Had a special where they debunked Spontaneous Human combustion. One plausible theory seemed to be the "human wick" theory. Basicly you fall asleep smoking, the cloth/clothes around you catch fire, you are knocked unconcious by the fumes, the clothes act as a wick burning up the fat in your body, often only the legs remain due to less fat an no cloth on them (old ladies are frequent wictims to this) Also, bones burn due to the fact that a lot of the old ladies have ostoperosis.
This system might also be able to prevent accidents. If a car suddently reduces speed (as in 60mp to 0 in few secods) a sentralized sytem could warn nearby drivers, if a car's airbags are deployed, then the "system" could alert the proper authorities.
I'm wondering what Microsoft's policy on this is, I do not expect Microsoft to start contributing to Linux any time soon, but can an employee do it on his own spare time? Do you risk beeing fired if you file a bugreport or send in a patch?
I think Microsoft will rather buy a different company which produce an OS, Open source it in a gpl incopatible lisence, get backing in the community and repeat. This way they keep weakening the open source community for every release they make, and microsoft already practically own sun after the settlement...
To Emulatethe brain, all you need is a computer 15-20 times faster than the human brain, assuming you have a suitable JIT-compiler that is. After all, brain vs pc emulation can't be that much harder than creating pear-pc
In essence, the deal between MS and sun is the closest MS can come to buying Sun (imagine what would have happened if they had tried to buy it, a monopolist can't catch a brake these days)
This news does not come as a suprise. It was all a part of their plan to weaken the open source movement. After all, three weak camps are better then one strong (and one not so strong, I'm not saying BSD here, mark my words) at least for MS and Unix vendors.
Opensolaris will never be a viable alternative to Linux, It is created by a vendor who has an interest in selling Operating systems, and therefore there will allways be some app that they "can't" include in the open version because of "licensing issues". Eventually openSolaris will be as useful as freedos is for windows XP appications.
I see Sun now as a beached whale on an antarctic beach, stuck because it keeps eating the pinguins trying to help it, Sooner or later the sun will set.
Hooking up an lcd and keyboard on a cell computer that runs linux with 100% hardware support, now all I need is a Toshiba/sony vaio playstation 3 laptop
I think OS X and then Apple will loose out on this switch, not linux (If I do enough predictions, some are bound to come true, Dvorak's did)
If the poor Macers are running win-compatible hardware they will be hammered by the MS marketing locomotive until they crack (I bet Longhorn will incorporate tons of new "you're-so-incompatible" software)
Techie mac users will go for Linux, while the idiots go for Whinedows.
Call me in three years when My predictions come true (this prediction business iz way cool, I'm gonna be a zillionaire by then)
open the "change installation source" (or something similar, I use norwegian on mine)
choose add - http
type in packman.iu-bremen.de in the first field, then type in suse/9.3 in the second.
now remove xine and kaffeine with add/remove packages, then you can install xine, mplayer, w32codecs, divx, xvid ++++
I'm waiting for the student edition, same price as upgrade, but with the manuals.
If I were suse/novell, I would be less strict with the versions that have odd numbers, and make people pay up if they want the even-numbered distros a couple of months before it hits the ftp server.
Oh, and it is worth the cash, ubuntu is getting closer, but nothing can really rival suse on laptop-support.
Yeah, mir-like quality on their living-quarters is just what they need.
Actually I do kind-of agree with you, but then you would have to build the shuttles so that they could be stacked and modified (wings removed or turn them into solar panels and etc.)
if we play our cards right, the uss enterprise and the babylon spacestations may be within reach.
imagine the horrors of shark-driven australian retards; Steeve irvin without any social skills, plus he probably stunk like shark (we all know how annoying shark-smell can be) "follow me to the waaata mate, the waaata looks delicious"
Luckely it would be hard to fit a great white inside Steve Irvin without making him look kind of odd...
