No, the fact that you'll get yourself in a heapload of trouble by observing something that was presented to you may not seem to be "common sense", but those are the breaks of living in this society. If you don't like it, don't post about it on Slashdot; go buy some Senators and Congressmen.
Good to see someone else has a handle on American politics. The problem is that we don't have the money to buy congressmen and senators. The system is certainly rigged in favour of big business.
This is why I get so offended when I see the US claiming that they will bring their flavour of 'democracy' to Iraq... and the rest of the world. Democracy is an absolute failure in the US. The DMCA is but one example of this fact. There are a plethory of others, and I'm sure Bush will present us with yet more examples in his coming reign of terror.
Gentoo? You're joking, right? Different binaries per system?
You don't have to have different binaries per system. You can build packages that are similar to Slackware's tgz packages, but with a more intelligent dependancy system ( ie one that exists ) behind it. So make packages on your development system, and keep the others in sync via packages.
Also keep in mind that a binary-based distro will only last until the distributor keeps updating packages. After the end of the products' life cycle, you're on your own... and that means re-installing. Gentoo can stay permanently current.
Also Gentoo is always among the first distros to have security updates.
I think it's well suited to professionals admins, but even more so for programmers.
Apparently Ubuntu is Richard Stallan's recommended distro. "Apparently"... the place where I saw this made no mention of why, but I assume it has to do with licensing issues.
Every 2 sentences the author takes a stab at anything left of the current republicans:
- socialist-minded policy wonks - The antitrust laws provide a means by which sour-grapes competitors can achieve through politics what they fail to achieve in the marketplace. - Mr. Litan commits what Hayek called the "fatal conceit" of believing that government bureaucrats, rather than entrepreneurs and consumers, are in the best position to decide what constitutes a "legitimate business purpose."
She then goes on to argue that it is monopolies, and not everybody else, that have the right to judge their own conduct! What a load of trash! I'm sure Microsoft upper-end will be flogging over this one for months to come.
She also completely ignores the fact that lower costs aren't the only factor to take into consideration when ascertaining what is best for consumers. You have to take into account things like:
- choice - quality - support - interoperability - whatever else consumers say is important
The article is so right-wing I would have told you it came straight from the Project For a New American Century" if I didn't know better. Or Microsoft. In fact I'd be pretty damned surprised if Microsoft weren't behind this 'article'.
Oh and by the way, I've never met you, but I'll bet I've contributed more to the open source code base than you have.
Sure you have. I believe it because you said it.\
And as for that trash about Win XP doing network transparancy, I believe you're talking about the VNC-like remote desktop thing they have. That's not network transparancy. And I'd be surprised if it were secure, but I don't use Windows XP, so I've never bothered to check.
Your argument is degenerating into stupidity. I'm not saying that no-one ever died while taking ecstacy. I'm just pointing out that the statistical risk of dying from ecstacy is far lower than the risk of dying from alcohol. And you can reduce the risk to zero if you are sensible about the way you take it.
It's obvious that if you dehydrate too much you will die. This risk isn't exclusive to ecstacy. If you dehydrate under any circumstances you will die. So don't dehydrate. 99.999999% of users follow this simple rule. If the occasional idiot doesn't, that's not our fault. If they didn't know about it, it's YOUR fault, because your attitude leads to a complete lack of education so kids will experiment without knowing the precautions to take to stay safe.
Same goes for you so-called 'water poisoning'. Don't drink too much water. Simple. 99.999999% of users follow this simple rule.
Getting back to alcohol - there is NO safe way to consume it. It's a poison. It kills brain cells, liver cells, kidney cells, and most likely all types of cells it comes into contact with. It severely impares your reasoning and motor skills - far worse than ecstacy does - resulting in thousands of preventable road fatalities. It's incredibly addictive. Addicts drink every day. There is no such thing as an ecstacy addict.
Still disagree? Show me ONE location on the net that points to MILLIONS of ecstacy-related deaths every year, which would make it as dangerous as alcohol, and you may still be in the argument.
