There was never any proof that more than one attack was ever planned. In fact, one attack was more than sufficient to do the worse thing possible: the begin of the American public to accept having their entire right structures being ripped from them.
Eh. I could see this for repeat DUI offenders, but not for -everyone-. The best route seems to have the punishment for a second DUI (or maybe even first if they really want to do it) be the purchase or acquirement of this device, and the use thereafter for a probationary period.
With the nVidia drivers allowing you to span, games like EverQuest already support multi-monitor. I play EQ in 2560x1024x32 and it works out pretty well, letting me split the character information across the screens. And, honestly, you never really look directly in front of you that often, heh, so the screen split isn't that bad.
Any good manager will tell you that you do not trust solely the word of just your subordinates. Running the country practically does itself. The processes have been in place for over a hundred years now, and the newer processes are just adaptations of older ones. The president does not run the country, he tries to steer it to his vision. And, I'm sorry, part of his vision should also be knowing what goes on with the American people as a whole. Journalism is not an objective view, but a smart man can read through a few sources and figure out what the hell is going on. And having aides read whatever they choose will colour the data that he has to work with. Any good leader knows his people, and he's outright telling us that he doesn't care. His people have to tell him what he should care about, he doesn't read through a few things and decide himself, and have his aides research different aspects of anything, from what I've heard/read/watched.
The President doesn't run the country, the people under him do. George W Bush doesn't run down to the mail room and tell anyone that they're sorting the mail incorrectly, and it's fallacy to think otherwise. What he does try to do is change the way it does run, and for that he would need to know how it is running now.
When in the hell did Slashdot become Linux only? Holy cow, he did something original, and he did it with technology. And! HOLY COW! LINUX THREW A SHITFIT!.. Yeah, 'cause that's never happened.
Honestly, this elitism about open source is the one thing that will always keep Linux as a server-only, desktop-maybe OS. He did something groovy, and he did it with cheaper parts and in a way that was documented well.
What I think will be even more interesting is if we ever do find out what the code was, then we figure out who did it, and it was never someone who could have ever possibly had a glimpse of SCO code or anything like that, and just happened to come up with the same idea in the same manner they did.
It would be icing on the cake. YOU HAVE OUR CODE! --... well, okay, that guy's just as smart as the other guy we had doing stuff, BUT YOU STILL HAVE IT!;)
It still sort of feeds into the 90% of the openings being for internals. I mean, if you're in, it's easy to move you around, etc. . . if you're out, well, then you're screwed;)
The main problem with ALL government agencies is that almost all of their actually employed work is 90% opened only to internal candidates. And they try to fill it in that way. Why? Because background checks cost a lot of money, and getting clearance for people up into the higher echelons would cost even more. That's the main part of your problem right there, really. If they hired more people externally, and paid them what they're worth, no problem at all.
This is also part of the reason they have such a stringent list of what equipment -can- be issued out. To avoid monopolistic-like problems where people are being issued sub-standard hardware and having to live with it. Make it too broad, and the cable company will strive for its lowest possible way to fit into that, because that will most likely be the cheapest solution
The FCC prohibits a lot of things being shipped outside. Plus, even though a lot of power supplies are auto-sensing, not all of them will switch between some of the incogruous electrical systems out there. Fraud may be part of it, but a lot of it is also just plain Export Compliance with federal regulations, so that electronics don't readily fall into the hands of countries and organizations that they wouldn't normally do business with.
Slashdot is.. actually -not- posting something Anti-Microsoft. I think they sued those spammers just to take a screenshot of this, print it out, and frame it. This is their ultimate achievement.
Heh. I could only hope for a penny of every thousand dollars they spend on just trying to find ways to punish people. I could most easily end up a very well off man. Hell, if every person got an equal share of their money, and there was no inflation because of it, America could become the highest per capita nation in the world...
