we(the workers) do not control the means of production in Europe.
Perhaps, but the European markets are still more socialist in nature than the US ones. In my mind, a total ownership of the means of production either by the workers or by the owners is bad. Too bad the alternatives we are currently offered seem to be exactly those two extremes.
Re:Great news for people with retinal ablation
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former main ingredient of augmented breasts
As far as I know that's the stuff they used to fix my retina.
It's a completely passive fix. First they cut open the outer layer of the eye (the white stuff) at the point of the retinal detachment. Then they create scar tissue with a cold probe cooled with liquid nitrogen to roughen up the inside of the eye. Finally they insert the pea-sized silicone piece in the cut to press the now rough background of the eye against the retina. The idea is that the scar tissue inside the eye hooks up with the detached retina. If I lift my eyelid I can see the silicone piece underneath the scar.
It was a surprisingly painless operation. A full anesthesia during surgery and about a week in the hospital with only moderate pain medication (first a nerve block and later codeine and paracetamol).
He says it's incredibly cheap and incredibly prevalent.
Well, isn't that how software should be?
I'm having great time watching some of you trying to deal with the realisation that open software is fundamentally a socialist idea when you've been taught from childhood that socialism is a bad thing.
Believe it or not, a non-capitalist society does not mean a totalitarian uncivilised culture. Witness the second largest economy in the world, The Europe, consisting of 300 million people predominantly ruled by socialist governments.
Re:Great news for people with retinal ablation
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Yes, it looks like I didn't read the article thoroughly enough. The artificial component would not be able replace the entire retina. You're also right in that the eye operations are risky and I wouldn't opt for any massive surgery unless I was about to lose sight in both of my eyes.
Regarding my operation, the retina was reattached in the corrective surgery but I was told that it could start coming off again in the future.
In my case I was given a choice between a "quick-and-dirty" laser fix and a more thorough surgery ("Scleral buckle" on the page you linked to). In the former treatment the borders of the detached area would be burnt with the laser to prevent further degradation, but the results would not be as good. In fact, if the detachment continued after the burn-in the resulting damage would become even more severe than without the operation.
Great news for people with retinal ablation
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Woohoo!
For me with a history of retinal detachment since the age of 22 this is good news indeed. Fixing the retina by installing a pea-sized bit of silicone inside the outer layer of the eyeball is such a medical kludge...
Re:New foe system does NOT work
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I know exactly how you feel. I asked about this and CmdrTaco himself bothered to reply.
I'd like reading Slashdot at -1 if there weren't Klerck's page lengthening posts. I really, really would like to get those out of my sight, but since they're already at -1 the foe modifier doesn't work anymore.
Perhaps, but once in a while the OS and platform simply have to be changed simply because they have become obsolete (old military and/or government systems, for instance).
That's when the lower cost of Linux becomes a real advantage. In either case the personnel has to be re-trained so the savings must come from the hardware and software.
"Linux has shown some potential for establishing itself outside of the US, by appealing to the pocketbook or to national interests."
I think this is quite an understatement.
Both the German and French governments have warmly endorsed the use of Linux and free software in general on the governmental level and (IIRC) cities in Finland are switching to Linux.
I have a Tyan Tiger MP board with two 1.46 GHz Athlon XPs on it.
The difference between XP and MP is that AMD guarantees that the MP versions will do SMP. If you install dual XPs you're doing it on your own. However, I've never had any problems with my setup and apparently very people do since the shop where I bought the board and CPUs builds, sells and guarantees working dual-XP versions (unless you specifically request an MP configuration).
Re:Phase Three: Profit!
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You do NOT have a right to take my work and plaster it all over the fucking internet.
And why not? You don't want people reading your book?
And don't tell me about lost profits. It's not as if I would have necessarily "compensated you for your time" by buying your book if it had NOT been available for free on the net.
Do you also object public libraries? After all libraries allow people to read your book without "compensating" you.
I'd let these people go if they just admitted that their god is a sadistic bastard, but no. Of course the "nasty" bits in the Bible are there to somehow emphasize the greatness of god (don't ask me how).
