I don't remember heavy featuring of a clan of excitable little people in "Empire Strikes Back." Yoda was short, but he was only one and he certainly wasn't excitable. There were several (not a clan) of excitable little people in cloud city, but they were such minor characters I don't even remember what they were called. The only scene in which they were important was when they were trying to melt down threepio.
It's also revealing that you believe such behavior is polite. In many countries political talk is expected. To dodge it out of ignorance or a desire to not take a stance on something is impolite because you, not they, are putting the brakes on discussing real issues of the day. In America this is not so because Americans are taught that only popular opinion is polite to repeat. So when the monied interests determine what is popular opinion, business interests dominate conversations and it becomes impolite to talk about anything not in the perceived interest of the wealthy.
Maybe I'm not a "real" American since I'm a US citizen that mostly grew up outside the US, but thankfully, I've never felt like I was taught to be that way. I tend to think that a conversation is pretty worthless if the main goal of one or more participants is just to be polite. I would be a little miffed if someone dodged a question about an important current issue like DRM. Diplomacy is not one of my strengths, but I do recognize its value. I would be more satisfied if someone gave a straight response indicating that he didn't want to get into a controversial issue rather than dodging a question or implying he had no opinion.
I think you're mostly right about the change in technologies requiring changes in the economic models. However, I also submit that a basic problem with the whole media world is the idea that things like music and movies are or ever can be property. There are legal frameworks (mainly copyright) to give authors certain rights and control over creative works. These frameworks are not based in any way on property law and the term and concept of "intellectual property" is pretty recent.
The inherent difference between a recording of Johnny Cash singing "Sunday Morning Coming Down" and my personal 1978 Volkswagen Rabbit means that it simply isn't logical to treat them the same way legally or in society generally. The recording can be copied an arbitrary number of times with no change to original, but if someone took my car (though I have no idea why someone would want to), I can't drive to work.
Also, I found the biggest offender according to the watt-meter was the fridge. Try it. Mine draws a pretty continous 130W or so. Not so much - the computer uses more when it's on. But the fridge draws it pretty close to 24/7/365.
Did you check if the door of your fridge is closed? When mine is properly shut, the compressor is off most of the time. I haven't tried measuring the power usage yet, but I hope it's not drawing 130W when the compressor's not running.
I don't disagree that it was unnecessary to reinstall Windows. My point remains that someone who doesn't have at least a basic comprehension of a post should not reply to it. Uninformed discussion just adds to the distracting cacophony that is Slashdot.
Wow, that's a new low. One isn't necessarily expected to RTFA on Slashdot, but you can't read a couple of paragraphs in a post? If you had, you'd realize that the grandparent says he was trying to make a normal user for safer computing and accidentally made it an administrator.
Yes, that's an important distinction. A "cheat" for a single player game doesn't disadvantage anyone and isn't in any way dishonest. But all the people in a multiplayer game must be playing by the same rules for it to be fair. I've used single player "cheats" many times to explore a game, because I was frustrated with a particular section, or just to try something different. However, I have no interest in cheating in a multiplayer game, since I want to know I beat other people due to my skill.
Wow, these places with laws against region-free DVD players are even worse that we have here with the DMCA. The DMCA makes it illegal to circumvent DRM devices, but somewhere it's apparently illegal to even make a device that doesn't enforce the whims of the DVD forum.
You're right that networks are faster now than they used to be. That means that it's even more important to enable Nagle's algorithm for interactive sessions like SSH. When it's enabled, the kernel won't send a datagram for every keystroke, but will wait until it has a good number of bytes to send. That keeps timing information from leaking out onto the wire.
Just the artwork doesn't indicate what software engine is used, unless it's that SCUMM couldn't handle an image that large. Perhaps it's a newer version of SCUMM with improved media handling. Whether it's an increment of SCUMM or entirely new software, hopefully the developers are friendly enough to their customers to make ScummVM support easy, or even help out themselves.
I actually got stuck in Sam&Max a while ago at and I haven't gotten back to it, but maybe this will inspire me. I will almost certainly buy the new game, especially if I don't have to boot Winders to play it.
