Re:I really like Rein's comment
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Can you imagine how much more vehemently people would jump on Microsoft if they said something like that?
40% of UT2003 servers run on Linux. Basically, on a site like Slashdot, that makes them immune to criticism. No offense, but this is all pretty hypocritical (and mod me down to redundant if you like, as this has been said before in a hundred other threads).
Actually, the situations you describe are totally different from the concept of taxing sunlight (or solar power derived from such light). Basically, the main difference is that the water in Israel was taxed because, as you yourself said, "... it was in such short supply." Real estate can reasonably be taxed because after a while you run out of it. What I'm trying to get at here is that the sun does not run out. It shouldn't be taxed, because the amount of sunlight the earth receives is not dependant on the amount of it that is converted into electricity. We will still get all the sunlight that we would anyway, but as an added bonus we would destroy our planet and deplete expendable resources more slowly. California seems to have the exact opposite of the right idea going here...
So let me get this straight: instead of the universe collapsing and destroying everything in it, it will eventually expand far enough that it will require so much energy that all the stars will turn into black holes and everything will explode? Can't we pretty much agree that the universe will end in several billion years, regardless of whether it will implode or explode?
Yeah, but then they'd have to dumpster dive for it everywhere in the whole region. Good luck: it would be buried with thousands of other copies of Daikatana... that'd truly be a needle in a haystack.
It is cheaper for them to not use Macs in their render farm, because much of the cost of those computers goes to its image and design and case, and it is designed to go on a desk, not in a cluster. Making a 1024 cpu cluster is much more conducive to Intel than Apple, because Intel sells cpus and Apple sells the whole system. They don't want a whole system.
I don't know if I agree. Apple got the widescreen thing down pretty well: in OS X, it is very much easier to use the system with the widescreen aspect ratio.
The people that would hack an Xbox are not the same kind of people that would be willing to buy Microsoft's media center pc. They would be much more inclined to just build their own machine to do it.
All this cyber warfare is all well and good, but wouldn't it be largely wasted against Iraq? I mean, they don't exactly have all that many computers that we can hit. Contrarily, the US is extremely reliant on computers and vulnerable to attack. Until one of our possible enemies is on the same level that we are, we should be concentrating much more on defending our own infrastructure than attacking someone else's.
God, I hope they don't advertise the $30000 salary right out of high school too much. Kids should want to take this class to learn the stuff, not to make $30k the next year. Because it just isn't that much, and there isn't that much potential for a higher salary for someone who takes a job straight out of high school.
This sounds like a good way for a lot of promising young kids to get absolutely screwed (and not in the good way that most of them wouldn't mind).
If NASA could launch for 10x less, they wouldn't fire 90% of their scientists, they'd probably launch 10x more (or actually like 7x more, and stay within budget so as to spend more time/money on safety).
I agree that Safari is nice (actually, I think it's better than Omniweb), but there are some sites where the whole site is jammed into 1/10 of the screen on the left, or shifted over so that half of the site is out of view. These errors do not happen in Gecko. And while Gecko looks equally bad everywhere, it doesn't look that bad anywhere.
Not to mention all the things you can do with a Gecko browser that you can't with anything else (e.g. specific blocking of certain kinds of images, a la userContent.css). I love Safari, but I expect Apple to make extreme improvements to it before it hits 1.0 (after all, all the problems I mentioned are to be expected in beta software).
How much peroxide would $100k get you? That's a lot of money, and I'd expect a smaller company that just starts so as to make and sell peroxide would be able to either produce a lot more or a lot less peroxide for the same dollar.
What, wait 4 days? Wow! They did NOT comply, considering the fact that Opera requested that they wait until Thursday, so that the fixes could be properly tested. Opera's team was working hard all week, and Grey Magic didn't even have the decency to wait a week. A week, mind you, for a small team. That is much better than any other company can say.
Chimera seems to do a pretty decent job, but it is the only one of the 3 that always renders everything in the right place. Several of the sites I go to work perfectly with Gecko but are squashed on one side of the screen with Omniweb & Safari. I expect KHTML to improve drastically over the upcoming weeks/months, probably to the point of rivalling Gecko very soon.
He has always been saying that what he did was wrong. He isn't trying to justify his actions. All he is really saying is that he was treated worse than those actions called for, and he doesn't appreciate it.
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Yeah, 13.7 billion seems way to young...
Can you imagine how much more vehemently people would jump on Microsoft if they said something like that?
40% of UT2003 servers run on Linux. Basically, on a site like Slashdot, that makes them immune to criticism. No offense, but this is all pretty hypocritical (and mod me down to redundant if you like, as this has been said before in a hundred other threads).
