Actually, Be supports N proccesors but has only been tested up to eight. I also hope you meant "nearly halves..." rather than "nearly doubles...", since it does.
What, a Hyundai can't go that fast!?!? You mean the cops were lying!?!? Whoda thunk it. For chrisake, you admit excessive force was used. And when the hell is excessive force neccesary?
And if you think the same rules of justice apply to cops as regular people you are an idiot. What a drone.
While I am no fan of the iMac (although the convection cooling in the DVs is cool... heh), I consider the G3/G4 translucent cases to be one of the finest designed cases of all time. Yank the power cord out, lift the handle, and every thing is right there. No unscrewing, no sliding panels, and best of all no cutting your hands to ribbons on sharp metal edges. Kicks my Enlite case all to hell and back... and I like my enlite.
Didn't some IBM aptivas have the seperate drives? If I remember correctly the CD performance took a huge hit, but Firewire (Doesn't Sony call it iLink?) ought to fix that.
Been there. I lobbied hard for an OpenBSD box for our firewall, but the PHB decided on a SonicWall. It was easy to setup and it seems to be working - Turned back a sub-seven the day after installation - , but I've sectioned off the accounting dept (Which unlike the rest of the network runs NT instead of MacOS and would have been vulnerable to the sub7) with an old Quadra running an OpenBSD firewall. So when and if we do get cracked I can point to the BSD box and say "They didn't get to accounting and if you dumbasses had listened to me they wouldn't have gotten in at all!". But in a little nicer way of course.
"The main point of concern was and is that one of the parties in the new coalition government has a rather poor track record with respect to political correctness. "
You really must be naive if you think the States, western europe, and Russia feel the way they do due to political correctness. The main point of concern is that sixty years ago nearly 100 million people died when a freely elected government in Germany, with Austria as an at least semi-willing accomplace, went insane.
That said, it was sixty years ago, and denying freedom to support freedom is moronic. I disagree with our (the US) actions regarding your elections just as I disagree with Germany's banning of Nazi lterature. As for Americans not acting out against a broken justice system, you are mostly correct. The problem is, we've got bigger worries than a web site getting shutdown. You do see action in cases like the Rodney King trial where it was made evident that the police can do what they will with little fear of reprimands; so they burned down south central LA. Needles to say, I believe we need more of such protests (heh, on the night I was born my father had to get a special curfew pass because of race-riots... I picked up the bug young). The only problem is negative media portrayal (of course, they are big corps too), so we need to blow them up too.;-)
Regardless of patriotic pride, the United States did occupy parts of Canada in 1812 (not much but prairie farmers on either side.. and not too 'select' either;).
That said, what the hell does the invasion of D.C. have to do with Canada? (Yes, we did cover that) I could just as easily retort with some crap about the Connie capturing the Macedonian and it would be just as jingoistic and besides the point (and ultimately meaningless in the war). I mean, hell, it's not like any great source of pride for either nation. The US barely fended off a nation deeply involved in a far (FAR!) bigger war in Europe, and the British were held off by the fledgling states.
What they do not teach in American schools that is relevant to this thread is the Archangel invasion of Russia in 1919 (give or take, like I said they don't teach this 'un) staged by the US, France, and (do they teach this in England?) the British in support of the White Russians.
"So when did the United States occupy Canda and Mexico?"
1812 and 1849 respectively.
"But the Soviet Union did occupy Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia as well as annex Georgia, the Ukraine, Moldova and a host of other nations..."
Yes the USSR did occupy Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia. Czarist russia annexed the Ukraine and Moldova. We OTOH only occupied meaningless indian nations... except the ones the British Empire annexed before we claimed independance.
"Didn't the Soviet Union occupy both Hungary and Chechzlovakia?"
Yep, didn't we occupy South Korea and Haiti (and The Phillipines, Grenada, Panama...)?
"..or China is trying to do now with it's...we *have* to take Taiwan back stance."
