My aversion to homosexuality has nothing to do with Christianity. My aversion is rooted in evolution; the "yuck" factor maintains reproduction. Evolution depends entirely on reproduction!
A lot of Christians make too much noise about a minor sin like homosexuality that is none of their damned business (and none of mine) while ignoring major sins like malicious lying, adultery, war, wanting others' possessions, stealing, execution of criminals, etc.
They would try to take a speck from their brother's eye when there is a two by four plank in their own. IMO they should stay out of the old testament and read the testament that supersedes it.
Oh come on, because they're different doesn't mean there's reason for aversion? They just differ in builtin preferences.
You don't 'yuck' your grandparents because they're too old to reproduce, do you?
For home use the smaller 'lighter' alternatives are imho to be preferred over $anyOffice. As long as they do the job, and can default 'save' in a compatible fileformat, there is not really a reason to use BIG applications. Of course YMMV.
Why do all the antispam nazi's solutions ignore the collateral damage to innocent by standers? "They should educate themselves" "they should switch providers" they scream. Black lists do nothing but break the system. I'd rather get all the spam than have important mail bounce. Just last week I had a mission critical email bounce because of some lame blacklist. This email not getting to its recipient would have basically ruined my life. Its a good thing I have the ability to send mail from more than once source.
If you formulate your mails the same way you usually formulate your posts on Slashdot , I'm really not surprised, Mr. Fr0sti P1ss GNNA.
And with about 5 million Macs out there, why wouldn't said programmer do so?
Because the same amount of time invested opens up a lot more victims.
And I'm saying that an environment of 5 million machines WOULD be exploited if it COULD be exploited.
First off, there are mac exploits, just not a lot. Second off, if the same amount of invested effort would give you a pool of potential victims that is orders of magnitude larger, why would you waste your time.
Most mac-users don't use anti-virus programs. They just don't. So that would make the total number of targets lower, but the vulnerability of them higher. So it should be an interesting pool of victims indeed, despite the lower market-share.
It's not a standard theregister-rss-feed, but since Simon only does the BOFH on theregister, it works, and the feed is good for at least a bright smile every Friday.
Ibook 500 mHz, 320 ram so it was quite a nice machine SEVEN years ago.
Yet Opera 6.5 runs GOOD, whether Firefox 3 won't run or just takes ages to start. Only/main advantage of FF is that it's customisable, with all the addons to 'improve the browsing-experience'.
I really appreciate OSS but at the moment Opera is the best browser for my older machines. My 2 cents.
But still with so much software resembling something you could buy from Staples 20 years ago, it kinda takes the "righteousness" out of the whole free software movement. Shoplift something from Staples or Office Max and see if you still have the feeling you are a part of an important "movement".
I'm stunned, really. Do you really not understand the difference between 'shoplifting' and 'receiving a gift'?
I should say that the data 23andMe will collect is very valuable.
Yes, I am quite sure that some companies will pay a lot of money for the results in this research. I'm also quite sure that it's a bit double-sided: the company with the winning bid could be researching the cure for cancer, but it could also be an insurance company. I don't know but I suggest to be careful in these matters.
I get the "nostalgia" and "historical interest" thing, but don't waste 5 tons of material doing it! If anything, miniaturize it. It'd be just as cool. Even better? Make an OpenGL version of it and turn it into a screensaver. Personally I'd think it's 5 tons of material well-spent. It was things like these that made me think "How does it work?" when I was a wee lad.
I remember reading his collected short stories, one of them descriped an emergency spacewalk in hard vacuum, without suit... Chilling... He wás good. He died in Sri Lanka, a good place to spend quality time. I'll miss him, like a lot of people will do.
Well,.. the basics that is. Install, what-is where, and after a few day days we slowly submerge into bash.
And it's fun. They like it, it's like assembling a toy that wórks. Learning linux is discovering that you are smart, that you can solve things, that google ís your friend, that it's not the computers fault, there are no faults, just fun puzzles to be solved.
In a few weeks I'll try to create a beowulf cluster with them, it might work. Or not. But it will be fun!
Fully automated docking... hmm.. somehow I think the results of the autonomous docking will be significant for other fields. Imagine fully automated units on Mars, to be sent in advance? Fully automated mining on the moon? I think this is a pretty big step forward.
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In the Netherlands all mobile numbers start with 06. Why not in the US?
Fixed.
