Funny, but as a vegan I actually encourage this type of research. In time, I believe it will be more econimical to produce than real meat, just as tasty, and obviously more ethical to consume. In fact, I can't think of a better practical way to further my cause of preventing the slaughter of farm animals.
Explorer automatically reads file attributes regardless of whether or not the user actually highlights, clicks on, reads, or opens the file.
Which isn't a bad thing in itself. AFAIK, Nautilus does this too (the first bit of text files is displayed in their icons), and I actually think it's a nice feature.
The real problem of course is that a maliciously formed file can compromize the entire system. Nautilus couldn't do that if it tried.
The Nikon D100, a "prosumer" digital SLR camera is over $2000, and that's just for a body, no lens. I can get a Nikon F100, the professional Nikon film camera, for half that.
Here's the difference: the prices and technology of professional film cameras are rather more stable; digital just gets better and better while the price sinks like a rock. Watch out... hang on too long and you'll be part of a dying herd. Even the artsy fartsy kids are doing it!
You write that I'm covering up a hole in evolutionary theory, but you failed to respond to what I actually wrote.
It makes perfect sense. Perhaps some ASCII art will help to clear up any confusion.
Species A /\ (natural selection) / \ Species B \ Species C
Your original post seems to claim that there has been a dramatic jump between species B and C (or between A and C). I have presented an argument to the contrary. Now it is your job to either do a better job of explaining what kind of dramatic jumps exist, or explain why my argument is flawed.
CBG: Egad! A maniac cutting a swath of destruction. This is a job for the Green Lantern, Thundra, or possibly... Ghost Rider! Otto: What about Superman? CBG: Oh please...
You want to know when Linux is going to be truly ready for the home desktop? It will be ready when Microsoft starts really pushing Palladium. [...] When Microsoft makes it impossible for people to use their computers like they want, all of a sudden folks are going to realize that Linux isn't that hard to use after all.
I wish I could agree with you, but I think you give too much credit to consumers, and not enough to MS's sleazy tactics.
1) When MS sees its Palladium ship start to spring a hole, it's going to do whatever it can (which is a lot) to plug it. One way or another, MS always seems to make it out with few public scars. Admittedly, MS's overall reputation is not great even among the general population, but...
2) Consumers don't care. If they did, MS would not still have a >90% Sleeper Hold on the market. In a utopia, consumers would make an educated choice of available options, but not in our world. Aunt Tillie may curse MS, her computer, and all that is holy when she BSODs, but she always bows and reboots.
Criminals will get guns regardless of whether they're legal or not. Most criminals don't even get guns legitimately; they're usually stolen from gun shops, other people, or bought from gun shows, where they don't have to follow the 7-day laws. Either way, they're acquired through the black market. Criminals (or at least intelligent criminals) don't just go out and buy assault rifles, because they know they can be traced.
But if guns are illegal, there will be no gun shows or gun shops from which to steal. That's not to say that "intelligent" criminals could not still get guns, but let's remember that most criminals are not intelligent in that sense. I'm not prepared to argue that we should ban guns, just wanted to point out your mistake.
What it comes down to is we need to reevaluate our moral responsibilites, and keep the government out of it...
Ahh, wouldn't it be great if everyone would reevaluate their morals into something that I can accept? I would love that. What happens when my morals conflict with my neighbor's? (Whomever has the most guns wins?)
But how do you propose we do it? We've got plenty of religion, which doesn't seem to help too much. My vote is for education. Should the government stay out of education, too? What's the libertarian take on this?
According to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 2002 EM7 could smack into Earth in 2093. But don't tell the grandchildren to head to the hills just yet...
I wasn't going to. They'd be waiting in the hills for 91 years, by which time they'd have their own grandchildren to warn!
Man that's one serious case of penis inferiority complex! The cover is blown when you name your penis-compensator "PENIS". I wonder what Freud would have to say about all this...;)
Actually, it is bugfixes (and more)
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[Joey Hess's] requirements for packages to go into stable:
1. The package fixes a security problem. An advisory by our own Security Team would be quite helpful.
2. The package fixes a critical bug which can lead into data loss, data corruption, or an overly broken system, or the package is broken or not usable (anymore).
3. The stable version of the package is not installable at all due to broken or unmet dependencies or broken installation scripts
4. The package gets all architectures in stable in sync.
5. All released architectures have to be in sync.
> Does anyone else think the Caldera icon looks like a blue mickey mouse on a balloon?
> > you mean im not the only one? phew. no matter how many times i look at it, i always see it as mickey mouse before i see it as a C.
Disney hath control over thou inter-associaction brain functions...
Re:How long has Compaq been making magnets?
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From the Magnequence patent FAQ:
"Furthermore, it is out opinion that unlicensed companies that (1) make Nd-Fe-B magnets from melt spun Nd-Fe-B powder, or (2) incorporate such magnets into their products, (such as disc drives), in countries where MQ Inc. does not have patents, and then exports those magnets or products to countries where MQ Inc. does have patents (such as the United States) would be violating those patents."
