No, it's not. Perhaps you didn't have sex because a poor sense of humour is such a lousy aphrodisiac. It's not like being a 30 year old virgin makes you super smart or anything, AKAImBatman.
In my case I guess it had more to do with me being crude and insulting.
YHBT. Clearly 2017 is a planet name written in so-called 'elite speak'. It's the planet Zoit. That's where Wine's full Win32 API will appear first. Mr Derrida won yet again. Put that in your pipe and deconstruct it.
I don't disagree that a story about the scheduler is potentially interesting, and that it's what Slashdot used to be about. But as you can see from the above comments, it's not exactly stuff that "nerds" these days care to Google when they don't understand what it's about. Personally, I started reading this site because I ran (and run) Linux, not the other way around. So I've got nothing against this particular story, even though most of the discussion is very poor, and, sadly, typical for this site.
That said, I do disagree that Slashdot has ever been a science site. There's a lot more to science than what interests the nerd crowds (the proper nerd crowds, not the Apple fanboys and gadget freaks, who could care less about how stuff works). Science, as it concerns Slashdot, is mainly science that concerns technology. Throw in a few dinosaurs and volcanoes for good measure. It's boys' stuff. Science fiction stuff. You won't find anything about the travel patterns of herring or anything that takes the social sciences seriously (plenty of people here would even claim "it's not science", demonstrating their own lack of insight into what the scientific method(s) constitute).
That's just pure and utter drivel. Slashdot isn't and has never been a science site, unless your definition of science is 'what concerns science fiction' (i.e. stuff with computers, gadgets and robots).
Just my $0.02 If you only get $0.02 for advertising Apple products on linux.slashdot.org, then perhaps you should try going for a less saturated market.
Norway is expensive, but it's also a far richer country than USA. In terms of purchasing power parity, it's also better off than USA. In the end, all you've got is a bunch of nice economic ideology contradicted by hard data.
He's doing what he considers to be best, not what he considers to be right. It's called nepotism, which is basically what the so-called neocons stand for.
I don't know about you, but on my 64 bit Debian Sid system, the IA32 libs are in */lib32/. IA32 based apps like Enemy Territory work without chroot environments. Debian may be puritanical, but not impractical. They're not going to force you into only using free software. Where's the freedom in that?
It's not a troll, of course, and not even off topic. But I accidentally bad-mouthed the sacred HFS+ in a later comment, which is a mortal sin to Mac fanboys.
My/home partition on my main computer is ReiserFS, and has been since at least 2003. Never had problems with it. I've stored video files on that one as well. In fact, the only FS I've lost files with recently is HFS+ on my old Powerbook. I'm just saying that not having problems is what's expected. FAT32 is the poorest FS still in use, and normally you won't lose data even with that.
Well, I've used FAT32 for storing video files at home without suffering data loss, so your example isn't really worth shit. "Not suffering data loss" is standard for all modern file systems, even the poor and antiquated like FAT.
It probably will. Compressing a sine wave is much easier than compressing random noise. I'd guess the distortions on a subjectively good sounding but technically flawed recording can make it harder to compress too.
Not ot mention having icons and windows on the desktop. Those should be hanging on or embedded in the wall (but wall(1) writes messages to logged in users' terminals, so that would be equally absurd).
Satire needs to portray a specific position or attitude to be effective. This piece is just highly original rambling. No one else wants perpetual copyrights, least of all the biggest supporters of extensions of copyright, Walt Disney. What would they do if they had to start paying H. C. Andersen's family for their use of The Little Mermaid?
With perpetual copyrights, we would have perpetual heritage disputes (who owns the works of Aristotle these days?), and all important works locked away. This is just stupid.
The open drivers for ATI cards up to whatever the R300 code supports is far ahead of the open nvidia drivers. I get >100 FPS in Q3A @ 1600x1200, 32 bit colours and so on with my Radeon 9800 Pro, and can run Beryl as well. The closed drivers are probably a great deal faster, but not so much that I accept the crashes it causes.
Dude. You have positive karma. I bet you got most of it from posting those goddamn "I know I will be modded down for this, but" comments that are so insanely popular around here.
That depends on what you have on the other axis. If it's time, then you're right. If it's effort, then you have to put in a whole lot of work for almost no return.