But, eh, that's almost tantamount to some kind of socialist government. While it would be nice to get that kind of money at a moment's notice, what you would have to do to get it sort of turns the stomach;)
...they're pissed because some people just aren't buying the same things again and again and again. I can only stand so much of the same crap. I've stopped listening to the radio. I haven't searched for an mp3 for my own amusement and delight in at least a year and a half. I download, pretty much, from technomusic.org or just sit with DI open over an mp3 stream. The CDs I make for my car are techno remixes and rips of CDs I own. I have become that anomoly of a person who owns just about every mp3 they have and prefers them for management space over CDs.
I still support the P2P experience.
Peer-to-peer networks are not responsible for their content. The only 'point of contact' is the software provider, but there are many of those, now. gnutella (the original client) is all but gone, replaced by a million clones. There's dc, dc++ and a few hundred clients and p2p networks like it. No one could ever watch them all.
The RIAA can't get a grip on the idea that they're slowly losing album sales to mediocrity. MTV is slowly disintegrating. The economy is in the trash, unemployment is fluctuating, but mostly towards the rising / steady mark, not towards the steady / dwindling one. It couldn't be that a decline in sales came from a decline of readily available money on hand, could it? Heaven forbid.
They're spending an awful lot of money on people who will be able to do one of two thing: make them regredt it, or be able to ignore it entirely.
Really? I have the DVD, haven't gone through the special features yet. I love the movie. Something about a movie that comments on things only happening like that in the movies that makes it somewhat more special.
Especially the grim beginning, where they head up to the front of the church -- the visiting Cardinal goes to stand to denounce them for approaching the statue while the Father is preaching and he's stopped by one of the other Bishops. It's sort of got that 'we're such badasses that even the church won't mess with us' sort of quality to it.
Walkabout (who make a lot of 'hardened' laptops') have a few slower, but very versatile books that have IR ports that can be rigged to be used over packet radio for network connectivity. They have a stylus that you have to use as a pointer device, but they're small, not terribly heavy for a milspec laptop.
Now, Panasonic Toughbooks are NICE. They're completely touchscreen, you can use fingers, pencils, pens, the provided stylus.. just about anything. They have onboard peripherals that are in air-tight / waterproof compartments.. and you can get them with a gigahertz proc, which is nice. They can come with a DVD drive, and the media bays are swappable. They might have a CDRW or something like that. They're -hardy- little machines, too, and fast. You hardly notice that 'slightly slower' processor.
Later on, the Super Special Collector's Edition will morph up to the Super Special Pekoe Orange Collector's Director's Cut Edition level 5, with Dragonfist powers. Just wait. It's in training.
Finally! Now I can waste time on one monitor while coding in another!
That brings up a good point, though. I wonder if they're ever going to really pin down a good multi-monitor setup (albeit Xinerama or Multi-head support in Windows) that doesn't just totally trash everything with weird resolution requirements.
It actually has great use in all media outlets. As we get closer to full integration of the computer into any home environment, who's to say that the PC won't become a headless operator with multiple outputs across the house for access, much like servers are, now? The whole thing to keep is mind is that while hard drives get bigger, the bar for what consumers can have on them will get bigger. As more things move to being 'media center' oriented, you'll find space, speed and clarity improvements across the board. For example, the newest consumer-grade operating system, WindowsXP, is almost 2G on its own, default install. Compare that with W2K, about 1.5G, and Win98, I think a scarce 200M or 500M and you can see that since the default level of hard drive size has risen to about 20G - 40G, so has the general amount of stuff in there.
You may cry bloatware, and a lot of XP is unnecessary UI, but the cry you give is about the people who would buy it. You cannot educate the masses, and you cannot make their choices for them. All we can do is attempt to push for the best possible outcome. The drive for innovation in any and all areas will give better standards for us all to live on. The bigger hard drives are, the faster processors and RAM must be to fill them.
