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  1. Even better... on QEMU Accelerator Achieves Near-Native Performance · · Score: -1

    That's insightful, not Funny.

    The purpose of this ability is to accelerate x86 virtualization. It, by foundational reasons, only accelerates code that is limited to the available machine code of the host environment. Pentium4 and below is accelerated on a Pentium4 host. However, Pentium4 virtualization is not accelerated on a 486 host, for obvious reasons. The goal is to accomplish better than emulation; dynamic translation. The networked application server providers could decide it safer to provide its clients a virtual host that can be manipulated by the underlying system administrator executing a simple renice for each QEMU virtualization instance, rather than providing each user with a chroot environment that will expose the underlying system environment if that chroot fails. This ability can extend the life of existing software that has absolutely to reason to port, or can't be ported due to the lack of viable hardware today. QEMU on that castrated limited-media version of Microsoft Windows XP (released in Thailand IIRC) would uncastrate a system's potential even more by natively-accelerated virtualization. This is a great feat for We, the Penny-pinchers of mankind!

    In my experience, I host GNU/Linux on an Alpha architecture. Back in the day, Windows NT 4.0 Alpha was being used on this server before I bought it, and it was helpful to run BINTRANS to run those 32bit x86 Win32 applications every once in a while. Due the fact GNU/Linux embraces and extends architectures abandoned by nearly ALL operating system vendors not Linux, I now have available all Win32 x86 applications that can be run in Wine and WineX. I can't yet run a virtual Alpha host, due limitation of QEMU. Wine and WineX are not possible to be compiled on Alpha architecured GNU/Linux, so to acheive such x86 Win32 on Alpha is to be running a Alpha-compiled QEMU on GNU/Linux Alpha, install and run a x86-compiled Wine/WineX through QEMU, or install Microsoft Windows. The same can be accomplished for running QEMU translation on GNU/Linux platforms in PowerPC or SPARC or WHATEVER. QEMU already dynamically translates code to run natively, yet the plugin spoken is doing much more for same/same x86 targets. QEMU is much more impressive than BOCHS, VMWARE, VIRTUALPC, et al in this regard.

    The root of the problem for Wine and WineX is that it can be built for PowerPC, yet the verry architecture influences its interpretation of code; x86 win32 can't be run on a PowerPC-compiled Wine. QEMU is mostly used to allow x86 win32 applications on better operating systems on better architectures. Lin-Win situation for legacy applications that don't need the degrading environment complexities of today's bloat. Now people can put stability of old into bloat of today.

  2. About.com has a past in piracy. on New York Times Buys About.com for $410 Million · · Score: 0, Interesting

    In one instance, About.com allowed the complete piracy of a linux entertainment forum and claimed it as About.com intellectual property. I'm talking about Happypenguin.org. It was about a 8 moths ago (IIRC) when Happypenguin.org was set a host of a complete websuck by a About.com "editor"; duplicating the entire Happypenguin.org gamelist and comment forum into the Linux section on About.com. I think the "editor" caught is "Jurgen Haas" or some such. Hearing Bob Zambinski rant was worthy to mimic, under GPL of'course, to any similar situations. How would you like it if Slashdot initiated a webf^Hsuck on a great little website, kicking the bandwidth bill rigth in their face, and then claim all the "IP" as their own? That's what Jurgen Hass at About.com had done. And to this day, Slashdot has been doing the same and worse: Slashbombing little websites, unrepentantly! To quote the street-preacher in the crap movie JOHNY GNUMONIC, "Halt sinners!" (*SMACK*)

  3. All humans are men, but not all men are humans on One Giant Step for Humanoids · · Score: -1

    Human != man
    Human is a kind of man; hence mankind.
    plural "human" is "humans",
    plural "man" is "men",

    Consider others such as "german" or "roman" or ...

    What, thousands of years ago in Babylon, there was a religion that converted a man upon induction into a "human." The "hu" prefixed to their Court order was a mark for their god.

    Now all we hear today is human this, human that; and the most cherished quote held on fictional (human) sitcoms is from a artificial robot that says "kill all humans...kill all humans."

    Therefore, I deny that I am a human based on these self-evident facts. I am a godly man, not a human. I do not accept human rights, therefore I have no duty to pay taxes to secure those rights. All I need is love, and humans don't have it obviously because all they do is claim the world by conquest and discovery. The catholic church is a proponent for human rights; a direct affront to Jesus the Christ; Yeshuah. Perhaps, that is why the Bible was first considered a Testament; you are now leaving man, and joining the ranks among humans, be certain to not violate anyone while you are a practicer of the religion beknownst Relative Humanism.

