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China is certainly learning lessons on development from the failings of her neighbour, North Korea. Back in the day, NK went through a rash of development, building new capital goods and buildings. They intended to pay for the new capital goods/buildings with the profits the machinery, etc would earn. However, oil prices spiked and NK was left unable to keep their machinery running, making it impossible to pay for their expensive infrastructure upgrades. China is in the middle of an enormous boom, and it's excellent to see that they have learned from the mistakes of their neighbours, and aren't heading down the path that the rest of us seem intent on going down.
Good ol' "push" technology.. was I the only one who truly liked PointCast? It was so convenient for me to get all of my news sources filtered individually for me, updated whenever I wanted.
Even though technology has changed around a lot, PointCast could still be relevant-- before it used to be a big deal to be able to go offline and read the stories because I was on dial-up, now it's a big deal because I use a laptop.
As if pictures can't be doctored and are absolute proof.... And what, pray tell, would be the purpose of faking pictures? It's not like they'd take pictures and then no one would bother to go up and check out their story. At most, a lie would end up with a temporary surge in interest towards Christianity, with a huge drop off in interest once people think they've been lied to. Not exactly the best strategy for a 2000 year old religion to take.
I'm agnostic, btw, so I'm not being a mindless zealot, blindly defending my religion. The poster, on the other hand..
1) If the government decides to settle, SCO will be able to twist the truth and claim that the US Government backs their side of the case.
2) If the government doesn't settle, SCO will be able the claim the government biased against them, which may help with PR.
Hopefully SCO and their supporters pay for what's going on, now. I'm thinking of closing my account at Royal Bank to avoid indirectly funding SCO. That's a pretty big deal given the fact that when I grad I'm going to be a lawyer with an MBA. (And now I'm officially hated by slashdot;) )
I think the safest thing we can do now is to wholly invest in this new technology and pretend the problems aren't there. If we change things around at all or abandon this technology, hackers and terrorists win. Think about that.
I apologize for my government. We're still trying to be just like the US.. not realizing that it is not our place in the world. Canada is not the same country as you are, nor will we ever be.. no matter how much money we throw around or bad laws we pass.
(Disclaimer of my bias: I don't want us to become the US. Not because the US is inherently bad, but because the US has a lot of problems that we should learn from and avoid.)
in the sciences section, the article entitled, "High CO2 Levels Can Reduce Plant Growth" is screwed up (for me at least) so that you cannot post replies.
This is slightly offtopic (it does have to do with the encroaching commercial exploitation of space), but doesn't it seem to be time for a space lottery?
It only costs $20 million to send someone into space.. (with promotion, taxes and stuff, I bet it would cost about $30 million to run a lottery that would do this) lots of lotteries these days run into the hundreds of millions of dollars worth of prize money.. and I think they'd get even more people than usual going for a trip into space. I'm assuming most geeks are too mathematically inclined to throw money away (buy lottery tickets).. but even I would take the chance for an opportunity to go into space.
I'm positive the Russians would love it. (NASA wouldn't be too keen on the idea). The only potential pitfall would be if the person didn't meet the health requirements.. for which case you could easily just give the person the money. That and a bunch of safety disclaimers, and they'd be set.
The Internet really isn't alone. Ads have really taken over society. Everywhere you look, from people's clothing to the garbage on the ground, to blatently all over every layer of packaging on the goods you buy at the local Safeway.
I've gotten so sick of it. The reason I switched to Linux (probably the dumbest reason in a lot of people's opinions) was to escape the fact that every program I installed had huge logos and ads plastered all over.
I remember when you were mocked and considered weird if you sold out. Now, if you don't sell out, you're considered stupid for not making money while you can.
I get the feeling this blatent lack of ethics will be part of the downfall of our economy. You can only have so many people leeching at one time before it runs out of blood.
And I use Royal Bank.. their site supports everything I've tried. I was so amazed I sent their tech support an email about how great it was to be able to use Konqueror to do my banking.
Does anyone get the feeling that the only reason they're doing this is because the XVid team weren't going to continue developing XVid?
