Hey -- that's actually pretty funny.:P (Personally I was surprised as hell when I saw those crossbow bolts bent like that. Guess you really do need silver.)
Please explain this to me -- is "controlling your creation" the same as "making money off of your creation?" Because, with the latter, I sympathize -- with the former, not so much. However, if I'm wrong, I'm willing to change my opinion.
Well, of course not, because there's been amendments made to the Constitution in the past two hundred years that nullify the previous beliefs on slavery and women's suffrage. There's nothing wrong with this -- the founding fathers knew they weren't infallible, and that's why they made the constitution a living and changeable document. Just because a certain few of their beliefs have been made invalid over the years doesn't nullify the rest of their beliefs and judgments.
However, there's been no abortion amendment, as far as I'm aware, so the way this matter was originally managed (by the states) is fine with me. If you have a problem with it, elect Congresspeople who are willing to change it. If and when an amendment to the Constitution is made regarding abortion rights, then I'll defend it and support it.
Well, thank you for posting your opinion politely and legibly, however I must disagree with you. There were already laws dealing with abortions on the books back then (look up passages dealing with the "quickening" in English common law), so I can't believe the founding fathers hadn't thought of it -- while we know plenty more about the process of conception today than we did back then, I have to defer to their judgment of leaving the matter to the states.
Oh, so it's fellows like you that are screwing up web applications that use the HTTP protocol to transmit data in JSON and XML format? Thanks, really, thanks.
...would be a lot more appreciative of this proof of concept if someone trawled Slashdot threads to see how often you feed trolls by responding to comments with a "-1" rating...:P
If you ask me, it's because up until now (with the release of the 3800 series), multi-GPU systems didn't give you that much more of an increase in performance when compared to the amount of money you were spending.
If you bought two low-end cards and ran them together, it wasn't worth it (the performance increase was negligible), but if you bought two high-end cards (which sometimes showed quite a bit of improvement), you had to spend a fortune.
The benchmarks I've seen from this new 3800 series, though, tells me that it might become a lot more affordable pretty soon to have a multi-GPU system that actually performs!
(No, I'm not paid by AMD, but I do think red is a prettier color than green, if it matters.)
I don't want to go through the hassle of canceling the account if/when I decide to stop playing. Whoa whoa whoa -- since when did WoW become AOL? There's absolutely no hassle involved to stop playing WoW -- you just stop paying, simple as that. Your account gets put into inactive status -- you don't even get an email about it from them.
You know, that bothered me at first, but now I've started to soak up the diversity.
Plus, the blatantly un-PC "Hispanic Foods" isle at Wal-Mart usually has the neatest imported foods from south of the border, like whole boxes of Poncillo and Pepsi's made with real cane sugar.
My friend, I had kinda the same problem as you did (having to maintain a huge whilelist with NoScript) -- that's why, on the first tab of the configuration window, you'll see an option for "Allow Top-Level Sites by Default." No more keeping track of a huge whitelist.
Now, any site you go to will automatically allow JavaScript from that domain (I mean, if you didn't want its JavaScript running on your machine, what are you going there for?). Any other domain's scripts that are present on that page will still not run, and I'm sure that you'll find that 90-95% of the time those extra scripts are ads and tracker scripts.
Doing the whitelist thing (having to manually allow every domain's JavaScript every time you go to a new site) will eventually bite you in the ass -- after about a year of using NoScript, my whitelist had grown so large that every site I visited had a noticable 4-5 second pause, which was literally just NoScript checking through the huge whitelist!
Don't worry -- I'm sure the ExtJS boys are working on that one as we speak. They've done just about everything else for my job in web development, as far as I'm concerned.
Oh, they're expandable and upgradeable, all right, if you're willing to spend a fortune. I love having to buy video cards for my Macs featuring years-old technology for four times what the equivalent PC part is (even when all that's different is a different video BIOS).
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Hey -- that's actually pretty funny. :P (Personally I was surprised as hell when I saw those crossbow bolts bent like that. Guess you really do need silver.)
Okay... calm now... step away from the bong... just put it down on the ground.
Please explain this to me -- is "controlling your creation" the same as "making money off of your creation?" Because, with the latter, I sympathize -- with the former, not so much. However, if I'm wrong, I'm willing to change my opinion.
