Murder is also available at the wheel of a car. Or at the thrust of a blade. Or at the thrust of a sharpened screwdriver. Or with the cut of a gas line and the lighting of a match. Or with an ounce of rat poison. Or with a baseball bat.
Blah, blah, blah. All those things have uses other than killing. Guns have one use: murder. Recreational target practice is not a legitimate use. Sorry.
As for your Franklin quote, it's eloquent and sure to rouse the people, but as one of the Founders of this country I doubt Franklin even believed that. In any government the people agree to give up certain liberties for the benefits of protection by the government. I give up the liberty to walk around shooting people and to rape every woman I see for the privelege of living under government protection. So while your little quote sounds nice, it's really stupid. Unadulterated liberty is anarchy. If you want that, feel free to start your own nation. Let me know how it works out.
The Bill of Rights is pretty solid. But AFAIC, the second amendment was a huge mistake. I, for one, would be glad to see it go.
I did not say that gun-lovers are idiots, I said they are crazy. And there is a big difference there. Someone who supports a tool of murder because of some perceived threat from The Man(TM) is not being a libertarian, they are being insane.
I support capital punishment, but not in its present form. That guy who just got killed in Texas sat on death row for 19 years. That's not right. I would say that it's cruel and unusual punishment. If someone is sentenced to death, it should be carried out within the month. Then again, there are lots of people convicted of crimes they didn't commit, so maybe we do need some time for appeals. Regardless, the system is not right the way it is now. But people will always be convicted for crimes they didn't commit, so maybe the death penalty isn't such a good idea after all. I don't know. I support it in principle but it would suck to get killed for no reason then exonerated a month later.
Which is why all conventional weapons should be freely accessable by the public.
I'm curious: are you actually suggesting that people be able to purchase weapons like tanks and attack helicopters? I would have to say that that would be one of the worst, most insane, most bizarre suggestions I have ever heard. I think the military should have firearms and that's about it. Flame me if you want, but I think the problems with guns far, far outweigh any possible perceived benefit, and some guy firing his gun for fun is not a legitimate reason to keep guns. As for hunting, all you jackasses can use a crossbow like Ted Nugent. At least he eats the meat.
Anyway, I would rather live with the possibility of governmental tyranny than with the FACT of accidental gun deaths and other assorted violence stemming simply from the fact that murder is available at the pull of a trigger.
Everybody knows the patent office needs fixin, and I guess I appreciate the sentiment on the uspto's part, but I don't really think ESR is the person I want representing the voice of reason. Why not Tim O'Reilly, who already demonstrated that he understands the issues and seems to have a quite level-headed demeanor?
I guess this isn't really a bad thing, but I don't really know how good it is. While it seems nice to have somebody from "our side" on the pto's team, I wonder how much ESR is really on my side. There is enough difference between his ideas and mine that I don't know.
Then again, I don't think the patent office can get any worse...
How does MS do it? How can they sit there with a straight face and say they don't have a monopoly? My prediction is that if/when this thing ever comes out it will be the end of C, C++, and Java, simply because of the power MS has with its monopoly over computerdom. Surprise! Only programs written in C# will run on WinCE/"Me"/2000! Another market stomped on by the behemoth. This is my prediction. Maybe it'll take 5 years or so.
Of course, I doubt there'll be a GNU C# compiler, so there will always be that contingent of C/C++ programmers out there. But I'm sure MS will be releasing free compilers to get people to use this thing.
Anyway, just more bleak news from everybody's favorite untrustworthy standards-busters.
I don't quite understand what all the hoopla is about with this thing. The stats indicate a P3 733 w/64 MB RAM and an nVidia card. And if I recall correctly, it will be running a modified version of the Windows 2000 kernel. So can somebody explain to me why this is not just A Computer With No Screen(TM)? I can see that MS is far more concerned with simply getting this poorly veiled Internet Appliance(TM) into as many homes as possible than actual gaming performance. What? My xBox comes with 500 free hours of MSN? Wow! I guess I better sign up with them!
What game developer would write a game that works on the xbox but not on Win98/2000? And if this is the case -- that games will be available on both platforms -- what is the incentive of this machine over a Real Computer(TM)? Price seems to be the only thing; and I guess a kernel optimized for doing one thing and only one thing (games) will have significant performance advantages over a full-fledged OS (cough cough) like Windows 2000, but they're going to have to do some seriously asskicking marketing to beat out the PS2, which has all its hardware dedicated to doing one thing and doing it well. Yeah, MS is working with nVidia on the graphics card, but somehow I think an entire machine designed around one concept (alright, 2, Sony wants to be your Internet Appliance too) is going to kick the ass of a machine hacked together, even if its components are top notch (cough cough).
