What is more likely is that consoles will become general purpose computers. I can surf the web on my Wii now, check email, etc. They even have people porting Linux to them for free now, so creating a "game" or mode that is a simple OS would be pretty trivial.
Learn how to save $25 to $75 by purchasing the $279 dollar report that the article is hawking. No thanks. This article has no business even being on Slashdot. It isn't news, it is an advert.
Exactly. You are just a user, which are easy to come by. Better to sacrifice a user than to question a dishonest advertiser. Assuming you are a cheesy forum site, of course.
Well of course you don't see something like that for an ad. The advertisers are PAYING real money. The only reason you see a "click here if this is inappropriate" on any website is so they can cover their own ass and prevent getting sued. It is "good faith" effort to remove stuff that is liable or DMCA. Many of these sites are so 3rd tier, they don't give a damn what bad ads are on their website, as long as they get paid.
Silly me, I still think that part of the cause is that Windows is entirely too easy to pwn.
There is enough blame to go around, but the one thing that is universal is money. The crappy forum/blog/wiki websites want the ad money regardless of content, the scammers want your dollars, MS wants to overcharge and underdeliver, many people are too lazy to learn about their computer and would rather pay the extortion (which doesn't end the problem) than keep their systems up to date, no matter how easy you were to make it.
Ok, take that same innocent picture of a naked child in the tub. Now, you have this photo, but it isn't your child, or your relative, and you don't know the child. Is it porn then? The law says yes in the USA. So yes, the comment is accurate.
The law doesn't differentiate between a sexual act or just being nude when it comes to child pornography. It is only a matter of degrees, but both are still considered "child porn".
Banning alcohol would save lives? You do realize it is much easier to bootleg alcohol than it is to bootleg other drugs, right?
That is the problem with prohibition: It *costs* lives, it doesn't save them. The only reason you have drug dealers killing each other is because it is profitable, because it is illegal. Think back to Capone. Also, what incentive is there to convince others to try drugs if you can't profit from it? Over time, you get less addiction, not more, as there is no incentive to create a new class of addicts. Look at where they are already legal.
Just think if we took all the money spent on enforcement, and instead use it for education and drug treatment.
I am over marketing and IT for a small manufacturer. I am constantly trumping myself, and it is starting to piss me off.;) And yes, marketing considerations always win.
As I told someone yesterday: It does you no good to have great customer service if you have no customers.
This ignores that in America, the vast majority of people with guns are not evil deed doers, and never will be.
Even my wife carries a gun, legally, with a permit.
To think that all people with guns are up to no good simply misses the point here in the USA anyway. I haven't touched my gun in two years, but we used to also target shoot with shotguns and pistols. Until you have had the joy of blowing shit up with a shotgun (in an approved area and in a safe manner) you just don't get it, I guess.
And I haven't shot an animal in almost 30 years, and never a human. Yet.
I'm running 3gb of ram on a laptop with Vista (it came used with it.) that I dual boot with Linux. I run no swap with Vista because it is too aggressive about using it. I have 1gb of swap for Linux, although I would expect it would never get used and Linux doesn't get greedy with swap. On a side note, it was my first install of Ubuntu (used to CentOS), which is pretty weird but nice. Just haven't gotten the wifi to work yet (1 week).
That is state time. If the feds get involved, then it is 5 minimum. If the feds are involved for other reasons and they just find the plant, then you are boned. Otherwise, if the cops just find a single plant, like your friend, then the feds usually don't get involved.
I worked as a defense investigator when the new federal minimums were introduced in the late 80s. They were a bad answer to a question seldom asked.
No, I am positive about that. The FEDERAL limits are a minimum of 5 years for growing a pot plant. If it isn't prosecuted in a federal court, then state law would apply.
I wasn't talking about possession, I was talking about growing. It helps if you actually read what I said to begin with, then you don't look silly.
This is a good point if the debian people and redhat people could work toward a solution, it could be fixed as both systems have a great deal in common.
Great deal in common??! I just installed Ubuntu on my laptop, which was my first Debian type distro. While I generally like it after some tweaks, it is not remotely the same or similar to RH in layout. Didn't even get a "root" password prompt at install.
They are alike in that both don't seem to recognize how to properly setup a wifi card. I'm still using eth0 and a cable and trying to get that working right. But looking to fix it was very different.
Look in/etc/sysconfig..doesn't exist. What about/etc/rc.d/rc5.d to check network startup script...oops, that doesn't exist either. Ubuntu (and assuming all Debian style Linux) is more BSD/Unix like in the layout. They run the same software, like how I can run my Win98 software on Vista. True Debian will also run a vanilla kernel, something that RedHat based distros haven't been able to do properly since RH7 came out, around 1998 or so. I wouldn't say they are "alike", they just both run a "similar" Linux kernel.
