Not even if George Clooney goes back in time to before he was annoying, then signs up for episodes where he has to stop zombie Marc Green from destroying the world with his hordes of darkness.
But I have a feeling it won't last long... OpenSolaris is even more niche that FreeBSD. Once it's obvious the cost of giving people the choice is more than the the extra business it brings in it'll get dropped like a stone.
That's a bad analogy. Knives were most definitely first created for killing -- well, hunting anyway. Early man needed to kill and slaughter beasts for food, so they sharpened stones. Eventually they refined the sharpened stones -- well, you get the idea.
Um, no... That is. A breadknife was first created for cutting bread. Your argument says that all items with certain properties have the same usage. I.e. Cows are mammals, we eat cows. Humans are mammals, we should eat them too.
Well, that's all fine and dandy, but ignoring (for now) hydrogen generation being rather difficult to do in volume and cheaply, Electricity generation itself isn't exactly efficient as it's implemented now...
I get that submarines need computer systems, but my thinking was that they were meant to be discreet custom systems with redundant backups - so you'd have one for propulsion, one for missile control, one for life support etc. Surely having several systems controlled by one computer system is a step backward. A virus that gets into navigation now affects lighting...
I can see a time in the not too distant future where the likes of the hated spore DRM make an appearance on consoles, stopping you from lending the products to friends and selling it secondhand when you're bored with it. This kind of distribution platform normally stops this activity and downloading / activating the games *you've paid for* on a new / replacement / wiped console without a lengthy email correspondence with someone who really couldn't give a shit.
I bought Gears of War 2, and frankly, it's the most amazing game I've played all year. But I have an issue, and it's specifically with the downloadable content.
Basically, people who buy the game new get to download a map pack that (seemingly) is more popular that the "shipped" ones. This means I can't lend it to a friend so he can try it out, and it means I can't sell it to a second hand store if I get bored with it and have the person who buys it have the "complete" product. They've got to buy a new one. It forces people to purchase a new copy, driving up revenue.
Sorry, I was tired and annoyed when I wrote my original comment. I just think that it's a waste of time *for a workstation*. It makes more sense to have the drive in a machine that can already support it and get the data over the wire. The filesystem should be more or less transparent to the user.
My point is not to rubbish the development effort, I'm sure it's significant, and I have my own projects. My point is that it's duplicated effort. Interesting, for sure, but there are more intelligent ways to move data around than mounting a minix / OS2 / whatever drive on a system that was never meant to support them.
Ummm...
Why bother?
If the functionality is really *that* important, why not just install Linux, which already has support for these filesystems?
I mean, if you've got a hard on for a proprietary OS that crashes just as much as modern versions of windows do (albeit with less bloat) then I get it. But only then.
Never liked the character, so never read any,if I'm honest. Marvel's mostly spangly jumpsuits and I can't be bothered with it. Punisher's an exception, but then I think I like the noir-ish stuff more than straight superheros.
And he's written by Garth Ennis most of the time.
What's your point? Any SCOTUS ruling that isn't 9-0 is somehow not the law of the land? In that case, I guess we can get rid of Roe v. Wade, Miranda v. Arizona and Lawrence v. Texas.
Lawrence v Texas repealed a set of laws which were based in religious teachings, and so violated the seperation of Church and State.
Every Republican president has since Roe V. Wade has made half arsed attempts to get the ruling either overturned, or superseded by what they consider to be more reasonable laws (Generally rape and incest)
Miranda V. Arizona. One word rebuttal. "Guantanamo".
Rulings by the Supreme court are routinely ignored by executive power that is essentially above their rule.
If you want to change it then go ahead. I'll make you a deal: If you can get 39 of the states to ratify an amendment that negates the 2nd amendment then I'll shut up about gun rights. In the absence of such an amendment it's not simply not defensible to regulate a constitutionally protected right into the ground.
The NSA's Warrantless wiretaps have not been ruled. Probably because according to Katz v. United States it constitutes a search and would violate the fourth ammendment. This again, is not defensible. But it raises an interesting point.
a. The Constitution is held as irrelevant by government when it conflicts with their goals. If guns were for keeping the government in line, which is the contention of many pro second amendment activists they;d be banned in a heartbeat.
b. You can get Americans to go for anything if you scare them enough. Guns just aren't seen as weapons. If they were, people would worried that they were so easily available. You don't see many of the relatives of any gunshot murder campaigning for easier access to guns.
