Right, it couldn't possibly be that the entire idea is stupid to begin with.

Uh, yeah, I think we got that. But I am skeptical that this gives him proprietary rights to a symbol created something like 3000 years ago.

This is forced by "Truth in Advertising" laws.

When a new company makes a splash, they can expect a visit from the Jesse Jacksons of the world, running their usual shakedown.

But for the most part these leftists are not dedicated to playing one ethnic and social group off against the other. The left in the US is dedicated to maintaining separation and division between the races because they know they can exploit it, and have gone into hyper-drive on the concept in the past, say, 6-7 years, to pick a random time frame.

"The American public has been trained to think about white versus minority, urban versus suburban, rich versus poor," he said.'"

      Indeed, this is true. It's as clear an example as can shown for the toxic influence of class warfare by the left in this country for decades.

Eric the Midget is King of Mars??

To add to this, also sterilize it to practical limits given danger to the flight hardware. Many of the early Ranger lunar-impact missions had hardware failures on the way, eventually strongly suspected to have been caused by damage due to heat-sterilization:

http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/n...

          Once they backed off on the degree of sterilization, the rate of random failures dropped dramatically.

Having your permission to continue living my life as I choose certainly takes a load off of my mind! Whew!

        Do you idiots ever actually listen to yourselves?

OK, this has almost got to be a troll (tipoff being "old light bulbs", that sounds like someone posing as a newb/idiot), but, WTF??

      The glass is to enclose the vacuum inside, hence the phrase "vacuum tube". Inside there are filaments just like a conventional light bulb. These usually heat a plate, which can then emit electrons via thermionic emission. This emission can be controlled by altering the voltages on the various parts. This permits many applications like amplification.

      Almost anything we do today could theoretically be done using tubes instead of transistors, given the necessary input power. There are still many applications that are better done this way than with transistors, particularly, high-power and high-frequency radio transmitters, where transistors can barely be made to work

Systems with central administration has always been absolutely wide open to insider sabotage. Distributed systems can be made at least somewhat damage-limiting

As with others, I am amazed it doesn't happen either accidentally, or on purpose, far more than it does. You are basically one bit, or checkbox, away from it more-or-less all the time.

      BTW, I note that the result was installing Windows 7. If it was doing that, does it mean they were running XP or Vista until just now?

That's a real problem, and I am not kidding.

Right, got it. Everybody is stupid, except for you.

Well, that's about right, however, that's also the problem. In a professional setting, you expect support, and not just "when and if we feel like it". NEWB in this case may not have ever even heard of a message board or listserv. Someone says "support is here", he goes there, no one answers.

      NEWB doesn't know or care about the theory of open software, building relationships with the list members, doing research on the code base, etc. He found a problem and wants it fixed, and wants someone to fix it or help him fix it. There's no trouble ticket number, tracking to closure, or in fact any reason to think it will ever get fixed.

          What does he do? He has a problem, someone at his work is going to expect it fixed, or at least get a schedule to get it fixed. It gets fixed on the whim of someone who decides to do it, or not.

        This is the problem with open source. It's for geeks by geeks, anyone else will have no chance of ever tracking down a problem, or even getting basic functionality assistance, because by design, no one person or group will take responsibility for it. This may seem to be a minor problem to you, but I assure you, it is the biggest issue by far for anyone outside the cult.

Particularly the STFU NEWB part. This is exactly the reputation open source software has.