Ha ha. Ha ha ha ha ha. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
Yeah laugh it up, funny boy. Great argument. Get back to drinking and watching the sports channel and remove yourself from intelligent discussion.
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Here we go again.
You're that same guy I replied to last time, right? The one with the 300 Mhz Celeron and Trident video card, and who absolutely insists that the only test that should be applied to a graphics system is how well your POS hardware can render a Mozilla window being dragged around like crazy on your desktop.
I'm not surprised it flickers. Upgrade your hardware. It doesn't flicker on mine, and even if it did, I wouldn't care, because I don't sit there dragging around windows, watching the speed they redraw at, and tossing off over the fastest system I can find. There are more important things to do... like leaving your windows in one place and doing some programming in one of them. Maybe you could even improve X?
Flashbacks are not fatal. I've never had one, and I've been using LSD for quite some time indeed. But for people who have experienced LSD before, I would imagine they would be a very minor inconvenience if and when they occured. They may even be a bonus.
As for ecstacy killing you the first time you take it... I can introduce you to a plethora of people who have taken it many times and never been anywhere near death. If you are irresponsible, then that's a different story. But then the same goes for all aspects of life. The same certainly goes for alcohol. Too much of anything is bad for you... that's why they call it "too much". People who take ecstacy typically take small, safe doses. People who take alcohol and nicotine don't - they just keep taking and taking until they're broke / pass out. Can you imagine the media frenzy that would result from a single incident where someone took so much ecstacy that they passed out? Well it happens to alcohol users every fucking day and no-one bats an eyelid.
The simple fact is that alcohol and nicotine kill more people, both percentage-wise ( ie higher death rates per user ) AND as an overall figure.
It has been shown that low to moderate alcohol use has been shown to be beneficial to your health.
What a load of trash! I'm sure the alcohol producers were the ones to 'show' this. Alcohol is a poison. ANY amount destroys brain cells and damages your liver and kidneys. That's not beneficial.
By the same token, it's also been shown that ecstacy use is beneficial to the health. It increases the likelihood of the individual getting some good exercise, and also stimulates the mind and produces new neural connections.
They're just trying to get the illegal foreign invaders out of their country. If your country was invaded, and you had some decency and some balls, you'd do the same.
It produces no soot. It just warms the plant material to a level where the THC evaporates, leaving the rest intact. When you've finished, the pot still looks the same as when you started.
Vaporizers also have the added advantage of not destroying most of the THC ( due to high temperatures created when you burn plant matter ), so it's much more efficient.
Also, people who you buy pot, you are absolutely guaranteed that you aren't getting a product that's been laced with over 100 additives that are all known carcinogens that are there simply to increase the level of addiction, or the strength of the initial 'hit' you get from smoking... such as you do with cigarettes.
But yes, I'm aware burning most things produces carcinogens.
Perhaps the real question is "What are the consumers going to do about it?"
Unfortunately with the media giants controlling the media ( interesting little coincidence ), I don't think there'll be much in the way of unbiased consumer education.
Alcohol and nicotine are the worst drugs around. They are both incredibly addictive, and there is overwhelming evidence that they are very bad for your health. Millions of people die every year because of them.
While the Christian fundamentalists will tell you that smoking pot and using LSD will send you straight to hell, there is no scientific evidence to back up any of their claims. In fact, there is not one reported case of someone dying from taking either of these two substances, either immediately or over a long period of recreational use.
I therefore find my argument quite consistant. Perhaps you haven't fully considered the effects of alcohol vs other substances?
Sorry but you're displaying your ignorance. Gambling is legal in most societies...
Sorry but you're displaying your arrogance. Just because something is legal doesn't mean it is ethical. I could give you plenty of examples, but I'll leave it up to people's imagination.
Betting on the result of a sporting event, or anything else, via a legally authorised bookmaker is no more shady than having a cup of coffee.
What sort of a dim-witted comparison is that? Gambling devastates many people's lives. That makes people who push their gambling 'services' onto us 'shady'. Having a cup of coffee has nothing to do with it.
