The ones who sit down and think out their responses, always wind up with the 500,000th post on an article, and by then the moderators have moved on.
This is an excellent example.
ivern76 is explaining what he believes is DARPA's perspective on the issue... which is... "Why fund a project we can't tightly control?"... and in my book that is spot on. I don't agree with the implications that the DARPA people are implying, but if I were ignorant of the motivations behind it, I would certainly have a better idea of it after reading the above.
I sure hope this results in ivern76 getting a few points for insightfulness.
Then you can expect a HOLY WAR in the offices of those game review companies.
And if TES III: Bloodmoon is as good an add-on as we Morrowind fans hope it is, this year will be even hotter than last year, which brought us blockbusters in triplicate (NOLF 2, GTA 3, AND Tes III: Morrowind / Tribunal).
So what if there are tons of jobs in South Africa? For God's sake, South African men are raping babies out there in hopes that having sex with virgins will cure them of AIDS. (Don't believe me? Read this. http://www.africaonline.com/site/Articles/1,3,4729 6.jsp)
There are most certainly a whole host of other problems with living/working there, starting with the fact that just about any country on earth (except Canada and Australia) has a lot less respect for life and liberty than the US.
That and nowadays they are issuing all kinds of travel advisories to Americans (you can thank the Second Gulf War for that).
I would not trust South Africa (or most other nations, for that matter) to provide stable roads, access to food, adequate and fair law enforcement (which is itself shitty enough in the States), accessible medical care, and so on. And I'm not trolling, nor am I saying everyone else is in the Stone Age... I could envision moving to Britain, France, Australia or Canada.. but not South Africa.
But no matter where you move to, you are going to face a lot of changes in your life, starting with what human rights you have, that even the prospect of going from chronically unemployed to gainfully employed, does not make up for the loss of stability in all these other areas.
This is very seriously true. I'm a clumsy ass, but a month of Beatmania (a DDR knockoff) took ten pounds off of me when I was on a diet, and I doubt it was water weight.
Will kids be forbidden to download it? What ever will happen to our Government's new military recruiting tool? (I suppose they'll go back to talking to real life recruiters and finding out.. oh nevermind!)
You have to stinking register just to get access to their files.
If everyone avoided that server, they'd go away and perhaps everyone else would take the hint and stop this BS... otherwise, very soon, you'll have to register AND pay in order to download these free files.
Try http://www.tonic.to, they do not publish your personal information via WHOIS, and do not give out any personal info without a court order.
w00t.
From
http://www.tonic.to/faq.htm?7B00EBB7;;;#16: Does Tonic offer a whois service ? Tonic does not maintain a whois database that provides registrant information, as many of our customers consider the public display of this information invasive of their privacy. In fact, we will never sell a mailing list of our customers.
Yes, but they have DVD-R, too. You CAN record to DVD, and the whole fuss about Apple's DVD system is you can make DVD movies, which combined with (the illegal) DeCSS.......... well, I'm quite sure you can tell they will impose far stronger copy prevention methods on this new format.
Let's see what happens when you get a format that can't be circumvented, and is coming so soon on the heels of regular DVD....
Every DAY at work, at user groups, and at friends' houses, I hear Windows users whining about not having some app they need in a non share/payware form.
We Linux users take for granted the abundance of free FTP clients, CD burning software, download managers, and graphics programs. And Linux's Evolution email client stomps the crap out of MS Outlook.
Windows users are cowering in fear of the BSA, and probably the ASP, to say nothing of the bloody spyware that 'free' apps provide.
I'll take my free software overload over the Windoze user's life, thank you very much.
You can't carry stored procedures from one species of SQL server to another.
A stable SQL based system never relies upon proprietary functions. Every place I've worked, uses a front end (C++/ASP/PHP) to handle any function that stored procedures would be called upon to handle. And most of these places have decided to move back and forth between PostgreSQL and SQL Server; in all cases, the smooth transition had everything to do with the ANSI compliant nature of our databases.
(Lack of transactions, caching, relational integrity and locking, among other things, are why none of my employers have switched to MySql...)
I propose we give government subsidies to corporations who choose the cheapest labor possible.
We need to do more business with countries where child labor is encouraged, and where prisoners provide more skilled work for free. The United States needs to take the lead in encouraging nations to avoid imposing socialist employee safety laws on employers.