Why? There's something very weird about someone at a teacher's college having to disguise their interests by getting books with stolen library cards. Of course, it could just as well have been done to harm my reputation, but I don't think I had any.
That actually happened to me once. My library card was stolen, and someone borrowed books about child abuse on it. The sickening part of it was that this was a library at a teacher's college. I didn't feel virtually raped, but felt someone else might get raped fo' real.
That's one point, but mine was rather that copyright law and practice has been changed to suit corporations that earlier were profiting from others not having the protection they now demand. China's breach of copyright is in this specific instance no different from The Walt Disney Company's own practice. The current U.S. copyright law is historically unjust. There's an interesting clip on Youtube about how a previously "public domain" (in a cultural rather than legal sense) six seconds long breakbbeat has now been appropriated by other copyright holders with nothing to do with the original creation. My point is that changes in copyright laws have taken works away from the public domain. That's usually considered theft.
When it comes to corporations owning copyright, I think the important word is author. Also, the Berne convention states: "However, in the case of cinematographic works, the countries of the Union may provide that the term of protection shall expire fifty years after the work has been made available to the public with the consent of the author, or, failing such an event within fifty years from the making of such a work, fifty years after the making." The same seems to go for pop recordings in some countries, although the industry is working hard to expand their ownership once again.
Actually, it's exactly what Disney is built on. Cinderella, The Little Mermaid, Pinocchio, Snow White, and oh so many more, are characters not invented by The Disney Company, but appropriated from either folk tales or popular stories fallen out of copyright -- and then slapped with an ever expanding copyright thanks to Disney's lobbying efforts. So while the original Pinocchio: Tale of a Puppet is long out of copyright (and also was at the time Disney appropriated it), The Disney Company's Pinocchio character is still copyrighted in America (I don't know how long time Chinese copyright law extends over). But the fact is that Disney's character is just as much part of popular culture as Carlo Collodi's original story was at the time Disney took it.
So why is it treated totally different by law? Copyright law is totally unjust and unfair in a historical perspective, now made to protect certain companies from what they originally profited from. But that's in America. Other countries don't necessarily have copyright protection for as long time.
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No, it's not. Perhaps you didn't have sex because a poor sense of humour is such a lousy aphrodisiac. It's not like being a 30 year old virgin makes you super smart or anything, AKAImBatman.
In my case I guess it had more to do with me being crude and insulting.
YHBT. Clearly 2017 is a planet name written in so-called 'elite speak'. It's the planet Zoit. That's where Wine's full Win32 API will appear first. Mr Derrida won yet again. Put that in your pipe and deconstruct it.
Assholes, certainily, but the morons are mostly Apple fanboys.
I don't disagree that a story about the scheduler is potentially interesting, and that it's what Slashdot used to be about. But as you can see from the above comments, it's not exactly stuff that "nerds" these days care to Google when they don't understand what it's about. Personally, I started reading this site because I ran (and run) Linux, not the other way around. So I've got nothing against this particular story, even though most of the discussion is very poor, and, sadly, typical for this site.
That said, I do disagree that Slashdot has ever been a science site. There's a lot more to science than what interests the nerd crowds (the proper nerd crowds, not the Apple fanboys and gadget freaks, who could care less about how stuff works). Science, as it concerns Slashdot, is mainly science that concerns technology. Throw in a few dinosaurs and volcanoes for good measure. It's boys' stuff. Science fiction stuff. You won't find anything about the travel patterns of herring or anything that takes the social sciences seriously (plenty of people here would even claim "it's not science", demonstrating their own lack of insight into what the scientific method(s) constitute).
That's just pure and utter drivel. Slashdot isn't and has never been a science site, unless your definition of science is 'what concerns science fiction' (i.e. stuff with computers, gadgets and robots).
Norway is expensive, but it's also a far richer country than USA. In terms of purchasing power parity, it's also better off than USA. In the end, all you've got is a bunch of nice economic ideology contradicted by hard data.
Mod parent up. Very insightful propagation of horsecock meme.
He's doing what he considers to be best, not what he considers to be right. It's called nepotism, which is basically what the so-called neocons stand for.
I don't know about you, but on my 64 bit Debian Sid system, the IA32 libs are in */lib32/. IA32 based apps like Enemy Territory work without chroot environments. Debian may be puritanical, but not impractical. They're not going to force you into only using free software. Where's the freedom in that?
