FUD Alert!! Troll alert!!! 99% of this post is such BS that it's not even worth responding too...however, I'll tackle possibly the most egregious point (it kinda proves the rest as BS as well).
There are many other big shortcomings in Windows XP. Windows XP, and all current Windows operating systems, have a file called the registry in which configuration information is written. If this one (large, often fragmented) file becomes corrupted, the only way of recovering may be to re-format the hard drive, re-install the operating system, and then re-install and re-configure all the applications.
BULLSHIT! Microsoft has the ability (I know AT least since Win98) that Windows automatically backs up the registry periodically (ie, at shutdown or boot, major hardware change, etc). IF it ever gets corrupted, there will be a backup to restore from. That's also bullshit what you claim about not being able to backup--it works fine. If you had actualyl read the link you linked to, you would see it's refering to SID--a special identifier used on MS networks (somewhat akin to an IP address, not some evil ploy). Duplicate SID's, just like duplicate IP's, conflict.
How bout you go get a life and stop verbally stabbing at microsoft from your parents home (PennyArcade;)
Ok, I can tell you 100% you clearly bought a cheap shoddy computer with lowend components, it's no wonder you get lockups!!! I love it when people buy cheapass parts and then automatically assume it's microsoft. Here's a counter example--my personal computer currently has an uptime of 17 days (at which point I installed a new harddrive). My work computer (both are running XP, in case it wasn't obvious) which is used about 10 hours a day by me and another person, has an uptime of 47 days last I checked! The OS is NOT the problem.
Because the vast majority of PC's (referring to x86 consumer computer) don't come with FireWire yet.
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Ok, well then consider my two periods a stylistic choice if you will. As for the "and" issue, if you google it you'll see some professional writers very much disagree with this 'rule' -- most places that even stated the rule at all said "avoid" rather than "it is forbidden"
And no, you never did claim to be smarter than me in particular, just that Americans are stupid (you first post).
Thank for finally putting some actual issues on the table -- we could have avoided that whole middle unpleasantness had you merely done so in the beginning rather than the old "americans are stupid" routine.
fyi, I'm from Central NC and have no complaints:) Some of those criticisms ARE valid--many americans do want the rest of the world to be like them--bad? Depends on your viewpoint. The basic point of the matter is that EVERYTHING you or she says is a blatant vast generalization, that just doesn't hold water. "People from the USA are afraid to immerse themselves in a foreign culture" -- ok, I'm currently studying Arabic and Turkish (and did for 2 years before 9/11). My best friends include Japanese, Chinese, Indians, and Pakistanis. I'm hopeful I'll get to study abroad in Turkey next year. One of my best friends is studying abroad in Japan next year, another in Australia, another in Germany, and one in Scotland. See all this anecdotal evidence, I'm clearly right (sarcasm). I could go down the line and poke holes through your other vast generalizations as well. Anecdotal evidence, and vast generalizations just don't work, and show nothing of truth.
Here's something to think about for people who think of Americans as insular, closed minded, etc. To many Europeans, you can go 40 miles and hear 4 different languages spoken. Brits can take holidays in France, French can go to Spain, Italians can go, etc etc etc. To Americans, that option doesn't exist. That's not to say that Californians have much in common with Carolinians, other than language and government though.
Just as a note, much of Western NC is dirt poor, and stereotypes often hold most true in the poor (unfortunate truth). Did she go to college in the states? Oh incidentally, if she hates it, why doesn't she drop her citizenship?
Can you explain why it's considered so chic to bash america and americans?
AS for my last comment about your immaturity, you're correct, that was beneath me, and I apologize for falling to that level.
I've been running NetBSD and OpenBSD for a couple of years now, but I've never installed FreeBSD. I've heard it's got something of a Linuxy bloat rather than the grim austerity of the Open and Net OSes...
I've used FreeBSD a good bit, and have one OpenBSD firewall box setup. They both have their good sides and bad sides imho.
The main good things about FreeBSD imho are the bigger ports collection and more users (more chance someone has had your problem before;) The install program for FreeBSD is a lot friendlirt than the Open (though Open went 100% fine for me) and to me FreeBSD config files are easier to setup. OpenBSD on the other hand as a Firewall type box can't be beat imho, the ease of seting it up and writing pf rules can't be beaten. I'm not sure I'd want my personal desktop running OpenBSD though.