America! Of corporations! By corporations! For corporations!
Sincerely, Fascistus Maximus CEO, Omni Consumer Products
Here, as an owner of an IT company, I can get countless hours of free labor from my employees by requiring 60, 80, 100 or more hours a week, and fire those who don't give it to me! I can even pay them a pittance and get away with it because IT employees are "exempt".
And if the state or federal government actually do take me to task over it legally, then I can outsource to India, or some other country, no doubt where child labor is legal, wages are even lower, and employee safety laws are nonexistent.
So that's why they call it FREE MARKET Capitalism!!
Does anyone know a SAFE way to work Gnome 1.4 back into this (assuming a fresh slack 9.0 install) so as to get legacy GNOME apps like Galeon and Evolution working?
IT NEVER ENDS!!!! Crichton will never ever *EVER* get back home. Oh sure, he'll have all kinds of hallucinations about getting home, but when this series ends, he will never have made it back. There will never be closure in Farscape.
In Babylon 5, there was closure. The Shadow War was put to an end, and the old races left, and then NEW things came up (the Earth civil war, the Drakh annoyance and the fall of Centauri Prime, etc.), and they, too, achieved closure. Babylon 5 evolved from one quest to another.
Crichton, on the other hand, is stuck on one quest that will never be fulfilled.
If Farscape were done by JMS, or even the makers of Starate SG-1, Crichton would have gotten home by about Season 3, and all of Earth would have been dragged into it as Crichton's return would have brought the mess home with him.
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The ones who sit down and think out their responses, always wind up with the 500,000th post on an article, and by then the moderators have moved on.
This is an excellent example.
ivern76 is explaining what he believes is DARPA's perspective on the issue... which is... "Why fund a project we can't tightly control?"... and in my book that is spot on. I don't agree with the implications that the DARPA people are implying, but if I were ignorant of the motivations behind it, I would certainly have a better idea of it after reading the above.
I sure hope this results in ivern76 getting a few points for insightfulness.
Not a chance in hell.
See: the companies that sold China all kinds of sensitive US technology during the Clinton years...
Uh, but don't plants, like, USE CO2?
CO2 in, Oxygen out, and all that?
I am not, like, seeing the danger of CO2 (carbon dioxide) as opposed to, say, Carbon Monoxide...
Then you can expect a HOLY WAR in the offices of those game review companies.
And if TES III: Bloodmoon is as good an add-on as we Morrowind fans hope it is, this year will be even hotter than last year, which brought us blockbusters in triplicate (NOLF 2, GTA 3, AND Tes III: Morrowind / Tribunal).
Then again, sadly, all three could fall short...
He's got a point, and this ain't trolling.
(We can tell some Palm, inc. stockholders have mod points today.)
(despite that, I still ain't posting anon.)
He took stolen credit card numbers, and you are saying he never applied his skills towards hurting anyone?
(this world is FULL of rocket scientists. *sigh*)
Yeah right, and I bet we could also hire Saddam Hussein as a human rights cop because he knows all about mass murdering his own people.
So what if there are tons of jobs in South Africa?9 6.jsp)
For God's sake, South African men are raping babies out there in hopes that having sex with virgins will cure them of AIDS.
(Don't believe me? Read this. http://www.africaonline.com/site/Articles/1,3,472
There are most certainly a whole host of other problems with living/working there, starting with the fact that just about any country on earth (except Canada and Australia) has a lot less respect for life and liberty than the US.
That and nowadays they are issuing all kinds of travel advisories to Americans (you can thank the Second Gulf War for that).
I would not trust South Africa (or most other nations, for that matter) to provide stable roads, access to food, adequate and fair law enforcement (which is itself shitty enough in the States), accessible medical care, and so on. And I'm not trolling, nor am I saying everyone else is in the Stone Age... I could envision moving to Britain, France, Australia or Canada.. but not South Africa.
But no matter where you move to, you are going to face a lot of changes in your life, starting with what human rights you have, that even the prospect of going from chronically unemployed to gainfully employed, does not make up for the loss of stability in all these other areas.
This is very seriously true. I'm a clumsy ass, but a month of Beatmania (a DDR knockoff) took ten pounds off of me when I was on a diet, and I doubt it was water weight.
Since the average gamer, apparently, is 28, whose at fault for that? Themselves, or their parents?
Will kids be forbidden to download it?
