Re:GLOBALIZATION IS ABOUT HAVE EXPLOITING HAVE-NOT
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Capitalism is the force that exploits workers and pushes wages down, not globalisation (although many who would call themselves Communists are also anti-globalisation). If all governments were based on Marxist principles, then globalisation would not have the effects you describe.
Please note I'm not speaking for or against Marxism, merely pointing out a flaw in your argument.
You can't trust benchmarks; if you ever thought you could, you obviously don't know much about hardware or driver design. All benchmarks can show is a general trend, all this 'card x is 1.34 better than card y' stuff is bollocks. If a particular card is consistently better than another then that might be a reason to choose it.
Personally I'll continue to use ATI graphics cards because of their excellent Linux driver support (unlike other graphics card manufacturers who release binary-only drivers.
CD audio is 16 bits per channel, 44khz stereo. Uncompressed this is far, far more than 128kbps. 128kbps was/is the standard encoding rate because this is the bandwidth of an ISDN2 line, which was/is a commons means of transmission of audio, particularly for things like outside radio broadcasts.
It doesn't really work like that - the -ac tree is seperate, similar to the 'testing' branch of Debian - pretty stable, everything is tested but not guaranteed to be stable. Alan acts as a buffer, feeding through relevant bits to Linus.
I agree, it's extremely sad people innocent people will die in Afghanistan. However, I disagree that air-strikes are any less discriminate than ground troops - remember Vietnam, where of thousands of women were raped by American troops?
I'm an atheist, and as such I don't feel qualified to comment on the whole god aspect of your comment, but I feel that one certainally cannot sit idly by. I'd need more information on the nature of the attacks to say whether or not I support them - at the moment details are rather sketchy. Certainally the current reports (military installations and an airport taken out) don't seem to be unreasonable.
Personally I only use my right hand for moving the mouse, which conviniently leaves my left hand for keyboard shortcuts.
As for leaning back and using the mouse, you obviously have a very different seating arrangement to me because I can't get into a position where my left hand can't reach the keyboard and still have my right hand on my mouse.
Why did the poster feel the need to adopt such an anti-Intel tone? Diversity is all well and good, but the fact of the matter is HP had no market need for these people. Would the poster rather they were unemployed, or doing jobs that weren't using their potential?
I for one congratulate Intel for giving these talented engineers jobs.
How presumptuous to think you have any say in how your tuition is spent. You don't wonder aloud what McDonald's does with your cash after you buy a Happy Meal, do you? And if you don't like it, you don't give them the money.
Wait, first you argue we have no right to know how the money we spend with a company is used, then you argue that if we don't like the way the money is used we shouldn't spend it there. The two views are incompatible.
There are places I won't spend my money because of the way it may be used (Domino's Pizza for example). The discussion of how companies use our money is one of the few powers captilism gives the masses; vote with your feet and you can make the company think again. If this were to be disallowed, then there would be nothing to keep corporations in check.
Oh yeah, and please remember the Internet is global. Those of us outside the US don't get to see your new 'Strek Trek' program anyway..
Re:Why is a civilian spouting off about war?
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Didn't work very well for the French (or at least the French ruling aristocracy) when they armed the Americans in the late 18th Century though, did it?
1789 can almost completely be put down to the crippled state of the French economy from arming the Americans against their (and the French) enemy, Britain.
It also installs a backdoor in the infected host, listening on UDP port 5503 or higher.
An attacker could connect to this port via TCP
Wait, so it listens on a UDP port, but it can be compromised using TCP? Do the people that analysed this actually bother proof-reading, or do they simply not understand what they write??
Except that the issue here is the Hauppauge card - I use it to record programs using vcr to compress to divx;) and whilst the quality isn't bad, it's nowhere near a proper PVR.
The ATI All-in-Wonder Radeon has pretty damn great TV capture, although I don't know if there are any Linux drivers for it (I can't afford one, so I daren't look:)), and could quite concievably be used to roll-your-own PVR.
