Have you ever read an email by Mr Schilling? Try this thread on lkml, and tell me who is being the most annoying. He drags himself through the mud by alienating people with his attitude.
I think the books should be changed to indicate that Pluto's planet status is just a "theory", and give equal time to different scientific definitions.
FreeBSD is a general system, OpenBSD is focused on security, and NetBSD is focused on portability between different architectures.
NetBSD is clearly the odd-man-out. FreeBSD's 7 arches probably cover 99% of the computers people would want to use. While NetBSD has sacrificed features and speed for portability, FreeBSD has managed most of the portability (from a practical standpoint) while adding new features. OpenBSD has a good niche, as security is a goal for while people are willing to sacrifice some features and speed. Portability alone is a strange goal however, since the only question that really matters is "does it run on all the computers I have".
I'm a Linux user myself, so I don't have much reason for favoritism for a particular flavor of BSD. I try to keep up with OS news in general however. I don't have anything against NetBSD, though I can't say I'd miss it that much (just like slackware as a Linux distro - historically important, but now largely irrelevant). If I had any current concern, it would be that I really hope DragonflyBSD succeeds, as it is pursuing some really interesting ideas in modern OS design.
Great, I'm not the only one who found the summary an incomplete history. The original article is here, from July 21. This was not a "grass-roots blogosphere victory", this was picking up a story from a well known news site. Too few people give the proper credit to the Inq for breaking this story, which ultimately led to the Dell and Apple recalls.
Perhaps if it was a little windy that night, there would be a dead family. Oops. Have you ever seen an oil lamp fall over? This is about as good as idiots who fire "warning shots".
If Iran is taking the long view, why aren't they working on fusion research rather than 1950's era technology which happens to be more suited for making bombs than energy? If they are serious about post-oil energy, they should join ITER.
believing their propaganda about Iran.
You do realize that they get up every single day and shout "Death to America" as part of morning exercises, right? If someone says both "I'm going to kill you" and "My purposes are peaceful" in the same day, would you trust their intentions? (With other good reasons, Iran doesn't trust the US or Britain either)
Yes, Iran is an independent country. But it is not a suprise that other nations are concerned with its actions. I hope for peace, but that has not been the direction of the last 30 years on either side.
And as we all know, finding out who to blame is much more important than finding a solution to a current pending crisis. Your claims may help us to not repeat the mistake, but you offer no constructive insight into the situation we are in right now. If you research the subject, you can trace our current problems in Iran all the way back to Eisenhower (and before). Many mistakes have been made, but it certainly didn't happen overnight.
There is a difference between whiners and good leaders. The former only concern themselves with lamenting the past, while the latter both learn from the past and find a way forward. You fall firmly into the category of a whiner. What to do about Iran? Your "geopolitically sophisticated" answer is to put Cheney in jail. That's brilliant.
It would be easier to bluff in Chess if your first row of moves was hidden from your opponent.
A version of chess where you only see your opponent's previous move would be quite interesting. In other words, you'd always have to have one future move queued up that you couldn't change. Concurrent chess with latency...
AI trained with the gameplay of the best players in the world would suck against beginners and vice versa.
So, are you saying your uncle has a good chance against deep blue?
Most AI programs do not get "suprised", and they also do not feel any compassion or ever let up. In short, an expert-level AI will usually pulverize noobs.
Why not give it to all men, and women who can no longer have children? You can go back to the drawing board for young women, but it would be dumb to throw away a 70% solution to a problem...
And it is a scientifically proven FACT that GAY people do not use their LAST NAME!
Now back to reality: The stress of being in a hostage situation might make people act a wee-bit differently, and one person who thinks "it was not my son" doesn't explain the other 15 or so people who *did* hear from their loved ones. 14 out of 15 witnesses would be enough do get you convicted of most crimes, especially when the 15th is unsure more than they have any proof. The government could not possibly pull off a stunt of this magnitude without someone leaking the story to the New York Times. You can't even cover up a minor robbery (Watergate).
But go ahead, go watch Loose Change 45 more times and make yourself feel better. Don't forget to use generic brand aluminum foil for your tinfoil hat, as the major brands have alread been corrupted by the government and now contain nano-circuits to boost the government radio signals.
