I'm sure there's a standard line somewhere about extraordinary claims requiring extraordinary evidence to back them up...
True, though from a scientific perspective it ought to be retired in favour of 'All claims require adequate support for provisional acceptance'.
But your main point is well made. 31M miles is woefully inadequate to suggest that this will be useful in looking for earth like planets in other solar systems. It might be of use to Hollywood looking for a realistic depiction of what earth would look like on approach by a spacecraft from a distance of 31M.
If I see a version number of 2.00, I can ASSume that there are significant changes from 1.X. Also, as an "ohoh" version, it's more likely to have bugs than 2.1.
Weird. From a Linux perspective if I was paying for it I would expect to pay less for a lean server distribution than for a full on all the bells and whistles multimedia distribution (that is, what most desktop users would want).
Why the high cost? Do Microsoft's server operating systems come with hookers or something?
Oughta run the latest version of Ubuntu on the latest processor from AMD. Going with OSS, if there's a bug which causes a nuclear disaster, the open source community will have a patch out within 24 hours.
Man if you ignored the Iran bit that would make for a great superhero comic.
Hey, even the neocons need their superheroes. Given their tendency towards fantasy, I'm surprised they haven't come up with something like that already.
Touching it probably wouldn't be enough. But if there were an experiment being conducted in the next room which involved high levels of bertold radiation (normally deadly, but not in this case for some reason) at the same time he was touching the Mars rock...
Mars, God of War! (dramatic theme music as he proceeds immediately to invade Iran, episode ends with him giving the thumbs up and saying "Mission Accomplished").
But his article raises the question: is it better to embrace some closed source fixes, and so create a larger user base, or to remain pure, and keep Linux for the specialists?"
The beauty of Linux is that users can answer that question for themselves and choose the distribution that best conforms to what they want. For general acceptance things need to 'just work', but if you are pure of free software heart with the intelligence to make things that don't just work work, possessed of courage and time and command line chops, you could use something like Debian. Hell, you could build Linux from Scratch if you wanted to.
all the rest were ASP specialists and thought that using another language wasn't worth their investment.
And they were probably right. If I saw a job offered locally like the one you had on offer with good salary and benefits, I would jump at it ( I basically have that job now, but with poor salary/benefits relative to the industry). But when I look at job postings (at least locally, not interested in relocating), it's Windows, Windows, Windows. Though I suppose the downside from that side of the equation for job hunting is that the competition is steep since as you discovered, there are a lot of applicants who are just Windows, Windows, Windows.
I submitted a story that didn't make it beyond blue in the firehose, but which was selected for one of the subsections. I submitted another which made to red, and it wasn't selected.
Firehose popularity may be something editors consider, but it is by no means the deciding factor. This story is on the front page because an editor thought it ought to be there.
Perhaps the command line would be easier if documentation came in verse. A simple listing of commonly used commands could be sung to the tune of the alphabet song:
The young folk are in fine fettle fer sailin' the high seas of the internet always on the lookout for free IP booty. Not for them tuning it at some specific time each week only to have their program interrupted constantly by commercials. And if it isn't usually a rerun anyway, I'll be a... oh, something a pirate would think was particularly unpleasant -- I'll be an extortion attempt by the RIAA, arrr, nasty that be fer true.
Now excuse me while I check me torrents. All legal stuff, mind ye, no skulduggery on the part of an honest salt like me, heh, heh.
Not to mention that flagrant law breaking by law enforcement agencies may allow the bad guys to walk free. There's a fascinating documentary about the Weather Underground wherein it is stated that many of the members got off simply with fines because the FBI routinely went way across the line in conducting their investigations. These were terrorists essentially, with a penchant for bombing public buildings.
So...commercial developers can develop as long as they don't distribute. Boy, that's helpful/useful.
It's all a part of their long term commitment to encouraging the development open source software, nothing new here.
(I assume from the summary that we're talking about the mirror universe Microsoft, the universe in which in 1976 Bill Gates wrote an open letter to the hacker community praising them for their efforts and exhorting them to "keep software free for the good of everyone, for the good of the world.")
Exactly. Recognize this guy? He died 28 years ago but his place corporate history continues on. For better or worse, I think it will be the same for Gates.
I've noticed that Firefox 3 is much less forgiving of self-signed certs than other browsers. There's a lot more hoops that one has to jump through to get a page to load. Yup. It appears they're in competition with other browsers for who can create the greatest illusion of security. I think they may be winning.
Most of the readers don't know what to do with a single woman, let alone 9 of them at the same time!!!
Duh. You get them to get it on with one another. Live porn!
Though it might be more productive to teach them to code. If I had a team of nine babes who could take over low level coding while I focussed on high level design, that would be sweet.
The ice could be disappearing due to sublimation. Or it could be being consumed by a life form delighted to find a precious resource totally exposed and there for the taking.
Perhaps next mission they should take along some sugar. Put it out and see if it 'sublimates' as well.
People don't seem to understand that the Rove is like the Vorta, except that the Vorta had more than one model, all of them more attractive than the Rove.
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I'm sure there's a standard line somewhere about extraordinary claims requiring extraordinary evidence to back them up...
True, though from a scientific perspective it ought to be retired in favour of 'All claims require adequate support for provisional acceptance'.
But your main point is well made. 31M miles is woefully inadequate to suggest that this will be useful in looking for earth like planets in other solar systems. It might be of use to Hollywood looking for a realistic depiction of what earth would look like on approach by a spacecraft from a distance of 31M.
My plants are flourishing on the stuff.
You must really have a green... thumb.
If I see a version number of 2.00, I can ASSume that there are significant changes from 1.X. Also, as an "ohoh" version, it's more likely to have bugs than 2.1.
