One Buran is currently located in Gorky Park as a tourist attraction. Second Buran was stored in it's hangar on Baikonur, where it was to be sold at an auction. 2 years ago, right after the announcement that it was going to be sold, the roof of hangar has collapsed burying Buran. My hat's off to people who did it.
some nut figures out how to screw the airport security and passengers completely by making a bomb, inserting it where sun don' shine, and getting caught at the checkup point on purpose? What will TSA do then?
Let me ask you this: how many airplanes have been hijacked using knives? What people have done in the past was strap a bomb to their chest, or get a gun of any kind that allows to depressurise the cabin. Then they made their demands. Knives don't depressurize cabins. Worst anyone can do with a knife is, well....put it to someones' throat, and try to make their demands now. After which they'll be lying on the ground covered by about 5 nearby passengers. I'm all for screening for items that CAN bring an airplane down. What I am completely against is bullshit tactics that are employed right now, that don't allow to bring a nailclipper onboard. Paranoid is not always a way to go.
There'll not be an absolute hijacker-proof security policy in the US airports. Ever. All that's being done right now is creating an illusion of safety, and gives people headaches. What.....I can't bring my 1.5" swiss army knife on board? "Sir, please don't give me an attitude, or we'll have to step aside for a search" (actually happened). Those who want to hijack a plane, can do so with things that CAN be brought onboard. Hell......I even think someone could simply grab a soda can from the stuardess (I don't care what they like to be called), rip it with their teeth, and voila....sharp instrument that can be put to someones' throat. I think nowdays even if someone does have a knife on the plane and tries to take a person hostage, they'll be tackled by passengers. Everyone's seen what happens to them if they don't do anything. We should still screen for bombs made deliberately, that have enough power to bring down an airplane. But please stop with the madness of searching everybody including little old ladies and 2yo kids.
Was he expecting a well-written script, historically accurate, with dull brainteasers that would appeal to some british aristocrate? I had fun watching the movie. It was a good ass-kicker. Light plot, lots of nice action. However, the director was under influence of G. Lucas, because Jar Jar Binks has made his other appearance in the movie, this time played by a stupid human.
In its' purest form: exploitation of poor by the rich. Yet it works, because there's always someone willing to work those jobs. Sure, reading it made me somewhat sad that things like this happen, but at the same time...what did they expect? Donuts, coffee and massage in the morning, afternoon and evening?
I can partially understand why Chinese gov't would want to do that. I get my news about the world from www.pravda.ru/ www.izvestia.ru in Russia (I live in the US, though). I've compared the stories on CNN to the Pravda. It is rather interesting to see how CNN feeds news to the US public (CNN correspondents were advised to constantly remind the viewers that "We are doing this to the country that harbors terrirists" when they would show a 1-2 second shot of hospital full of children wounded in the bomb attack). I guess what I am getting at is that US news machine is now in full gear, providing the "happy" details of the war to the people who are affected by it, and not giving the full detail, and if Chinise gov't would actually provide news coverage thats better than CNN, then Chinese would be better off.
Rune is great, but there are some serious issues with the Linux version. Namely:
Game requires 512M of ram+swap to start. If you dont have that much dedicated for the game itself (dont forget to add on the RAM requirements for Linux itself), it'll kill your system at level transitions/whenever kernel can catch up to the allocations.
It is running piss slow on P3 450M system with 680M of ram (even on the 800x600 res).
These are my two main concerns with it, not to mention the fact that Loki only acknowledged the NEW ram requirements after a bunch of people expressed their concern in the mailing groups.
The 3D engine is ok, but still not bug-free.
Does it mean that I can send hatemail to Boeing for making 757 and 767 because they were used as weapons?
How about sueing MS because the terrorists communicated through cybercafes in Pakistan, which probably ran Windows?
A group of developers at my company has tried converting to StarOffice. That attempt has lasted for a couple of weeks, when people were trying to get the needed functionality out of the SO (something to do with spreadsheets). Bottom line is: we are still using MS Office, and no matter which way you look at it, it's simply allowing better functionality. Office 2000 may not be the best app bundle in the world, but it certainly does the job better than SO.
The only problem I see with cloning is population growth. Nature has its own way to weed out 'unneeded' specimens.
I caught a piece on TV a few days ago, where a guy was saying how he'd like to clone his mother, cause she gave him inspiration. Now.....do we really want more old ladies driving around in their big caddilacs doing 30 mph, no matter how inspiring they might be to their sublings? When your time comes....well, better accept it.
