Interestingly, I went from native Diablo 2 on Mac OS X (Macbook w/ Intel GMA3100) to running Diablo 2 under Wine. Initially because the 10.5.4 update of OS X got rid of the 256 colour mode support for the GMA3100 meaning Diablo shat itself. I've found however that the Wine version is far easier on the CPU and fans than the native Mac version. Go figure! FWIW I'm running D2 1.12, OS X 10.5.5 and Darwine 1.0.
"By providing a less secure, but computationally and administratively cheaper, method of encryption, we might be able to..." give people a false sense of security.
I'm sorry if I offended you. I totally understand that you are not an apologist for the entire legal system. I just marvel at your tenacity. As for my disheatened state being a luxury, as a citizen of another country, I can do very little to influence outcomes in the US (other than offer opinions in forums like this). At home (in Australia) however, I am slightly more involved in issues that I believe in.
I'm sorry Ray, but just how does an outside observer not draw the conclusion that the legal system is inherently corrupted? I know you can't answer the question (at least not publicly) and I and many others support your valiant efforts. However, its hard as someone from outside the US to not see your country as just the world's biggest banana republic. Where the law has the appearance of granite and the firmness of quicksand. A legal system whose flexibility is only ever exercised to the favour of power, never the other way. As an amateur student of early American history and the founding of your nation, I just find the underlying hypocrisy galling and the fall of the republic utterly disheartening.
And in fact this is the best way to use GMail. Consider the local IMAP copy and the remote GMail copy of your mail as geographically distant backups of each other. You have the convenience of remote access (GMail) as well as remote backup if your disk ever borks, your PC gets stolen, or your house burns down, and of course if GMail goes under you still have the local copy. And anybody that still gets all the Google ads just isn't trying very hard at all.
I know this reply is waaaay late, but... I at no point laid out my position on this subject. I merely pointed out the precedent for companies being prosecuted for operating _within_ the legal framework of a particular country.
I wonder, if we turned everything around - how would people react? "CEO of Chinese company was jailed for 20 years today after being accused of violating Chinese laws at the request of US authorities".
Morality often (not always) devolves to "us=good, them=bad".
I'm wondering how they'll keep the subjects from developing horrific bed sores (if you have the stomach check out http://images.google.com.au/images?q=bed+sores for just how bad they can get).
It's not about saving us from ourselves. Its specifically about saving a couple of hundred other people (mainly in flying metal cylinders) from idiots who think doing this is clever. Remember, your right to flail your arms around like a madman end where my face begins.
I don't know the prevalence of this "point laser at pilot" behaviour, but assuming that its not ludicrously small (there sure have been a lot of incidents hit the news down here recently, any pilots reading/. ?), and also assuming that its well nigh impossible to find the little fuckers who are doing it, then banning laser pointers powerful enough (or with a beam coherent enough over long distances), is possibly a valid thing.
Personally, I say "meh". I can't recall the last presentation where someone actually used one as anything other than a fidget-widget.
It will be interesting to see where the inevitable money trail leads. My guess is several of the 20% who effectively blocked the consensus. I think the "single bureaucrat" was non-technical and probably just went with "MS is big corp. Trust big corp. Nobody ever got sacked for backing big corp." (although on this last point he may be proved wrong). Surreal? Yes. Over? No.
Wow. What a blast from the past! Sometimes, good things can result from wrongs (which arguably Baio's publishing of the emails was). The historical value of this stuff is undisputed. However the truly brilliant bits are the responses to the blog itself, especially from those actually involved.
There has never been a Slashdot submission where reading TFA was a greater pleasure.
I don't know how the engine works, but assuming it has the equivalent of adders, registers and some boolean bit-ops, might it be possible to extrapolate the size/weight of a machine such as this that emulates some simple RISC processor of today?
I have visions of a multi-storied, block-sized, brass behemoth, with hundreds of workers scurrying around its innards "de-bugging" (and de-ratting) it, and keeping it lubricated.
There is a good chance that in the future we will look back at this as the point at which the groupthink regarding Google as evil or not, flipped polarity.
