Cedaga costs $44.95 and you also need Linspire Five-0 which costs $49.95 so that's almost $95.
I'd rather have a dual-boot system with Windows than some sort of emulation software that may not boot a quarter of my games.
You can't just delete somebody from the database, because then you have no record of them opting-out the next time you do a data load from your source.
Maybe you should tell 'the source' you don't want them to give your info in the first place. Am I the only one who thinks it is strange that in order NOT to be in a database they make a special record of all your data? That's like cleaning the office by throwing all papers away but taking a copy for safety first.
Once the genie has left the bottle, there is NO pushing it back in. Once your data is out there, you have NO control whatsoever. It is noble to rely on the honesty of others (the govt., whoever) but it makes you weak. I may sound paranoid, but that's just the way it is.
Is it me, or does the Fox article contradict itself?
...crashed back to Earth when its booster rocket failed less than two minutes after Tuesday's takeoff, Russian space officials said Wednesday. ... ...U.S. scientists had said earlier that they possibly had detected signals from Cosmos 1"
Russians say A, Americans say B. The article doesn't contradict itself, Russians and Americans just disagree.
True, but it even isn't an 'enabling' factor: the being 'not normal' was. Still following the logic, both the acid and the invention of the Mac were consequences of (the enabling factor) of being 'not normal'. He could also have been 'not normal' without doing acid (or without inventing the Mac for that matter). The acid was NOT necessary.
My experience - most of them were too immature to appreciate the opportunity they had, and they had insufficient life experience to know that they should feel passionate about anything at all, let alone learning.
Amen to that and an interesting story! I teach in college and lot of students don't realise the opportunities they get. Also, some of them give up (=do not intend to take exams) but _still_ attend lab sessions, being bored to death, annoying me and others, instead of standing up for themselves and deciding whether or not they want to get the degree. If yes: go for it. If no: go and do something else.
Maybe if he was a 'normal' person he would have never tried acid in the first place, but would he create Apple? I think not.
Please allow me some nitpicking: maybe him being 'creative' caused him to do acid AND to invent the Mac, but there is no causal effect between the acid and the Mac. Therefore it does not qualify as 'good' (following the reasoning in this thread, I am not expressing my personal opinion here). If he would have invented the Mac without having done the acid, this may have even been better.
IMHO this doesn't really contradict the OP: at the time you were doing all this cool stuff you weren't (behaving like) a nerd. And you weren't having fun *without* women too.
I think a better remark is that you cannot have your cake and eat it: if you want to do wild partying, do wild partying. If you want to have an ascetic nerd-life, so be it. But it is illogic to behave nerdly first and _afterwards_ complain you get 'worn' girls who already had all the fun (though I notice myself making this mistake too).
I've often pondered on what would happen if we had, say, some sort of nuclear war that put all the current methods of manufacture out of action. At the moment, everything is built on having a certain amount of technology available to build upon to fabricate the "latest" technology.
I agree completely with everything you said except this last bit: if technology disappears, chances are high that it will disapear 'further' than TTL logic. As someone else pointed out we would also have other worries.
That would also mean that it was consuming well under half the power. (I'm assuming watts->degrees is exponential.)
Watts->degrees is linear: cooling devices (e.g. fins) specify the removed heat as a function of the temperature difference (to ambient), e.g. 1W per 5C. Increasing the dissipation by a factor x will increase the difference with the ambient temparature by a factor x too, as your own calculations indicate.
This is an ancient idea, embodied by Laplace's Demon. This would be a very intelligent creature with a perfect knowledge of the whole universe. Laplace thought such a creature would be able to predict everything, because it knows the mechanics and the initial conditions of the system. Einstein, Heisenberg et al later showed that this could not work, because at small scale Newton's laws don't apply anymore.
When I shopped on their "Home User" site, I got a price that was $300 more than if I put in some bogus corporation name and shopped the "Small Business" site. Guess which one I ended up using? To me, it is repugnant that I had to even go through all of those steps. Volume deals for corporate customers I can understand, but blatant price discrepancies just because you browse a site differently than another single customer is bad business
"just because you browse a site differently"="just because you lie to them".
You can use shorter antennas indeed. Very short ones are called electric dipoles and their resolution is moreless independent of the length (and bad). To get the resolution (as you describe) you NEED a large antenna/aperture/lens/...
Hmm, and a quick scan the linked articles don't really mention 800nm.... Was someone just pulling that number out of their ass, roland?
No, someone wasn't reading TFA:
"This medical robot, dubbed 'bugbot,' is being developed at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in its NanoRobotics Laboratory. It will measure less than 800 nanometers in diameter and will transmit."
Calling the whole system "Linux" leads people to think that the system's development was started in 1991 by Linus Torvalds. That is what most users seem to think.
Never would have occurred to me, personally.
Actually I did for some time, in between I heard about linux and about GNU. Probably I am not the only one.
See, he says things like this, and it sounds to me like his love of freedom comes second to his love of the spotlight...
Stallman is a great man in many ways. But on this one specific point, he should practice what he preaches a little more rigorously. Such pettiness is unbecoming for a man of his stature.
Yes and no. He is a fanatic no doubt, and maybe a fanatic is what it takes to stand tall and completely uncompromised. I am not an RMS expert, but can imagine that he is just so focused of GNU (not on RMS) that this gives the impression he wants to be in the spotlight. A drawback of fanatics is that they 'draw the line'
at infinity. In other words, what you call 'unbecoming' may be unavoidable. (Just like many geniuses were complete weirdos: maybe some characteristics exclude others).
Funny, he refused to speak to a linux user's group unless they changed their name to be a GNU/Linux group.
I'd say that qualifies as telling people how to refer to it.