Oh? How 'bout the states with it's we have to take Cuba back stance?
That's gotta suck. I'm the sole support person for an advertising firm as well. I support about 50 end-user Macs, 10 end-user Win98 or NT boxes, 5 Mac file/print servers, 4 NT SQL servers (keep 'em running, I don't do the SQL admin), 2 Mac web servers, and an OpenBSD firewall. A good 70% of my time is spent on the Microsoft machines (servers and end-users), the rest on end-user Macs; The Mac servers and OpenBSD box require virtually no work at all. The day they tell me to replace the macs is the day I walk.
All of the opinions I have read supporting Microsoft almost invariably contain the line 'If you don't like the current (Enter bad statute of choice) laws, contact your congress member...'. Now, in theory that is correct although it ignores constitutional challenges through the courts. In practice, we don't have enough cash to buy enough congressmen (or judges) while Microsoft (the RIAA, the MPAA, etc.) does. We are more than capable of noting that the system is broken, yet we still want to believe that we can get something accomplished against the monied interests using the law. Wake up folks, the system is fucked and if we continue to blindly submit to it so are we. Sure it is against the law, so was the American Revolution, the Civil rights movement, and many labor strikes. When the law is wrong we have a moral imperitive to disobey that law. And if the system cannot recognize that the law is wrong we have an imperitive to remove that sytem. I for one am ready, let's go fuck some shit up.
Oh, BTW (my little piece of Civil Disobedience for the day), just use winzip to open up that piece of Microsoft shit they call a Kerberos standard and you can read the mofucker without agreeing to the liscense. In the same vein; since I use Be and.exe files are useless junk on my system, is using Zipomatic to open it so I can read it a violation of the DMCA (Interoperability of liscense agreements!?)?
"The tree of liberty must be periodically watered with the blood of patriots" -Benjamin Franklin
"Specifically what comes to mind is the Eastern Seaboard Fission Authority. A Federally controlled electrical power infrastructure."
FDR thought up that one in the thirties, it's called TVA.
Although I dig Gibson's work, he really gets quite a lot of credit for ideas that predate his work. While he may have 'created' cyberpunk, the elements were already present in the works of Vernor Vinge (True Names), Sam Delany (Personally, I think Babble 17 is the first cyberpunk book), John Varley (most of his work), and many others.
Doesn't NASA have an advisory board that includes SF authors? I seem to remember Jerry Pournelle being an advisor to NASA.
Yes and no. Like a Mac you can not run without the GUI, but Be can run command line apps from the terminal which runs a POSIX compliant Bash shell. So it doesn't have a GUI free-mode from the OS standpoint, but from the application standpoint it does (kinda).
As for how the multiple threads are ponied out, you will have to ask someone else since I am not a developer. I also haven't put it to the test, since I run a K6/2-500 BeOS machine and don't plan on going MP until dual athlons are available (or if I run into a sweet deal on a Powermac 9600 MP or find a quad PPro board at the local chip shop).
If I remember correctly there is no specific advantage if the apps are created equally. But in Be all apps must have at least two threads. So in Be, by default, all apps are prepared to run well on multiple processors. I guess you could say the OS dictates that the developers write for multiple processors.
I don't know of a ruling but it is an obvious violation of the fifth. I can't even think of a justification for forcing a password out of someone, but I'll bet good money they will find a way. To paraphrase Bob Wilson "I don't understand people who can read something that says 'Congress shall make no laws...' and interpret it to mean 'Congress shall make some laws...'"
And I still want to know why you have to 'claim' a right! Actually I do know, it's so they can trick you into incriminating yourself, so what I really want to know is how the hell did the lawyers get away with it!?
Does anybody follow links anymore? At the bottom of the referenced page it links to other similar patents including Apple's from '98. Digging deeper, the oldest patent for this basic process was granted to Xerox in 1985! Hitachi, IBM, Minicom, and Compaq all have similar patents. These patents must be much more specific than the abstracts would seem to indicate. I don't think Debian has much to worry about since if they are infringing prior use would be easy to claim.
