Contrary to some popular beliefs, the Maginot Line was never breached from the front (once surrounded a few smaller forts were captured) and the French had more tanks with better armor and guns than the Germans did. The defeat was really one of leadership, strategy and tactics.
I couldn't agree more, but I think the first mistake of leadership was not to attack Hitler in 1938.
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Coming from a citizen of a country that is younger than the times discussed and who's 8th grade history lessons consisted of the tale of the pilgrims and thanksgiving, it really hurts...
You're lecturing me on the history of my fucking country/continent you ignorant pedantic arrogant idiot!
PS: 8th grade is for Antiquity in France, that would be what you called the Jesus story back where you hillbillies come from.
I do agree on the citation needed, but on the second point you're utterly ignorant.
Before printing, the almost all of the writing was done by monks, and the Bible was of course their very best seller.
Why do you think all the great figures of the 1000-1600 (Descartes, Pascal, Erasmus...) were monks or priests ? because they controled all the knowledge and all the writings, and they were among the only who could teach how to read/write.
So yes the church lost most of its control over the writing of the bible with printing, one could argue that it was one of the major aid in the develloppement of the Reform. Printing also put and end to the constant rewriting of the scriptures (which the Catholic church controled) because with so many identical bibles now everywhere making changes became more visible
Slashdot is about free speech.
Free Speech is about letting people talk, not acknowledging any retard opinion backed by counterfactual, flawed, aging arguments who feel like a repost of a repost just because you posted it.
You can voice your opinion as much as you like here, just don't expect people to agree with you just because you're saying something, and don't expect either that people will let you say something and not respond if they think you're wrong.
Or to make this shorter : You're entitled to your own opinion, and the right to voice it, not your own facts and the priviledge to be praised whether you're right or wrong.
So what if it is mainly copyrighted material ?
Most people use their car to go much faster than the speed limit, should we ban cars altogether ?
Some people use MSN and mobile phones to plan bank robberies or murder, should we ban those to ?
And more to the point : it's not because it is legal that it is good and vice and versa. Not so long ago in a country not that far away it was illegal to harbor Jews in your house.
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Megaupload or BTjunky made money offering a service that the industry was incapable of offering for a decade : convenient, instant access to medias.
I for one think their money was well earned.
Actually they were doing fine up until they lost 100,000 soldiers dead, and 4 times this captured/injured.
The casualties the French army suffered in the 40 days of the blitzkrieg were superior to all the casualties the US forces suffered in Europe for example.
The french army surrendered because they had been crushed by a strategy (quite vile) that they had not anticipated : Germany going through Belgium and the Netherlands which was supposed to be "illegal". Fun fact though : It was the 2nd FUCKING time Germany pulled this trick... cf. WWI.
Anyway, the French (and British, because to be fair Chamberlain is greatly to blame for this chickenning out) lost the war in 1938, the day they decided to let Germany invade Austria, instead of crushing while they still could. 2 years of intensive military production later, the balance of forces was inverse.
Bitch, google Napoleon, Charlemagne, Lafayette and Louis XIV.
Also TFA forgets tomention that a majority of the 140 Rafales will bought will be built IN India, which is probably the main reason for their choice.
FF 10 : 25 tabs opened for 24 hours. Including tons with flash. 800MB memmory used.
Chrome : Same 25 Tabs opened for 24 hours : Usage 770MB.
ZOMG Firefox USES SO MUCH MEMORY !!!
PS : 2008 called they want their bitching comment back.
... Whether you like it or not every dime you spend is politically significant, even when it is not politically motivated.
If you bought Nike's Shoes in the 90s you validated the idea that it is OK to make 8 years old boys from the phillipines work 14 hours a day for $1 to make shoes. Maybe you didn't care, maybe you didn't even know, maybe you thought it was a great idea or that it was the will of God or the free market, but in ANY case your money was given to Nike and to them (and to the rest of the market, and to the politician and the general public) it meant : FUCK YEAH keep doing it !
