I don't really see how a 'weapon' designed to eliminate the threat of ICBMs and other missles is 'disconcerting'.
I find it more disturbing that such a 'weapon' is actually considered a bad thing by some politicians...
The computer part of it isn't anything surprising. When your dealing with aiming a weapon fired from a platform traveling ~400mph at something hundreds of miles away traveling even faster the average quake players aim isn't gonna cut it.
My favorite site for mp3 player reviews is dmusic.com
Reviews of just about every hardware mp3 player out there and more.
check it out. (BTW, no I'm not affiliated)
If your looking at price than according to my calculations tape is nowhere near as cheap as many other backup storage.
Take CDR's. I get my CDR's (high quality compusa brand, WOOHOO!) for $0.20 a disk. That means that for a dollar you can get 3,250 megs of storage and for ten dollars you can buy 50 disks equaling 32,500 of storage!
The definate downside of this option is having to burn 50 disks of data, but it is cheap.
The average election has a 6% margin of votes thrown out. Why? Because people don't vote right. What are the election officials supposed to do if you vote twice? Count both?
PBC threw out 19,000 ballots which isn't that bad. Another county threw out 26,000 votes, but it's much more republican so you don't hear much about it from the team that is behind.
>I know what party I will never vote for again...
Republicans sued against a manual recount.
I think we can understand considering the handrecount would put the future of our country in the hands of people who make RMS look like a successful well adjusted business owner.
From what I hear vote fraud is somewhat big in FL.
I have personal testimonies from senior citizens who were given absentees and told they had to vote democrat or no food.
Democrat vote fraud is also much more likely because they were down big + they have history. Remmember JFK. He most likely didn't win fair. Dead people voted.
He was catholic though, maybe they voted from purgatory.
... They're concentrating all of their legal into suing the real menace here: the hospitals! With a crime as horrible as music piracy it is obvious that no normal person could perpatrate it. It must be some kind of genetic mutation. (probably caused by some of the 70's rock our parents were listening to when we were convieved) Hospitals should have spotted this way back and disposed of such enemies of the people...
This is the *NEW* windows? I haven't yet installed me, but this looks like it should be called winTOY. Oh man. I hope that they put out some other options for us people who know how to tie our shoelaces.
BTW, Before you flame, I do know about linux, but until they can get Logic Audio, Cubase, + my fav games and audio programs running on it I'm suck w/ the blue sceen of death.
I could really care less about the companies having to much power.
The truth is that, without an heavily overpowered government, their power is extremely limited. I've never heard of any company forcing you to buy their products at gunpoint, but look in your paycheck. You'll see you're paying government a service for something that you probably don't want. But try to opt out of buying off government and you'll end up with some severe legal action at best, or sitting in your house as Janet Reno burns it to the ground at the worst.
The truth is that right now most of you are probably paying close to 50% of your money straight to the government. If microsoft took 5% of your money you'd be outraged and it could never happen, but in reality they still do a better job at what they're doing than any government ever will. I would much rather sit in front of a slow windows screen then go to the DMV or any other government office for that matter.
And in america we see almost half of the people looking to vote for a man who will raise the amount the government steals from your paycheck at gunpoint by an unprecedented amount. If he is for the people and not the powerful than why is he proposing to take this money from the people?
People in america need backbones! They say that government has to much power but than continue voting in politicians who look like santa clause but end up taking most of their money and leaving them lumps of coal in services under the tree! 95% of you are probably recieving paychecks from these all to powerful companies and own stock in other ones.
So when you go to the polls this year realize that if you vote for any candidate wanting to increase power of government (which enables powerful corperations) you are one A++ hypocrit.
Washington DC - The house held hearings monday on the contraversial technology of conversation. Leading companies have objected to so called "bad publicity" which has been costing them millions of dollars a year. "My company went bankrupt after people started spreading rumors that my product was unsafe" said Mike Lorig, former owner of the now defunct Child Bags Inc. which manufactured plastic bag helmets in many different styles for children. Other key speakers included Bill Gates who demanded "an end to public opinion". Gates testified, "Microsoft lost millions when people heard what kinda crap MS Bob was. People shouldn't be able to give opinions on products without the producer's opinion! It violates everything this country was founded on!"
