The ion engines rely on the same principle of accelerating propellant through its electromagnetic properties. Plasma is an ionic gas, and propellant is gas too. The only difference I could imagine is that the method of ionization itself produces thrust. Is this indeed the source of higher energy efficiency? The description of two levels sounds like two varying magnetic fields which cause magnetically charged particles (plasma) to accelerate, and the divergence sounds like magnetism applied to aerodynamics. Perhaps this is another source of higher efficiency. If so, this really is groundbreaking.
I am not a lawyer, but I can make a good guess that if enough of such cases (prior art in open source for existing patents) are handled by courts, it will go on to tell the legal and the lawmaking branches of government that the patent system is obsolete. It will create legal precendents for favoring open source over patents in the future, as the open source is actually effective in promoting innovation, unlike software patents.
The method of handwashing through the application of soap and water has been patented. The patent includes the description of drying hands by holding them under a hand dryer for a specified amount of time. The company also disclosed that they intend to patent several different methods of urination, and revealed that "certain other" intellectual property is also on its way to being properly secured..
I think everyone realises that the BSD daemon is a little too much. After all, there's too many things you can do with the word daemon, for example add suffixes such as ic and ise and you are going to alienate even more people (or should I say perspective buyers). Maybe this logo is an ingenious, though a bit late, attempt to move away from the daemon to say... pokemon ball as someone suggested earlier... First, remove the body, then removes the horns and you got yourself a ball. And with a simple ball you can go pretty much anywhere you like...
I am not a meteorologist or a planetologist so I may be a wrong, but I think that hurricanes are one way that Earth our planet deals with different temperatures accross the globe. It thus compensates for colder southern hemisphere vs warmer north hemisphere in the summer months of June-August by transferring winds and clouds by air and water by ocean currents.
So if you put out a hurricane, the Earth will have to compensate somehow. As a result we might see stronger ocean currents with their adverse environmental effects as el nino brought, or we might just see a much stronger hurricane develop. It is an either or situation with many possible weather, environmental, political and you-name-it effects.
People get murdered in Russia all the time. It might be that a crime boss got annoyed with his spam, or that the spammer simply "forgot" to pay for "protection", because he was "too important". Either way, I would really prefer not to find out.
The thought that an idea can mess things up is indeed intriguing. Thank you. Nevertheless, taking things into perspective one might see that DISABLING SCRIPT MULTITASKING BY DEFAULT is the best solution to this problem. There is no reason why there can not be an option in your browser to turn such a feature on, off, or set it selectively. And it is definitely better than turning scripts off completely, or keeping them all on and running a risk.
To solve this problem, javascript multitasking must be disabled, only letting the current active window or tab having keyboard focus to run its javascript. Other tabs' scripts must not be disabled, but instead paused until they in turn receive focus.
Jesús Villasante, head of software technologies at the commission, said: 'The open source community today [is a] subcontractor of American multinationals. Open source communities need to take themselves seriously and realise they have contribution to themselves and society. From the moment they realise they are part of the evolution of society and try to influence it, we will be moving in the right direction.
If he has such a vision for open source, why not sponsor his vision and make it happen, instead of trying to tell others what to do without himself lifting a finger?
The bottom line: don't stick your nose into everyone's private business.
I think it would be safe to say that there is substantial evidence that this voulnerability is not due to any problem with kernel. But instead this is an issue with hardware virtualization by hardware.
It is by convention a good software engineering practice to wait with fixes until: (1)it is either established that your system produces the problem, or (2) that by 'temporarily' 'fixing' this problem in your system (which you should not be doing anyway) you can prevent much damage.
In this case (1) will most likely never be established. (2) however may be, but there is no evidence of it yet. It is important to note that the Linux kernel's willingness to go along with (2) is an extremely nice gesture. Therefore any one criticizing it is doing so in either ignorance or malicious intent or both.
Before you go through the trouble of showing how a certain statement may not hold under varying context, you should of at least made sure that I had actually uttered that statement, not even to mention the varying contexts.
...and in a generation, you will be considered akin to slave owners of 19th century ("what's wrong in enslaving inferior races?"), or butcherous crusaders ("what's wrong in killing infidels?"), or any group of intellectually corrupt people whose time is gone for good.