I mean, it must be pretty convenient to be able to save thousands of dollars by getting people to develop for you, for free.. and if all you had to do was release some code that was _already_ available to the public (modified slightly).. would it be more than worth it to do so?
If a rogue programmer did this, then why haven't they quit using the XVid code, and developed their own?
If releasing code at a later date was their plan, why didn't they just state this when XVid intitially complained?
is that for most consumers, this doesn't even matter. I mean, they will be effected by the security hole, but if their computer gets hacked or something, they'll end up just blaming their own lack of computer knowledge. They'll eventually install the patch from windows update (if they know how to access windows update), and then blindly keep surfing the net and playing "who wants to be a millionaire".
I think I'm going to create a distrubited ASP, umm.. internet synergy proxy. it'll use a beowolf cluster of nodes of umm, privacy and corporate responsiblity.
so.. like.. send me your money, and I'll set it all up there..
We don't have to hate _everything_ they do.. I mean, I dislike Windows for asthetic reasons. I dislike their business practices. That doesn't mean I have to hate everything about them, or disapprove of them when they are doing something good.
If we mock and hate them when they do good things, then they will feel that there is no pleasing us, and will thus ignore everything we have to say. I'd rather have a small voice than none at all.
It's just another form of escapism.
There are two aspects to it, the belief some forms of the supernatural serves to act as hope that one will soon have all the problems in their life taken away. "I believe in aliens, because one day they will show themselves, then their technology will make this a utopia". (Being agnostic, I cannot say whether or not there is a God, and I'm not ruling out a possibility of a God, just the psychology behind believing in God, sometimes) "You will be punished after death for being mean to me, I take consolance in this, as I know that I will be living in a paradise, with all of the love ones in my life. Things will be great, but only after my death"
The other aspect of it is wanting to disprove science. If one can disprove one aspect of science, for example that yeti does not exist, people will try to use it to prove that all of science is therefore wrong. This will let people believe in psychokinesis, and whatever other X-Men like superpowers people believe in now, without facing internal doubt. I literally know people who try to practice being telepathic and psychokinetic. They think that if they practice enough, they will be able to do it..
Now, I know those are other factors.. like the need to be able to say, "I told you so," to an established mainstream 'idiology', like science. proving that all the smart people in the world are wrong, because they think they know everything, offers consolance.
Anyways, sorry if this is a weird rant, I haven't went to sleep from yesterday, yet.. so I'm running on empty.
but delay its deployment for a couple years? this isn't really a victory at all.. I mean, I bet this will only delay the technology two years.. maybe less.
If anything, it should be a call for all Americans to protest this kind of thing (should you disagree with it).
who are whining and bitching about this being april fool's, and there being a bunch of joke stories;
Lighten up. It is the Monday of a long weekend. If you don't like the stories Slashdot has, go spend time with your family. Go read a book, take a nap, do something. I'm sure there are a lot better things you could be doing than bitching about how a few people are having fun on Slashdot.
I'm pretty new to Linux (I've ran it since January as a primary OS.. before I had it installed but only dicked around with it once and awhile) and I've been trying to figure this out for awhile.
What are the main differences between Gnome and KDE?
I use KDE because it seems a lot more natural for me, with a lot more tools to change stuff around with. I go over to Gnome sometimes, and I wonder what difference there is between KDE and Gnome. They look the same, they have a similar 'feel'.. I personally don't see the difference.
(note; this is not a troll, this is something I am legitimately wondering about)
I can leave it on longer, I am just used to '98.. so I reboot sometimes to make sure no problems creep up. That and my dorm room is really small, and I sometimes have a hard time sleeping with my computer going..
When I go home for the summer, I am going to try to see if I can keep my computer on for the whole four month break..
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China is certainly learning lessons on development from the failings of her neighbour, North Korea. Back in the day, NK went through a rash of development, building new capital goods and buildings. They intended to pay for the new capital goods/buildings with the profits the machinery, etc would earn. However, oil prices spiked and NK was left unable to keep their machinery running, making it impossible to pay for their expensive infrastructure upgrades.
China is in the middle of an enormous boom, and it's excellent to see that they have learned from the mistakes of their neighbours, and aren't heading down the path that the rest of us seem intent on going down.