Now there are 2 simple ways to act after you realized this :
A] You can keep bitching about how you're not politically motivated (I mean WTF ? do you even know what it means ? politically motivated = motivated by the concern over the life of the community, that literally is what it means... How can you not give a fuck about the life of your community ? how can one be so brainwashed that he would think that to be concerned about others is bad ?)
Or B] you can deal with it and learn to be a grown man responsible for your actions.
And yes XBMC was ported to hte ATV2 I know, that's why it is exactly what I said on my previous post...
Did you read what I replied to that guy ?
I wouldn't buy an ATV2 for the exact same reason I wouldn't buy a roku, that validates the idea of Apple (and Roku) that it's better to sell a closed device.
Every single buck you spend is a vote, and the money you spend during the 4 years between each brief period of time during which you pretend to give a fuck about the world, and coincidentally choose a puppet to place in the white house, has much more influence of the world than the ballot you cast to choose the puppet.
But yes of course if I had to choose between 2 evils I'd definitely go for the ATV2+XBMC over the Roku + hypothetical XBMC maybe someday.
If you do believe in the R-Pi you also do not believe in Roku. I prefer to spend 2 hours tinkering with a device I own and master to get the same result as just buying a Roku, because this sends the right message to roku : F*** off I'm not giving $100 for something I can't modify.
You're not merely a consumer... Lol.
Another way of saying what you just said is :
"I find it pretty cool that some people bust their ass off to make such awesome open hardware and support open software (XBMC). So in that light I'm going to give all my money to their competitors who chose the closed model and lock the shit out of their product, and then I'll pray for someone to hack it, to put on it the very same software I would have used on the R-Pi, just because I'm an inconsistent asshole."
There translated that for you.
You are right it isn't about powerfull hardware. The part (hardware) that does the video decoding is a seperate deicated hardware chip. So your GTX 590 and your GT540 have the exact same video decoding capabilities, because they have the same Pure Video chip.
My laptop stutters with 1080p with a 2.2Ghz dual core P8600, yet it plays perfectly smooth on an atom 330+nVidia ION.
"Most modern" GPU have hardware decoders (nVidia calls it Purevideo, ATI Unified Video Decoder) and most ARM SoC have those too.
So to be even clearer there is a very small and efficient piece of dedicated silicon chip that can decode 1080p h.264, and that particular sub-device has proper support undeer XBMC right now => WIN !
You spent a few THOUSANDS on your TV ? clearly we don't have the same TV needs... oO
I spent $500 and I have a 46inches 1080p 120Hz screen... So that little $30 HTPC will do great, k thx bye.
BTW I didn't hear any of you outraged millionaires bitch about the Apple TV2 being ONLY $99, and that proper millionaire should spend $2000 on a HTPC with SLI 590 GTX.
I mean do you sell HTPCs for a living or do you just like to complain about how awesome things are ?
Jesus christ...
Yes the OpenGL perf won't be on par with a GTX 560 if that's where you are getting at, but then again I don't think someone building a HTPC for $30 will be bothered by the unibality tu use the most "flashy" XBMC skins.
As long as the UI is smooth with basic theme and 1080p playback is good I'm sold !
This isn't the framerate of the video playback. It's the framerate of the UI refreshing. it's perfectly "normal" considering the OpenGL performance of the GPU. And it's also very smooth for any navigation inside the UI. You don't need 30fps on UI.
I'm just very curious as to why he is doing this ? I mean what financial benefit does he get from this ?
Is he actually making money off the scam right now ?
A] You didn't understand what he was saying : he meant there isn't any OFFLINE Solo mod like in D2. See in D2 you had 4 ways to play the game : offline solo, LAN, Open BNET, and Closed BNET.
The actual Online experience was Closed Bnet, where you had to start dedicated characters for online playing, and the characters were not hosted on your computer so you couldn't temper with them, althought cheating was indeed quite endemic, but I never saw it as a problem.