Just because you have this image of gambling that seems to be more to do with smoke-filled secret back rooms where you have to know the password and the guy behind the bar to get in than legitimate, publicly-traded and -scrutinied businesses that doesn't make it a reality.
You don't need smoke-filled, secret rooms or passwords to have a shady business. You just need to have a deficient conscience, or excess greed, and an online gambling site. Then you sit back and wait for the poor suckers to 'click', 'click', 'click', 'click', 'click', 'click', 'click'. People don't rock up to a gambling establishment and try their luck once. They stay their until they're out of money. You can disagree with me if you like, but every time I go to a casino ( get dragged their by workmates once a year or so ), the above is what I witness.
The gambling sites being DDOSed aren't run by crooks, they're the legitimate and legal online presences of bricks-and-mortar bookmakers
I don't think so. People running gambling sites are far more likely to be dodgy than those in a physical establishment. It's far easier to police a 'real' gambling business than a virtual one, especially since a virtual one can hide it's location and reside in a place that has no regulation.
Also, I get a fucking shitload of SPAM from gambling sites. Right away that says to me that the people running the sites are far from innocent, law-abiding citizens.
You seem to try to make the point throughout your post that because something is legal, that somehow blesses the activity. I suppose the opposite of this is that everything which is illegal is patently evil. Both points are absolutely ridiculous. There are plenty of things which are legal which are evil:
- selling carcinogen-soaked cigarettes - selling alcohol - selling weapons - having a monopoly ( esp. a media monopoly )
Likewise, there are plenty of things which are illegal which are quite harmless... possibly even good... and should be legal:
- recreational drugs - not voting if there's no-one worth voting for ( Australia ) - being a member of the Iraqi resistance
I'm pretty sure that I'd get disagreement on all of the above points. This reinforces my argument that:
- you should never use the law to enforce ethical behaviour in private matters - you should never use an activity's legal status as an indicator of it's ethical status
Back to the topic of the actual article... I don't really relate to the DDOSers ( they're probably just other gambling sites or spammers who haven't been paid for their advertising services ), but I couldn't give a toss about the online gambling sites.
The difference between support on linux and support on windows is mostly statistical. Look at debian, gentoo, even freebsd. You can upgrade to stable packages (maybe not gentoo) dynamically without running a time wasting installer.
For the record, there's a lot you can do to decrease upgrade times for Gentoo systems.
The first method is by building packages on other machines. This has the added bonus of letting you test the package before rolling it out on your live system. Instead of just using:
emerge $PACKAGENAME
you use:
emerge -kb $PACKAGENAME
which will build a package, and then install from it. When you're satisfied it works, you put the package somewhere where your server can see it ( or share/usr/portage via NFS ), and:
emerge -k/path/to/$PACKAGENAME
The time it takes to install a package is the time it takes to unzip the package and dump the files onto the filesystem... ie as fast as installing an rpm.
The other trick we use is distcc, which spreads compilation jobs across multiple computers. It's an absolute pushover to set up ( 2 minute job ) and it makes things a *lot* faster.
Dr Massey said that there was nothing wrong with the theory. Instead, the observations of the stars themselves had to be improved.
This attitude has been forwarded by the incorrect for thousands of years.
I say if your theory doesn't match observation, then maybe it's your theory that has the problem. But scientists ( particularly those working on string theory ) seem to get it around the wrong way, and either make small additions to a fundamentally wrong theory, or simply state outright that their theory is 100%, and it's everybody else's eyes that have the problem.
Now I'm not saying that this guy in particular is wrong. I don't know enough about this particular topic to say either way. But I recognise the war cry of the incorrect when I hear it. Possibly a coincidence in this case?
People ( mainly M$, but Intel too ) have been using this BS in their advertising since 1995. Upgrade to product X and you can play games and burn DVDs at the same time.