Los Angeles, CA -- Today the New Kids On the Block (NKOB) continued the the record industry's war against Napster. The New Kids management gave a copy of 5 Napster users who had illeagally put NKOB songs on their virtual servers. "This probably doesn't even begin to touch the number of napster users pirating our art!" said former NKOB member Jordan Knight Thursday. "We have evidence that their may be as many as 9 people on napster with our songs!" New Kids on the Block joins Dr. Dre and Metallica in the ongoing war against music piracy. "I think we're the ones hit hardest" said Knight, "Metallica and Dr. Dre have sold millions of albums in the last few years; We've only sold 7 since napsters introduction and I think it's quite apparent piracy is to blame."
The TB is nothing like the MC. The TB was a mono bass synth The MC is a all in one rompler for DJ people who go: "hey it says 303". Cowboy Neil should get some real synths. No more Groove approved geeks in space.
Umm, there's no way the french government to block people from using US and other countries free servers. In other words, this is just another great law that will be a huge pain in the butt and do nothing positive for the French.
It's nice to no that we in the USA are not the only ones being governed by idiots.
BUT, the moral of the story is: Don't use linux. It's far to powerfull! Really, microsoft must be very scared of linux if they're trying to make it look like it's bad because you can do more with it...
Remmember that money is NOT the only thing. There are lots of people running around with billions of dollars they made on their computer companies. But few of them have a lot of respect from their peers (us). Example: Bill Gates. He's the richest man in the world and almost everybody hates him. Linus: Not even close to as rich as Bill, but he makes a good income I'm sure and I dare you to find any anti-Linus group somewhere in the world.
Bottom line: In the end you rather be rich or well liked? If you're rich and disliked by the industry, your market could drop out from under you as soon as a competitor comes along. (intel) If you're well respected many customers will stay with you and make you rich (in more than money) in the end.
Man just when you thought the Melissa virus was a problem. (well, I didn't but...) Just think, that next quake plug in you install could randomly send you straight into a wall then pull you up a hundred feet, and drop you down a flight of stairs. And you'd be feeling the actual movement. Ouch. I deem this virus Puke 1.0
Holiday shopping cyberboom proves: Politicians shouldn't tax the Internet
WASHINGTON, DC -- Americans placed 36 million gift orders at online shopping sites this holiday season, which is a compelling argument why the Internet should remain tax-free -- not just this Christmas but forever, the Libertarian Party said today.
"Politicians shouldn't tax the goose that is laying the golden egg for the American economy," said Steve Dasbach, the party's national director. "E-commerce is creating jobs, growing the next generation of American business success stories, and generating profits for millions of American shareholders.
"To keep this boom going, politicians should keep their greedy hands -- and their destructive taxes -- off the Internet."
According to BizRate.com, e-commerce generated $3.35 billion in revenue this holiday season, a four-fold increase over last year. And experts say online sales could reach $100 billion by 2003.
In response, politicians -- including the National Governors' Association -- have demanded that e-commerce be taxed, arguing that state governments are "losing" sales tax money when people shop online.
A federal Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce is now studying the issue, and will present a recommendation to Congress by April 21, 2000. Options include extending the current three-year moratorium on Internet taxes; creating a new national sales tax; or forcing cyberbusinesses to collect local and state sales taxes from every online shopper.
For Libertarians, the answer is obvious, said Dasbach: Give the Internet a permanent tax exemption.
"The Internet's current tax-free status makes it a nationwide Enterprise Zone that benefits everyone -- as demonstrated by the skyrocketing sales figures this Christmas season," he said. "Instead of figuring out how to exploit the Internet for the benefit of politicians, we should consider how to protect it for the benefit of all Americans."
And even if you're not an online shopper, said Dasbach, there are many good reasons to oppose an Internet tax:
* State governments don't need the money. The 50 states ended 1998 with $11 billion in surpluses. And state revenues as a percentage of GDP have soared from just 6% in 1960 to 12.8% in 1998 -- and are still growing at a rate twice as fast as the rate of inflation.
* It could harm the growth of e-commerce. In an online poll of shoppers, 60% said they would buy less if forced to pay taxes. And a study by Austan Goolsbee of the University of Chicago Business School found that the e-commerce market could shrink by 24% if businesses were forced to collect online taxes.
* Americans don't want it. As of November, 21,000 Americans had written to the Commission opposing online taxes -- while only 1,300 supported the idea. That's a ratio of 17-1 against Internet taxation.
* It would be a logistical nightmare. There are between 6,000 and 7,500 unique sales taxes levied by different cities, states, and counties nationwide. To force every e-businesse to track and collect such a bewildering array of taxes would be unfair.
