And of course, there aren't any ignorant Canadians. If you search for stupid people, you will find them. You probably won't have to look far in any nation. I always felt that a Canadian's opinion of American intelligence was much more revealing about the Canadian in question than Americans in general.
I'd want to be able to pay for channels with premium programming where directors would not be required to make such allowances. If David Lynch doesn't feel like product placement would work for an episode of Twin Peaks, I'd rather pay for the privilege of watching it.
The DVD format supports the blocking of certain actions during certain segments of playback.
Open souce players will deal with this. Also it wouldn't suprise me if standalone players have undocumented options in their firmware.
That's why it's illegal to make open source DVD players. The DVD CCA will sue your pants off. You'd have to create the software and distribute it from Iran.
They made a deal that expired. There is now no deal, and no contract requiring Microsoft to produce Office:Mac. Kevin Browne of Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit keeps telling people that there's no reason MS is going to stop making Office:Mac. There doesn't need to be a contract. There just needs to be goodwill between the companies.
Of course, Apple switching to Mozilla might easily count as an end to the goodwill between the companies.
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Uh... you say, "... now it's time to move on. To move on to languages that learnt from perl, that improved on it, that don't have to drag around a syntax and culture... "
I'm taking you a little bit out of context, but isn't that exactly what Perl6 is? A new language that learns from Perl5 and changes a lot of the syntax and culture? Iduno too much about either language, so I might be wrong. If so, please explain how.
Except that we have no reason to believe that cold fusion is possible. Regular fusion, on the other hand, might with sufficient work. Hell, fission should do the trick for a long long time.
When petrol becomes very costly, we'll switch mediums. Uranium or hydrogen will keep us going 'till we start asteroid mining 'n' planet hopping, won't it?
Despite all of the replies to your post indicating otherwise, I'm pretty sure you're wrong.
No mac has ever been able to boot without some kind of graphics hardware. Not while running MacOS, LinuxPPC, or anything else. This is of course, completely ok. They will still run headless. That is, don't connect a monitor, and then they're headless. Just imagine that the graphics card isn't installed. If you ever see the window manager using more than 1% CPU, I'll eat my hat.
I could be mistaken, but I was also pretty sure that there is no standard PC hardware that will boot without a graphics system either. The operating system has nothing to do with it.
Anyway, as someone else pointed out, three blades stack in 1U together. Your CPU density is still better with transmeta.
Someone else pointed out that Transmeta chips could run code morphing software that supports G4 instructions. This is the dumbest thing people keep saying about Crusoe. Of course it *could* run different code morphing software, but it never will. It cost Transmeta as much to develop that software as it did to develope the hardware. There is *no* *way* that anyone will ever write the software that will allow Crusoe to emulate different types of chips. Too expensive.
Uh, no. Not if it was written in Japanese and hosted on a Japan-centric website. Then I guarantee no one on/. would say a damn thing. And it would have been a valid and useful (if obvious) warning to Japanese tourists in the US.
CDs don't work for me. I am a poor judge of a CD's staying power. Back when I bought CDs, I would frequently buy crappy CDs. Now I download full albums from MP3 distro groups. I've got about a hundred albums right now. If an album gets old, I delete it. My collection is excellent. I don't buy anything.
CDs scratch and oxidize. MP3s are forever. If I ever buy a CD, it is only because it's so uncommon that it can't be downloaded. And then I rip it and play it on my computer or my iPod.
Yeah, I know. I realize that my post defends Democrats. That was a mistake. Never meant to put it that way. Suggesting that censorship and personal freedom is a left vs. right political issue is wrong. That's all I was trying to suggest in my original post.
I might have been a little unclear, but I kept it under the char limit:)
Well, I know three southerners that are at least that crazy. And I'm a northern atheist. I of course also know hundreds of totally reasonable Christians. Maybe all the crazy types get sick of having no one to save, so they move up here.
Dude. Evolutionists didn't say that reptiles slowly morphed. They said that reptiles had a variety of children. Some of them died.
When does this "micro" evolution become "macro" evolution in your mind? Where is the line? Who invented this distinction?
Is the difference between a wolf and a chihuahua still microevolution? That evolutionary step only took 2000-5000 years of unnatural selection. Birds and some reptiles seem awful similar to me... why wouldn't natural selection be able to make that change over millions of years?
Well... after the reverse split, it'd only be 709 MILLION shares outstanding. Is # of shares outstanding actually considered a useful measurement? I would assume that the interesting number would be $ value of outstanding shares.
