Actually, that's an interesting point to make. Geneticists actually classify donkeys and horses to be different species since mules are sterile. This means that their genes will not be interfused beyond that one generation of mule offspring, therefore, there gene pools continue to stay seperate.
Actually, I would argue that the opposite is true. I would say that these are probably better for your hands. I would imagine that with these you would not have to press so hard on to a surface for it to register a keypress, and so therefore you're merely tapping the surface, not drilling your finger into it, which would make RSI worse.
Of course, many people are already use to using the normal keyboard with tactile feedback, so their typing ability would go down.
Firstly, Magneto has it wrong, Mutants are humans since they can interbreed with any Homo-sapien on the Marvel earth. They would be better classified as the only other race of Homo-sapiens (NB "races" such as Caucasian, Indian, Hispanic, etc. don't really exist because there isn't enough differences in the genetics for such races to exist within the definition of biology.)
Secondly, you're right, in the grand scheme of things it doesn't matter all that much, but it's still something to be upset about. The X-Men, for many people, aren't merely characters in a great piece of fiction, but also a metaphor for those in humanity who have felt the sting of oppression by fellow human beings.
This comic also shows that oppressed people are still human. Being oppressed does not necessarily provide justification for all actions used to break that oppression. The comic shows the complexity of human nature and its affairs, rather than trying to make clear distinctions between good and evil.
But first we need to ask ourselves if this is something we really are against in the first place. All the documentation that I've read at the TCPA website indicates to me that it's nothing more than a hardware-level implementation of the operations that security software such as SSH and GPG do. If that's all it is, then I would have to argue that it's actually a Good Thing(TM).
Firstly, I must state that I trust neither the government nor big corporations, because they are both extremes on opposite sides. The government does concern itself with people's welfare and safety, and will spend money on that, but it often doesn't have the intelligence to use it efficiently and properly. Big corporations are very, very good at that, but if drowning children in the sea were legal and profitable, they'd find the most efficient means to do that. They do bring about progress, but without government, there would be little protection from its selfishness and greed. The government's purpose is to protect people from that. If there were no big corporations, we'd still be stuck in the Middle Ages where there wasn't even running water. They are both necessary evils for Western society.
Now that makes me wonder, what about all those tribal societies around the world? I would dare say that most of the people in them are living more luxurious lifestyles than most of us. Very few of them ever actually have to worry about food, because they know their environment so well. Mostly, they just have to worry about the family and friends they have around them. The biggest worry that most of them would have is the encroachment of Western society and culture, which has a tendancy to destroy the environment they depend on so much, which may, in turn, destroy them. They don't have governments, and they don't have big corporations.
All of us here already understand the myths about processors and megahertz, what makes us think that this myth won't hold up with the DeltaChrome? Let's not forget that the clock frequency isn't set in stone, and I've learned that when something like that is so undetermined, original estimates are lower. I don't think it's fair to dissmiss them until they've released their card.
They should start asking the indiginous people of the various places they go to about the animals they encounter, especially if they are nomadic. The folklore, myths, traditions, stories, etc. often serve purposes beyond that of creating a basis for religion. Many of them have been created to help them survive the environment they live in. Not only that, but they also seem to allow to live within these environments without destroying them. This is something anthropologists have known for some time now. Western biologists often have the bad habit of dismissing these things, particularly if they are tribal, under the misconceived notion that they are "primitive" and could not possibly understand the plants and animals around them, when in fact it's their vast amounts of knowledge of the plants and animals around them that allows them to survive.
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...are the ones that have a stated purpose, and dedicate its entire user interface towards that one purpose, for example ClarkConnect is used by many of my non-Linux/Unix using friends, and the only questions they have are always in regards to using it in a manner it was never meant to be used.
FLISH (for FLying fISH) - Does it make much sense that an animal that cannot generate its own heat would spend an enourmous amount of calories flying? Also, is there a fish that can fly like a bird these days or any indication in that sense? The contrary is pretty common (penguins, et al).
Also, animals getting bigger over time isn't necessarily contrary to what's been observed over the last million years. It's fairly well known that larger animals do have a chance to survive in very hot temperatures. In all reality, though, evolution is rather unpredictable.
If you actually saw any part of the show, you'd know that the writers obviously think that humans will eventually leave earth to colonize other planets.
I didn't say anything about Microsoft being altruistic. I was arguing that we need to defend the markets we know we can dominate in. That's where we should put our energy. We shouldn't be trying to take over other markets, particularly the dekstop market, because they are going to require motivational resources that we don't have right now.
