The whole custom of periodically visiting the graves of your loved ones always seemed puzzling to me. What exactly are you visiting and why? If you can do it online that much less hassle I guess.
You might want to ask a psychologist and/or psychiatrist about that. They'll give you much better answers than what you'll get here.
In the last year there was an episode of Law & Order named"Rapture" where something like this happens. One of three Christians who were supposed to log in didn't due to losing internet access, another of course because he was murdered. So, in the world of the show, emails were sent that were not supposed to be until after the rapture.
Obviously the IT person didn't understand RAID well enough.
Low cost? 10p for GB is more than you pay for a hard disk.
Not by much, though. Consumer-grade hard disks are still close to $100 for 1 TB, which would work out to the same $0.10/GB. And since holographic storage is a much newer technology, there's a good chance that the price will drop faster than for magnetic disks.
Just never, ever stand between two mirrors in a darkened room and say "aleph-null, aleph-null, aleph-null!". As long as you avoid that, you'll be fine.
Your grandchildren will likely die around 50 years after you die.
Just for the sake of honesty, maybe the oldest child of your oldest child would die 50 years after you. In the case of my family, my parents were 56 when my first nephew was born. There's a real possibility that my parents will be near 70 when their last grandchild is born. Assuming lifespan doesn't change much in two generations, I'd say that 60-70 is closer to the average.
The existence of long-lived copyright corporations like Sony and Disney means artists (not just their descendants and other hangers-on) CAN profit - while living - from proceeds after their deaths. The rights to the music are more valuable now because of the revenue they are expected to generate in the future. Michael Jackson, for instance, might have to sell off the rights to his music to stay financially afloat. But if those rights were to perish with him, the companies who will soon be bidding for those rights would bid much less.
The purpose of copyright is supposed to be to ensure that artists can earn enough money to live so that they can continue spending their time creating art, instead of having to spend most of their time waiting tables. Michael Jackson is a very bad example. If he were still creating art, he wouldn't be in financial trouble. Of course, considering how much money he made during his career, if he weren't a complete idiot, he wouldn't be in financial trouble.
You seem to be under the impression that (a) is what is happening now. A lot of people that are unhappy with current copyright laws might be a little less unhappy if the original artist(s) was/were where the money went. Unfortunately, most of the royalties don't go to the artist, they go to the record company executives. If the purpose was to pay the artist, what would be the point of having the copyright last for 50 years after the artist dies?
Of course, there's the argument about whether there are any real artists in the recording industry these days, but that's a matter of opinion.
She pushes anything that is pro pharma and has TONS of free samples for crazy amount of different drugs.
I heard from a couple doctors that I know that some of the hospitals and health care organizations around here, including the clinic that I go to, have started to forbid doctors from taking samples from drug companies (I can't find any public statement in a quick Google search, so this is still third-hand). Maybe there's still hope.
Right, but it's technically an unofficial edition, which means there's no guarantee that it will be supported for as long as the official edition of 9.04 is.
I'm endlessly impressed by KDE's efforts, but the distros totally jumped the gun on the new architecture. The community (even most people in this crowd) totally grokked the idea of "4.0-as-API-freeze" but the distros throught 4.0 meant time to upgrade, and frankly they should have kept 3.5 as the default until the 4 series was truly ready.
I think Kubuntu got stuck a bit with the KDE versions. Kubuntu 8.04 couldn't be LTS, because KDE 4 was definitely not ready, and the KDE developers couldn't promise 3 years of support on KDE 3. I think Kubuntu 8.10 may have been in a similar situation, where the KDE developers didn't plan on supporting KDE 3 for the time that Kubuntu 8.10 is supported by Canonical. With KDE 4.2 working well, Kubuntu 9.04 should be in much better shape.
But good luck uninstalling konqueror on a kde-based system.
I haven't tried removing it, but my Kubuntu computer lists konqueror as a separate package, and it doesn't look like anything other than all of the konqueror plugin packages depend on it.
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George W. Bush left the office of President peacefully in January of 2009. So, it is no longer relevant what he did, he's not doing it anymore.
Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.
removing money from the economy that would be invested by the people who earned it in things that are productive and worth investment
And how have those "things that are productive and worth investment" been doing lately?
The whole custom of periodically visiting the graves of your loved ones always seemed puzzling to me. What exactly are you visiting and why? If you can do it online that much less hassle I guess.
You might want to ask a psychologist and/or psychiatrist about that. They'll give you much better answers than what you'll get here.
In the last year there was an episode of Law & Order named"Rapture" where something like this happens. One of three Christians who were supposed to log in didn't due to losing internet access, another of course because he was murdered. So, in the world of the show, emails were sent that were not supposed to be until after the rapture.
Obviously the IT person didn't understand RAID well enough.
Can you also remove that 1 TB hard drive and feed it to another machine without powering either down?
It's SATA, so yes.
Because that's only the projected cost at release? You remember how much writable CD media cost when it was first released, right?
