After the second cable "malfunction", I started to suspect that something is going on.... seems like an attempt to create a dead zone in the middle east without resorting to using a EMP. They not eliminated all communication but have greatly hampered it, overloading what remaining systems that exist... so when the attacks come... expect all systems to overload and crash, dead zoning everything.
It be the first use of the internet as a tactical weapon.
At least they could release the workplace shell to the open source community. They developed it without Microsoft as far as I know. Once released, it could be adapted and modernized to a X11 desktop that could offer another choice to both KDE and GNome, or even the technology could make KDE and GNome gain improved features.
All the gizmos are not even close to effective as getting the job done as a PC. Would a big screen TV or a Cell phone ever be able to help finish that report for work or school on time with whatever research that needs to be done. No. There will always be a need for it, even if you not a developer. Unless society is going to become a legion of couch potatoes living off of free support from the government. Yeah they may spend less time on the PC as time goes by but eliminate it, I do not think that would ever be possible, even when the I/O system disappears and replaced with a human/cybernetic link.
So lets face it, we have two kinds of evil... you have mistakes and opinions that not shared by Moore, and then you have that evil which is Moore. Google is a business and they make decisions, sometimes we may not like it, business sometime (even Google) cannot please everyone at all times. Healthcare is horrid in most parts of the world, that is a fact. I cannot say all but most. It is poor condition and there many flaws in the system that seem they cannot get rid of or they lack the management skills to get rid of. But a mudslinger moron like Moore stitches propaganda composed of half truths and lies, and we believe him as gospel. Wake up people, lets realize that this guy is shoving crap into the populations mouths.
Is he confirming he is in the Inflationary Universe theory as described by Alan H. Guth? I believe he might be leaning towards that theory or some variant of it.
I may be wrong, since this is a user preference thing. But a lot of their "Must Haves", I can do without. Where the good stuff such as MR Tech Local Install, Image Zoom, Picture This, Google Notebook, etc. They are much better than crap such as IE Tab, etc. Some they did mention are good, such as GMail Notifier (when it working), Google Browser Sync, etc. But some of them are total crap and give you no real functionality, other than bloat.
Why do I hate Microsoft...
1. They stole the kernel for the 32 bit version of OS/2 and created NT out of it.
2. After IBM created a new kernel for the 32-bit version of OS/2, MS invested a lot of money to ensure that OS/2 was killed. They blackmailed companies to keep them on the DOS and Windows bandwagon even thou OS/2 was by far a superior product.
3. They integrated their inferior Web Browser into the OS, so as to force people into not using other browsers, especially Netscape.
4. The are/were one of the secret backers of SCO fraudulent claims against IBM and Linux.
And that my friend is the tip of the iceberg.
Man! I can't blame Luke.... Leia is one hot babe.... Saw her in that slave outfit.... You can't blame him for wanting to make some learning impaired children with her.... drool Luke drool! lol
I own a valid copy of windows. I don't have a issue of priacy with it. But the fact that Microsoft has my computer not just checking if updates for Windows is available but reporting back to microsoft about my computer just makes me feel that I am being f*cked up my arse by Microsoft. Those blasted arsef*ckers.
Windows sucks really. I still cant get it to run without crashing on my other PC (AMD Opteron 170). But SUSE runs beautifully on it. The day Photoshop and Rhino3D is available natively on Linux, I will throw Windowz in the garbage can where it deserves.
I was even thinking of evaluating Vista when it arrives, not anymore.... this is the last straw for me... My main system runs windows. I leave it like that for now till I can get all the tools I want for Linux then convert this from Mudderf*ckersoft to something I can trust more.
As I read it... the measurments were initially syncronized clocks, that used some kind of atomic reference (I am not 100% sure since this has been a long time ago now). Thus the clocks were not affected by the movement of the rockets. One was kept on earth and the other on the shuttle. After both were seperated and then returned they were found out of sync by a very small magnitude. One has to assume that NASA did ensure that each clock was kept in the same environmental conditions.
I wish I could find that article again...
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Whoever posted this is an idiot. If I remembered correctly, NASA has proven time is not constant. Minute dialation effects (in the millionths or greater of a second were recorded) when astronaughts travel into space. While this is not a remarkable change in time, it does illistrate that time is not a constant. Yes, there are arguments if backward time travel is possible or feasable as it would take an impossibly large amount of energy to accomplish it as it would require to reach faster than light velocities.