Who actually plays games and burns DVDs at the same time anyway? You'd have to be some sort of moron. It doesn't matter how many processors ( or processor cores ) you have, if the OS can't allocate sufficient resources to your burning task, you'll make a coaster. I can think of *many* games that seem to lock the system for a couple of seconds while changing from one mode to another, switching to the next level, bringing up an info screen, etc. The in-game music will pause for a couple of seconds, and the screen will also occasionally pause. If you're playing an mp3, that will pause too. And this is all on decent hardware, but it's always been like this.
I can see the snotty-nosed brats right now... sitting at their Pentium 4 desktop they got for Christmas, playing a cracked version of the latest WWII FPS, downloading another 2 games, 10 mp3s and some porn with edonkey, IRC windows splattered all over the desktop, and... wait for it... burning a DVD. Of course Windows won't run seamlessly for the time it takes to burn the DVD, and they will most likely have to chuck it in the bin and try again... minus the game. But they'll blame the cheap DVDs they bought.
Man, every time I hear the old 'play games and burn DVDs at the same time' line I just wanna punch someone.
And what do you call a Porsche? A unicycle with an internal combustion extension and 3 spare wheels?
Time to grow up and drop your hang-ups about AMD. They simply have the better product... and it's not just me saying this. The whole world has decided in unison. Read the article.
If it were some software that did something other than spamming, I would be right behind the developers. But really... spamming software? Does the world need more spamming software?
For Christ's sake, people, write something useful. Work on Enlightenment. Work on OpenOffice. Work on spamassassin. If you want to work for money, work on a commercial anti-spam product.
Anything but more mailing list software.
And if you absolutely must make mailing list software, then don't come crying to me if some dipshit spammer cracks your work and starts selling illegal copies. I call that karma.
Please make like an American and die
in your America-hating hellhole.
Hmmm... "in my American-hating hellhole", eh? You Yanks really are stupendous with your vocabulary, aren't you?
Thanks for the scope. I could pick just about any country on Earth and still be sticking to your orders. Lets see... how about Iraq? There's a nice hell-hole for you. I bet you're all proud little Yanks about that one. Or Afghanistan. That was a barrel of laughs too.
Yes, thanks to the wonders of primary-school educated individuals such as yourself, there are plenty of hell-holes around the world to choose from too.
Now I just have to "make like an American". I'll try shoving my head up my arse first, and see what effect that has.
Living on US aid? You haven't even been outside of your own state, have you?
The rest of the world certainly does not 'live on' US aid. The paultry amount of aid that the US offers largely goes into the coffers of military dictatorships that the US actively supports. And ALL US aid comes with a dick rammed up your arse in the form of requirements from the WTO, World Bank and IMF.
You must have a *very* warped take on reality if you think the people of the 3rd world bum around waiting for their next food-drop from the US, and surfing the net looking for new exploits to attack your PC with. Are all people in the US really as stoopid as you? The mind boggles.
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You mean like the Itanic? Shoe's on the other foot now, eh?
Good to see someone else has a handle on American politics. The problem is that we don't have the money to buy congressmen and senators. The system is certainly rigged in favour of big business.
This is why I get so offended when I see the US claiming that they will bring their flavour of 'democracy' to Iraq
You don't have to have different binaries per system. You can build packages that are similar to Slackware's tgz packages, but with a more intelligent dependancy system ( ie one that exists ) behind it. So make packages on your development system, and keep the others in sync via packages.
Also keep in mind that a binary-based distro will only last until the distributor keeps updating packages. After the end of the products' life cycle, you're on your own
Also Gentoo is always among the first distros to have security updates.
I think it's well suited to professionals admins, but even more so for programmers.
Apparently Ubuntu is Richard Stallan's recommended distro. "Apparently" ... the place where I saw this made no mention of why, but I assume it has to do with licensing issues.
Anyone care to enlighten me?
Gentoo Linux / 2.6.10 kernel( current - ie patched regularly )
ssh with password-less authentication ie you need a special generated key, which is checked by challenge / response mechanism, to log in
Courier-IMAP over SSL for remote mail access
Apache-2.whatever.is.latest
Firewall blocking all ports except the above
Squid for internet access for my LAN ( no masquerading )
Nothing of importance is stored on the gateway.
