Hahah, you're great. I guess you're some rich loser who lives in an environmentally isolated bubble who has nothing better to do than post AC on/. all day.
Fine fine, call it a right or a government handout or whatever, but when you're bribing your congressmen to keep it out of the hands of the people, just remember you can't bribe viruses and bacteria. No amount of money will save you when you contract a superstrain of TB from someone who couldn't afford to take a full course of antibiotics. You can't buy immunity from the SARS that your part-time employee brought to your company because you didn't pay them enough to get their own healthcare or give them health insurance, and they decided that their cough would go away in a couple of days.
You could at least have posted with an account so I'd know who to personally thank when we all start breaking out in spots. Do you think your money will buy you a smallpox vaccine that doesn't exist? After all, its your kind who has decided that the government will not spend the money to order enough to stockpile it.
You're missing the fact that not everyone down here at the bottom started down here. Take, for example, the well paid "secure" jobs at Enron. I wonder how many middle class families dropped into the poverty level after that executive fuckup?
Maybe in these cases, the C*Os of the companies who made the decisions to destroy the lives of these innocent children should be forced to pay for their upbringing, medical care, and college tuition. Maybe if there were real penalties for their misbehaviour, they would begin to act more responsibly as well.
Though I bet that would go over just as terribly, only that in this case, the C*Os would have the cash to slip to their congressmen to make sure it never happens.
Ok, I'm going to have to shoot this down now. If infectious disease healthcare does not become a right in the next few years, I predict that there will be serious repercussions due to the current terror environment: it just takes one indiginant with smallpox who can't afford to see the doctor about his rashes to kill us all.
Well, sorry for you my friend, but it's your turn. Go somewhere where your competences will be welcome
AHAHAHAHAH I love it when people keep telling us Americans that. So tell me, what other country was corrupt/stupid enough to implement an H1B-type program to allow foreign workers to come in and take over citizens' jobs in an easily abusable fashion? Who out there is opening their arms to an influx of Americans? Not India, thats for sure.
Try inventing something in your garage while working at McDonalds.
And if you fail to invent something marketable? The last of your money down the drain? There are 300,000,000+ people here in America. It is impossible for everyone to be Einstein, Bell, Newton, or Edison. Maybe it hasn't occurred to you, but it takes a certain amount of something special to think up new ideas. Even if you came up with the next big whizbang invention, it takes a certain amount of capital to make a company out of it.
Or is this the new class-ism: "Invent, or you deserve to starve slowly as you watch your children wither from diseases you can't afford to have treated?" This is America the Great?
"Then don't have children" thats the next cry I hear. Does that mean that you give your permission for the aforementioned starving people should dice up their children and have some nice stew? Not everyone down here started out poor. I wonder what the employees at Enron thought of their nice jobs, happily growing and supporting their families, thinking they had security? I personally don't have a family, and I don't intend to until I have an actual stable nest egg to support it in times of such crisis, but that was a decision based on hindsight.
"Benedict Arnold" is permissible political hyperbole to be used against people whose economic policies you think undermine the American national interest
Thats easy. The people who are being laid off are seeing how the corps are giving aid to other countries in the form of jobs, at the expense of citizens of their own countries. Thus, these corporations are traitors to their former members by action. Whether or not this is treason against America is barely debatable, and any attempt would probably turn into a playground brawl between whiny brats, with the they're-traitors faction ending up with the black eye.
why isn't "traitor" permissible political hyperbole to be used against people whose foreign policy you think undermines the American national interest?
Thats also easy. People have the right to disagree with the majority decision without fear of retribution. Otherwise, the republicans could simply take a vote now to exterminate all the democrats and anyone who didn't vote for Bush (weren't you there when they were handing out armbands at the polls?) Having an opposing viewpoint does not make you a traitor.
Now, if these people start hurting citizens or the government through their actions, such as donating money to terrorist organizations, blowing up a few buildings, or showing up at the airport with a bomb, that would make you a traitor, by your action.
Move to India and start living it the same standard of living and Indian programmer lives.
Great idea. Shame that companies and governments have conspired to screw the commoners over when it comes to globalism. India isn't accepting immigrants from the US. Importing goods is still a grey market situation at the consumer end (and in cases black market at the importer level). Tariffs (made by the government, backed by the companies) make sure that you, the consumer, never enjoy the cheaper fruits of overseas labor.
