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Comment Kde? (Score 1) 55

RHEL9 ships without kde, and you have to do a bunch of tricks in EPEL to get it back in. Personally i like kde much more than gnome, so if this is an indication that kde is on its way to RHEL10, then great

Comment Not this numbers game again (Score 5, Insightful) 160

I remember from some decades ago, that the cost of piracy was estimated by finding a student that downloaded Photoshop and Maya, estimated that this was $3000 of retail (and thus loss for them), assuming that the student would have purchased the software at full price if the pirate option did not exist.

I see the same here. I guess some people just download everything they can find or binge 3 movies a day, something they would never have done if they would have to purchase the premium ultra Bluray package for each of them ...

Comment Sorry , no (well maybe sometimes) (Score 2, Interesting) 29

The problem here there is no such thing as "cancer" in a way that its physiology is predictable. It is a heterogeneous bunch of cells with mangled DNA, in basically unique and random forms, whit some basic similarities (activated telomerase etc). But basically these are native cells, so the immune system will not be able to distinguish and decide what to attack. WHen it does find a point of distinction, then within the tumor pool there is always a cell that lacks that particular feature. That cell then becomes the new cancer stem cell and you are back at square one...

So hopeful interesting, but not a gold bullit

Comment Sometimes you have to (Score 3, Insightful) 53

Not all python projects end up in pypi as a public library. Sometimes you have to maintain a company application for which there is no budget to rewrite and youâ(TM)re stuck with it.

At this moment i maintain a VIsual Basic 6 application that runs on Windows XP because it drives a custom piece of hardware that cannot be migrated to anything else.

Comment Re:Considering it was geostationary (Score 3, Interesting) 63

Yes a fine would make sense. But considering it costs north of $100 Million to put a satellite in orbit, this fine is a rounding error. Also paying a one-off fine is probably the cheapest way to deal with a discarded satellite. More like a disposal surcharge than anything else. At least then call it what it is

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