Though there are exceptions, like Wine 1.0. If you were new to the Linux world you might have thought it was some fresh project, not one that had been in development for 15 years (current release 1.1.1)
Weird. From a Linux perspective if I was paying for it I would expect to pay less for a lean server distribution than for a full on all the bells and whistles multimedia distribution (that is, what most desktop users would want).
Why the high cost? Do Microsoft's server operating systems come with hookers or something?
From a superhero perspective, "Mars, God of Farmers" may leave something to be desired.
"Don't worry about this drought, gentle farmers! I shall fly about the world gathering storm clouds to bring water to your fields!"
Well, could be popular with farmers, I guess.
Oughta run the latest version of Ubuntu on the latest processor from AMD. Going with OSS, if there's a bug which causes a nuclear disaster, the open source community will have a patch out within 24 hours.
Man if you ignored the Iran bit that would make for a great superhero comic.
Hey, even the neocons need their superheroes. Given their tendency towards fantasy, I'm surprised they haven't come up with something like that already.
Or gain superpowers!
Touching it probably wouldn't be enough. But if there were an experiment being conducted in the next room which involved high levels of bertold radiation (normally deadly, but not in this case for some reason) at the same time he was touching the Mars rock...
Mars, God of War! (dramatic theme music as he proceeds immediately to invade Iran, episode ends with him giving the thumbs up and saying "Mission Accomplished").
But his article raises the question: is it better to embrace some closed source fixes, and so create a larger user base, or to remain pure, and keep Linux for the specialists?"
The beauty of Linux is that users can answer that question for themselves and choose the distribution that best conforms to what they want. For general acceptance things need to 'just work', but if you are pure of free software heart with the intelligence to make things that don't just work work, possessed of courage and time and command line chops, you could use something like Debian. Hell, you could build Linux from Scratch if you wanted to.
all the rest were ASP specialists and thought that using another language wasn't worth their investment.
And they were probably right. If I saw a job offered locally like the one you had on offer with good salary and benefits, I would jump at it ( I basically have that job now, but with poor salary/benefits relative to the industry). But when I look at job postings (at least locally, not interested in relocating), it's Windows, Windows, Windows. Though I suppose the downside from that side of the equation for job hunting is that the competition is steep since as you discovered, there are a lot of applicants who are just Windows, Windows, Windows.
I submitted a story that didn't make it beyond blue in the firehose, but which was selected for one of the subsections. I submitted another which made to red, and it wasn't selected.
Firehose popularity may be something editors consider, but it is by no means the deciding factor. This story is on the front page because an editor thought it ought to be there.
Perhaps the command line would be easier if documentation came in verse. A simple listing of commonly used commands could be sung to the tune of the alphabet song:
ls, sudo, chown, cd,
chmod, cat, clear, bg.
find, history, man, cp,
fg, rm, su, mv.
whoami, ftp,
tar xvf, cal, bc.
Then there could be verses that fleshed some of the commands out a bit.
cd takes you to other places
filenames can't contain unescaped spaces
then you can use ls to see
all the files that you got for free.
Know the name of a program
that you'd like to run?
sudo aptitude install filename,
that's it, you're done.
And so on. If published it could have brightly coloured pictures of people having a lot of fun using the command line.
Argh. I want to see this now, but according to the article:
Due to the poor condition of the film stock, it was too early to say how long restoration would take, Possmann said.
"It's taken several years with similar films," he added.
I guess there are some things you can't just download. Not for awhile anyway.
To the world's politicians: WHAT THE FUCK??? SERIOUSLY!
World's politicians to Dunbal: SHOW US THE MONEY!
The young folk are in fine fettle fer sailin' the high seas of the internet always on the lookout for free IP booty. Not for them tuning it at some specific time each week only to have their program interrupted constantly by commercials. And if it isn't usually a rerun anyway, I'll be a... oh, something a pirate would think was particularly unpleasant -- I'll be an extortion attempt by the RIAA, arrr, nasty that be fer true.
Now excuse me while I check me torrents. All legal stuff, mind ye, no skulduggery on the part of an honest salt like me, heh, heh.
Not to mention that flagrant law breaking by law enforcement agencies may allow the bad guys to walk free. There's a fascinating documentary about the Weather Underground wherein it is stated that many of the members got off simply with fines because the FBI routinely went way across the line in conducting their investigations. These were terrorists essentially, with a penchant for bombing public buildings.
So...commercial developers can develop as long as they don't distribute. Boy, that's helpful/useful.
It's all a part of their long term commitment to encouraging the development open source software, nothing new here.
(I assume from the summary that we're talking about the mirror universe Microsoft, the universe in which in 1976 Bill Gates wrote an open letter to the hacker community praising them for their efforts and exhorting them to "keep software free for the good of everyone, for the good of the world.")
Exactly. Recognize this guy? He died 28 years ago but his place corporate history continues on. For better or worse, I think it will be the same for Gates.
I knew that ice didn't disappear because of so called sublimation .
Mars is probably crawling with all kinds of tiny critters.
I have this uneasy feeling that sooner or later, we're all going to die.
Duh. You get them to get it on with one another. Live porn!
Though it might be more productive to teach them to code. If I had a team of nine babes who could take over low level coding while I focussed on high level design, that would be sweet.
The ice could be disappearing due to sublimation. Or it could be being consumed by a life form delighted to find a precious resource totally exposed and there for the taking.
Perhaps next mission they should take along some sugar. Put it out and see if it 'sublimates' as well.
Wow, that summary reads like a dream of Ballmer's, except with Google instead of Microsoft being the indispensable tech partner.
I guess there's nothing to worry about, because Google is good, right?
People don't seem to understand that the Rove is like the Vorta, except that the Vorta had more than one model, all of them more attractive than the Rove.
Of course McCain has one.