Nonsense. It's easier to lobby a single entity than to lobby ~100,000 different stores. And before you go off about "my right to buy a violent game or porn video", I'm sorry but non-adults don't have rights. They are wards of their parents who make the decision of what to buy or not buy.
Atari vs. Commodore! ST vs. Amiga! Nintendo vs. Sega! Mac vs. PC! PS3 vs. Xbox 360! Ubuntu vs. Debian!
All stupid and silly arguments that serve no purpose. Especially when Debian and Ubuntu are both part of the same family. (Of course that didn't stop Catholics and protestants from fighting.) .
It's unlikely other civilizations will hear Howdy Doody or anything else. The radio and TV signals fade below the noise level of the galaxy after just 5-10 lightyears.
And now that we've switched to Digital Radio and TV, it's extremely unlikely that other civilization could decode the jumbled signal, even if they had a passing warpship pick it up.
>>>Rather, the speed of light defines the limit of knowing whether "before" and "after" have any meaning at all between objects far apart or moving at greatly different velocities.
Does anybody know what this guy is talking about???
It's not the complicated. Suppose NASA spots a supernova in 2011... it's 2000 lightyears away. That means that star actually blew up when Jesus was still a teenager.
>>>In short, our entire existence is so transient that, although it is great hubris to think we're alone, the end result is the same. We probably *are not* alone, but we'll very likely never meet any "others".
Geee.
(Walks over to safe and removes gun and bullets). You really know how to cheer a guy up. (Puts gun away). On second thought since we're all just fleeting rats, here today and gone tomorrow, there's really no reason for me to "abstain". Time to run away and rut just like a rabbit with every piece of female I can get.
By the way that's a cool spaceship. I think I'll steal it.
>>>I'm legally blind, I have no depth perception and I had a lot of trouble tracking moving objects (like frisbees or baseballs). When started playing video games I started to notice that my reflexes were getting a little better the more I played. Soon I was able to catch a frisbee >>>
"Video Games: Helping the blind to see since 1972.";-)
We need more of these stories to share with idiots that thinking gaming is bad.
>>>Well, getting them to run on those PCs by tweaking autoexec.bat and config.sys files
Should have bought an Atari, Commodore, or Amiga. These computers were plug-and-play simple and didn't make you dick around with that shit. You just inserted the game, typed LOAD, and played. Even today I still can't get the Wing Commander 1 and 2 to operate on a PC, but on my Amiga it just works.
Also I think maybe I understand now why people say, "Jr.Pac-Man is hard. I'd rather play Pac-Man." If your brain has not been trained to twitch gaming, which requires fast decisions, you too would think Junior is hard and prefer the slow-as-snails original.
Whatever wikipedia has to say is ALSO nullified by the Supreme Law of the Land. There is NO law, rule, politician, government, court, or article higher than these words:
"Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press." - "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people." - "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." - Plus the various "free speech" rights codified in the 50 State Constitutions.
Therefore any law that forbids you from saying, "President ____ should be dead," is a nonexistent law. It is nullified. It has zero force. This is not rocket science... there is no law higher than the Constitution. Simply to understand really; even for those with low IQ.
>>>vote for politicians that will enact laws to cut taxes,
Yeah I did that in 2000 and 2004. It didn't work out. It's why the Founders of this nation decided we need a Supreme Law that is higher than politicians, since they are unable to control themselves. The Law chains the politicians from trampling individual rights. .
>>>How are they forbidding protests?
In Pittsburgh some people tried to protest (peacefully) against the Corporate Bailouts and the police donned their paramilitary gear (plus tank) to make them disperse. And it's not just that one case - it seems to happen again and again that police forbid people from gathering with signs.
>>>Does that mean we have to go through security checkpoints every 100 miles on American highways?
I see you've never driven the I-8 or other highways along the mexico border. Oh and yes I agree it's "insane" the rules which have been applied to airplanes such that you can't even carry mouthwash on board.
I pay $15 for similar speed (750). And you're right - that qualifies as a drop. I don't see how anyone could disagree. I think this article is yet another example of "lying with statistics" to make a point. I said as much in the comments (that DSL dropped from ~$100 to $15 during this decade), but I bet it will never appear.
BTW is anyone else surprised by Dialup's revenue? According to the article they earned $5499 million in 1999, and $10982 million in 2006. Double. I thought dialup was supposed to be dying out, not growing?