Now in D3 you will have 1 & half way to play : Online multi and some sort of mutant solo/online shit mode who's only purpose is that I don't cheat in solo and that people can see my achievements !
Well I ask you WHAT THE FUCK do I care if 12 years old see my achievements or if other people use cheats on their solo mode ? I didn't pay $60 to wank on my facebook about what level I am and what mode I finished, I pay to have fun, play a great game, and be able to do so whenever I please, even if I don't have internet connection. SO Yes there is a big difference between solo in D2 and in D3 : Solo in D2 >>> Solo in D3.
B] if you think it's harder to defeat the Uber Tristram Boss on closed Bnet than it is to actually finish the game in Hell mode in solo than you never played D2
C] If you've never played D2 I don't think you must speak here, also I stopped regarding you as a valid human being 1 line ago.
NO !
Single Player in D3 isn't the same as in D2 you 12 years old freaking n00b : That's the WHOLE POINT !... Hum... sorry.
We want Blizzard (actually we beg) to MAKE it like D2 and war3, because it was the best online/offline experience ever.
In D2 you have an OFFLINE Solo mode, then open bnet and then closed bnet. The only rationale for getting rid of the first two is to "limit piracy", which not only is in itself a stupid statement, because it of course won't, but also is a acknowledgement from Blizzard that they will actually procure a more crappy experience to their fanbase on purpose (the one that FUCKING brought you here Blizzard : HELLO ? Spent maybe $1000 on your games in the last 15 years ! Thanks for becoming such douchebags)
And Yes I played SC2, Yes it's a great game, and yes I bought it, but NO F*CK NO it isn't in any way shape or form a bonus or a feature that Lan is gone, it's a freaking shame !
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Contrary to some popular beliefs, the Maginot Line was never breached from the front (once surrounded a few smaller forts were captured) and the French had more tanks with better armor and guns than the Germans did. The defeat was really one of leadership, strategy and tactics.
I couldn't agree more, but I think the first mistake of leadership was not to attack Hitler in 1938.
...
Coming from a citizen of a country that is younger than the times discussed and who's 8th grade history lessons consisted of the tale of the pilgrims and thanksgiving, it really hurts...
You're lecturing me on the history of my fucking country/continent you ignorant pedantic arrogant idiot!
PS: 8th grade is for Antiquity in France, that would be what you called the Jesus story back where you hillbillies come from.
I do agree on the citation needed, but on the second point you're utterly ignorant. ...) were monks or priests ? because they controled all the knowledge and all the writings, and they were among the only who could teach how to read/write.
Before printing, the almost all of the writing was done by monks, and the Bible was of course their very best seller.
Why do you think all the great figures of the 1000-1600 (Descartes, Pascal, Erasmus
So yes the church lost most of its control over the writing of the bible with printing, one could argue that it was one of the major aid in the develloppement of the Reform. Printing also put and end to the constant rewriting of the scriptures (which the Catholic church controled) because with so many identical bibles now everywhere making changes became more visible
Slashdot is about free speech.
Free Speech is about letting people talk, not acknowledging any retard opinion backed by counterfactual, flawed, aging arguments who feel like a repost of a repost just because you posted it.
You can voice your opinion as much as you like here, just don't expect people to agree with you just because you're saying something, and don't expect either that people will let you say something and not respond if they think you're wrong.
Or to make this shorter : You're entitled to your own opinion, and the right to voice it, not your own facts and the priviledge to be praised whether you're right or wrong.
R-A-D-I-O-H-E-A-D.
To paraphrase a well known meme : Still a better freedom fighter than the RIAA/MPAA.
When you've got to bad choices you pick the least worse.
So what if it is mainly copyrighted material ?
Most people use their car to go much faster than the speed limit, should we ban cars altogether ?