Erm, why? You provide a bunch of links about gun crime in the UK. So? Nobody said it didn't exist. But the USA still has substantially higher homicide rates than the UK, in fact than anywhere in Europe. Or would you care to provide some stats that prove otherwise?
I won't say that crime in Europe is worse than in America, because the stats don't exist to back that up. On the other hand, the US is a much bigger place--I wonder what conglomerate stat for Europe would look like, if you combined western + parts of Eastern Europe. The US also faces many of the same problems that Britain (as well as other countries) are starting to face--for instance gang warfare. Some of the links I posted talked a bit about that--crime rates among poor urban minorities in the US are what skew the stats largely--if you take the inner city gangs out the picture, and drug related deaths (the two largely relate actually), America would be much closer in line with Europe. Again, this is a problem Europe is starting to face too, look at all the recent anti-semitic attacks from France to Germany to London to Italy (mostly not performed by white Europeans) -- it's a problem. I would also agree with you that most European cities are more safe than American cities. I just don't like the notion that every crime in america is because of a gun, and wouldn't be happening otherwise. I live on the Eastern seaboard, and in my entire life, other than on police officers, I have seen *one* person carrying a gun (holster on his hip)--the guy's car also had NRA stickers, "live free or die" type things all over:) This was for a school carwash fundraiser, and he paid double for his car--not all gun users are bad people or nuts.
The links you provide show that crime in the UK has risen recently, whereas in the USA it has fallen. You seem to think this proves that the gun laws in the USA lower crime. However, there haven't been significant changes in the law with regard to gun use in the USA or the UK for many years, so how can you relate one to the other?
Actually the UK gun laws did change signifigantly in 1997, which is why this is a big deal. It still blows my mind that London is now less safe than New York..
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Since you brought it here, you spelled grammar wrong every time you typed it. I never claimed to be perfect, or smarter than you (a claim you did make--also, as a sidenote, the "never start a sentence with and" rule is not a strict rule, and also two punctuation marks implies a trailing off), and indeed I even said I might be making grammar mistakes--my point was, people in glass houses..
I don't see any need to address your second "point" because you haven't said either for what she "bashes," and quite frankly I find it difficult to believe that anyone as petty and seemingly immature as you are being could possibly be married.
heh btw, I enjoyed your "Which you are loosing too" -- that was brilliant:)
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Ok sure, I can buy that--(Nor do I think it ridiculous that Forbes might have an alterior motive for publishing this extensive series on Linux.), however when you say:
there doesn't seem to be anything done is the USA that doesn't have something to do with promoting some company's agenda
That statement just seems a bit silly.
Out of curiosity, in your travels here, where did you go and what as you say coloured your opinions? I'm always interested in how peoples opinions form. For instance, in the experience of a friend who lived in Pakistan for awhile, he said that talking to many Pakistanis who had been to America and back, they thought America was debuached and immoral and full of loose women--of course what did they do when they were in America? Visit a stripclub, see a porno theater, etc--all kinds of things not available in Pakistan, yet hardly representative of the average in America either.
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Ah, so now elitism comes through?? Europeans are better than Americans because they're smarter? I don't think I like where this argument is going, and since you (Whoever you are, AC) resort to ad hominem attacks, there's no point in carrying this on.
And incidentally, not to be a grammar troll (I'm sure I've made mistakes...maybe even in this message!) but if you're going to call people stupid you might want to proofread your message.
Here's another older article though interesting in that it shows Britain's gun policies NEVER returned great results:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Bridge/2431/brit la w.html
Here's an article relating to Gun facts in the US:
http://www.cato.org/dailys/05-13-00.html
So here's the perplexing part--guns have been banned, disabled, confiscated in Britain. So how (Why?!) are gun crimes rising?? It's simple, you take away guns from those who are properly licensed and follow the law, and you take away the ability of people to defend themselves from guns. Gang members and other lawbreakers are going to continue breaking the law, I don't see them handing their pieces over to the cops,do you? You punish the law abiding citizens with this action, not the criminals.
