[sarcasm] Guess I should forget about my daughter's college education, and invest in a gas-guzzling tank, since the auto arms race appears to be in full swing.. Every other American is going into obnoxious debt to buy a [insert over-priced vehicle name here], maybe I should too, just so I can flatten that Toyota Echo when I collide with it.
Hey, it's better I pummel the shit out of some sucker getting 60MPG in an Echo than to subject my family to an equal head-on collision, right? Survival of the fittest, right? The guy is practically begging for a Darwin award by not spending half of his salary on a Hummer and its gas requirement! [/sarcasm]
If everyone adopts your way of thinking, we'll all have to be driving 5000lb cars in 10 years, just so that we can keep from getting killed by a soccer mom in a 6000lb H2.. I have a Mazda 3, which is a pretty average-sized small car, and I'm afraid of what will happen if I get hit by some of these SUVs..
Buy the bigger vehicle for comfort, but get out of here with this arms race bullshit..
I think you're exaggerating how much there is to lose by Linus. What would probably happen is the Linux people would have to WASTE THEIR TIME re-writing relatively obvious algorithms that are patented by some corporation that played the patent lottery. Linus doesn't have much to lose personally and economically at this point, I'm sure he's a very wealthy man and has no shareholders to appease. So to say that he is acting out of his own economic self interest is pretty much bullshit.
If you don't see that there is reason to take the word of someone who is essentially a software philanthropist over the word of a faceless corporation that has a track record of fierce and sometimes illegal anti-competetiveness, then maybe you need to open your eyes?
Some of the characters do look a bit weak (skin looks 'blotchy'), but I must say, looking at a dead Combine soldier floating in the water of a shallow brick canal was the most realistic scene I have experienced in any game, Doom 3 included. Everything was so convincing: water, light, textures, that I honestly couldn't tell that it was rendered.
He wasn't jumping to a conclusion, simply proposing the question "How much of our checks and balances are we willing to relinquish for our 'protection'?"
It's a valid question. Why don't we eliminate the need for the FBI to get warrants if it helps them fight terrorism? I have nothing to hide, I'm a law-abiding citizen, so why should I care if the FBI doesn't need warrants?
I'm sorry, it was just Cheney, not Bush who implied a link between 9/11 and Iraq. What he said was:
" now we will have struck a major blow right at the heart of the base, if you will, the geographic base of the terrorists who have had us under assault now for many years, but most especially on 9/11 . . . "
This can easily be read as: base of the terrorists who had us under assault on 9/11.
Other things were said, like "He has WMD", "They probably have drones that can deliver WMD", etc. It's no secret that just about every major case for war that this administration has made has turned out to be a flop. The only thing they can say, and that's just about all you'll hear Bush say now, is that the world is better off without Saddam. No more links to 9/11 from Dick Cheney. They essentially scared the shit out of, and lied to, the American public to get their war, because the real evidence and reasons weren't enough to justify it.
The President and Vice President told the American people that Iraq (Saddam) had a hand in 9/11. That was apparently false. That said, why did they go so far as to make outrageous claims that would eventually be disproven? If Iraq was a credible threat, the truth alone would have been enough to convince the American people that we had to go to war. If they didn't feel the truth (or decent intelligence) was good for the American people, then that tells me we need to question their motives.
I stand corrected. I guess the source I found for Brazil's murder rate was for tourists or something:)
Still, I don't think their relatively high murder rate means they shouldn't look into other ways of advancing their society. Relative to some other nations, the US has tremendously high murder rates - should our politicians also stop talking about other issues until our own murder rate goes to 0?
Bus routing? How can you compare that to something as basic (to a Nerd) as creating web pages? Not only is it common for Nerds to know of such things, it's common for Nerds to visit sites that are running such things, and so the chances that a Nerd would stumble upon Postnuke are pretty good.
I don't find it hard to believe that one could find intelligence to back up any claim, if one looked hard enough. Isn't it obvious that Bush decided to go to war with Iraq before they had any 'smoking guns'? Everyone may have received the same intelligence, but nobody was told how uncredible it was, or that they got it from a bubble gum machine in Qatar.
If this intelligence was truly credible, the CIA wouldn't have stated that Iraq was NOT a threat just after 9/11.
I'd like to add that a little money can go a long way, when you have the right incentives in place. Look at the OS Apple can make on a fraction of Microsoft's budget for a fraction of Microsoft's userbase.
I noticed terrible mouse tracking in Quake 3 with older versions of XFree86 (3.X), but ever since the DGA extension, I haven't really noticed a difference between mouse input on Windows and Linux. What version of X did you look into?
I have 3 copies of NWN, actually. The first one I bought from Tuxgames, one was a gift, and one was from Walmart.:) Sadly, my experience has been it runs quite a bit better under Windows, which I found out by playing the game in Windows after I had been playing in Linux for some time. I'm not certain why that is, but it is just my experience (XP2000+, 512MB DDR, Geforce 4 Ti 4200). Do you know of any 'official' benchmarks?
