That said, Ubuntu 6.10 does hibernate very, very, well. Try it.
So does Vista, in my experience. One of the platforms I've been running the RCs on is a tablet PC. Sleeps, Hibernates, and wakes up without any issues whatsoever.
Getting MP3 playback etc is fairly trivial on just about every linux distribution. The patent, license, and other issues are what stop much of the GNU/Linux family from being a Whateverthehellusersactuallywant/Linux family;)
I stopped using Mandrake when they married Connectiva and changed their name. I even bought Mandrake Linux 9.0, back in the day, but that merger/acquisition was the last stray. I've migrated to Gentoo and SUSE, almost exclusively (occasionally I flirt with CentOS and Ubuntu as well).
"On the whole, Christians don't threaten death to company executives or members of the press if they disagree with their opinions."
Are you trying to suggest that, on the whole, Muslims do? Put another way, all Muslims are prone to utter death threats at those that disagree with them? And Christians, god-fearing Christians (why are they so afraid?), are somehow morally superior (on the whole)?
Good thing you limited your comment to the last few decades, because you almost would have had to consider that Adolf Hitler was a Christian.
People who are shot (fatally) learn nothing from the experience. Why would you assume that the motivation behind lethal force is to educate? Why would you also assume that a desire to express that violence is wrong is relevant here?
Check your assumptions if you want to debate the position that lethal force is an appropriate response to violence against an embassy.
(Please also note that *I* am not shooting anybody, whether to show them it is wrong to be violent. What *I* am doing is advancing a position for the purposes of discussion. I am not publishing extremely offence cartoons, burning down buildings, or shooting people. I am typing words which express ideas, which may or may not be ones that *I* actually believe to be the best approach.)
I have an idea... let's refuse to tolerate violence in the name of any religion or other bullshit irrational belief system. Those who respond to non-violent expression with violence display an inability to reason, and it is a waste of time to try to reason with them. A response in the form of bullet seems appropriate;)
The Danish Mohammed cartoon will is going to be the root cause of World War 3. Discuss.
Are you comparing Gates to Corleone in Godfather 3?
Human motivations are complex. I wouldn't expect a couple like Bill and Melinda Gates to do anything without a shred of self-interest. I expect any intelligent person to be, first and foremost, motivated by at least some level of rational self-interest at all times.
That being said, how about if we measure the "hero"ness of each by the good that they've done, regardless of ancilliary (assume the benefit is, in fact, secondary for the purposes of this comment) benefit to themselves, their family, or otherwise?
If you are intent of finding the self-interest motivation behind Gates' donations, perhaps it is simply penance for the "partially ill gotten" profit. Maybe I'm the one making a subtle comparison to Godfather 3 now;)
Agreed, Digital Fortress blows goats. I very rarely regret reading a book (that I manage to finish), but I regret ready Digital Fortress. I put it in the same category as the movie The Net. Utter Crap.
To make sure there is at least some on-topic content in this comment, insert an Ad Hominem attack against Steve Gibson in reference to the original story in the blank space below:
Too many people take their privacy for granted and refuse to take an active role in safeguarding their information. That is why phishing is successful. People don't think about the consequences of disclosing their information in an uncontrolable way. That is also why the spammer tactic of harvesting personal information from domain registrations, off of web pages, etc has been so successful.
Don't even try to equate the seriousness of spam with murder, rape, or other much more serious crimes. Spam sucks, but it is just spam. What next, capital punishment in Texas for spammers?
I wouldn't be opposed to, lets say, breaking their fingers, or behaviorally programming them to crap their pants whenever they come within 5' of a computer input device (including keyboards, mice, keypads for ATMs, etc).
Did you miss the fact that terror and assassination was the reaction to religious expansion, and also fail to note that both are hardly flattering? Perhaps you will realize that neither "side" comes out looking great in historical accounts. This isn't about "ohh ohh! see? Christians suck!" or "those nice Muslims had it rough, its all western civilization's fault".
Alternately, if you value your privacy, don't let personal details (that you would object to being made public) be available publicly. There is a revolting level of hypocracy in Google's ban on CNET, and it smells like the act of a child who has physically grown too quickly while remaining far too immature to adequately control their bulk.
Face it, Google is the new 6'4" 200 lb teenage brat on the block.