Now... I wonder if slashdot is being infiltrated by the Intelligent Design idiots, flying a new flag of scientific de-evolution.
Yes, we don't know everything about the universe but we sure do know more than this idiot.
I agree.... Where is Anthony "Tony" Stark. What is a richest fictional count without him? He puts Bruce Wayne to shame, unless he in a downfall because of substance abuse. Otherwise his contracts and projects put him over the top. Heck the contract to building the shield hellicarrier would be the envy of any corporation. And considering he done the rich to rags to rich a couple times, means he is not a man to toy with when it comes to money; he knows how to make it.
Forbes better get their act together... I hear Tony planning a hostile take over of their headquarters... lol.
Bravo!!! As someone that dabbles with programming in smalltalk. It time ppl remember that it is Xerox that invented the GUI (which was always part of smalltalk). Although Xerox lost some of its progammers to Apple because of lack of management in Xerox to realise just how fundamental the development of the GUI was, they inspired the Macintosh.
While I agree that the linux desktop needs some work to go. The Mac desktop is not a great alternative, especially for programmers who are accustomed to the SAA model. Especially those who first bit their teeth using OS/2 in the early 90s. I often been fustrated with the macintosh desktop, espeically the pre-OSX, it lacked the power and flexiblity that I got on OS/2. OS/2 is gone now (only ECOS still servives). Thus for most of us, the choice was either windows (white flag in hand) or linux.
I have linux (Fedora Core 2) running on my 900MHz Sony Vaio laptop, and its a wonderful operating system. I have little problems with it, I have all the programming tools I like to use, and I can customize abit of the OS. I have always loved the idea of hacking together a programming project and integrating the project directly into the OS; easily adding my own options to context menus etc. I believe Linux best promises a future were the flexiblity and power that I once knew can continue to thrive.
Maybe it is the bad taste of the pre-OSX macintoshes that prevents me from adoring the macintosh, but in many ways I still don't like the Macintosh desktop.
But that is just my opinion and why I continue having a vested interest in the future of Linux and an Operating System.
Such a topic seems to bring out the best and worse in people... ok the worse... lol.
While there are arguments on both sides of the issue and each is just as valid as the other. The first thing is leave religion out of it... we had enough wars caused by that silly activity of man. As for tattoos et al. Yes, we have the right to do as we wish... yet we must also learn moderation. The fact is rebel or not, were are but a unit in the grand machinery of society. And yes, we do not want a half-human/half-junkheap to work or confront us in business, but we also need to be more open and realise that attribute X does not make the man.
Yet, it seems even if we do live in the 21st century. Man is still running around with thier heads stuck in the 19th. We obviously have not learned anything from the 20th. And continue to live in our own self-rightous biggetory ways.
If the 90 year old grandma cannot come to grips with the new world, let her take her business elsewhere. The fact is how we look does not matter to the results we accomplish.
Yes, moderation is something that indeed some people are lacking... We cannot rebuild the world in one giant leap forward, it takes time... and so far we F'ed up much of it so far.
Personally, I dont have a tattoo or anything like that... but I would not judge anyone if they had anything... that being said I would look at you strangely if you were standing in front of me with enough metal to build a car.
I downloaded it yesterday and tried it out... I have to agree, this program in short... sucks. I used Photoshop, Gimp, Fireworks, and while Photoshop is indeed still the king when it comes to graphic editing. Acrylic is nowhere near complete, even the interface needs to be redesigned. The only saving grace to it is the neat pencil tool, that is smooth and gives an artsy vector point in the beginning and end. Something obviously from the drawing aspect of the program in its second reason for existance... to challenge Illistrator.
I agree that as time has gone by... The essence of star trek has slowly demeterialized. Thus leaving the outer shell of star trek but its heart was missing. Less and less were star trek about issues and ideas. Thus it is good to finally see the end of the exploitation of star trek.
However, to say its not good, shows the lack of Mr. Card ability to see what star trek was really about. The original series, even through its crappy effects, dealth with issues that even later generation series never tackled. No where in its time, did a series attempt to deal with issues as Star Trek did. And it got away with it by using a fundamental idea of science fiction, to take real issues and through the cloak of fictional storylines bring the issue to a front for stark relizations they would reveal about us.
