I'm intrigued by your response, because while you rightly support the free speech involved in this creation, you suggest we should hate people who express things we don't like.
Columbine was murder. WWII was a war, legally sanctioned by most parties and carried out with some respect for the laws of warfare by some of them.
Exactly how many people taking part in WW II do you think sanctioned it, legally or otherwise?
I'm guessing the ratio of willing participants to unwilling was about as low for WW II as it was for Columbine, if not lower.
It is true that WWII killed more people over a longer period of time often in far more horrific fashion, but to equate the two occurrences of violence is to insult everyone involved, including yourself.
He wasn't equating them at all. He was saying WW II was much worse, and therefore a much worse thing to make cheap entertainment out of.
> What happens when the people who release the evidence have been shown to have been lying about everything else important during that time period?.... Like Iraq WMD
To say that Iraq never had WMD is pure non-sense.
That's why he didn't say it. You introduced the word "never", and yes, your straw man is nonsense.
He was referring to the claims that Iraq had WMD circa 2001-2003, which were used as justification for the illegal 2003 invasion of Iraq. Those claims were lies.
Yes, we know Iraq had WMD in the past. Of course we know that, we sold them the WMD. But Iraq had used or destroyed all its WMD prior to the illegal invasion.
>... Like cheaper, more plentiful oil.
I'm guessing you are hiding in a cave somewhere. You obviously haven't bought gas recently.
Oh, do pay attention. He was saying that the claim that oil prices would be controlled was false. The current high prices are demonstration that he's right.
And as for bringing up Bill Clinton: Did anybody claim that the problems started in 2000? No, I don't think so, so once again you're erecting a straw man.
In fact, if you look at the people who complain about the lies used to justify the invasion of Iraq, you'll find that almost all of them were also deeply critical of the Clinton era sanctions that resulted in the lingering death of tens, possibly hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and their children.
This isn't really the fault of the Dual Shock controller, but Sony's choice in particular. Why on Earth did they think it was a good idea to use heiroglyphics for the symbols of the buttons? Nintendo (and every other console company out there...) had the right idea. A, B, X, Y, L, R. Easy enough to commit to memory. Sony, argh.
I have the opposite problem. I can never remember which GameCube button is X, which is Y, and which is Z.
On the PS2, on the other hand, three of the shapes relate naturally to the controller shape. The square is to the left near the square-shaped center of the controller; the circle is to the right near the rounded outer edge; and the triangle points up.
I guess there's some kind of "way of thinking" issue here. I have no problem with vi cursor keys, again because there's a natural physical control relation. The fact that they're randomly labeled HJK and L rather than (say) UDL and R simply isn't an issue.
Yes, the Wii stick looks much more like something you'd hold in your hand and wave around... and not like something people will have experience of sucking.
You're smoking crack. I watch a ton of [adult swim], and I just upgraded from a CRT to an LCD HDTV. One of the first things I noticed was how much better all the cartoons were--richer, more saturated colors without any color bleed, better contrast, no irritating flicker or scan lines. And that's just with upscaled regular TV!
Stick in a DVD and you can see your favorite movies all over again, and make out details you never saw before. It can be problematic, in fact--suddenly I could see fingerprints on the glass in the rotating pen scene in "2001".
And then there's actual HD. 720p looks like a well encoded DVD. 1080, even downscaled to my TV's native 720p, is amazing--but there's nothing worth watching in 1080, unfortunately.
If something illegal is being done that's classified, you are fully within your rights to report it To Congress.
If there was any hope of a Republican-controlled Congress doing anything about illegal and unethical activities of a Republican administration, we'd have seen at least some action by now.
Since when is it ethical to take the law into your own hands? We live in a democratic republic of laws. There are both legal and democratic ways (congressional oversight, elections, reports to IG) of approaching things. Deciding that you are above the law is neither lawful, democratic, or ethical.
And I bet there were a lot of people just like you, saying exactly the same things, in 1930s Germany.
Okay, I spent 2 years working as a engineer in the OSF's Research Institute developing Mach 3.0 from 1991. Let me answer Linus's question in a simple fashion. What Mach 3.0 bought you over Mach 2.5 or Mach 2.0 was a 12% performance hit as every call to the OS had to make a User Space -> Kernel -> User Space hit. This was true on x86, Moto and any other processor architecture available to us at the time. Not one of our customers found this an acceptable price to pay and I very much doubt they would today.
Really? I think that since typical desktop CPUs these days are 100x faster, and your performance penalty is therefore 100x smaller, the situation might be a bit different now.