He's not saying that AT&T is soon to be delisted. He's saying that the 5-1 reverse split is uncommon among corps of it's size and stature. You misread the grandparent completely. Or you trolled me really well.
That's why the previous poster made the distinction between professional and personal software. Unless you're discussing shareware IDE or CAD software, the previous poster agreed with you completely. He didn't say that people weren't thieves, just that real companies aren't thieves.
Amanb, I feel your moderated pain. The two comments that know the difference between hindi and a hindu *both* got moderated down. Time to start up the metamod again...
Mr. Allen: I happen to have Marshal McLuhan right here, and he has something he'd like to say to you.
Mr. McLuhan: You've completely misunderstood the meaning of my work. How you could have possibly been made a professor is something that I will never understand.
Hehe. I wish I could have quoted that accurately, but it's been a while since I've seen Annie Hall. I don't actually think you misunderstood anything.
That's right, you feel like it would be the opposite because you're not a rapist. No matter how sexually aroused you might be, you're not a violent person, and would never do such a thing. The only reason you'd ever imagine it is because you want sex, not violence. If you can get your sex from porn, that will do nicely for you.
Previous poster still has a totally valid point. For other people, that do have a desire for violence, watching a lot of porn will change their view of what is acceptable behavior. If you begin fucked in the head, porn can absolutely fuck you worse in the head.
Don't get me wrong. I watch porn all the time. I don't think I'm playing with fire at all. I know the difference between fantasy and reality. I was fortunate, though. Nobody ever raped me when I was a kid, so those borders are pretty clear. The people that *did* get molested as children are much more likely to do similar things as adults, and kiddie porn will certainly keep them thinking about it.
Yeah. And now that "Mac OS X" translates directly to "BSD Unix" it's not like access is holding a candle to *anything*. Anyway. Not that I'm an MS hater. You've done heard perfect.
They said in the article that they're not going to port Access. It'd be too much work, and they feel like FileMaker already ownz the Mac desktop DB market. The speaker suggested that it would take the entire MacBU about 2 and a half years to port.
Um, no, not really. It might have made sense, but they ran out of money. That's why there were no conclusions. There are movies that also make you come up with your own conclusions, but they don't degenerate into nonsense. Watch the last two episodes (don't pay for them) and then tell us that they're just avoiding "good-guys-always-win". The first half of the episodes make the viewer ask, "Why are we fighting angels?" Which makes them question the idea of pure good and evil. Always a good thing, IMH(athiest)O. Then they get a little repetitive, but still fun. And then they turn into whining BS and nonsense. And it's still one of the few pieces of anime that I consider excellent.
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Totally fair.
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Gosh, you get angry quick.
You disagreed that SDI could be an offensive weapon. I just meant to point out that it has offensive capabilities, and these capabilities might make other nations nervous. You might be absolutely right that the US would never do such a thing. I didn't mean to imply that they would. Just like I don't think the US would ever have attempted a first strike against the USSR during the cold war. It still made other nations nervous.
And, most importantly, the US changes. The past six months is a perfect example. I don't believe that the US has done anything wrong in their War on Terrorism. I'm sure you'll disagree, but I feel like the character of our nation has taken a dark turn. Out politicians and our population would be willing to commit to much more "imperialistic" behavior now than ever before. And we haven't. We'd have to be a lot farther gone before we could excuse anything particularly wrong.
But it only took six months. SDI would be around for a long time. You talk about the US like it's a trusted friend. Of course you're right, we haven't been a conquering nation for long time. But the US is a large organization of people, and the people in the organization come and go. The community of nations can't trust a nation 100% because of it's track record.
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Um, I don't know exactly what the poster meant when he was talking about SDI being an offensive weapon, but I've definitely felt similarly before. The potential is not for offensive strikes on ground targets, but offensive strikes on spaceborne targets. If SDI is completed and installed, then the US will be able to decide exactly what can get off the ground, anywhere in the world. If someone wants to fly to the moon, install a satellite, they will have to get US permission.
That, IMHO, is fucked. And other behavior of the US definitely inspires paranoia: They've been backing away from the UN doctrine that the moon can belong to no nation. Of course that means nothing whatsoever right now, but it could mean something in 50 years.
Of course, SDI isn't a very good way to help the US control the Earth. It would make the US control everything else. I'd be a lot more upset if I weren't American...