In the end it will likely come down to marketing dollars because at this point I don't think anything can amaze me, just like 2, 3, 5, 10 GHz does not impress me anymore. I am still in awe of Tekken 3 on PSX and Sould Calibur (?) on Dreamcast. But if there is any company with the resources to go head to head with MS, it's Sony (unlike poor Nintendo and Sega). If nothing else, this should be an interesting battle.
I guess PR doesn't count for much these days. Intel didn't care about the performance hits they would take using crappy Rambus? I mean, I would think they would get more in the long run if they were able to, say, beat AMD. Then again, $158 Million is a whole hell of a lot of money. Maybe they didn't know Rambus sucked so bad? In any case, I'm sure they had teams of analysts debating which would be best in the long run, and IANA Economist.
But in this light, I don't think it's so surprising why Intel is pushing Rambus so hard. It's an all-or-nothing proposition -- if they back out now they have the worst of both worlds. They don't get the money from Rambus but DO get all the egg on their face of supporting a crap technology. It would be kind of funny if Rambus was Intel's downfall, but I somehow doubt that will happen.
Above this sits three API layers: Cocoa - dervied from the NextStep operating system; Carbon - essentially the legacy Mac OS APIs; and Java - the JDK 1.3.
I was under the impression that the three layers were Cocoa, Carbon, and Classic -- classic being the layer that still runs legacy apps.
Fault tolerance was a big issue. We've started by load balancing anything that could easily be balanced, but balancing MySQL is harder. We're funding development efforts with the MySQL team to add database replication and rollback capabilities to MySQL (these improvements will of course be rolled into the normal MySQL release as well).
Just out of curiosity, wouldn't it be easier to use something like PostgreSQL (which is just as freely available) that already has rollback & atomicity than to pay the MySQL people to develop it? Didn't y'all read the article on here a few weeks ago, "Why not MySQL?"
I believe Lars said that he had never been to a website and has "trouble using AOL." As for the rest of the band, I can only assume they have the same level of knowledge, since lars seems to be the most "technical," ie, if any of them were involved in their own website I assume it would be Lars, the behind-the-scenes technical guy.
How can the dreamcast run Bleem? It has one CD drive, so wouldn't the game disc need to be in there? The Dreamcast doesn't have a hard drive, right? so where is Bleem going to live? In ram, and you have to download it every time you want to use it? Blah. Anybody know the real deal?
I agree with the idea of not buying any more Metallica stuff, but not enough people will ever do it for it to be effective. Metallica sells out every concert these days, do you think that's going to stop because some people don't like how they deal with Napster? Not enough people care about this issue to make a difference.
That said, Will Pendarvis, the dj on K-ROCK in New York wants people to email him to petition Metallica to come to NY. From his page on the station's website:
4/27/00 Let's tell Metallica, Kid Rock, Korn and System of a Down know that we want them to play a show in our area. Their scheduled show at the Meadowlands was cancelled. I'm collecting e-mails from folks who feel the same way. I'm going to collect them all and send them to the all the bands, their managers and their record labels. Send your e-mail now! krockdj923@aol.com 4/26/00 I just found out some very disapointing news. The Metallica, Kid Rock and Korn show that was scheduled for Giants Staduim this summer has been CANCELLED. Through a very extensive investigation, here's what I think is going on: Kid Rock is unable to make it to New York on July 20th due to a scheduling conflict. Something must be done. While I work on things from this end, here's what you can do:
E-mail these guys at their websites. And get your friends to do the same. Just make sure you include "K-Rock" in the text as well as "Giants Stadium show". And please feel free to contact me if you have any other ideas that would persuade them to reconsider. Here's some site addresses to help ya out. Good luck!
As much as I would like to see Metallica live, I refuse to spend any more money on any of their products as long as their suit against Napster continues. Metallica has proven to all its fans that the only thing it cares about is the almighty dollar. The hypocrisy of Lars's words is remarkable -- it is sickening that he considers trading music for free wrong but trading music for money acceptable. Putting aside the fact that Metallica is not exactly living paycheck to paycheck these days (perhaps you know what their gross album sales are for the past few years, I imagine it's in the tens of millions), I simply do not believe MP3 causes artists to lose any money at all. Before I started listening to MP3s, my CD collection consisted of mostly Eric Clapton and Stevie Ray Vaughan CDs. Using MP3 as a try-before-you-buy system, my collection has expanded to include Pearl Jam, Ozzy, Alice In Chains, and many other artists -- including Metallica. I now own four Metallica albums, and if not for MP3, I wouldn't own any. So tell me again, how are they losing money? Granted, not everyone purchases the albums for songs they download, but in those cases they wouldn't have ever bought the song in the first place, so again there is no money lost. And regardless of Metallica's position on MP3s, that's no reason to sue Napster. They have no control over what's sent over the network. You should have people check out www.paylars.com if they haven't already, it's great. Of course, since I already paid for all my Metallica songs, I didn't donate anything. I realize this is not the kind of message you were looking for if you want messages to send to the band to get them to come and play, but I thought an alternate viewpoint may be needed. Anyway, the only way I will go see Metallica is if I get to see them for free, so either they can do a free concert a la the Napster-friendly Limp Bizkit or I'll just have to win them from you guys.
who reads Oog's posts in the voice of Grimlock from the Transformers? Remember the Dinobots?:~( some bitch cleaning lady threw away my hundreds of transformers, including Grimlock.