Of course, if I had a capture card with DVI input, and a digital TV service, one could pipe it straight into that and get amazing quality...
Is where exactly are they going to get the database of 'known shopfilters'? And who is to be listed as a 'known shoplifter'?
If it will contain only those who have been convicted of shoplifting, then surely this is wrong; our system of justice is based on the concept that once someone has paid the penalty for their crime, they have reformed and should no longer be punished further. If it will contain those accused of shoplifting, but not prosecuted, then Borders will be acting as judge and jury without any proper process.
Who is to vet this database? Will the database be shared with other retail establishments who want to implement a similar system?
Actually, I think you'll find that this is essentially a socialist idea - that the needs of the community are more important than those of any particular induvidual. Equality is all.
Facism is more interested in outlining a group of people for preferential treatment, and de-humanising the rest of humanity. The second group are then used to serve the interests of the first.
Essentially, what ESR is saying is that in his opinion, everyone should have the right to publish software under whatever license they want, proprietary or otherwise.
What the FSF would argue is, to quote Star Trek, 'The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few'. Thus, whilst stopping people from publishing software under a proprietary license does, to some extent reduce the freedom of that induvidual (or corporate entity, etc.), it does so only in order to stop the rest of the world from having their freedom violated, namely the freedom to alter said software as one wishes.
Personally, I'm inclined to agree with the FSF; I believe it is more important for everyone to have freedom, even if it does reduce individual freedom.
Herein lies the fundamental difference between the 'Free Software' movement and the 'Open Source' movement, and the reason RMS and co get so uppity when the two terms are used interchangably.
Re:Wow, this is so new - Evil Microsoft
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"Circuit City bundled that awful Fireworks game"
You've clearly never actually played Fantavision, imo it's defniately the best of the PS2 launch titles. Give it a try, after five-minutes you'll be hooked.
You've obviously never had to deal with the sort of idiots that call tech support. If you did, you wouldn't be so supercilious.
Rather than saying 'up with stupid users', how about we continue to call them stupid until they can prove themselves otherwise? More than once before I have suggested to those calling me for tech support that they might like to read 'The Demon Haunted World' by Carl Sagan as an excellent primer for how to apply basic logic and scientific thinking ftoeveryday life. One of them actually took this advice, and since they've not called for tech support again I can only assume this worked.
Warning: I only do tech support as a summer job whilst at University; if your life depends on your tech support job (and $deity help you if this is the case) then recommending books on basic logic skills to those requesting tech support may not be an advisable course of action. You do so at your own risk, and I will accept no responsibility.
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Please note I'm not speaking for or against Marxism, merely pointing out a flaw in your argument.
Personally I'll continue to use ATI graphics cards because of their excellent Linux driver support (unlike other graphics card manufacturers who release binary-only drivers.
CD audio is 16 bits per channel, 44khz stereo. Uncompressed this is far, far more than 128kbps. 128kbps was/is the standard encoding rate because this is the bandwidth of an ISDN2 line, which was/is a commons means of transmission of audio, particularly for things like outside radio broadcasts.
It doesn't really work like that - the -ac tree is seperate, similar to the 'testing' branch of Debian - pretty stable, everything is tested but not guaranteed to be stable. Alan acts as a buffer, feeding through relevant bits to Linus.
Care to enlighten me on where you got this information? It's not mentioned in the changelogs or as a config option..
I'm quite dissapointed that Canadians are clueless about F1, what with having produced some amazing drivers in Gilles and Jaques Villeneuve.
Perhaps the talk of the new Red Bull 'American super team' will raise North American interest in the sport..
I could be wrong, but I thought that Reynard merely sponsored the team and allowed use of their facilities? BAR have their own design team IIRC..
Reynard actually design cars for the American 'Champ Car' series, afaik they don't design any of the Forumla One cars.