Of course, if it helps geekdom sleep at night, we could collectively chant "You can make money without doing evil" out of the Google scripture... and refuse to realise that the people actually running the show are not the paragons of virtue otherwise claimed.
I say kudos to ZDNet UK for standing up to asshole search engines.
They don't want us infidels to convert. This isn't about spreading or enforcing a religion. That is a christian tactic.
This is about engineering the creation of a hardline Islamic theocractic regime (i.e., the return of the caliphate), and the best way to do that is to terrorize the enemy that works to westernize (read "support freedom") predominantly muslim nations. There is a long history of terror and assassination used as a tactic against western incursion:
As early as the last years of the eleventh century the Assassins had succeeded in setting firm foot in Syria and winning as convert the Saljug prince of Aleppo, Ridwan ibn-Tutush (died in 1113). By 1140 they had captured the hill fortress of Masyad and many others in northern Syria, including al-Kahf, al-Qadmus and al-'Ullayqah. Even Shayzar (modern Sayjar) on the Orontes was temporarily occupied by the Assassins, whom Usamah calls Isma'ilites. One of their most famous masters in Syria was Rachid-al-Din Sinan (died in 1192), who resided at Masyad and bore the title shakkh al-jabal', translated by the Crusades' chroniclers as "the old man of the mountain". It was Rashid's henchmen who struck awe and terror into the hearts of the Crusaders.
We are seeing the modern version of a conflict that is hundreds of years old, and it has nothing to do with Usama bin Laden wanting George W. Bush to convert to Islam.
Or, a terrible failure of human intellect. Hopefully, such cognitive weakness will be eliminated by evolution.
Unfortunately, it seems that self-awareness and a tendency towards faith-based belief systems which include a drive to reproduce both organisms and propagate the belief system appears to synergize as an adaptive trait, from a pure species survival perspective. Religiously motivated conflict helps to keep growing populations in check (assuming that war will not tend towards mutually assured destruction), while guaranteeing that the believers continue to breed and propagate the belief.
Perhaps evolution isn't going to help us out with this one any time soon.
Both sides had philosophical guidance, whether from talking dead guys or otherwise. Balance was maintained when Vader tossed Palpatine down the shaft (shut yo mouth), then swung back marginally in the favor of the Jedi as Vader died. Luke, arguably, is balanced since he upholds the "good" of the Jedi while not embracing their passionless approach to the force... i.e., he's a bit like a good Sith or a loose-cannon Jedi.
I think that all worked out by accident, Lucas has failed to inject clue into the movies too many times for it to have been on purpose, IMO;)
Here is the scoop. The Bill is ISP friendly (no liability for being the means of communication by which copyright infringement occurs), and will likely be Google-friendly by the same provisions. What we have is a Bill diluted from the insane brainchild of the Liberal-Heritage Ministry-Copyright Lobby circle jerk thanks to various factors, largely thanks to the efforts of everybody-who-isn't-a-blood-sucking-copyright-lobb y-group.
The Bill will go for second reading when parliament resumes, and will probably get passed before the minority Liberal government calls a vote in late winter/early spring. PM Martin has control of the government thanks to his willingness to give the NDP the budget ammendment reach-around, the Conservative leader's brilliant alienation of his only allies (the separatist Bloc Quebecois), and the voting tendencies of the Canadian public (no matter what the Liberals do to prove they are corrupt, voters in Ontario will still vote for them whether or not Stephen Harper keeps ramming his foot in his mouth).
Paradigm was a useful word until the mindless marketing drones adopted it and decreased its value. Now it tends to be used more often than not in a way that reduces its signal:noise.
The same may likely be true of pedantic as a useful adjective. Pedantic can also have connotations which tend towards descriptors like "detail oriented". One person's "pedantic" can be another person's "insistence on correctness". Given how fast and loose people tend to be with meaning, thus increasing noise in comparison to signal, a bit more insistence on correctness might be beneficial to communication;)
(This is not troll, attempt at flamebait, or other class of response motivated by antagonistic intentions. It is an honest statement of opinion, which I of course consider to be the correct one. If you disagree, indicate such with a reasoned response, not with mod points.)
In a more enlightened age (assuming "more" implies a vast majority of our species), religion wouldn't be necessary because we would have reason. Until then, a majority of people continue to need faith and doctrine to (mis)understand reality.
