This is totally wrong. I travel in Europe frequently and I am (almost) never asked my nationality/passport in hotels. There are a few exceptions though, but it is not the rule.
Quoting the penultimate paragraph: Mr. Spector sees things a little differently. The missing men grew up with a joystick in hand, he said, and computer games have grown up with them.
A Cave, with all the graphics systems (Linux available from SGI), will set you back a few units of currency more than 20K. I have seen a demo of Quake on this thing, so there is at least one game you can play on it.
There is an excellent article in the NYtimes about this anniversary that talks about who was first in what. The last paragraph is enlightening regarding the danger of patents:
In the end, the advance they made in flight technology was quickly squandered. European aviators lost little time in following the Wrights into the air. The brothers did receive a patent on their stabilization system in 1906, and they spent years trying to enforce it on both sides of the Atlantic. They were particularly zealous in going after American infringers - and the divisive, protracted court battles may have slowed down the commercialization of the plane on this side of the Atlantic. As one government official in 1917 put it, the brothers' lawsuits caused the country to fall "from first place to last of all the great nations in the air" - not exactly the stuff of legends.
They produce WAY less pollution per gallon than a car that gets 30 mpg. The point is that bikes do not have an exhaust that can filter as many pollutants as cars, so that, although bikes use less petrol, they produce about as much (and sometimes more) pollution as/than cars, modern cars that is.
BIKES? I guess you do not mean motorbikes. Because of the increase in congestion in and around Paris, there are more and more people that use motorbikes/scooters. The result is a big increase in noise levels, no reduction in polution (bikes produce more polution than most cars, surprisingly) and a large increase in fatal accidents.
How long before some terrorist group finds a way to sabotage a portion of the easily accesible track to wipe out a large group of passengers that close to the ground?
I don't know how long, but if you have any information you should contact the police quickly.
1. Not enough PHBs to be ignorant and filthy rich 2. Not enough marketing droids to hype OSS to a proper level of ridicule. 3. Not enough sales weasels to sell an OSS solution to you when you just need a screwdriver.
Only after points 1, 2 and 3 are solved will Linux and OSS be good enough for the industry.
Thank you. and no, you are alone in thinking that cloning is just another way to reproduce. I cannot understand the hysteria produced by the sole mention of cloning either. The French MPs even made cloning "a crime against the human race".
1. You are quoting stats from 2001 and I from 2003!
2. What is the inflation rate of, say, Scotland relative to the UK, or Alhabama relative to the USA. Same problem than in the euro zone. Different taxes exist in different US states or UK nations.
... rampant inflation... Greece's inflation from August 2002 - August 2003 was: 3.3%. The average in the EU was 2.2%. Data from : infobase. This is not rampant.
I think the US Gov't & Military (and her allies, too, probably) consider this a great advancement of their goals.
Most allies of the USA are taking part in the Galileo system! But also most allies of the USA are getting scared of the military control of the USA.
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At last someone mentions hardware! Unix is just a good system to run on big machines. I don't think the unix vendors care that your print server runs MS windows. They do care that your 16 cpu, 128GB RAM, 6 TB disks system runs some form of unix. All unix vendors sell expensive big harware and some form of integration. That's where the money is for them, not the system.
And these big systems are far from dying as far as I can see. We generate much more data than Moore's law and algorithms can cope with and if anything, the trend is accelerating. So if, one day, I see a 1024 cpu machine (a la SGI) runnning some for of MS windows, then I'll worry about Unix dying, not before.
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This is totally wrong. I travel in Europe frequently and I am (almost) never asked my nationality/passport in hotels. There are a few exceptions though, but it is not the rule.
For the love of Christ people
I'm an atheist, you insensitive clod!
I understand this is april 1st, but could you please not give any ideas to the RIAA et al.?
Thank you
DONT CLICK! It's the goatse.cx guy!!!
Quoting the penultimate paragraph:
Mr. Spector sees things a little differently. The missing men grew up with a joystick in hand, he said, and computer games have grown up with them.
No comment necessary.
