You know that it will have to have DRM built into it, otherwise there is a risk you could remember movies in hi-rez and the entire structure of the entertainment industry would collapase and it would all be your fault.
The whole GNU agenda is yet another reason why I am pretty much giving up Linux these days and switching more of my stuff over to FreeBSD.
The GNU agenda would like to make it possible for you to pkg_add java on BSD. Right now you can't do that. Without GCC the BSD's would have gone nowhere.
We need to give this guy credit. He is not just doing things for the GNU world.
It's the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy versus Encyclopedia Galactica all over again...
A snapshot of wikipedia from 1000 years in the future is thought to have defined the sco corporation as a bunch of mindless idiots who were the first against the wall when the revolution came.
While we are at it we can argue about how a few watts of photons with less energy than infrared can cause cancer while kilowatts from a nice comfy open fire do not.
They had people with cancer and they asked whether they were using/had been using a mobile phone.
Also they didn't survey mobile phone users who have not caught cancer, so they don't have a control. Part of the problem is that the cause of cancer is almost always unknown. They appear are not to be taking the unknowns into account.
Well, what is identified as the main reason behind tumours is the radiation that comes from the antenna of the cell phone.
TFA doesn't say that except with reference to a British study.
Using a hands-free set makes sure that the antenna is far away from your head.
Some phones put so much RF into the hands free kit that radiation exposure is worse on hands free. It would be even worse if you leave the earpiece in between calls.
Kjell Mild, who led the study, said the figures meant that heavy users of mobile phones, for instance of who make mobile phone calls for 2,000 hours or more in their life, had a 240 percent increased risk for a malignant tumor on the side of the head the phone is used.
"The way to get the risk down is to use hands-free," he told Reuters.
How does he know that? Did his study make that conclusion? The article doesn't say anything about use of hands free kits beyond that statement.
I think Mr Mild is making assumptions about the reason for the apparent 240% increase, and factors which he thinks may be important.
Years ago when I was at high school I took a shortcut through the corridor where the year 10 girls had their lockers. I overheard the following conversation. It wasn't difficult to do so because it was shouted from one end of the crowded corridor to the other.
Girl 1: Hey! you hear $othergirl is pregnant again?
Girl 2: No? How did that happen?
Girl 1: Rode a horse bareback in the nude, how do you reckon?
The Lisa actually had a features the first Mac lacked
You know after I wrote that I had a thought about Lisa Simpson, a misfit because she is too smart, and also Bender from futurama who has a 6502 for a brain. So if Matt Groening knows what a 6502 is he knows about the internals of the apple ][, and the kind of machine the Lisa could have been.
WTF? How many years ago was that? Was the Lisa actually a bad thing at the time? Nothing compared to it, with the sole exception of the "system which came after it" the Mac.
Enough about the Lisa thanks. Apple had a go and they got it right in the end.
Stopping people sending directly would be a Bad Thing (I for one only use my ISP for an internet connection, I don't use their mail servers, etc).
If the Government here in.au heard of this and comprehended it the port blocks would go up on port 25 in no time at all.
I use a static smtp route through my ISP because some networks maintain lists of dynamic IP addresses and reject mail from them. Its just easier that way.
Similar situation with my sister in law. She was running fine on Linux, then she wanted an iPod. I put GTKPod on but keeping it working is a major integration exercise.
People with the skills will do fine, people with no skills will do fine as well. People in between are the problem.
The other problem is than skills improve over time, but usually in the direction of "can I run this?". And often the answer is no with Linux.
However, the FreeBSD system seemed to stand up better to high loads than Linux
Not sure about FreeBSD, but I have noticed that NetBSD performs better than Linux when resources are scarce. I tried redhat, and then NetBSD on a very old laptop which I got second hand. NetBSD was more responsive under heavy load.
I put this down to history. BSD had to function on very slow computers in the 80's before linux was written, so the kernel is written with different assumptions about resources.
I know that Theo spouting off does him no good with the corporate world. Has he ever thought of getting someone else on his team to do the PR stuff?
Football clubs here in Melbourne get funds partly by selling annual memberships. With your membership you get a sticker for your car saying that you are a paid up member for year such and such. People get a kick out of displaying evidence of their contribution.
Perhaps OpenBSD could sell something similar: paid up OpenBSD user for 2006 for example and you could link to it in your sig if you wanted to.
