I don't think RMS and the FSF believe so much in inserting technical measures directly in hardware to forcefully lock out competing software. They go more along the lines of spreading the word and encouraging people to use more open/less restricted computers and software. Like... oh, I dunno... this campaign, perhaps?
Microsoft, Apple and the other scumbag mega-corporations that have much to gain by locking out their competition in the market and using other sleezy tactics are the ones trying to gain control over their OS users' entire machines.
To be fair, the article’s title, "Running a Linux Live KDE Desktop in 210MB" does almost sound as if it's hinting at RAM use ("Running... in 210MB"). Maybe something like "Fitting a Linux Live KDE Desktop on a 210MB disc" would have been more clear.
I have to admit, even though I know about Slax and have tried the latest version, even I got confused after reading all these comments about RAM and then re-reading the article's title.
The last thing I would want to do to a new, potentially-untrustworthy hard drive is get it off to a bad start by causing more wear and tear on it right from the beginning. I just put it in, fire it up and start using it. First on simple and less important things, and then after a while of regular use and after I have gained some trust in it I start using it for more important things.
Of course... this can't always be done, like when replacing the system drive, so in that case I install the drive up as usual, set the OS up, make copies of the files I will need on it, and just see how it goes from there.
I have yet to buy a drive that died without working for at least several years of its life (5-8 years or more usually), so I don't typically buy a new drive with the expectation that it's a goner. I have had pretty good luck, with hard drives long outlasting computers.
I already don't trust the FDA for my own health. Do you?
And that includes those pharmaceutical companies. That was my view before I even watched the video myself. But if you can't get past the pro-gun propaganda to read the list of side effects of the drug, then that's fine. I, on the other hand, have actually read them, and that doesn't exactly sound like it would be safe to give to a person, let alone one who is mentally ill. Honestly, you might as well just give them a fucking chainsaw and quit acting as if you're trying to "help" them at that point; it would have had the same effect.
And notice that I said: "... this would probably be an excellent study as well..."
Are you against finding the true nature of these man-made chemicals, which have only been around for several years of limited, scientifically-controlled testing, compared to natural chemicals from plants such as cannabis, coca, poppy, salvia divinorum, etc.? At least these plants and their chemicals have been around, domesticated, tested through actual human use, and put up to a lot of scientific testing over the millennia. They evolved with humanity; half the shit the FDA "approves" can claim none of that. The shit that passes as "medication" these days needs more to be put up to more scrutiny to ensure safety, instead of blaming everything that in in common with everyone.
The National Rifle Association is a big culprit here, slamming video games, movies, the media, music videos and practically everything else that the vast majority see as normal, while saying, "since when did the word "gun" automatically become a bad word?" I don't care personally about guns, but what I do care about are the freedoms our Bill of Rights has given us, whether that's the right to bear arms, or the right to free speech/freedom of expression that the NRA is trying to trample on by using everything *but* guns as scapegoats.
They say "more guns," both in American homes and in schools around the nation (in the form of armed police officers in every school), are the answer. Sure... says the people who would benefit the most from an armed officer in every school and more weapons sold. Adam Lanza's mother taught him how to use a gun, responsibly. He was fucked in the head, finally snapped, and used his mom's guns on her and at a school. While, again, I am against our basic freedoms being taken away (including the right to bear arms), it doesn't take a genius to figure out that if the guns weren't there, his plan would've been hindered. But it's ridiculous to take that right away from billions of Americans just because of one seriously fucked up mental case.
How about they do an actual worthwhile study to show:
A. What effects religious brainwashing have on people (ie. members of the WBC); and B. How the underlying psychological effects of these mental cases (murderers, religious loons) can and do alter a person's behavior and sense of reality without ever being exposed to video games--just shitty parents, maybe combined with some kind of "hidden" mental problem.
I don't know about that. Have you seen any videos of the family on YouTube? They degenerate into mindless garbage that will result in a reduction of the IQ of anyone listening to it, so you have been warned. A documentary was made that shows this brainwashing is thoroughly ingrained into the minds of everyone in the family. A girl was kicked out of the church permanently and completely disowned as a part of the family, no remorse from the rest of the family, and she was left heartbroken--all because she questioned some aspects of their religion. Honestly, being banished from that cult is probably be one of the best things that ever could have happened to her.
