Ariel Sharon, while an important element of Middle-East politics (even World politics), is not intriguing to a technology-oriented crowd such as exists here on/.
We have our priorities here . . . if we cared about politics, trapped miners or egregious violations of law by our elected officials, we'd all be surfing CNN.
For example, they're talking about exchanging a thundering lot of heat here. Will this affect existing ocean currents? Might the thermal change not impact on the underwater ecosystem (a system we are only now beginning to even be able to see)?
Further, what of the potential for secondary effects? Climate changes brought about by changes in ocean current temperatures? Remember, el nino/la nina are caused by a change of only a few degrees. That's not unforseeable for a large-scale technology such as this.
Oh, and BTW - it makes a lot more sense to base this on something like an oil rig, rather than a ship. Just sayin', is all.
You mean there was French guys in history? Like Napoleon and stuff? Wow!;^D
That said, I have always been somewhat in awe of two groups - the Allied warriors who fought and won WWII, and the French Free Resistance who daily disregarded personal safety to oppose evil. Granted they were fighting for their own homeland which must have been a marvellous motivating factor, but still . ..
Summary: not all of the French surrendered, just their government.
The voting mechanism will be smarter than the candidates!
SO . . . say I'm a sysadmin living in Florida and related to Dubya . . . d'ya suppose I could just noodle the count a teensy bit . . . no? How 'bout losing some of those packets, especially the ones with dangling or pregnant electrons? No? What are you, a damned democrat or something?
Sorry folks, you can't get rid of corruption that way; you can only make it pick up and move somewhere else (read: some other element of the electoral process). Build a better mousetrap and nature keeps answering with better mice.
George Bush did <blink>not</blink> steal the last election! As long as nobody looks, it's okay, right? After all, we had a "paper trail" from that election, but we still couldn't figure out what actually happened. The courts wisely held that collapsing the wave function was unconstitutional.
We're all adults here - I don't need <SARCASM> tags, right?
(and don't get me wrong - I enjoy bashing the French) . ..
This would seem to be a pretty bold move - think about it. They're using software which wasn't blessed by the winPope at Redmond. Were it any other commercial organization, there would be an acknowledgement that somebody within the organization had to be pretty gutsy to press for a non-Microsoft solution to anything.
Unless the organization were, say, IBM or Sun or HP, for example.;^D
Are these guys paying for advertising? This isn't some new technology, nor even an emerging piece of standard hardware. This is just a wireless keyboard/mouse combo with what (to my eye) looks to be a cheap plastic lapboard.
I'd be more inclined to pick up a cheaper wireless keyboard/mouse set and grab one of those ancient Sun mousepads (remember Sun's optical mouse, the one which required a metal mousepad with a grid painted on?).
Don't have an antique Sun mouse pad? I suspect any old clipboard or other flat surface will do nicely.
but useful nonetheless. Think: the United States government still has several million cubic feet of helium stored up (in New Mexico or Nevada, IIRC) - it was a military supply during WWII, and our military is one of the biggest pack-rats on the planet. If nothing else, perhaps this could help our military offload all of that helium.
For military operations, this thing would be little better than an orientation target. From a rescue perspective, well . . . only if you can guarantee me calm winds at the emergency site! That sucker looks like it could have a truly bad time in a 40kt wind - not that a helicopter is especially easy to control under those circumstances, but at least it's possible.
I see an excellent consumer market here; not unlike one of those holiday train rides or, better still, a sea cruise. Sure! The thing's big enough, stable enough - I might fancy a two-week cross-country trip aboard a luxuriously-appointed airship. After all, with helium I suspect they could rack up an excellent safety record (remember: Der Hindenburg burned - helium doesn't).
Bootlegged it once, checked it out once, uninstalled it once, installed OpenOffice 1.4.1 and never looked back . . .
(Yes, MS-Office was somewhat superior at that time, but not enough so to justify the $450+ price tag. OO did/does everything I care about, for 100% less money)
Now using OO 2.0.1, both at home and at work. Life is good.
Quick double check - yup, it's January, not April; I guess it's not an April Fool's Day post.
Lemme guess - e-mails containing any of "Linux", "Open Source" or "F/OSS" in any of the sender, subject or body will immediately be deleted. E-mails containing "P2P", "Gnutella" or "Torrent" will immediately be bcc'ed to the{RI|MP}AA, the FBI and NSA.
E-mails containing "$sys$fnord" will be ignored as ususal.
The decision was made to restore from backup, ergo the days transactions were lost.
Y'know what . . . if all you can do is nit-pick, jam it up your ass. I don't recall seeing your name (or any other of those here) on my paycheck.
I'm getting tired of the vociferous few of you here who can't accept at face value that what I have posted might be the truth. You guys can crawl back to your nice comfortable hidey-holes and be assured that you have the only truth, for once and for all.
I, meanwhile, shall continue to reside here in the real world. It must be terrible, being the only keepers of truth and right, eh?
whaddya suppose all those sub-$100 machines that Mr. Negroponte wants to distribute in the third world will do to this? I mean, these people are absolutely suit proof (referring to their utter lack of things to take by due process). I can't believe it'll take 'em long to figure out how to use their new-found technologies (machines and a pipe to connect 'em) to do something else than visit the 4-H's website.