There has been an increase in the level of geek angst about Google (check out the Google App Engine post). I predict its only going to get worse and that by the end of the year most Google stories will be tagged "theNewMicrosoft" or as someone else suggested "theNewEvil". Of course, the fact that a bunch of geeks are no longer enamoured of Google will not halt their continuing traction among non-geeks (much like other companies you could think of).
It will be interesting to contrast how they respond to this over the next year and compare this to, say, Microsoft's PR machine.
Having said all this, I still find gmail and calendar extremely useful, and I wouldn't even think of using a different search engine. For now.
> "I think they (the jurors) misapprehended what the standards-setting organizations are about and the absolute need for good faith,"
This is a poor portent for standards bodies generally. Microsoft (like Rambus) perfectly understood what these bodies are about and have sought to subvert ISO for their benefit. Unlike Rambus, they aren't seeking to collect extortion payments, merely to cement their monopoly. Both distasteful though.
The recent era of plebs having the opportunity to better themselves whether in wealth or knowledge, and to live freely at the will of no other but subject to uniform laws that apply equally to all, will be seen in the vast scope human history as a short-lived blip that has more to do with the back-to-back industrial/information revolution than anything else. Disruptive tech has always caused upheaval until the it's subverted and the new order is established; welcome to the new order, same as the old order. The wealth redistribution is just the system returning to ground state after its recent (in historical scope) excitation.
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Why have a living, breathing flower in a pot when you can have a pretend one that wastes so much more energy? Who wouldn't want that?
Interestingly, I went from native Diablo 2 on Mac OS X (Macbook w/ Intel GMA3100) to running Diablo 2 under Wine. Initially because the 10.5.4 update of OS X got rid of the 256 colour mode support for the GMA3100 meaning Diablo shat itself. I've found however that the Wine version is far easier on the CPU and fans than the native Mac version. Go figure! FWIW I'm running D2 1.12, OS X 10.5.5 and Darwine 1.0.
Dude! If only there were a "+1, Flamebait" ;-)
Dude, if you're able to take high resolution areola photographs from an aeroplane you are doing very well.
"By providing a less secure, but computationally and administratively cheaper, method of encryption, we might be able to..." give people a false sense of security.
Remember, weak encryption can be worse than none as Mary Queen of Scots found out at the cost of her life (see http://www.nikon.com/about/feelnikon/light/chap04/sec01.htm).
I'm sorry if I offended you. I totally understand that you are not an apologist for the entire legal system. I just marvel at your tenacity. As for my disheatened state being a luxury, as a citizen of another country, I can do very little to influence outcomes in the US (other than offer opinions in forums like this). At home (in Australia) however, I am slightly more involved in issues that I believe in.
Good luck to you and all like you.
I'm sorry Ray, but just how does an outside observer not draw the conclusion that the legal system is inherently corrupted? I know you can't answer the question (at least not publicly) and I and many others support your valiant efforts. However, its hard as someone from outside the US to not see your country as just the world's biggest banana republic. Where the law has the appearance of granite and the firmness of quicksand. A legal system whose flexibility is only ever exercised to the favour of power, never the other way. As an amateur student of early American history and the founding of your nation, I just find the underlying hypocrisy galling and the fall of the republic utterly disheartening.
And in fact this is the best way to use GMail. Consider the local IMAP copy and the remote GMail copy of your mail as geographically distant backups of each other. You have the convenience of remote access (GMail) as well as remote backup if your disk ever borks, your PC gets stolen, or your house burns down, and of course if GMail goes under you still have the local copy. And anybody that still gets all the Google ads just isn't trying very hard at all.
You know, I read your comment and it was only when I had scrolled out a couple of posts that I reacted.
+1, coke-out-the-nose funny
You can't "gain free energy", but you can transfer energy from say, a planet, to say, a spaceship.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_slingshot
I know this reply is waaaay late, but ... I at no point laid out my position on this subject. I merely pointed out the precedent for companies being prosecuted for operating _within_ the legal framework of a particular country.
I wonder, if we turned everything around - how would people react? "CEO of Chinese company was jailed for 20 years today after being accused of violating Chinese laws at the request of US authorities".
Morality often (not always) devolves to "us=good, them=bad".