If the companies want to outsource their labor to other places, then I say let them. And let the rest of us import cheaper goods from those other places as well. If the companies can take advantage of child labor, lax environmental laws, and lack of labor protection, why shouldn't we?
If you want to solve the problem, start enforcing manditory sterilization for the poor.
Interesting concept. "Here, here's your welfare check. By the way, if you submit to this free surgical procedure, we'll give you more money than you would if you spent years spitting out babies."
Though maybe it would be better to give every window a toolbar rather than the right-click menu
Gimp 2.0 does this. Each image window has its own menubar now.
I definitely much prefer the dialog-based MDI to Photoshop's parent-window business.
Seconded. Its useful to be able to work on a picture while seeing/manipulating something else (like a website). Without having to buy a second monitor. The only thing that the parent window gives Photoshop is the ability to bring all the widgets to the top at once (by raising the focus of the parent window), something that could be hacked into Gimp 2.0 without giving up the ability to have some parts behind other windows where they are out of the way.
How would you like someone to reverse engineer the ATM network for your bank, then use their own unauthenticated clients to connect to your bank's ATM network and submit transactions to your bank?
If they did it without stealing my money, it'd be great, especially if they charged less than the average rate for transactions, say 50 cents.
Now, if you're talking about someone connecting to the network and using a copy of my card to take money out of my account, there is a whole seperate set of laws that apply to that.
It's not the reverse engineering that's the problem, it's the piggy backing on anothers network that's the issue.
Kazaa owns the ethernet running into my computer? If not, then how can they claim it is theirs? It consists of neither their equipment nor their content. Writing the program doesn't magically make the network belong to them any more than the webservers all belong to Mozilla, Opera, lynx, or Microsoft.
Sort of like giving away staplers and charging lots for staples.
More like patenting the staple, then licensing it only for use with your stapler and your staple. Then, suing everyone who sells other companies' paper for allowing their end users to infringe on that licensed use. Since its obvious that the only usage of paper is to be illegally stapled, despite that a few minority freaks claim they don't use staples at all.
I know people who use Red Hat 7.3 for servers still and as long as the hard drive is alive and assuming they don't kill the OS, it will be running for a long time to come.
Ahahahahah, and you call debian aged? At least with debian I'd know that I'd have security updates forever (including an automatic upgrade to the new stable, whenever that happens) and not have to worry about things like buying a legacy support contract from fedora.
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So they acknowledge that the unauthorized copying of music is illegal
Copying? The tool specifically takes a song you have bought, the key that you have bought to play that song, applies the key to the song and uses it to remove the DRM. Lets say that I delete the original file afterwards, in which case the net IP "possession" is unchanged: I have one instance of a song I bought, only now I am no longer beholden to the artifical monopoly of things-capable-of-playing-this-song.
Wow nice chart. That tells you all about how many full time jobs were lost, only to be replaced by how many part time jobs (yeah, the bush administration just talks about "new jobs" but fail to point out that the majority of them are part time jobs with no benefits). Also tells you all about the real unemployment rate (ie, the number of people who are unemployed, not the government's lame way of not counting people who haven't been able to get a job for so long that they have dropped off the government paycheck).
noiz2sa - SDL Aleph One - SDL/OpenGL BZ Flag - OpenGL Egoboo - SDL/OpenGL PoopemUp - SDL/OpenGL Neverwinter Nights - SDL/OpenGL Not to mention all the Loki titles that used SDL (heck, didn't they develop it in the first place?): Myth, Rune, Civ3,Sim City 3000, Tribes 2, Alpha Centauri, and so on Don't forget the billion or so Doom/Quake/Wolfenstein 3D ports/spinoffs.
who writes consumer software these days based on the assumption that the consumer is going to read the instructions?
Software isn't like your kid's playground set, where you can ditch the instructions and just stick tab A in slot B and sue the maker when it falls down and kills your kids. (at least until EULAs are struck down in court)
Maybe if consumers would read the instructions they wouldn't be (on the whole) a mass of ignorant idiots who apparently exist to make problems and keep help lines busy.
looks like as long as you use MS_SYNC as a flag, on a file on local hardware, you can trust that the data is at the harddrive, if not on it (thanks to the drive cache). Not sure what happens if you try this on a network file system, whether it forces the hosting computer to flush to disk, or if it only forces the local computer to flush to the host.