My aversion to homosexuality has nothing to do with Christianity. My aversion is rooted in evolution; the "yuck" factor maintains reproduction. Evolution depends entirely on reproduction!
A lot of Christians make too much noise about a minor sin like homosexuality that is none of their damned business (and none of mine) while ignoring major sins like malicious lying, adultery, war, wanting others' possessions, stealing, execution of criminals, etc.
They would try to take a speck from their brother's eye when there is a two by four plank in their own. IMO they should stay out of the old testament and read the testament that supersedes it.
Oh come on, because they're different doesn't mean there's reason for aversion? They just differ in builtin preferences.
You don't 'yuck' your grandparents because they're too old to reproduce, do you?
French in the Netherlands? Please, no. Major suggestion: learn not to speak, but to understand.
What if all SETI@Home crunchers donate 1 dollar/Euro? Problem temporarily solved, isn't it?
For home use the smaller 'lighter' alternatives are imho to be preferred over $anyOffice. As long as they do the job, and can default 'save' in a compatible fileformat, there is not really a reason to use BIG applications. Of course YMMV.
Why do all the antispam nazi's solutions ignore the collateral damage to innocent by standers? "They should educate themselves" "they should switch providers" they scream. Black lists do nothing but break the system. I'd rather get all the spam than have important mail bounce. Just last week I had a mission critical email bounce because of some lame blacklist. This email not getting to its recipient would have basically ruined my life. Its a good thing I have the ability to send mail from more than once source.
If you formulate your mails the same way you usually formulate your posts on Slashdot , I'm really not surprised, Mr. Fr0sti P1ss GNNA.
Most mac-users don't use anti-virus programs. They just don't. So that would make the total number of targets lower, but the vulnerability of them higher. So it should be an interesting pool of victims indeed, despite the lower market-share.
It's not a standard theregister-rss-feed, but since Simon only does the BOFH on theregister, it works, and the feed is good for at least a bright smile every Friday.
http://www.chaosmanorreviews.com/rss.xml (Jerry Pournelle, author etc, sort of tech diary)
http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default (Fake Steve Jobs, 'interesting views')
I've got more but I thought these were less obvious, yet as 'must-have' as theregister and slashdot.
Yet Opera 6.5 runs GOOD, whether Firefox 3 won't run or just takes ages to start. Only/main advantage of FF is that it's customisable, with all the addons to 'improve the browsing-experience'.
I really appreciate OSS but at the moment Opera is the best browser for my older machines. My 2 cents.
for info on the rise of Slammer, dated January 27, 2003.
Also from TFA: The switch underwent three years of development, configuration and qualification testing before it journeyed into space.
Huh?
I understand they took off-the-shelve hardware, and ran tests on it for 3 years. No hardware modification, no tweaks etc.I like a bit of quality.
Does anyone know whether the presentation is available in other format than .swf? Somehow it doesn't run, just crawls by with less than 1 fps.
I'm stunned, really. Do you really not understand the difference between 'shoplifting' and 'receiving a gift'?
Yes, I am quite sure that some companies will pay a lot of money for the results in this research. I'm also quite sure that it's a bit double-sided: the company with the winning bid could be researching the cure for cancer, but it could also be an insurance company. I don't know but I suggest to be careful in these matters.
I'll use this in class to point out the importance of good backup strategies. And security: this data should not have left the company.
I remember reading his collected short stories, one of them descriped an emergency spacewalk in hard vacuum, without suit... Chilling... He wás good.
He died in Sri Lanka, a good place to spend quality time. I'll miss him, like a lot of people will do.
http://dana.ucc.nau.edu/~sa276/vamp.htm Confirmed. And that is why graves tend to be covered with a lot of pebbles sometimes.
And it's fun. They like it, it's like assembling a toy that wórks. Learning linux is discovering that you are smart, that you can solve things, that google ís your friend, that it's not the computers fault, there are no faults, just fun puzzles to be solved.
In a few weeks I'll try to create a beowulf cluster with them, it might work. Or not. But it will be fun!
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75459 mentions a lot of shortcuts, including command-shift-n, the key-combo for new folders.
command-shift-n? http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75459 lists more.
Fully automated docking... hmm.. somehow I think the results of the autonomous docking will be significant for other fields. Imagine fully automated units on Mars, to be sent in advance? Fully automated mining on the moon?
I think this is a pretty big step forward.