Only if you choose to ignore the relevant part of the section, which is "files setting up trust arrangements used as anonymizing shell structures. In its court filings, Baer claims to have been aware of the documents release since 2003 and the Swiss media had the documents in 2005. The only relevence these documents have now is that they expose the bank's ultra-rich clients suspiciously funneling money through Cayman Islands trusts nearly a decade ago."
Only on Slashdot will you find people so preoccupied with Microsoft that they don't get past their name and on to the actual statement.
Just to add to this comment, I ditched ATI's proprietary fglrx driver as soon as I could get the free driver to work at all with my x1900 Pro. Not because I am a free software zealot, but (mainly) because of stability problems. Fglrx would also give me a nasty pixelated video if used with Xv, and tearing with OpenGL output. This is for a relatively old graphics card (two generations have come since then), and ATI still haven't released a fully functional driver. An "alpha quality" driver, taken from Debian's experimental tree, served me better than ATI's professionally developed driver.(1) Alas, it didn't have any accelerated 3d, or even video overlays, which depend on the 3d engine for the newer cards, but at least it doesn't crash on logout.
Then ATI released the 3d specs (22 February), and video overlays were in place in a matter of days. I had to compile from git source, but it works. And what's more, it looks better and is faster than whatever video overlay tech you try to use in fglrx.(2) That should say something about ATI's shameful incompetence when it comes to driver development.
--- 1) I'm using a newer version of the old X.org ati driver, not radeonhd. Radeonhd doesn't work for me. Yes, I should write a bug report. 2) Sadly, it's not fully stable yet, but it's only been a week since the specs were released.
Is that so? Iceweasel 2.0.0.12, based on Firefox 2.0.0.12, finishes the benchmark in 18498.6ms on my fairly old computer (1 GB RAM, 2 GHz single core AMD 64). Firefox 2 in the linked article comes out at 29376.4ms, which, unless my eyes deceive me, is significantly worse than my results. (Opera 9.50 beta comes out at 12056.8ms, vs 10824.0ms in the article.)
It's still garbage, really. Doesn't properly support XVideo, crashes all the time, etc. For a professionally developed video driver, the quality really is shocking.
But the free R300 driver is pretty good, at least far better than ATI's proprietary fglrx. Maybe not as fast for 3d, but much better for everything else, like video (I can no longer play back 720p x264 after upgrading to an RV570). Or is that driver, too, i386 only?
I haven't demanded respect for my ideology, I haven't stated my ideology, and your interpretation of my motives and reasoning is just guesswork. For someone claiming to be interested in facts and reality, that's pretty weak.
There's not much logic to your ramblings, but just consider that the "freedom" you hold in such a high regard demands submission to it in the exact same manner as a Muslim's Allah. In other words, it's not actually freedom.
Lack of popular support for your racist agenda does not imply government censorship, neither in Europe nor on Slashdot. Why is stirring hatred against a religious and ethnic minority the most important freedom for you? It would severely limit theirs.
Motivation. To have human-like intelligence, you need not only to predict human motivation, you need to be motivated like a human, both to discern relevant from irrelevant and to give the impression of actually understanding and not merely calculating the other. Hunger is just one basic example. Much human experience is also derived from food, and it's experience we have in common. We know, without trying and without having built a fucking database, that some foods will go well together and some won't. And so we also know, linguistically, how to make jokes by combining food words that are ridiculous together (and thus English cuisine was invented).
This kind of intelligence doesn't make you super smart, but that's not the point. The point is to make the smartness human-like. You won't get there by looking at abstract logic.
Odds? If only these AI dweebs would pay off their debts for the bets they made for the exact same thing 30 years ago and 20 years ago. Human level AI is always "20 years in the future". But the only AI we have now is one that can process simple information that it has gathered from a strict set of rules (and then it's already much better than we are). Wake me up when an AI knows what it's like to be hungry (a fairly basic experience needed for understanding people, and an AI that doesn't isn't "human-level"), an AI that can cook creatively, and knows whether what it has cooked looks and tastes good, and then can discuss the latest Star Wars remake without resorting to autist level idiocy about Han Solo shooting first or not while you're eating. An AI may beat you at a game of chess, but it won't brag about it afterwards in metaphors taken from a movie or a book of its own choice. Sorry, but it will never happen, not only because it's impossible, but also because there's no need for such an AI. AIs are developed to perform specific operations, not to be your robot friend.
