"flying through space at 17,200 MPH, 300 miles above the Earth's surface. " Not impressive.
Then let's see you do it.
Give him 45 years, a multi-billion dollar budget, proven launch and flight platforms with 20+ years of successful flights, a number of catastrophic failures to learn from and a 50 odd professional test pilots and I'm sure he could do better than dock with a satellite in orbit.
NASA does more impressive stuff than this every day, and could be doing even more stuff if they were better managed and funded.
If the answer is no, then you understand. if you don't mind being tied to a vendor and at their mercy, then i guess the answer for you is that there is no benefit.
Open hardware has the same value as open software.
Right... every time I run a high-end game on my propriatary 3D driver I have to stop and flagellate myself halfway though to dull the guilt... not...
Of course, its the first thing I do when I install. But yeah, that is one the biggest complaints that I see every time Ubuntu comes around for a release.
OK.... So people's biggest complaint about Ubuntu is that the default theme is too brown?
Am I the only one who looks at this as a good thing?
Yes they have improved, but calling Acrobat "most execrably awful, arrogant, bloated, buggy, piece of software ever made, ever" is blatantly unfair when you use current versions of both side by side.
(I'd be a lot happier if Symphony shipped an up-to-date version of Open Office and it took less time to start...)
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"flying through space at 17,200 MPH, 300 miles above the Earth's surface. " Not impressive.
Then let's see you do it.
Give him 45 years, a multi-billion dollar budget, proven launch and flight platforms with 20+ years of successful flights, a number of catastrophic failures to learn from and a 50 odd professional test pilots and I'm sure he could do better than dock with a satellite in orbit.
NASA does more impressive stuff than this every day, and could be doing even more stuff if they were better managed and funded.
How could this possibly qualify as a troll? Mods on crack?
Who the hell are you? Muad'Dib?
This is not a game of who the hell are you.
How many chimpanzees at genetic typewriters does it take to produce all of the extinct lifeforms?
42
scary that they did not wipe it to Department of Defense standards which I believe is wiping the whole disk and then writing 1010 all over it.
That's nearly right. The actual procedure is to wipe it to DoD standards, and then load it up with fake documents.
-Loyal
So you're saying this Area 51 map and Build-Your-Own Nuke instructions I have here might be bogus?
Are you out of your demon-ridden mind?
Yes... wait... what was the question?
*rimshot*
Ubuntu is used on less than 1% of desktops. The spring framework is used in something like 50% of enterprises that use a java application framework.
And how is that a threat to Microsoft?
No it isn't. They are already one of the most common, if not the most common, java enterprise frameworks in use today.
Commonly used != profitable threat
e.g. Ubuntu
I believe we've just witnessed the birth of a new Slashdot meme.
Not if we kill it before it gets a chance to grow! Nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.
You might take a long, hard look at your hypothesis, as the school system is essentially a liberal enclave.
I can't see how that could possibly be a bad thing.
Do you want to be tied to a vendor?
If the answer is no, then you understand. if you don't mind being tied to a vendor and at their mercy, then i guess the answer for you is that there is no benefit.
Open hardware has the same value as open software.
Right... every time I run a high-end game on my propriatary 3D driver I have to stop and flagellate myself halfway though to dull the guilt... not...
I can't believe this has gotten that far, but SimCity 2000? How 'bout 1849? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Alphonse_Karr
I was riffing on XKCD: In Popular Culture and Wikipedian Protester.
But thanks for coming out.
'They use the mails to reach purchasers
Funny how they seem to lack the same understanding of (then) current technology and terminology as the current group.
Actually that terminology was in common usage in the period. For some examples read the original Sherlock Holmes stories or works by H.G. Wells.
I foresee a marked deterioration in American music and musical taste...
Wow... Given that Sousa is probably one of the worst composers of all time that's just an awesome quote.
Well, they can perform deep inspections of my "package" anytime they like. :3
John, Dave, you heard the man.
The phrase also frequently appeared in the newspapers within the game Simcity 2000.
citation needed
you'd fawn over the "sensibility" of regulating and taxing potatoes and only allowing people to own potatoes in small amounts, right?
Do you know of any western nation that does NOT regulate agro-business and tax its profits?
Ahh.... conservative baiting... it's like shooting fish in a barrel...
*whoosh*
If it's based on slashdot users, it includes:
Anything that disproves global warming. Anything critical against Barok Obama. Anything about programming perl.
So... factually incorrect, right-wing propaganda and soul destroying. (in that order) Sounds reasonable to me.
Regardless of what you might think, I'm not a part of a conspiracy or the Illuminati.
Ahh... but if you WERE part of the conspiracy that's EXACTLY what you'd say!
Nudge, nudge, wink, wink.
How is something +4 Informative when no reasoning is given behind the thinking?
Can you imagine the kind of twisted reasoning that led to that conclusion? Are we perhaps better off not knowing?
Of course, its the first thing I do when I install. But yeah, that is one the biggest complaints that I see every time Ubuntu comes around for a release.
OK.... So people's biggest complaint about Ubuntu is that the default theme is too brown?
Am I the only one who looks at this as a good thing?
Yes they have improved, but calling Acrobat "most execrably awful, arrogant, bloated, buggy, piece of software ever made, ever" is blatantly unfair when you use current versions of both side by side.
(I'd be a lot happier if Symphony shipped an up-to-date version of Open Office and it took less time to start ...)