I mean, people run Firefox, even though it's easily 15% slower than Opera. They run OpenOffice on Windows, even though it's slower than Microsoft Office. They run ext3, even though it's 15% slower than ReiserFS.
Basically, a 15% performance hit is nothing on a modern system if it gains you stability, security and functionality.
Most real-world operating systems have already traded away the security of a micro-kernel implementation in order to acheive better real-world performance, generally by using a monolithic kernel.
Sounds like premature optimization to me.
I bet the performance hit from a microkernel is significantly less than the performance hit from the massive code bloat found on a modern Linux system.
If the program goes over its data segment, it will start failing on mallocs. The result is that you often have to massively increase the data segment just to handle the peak usage. Right now I have BASH running with a segment size of about 80 megs just so I can run configure scripts.
The ~ was just a shorthand thing he was using to indicate the location of the folders, instead of saying "The Applications folder in my home directory"; because this is Slashdot, and the reader is assumed to understand such things. Mac OS X Finder never shows you ~ or / symbols.
The applications folder is just that--a folder. A plain folder like any other. So I really don't see that having two folders called Applications in different places is really that tough a conceptual leap for Windows users to make.
If you want, you can have 5 or 6 applications folders, with different sets of applications for different tasks. Or you can make sub-folders within Applications.
My VIA EPIA M10000 has open source drivers for every single piece of hardware, including the MPEG accelerated video driver. VIA provided source code to Linux and X.org developers. So, you could look at VIA Unichrome. Not all variants have drivers, but some do. There's also an alternative open source driver set, I don't know how they compare to the 2.6 kernel and X.org drivers.
I'm guessing Sony's banking that people will view the PS3 as not just a game machine but also as an introductory Bluray DVD player.
And if that's true, I'm guessing they're wrong.
I only used my PS2 as a DVD player a couple of times, once to see if it worked, and once when my regular DVD player broke. I don't give a crap about a Bluray player, my game consoles are for playing games.
That's why the real solution is to announce that after a certain date, the SSN will be totally public. That there will be a web site anyone can go to, enter a name and address, and get the SSN.
The problem we have now is companies acting as though SSN is a secret. The solution is obviously to make it so clearly non-secret that they can't afford to do that.
You are _not_ getting a honest accounting of a business. Only the appearance of one. [...] This legislation was ill concieved and simpleminded. Just the way the crafters wanted it [...]
Right. They don't want to prevent another ENRON; they just want to make sure that next time, they have a really plausible pile of paperwork to obfuscate things and make sure none of the good-old-boys gets punished.
Oil companies are refusing to do anything to lower pump prices because it's not in the best interest of the shareholders, despite it being in the best interest of society as a whole.
That's highly questionable. If, like several oil companies, you believe that we are hitting Peak Oil, it's definitely not in society's best interest to continue selling oil cheaply. Better to raise prices and start making people take efficiency measures.
Maybe that's bad for SUV drivers, but they don't care about anyone else so why should we care about them?
A Swing app running on OS X can look almost like a native app, without breaking cross platform compatibility, because Apple EMBRACED Java and Swing. What would have happened if Microsoft did the same thing?
See, this is what Gosling is apparently missing. Whether the source code is theoretically available or not, the open source community is never going to be happy about a license that's so restrictive it even dictates what command line arguments you are allowed to use when running the software.
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Perhaps we'll see a repository for Java .debs at last, eh?
I'm sure a Wii can get you to spend a penny.
Yeah, I hate people who say that.
Exactly how many people taking part in WW II do you think sanctioned it, legally or otherwise?
I'm guessing the ratio of willing participants to unwilling was about as low for WW II as it was for Columbine, if not lower.
He wasn't equating them at all. He was saying WW II was much worse, and therefore a much worse thing to make cheap entertainment out of.
That's why he didn't say it. You introduced the word "never", and yes, your straw man is nonsense.
He was referring to the claims that Iraq had WMD circa 2001-2003, which were used as justification for the illegal 2003 invasion of Iraq. Those claims were lies.
Yes, we know Iraq had WMD in the past. Of course we know that, we sold them the WMD. But Iraq had used or destroyed all its WMD prior to the illegal invasion.
Oh, do pay attention. He was saying that the claim that oil prices would be controlled was false. The current high prices are demonstration that he's right.
And as for bringing up Bill Clinton: Did anybody claim that the problems started in 2000? No, I don't think so, so once again you're erecting a straw man.
In fact, if you look at the people who complain about the lies used to justify the invasion of Iraq, you'll find that almost all of them were also deeply critical of the Clinton era sanctions that resulted in the lingering death of tens, possibly hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and their children.
Yeah, that's why nobody bought Windows XP.