Also, what you're saying about scientific discovery is a tautology: when it "discovers" something irreproducible, it's not yet considered a discovery at all. When something is discovered, it's also discovered reproducibly. That's a fucking necessity for scientific discovery right there, of course science won't find anything else! Outside the scope of science lies all subjective experience, which is where actual human intelligence resides (the idea of intersubjectivity is what makes us recognise understanding, intelligence, in the other person). Your argument seems radically irrelevant.
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Bullshit. There was absolutely no political risk for John McCain to go against torture, as someone who had experienced it first hand himself, it only reinforced his image as a man of integrity and superior morals, while reminding people of his own heroic history (which it truly is, btw). Of course the administration were able to convince him that torture is OK if you do it under another name, which is why some people in this thread uphold the ridiculous claim that waterboarding isn't torture. And you wonder why civil liberties are eroded when the government is given unlimited power of euphemistic redefinition. No, sir, you're not under arrest, you're in detention.
Even though I think you're a complete and utter idiot, whose comments I mod down whenever I have mod points on this stupid site, I have to put you on my "friends list" for that comment, cts.
Why would Adobe release a fix? Well, let's see -- perhaps they want to have their software working on actual computers sold today. They have to adapt to Apple, not the other way around.
At any rate, you're just proving my point that you people will blame anyone but Apple when they fuck up. Changing an API in a stable release is just that.
Of course it happens. I remember back in the old days, Debian's KDE developer abandoned the packages at one point because the libpng developers broke its PNG support. But that was in Debian unstable, which is expected to break. I remember having vast problems with Media Player 11 for Windows (it broke the firmware updater for a Creative Labs mp3 player, and the new firmware needed WMP 11, IIRC), but that was a new major version, and stuff from Creative is supposed to break anyway, since it's garbage.
This is a minor update to a stable OS (yes, it's part of the OS), and Apple fucked it up royally. If you expect this to happen, you have far too low expectations.
It never ceases to amaze me how Apple fanboys are willing to blame everyone but Apple when Apple fucks up something. But oh no, Apple 'just works', and when they 'just stop working', it's always the user's or someone else's fault.
Hello. This is an update to a stable operating system, not some beta kernel module downloaded from Sourceforge.
Bollocks. Evolution is a fact of life. Darwin's theory of the origin of species is a theory. There is a conflict between creationism and Darwin's theory, in that the latter can form usably hypotheses whereas creationism can't. It's science vs not even pseudoscience. Sure you may believe in God while still recognising evolution, and the theory of evolution, but backing creationism as an viable alternative to science is the stuff of religious demagoguery.
Ron Paul backs creationism, and that makes him a bible thumper in my book. I suggest you google it if you don't believe me.
Oh, and if there's a place for spreading disinformation, Slashdot is it. If something is repeated often enough, moderated highly enough, people will believe in it, even if it's total and utter bullshit. There are few places better for disinformation than Slashdot. Hell, anyone can post it, without any editorial oversight apart from the moderators, who will rate anything they agree with, no matter how ludicrous (hence the seemingly massive support for various fringe phenomena, like Ron Paul). But calling Ron Paul a bible thumper isn't disinformation, although it certainly is slightly trollish.
If you'd ever tried to write something for a demanding publisher, you'd certainly find that the document goes back and forth between yourself and the editor a few times. Then you need Word's commenting feature as well as its editing mode. You can, in fact, use these features with RTF, but they are implemented poorly in OpenOffice.org, and worse in AbiWord, so you really end up wanting to use Word just to be able to communicate properly with the editor.
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Only if you choose to ignore the relevant part of the section, which is "files setting up trust arrangements used as anonymizing shell structures. In its court filings, Baer claims to have been aware of the documents release since 2003 and the Swiss media had the documents in 2005. The only relevence these documents have now is that they expose the bank's ultra-rich clients suspiciously funneling money through Cayman Islands trusts nearly a decade ago."
