Wrong re: songs. We already pay a tax on blank media on the assumption that we all make personal-use and share copies of music to each other. Thus, sharing music to one another is not illegal, nor wrong.
Eliminate the blank media levy, and I'll agree with you re: songs.
Some cities want people to slow down. Unfortunately in cities like that they deliberately plan to slow down traffic to prevent things like.. oh.. racing maniacs, and in the process they end up creating huge traffic snarls when there's a busy stream of people.
In some cities also, they want to slow traffic down to prevent growth--this was the strategy of the city planners of Vancouver, for example (BC Canada) and they made such monumentally stupid decisions as make the Patello bridge only two lanes wide (instead of the ten (!) lanes Patello himself wanted.) They also deliberately snarled up the downtown core to prevent it from turning into a downtown New York. Unfortunately it's heading that way anyway, and now that they've fucked up the planning, they're paying much much more for it.
Bullshit.. It's Hell or it's a waste of time.
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Doom Movie Update
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Another super-virus? Aw come on.. gimme a break. Way to fuck up the whole premise of the video game!
What a waste.. what a waste..! They could've done great things with Doom, and now they're wasting the opportunity.
I hope this isn't a fiasco on the order of the Dungeons and Dragons movie, which could've been a superior flick (look at all the damn material they had to work with!) but ended up being a sappy, stupid little child-friendly, overacted farce.
Not accurate. You are not allowed to combine your patches and make a new distribution out of it. They put portions of it under the QPL specifically to prevent people from what they call "taking credit" for their work.
Total bunk of course, but similar license restrictions are placed on qmail, and the patchsets are a complete mess as a result.
The LGPL is an attempt to hop on the OS bandwagon, but unless the whole thing is free, what freedom is there in that?
I was getting into OCaml a while back, to the point where I wanted to replace my extant software with OCaml rewrites, and then someone pointed something out to me: OCaml has an annoyingly onerous license. You aren't allowed to distribute, fork, change, or anything the main OCaml source. How annoying!
"We've painted ourselves into a corner and, since we can't think of a way out, we're asking Slashdot for free technical advice to further our commercial goals without actually paying any of you."
They introduce the bill, put draconian measures into it, and fight to pass draconian measures that would seriously impact the way Americans live their daily lives.
Then an outcry develops, they strip out the draconian measures and leave behind innocuous, small-step leftovers that they were hoping to pass in the first place, to make it look like they were being magnanimous by compromising.
The more they do this, the more they can get bills passed that erode the rights of US citizens and turn the US into a nation of good little worker bees making the elite upper class richer and richer.
I wonder what it'll look like in 15 years, when another five or six of these bills gets passed in succession?
I'm too lazy to play through the whole of the games (even in god mode) to find out what they're really like, so I'll play through a couple levels and think I'm smart enough to extrapolate the rest.
It's not acceptable for products to be advertised if I'm not interested in watching said advertisements, I never buy said products if I recall advertisements for them, and feel that my own brain is private and should be protected from intrusive brainwashing mechanisms of successful advertising campaigns.
If it doesn't work, then let the broadcasters die. Legislating away technology people want to use will simply piss them off. Some dumbass telling me I'm not allowed to completely eliminate memory-altering advertisements from what I watch on television? Screw you! I'll do it anyway.
...and there will be, until the free browsers smarten the hell up and get the same kind of power-features that Opera has--and more.
The key layout can't be matched, the insta-re-rendering with/without images, with/without a user-defined style sheet, auto-reloading, the instant-on/off Java/javascript, the "save with images," the superior speed.. basically everything available from the F12 menu, the better tabbed browsing capabilities, and mouse gestures.. all these features will keep Opera as my browser of choice for quite some time.
Did I mention it's faster for its featureset than anything else out there?
Cryptic kicks off or forces a change in, ripoff characters. I've seen Santa Claus running around on a number of occasions--the spitting image, I'm not kidding.
It's just a testament to the customization engine that ripoffs are even possible.
Marvel sucked before, and they suck now. Cooperation works, lawsuits generate a bad public image. I'm refusing to allow any more of my dollars to line Marvel's coffers.
