I don't know what Duron is and everything. I know Athlon (I have one, so I know what it is kind of...looks like a Super Nintendo game).
And now I see people are talking of "Hammer." Well, what the hell is that? Better? Is Duron better? What? And what is K7? Same as Athlon, or Duron? K6? Does that even have a name?
Now on pricewatch.com (http://www.pricewatch.com) I am seeing all of these "variations" like 3DNow, XP, MP, "tbird" (I guess that's "thunderbird", which means...?). Sure, know what MP is, fine. Isn't 3DNow just some fancy registers or instructions or something from the PPro?
What the hell? Why not give them some kind of straightforward numerical name? Look at Intel: 486 > 386 > 286 > 086 and P-IV > P-III > P-II > P. And Motorola: 040 > 030 > 010 > 000, 604 > 603 > 601, G4 > G3. Now those make sense.
Even those of you out there who know nothing about computers are not such complete morons to not understand Intel and Motorola naming schemes! So how much stupider had to the AMD employee have been to come up with this?!?:(
Well, the nature of the fork is that after a short while the two code bases will probably differ by enough that patches to one will not be immediately relevent to the other. By the same token, the developers of the two projects will probably become fairly disjoint. It'll be interesting to see where they both end up going. If Rewind is going to be the path of choice for commercial interests, then we will probably see more of Wine's top goals (running Office and the more popular games) being accomplished in Rewind. Then Wine will likely develop a new focus (Wine CE? Or tighter integration into Gnome? Lots of ways to go...). It'll be fun to see what slashdot story is posted about these project a year from now. (Even more fun than seeing what slashdot story is posted about them next Wednesday.)
This demonstrates perfectly how the job of the police has gone from "protecting the law-abiding" to "hunting down criminals." What is the point of locking up some guy for trying to steal a car that was designed to be stolen?
I do not want my tax dollars paying for a car to be used as bait. I do not want to pay for cops to pretend to be drug dealers to catch would-be customers. I don't want to fund cops' propositioning prostitutes, and I don't want to pay for gigantor magnets that pull the guns out of people's pockets.
Great to see how riled up MS can get the slashdot readership. For those who haven't figured it out, "legal requirement" refers to the OEM Windows license agreement. It's not a law, but it is a legal document.
MS is letting these groups know that, if they are planning to use whatever OS is on the machine when they receive the donation (and they probably are), then they should make sure they are getting the license for that OS. This is the kind of thing that businesses are very aware of, but the same isn't true of non-profits, schools, etc.
Yes, MS is trying to sell more copies of Windows, but it's also trying to keep good people from unknowingly breaking the law because of a sloppy donation.
In our society, it is traditional to use spirits for this purpose. Advil is normally utilized as a pain reliever, though alcohol functions quite well in this role as well.
Why not mineral oil or something that's certain not to conduct electricity?
Distilled water is an insulator. If you drop your toaster into your bath, and you are bathing with distilled water, you will be fine. It is the ions in solution that carry charge.
Amen brother. I mean even KDE.9x kicks the shit out of gnome 1.4 and even the 2.0 betas. Best part about gnome is how whenever you dropped in cosole you saw all the errors it was creating.hehe of course now they hide those errors.
Yes, hide the errors like MacOS and Windows...better users attribute bugs to "voodoo" than be helpful in diagnosing.
But gnome is still a bloated piece of crap which has done nothing but split the community.
Fact is KDE is,was,and always will be better, gnome is an alsoran and no matter how much they copy kde, gnome will always suck.
Like how no matter how much KDE copies Windows, it will always suck.
Ever wonder why all the major distros ship with kde as default? Cuz gnome is a POS and Ximian can suck it for hijacking the project in the first place.
Because it looks more like Windows...if you don't know enough to change your window manager then you're probably a Windows-using newbie.
Go ahead waste you mod points on me you faggots.LOL remember you only have a few.lol.
No mod points, but karma to burn replying to an obvious troll.
Ah, but even if you don't care about wildlife, the whole ecosystem in the park does. Actually, that's not a bad analogy; even if you don't care about the latest Westlife CD, lots of teenage girls do, and the same record companies are producing groups like them as produce some of the more original material that your particular demographic might like. If you harm one thing, you harm the whole system, and that's exactly what Napster and all the current P2P tools are doing.
You wield awesome power over the analogy. To this I counter that I am interested in geology rather than any type of flora or fauna. That is, I do not care about the ecosystem one way or the other. This is in line with the original assumption: that I correspond to someone who uses P2P networks for legal applications. So I do not necessarily care about the wellbeing of squirrel farmers, and thus do not mind the poaching of squirrels in my favorite rock bed in the park.
