Comment Red Mars gene therapy (Score 1) 554
So is this the first steps towards the gene therapies in Red Mars books? Finally!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_trilogy
So is this the first steps towards the gene therapies in Red Mars books? Finally!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_trilogy
"changes land on a daily basis".
Excuse me, but they already do. What the heck is update manager, but a means for updates to land when needed?
Normal updates are just for fixes.
However the optional backports are for introducing new versions so they already partially do this.
I would prefer that we convert the phone booths to mobile phone, iPod, etc ie gadget charging stations.
May need to offer some lockable lockers with chargers similar to what they offer at music festivals. But not sure terror / vandal paranoid people would accept that.
I have to admit I still use phone booths, but only as a quiet place to talk on my mobile...
When the current reviewer gets promoted to rating PornTube
First post?
Since I voted before I googled the meaning of "Interstitial" my vote is now probably still correct as I hate hovering ads.
But voting is biased due to over engineering the voting options! Simple english: More accurate voting as catering for non native English speakers which probably outnumber the readers from the UK and former colonies..
Nope, small businesses just require people to transfer money directly into their account. Either pre-, before whatever it is, so they can verify it, or post- (invoice) if they can trust them.
Thats how small sports teams, private instructors, charities etc do it over here(Norway).
Since transfers are free and nowadays pretty instant or at worst a few hours delayed this is quick and easy.
And these days people now can transfer money via their mobiles so this is now even easier.
When I first moved to the UK in the 90s I was surprised they still used cheques, and now nearly into 2010s it is quite bizarre. Since the rest of Europe has been fine without cheques for 20+ years I don't really think they need to worry!
Ermmm. Sure about that? Don't most medium to large non-IT companies mostly outsource their IT infrastructure? Which is another corporation...
Including email, intranet, internet web servers etc.
Got them in Oslo, Norway too.
I use them all the time, they make getting around town so easy.
The system here also has a realtime website with status of their 90ish depots/bikesheds. And if the one you are at is empty, then the screen lists the status of nearby depots.
There are some drawbacks with the free city bikes:
So I fully recommend them, it has made us get about town so much easier and quicker (and thus more often), but they are only useful if the depots are everywhere and stocked up.
Many thanks for taking the time to clarify some points.
No problem at all. The article has now fallen off the front page, so I'm not sure how many people are still reading this, but you deserve a response.
It's fairly easy to show people the fruits of desktop Linux - pop in just one Ubuntu (or Mepis or whatever) CD and leave an hour later with a machine humming away nicely and in the case of Ubuntu very good online user forums to help with the many questions. The user doesn't know it's all based on Debian and may never know. Debian will be mentioned, but probably not that visibly unless you dig around for it.
That's true, but it's not a problem trademark law can solve. Remember that a trademark only protects a mark (logo or word). We could slap all the acknowledgement requirements we like on our trademark license, but it's still easy to avoid them by simply not using the mark except buried in footnotes, as some derivative distributions do.
What you seem to be after is more like the BSD advertising clause, which the FLOSS community has more or less rejected as a bad idea.
I think the solution lies more in Debian advocates and evangelists spreading the word that these derivatives really are in fact derived from Debian. Trying to promulgate something really heavy-handed will probably fail, as RMS's attempt to get people to call their Linux-kernel-based OSes "GNU/Linux" largely has. It's hard to force people to use a label of your choosing, but you can try to educate the marketplace. The results are more difficult to measure, but that doesn't render the exercise worthless.
I wonder if it would make sense for the Debian website to have a "good neighbors" page that identifies derived distributions that prominently acknowledge their Debian heritage and cultivate a good relationship with us.
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