Godwin's Law states that any sufficiently long USENET thread will result in a comparison to Nazism. It says nothing about invalidating a message, nor should it. Call a spade a spade, and call a Nazi a Nazi.
Yes, the Iraq situation would be far more dangerous, because it is a fundamentalist state. The main danger with China is that if it's population keeps growing, it will get to a point where they they are far beyond the carrying capacity of their country, and, having nothing left to lose, could demand aid with the threat of global annihilation.
That's funny. ~ 70% of the Chinese grad students in the CISE department of my university are not willing to stay here or go anywhere but back to China once they graduate.
Well, that's not true anymore. The latest Athlon XPs outperform even the P4 2GHz at pretty much every game other than Quake 3. But yeah, the previous poster's snide comment about the P4 was quite ignorant.
Moderation itself killed Slashdot a long time ago. That, and the editor's War on Trolls, which has some interesting parallels with the War on Drugs and War on Terrorism.
censoring: to examine in order to suppress or delete anything considered objectionable.
And members of the Slashdot editorial staff are being quite hypocritical, because they have stated that even "voluntary" censorship is wrong. Michael and Jamie have frequently spoken against "censorware" -- programs designed by private companies for use by parents and organizations for voluntary censorship. That is why their support for censorship on Slashdot, a private organization that has the right to censor, is hypocritical.
What about this confuses you? That's an "or" in there, not an "and". If you run a forum and delete someone's posts, you are censoring. You are a censor. You are engaging in censorship. It's your right to do that, but that doesn't change what it is.
Your definition of censorship is totally wrong. I think you're confusing the definition of censhorship with the application and scope of the First Amendment.
It's a shame you don't want to get into that topic much here, because it might put some pressure on Jamie to remove the system he checked into slashcode that bans an entire subnet when one person receives too many down-mods.
PS: I hate the 20 second thing. This will be my third attempt to ask a simple question. I only include this miniture rant so as to not resort to simply staring at the monitor like a dullard whilst indulging an ineffectual attempt to block spammers.
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There's a difference between needing the fancy auto complete functions and using the fancy auto complete functions. If they guy was actually any good then he could have used the IDE to dramatically improve his productivity. Of course, you're obviously lying, because knowledgable and skillfull people do not use Java.
or is this ultimately irrelevant since quantum computing, if we can do it effectively using whatever method, is so damn fast anyway
Quantum computing is no faster than current computation methodologies except for a certain class of problems that take advantage of the fact that a qubit, while not being measured, is not neccessarily in the "zero" state or "one" state, but is described by a state vector. By superposition the qubits can be in multiple states simultaneously. There are some problem solutions that can take advantage of this by basically performing multiple operations simultaneously.
So, while Shor's algorithm allows us to factor in polynomial time, I doubt your FPS in Quake III would be boosted on a quantum computer.
Mod people whom you disagree with as trolls, flamebait, or offtopic? You will be meta-moderated accordingly.
Did you know that if you metamod more than two items as unfair then your entire submission is thrown out and your karma is penalized? Given that a LOT of people down-mod stuff they disagree with instead of just responding, metamod is now completely useless.
The GPL was created to combat copyright laws using those laws themselves. If the law was designed around community rights instead of developer rights then there wouldn't be a need for the GPL.
Gleim Publications. I sent you an email a while ago. Sorry for never replying -- the product was released (sans tiles) a few days later, so it became a moot point, and things have been pretty hectic with new projects since.
It's simply amazing that some slashbots are in such a state of holier-than-thou denial that a simple statement of fact is modded down as a "troll." Of course they are criminials! So am I, and you say you are as well, but so many people here are too childish to admit that their "can't touch me -- information wants to be free" fantasy is not how the world works.
I made more than I did last year too, and if you tried to steal from me, i'd kick your ass..
I'm glad I stopped the company I work for from simply stealing a few Propaganda tiles as backgrounds in our software just because "it's only wallpaper files".
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It can't be #3 or #4, because the act of Penny Arcade EVER making a "really good comic" would be a far more groundbreaking event than the death of Dynamix.
Despite the "pro-Microsoft" (or at least "only-familiar-with-Microsoft" or "nobody-every-got-fired-for-buying-MS") management crowd at a lot of companies, I agree that in the (fairly near) future Linux will have a strong presence in the corporate Desktop and a stronger presence in the corporate Server markets.
Right now, Linux probably is not ready for Desktop use even in companies. The fact that companies, unlike home users, have dedicated staff to administer machines means the corporate Linux desktop will be ready before the general desktop market, but I don't think it's quite there regardless.
However, Windows is developed by a corporation. Corporations must look out for their own interest above any other concern. This means that the customer will NEVER be #1, no matter how many marketspeak ad compaigns are waged. Linux, however, is developed by community spirit. Although originally targeted towards the developer community it has gained enough appeal that many are working seriously on making it an excellent system for a general community.
This kind of thinking makes it a much more attractive platform for companies -- how much more reliable is a system where the developers are working for you rather than for themselves?
As Linux matures I have no doubt that IT managers will finally be weened off the MS-mentality and adopt a platform that won't try to screw them over to maximize the platform's parent's profits.
