> Well, doh, by moving their little wings up and down quickly?
Nah, RTFA ! Birds are flying by moving their wings, but it has been shown that this method wouldn't allow bees flying because they're not moving them fast enough. The real reason is the magic powder.
Now Scientists still need to find the Tinkerbell to ask her how to produce magic powder from pollen..
> In which European country is it being built? > Or does the writers of this article presume that Europe is one single country. > > It's in here Finland too they're building it.
It's in fact in the article. The reactor they're talking about will be built in Finland ("EU nations stopped building nuclear plants for 15 years. But last yearFinland ended that streak by starting construction of a third-generation pressurized water reactor, designed by the French company Areva. It's to come on-line in 2009.")
But it is designed (and built) by a french company. I agree the Slashdot blurb is misleading ("a European nation" then "France is also")
About the title, I would just add that for France it isn't news, 75% to 80% of our energy comes from nuclear power plants. IIRC it's the world highest percentage, seconded by Japan.
> Install Grub on the Linux partition, and use Lilo to load it.
Why use LILO at all, then ? You can use mbr (http://packages.debian.org/stable/base/mbr), or even the dos / windows one (fdisk/mbr), which will silently boot the active partition, that you will set to the one containing the secondary boot loader you're using.
I didn't know about that resurfacing technique, but my guess is that they don't do that : it's apparently cheaper to manufacture a DVD than to resurface it. I would reserve resurfacing for discs containing unique data that have no backup.
My guess is that they get a special deal from the game editor (they're paying a lot more than you and me for the license, they aren't "end-user"), and can get cheap replacement discs.
> I don't think that any of the game publishers would want to cooperate with Gamefly.
It's not about cooperation but law...
(pasting from another of my comments in that thread) If you're technically denied the legal (*) right to make backup copies, you should be entitled the right to get a new copy if the original one is damaged without paying for a 2nd license.
But rental shops probably do not get the same terms of license than the usual customer (they aren't exactly "End User"), and my percedent post is consequently probably somewhat off-base.
(*) I'm somewhat confused, it's legal in some countries like France and Canada, but is it in the U.S. ?
You're paying for a license to play the game until you need a backup copy of the game. But when you do need a copy, you're suddenly paying for the physical media.
What I meant is that if you're technically denied the legal (*) right to make backup copies, you should be entitled the right to get a new copy if the original one is damaged without paying for a 2nd license. Now of course it would be OK to pay the nickel that costs the media, you're paying it anyway when making a backup by yourself, but the cost is so low it would be good PR to give it for free.
(*) I'm somewhat confused, it's legal in some countries like France and Canada, but is it in the U.S. ?
Only one comment and someone already came with the same point I would have written... But I don't think it's funny, it's just the normal use of a backup copy... GameFly shouldn't charge its customers but instead ask the game editor for a disk replacement. After all, they're not buying discs but licenses, right ?
> I think it was mostly a matter of most people having 28.8k or slower dialup access and Netscape being something like a 7M download, whereas Internet Explorer was already there
Ahem... no. At the time you could get Netscape CDs everywhere, pushed by internet providers (AOL comes to mind..) After all, how would you download a browser without a browser and a provider in the first place ?
Variants for 2) : - Is it plugged ? - Is it plugged in the RIGHT plug ? (I've seen keyboards plugged in the mouse plug, TWICE, I wonder if the guy is color-blind)
> LIMITING innovation by requring every inventor to reinvent the wheel.
If only...
It's worse than that because if your reinvented wheel looks even remotely like "The Original Wheel" (TM) you would still be infringing upon that patent.
So you would need to reinvent *on purpose* a wheel sufficiently different to avoid infrigement, leading to imaginative shapes like spherical wheels, triangular wheels...
...then it's a PHP/*nix worm, not Linux specifically.
Not exactly. From what I understood, there are BSD and Linux variants : both versions are using the same PHP holes, but the binary itself must be Linux or BSD compatible.
There's a layer available in BSD that allows to run Linux binaries natively, so Linux potentially could infect a BSD system, but it is somewhat like saying an MS-Windows virus could infect a Linux through wine.
Oh, and while we're at it, aren't these virii more specifically Linux/i386 and BSD/i386 virii ?
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> The guy sounds like a clueless dweeb, he just created a classic battery with different anode and cathode in an electrolyte
:)
Yeah but at least he will get a patent on that
>> Scientists Figure Out How Bees Fly
> Well, doh, by moving their little wings up and down quickly?
Nah, RTFA ! Birds are flying by moving their wings, but it has been shown that this method wouldn't allow bees flying because they're not moving them fast enough. The real reason is the magic powder.
Now Scientists still need to find the Tinkerbell to ask her how to produce magic powder from pollen..
> In which European country is it being built?
> Or does the writers of this article presume that Europe is one single country.
>
> It's in here Finland too they're building it.
It's in fact in the article. The reactor they're talking about will be built in Finland ("EU nations stopped building nuclear plants for 15 years. But last yearFinland ended that streak by starting construction of a third-generation pressurized water reactor, designed by the French company Areva. It's to come on-line in 2009.")