I agree that some people do need to be cloned. Steve Hawking, for one (although from the point of genetics, we are all average people, and those remarkable individuals like him in our society have to pay with their physical abilities for their mental abilities. And vise versa.) Of course, this produces a big question of "Am I worth saving?". And I am not touching that one with a sixty-feet pole.
I think Bob is missing the point.
Nobody ever claimed that RH would become a proprietary binary-only Linux distribution. THat violates GPL and RedHat employees would need to find themselves a new job very fast if that ever happened.
The comparison to Microsoft was made on the grounds that RH dominates the market of computer newbies, and strives to make things "easier than ever".
As far as GCC issue goes....note the familiar words in Alan Cox's response to the critisism: (paraphrase) "Striving for bleeding edge of technology, revolutionary, etc. etc" Talk about bleeding edge, check out woody. ALmost up to date on anything (except few problems with some of the packages in the queue since people are not availible), yet you dont see gcc2.96 in there.
RedHat screwed up with GCC. They would have been about as bad as shipping 7.0 with a 2.4-pre kernel .
My two cents.
Andrei
As a minor point of interest...
1. Do those people run around naked or they make their own clothes out of natural products by hand?
2. Do they walk from one state to another?
3. How about TV? Surely their speeches go on the air. Being true to their values...shouldnt they abolish cameras and TV, and so not be able to get their word out?
If answer is Yes to all 3 points above, I'll believe they are true to their views. If not, they are full of shit.
Ryn.
I propose PRAM: Paper RAM.
You write information on paper, then stick it inside the computer. Later, when you need to retrieve it, you quickly grab the paper and read it out loud. Fast and cheap solution to everyday computing needs.
More complex hardware demands more complex software to run it. Shall we all lose the 2.2-2.4 kernel and see how fast would our computers run on original kernel? Andrei
My university is planning to ban multiplayer games too. At least I fall into the grandfather's clause, but sucks to be new students, when they won't be able to play Unreal against each other. This is stupid. University is claiming that games take up bandwidth dedicated for research, even though research network is on www2. Andrei
Why is it such a big deal? HOWTOs are pretty complete and irc , last time I checked, was helpful (ok, there are lamers on #linux* that yell and send to RTFM, but overall help can be found on irc). Mailing lists work (debian ones, at least. Dunno about others). Besides, we all started out somewhere, with less documentation, and managed to get it all working, didnt we? If a windoze user is looking to be "cool Linux guy", but can't answer "How much ram your system has?" question, they don't deserve to use a computer, let alone Linux. *puts on asbestos suit* Andrew
I think you should go back to playing your little game and wait until you grow up. You fail to realize that this is not YOUR war. Nobody is threatning the US. Nobody is killing AMericans there. It's the US that is screwing things up. Move in troops....then you'll have some dead boys, and you know what? I'll be glad if that happens. Because the US just can not keep it's hands where they belong. I guess Bill needed something to get people off Monica...and here Kosovo got in the way. Like I proposed earlier, maybe you should start bombing Northern Ireland too.
> You can't say the US has noe done any good for > the world myman because we have.....
Yeah. Remember Vietnam? It wasnt a war, it was a peace action, right? The Americans decided that it would be better for Vietnamese not to eat rice, but try BicMac instead, so they pulled the troops in. Oh wait..... I guess Denny's wanted to open a restraunt in Iraq too, but Saddam would not let them, so Americans pulled the troops in again.
Stop hiding behind the planes. Pull the ground troops in, so that some of them get killed, and then american public can start whining about how it's not their war, and why should the american citizens die in it. End of story, get the troops out, land the planes, leave the country. Is that too much to ask?
Yeah, and turn the rest of Europe into one big iceskating arena too? You stupid idiot, you can't just nuke them without having some impact on your own country. Oh wait......Oh yeah, the US is all by itself, away from the targets. Sure, why not nuke them then? You can take your europe vacations and enjoy rides through wasteland and get a whole load of fun seeing different mutants. Nuking is not an answer. Get the fucking planes down to the ground, and leave them alone. Or maybe US should start bombing Northern Ireland too?
Seriously..... One gotta be either a 'technology don't have' (Dilbert, I think that's correct) or a complete moron to fail MS cert. course, but whats more pathetic, is that they are actually going to court with this. I wonder what will happen....judge will probably tell them to get a life, learn to live with fact that they are idiots, and switch to Linux? (Although, that would not be good. Who needs people in mailing lists asking questions like "Hi, I'm new to Linux so bear with me. How can I get on the internet?" Andrew
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One Buran is currently located in Gorky Park as a tourist attraction.