Even better, perhaps I am interested in certain animal or vegetable species, but these are ones that survive in a seperate niche and are not protected by poaching laws (they can be legally hunted, and are not affected by the populations of other, protected species).
There are ways to make it clear to the record companies that they're overpricing things unreasonably, but this still isn't the right one. If you just broadside them with broadband, you can't be surprised when they fight back, nor can you do much to help the innocent minority using the system who get caught in the crossfire.
When the poacher population explodes and the park authorities suddenly won't let me in anymore (to walk, pick mushrooms, look at rocks, or hunt legally), then I might well be a little piqued at these criminals. But when it comes down to it, the ones depriving me of my park are the park officials. Even if I knew who the poachers were, what chance would I have against them? What is my hobby in terms of importance next to the law? No, the park authorities need to invest greater manpower and effort into finding the poachers and stopping them only, and otherwise resign themselves to the fact that "hides want to be free."
I have sympathy for those people, but their fellow P2Pers have brought it upon them, everyone should have seen it coming years ago, and the selfish majority are to blame far more than the record companies and such now fighting to have the systems closed down.
Okay, I'm going to commit a logical fallacy here, but I can't resist... I have sympathy for those people, but their fellow African-Americans have brought it upon them, everyone should have seen it coming years ago, and the selfish majority are to blame far more than the cops and such now fighting to enact martial law in Harlem.
That is, a legit P2P user is no more to blame for the crimes of Joe Haxor than Colin Powell is responsible for some black lowlife from the hood's crack business. To punish either is to suspend due process, and Constitution trumps DMCA (for the moment...).
Just installed it via the good ol' Software Update utility. So far, everything is normal. I'm so used to the Windows updater which normall breaks something. So, what do I do with all this extra time?
What sad times when "it didn't break anything" is what passes for a good review.
I for one am a big fan of Changelogs. Apple's Software Update descriptions are always a little lacking IMO ("OS X 10.1.4 Update: adds 0.0.1 units of operating system updatedness to your computer").
the program is a remake of a hack that has been around for about a decade (System 7, right?)
the program isn't free (as in anything)
even worse, the demo is timed and lasts half an hour or something.
I do like the program; it implements an obvious and useful GUI feature that is built in to just about everything except Windows (hell, even Blackbox). And at $7 it is a better buy than most shareware. But putting it on slashdot alongside notices of new versions of entire operating systems available for free is a little much, Mac section or no.
Don't know about SO, but AT&T was a government-protected monopoly to begin with. This is also true of all the big railroad companies, I believe. Basically the gov't saw that in open competition no one was going to bother to build phone lines everywhere...they'd just be concentrated in the most lucrative markets. So instead they "blessed" AT&T, got the infrastructure built, and then ruled it a monopoly. Pretty slick move.
If SO was indeed as bad a monopoly as it was purported to be, than I would guess that it was similarly protected by the government for some time.
If you're the only person walking in the park, and the poachers outnumber you by 10000:1, then within a short time, there won't be any wildlife there for you to go and see anyway. While you might not be able to convince the poachers to stop directly, you could support moves to prevent them from poaching, if necessary including forcing them to stop by some means. That would be far more in the long term interests of the park you enjoy than letting the poachers go unchecked, continuing in their arrogant and obviously false belief that they can take for free without harming anyone.
Now I got you! To make the analogy complete, I wouldn't care about the wildlife...maybe I'm a mushroom enthusiast. Though we have a medium in common (the park), there is nothing inherent in either of our activities that decreases the other party's enjoyment or utilization of the resource.
It is probably not even possible for me to try to convince poachers to change their ways, as they are well-camouflaged (sp?)...after all, if they could be easily found and stopped, the government would have probably done that rather than close the park in the first place.
In any case, the governing body is the entity here that has a problem with poaching, so the responsibility of stopping the poaching without trampling on the rights of the innocent lies with them. If doing this accurately is technically impossible or unfeasible, then they are SOL. Otherwise, they are effectively punishing me as if I were a poacher, though I am not. This deprives me of the due process guaranteed me by the Constitution.
I think it's a little too cut and dried in the Mac realm for there to be any debate. Emulation (via Virtual PC, e.g.) is real emulation on the Mac, that is, translating x86 instructions into PPC in software. Something like Wine just isn't possible (note that Wine only runs on Linux i386). My perception is that emulating PCs to play games is hardly widespread, and limited mostly to pirates anyway. Companies that make games for Windows are definitely not counting on emulation to preclude any need to port.
Yes, that does cloud the issue, but I was trying to discuss the actions themselves, not the legality thereof.
Let's see...