Aren't you getting a little ahead of yourself? A generation is still a long ways off. Furthermore, a straw man who wants to kill infidels, enslave inferior races, and is overall intellectually corrupt is waiting for you outside. I think you should go pound on him some more.
You are basically claiming they were right then, and are still right now
I did not say that governments are right or wrong. I said that governments made a compromise and that letter of the law of 50 years ago was accurate in describing what homosexuality is. My comments are not to be generalized or be taken out of context.
gross indecency (which is highly relative term in itself -- to me your talk is pretty indecent, for example) or sexual perversion (which likewise is completely subjective judgment)
You just argued that your above statement is highly relative and completely subjective. I tend to agree 100%. Bravo!
Whatever compromises lawmakers and churches made over the last half of a century, homosexuality is just what they said 50 years ago: "gross indecency and sexual perversion". Why? It still is the same thing, even if it is no longer criminally persecuted nor rejected by most churches. And it still contracts AIDS better than the human-reproductive act (dare I say sex in the context?). Too bad you can't sue nature for discrimination nor reach it with protests, I guess.
I think that the idea that GNU/Linux should replace Windows, or anything else for that matter, is faulty from the start. The driving force before GNU and much of open source is people who want to write software for themselves, and share it will all those who are willing to share. The motivation for using GNU/Linux is that it fits your needs, not that it is Not Windows, or something else for that matter. Pressing requests for features, and complaints of lacking technical or customer support are outright ridiculous and should be laughed at. Why? Because no one is forcing anyone to use GNU/Linux. If anything, one should be thankful to those who put forth the effort to get it done on their own time. But the developers should not care anyhow, because they do it for themselves and those who share.
The war between open-source proponents and windows proponents does not fit in with GNU/Linux ideology, it is a totally foreign concept for it in fact. The war was started by Microsoft because they could not buy open-source, and was picked up by people who already disliked Microsoft and by those who thought it was 'cool' to participate (myself included).
But anyhow, to answer your original question of what drives debian development, here is my take on it. Developers want features for themselves, their clients, customers. Developers want neat solutions to show off to potential employers and graduate school admissions too. And something like that. Don't try to find in the list something like "Users Bob and Carloine want a button that whereupon thrice clicked will take her...".
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The ion engines rely on the same principle of accelerating propellant through its electromagnetic properties. Plasma is an ionic gas, and propellant is gas too. The only difference I could imagine is that the method of ionization itself produces thrust. Is this indeed the source of higher energy efficiency? The description of two levels sounds like two varying magnetic fields which cause magnetically charged particles (plasma) to accelerate, and the divergence sounds like magnetism applied to aerodynamics. Perhaps this is another source of higher efficiency. If so, this really is groundbreaking.
I am not a lawyer, but I can make a good guess that if enough of such cases (prior art in open source for existing patents) are handled by courts, it will go on to tell the legal and the lawmaking branches of government that the patent system is obsolete. It will create legal precendents for favoring open source over patents in the future, as the open source is actually effective in promoting innovation, unlike software patents.
The method of handwashing through the application of soap and water has been patented. The patent includes the description of drying hands by holding them under a hand dryer for a specified amount of time. The company also disclosed that they intend to patent several different methods of urination, and revealed that "certain other" intellectual property is also on its way to being properly secured..
Or why not just take the read permissions out? That way no one can even read it. That would be really secure.
I think everyone realises that the BSD daemon is a little too much. After all, there's too many things you can do with the word daemon, for example add suffixes such as ic and ise and you are going to alienate even more people (or should I say perspective buyers). Maybe this logo is an ingenious, though a bit late, attempt to move away from the daemon to say... pokemon ball as someone suggested earlier... First, remove the body, then removes the horns and you got yourself a ball. And with a simple ball you can go pretty much anywhere you like...
If money is no object, then by all means buy a mac. It's the greatest.
I am not a meteorologist or a planetologist so I may be a wrong, but I think that hurricanes are one way that Earth our planet deals with different temperatures accross the globe. It thus compensates for colder southern hemisphere vs warmer north hemisphere in the summer months of June-August by transferring winds and clouds by air and water by ocean currents.
