Don't be such a mental midget. Read their faq about Linux drivers at ATI. They actually give source code and are helpful to the folks over at XFree86.org. NVidia? Hell no, they want you to use those shitty closed drivers... I'll stick to the stuff that will still be available years from now.
Damage control, shamage control... tracer.
They just did what most 'persons' with too much money and no time to do anything themselves... they told someone else to do it. When that happens, you'll notice that the others do it the way they want to, in this case, on a FreeBSD setup.
"And now, we cut to the music..."
that the comparison to TV and other outlets for entertainment will continue to be more popular, not just because they have been around much longer, but because they are not there mainly to feed the brain with information, but to entertain... It is just like the Playstation/XBox -vs- GameCube argument: the latter are both _entertainment_ systems and are advertised as such, whereas the former is a _gaming_ platform. The internet is an information platform and communications media. Not the best place to have entertainment, unless you really like watching public television(which most here do, I'm sure lol)
Is that there is not any useable form-factor standard such as there have been for Desktops. I can't hop over to my favorite online parts vendor and grab a case, mobo and cpu. I think that if users were enabled to build their own laptops, computer distribution companies such as HP, Compaq, etc would be held to a slightly higher expectation.
This is just another chicken and the egg essay. Is it the availability of hardware resources that drives developers to write 'bigger' code with more features, or is it the 'bigger' code with more features that pushes hardware to be upgraded? In essence, it is both. They are completly symbiotic. Nither would exsist without the other, therefore the forward motion of the hardware industry, along with a higher number of features available, are natually occurring phenomina. Don't moan that you don't want to buy new hardware. Do what I did and bite the bullet: get a job, hippie!;)
I don't remember ever getting one. Even if I did, it would dissapear, never to be seen from again. And yes, Mr. Ashcroft, I know you have someone reading this right now... Kiss my Big 'ol Butt!
I can certainly agree on the devices side. I support many, many HP printers in a mid-sized University Library, I'll tell you what, if you use a Deskjet, be prepared to fight to the death to get rid of all the other software that gets installed... I just wish that they would quit with the whole "let's see how much extranious software we can install before the machine becomes completly unusable" bit and get back to work!
The way I see it, Microsoft can't complain b/c zlib will have a fix LONG before they have even thought about patching. They won't have to do near as much work to find the fix... they'll just rebuild.
Well, they rolled a natual one, so they have to re-roll to see if they crit-failed the crit-fail...
Or, for GURPS geeks... they rolled a 17 or 18... oops!
Yes, I do know. But no, I'm not paying... therefore it is sort of like having someone else pay for your ticket on an East German flight to protest the Berlin Wall...
Hey! I've got a great idea! I'm going to DisneyWorld for my Honeymoon in a couple of months... how about all the down-south geeks grab some tickets, or at least pay for parking... grab some fsck the MPAA shirts and we parade around letting those asses know just how pissed we are about their arrogance.
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to the bill at all at the congress website. What is the deal, do they really not want us to know about what is going on? I'd love to jump on the phone with my state reps and chew their ear about why this is bad, but I'd like to have some legs to stand on with them. They really don't care to hear about 'some bill called the SSSCA' which I can't even give a bill number for.
I don't know about everyone else here, but I still have a really bad taste in my mouth left by a certian non-truth based report made on the WP... I'll believe any real changes when I see them.
due to some happenings in the States during the sixties, a hanging is a racial statement... even if it has nothing to do with ethnicity. Hell, you can't even say lynch without someone cocking an eyebrow and thinking you're in the KKK. Sad.
I'll start buying hardware from companies who don't jump into this flash-fire of anti-consumer's rights. I'm not worried about the software b/c I only use OSS/FSF software... with the exception of a game or two(don't play them much anyway).
The sad thing is this is not isolated to the recording industry... it is in the movie industry, the agriculture industry... they all make up their minds that they are going to make a large sum more then needed of a product and then hold their hands out to the government when they want more money for what they don't sell... if corn isn't selling, you pick another produce. Don't just keep planting corn or (here) peanuts and expect the government to step in and take the money from the people that didn't want to buy your product. Du-huh!