But government never seemed small to the slave, the tenant farmer , the indentured servant. To the many whose rights were defined by their property, their race, sex or religion.
I'm confused. Are you saying that the early US government spent its negligible time and resources deliberately oppressing the poor, black, female, and Catholic? Do you really think the cotton farming slaves blamed the US Congress for their oppression rather than the Africans who sold them into slavery, Europeans who transported them across the Atlantic, and the rich plantation owners who separated them from their families? How do you think the slaves felt when the growing power of the US government forced the Southern states to free them?
Linus could have chosen some other libc to link the kernel with (just as the person in your example could have chosen to live somewhere other than in the city).
I hate to rain on your parade, but Linux doesn't link with Glibc or any other libc; it's self-contained. People also regularly run Linux systems with other libcs on top, such as diet libc and uClibc. What is absolutely required to build Linux, AFAIK, is the GNU toolchain, including GCC and binutils. Howver, I'm quite certain that there's no way Linux could be considered a derivative work of any of the GNU tools, so their licenses don't have to be compatible.
All of the definitions I found emphasize the fear of foreigners, which is what the original Greek literally means. A few definitions add "or of the unknown," as an afterthought, but most don't. Also, what exactly was unknown? The poster seemed pretty familiar with the uselessness of self-checkout systems?
I can understand the fixation of many americans on small government as an ideal - one of the few acceptable purposes of democratic governments beyond enforcing the law is to keep the ballance between the individual and the corporations. In the US it seems that the main purpose of government is to further empower corporations
The US certainly started with small governments, especially the Federal government. It has far outgrown its usefulness in many ways. Unfortunately, neither of the two parties seems much interested in working themselves out of jobs.
"Xenophobia denotes a phobic attitude towards strangers or of the unknown and comes from the Greek words (xenos), meaning "foreigner", "stranger", and (phobos), meaning "fear"."
Of course people wouldn't know what an "AT machine" is. I just don't understand what people are thinking when they say "ATM machine." Maybe I should start saying "Automated Teller Machine machine" to be extra clear.
The proper phrase you're looking for is: automated ATM teller machines.
The addition of "machine" after the acronym "ATM" is one of my pet peeves. Why does is it so inevitable? If people must add "machine," why not call them "AT machines"?
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I don't remember heavy featuring of a clan of excitable little people in "Empire Strikes Back." Yoda was short, but he was only one and he certainly wasn't excitable. There were several (not a clan) of excitable little people in cloud city, but they were such minor characters I don't even remember what they were called. The only scene in which they were important was when they were trying to melt down threepio.
Maybe I'm not a "real" American since I'm a US citizen that mostly grew up outside the US, but thankfully, I've never felt like I was taught to be that way. I tend to think that a conversation is pretty worthless if the main goal of one or more participants is just to be polite. I would be a little miffed if someone dodged a question about an important current issue like DRM. Diplomacy is not one of my strengths, but I do recognize its value. I would be more satisfied if someone gave a straight response indicating that he didn't want to get into a controversial issue rather than dodging a question or implying he had no opinion.
I think you're mostly right about the change in technologies requiring changes in the economic models. However, I also submit that a basic problem with the whole media world is the idea that things like music and movies are or ever can be property. There are legal frameworks (mainly copyright) to give authors certain rights and control over creative works. These frameworks are not based in any way on property law and the term and concept of "intellectual property" is pretty recent.
The inherent difference between a recording of Johnny Cash singing "Sunday Morning Coming Down" and my personal 1978 Volkswagen Rabbit means that it simply isn't logical to treat them the same way legally or in society generally. The recording can be copied an arbitrary number of times with no change to original, but if someone took my car (though I have no idea why someone would want to), I can't drive to work.
Did you check if the door of your fridge is closed? When mine is properly shut, the compressor is off most of the time. I haven't tried measuring the power usage yet, but I hope it's not drawing 130W when the compressor's not running.
