Hm, interesting approach. Of course, it means that they won't be able to use as detailed a model as the Big Guys, since each one has to terminate in a reasonable amount of time as a slopsucker on a consumer system...
Everybody using a card like this knows that the casino is tracking them, collecting information about their habits. That's why they use the card. If they didn't think that the casino was watching, then why would they use it in the first place?
Now, that I severely doubt. I really don't think the average customer stops to think for even a second to consider what kind of information on their habits will be collected when they hear the magic word "free".
I doubt this is ever going to be really useful. Climate simulations are not the kind of problem that can be efficiently parallelized over a network with extremely high latency and low bandwidth as the internet.
Bollocks. CO2 is the greenhouse gas. Its effect isn't as strong as some others, but it makes up for it by being present (and being produced) in vastly bigger quantities.
What the fuck have you been smoking? Lack of consumption? Japan is just about the most consumption-oriented society imaginable! Seems that YOU are uneducated and misinformed, for while Japanese companies are in a bad mood right now, the general populace doesn't seem to have any problems buying all the latest high-tech toys, and designer clothes.
AFAIk zaibatsu is more a name for the practice of forming groups of companies that hold large segemnts of each other's shares so that they are very resistant to buyout attempts from outsiders.
Unix isn't different than anywhere else, but the claim that MS doesn't have a presence is bullshit. It dominates the desktop almost as much as anywhere else. Macs are considerably more popular, though.
Stop reading superhero comics and naive libertarian propaganda and get a dose of reality, kid.
We very much *do* have the right to stop him before somebody not only gets their car 'distroyed', but their kid run over.
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Current consumer (as opposed to server) HDs are amazingly silent, actually. You can configure many of them to be even more silent by accelerating the heads not as much for seeks. A bit slower, but some of them you can hardly hear at all after that, even when they thrash.
Fans in cheap power supplies, on the other hand, tend to be really loud. I gotta get me a better one one of these days, it's by far the loudest thing in my box.
Dunno about the future, but current Cisco routers do have an operating system (Cisco OS), albeit a very specialized, streamlined one. Pure hardware routing just isn't flexible enough, so I doubt it will ever become prevalent.
It's not about free movies and music, it's about not being allowed to use movies you have legally purchased in a way the industry doesn't like, and that's not OK at all. You paid for it, it's yours and you can do withit whatever you like, as long as it's not illegal. And since the MPAA can't make things like watching a DVD bought in the US on a player bought in Europe illegal because it would be too obviously a violation of civil rights, they're trying to make the tools for doing so illegal through strawman arguments.
For 1), Mozilla is getting better all the time, and the latest version 0.9.1 is pretty close to being ready for prime time. 0.9 crashed and took down the X server oocasionally, but I haven't had that happen with 0.9.1 yet, in over a week of heavy usage.
And Linux and the *BSDs had USB quite early on, and well supported.
For sufficiently small values of "well supported". As of 2.4.5, two of the 3 USB devices I own are still near unusable because the drivers randomly go into deadlock.
You mean there are still people out there who haven't yet caught on to the fact that "New Economy" was nothing more than a buzzword used to sell the.com hype to gullible investors?
What makes you think that a goodly number of top-tier engineers don't spend some of their free time contributing to Linux? Heck, a few (Alan COx, e.g.) even get paid for mainly doing just that.
The part that I will remember most vividly were the howls of protest from about 10,000 people as a huge cloud drifted in to cover the sun just minutes before the total eclipse.
Or maybe it was the lighting before that. There you had the sun in plain view, but everything was far less bright than it normally is in direct sunlight. It just feels wrong.
Actually, I wonder how anyone could like the idea of a monetary system that's not under government control. If such a system were widely accepted, it would make money-laundering a breeze, and I'd hate to think what kind of power it would give those who control it.
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Hm, interesting approach. Of course, it means that they won't be able to use as detailed a model as the Big Guys, since each one has to terminate in a reasonable amount of time as a slopsucker on a consumer system...
I said French, not USA. I really, really doubt the French would entrust their research to other nation's computers.
Now, that I severely doubt. I really don't think the average customer stops to think for even a second to consider what kind of information on their habits will be collected when they hear the magic word "free".
I doubt this is ever going to be really useful. Climate simulations are not the kind of problem that can be efficiently parallelized over a network with extremely high latency and low bandwidth as the internet.
You can bet there are machines not on that list which should theoretically be on it. Think NSA. Think French A-Bomb simulations.
Bollocks. CO2 is the greenhouse gas. Its effect isn't as strong as some others, but it makes up for it by being present (and being produced) in vastly bigger quantities.
What the fuck have you been smoking? Lack of consumption? Japan is just about the most consumption-oriented society imaginable! Seems that YOU are uneducated and misinformed, for while Japanese companies are in a bad mood right now, the general populace doesn't seem to have any problems buying all the latest high-tech toys, and designer clothes.
AFAIk zaibatsu is more a name for the practice of forming groups of companies that hold large segemnts of each other's shares so that they are very resistant to buyout attempts from outsiders.
Unix isn't different than anywhere else, but the claim that MS doesn't have a presence is bullshit. It dominates the desktop almost as much as anywhere else. Macs are considerably more popular, though.
We very much *do* have the right to stop him before somebody not only gets their car 'distroyed', but their kid run over.
Fans in cheap power supplies, on the other hand, tend to be really loud. I gotta get me a better one one of these days, it's by far the loudest thing in my box.
Dunno about the future, but current Cisco routers do have an operating system (Cisco OS), albeit a very specialized, streamlined one. Pure hardware routing just isn't flexible enough, so I doubt it will ever become prevalent.
It's not about free movies and music, it's about not being allowed to use movies you have legally purchased in a way the industry doesn't like, and that's not OK at all. You paid for it, it's yours and you can do withit whatever you like, as long as it's not illegal. And since the MPAA can't make things like watching a DVD bought in the US on a player bought in Europe illegal because it would be too obviously a violation of civil rights, they're trying to make the tools for doing so illegal through strawman arguments.
For 1), Mozilla is getting better all the time, and the latest version 0.9.1 is pretty close to being ready for prime time. 0.9 crashed and took down the X server oocasionally, but I haven't had that happen with 0.9.1 yet, in over a week of heavy usage.
For sufficiently small values of "well supported". As of 2.4.5, two of the 3 USB devices I own are still near unusable because the drivers randomly go into deadlock.
You mean there are still people out there who haven't yet caught on to the fact that "New Economy" was nothing more than a buzzword used to sell the .com hype to gullible investors?
Congratulations, you're the dumbest person ever to mention my sig.
What makes you think that a goodly number of top-tier engineers don't spend some of their free time contributing to Linux? Heck, a few (Alan COx, e.g.) even get paid for mainly doing just that.
Virtually every CRT monitor sold nowadays is certified for radiation levels far lower than was common before the scare.
Or maybe it was the lighting before that. There you had the sun in plain view, but everything was far less bright than it normally is in direct sunlight. It just feels wrong.
If you just want to edit text, it is bloated, horribly so.
Translation: We tried to bypass some pretty important rules, and we got bitchslapped, so now we'll try to get sympathy by association.
Actually, these are in the process of breaking down, having generated a tad bit too much bad rep...
Now where's the "-1 Blatant Advertising" mod option?
Actually, I wonder how anyone could like the idea of a monetary system that's not under government control. If such a system were widely accepted, it would make money-laundering a breeze, and I'd hate to think what kind of power it would give those who control it.