The fact that German companies complied with Nazi government decrees and laws was not a shield to prosecution at Nuremburg.
Which US firm will be the first I.G.Farben?
I'm wondering how they'll keep the subjects from developing horrific bed sores (if you have the stomach check out http://images.google.com.au/images?q=bed+sores for just how bad they can get).
$5K/month is not worth it.
Wake me when you've got such a foldable/rollable A3 form-factor device with minimum 600dpi res, decent color reproduction and contrast.
Can't resist...must..not...
oh bugger it.
FP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's not about saving us from ourselves. Its specifically about saving a couple of hundred other people (mainly in flying metal cylinders) from idiots who think doing this is clever. Remember, your right to flail your arms around like a madman end where my face begins.
/. ?), and also assuming that its well nigh impossible to find the little fuckers who are doing it, then banning laser pointers powerful enough (or with a beam coherent enough over long distances), is possibly a valid thing.
I don't know the prevalence of this "point laser at pilot" behaviour, but assuming that its not ludicrously small (there sure have been a lot of incidents hit the news down here recently, any pilots reading
Personally, I say "meh". I can't recall the last presentation where someone actually used one as anything other than a fidget-widget.
It will be interesting to see where the inevitable money trail leads. My guess is several of the 20% who effectively blocked the consensus. I think the "single bureaucrat" was non-technical and probably just went with "MS is big corp. Trust big corp. Nobody ever got sacked for backing big corp." (although on this last point he may be proved wrong).
Surreal? Yes. Over? No.
Wow. What a blast from the past! Sometimes, good things can result from wrongs (which arguably Baio's publishing of the emails was). The historical value of this stuff is undisputed. However the truly brilliant bits are the responses to the blog itself, especially from those actually involved.
There has never been a Slashdot submission where reading TFA was a greater pleasure.
I don't know how the engine works, but assuming it has the equivalent of adders, registers and some boolean bit-ops, might it be possible to extrapolate the size/weight of a machine such as this that emulates some simple RISC processor of today?
I have visions of a multi-storied, block-sized, brass behemoth, with hundreds of workers scurrying around its innards "de-bugging" (and de-ratting) it, and keeping it lubricated.
Just interested to hear peoples guesses.
There is a good chance that in the future we will look back at this as the point at which the groupthink regarding Google as evil or not, flipped polarity.
There has been an increase in the level of geek angst about Google (check out the Google App Engine post). I predict its only going to get worse and that by the end of the year most Google stories will be tagged "theNewMicrosoft" or as someone else suggested "theNewEvil". Of course, the fact that a bunch of geeks are no longer enamoured of Google will not halt their continuing traction among non-geeks (much like other companies you could think of).
It will be interesting to contrast how they respond to this over the next year and compare this to, say, Microsoft's PR machine.
Having said all this, I still find gmail and calendar extremely useful, and I wouldn't even think of using a different search engine. For now.
> "I think they (the jurors) misapprehended what the standards-setting organizations are about and the absolute need for good faith,"
This is a poor portent for standards bodies generally. Microsoft (like Rambus) perfectly understood what these bodies are about and have sought to subvert ISO for their benefit. Unlike Rambus, they aren't seeking to collect extortion payments, merely to cement their monopoly. Both distasteful though.
ERRATA:
"...vast scope OF human history..."
"...caused upheaval until the^H^H^H it's subverted..."
I've said it before:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=379451&cid=21579069
The recent era of plebs having the opportunity to better themselves whether in wealth or knowledge, and to live freely at the will of no other but subject to uniform laws that apply equally to all, will be seen in the vast scope human history as a short-lived blip that has more to do with the back-to-back industrial/information revolution than anything else. Disruptive tech has always caused upheaval until the it's subverted and the new order is established; welcome to the new order, same as the old order.
The wealth redistribution is just the system returning to ground state after its recent (in historical scope) excitation.
I agree with the article.
I agree with the article too.
I agree with the article.
I don't
I agree with the article.
agree with the article.
"When somebody says 'this isn't about free speech', it almost certainly is".
"Well, what sort of chance does that give me??? Alright then! It IS about free speech."
"!!!SEE!!! It *IS* about free spech!!!"
(with apologies to Monty Python)