I'm not even religious, and in fact I'm specifically opposed to all forms of Christianity, but even most Christians I've met make more sense than these people. Between this group and Scientologists, I honently can't figure out who's worse. And a lot of them are fucking LAWYERS (!)... imagine that.
Because it is bullshit like this that happens, forcing people to add even more stupid laws to the book; laws that, aside from keeping one family of brainwashed mental cases in check, really serve virtually no purpose for pretty much any other American family. These dumb fucks brag about how many riots they've caused at or near funerals around the country, and keep track of all of them. According my own cache of their site, by their own count, they have "engaged in 49,463 pickets in 883 cities." I'd rather describe that as "desecrated 49,463 funerals in 883 U.S. cities." Their site is currently down; they're probably getting their fucking asses mauled by Anonymous.
You know it's bad when not even the Ku Klux Klan will accept Fred Phelps because he's such a god damn nutjob. And that's the leader behind all this. Him and his witch of a daughter, Shirley, are not apparently not even allowed to enter the U.K. It's ironic that they condemn having kids without being married, and yet the just-mentioned whore (11 kids) did just that. I wonder if she thinks she's going to hell for that, in the same way that she condemns everyone else for the same sin?
I have two operating systems currently installed on my machine; the Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation and something else entirely. The W8 eval was installed shortly after it was released. For a week I played around with it and then got bored, seeing no reason to continue on with it. Two things I have decided during my evaluation:
1. I don't like it. Used to it or not, I just don't like it. All I care about are a few programs, and they're not important enough to subject myself to Windows 8 to use. 2. I will be ordering my next computer from a company that doesn't preload Windows 8... probably System76, and wipe the default Ubuntu crap they install by default.
There's no way I'm going to support that monstrosity if I can help it, and I certainly won't be recommending it to friends either.
Unstable software that is still under heavy development is actually unstable. Who would've guessed? I think that based on this ingenious discovery, we should all switch over to it by next week.
This has to be one of the most retarded excuses for a petition I've ever heard of, and yet, it received enough votes that someone in the white house has to waste time finding some way to give a serious answer? What... the... fuck... this is so incredibly dumb I don't even know what to say.
The fact that 2012 XE5 was discovered only a few days before the encounter prompted Minnesota Public Radio to poll its listeners with the following question: If an asteroid were to strike Earth within an hour, would you want to know?"
Seriously, would it really matter? That said, assuming that were to happen, yes--I would personally like to know, so if I am one of the only few remaining survivors I would at least know what just happened and what the fuck is going on. But if you end up dying in an hour with everyone else, it's not like it matters much.
In this case, at least those people made up their own decision to fuck up their lives, instead of the government butting in and doing it for them (typically much more abruptly). That is the way it should be for everyone, but instead the government shows no remorse for certain petty "crimes" and irrecoverably destroys lives on a much more grand scale than drugs alone could ever achieve in many cases.
Microsoft headed off to a good start by enabling the joke that is the DNT header by default. And now... the same kind of ridiculously bad exploits that Internet Explorer has been known for since its beginning re-emerge like a bad case of the varicella zoster virus and shit all over it.
Yes, I'm sure that guy will live to be over 220 years old in order to serve his complete sentence. The guy has already reached old age. They might as well have just given him a slap on the wrist, because at the most all they have done is cut five or eight years away from the time he becomes senile, at which point--does it even matter if he is in jail? He'll probably be somewhere up in la-la land mentally.
With his "crime" though, it's insane to be locking him up with hundreds of actually violent people. It would make far more sense to take virtually all of his money (since he built his entire fortune using illegal means) and put it to good use on something worthwhile. If he would be allowed to work again, the government could step in and limit his pay.
What you've proven is simply under some rare circumstances, your wealth can't even protect you (ironically when your crime deals purely with money). This says nothing of the fact that the punishment for breaking certain laws is fucked. I mean, seriously--sure, what the guy did was very wrong and illegal, but did he ever kill or rape someone? No? Then who is the government trying to physically "protect" from him by putting him behind bars with the real, violent criminals?
Schools just love to teach how bad cruel and unusual punishment is when performed by the police on the scene of a crime and go on and on about what's so great about due process and whatever else, but people typically neglect to even consider weighing the actual crime(s) committed against what the judge decides.
Better legal system? You mean the one in which people can just pay better (ie. more expensive) lawyers if they have the money, effectively buying their way of having to go to jail in the first place in many cases?