* It's unconstitutional. The U.S. Constitution gives Congress the sole power to regulate interstate commerce -- which means that state governments have no authority to collect taxes beyond their borders. The U.S. Supreme Court has affirmed this principle at least twice, when it struck down laws forcing out-of-state businesses to collect sales taxes.
For all those reasons, the Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce should reject any proposal to tax the Internet, said Dasbach.
"The only good Net tax is no Net tax," he said. "As an investment in America's prosperity, the Internet should be protected as a tax-free zone forever."
# # #
Want to sign an online petition opposing any taxation of the Internet?
Apparently everybody seems to be focusing on only the TPM not on DVD issue and ignoring other new lucasfilm announcements of the day: 1) Soundtracks now only offered on Reel to Reel. 2) Other films will be re-released in beta for "prime home viewing" 3) Action figures will now be made exclusively of led. 4) SW:TPM RPG for the Atari 2600!!! 5) SW: The Desktop office for OS/2 and WinCE.
And finally, the most disturbing announcement: 6) All Special Effects for the Episodes 2 & 3 will be done on enhanced windows 2000 workstations.
Ok. Since nobody else has asked I will. Will we ever see a slashdot TV show. Or even, dare I dream, a Slashdot channel? We've all heard Geex in space and know that with appropriate censorship and a trained team of makeup artists you guys could make some really interesting viewing. (Plus, I've always wanted to hear a TV personality say: "Are top story today is that the RIAA sucks!!":)
And also to Rob: Has your minor celebrity status in anyway helped Hope college's computer program? Re: Increasing applications, etc. I know that I actually thought heavily of applying their when I heard that you went there.
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I find it more disturbing that such a 'weapon' is actually considered a bad thing by some politicians...
The computer part of it isn't anything surprising. When your dealing with aiming a weapon fired from a platform traveling ~400mph at something hundreds of miles away traveling even faster the average quake players aim isn't gonna cut it.
Ask a subnormal, middle aged, AOL user...
My favorite site for mp3 player reviews is dmusic.com
Reviews of just about every hardware mp3 player out there and more.
check it out. (BTW, no I'm not affiliated)
If your looking at price than according to my calculations tape is nowhere near as cheap as many other backup storage.
Take CDR's. I get my CDR's (high quality compusa brand, WOOHOO!) for $0.20 a disk. That means that for a dollar you can get 3,250 megs of storage and for ten dollars you can buy 50 disks equaling 32,500 of storage!
The definate downside of this option is having to burn 50 disks of data, but it is cheap.
The average election has a 6% margin of votes thrown out. Why? Because people don't vote right. What are the election officials supposed to do if you vote twice? Count both?
PBC threw out 19,000 ballots which isn't that bad. Another county threw out 26,000 votes, but it's much more republican so you don't hear much about it from the team that is behind.
>I know what party I will never vote for again...
Republicans sued against a manual recount.
I think we can understand considering the handrecount would put the future of our country in the hands of people who make RMS look like a successful well adjusted business owner.
From what I hear vote fraud is somewhat big in FL.
I have personal testimonies from senior citizens who were given absentees and told they had to vote democrat or no food.
Democrat vote fraud is also much more likely because they were down big + they have history. Remmember JFK. He most likely didn't win fair. Dead people voted.
He was catholic though, maybe they voted from purgatory.
... They're concentrating all of their legal into suing the real menace here: the hospitals! With a crime as horrible as music piracy it is obvious that no normal person could perpatrate it. It must be some kind of genetic mutation. (probably caused by some of the 70's rock our parents were listening to when we were convieved) Hospitals should have spotted this way back and disposed of such enemies of the people...
This is the *NEW* windows? I haven't yet installed me, but this looks like it should be called winTOY. Oh man. I hope that they put out some other options for us people who know how to tie our shoelaces.
BTW, Before you flame, I do know about linux, but until they can get Logic Audio, Cubase, + my fav games and audio programs running on it I'm suck w/ the blue sceen of death.
I could really care less about the companies having to much power. The truth is that, without an heavily overpowered government, their power is extremely limited. I've never heard of any company forcing you to buy their products at gunpoint, but look in your paycheck. You'll see you're paying government a service for something that you probably don't want. But try to opt out of buying off government and you'll end up with some severe legal action at best, or sitting in your house as Janet Reno burns it to the ground at the worst. The truth is that right now most of you are probably paying close to 50% of your money straight to the government. If microsoft took 5% of your money you'd be outraged and it could never happen, but in reality they still do a better job at what they're doing than any government ever will. I would much rather sit in front of a slow windows screen then go to the DMV or any other government office for that matter.