Religion is mass delusion with widespread public acceptance as "normal" cognitive function. At least we've got past widespread persecution of those who choose reason and rationality.
The fault is not in my grammar, it is in the comprehension thereof: "girlfriends" in the context of a generalization, not "girlfriends" in the context of relationships I'm claiming to have.
I've been really trying not to get pissed off about that bit of blatant stupidity. We all know that Lucas isn't the sharpest knife in the block, but how on Earth could an entire crew for a scifi flick let him get away with that? I wonder if Lucas purposefully surrounds himself with a bunch of mindless sycophants who are too busy kissing ass to point out that he might be botching less dialog this time around at the cost of being stupid about basic physics...
Oh well, at least there are less pulse engine sound effects this time around. Now if only Lucas had ditched the creature pulse sound effects...
Hey, if your girlfriend won't "let" you go see the movie while she's 800 miles away, then maybe you need to consider a girlfriend that isn't so controlling and/or selfish. My wife wouldn't pull that kind of bullshit... girlfriends that do don't stand much chance of getting upgrade to wife any time soon;)
A friend who went to see it today has told me "GO SEE STARWARS NOW, TWICE! IT IS UNFUCKINGBELIEVABLY GOOD!". Sure, Eps 1&2 are magical for lowering expectations, but based on that there is no way I'd wait another 2-3 weeks to find out if Lucas has botched it yet again.
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So does Vista, in my experience. One of the platforms I've been running the RCs on is a tablet PC. Sleeps, Hibernates, and wakes up without any issues whatsoever.
I stopped using Mandrake when they married Connectiva and changed their name. I even bought Mandrake Linux 9.0, back in the day, but that merger/acquisition was the last stray. I've migrated to Gentoo and SUSE, almost exclusively (occasionally I flirt with CentOS and Ubuntu as well).
Are you trying to suggest that, on the whole, Muslims do? Put another way, all Muslims are prone to utter death threats at those that disagree with them? And Christians, god-fearing Christians (why are they so afraid?), are somehow morally superior (on the whole)?
Good thing you limited your comment to the last few decades, because you almost would have had to consider that Adolf Hitler was a Christian.
I'm just sayin'...
Check your assumptions if you want to debate the position that lethal force is an appropriate response to violence against an embassy.
(Please also note that *I* am not shooting anybody, whether to show them it is wrong to be violent. What *I* am doing is advancing a position for the purposes of discussion. I am not publishing extremely offence cartoons, burning down buildings, or shooting people. I am typing words which express ideas, which may or may not be ones that *I* actually believe to be the best approach.)
I have an idea... let's refuse to tolerate violence in the name of any religion or other bullshit irrational belief system. Those who respond to non-violent expression with violence display an inability to reason, and it is a waste of time to try to reason with them. A response in the form of bullet seems appropriate ;)
The Danish Mohammed cartoon will is going to be the root cause of World War 3. Discuss.
Turn off your TV, Vote with your feet.
Human motivations are complex. I wouldn't expect a couple like Bill and Melinda Gates to do anything without a shred of self-interest. I expect any intelligent person to be, first and foremost, motivated by at least some level of rational self-interest at all times.
That being said, how about if we measure the "hero"ness of each by the good that they've done, regardless of ancilliary (assume the benefit is, in fact, secondary for the purposes of this comment) benefit to themselves, their family, or otherwise?
If you are intent of finding the self-interest motivation behind Gates' donations, perhaps it is simply penance for the "partially ill gotten" profit. Maybe I'm the one making a subtle comparison to Godfather 3 now ;)
Agreed, Digital Fortress blows goats. I very rarely regret reading a book (that I manage to finish), but I regret ready Digital Fortress. I put it in the same category as the movie The Net. Utter Crap.
To make sure there is at least some on-topic content in this comment, insert an Ad Hominem attack against Steve Gibson in reference to the original story in the blank space below:
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Thanks.
Well, one thing I know for sure is that their English is a hell of a lot better than my Iranian, Arabic, or even French (I'm Canadian)...
Krazy Ken Kutaragi, President of Sony Computer Entertainment, also has prior art all over video game insanity. Stupid Nintendo.
Too many people take their privacy for granted and refuse to take an active role in safeguarding their information. That is why phishing is successful. People don't think about the consequences of disclosing their information in an uncontrolable way. That is also why the spammer tactic of harvesting personal information from domain registrations, off of web pages, etc has been so successful.