It's not a troll, of course, and not even off topic. But I accidentally bad-mouthed the sacred HFS+ in a later comment, which is a mortal sin to Mac fanboys.
My /home partition on my main computer is ReiserFS, and has been since at least 2003. Never had problems with it. I've stored video files on that one as well. In fact, the only FS I've lost files with recently is HFS+ on my old Powerbook. I'm just saying that not having problems is what's expected. FAT32 is the poorest FS still in use, and normally you won't lose data even with that.
Well, I've used FAT32 for storing video files at home without suffering data loss, so your example isn't really worth shit. "Not suffering data loss" is standard for all modern file systems, even the poor and antiquated like FAT.
It probably will. Compressing a sine wave is much easier than compressing random noise. I'd guess the distortions on a subjectively good sounding but technically flawed recording can make it harder to compress too.
For some people, the idea of "free trade" includes the right to know what one is buying. Evidently not so for Bush.
Not ot mention having icons and windows on the desktop. Those should be hanging on or embedded in the wall (but wall(1) writes messages to logged in users' terminals, so that would be equally absurd).
Satire needs to portray a specific position or attitude to be effective. This piece is just highly original rambling. No one else wants perpetual copyrights, least of all the biggest supporters of extensions of copyright, Walt Disney. What would they do if they had to start paying H. C. Andersen's family for their use of The Little Mermaid?
With perpetual copyrights, we would have perpetual heritage disputes (who owns the works of Aristotle these days?), and all important works locked away. This is just stupid.
The open drivers for ATI cards up to whatever the R300 code supports is far ahead of the open nvidia drivers. I get >100 FPS in Q3A @ 1600x1200, 32 bit colours and so on with my Radeon 9800 Pro, and can run Beryl as well. The closed drivers are probably a great deal faster, but not so much that I accept the crashes it causes.
Dude. You have positive karma. I bet you got most of it from posting those goddamn "I know I will be modded down for this, but" comments that are so insanely popular around here.
Yeah, either you use the commercial OpenSound drivers, or you use the ALSA drivers included with the kernel since 2.6.0.
That depends on what you have on the other axis. If it's time, then you're right. If it's effort, then you have to put in a whole lot of work for almost no return.
Why? There's something very weird about someone at a teacher's college having to disguise their interests by getting books with stolen library cards. Of course, it could just as well have been done to harm my reputation, but I don't think I had any.
That actually happened to me once. My library card was stolen, and someone borrowed books about child abuse on it. The sickening part of it was that this was a library at a teacher's college. I didn't feel virtually raped, but felt someone else might get raped fo' real.
That's one point, but mine was rather that copyright law and practice has been changed to suit corporations that earlier were profiting from others not having the protection they now demand. China's breach of copyright is in this specific instance no different from The Walt Disney Company's own practice. The current U.S. copyright law is historically unjust. There's an interesting clip on Youtube about how a previously "public domain" (in a cultural rather than legal sense) six seconds long breakbbeat has now been appropriated by other copyright holders with nothing to do with the original creation. My point is that changes in copyright laws have taken works away from the public domain. That's usually considered theft.
When it comes to corporations owning copyright, I think the important word is author. Also, the Berne convention states: "However, in the case of cinematographic works, the countries of the Union may provide that the term of protection shall expire fifty years after the work has been made available to the public with the consent of the author, or, failing such an event within fifty years from the making of such a work, fifty years after the making." The same seems to go for pop recordings in some countries, although the industry is working hard to expand their ownership once again.
Actually, it's exactly what Disney is built on. Cinderella, The Little Mermaid, Pinocchio, Snow White, and oh so many more, are characters not invented by The Disney Company, but appropriated from either folk tales or popular stories fallen out of copyright -- and then slapped with an ever expanding copyright thanks to Disney's lobbying efforts. So while the original Pinocchio: Tale of a Puppet is long out of copyright (and also was at the time Disney appropriated it), The Disney Company's Pinocchio character is still copyrighted in America (I don't know how long time Chinese copyright law extends over). But the fact is that Disney's character is just as much part of popular culture as Carlo Collodi's original story was at the time Disney took it.
So why is it treated totally different by law? Copyright law is totally unjust and unfair in a historical perspective, now made to protect certain companies from what they originally profited from. But that's in America. Other countries don't necessarily have copyright protection for as long time.