The government "gave" us a trivial right (flag burning) while taking away the fundamental rights that REALLY matter, like forbidding protests or taking our money for redistribution to their political friends or letting us use the internet w/o being spied upon. It's like giving your wife a $40 microwave, but denying her the car she really needs. The former is a poor substitute for the latter.
>>>Its illegal to make threats against the President.
That's incorrect. Any such law is nullified by the US Constitution's Superior Law (1st, 9th, and 10th amendments). Also the Bill of Rights for all 50 states and DC. .
>>>Its also illegal to talk about bombs in airports or on a plane.
See above. Or below.
It's also commonly stated that you can't issue death threats, but the SCOTUS has ruled again and again that death threats are protected speech, if the person is unarmed. They went on to say that sometimes in the heat of a protest, somebody might say things he/she would not normally say, but it is not grounds to arrest them. It's First Amendment protected.
They also deny that iPods sometimes spuriously start smoking and then blow up (due to the Lithium battery short-circuiting), despite many many instances of it happening. So I don't know who's telling the truth - Apple or the Japanese security guards. It could go either way.
>>>Air is the medium for the electromagnetic spectrum. They're not the same thing.
If "the People" own the air (as given to them by nature), they also own the airwaves. i.e. They own the electromagnetic spectrum. The companies merely LEASE that space from the People.
In the last year it's jumped from 15 to almost 20% - why you want to force these ~25 million homes to lose Free TV and have to shell-out ~$2000 per year wireless internet, simply to get the same shows, makes no sense to me.
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Real programmers use Assembly, and make their entire OS fit on a floppy. (See Kolibri)
Nonsense. It's easier to lobby a single entity than to lobby ~100,000 different stores. And before you go off about "my right to buy a violent game or porn video", I'm sorry but non-adults don't have rights. They are wards of their parents who make the decision of what to buy or not buy.
>>>Unless he is charged and convicted, let's not hang a man in the realm of public opinion
Me too:
If this is my competition, I have nothing to worry about.
LXDE, the Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment.
Comes with http://lubuntu.net/
I like this article even better: http://blogs.computerworld.com/16651/ubuntu_vs_red_hat_who_really_contributes_the_most_to_linux
To summarize:
Atari vs. Commodore!
ST vs. Amiga!
Nintendo vs. Sega!
Mac vs. PC!
PS3 vs. Xbox 360!
Ubuntu vs. Debian!
All stupid and silly arguments that serve no purpose. Especially when Debian and Ubuntu are both part of the same family. (Of course that didn't stop Catholics and protestants from fighting.)
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Really? That's pretty advanced for a 1979 computer. Commodore didn't have any self-booting disks until they released Amiga in 1985.
>>>THIS ARTICLE is SIX YEARS OLD.
That figures.
A submission about an old 2004 article gets promoted to slashdot's front page, but my submission about SeaMonkey's new HTML5 browser gets nada. :-|
It's unlikely other civilizations will hear Howdy Doody or anything else. The radio and TV signals fade below the noise level of the galaxy after just 5-10 lightyears.
And now that we've switched to Digital Radio and TV, it's extremely unlikely that other civilization could decode the jumbled signal, even if they had a passing warpship pick it up.
>>>Rather, the speed of light defines the limit of knowing whether "before" and "after" have any meaning at all between objects far apart or moving at greatly different velocities.
Does anybody know what this guy is talking about???
It's not the complicated. Suppose NASA spots a supernova in 2011... it's 2000 lightyears away. That means that star actually blew up when Jesus was still a teenager.
>>>In short, our entire existence is so transient that, although it is great hubris to think we're alone, the end result is the same. We probably *are not* alone, but we'll very likely never meet any "others".
Geee.
(Walks over to safe and removes gun and bullets). You really know how to cheer a guy up. (Puts gun away). On second thought since we're all just fleeting rats, here today and gone tomorrow, there's really no reason for me to "abstain". Time to run away and rut just like a rabbit with every piece of female I can get.
By the way that's a cool spaceship.
I think I'll steal it.
>>>I'm legally blind, I have no depth perception and I had a lot of trouble tracking moving objects (like frisbees or baseballs). When started playing video games I started to notice that my reflexes were getting a little better the more I played. Soon I was able to catch a frisbee
>>>
"Video Games: Helping the blind to see since 1972." ;-)
We need more of these stories to share with idiots that thinking gaming is bad.
>>>I know grand theft auto helped me learn learned how to drive, and perhaps how to lose the cops.
