I view not being able to use Flash as a feature...:-)
Same here. But you've gotta admit that taking the positions you have in a 'Reaches the Desktop' article thread without disclosing your biases up front makes you a tad bit trollish at the moment....
You're implicitly turning this into a 'Linux is ready for the Desktop' discussion. That's trollin', bro.
Windows XP x64 is about 10x more stable than the 32 bit counterpart,......... When it was first released it was, of course, difficult to find proper drivers....
Bingo! Microsoft's OSes have for a good amount of time (since Windows 2000 came out, imho) been fairly stable when run 'straight off the Microsoft CD' with only well-supported first party drivers. So the fact that a lot of crummy third party drivers are not available (yet!) for XP x64 means that it is (temporarily!) somewhat stable, indeed perceivable as more stable than the 32 bit version.
The PowerPC Version of Windows NT 3.51 is similarly very, very stable. (I ran it for a short while on an RS/6000 box just to 'check it out.') There is NO third party ANYTHING for it. Solitaire runs really great.
To insure the continuation of the race, and by that I mean the whole human race we need to get off this fragging planet.
Right. And the goldfish in that bowl on the table needs to leap up out of the water, too.
Get real. The human race is based in and of this 'fragging' planet, and inseperably part of the earth's biosphere. We cannot 'run away' from the problems here. The planet Earth would need to be replicated to a higher degree than we are even yet capable of understanding before we can 'run away.'
A human being is not a discrete individual being, there are countless symboitic organisms that must travel with us.
The dogma that drives your hysterical need to 'get off this planet' is just a further extension of the old 'Manifest Destiny' thing. Modern, intelligent people know that we have to solve our problems here and make this planet a better place to live, we can't just bumble off to find new living spaces to foul. Hell, this is the best suited biosphere we will ever find to live on. We just need to stop fucking it up, to be blunt. And the vapour trail of tons and tons of rocket blasts people like you insist on blowing off ain't gonna do it.
Every day at work I evaluate parts made at our Chinese manufacturing facility that is 'cheap Chinese production.' There is this strange myth that processes and capital can just be airlifted to China and the machines turned on and the quality will be the same. That is a myth, and a frightening myth when it comes to anything that will be flying overhead.
I am sure there is (expensive) high quality Chinese production. I know firsthand that the cheap Chinese production is terrible. When there are problems and the memos start flying across the timezones, it becomes obvious that the highly regimented culture in China isn't going to foster innovative technology anytime soon.
Now,I won't just have to listen to the prattling of that cellphone-in-public twit when I am out and about. I can eavesdrop on their vacant lives from the comfort of my computer workstation at home!
Re:Some monetary reasons to return to the moon
on
Back to the Moon
·
· Score: 1
There is also approx. 1 ton of gold in each cubic mile of sea water.
Similiar issues of 'extraction' to get the value from said gold exist.
And you don't even have to go to the moon to extract the gold.
Maybe you need to get an evaporating pan and go light a campfire on a beach somewhere.
I remember the old Motorola Freeware BBS. You could download source code and development tools for all the classic Moto microcontrollers. 6802, 6805, and (most important) the 68HC11. All assembly language work, of course. There's still a lot of 'hc11 code worth slinging, even today. I have a few tubes of parts on hand for future projects.
Good old Motorola. I wish the good part of the company had kept the name, because Freescale just doesn't have the history that 'M' logo carries.
Does it have onboard graphics? My Dell Optiplexes (P3 550, $5 each) have on-board AGP (ATI Rage) graphics, so the AGP interface is 'buried' inside and there are only PCI slots for expansion.
Adobe is trying to turn their Acrobat product line into a platform. And a bloated pig of a platform it is becoming. The Foxit Reader has rescued a number of us who are forced to use PDF.
Adobe is at this point vulnerable and should be thrashed in the marketplace of 'PDF/Postscript' things by Ghostscript-based projects. Ghostscript used to be significantly slower, but as Adobe wills their product to become ever more of a bloated pig the comparison no longer holds.
The 'scientists' who wanted to 'study' the bear are actually camping enthusiasts. And getting grant funding to go out and camp and have fun and ostensibly 'study' some odd bear is a lark compared to visiting the bear compound at the local zoo.
And now that a 'first' has been shot, the 'Game Farms' will clamor to be the first to breed a 'wild' hybrid that 'Big Game Hunters' can shoot in large fenced enclosures**.
Because 'Sir Caldwell McPweepwee of Nottingham' now has a trophy that all the other stuffed shirts will want.
(** the notion of 'game farm' bred grizzy bears is amusing, actually)
Naw, he's just trying to hit a few extra buttons by bringing class warfare into it. That's how political agitators 'build coalitions around issues.' It's how Marxists in the 21st century manage to draw people to rallies. (i.e. International A.N.S.W.E.R.)