No doubt the legal system is better here than what they have in shitholes like the one that John McAfee fled from, but it still favors the rich. And don't even get me started on some of the ridiculous laws that make criminals out of people who get caught for some of the most harmless (to other people) offenses, which were only made illegal in the first place through racism, yellow journalism, scare tactics, and generally because they are things that are looked down upon by religious people (if you thought I was talking about the war on some drugs, good guess).
Here in the U.S., punishment to a person by the wrath of the government can be far more damaging than the "crime" they committed. Luckily if you happen to have the money to waste or know someone else who does and is willing to do it for you, you can bail your ass out in many cases and save yourself the wasted time and emotional stress--but not everyone has that luxury.
Hey, if you're made of money, you can do the same thing here in the U.S. too... so what's the difference? Other than the fact that a small, central-American government will be willing to do it for less bribe money?
That said, I'm not jumping to conclusions like everyone else and automatically assuming that this is what happened; I'm just making a point.
Before reading the linked pages, I was actually worried that you were giving up on emulation/BSNES. Good to see that you're not only not giving up on it, but actually doing this as a way of preserving a part of gaming history. That's definitely a good thing.
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I don't think RMS and the FSF believe so much in inserting technical measures directly in hardware to forcefully lock out competing software. They go more along the lines of spreading the word and encouraging people to use more open/less restricted computers and software. Like... oh, I dunno... this campaign, perhaps?
Microsoft, Apple and the other scumbag mega-corporations that have much to gain by locking out their competition in the market and using other sleezy tactics are the ones trying to gain control over their OS users' entire machines.
To be fair, the article’s title, "Running a Linux Live KDE Desktop in 210MB" does almost sound as if it's hinting at RAM use ("Running ... in 210MB"). Maybe something like "Fitting a Linux Live KDE Desktop on a 210MB disc" would have been more clear.
I have to admit, even though I know about Slax and have tried the latest version, even I got confused after reading all these comments about RAM and then re-reading the article's title.
The last thing I would want to do to a new, potentially-untrustworthy hard drive is get it off to a bad start by causing more wear and tear on it right from the beginning. I just put it in, fire it up and start using it. First on simple and less important things, and then after a while of regular use and after I have gained some trust in it I start using it for more important things.
Of course... this can't always be done, like when replacing the system drive, so in that case I install the drive up as usual, set the OS up, make copies of the files I will need on it, and just see how it goes from there.
I have yet to buy a drive that died without working for at least several years of its life (5-8 years or more usually), so I don't typically buy a new drive with the expectation that it's a goner. I have had pretty good luck, with hard drives long outlasting computers.
Am I the only one who interpreted "out" as meaning "abandoned" or "given up on?"
I already don't trust the FDA for my own health. Do you?
And that includes those pharmaceutical companies. That was my view before I even watched the video myself. But if you can't get past the pro-gun propaganda to read the list of side effects of the drug, then that's fine. I, on the other hand, have actually read them, and that doesn't exactly sound like it would be safe to give to a person, let alone one who is mentally ill. Honestly, you might as well just give them a fucking chainsaw and quit acting as if you're trying to "help" them at that point; it would have had the same effect.
And notice that I said: "... this would probably be an excellent study as well..."
Are you against finding the true nature of these man-made chemicals, which have only been around for several years of limited, scientifically-controlled testing, compared to natural chemicals from plants such as cannabis, coca, poppy, salvia divinorum, etc.? At least these plants and their chemicals have been around, domesticated, tested through actual human use, and put up to a lot of scientific testing over the millennia. They evolved with humanity; half the shit the FDA "approves" can claim none of that. The shit that passes as "medication" these days needs more to be put up to more scrutiny to ensure safety, instead of blaming everything that in in common with everyone.
The National Rifle Association is a big culprit here, slamming video games, movies, the media, music videos and practically everything else that the vast majority see as normal, while saying, "since when did the word "gun" automatically become a bad word?" I don't care personally about guns, but what I do care about are the freedoms our Bill of Rights has given us, whether that's the right to bear arms, or the right to free speech/freedom of expression that the NRA is trying to trample on by using everything *but* guns as scapegoats.
