I hear that...I'n in the unenviable position of testing this SP to see if it works or not...has anyone had any negative experiences with this Service Pack? Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
After taking care of the last world-threatening terrorist plot, Sam Fisher is taking a relaxing vacation in the BEST place on earth, Quebec. But Sam's vacation will have to wait....evil Canadian forces threaten to destroy Quebec's very way of life in a cowrdly attempt to stem the tide of secessionism that has been rising in Quebec ever since...well...it's always been like that, hasn't it?
"Those damned Canadians", Sam growls..."why can't they just accept that Quebec doesn't WANT to be part of Canada? WHY???"
Usually, Sam plies his trade in the service of the United States Government, but this time, IT'S PERSONAL!
Be the first on your block to download the demo, and help Sam defend a precious poutine factory from the evil Canadians.
only by people who, like your dad, bought into the whole "working for ME makes YOU a better person" wage-slave lifestyle.
Actually, my father was self-employed for the majority of his life. He was his own boss, set his own hours, and not once did he have to make his family eat out of a garbage can.
BTW, just how are you posting to this forum, anyway? Did you scrounge a computer and internet connection out of a garbage can too, or do you sneak in your posts at cybercafes, while the paying use of the terminal is getting a refill?
Its not free speech because one misguided, poor, old man decided it wasn't?
Well, seeing as how he's a judge, I doubt he's either misguided or poor. Judges generally gain their position because they develop a reputation for wisdom and good-judgement...at any rate, I'm inclined to weigh his opinion more favorably than yours. Also, I hear judges are paid fairly well, so it's not likely he's poor.
Whether or not he is 'old', or a 'man'...I don't have this information.
You get to claim nothing is free speech as long as you say it isn't?
No, I get to say a particular something is not free speech as long as a judge says it isn't. Try to keep up.
Sources who give journalists details of corruption or wrongdoing are traditionally protected by law, if the story is in the public's interest.
Now, IANAL, granted, but I'm having a hard time understanding how leaking trade secrets about a company's upcoming product could be construed to be 'in the public's interest', and thus merit this sort of protection.
Also from the article:
"Recent corporate scandals involving WorldCom, Enron and the tobacco industry all undoubtedly involved the reporting of information that the companies involved would have preferred to remain unknown to the public," said the brief.
This is cute...likening Apple to WorldCom, Enron (trying to cover up massive accounting scandals), and the tobacco industry (trying to pretend they believe tobacco is not a deadly drug), to Apple (trying to protect its trade secrets and intellectual property).
Now, don't get me wrong...I'm all about the free speech...but this sort of thing simply doesn't deserve the same sort of protection that journalists receive. If it is granted that protection, then all legitimate journalism is weakened as a result, and we may ultimately see a decline in our right to free speech, rather than an increase.
The thieves, who obtained information including addresses and Social Security numbers, did not hack into the computer system. Instead, they were able to fool the company into giving out password information, CNN reported.
Your network's security is inversely proportional to your users' gullibility.
In the interest of promoting more enlightened discussion, the full text of the "Music is Driving Growth in Digital Commerce" speech, presented by John Kennedy, CEO and Chairman of the IFPI to the ETNO (European Telecommunications Network Operators' Association) Conference in Brussles, on March 3rd, 2005, can be found here.
There would be no reason to abandon the lunar mining colony, and I'm not advocating we do. The lunar mining colony, once established, will always be able to justify itself.
However, I never advocated a mining colony on Mars, and for good reason. The gravity, although only 1/3 of ours, would still be prohibitively strong. The atmosphere, however, is probably the biggest strike against Mars...just enough of it to make things really difficult. Add to that all the sand and dust that that atmosphere is pushing about, getting into everything. One more thing to consider is Mars' distance from us...simply too great a distance for profitable exploitation at this time.
I believe that eventually we will colonize Mars. We'll probably terraform it to make it more comfortable for us. But right now, it's just not within our reach. Fortunately, the Moon is right next door, and has all the raw materials we need to establish a solid toehold in space.
