Nah, bipedalism developed because it frees the arms to manipulate tools. look at primates... some use plant stems to catch ants/insects, and others bash enemies with a nearby sticks and such. Thats a far more reasonable explanation than an illness that forced species to walk on their hindlegs. Or if you believe Genesis, evolution is junk and we're all heretics.
Yea, I'm jealous that my government is throwing money away for private university students.
And are you kidding when you say it won't be expensive? This is a flight conducted by NASA, of the US government. After fuel, if you factor in all the manpower required to conduct something like this safely, not to mention the cost to prepare the students for soemthing like a vommit comet ride, you have one mighty-expensive rollercoaster. I guanrantee it costs at least $200k.
really, what is the benefit of sending 4 college kids up in the vomit comet, which will cost tax payers probably hundreds of thousands of dollars? if the answer is research, we should be sending scientists up their, NOT spoiled duke kids.
Lycoris does have a tablet-linux operating system. And Helium Computers released a $999 tablet computer that was running lycoris.
However, the tablet-for-linux is hardly comparable to its MS counterpart. Apparently there isn't even a hand-writing recognition system in place yet. It also seems that Helium has silently discontinued it since I can't find it on their website.
then they design/manufacture their own motherboard. (Seem ridiculous? thats exactly what RMS did: there's no free compiler, so he made one. there's no free debugger, so he made one. )
GNU/GPL folks aren't going to win over hardware manufacturers by complaining endlessly. Right now there's no incentive for bios companies to open their source.
Thats just an idealogy. The BIOS in my machine works fine as it is. As far as I'm concerned the BIOS manufacturer's are doing a great job and they shouldn't be punished by having to open up their source.
If the GNU GPL folks want an open source BIOS, they should write/build one themselves, and quit harassing hard working people. Isn't that how the entire project got started in the first place? Or can no one using GPL write original code any more?
hardware and GPL software don't mix; its why the zaurus largely failed and why many people prefer NetBSD's BSD license over linux's GPL.
And what on earth is the problem with existing BIOS's? I've never, ever had any problems, I've never even had to update any of them... and I've been building machines for almost ten years now.
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Nah, bipedalism developed because it frees the arms to manipulate tools. look at primates... some use plant stems to catch ants/insects, and others bash enemies with a nearby sticks and such. Thats a far more reasonable explanation than an illness that forced species to walk on their hindlegs. Or if you believe Genesis, evolution is junk and we're all heretics.
Yea, I'm jealous that my government is throwing money away for private university students. And are you kidding when you say it won't be expensive? This is a flight conducted by NASA, of the US government. After fuel, if you factor in all the manpower required to conduct something like this safely, not to mention the cost to prepare the students for soemthing like a vommit comet ride, you have one mighty-expensive rollercoaster. I guanrantee it costs at least $200k.
really, what is the benefit of sending 4 college kids up in the vomit comet, which will cost tax payers probably hundreds of thousands of dollars? if the answer is research, we should be sending scientists up their, NOT spoiled duke kids.
That's why I'm very happy with my Sun and SGI hardware.
Lycoris does have a tablet-linux operating system. And Helium Computers released a $999 tablet computer that was running lycoris. However, the tablet-for-linux is hardly comparable to its MS counterpart. Apparently there isn't even a hand-writing recognition system in place yet. It also seems that Helium has silently discontinued it since I can't find it on their website.
then they design/manufacture their own motherboard. (Seem ridiculous? thats exactly what RMS did: there's no free compiler, so he made one. there's no free debugger, so he made one. ) GNU/GPL folks aren't going to win over hardware manufacturers by complaining endlessly. Right now there's no incentive for bios companies to open their source.
Exactly, not everything needs to be open. Its working fine as closed, and it can only get worse by GPLing it.
Thats just an idealogy. The BIOS in my machine works fine as it is. As far as I'm concerned the BIOS manufacturer's are doing a great job and they shouldn't be punished by having to open up their source. If the GNU GPL folks want an open source BIOS, they should write/build one themselves, and quit harassing hard working people. Isn't that how the entire project got started in the first place? Or can no one using GPL write original code any more?
hardware and GPL software don't mix; its why the zaurus largely failed and why many people prefer NetBSD's BSD license over linux's GPL.
And what on earth is the problem with existing BIOS's? I've never, ever had any problems, I've never even had to update any of them... and I've been building machines for almost ten years now.
there are linux machines on campus? where?