The thing is is that more often, it's someone's secretary or someone who completely doesn't care about it who gets saddled with a responsibility like this because it's cheaper to get 6 people to each do one part of a job than to hire 1 MORE person to those 6 things. I'm not saying either one is -better- or -worse. Personally, I don't give two shits who has more market share. It doesn't effect my position on it, either way. The important thing is to realize the real world problems: that you can't just change and rework the way 15 year old computer networks are setup with a drop of a hat, and you certainly can't change the way funding and budgeting is done. So, people stay with 'what works', even if 'what works' takes 50% more effort for them to do. And this goes both ways, Linux and Windows. For instance, if someone sets up a total Linux network, and no one else knows the particulars of and he leaves no documentation on special rigs he does.. he gets hit by a bus, it'd be hard for someone to sit back in his place. However, same situation (different bus, other one is being cleaned) with a comparable Windows network running something like ActiveDirectory and.. wow, so much easier to sit down and add new users or find the PDC and change elections and span volumes. Without any special help.
Er, yeah, they could. I know a guy who can park in a spot just big enough for his car, with hardly a hand's width between his bumpers on either side.
At any rate, the point is moot. Linux is harder, OUT OF THE BOX, than Windows to set up a total network solution. That's just the way it is. It takes more effort, and the people who do it will be paid more for their knowledge to get it done right, to setup a Linux network.
er, I would want a 500Mhz Alpha over a 1Ghz Celeron any day. The difference is not as large as you think, it's important to keep in mind what it's bought and what for.
Much like the Graphics Cards analogy the guy used in the thread before, it's important to keep in mind what technology is being used. GeForce4s are completely different technology 'base' than the GeForce3. The GeForce3 MX chipset was a lot slower than the GeForce2 GTS and the GeForce3 Ti200 was slower than the GeForce2 Ultra.
And, yes, I am agreeing with you on your point, but I felt that I just didn't want to possibly get flamed by a rabid threader while poking at his analogy.
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There was never any proof that more than one attack was ever planned. In fact, one attack was more than sufficient to do the worse thing possible: the begin of the American public to accept having their entire right structures being ripped from them.
Eh. I could see this for repeat DUI offenders, but not for -everyone-. The best route seems to have the punishment for a second DUI (or maybe even first if they really want to do it) be the purchase or acquirement of this device, and the use thereafter for a probationary period.
With the nVidia drivers allowing you to span, games like EverQuest already support multi-monitor. I play EQ in 2560x1024x32 and it works out pretty well, letting me split the character information across the screens. And, honestly, you never really look directly in front of you that often, heh, so the screen split isn't that bad.
Any good manager will tell you that you do not trust solely the word of just your subordinates. Running the country practically does itself. The processes have been in place for over a hundred years now, and the newer processes are just adaptations of older ones. The president does not run the country, he tries to steer it to his vision. And, I'm sorry, part of his vision should also be knowing what goes on with the American people as a whole. Journalism is not an objective view, but a smart man can read through a few sources and figure out what the hell is going on. And having aides read whatever they choose will colour the data that he has to work with. Any good leader knows his people, and he's outright telling us that he doesn't care. His people have to tell him what he should care about, he doesn't read through a few things and decide himself, and have his aides research different aspects of anything, from what I've heard/read/watched.
The President doesn't run the country, the people under him do. George W Bush doesn't run down to the mail room and tell anyone that they're sorting the mail incorrectly, and it's fallacy to think otherwise. What he does try to do is change the way it does run, and for that he would need to know how it is running now.
When in the hell did Slashdot become Linux only? Holy cow, he did something original, and he did it with technology. And! HOLY COW! LINUX THREW A SHITFIT! .. Yeah, 'cause that's never happened.
Honestly, this elitism about open source is the one thing that will always keep Linux as a server-only, desktop-maybe OS. He did something groovy, and he did it with cheaper parts and in a way that was documented well.
What I think will be even more interesting is if we ever do find out what the code was, then we figure out who did it, and it was never someone who could have ever possibly had a glimpse of SCO code or anything like that, and just happened to come up with the same idea in the same manner they did.