  4. Intel / AMD notebooks = portable rackmount servers on AMD's New Low-Power CPUs · · Score: -1

    The Intel and AMD based notebooks truly are just portable rackmount servers. Everything about them screams excellent in those regards; if a power supply breaks, you moderate its power consumption down for the time being you can walk to a store and buy another. And they cost less than rackmount units that include a rackmountable keyboard and flatpanel for such prohibitive costs of such a 17" or 19" rack formfactor.

    From the beginning, Transmeta's Crusoe was great for uptime. Their first products, what four years ago, were always beyond 10 hours of uptime. I know what you mean about Pentium II laptops; they are excellent machines! From experience, I came across a IBM Pentium2 laptop and it was quiet and quick at only 400MHz (IIRC).

  5. Mod down that post! Transmeta is the be-any Arch. on AMD's New Low-Power CPUs · · Score: -1

    Why is that post being modded up? Who let the bad moderators into the field?

    Transmeta's Crusoe chip is programmable to behave as any architecture a system integrator chooses. Inherintly, the Crusoe can be programmed to behave natively as a MIPS32 chipset. What is difficult to understand or did you append the CULT in DIFFI? If you don't own a Transmeta Crusoe product, don't comment on their merit. I own a SonicBlue ProGear 10**LX tablet PC and it is marvelous; only features a second-generation Transmeta Crusoe CPU! People who bought a first generation Sony VAIO laptop also would be offended by your post. Transmeta has given laptops no less than 13 hours of continual fan-less non-testical-scorching uptime, whereas AMD and INTEL have given much less.

    Listen if you DARE, on all things Linux: uptime is King; and the King doesn't hibernate or sleep.

  6. Pictures of .iso data on Public Park Designated Copyrighted Space · · Score: -1

    Can you image that? Bring data into a Courts-martial and the administrator will be stuttering "du.. dd.. DISMISSED! *bad command*"

  7. Please, show some contextual study procedure. on Comparing MySQL Performance · · Score: -1


    <script type="marketing/true_lies" language="bullshit">

    In performance-laden office environments, you need a redundant benchmarking suite to test key market performance measures at a trainable level near the reach of its Trusted(TM) users. Surely, your benchmark lies of itself.

    I am standing here at the moment, with three computers; one Apple G5 800MHz /OSX 10.3 install, one Intel Pentium4 3000MHz /WindowsXP install, and a measily DEC Alpha 166MHz /RedHat 5.2 install. To demonstrate the low-latency, low manageability of Linux, I have placed a 17MB file in /home/nradude/public_html and timestamp the rate of all systems transfering the data through a 1000BaseTX network from the robust DEC Alpha RedHat server.

    As the file is being copied, the other systems seam to be limited at some unknown hardware bottleneck in their immediate software processing environment. While they are copying that 17MB file, the DEC Alpha RedHat server can symbolic-link that file many times over to other directories, and even perform complete copy actions through the LO interface.

    Apple and Microsoft are obviously lying and no way can Intel and IBM compete with the ***strategically exceptional processing systems inherint in the greater media offers from DEC Alpha and RedHat.

    ***1000BaseTX network used a true honest-to-God Full-on <font size="0">half</font> DUPLEX environment.

    </script>

  8. RFID shield. on Students and Bodies Tracked Via RFID Tags · · Score: -1

    Sorry to hear some people are not educated enough that they stress attending mercenary Teacher schools and related sessions further.

    A paragraph of advice to student: buy yourself a metal-tin box of breath mints or gum and use it as a business card holder. Comprehend that anything that costs money is business; that includes people dba student to pay for "Student ID" and "RFID" tags. Line the inside with aluminium foil and put your RFID tag inside and only expose it when you need to enter through a librarians' secret "lair" through the stargate. Keep the RFID shielded at all times when working without. Perhaps, kindly petition your fellow molested (aka bothered) students to do the same, hopefully with the same style of metal-tin box; and when you need to perform menial errands or tasks just swap Authentication and RFID tags with anyone that is headed in an area you'ld be impaired to be around given your schedule. Gives new meaning to a boy carrying books for a girl and puting it in her RFID locker when she runs off to flirt with the boyfriend you are trying to replace. ;-)

    Maybe when the school pulls some RDF action, you can attach your RFID to a kite or RC cheap up/down helocopter during lunch break or somthing. You wouldn't trust these people with security, would you? They're the ones that are responsible for the political propoganda, illiteracy, corporate worship, and humanism.