No need for a magnetic suspension...just drill a hole deep into the asteroid, charge the hole with ordinary H2O, plug the hole (tightly!), set the whole thing rotating, and then hit it with reflected solar radiation from Mylar mirrors. The rock heats up, the water vaporizes and exerts pressure...when the rock softens sufficiently, the whole mess will inflate like a balloon. Turn off the heat, let the balloon cool, and start moving in furniture. Simple.
No need to imagine it....read Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress...it details how the lunar penal colony revolted, declared themselves a free state, and used the accelerator to defend themselves against Earth.
The problem here wasn't that there was a railgun, but that convicts were running it...a mistake I hope we don't duplicate in real life.
Submersible keyboards can be had for $10-$15 retail...it's a lead-pipe-cinch that hospitals can do a lot better than that price if they cut a deal with the supplier for bulk amounts.
...does the hospital use any specialized keyboards with special arrangements or keys?
No. I worked in a hospital a while back, (intern, actually), and their keyboards are just standard 101-key dealies.
With their pseudomorphic heterojunction bipolar transistor, the researchers have demonstrated a speed of 604 gigahertz - the fastest transistor operation to date.
Sure...it's fast now, but just wait until it goes into its depressive phase...
"The difficulty with keyboards is you can't pour bleach on them," Dr. Allison McGeer, an infection control specialist from Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital, tells The Canadian Press. "They don't work so well when you do that.''
"Keyboards will never be completely sterile," Noskin advises. "There are always going to be bugs there."
This is the most ridiculous piece of non-news I've seen in a while. This so-called 'researcher', Dr. Gary Noskins, needs to research Google for some sealed keyboards.
These keyboards have been in use for quite a while...durable, washable, and yes, they can be sterilized. Links here and here just for starters.
Mabye I should mail Dr.Noskin my findings...mabye I can publish a study of my own.
A nice big hollowed-out asteroid gives you all the things you mentioned. Although the asteriods in the Belt may be out of reach for the moment, there's no reason we can't establish a colony on the Moon, start ripping up materials and accelerating them to escape velocity with the aid of a railgun-type catapault. 1/6 of earth gravity and no atmosphere means lifting resources off the Moon is way cheaper than lifting the same masses from the Earth, and there's no ecological concerns to stand in your way. Once off the Moon, resources could be collected in one of the Trojan points and used to start construction on a nice big habitat, complete with air and gravity (centrifigual force, anyway).
we'd have to either terraform Mars, or go to a whole other solar system, which isn't cheap
Everywhere in this discussion I'm seeing the same arguement...that a space colony must be located on a planetary surface. Why, after you spent all the time, money, and effort to break free of one gravity well, would you willingly shackle yourself to another???
Establishing colonies on planetary surfces is expensive, for the same reason getting off Earth in the first place is. Building a colony that remains in nice flat space saves a lot of money, and affords portability in the bargain.
Rather interesting order this article puts the reasons in...
'to work' is not a real reason to go to space, instead, the article really shold have focused on a) the abundant energy and raw materials available in space, and b) the nearly infinitely-customizable work environments abailable in space. At any rate, this is only a secondary reason.
'to live'? Exactly what sort of reason is this? Sure, life is important (of course I think that...I'm a living being...I can't help it), but does that mean it's our manifest destiny to spread life throughout the universe, merely for the sake of spreading life? Again, this reason, although important, is purely secondary.
'to survive'. Finally we come to the heart of the matter...the reason that should have been number one, with the two reasons listed above in support of it. Humankind must colonize space, and do it soon. Between the dwindling rescources available to us while we remain shackled to a gravity well, and the impending mass-extinction events (asteroid, pandemic, super-volcano...take your pick), we are left with very little time in which to secure our species' future. Establishing a viable space-community should be the primary goal of the human race.
(BTW, more interesting information regarding our continued survival can be found here.)
How long until we see robots take over from humans in other sports?
Bender: Clem Johnson? That skin bag wouldn't have lasted one pitch in the old Robot Leagues! Now Wireless Joe Jackson, there was a blern hitting machine!