But it is designed (and built) by a french company. I agree the Slashdot blurb is misleading ("a European nation" then "France is also")
About the title, I would just add that for France it isn't news, 75% to 80% of our energy comes from nuclear power plants. IIRC it's the world highest percentage, seconded by Japan.
> Install Grub on the Linux partition, and use Lilo to load it.
/mbr), which will silently boot the active partition, that you will set to the one containing the secondary boot loader you're using.
Why use LILO at all, then ? You can use mbr (http://packages.debian.org/stable/base/mbr), or even the dos / windows one (fdisk
I didn't know about that resurfacing technique, but my guess is that they don't do that : it's apparently cheaper to manufacture a DVD than to resurface it. I would reserve resurfacing for discs containing unique data that have no backup.
My guess is that they get a special deal from the game editor (they're paying a lot more than you and me for the license, they aren't "end-user"), and can get cheap replacement discs.
> I don't think that any of the game publishers would want to cooperate with Gamefly.
It's not about cooperation but law...
(pasting from another of my comments in that thread)
If you're technically denied the legal (*) right to make backup copies, you should be entitled the right to get a new copy if the original one is damaged without paying for a 2nd license.
But rental shops probably do not get the same terms of license than the usual customer (they aren't exactly "End User"), and my percedent post is consequently probably somewhat off-base.
(*) I'm somewhat confused, it's legal in some countries like France and Canada, but is it in the U.S. ?
You're paying for a license to play the game until you need a backup copy of the game. But when you do need a copy, you're suddenly paying for the physical media.
What I meant is that if you're technically denied the legal (*) right to make backup copies, you should be entitled the right to get a new copy if the original one is damaged without paying for a 2nd license. Now of course it would be OK to pay the nickel that costs the media, you're paying it anyway when making a backup by yourself, but the cost is so low it would be good PR to give it for free.
(*) I'm somewhat confused, it's legal in some countries like France and Canada, but is it in the U.S. ?
Only one comment and someone already came with the same point I would have written...
But I don't think it's funny, it's just the normal use of a backup copy...
GameFly shouldn't charge its customers but instead ask the game editor for a disk replacement. After all, they're not buying discs but licenses, right ?
Windows Vista, the successor to Windows XP due out late in 2006.
Please, couldn't you say the accurate thingy ? :
Windows Vista, the successor to Windows XP due out late next year.
Slashdot. Counternews for nerds, Stuff that might matter one day... or not.
> I am curious, however, what Seagate intends to do with the WD brand.
Psst ! Seagate is about to buy Maxtor, not Western Digital...
> I think it was mostly a matter of most people having 28.8k or slower dialup access and Netscape being something like a 7M download, whereas Internet Explorer was already there
Ahem... no.
At the time you could get Netscape CDs everywhere, pushed by internet providers (AOL comes to mind..)
After all, how would you download a browser without a browser and a provider in the first place ?
Variants for 2) :
- Is it plugged ?
- Is it plugged in the RIGHT plug ? (I've seen keyboards plugged in the mouse plug, TWICE, I wonder if the guy is color-blind)
> If Aqua was only available for linux... :-(
It is ! But it's called GNUstep
> like the site I looked at some time ago in Firefox with several hundred TD tags and only two /TD tags.
;)
/TD tags aren't necessary if you're writing html (but they are if you're writing xhtml).
Slashdot ?
BTW, a sibling post is right,
> LIMITING innovation by requring every inventor to reinvent the wheel.
If only...
It's worse than that because if your reinvented wheel looks even remotely like "The Original Wheel" (TM) you would still be infringing upon that patent.
So you would need to reinvent *on purpose* a wheel sufficiently different to avoid infrigement, leading to imaginative shapes like spherical wheels, triangular wheels...
Didn't you get it ?
;)
"technology company" is now a synonym of "patenting/suing company"
3) Because he doesn't get software from, say, Microsoft or AOL ?
By those metrics, Linux, BSD, OSX, well anything that isn't Microsoft is an insecure platform...
Antivirus, antispyware ? What do you mean ? Is that only in the New Oxford American Dictionary ?
Giving a bad opinion on a product isn't effective with only a few competitors.
> [[a page with the trojan|trojan spotted in the wild]]
Click !
Thousands of Slashdotters using IE (at work!) just did infect their computers (and the whole LAN at the same time).
Tenths of thousands rambling because the trojan has been Slashdotted already !
> Does anyone actually respect ICANN anymore?
... ;)
From past Slashdot discussions, I would say they're getting more respect than the U.N., at least in the U.S.A.
> It probably wouldn't hold up in court
You're not used to the PATRIOT act ? Why would you need courts ?
Move directly to jail. Do not pass "Go"^WCourts.
This is my favourite.
...then it's a PHP/*nix worm, not Linux specifically.
Not exactly. From what I understood, there are BSD and Linux variants : both versions are using the same PHP holes, but the binary itself must be Linux or BSD compatible.
There's a layer available in BSD that allows to run Linux binaries natively, so Linux potentially could infect a BSD system, but it is somewhat like saying an MS-Windows virus could infect a Linux through wine.
Oh, and while we're at it, aren't these virii more specifically Linux/i386 and BSD/i386 virii ?