... well, okay, that guy's just as smart as the other guy we had doing stuff, BUT YOU STILL HAVE IT! ;)
It would be icing on the cake. YOU HAVE OUR CODE! --
It still sort of feeds into the 90% of the openings being for internals. I mean, if you're in, it's easy to move you around, etc. . . if you're out, well, then you're screwed ;)
The main problem with ALL government agencies is that almost all of their actually employed work is 90% opened only to internal candidates. And they try to fill it in that way. Why? Because background checks cost a lot of money, and getting clearance for people up into the higher echelons would cost even more. That's the main part of your problem right there, really. If they hired more people externally, and paid them what they're worth, no problem at all.
This is also part of the reason they have such a stringent list of what equipment -can- be issued out. To avoid monopolistic-like problems where people are being issued sub-standard hardware and having to live with it. Make it too broad, and the cable company will strive for its lowest possible way to fit into that, because that will most likely be the cheapest solution
The FCC prohibits a lot of things being shipped outside. Plus, even though a lot of power supplies are auto-sensing, not all of them will switch between some of the incogruous electrical systems out there. Fraud may be part of it, but a lot of it is also just plain Export Compliance with federal regulations, so that electronics don't readily fall into the hands of countries and organizations that they wouldn't normally do business with.
Slashdot is .. actually -not- posting something Anti-Microsoft. I think they sued those spammers just to take a screenshot of this, print it out, and frame it. This is their ultimate achievement.
Heh. I could only hope for a penny of every thousand dollars they spend on just trying to find ways to punish people. I could most easily end up a very well off man. Hell, if every person got an equal share of their money, and there was no inflation because of it, America could become the highest per capita nation in the world ...
;)
But, eh, that's almost tantamount to some kind of socialist government. While it would be nice to get that kind of money at a moment's notice, what you would have to do to get it sort of turns the stomach
...they're pissed because some people just aren't buying the same things again and again and again. I can only stand so much of the same crap. I've stopped listening to the radio. I haven't searched for an mp3 for my own amusement and delight in at least a year and a half. I download, pretty much, from technomusic.org or just sit with DI open over an mp3 stream. The CDs I make for my car are techno remixes and rips of CDs I own. I have become that anomoly of a person who owns just about every mp3 they have and prefers them for management space over CDs.
I still support the P2P experience.
Peer-to-peer networks are not responsible for their content. The only 'point of contact' is the software provider, but there are many of those, now. gnutella (the original client) is all but gone, replaced by a million clones. There's dc, dc++ and a few hundred clients and p2p networks like it. No one could ever watch them all.
The RIAA can't get a grip on the idea that they're slowly losing album sales to mediocrity. MTV is slowly disintegrating. The economy is in the trash, unemployment is fluctuating, but mostly towards the rising / steady mark, not towards the steady / dwindling one. It couldn't be that a decline in sales came from a decline of readily available money on hand, could it? Heaven forbid.
They're spending an awful lot of money on people who will be able to do one of two thing: make them regredt it, or be able to ignore it entirely.
My eyes! The goggles, they do nothing!
;)
I've been trying to remember all day where that phrase came from.
Kinda gives the slashdot forum a 3Dish texture, though
I only eat one box at a time!
Really? I have the DVD, haven't gone through the special features yet. I love the movie. Something about a movie that comments on things only happening like that in the movies that makes it somewhat more special.
Especially the grim beginning, where they head up to the front of the church -- the visiting Cardinal goes to stand to denounce them for approaching the statue while the Father is preaching and he's stopped by one of the other Bishops. It's sort of got that 'we're such badasses that even the church won't mess with us' sort of quality to it.
rdesktop to a Windows boxen from the Linux one. Surprisingly speedier ;)
Walkabout (who make a lot of 'hardened' laptops') have a few slower, but very versatile books that have IR ports that can be rigged to be used over packet radio for network connectivity. They have a stylus that you have to use as a pointer device, but they're small, not terribly heavy for a milspec laptop.