Am I the only person who can't seem to understand what that is meant to mean?
...) [outside of SCO!].
Linux et al. are international efforts. They are not made/control by an American company (MS, Apple, IMB, SUN,
Clever AND good looking !
Danke.
How do you say "self-rightous git" in German?
A Cave, with all the graphics systems (Linux available from SGI), will set you back a few units of currency more than 20K. I have seen a demo of Quake on this thing, so there is at least one game you can play on it.
There is an excellent article in the NYtimes about this anniversary that talks about who was first in what. The last paragraph is enlightening regarding the danger of patents:
In the end, the advance they made in flight technology was quickly squandered. European aviators lost little time in following the Wrights into the air. The brothers did receive a patent on their stabilization system in 1906, and they spent years trying to enforce it on both sides of the Atlantic. They were particularly zealous in going after American infringers - and the divisive, protracted court battles may have slowed down the commercialization of the plane on this side of the Atlantic. As one government official in 1917 put it, the brothers' lawsuits caused the country to fall "from first place to last of all the great nations in the air" - not exactly the stuff of legends.
flew three of them into buildings, killing over 3,000 Americans.
You mean people, not americans. About half of the victims were not US nationals.
I also live close Porte d'Orleans. Boulevard Brune in fact! Another slashdotter in my hood!
... and then commute into the city, right?
Please tell me you'd use public transport.
Well, now I live in Paris and work outside of Paris!
They produce WAY less pollution per gallon than a car that gets 30 mpg.
The point is that bikes do not have an exhaust that can filter as many pollutants as cars, so that, although bikes use less petrol, they produce about as much (and sometimes more) pollution as/than cars, modern cars that is.
BIKES? I guess you do not mean motorbikes. Because of the increase in congestion in and around Paris, there are more and more people that use motorbikes/scooters. The result is a big increase in noise levels, no reduction in polution (bikes produce more polution than most cars, surprisingly) and a large increase in fatal accidents.
For those living in Paris or wanting to move there, there is a noise map available here.
I live in the noisiest part! Time to move to the country.
How long before some terrorist group finds a way to sabotage a portion of the easily accesible track to wipe out a large group of passengers that close to the ground?
I don't know how long, but if you have any information you should contact the police quickly.
1. Not enough PHBs to be ignorant and filthy rich
2. Not enough marketing droids to hype OSS to a proper level of ridicule.
3. Not enough sales weasels to sell an OSS solution to you when you just need a screwdriver.
Only after points 1, 2 and 3 are solved will Linux and OSS be good enough for the industry.
Thank you. and no, you are alone in thinking that cloning is just another way to reproduce. I cannot understand the hysteria produced by the sole mention of cloning either. The French MPs even made cloning "a crime against the human race".
1. You are quoting stats from 2001 and I from 2003!
2. What is the inflation rate of, say, Scotland relative to the UK, or Alhabama relative to the USA. Same problem than in the euro zone. Different taxes exist in different US states or UK nations.
on at least one ally
You are right. The Netherlands. Sounds crazy, but true. And when I said allies, I did not mean friends!
... rampant inflation ...
Greece's inflation from August 2002 - August 2003 was: 3.3%. The average in the EU was 2.2%.
Data from : infobase.
This is not rampant.
I think the US Gov't & Military (and her allies, too, probably) consider this a great advancement of their goals.
Most allies of the USA are taking part in the Galileo system!
But also most allies of the USA are getting scared of the military control of the USA.
At last someone mentions hardware! Unix is just a good system to run on big machines. I don't think the unix vendors care that your print server runs MS windows. They do care that your 16 cpu, 128GB RAM, 6 TB disks system runs some form of unix. All unix vendors sell expensive big harware and some form of integration. That's where the money is for them, not the system.
And these big systems are far from dying as far as I can see. We generate much more data than Moore's law and algorithms can cope with and if anything, the trend is accelerating. So if, one day, I see a 1024 cpu machine (a la SGI) runnning some for of MS windows, then I'll worry about Unix dying, not before.