Some people use MSN and mobile phones to plan bank robberies or murder, should we ban those to ?
And more to the point : it's not because it is legal that it is good and vice and versa. Not so long ago in a country not that far away it was illegal to harbor Jews in your house.
Megaupload or BTjunky made money offering a service that the industry was incapable of offering for a decade : convenient, instant access to medias.
I for one think their money was well earned.
Actually they were doing fine up until they lost 100,000 soldiers dead, and 4 times this captured/injured.
The casualties the French army suffered in the 40 days of the blitzkrieg were superior to all the casualties the US forces suffered in Europe for example.
The french army surrendered because they had been crushed by a strategy (quite vile) that they had not anticipated : Germany going through Belgium and the Netherlands which was supposed to be "illegal". Fun fact though : It was the 2nd FUCKING time Germany pulled this trick... cf. WWI.
Anyway, the French (and British, because to be fair Chamberlain is greatly to blame for this chickenning out) lost the war in 1938, the day they decided to let Germany invade Austria, instead of crushing while they still could. 2 years of intensive military production later, the balance of forces was inverse.
Bitch, google Napoleon, Charlemagne, Lafayette and Louis XIV.
Also TFA forgets tomention that a majority of the 140 Rafales will bought will be built IN India, which is probably the main reason for their choice.
FF 10 : 25 tabs opened for 24 hours. Including tons with flash. 800MB memmory used.
Chrome : Same 25 Tabs opened for 24 hours : Usage 770MB.
ZOMG Firefox USES SO MUCH MEMORY !!!
PS : 2008 called they want their bitching comment back.
Pull Vs Push services.
... Whether you like it or not every dime you spend is politically significant, even when it is not politically motivated.
If you bought Nike's Shoes in the 90s you validated the idea that it is OK to make 8 years old boys from the phillipines work 14 hours a day for $1 to make shoes. Maybe you didn't care, maybe you didn't even know, maybe you thought it was a great idea or that it was the will of God or the free market, but in ANY case your money was given to Nike and to them (and to the rest of the market, and to the politician and the general public) it meant : FUCK YEAH keep doing it !
Now there are 2 simple ways to act after you realized this :
A] You can keep bitching about how you're not politically motivated (I mean WTF ? do you even know what it means ? politically motivated = motivated by the concern over the life of the community, that literally is what it means... How can you not give a fuck about the life of your community ? how can one be so brainwashed that he would think that to be concerned about others is bad ?)
Or B] you can deal with it and learn to be a grown man responsible for your actions.
And yes XBMC was ported to hte ATV2 I know, that's why it is exactly what I said on my previous post...
Did you read what I replied to that guy ?
I wouldn't buy an ATV2 for the exact same reason I wouldn't buy a roku, that validates the idea of Apple (and Roku) that it's better to sell a closed device.
Every single buck you spend is a vote, and the money you spend during the 4 years between each brief period of time during which you pretend to give a fuck about the world, and coincidentally choose a puppet to place in the white house, has much more influence of the world than the ballot you cast to choose the puppet.
But yes of course if I had to choose between 2 evils I'd definitely go for the ATV2+XBMC over the Roku + hypothetical XBMC maybe someday.
If you do believe in the R-Pi you also do not believe in Roku. I prefer to spend 2 hours tinkering with a device I own and master to get the same result as just buying a Roku, because this sends the right message to roku : F*** off I'm not giving $100 for something I can't modify.
You're not merely a consumer... Lol.
Another way of saying what you just said is :
"I find it pretty cool that some people bust their ass off to make such awesome open hardware and support open software (XBMC). So in that light I'm going to give all my money to their competitors who chose the closed model and lock the shit out of their product, and then I'll pray for someone to hack it, to put on it the very same software I would have used on the R-Pi, just because I'm an inconsistent asshole."
There translated that for you.
You are right it isn't about powerfull hardware. The part (hardware) that does the video decoding is a seperate deicated hardware chip. So your GTX 590 and your GT540 have the exact same video decoding capabilities, because they have the same Pure Video chip.
