na, right now, repackaging a Google OS would be suicide for Google at worst, or a waste of time at best. Unless it completely engineers the os from scratch, and it's availble from the web, Google won't (or shouldn't) mess with it.
When Google Office comes out, fear. The ability to go to office.google.com, create a (ms word compatable) document, print it out, and save it (to your gmail space) will be the harkening call, drawing near the end of MS's office dominence.
Look first for the ability of gmail to save files. A GDrive, maybe. That will be a precursor.
back in the day, I actually wrote a little shell script that got put on all the machines I rolled out. It basically wget'ed files from a server and ran a script relating to the version of slackware on the machine. I would still have to manually tell each machine to start, but it was a lot easier than recompiling ssl/ssh everytime something new came out./also a Slack user since 1996
hopefully when you pitch the idea to them, you leave out the part about the burning MS logo. Or the game libraries. or the built in flight simulator (in Excel, from a "reputable" software dealer).
It probably depends a great deal on who you ask. It's pretty tough for me to nail down, really.
I believe in God, or a Supreme Being of whatever name you choose to call Him. I feel that He created the universe and the physical laws that govern it, and I believe (and hope) that He has some kind of interaction with it.
On a physical level, I can't prove God exists, but that doesn't stop me from believing spiritually.
Just so you know, I caunt myself as a Deist. I believe God exists, and the rest is just details.
because it would suck to judge a piece of software based on it's merits instead of a couple of screenshots (which are designed to garner interest, not necessarily display professionalism), right?
Even if you still have over 100,000 people dead, isn't the thousands of people you/save/ worth the effort? Really?1? I thought that I wanted to see what the tsunami looked like, so I looked at some videos from waveofdestruction.org, but I was wrong. When I watched those videos, I saw people laughing and playing in the water, watching the big wave in the distance. They laughed as it curled and broke, and the screamed as they ran away from the water once they realized that there was something wrong and that the water wasn't going to recede.
Anything that can be done to save people should be. Just because hundreds of thousands of people will die doesn't mean the hope of saving some should be given up.
I'm not sure those series are better than, oh say Next Gen, but they are certanly better than Enterprise. I think he's right in that Star Trek needs a break from the series. We're not/wanting/ a new series yet. When Next Gen came on, it had been 20 years since a new Star Trek episode (I'm/not/ counting the cartoons). Everyone was ready. We had Next Gen, a great series, DS9 which was pretty good, Voyager, which I didn't watch, and Enterprise, which I can't bring myself to watch. I loved TOS (I was born in '79, so I missed it the first time around) because it was take no prisoners, Kirk vs the Bad Guys, plus a moral lesson. I loved Next Gen because of the same reason, and the character stories were great, it pulled me in, and the general tone of the show was utter hopefullness:-) I never got that from the DS9, and I don't suspect that it's rampant in the latest series either.
Cost of licensing? Upward compatibility? Freedom of choice? Hardware requirements? Ability to customize workspace? Freedom from Microsoft inspections, like the ones MS has forced on city buereaucrats before? Better security?
While we probably don't need any more distractions than we have (cellphone, radio, switching CDs, kids, other drivers, construction, radar detectors, etc etc etc), how many really bad drivers are there on the roads who don't need any of those to cause wrecks? Maybe you should be allowed to have those features if you have a good driving record. On my driver's license, I have a #2 restriction, Corrective Lenses. If I have gone 5 years with no accident, why can't I get some kind of bonus?
It's not the fact that the person couldn't over-ride the auto-park feature, it's that the average person in the drivers seat would be too busy watching Jerry Springer to notice that his autopark just ran over a 3 year old and soccerball.
5. Why is this better than powerful space-based lasers? It sounds like it has to be constantly on to reap benifits. Does the beam retain enough cohesion to be effective over distances? Couldnt a laser impart the same thrust with better cohesion? And more importantly, wouldnt it make far better sense at 10-light minutes distance to hit it once, hard to get it started and use something else (say ion drives) to maintain momentum than risk missing the target area?
Ideally, it should continue at whatever speed you accelerated it to originally. Sure there's going to be some friction from small particles, but if you give it continual boosts, it should maintain / accelerate over the distance. If you leave the beam on continuously, then there should be constant acceleration, like Deep Space 1. I don't know that you could wait until orbit to use an ion drive to slow it down. As I understand it, the ion drives provide about as much thrust as a piece of paper in one Earth gravity, which is not a whole heck of a lot, but over time, it builds. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
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Hrm. Having your CDs bought by the public isn't a right, either. It's a privilege, too, and one that asshats who take this stance might have revoked.
After all, according to our RIAA, it's a license, anyway, right?
I was curious
Backward compatibility is almost non-existent for Linux customers.
I love this guy! he's great!
And his soundbytes at the end:
"OpenServer 6's features form a very powerful server."
"The price, for what you get, offers a significant return on
investment that cannot be overlooked."
"This makes a powerful and reliable server combination that
should meet the needs of most organizations."
Classic! If only I could see who made those statements! I'd love to shake their hands!
Seriously, funny stuff.
na, right now, repackaging a Google OS would be suicide for Google at worst, or a waste of time at best. Unless it completely engineers the os from scratch, and it's availble from the web, Google won't (or shouldn't) mess with it.