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And of course, there aren't any ignorant Canadians. If you search for stupid people, you will find them. You probably won't have to look far in any nation. I always felt that a Canadian's opinion of American intelligence was much more revealing about the Canadian in question than Americans in general.
I'd want to be able to pay for channels with premium programming where directors would not be required to make such allowances. If David Lynch doesn't feel like product placement would work for an episode of Twin Peaks, I'd rather pay for the privilege of watching it.
That used to be the case.
They made a deal that expired. There is now no deal, and no contract requiring Microsoft to produce Office:Mac. Kevin Browne of Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit keeps telling people that there's no reason MS is going to stop making Office:Mac. There doesn't need to be a contract. There just needs to be goodwill between the companies.
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Of course, Apple switching to Mozilla might easily count as an end to the goodwill between the companies.
Uh... you say, "... now it's time to move on. To move on to languages that learnt from perl, that improved on it, that don't have to drag around a syntax and culture... "
I'm taking you a little bit out of context, but isn't that exactly what Perl6 is? A new language that learns from Perl5 and changes a lot of the syntax and culture? Iduno too much about either language, so I might be wrong. If so, please explain how.
Except that we have no reason to believe that cold fusion is possible. Regular fusion, on the other hand, might with sufficient work. Hell, fission should do the trick for a long long time.
When petrol becomes very costly, we'll switch mediums. Uranium or hydrogen will keep us going 'till we start asteroid mining 'n' planet hopping, won't it?
Despite all of the replies to your post indicating otherwise, I'm pretty sure you're wrong.
No mac has ever been able to boot without some kind of graphics hardware. Not while running MacOS, LinuxPPC, or anything else. This is of course, completely ok. They will still run headless. That is, don't connect a monitor, and then they're headless. Just imagine that the graphics card isn't installed. If you ever see the window manager using more than 1% CPU, I'll eat my hat.
I could be mistaken, but I was also pretty sure that there is no standard PC hardware that will boot without a graphics system either. The operating system has nothing to do with it.
Anyway, as someone else pointed out, three blades stack in 1U together. Your CPU density is still better with transmeta.
Someone else pointed out that Transmeta chips could run code morphing software that supports G4 instructions. This is the dumbest thing people keep saying about Crusoe. Of course it *could* run different code morphing software, but it never will. It cost Transmeta as much to develop that software as it did to develope the hardware. There is *no* *way* that anyone will ever write the software that will allow Crusoe to emulate different types of chips. Too expensive.
Uh, no. Not if it was written in Japanese and hosted on a Japan-centric website. Then I guarantee no one on /. would say a damn thing. And it would have been a valid and useful (if obvious) warning to Japanese tourists in the US.
CDs don't work for me. I am a poor judge of a CD's staying power. Back when I bought CDs, I would frequently buy crappy CDs. Now I download full albums from MP3 distro groups. I've got about a hundred albums right now. If an album gets old, I delete it. My collection is excellent. I don't buy anything.
CDs scratch and oxidize. MP3s are forever. If I ever buy a CD, it is only because it's so uncommon that it can't be downloaded. And then I rip it and play it on my computer or my iPod.
Yeah, I know. I realize that my post defends Democrats. That was a mistake. Never meant to put it that way. Suggesting that censorship and personal freedom is a left vs. right political issue is wrong. That's all I was trying to suggest in my original post.
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I might have been a little unclear, but I kept it under the char limit
The left? The left used to be all about personal freedoms. Remember hippies?
Besides, conservatives need to divorce the religious right before they can claim that they stand for personal freedoms at all.
Well, I know three southerners that are at least that crazy. And I'm a northern atheist. I of course also know hundreds of totally reasonable Christians. Maybe all the crazy types get sick of having no one to save, so they move up here.
Dude. Evolutionists didn't say that reptiles slowly morphed. They said that reptiles had a variety of children. Some of them died.
When does this "micro" evolution become "macro" evolution in your mind? Where is the line? Who invented this distinction?
Is the difference between a wolf and a chihuahua still microevolution? That evolutionary step only took 2000-5000 years of unnatural selection. Birds and some reptiles seem awful similar to me... why wouldn't natural selection be able to make that change over millions of years?
Well... after the reverse split, it'd only be 709 MILLION shares outstanding. Is # of shares outstanding actually considered a useful measurement? I would assume that the interesting number would be $ value of outstanding shares.