It's not genneraly accepted that governments should provide and maintain highways... that was done by a particular President that wanted to create jobs for pepole who couldn't go out and get jobs themselves. To hell with that stuff now. Creating jobs in the government is called bloat and waste... or misapproptiation of funds.
lol, I didn't watch the Olympics... mainly b/c I hate listening to people moan because they didn't win. I can understand your plight of long distance communications, however isn't it possible for you and your buddies to create a means of communicating. For instance, you and a group of folks get together and instead of begging the government to do it for you, have fund raisers and what not(I'm not talking about starting a commercial venture) and get your own network started. It has been done before, why not now-days? Where I'm from, my family set up their own electricity in the boon-docks using diesel generators. It was a nieghborhood thing, not a government thing. Then, they had all of their rights yanked out from under them and they can't do that sort of thing now... they _have_ to buy power from the power company... governmentally sanctioned monopolies run by private corporations. See, I'm pissed at both sides!
Why is it when someone doesn't like something it is a troll or flamebait? That aside, rural electrification could have been done by private groups(read not industry) without having been force-fed.
I intentionally left out the business side of the argument because I loathe the business side absolutely as much as I do the government side. What ever happened to folks just getting together and raising money however they please(out of pocket, fund-raisers, etc) and doing something they feel is a good idea? That is what I want to see happen.
Why is it not suprising that Canada is doing something like this? They are about two hops short of Communist Cuba as far as governmental control of facilities goes, albeit the US is close on their heels in the electric arena.
I'm just interested in why anyone would want the government to handle those sort of domestic industries.
No, I do not think that all of the money poured into sports has a place. And I don't think that the school system should pay for the band either(I was a band student in a system that over one third of the money for the school went directly to us). I recieved a very substandard education and susbsequently was quite far behind when I went to university, I never graduated, now I work for the university... I do what I can to reduce costs, however there is an interesting cycle there: If you economise in any form or fashion, you don't get the money when you need it most. So, we spend spend spend at the behest of our bosses. If you leave the job, there will be one more greedy bastard to take your place. The long and the short of it is this: taxes should not be spent in education at all. You should educate your child, not the state. The state should only worry about the outside forces that we cannot protect against(which it so very recently proved it was not capable of). I don't have kids and shouldn't pay for someone else's kid(who by the way smokes smack and doesn't give two shits if he does anything with his life). Screw them, let them pay.
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Don't be such a mental midget. Read their faq about Linux drivers at ATI. They actually give source code and are helpful to the folks over at XFree86.org. NVidia? Hell no, they want you to use those shitty closed drivers... I'll stick to the stuff that will still be available years from now.
Damage control, shamage control... tracer.
They just did what most 'persons' with too much money and no time to do anything themselves... they told someone else to do it. When that happens, you'll notice that the others do it the way they want to, in this case, on a FreeBSD setup.
"And now, we cut to the music..."
that the comparison to TV and other outlets for entertainment will continue to be more popular, not just because they have been around much longer, but because they are not there mainly to feed the brain with information, but to entertain... It is just like the Playstation/XBox -vs- GameCube argument: the latter are both _entertainment_ systems and are advertised as such, whereas the former is a _gaming_ platform. The internet is an information platform and communications media. Not the best place to have entertainment, unless you really like watching public television(which most here do, I'm sure lol)
Is that there is not any useable form-factor standard such as there have been for Desktops. I can't hop over to my favorite online parts vendor and grab a case, mobo and cpu. I think that if users were enabled to build their own laptops, computer distribution companies such as HP, Compaq, etc would be held to a slightly higher expectation.
This is just another chicken and the egg essay. Is it the availability of hardware resources that drives developers to write 'bigger' code with more features, or is it the 'bigger' code with more features that pushes hardware to be upgraded? In essence, it is both. They are completly symbiotic. Nither would exsist without the other, therefore the forward motion of the hardware industry, along with a higher number of features available, are natually occurring phenomina. Don't moan that you don't want to buy new hardware. Do what I did and bite the bullet: get a job, hippie! ;)
I don't remember ever getting one. Even if I did, it would dissapear, never to be seen from again. And yes, Mr. Ashcroft, I know you have someone reading this right now... Kiss my Big 'ol Butt!
Well, I had to be the one to say it... "Hell people, there isn't really that much to do up that far North but copulate!"
I can certainly agree on the devices side. I support many, many HP printers in a mid-sized University Library, I'll tell you what, if you use a Deskjet, be prepared to fight to the death to get rid of all the other software that gets installed... I just wish that they would quit with the whole "let's see how much extranious software we can install before the machine becomes completly unusable" bit and get back to work!