  9. Not quite as the obsolete Sun x86 cards. on IBM To Demo OpenPower 710 At SCALE 3x · · Score: -1

    For those readers not in the know, Sun Microsystems developed their own PCI device of a completely sufficient x86 computer. The earliest model IIRC is a AMD K6-2 based cadillac-length adaptor with audio dsp, VGA, 100BaseTX, IDE, RS232C, and RS422; the last model IIRC was Pentium3/Celeron based with the expected features as anyone would think to receive. To my comprehension, it could be standalone when not installed in a PCI slot on a SPARC architecture. Aside from SPARC, Apple developed a similar methodology. Yet despite all the hardware dependancies, everyone wants a fast cross-architecture interface to a large base of applications on another software platform. For PowerPC, there is not much hope for having a natively-compiled WINE run-time on a GNU Linux/PowerPC environment. Wine can be compiled and its API partially usable on PowerPC, despite being pre-dominantly an x86 question. Wine hasn't ventured into Alpha architecture lair, though to conclude with a performing course few venture onto for x86 Win32 applications in Wine on non-x86 architectured environments; the sole remedy is to download a pre-compiled x86 binary package of Wine in a package format that you are comfortable with prepareing to host with possible hostility to the local linux Distribution, download the great Qemu virtualization software, and follow the instructions to running a x86 win32 application within a x86 qemu virtualization process of x86 Wine on a non-x86 architecture with feasible acceleration.

    Qemu is not necessarily an emulator, but a virtualization process that interprets machine code in real time and dynamically translates it to correspond with the software platform of the hosting architecture; x86 to PowerPC or Sparc or Alpha, interchangable and not necessarily limited to x86 yet Wine needs x86 to present any value. Qemu is painful to setup because for each environment it needs its own chroot foundation on the local filesystem an those things can hurt the simple people that just want the end-result; perhaps a GUI can help, but nay!

  10. Here is the List of sacrilege by STATE lawmakers: on China Bans 50 Games · · Score: -1

    the lawmakers send their police(y) (enforcement) officers to compell the unknowing man into voluntary acceptance of a contract to appear in Kangaroo Basketball COURT by the use of a TICKET. You never knew their COURT was just a setup for a theatre of war (no popcorn and soda), where even a Writ of Mandamus filed (bad movie) is not ackowledged but *appears* effectual because they abide without true and complete and correct and not-misleading ackowledgement of the writ.

    They are not courts established by the peacable; they are Courts-martial because there is war and they mis-leadingly let loose a falsely appraised contract (criminal) to charge a man on "his" own cognizance and don't acknowledge that your Writ had any effect to the matter: so they are affectionately saying, "sweep it under the rug and don't let the cat out of the bag."

    If you want to ponder Truth, let it be known that a army CHARGES you for duty and DISCHARGES you when you are no longer needed. *wink* Why do you suppose a prosecutor/persecutor CHARGE you with a crime *wink*.

    The "war" was never stoped; peace never declared lawfully, correctly, and honestly. All the unconstitutional crap is a matter of an Off-ice that is not a Just-ice of the Peace. The Freemen of Montana were right; Roger Elvick the equity-Redemptorist was right; Uniform Commercial Code Redemption is at hand to force upon you by the UNITED STATES (federal corporation). What greater fetters upon a voluntary bondservant than those Federal POWERS procured and presumed in the DRAFT fervor of the warring Congress puppeted by UNITED STATES corporation's transmitting utility held by a foreign power in admiralty law.

    Without Prejudice UCC 1-207; Secured Party: Creditor: /s/ Gregory-Thomas dba GREGORY THOMAS MUNDT

    "No, officer, I do not want to do business with you, and neither do I have a license to do business in YOUR State of California; thus, I conditionally agree to accept your offer upon proof of claim, and promptly return your "offer" for lack of stating a cured and proven claim, and dismiss your action in this court for cause of default in not curing your claim. Here is this court record, here is receipt for proof of service with a Bill of Rights to prevent any future trials causing insurrection from your foreign court. Now Go in peace. By the authority invested in me, this case is closed:/s/ Gregory-Thomas"

    Only a Justice of the Peace is weathered and conditioned to speak such truth as these Presents are know to you.