Suppose there is a National Park that I enjoy walking in. However, the wildlife there is frequently targetted by poachers (for the sake of analogy, go ahead and assume that there are way more poachers than walkers). To combat them, the park is closed to the public. Then, to be able to walk again in the park without being arrested, I should petition the poachers (who have no interest in my walking) to stop their activities (which are already illegal), so that the Bureau of Parks or whatever will reopen it? Or should I appeal to the Bureau itself, explaining that in closing the park to everyone, innocent citizens are made to pay for the wrongdoings of the poachers?
It's a shame they chose to use the technology for such sleazy purposes. I have known about ActiveBuddy and SmarterChild for awhile, infact Active Buddy's creation aptly named "SmarterChild" is on my AIM buddylist. When I first got it I was so amazed. You can ask it a limited number of questions through a command line-ish thing. Like Movie times, stock quotes, astrology, top stories, web searches, etc. I thought it was a very good use of technology. Go ahead add SmarterChild to your IM to see for yourself.
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I would also like to announce that 56mph is now available in my house.
Also, as a special favor, I am offering 92 degrees Celsius to any interested parties.
And now I see people are talking of "Hammer." Well, what the hell is that? Better? Is Duron better? What? And what is K7? Same as Athlon, or Duron? K6? Does that even have a name?
Now on pricewatch.com (http://www.pricewatch.com) I am seeing all of these "variations" like 3DNow, XP, MP, "tbird" (I guess that's "thunderbird", which means...?). Sure, know what MP is, fine. Isn't 3DNow just some fancy registers or instructions or something from the PPro?
What the hell? Why not give them some kind of straightforward numerical name? Look at Intel: 486 > 386 > 286 > 086 and P-IV > P-III > P-II > P. And Motorola: 040 > 030 > 010 > 000, 604 > 603 > 601, G4 > G3. Now those make sense.
Even those of you out there who know nothing about computers are not such complete morons to not understand Intel and Motorola naming schemes! So how much stupider had to the AMD employee have been to come up with this?!? :(
Well, the nature of the fork is that after a short while the two code bases will probably differ by enough that patches to one will not be immediately relevent to the other. By the same token, the developers of the two projects will probably become fairly disjoint. It'll be interesting to see where they both end up going. If Rewind is going to be the path of choice for commercial interests, then we will probably see more of Wine's top goals (running Office and the more popular games) being accomplished in Rewind. Then Wine will likely develop a new focus (Wine CE? Or tighter integration into Gnome? Lots of ways to go...). It'll be fun to see what slashdot story is posted about these project a year from now. (Even more fun than seeing what slashdot story is posted about them next Wednesday.)
Is that true?
I do not want my tax dollars paying for a car to be used as bait. I do not want to pay for cops to pretend to be drug dealers to catch would-be customers. I don't want to fund cops' propositioning prostitutes, and I don't want to pay for gigantor magnets that pull the guns out of people's pockets.
Someone needs to rein these guys in.
MS is letting these groups know that, if they are planning to use whatever OS is on the machine when they receive the donation (and they probably are), then they should make sure they are getting the license for that OS. This is the kind of thing that businesses are very aware of, but the same isn't true of non-profits, schools, etc.
Yes, MS is trying to sell more copies of Windows, but it's also trying to keep good people from unknowingly breaking the law because of a sloppy donation.
-1 for botching the AYB reference
+1 for the enticing lead-in in the subject line
-1 for the second, different, less-enticing lead-in in the message body
probably -1 for some stupid sig, but I have them turned off so I can't tell
You're just barely scraping by, dude.
In our society, it is traditional to use spirits for this purpose. Advil is normally utilized as a pain reliever, though alcohol functions quite well in this role as well.
Distilled water is an insulator. If you drop your toaster into your bath, and you are bathing with distilled water, you will be fine. It is the ions in solution that carry charge.
Spider-man fans have virtually nothing to say about the SW christmas special.
This is such a troll.
Amen brother. I mean even KDE .9x kicks the shit out of gnome 1.4 and even the 2.0 betas. Best part about gnome is how whenever you dropped in cosole you saw all the errors it was creating.hehe of course now they hide those errors.
Yes, hide the errors like MacOS and Windows...better users attribute bugs to "voodoo" than be helpful in diagnosing.
But gnome is still a bloated piece of crap which has done nothing but split the community. Fact is KDE is,was,and always will be better, gnome is an alsoran and no matter how much they copy kde, gnome will always suck.
Like how no matter how much KDE copies Windows, it will always suck.
Ever wonder why all the major distros ship with kde as default? Cuz gnome is a POS and Ximian can suck it for hijacking the project in the first place.
Because it looks more like Windows...if you don't know enough to change your window manager then you're probably a Windows-using newbie.
Go ahead waste you mod points on me you faggots.LOL remember you only have a few.lol.
No mod points, but karma to burn replying to an obvious troll.