Forget the media, the drives were bad enough. I remember spending over $200 on a CD-RW drive. The last DVD-RW drive I bought was $30.
Low cost? 10p for GB is more than you pay for a hard disk.
Not by much, though. Consumer-grade hard disks are still close to $100 for 1 TB, which would work out to the same $0.10/GB. And since holographic storage is a much newer technology, there's a good chance that the price will drop faster than for magnetic disks.
Just never, ever stand between two mirrors in a darkened room and say "aleph-null, aleph-null, aleph-null!". As long as you avoid that, you'll be fine.
Do an infinite number of Michael Keatons appear?
Your grandchildren will likely die around 50 years after you die.
Just for the sake of honesty, maybe the oldest child of your oldest child would die 50 years after you. In the case of my family, my parents were 56 when my first nephew was born. There's a real possibility that my parents will be near 70 when their last grandchild is born. Assuming lifespan doesn't change much in two generations, I'd say that 60-70 is closer to the average.
The existence of long-lived copyright corporations like Sony and Disney means artists (not just their descendants and other hangers-on) CAN profit - while living - from proceeds after their deaths. The rights to the music are more valuable now because of the revenue they are expected to generate in the future. Michael Jackson, for instance, might have to sell off the rights to his music to stay financially afloat. But if those rights were to perish with him, the companies who will soon be bidding for those rights would bid much less.
The purpose of copyright is supposed to be to ensure that artists can earn enough money to live so that they can continue spending their time creating art, instead of having to spend most of their time waiting tables. Michael Jackson is a very bad example. If he were still creating art, he wouldn't be in financial trouble. Of course, considering how much money he made during his career, if he weren't a complete idiot, he wouldn't be in financial trouble.
You seem to be under the impression that (a) is what is happening now. A lot of people that are unhappy with current copyright laws might be a little less unhappy if the original artist(s) was/were where the money went. Unfortunately, most of the royalties don't go to the artist, they go to the record company executives. If the purpose was to pay the artist, what would be the point of having the copyright last for 50 years after the artist dies?
Of course, there's the argument about whether there are any real artists in the recording industry these days, but that's a matter of opinion.
She pushes anything that is pro pharma and has TONS of free samples for crazy amount of different drugs.
I heard from a couple doctors that I know that some of the hospitals and health care organizations around here, including the clinic that I go to, have started to forbid doctors from taking samples from drug companies (I can't find any public statement in a quick Google search, so this is still third-hand). Maybe there's still hope.
Except, they brought back a kde 3.5 version.
Right, but it's technically an unofficial edition, which means there's no guarantee that it will be supported for as long as the official edition of 9.04 is.
Bill Pullman's presidential speech in Independence Day is better than any speech our last five presidents have given, just putting that out there.
That's because it was written by a professional writer and rehearsed dozens of times.
Oh, wait...
Why a Server Edition?
Because most people don't really want or need Gnome, KDE, or XFCE on a server
The boot time issues and other Vista issues is greatly exasperated here on slashdot
No, it's the people on Slashdot that are exasperated with Vista's issues.
I believe the word you were looking for there is "exacerbated".
I'm endlessly impressed by KDE's efforts, but the distros totally jumped the gun on the new architecture. The community (even most people in this crowd) totally grokked the idea of "4.0-as-API-freeze" but the distros throught 4.0 meant time to upgrade, and frankly they should have kept 3.5 as the default until the 4 series was truly ready.
I think Kubuntu got stuck a bit with the KDE versions. Kubuntu 8.04 couldn't be LTS, because KDE 4 was definitely not ready, and the KDE developers couldn't promise 3 years of support on KDE 3. I think Kubuntu 8.10 may have been in a similar situation, where the KDE developers didn't plan on supporting KDE 3 for the time that Kubuntu 8.10 is supported by Canonical. With KDE 4.2 working well, Kubuntu 9.04 should be in much better shape.
while i agree with your sentiment - i never knew that "being gay" was a "moral crime" or that their "desires are perverse".
That's because you aren't asking the people that he's talking about.
But good luck uninstalling konqueror on a kde-based system.
I haven't tried removing it, but my Kubuntu computer lists konqueror as a separate package, and it doesn't look like anything other than all of the konqueror plugin packages depend on it.
My guess would be the region of his ass. I'd love to know what he thinks radio is.
When I used to lie to my mum and say I'd done my homework when I'd actually been playing games (or reading Discworld books)
I'd be willing to bet (haha, see what I did there?) that you learned more from the Discworld books than you did from your homework.
Patents last for a few years or a couple decades (at most).
You made a funny
Could we ask them to develop a pig with an uncloven hoof? It would be interesting to see kosher bacon on the shelf.
Unless they can also get the pig to chew its cud, it still won't be kosher.
Oh sure, you go ahead and pick Shir Hashirim (Song of Songs), the one book that really is a porn novel.
In all honesty, is there a way to lock down a computer from running any programs at all, other than what is on a whitelist?
Yup, it's called not installing programs that you don't want to run.