Leela: Exactly! He was a machine designed to hit blerns! I mean come on! Wireless Joe was nothing but a programmable bat on wheels.
Bender: Oh and I suppose PitchingBot 5000 was just a modified howitzer.
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Yeah, I install the new kernels when they come out...just got 2.6.11-1.14_FC3, and now I have to reinstall NTFS support :(
...some Windows updates (SP2 in particular) broke some poorly-designed applications.
Windows SP2 will break WinFax host sharing, since the mechanism uses anonymous calls to DCOM, which is no longer allowed.
I just hope it doesn't break as many apps...
I hear that...I'n in the unenviable position of testing this SP to see if it works or not...has anyone had any negative experiences with this Service Pack? Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Splinter Cell: Quebec Under Siege!
After taking care of the last world-threatening terrorist plot, Sam Fisher is taking a relaxing vacation in the BEST place on earth, Quebec. But Sam's vacation will have to wait....evil Canadian forces threaten to destroy Quebec's very way of life in a cowrdly attempt to stem the tide of secessionism that has been rising in Quebec ever since...well...it's always been like that, hasn't it?
"Those damned Canadians", Sam growls..."why can't they just accept that Quebec doesn't WANT to be part of Canada? WHY???"
Usually, Sam plies his trade in the service of the United States Government, but this time, IT'S PERSONAL!
Be the first on your block to download the demo, and help Sam defend a precious poutine factory from the evil Canadians.
Place yourself in Apple's shoes for a money.
Freudian slip?
only by people who, like your dad, bought into the whole "working for ME makes YOU a better person" wage-slave lifestyle.
Actually, my father was self-employed for the majority of his life. He was his own boss, set his own hours, and not once did he have to make his family eat out of a garbage can.
BTW, just how are you posting to this forum, anyway? Did you scrounge a computer and internet connection out of a garbage can too, or do you sneak in your posts at cybercafes, while the paying use of the terminal is getting a refill?
Its not free speech because one misguided, poor, old man decided it wasn't?
Well, seeing as how he's a judge, I doubt he's either misguided or poor.
Judges generally gain their position because they develop a reputation for wisdom and good-judgement...at any rate, I'm inclined to weigh his opinion more favorably than yours.
Also, I hear judges are paid fairly well, so it's not likely he's poor.
Whether or not he is 'old', or a 'man'...I don't have this information.
You get to claim nothing is free speech as long as you say it isn't?
No, I get to say a particular something is not free speech as long as a judge says it isn't. Try to keep up.
Sorry, but no. Leaking trade secrets is not journalism...it's corporate espionage, and deserves to be treated as such.
'Freegans', huh....
I remember when we used to call those people 'bums'.
From the article:
Now, IANAL, granted, but I'm having a hard time understanding how leaking trade secrets about a company's upcoming product could be construed to be 'in the public's interest', and thus merit this sort of protection.
Also from the article:
This is cute...likening Apple to WorldCom, Enron (trying to cover up massive accounting scandals), and the tobacco industry (trying to pretend they believe tobacco is not a deadly drug), to Apple (trying to protect its trade secrets and intellectual property).
Now, don't get me wrong...I'm all about the free speech...but this sort of thing simply doesn't deserve the same sort of protection that journalists receive. If it is granted that protection, then all legitimate journalism is weakened as a result, and we may ultimately see a decline in our right to free speech, rather than an increase.
From the article:
Your network's security is inversely proportional to your users' gullibility.
In the interest of promoting more enlightened discussion, the full text of the "Music is Driving Growth in Digital Commerce" speech, presented by John Kennedy, CEO and Chairman of the IFPI to the ETNO (European Telecommunications Network Operators' Association) Conference in Brussles, on March 3rd, 2005, can be found here.
There would be no reason to abandon the lunar mining colony, and I'm not advocating we do. The lunar mining colony, once established, will always be able to justify itself.
However, I never advocated a mining colony on Mars, and for good reason. The gravity, although only 1/3 of ours, would still be prohibitively strong. The atmosphere, however, is probably the biggest strike against Mars...just enough of it to make things really difficult. Add to that all the sand and dust that that atmosphere is pushing about, getting into everything. One more thing to consider is Mars' distance from us...simply too great a distance for profitable exploitation at this time.