So, it's their opinion that Compaq (a US corporation) should be held responsible, since {insert magnet maker located in non-abiding country} cannot be held accountable.
It seems like this is the crux of a lot of tech-law issues. What country's laws apply when there are numerous countries involved in one specific act. Is this different than previous cases in some way? If not, how have (US) courts tended to rule in this type of case?
I use both (no, really I do!) and I can tell you that on both my work and home computers (both beefy), Nutscrape is loads faster than Mozilla. I like Mozilla, and used to use it exclusively. But then one lonely day I tried Netscape again and was pretty surprised at how fast it was. 4.76 has taken care of most of the previous 4.7x bugs too.
I think Netscape is ugly (and I really hate the widgets), and I think Mozilla is purdy. But I'll take functionality over eye candy for now.
I know ASP wouldn't break Linux Netscape (wretched browser it is...), I only mentioned it because most ASP sites I've viewed don't care about Linux compatibility.
If it were PHP. for instance, it would be less likely to break my Linux browser because PHP is more popular among Linux hackers (and ASP is not very popular at all among hackers period).
From the article:
This new planet is therefore located in the "habitable zone" where temperatures like those on the Earth are possible. Still, it is a giant, gaseous planet (with a minimum mass of 3.5 times that of Jupiter, or about 1000 times that of the Earth) and thus an unlikely place for the development of life. Nevertheless, it may be orbited by one or more moons on which a more bio-friendly environment has evolved.
... their structure is about as simple as one could imagine: an electrode, some organic stuff, then another electrode. Hook it up to a voltage and, presto, out comes light.
Does anyone know precisely what this "organic stuff" is? The article mentions polymers, but I'd like a more specific description.
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Funny, but as a vegan I actually encourage this type of research.
In time, I believe it will be more econimical to produce than real meat, just as tasty, and obviously more ethical to consume. In fact, I can't think of a better practical way to further my cause of preventing the slaughter of farm animals.
Explorer automatically reads file attributes regardless of whether or not the user actually highlights, clicks on, reads, or opens the file.
Which isn't a bad thing in itself. AFAIK, Nautilus does this too (the first bit of text files is displayed in their icons), and I actually think it's a nice feature.
The real problem of course is that a maliciously formed file can compromize the entire system. Nautilus couldn't do that if it tried.
The next version of the heart of the Linux operating system is expected by June, project founder and leader Linus Torvalds predicted on Thursday.
RMS is blowing steam out his ears. Heart of the Linux OS?! AHHHHHHHHHH!!
"It's OK, Richard, just have a seat and breeeeathe it out. Let it out. That's right... Gooood."
The Nikon D100, a "prosumer" digital SLR camera is over $2000, and that's just for a body, no lens. I can get a Nikon F100, the professional Nikon film camera, for half that.
Here's the difference: the prices and technology of professional film cameras are rather more stable; digital just gets better and better while the price sinks like a rock. Watch out... hang on too long and you'll be part of a dying herd. Even the artsy fartsy kids are doing it!
You write that I'm covering up a hole in evolutionary theory, but you failed to respond to what I actually wrote.
/\
It makes perfect sense. Perhaps some ASCII art will help to clear up any confusion.
Species A
(natural selection)
/ \
Species B \
Species C
Your original post seems to claim that there has been a dramatic jump between species B and C (or between A and C). I have presented an argument to the contrary. Now it is your job to either do a better job of explaining what kind of dramatic jumps exist, or explain why my argument is flawed.
CBG: Egad! A maniac cutting a swath of destruction. This is a job for the Green Lantern, Thundra, or possibly... Ghost Rider!
Otto: What about Superman?
CBG: Oh please...
You want to know when Linux is going to be truly ready for the home desktop? It will be ready when Microsoft starts really pushing Palladium. [...] When Microsoft makes it impossible for people to use their computers like they want, all of a sudden folks are going to realize that Linux isn't that hard to use after all.
I wish I could agree with you, but I think you give too much credit to consumers, and not enough to MS's sleazy tactics.
1) When MS sees its Palladium ship start to spring a hole, it's going to do whatever it can (which is a lot) to plug it. One way or another, MS always seems to make it out with few public scars. Admittedly, MS's overall reputation is not great even among the general population, but...
2) Consumers don't care. If they did, MS would not still have a >90% Sleeper Hold on the market. In a utopia, consumers would make an educated choice of available options, but not in our world. Aunt Tillie may curse MS, her computer, and all that is holy when she BSODs, but she always bows and reboots.
http://www.mcs.drexel.edu/~ucliscum/images/mozilla -v-800x600.jpg
The butterflies have made a friend in the commercials, and he deserved to be eaten too.
AFAIK,
RTFM.
It's 5-7-5.
Don't you get annoyed
when these morons use too damn
many acronyms?
OTOH,
IMHO,
IAAM.
