If it becomes common enough it stops being an enforceable law.
Tell that to all the people who get speeding tickets. Speeding is a very common practice, people get plenty ticketed. It's not 'unenforceable,' just that it isn't always enforced, and it gets enough people to keep the revenues flowing.
Yes, but on a rendering machine, you only need a console. It's not the machine that will be doing the graphics display, it's the machine that will be doing the number crunching. You don't need (or even want) fancy graphics for that.
VIA is fine, but there are a ton of crappy motherboards, some of which use Intel chips, some use VIA, some use others. I've found that more important even than the chipset (at least for intel vs via) is the brand. I've had some very unstable motherboards, and some very rock-solid motherboards. The unstable ones came from PC Chips and Chaintech (the Chaintech one was rated very highly by Tom's Hardware. Oh well), and all the stable ones were made by ASUS. When it comes to motherboards, I practically swear by ASUS now.
It's easy to find the vote total: Add up the votes in each state, and combine those results! George Bush may have won the election (and he did win Florida), but Al Gore got the most votes, so he deserved to win.
No, the popular vote on the national level should not be the overall decision on who takes the presidency. To use national popular vote only would disenfranchise the smaller-populated states completely, and all the presidential candidates would have to do is pander to the large population centers on the east and west coasts, and possibly up and down the Mississippi. Now, not to say the current system is perfect, I strongly disagree with the "winner take all" system of electoral votes per state.
Yeah, too bad it was bullshit. He conveniently left out the idea of a glove shrinking after being exposed to a liquid (like blood). Also OJ tried on the glove while wearing latex gloves in the courtroom. Anyone who has used latex gloves would realize that trying to wear already snug gloves over them is pretty hard. The glove not fitting proved nothing, certainly not Cochran's allegation that the glove couldn't have belonged to Simpson.
Re:Unions are *bad* for Consultants
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I've spent the majority of my life working to hone my craft. While you're sitting on your arse watching American's Funniest Home Videos, I'm
reading up on the latest implementation strategies for distributed systems. While you're hanging out with your buddies throwing back another
can of Old Milwaukee, I'm busy doing research for my next book or magazine article. I spend an average of 2-3 months each year on
sabbatical. You vacation in Disney World.
So? Does this somehow make you more worthy? Does it somehow make the earlier poster less worthy of challenging, interesting work? No it doesn't. The original poster actually spends his time off doing things he really enjoys, and there's no reason for you to denegrate him for that. That you spend your time doing topics that also relate to your job does not make you a morally superior person. Your article reads as a troll far more than the original poster's.
But everyone is not going to stop procreating. Let's get one thing straight -- we are in absolutely no danger whatsoever of dying off. The human race isn't exactly on the edge now. We have the opposite problem: there are too -many-, not too few people. Overpopulation is a common problem, and many areas of the world have it worse than the US (by quite a bit). As medical and scientific advances have lessened the factors that would keep the human population in check, humans continued to breed the same amount, and the population has continued to rise. As a result, we find ourselves more and more clustered tightly together, and now having a nice amount of space around you is considered a luxury. People who don't wish to have children need to be encouraged, not discouraged, and as a society we need to wake up and realize that fitting the maximum amount of people into a limited area is not necessarily a laudible goal.
DC is not dead. They've restructured with some significant downsizing. The headline/title of "Digital Convergence Bites the Dust" is blatantly misleading and Slashdot having not changed it is very much open to significant liability for libel. That's right, DC has not bitten the dust. I hope CmdrTaco is more careful in the future, provided there is one.
Apparently you're a little naive when it comes to dot-coms. Taco WAS telling the truth about the state of the company -- it's toasted. Oh sure, he could have used misleading media-speech and said "Oh yes, they're still going strong, they've just suffered a little setback and are just going through 'restructuring' and 'downsizing.' Wink wink." But DC is just another one of those useless wastes of money known as "Internet Dot-Coms," and when they have to go through a restructuring like this, it's over. They're gone. The idea of them somehow rising from the ashes better, faster, stronger is pretty laughable.
Pixar produces the films themselves... it's the down time -between- films that Disney really helps out with, since Disney does the merchandising, marketing, and distribution.
Thats the biggest problem with the Linux community and with applications written for Linux.
The community couldn't give a rats ass about anything other than their own precious operating system. There is no concept of reality.
Or perhaps a more realistic explanation is they simply don't run those operating systems and therefore have no way to test them. It's hard to test an OS incompatibility if the tests pass on all the machines you have available to you.
How much of Gnome 1.4 did you actually install? All the Guile and slib packages came with my Gnome 1.4, but then I use Ximian's. The libnet and liburi are some pretty basic/common perl libraries, I'm pretty surprised Debian doesn't install them by default.
If you have one all-powerful directory that you tell end-users to keep their mits off of, you make the system more user friendly. They know they can't break anything if they don't mess with that directory.
If users don't understand what they're doing, then why do they have root access? If they don't have root access, then they can't screw with system files.
Re:60,000,000,000,000 watts turns me on...
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Yes, but so many people don't know there's a difference between "energy" and "power" (mass media seems to use them interchangably) that it's safer just to spell them out.:)
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They're blowing through 60 trillion watts an hour, but california has an energy crisis??