When Google Office comes out, fear. The ability to go to office.google.com, create a (ms word compatable) document, print it out, and save it (to your gmail space) will be the harkening call, drawing near the end of MS's office dominence.
Look first for the ability of gmail to save files. A GDrive, maybe. That will be a precursor.
or if they'd just let us hack away on the source code to this, we'd write it ourselves!
in fact, someone probably will anyway
why does Rand McNally hate democracy?
Instructions for a weather.sh command I wrote.
I'm pretty sure Neil got beat by some prior art on that subject...no disrespect to him, of course, but I don't think he originated the idea.
wow, someone's being a little bit crabby today, huh?
What's the matter? Feeling left out of the fun?
By the way, complaining that people are being clever really just implies that you happen to lack that quality.
back in the day, I actually wrote a little shell script that got put on all the machines I rolled out. It basically wget'ed files from a server and ran a script relating to the version of slackware on the machine. I would still have to manually tell each machine to start, but it was a lot easier than recompiling ssl/ssh everytime something new came out. /also a Slack user since 1996
Plus I really like CrossOver Plugins (even if I haven't figured out how to make it work with my sound server)
man, that was NOT what I pictured...
"why would it need a 10" LCD...???"
hopefully when you pitch the idea to them, you leave out the part about the burning MS logo. Or the game libraries. or the built in flight simulator (in Excel, from a "reputable" software dealer).
It probably depends a great deal on who you ask. It's pretty tough for me to nail down, really.
I believe in God, or a Supreme Being of whatever name you choose to call Him. I feel that He created the universe and the physical laws that govern it, and I believe (and hope) that He has some kind of interaction with it.
On a physical level, I can't prove God exists, but that doesn't stop me from believing spiritually.
Just so you know, I caunt myself as a Deist. I believe God exists, and the rest is just details.
because it would suck to judge a piece of software based on it's merits instead of a couple of screenshots (which are designed to garner interest, not necessarily display professionalism), right?
Even if you still have over 100,000 people dead, isn't the thousands of people you /save/ worth the effort? Really?1? I thought that I wanted to see what the tsunami looked like, so I looked at some videos from waveofdestruction.org, but I was wrong. When I watched those videos, I saw people laughing and playing in the water, watching the big wave in the distance. They laughed as it curled and broke, and the screamed as they ran away from the water once they realized that there was something wrong and that the water wasn't going to recede.
Anything that can be done to save people should be. Just because hundreds of thousands of people will die doesn't mean the hope of saving some should be given up.
I'm not sure those series are better than, oh say Next Gen, but they are certanly better than Enterprise. I think he's right in that Star Trek needs a break from the series. We're not /wanting/ a new series yet. When Next Gen came on, it had been 20 years since a new Star Trek episode (I'm /not/ counting the cartoons). Everyone was ready. We had Next Gen, a great series, DS9 which was pretty good, Voyager, which I didn't watch, and Enterprise, which I can't bring myself to watch. I loved TOS (I was born in '79, so I missed it the first time around) because it was take no prisoners, Kirk vs the Bad Guys, plus a moral lesson. I loved Next Gen because of the same reason, and the character stories were great, it pulled me in, and the general tone of the show was utter hopefullness :-) I never got that from the DS9, and I don't suspect that it's rampant in the latest series either.
What's the point of using Linux, 'just because'?
Cost of licensing? Upward compatibility? Freedom of choice? Hardware requirements? Ability to customize workspace? Freedom from Microsoft inspections, like the ones MS has forced on city buereaucrats before? Better security?
Do I need to continue? I can...
I thought the exact same thing :-)
While we probably don't need any more distractions than we have (cellphone, radio, switching CDs, kids, other drivers, construction, radar detectors, etc etc etc), how many really bad drivers are there on the roads who don't need any of those to cause wrecks? Maybe you should be allowed to have those features if you have a good driving record. On my driver's license, I have a #2 restriction, Corrective Lenses. If I have gone 5 years with no accident, why can't I get some kind of bonus?
It's not the fact that the person couldn't over-ride the auto-park feature, it's that the average person in the drivers seat would be too busy watching Jerry Springer to notice that his autopark just ran over a 3 year old and soccerball.
Yea, I think I'd take care of this asap.
"I have no idea how my history keeps getting erased evry time you see me"
5. Why is this better than powerful space-based lasers? It sounds like it has to be constantly on to reap benifits. Does the beam retain enough cohesion to be effective over distances? Couldnt a laser impart the same thrust with better cohesion? And more importantly, wouldnt it make far better sense at 10-light minutes distance to hit it once, hard to get it started and use something else (say ion drives) to maintain momentum than risk missing the target area?
Ideally, it should continue at whatever speed you accelerated it to originally. Sure there's going to be some friction from small particles, but if you give it continual boosts, it should maintain / accelerate over the distance. If you leave the beam on continuously, then there should be constant acceleration, like Deep Space 1. I don't know that you could wait until orbit to use an ion drive to slow it down. As I understand it, the ion drives provide about as much thrust as a piece of paper in one Earth gravity, which is not a whole heck of a lot, but over time, it builds. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
We could mount it on the moon, but that would just slow it down and lower the amount of time before it drops on our heads.
"non-trivial"
hehehe
and that's why he's my favorite captain :)
To hell with the Prime Directive, lets get us some alien women!