In the 'bad old days' (and still to a certain degree) refineries had a flare up on a tower whose entire function was to burn off waste gasses that there was no perceived use for. In fact, natural gas was wasted to keep the pilot flame running when there wasn't waste gas being produced. When I was a little kid, my grandparents lived in northen Minnesota near a medium sized oil refinery. We always looked at the 'fire flag' as we called it.
The organic content of the sewage is the good part of it. The 'bad' part is chemicals and other matter. The chemical parts of the sewage stream are harmful in that it kills off the bacteria that breaks down the 'good' parts. If you want to really screw up your local sewage treament facility, dump a lot of Lysol down the drain. Similarly, the mix of industrial and residential sewage streams is a bad thing.
As uses come online for the sewage, as described in this article, it will become more cost-effective to separate the streams better than at present. Right now industrial dumpers get away with a lot that they shouldn't and that they won't be able to any longer, if they can't smuggle nasty things into a big general sewage stream.
The data is then secured by virtue of the fact that you're running an OS for which there are none of the applications which your company uses to create, view, and modify it's data files.
In other words, you have a nice XMahjongg platform, and a place to write Python/Java/C++ code. And a decent firewall platform to run data through.
(this message typed on a NetBSD desktop system, btw. Have a sense of humor, okay?)
Where I work, I used to have the screen-saver/lock on my desktop PC configured to go to a password protected lock screen after five minutes.
The Corporate Level IT goons recently implemented a new 'security' policy (because of other dolts who had NOT protection, one assumes) which disabled the screensaver tab through domain-level controls, and implemented a 30 minute lockout company-wide. I can no longer set the timeout period to 5 minutes.
I emailed the IT goon to mention to them that they had just undermined the security on my desktop machine. I didn't get a reply. Oh well. They're running Windows servers. Really there's no hope.
Actually, good PR is using copious amounts of KY Jelly, or the equivalent for the form of screwing the public you are engaging in.
Would you want the HR scum at your work location to be the one who gets accolades at a national convention of HR scum?? Likewise, the public should not appreciate 'good PR' types. In many instances they should incarcerate them.
Slashdot Mirror
AMD64's performance improvements are a reality on Linux, today.
And hot-shots ran Linux on DEC Alpha processors in 1996.
What of it?
I view not being able to use Flash as a feature... :-)
Same here. But you've gotta admit that taking the positions you have in a 'Reaches the Desktop' article thread without disclosing your biases up front makes you a tad bit trollish at the moment....
You're implicitly turning this into a 'Linux is ready for the Desktop' discussion. That's trollin', bro.
Windows XP x64 is about 10x more stable than the 32 bit counterpart, ......... When it was first released it was, of course, difficult to find proper drivers....
Bingo! Microsoft's OSes have for a good amount of time (since Windows 2000 came out, imho) been fairly stable when run 'straight off the Microsoft CD' with only well-supported first party drivers. So the fact that a lot of crummy third party drivers are not available (yet!) for XP x64 means that it is (temporarily!) somewhat stable, indeed perceivable as more stable than the 32 bit version.
The PowerPC Version of Windows NT 3.51 is similarly very, very stable. (I ran it for a short while on an RS/6000 box just to 'check it out.') There is NO third party ANYTHING for it. Solitaire runs really great.
To insure the continuation of the race, and by that I mean the whole human race we need to get off this fragging planet.
Right. And the goldfish in that bowl on the table needs to leap up out of the water, too.
Get real. The human race is based in and of this 'fragging' planet, and inseperably part of the earth's biosphere. We cannot 'run away' from the problems here. The planet Earth would need to be replicated to a higher degree than we are even yet capable of understanding before we can 'run away.'
A human being is not a discrete individual being, there are countless symboitic organisms that must travel with us.
The dogma that drives your hysterical need to 'get off this planet' is just a further extension of the old 'Manifest Destiny' thing. Modern, intelligent people know that we have to solve our problems here and make this planet a better place to live, we can't just bumble off to find new living spaces to foul. Hell, this is the best suited biosphere we will ever find to live on. We just need to stop fucking it up, to be blunt. And the vapour trail of tons and tons of rocket blasts people like you insist on blowing off ain't gonna do it.
Chinese production is cheap,
Every day at work I evaluate parts made at our Chinese manufacturing facility that is 'cheap Chinese production.' There is this strange myth that processes and capital can just be airlifted to China and the machines turned on and the quality will be the same. That is a myth, and a frightening myth when it comes to anything that will be flying overhead.
I am sure there is (expensive) high quality Chinese production. I know firsthand that the cheap Chinese production is terrible. When there are problems and the memos start flying across the timezones, it becomes obvious that the highly regimented culture in China isn't going to foster innovative technology anytime soon.
It wasn't long ago at all that the phrase 'one of the pod people' carried negative connotations.
Now,I won't just have to listen to the prattling of that cellphone-in-public twit when I am out and about. I can eavesdrop on their vacant lives from the comfort of my computer workstation at home!
There is also approx. 1 ton of gold in each cubic mile of sea water.