They claim they are..."Every aspect of Frank Herbert's Dune has been created with exquisite attention to detail."... but it ain't so. The most obvious mistake I saw in my brief look at the link was the house colors of the Atreides. It is not gold and blue, it is red and black with green trim (more prcisely:sable,a hawk rampant gules bearing an olive branches verde). But gods forbid the good guys wear black and the bad guys wear white (The Harkonnen standard was white with a blue bull's head), that would be too much for the viewing public to handle I guess. Leto I with sandy hair was off as well (Atreides had black hair, Harkonnens were redheads, and Corrinos were blondes). I'm probably too big of a Dune freak to ever be totally satisfied, but I'm also too into Dune to miss this.
As for the Lynch version, my viewing of it always goes something like: "cool, cool, wow, neato, that's absurd!" then repeat. Most of the movie looked great (Sting and the merry-go-round of death being notable exceptions) but then they ruin it with the wierding modules, stillsuits with no masks, ornithopters with no wings, and such crap.
"are you trying to justify the downloading of naked kids? ARE YOU?!?"
Nope, I'm trying to point out that the statement "If you aren't doing anything to be ashamed of (or illegal) then you have nothing to hide" is counter to the ideas put forth in the 4th and 5th amendments to the constitution of the United States and is all in all a very simplistic idea.
"...but I do care if you go around DL'ing illegal material that has a negative affect on our society."
So DLing illegal material that does not have a negative affect is ok? Who decides on what has a negative affect? I think guns have a negative affect on society, so can I post people who buy guns' names on the internet as murderers?
"your whole view on the subject is narrow, and you seem to be too engrossed with yourself to have a truly valid argument."
My view is narrow!? You are the one who cannot see that such arguments while sounding good fighting kiddie porn can be used to stifle political dissidence, free speech, and all of our other freedoms. Ken Starr has shown that when you can't hide your actions all it takes is someone willing to look hard enough to find something you have done illegal to get you into trouble.
"nobody cares what you do at home in your own privacy..."
You may not care who I have sex with in the privacy of my own home, but the state of Georgia does care who (or at least what gender) and how.
"...but people do care what you do in public (and yes, the internet IS public property), so no, we dont want to see you getting a lewinsky in the street (maybe some people do.....)"
But I thought if I wasn't ashamed it was OK. The people that care so much can bite me, tell 'em to mind their own fucking business. I sure as hell can tint my windows, hide things in my pocket, and encrypt my data in public so what on earth is your point?
"supose you're gooing ot flam m3 for bad grammer and speeling....."
"seriously though, I think its good, it goes back to the argument that if your not doing anything to be ashamed of you have nothing to hide."
Yes an old and completely moronic argument. I love how it's evolved past the illegal stage to the ashamed stage. I'm not ashamed I fucked my (29 year old) girlfriend last night, should I do it in the streets now? Is it OK for the government to install a camera in my bedroom since I'm not ashamed? Oh shit! Sodomy is still illegal in my state... hope they didn't get that blowjob on the tape! Gee I guess those framers of the 4th amendment really did know what they were talking about (not to mention presumption of innocence that these people are totally ignoring).
Do you guys think it is right to force your fans into re-buying your work everytime that formats change? For instance; I own your first four albums on vinyl and have downloaded many of the songs from those albums from Napster rather than buy new copies of works I already own so I can listen to 'em in my car's CD player. Do you consider this to be infringement? Or more to the point, are we buying the records/tapes/discs or are we paying for your art?
Are you saying that all code should be free speech? If I write a virus that destroys half a hard drive and distribute it and some government or company criminally prosecutes me, can I claim my free speech rights or is it still illegal?
As to whether the government can prosecute you, sure it can. Free speech rights are not absolute. A classic example is shouting "Fire!" in a crowded theater -- it's free speech, but a criminal act.