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To be fair, Quake 3 is basically the only platform-independant game that isn't disadvantaged on Linux in some way (pure OpenGL, not a Direct3D port/afterthought), and he was claiming something that is contradicting what benchmarking sites like Tomshardware have shown, that games can run faster in Linux than in Windows. For example, Tom has a benchmark page here that shows Linux outperforming Win2K on Q3. The difference is probably not noticable to a casual gamer, but benchmark junkies who tweak their machine to milk an extra 5fps out of their rig will.
So basically, it isn't sad that the guy had to put a disclaimer in there, because what he said does in fact contradict popular belief, as well as somewhat recent published benchmarks.
(Disclaimer: I'm not one of these dillusional people who claim Linux can run Windows games faster than Windows itself under Wine. The only game I recognize as running equal or better in Linux is Quake3.)
Is it also capitalism when companies that are so huge, so wealthy, that they can limit consumer choice and do so? Capitalism works when there is competetion. MSFT has employed questionable and even illegal tactics to maintain their incredible marketshare, and that is BAD in a capitalist society.
The only thing worse than supporting such a company is pretending that said company has done nothing wrong.
If he is successful in launching UserLinux, and it looks like he will be, I will definately be switching from Fedora to it in the future. When Redhat told us that we couldn't use their 'stable' distro anymore, I switched our few servers over to Debian. I've been waiting for the day when my clients can once again run the same OS as our servers, but that day just won't come with Debian's conservative release cycle. It's just much nicer to have to support one distro.
I suppose I could have switched to Suse or Mandrake or some other one, but how do I know things won't change for them? If the money is calling, they WILL change, but the same cannot be said of Debian, and that's why I like it - I don't want to be distro-hopping every 4 years when some company gets sold.
Do you know what a wiki is?? If you call some lamer editing a wiki so that things point to goatse 'pwning', then yeah I guess it was 'pwned'.
The wiki isn't an official site. I'm certain once UserLinux is officially released, there would be a static site for people to learn about it, and the wiki be for development.
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Guess I should forget about my daughter's college education, and invest in a gas-guzzling tank, since the auto arms race appears to be in full swing.. Every other American is going into obnoxious debt to buy a [insert over-priced vehicle name here], maybe I should too, just so I can flatten that Toyota Echo when I collide with it.
Hey, it's better I pummel the shit out of some sucker getting 60MPG in an Echo than to subject my family to an equal head-on collision, right? Survival of the fittest, right? The guy is practically begging for a Darwin award by not spending half of his salary on a Hummer and its gas requirement!
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If everyone adopts your way of thinking, we'll all have to be driving 5000lb cars in 10 years, just so that we can keep from getting killed by a soccer mom in a 6000lb H2.. I have a Mazda 3, which is a pretty average-sized small car, and I'm afraid of what will happen if I get hit by some of these SUVs..
Buy the bigger vehicle for comfort, but get out of here with this arms race bullshit..
I think you're exaggerating how much there is to lose by Linus. What would probably happen is the Linux people would have to WASTE THEIR TIME re-writing relatively obvious algorithms that are patented by some corporation that played the patent lottery. Linus doesn't have much to lose personally and economically at this point, I'm sure he's a very wealthy man and has no shareholders to appease. So to say that he is acting out of his own economic self interest is pretty much bullshit.
If you don't see that there is reason to take the word of someone who is essentially a software philanthropist over the word of a faceless corporation that has a track record of fierce and sometimes illegal anti-competetiveness, then maybe you need to open your eyes?
Some of the characters do look a bit weak (skin looks 'blotchy'), but I must say, looking at a dead Combine soldier floating in the water of a shallow brick canal was the most realistic scene I have experienced in any game, Doom 3 included. Everything was so convincing: water, light, textures, that I honestly couldn't tell that it was rendered.
So why aren't they letting soldiers go home now that their mission has been accomplished? What's with this stop-loss deal?
Living under a benevolent dictatorship is not freedom.
He wasn't jumping to a conclusion, simply proposing the question "How much of our checks and balances are we willing to relinquish for our 'protection'?"
It's a valid question. Why don't we eliminate the need for the FBI to get warrants if it helps them fight terrorism? I have nothing to hide, I'm a law-abiding citizen, so why should I care if the FBI doesn't need warrants?
I don't believe you can invoke Godwin's law in this case. The Nazi reference is valid, since the Nazi rise to power happened in a democracy.
Democracy is meaningless unless there are checks and balances, which is why freedom-loving people are up in arms over the Patriot Act..
Yeah, government has never abused its power before. That kinda shit never happens. Well, it happened in the past, but it won't happen again. Right?
I'm sorry, it was just Cheney, not Bush who implied a link between 9/11 and Iraq. What he said was:
" now we will have struck a major blow right at the heart of the base, if you will, the geographic base of the terrorists who have had us under assault now for many years, but most especially on 9/11 . . . "
This can easily be read as:
base of the terrorists who had us under assault on 9/11.
