I don't think it's about reducing choice, it's about making the choices work together.
If, for example, I knew that *every* application stored all its config files in the same format and the same directory, then it would make it a damn sight easier to admin a system. Likewise, if I know that a particular switch affects all text handling applications in the same way, wonderful!
There will never be a 'one and only Linux', but there can certainly be a way to make sure I don't need different Debian, Red-Hat, Gentoo, Slack, SuSE, Mandrake and Fedora packages for the same thing (which undoubtedly store things in different places, and need recompiling to deal with a quirk due to the fact you're using KDE and not Gnome).
I had a similar situation entirely by accident. Back in the dim and distant past I registered a.com with my school's name and started posting all the useful information. Last year I was threatened with legal action because it "wasn't material authorised by the school". Last time I checked, it was my hosting, domain and intellectual property I was using.
Just get something which people treat as the official and definitive (like a.com) and they will believe.
The grandparent was talking about 'claim culture', a definate US import of suing for everything under the sun. Sue McDonalds for making you fat. Sue rollerblade manufacturers for falling off. Sue kitchen knife manufacturers for "not knowing the edge would be sharp since there wasn't a warning".
Blaming America is almost a sport in the UK, but this one is actually a sensible point. Claim culture is a US import, and it's nothing but a waste of time and the reason people need to be warned about everything.
Problems in space shouldn't need a fully stocked shuttle ready to go in 24 hours, they should have some method of getting astronauts back onto earth without needing to waste time at this end.
Escape modules or 'lifeboats' would be a much nicer solution. Especially if (I saw this on one of the comments further down) the lifeboats are sitting idle in orbit anyway and can propel themselves to the shuttle.
Hell, even ready-to-go unmanned rockets with lifeboats could be launched from points on earth to almost any orbit very quickly. I would rather be climbing into a re-entry ready pod than wait for another shuttle to rendezvous with me. Notice the ISS has an escape pod and doesn't rely on Thunderbirds.
Some of us only have debit cards, you insensitive clod!
Seriously though - I'm 17. I cannot therefore have a credit card. I use my debit card for all major purchases and lots of minor ones, I'll do things like put lunch for me and my friends (often no more than £20, we all have Subways or McDonalds) on my debit card. It sucks when used for fraud, but hey, that's life.
I have a VoIP number which gets routed dynamically. If I'm at my PC, my PC takes the call. If I'm in the house but not on my PC then either my palmtop takes the call (if turned on) or my mobile does. If i'm not in range of my PC then it gets diverted over POTS to my mobile.
It's coming, for some people it's already here. Small 'mobile ready' chips will only make it easier.
But I have a Napster subscription for unlimited music at £10/month. Sure I can't burn it or sync it with my portable player, but as long as I have internet access it works. Would unlimited movies be included in this package?
A foetus cannot be considered living until it can survive independantly of the mother without immediate intensive medical aid.
If you look closely, abortions are not permitted anywhere near the point at which the foetus can survive without the mother UNLESS there is a significant risk to the life or mental wellbeing of the mother should the child not be aborted.
I've dealt with this crap, when you've had to actually sit down with someone who wanted an abortion (rape, first child died after 3 months, 2nd rape she didn't want it again) then you can say "Oh it shouldn't be allowed". Until then, I'll leave it to the individual.
Nope. Windows Server 2003 ships with all the goodies. A quick Remote Desktop into mine (which is faily base, but stripped down slightly) reveals Media Player, CD Player, Sound Recorder, Outlook Express, Paint, Imaging, Calculator, NetMeeting, Journal Viewer...
Offtopic... come on moderators, it's a valid point
Quick fix for those of you not wanting to download plugins:
Ctrl + Ctrl -
This seems to fix all render bugs by forcing Firefox to re-render the page (it's a zoom change) without waiting for anything from the server (which IIRC is the root cause).