I don't disagree that it was unnecessary to reinstall Windows. My point remains that someone who doesn't have at least a basic comprehension of a post should not reply to it. Uninformed discussion just adds to the distracting cacophony that is Slashdot.
Wow, that's a new low. One isn't necessarily expected to RTFA on Slashdot, but you can't read a couple of paragraphs in a post? If you had, you'd realize that the grandparent says he was trying to make a normal user for safer computing and accidentally made it an administrator.
Yes, that's an important distinction. A "cheat" for a single player game doesn't disadvantage anyone and isn't in any way dishonest. But all the people in a multiplayer game must be playing by the same rules for it to be fair. I've used single player "cheats" many times to explore a game, because I was frustrated with a particular section, or just to try something different. However, I have no interest in cheating in a multiplayer game, since I want to know I beat other people due to my skill.
Wow, these places with laws against region-free DVD players are even worse that we have here with the DMCA. The DMCA makes it illegal to circumvent DRM devices, but somewhere it's apparently illegal to even make a device that doesn't enforce the whims of the DVD forum.
According to WordNet and Wikipedia, eloquence can be a characteristic of written, as well as spoken, language.
Scheme comes pretty close.
Wow, I thought I was picky about precise language, but you are a grammar Nazi of exceptional eloquence.
You're right that networks are faster now than they used to be. That means that it's even more important to enable Nagle's algorithm for interactive sessions like SSH. When it's enabled, the kernel won't send a datagram for every keystroke, but will wait until it has a good number of bytes to send. That keeps timing information from leaking out onto the wire.
Just the artwork doesn't indicate what software engine is used, unless it's that SCUMM couldn't handle an image that large. Perhaps it's a newer version of SCUMM with improved media handling. Whether it's an increment of SCUMM or entirely new software, hopefully the developers are friendly enough to their customers to make ScummVM support easy, or even help out themselves.
I actually got stuck in Sam&Max a while ago at and I haven't gotten back to it, but maybe this will inspire me. I will almost certainly buy the new game, especially if I don't have to boot Winders to play it.
Well, ya coulda fooled me.
That's a good idea. So you could just ask someone for his "PInumber." if you want to rob him blind.
If you thought the term in question "xenophilia," then why did you quote a definition for "xenophobia?"
I'm confused. Are you saying that the early US government spent its negligible time and resources deliberately oppressing the poor, black, female, and Catholic? Do you really think the cotton farming slaves blamed the US Congress for their oppression rather than the Africans who sold them into slavery, Europeans who transported them across the Atlantic, and the rich plantation owners who separated them from their families? How do you think the slaves felt when the growing power of the US government forced the Southern states to free them?
I hate to rain on your parade, but Linux doesn't link with Glibc or any other libc; it's self-contained. People also regularly run Linux systems with other libcs on top, such as diet libc and uClibc. What is absolutely required to build Linux, AFAIK, is the GNU toolchain, including GCC and binutils. Howver, I'm quite certain that there's no way Linux could be considered a derivative work of any of the GNU tools, so their licenses don't have to be compatible.
Everything I know about HTML I learned on the wrong side of the tracks.
All of the definitions I found emphasize the fear of foreigners, which is what the original Greek literally means. A few definitions add "or of the unknown," as an afterthought, but most don't. Also, what exactly was unknown? The poster seemed pretty familiar with the uselessness of self-checkout systems?
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The US certainly started with small governments, especially the Federal government. It has far outgrown its usefulness in many ways. Unfortunately, neither of the two parties seems much interested in working themselves out of jobs.
"Xenophobia denotes a phobic attitude towards strangers or of the unknown and comes from the Greek words (xenos), meaning "foreigner", "stranger", and (phobos), meaning "fear"."
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Of course people wouldn't know what an "AT machine" is. I just don't understand what people are thinking when they say "ATM machine." Maybe I should start saying "Automated Teller Machine machine" to be extra clear.
The addition of "machine" after the acronym "ATM" is one of my pet peeves. Why does is it so inevitable? If people must add "machine," why not call them "AT machines"?