  11. Re:What I'd Wish I'd Known on What You'll Wish You'd Known · · Score: -1

    cough*Jesus the Christ cracked Greece*cough.

    Between Jesus the Christ and brother Budha, I think if people actually dedicated one day a week (known as church); dedicate twenty-four hours accurately applied to the other seven days of the week to support good will to all men, then life would be less a burden on our stay.

    And no, congregating into a building made of the hands of men, with stone idol fixtures and icons everywhere, is not church.

    Outside of a state, we are all the people; within a state, your person becomes a citizen; and to my comprehension, church is a matter of citizenry (not people) infiltrating a state and peacably assembling to recognize any gods (the people, not their persons beknownst Citizens).

  12. Specialty skills -- menial? on What You'll Wish You'd Known · · Score: -1

    I specialize in a smaller array of persons that can't be found. Among those persons are skills desired often because UNITED STATES is blatently incorporating and moving many industries over-seas to other countries.

    aluminum injection-moulding; sandcaster (technical tools),
    unlicensed pharmacist (not those pesky Kaiser licensed drug-dealers)
    American-inhabitant diplomacy (precedes state, State, STATE, and U.S "citizens"),
    Cooking and Cleaning (avoid corporate food, have some of Jesus Christ today!)

    I behave duties (not rites) to other personifications, but those are the prime specialties other than administering computer systems and communications networks.

  13. Who is this "we" you speak to? on Why Did The FBI Retire Carnivore? · · Score: -1

    In some cases...albeit limited ones. Secrets must be kept in order to remain safe. Should Osama and crew learn all of the ways that we spy on them, they are liable to change their tactics and make it that much harder for us to try to foil them.

    There is no way to spy on Ossama, but by satelite imagery after removing clouds with Einogel, torturing a loyal member, or lobbying a weak member for information. And yet I laugh, there are corporations, and/or diseases that have destroyed more lives only in America that Ossama bin Laden should be least priority; blame the people (America) for being morally effected by the death of a minority of brothers and sisters; those people killed by Ossama kealed over at those terrorists demands and I not have have shown such. Let the terrorists arrive by the busload and I'll give them the hellfire Mohamad warned them of. The day Security and Safety prevents the people (America) from buying tools, food, and arms to maintain their lives from wicked neighbors and strangers is the day that tyrany reares its ugly face with a solution for the weak masses to be bonded by its fetter(al) powers and all law brought by justice of the peaceable come to an end by justice of the war. If everyone were honest, wore their gun outside their pants just as Linux-advocates wear penguin pins and ties on their vestments, then the George W. Bush labeled hackers (slandered crackers) and above-all TERRORISTS would think twice when they see how quick that lead gets slapped on their torso with trial and error by the people.

    Hand they known everything we were doing

    Who is "we"? The verry moment the Constitution is ignored, there is no "we" but "they". Stop speaking as though they represent anyone, but their own interests. And to begin with; CIA, FBI, FCC, and the rest of the alphabet gang are not a party to the governance established by the Constitution: stop acting like they represent the people that established the grand ol' united States of America.

    In short, for ANY government to function, it must have secrets and be able to keep them.

    The Constitution for the united States of America is NOT secret. Perhaps in Soviet Russia, governance is secret and carried out by hitmen like Oddjob, but here it MUST be honest and honest governance discloses all its actions. We wouldn't want to return to the 1700's where if you speak against some goddam nobility that you get stolen away in the night and tortured to submission in some embassied prison in a foreign communist country and your farmily can't always farm the internet or soil like the missing husband.

  14. Not necessary for more blocks on Build an Open Source Network Sniffer · · Score: -1

    The GS has twice the RAM and NVRAM of the regular WRT54G. This can be helpful as far as running packet sniffing apps on it is concerned.

    RAM and NVRAM are not a problem, when all you need is telnet, NFS, and your "custom" service waiting for commands to act on behalf of networked client. The better embedded computers; those dedicated to wireless networking and baseband and network services, have expandabilities such as a USB and Cardbus interfaces. Slowly, the euphoria of a "perfect computer" is wafting into antiquity as computing devices mature to where they were always meant to be; universal, small, lightweight, extendable, and efficient. There is no more need for a local desktop. All you need is a fast NAS unit, a network isolater for communication, and a palm-sized computer manipulating the data through a client connected to the application server. A desktop is more redundant though; in its large, antiquated form-factor. All you want from a embedded computer is enough resources to serve its purpose, without expending onto it the abilities of a NAS and AS.