What can the {MP|RI}AA take from some Sudanese farmer's kid for downloading the latest N'Stync single? For that matter, what court will exercise jurisdiction for this?
Having said that, why do I have the creeping feeling that this is all going to end very badly?
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We have our priorities here . . . if we cared about politics, trapped miners or egregious violations of law by our elected officials, we'd all be surfing CNN.
You must be related to Zapf Brannigan!
Further, what of the potential for secondary effects? Climate changes brought about by changes in ocean current temperatures? Remember, el nino/la nina are caused by a change of only a few degrees. That's not unforseeable for a large-scale technology such as this.
Oh, and BTW - it makes a lot more sense to base this on something like an oil rig, rather than a ship. Just sayin', is all.
That said, I have always been somewhat in awe of two groups - the Allied warriors who fought and won WWII, and the French Free Resistance who daily disregarded personal safety to oppose evil. Granted they were fighting for their own homeland which must have been a marvellous motivating factor, but still . . .
Summary: not all of the French surrendered, just their government.
I'm guessing that 30% of the moderators work for Microsoft and 20% of them are French.
SO . . . say I'm a sysadmin living in Florida and related to Dubya . . . d'ya suppose I could just noodle the count a teensy bit . . . no? How 'bout losing some of those packets, especially the ones with dangling or pregnant electrons? No? What are you, a damned democrat or something?
Sorry folks, you can't get rid of corruption that way; you can only make it pick up and move somewhere else (read: some other element of the electoral process). Build a better mousetrap and nature keeps answering with better mice.
George Bush did <blink>not</blink> steal the last election! As long as nobody looks, it's okay, right? After all, we had a "paper trail" from that election, but we still couldn't figure out what actually happened. The courts wisely held that collapsing the wave function was unconstitutional.
We're all adults here - I don't need <SARCASM> tags, right?
This would seem to be a pretty bold move - think about it. They're using software which wasn't blessed by the winPope at Redmond. Were it any other commercial organization, there would be an acknowledgement that somebody within the organization had to be pretty gutsy to press for a non-Microsoft solution to anything.
Unless the organization were, say, IBM or Sun or HP, for example. ;^D
I'd be more inclined to pick up a cheaper wireless keyboard/mouse set and grab one of those ancient Sun mousepads (remember Sun's optical mouse, the one which required a metal mousepad with a grid painted on?).
Don't have an antique Sun mouse pad? I suspect any old clipboard or other flat surface will do nicely.
Or are you still adjusting to that lobotomy?
For military operations, this thing would be little better than an orientation target. From a rescue perspective, well . . . only if you can guarantee me calm winds at the emergency site! That sucker looks like it could have a truly bad time in a 40kt wind - not that a helicopter is especially easy to control under those circumstances, but at least it's possible.
I see an excellent consumer market here; not unlike one of those holiday train rides or, better still, a sea cruise. Sure! The thing's big enough, stable enough - I might fancy a two-week cross-country trip aboard a luxuriously-appointed airship. After all, with helium I suspect they could rack up an excellent safety record (remember: Der Hindenburg burned - helium doesn't).
(Yes, MS-Office was somewhat superior at that time, but not enough so to justify the $450+ price tag. OO did/does everything I care about, for 100% less money)
Now using OO 2.0.1, both at home and at work. Life is good.
Simultaneously! ;^D
*Washes food down with Coca-Cola*
*Sits in front of TV, wonders if Hypnotoad is on . . .*
You can't buy publicity like this!
For that matter, did that poster get a patent?
But here's the link you wanted.
There. Somebody had to say it!
Troll? I'm not sure I see how (except to say that I've obviously been modded down to oblivion). Oh, well . . . stupid is as stupid does.
(Heard in the halls at Redmond): All your e-mail are belong to us! Mwahahaha . . .
You have no sense of humor!
Otherwise, the best you can hope for is to be buried in secred so your grave doesn't get desecrated.
Lemme guess - e-mails containing any of "Linux", "Open Source" or "F/OSS" in any of the sender, subject or body will immediately be deleted. E-mails containing "P2P", "Gnutella" or "Torrent" will immediately be bcc'ed to the{RI|MP}AA, the FBI and NSA.
E-mails containing "$sys$fnord" will be ignored as ususal.
Y'know what . . . if all you can do is nit-pick, jam it up your ass. I don't recall seeing your name (or any other of those here) on my paycheck.
I'm getting tired of the vociferous few of you here who can't accept at face value that what I have posted might be the truth. You guys can crawl back to your nice comfortable hidey-holes and be assured that you have the only truth, for once and for all.
I, meanwhile, shall continue to reside here in the real world. It must be terrible, being the only keepers of truth and right, eh?
How many can you afford?
What can the {MP|RI}AA take from some Sudanese farmer's kid for downloading the latest N'Stync single? For that matter, what court will exercise jurisdiction for this?
Having said that, why do I have the creeping feeling that this is all going to end very badly?
Just don't ask me what the difference is - they both sound like "lieing" to me.