Yeah, because criminals never use guns on citizens during the course of their "careers"
Criminals follow the path of least resistance. If posession of an illegal firearm constituted a minimum five year prison term (Like it does in England or many other places with similar laws). They'd just go back to beating people up. Normal people tend to not be able to defend themselves against someone who can throw a punch anyway.
I'd also like to say that I'm not anti-gun. I just feel that the existing controls are far, far, far too lax. I'd rather see them licensed with extreme punitive measures for those who don't comply.
By that logic we shouldn't let law enforcement officers have guns either.
Quite. By default I don't think they should. Firearms should be issued only to specialist tac team, like the SO19 in England. Obviously that's not an option now, since every criminal in the states has a gun. Because the Police have them. I don't, however, believe it's a requirement for police to carry guns.
No, your missing the point entirely. A) You can't ban guns unless you want to gut the Constitution. B) What part of the 'War on Drugs' makes you think the Government can declare something illegal and all of a sudden it's impossible to obtain said illegal item?
a). Grow up. Freedom and justice for all unless (at the time of signing) you were a slave. It's a piece of paper revered for perceived national pride. There is no reason it can't be changed. But that's a different argument.
b). That's not what I'm saying. If the only way to obtain something is illegal and difficult, the chances are, whoever owns one is going to use it on someone who has also got an illegally obtained weapon.
I thought the major source was east Asian gangsters taking prints from cinemas they have a stake in and transferring the prints digitally, which then find their way to the wider internets...
Still plenty of cams about, though.
Also -1 getting the joke;-)
The winter solstice occurs between 20/12 and 23/12. It's been moved to a former pagan holiday.
Anyways, he'd forgive us. That's his deal.
That and being a parable.
I really like them, they seem to capture the source material way better than other comic to film transfers.
Just look to the works of Alan Moore for proof of how bad they can get.
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Not even if George Clooney goes back in time to before he was annoying, then signs up for episodes where he has to stop zombie Marc Green from destroying the world with his hordes of darkness.
Not even then
But I have a feeling it won't last long... OpenSolaris is even more niche that FreeBSD. Once it's obvious the cost of giving people the choice is more than the the extra business it brings in it'll get dropped like a stone.
Suing people who don't download, but also don't buy, for loss of revenue? A tax for the joy of Britney's continued presence in the music world?
That's a bad analogy. Knives were most definitely first created for killing -- well, hunting anyway. Early man needed to kill and slaughter beasts for food, so they sharpened stones. Eventually they refined the sharpened stones -- well, you get the idea.
Um, no... That is. A breadknife was first created for cutting bread. Your argument says that all items with certain properties have the same usage. I.e. Cows are mammals, we eat cows. Humans are mammals, we should eat them too.
Hell, wherever they come from, they don't *need* to be forced in in double handfuls...
Dear God, no. Not NBC, thank you. We'll happily take HBO off your hands, though...
... when this woman proves that you don't even have to be very creative to use the interweb to get other people's money...
Well, that's all fine and dandy, but ignoring (for now) hydrogen generation being rather difficult to do in volume and cheaply, Electricity generation itself isn't exactly efficient as it's implemented now...
Who's certain that Li-ion batteries are going to be the way forward? Last time I checked, Hydrogen fuel cells were the way forward...
Sure, if you wanna take one almost-monopoly and replace it with one who will only let you run their software on machines they'll sell you.
95% of people only need a Word processor, a browser and photoshop. You can get that with any OS from the last ten years...
But you can you still not get access to all the cores / whatever they're called?
I get that submarines need computer systems, but my thinking was that they were meant to be discreet custom systems with redundant backups - so you'd have one for propulsion, one for missile control, one for life support etc. Surely having several systems controlled by one computer system is a step backward. A virus that gets into navigation now affects lighting...
I can see a time in the not too distant future where the likes of the hated spore DRM make an appearance on consoles, stopping you from lending the products to friends and selling it secondhand when you're bored with it. This kind of distribution platform normally stops this activity and downloading / activating the games *you've paid for* on a new / replacement / wiped console without a lengthy email correspondence with someone who really couldn't give a shit.
I bought Gears of War 2, and frankly, it's the most amazing game I've played all year. But I have an issue, and it's specifically with the downloadable content.
Basically, people who buy the game new get to download a map pack that (seemingly) is more popular that the "shipped" ones. This means I can't lend it to a friend so he can try it out, and it means I can't sell it to a second hand store if I get bored with it and have the person who buys it have the "complete" product. They've got to buy a new one. It forces people to purchase a new copy, driving up revenue.
Thin end of the wedge.