Good ol' "push" technology.. was I the only one who truly liked PointCast? It was so convenient for me to get all of my news sources filtered individually for me, updated whenever I wanted.
Even though technology has changed around a lot, PointCast could still be relevant-- before it used to be a big deal to be able to go offline and read the stories because I was on dial-up, now it's a big deal because I use a laptop.
As if pictures can't be doctored and are absolute proof....
And what, pray tell, would be the purpose of faking pictures? It's not like they'd take pictures and then no one would bother to go up and check out their story. At most, a lie would end up with a temporary surge in interest towards Christianity, with a huge drop off in interest once people think they've been lied to. Not exactly the best strategy for a 2000 year old religion to take.
I'm agnostic, btw, so I'm not being a mindless zealot, blindly defending my religion. The poster, on the other hand..
This is a good move for two reasons:
;) )
1) If the government decides to settle, SCO will be able to twist the truth and claim that the US Government backs their side of the case.
2) If the government doesn't settle, SCO will be able the claim the government biased against them, which may help with PR.
Hopefully SCO and their supporters pay for what's going on, now. I'm thinking of closing my account at Royal Bank to avoid indirectly funding SCO. That's a pretty big deal given the fact that when I grad I'm going to be a lawyer with an MBA. (And now I'm officially hated by slashdot
I think the safest thing we can do now is to wholly invest in this new technology and pretend the problems aren't there. If we change things around at all or abandon this technology, hackers and terrorists win. Think about that.
"already managed to secure the patent on its technology"
That almost implies that there is some measure of difficulty associated with getting a patent. I take it that you're not from the US?
I apologize for my government. We're still trying to be just like the US.. not realizing that it is not our place in the world. Canada is not the same country as you are, nor will we ever be.. no matter how much money we throw around or bad laws we pass.
(Disclaimer of my bias: I don't want us to become the US. Not because the US is inherently bad, but because the US has a lot of problems that we should learn from and avoid.)
in the sciences section, the article entitled, "High CO2 Levels Can Reduce Plant Growth" is screwed up (for me at least) so that you cannot post replies.
This is slightly offtopic (it does have to do with the encroaching commercial exploitation of space), but doesn't it seem to be time for a space lottery?
It only costs $20 million to send someone into space.. (with promotion, taxes and stuff, I bet it would cost about $30 million to run a lottery that would do this) lots of lotteries these days run into the hundreds of millions of dollars worth of prize money.. and I think they'd get even more people than usual going for a trip into space. I'm assuming most geeks are too mathematically inclined to throw money away (buy lottery tickets).. but even I would take the chance for an opportunity to go into space.
I'm positive the Russians would love it. (NASA wouldn't be too keen on the idea). The only potential pitfall would be if the person didn't meet the health requirements.. for which case you could easily just give the person the money. That and a bunch of safety disclaimers, and they'd be set.
The Internet really isn't alone. Ads have really taken over society. Everywhere you look, from people's clothing to the garbage on the ground, to blatently all over every layer of packaging on the goods you buy at the local Safeway.
I've gotten so sick of it. The reason I switched to Linux (probably the dumbest reason in a lot of people's opinions) was to escape the fact that every program I installed had huge logos and ads plastered all over.
I remember when you were mocked and considered weird if you sold out. Now, if you don't sell out, you're considered stupid for not making money while you can.
I get the feeling this blatent lack of ethics will be part of the downfall of our economy. You can only have so many people leeching at one time before it runs out of blood.
And I use Royal Bank.. their site supports everything I've tried. I was so amazed I sent their tech support an email about how great it was to be able to use Konqueror to do my banking.
The original car took 21 days, Sunswift is expected to complete in less than 7
If the original thingy took like, 21 days, and this new thingy is going to take 7 days, then that means that
21/7 = 3
The new one is like, 3 times as good as the old one.
And people say us liberal arts students are good for nothing.
Does anyone get the feeling that the only reason they're doing this is because the XVid team weren't going to continue developing XVid?
I mean, it must be pretty convenient to be able to save thousands of dollars by getting people to develop for you, for free.. and if all you had to do was release some code that was _already_ available to the public (modified slightly).. would it be more than worth it to do so?