SIPgate are currently providing me with my VoIP number, running back to any one of the variety of freeware SIP softphones on my PC. I am also seriously considering getting a hardware SIP phone to sit on my desk, since it's much nicer than having to use my headset all the time.
1. Hubble and ISS are nowhere near each other 2. Hubble and ISS are in different orbits 3. Hubble isn't designed to attach to the ISS 4. The ISS isn't designed to have large metal tubes attached to it 5. Some very, very careful sums will be thrown out of whack 6. You need to get a mission up there to move Hubble and ISS together, a major undertaking for which you may as well just repair Hubble.
I think you're thinking of something different. Keyswitch isolators are more commonly used in localised sites, such as labs, where occasional maintenance is performed. They usually don't cut power to hundreds of critical servers, even bypassing the usual UPS systems.
The EPO, on the other hand, is designed to cut all the power to everything. This comes in useful in things like fires, where you really don't want to be fumbling around for keys to the isolator.
I have to disagree. A failure by definition is something working how it is not intended - the whole point of an EPO is to take out the power regardless of anything else.
However, what most VoIP solutions seem to lack is the idea that you can install them and 'phone' an IP address. You still need a number, it still traverses over POTS for the most part, and it usually costs. Skype just works over existing networks, and whilst I'm no fan of locking people into one solution Skype does actually work.
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I don't think it's about reducing choice, it's about making the choices work together.
If, for example, I knew that *every* application stored all its config files in the same format and the same directory, then it would make it a damn sight easier to admin a system. Likewise, if I know that a particular switch affects all text handling applications in the same way, wonderful!
There will never be a 'one and only Linux', but there can certainly be a way to make sure I don't need different Debian, Red-Hat, Gentoo, Slack, SuSE, Mandrake and Fedora packages for the same thing (which undoubtedly store things in different places, and need recompiling to deal with a quirk due to the fact you're using KDE and not Gnome).
I had a similar situation entirely by accident. Back in the dim and distant past I registered a .com with my school's name and started posting all the useful information. Last year I was threatened with legal action because it "wasn't material authorised by the school". Last time I checked, it was my hosting, domain and intellectual property I was using.
.com) and they will believe.
Just get something which people treat as the official and definitive (like a
I must object to this, although I see your point.
The grandparent was talking about 'claim culture', a definate US import of suing for everything under the sun. Sue McDonalds for making you fat. Sue rollerblade manufacturers for falling off. Sue kitchen knife manufacturers for "not knowing the edge would be sharp since there wasn't a warning".
Blaming America is almost a sport in the UK, but this one is actually a sensible point. Claim culture is a US import, and it's nothing but a waste of time and the reason people need to be warned about everything.
One of them in the centRE of the word?
Problems in space shouldn't need a fully stocked shuttle ready to go in 24 hours, they should have some method of getting astronauts back onto earth without needing to waste time at this end.
Escape modules or 'lifeboats' would be a much nicer solution. Especially if (I saw this on one of the comments further down) the lifeboats are sitting idle in orbit anyway and can propel themselves to the shuttle.
Hell, even ready-to-go unmanned rockets with lifeboats could be launched from points on earth to almost any orbit very quickly. I would rather be climbing into a re-entry ready pod than wait for another shuttle to rendezvous with me. Notice the ISS has an escape pod and doesn't rely on Thunderbirds.
Some of us only have debit cards, you insensitive clod!
Seriously though - I'm 17. I cannot therefore have a credit card. I use my debit card for all major purchases and lots of minor ones, I'll do things like put lunch for me and my friends (often no more than £20, we all have Subways or McDonalds) on my debit card. It sucks when used for fraud, but hey, that's life.
And you wonder why Joe Public won't use Linux...
"If you can read this you're too close?"
I think they should go stick a towel on it.
Chances are games like The Sims may simply not have any legal vendors in China. Therefore any version being sold must be pirated - QED.
Five activations? MSDN Universal gives me 10 for all products.
