If you don't have the right to say "I hate niggers", nor I the right to say "Sit down and shutup you seppo cunt" when you do, neither of us are free. "Hate crime" legislation is obscene. Why should we be easier on murderers who kill people because they catch them fucking their wives, or for money, or for no reason at all? Prison time for being politically incorrect? Once it was politically incorrect for blacks and whites to marry. Should those people have been locked up simply because their actions violated the political norms of the time? It's the height of arrogance to believe that we've solved all the problems, and that the things society currently believes are what's right.
Firstly, I'm not "in line with Bush" because I'm not an american, and you guys are the only ones who think the republican/democrat choice makes a lick of difference to international policy and domestic rights-eroding. And how about 400 thousand people being drowned in the tsunami? There is a world outside of North America.
Wake up to yourself. I didn't say that it happens a lot to cities in the western world, or that global warming is bunk, or anything like that. And "all the time" doesn't mean a few times a year when we're talking about the timescales of human civilization. But whole cities do get flooded a few times a year, and the loss of entire cities isn't going to have a significant effect on civilization. That was my point.
Good old slashdot, always first to assume I'm a right-wing neocon nut and run off some anti-bush crap.
So a city got flooded and a few thousand people died. It happens all the time, and has for as long as we've built cities near bodies of water. Just because it finally happened in the US doesn't make it any bigger than it really is. Mankind (even organised society) still goes on.
Then they made me disable all messengers because people chat on them all day long.
Who gives a crap? If they're not working, then get rid of them because they're not working. If they're still producing an amount you're happy with, then who gives a shit if they're also talking to their girlfriend? Either way, banning IM doesn't help.
Well good for you buddy. But lots of people != statisticaly signifigant amount. Most people don't travel overseas a lot. Not to mention that it's to be expected that the crowd here on/. is more widely travelled, of higher intelligence, and makes more money than the average person. It's a hangout for people in IT.
Was it because you've an arab-sounding name? Or because you travel a lot, including eastern europe, and you're young enough that it's unlikely you're a CEO who needs to travel a lot?
Profiling doesn't always mean "picking on blacks and arabs".
If we're not expecting people to go to the moon until 2020 (WTF?), we've got a helluva long time before they get to mars. Start sending useful crap up there now, and land it all in more-or-less the same place. You know, send up some nuclear batteries, tools, building material, vitamin and nutrient supplements for people and plants, seeds, maybe some water and tinned beans or something. Anything that can be sent now with today's technology, and will last 20 or 30 years before it's needed on mars. And get today's other spacefaring nations to pitch in their part, actually pull one of those "unite the planet" things without requiring a disaster.
At least then we'll know the commitment is real and not just for the TV cameras.
Well, two 64bit runs is 128 bit encryption in that there are 2^128 different possible keys. But it's only as useful as 65 bit encryption because you only need to guess one half at a time. Its just so pantently stupid that it really took some work for me to wrap my head around a "for-dummies" explanation... Which I was promptly beaten to of course:)
No no no no no, things _are_ constantly getting cheaper, that's true. However that gap (and a bit more besides) is constantly being eaten up by the housing bubble. Don't get me wrong, I'm not entirely sure it's a bubble in that it will burst any time soon, I think there's a fair chance we'll end up with multi-generational homeloans and drift a fair way torwards serfdom before it happens.
First of all, I'm not a yank. Second of all, in WW2, you were at war. Currently, you're at war with North Korea, and that's about it. Without congress' vote, you're not at war. No matter what dubya says. No real war, so it can't really end.
"They" Don't really exist, not in the numbers we're constantly being warned about by our glorious protectors. It's so obscenely trivial to make a car bomb it's not funny. Even if you only killed 5 people with each one, I assure you 10 of those in a year would have a bigger impact on day-to-day life in New York than the WTC. If there were that many would-be terrorists out there, we'd be attacked all the time.
But you know, pouring billions of dollars of taxpayer money into local security firms makes everybody feel safe, because politicians can say "$X million is being spent on airport security" and for large enough values of X, TV tells Joe Sixpack to be happy.