Sorry, I was tired and annoyed when I wrote my original comment. I just think that it's a waste of time *for a workstation*. It makes more sense to have the drive in a machine that can already support it and get the data over the wire. The filesystem should be more or less transparent to the user.
In addition to the solution already given, can I suggest "virtual ethernet connection".
If you've got enough time to make isos to move data back and forth youve got time to learn how to use the vm properly...
My point is not to rubbish the development effort, I'm sure it's significant, and I have my own projects. My point is that it's duplicated effort. Interesting, for sure, but there are more intelligent ways to move data around than mounting a minix / OS2 / whatever drive on a system that was never meant to support them.
Ummm... Why bother? If the functionality is really *that* important, why not just install Linux, which already has support for these filesystems? I mean, if you've got a hard on for a proprietary OS that crashes just as much as modern versions of windows do (albeit with less bloat) then I get it. But only then.
Never liked the character, so never read any,if I'm honest. Marvel's mostly spangly jumpsuits and I can't be bothered with it. Punisher's an exception, but then I think I like the noir-ish stuff more than straight superheros. And he's written by Garth Ennis most of the time.
Hong Kong / China are west Asia now?
What's your point? Any SCOTUS ruling that isn't 9-0 is somehow not the law of the land? In that case, I guess we can get rid of Roe v. Wade, Miranda v. Arizona and Lawrence v. Texas.
Lawrence v Texas repealed a set of laws which were based in religious teachings, and so violated the seperation of Church and State. Every Republican president has since Roe V. Wade has made half arsed attempts to get the ruling either overturned, or superseded by what they consider to be more reasonable laws (Generally rape and incest) Miranda V. Arizona. One word rebuttal. "Guantanamo". Rulings by the Supreme court are routinely ignored by executive power that is essentially above their rule.
If you want to change it then go ahead. I'll make you a deal: If you can get 39 of the states to ratify an amendment that negates the 2nd amendment then I'll shut up about gun rights. In the absence of such an amendment it's not simply not defensible to regulate a constitutionally protected right into the ground.
The NSA's Warrantless wiretaps have not been ruled. Probably because according to Katz v. United States it constitutes a search and would violate the fourth ammendment. This again, is not defensible. But it raises an interesting point.
a. The Constitution is held as irrelevant by government when it conflicts with their goals. If guns were for keeping the government in line, which is the contention of many pro second amendment activists they;d be banned in a heartbeat.
b. You can get Americans to go for anything if you scare them enough. Guns just aren't seen as weapons. If they were, people would worried that they were so easily available. You don't see many of the relatives of any gunshot murder campaigning for easier access to guns.
Yeah, because criminals never use guns on citizens during the course of their "careers"
Criminals follow the path of least resistance. If posession of an illegal firearm constituted a minimum five year prison term (Like it does in England or many other places with similar laws). They'd just go back to beating people up. Normal people tend to not be able to defend themselves against someone who can throw a punch anyway.
I'd also like to say that I'm not anti-gun. I just feel that the existing controls are far, far, far too lax. I'd rather see them licensed with extreme punitive measures for those who don't comply.
The Supreme Court disagrees with you.
They disagree with each other.
By that logic we shouldn't let law enforcement officers have guns either.
Quite. By default I don't think they should. Firearms should be issued only to specialist tac team, like the SO19 in England. Obviously that's not an option now, since every criminal in the states has a gun. Because the Police have them. I don't, however, believe it's a requirement for police to carry guns.
No, your missing the point entirely. A) You can't ban guns unless you want to gut the Constitution. B) What part of the 'War on Drugs' makes you think the Government can declare something illegal and all of a sudden it's impossible to obtain said illegal item?
a). Grow up. Freedom and justice for all unless (at the time of signing) you were a slave. It's a piece of paper revered for perceived national pride. There is no reason it can't be changed. But that's a different argument.
b). That's not what I'm saying. If the only way to obtain something is illegal and difficult, the chances are, whoever owns one is going to use it on someone who has also got an illegally obtained weapon.
I thought the major source was east Asian gangsters taking prints from cinemas they have a stake in and transferring the prints digitally, which then find their way to the wider internets... Still plenty of cams about, though. Also -1 getting the joke ;-)
The winter solstice occurs between 20/12 and 23/12. It's been moved to a former pagan holiday. Anyways, he'd forgive us. That's his deal. That and being a parable.
I really like them, they seem to capture the source material way better than other comic to film transfers. Just look to the works of Alan Moore for proof of how bad they can get.
If Jesus comes finds out that we're using his birthday as an excuse to peddle images of his dad's side projects he's going to come back packing heat.