Actually, nuclear plants are not the best way to go. The best way to go is not to waste energy.
And looking at the statistics, the US is wasting the most. And its not like we Europeans do have a lower standard of living because we use energy in a more responsible way.
And replacing technology which will fuck up the environment (for us -- nature does not care whether we can live in whatever environment we're producing) in the long term for sure with technology which will fuck up the environment maybe really bad, and maybe also in short term is not a wise choice.
But the main problem is NOT that the governing bodies themselves are too big (the surrounding bureaucracy is). The main problem is that the rightfully elected Parliment has no influence and is constantly overruled by the appointed bureaucrats of the Commission.
So what? Release the source only to europeans then, if you're worried about swear-words. They don't care. Most probably they won't even notice unless its very excessive (Excessive for european standards: Ozzy Osbourne).
Seeing "/* this will fuck up the compile on alpha */" will just make you think "ah, I see, now they broke it on Alpha, I guess they won't support Alpha any more.." and not "they used an expletive in a comment!". See the point?
I just saw a turkish film with about 20 "fuck" in english, and a lot more expletives in turkish. I remember it because I thought it was funny.
Its not the market share. Linux has at least as much as the Mac on the Desktop.
Its not the drivers; they obviously work well enough for Doom3 or UT2004.
Its not the software-standards and libraries. They are good enough. OpenGL and OpenAL are good, and those are used on the Mac too..
The main problems are perception of Linux as a market, and a lack of force on making those companies to be viewed as a market (something which Apple is very good at). And to a lesser extent the problem that linux-people are sometimes cust-cutters par excellence ("I dont pay for software" or "Why should I pay $40 for a native version instead of $20 for a windows one?").
Another problem has less to do with the market, but the game companies themselves. Rampant incompetence. And I'm talking about programmers. If they can't even do it properly for windows, do you think they'll bother with another operating system? Of course, this is recursive: They would learn to code better by porting, and quality of their code would rise just by the act of porting, even on the original platform (See NWN for details), making them more eager to port. And it would enable them to port to different platforms with ease, so even the (monetary) gain would outweigh the effort. Just plain stupidity not to see that they would benefit from porting in the long run.
And of course, the market for linux and windows are insofar intermingled, as linux-users will buy windows-versions to run them with their downloaded native clients or wine and cedega. Of course you'll have problems in judging how big the market really is with that. And you, as a consumer, don't get recognized for being a linux user except if you do take special measures like ordering from tuxgames (I did, but the hell, the shipping fees from the US/UK were as high as the price. And that's a high price just to be counted as "linux sale").
As for older games, there's the problem of "philosophy". A lot of companies are very much into that 80ies "Copyright all mine"-thing. Meaning they sit on their stuff forever instead of open-sourcing it. Thousands of games would get ported by enthusiasts if they would be open-sourced. But as long as some companies are one big bunch of pricks with crowbars up their asses like Valve, this won't happen.
18th century railroad-books? There's the problem. What do you get on the second link? this. I'd be actually quite happy with Ospreys "18th century highlanders" (I actually do have that book), but what the hell? I was searching for railroad books, not for a shitload of Ospreys military history. What kind of a dumb site is this, and what kind of a stupid ranking does that?
And to make matters worse: Maybe I was searching for 18th century books about railroads, and not for books about 18th century railroads (Its probably a moot point anyway, the 18th century does not actually have railroads) and so on. And if they're 18th century books, they're out of print and copyright, so chances are, I want the content, and not an original or faksimile. Maybe I don't want to be linked to online auctions in that case. And so on. You get the picture.
In general, stupid companies really diminish the value of search-engines by swamping everything with webshops, instead of providing information about the subject.
Google Images is of course much worse. You get really funny and completely unrelated associations to the subject you type in.
I run a proper XHTML 1.0/strict site too (no jabbascript or other uglies), and I'm on page one on google too, for several words, two-word-combinations and catchphrases.
I think that's because of two things: 1) content 2) standards-compliance With 1) you get people to link to you, with 2) you get search-engines to index you. Of course, a lot of company-websites lack both...
We tried out several distros a few years back, and chose Debian. It's just perfect for the lazy sysadmin and when it comes to managing some four dozens of machines (mostly servers, but workstations at well).
