So... a heap of stone, which doubtless claimed thousands of lives during construction as well as binding production capacity of a nation for decades that could have been invested into future growth infrastructure. And all that for the single purpose of easing one man's afterlife - gobbling up tremendous amounts of other various kinds of resources which could have improved actual lives.of many That is what you consider to be a humanity's great achievement? We're a bunch of poor little bastards then...
There are definitely differences in the ability to display non-native resolutions between LCDs. I'm not an LCD expert and am not sure if this is because of a better matrix technology like IPS or just because such panels will command a price premium so the manufacturers can afford to equip them with better scaling and interpolation hardware. Look at the Dell Ultrasharps for example. Google up some reviews, non-native gaming on them is quite good.
Can't say I agree completely with your list, but I'll add to #3 "Lack of quality control" an aspect I'd call #11 "Lack of reliability".
I once had date (GNU coreutils) give the output "Today is Prickle-Prickle, the 12nd day of The Aftermath in the YOLD 3172". Now, at the time, it was just an amusing prank, but if I had a critical script depend on the date output...
I see this as an inherent problem with open source software -- anyone can contribute and the package maintainer can't be expected to review all the code. If the author did such a prank on say Microsoft's payroll, he'd be fired after the first bug report, a powerful incentive to behave. But there's no such incentive for the hobbyists coding for GNU.
>recent history is what has happened in the last decade
Can't believe this was said on/. The dissolution of the British Empire, creation of the European Union, Vietnam War, Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, death of Martin Luther King, the shah's leaving Iran, fall of the Soviet Union (to name just a couple examples from 1950 onwards) is just a bunch of esoteric facts? None of them impact you today? You can comprehend all the current happenings without regarding them?
I suggest you add reading a history book into your multitasking mix of twitter, cell phone, jabber or whatever. You'll thank yourself later.
You are in a room at a club. It is dark. A cute girl is wearing a T shirt with an XKCD cartoon on it. Her name is Tina, she is studying for a PhD in physics....
Please don't tell me that someone somewhere is really devoting research grants to study nose-picking... duh, in the meantime NASA's Europa mission is being postponed for years because of budget cuts...
They are working on it. Look
here or
here. While linux xvba driver support seems almost finished, it might take a while before user space applications make use of the capability.
Well said. I too wish the media distributors would stop trying to lock down the content with DRM and haul file-sharers to court. Instead, their time would be better spent on working with those "pirates" who actually desire to be their customers and are willing to pay for quality content to offer them services they want.
Why is it that I can fire up any random P2P network and download Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming profesionally-looking pdf but can't buy a legal ebook? Why am I denied Amazon's music tracks download because I live in Central Europe? The P2P network does not make any such restrictions. Why does a legally purchased game bother me with all kind of protection crap and then the need to have the physical medium in the drive all the time? I can download a fully functional cracked game with no-cd patches applied.
If these measures are really taken to prevent piracy, someone should be congratulated on a job well done. It definitely makes me a pirate. The thing is, the P2P networks simply offer services that the legal channels do not.
That said, I do not agree with legalised file-sharing and the pirate party will never receive my vote (what exactly is shared other than previously purchased content. Apply Kant's categorical imperative and see that the very idea of legal P2P networks is self-contradictory) but maybe they can make the media distributors realise how broken their policies are and fix them. One can hope...
>You mean like in the 2nd world war where the Soviets crushed 3/4 of the Wermacht on the Eastern front before a single boat landed on Normandy's beaches?
You realize wars can be waged in various ways aside from launching boats across a channel - with the lend lease to the Soviet Union and what not. More importantly, United States were a huge potential ground threat and with the naval supremacy safely in the hands of the Western Allies, wehrmacht had to keep substantial reserves guarding the Atlantic wall, the Balkan, Italy against a possible invasion. With the regular occupation force, this could have amounted to perhaps over a hundred divisions. Without the USA in war with Germany, these divisions would be rampaging through Russia, doing all kinds of nasty things to the Red Army. The USA did not win ww2 by themselves, but neither did the Soviets, remember that.
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> known the answer to the existential question "who am i"?
Well, nice thing to know for sure. On the other hand though, UNIX just turned 40, and it still does not know how to "make love", sad...