Don't forget that in America, the minimum sentence someone can get for a SINGLE pot plant is 5 years federal time, which is much longer than the average crack dealer gets for his first offense.
Nothing more dangerous than a pothead with a green thumb.
Get a better job. Any IT person using Limewire isn't fit to clean a keyboard. Bittorrent, that depends on the site of course. Still, there isn't much of a reason for IT to even use P2P at work, at least not regularly. It isn't like you change the OS of all your servers when the newest version of Gentoo comes out....
Except that Neanderthals are classified as either Homo sapiens neanderthalensis or Homo neanderthalensis, so they are either a "type" of human being, homo sapiens, or a cousin, but still "homo", meaning "human". I think they would be covered by human rights. Granted, that wouldn't stop some from trying.
How many people would have died in a US-USSR showdown?
Which one, Korea, Vietnam or to a lesser degree, Afghanistan in the 1980s? Nukes certainly did provide some stability of sorts, but US/USSR relations haven't been bloodless. We just killed each other by proxy.
P2P has great value, but not at most offices. The average desk monkey doesn't need to be downloading the newest version of Knoppix, that is IT's job, and no one worth their salt in IT would be using Limewire. False argument. It is some desk monkey who thinks he knows what he is doing, and he doesn't.
But its the 64 bit version of Windows 7 so it's twice as fast, and it has with 64mb of ram. That's a full megabyte of ram for each bit, that should be enough for anyone.
I have always stripped out all the "enhancements" except shadows under the fonts on the desktop, and always used "classic" gui for this exact reason. I also configure NO system sounds. It isn't about "faster", it is about "more responsive". My XP looks like 95. As for Vista, never bought it, never will. The wife has it on a laptop with modest amounts of eye candy settings, and I can't stand to use it. The OS is supposed to run applications, it isn't supposed to be k3wL. ~~~~
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And you think that bashing Americans with a bunch of non-related stereotypes makes you "right".
Lots of wrong to go around.
Yea, the fact that America is losing manufacturing has nothing to do with others willing and able to work for 5% of the same pay....
What is more likely is that consoles will become general purpose computers. I can surf the web on my Wii now, check email, etc. They even have people porting Linux to them for free now, so creating a "game" or mode that is a simple OS would be pretty trivial.
Learn how to save $25 to $75 by purchasing the $279 dollar report that the article is hawking. No thanks. This article has no business even being on Slashdot. It isn't news, it is an advert.
Exactly. You are just a user, which are easy to come by. Better to sacrifice a user than to question a dishonest advertiser. Assuming you are a cheesy forum site, of course.
Well of course you don't see something like that for an ad. The advertisers are PAYING real money. The only reason you see a "click here if this is inappropriate" on any website is so they can cover their own ass and prevent getting sued. It is "good faith" effort to remove stuff that is liable or DMCA. Many of these sites are so 3rd tier, they don't give a damn what bad ads are on their website, as long as they get paid.
Silly me, I still think that part of the cause is that Windows is entirely too easy to pwn.
There is enough blame to go around, but the one thing that is universal is money. The crappy forum/blog/wiki websites want the ad money regardless of content, the scammers want your dollars, MS wants to overcharge and underdeliver, many people are too lazy to learn about their computer and would rather pay the extortion (which doesn't end the problem) than keep their systems up to date, no matter how easy you were to make it.
Ok, take that same innocent picture of a naked child in the tub. Now, you have this photo, but it isn't your child, or your relative, and you don't know the child. Is it porn then? The law says yes in the USA. So yes, the comment is accurate.
The law doesn't differentiate between a sexual act or just being nude when it comes to child pornography. It is only a matter of degrees, but both are still considered "child porn".
Banning alcohol would save lives? You do realize it is much easier to bootleg alcohol than it is to bootleg other drugs, right?
That is the problem with prohibition: It *costs* lives, it doesn't save them. The only reason you have drug dealers killing each other is because it is profitable, because it is illegal. Think back to Capone. Also, what incentive is there to convince others to try drugs if you can't profit from it? Over time, you get less addiction, not more, as there is no incentive to create a new class of addicts. Look at where they are already legal.
Just think if we took all the money spent on enforcement, and instead use it for education and drug treatment.
I am over marketing and IT for a small manufacturer. I am constantly trumping myself, and it is starting to piss me off. ;) And yes, marketing considerations always win.
As I told someone yesterday: It does you no good to have great customer service if you have no customers.
Yes, that is what I want, a super computer designed by an English major...