One word: Sony
The way I see it, Microsoft can't complain b/c zlib will have a fix LONG before they have even thought about patching. They won't have to do near as much work to find the fix... they'll just rebuild.
Well, they rolled a natual one, so they have to re-roll to see if they crit-failed the crit-fail...
Or, for GURPS geeks... they rolled a 17 or 18... oops!
Yes, I do know. But no, I'm not paying... therefore it is sort of like having someone else pay for your ticket on an East German flight to protest the Berlin Wall...
Hey! I've got a great idea! I'm going to DisneyWorld for my Honeymoon in a couple of months... how about all the down-south geeks grab some tickets, or at least pay for parking... grab some fsck the MPAA shirts and we parade around letting those asses know just how pissed we are about their arrogance.
to the bill at all at the congress website. What is the deal, do they really not want us to know about what is going on? I'd love to jump on the phone with my state reps and chew their ear about why this is bad, but I'd like to have some legs to stand on with them. They really don't care to hear about 'some bill called the SSSCA' which I can't even give a bill number for.
Try living in it :)
Have a nice day.
I don't know about everyone else here, but I still have a really bad taste in my mouth left by a certian non-truth based report made on the WP... I'll believe any real changes when I see them.
due to some happenings in the States during the sixties, a hanging is a racial statement... even if it has nothing to do with ethnicity. Hell, you can't even say lynch without someone cocking an eyebrow and thinking you're in the KKK. Sad.
I'll start buying hardware from companies who don't jump into this flash-fire of anti-consumer's rights. I'm not worried about the software b/c I only use OSS/FSF software... with the exception of a game or two(don't play them much anyway).
The sad thing is this is not isolated to the recording industry... it is in the movie industry, the agriculture industry... they all make up their minds that they are going to make a large sum more then needed of a product and then hold their hands out to the government when they want more money for what they don't sell... if corn isn't selling, you pick another produce. Don't just keep planting corn or (here) peanuts and expect the government to step in and take the money from the people that didn't want to buy your product. Du-huh!
It's not genneraly accepted that governments should provide and maintain highways... that was done by a particular President that wanted to create jobs for pepole who couldn't go out and get jobs themselves. To hell with that stuff now. Creating jobs in the government is called bloat and waste... or misapproptiation of funds.
lol, I didn't watch the Olympics... mainly b/c I hate listening to people moan because they didn't win. I can understand your plight of long distance communications, however isn't it possible for you and your buddies to create a means of communicating. For instance, you and a group of folks get together and instead of begging the government to do it for you, have fund raisers and what not(I'm not talking about starting a commercial venture) and get your own network started. It has been done before, why not now-days? Where I'm from, my family set up their own electricity in the boon-docks using diesel generators. It was a nieghborhood thing, not a government thing. Then, they had all of their rights yanked out from under them and they can't do that sort of thing now... they _have_ to buy power from the power company... governmentally sanctioned monopolies run by private corporations. See, I'm pissed at both sides!
Why is it when someone doesn't like something it is a troll or flamebait? That aside, rural electrification could have been done by private groups(read not industry) without having been force-fed.
I intentionally left out the business side of the argument because I loathe the business side absolutely as much as I do the government side. What ever happened to folks just getting together and raising money however they please(out of pocket, fund-raisers, etc) and doing something they feel is a good idea? That is what I want to see happen.
Why is it not suprising that Canada is doing something like this? They are about two hops short of Communist Cuba as far as governmental control of facilities goes, albeit the US is close on their heels in the electric arena.
I'm just interested in why anyone would want the government to handle those sort of domestic industries.
No, I do not think that all of the money poured into sports has a place. And I don't think that the school system should pay for the band either(I was a band student in a system that over one third of the money for the school went directly to us). I recieved a very substandard education and susbsequently was quite far behind when I went to university, I never graduated, now I work for the university... I do what I can to reduce costs, however there is an interesting cycle there: If you economise in any form or fashion, you don't get the money when you need it most. So, we spend spend spend at the behest of our bosses. If you leave the job, there will be one more greedy bastard to take your place. The long and the short of it is this: taxes should not be spent in education at all. You should educate your child, not the state. The state should only worry about the outside forces that we cannot protect against(which it so very recently proved it was not capable of). I don't have kids and shouldn't pay for someone else's kid(who by the way smokes smack and doesn't give two shits if he does anything with his life). Screw them, let them pay.