If these moronic moralistic colleges didn't check for things like this, nice smart students who like fun would risk to end up at these hell-holes! That would be truly horrible.
It's much better if they go to a collage that understand that the important thing is what you do and can do, and not how you look like on some photos.
I personally don't trust people who don't have humiliating photos of themselves on the Internet, and I advice everyone else to do the same, because it means:
1) They are truly totally boring and will make you and your organisation depressed.
2) They have a huge lack of self-esteem.
3) They are criminals trying to hide.
4) They don't know what the Internet is.
You aren't thinking big enough. If it's a town, people can live there. A floating city isn't more expensive to build than a city on mud and other bad terrain. There are plenty of huge building "floating" in mud with enormous amouts of poles under themselves, and floating is in many ways easier as the moments of water is better understood.
The city would of course by used more like a Las Vegas than a datacenter. I doubt it all can be powered by waves and wind though.
The point is that a car should have ultra capacitors too. It's enough if they can drive the car from 0 to 100 km/h(0 to 60 mph for Americans) in 3-5 seconds and otherwise run on the battery.
And capacitors are great for returning energy while breaking too.
I would say this is needed for a great electrical car:
1 A good battery
2 Good capacitors
3 The engines places in the wheels to save transmission weight.
4 Being able to charge while driving on the highway.
I'm not exactly "Mandriva Market" as I haven't paid for my membership in years, but Mandriva is the only OS I use on my mother's computer, my desktop and servers (That are running Elftown, Elfpack, Elfwood and more).
Mandriva isn't perfect, but I'm not in the mood to learn another package system after learning RPM (and Mandriva's urpmi-tool) so Ubuntu isn't really interesting until I really have to.
I'm really not happy about that they aren't shipping Firefox 3 though. Right now I think I have a badly (halfly) updated Mandriva 2008-2008.1 system that can't run Firefox 3 properly. I have no spelling-control (I hope that isn't seen in this posting...) and GIF-images bigger than 420px*152px will not show (Firefox 3 in Wine 1.0 works just fine though, and it works fine on my mother's Mandriva 2008.0). So an upgrade with RPM-dependency Firefox 3 would be nice. Although I have to say that the installation programming and instruction documentation for Firefox 3 on Linux are way beyond shit. No instructions available in the dist, only a link to a non-working URL, no checking if you have the libs needed, no bloody nothing! Even Sun's Java was easier to install correctly... (And that demanded looking at a web-page, doing some very specific copying to the right dirs and an ldconfig-command, if I remember correctly.).
The web-page, yes. But I still get the error message when running Firefox 3 on Linux. I even tried to remove all config files and plugins, but no success.
Windows Firefox 3 runs fine under Wine 1.0 though.
It's annoying if it's a bad time for people like me who want to post about it on our sites. But 19:00, 20:00 CET or something like that is just fine for me though.
Open source needs competition and something to benchmark with as much as anything else. Being able to have two pointers might be pretty cool, but you'll not get much attention for that. But if you're developing X.theotherorg you can point fingers at X.org and say that they don't have it! Yes, very childish but that's how people are even if they refuse to admit it.
It's also good for motivation to have your own project and the leaders of the project keep the developers much more happy if there is a competitor.
Similar to open source competition, competitions are held in the EU where the member countries are benchmarked against each other in a lot of areas in a sort of beauty contest. There are no rewards or punishments, but no one wants their country to be at the bottom so it's a remarkably powerful incentive for lazy bureaucrats and politicians, and even their voters.
"And yet, I'm *trying* to give them bloody money. But I'm not doing anything wrong. "
Yes, you are. You're trying to give them money so that they can harass people, severely limit our freedom and steal money with help of the tax on copying they are allowed to take. You're a bad evil person, not much better than RIAA!
If you want to support a band, it's much better to go to a concert. Or even buy the crap they are advertising, if they are into that. Paying for information is great capitalism, but paying for it when it's already public, that's Mugabe style of economic.
Sorry, but I don't care if you're a plumber and don't work on weekends. I'll break your monopoly on plumbing and fix the toilet anyway!
That's what information piracy is all about: Breaking a monopoly. Claiming the right to use the computers we own and Internet we hire in any way we want as long as we don't hurt anyone.
Maybe the record companies feel hurt when they can't sell the same information again and again, but I don't see why we should say no to the huge benefits of free information charing just because they feel hurt if they can't steal money and freedom from us.
Making sure that the ones producing information are getting paid is a different issue. In principle, if you buy a right (to copy something), you're paying a tax even though the tax money goes to some used to be musician. It takes no Einstein to figure out that taxation of information sharing and giving tax-money to people who aren't doing something is as stupid as the president of USA...
