I concur. Does this 'web apps service' stuff ring a bell? Like with a failed product from Circuit Shitty? Um... like... ohh... Divx?
This will work at the server-to-server communications level in an RPCish sort of way, but not for some kind of service for the end-user. Neither businesses nor home users would pay for a service for something that they didn't own a piece of at all, if they have any choice whatsoever in the matter.
So _because_ the militia of the day was a bunch of rag-tag hooligans who happened to be fighting for a "just" cause, this gives all rag-tag hooligans of today the excuse to call themselves a militia and tote AK-47?
We've gone over this point before: the fact is that internal combustion cars are not efficient, due to design limits on mass and volume. Take the same process to a stationary huge power plant somewhere, and the process can be made _far_ more efficient, both due to scale, and due to less design constraints on the mechanism.
Keep in mind that these are the geniuses who once asked (and I'm not making this up)... "do you need a license to drive your modem on the information superhighway?"
Since when have we let the bureaucrats tell us about the ins and outs of our professions? This is akin to deciding that because biochemists could potentially create horrible toxins, that therefore they should all stop biochemical research!
Unfortunately, my estimation of the likelihood that enough politicians will pull their heads out of their collective asses to oppose this isn't very high, especially with the mass public hysteria (even in the U.S.) over technology that they don't understand.
Yeah, and while the clueless bleeding-heart liberals in the U.S. continue to post such drivel, they never even bothered to check the fact that their heroic Dahli Lama is a slaveholder.
Oh agreed -- I wouldn't recommend to Dell or Gateway or Compaq to start shipping Naked PCs as an option: they'd only increase their tech support costs from clueless morons.
But what about smaller outfits like Alienware? People who buy from them are all experienced hardware hackers of some sort or other, and usually run some type of *NIX anyhow.
Microsoft has no business hinting that people buying naked PCs are pirating systems. Nor should they be telling PC vendors to hint to their customers that they are buying Naked PCs only to do something illegal.
This only goes further to show just how full of shit Microsoft is, and only seems to reassert the need for punishment.
Uh huh. OT, but I don't see why ppl care so much about a drunk moron who broke the law in another country, and was forced to submit to their peculiar brand of justice.
If their national law mandated that the punishment should be castration, I'd be all up for the idiot getting his balls ripped off.
Never understood why foreigners should get it easy, ever.
He's simply saying that if you keep being an asshole on Slashdot, you likely act like one elsewhere too. And one day, some big muscular guy's gonna get pissed off, and beat the living shit out of you. Sounds quite reasonable to me.
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I concur. Does this 'web apps service' stuff ring a bell? Like with a failed product from Circuit Shitty? Um ... like ... ohh ... Divx?
This will work at the server-to-server communications level in an RPCish sort of way, but not for some kind of service for the end-user. Neither businesses nor home users would pay for a service for something that they didn't own a piece of at all, if they have any choice whatsoever in the matter.
It's a known fact that most "super-jumps" (questionable physics be damned) in Quake3 cannot be made with anything less than 125 frame or so.
Jump from the rail over on DM6, the swing jump to get the health in the middle of Tourney 4, etc, cannot be done with lower framerates.
Granted, this has nothing to do with perception, but gameplay is also kinda important.
So _because_ the militia of the day was a bunch of rag-tag hooligans who happened to be fighting for a "just" cause, this gives all rag-tag hooligans of today the excuse to call themselves a militia and tote AK-47?
Get Real!
We've gone over this point before: the fact is that internal combustion cars are not efficient, due to design limits on mass and volume. Take the same process to a stationary huge power plant somewhere, and the process can be made _far_ more efficient, both due to scale, and due to less design constraints on the mechanism.
Is what all these moronic politicans deserve.
... "do you need a license to drive your modem on the information superhighway?"
Keep in mind that these are the geniuses who once asked (and I'm not making this up)
Since when have we let the bureaucrats tell us about the ins and outs of our professions? This is akin to deciding that because biochemists could potentially create horrible toxins, that therefore they should all stop biochemical research!
Unfortunately, my estimation of the likelihood that enough politicians will pull their heads out of their collective asses to oppose this isn't very high, especially with the mass public hysteria (even in the U.S.) over technology that they don't understand.
Uhh, you mean, like Merced/Iltanium/Whateveritscallednow?
Yeah, and while the clueless bleeding-heart liberals in the U.S. continue to post such drivel, they never even bothered to check the fact that their heroic Dahli Lama is a slaveholder.
Moreover, this truly assumes that PI is random, which we haven't proven.
Oh agreed -- I wouldn't recommend to Dell or Gateway or Compaq to start shipping Naked PCs as an option: they'd only increase their tech support costs from clueless morons.
But what about smaller outfits like Alienware? People who buy from them are all experienced hardware hackers of some sort or other, and usually run some type of *NIX anyhow.
Microsoft has no business hinting that people buying naked PCs are pirating systems. Nor should they be telling PC vendors to hint to their customers that they are buying Naked PCs only to do something illegal.
This only goes further to show just how full of shit Microsoft is, and only seems to reassert the need for punishment.
Uh huh. OT, but I don't see why ppl care so much about a drunk moron who broke the law in another country, and was forced to submit to their peculiar brand of justice.
If their national law mandated that the punishment should be castration, I'd be all up for the idiot getting his balls ripped off.
Never understood why foreigners should get it easy, ever.
He's simply saying that if you keep being an asshole on Slashdot, you likely act like one elsewhere too. And one day, some big muscular guy's gonna get pissed off, and beat the living shit out of you. Sounds quite reasonable to me.