I have lived in mainland China for almost a year, my wife is Chinese, and I speak a decent amount of Mandarin.
but at the same time i support the right of a people to choose their governments
This statement disagrees with the rest of your post. This statement of yours directly supports democracy (a system in which the people choose their government), as opposed to what the Chinese have right now.
The current government there harshly punishes those who speak against the communist party, teaches everyone a modified version of history (without letting them look elsewhere), and pretty much raises the populace thinking that the entire world wants to pick on China, and only the communist party can make the country prosperous and strong. If you speak against the party, you will be beaten, thrown in jail, maybe even you and your family killed.
How can you say that the people are choosing their government? Weren't the Tiananmen protesters people, trying to choose a government? What happened to them? And almost all of China doesn't even know anyone died there!
Sure, if you poll the Chinese people, they'll probably widely support the communist government. That's technically a measure of support. But without the censorship and the brainwashing, we don't know what the Chinese people really think. And even if it stopped now, it would take generations to flush all the crap they've been taught out.
Most Chinese don't know this is the situation. The few who do are afraid to talk about it, inside their own homeland!
Well, it is feasible to think that the undercover cops' identity was known to the people they were arresting at that moment, but their identity may have been unknown to another criminal they were planning to arrest soon in the same related undercover case, or to the criminals in their next assignment as undercover cops.
However, that is the cops' concern, not a citizen's concern. I can't imagine what law they would be arresting someone under for photographing a cop in action - I think it's a basic right to be able to photograph in public, whether there are cops in the picture or not. Allowing citizens to photograph cops in public should reduce (the hopefully rare) occasions of police brutality, and generally makes sure they play by all the rules they're supposed to.
If the law is "just" is a completely different discussion.
You really think all the people commenting on this story are trying to discuss whether this fine is legal or not according to Canadian law?
I don't think anyone you were replying to was confused that the morality of the law and the legality of such a fine are two different discussions. I do think you are confused about which one of them the rest of us are talking about.
This I agree with, nobody cares whose fault it is. However, it's unfortunate to be supporting a monopoly for reasons like "I can't install a package" (Just install libdvdcss - last I checked windows doesn't play DVD's out of the box either - you need to install a 3rd party program like WinDVD). The difference is most distros can't package libdvdcss with the default install for legal reasons, yet windvd or a similar program can be packaged with your shiny new computer. Thus the common misconception, "My linux won't play DVD's, windows will".
it came free with my laptop too
It was NOT free, a part of the price of the laptop most definitely went to pay for the windows license - you're confused because you were almost certainly never shown the option to NOT buy windows (removing this option seems to be part of the deal Microsoft makes with popular computer manufacturers).
It's a unique idea - what's wrong with running it for a while with your typical load (say, for a fileserver), finding some better-than-average parameters for the kernel, then running an unpatched kernel with those parameters manually entered?
What is "on the borders of statistical error" depends on how many times the test was run, and how much variation there had been in his results before. I think it's pretty safe to assume that if he knows how to implement a genetic algorithm into the linux kernel, he knows how to handle statistics properly.
A) Funnily enough, non of my windows installations screw up their configurations randomly. And Ive been responsable for 150 systems.
Funnily enough, for someone who is responsable for 150 systems, I'm surprised you can't spell "responsible" correctly.
I agree that the "reinstall every 3 weeks" is clearly exaggerating, but with every windows system, whether a) due to all the programs you have to install on them (using downloaded setup executables instead of package files), b) all the security updates / service packs, or c) just poor design, I don't know. However, windows systems really do tend to go downhill over time, and a good reformat often is the only realistic way to fix things up... as far as I know, this is common knowledge. Even among windows "experts", this seems to be a commonplace, accepted solution. I dual-boot, and I've found I need to reformat my windows installation every year or so to keep it working well. And yes, I keep my system patched for security updates often, and run a virus checker and several anti-adware/spyware programs.
I can't tell if this is a joke or a troll. I'm hoping it's a joke - you know the GPL doesn't require printouts of source to be forced on the customer, right?
You get the *option* of obtaining the source, if you want, and usually it's in the form of a burnt CD or a download, not a printout. And it hardly costs $25 - get real. The LKML people are just saying if you modify linux you have to make the source available to those who want access to it (or integrate the code into mainstream linux). That's all - nothing unreasonable. Don't like it, don't try to sell your own modified linux.
you know, I would have agreed with you, but the quote [that you quote:)] says
Is [Saddam] an imminent threat to U.S. interests, either in that part of the world or to Americans right here at home
I can see your beef with someone saying Saddam is a direct, immediate threat to people in their homes in the United States - but this says US interests in that part of the world too - Saddam was funding suicide bombers, and some of them were used to attack American interests - even my far-left philosophy teacher (a pretty cool guy btw) agrees with that. Whether it justifies the war or not becomes an ethical question -- but don't get your facts mixed up.
There is no contest between Linux and MS for games. Absolutely. Agreed.