Criminals will get guns regardless of whether they're legal or not. Most criminals don't even get guns legitimately; they're usually stolen from gun shops, other people, or bought from gun shows, where they don't have to follow the 7-day laws. Either way, they're acquired through the black market. Criminals (or at least intelligent criminals) don't just go out and buy assault rifles, because they know they can be traced.
But if guns are illegal, there will be no gun shows or gun shops from which to steal. That's not to say that "intelligent" criminals could not still get guns, but let's remember that most criminals are not intelligent in that sense. I'm not prepared to argue that we should ban guns, just wanted to point out your mistake.
What it comes down to is we need to reevaluate our moral responsibilites, and keep the government out of it...
Ahh, wouldn't it be great if everyone would reevaluate their morals into something that I can accept? I would love that. What happens when my morals conflict with my neighbor's? (Whomever has the most guns wins?)
But how do you propose we do it? We've got plenty of religion, which doesn't seem to help too much. My vote is for education. Should the government stay out of education, too? What's the libertarian take on this?
About your .sig. /bin/laden
/dev/null > /bin/laden
rm -rf
I like this better:
cat
Killing him makes him a martyr. Blocking the wind from his sails (which could be achieved with a change in U.S. foreign policy) is the way to go.
According to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 2002 EM7 could smack into Earth in 2093.
But don't tell the grandchildren to head to the hills just yet...
I wasn't going to. They'd be waiting in the hills for 91 years, by which time they'd have their own grandchildren to warn!
Jerome T Heckencamp --> A KNEE JERK COMETH
That's not an authentic anagram. It's all upper case.
Man that's one serious case of penis inferiority complex! The cover is blown when you name your penis-compensator "PENIS". I wonder what Freud would have to say about all this... ;)
In fact, here are the requirements for a package to make it into a Debian stable revision:
(from http://people.debian.org/~joey/2.2r5/)
[Joey Hess's] requirements for packages to go into stable:
1. The package fixes a security problem. An advisory by our own Security Team would be quite helpful.
2. The package fixes a critical bug which can lead into data loss, data corruption, or an overly broken system, or the package is broken or not usable (anymore).
3. The stable version of the package is not installable at all due to broken or unmet dependencies or broken installation scripts
4. The package gets all architectures in stable in sync.
5. All released architectures have to be in sync.
He would use neurons, and grey stuff (and curves, too).
> Does anyone else think the Caldera icon looks like a blue mickey mouse on a balloon?
> > you mean im not the only one? phew. no matter how many times i look at it, i always see it as mickey mouse before i see it as a C.
Disney hath control over thou inter-associaction brain functions...
From the Magnequence patent FAQ:
"Furthermore, it is out opinion that unlicensed companies that (1) make Nd-Fe-B magnets from melt spun Nd-Fe-B powder, or (2) incorporate such magnets into their products, (such as disc drives), in countries where MQ Inc. does not have patents, and then exports those magnets or products to countries where MQ Inc. does have patents (such as the United States) would be violating those patents."
So, it's their opinion that Compaq (a US corporation) should be held responsible, since {insert magnet maker located in non-abiding country} cannot be held accountable.
It seems like this is the crux of a lot of tech-law issues. What country's laws apply when there are numerous countries involved in one specific act. Is this different than previous cases in some way? If not, how have (US) courts tended to rule in this type of case?
Point taken, but surely you'll agree that a law requiring the use of one company's product is a heckuva lot worse than a law requiring free software!
I use both (no, really I do!) and I can tell you that on both my work and home computers (both beefy), Nutscrape is loads faster than Mozilla. I like Mozilla, and used to use it exclusively. But then one lonely day I tried Netscape again and was pretty surprised at how fast it was. 4.76 has taken care of most of the previous 4.7x bugs too.
I think Netscape is ugly (and I really hate the widgets), and I think Mozilla is purdy. But I'll take functionality over eye candy for now.
Sincerely, Netscape-using, AC-replying idiot.
Mozilla works good !
Are you on crack?!
I know ASP wouldn't break Linux Netscape (wretched browser it is...), I only mentioned it because most ASP sites I've viewed don't care about Linux compatibility.
If it were PHP. for instance, it would be less likely to break my Linux browser because PHP is more popular among Linux hackers (and ASP is not very popular at all among hackers period).
The (ASP) site breaks my Netscape.
Anyone else? (4.76, Debian packages)
From the article:
This new planet is therefore located in the "habitable zone" where temperatures like those on the Earth are possible. Still, it is a giant, gaseous planet (with a minimum mass of 3.5 times that of Jupiter, or about 1000 times that of the Earth) and thus an unlikely place for the development of life. Nevertheless, it may be orbited by one or more moons on which a more bio-friendly environment has evolved.
Maybe we'll find a man on the moon after all...
From the article:
... their structure is about as simple as one could imagine: an electrode, some organic stuff, then another electrode. Hook it up to a voltage and, presto, out comes light.
Does anyone know precisely what this "organic stuff" is? The article mentions polymers, but I'd like a more specific description.