Second Buran was stored in it's hangar on Baikonur, where it was to be sold at an auction. 2 years ago, right after the announcement that it was going to be sold, the roof of hangar has collapsed burying Buran. My hat's off to people who did it.
some nut figures out how to screw the airport security and passengers completely by making a bomb, inserting it where sun don' shine, and getting caught at the checkup point on purpose?
What will TSA do then?
Let me ask you this: how many airplanes have been hijacked using knives?
What people have done in the past was strap a bomb to their chest, or get a gun of any kind that allows to depressurise the cabin. Then they made their demands.
Knives don't depressurize cabins. Worst anyone can do with a knife is, well....put it to someones' throat, and try to make their demands now. After which they'll be lying on the ground covered by about 5 nearby passengers.
I'm all for screening for items that CAN bring an airplane down. What I am completely against is bullshit tactics that are employed right now, that don't allow to bring a nailclipper onboard.
Paranoid is not always a way to go.
There'll not be an absolute hijacker-proof security policy in the US airports. Ever.
All that's being done right now is creating an illusion of safety, and gives people headaches.
What.....I can't bring my 1.5" swiss army knife on board? "Sir, please don't give me an attitude, or we'll have to step aside for a search" (actually happened).
Those who want to hijack a plane, can do so with things that CAN be brought onboard. Hell......I even think someone could simply grab a soda can from the stuardess (I don't care what they like to be called), rip it with their teeth, and voila....sharp instrument that can be put to someones' throat.
I think nowdays even if someone does have a knife on the plane and tries to take a person hostage, they'll be tackled by passengers. Everyone's seen what happens to them if they don't do anything.
We should still screen for bombs made deliberately, that have enough power to bring down an airplane. But please stop with the madness of searching everybody including little old ladies and 2yo kids.
Was he expecting a well-written script, historically accurate, with dull brainteasers that would appeal to some british aristocrate?
I had fun watching the movie. It was a good ass-kicker. Light plot, lots of nice action. However, the director was under influence of G. Lucas, because Jar Jar Binks has made his other appearance in the movie, this time played by a stupid human.
Russian airforce has had helmet targetting system like that for nearly 10 years. Americans are playing catch-up again.
Does Slashdot review all piss-poor written books that have the word "Internet" in them?
In its' purest form: exploitation of poor by the rich. Yet it works, because there's always someone willing to work those jobs. Sure, reading it made me somewhat sad that things like this happen, but at the same time...what did they expect? Donuts, coffee and massage in the morning, afternoon and evening?
I can partially understand why Chinese gov't would want to do that. I get my news about the world from www.pravda.ru/ www.izvestia.ru in Russia (I live in the US, though). I've compared the stories on CNN to the Pravda. It is rather interesting to see how CNN feeds news to the US public (CNN correspondents were advised to constantly remind the viewers that "We are doing this to the country that harbors terrirists" when they would show a 1-2 second shot of hospital full of children wounded in the bomb attack). I guess what I am getting at is that US news machine is now in full gear, providing the "happy" details of the war to the people who are affected by it, and not giving the full detail, and if Chinise gov't would actually provide news coverage thats better than CNN, then Chinese would be better off.
You look at how other people are doing, and think "Damn I'm lucky I have the brains".
Rune is great, but there are some serious issues with the Linux version. Namely:
Game requires 512M of ram+swap to start. If you dont have that much dedicated for the game itself (dont forget to add on the RAM requirements for Linux itself), it'll kill your system at level transitions/whenever kernel can catch up to the allocations.
It is running piss slow on P3 450M system with 680M of ram (even on the 800x600 res).
These are my two main concerns with it, not to mention the fact that Loki only acknowledged the NEW ram requirements after a bunch of people expressed their concern in the mailing groups.
The 3D engine is ok, but still not bug-free.
Does it mean that I can send hatemail to Boeing for making 757 and 767 because they were used as weapons?
How about sueing MS because the terrorists communicated through cybercafes in Pakistan, which probably ran Windows?
A group of developers at my company has tried converting to StarOffice. That attempt has lasted for a couple of weeks, when people were trying to get the needed functionality out of the SO (something to do with spreadsheets). Bottom line is: we are still using MS Office, and no matter which way you look at it, it's simply allowing better functionality. Office 2000 may not be the best app bundle in the world, but it certainly does the job better than SO.
The only problem I see with cloning is population growth. Nature has its own way to weed out 'unneeded' specimens. I caught a piece on TV a few days ago, where a guy was saying how he'd like to clone his mother, cause she gave him inspiration. Now.....do we really want more old ladies driving around in their big caddilacs doing 30 mph, no matter how inspiring they might be to their sublings? When your time comes....well, better accept it. I agree that some people do need to be cloned. Steve Hawking, for one (although from the point of genetics, we are all average people, and those remarkable individuals like him in our society have to pay with their physical abilities for their mental abilities. And vise versa.) Of course, this produces a big question of "Am I worth saving?". And I am not touching that one with a sixty-feet pole.