Why can't we be satisfied with being a niche market where Linux's main purpose is the server, embedded, and renderfarm markets? Why must we be so intent on taking over the desktop market? I really don't mind being one of only 20 million people using for their desktop, really. It really doesn't bother me, as I'm sure it doesn't bother other people either. Sure, Microsoft can be evil, but their hold on the desktop market isn't necessarily a bad thing. We should put our strength into defending the markets we know we can hold (namely the ones I've mentioned), and defend those furiously. No empire lasts forever, neither shall Microsoft's. They will make a mistake big enough for everyone to switch. We just need to be patient. There is no need to rush foolhardy into bringing them down.
I have to disagree with you there. I've been using wxWindows for a while now. It's the best "CPW" I've used before, commercial or OSS (of which, it is the latter.) It uses native widget sets, not its own like FLTK, nor an emulated one like Qt. The only problem with it right now is that the MacOS and MacOS X ports aren't stable yet.
But those weren't made by Nintendo. They were made by third party companies.
Ever since the SNES, Nintendo has been pretty lax about what third party companies put on their systems. I still remember getting both Mortal Kombat II and Mortal Kombat III for my SNES, two of the most violent and bloody games during the 16 bit graphics console era.
Nintendo itself has been pretty clean with the games it releases itself, with the exception of Killer Instinct and Conker's Bad Fur Day, but in a sense, even those weren't Nintendo games. They were really Rare games published by Nintendo.
...hope he doesn't change his style. It's actually pretty hard to find games these days that don't involve so much violence, gore, or sex, and there are too many people who forget that you don't need that stuff all the time to create great games.
With that in mind, can anyone name a PC game that can appeal to both young children and adults and (obviously) has no violence, gore, or sex? Didn't think so.
You completely miss the point of his post. Yes, TiVo is mostly about the hardware, but TiVo is making it difficult to use the software on that hardware as a person wishes, which the heart of the GPL. The original poster isn't asking to be able to obtain the TiVo for free, but rather the freedom to utilize that hardware in what ever manner [s]he pleases and using what ever software [s]he wishes, and the GPL is meant to protect those freedoms. These are freedoms that the FSF feel ought to be inherent in a person's own private property, but more often than not, this is not the case. TiVo has violated those philosophies.
This is may not be a violation of the wording contained in the GPL, but it is certainly a violation of the philosophy that created it.
Sure, and that's the reason that Apple is failing so miserably these days.
Don't you understand how supply and demand work? Once companies realize that people want software for these machines, the software will be written. Sure, some people won't want to wait, and will likely go out and get Windows installed, but for those who are satisfied so far, but still want more, they will stick to these until that software that they want is released.
Consumers aren't always logical. If they were, there would be no need for perfumes, designer clothing, game consoles, etc.
Once the demand is there, the software will come, and people will stick with it. This is how Apple has survived for so long. Customer loyalty is an extremely valuable asset for businesses, and I think that Lindows, Walmart, Microtel, and all the other players involved in these PCs are going to win that.
You have to remember that TrollTech still makes a lot of money off of the licenses it sells under Windows. Why shouldn't they? It's a great, intuitive API. Besides, they don't restrict OSS/partially-Free software from running under Windows. You can still use the non-commercial license for it.
I heard that he already dug out his future grave, and likes sleeping in it every night. Anyone who invents something like the WWW is bound to be weird like that.
Yes, I was. Some friends of mine and I drove ~5 hours down to there from Oshkosh, WI. Some of us, including myself, tried participating in the Mechmania competition, but that turned out to be a big flop, although better than last years since they actually had something we could compile against this year. It wasn't so bad for us because we determined to not let that competition keep us from enjoying the speeches.
I, in contrast to many/.ers, am upset, not for myself, but for some of my friends. Some of my friends don't like much of the raw, uncensored versions of anime, nor do they care to read subtitles for the entire show. They don't mind a little flesh and blood here and there, but beyond that, most anime is too much for them. They found CN's Adult Swim to be a happy compromise.
Also, some of my friends are in college dorms or someplace where they get free cable with their housing, and normally, they will not go out of their way to pay for anime, but since CN was providing it, they took advantage of the free anime.
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Actually, that's an interesting point to make. Geneticists actually classify donkeys and horses to be different species since mules are sterile. This means that their genes will not be interfused beyond that one generation of mule offspring, therefore, there gene pools continue to stay seperate.