I believe that eventually we will colonize Mars. We'll probably terraform it to make it more comfortable for us. But right now, it's just not within our reach. Fortunately, the Moon is right next door, and has all the raw materials we need to establish a solid toehold in space.
No need for a magnetic suspension...just drill a hole deep into the asteroid, charge the hole with ordinary H2O, plug the hole (tightly!), set the whole thing rotating, and then hit it with reflected solar radiation from Mylar mirrors. The rock heats up, the water vaporizes and exerts pressure...when the rock softens sufficiently, the whole mess will inflate like a balloon. Turn off the heat, let the balloon cool, and start moving in furniture. Simple.
No need to imagine it....read Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress...it details how the lunar penal colony revolted, declared themselves a free state, and used the accelerator to defend themselves against Earth.
The problem here wasn't that there was a railgun, but that convicts were running it...a mistake I hope we don't duplicate in real life.
Submersible keyboards can be had for $10-$15 retail...it's a lead-pipe-cinch that hospitals can do a lot better than that price if they cut a deal with the supplier for bulk amounts.
No. I worked in a hospital a while back, (intern, actually), and their keyboards are just standard 101-key dealies.
Sure...it's fast now, but just wait until it goes into its depressive phase...
This is the most ridiculous piece of non-news I've seen in a while. This so-called 'researcher', Dr. Gary Noskins, needs to research Google for some sealed keyboards.
These keyboards have been in use for quite a while...durable, washable, and yes, they can be sterilized.
Links here and here just for starters.
Mabye I should mail Dr.Noskin my findings...mabye I can publish a study of my own.
In the interest of promoting more enlightened discussion, the news release from the DOJ regarding this case can be found here.
A nice big hollowed-out asteroid gives you all the things you mentioned. Although the asteriods in the Belt may be out of reach for the moment, there's no reason we can't establish a colony on the Moon, start ripping up materials and accelerating them to escape velocity with the aid of a railgun-type catapault. 1/6 of earth gravity and no atmosphere means lifting resources off the Moon is way cheaper than lifting the same masses from the Earth, and there's no ecological concerns to stand in your way. Once off the Moon, resources could be collected in one of the Trojan points and used to start construction on a nice big habitat, complete with air and gravity (centrifigual force, anyway).
we'd have to either terraform Mars, or go to a whole other solar system, which isn't cheap
Everywhere in this discussion I'm seeing the same arguement...that a space colony must be located on a planetary surface. Why, after you spent all the time, money, and effort to break free of one gravity well, would you willingly shackle yourself to another???
Establishing colonies on planetary surfces is expensive, for the same reason getting off Earth in the first place is. Building a colony that remains in nice flat space saves a lot of money, and affords portability in the bargain.
We weren't ready to go to the moon in the 60's, but we did it. We did it with slide rules.
We did it because we had to.
Actually, I was. That's why I'm questioning this one.
Rather interesting order this article puts the reasons in...
'to work' is not a real reason to go to space, instead, the article really shold have focused on a) the abundant energy and raw materials available in space, and b) the nearly infinitely-customizable work environments abailable in space. At any rate, this is only a secondary reason.
'to live'? Exactly what sort of reason is this? Sure, life is important (of course I think that...I'm a living being...I can't help it), but does that mean it's our manifest destiny to spread life throughout the universe, merely for the sake of spreading life? Again, this reason, although important, is purely secondary.
'to survive'. Finally we come to the heart of the matter...the reason that should have been number one, with the two reasons listed above in support of it. Humankind must colonize space, and do it soon. Between the dwindling rescources available to us while we remain shackled to a gravity well, and the impending mass-extinction events (asteroid, pandemic, super-volcano...take your pick), we are left with very little time in which to secure our species' future. Establishing a viable space-community should be the primary goal of the human race.
(BTW, more interesting information regarding our continued survival can be found here.)
From the summary:
How long until we see robots take over from humans in other sports?