Re:Funny story about that article...
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she gets a phone call from this horribly irate parent
If I had been your mom I would have told the parent that her kid is hereby excused from reading Harry Potter books.
Instead, the kid will be required to read the Bible and write an essay on one of the topics below:
"Murder your own family and friends if any one of them attempts to persuade you to abandon Christianity." -Deuteronomy 13
"God commands the murder of innocent infants."
-I Samuel 15:3
"Murder is the sentence for practicing any other religion." -Deuteronomy 13 and Numbers 25
"Sadistic ritual a wife is supposed to endure if her husband is 'jealous' or suspects adultery. The ritual is performed by a priest and is supposed to induce an abortion." -Numbers 5:11-29
"Man who rapes a slave must sacrifice an animal in a temple to be forgiven." -Leviticus 19:20
"Sarah: Half-sister of husband, Abra-ham. 'She really is my sister, the daughter of my father though not of my mother; and she became my wife.'" -(Gen 20:12)
This is my HP.
There are many like it, but this one is mine.
My HP is my best friend.
It is my life.
I must master it, as I must master my life.
Without me, my HP is useless.
Without my HP, I am useless.
I must use my HP true.
I must calculate better than my peers who
are trying to see me fail.
I must beat them before they beat me.
I will.
Before God I swear this creed.
My HP and myself are defenders of my science.
We are the masters of our enemy: the ignorance.
We are the saviours of knowledge.
So be it.. . until there is no enemy but peace.
Amen.
Armalite, street lights, nightsights
Searching the roofs for a sniper, a viper, a fighter
Death in the shadows he'll maim you, he'll wound you, he'll skin you
For a long forgotten cause, on not so foreign shores
Boys baptised in wars
Morphine, chill scream, bad dream
Serving as numbers on dogtags, flakrags, sandbags
Your girl has married your best friend, loves end, poison pen
Your flesh will always creep, tossing turning sleep
The wounds that burn so deep
Your mother sits on the edge of the world
W when the cameras start to roll
Panoramic viewpoint resurrect the killing fold
Your father drains another beer, he's one of the few that cares
Crawling behind a Saracen's hull from the safety of his living room chair
Forgotten sons, forgotten sons, forgotten sons
And so as I patrol in the valley of the shadow of the star-spangled banner
I must fear evil, for I am but mortal and mortals can only die
Asking questions, pleading answers from the nameless faceless watchers
That stalk the carpeted corridors of White House
Who orders desecration, mutilation, verbal masturbation?!
I in the guarded bureaucratic wombs
President, President care for your children, order them not into damnation
To eliminate those who would trespass against you
For whose is the kingdom, the power, the glory forever and ever, Amen
Halt who goes there?!
Death...
Approach friend.
You're just another coffin on its way down the
USA
When your children's stony glances mourn your death in a terrorist's smile
The bomber's arm placing fiery gifts on the supermarket shelves
Alley sings with shrapnel detonate a temporary hell
Forgotten Sons
From the dole queue to the regiment a profession in a flash
But remember Monday signings when from door to door you dash
On the news a nation mourns you unknown soldier, count the cost
For a second you'll be famous but labelled posthumous
Forgotten sons, forgotten sons
Peace on earth and mercy mild,
Mother Brown has lost her child
I bought a cheap 20MB Maxtor (32049H2) six months ago and I've been really surprised by its performance.
Ok, it's slow as shit (5400 rpm, IDE66) but so far it has been reliable and, what I appreciate the most, it's amazingly silent.
Given the ridiculous noise levels of modern PCs (CPU fan+hard drives+additional case fan = 50-60 dB!) I haven't really considered replacing it with a faster drive, even though bootstrap-compiling gcc 3.0.1 took something like an hour on my 1.4 GHz/512 MB AMD...
Those who work in engineering and/or scientific research may find SciGraphica a most useful tool for preparing publication quality graphs. In particular, if you have previous experience in using Microcal's Origin, you will feel at home with this open source program.
