[E]very fighter completely lost all navigation and communications when they crossed the international date line.
Since Japan is nineteen hours ahead of Hawaii, I'll assume they're adding a day; and if the onboard system is using, say, 64-bit ints for femtoseconds since takeoff, that's sufficient for an overflow.
The only reason this debate over DRM as it applies to electronic text is still going on is simply because our opponents have what amounts to a quasi-religious and sometimes downright hysterical blind faith in the magic powers of DRM.
The MAFIAA, come to think of it, reminds me of a gaggle of wives obfuscating their pudenda; it decommoditizes tits and vag, in the end, to obfuscate them with clothes.
In fact, just as the vagina’s “quasi-religious” mystery depends upon an artificial secret; the value of cultural production depends upon an artificial scarcity.
Isn’t it commodification, after all, that the industry-Yids fear?
The culture of [Fedora's] core group has become steadily more unhealthy, more inward-looking, more insistent on narrow 'free software' ideological purity, and more disconnected from the technical and evangelical challenges that must be met to make Linux a world-changing success that liberates a majority of computer users . . ..
Which servers to corroborate my suspicion: RMS is an autist, whereas ESR is a realist.
Without diverting the conversation onto that issue, please share why you feel Allen is egregiously undeserving?
Why not “deviate” thither? Like I said above, she may be the next Countess of Lovelace; but to foist a false sense of democracy upon us in the name of her achievement is disingenuous.
This award marks the first time that a woman has received this honor.
Great: she’s the next Countess of Lovelace; but child-birth isn’t democratic, and there’s nothing fundamental about engineering that makes it likewise democratic.
In other words: rare women will continue to be rare women; don’t agitate us with “it’s about time” propaganda.
And the start of the open-source sessions was delayed as organizers fiddled with the computer running their projector. The conference room screen had been displaying the words "Windows XP."
There's this old canard about GNU-latry and a certain proletarian dictatorship that I'd rather not repeat. I will say this, though: the eagerness with which the Cuban communists adopted the rhetoric of “proprietary software” is comical.
I wonder how RMS is going to spin this victory to his States-side detractors?
They should spend their time in intact families than in the arms of the state.
Based on your link to Landover, I couldn't tell whether you were speaking tongue-in-cheek; but I was just having a conversation with my wife today about the homosexual persecution fantasy (even though homosexuality is the de facto standard nowadays), and that taking a stand for the nuclear family is a radical and violent gesture.
If federal authorities can jail bloggers with impunity, it does not bode well for the future of citizen journalism.
Many of you resent the white males that drafted your bill of rights; now that you're replacing them by slaves and tyrants, don't complain when your liberty falls by the same stroke.
Government sans tyranny is masculine and congenitally European—two necessary but insufficient conditions for liberty.
I'm still paying the unbelievable price of $35/year with NetSol, and was just about to effect a mass transfer to GoDaddy last week; certain events have gotten me to stop and think: NetSol is highway-robbery, but they're stable as hell.
Maybe the parent poster is satisfied with just rolling over and playing dead . . ..
Not defeatism, but realism; most change that happens within big corps happens from the inside. If change happens from without, it's the result of a great deal of concerted violence (read: legal, governmental or mercantile force).
If you can amass a force-vector comparable in magnitude to government, go ahead; if not, your best bet as an atomized consumer may be to work from within.
. . . [H]ow do you stamp out racism without going to the grass roots anyway?
The Bolsheviki tried the top-down approach, actually; it involved weeding the gene-pool of potential racists. (That they accidently liquidated the industrious and free-thinking is by the by.)
“Fight DRM,” like “fight breast cancer” or “stamp out racism,” are noble sentiments; such sentiments, I believe, share one thing in common: they suffer from a false sense of sovereignty; and are more autistic than realistic.
In the case of DRM,* the worthiest undertaking may be to climb the corporate ladder; and effect change from the top down.
_____________ * Or in the case of cancer: medical school, etc.
The ease with which someone could blow away their Windows install (and apposite data) is hilarious, actually; the frontpage is slick, and the Debian logo has a nice, clean svg -> png feel.
The one thing I always felt FOSS had going for it were pious, minimalist interfaces;* goodbye-microsoft.com is no exception.
There's a lot here, but I'm going to comment on Multimedia Class Scheduler Service (MMCSS):
Users expect multimedia applications, including music and video players, to offer a seamless playback experience. However, demand for the CPU by other concurrently running applications, like antivirus, content indexing, or even the mail client, can result in unpleasant hiccups.
Classic: multimedia apps take precedence over anti-virus.
The various task keys specify how much preference threads associated with different multimedia types get for CPU and graphics processor resources (though graphics processor resource management is not implemented in Windows Vista).
Yet another (promised?) feature they could not deliver.
Only administrative accounts, like the Local System account in which MMCSS executes, have the Increase Priority privilege that's required to set real-time thread priorities.
I thought for a second that they required admin access to activate MMCSS; but upon a second reading, it looks like they've merely reimplemented nice with some kind of setuid root service.
By that notion I guess we are living under and Bolshevik revolution in the US right now. . ..
Exactly; I think the case for Bolshevism is stronger than the case for fascism; but “fascism” has been, since WWII, a rhetorically charged word to drum up cheap interest.
Hu stressed the need to exploit the net's possibilities, while keeping a tight grip. “Ensure that one hand grasps development while one hand grasps administration,” he concluded.
It's still why I think Bolshevism* and its sequelae are more insidious than fascism: sure, the fascists will shoot you if you agitate against them; but the Bolshevik state would prevent you from agitating in the first place by limiting the set of stimuli that comprise your world.