I think Bob is missing the point. Nobody ever claimed that RH would become a proprietary binary-only Linux distribution. THat violates GPL and RedHat employees would need to find themselves a new job very fast if that ever happened. The comparison to Microsoft was made on the grounds that RH dominates the market of computer newbies, and strives to make things "easier than ever". As far as GCC issue goes....note the familiar words in Alan Cox's response to the critisism: (paraphrase) "Striving for bleeding edge of technology, revolutionary, etc. etc" Talk about bleeding edge, check out woody. ALmost up to date on anything (except few problems with some of the packages in the queue since people are not availible), yet you dont see gcc2.96 in there. RedHat screwed up with GCC. They would have been about as bad as shipping 7.0 with a 2.4-pre kernel . My two cents. Andrei
As a minor point of interest...
1. Do those people run around naked or they make their own clothes out of natural products by hand?
2. Do they walk from one state to another?
3. How about TV? Surely their speeches go on the air. Being true to their values...shouldnt they abolish cameras and TV, and so not be able to get their word out?
If answer is Yes to all 3 points above, I'll believe they are true to their views. If not, they are full of shit.
Ryn.
I propose PRAM: Paper RAM.
You write information on paper, then stick it inside the computer. Later, when you need to retrieve it, you quickly grab the paper and read it out loud. Fast and cheap solution to everyday computing needs.
More complex hardware demands more complex software to run it. Shall we all lose the 2.2-2.4 kernel and see how fast would our computers run on original kernel? Andrei
My university is planning to ban multiplayer games too. At least I fall into the grandfather's clause, but sucks to be new students, when they won't be able to play Unreal against each other.
This is stupid. University is claiming that games take up bandwidth dedicated for research, even though research network is on www2.
Andrei
Why is it such a big deal? HOWTOs are pretty complete and irc , last time I checked, was helpful (ok, there are lamers on #linux* that yell and send to RTFM, but overall help can be found on irc). Mailing lists work (debian ones, at least. Dunno about others). Besides, we all started out somewhere, with less documentation, and managed to get it all working, didnt we? If a windoze user is looking to be "cool Linux guy", but can't answer "How much ram your system has?" question, they don't deserve to use a computer, let alone Linux. *puts on asbestos suit* Andrew
I think you should go back to playing your little game and wait until you grow up.
You fail to realize that this is not YOUR war. Nobody is threatning the US. Nobody is killing AMericans there. It's the US that is screwing things up.
Move in troops....then you'll have some dead boys, and you know what? I'll be glad if that happens. Because the US just can not keep it's hands where they belong.
I guess Bill needed something to get people off Monica...and here Kosovo got in the way. Like I proposed earlier, maybe you should start bombing Northern Ireland too.
> You can't say the US has noe done any good for > the world myman because we have.....
Yeah. Remember Vietnam? It wasnt a war, it was a peace action, right? The Americans decided that it would be better for Vietnamese not to eat rice, but try BicMac instead, so they pulled the troops in.
Oh wait.....
I guess Denny's wanted to open a restraunt in Iraq too, but Saddam would not let them, so Americans pulled the troops in again.
Stop hiding behind the planes. Pull the ground troops in, so that some of them get killed, and then american public can start whining about how it's not their war, and why should the american citizens die in it. End of story, get the troops out, land the planes, leave the country.
Is that too much to ask?
Yeah, and turn the rest of Europe into one big iceskating arena too? You stupid idiot, you can't just nuke them without having some impact on your own country. Oh wait......Oh yeah, the US is all by itself, away from the targets. Sure, why not nuke them then? You can take your europe vacations and enjoy rides through wasteland and get a whole load of fun seeing different mutants.
Nuking is not an answer. Get the fucking planes down to the ground, and leave them alone. Or maybe US should start bombing Northern Ireland too?
Hmm, how can they cook a pizza in 1.5 minutes (with defrosting it first) and call it modest?
I'd not even want to touch that thing.
Seriously.....
One gotta be either a 'technology don't have' (Dilbert, I think that's correct) or a complete moron to fail MS cert. course, but whats more pathetic, is that they are actually going to court with this.
I wonder what will happen....judge will probably tell them to get a life, learn to live with fact that they are idiots, and switch to Linux? (Although, that would not be good. Who needs people in mailing lists asking questions like "Hi, I'm new to Linux so bear with me. How can I get on the internet?"
Andrew