They already have. Andrew Tanenbaum is part of the.. what is it? 7 million Americans or so living abroad?
Or, wait, are you making the mistake of assuming that every democrat everywhere has threatened to leave, and are trying to prove how superior you are by saying that they're thus all liars?
Way to knock down that straw man! *clap clap clap*
Windows already has URL handler extensions.. why do you think cutting&pasting ed2k:// links work for Windows users?
Mac users ain't no cult. Haha..
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The Cult of Mac
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· Score: 5, Informative
However cult-ish you think Mac users are, or ever were, the Amiga users were zealots for their machines on a scale you probably will never truly comprehend unless you were there, a part of it.
Oh sure, Mac users love their machines.
Amiga users went beyond love. They worshipped their computers, fought for them, spent money they didn't have to keep the companies who sold Amigas and Amiga-related soft- and hardware in business. You wanna talk hardcore, you look at the former Amiga communities. THAT will forever define the meaning of the term hardcore for me, and nothing I've seen yet comes close.
Even now, a decade after the platform basically folded up, there are large groups of people who want to revive the spirit of the Amiga.
Mac users may think they're a cult, but they're just a pale shadow compared to Amiga users.
You don't. But obviously you have no clue that most expensive pens have caps which need to be removed before the pen can actually be used. What, you think everyone uses a cheap dollar-a-bag Bic push-pen like you?
Any cryptographic applications: most ciphers require a source of random numbers, and without a good hardware RNG assisting, it has to collect entropy from keyboard, drive, network cards, wireless noise, etc. One of them generates good quality random numbers quickly and reliably, the other sometimes has to wait a while before something random happens.
Ignore all these other posers, they don't know what they're talking about. Here are the ultimate requirements for a palmtop:
. Mid-size keyboard so I can sit down and actually do something useful with it. . Completely open architecture and specifications so Linux/*BSD can be made to run on it without worrying about those stupid closed-hardware vendors who think their designs are so precious they refuse to document them. . PCMCIA slots so all the existing PCMCIA hardware will "just work" in it. . Smartcard slot with proper documentation. . Bluetooth . USB . Water resistant/proof. . Full-aspect ratio, full-colour screen (640x480 at a minimum) . 1GB RAM . CompactFlash/CFII/etc slots for simple storage . Tiny hard drive--60GB minimum . GPS built-in . Antenna attachment . Wi-Fi-based remote display capable (for those of us that want to use those neat glasses so other people can't look over our shoulders or a full-screen display, say) . Wi-Fi based remote keyboard/mouse capable (for when I'd like to use a full-size keyboard in, say, a library.) . Ridiculously long battery life. . Hardware-based random number generator. . AM/FM/etc radio receiver.
Nothing else is really necessary. If someone wants a cellphone, get one that can do the above. If someone wants some other specialised device, fill their boots.
The point is that current laptops are horrendously heavy to lug around. As a computer I'm actually willing to carry around with me, the dimensions need to be small, but large enough to accommodate a keyboard with keys big enough for normal fingers to type on and a screen with a proper aspect ratio.
If I want to make it inconspicuous by slipping it into my coat pocket, let it be small enough I can do so.
All these other people who are whining about specific applications--they're being unrealistic. If you build a mini laptop which is open-architected, all that stuff will come on its own, in time.
Things I could use this device for:
. Wardriving/walking/chalking. . Programming remotely. . A temporary storage area for pictures from my digital camera/mobile storage unit for other files. . Writing remotely. . Personal organizer. . Hacking . Home-away-from-home comfort device
In fact, here's a helpful article I wrote describing how to eliminate six nines of all your incoming spam permanently, in a way that is impossible for spammers to circumvent without reading your mind and hacking every person you ever sent email to.
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Wrong re: songs. We already pay a tax on blank media on the assumption that we all make personal-use and share copies of music to each other. Thus, sharing music to one another is not illegal, nor wrong.
Eliminate the blank media levy, and I'll agree with you re: songs.
Dear AzraelKans,
Eat shit and die, knobgobbler.
(sorry I couldn't resist.)
