I don't really think it's the reason that gaming options for linux are as slim as they are, but it is certainly true that OpenGL lags behind DirectX. The OpenGL people spent a long time doing nothing, and during that time DirectX took the market.
If you deploy Linux, OS/X or any other operating system and hand over the root password (or sudo access) to a typical *user* it will get messed up too.
This is one of the huge differences between windows and linux. On windows you have to actively lock down the system to prevent the typical user from shooting them selves in the foot. On linux you just have to not give them the root password:)
1) It only prohibits the Federal Government from abridging the freedom of speech. Local state authorites are not Congress. It only prohibits Congress.
yes, and in some instances (maybe all? i'm not sure) federal law trumps local laws. that instance is specifically mentioned in the article, as to why Montgomery County's law about the display of obscene material does not apply in their public libraries.
2) It seperates the Government from the Church, not the church from the Government. This pharase "Seperation of church and state" is a bogus idea.
the constitution says that congress shall not make laws infringing a persons right to practice whatever religion they choose, nor shall they make any laws that could be construed as establishing an "official" religion. that is what the "separation of church and state" is. yes, that phrase is not in the constituion. jefferson used it when he responded to a letter written to him by a church in Connecticut, who were unhappy with the laws regarding religion in that state.
the constitution says nothing about not letting religion influence congress. so technically, there is nothing wrong with that. take abortion, for example. most people that want it outlawed probably base their reasons in religion. but if the law were to be overturned, the passage of that law would not infringe on a persons right to practice whatever religion they choose, nor would it be construed as establishing an "official" religion. though this is not to say that there are not other issues concerning the legality or morality of abortion.
kodak is NOT going to stop selling film, they are only going to stop selling film cameras. And only in the US, Canada, and parts of europe. They make all their money on film anyway, not the hardware.
Having the luck to be near those bases when he needed to land is not a contingency plan. If he had told them ahead of time "hey, if I screw up I'm going to have to land there," then maybe I would call it a contingency plan.
Stay out of his way, folks. He don't give a shit. He's so bad ass to stand up to the mods like that. I only hope his act of bravery and courage will encourage others to not give a shit as well.
If you are watching a tv show while it is airing, tivo can't help you skip the commercials. If you record a tv show on a vcr and watch it later, you are going to skip the commercials anyway. What makes tivo such a huge threat to the industry? The biggest threat is from the advertising industry itself, they way they keep plastering companies fecal matter logos all over everything. It's already pissing people off, and they are just gonna get more pissed off in the future. It just shows that they have no faith in their product when they have to cram their product down your throat rather than let the product speak for itself.
5. The guy with the Lego site is probably tickled pink that his site just got a billion hits and probably doesn't mind things crawling to a halt for a while. It's his 15 minutes of internet fame.
yeah, but what about when that 15 minutes of Internet fames causes him or her to suddenly have a $400 bandwith bill?
All it's going to take is one person to hook the audio out from one computer to the audio in of another computer, and then you've got mp3s of the album. True, the quality may suffer a bit, but quality suffers jsut by converting to mp3 in the first place. Then they just put it up on some file-sharing system, and it a week it's all over the place, and all these music companies will have spent all that money for nothing, doing something that is illegal (last time i checked it was my right to make a copy of the music i own)
does anyone else besides me think that even though the whole "required back door in encryption" is getting alot of mention now, that it won't end up getting passed? i am going to have a little faith in my congress for once and hope that they realize that putting a back door in encryption will only make the criminals use encryption schemes without backdoors, thus defeating the purpose of the damn bill in the first place
eh, we have 6-8 machines running at all times in my apartment and it doesn't really affect the power that much. The key thing is to not run the monitors all the time, turn them off when not in use, those are the power hogs
Jeez, that's the last thing we need, the government to get involved. They can't even fix the problems that actaully matter (education, the enviroment, etc.). If the government owed the broadband infrastructure you can bet your ass they'd start introducing lots of legislation to regulate what goes on, and I'm sure most of us here wouldn't like that at all...
Luckily, my dad works for Toys R Us, and I had absolutly no problem securing my own PS2:) but as for the dvd playback quality, i have no problems with it. and if you don't have a hot shit top-of-the-line tv, you won't either.
Here at NOAA in Silver Spring, MD, we get 4 hours of paid leave and 4 hours of sick leave every 2 weeks. And I don't know how common this is among other departments in the government, but we can work extra hours one pay period, and use them for leave in another pay period. So considering this is a student job, i think this is great. but, having not been in the Real World yet, i don't know how this stacks up against it.
css was broken because it was discovered that one of the licensees didn't encrypt their decryption key (Xing Technologies). So all they had to do was reverse engineer the XingDVD player to get their key. once they had that, everything was pretty easy, since they could use that key to guess the others. So if it wasn't for that mistake, css might still be unbroken today
"Encryption" suggests that what is being done to the data is done so as to prevent unauthorized individuals from reading the data. Since anyone can easily convert ascii values to their corresponding values in a matter of seconds, i wouldn't exactly call that encryption...
If he is playing UO 24 hours a day, I don't think he has much of a problem paying attention to things. He just doesn't want to pay attention to the more inportant things (getting a job, graduating high school). This is why I think ADD is the biggest load of crap. Yeah, I sit in front of the computer for hours, but it's not ADD, it's choosing to ignore more important things (like schoolwork, etc).
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I don't really think it's the reason that gaming options for linux are as slim as they are, but it is certainly true that OpenGL lags behind DirectX. The OpenGL people spent a long time doing nothing, and during that time DirectX took the market.
If you deploy Linux, OS/X or any other operating system and hand over the root password (or sudo access) to a typical *user* it will get messed up too.