Oh and incidentally, is Switzerland not considered part of Europe?? Because they certaintly don't have, use, or want guns there.
(Another interesting article if for some reason you don't believe me about the swiss:)
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But since Forbes is an US publication, and there doesn't seem to be anything done is the USA that doesn't have something to do with promoting some company's agenda, I have to wonder if Forbes has a alerior motive for publishing this?
Oh come now this is ridiculous. You've clearly never actually been to the US or done more research than listening to slashdot trolls rant and leftist news sources. There's America bashing (hey, I understand that it's chic in Europe now, it doesn't matter to me, you can have your fun, and soon enough if the rise of Right Wingers in Europe continues, maybe we Americans can return the favor in due kind;) and then there's just plain stupid--this is the stupid variety.
Anyways, first "Micro$hit" as you so elegantly and maturely call them probably won't be the one incorporating OpenGL into "Winblows X[tra]P[oopy]" (brilliant I must say--share your wit more, please!)--it will be the driver writers from the video card companies.
Secondly, the "kernel hackers at Linux" (wherever that is?!) have nothing to do with this either--ever heard of the Mesa3D project??
Thirdly, reverse engineer? Mesa3D works WITH NVIDIA and others, afaik there's no reverse engineering going on--and not for the base implentation (see sgi).
Fourthly, it's called OpenGL for a reason (hint, pay attention to the open part). In the past this has meant open to users, but it truly is "open" now, check the SGI website for information about the OpenGL sample implementation license. Reverse engineer?? what would you even reverse engineer?? (sorry to repeat myself)
For your last points, feel free to work on your open source 3D standard, if it's useful people will definitely use it. OTOH, DirectX and OpenGL have an immense amount of work put into them already, they might be hard to equal! Oh wait, you said "we" ('we should work') referring to "anyone but yourself"--troll on!
I find it funny that you used the term "sci-fi" to describr science fiction (s.f.) in the context of Buffy -- I certaintly agree! Isaac Asimov for one wrote a great bit about how much he hated the term sci-fi for making s.f. low brow and try to make it seem "cool" (a pun on hi-fi). If you think Buffy is quality s.f. (tv s.f. is generally not even in the same ballpark as literary) and that fans of Buffy are s.f., you're seriously mistaken.
I don't believe that's true. I've been around a publishing press awhile, and generally the authors don't care much (just so long as they like what's on the cover) but sometimes have very specific requests. And unless those requests are ridiculous, they're usually honored.
Heck, I find LotR has all sorts of homoerotic allusions, and don't even get me started on Grimms Fairy Tales. But these are just places the mind normally goes.
Actually I just think that Tolkien was the biggest prude ever--notice the roles women play. Their are little girl hobbits, matronly mother hobbits, and chaste beautiful viriginal virtuous elf queens that even Gimli falls in love with!
People (especially those who reads slashdot!) like flat fees, unlimited time, unlimited bandwidth.
As I'm sure everyone knows, bandwidth is not free. The cable companies price their product selling for typical household (or business, on different pay scales of course) use--of course variations in use do exist, but those who just use email balance out the power users (or the file sharers) etc.
If people want to share their connections with everyone and use that much more bandwidth, I'm sure the cable companies would be glad to charge you much more for your connection--maybe if we got some petitions going for per bandwidth charges we could get the cable providers to ok this! Anyone interested, I think this could work
More like 20K feet, and as for cable modem, you don't HAVE to get cable tv along with that, and it's about $40 a month. In addition there are non-DSL/Cable options.
Really? I assume that you're Chinese, or at least grew up China? It's really funny how people can read the same thing and see two totally different things.
You read that article and say "Well hey, Falun Gong really ISN'T a spiritual religious exercise movement--because they organized a (peaceful) protest, they clearly have aspiration to tear down the government, and want to harm the average chinese citizens--as such they are an evil cult (religious people have no right to mess with politics!) and SHOULD be shutdown!" (you said stuff along those lines in other messages--correct me if I'm wrong, I don't want to misprepresent you).