Or you could claim to be a lawyer... "Yes I deserve $250/hour to play UT !"
Actually, the situations you describe are totally different from the concept of taxing sunlight (or solar power derived from such light). Basically, the main difference is that the water in Israel was taxed because, as you yourself said, "... it was in such short supply." Real estate can reasonably be taxed because after a while you run out of it. What I'm trying to get at here is that the sun does not run out. It shouldn't be taxed, because the amount of sunlight the earth receives is not dependant on the amount of it that is converted into electricity. We will still get all the sunlight that we would anyway, but as an added bonus we would destroy our planet and deplete expendable resources more slowly. California seems to have the exact opposite of the right idea going here...
So let me get this straight: instead of the universe collapsing and destroying everything in it, it will eventually expand far enough that it will require so much energy that all the stars will turn into black holes and everything will explode? Can't we pretty much agree that the universe will end in several billion years, regardless of whether it will implode or explode?
Yeah, but then they'd have to dumpster dive for it everywhere in the whole region. Good luck: it would be buried with thousands of other copies of Daikatana... that'd truly be a needle in a haystack.
Two of the guys were on Conan once. They played out a whole scene with about 15 characters.
It is cheaper for them to not use Macs in their render farm, because much of the cost of those computers goes to its image and design and case, and it is designed to go on a desk, not in a cluster. Making a 1024 cpu cluster is much more conducive to Intel than Apple, because Intel sells cpus and Apple sells the whole system. They don't want a whole system.
I don't know if I agree. Apple got the widescreen thing down pretty well: in OS X, it is very much easier to use the system with the widescreen aspect ratio.
No, almost all the posts are tripe...
The people that would hack an Xbox are not the same kind of people that would be willing to buy Microsoft's media center pc. They would be much more inclined to just build their own machine to do it.
All this cyber warfare is all well and good, but wouldn't it be largely wasted against Iraq? I mean, they don't exactly have all that many computers that we can hit. Contrarily, the US is extremely reliant on computers and vulnerable to attack. Until one of our possible enemies is on the same level that we are, we should be concentrating much more on defending our own infrastructure than attacking someone else's.
God, I hope they don't advertise the $30000 salary right out of high school too much. Kids should want to take this class to learn the stuff, not to make $30k the next year. Because it just isn't that much, and there isn't that much potential for a higher salary for someone who takes a job straight out of high school.
This sounds like a good way for a lot of promising young kids to get absolutely screwed (and not in the good way that most of them wouldn't mind).
If NASA could launch for 10x less, they wouldn't fire 90% of their scientists, they'd probably launch 10x more (or actually like 7x more, and stay within budget so as to spend more time/money on safety).
Better him than anyone else. If we send something to another planet, we want to quickly prove to the aliens there that we know how to blow shit up.
But they can still be blown up. But I seriously doubt that will happen.
I agree that Safari is nice (actually, I think it's better than Omniweb), but there are some sites where the whole site is jammed into 1/10 of the screen on the left, or shifted over so that half of the site is out of view. These errors do not happen in Gecko. And while Gecko looks equally bad everywhere, it doesn't look that bad anywhere.
Not to mention all the things you can do with a Gecko browser that you can't with anything else (e.g. specific blocking of certain kinds of images, a la userContent.css). I love Safari, but I expect Apple to make extreme improvements to it before it hits 1.0 (after all, all the problems I mentioned are to be expected in beta software).
How much peroxide would $100k get you? That's a lot of money, and I'd expect a smaller company that just starts so as to make and sell peroxide would be able to either produce a lot more or a lot less peroxide for the same dollar.
If your firewall is a FreeBSD or OpenBSD machine, it already does this. Linux just uses a 0.
What, wait 4 days? Wow! They did NOT comply, considering the fact that Opera requested that they wait until Thursday, so that the fixes could be properly tested. Opera's team was working hard all week, and Grey Magic didn't even have the decency to wait a week. A week, mind you, for a small team. That is much better than any other company can say.
Chimera seems to do a pretty decent job, but it is the only one of the 3 that always renders everything in the right place. Several of the sites I go to work perfectly with Gecko but are squashed on one side of the screen with Omniweb & Safari. I expect KHTML to improve drastically over the upcoming weeks/months, probably to the point of rivalling Gecko very soon.
I can't use USB drives at the machines at work (due to security risks of removing sensitive data).
Too bad the CIA hadn't thought of that...
Back in the day, that would have been funny.
It only takes one error to crash the whole mission. Still, that's a better record than... well, anything else.
He has always been saying that what he did was wrong. He isn't trying to justify his actions. All he is really saying is that he was treated worse than those actions called for, and he doesn't appreciate it.