Instead Mr. Card believes sci-fi should be a no-brainer piece of crap. I fail to see what the polished but intellectually flawed series such as Buffy and Smallville as good science fiction.
The only major critizim of early star trek is like all TV/mass public science fiction series is that at the end of the series everyone walks away to appear in the next epsoide. The only time this was challenged in any sci-fi show was the demise of Denise Crosby in NextGen.
But Mr. Card is entitled to his flawed judgement. After all, if people like Card did not exist, then who will remind us that we must stand up and shout our voices to the stars that we do not want more shovelware entertainment like what Mr. Card suggest we park our brains to become sponges to be harvested and used for plant food.
Lets face it, the same driving ideas behind star trek was essentially the same as the driving but more professionally done scifi such as 2001, the Martian Chronicles, etc. Although they had the liberty to go deeper, they addessed the same issues but along diffent lines.
Thankfully, Mr. Card is not yet overlord, and so we will not bow down before his rule...
There is a project in the early stages to build a open source version of OS/2 (OsFree.org) which is in the early stages. If IBM relased OS/2 to the open source community. Projects such as these would no longer need to exist. That being said, there are some parts of the OS/2-AIX family that has been released to the open source community already. One is ObjectRexx, now called Open Object Rexx.
The key question that should be asked will the important aspects of OS/2 are to be released. Since it is apparent that IBM could release aspects of the OS without affecting the parts that are owned through other patents. The key factor would be to determine what parts are IBM and what parts are not.
For a long time there been sharing of coding concepts with WINE and WinOS2 (Odin) projects. Another aspect of OS/2 that has been available to the Linux community. While it is not perfect yet, to run flawlessly Windows code. Mainly because Windows uses too many tricks to keep it software base out of the hands of projects such as OS/2, Odin and Wine.
Perhaps the one thing that would be awesome if released to the open source community would be the Workplace shell. Such a release would greatly benfit all shells for Linux (including the OS/2 like IceWM). The ability to create a fully object oriented desktop would put these projects years ahead of M$.
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After the second cable "malfunction", I started to suspect that something is going on.... seems like an attempt to create a dead zone in the middle east without resorting to using a EMP. They not eliminated all communication but have greatly hampered it, overloading what remaining systems that exist... so when the attacks come... expect all systems to overload and crash, dead zoning everything. It be the first use of the internet as a tactical weapon.
At least they could release the workplace shell to the open source community. They developed it without Microsoft as far as I know. Once released, it could be adapted and modernized to a X11 desktop that could offer another choice to both KDE and GNome, or even the technology could make KDE and GNome gain improved features.
All the gizmos are not even close to effective as getting the job done as a PC. Would a big screen TV or a Cell phone ever be able to help finish that report for work or school on time with whatever research that needs to be done. No. There will always be a need for it, even if you not a developer. Unless society is going to become a legion of couch potatoes living off of free support from the government. Yeah they may spend less time on the PC as time goes by but eliminate it, I do not think that would ever be possible, even when the I/O system disappears and replaced with a human/cybernetic link.
So lets face it, we have two kinds of evil... you have mistakes and opinions that not shared by Moore, and then you have that evil which is Moore. Google is a business and they make decisions, sometimes we may not like it, business sometime (even Google) cannot please everyone at all times. Healthcare is horrid in most parts of the world, that is a fact. I cannot say all but most. It is poor condition and there many flaws in the system that seem they cannot get rid of or they lack the management skills to get rid of. But a mudslinger moron like Moore stitches propaganda composed of half truths and lies, and we believe him as gospel. Wake up people, lets realize that this guy is shoving crap into the populations mouths.
Is he confirming he is in the Inflationary Universe theory as described by Alan H. Guth? I believe he might be leaning towards that theory or some variant of it.
I may be wrong, since this is a user preference thing. But a lot of their "Must Haves", I can do without. Where the good stuff such as MR Tech Local Install, Image Zoom, Picture This, Google Notebook, etc. They are much better than crap such as IE Tab, etc. Some they did mention are good, such as GMail Notifier (when it working), Google Browser Sync, etc. But some of them are total crap and give you no real functionality, other than bloat.
