Was the internet around in 1984 when America OnLine (then called Quantam Computer Services) was running a C64 BBS and getting ready to roll out PC-Link? I could be wrong, but I don't think so.
The reason for this is simple: there is no serious political discussion in this country and hasn't been since (at least) the early 1900s. What passes for debate amounts to recitation of talking points lists. Without thoughtful debate, consensus can never be reached, and the majority are reduced to two self-cancelling groups of mind-numbed zealots whose goals ultimately serve only to further the interests of a small group of apolitical, amoral "elites".
There are plenty of "conservatives" who are mad as hell about TIA (or TTA or whatever the Name of the Day is) and are expressing their concerns as vociferously as some of the "liberals" who oppose it, yet the two groups seem to find the thought of opposing this monstrosity with a single voice so distasteful that they'll stand by and let it go with little more than a squeak. Why? Because their respective political religions tell them that unbelievers are unclean and must be avoided at all costs.
As long as we Americans are satisfied with the "conservatives vs. liberals" dogma and refuse to think for ourselves, nothing will change for the better.
If I own a "means of production" how exactly will it become the property of "the public" without violence? I will not voluntarily surrender my property, so "the public" (a.k.a. "the mob", a.k.a. "you and your fellow criminals") will have to steal it from me.
That you use the term "free" to describe the condition of people living under a regime that would not allow them to exercise their freedoms to own property and to dispose of it however they wish (including demanding something of equal or greater value in exchange for it) shows that you "don't know what you're talking about".
Communism is and always has been a stinking pile of quasi-political bullshit sold to uneducated blue-collar grunts by the mega-rich in order to motivate them to take actions that snuff out potential competition from "the middle class"; it is nothing more than a criminal mentality with a national anthem.
Good idea. I also routinely blackhole ad servers that are habitually slow to respond; this is a bigger annoyance than popup ads, in my opinion. If you want to show me an ad, fine, but don't keep my throbber spinning for ten minutes and keep the page from fully rendering or you're cut off.
That makes abolutly _no_ sense. Entropy makes it very unlikely that getting energy from people would be more efficient than converting the stuff they're using to feed the people directly into energy...
The "stuff" they're using to feed the people is, well, the people. This causes me to wonder: do people in the Matrix get a strange feeling when they're watching Soylent Green and the hero shouts "Soylent green is people!"?
I think I would like translucency if I could enable it, get a quick look at other windows I was interested in monitoring (log tails, builds, irc, etc.) then disable it and get back to work on the top window.
Translucency might also be useful if it could be enabled on a per-workspace basis. One or two translucent workspaces with tails and the like could be interesting.
Anyway, it does look pretty cool.
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Thanks, editor, for unnecessarily turning this discussion into an Objectivists vs. The Usual Crowd debate. Please save the commentary for the OpEd page and let the reader draw his own wrong conclusions.
Trust me, you will be missing out on the best console experience ever if you avoid Live due to the lack of pricing information on a single site.
All I'd miss out on is a slightly lighter wallet and the chore of installing another NIC in the router box, running some cable, and editing the pf rules.:)
So the first twelve months of the subscription are covered by package, how much does it cost after the first twelve months?
Microsoft need to remember that a lot of their XBox Live business is going to come from parents buying the service for their kids. For these parents, XBox Live is not a "must have" and the lack of up-front pricing information is not a good sign.
Our kids are excited about XBox and want to play online, but after visiting the XBox Live site I'm not sure it's going to happen. I spent about 30 minutes poking around on the site and found no information on pricing. This annoys me. I'm not going to buy something to find out how much it will cost.
Perhaps someone should write a Windows trojan that pops up a dialog box explaining the situation (and consequences) with "click Ok to engage in civil disobedience". The application would download some unauthorized digital content, then print the "Turning Yourself in to The Authorities" HOWTO.
I'm certainly glad that someone was able to read the recent OpenBSD xdr_array patch and found that it was incorrect. I didn't read the patch myself, but someone else did, and it's a good thing.