I read the article and I think "Ok, Falun Gong as a spiritual religious exercise movement holds certain ideals and as such protests against the cruelties of the Chinese government--it was Christian Europeans that lead the abolitionist movement, it was Hindu's in India under Gandhi who beat back the British, today around the world it's religious people who fight against Abortion, and so forth (millions of other examples)--people have doctrines, religions have doctrines, and religions compell people to do what they believe to be moral things. The chinese government CANNOT face criticism (for instance the recent unrest in rural areas that's been virtually impossible to find out about because of Chinese information clampdowns), and it cannot ALLOW criticism--and so it is that these peaceful protesters, are crushed and killed and tortured, merely for holding ideals and being willing to stand up for something they believe in.
That's a quite interesting article and my reply is--People sitting in meditative silent protest made the Chinese government react this way??
What kind of government is there in China when a silent protest makes the government crack down, torture, arrest, beat, discredit the practitioners of Falung Gong? It's funny, because I get the feeling that for you, this article shows how bad Falun Gong is--for me it drives how how much worse the Chinese government is than I even thought. People say China is different from the Tianamen Massacre of 10 years ago--things like this article show that it's every bit as bad.
Since you know so much about them, enlighten me--before they started being jailed and persecuted for their beliefs, what if any political actions did they take? Did they try anything like this (tv hijacking) BEFORE they were tortured and persecuted and virtually wiped out by the repressive chinese regime?
The good news is that it works remarkably well on 1 or 2 cpu systems. It beat the performance of Linux 2.2 kernels and still gives 2.4 kernels a run for their money in most situations. When you start running mores cpus then performance will only go up a little bit so it really isn't worth it at that point
Do you have any benchmarks or anything (non-anecdotal)? I've been looking for a side-to-side type comparison for awhile.
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FUD Alert!! Troll alert!!! 99% of this post is such BS that it's not even worth responding too...however, I'll tackle possibly the most egregious point (it kinda proves the rest as BS as well).
There are many other big shortcomings in Windows XP. Windows XP, and all current Windows operating systems, have a file called the registry in which configuration information is written. If this one (large, often fragmented) file becomes corrupted, the only way of recovering may be to re-format the hard drive, re-install the operating system, and then re-install and re-configure all the applications.
BULLSHIT! Microsoft has the ability (I know AT least since Win98) that Windows automatically backs up the registry periodically (ie, at shutdown or boot, major hardware change, etc). IF it ever gets corrupted, there will be a backup to restore from. That's also bullshit what you claim about not being able to backup--it works fine. If you had actualyl read the link you linked to, you would see it's refering to SID--a special identifier used on MS networks (somewhat akin to an IP address, not some evil ploy). Duplicate SID's, just like duplicate IP's, conflict.
How bout you go get a life and stop verbally stabbing at microsoft from your parents home (PennyArcade ;)
Ok, I can tell you 100% you clearly bought a cheap shoddy computer with lowend components, it's no wonder you get lockups!!! I love it when people buy cheapass parts and then automatically assume it's microsoft. Here's a counter example--my personal computer currently has an uptime of 17 days (at which point I installed a new harddrive). My work computer (both are running XP, in case it wasn't obvious) which is used about 10 hours a day by me and another person, has an uptime of 47 days last I checked! The OS is NOT the problem.
I hope Open Source doesn't then turn out to be the "new economy" of the 1990's! That was one paradigm that isn't aging too well at the moment.
The point is that most users don't want to install add-ons, and won't. In addition, USB2 is backwards compatible with USB, no?
Because the vast majority of PC's (referring to x86 consumer computer) don't come with FireWire yet.
Ok, well then consider my two periods a stylistic choice if you will. As for the "and" issue, if you google it you'll see some professional writers very much disagree with this 'rule' -- most places that even stated the rule at all said "avoid" rather than "it is forbidden"
:) Some of those criticisms ARE valid--many americans do want the rest of the world to be like them--bad? Depends on your viewpoint. The basic point of the matter is that EVERYTHING you or she says is a blatant vast generalization, that just doesn't hold water. "People from the USA are afraid to immerse themselves in a foreign culture" -- ok, I'm currently studying Arabic and Turkish (and did for 2 years before 9/11). My best friends include Japanese, Chinese, Indians, and Pakistanis. I'm hopeful I'll get to study abroad in Turkey next year. One of my best friends is studying abroad in Japan next year, another in Australia, another in Germany, and one in Scotland. See all this anecdotal evidence, I'm clearly right (sarcasm). I could go down the line and poke holes through your other vast generalizations as well. Anecdotal evidence, and vast generalizations just don't work, and show nothing of truth.