The posts this person is referring to consisted of such sparkling gems as "STUFF LINUX IN YOUR ASS".
Come on Rusty, you can't tell me you didn't laugh your ass off at that! I know I was cracking up just from reading it in your post!
To be completely honest, you may want to amend your statement about what kind of posts you delete to include duplicates... just to be completely honest.
Yet I wonder, since I agree that deleting trolls is usually the best decision, what will you do if k5 becomes huge and there are more trolls than you can handle? I suppose this is a more appropriate topic for posting on k5 itself, but it's not worth an entire article to itself, and this thread is already wayyyy offtopic.
I used to work in a restuarant, and often I'd overhear things like this:
"I'll have the steak, no marinade, rare, with baked potato, vegetables, and a salad with ranch dressing."
"Yes, and I'll have exactly what he's having, except I want my steak with no marinade, well done, with french fries instead of baked potato, no vegetables, and no salad."
Anyway, I couldn't help but think of this when you said "I loved all the Star Wars movies, except this one and Jedi." So basically, you hated half of them?
As much as I hated the movie, I am so relieved to see this. The thing that really irked me was the relentless posting of unsubstantiated, fabricated rumors. At least now there is some modicum of "fact" to the story, so maybe we can stop hearing about it until September (or maybe altogether! I can dream, can't I?).
Well Trent Reznor sued the guy who owns reznor.com for either domain squatting or trademark infringement... but they guy's last name was also reznor! So I guess it is illegal to use your own name. Then again, I don't know how that lawsuit turned out.
If you look at any of the episode summaries at startrek.com (like this one), down at the bottom it lists the characters. With a little [tm] after each name:
Cast:
Kate Mulgrew as Kathryn Janeway[tm] Robert Beltran as Chakotay[tm] Roxann Biggs-Dawson as B'Elanna Torres[tm] Robert Duncan McNeill as Tom Paris[tm] Jennifer Lien as Kes[tm] Ethan Phillips as Neelix[tm] Robert Picardo as The Doctor Tim Russ as Tuvok[tm] Garrett Wang as Harry Kim[tm]
So I guess that answers that question, at least from a legal standpoint. I know Paramount has gone after people writing porno stories about Counselor Troi getting raped and stuff like that, but I would imagine they don't want to stifle independent stuff too much because it's what keeps the "legend" alive.
click here to see how badly the Linux stocks are doing, even in comparison with the NASDAQ. (one thing I don't understand about the graph is how Caldera didn't start at 100%, but the graph still shows you the problem)
"John explained that there are 'two reasons for not doing the right thing - you don't know how to do the right thing, or you choose to do it wrong for a good reason'."
So one of the two reasons for not doing something right is that you have a good reason not to do it right. Wow, that's profound. Let me write that one down. Nothing against Carmack (or you), but this wasn't really all that great of a line.
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Blah, blah, blah. All those things have uses other than killing. Guns have one use: murder. Recreational target practice is not a legitimate use. Sorry.
As for your Franklin quote, it's eloquent and sure to rouse the people, but as one of the Founders of this country I doubt Franklin even believed that. In any government the people agree to give up certain liberties for the benefits of protection by the government. I give up the liberty to walk around shooting people and to rape every woman I see for the privelege of living under government protection. So while your little quote sounds nice, it's really stupid. Unadulterated liberty is anarchy. If you want that, feel free to start your own nation. Let me know how it works out.
The Bill of Rights is pretty solid. But AFAIC, the second amendment was a huge mistake. I, for one, would be glad to see it go.
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I support capital punishment, but not in its present form. That guy who just got killed in Texas sat on death row for 19 years. That's not right. I would say that it's cruel and unusual punishment. If someone is sentenced to death, it should be carried out within the month. Then again, there are lots of people convicted of crimes they didn't commit, so maybe we do need some time for appeals. Regardless, the system is not right the way it is now. But people will always be convicted for crimes they didn't commit, so maybe the death penalty isn't such a good idea after all. I don't know. I support it in principle but it would suck to get killed for no reason then exonerated a month later.