If you did that, then only 25% of them would think they got a placebo, or everyone in group a would go around worrying about not getting cancer medicine, get stressed out and end up in worse shape than group B.
after at least six or seven years of tinkering and playing on a computer, I one day found out that what I had just done was totally different from everything I had previously done; I had actually done something useful on my computer (written a CV). Since then I haveseldomfelt the same sensation, but it doesn't matter, I'm running Linux, everything I now do will be useful once we replace all those legacy systems (windows & mac).
that since most of it is gpl you have to count developers of all distributions, since the code they work on gets incorporated into the original projects, and then get incorporated into all distros eventually...
a developer for red-hat or novell might work fulltime, but the developers who work on projects for free might work one hour a day or even just a couple of hours a month. to count this you need statistical material of how much a developer works, how many developers there are and then turn this into "fulltime developers"
Also, there are developer working for the distros, developers working on individual projects (kde gnome, linux, gnu tools, kanjii translation and whatnot) It would be really interesting to find out many people work on an individual distro, but as far as distro developers are concerned, I've allways thought that they do some program developing, but mostly do what a volountery developer does not want to do (bug hunting, polishing, incorporating security patches) also they brand and compile programs (this is only what i think happens)
beta-testers should also be counted in, not only the beta testers for the distro, but also for the individual programs. My oppinion towards developers who work for companys like microsoft; I think they probably are not as motivated (let's face it, it's not like they love it so much that they do it for free) and you probably need more "propritary" developers for every "oss" developer who work the same amount of time...
I now I'm not educated in the matter, but if you release a gas on mars from earth, wouldn't you risk running out og gas on earth? do we not need this gas?
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Had a special where they debunked Spontaneous Human combustion. One plausible theory seemed to be the "human wick" theory. Basicly you fall asleep smoking, the cloth/clothes around you catch fire, you are knocked unconcious by the fumes, the clothes act as a wick burning up the fat in your body, often only the legs remain due to less fat an no cloth on them (old ladies are frequent wictims to this) Also, bones burn due to the fact that a lot of the old ladies have ostoperosis.
Yes, haven't you seen; only dinosaurs use office XP. And we all know what happend to them...
This system might also be able to prevent accidents. If a car suddently reduces speed (as in 60mp to 0 in few secods) a sentralized sytem could warn nearby drivers, if a car's airbags are deployed, then the "system" could alert the proper authorities.
I'm wondering what Microsoft's policy on this is, I do not expect Microsoft to start contributing to Linux any time soon, but can an employee do it on his own spare time? Do you risk beeing fired if you file a bugreport or send in a patch?
I think Microsoft will rather buy a different company which produce an OS, Open source it in a gpl incopatible lisence, get backing in the community and repeat. This way they keep weakening the open source community for every release they make, and microsoft already practically own sun after the settlement...
you managed to write this in one minute.
It sure couldn't be something you had lying around the desktop, I mean; how often does this topic emerge anyways, like never right?
This article seems also to have caused an infinite loop amongst our fellow slashdotters.
Everyone is getting the irony and stating the same obvious joke
To Emulatethe brain, all you need is a computer 15-20 times faster than the human brain, assuming you have a suitable JIT-compiler that is. After all, brain vs pc emulation can't be that much harder than creating pear-pc
In essence, the deal between MS and sun is the closest MS can come to buying Sun (imagine what would have happened if they had tried to buy it, a monopolist can't catch a brake these days)
This news does not come as a suprise. It was all a part of their plan to weaken the open source movement. After all, three weak camps are better then one strong (and one not so strong, I'm not saying BSD here, mark my words) at least for MS and Unix vendors.
Opensolaris will never be a viable alternative to Linux, It is created by a vendor who has an interest in selling Operating systems, and therefore there will allways be some app that they "can't" include in the open version because of "licensing issues". Eventually openSolaris will be as useful as freedos is for windows XP appications.
I see Sun now as a beached whale on an antarctic beach, stuck because it keeps eating the pinguins trying to help it, Sooner or later the sun will set.