When someone sells oil, they get a number in an account. That number generates interest or it is exchanged immediately another currency. And you can be sure that when Sweden buys oil from Norway, there are no dollars exchanged.
What do matters is that fewer people want to have dollars (on accounts or in bills) because its value doesn't appear to be secure, and the euro is getting more and more accepted everywhere. This process is speeding up itself as no one wants to be the last one to get rid of their dollars.
15% of USA's economy is imported, so it's not that dependent on the value of the dollar. But a 33% drop in dollar value means that the American can buy 5% less. There are many complicated things that happen to companies, but the end story is that changing dollar value creates problems and kills companies that shouldn't have been killed.
Of course Mircosoft will strike back, but the open source competition is something totally different today than it was 5 years ago. Mircosoft can never match the combined power from the Linux-developers in the long run, except in a few selected areas. The area is the middle range computers, and that will be smaller and smaller in the future as the cheap computers become better.
The ones developing these small devices are quite content with that they have control over their software, so start buying closed source is a big step. Better to buy adjustments to the open source stuff they already are using then.
Microsoft is in the same situation as the Roman Empire was in the end of the 4th century when Rome isn't sacked yet, but the barbarians have the same military technology as the Romans, but more manpower and will.
I always buy a computer without an OS installed. Of course I have to check that the hardware really works with Linux, but it's practically no problem as long as you buy standard parts. Soundcards on motherboards, graphic cards, all network cards and harddisk controllers never cause any problems nowadays.
Maybe you can't get an OS-free computer in a shop, but they are definitely available in a good Internet shop. I buy from Komplett, but that's in Sweden (Norway).
This might be good news for laptops, but what I want is a PCIe-card with real speed compared to SATA-II.
I still haven't seen anywhere to buy it or heard anyone getting their hands on an ioDrive from FusionIO, but they are complaining about too high demand in Q2 (they started shipping it to big screaming customers the 7th of April).
But they have done it right: Straight into the PCIe and it comes with a Linux-driver. I just want to be sure about that it will do wonders for my databases before buying one. It's expensive, but compared to getting a machine with 60 GByte RAM or a SAN it's a bargain. And it's faster than any RAID-card, it's said, and you can RAID them if that isn't fast enough for you.
Code it, redesign it and code it right. Fix the bugs and rewrite it again if needed.
There is a general problem with programs that they aren't rewritten often enough. People think it's costly and refuse to rewrite things, but rewriting a piece of code is at least 10 times faster than writing it in the first place and it will safe both the programmers and users way more time in the future. And the fact is that no one can design something good before they have pre-designed and coded it first.
Do you honestly think that the ones reading the court documents can read complicated sentences better than slashdotters?
As the court make up its own idea about that it can order where a company put their ads, I rule them quite stupid. It would have been another thing if the court would have said something about what they can write in the ads.
Nothing corrupts the USA congress more than the current patent and copyright laws and the usage of them (Don't buy the Hollywood crap about that it's military companies and even oil companies that makes the big money from bribing the government, because up to 50% of some patent and copyright misusing companies' income comes from making sure that the government takes away people's freedom to use their own things as they want.).
And free sharing of information will definitely help more against disease and hunger than any naive attempt to send food.
And if you send a general Slashdoter into a field to grow crops, we'll die of exhaustion in a few days, so we have to fight the battle our way...
Windows has and still is creating a diverse cheap hardware platform that many other computer systems take advantage of, while MacOS refuse to run on something that isn't Apple. That's evil.
iPhone (try to) refuse other software run on it, while Mircosoft is happy to let you run anything on their mobile system.
iTunes is just a way to steal money from people without doing anything except copying a file and support government and corporate control of Internet communication. Usury and censorship are evil.
And now: Tricking their costumers into installing another of their products. Maybe not very evil, but it makes a bad product and I can't advice anyone to use products from a company with that philosophy.
I personally only run Linux (and some dosbox actually...).
So from now on, you'll go to jail (or at least court and get your equipment taken away) as soon as you report any childporn. I bet a big portion of the people looking at these links were doing so to check if there was something there that should be reported to the police.
But FBI have made it clear that they are the enemy, and that will make any support from the public go away.
The ones using this tactics belong behind bars, and this is the most stupid thing in the field of police work I've heard of as far as I can remember.
Apparently you aren't using the browser as I am. Right now I have 8 windows and some 40 tabs open in total. It makes it easy to switch between different sites and I generally use many taps and windows per site too while I'm clicking around on it.