I can't really tell whether SuSE or Fedora would be up to the job now, could be, but they certainly weren't at that time. Nice for home-users, okay for a few systems, a nightmare for 20 systems. And we had that nightmare with SuSE back then.
Outranking Risk, Monopoly and Chess really isn't a problem. There are games Like Junta, Robo-Rally or the Settlers of Catan which will beat the crap out of them in terms of fun and intelligent gameplay.
I'd really be worried if something would be ranking worse than Monopoly or Risk..
Libertarian? I sure hope they're againts patents in general as well then, since "all legislation regulating the economy is bad", and patents are a perfect example of it.
Since my own servers have been running on Sparc for years, I'm only replacing one Sparc with another. I find them when somebody else throws them out. One of them servers initially run on a Sparc10, then two another Sparc10s, then an Ultra1, then an Ultra5, and now on a E250. Apart from the E250 which I got from Ebay, all others came from People or Universities who threw them out.
Debian on Sparc rocks. Only the stock-kernels sometimes suck (Linus and others have a tendency to break them for Sparc since they don't run Sparcs themselves).
just about everyone can agree that she's gorgeous No she's not. I didn't even know who most of these women were, I had to look them up: - britney spears: looks good, but I happen to know that she's a complete moron. No. - paris hilton: No. - christina aguilera: No. - pamela anderson: No. - carmen electra: No. - jennifer lopez: No. - angelina jolie: that one is actually gorgeous - avril lavigne: looks ok. - beyonce: No. - hilary duff: No. I can't be that most people put those on top of google searches because they don't know who they are and how they look, can't it? The world truly is weird.
Right. And on the other hand, you make it look as if piracy was something like the childrens pastime of illicit copying. Its, not. Read the reported pirate attacks. Its about 300-400 ships and several thousand people each year that are victims of piracy.
Are you sure all this anonymity is a good thing with all the terrorism and unpatriotic sentiment floating around?
You Sir, are either a moron or a fiend of democracy. Anonymity is key to democracy. Not only for voting, but also in access to news, books, and other information, and probably also in publication.
Read Anonymity, Democracy and Cyberspace or What is anonymity? for background. In the hope that you realize that anonymity is terribly important. Unless you're an anti-democrat who wants to enact a fascist society, that is.
I've been runing Apache 2.x with PHP for months. It works nicely, so I really don't care about some problems which might turn up when some dorks try to run non-threadsafe crap. I just hit them users.;)= --
Um... no. I'm fairly certain that it's 145 F which is only 63 C. Just concider that the article is in USA Today and most of the target audience will be expecting it to be in Fahrenheit.
Uh, that of course, is too cold for coffee;). And using Farenheit is oconsidered dangerous, by the way, you might loose a satellite or spill your coffee for using it.
(Yay, here just north of italy and west of austria, we certainly profit from two countries having very good coffee). --
Definitly, such a ban is "Cruel and Unsual Punishment" because it most probably prevents the convict from working. With what else should a computer-specialist work if not with computer(-networks)?
think the reason this is news is because the Bush administration is still trying to pretend that this is not proven science...
Am I the only one that has the feeling that in the last few years there are all kinds of weirdos creeping out from somewhere, in the usenet, in slashdot, wherever, disputing theories like evolution or the causes of global warming with religious beliefs?
Sounds to mee like perfectly legit, btw. Building a demo how to fake votes is nothing more than programming something like an intrusion-tool. Both can be misused, but both can be used to make something more secure.
I second that. It doesn't matter where the _information_ comes from. left/right/whatever media differs in other details:
* IS the event picked up at all (one of the most powerful things the media can do. Don't make software-patents an issue, so people won't know that there is a problem) * How is the event viewed/skewed/portrayed * How further information is filtered/used/not used.
Just because the media isn't as far left as you does not mean that it is far left of center.
Actually, CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS and Fox are considered "right" and some of them even "extremely right" in the rest of the world.. CNN even needed to do a "more centrist" programming for CNN international.
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Capitalism is fueled by Greed. Socialism is fueled by Envy. Which is your sin?
What about gluttony or lust?
Actually, nuclear plants are not the best way to go. The best way to go is not to waste energy.
And looking at the statistics, the US is wasting the most. And its not like we Europeans do have a lower standard of living because we use energy in a more responsible way.