Yeah, Minesweeper, solitaire, "spider solitaire", pinball, and hearts - that's 5, with only 2 multiplayer.
Gnome on the other hand has gnect, gtali, gnotravex, mahjongg, gnome-stones, same-gnome, blackjack, gnobots2, gnibbles, gnotski, glines, gataxx, gnometris.. the list goes on! And I'm not even counting the KDE games!
Don't worry -- I am being sarcastic, I know you can play far more games in windows than linux - but someone had to say it:)
This isn't insightful... I'd even call it trolling
Why is America a special case here? This is just natural competition. It happens in business, it happens in our personal lives, it happens with countries too - whether you like it or you don't, America is no special case here.
...folowing by USSR was bad new for US space science.
Even since the USSR fell, we've continued launching things into space, but the objectives have become less visible to the public, (instead of something like planting a flag on the moon, we're working to build the international space station, we've set up the hubble - surely you know that just this year a US space shuttle exploded - they don't exactly explode from staying parked in the hangar, you know.
Send a chinese in space, and all of a sudden, space is interesting.
The ESA was founded in 1975, right around when NASA was doing most work (for example, Viking, the first probe to land on Mars was launched that year) - all of a sudden, now that America is sending probes out into the solar system, space is interesting to the Europeans, too. But the ESA isn't there just for the sake of being an "enemy" of NASA - just like NASA isn't there just for the sake of being an "enemy" of the Chinese space program.
Can americans be rulled without an official enemy ?
I'm fairly certain that noone said "Can Europe be ruled without an official enemy?" in 1975 - it would have been an utterly trollish and close-minded thing to say. Your post seems to be less a result of reflection on the article, and more a result of pre-judgements against a certain western nation. I'm American, and I must say we're people, too - if you have problems with our president and our war, I can understand - but don't harbor bad feelings for the wrong reasons.
Unless the whole raid dies at once as happened to several deskstar users.
Raid is not a means of combatting unreliabillity.
True the whole raid CAN die at once, but the odds of such a thing happening all at once are much lower than a single drive failing on its own - your second statement is false - Raid, BY DEFINITION, is a means of combatting unreliability - the "R" stands for redundant = )
in case the link is dead, apparently trying to access (copy-protected) CD's the wrong way with a Sony CD drive will cause a kernel oops. Possibly/Probably a flaw on purpose built-in by Sony.
(grrr sorry about double post, that'll teach me to hit "submit" instead of "preview")
in case the link is dead, apparently trying to access (copy-protected) CD's the wrong way with a Sony CD drive will cause a kernel oops. Possibly/Probably a flaw on purpose built-in by Sony.
but, how many people who have a DC now have gone and bought a PS2 or X-Box?
If you still have the dreamcast, it doesn't matter if you've bought the PS2 or X-Box - use the PS2 or X-Box to play games, and use your dreamcast for a browser! Unless you've sold your old dreamcast, but come on how many people do that? Almost as many as those who bought used Dreamcasts I bet:)
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This statement disagrees with the rest of your post. This statement of yours directly supports democracy (a system in which the people choose their government), as opposed to what the Chinese have right now.
The current government there harshly punishes those who speak against the communist party, teaches everyone a modified version of history (without letting them look elsewhere), and pretty much raises the populace thinking that the entire world wants to pick on China, and only the communist party can make the country prosperous and strong. If you speak against the party, you will be beaten, thrown in jail, maybe even you and your family killed.
How can you say that the people are choosing their government? Weren't the Tiananmen protesters people, trying to choose a government? What happened to them? And almost all of China doesn't even know anyone died there!
Sure, if you poll the Chinese people, they'll probably widely support the communist government. That's technically a measure of support. But without the censorship and the brainwashing, we don't know what the Chinese people really think. And even if it stopped now, it would take generations to flush all the crap they've been taught out.
Most Chinese don't know this is the situation. The few who do are afraid to talk about it, inside their own homeland!
Well, it is feasible to think that the undercover cops' identity was known to the people they were arresting at that moment, but their identity may have been unknown to another criminal they were planning to arrest soon in the same related undercover case, or to the criminals in their next assignment as undercover cops.
However, that is the cops' concern, not a citizen's concern. I can't imagine what law they would be arresting someone under for photographing a cop in action - I think it's a basic right to be able to photograph in public, whether there are cops in the picture or not. Allowing citizens to photograph cops in public should reduce (the hopefully rare) occasions of police brutality, and generally makes sure they play by all the rules they're supposed to.
I don't think anyone you were replying to was confused that the morality of the law and the legality of such a fine are two different discussions. I do think you are confused about which one of them the rest of us are talking about.
It was NOT free, a part of the price of the laptop most definitely went to pay for the windows license - you're confused because you were almost certainly never shown the option to NOT buy windows (removing this option seems to be part of the deal Microsoft makes with popular computer manufacturers).
GNU's Gnash (GPL flashplayer) is being actively developed!
