It is completely irrelevant to me what US laws Pirate Bay broke. I support them because they are in Sweden. China can't arrest me for criticizing them, Mexico can't arrest me for not paying Mexican federal taxes, and Saudi Arabia can't arrest me for shaving my beard. Why can the MPAA coerce the Swedish police to conduct raids in accordance with US copyright law?
I know about RIAA Radar, the site that lists music that IS RIAA owned, but is there a site that reviews music that ISN'T owned by them? I'm an Industrial/DnB fan and I'd like to not give money to people who sue children and the disabled.
Hmm, well, I looked it up and you are correct. I didn't take into account what country the article was from and I blindly believed my Firefox spell check. Sorry, Canada!
Seriously, though, whether it will run Cygwin is an important question. People won't be using this for games unless the OS can support the very latest Direct X. People won't be using this for home user stuff because windows lovers love windows and everyone else loves *nix. Who does that leave?
People who would use this are the same people who are probably running FreeBSD or Debian on a server right now, but have something that would run better on an NT system. These people will be more likely to adopt ReactOS if they can access it with their favorite shell and not some graphical remote desktop thing.
Physicists get hung up on that whole faster-than-light thing because going faster than the speed of light and going backwards in time are the same thing, just from different relative perspectives.
This is probably the worst article I've ever read. The journalist's dubious explanation of the findings and complete lack of understanding of how these findings fit into known science is a perfect example of how modern journalism is often at odds with the spread of knowledge.
The findings are IN NO WAY "at odds" with relativity.
The team did not "change the state of a vapour in a way that light travelling(sic) through it would travel faster than normal." They created a pattern of interfering waves that made a pulse that traveled faster than normal. This is like saying that swinging the end of a jump-rope changes the state of the surrounding air to make the rope move faster, when in reality the ends of the rope are stationary and only a pulse is moving down the rope.
This was on Fark yesterday and it was even lower than THEIR scientific standards. I'm waiting for it to hit Digg so 500 people can comment that there is a massive conspiracy to suppress FTL technologies.
Well, you could always comment out one of the "Section..." lines in xorg.conf and restart X with ctrl-alt-backspace. Then, when it tries to restart and gives the scary "oh shit your X is fucked" screen, you can be sure that it isn't running.:D
KDE is pretty nice, but I won't be switching from Gnome until Katapult works better than Deskbar.
Gnome Deskbar works so well that I don't even have a menu or any launchers on my panel. Katapult tries to be exactly like Quicksilver, but doesn't quite pull it off in my opinion.
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It is completely irrelevant to me what US laws Pirate Bay broke. I support them because they are in Sweden. China can't arrest me for criticizing them, Mexico can't arrest me for not paying Mexican federal taxes, and Saudi Arabia can't arrest me for shaving my beard. Why can the MPAA coerce the Swedish police to conduct raids in accordance with US copyright law?
I like http://www.metropolis-records.com/
I know about RIAA Radar, the site that lists music that IS RIAA owned, but is there a site that reviews music that ISN'T owned by them? I'm an Industrial/DnB fan and I'd like to not give money to people who sue children and the disabled.
Hmm, well, I looked it up and you are correct. I didn't take into account what country the article was from and I blindly believed my Firefox spell check. Sorry, Canada!
But the article is still horrible.
Seriously, though, whether it will run Cygwin is an important question. People won't be using this for games unless the OS can support the very latest Direct X. People won't be using this for home user stuff because windows lovers love windows and everyone else loves *nix. Who does that leave?
People who would use this are the same people who are probably running FreeBSD or Debian on a server right now, but have something that would run better on an NT system. These people will be more likely to adopt ReactOS if they can access it with their favorite shell and not some graphical remote desktop thing.
Lighten up, Francis.
Physicists get hung up on that whole faster-than-light thing because going faster than the speed of light and going backwards in time are the same thing, just from different relative perspectives.
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This is probably the worst article I've ever read. The journalist's dubious explanation of the findings and complete lack of understanding of how these findings fit into known science is a perfect example of how modern journalism is often at odds with the spread of knowledge.
The findings are IN NO WAY "at odds" with relativity.
The team did not "change the state of a vapour in a way that light travelling(sic) through it would travel faster than normal." They created a pattern of interfering waves that made a pulse that traveled faster than normal. This is like saying that swinging the end of a jump-rope changes the state of the surrounding air to make the rope move faster, when in reality the ends of the rope are stationary and only a pulse is moving down the rope.
This was on Fark yesterday and it was even lower than THEIR scientific standards. I'm waiting for it to hit Digg so 500 people can comment that there is a massive conspiracy to suppress FTL technologies.
Well, you could always comment out one of the "Section ..." lines in xorg.conf and restart X with ctrl-alt-backspace. Then, when it tries to restart and gives the scary "oh shit your X is fucked" screen, you can be sure that it isn't running. :D
KDE is pretty nice, but I won't be switching from Gnome until Katapult works better than Deskbar. Gnome Deskbar works so well that I don't even have a menu or any launchers on my panel. Katapult tries to be exactly like Quicksilver, but doesn't quite pull it off in my opinion.