Similiar issues of 'extraction' to get the value from said gold exist.
And you don't even have to go to the moon to extract the gold.
Maybe you need to get an evaporating pan and go light a campfire on a beach somewhere.
I remember the old Motorola Freeware BBS. You could download source code and development tools for all the classic Moto microcontrollers. 6802, 6805, and (most important) the 68HC11. All assembly language work, of course. There's still a lot of 'hc11 code worth slinging, even today. I have a few tubes of parts on hand for future projects.
Good old Motorola. I wish the good part of the company had kept the name, because Freescale just doesn't have the history that 'M' logo carries.
Does it have onboard graphics? My Dell Optiplexes (P3 550, $5 each) have on-board AGP (ATI Rage) graphics, so the AGP interface is 'buried' inside and there are only PCI slots for expansion.
I remember when a 486-33 with 32M of RAM would run even KDE reasonably well.
Adobe is trying to turn their Acrobat product line into a platform. And a bloated pig of a platform it is becoming. The Foxit Reader has rescued a number of us who are forced to use PDF.
Adobe is at this point vulnerable and should be thrashed in the marketplace of 'PDF/Postscript' things by Ghostscript-based projects. Ghostscript used to be significantly slower, but as Adobe wills their product to become ever more of a bloated pig the comparison no longer holds.
The 'scientists' who wanted to 'study' the bear are actually camping enthusiasts. And getting grant funding to go out and camp and have fun and ostensibly 'study' some odd bear is a lark compared to visiting the bear compound at the local zoo.
Remeber, we're talking about $cience here.
And now that a 'first' has been shot, the 'Game Farms' will clamor to be the first to breed a 'wild' hybrid that 'Big Game Hunters' can shoot in large fenced enclosures**.
Because 'Sir Caldwell McPweepwee of Nottingham' now has a trophy that all the other stuffed shirts will want.
(** the notion of 'game farm' bred grizzy bears is amusing, actually)
And now, because this "hunter" didn't know the value of this animal, it is dead before it could be studied further and / or protected.
Yes. The true tragedy in this incident is that 'scientists' didn't have time to write a handful of grant proposals to 'study' it.
Naw, he's just trying to hit a few extra buttons by bringing class warfare into it. That's how political agitators 'build coalitions around issues.' It's how Marxists in the 21st century manage to draw people to rallies. (i.e. International A.N.S.W.E.R.)
Indeed. And polar bears are huntable because they're in rifle range.
a human is supposed to be "rational", which means, logical reasoning should prevail over his instinct to kill.
So you're saying we are 'higher than the animals' and as we're 'above' them, we should establish thoughtful dominion over them.
Don't look now, but your front lawn is full of angry shouting animal rights nuts.
Pipe down!
You'll make baby Gaia cry.
I don't know how many of the latter you could get,
There's only one Ted Kennedy. (thank goodness)
In the 'bad old days' (and still to a certain degree) refineries had a flare up on a tower whose entire function was to burn off waste gasses that there was no perceived use for. In fact, natural gas was wasted to keep the pilot flame running when there wasn't waste gas being produced. When I was a little kid, my grandparents lived in northen Minnesota near a medium sized oil refinery. We always looked at the 'fire flag' as we called it.
The organic content of the sewage is the good part of it. The 'bad' part is chemicals and other matter. The chemical parts of the sewage stream are harmful in that it kills off the bacteria that breaks down the 'good' parts. If you want to really screw up your local sewage treament facility, dump a lot of Lysol down the drain. Similarly, the mix of industrial and residential sewage streams is a bad thing.
As uses come online for the sewage, as described in this article, it will become more cost-effective to separate the streams better than at present. Right now industrial dumpers get away with a lot that they shouldn't and that they won't be able to any longer, if they can't smuggle nasty things into a big general sewage stream.
The data is then secured by virtue of the fact that you're running an OS for which there are none of the applications which your company uses to create, view, and modify it's data files.
In other words, you have a nice XMahjongg platform, and a place to write Python/Java/C++ code. And a decent firewall platform to run data through.
(this message typed on a NetBSD desktop system, btw. Have a sense of humor, okay?)
Where I work, I used to have the screen-saver/lock on my desktop PC configured to go to a password protected lock screen after five minutes.
The Corporate Level IT goons recently implemented a new 'security' policy (because of other dolts who had NOT protection, one assumes) which disabled the screensaver tab through domain-level controls, and implemented a 30 minute lockout company-wide. I can no longer set the timeout period to 5 minutes.
I emailed the IT goon to mention to them that they had just undermined the security on my desktop machine. I didn't get a reply. Oh well. They're running Windows servers. Really there's no hope.
Actually, good PR is using copious amounts of KY Jelly, or the equivalent for the form of screwing the public you are engaging in.
Would you want the HR scum at your work location to be the one who gets accolades at a national convention of HR scum?? Likewise, the public should not appreciate 'good PR' types. In many instances they should incarcerate them.