Why do I hate Microsoft... 1. They stole the kernel for the 32 bit version of OS/2 and created NT out of it. 2. After IBM created a new kernel for the 32-bit version of OS/2, MS invested a lot of money to ensure that OS/2 was killed. They blackmailed companies to keep them on the DOS and Windows bandwagon even thou OS/2 was by far a superior product. 3. They integrated their inferior Web Browser into the OS, so as to force people into not using other browsers, especially Netscape. 4. The are/were one of the secret backers of SCO fraudulent claims against IBM and Linux. And that my friend is the tip of the iceberg.
Man! I can't blame Luke.... Leia is one hot babe.... Saw her in that slave outfit.... You can't blame him for wanting to make some learning impaired children with her.... drool Luke drool! lol
OMG to hear that every day? Send them back to the drawing boards.... that annoying me already.
Indeed where is OS/2.... It was light years ahead of windows....
I own a valid copy of windows. I don't have a issue of priacy with it. But the fact that Microsoft has my computer not just checking if updates for Windows is available but reporting back to microsoft about my computer just makes me feel that I am being f*cked up my arse by Microsoft. Those blasted arsef*ckers. Windows sucks really. I still cant get it to run without crashing on my other PC (AMD Opteron 170). But SUSE runs beautifully on it. The day Photoshop and Rhino3D is available natively on Linux, I will throw Windowz in the garbage can where it deserves. I was even thinking of evaluating Vista when it arrives, not anymore.... this is the last straw for me... My main system runs windows. I leave it like that for now till I can get all the tools I want for Linux then convert this from Mudderf*ckersoft to something I can trust more.
As I read it... the measurments were initially syncronized clocks, that used some kind of atomic reference (I am not 100% sure since this has been a long time ago now). Thus the clocks were not affected by the movement of the rockets. One was kept on earth and the other on the shuttle. After both were seperated and then returned they were found out of sync by a very small magnitude. One has to assume that NASA did ensure that each clock was kept in the same environmental conditions.
I wish I could find that article again...
Whoever posted this is an idiot. If I remembered correctly, NASA has proven time is not constant. Minute dialation effects (in the millionths or greater of a second were recorded) when astronaughts travel into space. While this is not a remarkable change in time, it does illistrate that time is not a constant. Yes, there are arguments if backward time travel is possible or feasable as it would take an impossibly large amount of energy to accomplish it as it would require to reach faster than light velocities. Now... I wonder if slashdot is being infiltrated by the Intelligent Design idiots, flying a new flag of scientific de-evolution. Yes, we don't know everything about the universe but we sure do know more than this idiot.
I agree.... Where is Anthony "Tony" Stark. What is a richest fictional count without him? He puts Bruce Wayne to shame, unless he in a downfall because of substance abuse. Otherwise his contracts and projects put him over the top. Heck the contract to building the shield hellicarrier would be the envy of any corporation. And considering he done the rich to rags to rich a couple times, means he is not a man to toy with when it comes to money; he knows how to make it.
Forbes better get their act together... I hear Tony planning a hostile take over of their headquarters... lol.
Bravo!!! As someone that dabbles with programming in smalltalk. It time ppl remember that it is Xerox that invented the GUI (which was always part of smalltalk). Although Xerox lost some of its progammers to Apple because of lack of management in Xerox to realise just how fundamental the development of the GUI was, they inspired the Macintosh.
While I agree that the linux desktop needs some work to go. The Mac desktop is not a great alternative, especially for programmers who are accustomed to the SAA model. Especially those who first bit their teeth using OS/2 in the early 90s. I often been fustrated with the macintosh desktop, espeically the pre-OSX, it lacked the power and flexiblity that I got on OS/2. OS/2 is gone now (only ECOS still servives). Thus for most of us, the choice was either windows (white flag in hand) or linux.
I have linux (Fedora Core 2) running on my 900MHz Sony Vaio laptop, and its a wonderful operating system. I have little problems with it, I have all the programming tools I like to use, and I can customize abit of the OS. I have always loved the idea of hacking together a programming project and integrating the project directly into the OS; easily adding my own options to context menus etc. I believe Linux best promises a future were the flexiblity and power that I once knew can continue to thrive.
Maybe it is the bad taste of the pre-OSX macintoshes that prevents me from adoring the macintosh, but in many ways I still don't like the Macintosh desktop.