Slight correction.. from what I remember, a Watt isn't a measure of energy, it's a measure of energy in a certain amount of time, just like how speed isn't an amount of distance, it's an amount of distance per time unit. So saying "Watt per hour" is incorrect, because "Watt" isn't a measure of the magnitude of energy they used, you could say it's more a measure of the intensity. I believe a Watt is a Joule/sec, so if the bombardment lasted only one millionth of a second to get the explosion, the energy was only 60 kJ. If you took the same amount of energy expended and spread that over one second, that would be 60 kW - for one second.
So how long did the energy bombardment last? This original article didn't say. You don't know how much energy was used unless you have both time and rate. That's why electric companies refer to energy used in "kilowatt-hours".
Re:The Hague isn't a friend to human rights
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n practise, the big boys (your US Presidents, your Chinese leaders) get away with it and the little boys (your Milosevic, your [name your own little despot])
So, here is my modest proposal. Write to your local new outlets (especially to the individual reporters if you can) and point them to a source of information on this proposed treaty. Point them to RMS's commentary on it. Point them to some of the more insightful comments here on Slashdot as well as round the net. Explain to them politely your concern over this, and especially over how scandalous it seems, because the news outlets love a scandal.
And watch the stories get shot down since they offend the parent company. Many (most? All?) The major news outlets are owned by the companies that are trying to push these sorts of restrictions through, and they are definitely picky about airing stories which reflect badly upon them.
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Hmmm, I thought it was the CIA which was supposed to be exporting US laws...
Real-life example: Remember when Bork was nominated for the Supreme Court and his video store rental history was published? (And it wasn't even subpoenaed either) That is the sortof thing I worry about -- we all have things and preferences we want to hide and there should be no reason why we can't.
Yeah jeez "zentec" because you are so forthright I know everything about you, including your name.
*cough*
What part of "zentec" isn't anonymous?
Probably the part where he posts his real (spam-protected) email address right after it, which is about as non-anonymous as you get on the Internet without writing out your home address or telephone number.
I fail to see the parallels between breaking the law to correct existing injustices and breaking the law to get high.
If you consider a law criminalizing getting high an injustice, then you could easily claim that this is breaking the law to correct existing injustices.
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Tell that to all the people who get speeding tickets. Speeding is a very common practice, people get plenty ticketed. It's not 'unenforceable,' just that it isn't always enforced, and it gets enough people to keep the revenues flowing.
No, the popular vote on the national level should not be the overall decision on who takes the presidency. To use national popular vote only would disenfranchise the smaller-populated states completely, and all the presidential candidates would have to do is pander to the large population centers on the east and west coasts, and possibly up and down the Mississippi. Now, not to say the current system is perfect, I strongly disagree with the "winner take all" system of electoral votes per state.
So? Does this somehow make you more worthy? Does it somehow make the earlier poster less worthy of challenging, interesting work? No it doesn't. The original poster actually spends his time off doing things he really enjoys, and there's no reason for you to denegrate him for that. That you spend your time doing topics that also relate to your job does not make you a morally superior person. Your article reads as a troll far more than the original poster's.
Apparently you're a little naive when it comes to dot-coms. Taco WAS telling the truth about the state of the company -- it's toasted. Oh sure, he could have used misleading media-speech and said "Oh yes, they're still going strong, they've just suffered a little setback and are just going through 'restructuring' and 'downsizing.' Wink wink." But DC is just another one of those useless wastes of money known as "Internet Dot-Coms," and when they have to go through a restructuring like this, it's over. They're gone. The idea of them somehow rising from the ashes better, faster, stronger is pretty laughable.
The community couldn't give a rats ass about anything other than their own precious operating system. There is no concept of reality.
Or perhaps a more realistic explanation is they simply don't run those operating systems and therefore have no way to test them. It's hard to test an OS incompatibility if the tests pass on all the machines you have available to you.
If users don't understand what they're doing, then why do they have root access? If they don't have root access, then they can't screw with system files.
Slight correction.. from what I remember, a Watt isn't a measure of energy, it's a measure of energy in a certain amount of time, just like how speed isn't an amount of distance, it's an amount of distance per time unit. So saying "Watt per hour" is incorrect, because "Watt" isn't a measure of the magnitude of energy they used, you could say it's more a measure of the intensity. I believe a Watt is a Joule/sec, so if the bombardment lasted only one millionth of a second to get the explosion, the energy was only 60 kJ. If you took the same amount of energy expended and spread that over one second, that would be 60 kW - for one second.
So how long did the energy bombardment last? This original article didn't say. You don't know how much energy was used unless you have both time and rate. That's why electric companies refer to energy used in "kilowatt-hours".
Noriega?
And watch the stories get shot down since they offend the parent company. Many (most? All?) The major news outlets are owned by the companies that are trying to push these sorts of restrictions through, and they are definitely picky about airing stories which reflect badly upon them.
*cough*
What part of "zentec" isn't anonymous?
Probably the part where he posts his real (spam-protected) email address right after it, which is about as non-anonymous as you get on the Internet without writing out your home address or telephone number.
If you consider a law criminalizing getting high an injustice, then you could easily claim that this is breaking the law to correct existing injustices.
Sounds pretty likely to me. Reinquist and Scalia were on opposite sides of the issue, he probably had no idea who he should stand for.