I wouldn't be opposed to, lets say, breaking their fingers, or behaviorally programming them to crap their pants whenever they come within 5' of a computer input device (including keyboards, mice, keypads for ATMs, etc).
Why the defensiveness?
Face it, Google is the new 6'4" 200 lb teenage brat on the block.
Of course, if it helps geekdom sleep at night, we could collectively chant "You can make money without doing evil" out of the Google scripture... and refuse to realise that the people actually running the show are not the paragons of virtue otherwise claimed.
I say kudos to ZDNet UK for standing up to asshole search engines.
This is about engineering the creation of a hardline Islamic theocractic regime (i.e., the return of the caliphate), and the best way to do that is to terrorize the enemy that works to westernize (read "support freedom") predominantly muslim nations. There is a long history of terror and assassination used as a tactic against western incursion:
We are seeing the modern version of a conflict that is hundreds of years old, and it has nothing to do with Usama bin Laden wanting George W. Bush to convert to Islam.Unfortunately, it seems that self-awareness and a tendency towards faith-based belief systems which include a drive to reproduce both organisms and propagate the belief system appears to synergize as an adaptive trait, from a pure species survival perspective. Religiously motivated conflict helps to keep growing populations in check (assuming that war will not tend towards mutually assured destruction), while guaranteeing that the believers continue to breed and propagate the belief.
Perhaps evolution isn't going to help us out with this one any time soon.
Balance.
Both sides had philosophical guidance, whether from talking dead guys or otherwise. Balance was maintained when Vader tossed Palpatine down the shaft (shut yo mouth), then swung back marginally in the favor of the Jedi as Vader died. Luke, arguably, is balanced since he upholds the "good" of the Jedi while not embracing their passionless approach to the force... i.e., he's a bit like a good Sith or a loose-cannon Jedi.
I think that all worked out by accident, Lucas has failed to inject clue into the movies too many times for it to have been on purpose, IMO ;)
Here is the scoop. The Bill is ISP friendly (no liability for being the means of communication by which copyright infringement occurs), and will likely be Google-friendly by the same provisions. What we have is a Bill diluted from the insane brainchild of the Liberal-Heritage Ministry-Copyright Lobby circle jerk thanks to various factors, largely thanks to the efforts of everybody-who-isn't-a-blood-sucking-copyright-lobb y-group.
The Bill will go for second reading when parliament resumes, and will probably get passed before the minority Liberal government calls a vote in late winter/early spring. PM Martin has control of the government thanks to his willingness to give the NDP the budget ammendment reach-around, the Conservative leader's brilliant alienation of his only allies (the separatist Bloc Quebecois), and the voting tendencies of the Canadian public (no matter what the Liberals do to prove they are corrupt, voters in Ontario will still vote for them whether or not Stephen Harper keeps ramming his foot in his mouth).
The same may likely be true of pedantic as a useful adjective. Pedantic can also have connotations which tend towards descriptors like "detail oriented". One person's "pedantic" can be another person's "insistence on correctness". Given how fast and loose people tend to be with meaning, thus increasing noise in comparison to signal, a bit more insistence on correctness might be beneficial to communication ;)
In a more enlightened age (assuming "more" implies a vast majority of our species), religion wouldn't be necessary because we would have reason. Until then, a majority of people continue to need faith and doctrine to (mis)understand reality.
Religion is mass delusion with widespread public acceptance as "normal" cognitive function. At least we've got past widespread persecution of those who choose reason and rationality.
In Mother America, the marketing reps club you.
The fault is not in my grammar, it is in the comprehension thereof: "girlfriends" in the context of a generalization, not "girlfriends" in the context of relationships I'm claiming to have.
Oh well, at least there are less pulse engine sound effects this time around. Now if only Lucas had ditched the creature pulse sound effects...
A friend who went to see it today has told me "GO SEE STARWARS NOW, TWICE! IT IS UNFUCKINGBELIEVABLY GOOD!". Sure, Eps 1&2 are magical for lowering expectations, but based on that there is no way I'd wait another 2-3 weeks to find out if Lucas has botched it yet again.
Actually, if you grew up fearing cylon invaders, than you have far bigger problems than a little issue with sexual stereotypes ;)