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I'm curious: are you actually suggesting that people be able to purchase weapons like tanks and attack helicopters? I would have to say that that would be one of the worst, most insane, most bizarre suggestions I have ever heard. I think the military should have firearms and that's about it. Flame me if you want, but I think the problems with guns far, far outweigh any possible perceived benefit, and some guy firing his gun for fun is not a legitimate reason to keep guns. As for hunting, all you jackasses can use a crossbow like Ted Nugent. At least he eats the meat.
Anyway, I would rather live with the possibility of governmental tyranny than with the FACT of accidental gun deaths and other assorted violence stemming simply from the fact that murder is available at the pull of a trigger.
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I guess this isn't really a bad thing, but I don't really know how good it is. While it seems nice to have somebody from "our side" on the pto's team, I wonder how much ESR is really on my side. There is enough difference between his ideas and mine that I don't know.
Then again, I don't think the patent office can get any worse
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Of course, I doubt there'll be a GNU C# compiler, so there will always be that contingent of C/C++ programmers out there. But I'm sure MS will be releasing free compilers to get people to use this thing.
Anyway, just more bleak news from everybody's favorite untrustworthy standards-busters.
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What game developer would write a game that works on the xbox but not on Win98/2000? And if this is the case -- that games will be available on both platforms -- what is the incentive of this machine over a Real Computer(TM)? Price seems to be the only thing; and I guess a kernel optimized for doing one thing and only one thing (games) will have significant performance advantages over a full-fledged OS (cough cough) like Windows 2000, but they're going to have to do some seriously asskicking marketing to beat out the PS2, which has all its hardware dedicated to doing one thing and doing it well. Yeah, MS is working with nVidia on the graphics card, but somehow I think an entire machine designed around one concept (alright, 2, Sony wants to be your Internet Appliance too) is going to kick the ass of a machine hacked together, even if its components are top notch (cough cough).
In the end it will likely come down to marketing dollars because at this point I don't think anything can amaze me, just like 2, 3, 5, 10 GHz does not impress me anymore. I am still in awe of Tekken 3 on PSX and Sould Calibur (?) on Dreamcast. But if there is any company with the resources to go head to head with MS, it's Sony (unlike poor Nintendo and Sega). If nothing else, this should be an interesting battle.
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But in this light, I don't think it's so surprising why Intel is pushing Rambus so hard. It's an all-or-nothing proposition -- if they back out now they have the worst of both worlds. They don't get the money from Rambus but DO get all the egg on their face of supporting a crap technology. It would be kind of funny if Rambus was Intel's downfall, but I somehow doubt that will happen.
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I was under the impression that the three layers were Cocoa, Carbon, and Classic -- classic being the layer that still runs legacy apps.
Ahh, here's the picture I was thinking of: http://www.apple.com/macosx/inside.html
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Just out of curiosity, wouldn't it be easier to use something like PostgreSQL (which is just as freely available) that already has rollback & atomicity than to pay the MySQL people to develop it? Didn't y'all read the article on here a few weeks ago, "Why not MySQL?"
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That said, Will Pendarvis, the dj on K-ROCK in New York wants people to email him to petition Metallica to come to NY. From his page on the station's website:
So here's the email I sent him:
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"Me Grimlock think this much more gooder!"
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Come on Rusty, you can't tell me you didn't laugh your ass off at that! I know I was cracking up just from reading it in your post!
To be completely honest, you may want to amend your statement about what kind of posts you delete to include duplicates... just to be completely honest.
Yet I wonder, since I agree that deleting trolls is usually the best decision, what will you do if k5 becomes huge and there are more trolls than you can handle? I suppose this is a more appropriate topic for posting on k5 itself, but it's not worth an entire article to itself, and this thread is already wayyyy offtopic.
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"I'll have the steak, no marinade, rare, with baked potato, vegetables, and a salad with ranch dressing."
"Yes, and I'll have exactly what he's having, except I want my steak with no marinade, well done, with french fries instead of baked potato, no vegetables, and no salad."
Anyway, I couldn't help but think of this when you said "I loved all the Star Wars movies, except this one and Jedi." So basically, you hated half of them?
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So I guess that answers that question, at least from a legal standpoint. I know Paramount has gone after people writing porno stories about Counselor Troi getting raped and stuff like that, but I would imagine they don't want to stifle independent stuff too much because it's what keeps the "legend" alive.
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Well, to me that sounds like a "good reason" to do it wrong.
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know how to do the right thing, or you choose to do it wrong for a good reason'."
So one of the two reasons for not doing something right is that you have a good reason not to do it right. Wow, that's profound. Let me write that one down. Nothing against Carmack (or you), but this wasn't really all that great of a line.
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