Webmail is a newer, less well established, and less profitable business than web search. There is no reason whatsoever to expect steeper competition in webmail than in web search.
Email addresses are built up over a period of years as you tell people your address. On the other hand, you can safely switch search sites without any ill effects. I'd say that's a huge difference in inertia. Yes, there are email indirection sites, but most of the population will never use one of them.
It's a bit like changing where you shop for groceries (search), vs changing your snail mail address, without being allowed to set up address forwarding (switching email away from hotmail or yahoo).
I don't think they are entirely incompatible, if you allow non-literal interpretation. See the Catholic view. The idea is that God created the big bang, and Genesis is true in topical order but not in literal time scales. It also posits that evolution may have created the body of man, but that God created the soul (i.e. the soul did not evolve).
Not that you should/should not believe this, but just pointing out that the Bible and current scientific theory are not wholly incompatible. Many famous scientists have been religious insofar as they are willing to believe that a higher power created the universe.
Well, obviously they didn't read Robots and Empire.
The whole thing is crazy anyway, becase the rest of the GPL only talks about distribution, not execution. The only thing that would remotely fit with the GPL is to forbid distribution of a derivative that could harm people. I also expect them to get sued when their (unmodified) program, through inaction, fails to help someone who gets hurt.
No kidding. It's not as though reimplementing the Unreal/Source/Id engines is something that can be done on a whim during a project. All of those were multi-year efforts based on already-working previous versions. They might as well rewrite DirectX while they're at it, for the "best possible experience".
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Have you ever read an email by Mr Schilling? Try this thread on lkml, and tell me who is being the most annoying. He drags himself through the mud by alienating people with his attitude.
I think the books should be changed to indicate that Pluto's planet status is just a "theory", and give equal time to different scientific definitions.
FreeBSD is a general system, OpenBSD is focused on security, and NetBSD is focused on portability between different architectures.
NetBSD is clearly the odd-man-out. FreeBSD's 7 arches probably cover 99% of the computers people would want to use. While NetBSD has sacrificed features and speed for portability, FreeBSD has managed most of the portability (from a practical standpoint) while adding new features. OpenBSD has a good niche, as security is a goal for while people are willing to sacrifice some features and speed. Portability alone is a strange goal however, since the only question that really matters is "does it run on all the computers I have".
I'm a Linux user myself, so I don't have much reason for favoritism for a particular flavor of BSD. I try to keep up with OS news in general however. I don't have anything against NetBSD, though I can't say I'd miss it that much (just like slackware as a Linux distro - historically important, but now largely irrelevant). If I had any current concern, it would be that I really hope DragonflyBSD succeeds, as it is pursuing some really interesting ideas in modern OS design.
I think you mean:
NetBSD is dying, mycroft* confirms it.
* RTFA
btw, I do know that the TFA gets the history right; Mostly I'm bithching about the summary.
Great, I'm not the only one who found the summary an incomplete history. The original article is here, from July 21. This was not a "grass-roots blogosphere victory", this was picking up a story from a well known news site. Too few people give the proper credit to the Inq for breaking this story, which ultimately led to the Dell and Apple recalls.
Perhaps if it was a little windy that night, there would be a dead family. Oops. Have you ever seen an oil lamp fall over? This is about as good as idiots who fire "warning shots".
If by "placard", you meant "attempted arson murder", then I'm right with you.
If Iran is taking the long view, why aren't they working on fusion research rather than 1950's era technology which happens to be more suited for making bombs than energy? If they are serious about post-oil energy, they should join ITER.
believing their propaganda about Iran.
You do realize that they get up every single day and shout "Death to America" as part of morning exercises, right? If someone says both "I'm going to kill you" and "My purposes are peaceful" in the same day, would you trust their intentions? (With other good reasons, Iran doesn't trust the US or Britain either)
Yes, Iran is an independent country. But it is not a suprise that other nations are concerned with its actions. I hope for peace, but that has not been the direction of the last 30 years on either side.