You are both suffering from a misconception concerning how free speech is regulated. Freedom of speech is much more absolute than you think, but you are still responsible for what you say. You are perfectly free to yell fire in a crowded theatre, you are not free however to incite a riot, disturb the peace, or recklessley endanger others which are the statutes you would be prosecuted under. Your code is legally protected speech but the actions of said code are still your responsibility.
Not to mention FAT 16 and 32, NTFS, HFS, UFS and a multitude of other "file systems" that in reality can be used to duplicate copyrighted material.
I've always wondered why nobody points out that the computer itself is a tool for piracy. Probably the same reason nobody points out the simple ways to defeat napster and it's ilk... never know who is listening!
Add Paul McCartney to the list of 'legacy artists'... If that limey dork thinks I'm shelling out cash to replace my boxed set of japanese remastered european releases of Beatle's albums on vinyl he's horribly wrong. (not that I can find CD or MP3 copies of said work...)
"How many people here would program if they weren't ever going to see any money from their efforts? Programming for linux doesn't count, because the vast majority of linux developers do earn livings programming elsewhere. "
What you are saying is that Linux programmers are not paid for their work but rather work for their pay. Sounds like something Metalica should look into. No really, it's a great model for the new era of IP. Metalica (and Dre and all the rest) can make their 'art' for arts sake releasing it freely on the net while contracting to advertisers (for instance) to create works for profit. They can also look to the model of Linux startups and market their albums with value added above and beyond the music itself (as Bad Religion is already doing with a pair of tickets for any show included with their CD). Times change (the current IP model is barely a century old) and using law to retard progress is the wrong response. The wainrights tried that a century ago and failed miserably, as was befitting to a dead technology.
"...and I'm guessing the next thing will either be that we have to billet soldiers in our houses or that the government will be able to search whatever it wants whenever it wants."
Too late! Remember the Secret Service busting into Steve Jackson Games with an open-ended unsigned warrant? Haven't noticed the Supreme Court ruling that no reason is needed to stop and search a car? The 4th is gone already. The 5th has become an admittance of guilt (why do you have to claim a right anyway?). Mitnicks case is a great example of the 6th and 7th being trampled on. His probation is iffy on 8th amendment grounds. The 9th is universally ignored and the lawyers seem to have forgotten the last phrase of the 10th. Yea, we still have the third though!
Gods I hope a bunch of these Reagan/Bush appointees die before another Republican is elected pres.... not that it matters much with the new left looking so much like the old right these days.
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What, a Hyundai can't go that fast!?!? You mean the cops were lying!?!? Whoda thunk it. For chrisake, you admit excessive force was used. And when the hell is excessive force neccesary?
And if you think the same rules of justice apply to cops as regular people you are an idiot. What a drone.
Didn't some IBM aptivas have the seperate drives? If I remember correctly the CD performance took a huge hit, but Firewire (Doesn't Sony call it iLink?) ought to fix that.
You really must be naive if you think the States, western europe, and Russia feel the way they do due to political correctness. The main point of concern is that sixty years ago nearly 100 million people died when a freely elected government in Germany, with Austria as an at least semi-willing accomplace, went insane.
That said, it was sixty years ago, and denying freedom to support freedom is moronic. I disagree with our (the US) actions regarding your elections just as I disagree with Germany's banning of Nazi lterature. As for Americans not acting out against a broken justice system, you are mostly correct. The problem is, we've got bigger worries than a web site getting shutdown. You do see action in cases like the Rodney King trial where it was made evident that the police can do what they will with little fear of reprimands; so they burned down south central LA. Needles to say, I believe we need more of such protests (heh, on the night I was born my father had to get a special curfew pass because of race-riots... I picked up the bug young). The only problem is negative media portrayal (of course, they are big corps too), so we need to blow them up too. ;-)
That said, what the hell does the invasion of D.C. have to do with Canada? (Yes, we did cover that) I could just as easily retort with some crap about the Connie capturing the Macedonian and it would be just as jingoistic and besides the point (and ultimately meaningless in the war). I mean, hell, it's not like any great source of pride for either nation. The US barely fended off a nation deeply involved in a far (FAR!) bigger war in Europe, and the British were held off by the fledgling states.