My laptop stutters with 1080p with a 2.2Ghz dual core P8600, yet it plays perfectly smooth on an atom 330+nVidia ION.
"Most modern" GPU have hardware decoders (nVidia calls it Purevideo, ATI Unified Video Decoder) and most ARM SoC have those too.
So to be even clearer there is a very small and efficient piece of dedicated silicon chip that can decode 1080p h.264, and that particular sub-device has proper support undeer XBMC right now => WIN !
You spent a few THOUSANDS on your TV ? clearly we don't have the same TV needs... oO
I spent $500 and I have a 46inches 1080p 120Hz screen... So that little $30 HTPC will do great, k thx bye.
BTW I didn't hear any of you outraged millionaires bitch about the Apple TV2 being ONLY $99, and that proper millionaire should spend $2000 on a HTPC with SLI 590 GTX.
I mean do you sell HTPCs for a living or do you just like to complain about how awesome things are ?
Jesus christ...
Yes the OpenGL perf won't be on par with a GTX 560 if that's where you are getting at, but then again I don't think someone building a HTPC for $30 will be bothered by the unibality tu use the most "flashy" XBMC skins.
As long as the UI is smooth with basic theme and 1080p playback is good I'm sold !
This isn't the framerate of the video playback. It's the framerate of the UI refreshing. it's perfectly "normal" considering the OpenGL performance of the GPU. And it's also very smooth for any navigation inside the UI. You don't need 30fps on UI.
I'm just very curious as to why he is doing this ? I mean what financial benefit does he get from this ?
Is he actually making money off the scam right now ?
A] You didn't understand what he was saying : he meant there isn't any OFFLINE Solo mod like in D2. See in D2 you had 4 ways to play the game : offline solo, LAN, Open BNET, and Closed BNET.
The actual Online experience was Closed Bnet, where you had to start dedicated characters for online playing, and the characters were not hosted on your computer so you couldn't temper with them, althought cheating was indeed quite endemic, but I never saw it as a problem.
Now in D3 you will have 1 & half way to play : Online multi and some sort of mutant solo/online shit mode who's only purpose is that I don't cheat in solo and that people can see my achievements !
Well I ask you WHAT THE FUCK do I care if 12 years old see my achievements or if other people use cheats on their solo mode ? I didn't pay $60 to wank on my facebook about what level I am and what mode I finished, I pay to have fun, play a great game, and be able to do so whenever I please, even if I don't have internet connection. SO Yes there is a big difference between solo in D2 and in D3 : Solo in D2 >>> Solo in D3.
B] if you think it's harder to defeat the Uber Tristram Boss on closed Bnet than it is to actually finish the game in Hell mode in solo than you never played D2
C] If you've never played D2 I don't think you must speak here, also I stopped regarding you as a valid human being 1 line ago.
NO ! ... Hum... sorry.
Single Player in D3 isn't the same as in D2 you 12 years old freaking n00b : That's the WHOLE POINT !
We want Blizzard (actually we beg) to MAKE it like D2 and war3, because it was the best online/offline experience ever.
In D2 you have an OFFLINE Solo mode, then open bnet and then closed bnet. The only rationale for getting rid of the first two is to "limit piracy", which not only is in itself a stupid statement, because it of course won't, but also is a acknowledgement from Blizzard that they will actually procure a more crappy experience to their fanbase on purpose (the one that FUCKING brought you here Blizzard : HELLO ? Spent maybe $1000 on your games in the last 15 years ! Thanks for becoming such douchebags)
And Yes I played SC2, Yes it's a great game, and yes I bought it, but NO F*CK NO it isn't in any way shape or form a bonus or a feature that Lan is gone, it's a freaking shame !
Can you actually read ?
He said foreign "researchers". Yes these are american companies. And how many american researchers do they have ?