As for order of pending writes, I don't think you get to have a say on any particular writes, but you can sync after writing to commit everything so far.
Not that copying dvds to vhs (why?!) is the only reason to disable macrovision out there. My family has a 15+ year old TV that still works perfectly fine, and was a giant screen for that day and age. Only problem is that it only has a coax input. So we have to plug everything into a VCR we bought. And to keep it all from looking like crap thanks to macrovision, we managed to find a vcr that was good enough to not pick up the signal. (Pretty nice deal, multiple RCA inputs, front inputs, probably a professional model.) Now our directv and dvds look just fine. (Directv has a coax out, which we used until we got the DVD player.)
It should be really interesting to see how quickly this gets adopted. Like you say the model is really similar to DIVX and people in general just do not like rentals.
I suspect the parent has the wrong idea in connecting this to DIVX. With DIVX you received a permanent object that was "yours". And yet you still had to pay to use it. This is what caused consumers to dislike the idea. There is just something psychological about paying money and getting a physical object.
With this, its clear that there is a rental structure in place, even if (especially if) the medium is entirely electronic. There might be other considerations (will these players play my mp3s? if so, why rent music, if not, why buy the player?) If you look at Blockbusters, you can see that the rental concept is alive and kicking, even if it has been having economy-related-issues.
The super-portable camp wants something that's convenient to take anywhere without being a burden. Size, weight and battery life are more important than power, peripherals and screen size.
I'm in this camp. What I want from a laptop is a nice slim laptop...
with a 10 pound lithium ion slab that mounts underneath it for road trips and other long flights.
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Hahah, you're great. I guess you're some rich loser who lives in an environmentally isolated bubble who has nothing better to do than post AC on /. all day.
Fine fine, call it a right or a government handout or whatever, but when you're bribing your congressmen to keep it out of the hands of the people, just remember you can't bribe viruses and bacteria. No amount of money will save you when you contract a superstrain of TB from someone who couldn't afford to take a full course of antibiotics. You can't buy immunity from the SARS that your part-time employee brought to your company because you didn't pay them enough to get their own healthcare or give them health insurance, and they decided that their cough would go away in a couple of days.
You could at least have posted with an account so I'd know who to personally thank when we all start breaking out in spots. Do you think your money will buy you a smallpox vaccine that doesn't exist? After all, its your kind who has decided that the government will not spend the money to order enough to stockpile it.
You're missing the fact that not everyone down here at the bottom started down here. Take, for example, the well paid "secure" jobs at Enron. I wonder how many middle class families dropped into the poverty level after that executive fuckup?
Maybe in these cases, the C*Os of the companies who made the decisions to destroy the lives of these innocent children should be forced to pay for their upbringing, medical care, and college tuition. Maybe if there were real penalties for their misbehaviour, they would begin to act more responsibly as well.
Though I bet that would go over just as terribly, only that in this case, the C*Os would have the cash to slip to their congressmen to make sure it never happens.
Healthcare is not a right.
Ok, I'm going to have to shoot this down now. If infectious disease healthcare does not become a right in the next few years, I predict that there will be serious repercussions due to the current terror environment: it just takes one indiginant with smallpox who can't afford to see the doctor about his rashes to kill us all.
Well, sorry for you my friend, but it's your turn. Go somewhere where your competences will be welcome
AHAHAHAHAH I love it when people keep telling us Americans that. So tell me, what other country was corrupt/stupid enough to implement an H1B-type program to allow foreign workers to come in and take over citizens' jobs in an easily abusable fashion? Who out there is opening their arms to an influx of Americans? Not India, thats for sure.
Try inventing something in your garage while working at McDonalds.
And if you fail to invent something marketable? The last of your money down the drain? There are 300,000,000+ people here in America. It is impossible for everyone to be Einstein, Bell, Newton, or Edison. Maybe it hasn't occurred to you, but it takes a certain amount of something special to think up new ideas. Even if you came up with the next big whizbang invention, it takes a certain amount of capital to make a company out of it.