Only on Slashdot will you find people so preoccupied with Microsoft that they don't get past their name and on to the actual statement.
Just to add to this comment, I ditched ATI's proprietary fglrx driver as soon as I could get the free driver to work at all with my x1900 Pro. Not because I am a free software zealot, but (mainly) because of stability problems. Fglrx would also give me a nasty pixelated video if used with Xv, and tearing with OpenGL output. This is for a relatively old graphics card (two generations have come since then), and ATI still haven't released a fully functional driver. An "alpha quality" driver, taken from Debian's experimental tree, served me better than ATI's professionally developed driver.(1) Alas, it didn't have any accelerated 3d, or even video overlays, which depend on the 3d engine for the newer cards, but at least it doesn't crash on logout.
Then ATI released the 3d specs (22 February), and video overlays were in place in a matter of days. I had to compile from git source, but it works. And what's more, it looks better and is faster than whatever video overlay tech you try to use in fglrx.(2) That should say something about ATI's shameful incompetence when it comes to driver development.
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1) I'm using a newer version of the old X.org ati driver, not radeonhd. Radeonhd doesn't work for me. Yes, I should write a bug report.
2) Sadly, it's not fully stable yet, but it's only been a week since the specs were released.
Is that so? Iceweasel 2.0.0.12, based on Firefox 2.0.0.12, finishes the benchmark in 18498.6ms on my fairly old computer (1 GB RAM, 2 GHz single core AMD 64). Firefox 2 in the linked article comes out at 29376.4ms, which, unless my eyes deceive me, is significantly worse than my results. (Opera 9.50 beta comes out at 12056.8ms, vs 10824.0ms in the article.)
It was coughing up blood just last night.
This comment exemplifies how broken the Slashdot moderation system is.
It's still garbage, really. Doesn't properly support XVideo, crashes all the time, etc. For a professionally developed video driver, the quality really is shocking.
But the free R300 driver is pretty good, at least far better than ATI's proprietary fglrx. Maybe not as fast for 3d, but much better for everything else, like video (I can no longer play back 720p x264 after upgrading to an RV570). Or is that driver, too, i386 only?
I haven't demanded respect for my ideology, I haven't stated my ideology, and your interpretation of my motives and reasoning is just guesswork. For someone claiming to be interested in facts and reality, that's pretty weak.
There's not much logic to your ramblings, but just consider that the "freedom" you hold in such a high regard demands submission to it in the exact same manner as a Muslim's Allah. In other words, it's not actually freedom.
Lack of popular support for your racist agenda does not imply government censorship, neither in Europe nor on Slashdot. Why is stirring hatred against a religious and ethnic minority the most important freedom for you? It would severely limit theirs.
Motivation. To have human-like intelligence, you need not only to predict human motivation, you need to be motivated like a human, both to discern relevant from irrelevant and to give the impression of actually understanding and not merely calculating the other. Hunger is just one basic example. Much human experience is also derived from food, and it's experience we have in common. We know, without trying and without having built a fucking database, that some foods will go well together and some won't. And so we also know, linguistically, how to make jokes by combining food words that are ridiculous together (and thus English cuisine was invented).
This kind of intelligence doesn't make you super smart, but that's not the point. The point is to make the smartness human-like. You won't get there by looking at abstract logic.
Odds? If only these AI dweebs would pay off their debts for the bets they made for the exact same thing 30 years ago and 20 years ago. Human level AI is always "20 years in the future". But the only AI we have now is one that can process simple information that it has gathered from a strict set of rules (and then it's already much better than we are). Wake me up when an AI knows what it's like to be hungry (a fairly basic experience needed for understanding people, and an AI that doesn't isn't "human-level"), an AI that can cook creatively, and knows whether what it has cooked looks and tastes good, and then can discuss the latest Star Wars remake without resorting to autist level idiocy about Han Solo shooting first or not while you're eating. An AI may beat you at a game of chess, but it won't brag about it afterwards in metaphors taken from a movie or a book of its own choice. Sorry, but it will never happen, not only because it's impossible, but also because there's no need for such an AI. AIs are developed to perform specific operations, not to be your robot friend.