They say "more guns," both in American homes and in schools around the nation (in the form of armed police officers in every school), are the answer. Sure... says the people who would benefit the most from an armed officer in every school and more weapons sold. Adam Lanza's mother taught him how to use a gun, responsibly. He was fucked in the head, finally snapped, and used his mom's guns on her and at a school. While, again, I am against our basic freedoms being taken away (including the right to bear arms), it doesn't take a genius to figure out that if the guns weren't there, his plan would've been hindered. But it's ridiculous to take that right away from billions of Americans just because of one seriously fucked up mental case.
I say, study these medications.
NRA: http://home.nra.org/#
I predict that they will start throwing chairs.
Actually... this would probably be an excellent study as well... highly disturbing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKBJwbAjUZk
Just found this:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/12/18/fear-being-committed-may-have-caused-connecticut-madman-to-snap/
Oh, no... it must be the video games... no sign of mental problems or feud here.
How about they do an actual worthwhile study to show:
A. What effects religious brainwashing have on people (ie. members of the WBC); and
B. How the underlying psychological effects of these mental cases (murderers, religious loons) can and do alter a person's behavior and sense of reality without ever being exposed to video games--just shitty parents, maybe combined with some kind of "hidden" mental problem.
I don't know about that. Have you seen any videos of the family on YouTube? They degenerate into mindless garbage that will result in a reduction of the IQ of anyone listening to it, so you have been warned. A documentary was made that shows this brainwashing is thoroughly ingrained into the minds of everyone in the family. A girl was kicked out of the church permanently and completely disowned as a part of the family, no remorse from the rest of the family, and she was left heartbroken--all because she questioned some aspects of their religion. Honestly, being banished from that cult is probably be one of the best things that ever could have happened to her.
Head nutjobs blabbering nonsense in what are supposed to be interviews:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3PyoUPcobA - Shirley slammed on Fox by news reporter over U.S. soldiers' funeral picketing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqwE6yHbnKo - Another set of Fox news reporters slam Shirley, this time over Amish girl murder picketing and her claim that she deserved to die.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJwAMa94_q0 - Shirley and two of the older girls on Tyra, pt. 1.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhxMV1ntEUQ - Shirley and two of the older girls on Tyra, pt. 2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOXErMyDBRY - Dumbasses have their site hacked live during an interview with Shirley and a member of Anonymous.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5H-5zzY7rOI - Interview on Howard Stern with George Takei and Shirley, pt. 1.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyWHpzjk6Uc - Interview on Howard Stern with George Takei and Shirley, pt. 2.
The girl who was cast out talks about what happened:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50r0CnKq7_k - Girl talks about being forced out of the family.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrfgbvrViC0 - Her thoughts about the cult and their views.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBV2hnPxESw - Stomach-churningly dumb religious group song.
A documentary on the cult and family born and brainwashed into it:
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-most-hated-family-in-america/ - "The Most Hated Family in America"
I'm not even religious, and in fact I'm specifically opposed to all forms of Christianity, but even most Christians I've met make more sense than these people. Between this group and Scientologists, I honently can't figure out who's worse. And a lot of them are fucking LAWYERS (!)... imagine that.
Because it is bullshit like this that happens, forcing people to add even more stupid laws to the book; laws that, aside from keeping one family of brainwashed mental cases in check, really serve virtually no purpose for pretty much any other American family. These dumb fucks brag about how many riots they've caused at or near funerals around the country, and keep track of all of them. According my own cache of their site, by their own count, they have "engaged in 49,463 pickets in 883 cities." I'd rather describe that as "desecrated 49,463 funerals in 883 U.S. cities." Their site is currently down; they're probably getting their fucking asses mauled by Anonymous.
You know it's bad when not even the Ku Klux Klan will accept Fred Phelps because he's such a god damn nutjob. And that's the leader behind all this. Him and his witch of a daughter, Shirley, are not apparently not even allowed to enter the U.K. It's ironic that they condemn having kids without being married, and yet the just-mentioned whore (11 kids) did just that. I wonder if she thinks she's going to hell for that, in the same way that she condemns everyone else for the same sin?
How? That illogical asshole and nutjob has been disbarred from his state's court system last I heard.
I have two operating systems currently installed on my machine; the Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation and something else entirely. The W8 eval was installed shortly after it was released. For a week I played around with it and then got bored, seeing no reason to continue on with it. Two things I have decided during my evaluation:
1. I don't like it. Used to it or not, I just don't like it. All I care about are a few programs, and they're not important enough to subject myself to Windows 8 to use.