What they do not teach in American schools that is relevant to this thread is the Archangel invasion of Russia in 1919 (give or take, like I said they don't teach this 'un) staged by the US, France, and (do they teach this in England?) the British in support of the White Russians.
1812 and 1849 respectively.
"But the Soviet Union did occupy Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia as well as annex Georgia, the Ukraine, Moldova and a host of other nations..."
Yes the USSR did occupy Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia. Czarist russia annexed the Ukraine and Moldova. We OTOH only occupied meaningless indian nations... except the ones the British Empire annexed before we claimed independance.
"Didn't the Soviet Union occupy both Hungary and Chechzlovakia?"
Yep, didn't we occupy South Korea and Haiti (and The Phillipines, Grenada, Panama...)?
"..or China is trying to do now with it's...we *have* to take Taiwan back stance."
Oh? How 'bout the states with it's we have to take Cuba back stance?
There are no good guys in the cold war.
Oh, BTW (my little piece of Civil Disobedience for the day), just use winzip to open up that piece of Microsoft shit they call a Kerberos standard and you can read the mofucker without agreeing to the liscense. In the same vein; since I use Be and .exe files are useless junk on my system, is using Zipomatic to open it so I can read it a violation of the DMCA (Interoperability of liscense agreements!?)?
"The tree of liberty must be periodically watered with the blood of patriots" -Benjamin Franklin
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FDR thought up that one in the thirties, it's called TVA.
Although I dig Gibson's work, he really gets quite a lot of credit for ideas that predate his work. While he may have 'created' cyberpunk, the elements were already present in the works of Vernor Vinge (True Names), Sam Delany (Personally, I think Babble 17 is the first cyberpunk book), John Varley (most of his work), and many others.
Doesn't NASA have an advisory board that includes SF authors? I seem to remember Jerry Pournelle being an advisor to NASA.
Yes and no. Like a Mac you can not run without the GUI, but Be can run command line apps from the terminal which runs a POSIX compliant Bash shell. So it doesn't have a GUI free-mode from the OS standpoint, but from the application standpoint it does (kinda).
As for how the multiple threads are ponied out, you will have to ask someone else since I am not a developer. I also haven't put it to the test, since I run a K6/2-500 BeOS machine and don't plan on going MP until dual athlons are available (or if I run into a sweet deal on a Powermac 9600 MP or find a quad PPro board at the local chip shop).
Well, since you no longer use it, can I have your serial bong?
New Microsoft Lungbuster 2000... with integrated Visual Basic, getting 'e-mail bombed' will take on a whole new meaning.
Are they accepting public comments (and if so where?) or is 'public comment' just discussing it among ourselves?
How come when I see the term 'law enforcement officials' I read it as 'Dumbasses who haven't even bothered to read the bill of rights'?
And I still want to know why you have to 'claim' a right! Actually I do know, it's so they can trick you into incriminating yourself, so what I really want to know is how the hell did the lawyers get away with it!?
As for the Lynch version, my viewing of it always goes something like: "cool, cool, wow, neato, that's absurd!" then repeat. Most of the movie looked great (Sting and the merry-go-round of death being notable exceptions) but then they ruin it with the wierding modules, stillsuits with no masks, ornithopters with no wings, and such crap.
Nope, I'm trying to point out that the statement "If you aren't doing anything to be ashamed of (or illegal) then you have nothing to hide" is counter to the ideas put forth in the 4th and 5th amendments to the constitution of the United States and is all in all a very simplistic idea.