Or, as I like to put it to the control freaks: "If you don't say anything wrong, you have no reason to fear our eavesdropping devices we intend to place in your apartment. It's for your own and childrens' safety".
Slashdot Mirror
I am a citizen of an EU/EMU nation.
we(the workers) do not control the means of production in Europe.
Perhaps, but the European markets are still more socialist in nature than the US ones. In my mind, a total ownership of the means of production either by the workers or by the owners is bad. Too bad the alternatives we are currently offered seem to be exactly those two extremes.
As far as I know that's the stuff they used to fix my retina.
It's a completely passive fix. First they cut open the outer layer of the eye (the white stuff) at the point of the retinal detachment. Then they create scar tissue with a cold probe cooled with liquid nitrogen to roughen up the inside of the eye. Finally they insert the pea-sized silicone piece in the cut to press the now rough background of the eye against the retina. The idea is that the scar tissue inside the eye hooks up with the detached retina. If I lift my eyelid I can see the silicone piece underneath the scar.
It was a surprisingly painless operation. A full anesthesia during surgery and about a week in the hospital with only moderate pain medication (first a nerve block and later codeine and paracetamol).
Well, isn't that how software should be?
I'm having great time watching some of you trying to deal with the realisation that open software is fundamentally a socialist idea when you've been taught from childhood that socialism is a bad thing.
Believe it or not, a non-capitalist society does not mean a totalitarian uncivilised culture. Witness the second largest economy in the world, The Europe, consisting of 300 million people predominantly ruled by socialist governments.
I don't think that's true.
Links?
Regarding my operation, the retina was reattached in the corrective surgery but I was told that it could start coming off again in the future.
In my case I was given a choice between a "quick-and-dirty" laser fix and a more thorough surgery ("Scleral buckle" on the page you linked to). In the former treatment the borders of the detached area would be burnt with the laser to prevent further degradation, but the results would not be as good. In fact, if the detachment continued after the burn-in the resulting damage would become even more severe than without the operation.
For me with a history of retinal detachment since the age of 22 this is good news indeed. Fixing the retina by installing a pea-sized bit of silicone inside the outer layer of the eyeball is such a medical kludge...
You'll find his reply here.
There's plenty of interesting and funny stuff at -1.
I'd like reading Slashdot at -1 if there weren't Klerck's page lengthening posts. I really, really would like to get those out of my sight, but since they're already at -1 the foe modifier doesn't work anymore.
That's when the lower cost of Linux becomes a real advantage. In either case the personnel has to be re-trained so the savings must come from the hardware and software.
I think this is quite an understatement.
Both the German and French governments have warmly endorsed the use of Linux and free software in general on the governmental level and (IIRC) cities in Finland are switching to Linux.
John J. Barton and Lee R. Nackman, "Scientific and Engineering C++", Addison Wesley Longman, Inc., 1994. (ISBN: 0-201-53393-6)
I've never understood this argument.
How does the cash I hand out link me to the purchase I made (and thus violate my privacy) -- even if it could be "electromagnetically tracked"?
The difference between XP and MP is that AMD guarantees that the MP versions will do SMP. If you install dual XPs you're doing it on your own. However, I've never had any problems with my setup and apparently very people do since the shop where I bought the board and CPUs builds, sells and guarantees working dual-XP versions (unless you specifically request an MP configuration).
And why not? You don't want people reading your book?
And don't tell me about lost profits. It's not as if I would have necessarily "compensated you for your time" by buying your book if it had NOT been available for free on the net.
Do you also object public libraries? After all libraries allow people to read your book without "compensating" you.
Whoa. That is my least favourite of all Star Treks. It sucked even more than Insurrection and that was hard to beat.
I'd let these people go if they just admitted that their god is a sadistic bastard, but no. Of course the "nasty" bits in the Bible are there to somehow emphasize the greatness of god (don't ask me how).
If I had been your mom I would have told the parent that her kid is hereby excused from reading Harry Potter books.