My workstation is:
Gentoo Linux / 2.6.10 kernel - also updated regularly
ssh with password authentication ( so if someone gets into the gateway, they don't automatically get into my workstation )
:)
Everything important is on this machine
I don't run any services I don't need on the above 2 machines.
Our games PC runs Windows XP - updated regularly. Nothing important is on this PC - apart from my high scores
Every 2 sentences the author takes a stab at anything left of the current republicans:
- socialist-minded policy wonks
- The antitrust laws provide a means by which sour-grapes competitors can achieve through politics what they fail to achieve in the marketplace.
- Mr. Litan commits what Hayek called the "fatal conceit" of believing that government bureaucrats, rather than entrepreneurs and consumers, are in the best position to decide what constitutes a "legitimate business purpose."
She then goes on to argue that it is monopolies, and not everybody else, that have the right to judge their own conduct! What a load of trash! I'm sure Microsoft upper-end will be flogging over this one for months to come.
She also completely ignores the fact that lower costs aren't the only factor to take into consideration when ascertaining what is best for consumers. You have to take into account things like:
- choice
- quality
- support
- interoperability
- whatever else consumers say is important
The article is so right-wing I would have told you it came straight from the Project For a New American Century" if I didn't know better. Or Microsoft. In fact I'd be pretty damned surprised if Microsoft weren't behind this 'article'.
What 'bucket' I put people in? Never heard that one before. Maybe you meant 'basket'? Incoherent drunks
Sure you have. I believe it because you said it.\
And as for that trash about Win XP doing network transparancy, I believe you're talking about the VNC-like remote desktop thing they have. That's not network transparancy. And I'd be surprised if it were secure, but I don't use Windows XP, so I've never bothered to check.
I'm not saying that no-one ever died while taking ecstacy. I'm just pointing out that the statistical risk of dying from ecstacy is far lower than the risk of dying from alcohol. And you can reduce the risk to zero if you are sensible about the way you take it.
It's obvious that if you dehydrate too much you will die. This risk isn't exclusive to ecstacy. If you dehydrate under any circumstances you will die. So don't dehydrate. 99.999999% of users follow this simple rule. If the occasional idiot doesn't, that's not our fault. If they didn't know about it, it's YOUR fault, because your attitude leads to a complete lack of education so kids will experiment without knowing the precautions to take to stay safe.
Same goes for you so-called 'water poisoning'. Don't drink too much water. Simple. 99.999999% of users follow this simple rule.
Getting back to alcohol - there is NO safe way to consume it. It's a poison. It kills brain cells, liver cells, kidney cells, and most likely all types of cells it comes into contact with. It severely impares your reasoning and motor skills - far worse than ecstacy does - resulting in thousands of preventable road fatalities. It's incredibly addictive. Addicts drink every day. There is no such thing as an ecstacy addict.
Still disagree? Show me ONE location on the net that points to MILLIONS of ecstacy-related deaths every year, which would make it as dangerous as alcohol, and you may still be in the argument.
Yeah laugh it up, funny boy. Great argument. Get back to drinking and watching the sports channel and remove yourself from intelligent discussion.
Here we go again.
... like leaving your windows in one place and doing some programming in one of them. Maybe you could even improve X?
You're that same guy I replied to last time, right? The one with the 300 Mhz Celeron and Trident video card, and who absolutely insists that the only test that should be applied to a graphics system is how well your POS hardware can render a Mozilla window being dragged around like crazy on your desktop.
I'm not surprised it flickers. Upgrade your hardware. It doesn't flicker on mine, and even if it did, I wouldn't care, because I don't sit there dragging around windows, watching the speed they redraw at, and tossing off over the fastest system I can find. There are more important things to do
As for ecstacy killing you the first time you take it
The simple fact is that alcohol and nicotine kill more people, both percentage-wise ( ie higher death rates per user ) AND as an overall figure.
