Kursk was a ballistic missile sub, not a fast attack.
Just as an FYI, the Kursk was neither a fast attack or a ballistic sub.
From Tom Clancy's "Submarine"
Armament:
Twenty-four SS-N-19s in external tubes
Six 650 mm and 533mm torpedo tubes with 24 weapons
The SS-N-19 is an anti-ship missle (NATO calls it the "shipwreck"), not a ballistic missle. Although the Oscar class submarines like Kursk were huge (actually larger than the Russan Delta SSBNs) they were not used to carry strategic nuclear missles. Their real purpose was to hunt and destroy the US aircraft carriers and other capital ships.
I think this is great and all, but wouldn't it make a little more sense to wait for a few months until the next wave of the Linux desktop services come out?
Corel uses a modified version of KDE. It would be in their best interests (IMNSHO) to wait for KDE2 to come out so that developers for those systems can take advantage of all the cool new features of that platform.
Ditto for XFree 4 (standard 3D graphics), Mozilla (a usable browser) and the 2.4 kernel (USB support).
I realize that there will never be a time where there isn't something new coming down the pike, but with all of the above coming sometime in the next 6 months or so I believe patience would be a virtue.
If Corel jumps the gun, they may be putting themselves in a rather hard position. Right now, they don't even ship with glibc 2.1. In order to get much of anything to run, you have to upgrade. OK, for me that's not a problem. For their target market, that *will* be a problem.
Call me conservative, but rushing to market here is not the best idea. Remember our credo, ship it when its ready.
I think these are two separate issues. NASA is not in a position to debate (or even take a position on) the abortion issue. It is their job to consider the repercussions of their actions on a cosmic scale. At home, we can debate the relative merits (or lack thereof) of more human matters.
I'd like to rephrase your last question,
"Do those mythical one-celled motes from outer space have more rights than human children"
to something a little different.
What right do we have as a species to pollute and possibly contaminate the children of other worlds? Do they not have the same rights as human children?
NASA spent 1.5 billion dollars for a two year mission. That mission is now in its 5th year. We're getting our money's worth.
If there is *any* chance that there may be life on Europa, it would be very rude (at the very least) of us to start depositing our space junk in their back yards. Not to mention scientifically ill-advised.
I don't know if there is any life on Europe. You don't *know* there's no life on Europa. Ending the mission by sending Galileo off into space or down into Jupiter is prudent and the morally correct thing to do.
Hmmmm...... Very good points. Here's 10 more minutes at 350
How about an automatic Email to the parents (if available) stating every month that the list will be available for n number of days. If they want to see the list, they would come down to the library, present identification and have the list printed out for them.
Understanding that not every one has an Email account yet, it would also be necessary for this policy to be explained in person before their child could be granted access to the computer lab.
This would be less expensive than printing out the records for everyone. It would also put the parents back in control. If they really wanted to monitor their child's web surfing, it would be their responsibility to come to the library to get the list.
This should also reduce the chances of privacy mistakes.
Another option would be to combine the above with an extra fee-based service that would mail the list every month. I would think that the address would have to be updated often for privacy concerns.
--Note to Blizzard Marketing-- I would pay *full* price for a copy of a game I already own just for the joy of playing StarCraft under Linux.
There is one main feature that I would like to see implemented in the Linux version if possible:
1) A campaign import utilitity. I have finished all of the original campaigns and would like to keep the cool movies without having to play the maps again. Since the minute StarCraft for Linux is out, I'm removing Windows, this would be a nice perk.
I for one would be very interested in sending some questions his way. Whether we like it or not, Bill's company will continue to be a part of the world's computing landscape for a while to come and I would be very interested in hearing his responses to some of our criticism about his company, products and practices...
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Kursk was a ballistic missile sub, not a fast attack.
Just as an FYI, the Kursk was neither a fast attack or a ballistic sub.
From Tom Clancy's "Submarine"
Armament:
Twenty-four SS-N-19s in external tubes
Six 650 mm and 533mm torpedo tubes with 24 weapons
The SS-N-19 is an anti-ship missle (NATO calls it the "shipwreck"), not a ballistic missle. Although the Oscar class submarines like Kursk were huge (actually larger than the Russan Delta SSBNs) they were not used to carry strategic nuclear missles. Their real purpose was to hunt and destroy the US aircraft carriers and other capital ships.