I'm an atheist, and as such I don't feel qualified to comment on the whole god aspect of your comment, but I feel that one certainally cannot sit idly by. I'd need more information on the nature of the attacks to say whether or not I support them - at the moment details are rather sketchy. Certainally the current reports (military installations and an airport taken out) don't seem to be unreasonable.
As for leaning back and using the mouse, you obviously have a very different seating arrangement to me because I can't get into a position where my left hand can't reach the keyboard and still have my right hand on my mouse.
Use keyboard shortcuts. They're quicker, and as an added benefit don't give you RSI.
I for one congratulate Intel for giving these talented engineers jobs.
Although, as it happens there isn't a Dominos where I've just moved to anyway, so it's Pizza Hut for me still..
Wait, first you argue we have no right to know how the money we spend with a company is used, then you argue that if we don't like the way the money is used we shouldn't spend it there. The two views are incompatible.
There are places I won't spend my money because of the way it may be used (Domino's Pizza for example). The discussion of how companies use our money is one of the few powers captilism gives the masses; vote with your feet and you can make the company think again. If this were to be disallowed, then there would be nothing to keep corporations in check.
Is this in anyway related to Star Trek?
Oh yeah, and please remember the Internet is global. Those of us outside the US don't get to see your new 'Strek Trek' program anyway..
1789 can almost completely be put down to the crippled state of the French economy from arming the Americans against their (and the French) enemy, Britain.
Wait, so it listens on a UDP port, but it can be compromised using TCP? Do the people that analysed this actually bother proof-reading, or do they simply not understand what they write??
The ATI All-in-Wonder Radeon has pretty damn great TV capture, although I don't know if there are any Linux drivers for it (I can't afford one, so I daren't look :)), and could quite concievably be used to roll-your-own PVR.
Of course, if I had a capture card with DVI input, and a digital TV service, one could pipe it straight into that and get amazing quality...
If it will contain only those who have been convicted of shoplifting, then surely this is wrong; our system of justice is based on the concept that once someone has paid the penalty for their crime, they have reformed and should no longer be punished further. If it will contain those accused of shoplifting, but not prosecuted, then Borders will be acting as judge and jury without any proper process.
Who is to vet this database? Will the database be shared with other retail establishments who want to implement a similar system?
I find the whole idea deeply, deeply troubling.
Facism is more interested in outlining a group of people for preferential treatment, and de-humanising the rest of humanity. The second group are then used to serve the interests of the first.
What the FSF would argue is, to quote Star Trek, 'The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few'. Thus, whilst stopping people from publishing software under a proprietary license does, to some extent reduce the freedom of that induvidual (or corporate entity, etc.), it does so only in order to stop the rest of the world from having their freedom violated, namely the freedom to alter said software as one wishes.
Personally, I'm inclined to agree with the FSF; I believe it is more important for everyone to have freedom, even if it does reduce individual freedom.
Herein lies the fundamental difference between the 'Free Software' movement and the 'Open Source' movement, and the reason RMS and co get so uppity when the two terms are used interchangably.
You've clearly never actually played Fantavision, imo it's defniately the best of the PS2 launch titles. Give it a try, after five-minutes you'll be hooked.
There's an excellent page on why the plural really isn't virii which should explain it for you..
Rather than saying 'up with stupid users', how about we continue to call them stupid until they can prove themselves otherwise?
More than once before I have suggested to those calling me for tech support that they might like to read 'The Demon Haunted World' by Carl Sagan as an excellent primer for how to apply basic logic and scientific thinking ftoeveryday life. One of them actually took this advice, and since they've not called for tech support again I can only assume this worked.
Warning: I only do tech support as a summer job whilst at University; if your life depends on your tech support job (and $deity help you if this is the case) then recommending books on basic logic skills to those requesting tech support may not be an advisable course of action. You do so at your own risk, and I will accept no responsibility.
Because Steve !! Gibson !!! didn't rant about Sircam..
I wish the media would vet these so-called 'experts' before blindly accepting everything they say.