Actually, I would argue that the opposite is true. I would say that these are probably better for your hands. I would imagine that with these you would not have to press so hard on to a surface for it to register a keypress, and so therefore you're merely tapping the surface, not drilling your finger into it, which would make RSI worse.
Of course, many people are already use to using the normal keyboard with tactile feedback, so their typing ability would go down.
Firstly, Magneto has it wrong, Mutants are humans since they can interbreed with any Homo-sapien on the Marvel earth. They would be better classified as the only other race of Homo-sapiens (NB "races" such as Caucasian, Indian, Hispanic, etc. don't really exist because there isn't enough differences in the genetics for such races to exist within the definition of biology.)
Secondly, you're right, in the grand scheme of things it doesn't matter all that much, but it's still something to be upset about. The X-Men, for many people, aren't merely characters in a great piece of fiction, but also a metaphor for those in humanity who have felt the sting of oppression by fellow human beings.
This comic also shows that oppressed people are still human. Being oppressed does not necessarily provide justification for all actions used to break that oppression. The comic shows the complexity of human nature and its affairs, rather than trying to make clear distinctions between good and evil.
But first we need to ask ourselves if this is something we really are against in the first place. All the documentation that I've read at the TCPA website indicates to me that it's nothing more than a hardware-level implementation of the operations that security software such as SSH and GPG do. If that's all it is, then I would have to argue that it's actually a Good Thing(TM).
Firstly, I must state that I trust neither the government nor big corporations, because they are both extremes on opposite sides. The government does concern itself with people's welfare and safety, and will spend money on that, but it often doesn't have the intelligence to use it efficiently and properly. Big corporations are very, very good at that, but if drowning children in the sea were legal and profitable, they'd find the most efficient means to do that. They do bring about progress, but without government, there would be little protection from its selfishness and greed. The government's purpose is to protect people from that. If there were no big corporations, we'd still be stuck in the Middle Ages where there wasn't even running water. They are both necessary evils for Western society.
Now that makes me wonder, what about all those tribal societies around the world? I would dare say that most of the people in them are living more luxurious lifestyles than most of us. Very few of them ever actually have to worry about food, because they know their environment so well. Mostly, they just have to worry about the family and friends they have around them. The biggest worry that most of them would have is the encroachment of Western society and culture, which has a tendancy to destroy the environment they depend on so much, which may, in turn, destroy them. They don't have governments, and they don't have big corporations.
All of us here already understand the myths about processors and megahertz, what makes us think that this myth won't hold up with the DeltaChrome? Let's not forget that the clock frequency isn't set in stone, and I've learned that when something like that is so undetermined, original estimates are lower. I don't think it's fair to dissmiss them until they've released their card.
They should start asking the indiginous people of the various places they go to about the animals they encounter, especially if they are nomadic. The folklore, myths, traditions, stories, etc. often serve purposes beyond that of creating a basis for religion. Many of them have been created to help them survive the environment they live in. Not only that, but they also seem to allow to live within these environments without destroying them. This is something anthropologists have known for some time now. Western biologists often have the bad habit of dismissing these things, particularly if they are tribal, under the misconceived notion that they are "primitive" and could not possibly understand the plants and animals around them, when in fact it's their vast amounts of knowledge of the plants and animals around them that allows them to survive.
...are the ones that have a stated purpose, and dedicate its entire user interface towards that one purpose, for example ClarkConnect is used by many of my non-Linux/Unix using friends, and the only questions they have are always in regards to using it in a manner it was never meant to be used.
FLISH (for FLying fISH) - Does it make much sense that an animal that cannot generate its own heat would spend an enourmous amount of calories flying? Also, is there a fish that can fly like a bird these days or any indication in that sense? The contrary is pretty common (penguins, et al).
/. reader would be more informed. How hard would it be to have a fish like that evolve the ability to fly?
Tsk, tsk! I would have thought that a
Also, animals getting bigger over time isn't necessarily contrary to what's been observed over the last million years. It's fairly well known that larger animals do have a chance to survive in very hot temperatures. In all reality, though, evolution is rather unpredictable.
If you actually saw any part of the show, you'd know that the writers obviously think that humans will eventually leave earth to colonize other planets.
I didn't say anything about Microsoft being altruistic. I was arguing that we need to defend the markets we know we can dominate in. That's where we should put our energy. We shouldn't be trying to take over other markets, particularly the dekstop market, because they are going to require motivational resources that we don't have right now.