>Secondly North Korea has vast amounts of artillery aimed at Seoul
Is it really possible for North Korean artillery to fire at Seoul? When looking at a map, Seoul seems to be almost 50 km from North Korean borders. Now, I think WW2 battleships could fire at targets over 15 km away, but is there artillery with almost 50 km range of fire? Or do you mean some kind of rocket based weapons? What's the maximum range of artillery, anyway?
>I don't like the idea that the U.S. Army is at the mercy of a private entity
The Army is largely equipped by contracts from private companies. Back in March, European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co. won over Boeing the contract to manufacture hundreds of mid-air refueling airplanes for Pentagon. They are not even an american company. So what's the fuss about? Stop this paranoid "evil Microsoft" whine. You are not concerned about the US airforce using planes from a foreign private entity, but when Microsoft provides the operating system for military computers, it's the end of the world...
>The problem is people think they have all kinds of ridiculous rights and entitlements. Sorry, no one anywhere has ever had a right to making a profit.
So, you argue that after some short time, the author does no longer have a right to profit from his creation, but the rest of the world has a right of unlimited free access to it? Now, what's the source of THAT right?
"I don't see why a company should have to sell things to other countries. Despite the internet being free, things contained on the internet do not necessarily have to be geographically free."
Well I don't see why a company should have to go to lengths not to sell things to other countries. Especially digital content over the internet where your geographic location means nothing. All they should care about is whether I am a customer with enought money. Their loss, if they are going to explicitly exclude me from the set of people able to buy their goods, I am most definitily going to steal them... no idea what they expect to gain from such restrictions...
Bailouts, invisible tax... I know nothing about these things, but you guys surely sound like you're having a Wesley Mouch in Washington playing with "emergency measures"... wait, you are only joking, right?
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So ... a heap of stone, which doubtless claimed thousands of lives during construction as well as binding production capacity of a nation for decades that could have been invested into future growth infrastructure. And all that for the single purpose of easing one man's afterlife - gobbling up tremendous amounts of other various kinds of resources which could have improved actual lives.of many That is what you consider to be a humanity's great achievement? We're a bunch of poor little bastards then...
Everything is worth, what its purchaser will pay for it.
There are definitely differences in the ability to display non-native resolutions between LCDs. I'm not an LCD expert and am not sure if this is because of a better matrix technology like IPS or just because such panels will command a price premium so the manufacturers can afford to equip them with better scaling and interpolation hardware. Look at the Dell Ultrasharps for example. Google up some reviews, non-native gaming on them is quite good.
Can't say I agree completely with your list, but I'll add to #3 "Lack of quality control" an aspect I'd call #11 "Lack of reliability".
I once had date (GNU coreutils) give the output "Today is Prickle-Prickle, the 12nd day of The Aftermath in the YOLD 3172". Now, at the time, it was just an amusing prank, but if I had a critical script depend on the date output...
I see this as an inherent problem with open source software -- anyone can contribute and the package maintainer can't be expected to review all the code. If the author did such a prank on say Microsoft's payroll, he'd be fired after the first bug report, a powerful incentive to behave. But there's no such incentive for the hobbyists coding for GNU.
And by the way, what's the reference in the joke?
>recent history is what has happened in the last decade
/. The dissolution of the British Empire, creation of the European Union, Vietnam War, Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, death of Martin Luther King, the shah's leaving Iran, fall of the Soviet Union (to name just a couple examples from 1950 onwards) is just a bunch of esoteric facts? None of them impact you today? You can comprehend all the current happenings without regarding them?
Can't believe this was said on
I suggest you add reading a history book into your multitasking mix of twitter, cell phone, jabber or whatever. You'll thank yourself later.
The parent'd better be dead ... for the belly stab.
>There's a real world out there, people!
Today's selection from Google's 'quote of the day' gadget answers you.
"Joel: That's the movies, Ed. Try reality./ Ed: No thanks."
- Ellen Herman
s/movies/games/
You are in a room at a club. It is dark. A cute girl is wearing a T shirt with an XKCD cartoon on it. Her name is Tina, she is studying for a PhD in physics....
Only in a video game, buddy.