And I totally agree with you about Theo and PR. Technically he is exactly the right person to run OpenBSD. Its just that he is not a people person.
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You know that it will have to have DRM built into it, otherwise there is a risk you could remember movies in hi-rez and the entire structure of the entertainment industry would collapase and it would all be your fault.
Linus would most likely not have started the kernel if the GNU userland had not been available for it.
The GNU agenda would like to make it possible for you to pkg_add java on BSD. Right now you can't do that. Without GCC the BSD's would have gone nowhere.
We need to give this guy credit. He is not just doing things for the GNU world.
Yes I remember that now. Should have checked first.
A snapshot of wikipedia from 1000 years in the future is thought to have defined the sco corporation as a bunch of mindless idiots who were the first against the wall when the revolution came.
Don't worry they will design a nice obscure protocol for it.
Voting at a cash dispenser seems a bit dangerous. What if a vote for a certain party causes an "accidental" buffer overflow and spits out money?
While we are at it we can argue about how a few watts of photons with less energy than infrared can cause cancer while kilowatts from a nice comfy open fire do not.
Also it would have nice to know who submitted the story, or did Zonk just find the article?
TFA
Also they didn't survey mobile phone users who have not caught cancer, so they don't have a control. Part of the problem is that the cause of cancer is almost always unknown. They appear are not to be taking the unknowns into account.
TFA doesn't say that except with reference to a British study.
Using a hands-free set makes sure that the antenna is far away from your head.Some phones put so much RF into the hands free kit that radiation exposure is worse on hands free. It would be even worse if you leave the earpiece in between calls.
"The way to get the risk down is to use hands-free," he told Reuters.
How does he know that? Did his study make that conclusion? The article doesn't say anything about use of hands free kits beyond that statement.
I think Mr Mild is making assumptions about the reason for the apparent 240% increase, and factors which he thinks may be important.
Shirley you can't be serious.
I don't think its actually Illegal. But I wouldn't consider it to be safe...
Years ago when I was at high school I took a shortcut through the corridor where the year 10 girls had their lockers. I overheard the following conversation. It wasn't difficult to do so because it was shouted from one end of the crowded corridor to the other.
Girl 1: Hey! you hear $othergirl is pregnant again?
Girl 2: No? How did that happen?
Girl 1: Rode a horse bareback in the nude, how do you reckon?
I can't even make out the text on half the screen.
You know after I wrote that I had a thought about Lisa Simpson, a misfit because she is too smart, and also Bender from futurama who has a 6502 for a brain. So if Matt Groening knows what a 6502 is he knows about the internals of the apple ][, and the kind of machine the Lisa could have been.
From the Forbes article: The Lisa
WTF? How many years ago was that? Was the Lisa actually a bad thing at the time? Nothing compared to it, with the sole exception of the "system which came after it" the Mac.
Enough about the Lisa thanks. Apple had a go and they got it right in the end.
If the Government here in .au heard of this and comprehended it the port blocks would go up on port 25 in no time at all.
I use a static smtp route through my ISP because some networks maintain lists of dynamic IP addresses and reject mail from them. Its just easier that way.
Similar situation with my sister in law. She was running fine on Linux, then she wanted an iPod. I put GTKPod on but keeping it working is a major integration exercise.
People with the skills will do fine, people with no skills will do fine as well. People in between are the problem.
The other problem is than skills improve over time, but usually in the direction of "can I run this?". And often the answer is no with Linux.
Not sure about FreeBSD, but I have noticed that NetBSD performs better than Linux when resources are scarce. I tried redhat, and then NetBSD on a very old laptop which I got second hand. NetBSD was more responsive under heavy load.
I put this down to history. BSD had to function on very slow computers in the 80's before linux was written, so the kernel is written with different assumptions about resources.
Sun just need to track OpenSSH cvs to get all the fixes.
Football clubs here in Melbourne get funds partly by selling annual memberships. With your membership you get a sticker for your car saying that you are a paid up member for year such and such. People get a kick out of displaying evidence of their contribution.
Perhaps OpenBSD could sell something similar: paid up OpenBSD user for 2006 for example and you could link to it in your sig if you wanted to.
And I totally agree with you about Theo and PR. Technically he is exactly the right person to run OpenBSD. Its just that he is not a people person.
This was in the days before cheap broadband, when you really had to buy the CD's.