Lousy society, so quick to be scared and browbeaten into acceptance by those in power, we deserve everything we get. When the government can usurp power and money simply by declaring "war" on an concept such as "terror" or "drugs", it's a sure sign we're on our way out unless some serious changes come along.
Pppht! Apple's most assuredly in the commodity market. It's a digital audio player company that happens to also sell (very nice) commodity x86 computers. Do you think Ferarri is in the car business, or the racing business? They're in the clothing business, and they sell expensive cars and race in order to promote their brand.
Anybody who wants to run OS X but doesn't want to pay the apple premium (or already has hardware, like myself) can. And does. Therefore "the ability to run OS X" as a stand-alone product is no longer driving sales of their hardware. The strength of the brand, the ipod halo effect, and the "end-to-end package" is what sells Macs. Anybody who wants the complete end-to-end package will be buying a Mac wether or not you can get OS X on a shelf. These are the people who buy a Dell even though they can get the same thing for $100 less at the local computer store.
Some people would like a legal version they can auto-update and feel good about. Right now, they're stuffed.
Already the case. No, Apple own't Open source OSX, but they will eventually put it on shelves. Because Dell would like to sell it to you. And I would like to buy it. Windows exploded and killed itself "for no raisin" for the last time this weekend, and it's getting replace with OS X. I have a mac laptop, I'm already paying for OS X. but I also have a reasonably high end wintel workstation that I've already sunk thousands into and is a year away from needing replacement. If I could buy OS X for intel to run on it I would, but I can't so thepiratebay it is. Yar!
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But it would just get torn down by some god damn mongolians.
It's not worth it. If the people actually knew just how good the rest of the world has it, there'd be a revolution in about 30 minutes.
Nokia 6131... I want to make sweet sweet love to mine. In the same way I do to my iBook really. And iPhone would have to ROCK to get my money.
Wait a minute... Dick York... Dick Seargent... Seargent York!
If you don't have the right to say "I hate niggers", nor I the right to say "Sit down and shutup you seppo cunt" when you do, neither of us are free. "Hate crime" legislation is obscene. Why should we be easier on murderers who kill people because they catch them fucking their wives, or for money, or for no reason at all? Prison time for being politically incorrect? Once it was politically incorrect for blacks and whites to marry. Should those people have been locked up simply because their actions violated the political norms of the time? It's the height of arrogance to believe that we've solved all the problems, and that the things society currently believes are what's right.
I'll take an aged wine over a glass of grape juice any day.
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Sounds like you've forgotten just how nice the boobs of an 18 year old girl can be
Firstly, I'm not "in line with Bush" because I'm not an american, and you guys are the only ones who think the republican/democrat choice makes a lick of difference to international policy and domestic rights-eroding. And how about 400 thousand people being drowned in the tsunami? There is a world outside of North America.
Wake up to yourself. I didn't say that it happens a lot to cities in the western world, or that global warming is bunk, or anything like that. And "all the time" doesn't mean a few times a year when we're talking about the timescales of human civilization. But whole cities do get flooded a few times a year, and the loss of entire cities isn't going to have a significant effect on civilization. That was my point.
Good old slashdot, always first to assume I'm a right-wing neocon nut and run off some anti-bush crap.
So a city got flooded and a few thousand people died. It happens all the time, and has for as long as we've built cities near bodies of water. Just because it finally happened in the US doesn't make it any bigger than it really is. Mankind (even organised society) still goes on.
Then they made me disable all messengers because people chat on them all day long.
Who gives a crap? If they're not working, then get rid of them because they're not working. If they're still producing an amount you're happy with, then who gives a shit if they're also talking to their girlfriend? Either way, banning IM doesn't help.
Well good for you buddy. But lots of people != statisticaly signifigant amount. Most people don't travel overseas a lot. Not to mention that it's to be expected that the crowd here on /. is more widely travelled, of higher intelligence, and makes more money than the average person. It's a hangout for people in IT.
Was it because you've an arab-sounding name? Or because you travel a lot, including eastern europe, and you're young enough that it's unlikely you're a CEO who needs to travel a lot?
