I was in brazil and I needed to get some cash, so I went to an ATM machine but all I could see on the screen was the NT4 workstation login screen. It'd be neat to find out what percentages of os's run on ATMs...
Of course, if you get too popular, people will just put your entire CD on napster, and that would suck, I know that a lot of people go out and buy CDs after they find cool artists on napster, but a lot of people dont, and that would make it hard on that lonely musician.
I'm a newbie to linux kernels, and I dont understand a lot of the termonology flying around. I.E. What is a spinlock? What's the difference between a dirty page and a clean page? What is a page? Anyhoo, is there a page that explains some kernel terminology and maybe gives a conceptual map of it?
The funny thing is...the left has been suppressing the 2nd amendment for a while now. Of course, I dont agree with what ashcroft said. But I thought it was kinda ironic.
1. the punchcards like to put a mark between two check boxes. And if I know what your referring too, I think that they also put an arrow. The last option is always to ask the guy who is paid to anwser questions. He's there, if you have a question...then ask him...jeeze.
2. it is apparent that the general population is incredibly confused when it comes to using the systems (as simple as they are). If your educated enough to understand why your voting for a person, then you should be able to do the things above. If you dont know why your voting for a person....then why are you voting? And I also take issue with you saying that the general population is incredibily confused as to how to use the ballot. Beyond the confusion in florida(which I'm still doubting, I think that it was brought up by the telemarketing campaign that was paid for by the DNC), I havnt heard of any other confusion however, I might be wrong so feel free to post some articles depicting the massive large-scale confustion you talk about.
If the votes are h@x0red after the election, will it be possible to detect that fact? (I.e., there won't be any physical ballots to recount.)
I dont know about the other ones, but if I remember right, each terminal prints out a paper trail after every vote so you could check them manually. If they had SS#'s or something, you could crosscheck them to see if the people were actually registered.
The moment Linux games have more FPS than Windows ones these things will be just a matter of time.
Have you played Q3 under linux? I get about 10 more FPS on linux than I do with windows with higher detail settings. I play HL under wine(emulated) and I get the same amount of FPS. What are you talking about?
But I think you miss the big point here. One of the reasons a lot of people dont ditch windows is because of lack of game support(myself included). If you want Linux to take over what's almost completely a windows market (gamers) then your gonna need a company that ports games.
Dont forget that when a liberal uses the term 'cut', there isnt necessarily a decrease in funds. To liberals, the term 'Cut' is defined as "If I want X amount of dollars, and I dont get it, it's a cut. And no, the fact that our budget is increasing doesnt matter either"
Sheesh.
You know what would really cut the fat in government spending? Making each burocracy(sp?)ify each expense they make to someone higher on the totem pole. Think about it, where else in the world can a buisness(the government) ask and recieve money without justifying the expense? -Bucky
The few, the proud, the conservative.
are you kidding? have you been to school anytime in the last 50 years?? the internet is about the only way to get recent information on most topics..
Kinda funny considering the internet as we know it today has only been around for the past 10 years, tops.... -Bucky
The few, the proud, the conservative.
I remember hearing somewhere that kids lose pretty much all of their rights at school. I never understood how...I never saw this in the constitution:
People have the right to freedom speach and freedom of the press(paraphrase)...unless your at school.
But that's beside the point...does anyone know if they lose a right that they would need to battle this? I'm not really sure as to how far we lose rights at school, so that would be interesting....
-Bucky
The few, the proud, the conservative.
Yeah, but wouldnt it have been bad if the inventers of the PCI bus sued apple for having PCI busses in their computers? What about ram? You cant just sue people left and right because they have something similar....
Of course, if the code was being d/l'd from the web every time you ran it, you wouldnt need a packaging program. It would allocate ram/disk space and then when you close it, it would delete it. Although, some terminals would have the option of caching data....Hmmm, then every program could be put into a seperate filesystem, and all you would need was a simple decompression program. Since every program was in a seperate filesystem, there would be no program confilcts because, as far as each program is concerned, it's by itself in it's own little filespace
I disagree. Although some programs can be run over the Web, why would you want to? If I had the option to run a word processer program, or a word processer applet, I'd chose the program any day. Why? Because of the speed/security aspects. I really dont like the idea of running executable code from the web everytime i want to do something, can you imagine the fun that hackers would have with that?