2. I will be ordering my next computer from a company that doesn't preload Windows 8... probably System76, and wipe the default Ubuntu crap they install by default.
There's no way I'm going to support that monstrosity if I can help it, and I certainly won't be recommending it to friends either.
Unstable software that is still under heavy development is actually unstable. Who would've guessed?
I think that based on this ingenious discovery, we should all switch over to it by next week.
This has to be one of the most retarded excuses for a petition I've ever heard of, and yet, it received enough votes that someone in the white house has to waste time finding some way to give a serious answer? What... the... fuck... this is so incredibly dumb I don't even know what to say.
The fact that 2012 XE5 was discovered only a few days before the encounter prompted Minnesota Public Radio to poll its listeners with the following question: If an asteroid were to strike Earth within an hour, would you want to know?"
Seriously, would it really matter? That said, assuming that were to happen, yes--I would personally like to know, so if I am one of the only few remaining survivors I would at least know what just happened and what the fuck is going on. But if you end up dying in an hour with everyone else, it's not like it matters much.
In this case, at least those people made up their own decision to fuck up their lives, instead of the government butting in and doing it for them (typically much more abruptly). That is the way it should be for everyone, but instead the government shows no remorse for certain petty "crimes" and irrecoverably destroys lives on a much more grand scale than drugs alone could ever achieve in many cases.
Microsoft headed off to a good start by enabling the joke that is the DNT header by default. And now... the same kind of ridiculously bad exploits that Internet Explorer has been known for since its beginning re-emerge like a bad case of the varicella zoster virus and shit all over it.
Yes, I'm sure that guy will live to be over 220 years old in order to serve his complete sentence. The guy has already reached old age. They might as well have just given him a slap on the wrist, because at the most all they have done is cut five or eight years away from the time he becomes senile, at which point--does it even matter if he is in jail? He'll probably be somewhere up in la-la land mentally.
With his "crime" though, it's insane to be locking him up with hundreds of actually violent people. It would make far more sense to take virtually all of his money (since he built his entire fortune using illegal means) and put it to good use on something worthwhile. If he would be allowed to work again, the government could step in and limit his pay.
What you've proven is simply under some rare circumstances, your wealth can't even protect you (ironically when your crime deals purely with money). This says nothing of the fact that the punishment for breaking certain laws is fucked. I mean, seriously--sure, what the guy did was very wrong and illegal, but did he ever kill or rape someone? No? Then who is the government trying to physically "protect" from him by putting him behind bars with the real, violent criminals?
Schools just love to teach how bad cruel and unusual punishment is when performed by the police on the scene of a crime and go on and on about what's so great about due process and whatever else, but people typically neglect to even consider weighing the actual crime(s) committed against what the judge decides.
Better legal system? You mean the one in which people can just pay better (ie. more expensive) lawyers if they have the money, effectively buying their way of having to go to jail in the first place in many cases?
No doubt the legal system is better here than what they have in shitholes like the one that John McAfee fled from, but it still favors the rich. And don't even get me started on some of the ridiculous laws that make criminals out of people who get caught for some of the most harmless (to other people) offenses, which were only made illegal in the first place through racism, yellow journalism, scare tactics, and generally because they are things that are looked down upon by religious people (if you thought I was talking about the war on some drugs, good guess).
Here in the U.S., punishment to a person by the wrath of the government can be far more damaging than the "crime" they committed. Luckily if you happen to have the money to waste or know someone else who does and is willing to do it for you, you can bail your ass out in many cases and save yourself the wasted time and emotional stress--but not everyone has that luxury.
Hey, if you're made of money, you can do the same thing here in the U.S. too... so what's the difference? Other than the fact that a small, central-American government will be willing to do it for less bribe money?
That said, I'm not jumping to conclusions like everyone else and automatically assuming that this is what happened; I'm just making a point.
Be careful, Cornholio! You're gonna kill yourself bouncing off all those walls!
...but what does it increase the chances of? Well, besides drug (caffeine) addiction?
Come on, there's always a catch...
Before reading the linked pages, I was actually worried that you were giving up on emulation/BSNES. Good to see that you're not only not giving up on it, but actually doing this as a way of preserving a part of gaming history. That's definitely a good thing.
That game kicked ass.