See http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/
Yeah, I agree, and... wait a minute, whose side are you on?
It's a unique idea - what's wrong with running it for a while with your typical load (say, for a fileserver), finding some better-than-average parameters for the kernel, then running an unpatched kernel with those parameters manually entered?
What is "on the borders of statistical error" depends on how many times the test was run, and how much variation there had been in his results before. I think it's pretty safe to assume that if he knows how to implement a genetic algorithm into the linux kernel, he knows how to handle statistics properly.
I agree that the "reinstall every 3 weeks" is clearly exaggerating, but with every windows system, whether a) due to all the programs you have to install on them (using downloaded setup executables instead of package files), b) all the security updates / service packs, or c) just poor design, I don't know. However, windows systems really do tend to go downhill over time, and a good reformat often is the only realistic way to fix things up... as far as I know, this is common knowledge. Even among windows "experts", this seems to be a commonplace, accepted solution. I dual-boot, and I've found I need to reformat my windows installation every year or so to keep it working well. And yes, I keep my system patched for security updates often, and run a virus checker and several anti-adware/spyware programs.
I can't tell if this is a joke or a troll. I'm hoping it's a joke - you know the GPL doesn't require printouts of source to be forced on the customer, right?
You get the *option* of obtaining the source, if you want, and usually it's in the form of a burnt CD or a download, not a printout. And it hardly costs $25 - get real. The LKML people are just saying if you modify linux you have to make the source available to those who want access to it (or integrate the code into mainstream linux). That's all - nothing unreasonable. Don't like it, don't try to sell your own modified linux.
Yeah, Minesweeper, solitaire, "spider solitaire", pinball, and hearts - that's 5, with only 2 multiplayer.
Gnome on the other hand has gnect, gtali, gnotravex, mahjongg, gnome-stones, same-gnome, blackjack, gnobots2, gnibbles, gnotski, glines, gataxx, gnometris.. the list goes on! And I'm not even counting the KDE games!
Don't worry -- I am being sarcastic, I know you can play far more games in windows than linux - but someone had to say it
Well, let's face it, you can't exactly go up in a soyuz and then come down in the shuttle you didn't bring!
Why is America a special case here? This is just natural competition. It happens in business, it happens in our personal lives, it happens with countries too - whether you like it or you don't, America is no special case here. Even since the USSR fell, we've continued launching things into space, but the objectives have become less visible to the public, (instead of something like planting a flag on the moon, we're working to build the international space station, we've set up the hubble - surely you know that just this year a US space shuttle exploded - they don't exactly explode from staying parked in the hangar, you know.The ESA was founded in 1975, right around when NASA was doing most work (for example, Viking, the first probe to land on Mars was launched that year) - all of a sudden, now that America is sending probes out into the solar system, space is interesting to the Europeans, too. But the ESA isn't there just for the sake of being an "enemy" of NASA - just like NASA isn't there just for the sake of being an "enemy" of the Chinese space program.I'm fairly certain that noone said "Can Europe be ruled without an official enemy?" in 1975 - it would have been an utterly trollish and close-minded thing to say. Your post seems to be less a result of reflection on the article, and more a result of pre-judgements against a certain western nation. I'm American, and I must say we're people, too - if you have problems with our president and our war, I can understand - but don't harbor bad feelings for the wrong reasons.
Nobody locked you up in a camp (well, I'm taking a guess, unless your prison camp has internet access).
I don't see anyone saying here that you hated America, and I don't see anyone calling you a communist just because you're a liberal. Relax.
This is Godwin's law in action if I ever saw it..
C'mon guys, who modded this AC down? He's right, and he was polite about it.. he was just pointing out that the article title wasn't in error.
Microsoft builds virtual machine (with help from newly-bought) Connectix -> VMWare meets rough times
reminds us very much of
MS Builds IE -> Netscape meets rough times
Mod that AC back up!
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*ducks* =)
True the whole raid CAN die at once, but the odds of such a thing happening all at once are much lower than a single drive failing on its own - your second statement is false - Raid, BY DEFINITION, is a means of combatting unreliability - the "R" stands for redundant = )
Don't buy Sony CD-Drives.
in case the link is dead, apparently trying to access (copy-protected) CD's the wrong way with a Sony CD drive will cause a kernel oops. Possibly/Probably a flaw on purpose built-in by Sony.
(grrr sorry about double post, that'll teach me to hit "submit" instead of "preview")
Don't buy Sony CD-Drives.
in case the link is dead, apparently trying to access (copy-protected) CD's the wrong way with a Sony CD drive will cause a kernel oops. Possibly/Probably a flaw on purpose built-in by Sony.
but, how many people who have a DC now have gone and bought a PS2 or X-Box?
:)
If you still have the dreamcast, it doesn't matter if you've bought the PS2 or X-Box - use the PS2 or X-Box to play games, and use your dreamcast for a browser! Unless you've sold your old dreamcast, but come on how many people do that? Almost as many as those who bought used Dreamcasts I bet