If a rogue programmer did this, then why haven't they quit using the XVid code, and developed their own?
If releasing code at a later date was their plan, why didn't they just state this when XVid intitially complained?
is that for most consumers, this doesn't even matter. I mean, they will be effected by the security hole, but if their computer gets hacked or something, they'll end up just blaming their own lack of computer knowledge. They'll eventually install the patch from windows update (if they know how to access windows update), and then blindly keep surfing the net and playing "who wants to be a millionaire".
so 'distributed' is the new buzzword, huh?
I think I'm going to create a distrubited ASP, umm.. internet synergy proxy. it'll use a beowolf cluster of nodes of umm, privacy and corporate responsiblity.
so.. like.. send me your money, and I'll set it all up there..
We don't have to hate _everything_ they do.. I mean, I dislike Windows for asthetic reasons. I dislike their business practices. That doesn't mean I have to hate everything about them, or disapprove of them when they are doing something good.
If we mock and hate them when they do good things, then they will feel that there is no pleasing us, and will thus ignore everything we have to say. I'd rather have a small voice than none at all.
It's just another form of escapism.
There are two aspects to it, the belief some forms of the supernatural serves to act as hope that one will soon have all the problems in their life taken away. "I believe in aliens, because one day they will show themselves, then their technology will make this a utopia". (Being agnostic, I cannot say whether or not there is a God, and I'm not ruling out a possibility of a God, just the psychology behind believing in God, sometimes) "You will be punished after death for being mean to me, I take consolance in this, as I know that I will be living in a paradise, with all of the love ones in my life. Things will be great, but only after my death"
The other aspect of it is wanting to disprove science. If one can disprove one aspect of science, for example that yeti does not exist, people will try to use it to prove that all of science is therefore wrong. This will let people believe in psychokinesis, and whatever other X-Men like superpowers people believe in now, without facing internal doubt. I literally know people who try to practice being telepathic and psychokinetic. They think that if they practice enough, they will be able to do it..
Now, I know those are other factors.. like the need to be able to say, "I told you so," to an established mainstream 'idiology', like science. proving that all the smart people in the world are wrong, because they think they know everything, offers consolance.
Anyways, sorry if this is a weird rant, I haven't went to sleep from yesterday, yet.. so I'm running on empty.
Walmart uses sweatshops.. I'd rather not support the modern incarnation of slavery than support a vendor targetting the Linux market
(Yeah, that sounds very "holier-than-thou".. sorry.. I don't know how else to word it)
but delay its deployment for a couple years? this isn't really a victory at all.. I mean, I bet this will only delay the technology two years.. maybe less.
If anything, it should be a call for all Americans to protest this kind of thing (should you disagree with it).
the site still allows you to download the /bin/ls program, which indicates it is running *nix or bsd (on an improperly configured server).
Someone pointed this out in a previous discussion on the matter.
ok, i speak too soon
disregard that last post, please.
using konquerer, the only way to stop the damn msdn ad from showing is to disable images all together.
who are whining and bitching about this being april fool's, and there being a bunch of joke stories;
Lighten up. It is the Monday of a long weekend. If you don't like the stories Slashdot has, go spend time with your family. Go read a book, take a nap, do something. I'm sure there are a lot better things you could be doing than bitching about how a few people are having fun on Slashdot.
I'm pretty new to Linux (I've ran it since January as a primary OS.. before I had it installed but only dicked around with it once and awhile) and I've been trying to figure this out for awhile.
What are the main differences between Gnome and KDE?
I use KDE because it seems a lot more natural for me, with a lot more tools to change stuff around with. I go over to Gnome sometimes, and I wonder what difference there is between KDE and Gnome. They look the same, they have a similar 'feel'.. I personally don't see the difference.
(note; this is not a troll, this is something I am legitimately wondering about)
I can leave it on longer, I am just used to '98.. so I reboot sometimes to make sure no problems creep up. That and my dorm room is really small, and I sometimes have a hard time sleeping with my computer going..
When I go home for the summer, I am going to try to see if I can keep my computer on for the whole four month break..