"It looks like Canada is leading the way (again)"...
Uhhh. Leading the way into erosion of individual
liberty, maybe. Remember, folks: Liberty, good. Government, bad.
Government is a necessary evil whose sole purpose of existence is to protect its citizens' liberty.
Government == coersion.
Please don't let the wonderful, but incorrect conception of "free" broadband disturb your ideological foundations.
If you think that every Canadian should have free broadband access, form a Foundation, donate to it, and petition philanthropists to donate to it. Don't take the Canadian citizens' property and money at gunpoint and use it for 'their own good'.
There appears to be no JIT in this release. This means there is no reason to use this release over, say RC1. RC1 w/JIT was twice as fast as the final version w/o JIT. Sorry, but I'll stick with the twice as fast version. Co
here to see some benchmark results. JW
Absolutely. Entitlements are one of the worst economic offenses that is perpetrated on the American People by the Federal Government. The giving of tax money to foreign nations is just as unpalatable.
But that doesn't make it right for Uncle Sam to continue to take our money by _force_ and spend it on things that the individual taxpayer may or may not agree with.
The only valid purpose of government is to protect people's personal and property rights from other people.
Anything else is just shades of Tyranny.
Furthermore, I hold that gov't funded science is the most ineffective and inefficient form of science. When science is performed in the Free Market, you get all sorts of beneficial things, such as accountability and competition.
American People, this is YOUR MONEY Clinton is so happily waving around and trying to spend. A 2.8$ billion increase, well that's somewhere in the neighborhood of 10.76$ each citizen. So the Federal government comes along and takes 10.76$ out of your pocket, and all of you shout 'Thank you sir may I please have another!'.
Federally sponsored science programs are one of the most ineffective and inefficient ways to do science. In a private scenario, there is more accountability, and more competition to do science in the best way.
If you really want to support science, invest in the companies that are doing the kind of research you are interested in, and take the power of government back into your own hands.
Let me leave you with a quote:
"The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money." -- Alexis de Tocqueville
That's nice in theory, but when performance extremes are needed (e.g. quake), you have to make compromises. To get the kind of performance you need from a game like this, you have to put as much work into the client as possible.
It's a tradeoff. In this case, open sourcing the software didn't _create_ a security hole, it just widened it to be big enough to drive a semi truck through.
Well you already have your wish. The US Gov't has approved funding on the 'Next Generation Space Telescope', and work is already underway. The target launch date is sometime around 2006-2008.
The NGST will have a 10 meter infrared mirror, and be placed in a LaGrange point out past the moon. For info:
The US DOJ has absolutely no right to interfere with Microsoft's business. It does not matter one bit that MS disgusts me ethically and technically. It also does not matter that MS spends the majority of it's energy tearing down it's competition instead of building up it's products.
If the scourge of the computer world that is Microsoft is to be stopped, it must be by the free market. Without unconstitutional and unrightful interference from our misguided 20th century government, I have full faith that the computing industry will come out just fine.
Down with continual DOJ interference in free enterprise!
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hahaha ahahahahahahah hehehehe, hoooooooo ahhhh.
that's some funny stuff.
"It looks like Canada is leading the way (again)"...
Uhhh. Leading the way into erosion of individual
liberty, maybe. Remember, folks: Liberty, good. Government, bad.
Government is a necessary evil whose sole purpose of existence is to protect its citizens' liberty.
Government == coersion.
Please don't let the wonderful, but incorrect conception of "free" broadband disturb your ideological foundations.
If you think that every Canadian should have free broadband access, form a Foundation, donate to it, and petition philanthropists to donate to it. Don't take the Canadian citizens' property and money at gunpoint and use it for 'their own good'.
Logical
Ok, I installed the RC1 jit and ran some benchmarks.
http://coil.tempusmud.com/~jwatson/jdk/
next step, see if the newest inprise jit is
any different or better.
JW
Absolutely. Entitlements are one of the worst
economic offenses that is perpetrated on the
American People by the Federal Government. The
giving of tax money to foreign nations is just
as unpalatable.
But that doesn't make it right for Uncle Sam to
continue to take our money by _force_ and spend
it on things that the individual taxpayer may
or may not agree with.
The only valid purpose of government is to
protect people's personal and property rights
from other people.
Anything else is just shades of Tyranny.
Furthermore, I hold that gov't funded science
is the most ineffective and inefficient form
of science. When science is performed in the
Free Market, you get all sorts of beneficial
things, such as accountability and competition.
my 2 cents.
L
American People, this is YOUR MONEY Clinton is
so happily waving around and trying to spend.
A 2.8$ billion increase, well that's somewhere
in the neighborhood of 10.76$ each citizen.
So the Federal government comes along and takes
10.76$ out of your pocket, and all of you shout
'Thank you sir may I please have another!'.
Federally sponsored science programs are one of
the most ineffective and inefficient ways to
do science. In a private scenario, there is more
accountability, and more competition to do
science in the best way.
If you really want to support science, invest
in the companies that are doing the kind of
research you are interested in, and take the
power of government back into your own hands.
Let me leave you with a quote:
"The American Republic will endure, until
politicians realize they can bribe the people
with their own money."
-- Alexis de Tocqueville
L
That's nice in theory, but when performance
extremes are needed (e.g. quake), you have
to make compromises. To get the kind of
performance you need from a game like this,
you have to put as much work into the client
as possible.
It's a tradeoff. In this case, open sourcing
the software didn't _create_ a security hole,
it just widened it to be big enough to drive
a semi truck through.
Well you already have your wish. The US Gov't has approved funding on the 'Next Generation Space Telescope', and work is already underway. The target launch date is sometime around 2006-2008.
The NGST will have a 10 meter infrared mirror, and be placed in a LaGrange point out past the moon.
For info:
http://www.ngst.stsci.edu/
The US DOJ has absolutely no right to interfere with Microsoft's business. It does not matter one bit that MS disgusts me ethically and technically. It also does not matter that MS spends the majority of it's energy tearing down it's competition instead of building up it's products.
If the scourge of the computer world that is Microsoft is to be stopped, it must be by the free market. Without unconstitutional and unrightful interference from our misguided 20th century government, I have full faith that the computing industry will come out just fine.
Down with continual DOJ interference in free enterprise!
This "software" is useless on my redhat 6.0 system. It starts running, displays it's window, makes a bell tone, then segfaults.
So where can you buy the video?
JW