What a load of trash! I'm sure the alcohol producers were the ones to 'show' this. Alcohol is a poison. ANY amount destroys brain cells and damages your liver and kidneys. That's not beneficial.
By the same token, it's also been shown that ecstacy use is beneficial to the health. It increases the likelihood of the individual getting some good exercise, and also stimulates the mind and produces new neural connections.
They're just trying to get the illegal foreign invaders out of their country. If your country was invaded, and you had some decency and some balls, you'd do the same.
That's why I use a vaporizer.
... such as you do with cigarettes.
It produces no soot. It just warms the plant material to a level where the THC evaporates, leaving the rest intact. When you've finished, the pot still looks the same as when you started.
Vaporizers also have the added advantage of not destroying most of the THC ( due to high temperatures created when you burn plant matter ), so it's much more efficient.
Also, people who you buy pot, you are absolutely guaranteed that you aren't getting a product that's been laced with over 100 additives that are all known carcinogens that are there simply to increase the level of addiction, or the strength of the initial 'hit' you get from smoking
But yes, I'm aware burning most things produces carcinogens.
Yes it's certainly coming.
Perhaps the real question is "What are the consumers going to do about it?"
Unfortunately with the media giants controlling the media ( interesting little coincidence ), I don't think there'll be much in the way of unbiased consumer education.
Yes that's exactly what I'm saying.
Alcohol and nicotine are the worst drugs around. They are both incredibly addictive, and there is overwhelming evidence that they are very bad for your health. Millions of people die every year because of them.
While the Christian fundamentalists will tell you that smoking pot and using LSD will send you straight to hell, there is no scientific evidence to back up any of their claims. In fact, there is not one reported case of someone dying from taking either of these two substances, either immediately or over a long period of recreational use.
I therefore find my argument quite consistant. Perhaps you haven't fully considered the effects of alcohol vs other substances?
Sorry but you're displaying your arrogance. Just because something is legal doesn't mean it is ethical. I could give you plenty of examples, but I'll leave it up to people's imagination.
What sort of a dim-witted comparison is that? Gambling devastates many people's lives. That makes people who push their gambling 'services' onto us 'shady'. Having a cup of coffee has nothing to do with it.
You don't need smoke-filled, secret rooms or passwords to have a shady business. You just need to have a deficient conscience, or excess greed, and an online gambling site. Then you sit back and wait for the poor suckers to 'click', 'click', 'click', 'click', 'click', 'click', 'click'. People don't rock up to a gambling establishment and try their luck once. They stay their until they're out of money. You can disagree with me if you like, but every time I go to a casino ( get dragged their by workmates once a year or so ), the above is what I witness.
I don't think so. People running gambling sites are far more likely to be dodgy than those in a physical establishment. It's far easier to police a 'real' gambling business than a virtual one, especially since a virtual one can hide it's location and reside in a place that has no regulation.
Also, I get a fucking shitload of SPAM from gambling sites. Right away that says to me that the people running the sites are far from innocent, law-abiding citizens.
You seem to try to make the point throughout your post that because something is legal, that somehow blesses the activity. I suppose the opposite of this is that everything which is illegal is patently evil. Both points are absolutely ridiculous. There are plenty of things which are legal which are evil:
- selling carcinogen-soaked cigarettes
- selling alcohol
- selling weapons
- having a monopoly ( esp. a media monopoly )
Likewise, there are plenty of things which are illegal which are quite harmless
- recreational drugs
- not voting if there's no-one worth voting for ( Australia )
- being a member of the Iraqi resistance
I'm pretty sure that I'd get disagreement on all of the above points. This reinforces my argument that:
- you should never use the law to enforce ethical behaviour in private matters
- you should never use an activity's legal status as an indicator of it's ethical status
Back to the topic of the actual article
Ahhhh.
:) We don't need nuclear timebombs docking in our ports ... especially ones that can't even avoid stationary objects.
That would explain that nuclear sub that crashed while on it's way to Australia the other day.
Good riddance, I say
For the record, there's a lot you can do to decrease upgrade times for Gentoo systems.