But that is just my opinion and why I continue having a vested interest in the future of Linux and an Operating System.
Such a topic seems to bring out the best and worse in people... ok the worse... lol.
While there are arguments on both sides of the issue and each is just as valid as the other. The first thing is leave religion out of it... we had enough wars caused by that silly activity of man. As for tattoos et al. Yes, we have the right to do as we wish... yet we must also learn moderation. The fact is rebel or not, were are but a unit in the grand machinery of society. And yes, we do not want a half-human/half-junkheap to work or confront us in business, but we also need to be more open and realise that attribute X does not make the man.
Yet, it seems even if we do live in the 21st century. Man is still running around with thier heads stuck in the 19th. We obviously have not learned anything from the 20th. And continue to live in our own self-rightous biggetory ways.
If the 90 year old grandma cannot come to grips with the new world, let her take her business elsewhere. The fact is how we look does not matter to the results we accomplish.
Yes, moderation is something that indeed some people are lacking... We cannot rebuild the world in one giant leap forward, it takes time... and so far we F'ed up much of it so far.
Personally, I dont have a tattoo or anything like that... but I would not judge anyone if they had anything... that being said I would look at you strangely if you were standing in front of me with enough metal to build a car.
Moderation ppl....
Nuff said.
I downloaded it yesterday and tried it out... I have to agree, this program in short... sucks. I used Photoshop, Gimp, Fireworks, and while Photoshop is indeed still the king when it comes to graphic editing. Acrylic is nowhere near complete, even the interface needs to be redesigned. The only saving grace to it is the neat pencil tool, that is smooth and gives an artsy vector point in the beginning and end. Something obviously from the drawing aspect of the program in its second reason for existance... to challenge Illistrator.
I agree that as time has gone by... The essence of star trek has slowly demeterialized. Thus leaving the outer shell of star trek but its heart was missing. Less and less were star trek about issues and ideas. Thus it is good to finally see the end of the exploitation of star trek.
However, to say its not good, shows the lack of Mr. Card ability to see what star trek was really about. The original series, even through its crappy effects, dealth with issues that even later generation series never tackled. No where in its time, did a series attempt to deal with issues as Star Trek did. And it got away with it by using a fundamental idea of science fiction, to take real issues and through the cloak of fictional storylines bring the issue to a front for stark relizations they would reveal about us.
Instead Mr. Card believes sci-fi should be a no-brainer piece of crap. I fail to see what the polished but intellectually flawed series such as Buffy and Smallville as good science fiction.
The only major critizim of early star trek is like all TV/mass public science fiction series is that at the end of the series everyone walks away to appear in the next epsoide. The only time this was challenged in any sci-fi show was the demise of Denise Crosby in NextGen.
But Mr. Card is entitled to his flawed judgement. After all, if people like Card did not exist, then who will remind us that we must stand up and shout our voices to the stars that we do not want more shovelware entertainment like what Mr. Card suggest we park our brains to become sponges to be harvested and used for plant food.
Lets face it, the same driving ideas behind star trek was essentially the same as the driving but more professionally done scifi such as 2001, the Martian Chronicles, etc. Although they had the liberty to go deeper, they addessed the same issues but along diffent lines.
Thankfully, Mr. Card is not yet overlord, and so we will not bow down before his rule...
There is a project in the early stages to build a open source version of OS/2 (OsFree.org) which is in the early stages. If IBM relased OS/2 to the open source community. Projects such as these would no longer need to exist. That being said, there are some parts of the OS/2-AIX family that has been released to the open source community already. One is ObjectRexx, now called Open Object Rexx. The key question that should be asked will the important aspects of OS/2 are to be released. Since it is apparent that IBM could release aspects of the OS without affecting the parts that are owned through other patents. The key factor would be to determine what parts are IBM and what parts are not. For a long time there been sharing of coding concepts with WINE and WinOS2 (Odin) projects. Another aspect of OS/2 that has been available to the Linux community. While it is not perfect yet, to run flawlessly Windows code. Mainly because Windows uses too many tricks to keep it software base out of the hands of projects such as OS/2, Odin and Wine. Perhaps the one thing that would be awesome if released to the open source community would be the Workplace shell. Such a release would greatly benfit all shells for Linux (including the OS/2 like IceWM). The ability to create a fully object oriented desktop would put these projects years ahead of M$.