I have the opposite problem. I can never remember which GameCube button is X, which is Y, and which is Z.
On the PS2, on the other hand, three of the shapes relate naturally to the controller shape. The square is to the left near the square-shaped center of the controller; the circle is to the right near the rounded outer edge; and the triangle points up.
I guess there's some kind of "way of thinking" issue here. I have no problem with vi cursor keys, again because there's a natural physical control relation. The fact that they're randomly labeled HJK and L rather than (say) UDL and R simply isn't an issue.
Yes, the Wii stick looks much more like something you'd hold in your hand and wave around... and not like something people will have experience of sucking.
You're smoking crack. I watch a ton of [adult swim], and I just upgraded from a CRT to an LCD HDTV. One of the first things I noticed was how much better all the cartoons were--richer, more saturated colors without any color bleed, better contrast, no irritating flicker or scan lines. And that's just with upscaled regular TV!
Stick in a DVD and you can see your favorite movies all over again, and make out details you never saw before. It can be problematic, in fact--suddenly I could see fingerprints on the glass in the rotating pen scene in "2001".
And then there's actual HD. 720p looks like a well encoded DVD. 1080, even downscaled to my TV's native 720p, is amazing--but there's nothing worth watching in 1080, unfortunately.
If there was any hope of a Republican-controlled Congress doing anything about illegal and unethical activities of a Republican administration, we'd have seen at least some action by now.
And I bet there were a lot of people just like you, saying exactly the same things, in 1930s Germany.
Really? I think that since typical desktop CPUs these days are 100x faster, and your performance penalty is therefore 100x smaller, the situation might be a bit different now.
I mean, people run Firefox, even though it's easily 15% slower than Opera. They run OpenOffice on Windows, even though it's slower than Microsoft Office. They run ext3, even though it's 15% slower than ReiserFS.
Basically, a 15% performance hit is nothing on a modern system if it gains you stability, security and functionality.
Sounds like premature optimization to me.
I bet the performance hit from a microkernel is significantly less than the performance hit from the massive code bloat found on a modern Linux system.
Ah, so that's why I couldn't build Ruby for it.
I guess I'll wait for MINIX 4 with added VM.
The ~ was just a shorthand thing he was using to indicate the location of the folders, instead of saying "The Applications folder in my home directory"; because this is Slashdot, and the reader is assumed to understand such things. Mac OS X Finder never shows you ~ or / symbols.
The applications folder is just that--a folder. A plain folder like any other. So I really don't see that having two folders called Applications in different places is really that tough a conceptual leap for Windows users to make.
If you want, you can have 5 or 6 applications folders, with different sets of applications for different tasks. Or you can make sub-folders within Applications.
If you can't cope with the idea of two folders having the same name but being in different places, you probably shouldn't be using a computer.
My VIA EPIA M10000 has open source drivers for every single piece of hardware, including the MPEG accelerated video driver. VIA provided source code to Linux and X.org developers. So, you could look at VIA Unichrome. Not all variants have drivers, but some do. There's also an alternative open source driver set, I don't know how they compare to the 2.6 kernel and X.org drivers.
And if that's true, I'm guessing they're wrong.
I only used my PS2 as a DVD player a couple of times, once to see if it worked, and once when my regular DVD player broke. I don't give a crap about a Bluray player, my game consoles are for playing games.
That's why the real solution is to announce that after a certain date, the SSN will be totally public. That there will be a web site anyone can go to, enter a name and address, and get the SSN.
It could even be done without government action being needed.
The problem we have now is companies acting as though SSN is a secret. The solution is obviously to make it so clearly non-secret that they can't afford to do that.
Right. They don't want to prevent another ENRON; they just want to make sure that next time, they have a really plausible pile of paperwork to obfuscate things and make sure none of the good-old-boys gets punished.
I work for IBM Software Group, and we've sold a ton of Sarbanes-Oxley compliance solutions.
[Ha ha, only serious. Opinions mine, not IBM's, etc.]
That's highly questionable. If, like several oil companies, you believe that we are hitting Peak Oil, it's definitely not in society's best interest to continue selling oil cheaply. Better to raise prices and start making people take efficiency measures.
Maybe that's bad for SUV drivers, but they don't care about anyone else so why should we care about them?
Satan would start skating to work.
See, this is what Gosling is apparently missing. Whether the source code is theoretically available or not, the open source community is never going to be happy about a license that's so restrictive it even dictates what command line arguments you are allowed to use when running the software.
The problem with EDGE is their basic review criteria:
- Anything not yet released is the greatest game ever.
- Anything actually shipped sucks.
The magazine is basically all the hype from Microsoft and Sony, without the actual game reviews.