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Just because there are exceptions doesn't mean the point is invalid. Companies try to maximize profits, not just make "enough".
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Godwin's Law states that any sufficiently long USENET thread will result in a comparison to Nazism. It says nothing about invalidating a message, nor should it. Call a spade a spade, and call a Nazi a Nazi.
~70% were ONLY willing to go back to China. An additional 20% weren't staying in America, but weren't necessarily going back to China.
Planar and SGI. Even FPS games like Tribes 2 run on Planars without ghosting.
Yes, the Iraq situation would be far more dangerous, because it is a fundamentalist state. The main danger with China is that if it's population keeps growing, it will get to a point where they they are far beyond the carrying capacity of their country, and, having nothing left to lose, could demand aid with the threat of global annihilation.
That's funny. ~ 70% of the Chinese grad students in the CISE department of my university are not willing to stay here or go anywhere but back to China once they graduate.
Well, that's not true anymore. The latest Athlon XPs outperform even the P4 2GHz at pretty much every game other than Quake 3. But yeah, the previous poster's snide comment about the P4 was quite ignorant.
Moderation itself killed Slashdot a long time ago. That, and the editor's War on Trolls, which has some interesting parallels with the War on Drugs and War on Terrorism.
From m-w.com:
censoring: to examine in order to suppress or delete anything considered objectionable.
And members of the Slashdot editorial staff are being quite hypocritical, because they have stated that even "voluntary" censorship is wrong. Michael and Jamie have frequently spoken against "censorware" -- programs designed by private companies for use by parents and organizations for voluntary censorship. That is why their support for censorship on Slashdot, a private organization that has the right to censor, is hypocritical.
What about this confuses you? That's an "or" in there, not an "and". If you run a forum and delete someone's posts, you are censoring. You are a censor. You are engaging in censorship. It's your right to do that, but that doesn't change what it is.
Your definition of censorship is totally wrong. I think you're confusing the definition of censhorship with the application and scope of the First Amendment.
It's a shame you don't want to get into that topic much here, because it might put some pressure on Jamie to remove the system he checked into slashcode that bans an entire subnet when one person receives too many down-mods.
That's the way Slashdot works, right?
PS: I hate the 20 second thing. This will be my third attempt to ask a simple question. I only include this miniture rant so as to not resort to simply staring at the monitor like a dullard whilst indulging an ineffectual attempt to block spammers.
There's a difference between needing the fancy auto complete functions and using the fancy auto complete functions. If they guy was actually any good then he could have used the IDE to dramatically improve his productivity. Of course, you're obviously lying, because knowledgable and skillfull people do not use Java.
Quantum computing is no faster than current computation methodologies except for a certain class of problems that take advantage of the fact that a qubit, while not being measured, is not neccessarily in the "zero" state or "one" state, but is described by a state vector. By superposition the qubits can be in multiple states simultaneously. There are some problem solutions that can take advantage of this by basically performing multiple operations simultaneously.
So, while Shor's algorithm allows us to factor in polynomial time, I doubt your FPS in Quake III would be boosted on a quantum computer.
Sorry, would you prefer "neat-o"?
Did you know that if you metamod more than two items as unfair then your entire submission is thrown out and your karma is penalized? Given that a LOT of people down-mod stuff they disagree with instead of just responding, metamod is now completely useless.
The GPL was created to combat copyright laws using those laws themselves. If the law was designed around community rights instead of developer rights then there wouldn't be a need for the GPL.
Gleim Publications. I sent you an email a while ago. Sorry for never replying -- the product was released (sans tiles) a few days later, so it became a moot point, and things have been pretty hectic with new projects since.
FTP -- no, FTP has a large number of legitimate, legal uses.
Gun -- Yes, because guns are a tool for murder and should be outlawed.
It worked in Blazing Saddles.
I made more than I did last year too, and if you tried to steal from me, i'd kick your ass..
I'm glad I stopped the company I work for from simply stealing a few Propaganda tiles as backgrounds in our software just because "it's only wallpaper files".
It can't be #3 or #4, because the act of Penny Arcade EVER making a "really good comic" would be a far more groundbreaking event than the death of Dynamix.
It won't set precedent for software parents in general being illegit, only that particular one.
Right now, Linux probably is not ready for Desktop use even in companies. The fact that companies, unlike home users, have dedicated staff to administer machines means the corporate Linux desktop will be ready before the general desktop market, but I don't think it's quite there regardless.
However, Windows is developed by a corporation. Corporations must look out for their own interest above any other concern. This means that the customer will NEVER be #1, no matter how many marketspeak ad compaigns are waged. Linux, however, is developed by community spirit. Although originally targeted towards the developer community it has gained enough appeal that many are working seriously on making it an excellent system for a general community.
This kind of thinking makes it a much more attractive platform for companies -- how much more reliable is a system where the developers are working for you rather than for themselves?
As Linux matures I have no doubt that IT managers will finally be weened off the MS-mentality and adopt a platform that won't try to screw them over to maximize the platform's parent's profits.
Just because there are exceptions doesn't mean the point is invalid. Companies try to maximize profits, not just make "enough".