It's mixing in religious fundamentalism with the MPAA's stupidity in a fun and accurate way. :)
Some cities want people to slow down. Unfortunately in cities like that they deliberately plan to slow down traffic to prevent things like.. oh.. racing maniacs, and in the process they end up creating huge traffic snarls when there's a busy stream of people.
In some cities also, they want to slow traffic down to prevent growth--this was the strategy of the city planners of Vancouver, for example (BC Canada) and they made such monumentally stupid decisions as make the Patello bridge only two lanes wide (instead of the ten (!) lanes Patello himself wanted.) They also deliberately snarled up the downtown core to prevent it from turning into a downtown New York. Unfortunately it's heading that way anyway, and now that they've fucked up the planning, they're paying much much more for it.
Another super-virus? Aw come on.. gimme a break. Way to fuck up the whole premise of the video game!
What a waste.. what a waste..! They could've done great things with Doom, and now they're wasting the opportunity.
I hope this isn't a fiasco on the order of the Dungeons and Dragons movie, which could've been a superior flick (look at all the damn material they had to work with!) but ended up being a sappy, stupid little child-friendly, overacted farce.
Not accurate. You are not allowed to combine your patches and make a new distribution out of it. They put portions of it under the QPL specifically to prevent people from what they call "taking credit" for their work.
Total bunk of course, but similar license restrictions are placed on qmail, and the patchsets are a complete mess as a result.
The LGPL is an attempt to hop on the OS bandwagon, but unless the whole thing is free, what freedom is there in that?
That sucks.
I was getting into OCaml a while back, to the point where I wanted to replace my extant software with OCaml rewrites, and then someone pointed something out to me: OCaml has an annoyingly onerous license. You aren't allowed to distribute, fork, change, or anything the main OCaml source. How annoying!
"We've painted ourselves into a corner and, since we can't think of a way out, we're asking Slashdot for free technical advice to further our commercial goals without actually paying any of you."
"Hey do you think they bought it?"
They introduce the bill, put draconian measures into it, and fight to pass draconian measures that would seriously impact the way Americans live their daily lives.
Then an outcry develops, they strip out the draconian measures and leave behind innocuous, small-step leftovers that they were hoping to pass in the first place, to make it look like they were being magnanimous by compromising.
The more they do this, the more they can get bills passed that erode the rights of US citizens and turn the US into a nation of good little worker bees making the elite upper class richer and richer.
I wonder what it'll look like in 15 years, when another five or six of these bills gets passed in succession?
You guys are so fucked.
I'm too lazy to play through the whole of the games (even in god mode) to find out what they're really like, so I'll play through a couple levels and think I'm smart enough to extrapolate the rest.
All these embedded Linux systems out there that distribute Linux are required to offer the source code for redistribution.
So where is it all? Or are they cheesing out and using only userland software to drive their phones?
(In which case, who cares if it's running Linux, because we can't do anything useful with it anyway?)
I've always liked Polish people anyway.
It's not acceptable for products to be advertised if I'm not interested in watching said advertisements, I never buy said products if I recall advertisements for them, and feel that my own brain is private and should be protected from intrusive brainwashing mechanisms of successful advertising campaigns.
If it doesn't work, then let the broadcasters die. Legislating away technology people want to use will simply piss them off. Some dumbass telling me I'm not allowed to completely eliminate memory-altering advertisements from what I watch on television? Screw you! I'll do it anyway.
...and there will be, until the free browsers smarten the hell up and get the same kind of power-features that Opera has--and more.
The key layout can't be matched, the insta-re-rendering with/without images, with/without a user-defined style sheet, auto-reloading, the instant-on/off Java/javascript, the "save with images," the superior speed.. basically everything available from the F12 menu, the better tabbed browsing capabilities, and mouse gestures.. all these features will keep Opera as my browser of choice for quite some time.
Did I mention it's faster for its featureset than anything else out there?
Cryptic kicks off or forces a change in, ripoff characters. I've seen Santa Claus running around on a number of occasions--the spitting image, I'm not kidding.
It's just a testament to the customization engine that ripoffs are even possible.
Marvel sucked before, and they suck now. Cooperation works, lawsuits generate a bad public image. I'm refusing to allow any more of my dollars to line Marvel's coffers.
Amen!