  15. It is not unlawful to be god, but play God. on MIT Making Computer Parts from DNA · · Score: -1

    Some of God must have rubbed off on all of us, because God created and apparently we can do the same; but I lovingly doubt we can do better...

    (King James Version 1611, Authorized Version)
    Psalm 82:6
    "I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High."

  16. Not true (emphasis mine). on Security Researcher Faces Jail For Finding Bugs · · Score: -1

    Think of a contract to murder in a serpent-lawyer's tongue:

    Consider all those people that died when they contracted a deadly virus; they died "with protest" to the many virus classes known as Flu, Swine Fever, Warburg, Ebola, Rawanda, Pox; in their (implied) contract to a virus there is godly protest by the spirit of the host despite the acceptance; a dozen lymphnodes and billions of cells' walls didn't actually prove any denial to the conditioned (or not) acceptance and entry of the deadly virus.

    A contract to murder is not illegal; to both our comprehension it is an utmost immoral and unconcionable contract; the verry nature of a contract is yet to be reproved by the character of those that are "under duress" and "with protest" as the "under-signed" in acceptance of such a contract to murder or divert and convert energy and matter to the manufacture of articles per the contract. According to the honor system, all governance (contract law) is a matter for the benefit of the parties; Therefore in any apparent contract in one's abilities the undersigned should deliberately "conditionally agree" by any available moment, if not unconciously, to the contract rather than blindly "agree" as others.

    I know you are shaking your heads at the outright fraud that can be exhibitted. I've been there; raped, presumed, compeled to wear a mask (person) not by my construction. The only way to prevent such from happening is by establishing preponderance in a superior court and not Superior Court. All persons are under the graces of a court; prove otherwise.

    Consider computer software that allows no other sign, but "Agree" or "Disagree"; how does one protect their person or principle from a viril contract such as that which conforms to murder? It is thought (assumed) that contracts between persons of men is commerce only if there is consideration (appraisal) of the content; matters in commerce are often judicated by the Uniform Commercial Code; which contains visions to reserve a parties rights in an commercial contract agreement (UCC; Title 1, Section 207). This is the only comparison that can be offered to accepting a "contract to murder" without consideration (money=energy), or accepting a contract to a Flu virus with consideration (Flu moves energy from you).

    Consider a speeding ticket from a "COP" or "police officer"; in light of a offence yet to be proved, a person is pre-judiced as causing a matter of commerce (improvement or deprovement/damage to property); it's a contract forced upon the pre-judiced person as a "violater" or "tresspasser" and are therefore entrapped within the scope of the "contract" to agree to the scope of said person to APPEAR in "Court" on a certain date! Do you think a contract to murder is evil? You should read that speeding ticket in the scope that it is a contract written in the first person perspective as though YOU are making an offer to a "COP" or "police officer" which is only a matter of acceptance as though a virus! You either sign to conditionally agree, refuse to sign and be stolen into prison, or you can conditionally agree with a UCC to treat it as the blank cheque site draft of a commercial contract.

  17. And worse, tide-tables will be critical. on Countries Plan Land Rush in Warming Arctic · · Score: -1

    One of the hypothesis encountered by scientists speculation over the previous tsunami at the Indian Ocean was whether the tsunami caused greater effect due the tide movement in leu of the moon. With the polar caps melting, I have witnessed This local marina at Long Beach, California, raise about 1 foot over these previous ten years. When the tide is up, it is more dramatic. It needs only four feet of water for the water to raise above the sidewalk, and with the rate at which the tide raises we can see the boat-launch ramp moved to the bridge over-pass and all the apartments flooded. Long Beach Marina is a large area of million-dollar housing and market estates next-to the moored boats; in other words, its a house next to a parking lot and unFreeway (compelled boat licenses from foreign agents).

  18. Anticipating a search or seizure; Warrant. on India's Cops Meet Technology · · Score: -1

    I thought of ways to prepare for the moment a "officer" gains admittance, or coerced entrance, into a server room. By any chance, would we actually prepare for such Order or aggresively move data out of reach at the last moment? The answer may be the verry enclosures, or in my words "decoys", that may be searched or seized. We all know of the countless lame-filter by-passing news entering our discussion in the topics of Case-Modifications; why not take it to a strategical preponderance? My thoughts are not the originals; there are many people adjusting various house-hold appliances and objects to secure a superior computer enclosure; some enclosures are pointless, others are improvements unlike the vanity we all see enthemed on burdened steel.

