Wow, you don't get much respect from your friends! Pretty much everyone I know would believe anything I tell them in regards to computers and the internet without even questioning it.
That's stupid. Trying to sell GPL software is like holding code for hostage. You can only sell it once, then the users can share it among themselves. Who actually does this? Nobody. Sure you CAN try and sell it. You can also try selling water in a bottle for the same price as soft drinks--it's pointless, you'll never make any money off of it.
So many slashdot discussions are just people spouting off their unbacked opinions, and being moderated to +5 by those who agree. Your comment is one of those extremely rare ones in which you read the article, and induced something insightful from it, actually adding to the conversation. I applaud you and wish there were some moderation that could set your +5 apart from all of those worthless "I agree with opinion" mods.
I've never even been to England, and I can tell you that Brits do not spell "center" as "centre." A "centre" is a central building (is in importance) in the UK, while a "center" is still the middle of something. "Centre" is only for buildings. You just got showed up in your own language by an American!
What resolution would my monitor or projector have to be so that I could watch HDTV at its full resolution without having to downsample? This is more of a HDTV in general question than an ATI-specific one.
Wow. I skimmed those pages. The examples they site as Fox bias are all from editorial shows. Of course and editorial is going to be biased! Their actual reporting, especially Shep Smith's "The Fox Report" shows, can legitamately claim to be "Fair and Balanced," and on top of that, they report on much more interesting things than CNN or MSNBC. While NBC is showing an interview with the author of "Breast Feeding Your Baby," Fox is showing live coverage of a high-speed police chase. That's why I tend to watch them more.
How tall are you? I didn't realize they could stack bullshit that high! Seriously, do they circulate this list with employers? Can they actually arrest someone only for being on this list? Or are you just making shit up in a cheap grab for karma?
Are people losing their careers or being publicly ostracized because of this list? Or are they simply being unobtrusively investigated, then removed from the list if they check out as OK?
That is the important part, not that there is a 'list'.
I clicked this thread hoping for a discussion of the AI involved, and it is just filled with discussion of the social implications. Since when did slashdot stop being about tech and about social and legal issues?
Oh yeah, it's been like that for severl years now.
An operating system that can run as a browser plugin! Just what I have been waiting for! Now after I've been towing my mobile home on my bicycle, or flossing my teeth with boat anchor chain, I can come back to my computer for some equally well-matched technology.
The Gentoo install is by far the hardest of the major Linux distros. But you only ever have to do it once. And it is like the one great test you must pass to be allowed to enter the wonderful world of Gentoo. Once you have passed the test, you have access to the most up-to-date, most powerful, and easiest to use package management system in the known universe. No other distro even comes close. But you have to runt he gauntlet first.
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Your use of the word 'stealing' shows that you don't understand copyright laws and fair use. You help perpetuate the corruption of IP law in America. Please educate yourself.
As a US citizen, I can tell you that the US dropping mines that look like toys would be all over the news if it were true. And the people who order it would be forced to resign. But don't worry about it! Here in the US, we are developing all kinds of robotic war machines which will make mines obsolete. All we'll need to do is deploy smart sensors that can recognize friendly forces and take anyone else out with a lazer blast from space, or have little roaming robots, or whatever. Who needs mines?
I call bullshit. The political fallout of a US landmine mutilating innocent civilians would be great. As a result (and maybe as a result of morality, who really knows?) the US is EXTREMELY careful with our own mines. Also, your claim the the US designs mines with the specific intent of mutilating but leaving alive the enemy is not substantiated by your post.
God testing people could be for your benifit and not his. It could be a way of teaching the person a lesson about himself. Of course, this wouldn't work on anyone who has read your post, because they would realize there could be no such thing as a real test, and so the lesson would not work.
If the US hadn't spent so much on its military in the past 60 years, much of the world would be communist (in the model of the USSR) and would not have this "freedom" we now enjoy. There would still be a cold war. Countries like South Korea would be in the sad state of countries like North Korea. If we had taken that money and put it toward social services, we would curerntly have an unsustainable population because every unproductive bum in the world would come here for free health care, shelter, and food. And these bums would have a disproportinately high number of children, who inherit their freeloading attitude. But enough of thus alternate timeline.
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Wow, you don't get much respect from your friends! Pretty much everyone I know would believe anything I tell them in regards to computers and the internet without even questioning it.
Thank you so much for the help. I will try compiling LUN support into my kernel as soon as I get home from work. Again, thanks.
You need to look up what "real time system" means.
That's stupid. Trying to sell GPL software is like holding code for hostage. You can only sell it once, then the users can share it among themselves. Who actually does this? Nobody. Sure you CAN try and sell it. You can also try selling water in a bottle for the same price as soft drinks--it's pointless, you'll never make any money off of it.