There's more programs that couldnt/shouldnt be run from the web than ones that should. Can you imagine trying to run Quake over the web? What about other processer intensive applications?(seti@home, apache ect...). I dont see a day when people will give up performance/security just so that there can be a unified OS......I just cant see it./rant
-Bucky
The few, the proud, the conservative.
Man, I hope that they dont cut out scenes... Every good anime I have see has been a OVA subbed tape, because americans tend to cut out all the good stuff
My $.02 -Bucky
The few, the proud, the conservative.
Yeah, due to unions, if you work at an auto plant, you can: not goto work for 2 weeks, protest in front of your office, and expect to get your job back. How is that good for the economy? I've always thought that unions had a place, but that they were outdated now. Now, it's just extortion (either you give me this, or we wont work).
Of course, that's just how I see it -Bucky
The few, the proud, the conservative.
(2) This is not "bogus science." The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is the single most authoritative source on this topic.
It still doesnt escape the fact that they are humans, with data collected over the past 100 or so years, trying to predict the weather 100's of years in advance. Heck, we dont have the power to say with great accuracy that tomorrow will be sunny, much less predicting a 5.8 degree climate change over the next few years
-Bucky
The few, the proud, the conservative.
Yes you are correct - chlorine does destroy Ozone. But chlorine on it's *own* isn't a problem - it would never get high enough in the atmosphere to react with the ozone layer. It would get rained out as hydrochloric acid.
Remind me to not go play in the rain any more, somehow the idea of me getting hydrochloric acid on me, even if it is dilute, sounds bad. I may be wrong about this, but if a volcano was strong enough, couldnt it launch the chlorine above that layer of the atmosphere that causes rain? Then it would be able to float around for a while, right?
-Bucky
The few, the proud, the conservative.
Slashdot Mirror
I was in brazil and I needed to get some cash, so I went to an ATM machine but all I could see on the screen was the NT4 workstation login screen. It'd be neat to find out what percentages of os's run on ATMs...
Sega Bass Fishing???
You looked forward to a ps2 for that? Man, I feel bad for you
Of course, if you get too popular, people will just put your entire CD on napster, and that would suck, I know that a lot of people go out and buy CDs after they find cool artists on napster, but a lot of people dont, and that would make it hard on that lonely musician.
Should they also provide the bandwidth for free? Should the server ops run the servers for free?
Hey,
I'm a newbie to linux kernels, and I dont understand a lot of the termonology flying around. I.E. What is a spinlock? What's the difference between a dirty page and a clean page? What is a page? Anyhoo, is there a page that explains some kernel terminology and maybe gives a conceptual map of it?
Thanks-
Buck
Encode it at 320kbps and I think it's CD-Quality
But if you hit me, and I hit you back...And then several years later, you hit me and tried to cripple me, I would seriously be whooping up on you.
Ashcroft tells it all [democrats.com]
The funny thing is...the left has been suppressing the 2nd amendment for a while now. Of course, I dont agree with what ashcroft said. But I thought it was kinda ironic.
That's just sad
1. the punchcards like to put a mark between two check boxes.
And if I know what your referring too, I think that they also put an arrow. The last option is always to ask the guy who is paid to anwser questions. He's there, if you have a question...then ask him...jeeze.
2. it is apparent that the general population is incredibly confused when it comes to using the systems (as simple as they are).
If your educated enough to understand why your voting for a person, then you should be able to do the things above. If you dont know why your voting for a person....then why are you voting? And I also take issue with you saying that the general population is incredibily confused as to how to use the ballot. Beyond the confusion in florida(which I'm still doubting, I think that it was brought up by the telemarketing campaign that was paid for by the DNC), I havnt heard of any other confusion however, I might be wrong so feel free to post some articles depicting the massive large-scale confustion you talk about.
I have to use the ms-dos prompt a lot...it helps when you wanna type a:\>Format c:
If the votes are h@x0red after the election, will it be possible to detect that fact? (I.e., there won't be any physical ballots to recount.) I dont know about the other ones, but if I remember right, each terminal prints out a paper trail after every vote so you could check them manually. If they had SS#'s or something, you could crosscheck them to see if the people were actually registered.
The moment Linux games have more FPS than Windows ones these things will be just a matter of time.