Or is this the new class-ism: "Invent, or you deserve to starve slowly as you watch your children wither from diseases you can't afford to have treated?" This is America the Great?
"Then don't have children" thats the next cry I hear. Does that mean that you give your permission for the aforementioned starving people should dice up their children and have some nice stew? Not everyone down here started out poor. I wonder what the employees at Enron thought of their nice jobs, happily growing and supporting their families, thinking they had security? I personally don't have a family, and I don't intend to until I have an actual stable nest egg to support it in times of such crisis, but that was a decision based on hindsight.
"Benedict Arnold" is permissible political hyperbole to be used against people whose economic policies you think undermine the American national interest
Thats easy. The people who are being laid off are seeing how the corps are giving aid to other countries in the form of jobs, at the expense of citizens of their own countries. Thus, these corporations are traitors to their former members by action. Whether or not this is treason against America is barely debatable, and any attempt would probably turn into a playground brawl between whiny brats, with the they're-traitors faction ending up with the black eye.
why isn't "traitor" permissible political hyperbole to be used against people whose foreign policy you think undermines the American national interest?
Thats also easy. People have the right to disagree with the majority decision without fear of retribution. Otherwise, the republicans could simply take a vote now to exterminate all the democrats and anyone who didn't vote for Bush (weren't you there when they were handing out armbands at the polls?) Having an opposing viewpoint does not make you a traitor.
Now, if these people start hurting citizens or the government through their actions, such as donating money to terrorist organizations, blowing up a few buildings, or showing up at the airport with a bomb, that would make you a traitor, by your action.
Move to India and start living it the same standard of living and Indian programmer lives.
Great idea. Shame that companies and governments have conspired to screw the commoners over when it comes to globalism. India isn't accepting immigrants from the US. Importing goods is still a grey market situation at the consumer end (and in cases black market at the importer level). Tariffs (made by the government, backed by the companies) make sure that you, the consumer, never enjoy the cheaper fruits of overseas labor.
If the companies want to outsource their labor to other places, then I say let them. And let the rest of us import cheaper goods from those other places as well. If the companies can take advantage of child labor, lax environmental laws, and lack of labor protection, why shouldn't we?
If you want to solve the problem, start enforcing manditory sterilization for the poor.
Interesting concept. "Here, here's your welfare check. By the way, if you submit to this free surgical procedure, we'll give you more money than you would if you spent years spitting out babies."
Wonder how well that would go over with everyone.
nevertheless be eagerly paid by a grateful public.
You mean a grateful employed public. You know, the kind that actually has money to spend?
Though maybe it would be better to give every window a toolbar rather than the right-click menu
Gimp 2.0 does this. Each image window has its own menubar now.
I definitely much prefer the dialog-based MDI to Photoshop's parent-window business.
Seconded. Its useful to be able to work on a picture while seeing/manipulating something else (like a website). Without having to buy a second monitor. The only thing that the parent window gives Photoshop is the ability to bring all the widgets to the top at once (by raising the focus of the parent window), something that could be hacked into Gimp 2.0 without giving up the ability to have some parts behind other windows where they are out of the way.
How would you like someone to reverse engineer the ATM network for your bank, then use their own unauthenticated clients to connect to your bank's ATM network and submit transactions to your bank?
If they did it without stealing my money, it'd be great, especially if they charged less than the average rate for transactions, say 50 cents.
Now, if you're talking about someone connecting to the network and using a copy of my card to take money out of my account, there is a whole seperate set of laws that apply to that.
It's not the reverse engineering that's the problem, it's the piggy backing on anothers network that's the issue.
Kazaa owns the ethernet running into my computer? If not, then how can they claim it is theirs? It consists of neither their equipment nor their content. Writing the program doesn't magically make the network belong to them any more than the webservers all belong to Mozilla, Opera, lynx, or Microsoft.
dammit, too early in the morning here. I meant to say licensing it for use with your stapler and your paper.
Sort of like giving away staplers and charging lots for staples.
More like patenting the staple, then licensing it only for use with your stapler and your staple. Then, suing everyone who sells other companies' paper for allowing their end users to infringe on that licensed use. Since its obvious that the only usage of paper is to be illegally stapled, despite that a few minority freaks claim they don't use staples at all.