Hooking up an lcd and keyboard on a cell computer that runs linux with 100% hardware support, now all I need is a Toshiba/sony vaio playstation 3 laptop
I thought "freecell" would be a good pun here, but I can't really think of anything...
I think OS X and then Apple will loose out on this switch, not linux (If I do enough predictions, some are bound to come true, Dvorak's did)
If the poor Macers are running win-compatible hardware they will be hammered by the MS marketing locomotive until they crack (I bet Longhorn will incorporate tons of new "you're-so-incompatible" software)
Techie mac users will go for Linux, while the idiots go for Whinedows.
Call me in three years when My predictions come true (this prediction business iz way cool, I'm gonna be a zillionaire by then)
open the "change installation source" (or something similar, I use norwegian on mine) choose add - http type in packman.iu-bremen.de in the first field, then type in suse/9.3 in the second. now remove xine and kaffeine with add/remove packages, then you can install xine, mplayer, w32codecs, divx, xvid ++++
I'm waiting for the student edition, same price as upgrade, but with the manuals. If I were suse/novell, I would be less strict with the versions that have odd numbers, and make people pay up if they want the even-numbered distros a couple of months before it hits the ftp server. Oh, and it is worth the cash, ubuntu is getting closer, but nothing can really rival suse on laptop-support.
Yeah, mir-like quality on their living-quarters is just what they need.
Actually I do kind-of agree with you, but then you would have to build the shuttles so that they could be stacked and modified (wings removed or turn them into solar panels and etc.)
if we play our cards right, the uss enterprise and the babylon spacestations may be within reach.
imagine the horrors of shark-driven australian retards; Steeve irvin without any social skills, plus he probably stunk like shark (we all know how annoying shark-smell can be) "follow me to the waaata mate, the waaata looks delicious" Luckely it would be hard to fit a great white inside Steve Irvin without making him look kind of odd...
as long as we keep some people poor...
If you did that, then only 25% of them would think they got a placebo, or everyone in group a would go around worrying about not getting cancer medicine, get stressed out and end up in worse shape than group B.
put that cpu in a well-built reasonable (portable) sized laptop with a nice screen (high dpi), good nvidia graphics and a "normal" pricetag.
I fear something has to freeze over before I get my dream laptop, I might as well start building it out of lego...
still offtopic though: Why not create a hybrid of html/bittorrent? Let everybody host the page they are currently on:)
after at least six or seven years of tinkering and playing on a computer, I one day found out that what I had just done was totally different from everything I had previously done; I had actually done something useful on my computer (written a CV). Since then I haveseldomfelt the same sensation, but it doesn't matter, I'm running Linux, everything I now do will be useful once we replace all those legacy systems (windows & mac).
Now with the WGA you actually have to pay for your ms software and run the software on windows. I wouldn't buy MS-stock at this point if I were me...
that since most of it is gpl you have to count developers of all distributions, since the code they work on gets incorporated into the original projects, and then get incorporated into all distros eventually...
a developer for red-hat or novell might work fulltime, but the developers who work on projects for free might work one hour a day or even just a couple of hours a month. to count this you need statistical material of how much a developer works, how many developers there are and then turn this into "fulltime developers" Also, there are developer working for the distros, developers working on individual projects (kde gnome, linux, gnu tools, kanjii translation and whatnot) It would be really interesting to find out many people work on an individual distro, but as far as distro developers are concerned, I've allways thought that they do some program developing, but mostly do what a volountery developer does not want to do (bug hunting, polishing, incorporating security patches) also they brand and compile programs (this is only what i think happens) beta-testers should also be counted in, not only the beta testers for the distro, but also for the individual programs. My oppinion towards developers who work for companys like microsoft; I think they probably are not as motivated (let's face it, it's not like they love it so much that they do it for free) and you probably need more "propritary" developers for every "oss" developer who work the same amount of time...
I now I'm not educated in the matter, but if you release a gas on mars from earth, wouldn't you risk running out og gas on earth? do we not need this gas?