He's not saying that AT&T is soon to be delisted. He's saying that the 5-1 reverse split is uncommon among corps of it's size and stature. You misread the grandparent completely. Or you trolled me really well.
That's why the previous poster made the distinction between professional and personal software. Unless you're discussing shareware IDE or CAD software, the previous poster agreed with you completely. He didn't say that people weren't thieves, just that real companies aren't thieves.
Amanb, I feel your moderated pain. The two comments that know the difference between hindi and a hindu *both* got moderated down. Time to start up the metamod again...
Mr. Allen: I happen to have Marshal McLuhan right here, and he has something he'd like to say to you.
Mr. McLuhan: You've completely misunderstood the meaning of my work. How you could have possibly been made a professor is something that I will never understand.
Hehe. I wish I could have quoted that accurately, but it's been a while since I've seen Annie Hall. I don't actually think you misunderstood anything.
Parent poster is a troll, so this comment is born at -1. But it's a good comment, and I think it should get modded up.
Moderators, do what you like.
That's right, you feel like it would be the opposite because you're not a rapist. No matter how sexually aroused you might be, you're not a violent person, and would never do such a thing. The only reason you'd ever imagine it is because you want sex, not violence. If you can get your sex from porn, that will do nicely for you.
Previous poster still has a totally valid point. For other people, that do have a desire for violence, watching a lot of porn will change their view of what is acceptable behavior. If you begin fucked in the head, porn can absolutely fuck you worse in the head.
Don't get me wrong. I watch porn all the time. I don't think I'm playing with fire at all. I know the difference between fantasy and reality. I was fortunate, though. Nobody ever raped me when I was a kid, so those borders are pretty clear. The people that *did* get molested as children are much more likely to do similar things as adults, and kiddie porn will certainly keep them thinking about it.
Yeah. And now that "Mac OS X" translates directly to "BSD Unix" it's not like access is holding a candle to *anything*. Anyway. Not that I'm an MS hater. You've done heard perfect.
They said in the article that they're not going to port Access. It'd be too much work, and they feel like FileMaker already ownz the Mac desktop DB market. The speaker suggested that it would take the entire MacBU about 2 and a half years to port.
Um, no, not really. It might have made sense, but they ran out of money. That's why there were no conclusions. There are movies that also make you come up with your own conclusions, but they don't degenerate into nonsense. Watch the last two episodes (don't pay for them) and then tell us that they're just avoiding "good-guys-always-win". The first half of the episodes make the viewer ask, "Why are we fighting angels?" Which makes them question the idea of pure good and evil. Always a good thing, IMH(athiest)O. Then they get a little repetitive, but still fun. And then they turn into whining BS and nonsense. And it's still one of the few pieces of anime that I consider excellent.
Totally fair.
Gosh, you get angry quick.
You disagreed that SDI could be an offensive weapon. I just meant to point out that it has offensive capabilities, and these capabilities might make other nations nervous. You might be absolutely right that the US would never do such a thing. I didn't mean to imply that they would. Just like I don't think the US would ever have attempted a first strike against the USSR during the cold war. It still made other nations nervous.
And, most importantly, the US changes. The past six months is a perfect example. I don't believe that the US has done anything wrong in their War on Terrorism. I'm sure you'll disagree, but I feel like the character of our nation has taken a dark turn. Out politicians and our population would be willing to commit to much more "imperialistic" behavior now than ever before. And we haven't. We'd have to be a lot farther gone before we could excuse anything particularly wrong.
But it only took six months. SDI would be around for a long time. You talk about the US like it's a trusted friend. Of course you're right, we haven't been a conquering nation for long time. But the US is a large organization of people, and the people in the organization come and go. The community of nations can't trust a nation 100% because of it's track record.
Um, I don't know exactly what the poster meant when he was talking about SDI being an offensive weapon, but I've definitely felt similarly before. The potential is not for offensive strikes on ground targets, but offensive strikes on spaceborne targets. If SDI is completed and installed, then the US will be able to decide exactly what can get off the ground, anywhere in the world. If someone wants to fly to the moon, install a satellite, they will have to get US permission.
That, IMHO, is fucked. And other behavior of the US definitely inspires paranoia: They've been backing away from the UN doctrine that the moon can belong to no nation. Of course that means nothing whatsoever right now, but it could mean something in 50 years.
Of course, SDI isn't a very good way to help the US control the Earth. It would make the US control everything else. I'd be a lot more upset if I weren't American...