Please don't tell me that someone somewhere is really devoting research grants to study nose-picking ... duh, in the meantime NASA's Europa mission is being postponed for years because of budget cuts...
They are working on it. Look here or here. While linux xvba driver support seems almost finished, it might take a while before user space applications make use of the capability.
Well said. I too wish the media distributors would stop trying to lock down the content with DRM and haul file-sharers to court. Instead, their time would be better spent on working with those "pirates" who actually desire to be their customers and are willing to pay for quality content to offer them services they want.
Why is it that I can fire up any random P2P network and download Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming profesionally-looking pdf but can't buy a legal ebook? Why am I denied Amazon's music tracks download because I live in Central Europe? The P2P network does not make any such restrictions. Why does a legally purchased game bother me with all kind of protection crap and then the need to have the physical medium in the drive all the time? I can download a fully functional cracked game with no-cd patches applied.
If these measures are really taken to prevent piracy, someone should be congratulated on a job well done. It definitely makes me a pirate. The thing is, the P2P networks simply offer services that the legal channels do not.
That said, I do not agree with legalised file-sharing and the pirate party will never receive my vote (what exactly is shared other than previously purchased content. Apply Kant's categorical imperative and see that the very idea of legal P2P networks is self-contradictory) but maybe they can make the media distributors realise how broken their policies are and fix them. One can hope...
>You mean like in the 2nd world war where the Soviets crushed 3/4 of the Wermacht on the Eastern front before a single boat landed on Normandy's beaches?
You realize wars can be waged in various ways aside from launching boats across a channel - with the lend lease to the Soviet Union and what not. More importantly, United States were a huge potential ground threat and with the naval supremacy safely in the hands of the Western Allies, wehrmacht had to keep substantial reserves guarding the Atlantic wall, the Balkan, Italy against a possible invasion. With the regular occupation force, this could have amounted to perhaps over a hundred divisions. Without the USA in war with Germany, these divisions would be rampaging through Russia, doing all kinds of nasty things to the Red Army. The USA did not win ww2 by themselves, but neither did the Soviets, remember that.
> known the answer to the existential question "who am i"?
Well, nice thing to know for sure. On the other hand though, UNIX just turned 40, and it still does not know how to "make love", sad...
>Secondly North Korea has vast amounts of artillery aimed at Seoul
Is it really possible for North Korean artillery to fire at Seoul? When looking at a map, Seoul seems to be almost 50 km from North Korean borders. Now, I think WW2 battleships could fire at targets over 15 km away, but is there artillery with almost 50 km range of fire? Or do you mean some kind of rocket based weapons? What's the maximum range of artillery, anyway?
>I don't like the idea that the U.S. Army is at the mercy of a private entity
The Army is largely equipped by contracts from private companies. Back in March, European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co. won over Boeing the contract to manufacture hundreds of mid-air refueling airplanes for Pentagon. They are not even an american company. So what's the fuss about? Stop this paranoid "evil Microsoft" whine. You are not concerned about the US airforce using planes from a foreign private entity, but when Microsoft provides the operating system for military computers, it's the end of the world...
>The V2 could only hit 1024x768 in SLI
Well, the V2 was perfectly able to hit other places besides that, like London...
>The problem is people think they have all kinds of ridiculous rights and entitlements. Sorry, no one anywhere has ever had a right to making a profit.
So, you argue that after some short time, the author does no longer have a right to profit from his creation, but the rest of the world has a right of unlimited free access to it? Now, what's the source of THAT right?
"I don't see why a company should have to sell things to other countries. Despite the internet being free, things contained on the internet do not necessarily have to be geographically free."
Well I don't see why a company should have to go to lengths not to sell things to other countries. Especially digital content over the internet where your geographic location means nothing. All they should care about is whether I am a customer with enought money. Their loss, if they are going to explicitly exclude me from the set of people able to buy their goods, I am most definitily going to steal them ... no idea what they expect to gain from such restrictions...
"Some plants and animals may have to adapt to the collapse"
Erm ... like learning how to swin?
Bailouts, invisible tax ... I know nothing about these things, but you guys surely sound like you're having a Wesley Mouch in Washington playing with "emergency measures" ... wait, you are only joking, right?
> The interface is very inconsistent. It's also constantly popping up message windows
So, it is consistent after all?