And no, you never did claim to be smarter than me in particular, just that Americans are stupid (you first post).
Thank for finally putting some actual issues on the table -- we could have avoided that whole middle unpleasantness had you merely done so in the beginning rather than the old "americans are stupid" routine.
fyi, I'm from Central NC and have no complaints
Here's something to think about for people who think of Americans as insular, closed minded, etc. To many Europeans, you can go 40 miles and hear 4 different languages spoken. Brits can take holidays in France, French can go to Spain, Italians can go, etc etc etc. To Americans, that option doesn't exist. That's not to say that Californians have much in common with Carolinians, other than language and government though.
Just as a note, much of Western NC is dirt poor, and stereotypes often hold most true in the poor (unfortunate truth). Did she go to college in the states? Oh incidentally, if she hates it, why doesn't she drop her citizenship?
Can you explain why it's considered so chic to bash america and americans?
AS for my last comment about your immaturity, you're correct, that was beneath me, and I apologize for falling to that level.
I've been running NetBSD and OpenBSD for a couple of years now, but I've never installed FreeBSD. I've heard it's got something of a Linuxy bloat rather than the grim austerity of the Open and Net OSes...
I've used FreeBSD a good bit, and have one OpenBSD firewall box setup. They both have their good sides and bad sides imho.
;) The install program for FreeBSD is a lot friendlirt than the Open (though Open went 100% fine for me) and to me FreeBSD config files are easier to setup. OpenBSD on the other hand as a Firewall type box can't be beat imho, the ease of seting it up and writing pf rules can't be beaten. I'm not sure I'd want my personal desktop running OpenBSD though.
The main good things about FreeBSD imho are the bigger ports collection and more users (more chance someone has had your problem before
Erm, why? You provide a bunch of links about gun crime in the UK. So? Nobody said it didn't exist. But the USA still has substantially higher homicide rates than the UK, in fact than anywhere in Europe. Or would you care to provide some stats that prove otherwise?
I won't say that crime in Europe is worse than in America, because the stats don't exist to back that up. On the other hand, the US is a much bigger place--I wonder what conglomerate stat for Europe would look like, if you combined western + parts of Eastern Europe. The US also faces many of the same problems that Britain (as well as other countries) are starting to face--for instance gang warfare. Some of the links I posted talked a bit about that--crime rates among poor urban minorities in the US are what skew the stats largely--if you take the inner city gangs out the picture, and drug related deaths (the two largely relate actually), America would be much closer in line with Europe. Again, this is a problem Europe is starting to face too, look at all the recent anti-semitic attacks from France to Germany to London to Italy (mostly not performed by white Europeans) -- it's a problem. I would also agree with you that most European cities are more safe than American cities. I just don't like the notion that every crime in america is because of a gun, and wouldn't be happening otherwise. I live on the Eastern seaboard, and in my entire life, other than on police officers, I have seen *one* person carrying a gun (holster on his hip)--the guy's car also had NRA stickers, "live free or die" type things all over :) This was for a school carwash fundraiser, and he paid double for his car--not all gun users are bad people or nuts.
The links you provide show that crime in the UK has risen recently, whereas in the USA it has fallen. You seem to think this proves that the gun laws in the USA lower crime. However, there haven't been significant changes in the law with regard to gun use in the USA or the UK for many years, so how can you relate one to the other?
Actually the UK gun laws did change signifigantly in 1997, which is why this is a big deal. It still blows my mind that London is now less safe than New York..
Since you brought it here, you spelled grammar wrong every time you typed it. I never claimed to be perfect, or smarter than you (a claim you did make--also, as a sidenote, the "never start a sentence with and" rule is not a strict rule, and also two punctuation marks implies a trailing off), and indeed I even said I might be making grammar mistakes--my point was, people in glass houses..