What's this? The Beastie Boys CD secretly installs software on people's computers? Listen, all y'all, it's a sabotage!
So many slashdot discussions are just people spouting off their unbacked opinions, and being moderated to +5 by those who agree. Your comment is one of those extremely rare ones in which you read the article, and induced something insightful from it, actually adding to the conversation. I applaud you and wish there were some moderation that could set your +5 apart from all of those worthless "I agree with opinion" mods.
I've never even been to England, and I can tell you that Brits do not spell "center" as "centre." A "centre" is a central building (is in importance) in the UK, while a "center" is still the middle of something. "Centre" is only for buildings. You just got showed up in your own language by an American!
And how could they possibly exchange data between people without a common ground?
What resolution would my monitor or projector have to be so that I could watch HDTV at its full resolution without having to downsample? This is more of a HDTV in general question than an ATI-specific one.
It is kind of disturbing that you talk about this stuff so much you have an acronym for it.
Wow. I skimmed those pages. The examples they site as Fox bias are all from editorial shows. Of course and editorial is going to be biased! Their actual reporting, especially Shep Smith's "The Fox Report" shows, can legitamately claim to be "Fair and Balanced," and on top of that, they report on much more interesting things than CNN or MSNBC. While NBC is showing an interview with the author of "Breast Feeding Your Baby," Fox is showing live coverage of a high-speed police chase. That's why I tend to watch them more.
I really doubt these people are selected with "some arbitrary algorithm." I can see how things happen in your mind:
"Johnson, we need you to select people from this database that are likely to be involved in terrorism."
"How should I select them, sir?"
"Just use some arbitrary algorithm."
"Binary-Search it is.
How tall are you? I didn't realize they could stack bullshit that high! Seriously, do they circulate this list with employers? Can they actually arrest someone only for being on this list? Or are you just making shit up in a cheap grab for karma?
Are people losing their careers or being publicly ostracized because of this list? Or are they simply being unobtrusively investigated, then removed from the list if they check out as OK?
That is the important part, not that there is a 'list'.
I clicked this thread hoping for a discussion of the AI involved, and it is just filled with discussion of the social implications. Since when did slashdot stop being about tech and about social and legal issues?
Oh yeah, it's been like that for severl years now.
'Hell hath no fury like government that thinks it's not getting it's "cut".'
Hell hath no fury like citizens who can't get the civil services they need because there isn't enough tax revenue. What? The public school is closing?
An operating system that can run as a browser plugin! Just what I have been waiting for! Now after I've been towing my mobile home on my bicycle, or flossing my teeth with boat anchor chain, I can come back to my computer for some equally well-matched technology.
The Gentoo install is by far the hardest of the major Linux distros. But you only ever have to do it once. And it is like the one great test you must pass to be allowed to enter the wonderful world of Gentoo. Once you have passed the test, you have access to the most up-to-date, most powerful, and easiest to use package management system in the known universe. No other distro even comes close. But you have to runt he gauntlet first.
Posted from a machine running Linux 2.6.6 and KDE 3.2.2 with OpenOffice 1.1.1 and FireFox 0.8 all higly optimized for my specific hardware.
Your use of the word 'stealing' shows that you don't understand copyright laws and fair use. You help perpetuate the corruption of IP law in America. Please educate yourself.
Yes. But knowing 5 letters are in a word doesn't narrow it down nearly as much as knowing the word is 46 pixels long.
As a US citizen, I can tell you that the US dropping mines that look like toys would be all over the news if it were true. And the people who order it would be forced to resign. But don't worry about it! Here in the US, we are developing all kinds of robotic war machines which will make mines obsolete. All we'll need to do is deploy smart sensors that can recognize friendly forces and take anyone else out with a lazer blast from space, or have little roaming robots, or whatever. Who needs mines?
I call bullshit. The political fallout of a US landmine mutilating innocent civilians would be great. As a result (and maybe as a result of morality, who really knows?) the US is EXTREMELY careful with our own mines. Also, your claim the the US designs mines with the specific intent of mutilating but leaving alive the enemy is not substantiated by your post.
God testing people could be for your benifit and not his. It could be a way of teaching the person a lesson about himself. Of course, this wouldn't work on anyone who has read your post, because they would realize there could be no such thing as a real test, and so the lesson would not work.
If the US hadn't spent so much on its military in the past 60 years, much of the world would be communist (in the model of the USSR) and would not have this "freedom" we now enjoy. There would still be a cold war. Countries like South Korea would be in the sad state of countries like North Korea. If we had taken that money and put it toward social services, we would curerntly have an unsustainable population because every unproductive bum in the world would come here for free health care, shelter, and food. And these bums would have a disproportinately high number of children, who inherit their freeloading attitude. But enough of thus alternate timeline.
I'm young and live in a college town. There just aren't racists in my peer group. Attitudes may be different where you are.