The first method is by building packages on other machines. This has the added bonus of letting you test the package before rolling it out on your live system. Instead of just using:
emerge $PACKAGENAME
you use:
emerge -kb $PACKAGENAME
which will build a package, and then install from it. When you're satisfied it works, you put the package somewhere where your server can see it ( or share
emerge -k
The time it takes to install a package is the time it takes to unzip the package and dump the files onto the filesystem
The other trick we use is distcc, which spreads compilation jobs across multiple computers. It's an absolute pushover to set up ( 2 minute job ) and it makes things a *lot* faster.
This attitude has been forwarded by the incorrect for thousands of years.
I say if your theory doesn't match observation, then maybe it's your theory that has the problem. But scientists ( particularly those working on string theory ) seem to get it around the wrong way, and either make small additions to a fundamentally wrong theory, or simply state outright that their theory is 100%, and it's everybody else's eyes that have the problem.
Now I'm not saying that this guy in particular is wrong. I don't know enough about this particular topic to say either way. But I recognise the war cry of the incorrect when I hear it. Possibly a coincidence in this case?
People ( mainly M$, but Intel too ) have been using this BS in their advertising since 1995. Upgrade to product X and you can play games and burn DVDs at the same time.
... sitting at their Pentium 4 desktop they got for Christmas, playing a cracked version of the latest WWII FPS, downloading another 2 games, 10 mp3s and some porn with edonkey, IRC windows splattered all over the desktop, and ... wait for it ... burning a DVD. Of course Windows won't run seamlessly for the time it takes to burn the DVD, and they will most likely have to chuck it in the bin and try again ... minus the game. But they'll blame the cheap DVDs they bought.
Who actually plays games and burns DVDs at the same time anyway? You'd have to be some sort of moron. It doesn't matter how many processors ( or processor cores ) you have, if the OS can't allocate sufficient resources to your burning task, you'll make a coaster. I can think of *many* games that seem to lock the system for a couple of seconds while changing from one mode to another, switching to the next level, bringing up an info screen, etc. The in-game music will pause for a couple of seconds, and the screen will also occasionally pause. If you're playing an mp3, that will pause too. And this is all on decent hardware, but it's always been like this.
I can see the snotty-nosed brats right now
Man, every time I hear the old 'play games and burn DVDs at the same time' line I just wanna punch someone.
Lordy lord!
... and it's not just me saying this. The whole world has decided in unison. Read the article.
And what do you call a Porsche? A unicycle with an internal combustion extension and 3 spare wheels?
Time to grow up and drop your hang-ups about AMD. They simply have the better product
You idiot.
Betamax had the same length tapes ( 180 minutes ) as everyone else.
I agree.
... spamming software? Does the world need more spamming software?
If it were some software that did something other than spamming, I would be right behind the developers. But really
For Christ's sake, people, write something useful. Work on Enlightenment. Work on OpenOffice. Work on spamassassin. If you want to work for money, work on a commercial anti-spam product.
Anything but more mailing list software.
And if you absolutely must make mailing list software, then don't come crying to me if some dipshit spammer cracks your work and starts selling illegal copies. I call that karma.
Hmmm
Thanks for the scope. I could pick just about any country on Earth and still be sticking to your orders. Lets see
Yes, thanks to the wonders of primary-school educated individuals such as yourself, there are plenty of hell-holes around the world to choose from too.
Now I just have to "make like an American". I'll try shoving my head up my arse first, and see what effect that has.
Living on US aid? You haven't even been outside of your own state, have you?
The rest of the world certainly does not 'live on' US aid. The paultry amount of aid that the US offers largely goes into the coffers of military dictatorships that the US actively supports. And ALL US aid comes with a dick rammed up your arse in the form of requirements from the WTO, World Bank and IMF.
You must have a *very* warped take on reality if you think the people of the 3rd world bum around waiting for their next food-drop from the US, and surfing the net looking for new exploits to attack your PC with. Are all people in the US really as stoopid as you? The mind boggles.