Reminds me a great deal, actually, of that old Semitic myth about a certain garden and tree of knowledge; whose premise was: fragile and jealous power depends upon the ignorance of its subjugates.
The ignorance of subjugates will always be a Bolshevik, and not a fascist, end.
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Ad hominem aside (ye always resort thither), did you fail to grasp Nietzsche’s irony?
“Anti-Semitism: failure to worship Jews;” I dare you to come up with a better definition.
From TFS:
Since Japan is nineteen hours ahead of Hawaii, I'll assume they're adding a day; and if the onboard system is using, say, 64-bit ints for femtoseconds since takeoff, that's sufficient for an overflow.
Aha! That's what I always suspected: “anti-Semitism” is merely the failure to worship Jews, let alone oppose them.
Quoth Nietzsche: “Das Heil kommt von den Juden” (Salvation comes from the Jews).*
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* Nietzsche, The Antichrist, 24.
From TFA:
The MAFIAA, come to think of it, reminds me of a gaggle of wives obfuscating their pudenda; it decommoditizes tits and vag, in the end, to obfuscate them with clothes.
In fact, just as the vagina’s “quasi-religious” mystery depends upon an artificial secret; the value of cultural production depends upon an artificial scarcity.
Isn’t it commodification, after all, that the industry-Yids fear?
From TFA:
Which servers to corroborate my suspicion: RMS is an autist, whereas ESR is a realist.
Why not “deviate” thither? Like I said above, she may be the next Countess of Lovelace; but to foist a false sense of democracy upon us in the name of her achievement is disingenuous.
Long live meritocracy!
I see you, too, got bumped down to “-1 Offtopic” within 60 seconds; I think Zonk is to blame (being a repressive Bolshevik, after all).
From TFA:
Great: she’s the next Countess of Lovelace; but child-birth isn’t democratic, and there’s nothing fundamental about engineering that makes it likewise democratic.
In other words: rare women will continue to be rare women; don’t agitate us with “it’s about time” propaganda.
Irony in TFA:
There's this old canard about GNU-latry and a certain proletarian dictatorship that I'd rather not repeat. I will say this, though: the eagerness with which the Cuban communists adopted the rhetoric of “proprietary software” is comical.
I wonder how RMS is going to spin this victory to his States-side detractors?
From TFS:
You know, I really liked John Edwards; granted, he pulled the daddy worked 36 years in NC textile thing one too many times, but his daughter is hot.
As far as Second Life goes: you guys are just the next VRML; deal with it.
Thanks; we ought to stick together.
Based on your link to Landover, I couldn't tell whether you were speaking tongue-in-cheek; but I was just having a conversation with my wife today about the homosexual persecution fantasy (even though homosexuality is the de facto standard nowadays), and that taking a stand for the nuclear family is a radical and violent gesture.
From TFS:
Many of you resent the white males that drafted your bill of rights; now that you're replacing them by slaves and tyrants, don't complain when your liberty falls by the same stroke.
Government sans tyranny is masculine and congenitally European—two necessary but insufficient conditions for liberty.
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* Europandry: European mandom.
There's a very subtle innuendo in that link, however: domain squatters use IE.
I'm still paying the unbelievable price of $35/year with NetSol, and was just about to effect a mass transfer to GoDaddy last week; certain events have gotten me to stop and think: NetSol is highway-robbery, but they're stable as hell.
Not defeatism, but realism; most change that happens within big corps happens from the inside. If change happens from without, it's the result of a great deal of concerted violence (read: legal, governmental or mercantile force).
If you can amass a force-vector comparable in magnitude to government, go ahead; if not, your best bet as an atomized consumer may be to work from within.
I love you, AC; but I think you missed some glorious tongue-in-cheek action. Try re-reading, and get back to me.
Depends, possibly, on whom you ask.
Yes, the top-down approach can be perilous; especially in programming. Apparently they've abandoned top-down, though, for more extreme measures.
The Bolsheviki tried the top-down approach, actually; it involved weeding the gene-pool of potential racists. (That they accidently liquidated the industrious and free-thinking is by the by.)
“Fight DRM,” like “fight breast cancer” or “stamp out racism,” are noble sentiments; such sentiments, I believe, share one thing in common: they suffer from a false sense of sovereignty; and are more autistic than realistic.
In the case of DRM,* the worthiest undertaking may be to climb the corporate ladder; and effect change from the top down.
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* Or in the case of cancer: medical school, etc.
The ease with which someone could blow away their Windows install (and apposite data) is hilarious, actually; the frontpage is slick, and the Debian logo has a nice, clean svg -> png feel.
The one thing I always felt FOSS had going for it were pious, minimalist interfaces;* goodbye-microsoft.com is no exception.
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* And dangerous ones, like fdisk.
There's a lot here, but I'm going to comment on Multimedia Class Scheduler Service (MMCSS):
Classic: multimedia apps take precedence over anti-virus.
Yet another (promised?) feature they could not deliver.
I thought for a second that they required admin access to activate MMCSS; but upon a second reading, it looks like they've merely reimplemented nice with some kind of setuid root service.
Exactly; I think the case for Bolshevism is stronger than the case for fascism; but “fascism” has been, since WWII, a rhetorically charged word to drum up cheap interest.
From TFA:
It's still why I think Bolshevism* and its sequelae are more insidious than fascism: sure, the fascists will shoot you if you agitate against them; but the Bolshevik state would prevent you from agitating in the first place by limiting the set of stimuli that comprise your world.
Reminds me a great deal, actually, of that old Semitic myth about a certain garden and tree of knowledge; whose premise was: fragile and jealous power depends upon the ignorance of its subjugates.
The ignorance of subjugates will always be a Bolshevik, and not a fascist, end.
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* Or Marxism, etc.