Please get over yourself. This is slashdot, not something important like a resume or will.
This ignores that in America, the vast majority of people with guns are not evil deed doers, and never will be.
Even my wife carries a gun, legally, with a permit.
To think that all people with guns are up to no good simply misses the point here in the USA anyway. I haven't touched my gun in two years, but we used to also target shoot with shotguns and pistols. Until you have had the joy of blowing shit up with a shotgun (in an approved area and in a safe manner) you just don't get it, I guess.
And I haven't shot an animal in almost 30 years, and never a human. Yet.
I'm running 3gb of ram on a laptop with Vista (it came used with it.) that I dual boot with Linux. I run no swap with Vista because it is too aggressive about using it. I have 1gb of swap for Linux, although I would expect it would never get used and Linux doesn't get greedy with swap. On a side note, it was my first install of Ubuntu (used to CentOS), which is pretty weird but nice. Just haven't gotten the wifi to work yet (1 week).
That is state time. If the feds get involved, then it is 5 minimum. If the feds are involved for other reasons and they just find the plant, then you are boned. Otherwise, if the cops just find a single plant, like your friend, then the feds usually don't get involved.
I worked as a defense investigator when the new federal minimums were introduced in the late 80s. They were a bad answer to a question seldom asked.
No, I am positive about that. The FEDERAL limits are a minimum of 5 years for growing a pot plant. If it isn't prosecuted in a federal court, then state law would apply.
I wasn't talking about possession, I was talking about growing. It helps if you actually read what I said to begin with, then you don't look silly.
This is a good point if the debian people and redhat people could work toward a solution, it could be fixed as both systems have a great deal in common.
Great deal in common??! I just installed Ubuntu on my laptop, which was my first Debian type distro. While I generally like it after some tweaks, it is not remotely the same or similar to RH in layout. Didn't even get a "root" password prompt at install.
They are alike in that both don't seem to recognize how to properly setup a wifi card. I'm still using eth0 and a cable and trying to get that working right. But looking to fix it was very different.
Look in /etc/sysconfig..doesn't exist. What about /etc/rc.d/rc5.d to check network startup script...oops, that doesn't exist either. Ubuntu (and assuming all Debian style Linux) is more BSD/Unix like in the layout. They run the same software, like how I can run my Win98 software on Vista. True Debian will also run a vanilla kernel, something that RedHat based distros haven't been able to do properly since RH7 came out, around 1998 or so. I wouldn't say they are "alike", they just both run a "similar" Linux kernel.
Don't forget that in America, the minimum sentence someone can get for a SINGLE pot plant is 5 years federal time, which is much longer than the average crack dealer gets for his first offense.
Nothing more dangerous than a pothead with a green thumb.
Get a better job. Any IT person using Limewire isn't fit to clean a keyboard. Bittorrent, that depends on the site of course. Still, there isn't much of a reason for IT to even use P2P at work, at least not regularly. It isn't like you change the OS of all your servers when the newest version of Gentoo comes out....
Except that Neanderthals are classified as either Homo sapiens neanderthalensis or Homo neanderthalensis, so they are either a "type" of human being, homo sapiens, or a cousin, but still "homo", meaning "human". I think they would be covered by human rights. Granted, that wouldn't stop some from trying.
How many people would have died in a US-USSR showdown?
Which one, Korea, Vietnam or to a lesser degree, Afghanistan in the 1980s? Nukes certainly did provide some stability of sorts, but US/USSR relations haven't been bloodless. We just killed each other by proxy.
P2P has great value, but not at most offices. The average desk monkey doesn't need to be downloading the newest version of Knoppix, that is IT's job, and no one worth their salt in IT would be using Limewire. False argument. It is some desk monkey who thinks he knows what he is doing, and he doesn't.
I know. Most science fiction is totally based on a plausible and non-ludicrous plot.
Correct. That's what makes it fantasy.
But its the 64 bit version of Windows 7 so it's twice as fast, and it has with 64mb of ram. That's a full megabyte of ram for each bit, that should be enough for anyone.
;)
I have always stripped out all the "enhancements" except shadows under the fonts on the desktop, and always used "classic" gui for this exact reason. I also configure NO system sounds. It isn't about "faster", it is about "more responsive". My XP looks like 95. As for Vista, never bought it, never will. The wife has it on a laptop with modest amounts of eye candy settings, and I can't stand to use it. The OS is supposed to run applications, it isn't supposed to be k3wL. ~~~~
one of the planes taking part in the collision was already airborne at the crash point.
And pulling up on the stick made the tail of the plane drag on the runway. I think that means he wasn't very "airborne".