I'm using Firefox 2 and it's 695 MByte now. I have 8 GByte om RAM so I couldn't care less about the memory usage, but the browser do get slow when overloaded sometimes even if there is plenty of RAM left.
I develop stuff to Internet! You use Internet! I want part of the $5 a month that we Internet companies should steal from you. If you don't agree to pay, there will be no content on the Internet.
Unfortunately the statement above isn't true, but it would have been "true" if we would have bought politicians for the last decades to stream money to us.
But the bought politicians thinks it's more important to feed dead musicians with money than feeding new companies like my own. They say it's "fair" stealing and you're probably voting for them! Apparently it's more important to some of the USA if he is a she or black than if they want to steal from you. I hope we'll not do the same mistake here, but we probably will do another mistake.
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It's much better if they go to a collage that understand that the important thing is what you do and can do, and not how you look like on some photos.
I personally don't trust people who don't have humiliating photos of themselves on the Internet, and I advice everyone else to do the same, because it means:
1) They are truly totally boring and will make you and your organisation depressed.
2) They have a huge lack of self-esteem.
3) They are criminals trying to hide.
4) They don't know what the Internet is.
The city would of course by used more like a Las Vegas than a datacenter. I doubt it all can be powered by waves and wind though.
Nothing more to add.
And capacitors are great for returning energy while breaking too.
I would say this is needed for a great electrical car:
1 A good battery
2 Good capacitors
3 The engines places in the wheels to save transmission weight.
4 Being able to charge while driving on the highway.
The industry has only came to around 2 yet.
Mandriva isn't perfect, but I'm not in the mood to learn another package system after learning RPM (and Mandriva's urpmi-tool) so Ubuntu isn't really interesting until I really have to.
I'm really not happy about that they aren't shipping Firefox 3 though. Right now I think I have a badly (halfly) updated Mandriva 2008-2008.1 system that can't run Firefox 3 properly. I have no spelling-control (I hope that isn't seen in this posting...) and GIF-images bigger than 420px*152px will not show (Firefox 3 in Wine 1.0 works just fine though, and it works fine on my mother's Mandriva 2008.0). So an upgrade with RPM-dependency Firefox 3 would be nice. Although I have to say that the installation programming and instruction documentation for Firefox 3 on Linux are way beyond shit. No instructions available in the dist, only a link to a non-working URL, no checking if you have the libs needed, no bloody nothing! Even Sun's Java was easier to install correctly... (And that demanded looking at a web-page, doing some very specific copying to the right dirs and an ldconfig-command, if I remember correctly.).
Windows Firefox 3 runs fine under Wine 1.0 though.
# ./firefox
Error: in (function call): procedure or syntax required but got: Error: fatal: looped fatal error
I guess there is a plugin or setting error, or something. A google search for this generates a lot of people with the same problem but no solution.
Firefox 3
Free Dowload
2.0.0.14 for Linux i686
English (US) (9.2 MB)
Firefox 3 version 2.0.0.14... Nice!
But now http://www.spreadfirefox.com/worldrecord is "Slashdotted" and http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ is still showing Firefox 2.
It's also good for motivation to have your own project and the leaders of the project keep the developers much more happy if there is a competitor.
Similar to open source competition, competitions are held in the EU where the member countries are benchmarked against each other in a lot of areas in a sort of beauty contest. There are no rewards or punishments, but no one wants their country to be at the bottom so it's a remarkably powerful incentive for lazy bureaucrats and politicians, and even their voters.
Yes, you are. You're trying to give them money so that they can harass people, severely limit our freedom and steal money with help of the tax on copying they are allowed to take. You're a bad evil person, not much better than RIAA!
If you want to support a band, it's much better to go to a concert. Or even buy the crap they are advertising, if they are into that. Paying for information is great capitalism, but paying for it when it's already public, that's Mugabe style of economic.
That's what information piracy is all about: Breaking a monopoly. Claiming the right to use the computers we own and Internet we hire in any way we want as long as we don't hurt anyone.
Maybe the record companies feel hurt when they can't sell the same information again and again, but I don't see why we should say no to the huge benefits of free information charing just because they feel hurt if they can't steal money and freedom from us.
Making sure that the ones producing information are getting paid is a different issue. In principle, if you buy a right (to copy something), you're paying a tax even though the tax money goes to some used to be musician. It takes no Einstein to figure out that taxation of information sharing and giving tax-money to people who aren't doing something is as stupid as the president of USA...
This is the time of the Empire Strikes Back and Microsoft will surely come back a little, but we all know how the trilogy ends...
The subject line gave a nice conversation though.