And in america we see almost half of the people looking to vote for a man who will raise the amount the government steals from your paycheck at gunpoint by an unprecedented amount. If he is for the people and not the powerful than why is he proposing to take this money from the people?
People in america need backbones! They say that government has to much power but than continue voting in politicians who look like santa clause but end up taking most of their money and leaving them lumps of coal in services under the tree! 95% of you are probably recieving paychecks from these all to powerful companies and own stock in other ones. So when you go to the polls this year realize that if you vote for any candidate wanting to increase power of government (which enables powerful corperations) you are one A++ hypocrit.
Washington DC - The house held hearings monday on the contraversial technology of conversation. Leading companies have objected to so called "bad publicity" which has been costing them millions of dollars a year. "My company went bankrupt after people started spreading rumors that my product was unsafe" said Mike Lorig, former owner of the now defunct Child Bags Inc. which manufactured plastic bag helmets in many different styles for children. Other key speakers included Bill Gates who demanded "an end to public opinion". Gates testified, "Microsoft lost millions when people heard what kinda crap MS Bob was. People shouldn't be able to give opinions on products without the producer's opinion! It violates everything this country was founded on!"
Los Angeles, CA -- Today the New Kids On the Block (NKOB)
continued the the record industry's war against Napster. The New Kids
management gave a copy of 5 Napster users who had illeagally put
NKOB songs on their virtual servers. "This probably doesn't even begin
to touch the number of napster users pirating our art!" said former
NKOB member Jordan Knight Thursday. "We have evidence that
their may be as many as 9 people on napster with our songs!" New Kids on the Block
joins Dr. Dre and Metallica in the ongoing war against music piracy.
"I think we're the ones hit hardest" said Knight, "Metallica and
Dr. Dre have sold millions of albums in the last few years; We've
only sold 7 since napsters introduction and I think it's quite
apparent piracy is to blame."
The TB is nothing like the MC. The TB was a mono bass synth The MC is a all in one rompler for DJ people who go: "hey it says 303". Cowboy Neil should get some real synths. No more Groove approved geeks in space.
Umm, there's no way the french government to block people from using US and other countries free servers. In other words, this is just another great law that will be a huge pain in the butt and do nothing positive for the French.
It's nice to no that we in the USA are not the only ones being governed by idiots.
Alright!
I hope that somebody will port linux to it!
Oh, wait....
Well maybe beowulf then....
As a great man once said:
"HOOK IT TO MY VEINS!"
I was just wondering where if the LKML is public
and if so where do you go to subscribe?
I know squat about the kernal, but I've always found
observing mailing lists to be one of the best ways to learn.
Well, the articles been pulled, so that's cool.
BUT, the moral of the story is:
Don't use linux. It's far to powerfull!
Really, microsoft must be very scared of linux if they're trying to make it look like it's bad because you can do more with it...
Excellent advice!
Remmember that money is NOT the only thing.
There are lots of people running around with billions of dollars they made on their computer companies. But few of them have a lot of respect from their peers (us).
Example: Bill Gates. He's the richest man in the world and almost everybody hates him.
Linus: Not even close to as rich as Bill, but he makes a good income I'm sure and I dare you to find any anti-Linus group somewhere in the world.
Bottom line: In the end you rather be rich or well liked? If you're rich and disliked by the industry, your market could drop out from under you as soon as a competitor comes along. (intel) If you're well respected many customers will stay with you and make you rich (in more than money) in the end.
Man just when you thought the Melissa virus was a problem. (well, I didn't but...)
Just think, that next quake plug in you install could randomly send you straight into a wall then pull you up a hundred feet, and drop you down a flight of stairs. And you'd be feeling the actual movement.
Ouch.
I deem this virus Puke 1.0
Holiday shopping cyberboom proves:
Politicians shouldn't tax the Internet
WASHINGTON, DC -- Americans placed 36 million gift orders at
online shopping sites this holiday season, which is a compelling
argument why the Internet should remain tax-free -- not just this
Christmas but forever, the Libertarian Party said today.
"Politicians shouldn't tax the goose that is laying the golden
egg for the American economy," said Steve Dasbach, the party's national
director. "E-commerce is creating jobs, growing the next generation of
American business success stories, and generating profits for millions
of American shareholders.