Also, what you're saying about scientific discovery is a tautology: when it "discovers" something irreproducible, it's not yet considered a discovery at all. When something is discovered, it's also discovered reproducibly. That's a fucking necessity for scientific discovery right there, of course science won't find anything else! Outside the scope of science lies all subjective experience, which is where actual human intelligence resides (the idea of intersubjectivity is what makes us recognise understanding, intelligence, in the other person). Your argument seems radically irrelevant.
Bullshit. There was absolutely no political risk for John McCain to go against torture, as someone who had experienced it first hand himself, it only reinforced his image as a man of integrity and superior morals, while reminding people of his own heroic history (which it truly is, btw). Of course the administration were able to convince him that torture is OK if you do it under another name, which is why some people in this thread uphold the ridiculous claim that waterboarding isn't torture. And you wonder why civil liberties are eroded when the government is given unlimited power of euphemistic redefinition. No, sir, you're not under arrest, you're in detention.
Nice sales pitch, but you have to jailbreak the Ipod touch for it to work with libgpod. http://gtkpod.wikispaces.com/FAQ#JailBroken
Even though I think you're a complete and utter idiot, whose comments I mod down whenever I have mod points on this stupid site, I have to put you on my "friends list" for that comment, cts.
Why would Adobe release a fix? Well, let's see -- perhaps they want to have their software working on actual computers sold today. They have to adapt to Apple, not the other way around.
At any rate, you're just proving my point that you people will blame anyone but Apple when they fuck up. Changing an API in a stable release is just that.
Well, you could just read the comment I replied to, for instance.
Of course it happens. I remember back in the old days, Debian's KDE developer abandoned the packages at one point because the libpng developers broke its PNG support. But that was in Debian unstable, which is expected to break. I remember having vast problems with Media Player 11 for Windows (it broke the firmware updater for a Creative Labs mp3 player, and the new firmware needed WMP 11, IIRC), but that was a new major version, and stuff from Creative is supposed to break anyway, since it's garbage.
This is a minor update to a stable OS (yes, it's part of the OS), and Apple fucked it up royally. If you expect this to happen, you have far too low expectations.
I came up with it when reading the comment I replied to. At the moment, it was at +5, so it's clearly supported by a few.
It never ceases to amaze me how Apple fanboys are willing to blame everyone but Apple when Apple fucks up something. But oh no, Apple 'just works', and when they 'just stop working', it's always the user's or someone else's fault.
Hello. This is an update to a stable operating system, not some beta kernel module downloaded from Sourceforge.
I imagine the gentleman is looking to buy stuff, not sell it. Not a proper Apple fanboi, in other words.
Bollocks. Evolution is a fact of life. Darwin's theory of the origin of species is a theory. There is a conflict between creationism and Darwin's theory, in that the latter can form usably hypotheses whereas creationism can't. It's science vs not even pseudoscience. Sure you may believe in God while still recognising evolution, and the theory of evolution, but backing creationism as an viable alternative to science is the stuff of religious demagoguery.
Ron Paul backs creationism, and that makes him a bible thumper in my book. I suggest you google it if you don't believe me.
Oh, and if there's a place for spreading disinformation, Slashdot is it. If something is repeated often enough, moderated highly enough, people will believe in it, even if it's total and utter bullshit. There are few places better for disinformation than Slashdot. Hell, anyone can post it, without any editorial oversight apart from the moderators, who will rate anything they agree with, no matter how ludicrous (hence the seemingly massive support for various fringe phenomena, like Ron Paul). But calling Ron Paul a bible thumper isn't disinformation, although it certainly is slightly trollish.
He's also a bible thumping lunatic.
If you'd ever tried to write something for a demanding publisher, you'd certainly find that the document goes back and forth between yourself and the editor a few times. Then you need Word's commenting feature as well as its editing mode. You can, in fact, use these features with RTF, but they are implemented poorly in OpenOffice.org, and worse in AbiWord, so you really end up wanting to use Word just to be able to communicate properly with the editor.