Hey, refreshing attitude. Unusual to see someone who understands basic economics (i.e., common sense) posting on slashdot.
I wouldn't want to download anything related to "release woody".
You wield awesome power over the analogy. To this I counter that I am interested in geology rather than any type of flora or fauna. That is, I do not care about the ecosystem one way or the other. This is in line with the original assumption: that I correspond to someone who uses P2P networks for legal applications. So I do not necessarily care about the wellbeing of squirrel farmers, and thus do not mind the poaching of squirrels in my favorite rock bed in the park.
Even better, perhaps I am interested in certain animal or vegetable species, but these are ones that survive in a seperate niche and are not protected by poaching laws (they can be legally hunted, and are not affected by the populations of other, protected species).
There are ways to make it clear to the record companies that they're overpricing things unreasonably, but this still isn't the right one. If you just broadside them with broadband, you can't be surprised when they fight back, nor can you do much to help the innocent minority using the system who get caught in the crossfire.
When the poacher population explodes and the park authorities suddenly won't let me in anymore (to walk, pick mushrooms, look at rocks, or hunt legally), then I might well be a little piqued at these criminals. But when it comes down to it, the ones depriving me of my park are the park officials. Even if I knew who the poachers were, what chance would I have against them? What is my hobby in terms of importance next to the law? No, the park authorities need to invest greater manpower and effort into finding the poachers and stopping them only, and otherwise resign themselves to the fact that "hides want to be free."
I have sympathy for those people, but their fellow P2Pers have brought it upon them, everyone should have seen it coming years ago, and the selfish majority are to blame far more than the record companies and such now fighting to have the systems closed down.
Okay, I'm going to commit a logical fallacy here, but I can't resist... I have sympathy for those people, but their fellow African-Americans have brought it upon them, everyone should have seen it coming years ago, and the selfish majority are to blame far more than the cops and such now fighting to enact martial law in Harlem.
That is, a legit P2P user is no more to blame for the crimes of Joe Haxor than Colin Powell is responsible for some black lowlife from the hood's crack business. To punish either is to suspend due process, and Constitution trumps DMCA (for the moment...).
What sad times when "it didn't break anything" is what passes for a good review.
I for one am a big fan of Changelogs. Apple's Software Update descriptions are always a little lacking IMO ("OS X 10.1.4 Update: adds 0.0.1 units of operating system updatedness to your computer").
I do like the program; it implements an obvious and useful GUI feature that is built in to just about everything except Windows (hell, even Blackbox). And at $7 it is a better buy than most shareware. But putting it on slashdot alongside notices of new versions of entire operating systems available for free is a little much, Mac section or no.
If SO was indeed as bad a monopoly as it was purported to be, than I would guess that it was similarly protected by the government for some time.
Now I got you! To make the analogy complete, I wouldn't care about the wildlife...maybe I'm a mushroom enthusiast. Though we have a medium in common (the park), there is nothing inherent in either of our activities that decreases the other party's enjoyment or utilization of the resource.
It is probably not even possible for me to try to convince poachers to change their ways, as they are well-camouflaged (sp?)...after all, if they could be easily found and stopped, the government would have probably done that rather than close the park in the first place.
In any case, the governing body is the entity here that has a problem with poaching, so the responsibility of stopping the poaching without trampling on the rights of the innocent lies with them. If doing this accurately is technically impossible or unfeasible, then they are SOL. Otherwise, they are effectively punishing me as if I were a poacher, though I am not. This deprives me of the due process guaranteed me by the Constitution.
Oh, man. Nice try, but "Bdale"? "Hertzog"? No way I'm falling for this.
I think it's a little too cut and dried in the Mac realm for there to be any debate. Emulation (via Virtual PC, e.g.) is real emulation on the Mac, that is, translating x86 instructions into PPC in software. Something like Wine just isn't possible (note that Wine only runs on Linux i386). My perception is that emulating PCs to play games is hardly widespread, and limited mostly to pirates anyway. Companies that make games for Windows are definitely not counting on emulation to preclude any need to port.
I've often wondered what people did before porn was easily and freely available.
Let's see...
Suppose there is a National Park that I enjoy walking in. However, the wildlife there is frequently targetted by poachers (for the sake of analogy, go ahead and assume that there are way more poachers than walkers). To combat them, the park is closed to the public. Then, to be able to walk again in the park without being arrested, I should petition the poachers (who have no interest in my walking) to stop their activities (which are already illegal), so that the Bureau of Parks or whatever will reopen it? Or should I appeal to the Bureau itself, explaining that in closing the park to everyone, innocent citizens are made to pay for the wrongdoings of the poachers?
Think I got it that time.
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This is because red wine, like raisins, jelly, and olives, comes from grapes, not towels.
My son has text based menus. He is a waiter.