"To keep this boom going, politicians should keep their greedy
hands -- and their destructive taxes -- off the Internet."
According to BizRate.com, e-commerce generated $3.35 billion in
revenue this holiday season, a four-fold increase over last year. And
experts say online sales could reach $100 billion by 2003.
In response, politicians -- including the National Governors'
Association -- have demanded that e-commerce be taxed, arguing that
state governments are "losing" sales tax money when people shop online.
A federal Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce is now
studying the issue, and will present a recommendation to Congress by
April 21, 2000. Options include extending the current three-year
moratorium on Internet taxes; creating a new national sales tax; or
forcing cyberbusinesses to collect local and state sales taxes from
every online shopper.
For Libertarians, the answer is obvious, said Dasbach: Give the
Internet a permanent tax exemption.
"The Internet's current tax-free status makes it a nationwide
Enterprise Zone that benefits everyone -- as demonstrated by the
skyrocketing sales figures this Christmas season," he said. "Instead of
figuring out how to exploit the Internet for the benefit of
politicians, we should consider how to protect it for the benefit of
all Americans."
And even if you're not an online shopper, said Dasbach, there
are many good reasons to oppose an Internet tax:
* State governments don't need the money. The 50 states ended
1998 with $11 billion in surpluses. And state revenues as a percentage
of GDP have soared from just 6% in 1960 to 12.8% in 1998 -- and are
still growing at a rate twice as fast as the rate of inflation.
* It could harm the growth of e-commerce. In an online poll of
shoppers, 60% said they would buy less if forced to pay taxes. And a
study by Austan Goolsbee of the University of Chicago Business School
found that the e-commerce market could shrink by 24% if businesses were
forced to collect online taxes.
* Americans don't want it. As of November, 21,000 Americans had
written to the Commission opposing online taxes -- while only 1,300
supported the idea. That's a ratio of 17-1 against Internet taxation.
* It would be a logistical nightmare. There are between 6,000
and 7,500 unique sales taxes levied by different cities, states, and
counties nationwide. To force every e-businesse to track and collect
such a bewildering array of taxes would be unfair.
* It's unconstitutional. The U.S. Constitution gives Congress
the sole power to regulate interstate commerce -- which means that
state governments have no authority to collect taxes beyond their
borders. The U.S. Supreme Court has affirmed this principle at least
twice, when it struck down laws forcing out-of-state businesses to
collect sales taxes.
For all those reasons, the Advisory Commission on Electronic
Commerce should reject any proposal to tax the Internet, said Dasbach.
"The only good Net tax is no Net tax," he said. "As an
investment in America's prosperity, the Internet should be protected as
a tax-free zone forever."
# # #
Want to sign an online petition opposing any taxation of the
Internet?
Visit http://www.WorldNetDaily.com.
Apparently everybody seems to be focusing on only the TPM not on DVD issue and ignoring other new lucasfilm announcements of the day:
1) Soundtracks now only offered on Reel to Reel.
2) Other films will be re-released in beta for "prime home viewing"
3) Action figures will now be made exclusively of led.
4) SW:TPM RPG for the Atari 2600!!!
5) SW: The Desktop office for OS/2 and WinCE.
And finally, the most disturbing announcement:
6) All Special Effects for the Episodes 2 & 3 will be done on enhanced windows 2000 workstations.
Be afraid, be very affraid....
Alright, I'm still wondering what you guys think about a Slashdot TV show.
We could even get Linus to do an editorial every once and a while.
Ok. Since nobody else has asked I will. :)
Will we ever see a slashdot TV show. Or even, dare I dream, a Slashdot channel?
We've all heard Geex in space and know that with appropriate censorship and a trained team of makeup artists you guys could make some really interesting viewing. (Plus, I've always wanted to hear a TV personality say: "Are top story today is that the RIAA sucks!!"
And also to Rob: Has your minor celebrity status in anyway helped Hope college's computer program? Re: Increasing applications, etc. I know that I actually thought heavily of applying their when I heard that you went there.
They should beowulf these things!
:~-(
Moderators: Please mark this as low as possible even though it's Christmas and only thing I want want is some + karma.
It's ok. I'm used to +1 and 0's even though I think my ccomments are usually good. I'm mean, c'mon, it's your job afterall. Just cause my self worth is at stake doesn't mean you shouldn't mark this message down... . . . . . . . . . . . .