This is one of the huge differences between windows and linux. On windows you have to actively lock down the system to prevent the typical user from shooting them selves in the foot. On linux you just have to not give them the root password :)
1) It only prohibits the Federal Government from abridging the freedom of speech. Local state authorites are not Congress. It only prohibits Congress.
yes, and in some instances (maybe all? i'm not sure) federal law trumps local laws. that instance is specifically mentioned in the article, as to why Montgomery County's law about the display of obscene material does not apply in their public libraries.
2) It seperates the Government from the Church, not the church from the Government. This pharase "Seperation of church and state" is a bogus idea.
the constitution says that congress shall not make laws infringing a persons right to practice whatever religion they choose, nor shall they make any laws that could be construed as establishing an "official" religion. that is what the "separation of church and state" is. yes, that phrase is not in the constituion. jefferson used it when he responded to a letter written to him by a church in Connecticut, who were unhappy with the laws regarding religion in that state.
the constitution says nothing about not letting religion influence congress. so technically, there is nothing wrong with that. take abortion, for example. most people that want it outlawed probably base their reasons in religion. but if the law were to be overturned, the passage of that law would not infringe on a persons right to practice whatever religion they choose, nor would it be construed as establishing an "official" religion. though this is not to say that there are not other issues concerning the legality or morality of abortion.
kodak is NOT going to stop selling film, they are only going to stop selling film cameras. And only in the US, Canada, and parts of europe. They make all their money on film anyway, not the hardware.
Having the luck to be near those bases when he needed to land is not a contingency plan. If he had told them ahead of time "hey, if I screw up I'm going to have to land there," then maybe I would call it a contingency plan.
Stay out of his way, folks. He don't give a shit. He's so bad ass to stand up to the mods like that. I only hope his act of bravery and courage will encourage others to not give a shit as well.
I was wondering how long it would talk for someone to mention NGS and CORS (I work for NGS)
If you are watching a tv show while it is airing, tivo can't help you skip the commercials. If you record a tv show on a vcr and watch it later, you are going to skip the commercials anyway. What makes tivo such a huge threat to the industry? The biggest threat is from the advertising industry itself, they way they keep plastering companies fecal matter logos all over everything. It's already pissing people off, and they are just gonna get more pissed off in the future. It just shows that they have no faith in their product when they have to cram their product down your throat rather than let the product speak for itself.
5. The guy with the Lego site is probably tickled pink that his site just got a billion hits and probably doesn't mind things crawling to a halt for a while. It's his 15 minutes of internet fame.
yeah, but what about when that 15 minutes of Internet fames causes him or her to suddenly have a $400 bandwith bill?
Yeah, you're right, it's not a good business model, so I guess cable TV will be going out of business any day now?
ok, either you never had XM or you kept your radio on one station all the time, because that is a load of crap.
I am running Delorme StreetAtlas under wineX. It can track using a gps through the serial port, but audio navigation seems to crash the app.
does kapital support syncing with a palm device?
script kiddies don't write exploit scripts, they just use them
All it's going to take is one person to hook the audio out from one computer to the audio in of another computer, and then you've got mp3s of the album. True, the quality may suffer a bit, but quality suffers jsut by converting to mp3 in the first place. Then they just put it up on some file-sharing system, and it a week it's all over the place, and all these music companies will have spent all that money for nothing, doing something that is illegal (last time i checked it was my right to make a copy of the music i own)
does anyone else besides me think that even though the whole "required back door in encryption" is getting alot of mention now, that it won't end up getting passed? i am going to have a little faith in my congress for once and hope that they realize that putting a back door in encryption will only make the criminals use encryption schemes without backdoors, thus defeating the purpose of the damn bill in the first place
eh, we have 6-8 machines running at all times in my apartment and it doesn't really affect the power that much. The key thing is to not run the monitors all the time, turn them off when not in use, those are the power hogs
Jeez, that's the last thing we need, the government to get involved. They can't even fix the problems that actaully matter (education, the enviroment, etc.). If the government owed the broadband infrastructure you can bet your ass they'd start introducing lots of legislation to regulate what goes on, and I'm sure most of us here wouldn't like that at all...
Luckily, my dad works for Toys R Us, and I had absolutly no problem securing my own PS2 :) but as for the dvd playback quality, i have no problems with it. and if you don't have a hot shit top-of-the-line tv, you won't either.
#airyk
Here at NOAA in Silver Spring, MD, we get 4 hours of paid leave and 4 hours of sick leave every 2 weeks. And I don't know how common this is among other departments in the government, but we can work extra hours one pay period, and use them for leave in another pay period. So considering this is a student job, i think this is great. but, having not been in the Real World yet, i don't know how this stacks up against it.
#airyk
css was broken because it was discovered that one of the licensees didn't encrypt their decryption key (Xing Technologies). So all they had to do was reverse engineer the XingDVD player to get their key. once they had that, everything was pretty easy, since they could use that key to guess the others. So if it wasn't for that mistake, css might still be unbroken today
#airyk
"Encryption" suggests that what is being done to the data is done so as to prevent unauthorized individuals from reading the data. Since anyone can easily convert ascii values to their corresponding values in a matter of seconds, i wouldn't exactly call that encryption...
#airyk
If he is playing UO 24 hours a day, I don't think he has much of a problem paying attention to things. He just doesn't want to pay attention to the more inportant things (getting a job, graduating high school). This is why I think ADD is the biggest load of crap. Yeah, I sit in front of the computer for hours, but it's not ADD, it's choosing to ignore more important things (like schoolwork, etc).
#airyk
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