And as we all know, finding out who to blame is much more important than finding a solution to a current pending crisis. Your claims may help us to not repeat the mistake, but you offer no constructive insight into the situation we are in right now. If you research the subject, you can trace our current problems in Iran all the way back to Eisenhower (and before). Many mistakes have been made, but it certainly didn't happen overnight.
There is a difference between whiners and good leaders. The former only concern themselves with lamenting the past, while the latter both learn from the past and find a way forward. You fall firmly into the category of a whiner. What to do about Iran? Your "geopolitically sophisticated" answer is to put Cheney in jail. That's brilliant.
It would be easier to bluff in Chess if your first row of moves was hidden from your opponent.
A version of chess where you only see your opponent's previous move would be quite interesting. In other words, you'd always have to have one future move queued up that you couldn't change. Concurrent chess with latency...
Maybe in this case it would be wise to spell out the acronym,
International Business Machines
There, does that help?
AI trained with the gameplay of the best players in the world would suck against beginners and vice versa.
So, are you saying your uncle has a good chance against deep blue?
Most AI programs do not get "suprised", and they also do not feel any compassion or ever let up. In short, an expert-level AI will usually pulverize noobs.
Why not give it to all men, and women who can no longer have children? You can go back to the drawing board for young women, but it would be dumb to throw away a 70% solution to a problem...
Exactly; If they didn't work, they wouldn't have to ask people to put them away.
It was more about fear of the RF screwing up the plane's navigation system, and the load on the cell towers below.
And it is a scientifically proven FACT that GAY people do not use their LAST NAME!
Now back to reality: The stress of being in a hostage situation might make people act a wee-bit differently, and one person who thinks "it was not my son" doesn't explain the other 15 or so people who *did* hear from their loved ones. 14 out of 15 witnesses would be enough do get you convicted of most crimes, especially when the 15th is unsure more than they have any proof. The government could not possibly pull off a stunt of this magnitude without someone leaking the story to the New York Times. You can't even cover up a minor robbery (Watergate).
But go ahead, go watch Loose Change 45 more times and make yourself feel better. Don't forget to use generic brand aluminum foil for your tinfoil hat, as the major brands have alread been corrupted by the government and now contain nano-circuits to boost the government radio signals.
Yeah, just like in Terminator 2. That was real, right?
Webmail is a newer, less well established, and less profitable business than web search. There is no reason whatsoever to expect steeper competition in webmail than in web search.
Email addresses are built up over a period of years as you tell people your address. On the other hand, you can safely switch search sites without any ill effects. I'd say that's a huge difference in inertia. Yes, there are email indirection sites, but most of the population will never use one of them.
It's a bit like changing where you shop for groceries (search), vs changing your snail mail address, without being allowed to set up address forwarding (switching email away from hotmail or yahoo).
Can't say the Sierra Club (and Al Gore) didn't warn you.
Maybe superman shouldn't have thrown all those nuclear weapons at the sun in the late 1980's...
In some OS's, you could even say it's magic.
There isn't a "3.)
So, in other words:
3) ??
4) Profit!!!
I don't think they are entirely incompatible, if you allow non-literal interpretation. See the Catholic view. The idea is that God created the big bang, and Genesis is true in topical order but not in literal time scales. It also posits that evolution may have created the body of man, but that God created the soul (i.e. the soul did not evolve).
Not that you should/should not believe this, but just pointing out that the Bible and current scientific theory are not wholly incompatible. Many famous scientists have been religious insofar as they are willing to believe that a higher power created the universe.
Sorry, but:
Every time you play Tetris, God kills a row of blocks...
Well, obviously they didn't read Robots and Empire.
The whole thing is crazy anyway, becase the rest of the GPL only talks about distribution, not execution. The only thing that would remotely fit with the GPL is to forbid distribution of a derivative that could harm people. I also expect them to get sued when their (unmodified) program, through inaction, fails to help someone who gets hurt.
No kidding. It's not as though reimplementing the Unreal/Source/Id engines is something that can be done on a whim during a project. All of those were multi-year efforts based on already-working previous versions. They might as well rewrite DirectX while they're at it, for the "best possible experience".