Profiling doesn't always mean "picking on blacks and arabs".
jEdit is your friend!
If we're not expecting people to go to the moon until 2020 (WTF?), we've got a helluva long time before they get to mars. Start sending useful crap up there now, and land it all in more-or-less the same place. You know, send up some nuclear batteries, tools, building material, vitamin and nutrient supplements for people and plants, seeds, maybe some water and tinned beans or something. Anything that can be sent now with today's technology, and will last 20 or 30 years before it's needed on mars. And get today's other spacefaring nations to pitch in their part, actually pull one of those "unite the planet" things without requiring a disaster.
At least then we'll know the commitment is real and not just for the TV cameras.
Well, two 64bit runs is 128 bit encryption in that there are 2^128 different possible keys. But it's only as useful as 65 bit encryption because you only need to guess one half at a time. Its just so pantently stupid that it really took some work for me to wrap my head around a "for-dummies" explanation... Which I was promptly beaten to of course :)
No no no no no, things _are_ constantly getting cheaper, that's true. However that gap (and a bit more besides) is constantly being eaten up by the housing bubble. Don't get me wrong, I'm not entirely sure it's a bubble in that it will burst any time soon, I think there's a fair chance we'll end up with multi-generational homeloans and drift a fair way torwards serfdom before it happens.
Then why do you bounce around on the moon?
I've never seen any mathematical proof that heavy things don't fall faster than light things. F=Gm/d^2.
First of all, I'm not a yank. Second of all, in WW2, you were at war. Currently, you're at war with North Korea, and that's about it. Without congress' vote, you're not at war. No matter what dubya says. No real war, so it can't really end.
"They" Don't really exist, not in the numbers we're constantly being warned about by our glorious protectors. It's so obscenely trivial to make a car bomb it's not funny. Even if you only killed 5 people with each one, I assure you 10 of those in a year would have a bigger impact on day-to-day life in New York than the WTC. If there were that many would-be terrorists out there, we'd be attacked all the time.
But you know, pouring billions of dollars of taxpayer money into local security firms makes everybody feel safe, because politicians can say "$X million is being spent on airport security" and for large enough values of X, TV tells Joe Sixpack to be happy.
Lousy society, so quick to be scared and browbeaten into acceptance by those in power, we deserve everything we get. When the government can usurp power and money simply by declaring "war" on an concept such as "terror" or "drugs", it's a sure sign we're on our way out unless some serious changes come along.
Pppht! Apple's most assuredly in the commodity market. It's a digital audio player company that happens to also sell (very nice) commodity x86 computers. Do you think Ferarri is in the car business, or the racing business? They're in the clothing business, and they sell expensive cars and race in order to promote their brand.
Anybody who wants to run OS X but doesn't want to pay the apple premium (or already has hardware, like myself) can. And does. Therefore "the ability to run OS X" as a stand-alone product is no longer driving sales of their hardware. The strength of the brand, the ipod halo effect, and the "end-to-end package" is what sells Macs. Anybody who wants the complete end-to-end package will be buying a Mac wether or not you can get OS X on a shelf. These are the people who buy a Dell even though they can get the same thing for $100 less at the local computer store.
Some people would like a legal version they can auto-update and feel good about. Right now, they're stuffed.
Already the case. No, Apple own't Open source OSX, but they will eventually put it on shelves. Because Dell would like to sell it to you. And I would like to buy it. Windows exploded and killed itself "for no raisin" for the last time this weekend, and it's getting replace with OS X. I have a mac laptop, I'm already paying for OS X. but I also have a reasonably high end wintel workstation that I've already sunk thousands into and is a year away from needing replacement. If I could buy OS X for intel to run on it I would, but I can't so thepiratebay it is. Yar!
Close, my friend. It's not all about the Ds, It's all about the DS. The platform game is doing just fine.
To get the name out there. Now, people associate the name Bugatti with the best sportscar ever built or likely to be built in the next 20-40 years.
They Veyron also costs about 3 or 4 times as much to make as it does to buy. Not exactly something one could base a business around.