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I don't see any need to address your second "point" because you haven't said either for what she "bashes," and quite frankly I find it difficult to believe that anyone as petty and seemingly immature as you are being could possibly be married.
heh btw, I enjoyed your "Which you are loosing too" -- that was brilliant
Ok sure, I can buy that--(Nor do I think it ridiculous that Forbes might have an alterior motive for publishing this extensive series on Linux.), however when you say:
there doesn't seem to be anything done is the USA that doesn't have something to do with promoting some company's agenda
That statement just seems a bit silly.
Out of curiosity, in your travels here, where did you go and what as you say coloured your opinions? I'm always interested in how peoples opinions form. For instance, in the experience of a friend who lived in Pakistan for awhile, he said that talking to many Pakistanis who had been to America and back, they thought America was debuached and immoral and full of loose women--of course what did they do when they were in America? Visit a stripclub, see a porno theater, etc--all kinds of things not available in Pakistan, yet hardly representative of the average in America either.
Ah, so now elitism comes through?? Europeans are better than Americans because they're smarter? I don't think I like where this argument is going, and since you (Whoever you are, AC) resort to ad hominem attacks, there's no point in carrying this on.
And incidentally, not to be a grammar troll (I'm sure I've made mistakes...maybe even in this message!) but if you're going to call people stupid you might want to proofread your message.
You might want to re-examine those numbers friend. Here are a couple recent articles you may find interesting:
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/england/new
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_2047
(there are more articles--a flurry of reports was released within the past month, I'm sure it can be googled easily enough).
Older article, though I included it for use of the term "Gunchester" which I find rather amusing.
London is now less safe than New York..New York!!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/gun/Story/0,2763,1952
Here's another older article though interesting in that it shows Britain's gun policies NEVER returned great results:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Bridge/2431/bri
Here's an article relating to Gun facts in the US:
http://www.cato.org/dailys/05-13-00.html
So here's the perplexing part--guns have been banned, disabled, confiscated in Britain. So how (Why?!) are gun crimes rising?? It's simple, you take away guns from those who are properly licensed and follow the law, and you take away the ability of people to defend themselves from guns. Gang members and other lawbreakers are going to continue breaking the law, I don't see them handing their pieces over to the cops,do you? You punish the law abiding citizens with this action, not the criminals.
Oh and incidentally, is Switzerland not considered part of Europe?? Because they certaintly don't have, use, or want guns there.
(Another interesting article if for some reason you don't believe me about the swiss:)
http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles
But since Forbes is an US publication, and there doesn't seem to be anything done is the USA that doesn't have something to do with promoting some company's agenda, I have to wonder if Forbes has a alerior motive for publishing this?
Oh come now this is ridiculous. You've clearly never actually been to the US or done more research than listening to slashdot trolls rant and leftist news sources. There's America bashing (hey, I understand that it's chic in Europe now, it doesn't matter to me, you can have your fun, and soon enough if the rise of Right Wingers in Europe continues, maybe we Americans can return the favor in due kind ;) and then there's just plain stupid--this is the stupid variety.
Not that I'm knocking Mesa, but it _IS_ only a software implementation -- it won't take advantage of hardware like the geforce and radeon.
It will take advantage of earlier hardware though right? That's what the DRI is for? (/me hasn't used mesa with non-3dfx)
gah, what am I even bothering to respond...
Anyways, first "Micro$hit" as you so elegantly and maturely call them probably won't be the one incorporating OpenGL into "Winblows X[tra]P[oopy]" (brilliant I must say--share your wit more, please!)--it will be the driver writers from the video card companies.
Secondly, the "kernel hackers at Linux" (wherever that is?!) have nothing to do with this either--ever heard of the Mesa3D project??
Thirdly, reverse engineer? Mesa3D works WITH NVIDIA and others, afaik there's no reverse engineering going on--and not for the base implentation (see sgi).
Fourthly, it's called OpenGL for a reason (hint, pay attention to the open part). In the past this has meant open to users, but it truly is "open" now, check the SGI website for information about the OpenGL sample implementation license. Reverse engineer?? what would you even reverse engineer?? (sorry to repeat myself)
For your last points, feel free to work on your open source 3D standard, if it's useful people will definitely use it. OTOH, DirectX and OpenGL have an immense amount of work put into them already, they might be hard to equal! Oh wait, you said "we" ('we should work') referring to "anyone but yourself"--troll on!