I know people who use Red Hat 7.3 for servers still and as long as the hard drive is alive and assuming they don't kill the OS, it will be running for a long time to come.
Ahahahahah, and you call debian aged? At least with debian I'd know that I'd have security updates forever (including an automatic upgrade to the new stable, whenever that happens) and not have to worry about things like buying a legacy support contract from fedora.
So they acknowledge that the unauthorized copying of music is illegal
Copying? The tool specifically takes a song you have bought, the key that you have bought to play that song, applies the key to the song and uses it to remove the DRM. Lets say that I delete the original file afterwards, in which case the net IP "possession" is unchanged: I have one instance of a song I bought, only now I am no longer beholden to the artifical monopoly of things-capable-of-playing-this-song.
Wow nice chart. That tells you all about how many full time jobs were lost, only to be replaced by how many part time jobs (yeah, the bush administration just talks about "new jobs" but fail to point out that the majority of them are part time jobs with no benefits). Also tells you all about the real unemployment rate (ie, the number of people who are unemployed, not the government's lame way of not counting people who haven't been able to get a job for so long that they have dropped off the government paycheck).
Thats some mighty fine informative there, coward.
What if they're carrying my team's flag?
noiz2sa - SDL
Aleph One - SDL/OpenGL
BZ Flag - OpenGL
Egoboo - SDL/OpenGL
PoopemUp - SDL/OpenGL
Neverwinter Nights - SDL/OpenGL
Not to mention all the Loki titles that used SDL (heck, didn't they develop it in the first place?): Myth, Rune, Civ3,Sim City 3000, Tribes 2, Alpha Centauri, and so on
Don't forget the billion or so Doom/Quake/Wolfenstein 3D ports/spinoffs.
Can this service take a picture of my new japanese cell phone and tell me how the hell I'm supposed to take and send pictures with it?
who writes consumer software these days based on the assumption that the consumer is going to read the instructions?
Software isn't like your kid's playground set, where you can ditch the instructions and just stick tab A in slot B and sue the maker when it falls down and kills your kids. (at least until EULAs are struck down in court)
Maybe if consumers would read the instructions they wouldn't be (on the whole) a mass of ignorant idiots who apparently exist to make problems and keep help lines busy.
looks like as long as you use MS_SYNC as a flag, on a file on local hardware, you can trust that the data is at the harddrive, if not on it (thanks to the drive cache). Not sure what happens if you try this on a network file system, whether it forces the hosting computer to flush to disk, or if it only forces the local computer to flush to the host.
As for order of pending writes, I don't think you get to have a say on any particular writes, but you can sync after writing to commit everything so far.
See also man 2 sync.
Not that copying dvds to vhs (why?!) is the only reason to disable macrovision out there. My family has a 15+ year old TV that still works perfectly fine, and was a giant screen for that day and age. Only problem is that it only has a coax input. So we have to plug everything into a VCR we bought. And to keep it all from looking like crap thanks to macrovision, we managed to find a vcr that was good enough to not pick up the signal. (Pretty nice deal, multiple RCA inputs, front inputs, probably a professional model.) Now our directv and dvds look just fine. (Directv has a coax out, which we used until we got the DVD player.)
It should be really interesting to see how quickly this gets adopted. Like you say the model is really similar to DIVX and people in general just do not like rentals.
I suspect the parent has the wrong idea in connecting this to DIVX. With DIVX you received a permanent object that was "yours". And yet you still had to pay to use it. This is what caused consumers to dislike the idea. There is just something psychological about paying money and getting a physical object.
With this, its clear that there is a rental structure in place, even if (especially if) the medium is entirely electronic. There might be other considerations (will these players play my mp3s? if so, why rent music, if not, why buy the player?) If you look at Blockbusters, you can see that the rental concept is alive and kicking, even if it has been having economy-related-issues.
The super-portable camp wants something that's convenient to take anywhere without being a burden. Size, weight and battery life are more important than power, peripherals and screen size.
I'm in this camp. What I want from a laptop is a nice slim laptop...
with a 10 pound lithium ion slab that mounts underneath it for road trips and other long flights.