They already have. Andrew Tanenbaum is part of the.. what is it? 7 million Americans or so living abroad?
Or, wait, are you making the mistake of assuming that every democrat everywhere has threatened to leave, and are trying to prove how superior you are by saying that they're thus all liars?
Way to knock down that straw man! *clap clap clap*
Windows already has URL handler extensions.. why do you think cutting&pasting ed2k:// links work for Windows users?
However cult-ish you think Mac users are, or ever were, the Amiga users were zealots for their machines on a scale you probably will never truly comprehend unless you were there, a part of it.
Oh sure, Mac users love their machines.
Amiga users went beyond love. They worshipped their computers, fought for them, spent money they didn't have to keep the companies who sold Amigas and Amiga-related soft- and hardware in business. You wanna talk hardcore, you look at the former Amiga communities. THAT will forever define the meaning of the term hardcore for me, and nothing I've seen yet comes close.
Even now, a decade after the platform basically folded up, there are large groups of people who want to revive the spirit of the Amiga.
Mac users may think they're a cult, but they're just a pale shadow compared to Amiga users.
Ha ha ha.. too funny.
"[...] and write in a someone choppy style representative of their technical backgrounds."
That was pretty choppy.
"[...]the situation is ripe for the situation where e-voting[...]"
That's pretty choppy too. Hey, are you a computer geek?
You don't. But obviously you have no clue that most expensive pens have caps which need to be removed before the pen can actually be used. What, you think everyone uses a cheap dollar-a-bag Bic push-pen like you?
..I read, "A Review of the Ubuntu Warty Disease" and somehow also associated "highly virulent" in there somewhere.
Then I read it again.
Well, it does sound like some exotic African virus doesn't it?! Doesn't it?
Any cryptographic applications: most ciphers require a source of random numbers, and without a good hardware RNG assisting, it has to collect entropy from keyboard, drive, network cards, wireless noise, etc. One of them generates good quality random numbers quickly and reliably, the other sometimes has to wait a while before something random happens.
Ignore all these other posers, they don't know what they're talking about. Here are the ultimate requirements for a palmtop:
. Mid-size keyboard so I can sit down and actually do something useful with it.
. Completely open architecture and specifications so Linux/*BSD can be made to run on it without worrying about those stupid closed-hardware vendors who think their designs are so precious they refuse to document them.
. PCMCIA slots so all the existing PCMCIA hardware will "just work" in it.
. Smartcard slot with proper documentation.
. Bluetooth
. USB
. Water resistant/proof.
. Full-aspect ratio, full-colour screen (640x480 at a minimum)
. 1GB RAM
. CompactFlash/CFII/etc slots for simple storage
. Tiny hard drive--60GB minimum
. GPS built-in
. Antenna attachment
. Wi-Fi-based remote display capable (for those of us that want to use those neat glasses so other people can't look over our shoulders or a full-screen display, say)
. Wi-Fi based remote keyboard/mouse capable (for when I'd like to use a full-size keyboard in, say, a library.)
. Ridiculously long battery life.
. Hardware-based random number generator.
. AM/FM/etc radio receiver.
Nothing else is really necessary. If someone wants a cellphone, get one that can do the above. If someone wants some other specialised device, fill their boots.
The point is that current laptops are horrendously heavy to lug around. As a computer I'm actually willing to carry around with me, the dimensions need to be small, but large enough to accommodate a keyboard with keys big enough for normal fingers to type on and a screen with a proper aspect ratio.
If I want to make it inconspicuous by slipping it into my coat pocket, let it be small enough I can do so.
All these other people who are whining about specific applications--they're being unrealistic. If you build a mini laptop which is open-architected, all that stuff will come on its own, in time.
Things I could use this device for:
. Wardriving/walking/chalking.
. Programming remotely.
. A temporary storage area for pictures from my digital camera/mobile storage unit for other files.
. Writing remotely.
. Personal organizer.
. Hacking
. Home-away-from-home comfort device
In fact, here's a helpful article I wrote describing how to eliminate six nines of all your incoming spam permanently, in a way that is impossible for spammers to circumvent without reading your mind and hacking every person you ever sent email to.
Spam Free At Last