And replacing technology which will fuck up the environment (for us -- nature does not care whether we can live in whatever environment we're producing) in the long term for sure with technology which will fuck up the environment maybe really bad, and maybe also in short term is not a wise choice.
I agree that the EU is a bureaucratic nightmare.
But the main problem is NOT that the governing bodies themselves are too big (the surrounding bureaucracy is). The main problem is that the rightfully elected Parliment has no influence and is constantly overruled by the appointed bureaucrats of the Commission.
So what? Release the source only to europeans then, if you're worried about swear-words. They don't care. Most probably they won't even notice unless its very excessive (Excessive for european standards: Ozzy Osbourne).
Seeing "/* this will fuck up the compile on alpha */" will just make you think "ah, I see, now they broke it on Alpha, I guess they won't support Alpha any more.." and not "they used an expletive in a comment!". See the point?
I just saw a turkish film with about 20 "fuck" in english, and a lot more expletives in turkish. I remember it because I thought it was funny.
Its not the market share. Linux has at least as much as the Mac on the Desktop.
Its not the drivers; they obviously work well enough for Doom3 or UT2004.
Its not the software-standards and libraries. They are good enough. OpenGL and OpenAL are good, and those are used on the Mac too..
The main problems are perception of Linux as a market, and a lack of force on making those companies to be viewed as a market (something which Apple is very good at). And to a lesser extent the problem that linux-people are sometimes cust-cutters par excellence ("I dont pay for software" or "Why should I pay $40 for a native version instead of $20 for a windows one?").
Another problem has less to do with the market, but the game companies themselves. Rampant incompetence. And I'm talking about programmers. If they can't even do it properly for windows, do you think they'll bother with another operating system? Of course, this is recursive: They would learn to code better by porting, and quality of their code would rise just by the act of porting, even on the original platform (See NWN for details), making them more eager to port. And it would enable them to port to different platforms with ease, so even the (monetary) gain would outweigh the effort. Just plain stupidity not to see that they would benefit from porting in the long run.
And of course, the market for linux and windows are insofar intermingled, as linux-users will buy windows-versions to run them with their downloaded native clients or wine and cedega. Of course you'll have problems in judging how big the market really is with that. And you, as a consumer, don't get recognized for being a linux user except if you do take special measures like ordering from tuxgames (I did, but the hell, the shipping fees from the US/UK were as high as the price. And that's a high price just to be counted as "linux sale").
As for older games, there's the problem of "philosophy". A lot of companies are very much into that 80ies "Copyright all mine"-thing. Meaning they sit on their stuff forever instead of open-sourcing it. Thousands of games would get ported by enthusiasts if they would be open-sourced. But as long as some companies are one big bunch of pricks with crowbars up their asses like Valve, this won't happen.
18th century railroad-books? There's the problem. What do you get on the second link? this. I'd be actually quite happy with Ospreys "18th century highlanders" (I actually do have that book), but what the hell? I was searching for railroad books, not for a shitload of Ospreys military history. What kind of a dumb site is this, and what kind of a stupid ranking does that?
And to make matters worse: Maybe I was searching for 18th century books about railroads, and not for books about 18th century railroads (Its probably a moot point anyway, the 18th century does not actually have railroads) and so on. And if they're 18th century books, they're out of print and copyright, so chances are, I want the content, and not an original or faksimile. Maybe I don't want to be linked to online auctions in that case. And so on. You get the picture.
In general, stupid companies really diminish the value of search-engines by swamping everything with webshops, instead of providing information about the subject.
Google Images is of course much worse. You get really funny and completely unrelated associations to the subject you type in.
I run a proper XHTML 1.0/strict site too (no jabbascript or other uglies), and I'm on page one on google too, for several words, two-word-combinations and catchphrases.
I think that's because of two things:
1) content
2) standards-compliance
With 1) you get people to link to you, with 2) you get search-engines to index you. Of course, a lot of company-websites lack both...
We tried out several distros a few years back, and chose Debian. It's just perfect for the lazy sysadmin and when it comes to managing some four dozens of machines (mostly servers, but workstations at well).
I can't really tell whether SuSE or Fedora would be up to the job now, could be, but they certainly weren't at that time. Nice for home-users, okay for a few systems, a nightmare for 20 systems. And we had that nightmare with SuSE back then.
