, it's just a statement of fact.
I have a lot more sympathy for the MPAA than I do the RIAA. Good or not, these movies do require a huge capital investment. The actors get a lot, but other costs are still huge, They also require a larger commitment up front.
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The problem is that 2.6 isn't getting nearly as tested. It's "up to the distros" to put together stable kernels, and they suck at it.
Yes, our units are arbitrary. The first ceasium clocks were accurate enough to detect variations in our day and our year. That doesn't matter.
What we want is for our arbitrary units to be consistent. We want our clocks to do the same thing more than once.
"It's not just about porn--it's about any unusual sexual behavior. I wouldn't be surprised if there was some discussion about porn causing homosexuality, or homosexuality causing porn, or homosexuals consuming a majority of porn, or whatever."
Frankly I would not be surprised if there were some kind of correlation between homosexuality and pornography consumption. There's probably a correlation between pornography consumption and any sexual practice that's even remotely unusual, simply because people that can't overcome social norms won't do either.
The only question is if it's unhealthy.
Thank you for your insightful and informative comment. I see that you've recieved the modding that you deserve.
Erototoxins? Is this an attempt to re-brand a need for sexual stimulationas a medical condition again?
Yup. And it will only work if people are too ashamed of looking at porn to speak up against the fundamentalist propaganda.
"I doubt blimps *above* the clouds are going to be much good at getting signals through the clouds..."
The blimp can use radio and microwave to talk to the ground and lasers to talk to the satelite. A tight signal is not needed to talk to the ground because the blimp is much closer.
Almost like mercury delay memory. :)
One of the limitations for geosynchronous satelites is that their proximity to each other is limited due to the unavoidable spread of the signal. Shorter wavelength means a tighter signal, which means more satelites.
Of course... cloud cover is a problem, but there are ways around that (like those robot blimps that loiter in a given area above the clouds).
Docs that are actually more or less equivilant to the Gentoo stuff you linked to:
FreeBSD faq
NetBSD guide
OpenBSD FAQ
As I said, the installation instructions on both are outstanding. Where the BSDs pull ahead is the man pages. Every aspect of the system is meticulously documented, in an accessible and concise way.
Gentoo specific things tend to be documented well, but things inherited from other Linuxes tend to inherit their documentation as well, which is poor. The Gentoo guides tell you magic invocations, sometimes even several alternatives, but the actual man (or info) page for the tool is just as weak as other Linuxes. It's a lot worse for the C library and system call man pages.
Gentoo docs are better than most Linuxes (at least the ones I've tried), but that's not saying much.
"A release announcement means virtually nothing to me. I previously used SuSE, and the system would slowly start to show its age."
Some awareness of the current state of things is required, as things have a higher probability of breaking when they're trying to put everything together for a release.
"Excellent docs. Gentoo has much better docs than either Debian or the BSDs"
That's bull. I can't speak to Debian's docs, but the claim that Gentoo has better docs than the BSDs is bull. The install howto is equal to the BSDs (eg, outstanding), but the docs once the system is running aren't even comparable. I've never seen any UNIX with docs comparable to a BSD.
Honestly?
Nobody cares that you compile things form source. It's the inappropriate evangelism.
Gentoo users have a tendency (not true of all users, but enough) to be so in love with the flexibility that they can't put themselves in the place of other users with different needs.
"If I have a Windows computer without IE on it, I have to pay money to get the latest version of IE. That is, IE is not free."
The latest version of IE supports all versions of Windows from 98 on. It is a free download in all cases. Therefore, what you are saying is inaccurate.
IE6 SP1 system requirements
Note: I use Mozilla on OpenBSD and Linux, I use Camino on MacOS. I don't use Windows or IE at all.
- New versions are no-cost downloads for supported versions of Windows.
- IE is also a no-cost download for MacOS
- All browsers are affected by various security issues. Need I remind you that the current version of Mozilla is 1.7. 3 ? This is solely due to security issues.
- The money-delta between using Mozilla on Windows and IE on Windows is $0.00. It's free enough for the purposes of this discussion.
Stop karma whoring."If, on the other hand, "use" means constantly running complex queries against a billion item data set, you're doomed."
Unless you're Google.
Well, MS supposedly has renewed their commitment to security. This is good to remind us that we can't take their PR too seriously.
The problem is that customers, even if it's a small minority, are starting to switch. Regardless of Dell's marketing practices.
Intel won't have an answer for Opterons until 2006 or so. Until then, I think Dell just expects them to eat the loss.
As a backup, they probably are willing to start selling Opterons. I don't think they'll lose the special pricing deal with Intel if they do that, simply because there's no one else to buy the chips if Dell doesn't want them. Even if the desktop systems were partially switched, it would hugely benefit AMD and wouldn't affect Dell, but would hurt Intel badly.
heh. Yes, it's starting to come back to me.
:)
So, as others have said, the libraries are there to stay, but it seems that iexplore.exe can go. Of course, the obstinant users in question can simply do what you did and use the the shell to get something very much IE back.
To be fair though, Konqueror lets you do the same thing, and I'm sure Apple will have Safari and Finder rolled together completely in a few more years.
It's been a while since I switched to something else, but isn't iexplore.exe required for the system to boot properly?
waitaminute...
:)
You're trying to troll...
You bring up Perl...
And you don't compare it to Python?
They've stated that the forwarding service won't be free when the beta period ends. I suspect the same of POP3.
er.......
It might work. If anyone anywhere ever let their mail clients load external images for any reason at all.
The OpenBSD crowd often don't play well with others. They have a completely different set of priorities than other projects.
There was a discussion on the misc@ list, and it basically came down to completely different priorities plus lots of OpenBSD specific hooks.
"Bush must think were all stupid.."
Justifyably.
The reason it works like it does is because the stores know they should never get in the way of the impulse buy. For women it's clothes, for it's gadgets (with exceptions to both). If you know you can return it, then you put a lot less thought into it and ultimately this benefits the store.
People that think about their purchases are basically beside the point. They'll only return something if it's deffective.
What I don't understand is why it's an arbitrary value rather than a ratio.
That could potentially be an issue, but it's also possible for a group of developers to work on their own branch, bringing in changes from CURRENT from time to time. SMP on OpenBSD took longer than the 6-month release interval, so there was a seperate SMP branch until the work was close enough to completion to make it into a release.
The price the market will bear is lower when the movie sucks.
Note: I'm not using this as a justification, it's just a statement of fact.
I have a lot more sympathy for the MPAA than I do the RIAA. Good or not, these movies do require a huge capital investment. The actors get a lot, but other costs are still huge, They also require a larger commitment up front.