When someone sells oil, they get a number in an account. That number generates interest or it is exchanged immediately another currency. And you can be sure that when Sweden buys oil from Norway, there are no dollars exchanged.
What do matters is that fewer people want to have dollars (on accounts or in bills) because its value doesn't appear to be secure, and the euro is getting more and more accepted everywhere. This process is speeding up itself as no one wants to be the last one to get rid of their dollars.
15% of USA's economy is imported, so it's not that dependent on the value of the dollar. But a 33% drop in dollar value means that the American can buy 5% less. There are many complicated things that happen to companies, but the end story is that changing dollar value creates problems and kills companies that shouldn't have been killed.
The ones developing these small devices are quite content with that they have control over their software, so start buying closed source is a big step. Better to buy adjustments to the open source stuff they already are using then.
Microsoft is in the same situation as the Roman Empire was in the end of the 4th century when Rome isn't sacked yet, but the barbarians have the same military technology as the Romans, but more manpower and will.
Maybe you can't get an OS-free computer in a shop, but they are definitely available in a good Internet shop. I buy from Komplett, but that's in Sweden (Norway).
I still haven't seen anywhere to buy it or heard anyone getting their hands on an ioDrive from FusionIO, but they are complaining about too high demand in Q2 (they started shipping it to big screaming customers the 7th of April).
But they have done it right: Straight into the PCIe and it comes with a Linux-driver. I just want to be sure about that it will do wonders for my databases before buying one. It's expensive, but compared to getting a machine with 60 GByte RAM or a SAN it's a bargain. And it's faster than any RAID-card, it's said, and you can RAID them if that isn't fast enough for you.
Design and then make some other people code it.
To make something good:
Code it, redesign it and code it right. Fix the bugs and rewrite it again if needed.
There is a general problem with programs that they aren't rewritten often enough. People think it's costly and refuse to rewrite things, but rewriting a piece of code is at least 10 times faster than writing it in the first place and it will safe both the programmers and users way more time in the future. And the fact is that no one can design something good before they have pre-designed and coded it first.
As the court make up its own idea about that it can order where a company put their ads, I rule them quite stupid. It would have been another thing if the court would have said something about what they can write in the ads.
Nothing corrupts the USA congress more than the current patent and copyright laws and the usage of them (Don't buy the Hollywood crap about that it's military companies and even oil companies that makes the big money from bribing the government, because up to 50% of some patent and copyright misusing companies' income comes from making sure that the government takes away people's freedom to use their own things as they want.).
And free sharing of information will definitely help more against disease and hunger than any naive attempt to send food.
And if you send a general Slashdoter into a field to grow crops, we'll die of exhaustion in a few days, so we have to fight the battle our way...
Windows has and still is creating a diverse cheap hardware platform that many other computer systems take advantage of, while MacOS refuse to run on something that isn't Apple. That's evil.
iPhone (try to) refuse other software run on it, while Mircosoft is happy to let you run anything on their mobile system.
iTunes is just a way to steal money from people without doing anything except copying a file and support government and corporate control of Internet communication. Usury and censorship are evil.
And now: Tricking their costumers into installing another of their products. Maybe not very evil, but it makes a bad product and I can't advice anyone to use products from a company with that philosophy.
I personally only run Linux (and some dosbox actually...).
So from now on, you'll go to jail (or at least court and get your equipment taken away) as soon as you report any childporn. I bet a big portion of the people looking at these links were doing so to check if there was something there that should be reported to the police.
But FBI have made it clear that they are the enemy, and that will make any support from the public go away.
The ones using this tactics belong behind bars, and this is the most stupid thing in the field of police work I've heard of as far as I can remember.
Apparently you aren't using the browser as I am. Right now I have 8 windows and some 40 tabs open in total. It makes it easy to switch between different sites and I generally use many taps and windows per site too while I'm clicking around on it.
I'm using Firefox 2 and it's 695 MByte now. I have 8 GByte om RAM so I couldn't care less about the memory usage, but the browser do get slow when overloaded sometimes even if there is plenty of RAM left.
So I'm really looking forward to Firefox 3.
I develop stuff to Internet! You use Internet! I want part of the $5 a month that we Internet companies should steal from you. If you don't agree to pay, there will be no content on the Internet.
Unfortunately the statement above isn't true, but it would have been "true" if we would have bought politicians for the last decades to stream money to us.
But the bought politicians thinks it's more important to feed dead musicians with money than feeding new companies like my own. They say it's "fair" stealing and you're probably voting for them! Apparently it's more important to some of the USA if he is a she or black than if they want to steal from you. I hope we'll not do the same mistake here, but we probably will do another mistake.