You're comparing the install of an OS with a couple of cheesy little editors, a browser, a broken mail client and a couple handfuls of system management utils with the install of a complete Linux distribution including professional-class programmer's editors, development tools, multiple browsers, multiple shells, RDBMSs, the Apache Web Server, Perl, Tcl, Tcl/Tk, Python, X, the GIMP, Office apps, etc.
Most distributions allow you to select a default install that doesn't require selecting any packages, if that's what you prefer.
Why stop there? Congress hasn't. They've claimed that if you own or use something that was made in another state you've engaged in interstate commerce and are therefore subject to federal jurisdiction.
Time to fdisk this mess and install a new OS, if you ask me.
I'll bet you I'm more tired of hearing from people who think they have the right to determine what other people should own. When it comes right down to it, you probably think that anyone who has more than you has too much. Nevermind that the person who signs (or will sign) your paychecks probably has a helluva lot more than you. Should we take what he has and give it away so you can be laid off?
The world is crawling with people who think you have too much and are perfectly willing to kill you in order to take it from you.
Yes, I have rights. Among those rights is the right to own property. My property is purchased with money for which I traded part of my life. The Constitution has something to say about "taking", as well.
If the government (people with guns) takes something from someone without that his permission, or without satisfying the requirements set forth by the law, it is theft. The DEA and their War On Some People Who Use Some Drugs be damned. The DEA doesn't make the rules.
No arrests, no charges? Whatever happened to due process? Did they take that part out of the Constitution while we weren't looking? How are the cops going to justify taking the computers and other equipment without charges having been filed? This is annoying and frightening.
This device might be helpful for three-rail billiards or even nine-ball, games where long rail shots are required, but in a game like eight-ball where a player has to control the cue ball in and around a tight ball pattern, it's draw, follow, and English that win the game, not center-ball bank shots. Yeah, making a great three-rail bank shot around the four to drop the three ball in a game of nine-ball is really cool; not putting yourself in the position where you have to make that shot in the first place is even better.
Anyway, when it comes to beating a real pool shark, social skills have more to do with winning than technical skills.
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Was the internet around in 1984 when America OnLine (then called Quantam Computer Services) was running a C64 BBS and getting ready to roll out PC-Link? I could be wrong, but I don't think so.
The reason for this is simple: there is no serious political discussion in this country and hasn't been since (at least) the early 1900s. What passes for debate amounts to recitation of talking points lists. Without thoughtful debate, consensus can never be reached, and the majority are reduced to two self-cancelling groups of mind-numbed zealots whose goals ultimately serve only to further the interests of a small group of apolitical, amoral "elites".
There are plenty of "conservatives" who are mad as hell about TIA (or TTA or whatever the Name of the Day is) and are expressing their concerns as vociferously as some of the "liberals" who oppose it, yet the two groups seem to find the thought of opposing this monstrosity with a single voice so distasteful that they'll stand by and let it go with little more than a squeak. Why? Because their respective political religions tell them that unbelievers are unclean and must be avoided at all costs.
As long as we Americans are satisfied with the "conservatives vs. liberals" dogma and refuse to think for ourselves, nothing will change for the better.
You're delusional.
If I own a "means of production" how exactly will it become the property of "the public" without violence? I will not voluntarily surrender my property, so "the public" (a.k.a. "the mob", a.k.a. "you and your fellow criminals") will have to steal it from me.
That you use the term "free" to describe the condition of people living under a regime that would not allow them to exercise their freedoms to own property and to dispose of it however they wish (including demanding something of equal or greater value in exchange for it) shows that you "don't know what you're talking about".
Communism is and always has been a stinking pile of quasi-political bullshit sold to uneducated blue-collar grunts by the mega-rich in order to motivate them to take actions that snuff out potential competition from "the middle class"; it is nothing more than a criminal mentality with a national anthem.
Good idea. I also routinely blackhole ad servers that are habitually slow to respond; this is a bigger annoyance than popup ads, in my opinion. If you want to show me an ad, fine, but don't keep my throbber spinning for ten minutes and keep the page from fully rendering or you're cut off.
The "stuff" they're using to feed the people is, well, the people. This causes me to wonder: do people in the Matrix get a strange feeling when they're watching Soylent Green and the hero shouts "Soylent green is people!"?