Have you played Q3 under linux? I get about 10 more FPS on linux than I do with windows with higher detail settings. I play HL under wine(emulated) and I get the same amount of FPS. What are you talking about?
But I think you miss the big point here. One of the reasons a lot of people dont ditch windows is because of lack of game support(myself included). If you want Linux to take over what's almost completely a windows market (gamers) then your gonna need a company that ports games.
Dont forget that when a liberal uses the term 'cut', there isnt necessarily a decrease in funds. To liberals, the term 'Cut' is defined as "If I want X amount of dollars, and I dont get it, it's a cut. And no, the fact that our budget is increasing doesnt matter either" Sheesh. You know what would really cut the fat in government spending? Making each burocracy(sp?)ify each expense they make to someone higher on the totem pole. Think about it, where else in the world can a buisness(the government) ask and recieve money without justifying the expense?
-Bucky
The few, the proud, the conservative.
are you kidding? have you been to school anytime in the last 50 years?? the internet is about the only way to get recent information on most topics..
Kinda funny considering the internet as we know it today has only been around for the past 10 years, tops....
-Bucky
The few, the proud, the conservative.
I remember hearing somewhere that kids lose pretty much all of their rights at school. I never understood how...I never saw this in the constitution:
People have the right to freedom speach and freedom of the press(paraphrase)...unless your at school.
But that's beside the point...does anyone know if they lose a right that they would need to battle this? I'm not really sure as to how far we lose rights at school, so that would be interesting....
-Bucky
The few, the proud, the conservative.
Yeah, but wouldnt it have been bad if the inventers of the PCI bus sued apple for having PCI busses in their computers? What about ram? You cant just sue people left and right because they have something similar....
-Bucky
The few, the proud, the conservative.
Of course, if the code was being d/l'd from the web every time you ran it, you wouldnt need a packaging program. It would allocate ram/disk space and then when you close it, it would delete it. Although, some terminals would have the option of caching data....Hmmm, then every program could be put into a seperate filesystem, and all you would need was a simple decompression program. Since every program was in a seperate filesystem, there would be no program confilcts because, as far as each program is concerned, it's by itself in it's own little filespace
Just a thought...
-Bucky
The few, the proud, the conservative.
I disagree. Although some programs can be run over the Web, why would you want to? If I had the option to run a word processer program, or a word processer applet, I'd chose the program any day. Why? Because of the speed/security aspects. I really dont like the idea of running executable code from the web everytime i want to do something, can you imagine the fun that hackers would have with that?
/rant
There's more programs that couldnt/shouldnt be run from the web than ones that should. Can you imagine trying to run Quake over the web? What about other processer intensive applications?(seti@home, apache ect...). I dont see a day when people will give up performance/security just so that there can be a unified OS......I just cant see it.
-Bucky
The few, the proud, the conservative.
Man, I hope that they dont cut out scenes... Every good anime I have see has been a OVA subbed tape, because americans tend to cut out all the good stuff
My $.02
-Bucky
The few, the proud, the conservative.
Yeah, due to unions, if you work at an auto plant, you can: not goto work for 2 weeks, protest in front of your office, and expect to get your job back. How is that good for the economy? I've always thought that unions had a place, but that they were outdated now. Now, it's just extortion (either you give me this, or we wont work). Of course, that's just how I see it
-Bucky
The few, the proud, the conservative.
I got a flamebait for that? Bad moderation at work :(
-Bucky
The few, the proud, the conservative.
(2) This is not "bogus science." The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is the single most authoritative source on this topic.
It still doesnt escape the fact that they are humans, with data collected over the past 100 or so years, trying to predict the weather 100's of years in advance. Heck, we dont have the power to say with great accuracy that tomorrow will be sunny, much less predicting a 5.8 degree climate change over the next few years
-Bucky
The few, the proud, the conservative.
Yes you are correct - chlorine does destroy Ozone. But chlorine on it's *own* isn't a problem - it would never get high enough in the atmosphere to react with the ozone layer. It would get rained out as hydrochloric acid.
Remind me to not go play in the rain any more, somehow the idea of me getting hydrochloric acid on me, even if it is dilute, sounds bad. I may be wrong about this, but if a volcano was strong enough, couldnt it launch the chlorine above that layer of the atmosphere that causes rain? Then it would be able to float around for a while, right?
-Bucky
The few, the proud, the conservative.