What ever will happen to our Government's new military recruiting tool?
(I suppose they'll go back to talking to real life recruiters and finding out.. oh nevermind!)
You have to stinking register just to get access to their files.
If everyone avoided that server, they'd go away and perhaps everyone else would take the hint and stop this BS... otherwise, very soon, you'll have to register AND pay in order to download these free files.
Stay AWAY from Fileplanet!
w00t.
Yes, but they have DVD-R, too. You CAN record to DVD, and the whole fuss about Apple's DVD system is you can make DVD movies, which combined with (the illegal) DeCSS.......... well, I'm quite sure you can tell they will impose far stronger copy prevention methods on this new format.
Let's see what happens when you get a format that can't be circumvented, and is coming so soon on the heels of regular DVD....
All the new media will have hardware copy prevention built in.
Being unable to even record your own media on these formats, will scare people away from accepting it. (Anyone remember the LASERDISC?)
(And no, this ain't intended as a troll.)
They should have waited until they had a monopoly on NZ before pulling this.
Bad, bad, bad strategy.
... redundant software for windows???
Man, check out the TUCOWS archive sometime.
Jeez.
Every DAY at work, at user groups, and at friends' houses, I hear Windows users whining about not having some app they need in a non share/payware form.
We Linux users take for granted the abundance of free FTP clients, CD burning software, download managers, and graphics programs. And Linux's Evolution email client stomps the crap out of MS Outlook.
Windows users are cowering in fear of the BSA, and probably the ASP, to say nothing of the bloody spyware that 'free' apps provide.
I'll take my free software overload over the Windoze user's life, thank you very much.
Agreed.. I neither download RIAA music, nor do I buy them. I haven't done either for 2 straight years.
If everyone who has been threatened, or feels scared of, the RIAA, refuses to buy any music by their artists..................
You can't carry stored procedures from one species of SQL server to another.
A stable SQL based system never relies upon proprietary functions. Every place I've worked, uses a front end (C++/ASP/PHP) to handle any function that stored procedures would be called upon to handle. And most of these places have decided to move back and forth between PostgreSQL and SQL Server; in all cases, the smooth transition had everything to do with the ANSI compliant nature of our databases.
(Lack of transactions, caching, relational integrity and locking, among other things, are why none of my employers have switched to MySql...)
I propose we give government subsidies to corporations who choose the cheapest labor possible.
We need to do more business with countries where child labor is encouraged, and where prisoners provide more skilled work for free. The United States needs to take the lead in encouraging nations to avoid imposing socialist employee safety laws on employers.
America! Of corporations! By corporations! For corporations!
Sincerely,
Fascistus Maximus
CEO, Omni Consumer Products
Here, as an owner of an IT company, I can get countless hours of free labor from my employees by requiring 60, 80, 100 or more hours a week, and fire those who don't give it to me! I can even pay them a pittance and get away with it because IT employees are "exempt".
And if the state or federal government actually do take me to task over it legally, then I can outsource to India, or some other country, no doubt where child labor is legal, wages are even lower, and employee safety laws are nonexistent.
So that's why they call it FREE MARKET Capitalism!!
Yeah, why have a single simple .iso to burn, when you can do it the long, tedious way?
It makes me feel a lot more 31337 if I know I built my bootable ISO by manually reconstructing and downloading the entire directory/file structure.
Simplicity should be listed as one of the seven deadly sins.
Does anyone know a SAFE way to work Gnome 1.4 back into this (assuming a fresh slack 9.0 install) so as to get legacy GNOME apps like Galeon and Evolution working?
They actually would do this in Texas.
IT NEVER ENDS!!!!
Crichton will never
ever
*EVER*
get back home.
Oh sure, he'll have all kinds of hallucinations about getting home, but when this series ends, he will never have made it back.
There will never be closure in Farscape.
In Babylon 5, there was closure. The Shadow War was put to an end, and the old races left, and then NEW things came up (the Earth civil war, the Drakh annoyance and the fall of Centauri Prime, etc.), and they, too, achieved closure. Babylon 5 evolved from one quest to another.
Crichton, on the other hand, is stuck on one quest that will never be fulfilled.
If Farscape were done by JMS, or even the makers of Starate SG-1, Crichton would have gotten home by about Season 3, and all of Earth would have been dragged into it as Crichton's return would have brought the mess home with him.
Now THAT would rock.