I think I would like translucency if I could enable it, get a quick look at other windows I was interested in monitoring (log tails, builds, irc, etc.) then disable it and get back to work on the top window.
Translucency might also be useful if it could be enabled on a per-workspace basis. One or two translucent workspaces with tails and the like could be interesting.
Anyway, it does look pretty cool.
I always suspected Lenin hung out on /.
A link for the humor-impaired.
Thanks, editor, for unnecessarily turning this discussion into an Objectivists vs. The Usual Crowd debate. Please save the commentary for the OpEd page and let the reader draw his own wrong conclusions.
Thank you.
Trust me, you will be missing out on the best console experience ever if you avoid Live due to the lack of pricing information on a single site.
All I'd miss out on is a slightly lighter wallet and the chore of installing another NIC in the router box, running some cable, and editing the pf rules. :)
So the first twelve months of the subscription are covered by package, how much does it cost after the first twelve months?
Microsoft need to remember that a lot of their XBox Live business is going to come from parents buying the service for their kids. For these parents, XBox Live is not a "must have" and the lack of up-front pricing information is not a good sign.
Our kids are excited about XBox and want to play online, but after visiting the XBox Live site I'm not sure it's going to happen. I spent about 30 minutes poking around on the site and found no information on pricing. This annoys me. I'm not going to buy something to find out how much it will cost.
Redundant? How is this post redundant, it was the first post in this thread to state this opinion.
Mandrake should either go non-profit so they can beg for money without being an embarrassment, or shut the doors.
Thank you, random Joe.
Perhaps someone should write a Windows trojan that pops up a dialog box explaining the situation (and consequences) with "click Ok to engage in civil disobedience". The application would download some unauthorized digital content, then print the "Turning Yourself in to The Authorities" HOWTO.
That's all I have to say about that.
I'm certainly glad that someone was able to read the recent OpenBSD xdr_array patch and found that it was incorrect. I didn't read the patch myself, but someone else did, and it's a good thing.
Too late, most Linux distributions include several different Solitaire games.
You're comparing the install of an OS with a couple of cheesy little editors, a browser, a broken mail client and a couple handfuls of system management utils with the install of a complete Linux distribution including professional-class programmer's editors, development tools, multiple browsers, multiple shells, RDBMSs, the Apache Web Server, Perl, Tcl, Tcl/Tk, Python, X, the GIMP, Office apps, etc.
Most distributions allow you to select a default install that doesn't require selecting any packages, if that's what you prefer.
I was hoping for an interview with a Nutritional Anthropologist, but I guess we'll have to settle for Alton.
Why stop there? Congress hasn't. They've claimed that if you own or use something that was made in another state you've engaged in interstate commerce and are therefore subject to federal jurisdiction.
Time to fdisk this mess and install a new OS, if you ask me.
I'll bet you I'm more tired of hearing from people who think they have the right to determine what other people should own. When it comes right down to it, you probably think that anyone who has more than you has too much. Nevermind that the person who signs (or will sign) your paychecks probably has a helluva lot more than you. Should we take what he has and give it away so you can be laid off?
The world is crawling with people who think you have too much and are perfectly willing to kill you in order to take it from you.
Yes, I have rights. Among those rights is the right to own property. My property is purchased with money for which I traded part of my life. The Constitution has something to say about "taking", as well.
If the government (people with guns) takes something from someone without that his permission, or without satisfying the requirements set forth by the law, it is theft. The DEA and their War On Some People Who Use Some Drugs be damned. The DEA doesn't make the rules.
No arrests, no charges? Whatever happened to due process? Did they take that part out of the Constitution while we weren't looking? How are the cops going to justify taking the computers and other equipment without charges having been filed? This is annoying and frightening.
The law suits should be fun to watch.
This device might be helpful for three-rail billiards or even nine-ball, games where long rail shots are required, but in a game like eight-ball where a player has to control the cue ball in and around a tight ball pattern, it's draw, follow, and English that win the game, not center-ball bank shots. Yeah, making a great three-rail bank shot around the four to drop the three ball in a game of nine-ball is really cool; not putting yourself in the position where you have to make that shot in the first place is even better.
Anyway, when it comes to beating a real pool shark, social skills have more to do with winning than technical skills.