Well, of course not, because there's been amendments made to the Constitution in the past two hundred years that nullify the previous beliefs on slavery and women's suffrage. There's nothing wrong with this -- the founding fathers knew they weren't infallible, and that's why they made the constitution a living and changeable document. Just because a certain few of their beliefs have been made invalid over the years doesn't nullify the rest of their beliefs and judgments.
However, there's been no abortion amendment, as far as I'm aware, so the way this matter was originally managed (by the states) is fine with me. If you have a problem with it, elect Congresspeople who are willing to change it. If and when an amendment to the Constitution is made regarding abortion rights, then I'll defend it and support it.
...I've never made sure to always check my MD5 signatures, but I damn sure am now.
Well, thank you for posting your opinion politely and legibly, however I must disagree with you. There were already laws dealing with abortions on the books back then (look up passages dealing with the "quickening" in English common law), so I can't believe the founding fathers hadn't thought of it -- while we know plenty more about the process of conception today than we did back then, I have to defer to their judgment of leaving the matter to the states.
The Tenth Amendment of the United States Constitution would like to disagree with you.
Oh, so it's fellows like you that are screwing up web applications that use the HTTP protocol to transmit data in JSON and XML format? Thanks, really, thanks.
You did know that the big *swooosh* over your head was the joke, right? :P
Get ready for the encrypted web.
...they still have a product page for it: http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/storage/storage_PH0305.html
What? They're not still selling it?
god damnit -- I hate when they do that.
We have a different term for that over here IRL -- it's called armed robbery.
...would be a lot more appreciative of this proof of concept if someone trawled Slashdot threads to see how often you feed trolls by responding to comments with a "-1" rating... :P
If you ask me, it's because up until now (with the release of the 3800 series), multi-GPU systems didn't give you that much more of an increase in performance when compared to the amount of money you were spending.
If you bought two low-end cards and ran them together, it wasn't worth it (the performance increase was negligible), but if you bought two high-end cards (which sometimes showed quite a bit of improvement), you had to spend a fortune.
The benchmarks I've seen from this new 3800 series, though, tells me that it might become a lot more affordable pretty soon to have a multi-GPU system that actually performs!
(No, I'm not paid by AMD, but I do think red is a prettier color than green, if it matters.)
You know, that bothered me at first, but now I've started to soak up the diversity. Plus, the blatantly un-PC "Hispanic Foods" isle at Wal-Mart usually has the neatest imported foods from south of the border, like whole boxes of Poncillo and Pepsi's made with real cane sugar.
I think this lady might differ with you. I'm not a vegan, but these dishes always look tasty.
My friend, I had kinda the same problem as you did (having to maintain a huge whilelist with NoScript) -- that's why, on the first tab of the configuration window, you'll see an option for "Allow Top-Level Sites by Default." No more keeping track of a huge whitelist.
Now, any site you go to will automatically allow JavaScript from that domain (I mean, if you didn't want its JavaScript running on your machine, what are you going there for?). Any other domain's scripts that are present on that page will still not run, and I'm sure that you'll find that 90-95% of the time those extra scripts are ads and tracker scripts.
Doing the whitelist thing (having to manually allow every domain's JavaScript every time you go to a new site) will eventually bite you in the ass -- after about a year of using NoScript, my whitelist had grown so large that every site I visited had a noticable 4-5 second pause, which was literally just NoScript checking through the huge whitelist!
Ah, but you weren't a big MEGA-COM-CONGLOMO-CORP -- I'm convinced they're doing this because it gets their jollies up, nothing more.
Don't worry -- I'm sure the ExtJS boys are working on that one as we speak. They've done just about everything else for my job in web development, as far as I'm concerned.
Oh, they're expandable and upgradeable, all right, if you're willing to spend a fortune. I love having to buy video cards for my Macs featuring years-old technology for four times what the equivalent PC part is (even when all that's different is a different video BIOS).
And admit they can't handle it themselves? Never!
/. does just fine without a CDN -- never experienced much lag here.
Personally, I think
...noticing problems downloading the patches on Comcast?
Just wondering since WoW uses Bittorrent to distribute its patches (one example of a very legitimate use).
And what's to say 10M-10G per image (in 10 years) won't be akin to what 10K is like today?