"...but I do care if you go around DL'ing illegal material that has a negative affect on our society."
So DLing illegal material that does not have a negative affect is ok? Who decides on what has a negative affect? I think guns have a negative affect on society, so can I post people who buy guns' names on the internet as murderers?
"your whole view on the subject is narrow, and you seem to be too engrossed with yourself to have a truly valid argument."
My view is narrow!? You are the one who cannot see that such arguments while sounding good fighting kiddie porn can be used to stifle political dissidence, free speech, and all of our other freedoms. Ken Starr has shown that when you can't hide your actions all it takes is someone willing to look hard enough to find something you have done illegal to get you into trouble.
"nobody cares what you do at home in your own privacy..."
You may not care who I have sex with in the privacy of my own home, but the state of Georgia does care who (or at least what gender) and how.
"...but people do care what you do in public (and yes, the internet IS public property), so no, we dont want to see you getting a lewinsky in the street (maybe some people do.....)"
But I thought if I wasn't ashamed it was OK. The people that care so much can bite me, tell 'em to mind their own fucking business. I sure as hell can tint my windows, hide things in my pocket, and encrypt my data in public so what on earth is your point?
"supose you're gooing ot flam m3 for bad grammer and speeling....."
Why?
Yes an old and completely moronic argument. I love how it's evolved past the illegal stage to the ashamed stage. I'm not ashamed I fucked my (29 year old) girlfriend last night, should I do it in the streets now? Is it OK for the government to install a camera in my bedroom since I'm not ashamed? Oh shit! Sodomy is still illegal in my state... hope they didn't get that blowjob on the tape! Gee I guess those framers of the 4th amendment really did know what they were talking about (not to mention presumption of innocence that these people are totally ignoring).
As to whether the government can prosecute you, sure it can. Free speech rights are not absolute. A classic example is shouting "Fire!" in a crowded theater -- it's free speech, but a criminal act.
You are both suffering from a misconception concerning how free speech is regulated. Freedom of speech is much more absolute than you think, but you are still responsible for what you say. You are perfectly free to yell fire in a crowded theatre, you are not free however to incite a riot, disturb the peace, or recklessley endanger others which are the statutes you would be prosecuted under. Your code is legally protected speech but the actions of said code are still your responsibility.
I've always wondered why nobody points out that the computer itself is a tool for piracy. Probably the same reason nobody points out the simple ways to defeat napster and it's ilk... never know who is listening!
Add Paul McCartney to the list of 'legacy artists'... If that limey dork thinks I'm shelling out cash to replace my boxed set of japanese remastered european releases of Beatle's albums on vinyl he's horribly wrong. (not that I can find CD or MP3 copies of said work...)
What you are saying is that Linux programmers are not paid for their work but rather work for their pay. Sounds like something Metalica should look into. No really, it's a great model for the new era of IP. Metalica (and Dre and all the rest) can make their 'art' for arts sake releasing it freely on the net while contracting to advertisers (for instance) to create works for profit. They can also look to the model of Linux startups and market their albums with value added above and beyond the music itself (as Bad Religion is already doing with a pair of tickets for any show included with their CD). Times change (the current IP model is barely a century old) and using law to retard progress is the wrong response. The wainrights tried that a century ago and failed miserably, as was befitting to a dead technology.
Too late! Remember the Secret Service busting into Steve Jackson Games with an open-ended unsigned warrant? Haven't noticed the Supreme Court ruling that no reason is needed to stop and search a car? The 4th is gone already. The 5th has become an admittance of guilt (why do you have to claim a right anyway?). Mitnicks case is a great example of the 6th and 7th being trampled on. His probation is iffy on 8th amendment grounds. The 9th is universally ignored and the lawyers seem to have forgotten the last phrase of the 10th. Yea, we still have the third though!
Gods I hope a bunch of these Reagan/Bush appointees die before another Republican is elected pres.... not that it matters much with the new left looking so much like the old right these days.