Why can't we be satisfied with being a niche market where Linux's main purpose is the server, embedded, and renderfarm markets? Why must we be so intent on taking over the desktop market? I really don't mind being one of only 20 million people using for their desktop, really. It really doesn't bother me, as I'm sure it doesn't bother other people either. Sure, Microsoft can be evil, but their hold on the desktop market isn't necessarily a bad thing. We should put our strength into defending the markets we know we can hold (namely the ones I've mentioned), and defend those furiously. No empire lasts forever, neither shall Microsoft's. They will make a mistake big enough for everyone to switch. We just need to be patient. There is no need to rush foolhardy into bringing them down.
I have to disagree with you there. I've been using wxWindows for a while now. It's the best "CPW" I've used before, commercial or OSS (of which, it is the latter.) It uses native widget sets, not its own like FLTK, nor an emulated one like Qt. The only problem with it right now is that the MacOS and MacOS X ports aren't stable yet.
Yeah, because the MPAA and RIAA know that CDs/DVDs never get scratched, dirty, or broken. They're all invincible!
But those weren't made by Nintendo. They were made by third party companies.
Ever since the SNES, Nintendo has been pretty lax about what third party companies put on their systems. I still remember getting both Mortal Kombat II and Mortal Kombat III for my SNES, two of the most violent and bloody games during the 16 bit graphics console era.
Nintendo itself has been pretty clean with the games it releases itself, with the exception of Killer Instinct and Conker's Bad Fur Day, but in a sense, even those weren't Nintendo games. They were really Rare games published by Nintendo.
...hope he doesn't change his style. It's actually pretty hard to find games these days that don't involve so much violence, gore, or sex, and there are too many people who forget that you don't need that stuff all the time to create great games.
With that in mind, can anyone name a PC game that can appeal to both young children and adults and (obviously) has no violence, gore, or sex? Didn't think so.
Your intellectual myopia is aggravating.
You completely miss the point of his post. Yes, TiVo is mostly about the hardware, but TiVo is making it difficult to use the software on that hardware as a person wishes, which the heart of the GPL. The original poster isn't asking to be able to obtain the TiVo for free, but rather the freedom to utilize that hardware in what ever manner [s]he pleases and using what ever software [s]he wishes, and the GPL is meant to protect those freedoms. These are freedoms that the FSF feel ought to be inherent in a person's own private property, but more often than not, this is not the case. TiVo has violated those philosophies.
This is may not be a violation of the wording contained in the GPL, but it is certainly a violation of the philosophy that created it.
Sure, and that's the reason that Apple is failing so miserably these days.
Don't you understand how supply and demand work? Once companies realize that people want software for these machines, the software will be written. Sure, some people won't want to wait, and will likely go out and get Windows installed, but for those who are satisfied so far, but still want more, they will stick to these until that software that they want is released.
Consumers aren't always logical. If they were, there would be no need for perfumes, designer clothing, game consoles, etc.
Once the demand is there, the software will come, and people will stick with it. This is how Apple has survived for so long. Customer loyalty is an extremely valuable asset for businesses, and I think that Lindows, Walmart, Microtel, and all the other players involved in these PCs are going to win that.
You have to remember that TrollTech still makes a lot of money off of the licenses it sells under Windows. Why shouldn't they? It's a great, intuitive API. Besides, they don't restrict OSS/partially-Free software from running under Windows. You can still use the non-commercial license for it.
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So, really, it seems that no matter what route they take, they'll always end up with a headache. Tylenol must love them.
I heard that he already dug out his future grave, and likes sleeping in it every night. Anyone who invents something like the WWW is bound to be weird like that.
Yes, I was. Some friends of mine and I drove ~5 hours down to there from Oshkosh, WI. Some of us, including myself, tried participating in the Mechmania competition, but that turned out to be a big flop, although better than last years since they actually had something we could compile against this year. It wasn't so bad for us because we determined to not let that competition keep us from enjoying the speeches.
That conference you mention, that didn't happen to be the Reflections|Projections conference, did it?
I, in contrast to many /.ers, am upset, not for myself, but for some of my friends. Some of my friends don't like much of the raw, uncensored versions of anime, nor do they care to read subtitles for the entire show. They don't mind a little flesh and blood here and there, but beyond that, most anime is too much for them. They found CN's Adult Swim to be a happy compromise.
Also, some of my friends are in college dorms or someplace where they get free cable with their housing, and normally, they will not go out of their way to pay for anime, but since CN was providing it, they took advantage of the free anime.