When corporations are no longer defended by the government, laws, etc, etc, they will be unable to pressure citizens into buying their product, etc, etc.
How does one build a quiet, electric, flying, passenger transport within the Earth's atmosphere?
I think there are bigger issues involved than mere energy storage. An electric helicopter would be almost exactly as loud as a gas-powered one, etc. I'm sure that my neighbors would complain. Heh.
Remember when 'Open Source' meant better software, not 'half-finished, half-assed prepetual beta'?
Nope. Was this ever the case? I must have been asleep for the last 20 years. I guess I missed all the great, totally finished open source programs floating around. Personally, I can only think of a couple.. You listed most of them.
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It would be interesting to see the results of that. I don't think the results would be particularly cut-and-dried, as it were.
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This is crap. If you're going to require that someone finish college to become a lawyer, what's the purpose of the bar testing? Why not just skip the college requirement, and let the test results speak for themselves. If Joe A gets the same score as Joe B, and one of them is self-taught, what's the difference?
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What happens when 499 pounds of that mail is from people who don't vote in the district that the congressman/woman comes from? It goes in the trash.
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The DeCSS case has shown that yes, U.S. laws can bust you no matter where you reside.
"In 1994, less than 39 percent of voting-age Americans cast general election ballots -- and that was up from 36.5 percent in the off-year congressional elections of 1990, according to the Committee for the Study of the American Electorate. Even for the 1992 presidential contest, turnout was a mere 55.2 percent of the voting-age populace, though that too was up from 50.1 percent in 1988."
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Sure, those are associations as well.. However, they are associations of corporations, not of individuals.. Corporations with millions of dollars to burn, in fact. Maybe if all the Slashdot readers contributed 5% of their annual income to the "Internet Association", then there'd be enough money to get some lobbying done.
Let's say that everyone who has ever read Slashdot will wake up tomorrow as the most rabid freedom-loving voters ever to live. That's still not enough people to even make a dent in our political system.
Linux is so marginal that it's hard to express. Name one company with an architecture that's been out for less than a year that has "dedicated" support for their Linux user(s).
Actually, today's cars are so slow because tires are lame-ass way of getting traction. 400HP in a 3500LB object that was running on rails would be FAST.
All information is digital. The quantum theory of information states (paraphrased) that anything can be described digitally if your resolution is "fine" enough.. In the case of matter, you have to be able to resolve individual energy states of all subatomic particles.
TwinVQ and basically everything else besides TAC sucks when compared to MP3.. Most of them have the added disadvantage of incredibly long encode times. Ugly stuff..
Personally, I would have bought the Linux version had it come out "day and date" with the Win32 version. As it was, I wasn't going to wait around while my friends played through the game just to show my support for Linux. I know quite a few people who made the same decision. Given that the Linux version didn't ship at the same time as the Win32 version, I don't think anything meaningful can be learned from the sales figures.
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When corporations are no longer defended by the government, laws, etc, etc, they will be unable to pressure citizens into buying their product, etc, etc.
How does one build a quiet, electric, flying, passenger transport within the Earth's atmosphere?
I think there are bigger issues involved than mere energy storage. An electric helicopter would be almost exactly as loud as a gas-powered one, etc. I'm sure that my neighbors would complain. Heh.
It's 1920 x 1080, actually.. At least when watching 1080i HDTV programming, which is what those screens are designed for.
(32(bits) x 33,000,000(Hz)) / (8 x 1024 x 1024) = 125 MB/sec or so. In the real world, you rarely see over 95-100 MB/sec from a single device.
Most i815E boards have this..
Example:
ASUS CUSL2
That's like telling a junkie to "Stop using that Heroin stuff."
Only my JPEGs understand me.
Did you watch the demo? (Don't bother answering, I already know the answer is "no.")
Remember when 'Open Source' meant better software, not 'half-finished, half-assed prepetual beta'?
Nope. Was this ever the case? I must have been asleep for the last 20 years. I guess I missed all the great, totally finished open source programs floating around. Personally, I can only think of a couple.. You listed most of them.
It would be interesting to see the results of that. I don't think the results would be particularly cut-and-dried, as it were.
This is crap. If you're going to require that someone finish college to become a lawyer, what's the purpose of the bar testing? Why not just skip the college requirement, and let the test results speak for themselves. If Joe A gets the same score as Joe B, and one of them is self-taught, what's the difference?
What happens when 499 pounds of that mail is from people who don't vote in the district that the congressman/woman comes from? It goes in the trash.
The DeCSS case has shown that yes, U.S. laws can bust you no matter where you reside.
From a Google hit:
"In 1994, less than 39 percent of voting-age Americans cast general election ballots -- and that was up from 36.5 percent in the off-year congressional elections of 1990, according to the Committee for the Study of the American Electorate. Even for the 1992 presidential contest, turnout was a mere 55.2 percent of the voting-age populace, though that too was up from 50.1 percent in 1988."
Sure, those are associations as well.. However, they are associations of corporations, not of individuals.. Corporations with millions of dollars to burn, in fact. Maybe if all the Slashdot readers contributed 5% of their annual income to the "Internet Association", then there'd be enough money to get some lobbying done.
Let's say that everyone who has ever read Slashdot will wake up tomorrow as the most rabid freedom-loving voters ever to live. That's still not enough people to even make a dent in our political system.
Linux is so marginal that it's hard to express. Name one company with an architecture that's been out for less than a year that has "dedicated" support for their Linux user(s).
You're an idiot. What do you think a computer IS?
Actually, today's cars are so slow because tires are lame-ass way of getting traction. 400HP in a 3500LB object that was running on rails would be FAST.
All information is digital. The quantum theory of information states (paraphrased) that anything can be described digitally if your resolution is "fine" enough.. In the case of matter, you have to be able to resolve individual energy states of all subatomic particles.
With a gun, not "by" a gun is one of the points that he's trying to make.
TwinVQ and basically everything else besides TAC sucks when compared to MP3.. Most of them have the added disadvantage of incredibly long encode times. Ugly stuff..
Personally, I would have bought the Linux version had it come out "day and date" with the Win32 version. As it was, I wasn't going to wait around while my friends played through the game just to show my support for Linux. I know quite a few people who made the same decision. Given that the Linux version didn't ship at the same time as the Win32 version, I don't think anything meaningful can be learned from the sales figures.
Whoa. Abolishing all income taxes? Withdrawing from the WTO? Claiming the Panama Canal as soverign US territory? Ron Paul is cooool. ;)
Actually, at 0 Kelvin, quantum tunnelling turns all matter into liquid.. An extremely viscous liquid, but a liquid nonetheless..