Instead, the kid will be required to read the Bible and write an essay on one of the topics below:
"Murder your own family and friends if any one of them attempts to persuade you to abandon Christianity." -Deuteronomy 13
"God commands the murder of innocent infants." -I Samuel 15:3
"Murder is the sentence for practicing any other religion." -Deuteronomy 13 and Numbers 25
"Sadistic ritual a wife is supposed to endure if her husband is 'jealous' or suspects adultery. The ritual is performed by a priest and is supposed to induce an abortion." -Numbers 5:11-29
"Man who rapes a slave must sacrifice an animal in a temple to be forgiven." -Leviticus 19:20
"Sarah: Half-sister of husband, Abra-ham. 'She really is my sister, the daughter of my father though not of my mother; and she became my wife.'" -(Gen 20:12)
CNN's European site is working fine.
There are many like it, but this one is mine.
My HP is my best friend.
It is my life.
I must master it, as I must master my life.
Without me, my HP is useless.
Without my HP, I am useless.
I must use my HP true.
I must calculate better than my peers who are trying to see me fail.
I must beat them before they beat me.
I will.
Before God I swear this creed. .. . until there is no enemy but peace.
My HP and myself are defenders of my science.
We are the masters of our enemy: the ignorance.
We are the saviours of knowledge.
So be it
Amen.
Searching the roofs for a sniper, a viper, a fighter
Death in the shadows he'll maim you, he'll wound you, he'll skin you
For a long forgotten cause, on not so foreign shores
Boys baptised in wars
Morphine, chill scream, bad dream
Serving as numbers on dogtags, flakrags, sandbags
Your girl has married your best friend, loves end, poison pen
Your flesh will always creep, tossing turning sleep
The wounds that burn so deep
Your mother sits on the edge of the world
W when the cameras start to roll
Panoramic viewpoint resurrect the killing fold
Your father drains another beer, he's one of the few that cares
Crawling behind a Saracen's hull from the safety of his living room chair
Forgotten sons, forgotten sons, forgotten sons
And so as I patrol in the valley of the shadow of the star-spangled banner
I must fear evil, for I am but mortal and mortals can only die
Asking questions, pleading answers from the nameless faceless watchers
That stalk the carpeted corridors of White House
Who orders desecration, mutilation, verbal masturbation?!
I in the guarded bureaucratic wombs
President, President care for your children, order them not into damnation
To eliminate those who would trespass against you
For whose is the kingdom, the power, the glory forever and ever, Amen
Halt who goes there?!
Death...
Approach friend.
You're just another coffin on its way down the USA
When your children's stony glances mourn your death in a terrorist's smile
The bomber's arm placing fiery gifts on the supermarket shelves
Alley sings with shrapnel detonate a temporary hell
Forgotten Sons
From the dole queue to the regiment a profession in a flash
But remember Monday signings when from door to door you dash
On the news a nation mourns you unknown soldier, count the cost
For a second you'll be famous but labelled posthumous
Forgotten sons, forgotten sons
Peace on earth and mercy mild,
Mother Brown has lost her child
Just another Forgotten Son
I bought a cheap 20MB Maxtor (32049H2) six months ago and I've been really surprised by its performance.
Ok, it's slow as shit (5400 rpm, IDE66) but so far it has been reliable and, what I appreciate the most, it's amazingly silent.
Given the ridiculous noise levels of modern PCs (CPU fan+hard drives+additional case fan = 50-60 dB!) I haven't really considered replacing it with a faster drive, even though bootstrap-compiling gcc 3.0.1 took something like an hour on my 1.4 GHz/512 MB AMD...
Those who work in engineering and/or scientific research may find SciGraphica a most useful tool for preparing publication quality graphs. In particular, if you have previous experience in using Microcal's Origin, you will feel at home with this open source program.
Or, as I like to put it to the control freaks: "If you don't say anything wrong, you have no reason to fear our eavesdropping devices we intend to place in your apartment. It's for your own and childrens' safety".
Uh... have you ever used X with anti-aliasing?
I tried it with KDE 2.x but had to turn it off. The fonts were messy to the point of being almost unreadable.