Hm, you have got a point there.
Well, not to nitpick, but he still left the choice up to them, the only consequence being that he wouldn't speak there. I can imagine he doesn't want to spend his time on a group which (in his opinion) doesn't give gnu the credit it deserves.
Still, you (and the GP) have a point there...
If this is "free as in speech", why the merry hell is he telling me how I may and may not refer to the operating system I use.
1) he doesn't tell you how you should refer to it. HE refers to it that way
2) he won't sue you if you call it different
3) He basically invented GNU which is indeed a major part of what most people call 'a linux installation'. Please give the man a break when he wants to refer to it as GNU/linux.
4) if you think of something similar as GNU, you can call it anyway you want.
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North Korea Trains New Bullets.
Somehow it sounds funny that the overhead associated with running a game is a waste of time.
"No, can't lose any time right now, I should switch to solitaire immediately..."
How much does your Windows license cost?
I kid you not. Flesh Gordon featured the sex ray from the planet Porno. I have to admit i saw that movie and, well, it sucks.
Maybe you should tell 'the source' you don't want them to give your info in the first place. Am I the only one who thinks it is strange that in order NOT to be in a database they make a special record of all your data? That's like cleaning the office by throwing all papers away but taking a copy for safety first.
Once the genie has left the bottle, there is NO pushing it back in. Once your data is out there, you have NO control whatsoever. It is noble to rely on the honesty of others (the govt., whoever) but it makes you weak. I may sound paranoid, but that's just the way it is.
DN Forever out soon...
Russians say A, Americans say B. The article doesn't contradict itself, Russians and Americans just disagree.
True, but it even isn't an 'enabling' factor: the being 'not normal' was. Still following the logic, both the acid and the invention of the Mac were consequences of (the enabling factor) of being 'not normal'. He could also have been 'not normal' without doing acid (or without inventing the Mac for that matter). The acid was NOT necessary.
Amen to that and an interesting story! I teach in college and lot of students don't realise the opportunities they get. Also, some of them give up (=do not intend to take exams) but _still_ attend lab sessions, being bored to death, annoying me and others, instead of standing up for themselves and deciding whether or not they want to get the degree. If yes: go for it. If no: go and do something else.
Please allow me some nitpicking: maybe him being 'creative' caused him to do acid AND to invent the Mac, but there is no causal effect between the acid and the Mac. Therefore it does not qualify as 'good' (following the reasoning in this thread, I am not expressing my personal opinion here). If he would have invented the Mac without having done the acid, this may have even been better.
No way. FTA:"...passengers will wear old obsolete satellites"
Yeah. We should think of a word for this, like... "poker countenance" or so...
I think a better remark is that you cannot have your cake and eat it: if you want to do wild partying, do wild partying. If you want to have an ascetic nerd-life, so be it. But it is illogic to behave nerdly first and _afterwards_ complain you get 'worn' girls who already had all the fun (though I notice myself making this mistake too).
I agree completely with everything you said except this last bit: if technology disappears, chances are high that it will disapear 'further' than TTL logic. As someone else pointed out we would also have other worries.
Unless you suck it vacuum.
Watts->degrees is linear: cooling devices (e.g. fins) specify the removed heat as a function of the temperature difference (to ambient), e.g. 1W per 5C. Increasing the dissipation by a factor x will increase the difference with the ambient temparature by a factor x too, as your own calculations indicate.
This is an ancient idea, embodied by Laplace's Demon. This would be a very intelligent creature with a perfect knowledge of the whole universe. Laplace thought such a creature would be able to predict everything, because it knows the mechanics and the initial conditions of the system. Einstein, Heisenberg et al later showed that this could not work, because at small scale Newton's laws don't apply anymore.
"just because you browse a site differently"="just because you lie to them".
No, they finally realised all windows machines will be 0wn3d sooner or later...
Maybe it even doesn't exist. Looks like an excellent candidate for the povray competition.
You can use shorter antennas indeed. Very short ones are called electric dipoles and their resolution is moreless independent of the length (and bad). To get the resolution (as you describe) you NEED a large antenna/aperture/lens/...
No, someone wasn't reading TFA:
"This medical robot, dubbed 'bugbot,' is being developed at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in its NanoRobotics Laboratory. It will measure less than 800 nanometers in diameter and will transmit."
Never would have occurred to me, personally.
Actually I did for some time, in between I heard about linux and about GNU. Probably I am not the only one.
See, he says things like this, and it sounds to me like his love of freedom comes second to his love of the spotlight...
Stallman is a great man in many ways. But on this one specific point, he should practice what he preaches a little more rigorously. Such pettiness is unbecoming for a man of his stature.
Yes and no. He is a fanatic no doubt, and maybe a fanatic is what it takes to stand tall and completely uncompromised. I am not an RMS expert, but can imagine that he is just so focused of GNU (not on RMS) that this gives the impression he wants to be in the spotlight. A drawback of fanatics is that they 'draw the line' at infinity. In other words, what you call 'unbecoming' may be unavoidable. (Just like many geniuses were complete weirdos: maybe some characteristics exclude others).
Hm, you have got a point there.
Well, not to nitpick, but he still left the choice up to them, the only consequence being that he wouldn't speak there. I can imagine he doesn't want to spend his time on a group which (in his opinion) doesn't give gnu the credit it deserves.
Still, you (and the GP) have a point there...
1) he doesn't tell you how you should refer to it. HE refers to it that way
2) he won't sue you if you call it different
3) He basically invented GNU which is indeed a major part of what most people call 'a linux installation'. Please give the man a break when he wants to refer to it as GNU/linux.
4) if you think of something similar as GNU, you can call it anyway you want.