What about the rights of the artists/author/owner?
I find it funny that you used the term "sci-fi" to describr science fiction (s.f.) in the context of Buffy -- I certaintly agree! Isaac Asimov for one wrote a great bit about how much he hated the term sci-fi for making s.f. low brow and try to make it seem "cool" (a pun on hi-fi). If you think Buffy is quality s.f. (tv s.f. is generally not even in the same ballpark as literary) and that fans of Buffy are s.f., you're seriously mistaken.
I don't believe that's true. I've been around a publishing press awhile, and generally the authors don't care much (just so long as they like what's on the cover) but sometimes have very specific requests. And unless those requests are ridiculous, they're usually honored.
Heck, I find LotR has all sorts of homoerotic allusions, and don't even get me started on Grimms Fairy Tales. But these are just places the mind normally goes.
Actually I just think that Tolkien was the biggest prude ever--notice the roles women play. Their are little girl hobbits, matronly mother hobbits, and chaste beautiful viriginal virtuous elf queens that even Gimli falls in love with!
People (especially those who reads slashdot!) like flat fees, unlimited time, unlimited bandwidth.
As I'm sure everyone knows, bandwidth is not free. The cable companies price their product selling for typical household (or business, on different pay scales of course) use--of course variations in use do exist, but those who just use email balance out the power users (or the file sharers) etc.
If people want to share their connections with everyone and use that much more bandwidth, I'm sure the cable companies would be glad to charge you much more for your connection--maybe if we got some petitions going for per bandwidth charges we could get the cable providers to ok this! Anyone interested, I think this could work
More like 20K feet, and as for cable modem, you don't HAVE to get cable tv along with that, and it's about $40 a month. In addition there are non-DSL/Cable options.
Really? I assume that you're Chinese, or at least grew up China? It's really funny how people can read the same thing and see two totally different things.
You read that article and say "Well hey, Falun Gong really ISN'T a spiritual religious exercise movement--because they organized a (peaceful) protest, they clearly have aspiration to tear down the government, and want to harm the average chinese citizens--as such they are an evil cult (religious people have no right to mess with politics!) and SHOULD be shutdown!" (you said stuff along those lines in other messages--correct me if I'm wrong, I don't want to misprepresent you).
I read the article and I think "Ok, Falun Gong as a spiritual religious exercise movement holds certain ideals and as such protests against the cruelties of the Chinese government--it was Christian Europeans that lead the abolitionist movement, it was Hindu's in India under Gandhi who beat back the British, today around the world it's religious people who fight against Abortion, and so forth (millions of other examples)--people have doctrines, religions have doctrines, and religions compell people to do what they believe to be moral things. The chinese government CANNOT face criticism (for instance the recent unrest in rural areas that's been virtually impossible to find out about because of Chinese information clampdowns), and it cannot ALLOW criticism--and so it is that these peaceful protesters, are crushed and killed and tortured, merely for holding ideals and being willing to stand up for something they believe in.
That's a quite interesting article and my reply is--People sitting in meditative silent protest made the Chinese government react this way??
What kind of government is there in China when a silent protest makes the government crack down, torture, arrest, beat, discredit the practitioners of Falung Gong? It's funny, because I get the feeling that for you, this article shows how bad Falun Gong is--for me it drives how how much worse the Chinese government is than I even thought. People say China is different from the Tianamen Massacre of 10 years ago--things like this article show that it's every bit as bad.
Since you know so much about them, enlighten me--before they started being jailed and persecuted for their beliefs, what if any political actions did they take? Did they try anything like this (tv hijacking) BEFORE they were tortured and persecuted and virtually wiped out by the repressive chinese regime?
The good news is that it works remarkably well on 1 or 2 cpu systems. It beat the performance of Linux 2.2 kernels and still gives 2.4 kernels a run for their money in most situations. When you start running mores cpus then performance will only go up a little bit so it really isn't worth it at that point
Do you have any benchmarks or anything (non-anecdotal)? I've been looking for a side-to-side type comparison for awhile.