Outranking Risk, Monopoly and Chess really isn't a problem. There are games Like Junta, Robo-Rally or the Settlers of Catan which will beat the crap out of them in terms of fun and intelligent gameplay.
I'd really be worried if something would be ranking worse than Monopoly or Risk..
When was the last time you purchased taylor made shoes?
Actually not from a taylor, but a shoe-maker. And it was yesterday.
You don't get medieval shoes off the shelf; so they're all handmade and specially tailored for you.
Libertarian? I sure hope they're againts patents in general as well then, since "all legislation regulating the economy is bad", and patents are a perfect example of it.
Since my own servers have been running on Sparc for years, I'm only replacing one Sparc with another. I find them when somebody else throws them out. One of them servers initially run on a Sparc10, then two another Sparc10s, then an Ultra1, then an Ultra5, and now on a E250. Apart from the E250 which I got from Ebay, all others came from People or Universities who threw them out.
Debian on Sparc rocks. Only the stock-kernels sometimes suck (Linus and others have a tendency to break them for Sparc since they don't run Sparcs themselves).
just about everyone can agree that she's gorgeous
No she's not. I didn't even know who most of these women were, I had to look them up:
- britney spears: looks good, but I happen to know that she's a complete moron. No.
- paris hilton: No.
- christina aguilera: No.
- pamela anderson: No.
- carmen electra: No.
- jennifer lopez: No.
- angelina jolie: that one is actually gorgeous
- avril lavigne: looks ok.
- beyonce: No.
- hilary duff: No.
I can't be that most people put those on top of google searches because they don't know who they are and how they look, can't it? The world truly is weird.
Right. And on the other hand, you make it look as if piracy was something like the childrens pastime of illicit copying. Its, not. Read the
reported pirate attacks. Its about 300-400 ships and several thousand people each year that are victims of piracy.
Are you sure all this anonymity is a good thing with all the terrorism and unpatriotic sentiment floating around?
You Sir, are either a moron or a fiend of democracy. Anonymity is key to democracy. Not only for voting, but also in access to news, books, and other information, and probably also in publication.
Read Anonymity, Democracy and Cyberspace or What is anonymity? for background. In the hope that you realize that anonymity is terribly important. Unless you're an anti-democrat who wants to enact a fascist society, that is.
I've been runing Apache 2.x with PHP for months. It works nicely, so I really don't care about some problems which might turn up when some dorks try to run non-threadsafe crap. I just hit them users. ;)=
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Um... no. I'm fairly certain that it's 145 F which is only 63 C. Just concider that the article is in USA Today and most of the target audience will be expecting it to be in Fahrenheit.
;). And using Farenheit is oconsidered dangerous, by the way, you might loose a satellite or spill your coffee for using it.
Uh, that of course, is too cold for coffee
(Yay, here just north of italy and west of austria, we certainly profit from two countries having very good coffee).
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Definitly, such a ban is "Cruel and Unsual Punishment" because it most probably prevents the convict from working. With what else should a computer-specialist work if not with computer(-networks)?
Budweiser, Miller ;)).
Yeah, you've got cool toys too, but too bad you don't have beer
think the reason this is news is because the Bush administration is still trying to pretend that this is not proven science...
Am I the only one that has the feeling that in the last few years there are all kinds of weirdos creeping out from somewhere, in the usenet, in slashdot, wherever, disputing theories like evolution or the causes of global warming with religious beliefs?
Nope. Others have it too
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/18/18969/1.html
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/54000
Sounds to mee like perfectly legit, btw. Building a demo how to fake votes is nothing more than programming something like an intrusion-tool. Both can be misused, but both can be used to make something more secure.
I second that. It doesn't matter where the _information_ comes from. left/right/whatever media differs in other details:
* IS the event picked up at all (one of the most powerful things the media can do. Don't make software-patents an issue, so people won't know that there is a problem)
* How is the event viewed/skewed/portrayed
* How further information is filtered/used/not used.
Just because the media isn't as far left as you does not mean that it is far left of center.
Actually, CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS and Fox are considered "right" and some of them even "extremely right" in the rest of the world.. CNN even needed to do a "more centrist" programming for CNN international.
The other one had 7. Somehow arbitrary, since alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female.genitalia.lar ge is one of those.