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Ditto but for me it was Test Drive and Outrun (which had the coolest music) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxDHF8q4Mo0
>>>Well, getting them to run on those PCs by tweaking autoexec.bat and config.sys files
Should have bought an Atari, Commodore, or Amiga. These computers were plug-and-play simple and didn't make you dick around with that shit. You just inserted the game, typed LOAD, and played. Even today I still can't get the Wing Commander 1 and 2 to operate on a PC, but on my Amiga it just works.
Also I think maybe I understand now why people say, "Jr.Pac-Man is hard. I'd rather play Pac-Man." If your brain has not been trained to twitch gaming, which requires fast decisions, you too would think Junior is hard and prefer the slow-as-snails original.
Whatever wikipedia has to say is ALSO nullified by the Supreme Law of the Land.
There is NO law, rule, politician, government, court, or article higher than these words:
"Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press." - "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people." - "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." - Plus the various "free speech" rights codified in the 50 State Constitutions.
Therefore any law that forbids you from saying, "President ____ should be dead," is a nonexistent law. It is nullified. It has zero force. This is not rocket science... there is no law higher than the Constitution. Simply to understand really; even for those with low IQ.
>>>vote for politicians that will enact laws to cut taxes,
Yeah I did that in 2000 and 2004. It didn't work out. It's why the Founders of this nation decided we need a Supreme Law that is higher than politicians, since they are unable to control themselves. The Law chains the politicians from trampling individual rights.
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>>>How are they forbidding protests?
In Pittsburgh some people tried to protest (peacefully) against the Corporate Bailouts and the police donned their paramilitary gear (plus tank) to make them disperse. And it's not just that one case - it seems to happen again and again that police forbid people from gathering with signs.
I didn't say I agree with applying the same rules to private planes as public planes. I merely stated the badthought of those idiots in charge.
>>>Does that mean we have to go through security checkpoints every 100 miles on American highways?
I see you've never driven the I-8 or other highways along the mexico border. Oh and yes I agree it's "insane" the rules which have been applied to airplanes such that you can't even carry mouthwash on board.
A story about laptops (zzzz), and "Big Data" (whatever that means), and Steve Jobs possibly (but probably not) yelling at Japanese security.
I think I'll submit a story.....
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>>>Nine years ago I paid $50/month for 640kbps.
I pay $15 for similar speed (750). And you're right - that qualifies as a drop. I don't see how anyone could disagree. I think this article is yet another example of "lying with statistics" to make a point. I said as much in the comments (that DSL dropped from ~$100 to $15 during this decade), but I bet it will never appear.
BTW is anyone else surprised by Dialup's revenue? According to the article they earned $5499 million in 1999, and $10982 million in 2006. Double. I thought dialup was supposed to be dying out, not growing?
>>>I used to spend $19 for my AOL dialup internet in 2000, but now it costs $7, and I even have the option to get it free (netzero).
Likewise I can now buy DSL for only $15. It didn't used to be that cheap in year 2000.
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Yeah I think you missed my point:
The government "gave" us a trivial right (flag burning) while taking away the fundamental rights that REALLY matter, like forbidding protests or taking our money for redistribution to their political friends or letting us use the internet w/o being spied upon. It's like giving your wife a $40 microwave, but denying her the car she really needs. The former is a poor substitute for the latter.
>>>Its illegal to make threats against the President.
That's incorrect. Any such law is nullified by the US Constitution's Superior Law (1st, 9th, and 10th amendments). Also the Bill of Rights for all 50 states and DC.
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>>>Its also illegal to talk about bombs in airports or on a plane.
See above. Or below.
It's also commonly stated that you can't issue death threats, but the SCOTUS has ruled again and again that death threats are protected speech, if the person is unarmed. They went on to say that sometimes in the heat of a protest, somebody might say things he/she would not normally say, but it is not grounds to arrest them. It's First Amendment protected.
>>>a report that Apple denies
They also deny that iPods sometimes spuriously start smoking and then blow up (due to the Lithium battery short-circuiting), despite many many instances of it happening. So I don't know who's telling the truth - Apple or the Japanese security guards. It could go either way.
>>>Air is the medium for the electromagnetic spectrum. They're not the same thing.
If "the People" own the air (as given to them by nature), they also own the airwaves. i.e. They own the electromagnetic spectrum. The companies merely LEASE that space from the People.
In the last year it's jumped from 15 to almost 20% - why you want to force these ~25 million homes to lose Free TV and have to shell-out ~$2000 per year wireless internet, simply to get the same shows, makes no sense to me.
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