So if you put out a hurricane, the Earth will have to compensate somehow. As a result we might see stronger ocean currents with their adverse environmental effects as el nino brought, or we might just see a much stronger hurricane develop. It is an either or situation with many possible weather, environmental, political and you-name-it effects.
People get murdered in Russia all the time. It might be that a crime boss got annoyed with his spam, or that the spammer simply "forgot" to pay for "protection", because he was "too important". Either way, I would really prefer not to find out.
I use Linux iptables on an ancient pentium pro machine.
The thought that an idea can mess things up is indeed intriguing. Thank you. Nevertheless, taking things into perspective one might see that DISABLING SCRIPT MULTITASKING BY DEFAULT is the best solution to this problem. There is no reason why there can not be an option in your browser to turn such a feature on, off, or set it selectively. And it is definitely better than turning scripts off completely, or keeping them all on and running a risk.
To solve this problem, javascript multitasking must be disabled, only letting the current active window or tab having keyboard focus to run its javascript. Other tabs' scripts must not be disabled, but instead paused until they in turn receive focus.
this topic is stupid
If he has such a vision for open source, why not sponsor his vision and make it happen, instead of trying to tell others what to do without himself lifting a finger?
The bottom line: don't stick your nose into everyone's private business.
I think it would be safe to say that there is substantial evidence that this voulnerability is not due to any problem with kernel. But instead this is an issue with hardware virtualization by hardware.
It is by convention a good software engineering practice to wait with fixes until: (1)it is either established that your system produces the problem, or (2) that by 'temporarily' 'fixing' this problem in your system (which you should not be doing anyway) you can prevent much damage.
In this case (1) will most likely never be established. (2) however may be, but there is no evidence of it yet.
It is important to note that the Linux kernel's willingness to go along with (2) is an extremely nice gesture. Therefore any one criticizing it is doing so in either ignorance or malicious intent or both.
Before you go through the trouble of showing how a certain statement may not hold under varying context, you should of at least made sure that I had actually uttered that statement, not even to mention the varying contexts.
Aren't you getting a little ahead of yourself? A generation is still a long ways off. Furthermore, a straw man who wants to kill infidels, enslave inferior races, and is overall intellectually corrupt is waiting for you outside. I think you should go pound on him some more.
You are basically claiming they were right then, and are still right nowI did not say that governments are right or wrong. I said that governments made a compromise and that letter of the law of 50 years ago was accurate in describing what homosexuality is. My comments are not to be generalized or be taken out of context.
gross indecency (which is highly relative term in itself -- to me your talk is pretty indecent, for example) or sexual perversion (which likewise is completely subjective judgment)You just argued that your above statement is highly relative and completely subjective. I tend to agree 100%. Bravo!
Whatever compromises lawmakers and churches made over the last half of a century, homosexuality is just what they said 50 years ago: "gross indecency and sexual perversion". Why? It still is the same thing, even if it is no longer criminally persecuted nor rejected by most churches. And it still contracts AIDS better than the human-reproductive act (dare I say sex in the context?). Too bad you can't sue nature for discrimination nor reach it with protests, I guess.
I think that the idea that GNU/Linux should replace Windows, or anything else for that matter, is faulty from the start. The driving force before GNU and much of open source is people who want to write software for themselves, and share it will all those who are willing to share. The motivation for using GNU/Linux is that it fits your needs, not that it is Not Windows, or something else for that matter. Pressing requests for features, and complaints of lacking technical or customer support are outright ridiculous and should be laughed at. Why? Because no one is forcing anyone to use GNU/Linux. If anything, one should be thankful to those who put forth the effort to get it done on their own time. But the developers should not care anyhow, because they do it for themselves and those who share.
The war between open-source proponents and windows proponents does not fit in with GNU/Linux ideology, it is a totally foreign concept for it in fact. The war was started by Microsoft because they could not buy open-source, and was picked up by people who already disliked Microsoft and by those who thought it was 'cool' to participate (myself included).
But anyhow, to answer your original question of what drives debian development, here is my take on it. Developers want features for themselves, their clients, customers. Developers want neat solutions to show off to potential employers and graduate school admissions too. And something like that. Don't try to find in the list something like "Users Bob and Carloine want a button that whereupon thrice clicked will take her...".