David
I think this is great and all, but wouldn't it make a little more sense to wait for a few months until the next wave of the Linux desktop services come out?
Corel uses a modified version of KDE. It would be in their best interests (IMNSHO) to wait for KDE2 to come out so that developers for those systems can take advantage of all the cool new features of that platform.
Ditto for XFree 4 (standard 3D graphics), Mozilla (a usable browser) and the 2.4 kernel (USB support).
I realize that there will never be a time where there isn't something new coming down the pike, but with all of the above coming sometime in the next 6 months or so I believe patience would be a virtue.
If Corel jumps the gun, they may be putting themselves in a rather hard position. Right now, they don't even ship with glibc 2.1. In order to get much of anything to run, you have to upgrade. OK, for me that's not a problem. For their target market, that *will* be a problem.
Call me conservative, but rushing to market here is not the best idea. Remember our credo, ship it when its ready.
Cheers
David
Interesting point. OK, I'll discuss.
I think these are two separate issues. NASA is not in a position to debate (or even take a position on) the abortion issue. It is their job to consider the repercussions of their actions on a cosmic scale. At home, we can debate the relative merits (or lack thereof) of more human matters.
I'd like to rephrase your last question,
"Do those mythical one-celled motes from outer space have more rights than human children"
to something a little different.
What right do we have as a species to pollute and possibly contaminate the children of other worlds? Do they not have the same rights as human children?
NASA spent 1.5 billion dollars for a two year mission. That mission is now in its 5th year. We're getting our money's worth.
If there is *any* chance that there may be life on Europa, it would be very rude (at the very least) of us to start depositing our space junk in their back yards. Not to mention scientifically ill-advised.
I don't know if there is any life on Europe. You don't *know* there's no life on Europa. Ending the mission by sending Galileo off into space or down into Jupiter is prudent and the morally correct thing to do.
Best regards
David
Hmmmm...... Very good points. Here's 10 more minutes at 350
How about an automatic Email to the parents (if available) stating every month that the list will be available for n number of days. If they want to see the list, they would come down to the library, present identification and have the list printed out for them.
Understanding that not every one has an Email account yet, it would also be necessary for this policy to be explained in person before their child could be granted access to the computer lab.
This would be less expensive than printing out the records for everyone. It would also put the parents back in control. If they really wanted to monitor their child's web surfing, it would be their responsibility to come to the library to get the list.
This should also reduce the chances of privacy mistakes.
Another option would be to combine the above with an extra fee-based service that would mail the list every month. I would think that the address would have to be updated often for privacy concerns.
Thoughts?
here's yet another vote for StarCraft.
--Note to Blizzard Marketing--
I would pay *full* price for a copy of a game I already own just for the joy of playing StarCraft under Linux.
There is one main feature that I would like to see implemented in the Linux version if possible:
1) A campaign import utilitity. I have finished all of the original campaigns and would like to keep the cool movies without having to play the maps again. Since the minute StarCraft for Linux is out, I'm removing Windows, this would be a nice perk.
Thanks for listening.
David
CC # 5321- oh wait, it's not out yet...
As pointed out in the header, you can buy a shirt with the DeCSS code printed on it.
BTW: 4 dollars of each purchase goes to EFF.
Wasn't their a contest somewhere about who could distribute the source in the most creative way? This gets my vote?
David
I for one would be very interested in sending some questions his way. Whether we like it or not, Bill's company will continue to be a part of the world's computing landscape for a while to come and I would be very interested in hearing his responses to some of our criticism about his company, products and practices...
David
But isn't 1/10 of a mm actually smaller than 1/100
.254 mm
.1 mm
.1 mm is a smaller unit of measure than
of an inch?
(1 inch)(2.54 cm)(10 mm)
------------------------- =
(100)(1 inch)(1 cm)
1 mm
------| =
10
By my math
.254mm and would allow for more accurate measurement for the engineer at Starrett...
David