Other things were said, like "He has WMD", "They probably have drones that can deliver WMD", etc. It's no secret that just about every major case for war that this administration has made has turned out to be a flop. The only thing they can say, and that's just about all you'll hear Bush say now, is that the world is better off without Saddam. No more links to 9/11 from Dick Cheney. They essentially scared the shit out of, and lied to, the American public to get their war, because the real evidence and reasons weren't enough to justify it.
The President and Vice President told the American people that Iraq (Saddam) had a hand in 9/11. That was apparently false. That said, why did they go so far as to make outrageous claims that would eventually be disproven? If Iraq was a credible threat, the truth alone would have been enough to convince the American people that we had to go to war. If they didn't feel the truth (or decent intelligence) was good for the American people, then that tells me we need to question their motives.
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I stand corrected. I guess the source I found for Brazil's murder rate was for tourists or something :)
Still, I don't think their relatively high murder rate means they shouldn't look into other ways of advancing their society. Relative to some other nations, the US has tremendously high murder rates - should our politicians also stop talking about other issues until our own murder rate goes to 0?
A quick google for murder rates shows that the Brazil's murder rate is about the same as the US's (Both around 5.6 per per 100,000 in 2002)
Why the straw man tactics?
The GPL utilizes copyright law, so what do you mean by "respect the copyrights of the developers"?
:)
And i have no problem respecting patients of developers
Bus routing? How can you compare that to something as basic (to a Nerd) as creating web pages? Not only is it common for Nerds to know of such things, it's common for Nerds to visit sites that are running such things, and so the chances that a Nerd would stumble upon Postnuke are pretty good.
Billy Joe, is that you?
Hey, did you and your sister ever settle the child support mess? Did the judge accept the "I'm his uncle not his dad" defense?
I don't find it hard to believe that one could find intelligence to back up any claim, if one looked hard enough. Isn't it obvious that Bush decided to go to war with Iraq before they had any 'smoking guns'? Everyone may have received the same intelligence, but nobody was told how uncredible it was, or that they got it from a bubble gum machine in Qatar.
If this intelligence was truly credible, the CIA wouldn't have stated that Iraq was NOT a threat just after 9/11.
I'd like to add that a little money can go a long way, when you have the right incentives in place. Look at the OS Apple can make on a fraction of Microsoft's budget for a fraction of Microsoft's userbase.
I noticed terrible mouse tracking in Quake 3 with older versions of XFree86 (3.X), but ever since the DGA extension, I haven't really noticed a difference between mouse input on Windows and Linux. What version of X did you look into?
I have 3 copies of NWN, actually. The first one I bought from Tuxgames, one was a gift, and one was from Walmart. :) Sadly, my experience has been it runs quite a bit better under Windows, which I found out by playing the game in Windows after I had been playing in Linux for some time. I'm not certain why that is, but it is just my experience (XP2000+, 512MB DDR, Geforce 4 Ti 4200). Do you know of any 'official' benchmarks?
To be fair, Quake 3 is basically the only platform-independant game that isn't disadvantaged on Linux in some way (pure OpenGL, not a Direct3D port/afterthought), and he was claiming something that is contradicting what benchmarking sites like Tomshardware have shown, that games can run faster in Linux than in Windows. For example, Tom has a benchmark page here that shows Linux outperforming Win2K on Q3. The difference is probably not noticable to a casual gamer, but benchmark junkies who tweak their machine to milk an extra 5fps out of their rig will.
So basically, it isn't sad that the guy had to put a disclaimer in there, because what he said does in fact contradict popular belief, as well as somewhat recent published benchmarks.
(Disclaimer: I'm not one of these dillusional people who claim Linux can run Windows games faster than Windows itself under Wine. The only game I recognize as running equal or better in Linux is Quake3.)
Is it also capitalism when companies that are so huge, so wealthy, that they can limit consumer choice and do so? Capitalism works when there is competetion. MSFT has employed questionable and even illegal tactics to maintain their incredible marketshare, and that is BAD in a capitalist society.
The only thing worse than supporting such a company is pretending that said company has done nothing wrong.
people do because all the alternatives aren't worth using even though they're free.
Hey, I'm working on solving this problem. Maybe you can help? Do you work for a medium-sized business?
How about because you get all the development software, and sources, for free? I'd say that alone is a tremendous advantage.
If he is successful in launching UserLinux, and it looks like he will be, I will definately be switching from Fedora to it in the future. When Redhat told us that we couldn't use their 'stable' distro anymore, I switched our few servers over to Debian. I've been waiting for the day when my clients can once again run the same OS as our servers, but that day just won't come with Debian's conservative release cycle. It's just much nicer to have to support one distro.
I suppose I could have switched to Suse or Mandrake or some other one, but how do I know things won't change for them? If the money is calling, they WILL change, but the same cannot be said of Debian, and that's why I like it - I don't want to be distro-hopping every 4 years when some company gets sold.
Do you know what a wiki is?? If you call some lamer editing a wiki so that things point to goatse 'pwning', then yeah I guess it was 'pwned'.
The wiki isn't an official site. I'm certain once UserLinux is officially released, there would be a static site for people to learn about it, and the wiki be for development.