.. and you can get them with a gigahertz proc, which is nice. They can come with a DVD drive, and the media bays are swappable. They might have a CDRW or something like that. They're -hardy- little machines, too, and fast. You hardly notice that 'slightly slower' processor.
Now, Panasonic Toughbooks are NICE. They're completely touchscreen, you can use fingers, pencils, pens, the provided stylus.. just about anything. They have onboard peripherals that are in air-tight / waterproof compartments
Later on, the Super Special Collector's Edition will morph up to the Super Special Pekoe Orange Collector's Director's Cut Edition level 5, with Dragonfist powers. Just wait. It's in training.
Finally! Now I can waste time on one monitor while coding in another!
That brings up a good point, though. I wonder if they're ever going to really pin down a good multi-monitor setup (albeit Xinerama or Multi-head support in Windows) that doesn't just totally trash everything with weird resolution requirements.
But, then, that's offtopic.
It actually has great use in all media outlets. As we get closer to full integration of the computer into any home environment, who's to say that the PC won't become a headless operator with multiple outputs across the house for access, much like servers are, now? The whole thing to keep is mind is that while hard drives get bigger, the bar for what consumers can have on them will get bigger. As more things move to being 'media center' oriented, you'll find space, speed and clarity improvements across the board. For example, the newest consumer-grade operating system, WindowsXP, is almost 2G on its own, default install. Compare that with W2K, about 1.5G, and Win98, I think a scarce 200M or 500M and you can see that since the default level of hard drive size has risen to about 20G - 40G, so has the general amount of stuff in there.
You may cry bloatware, and a lot of XP is unnecessary UI, but the cry you give is about the people who would buy it. You cannot educate the masses, and you cannot make their choices for them. All we can do is attempt to push for the best possible outcome. The drive for innovation in any and all areas will give better standards for us all to live on. The bigger hard drives are, the faster processors and RAM must be to fill them.
Thought provoking. Lichen thinks the sun is thought provoking, too.
The thing is is that more often, it's someone's secretary or someone who completely doesn't care about it who gets saddled with a responsibility like this because it's cheaper to get 6 people to each do one part of a job than to hire 1 MORE person to those 6 things. I'm not saying either one is -better- or -worse. Personally, I don't give two shits who has more market share. It doesn't effect my position on it, either way. The important thing is to realize the real world problems: that you can't just change and rework the way 15 year old computer networks are setup with a drop of a hat, and you certainly can't change the way funding and budgeting is done. So, people stay with 'what works', even if 'what works' takes 50% more effort for them to do. And this goes both ways, Linux and Windows. For instance, if someone sets up a total Linux network, and no one else knows the particulars of and he leaves no documentation on special rigs he does.. he gets hit by a bus, it'd be hard for someone to sit back in his place. However, same situation (different bus, other one is being cleaned) with a comparable Windows network running something like ActiveDirectory and .. wow, so much easier to sit down and add new users or find the PDC and change elections and span volumes. Without any special help.
Er, yeah, they could. I know a guy who can park in a spot just big enough for his car, with hardly a hand's width between his bumpers on either side.
At any rate, the point is moot. Linux is harder, OUT OF THE BOX, than Windows to set up a total network solution. That's just the way it is. It takes more effort, and the people who do it will be paid more for their knowledge to get it done right, to setup a Linux network.
er, I would want a 500Mhz Alpha over a 1Ghz Celeron any day. The difference is not as large as you think, it's important to keep in mind what it's bought and what for.
Much like the Graphics Cards analogy the guy used in the thread before, it's important to keep in mind what technology is being used. GeForce4s are completely different technology 'base' than the GeForce3. The GeForce3 MX chipset was a lot slower than the GeForce2 GTS and the GeForce3 Ti200 was slower than the GeForce2 Ultra.
And, yes, I am agreeing with you on your point, but I felt that I just didn't want to possibly get flamed by a rabid threader while poking at his analogy.