    A computer enclosed in a remnant CRT monitor box, with a LCD panel concealing it as functional device, is becoming a viable solution and too predictable as with Apple's design; Enlight has a desktop tower that does this, so that can be a dismissed hiding place.. It's the Greater Depression now, We need to be ready for this crap. The possibilities are unlimited in the non-commercial, Lawful venue: trash receptacles, sculptured statues, books among shelves of non-pirated backup text books, your mother's army boots,...imagine a Beowulf cluster of those!

  19. You too can liberate these closed games... on Liberated Games Launches · · Score: -1

    after you pry them from my cold dead C64, Nintendo, Etc (Alpha platform).

  20. All but Sparc (Sun). on End Of The Line For Alpha · · Score: -1

    Sun chose the sparc architecture and modified it with proprietary technology enough to warrant reason of a patent.

    Sparc is an Open specification architecture. If Sun abandons it, Sparc will still live forever.

    I am sad to say Alpha is not an Open specification.

    Sparc is an engenious architecture; the only next to Alpha to utilize 100% efficient bus and memory architecture, and both being 64bit computing whereas Sparc is also 32bit unlike Alpha.

    Sun has most potential, given that HP and Intel will keep the Alpha bondservant burried alive until Itanium can prove its worth.

    What are we at now, Itanium2? Four years of Itanium, and no efficient compiler exists for it! Itanium is voodoo technology, yet because Intel is so far in debt to Itanium's design, HP and Intel are pushing hard to retrieve the billions they've lost in Itanium.

  21. History on Hormel owner; holder of SPAM trademark. on CAN-SPAM Is A Bust · · Score: -1

    Back when William J. Clinton was President of the United States, he made known to trodd on everyone he didn't agree by installing a minority administrator over his adversaries.

    Bill Clinton (aka William J. Clinton), as acting President of the United States, nominated a flamboyant homosexual James C. Hormel to be U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourgh; there was no able-bodied members of Luxembourgh that were not aggressively protesting.

    googe searched

  22. Because it wreaks of false accusation on Microsoft's Reaction to OSS Adoption · · Score: -1

    ESR does not have down's syndrome.

    ESR, at most, will take a simple truth and be extremly zealous towards Microsoft with mere comments. Microsoft does the same. Whoever that is without bias, cast the first ballot.

    If truth were relative, then perhaps Microsoft claims of Linux being a bad choice is completly true: Microsoft doesn't know how to implement an efficient (secure=stable+optimal computing, IMO). It would be equaly true that ESR's claims of Microsoft software being a bad choice because ESR doesn't know how to implement an efficient Microsoft-based platform. When the entire world throws eggs at one or the other, the jury has obviously reached its decision. I am not a judge and I think both open-source and closed source have good features (including Microsoft Windows); I am more successful with open-source solutions and the rest of me is for history to judge and not a mortal or artificical entity. Honestly, I can't say the same for Microsoft other than "may the best institution win."

  23. It's a justified tradition. on Microsoft's Reaction to OSS Adoption · · Score: -1

    but it would have been more tolerable had he not felt the need to comment on fucking everything

    ESR speaks on the "evils" of Microsoft!
    PETA speaks on the "evils" of eating animal meat!
    The NRA speaks on the "evils" of government regulation of guns(arms/firearms)!
    Trolls speak on the "evils" of moderation of goatse.cx posts!
    Microsoft speaks on the "evils" of OpenSource and free (as in beer) software!
    Satan speaks on the "oppressions" of Christianity"
    Amish people speak on the "evils" of electricity!