If Google News released an RSS feed, even a subscription only one, I would buy it. Seriously.
Google News gets me all the headlines, sorted, categorised, prioratised and without corporate sponsorship biasing every article the same way.
I have a VoIP number which gets routed dynamically. If I'm at my PC, my PC takes the call. If I'm in the house but not on my PC then either my palmtop takes the call (if turned on) or my mobile does. If i'm not in range of my PC then it gets diverted over POTS to my mobile.
It's coming, for some people it's already here. Small 'mobile ready' chips will only make it easier.
But I have a Napster subscription for unlimited music at £10/month. Sure I can't burn it or sync it with my portable player, but as long as I have internet access it works. Would unlimited movies be included in this package?
But cricket is an excellent sport - the rules are too complex for anyone except the UK, Australia and the West Indies to understand properly.
A foetus cannot be considered living until it can survive independantly of the mother without immediate intensive medical aid.
If you look closely, abortions are not permitted anywhere near the point at which the foetus can survive without the mother UNLESS there is a significant risk to the life or mental wellbeing of the mother should the child not be aborted.
I've dealt with this crap, when you've had to actually sit down with someone who wanted an abortion (rape, first child died after 3 months, 2nd rape she didn't want it again) then you can say "Oh it shouldn't be allowed". Until then, I'll leave it to the individual.
Nope. Windows Server 2003 ships with all the goodies. A quick Remote Desktop into mine (which is faily base, but stripped down slightly) reveals Media Player, CD Player, Sound Recorder, Outlook Express, Paint, Imaging, Calculator, NetMeeting, Journal Viewer...
Offtopic... come on moderators, it's a valid point
Quick fix for those of you not wanting to download plugins:
Ctrl +
Ctrl -
This seems to fix all render bugs by forcing Firefox to re-render the page (it's a zoom change) without waiting for anything from the server (which IIRC is the root cause).
SIPgate are currently providing me with my VoIP number, running back to any one of the variety of freeware SIP softphones on my PC. I am also seriously considering getting a hardware SIP phone to sit on my desk, since it's much nicer than having to use my headset all the time.
I can't believe I did that *beats head against the wall*
Blame one of the parents for blabbing on about Beethoven whilst I go beat my self against a solid surface again...
*walks off in shame*
I'd say because several million paper documents don't just digitise, OCR and index themselves automatically.
I have some 3000 pieces of paper floating around my desk, I'm slowly digitising them:
a. When a document is used, it is scanned and digitised and
b. I digitise on average a folder every week just as background
I reckon it'll take me a while yet. Now, even if every desk clerk in the FBI was employed digitising documents it would take a very, very long time.
Ever heard of Beethoven's 1812 Overture? Try playing that without a decent subwoofer and response.
Interesting idea, with some major flaws.
1. Hubble and ISS are nowhere near each other
2. Hubble and ISS are in different orbits
3. Hubble isn't designed to attach to the ISS
4. The ISS isn't designed to have large metal tubes attached to it
5. Some very, very careful sums will be thrown out of whack
6. You need to get a mission up there to move Hubble and ISS together, a major undertaking for which you may as well just repair Hubble.
I think you're thinking of something different. Keyswitch isolators are more commonly used in localised sites, such as labs, where occasional maintenance is performed. They usually don't cut power to hundreds of critical servers, even bypassing the usual UPS systems.
The EPO, on the other hand, is designed to cut all the power to everything. This comes in useful in things like fires, where you really don't want to be fumbling around for keys to the isolator.
I have to disagree. A failure by definition is something working how it is not intended - the whole point of an EPO is to take out the power regardless of anything else.
However, what most VoIP solutions seem to lack is the idea that you can install them and 'phone' an IP address. You still need a number, it still traverses over POTS for the most part, and it usually costs. Skype just works over existing networks, and whilst I'm no fan of locking people into one solution Skype does actually work.