    You and I both know ESR is biased in his mind, as are we all, and perhaps even you and I by the way we respond to his comments. I think he "should" include his own comments; it is freedom of speech. We *should* receive ESR's comments as being partial and then receive the comments of someone else as a tradionalt "second opinion" or whatnot. Make a clear and honerable distinction between false testimony, or else we will have commited a sin to emphasize evil thoughts...or what we find the relativity of "evil." I don't know the status of ESR's morality; I'm not hear to judge him because my beliefs have convicted me of all evil, and I am not a judge and neither any mortal being be a judge except by blasphemy. It is a sin to take out of context someone else's words. ESR is part of "the force." Microsoft is part of "the force." I am over-joyed to receive the comments people have for eachother, yet frown upon gossip. ESR is another guy that has a bias towards Microsoft's interests. Microsoft is a company that has a bias towards ESR's interests. I'm not pre-judicially saying anything for or against either, they both are in "competition" and are a good source of finding flaws and strengths by their opinions. You wouldn't expect Microsoft to say anying good about Linus Torvalds...they are both in competition. They don't have any current desire to release favorable comments towards eachother. Based on the laws tied around everyone's necks, these respective cough*entities*cough are verry much chained down as slaves. They will be penalized for releasing to the public any statments that have a negative effect on the market, should a cough*entity*cough proceed in such administrative action. I think that's a peice of shit. Bring it on, ESR! Bring it on, Microsoft! Show me the un-altered facts with both of your bias; your slant is agreeable to those who posses a union of bias with you, I'm one of them. Yet, I dis-like oppression, we are never competent to battle the true oppression. We need the full-course meal; that includes the fluff. The candy could wait; ermm, there are laws against that sort of thing. Yes, we are slaves.

    I'm still thankful ESR has not been castrated by the government that chose to be in direct competition with him and others, but who has determined such a tangible event from happening? They're all biased. Everyone!

    Your comments are verry agreeable. In other subject matter, perhaps many people would be annoyed for example: ESR shows the cast of Monty Python how to make little rocks float on water. Or even more annoying, ESR teaches Microsoft proper user-interface designs for applications.

    None of those examples have happened, to my knowledge... I expect ESR to have an intelligently biased opinion towards Microsoft. He's the homo sapien everyone would go to...jointly, RMS also in that manner. :o) Kudos!

  24. Offtopic, yet prevoked on Known-Good MD5 Database · · Score: -1


    As I say these, think of NetHack... :D

    Jesus is kind.
    Jesus waterwalks.
    Jesus spoke truth.
    Jesus is honerable.
    Jesus killed no-one.
    Jesus owns no property.
    Jesus recited scripture.
    Jesus is always cheerful.
    Jesus is a patient teacher.
    Jesus is dead in the flesh.
    Jesus is live in the spirit.
    Jesus didn't provoke any anger.
    Jesus invites you to the kingdom.
    Jesus has many differing friends.
    Jesus needs you to pass out more invitations.

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  25. Don't on Nvidia GeForceFX(NV30) Officially Launched · · Score: -1
    There are a few ideas I would like to present to you about the GeForceFX. First, it will set the standard on 3D processing; it supports 32bit, 64bit, and 128bit graphics rendering. Second, if you were a fan of 3Dfx, then you should plan on purchasing this GeForceFX because it is the first GPU to implement patented technology from 3Dfx(page 3, TH's Review of GeForceFX). Third, this GPU is advanced more than you and I would've perceived; as stated in the previous idea about the 3Dfx technology, there may be an implementation of SLI-mode of graphics hardware in the GeForceFX(NV30) graphics accelerators, and as well, we may expect a re-embracement and extension of the 3Dfx Glide API. Fourth, and last idea may I add, this GeForceFX is verry advanced in using its hardware by means of power consumption and efficiensy of data, rivaling that of ST Systems' Kyro II graphics chipset).

    I, have yet to see one last element to be fullfilled by nVidia, of which is secondary to their excellent stability and performance in their Linux and freeBSD GLX drivers; may you opensource the drivers so that more ornamental and experimental computer platforms be supported and 3rd party developers may refine and extend functionality for optimum market placement?

    My hat is off to nVidia, the NV30 is the greatest bag of marbles I ever hope to purchase in the future. May I say to their only true competitor ATI (yes, excluding Matrox and Parhelia), your lack of support in the opensource world, especially in the implementation of functional drivers from Tungsten Graphics, will hurt you.

    May I add, the Matrox Parhelia is nowhere to be seen in comparison of performance to the GeForceFX's (NV30) *performance*. The Parhelia is to the GeForceFX as was the G200 is to the GeForce2; nowhere in sight. Alas, I have a few Matrox graphics accerlators in my machines and Matrox has clearly left nVidia behind in functionality of drivers; Matrox is obviously interested in ideologies of flexibility with stability.

    GeForceFX (NV30) will be my first actual purchase of an nVdia product.