You're right. Zymurgy is not chemistry or biology. Instead, as the parent to your comment said, it's chemistry and biology, applied towards the end result of brewing beer that's given the term "zymurgy". Saying that zymurgy has nothing to do with bio and chem is like saying that biology has nothing to do with chemistry, and that chem has nothing to do with physics. To believe it stands on its own implies ignorance (note I said implies, not shows).
Will someone read the goddamn article for once? I blockquote:
This software conflict somehow triggered a copy protection scheme known as 5C, which is designed to prevent mass duplication of television shows and movies. It labeled all digital programming off limits to copying.
For now, the glitch prevents viewers from digitally taping any cable show using a next-generation digital videotape recorder called DVHS, the HDTV Insider newsletter reported. These devices recognize the programming as copy-blocked -- and turn off.
It is clearly a DRM issue. (Score:4, Insightful) my ass.
(I know, I've been trolled. Don't care. Haven't had coffee yet.)
I have to differ with you on the Playstation controller. I'm a pretty big guy with large (some say, "ham-sized") hands, and the Playstation controller is simply the best controller ever, IMHO. The sheer ergonomics of the controller were perfect. All buttons were within easy reach, and the controller was small enough to fit perfectly in the grip. I'm not as big a fan of the original Dual-Shock Analog Playstation controller, as I thought the analog sticks threw the ergonomics off, but I could deal with it for analog control and the vibration functionality. However, the PS2 controller is totally sweet. 255 levels of sensitivity in each button makes for delightful analog button-pusing control, and the analog sticks were tightened up to a usable point. I realize that YMMV, but for my money, the PS2 controller is the only way to fly.
Do not trust the X-Box controller. It is malfunctioning. The PS2 controller will protect you from the terrible secret of space. Do you have stairs in your house?
Well, while I will agree that it's not terribly newbie-friendly, it's not impossible to circumvent. First of all, the local box should allow you to register the machine without a problem, but you won't be able to update your software. All you do is log into the rhn site rnh.redhat.com, click on "entitlements", change the old registration's entitlement to "none", and the new one to "basic". Then run up2date -u and you should be set.
He does believe that stopping the pirates could have a dramatic effect on the current pricing of software, however.
"As the legal market grows, there is more investment in new products and enhanced competition. A healthy market leads to more attractive prices for consumers," he said.
Anyone want to wager what the odds of BSA members dropping their prices will be? I'm guessing something involving a snowball and Hell.
Actually, this is only partly true in Virginia. The state has a statewide sales tax of 4.5% (unless it's changed in the last 3 years), and counties do not add on their own sales tax. However, cities are able to add their own sales tax. For example, Alexandria (just across the river from DC) has a 3% sales tax on top of the state's, so you'll pay 7.5%. Ugh.
As far as the 40/80 GB max on DLT, IBM and Compaq both offer larger backup solutions, LTO and Super DLT. Compaq has embraced Quantum's SDLT, which has a capacity of 110/220 GB and a transfer rate of 11 MB/sec (uncompressed). Search speed is roughly 4.5 meters/sec. IBM has embraced LTO, which uses 100/200GB tapes, has a transfer rate of 15 MB/second (uncompressed, and a >2x increase over 40/80 DLT at about 6 MB/second uncompressed), and has an on-tape chip which can hold an index of all the files on the tape for easier retrieval. The search speed on LTO is about 6 meters/sec.
Now, all of this is useless without being "generally available", so I did a little price-checking. Below are internal single-drive units (no autoloaders), and list price from manufacturers:
I'm currently running Junkbuster on Win32 and Linux, and I can't get in, no matter what user agent I put in junkbstr.ini. If you want to try yourself, look in junkbstr.ini for a line that starts with "user-agent". Like I said, I've tried IE user agent strings, but cannot get in at all, no matter what string I try. Of course, if I turn off my evil, communist, revenue draining blocker, I have no problems.
I'm sorry, but I see absolutely nothing in his tone or in his words to imply that, as you put it, "inner-city students just can't learn because they're too stupid or too black." Talk about jumping the gun. First of all, any concerns would seem to be made on a socio-economic basis, not on a racial basis as you seem to assume (who's prejudiced now?). The fact is that the term "inner-city" is most widely used to refer to poorer residents of highly-populated urban areas, and as such, they probably do not have the best facilities or equipment for learning. Now, someone who has grown up in an affluent neighborhood (or even a lower-middle-class neighborhood) has probably at least seen a computer in his life, whereas poorer students may have never experienced them, and the teacher needs to find a way to engage them, to get them to care about what he's trying to teach. Also, these kids are more likely from a very different social background than he is (again, not about race, but about socio-economic levels). He seems to be genuinely eager to help these kids, and jumping on him for something over-interpreted as racism isn't helping anyone.
Personally, I think your over-zealous inference of racism is doing more harm than the author possibly could.
Well, Google has recently added paid links near the top of searches (but, thankfully, they've taken pains to identify them as such). Also, they make a metric buttwad of money licensing out their search engine to other sites (Yahoo!(TM) anyone?).
Several points here: W2K DC doesn't run 64-bit, at least not until Itanium is released. Second, for something like this, there are two reasons to do a large server farm: scalability and throughput. They said that they do not have one monolithic storage system, but instead partition the database up into small segments in the servers themselves. This means that they can handle many more I/Os per second than one (or several) big iron boxes could do. Also, those big 64-bit boxes are damn expensive (both hardware and software). For the price of one of those, you can get cheap servers and cluster them together. The big iron boxes are great for large databases that can't be split up among several servers/storage systems, but if you can split the database up (as they have done), a farm of small servers will always provide better scalability and throughput than one big box. And aren't those two things the secret behind the web game?
...but linux is not limited to intel hardware. it doesn't even have those features on the hardware that does support them
True. In an earlier version of my statement (not the one I eventually posted), I stated that IA is not the be-all end-all of computing hardware. Far from it. However, MS's playing field is in the IA space (since they pulled Alpha support for NT), so those are the features we have to examine.
The fact of the matter is that with Compaq and IBM getting behind Linux, we are getting enterprise-level and datacenter features. Hotswap PCI cards? Oh, every Compaq Proliant with hot-swap PCI slots fully supports Red Hat. Hot-swap memory and CPU? Don't even exist in the IA world. Not yet, anyway. Compaq is expecting to announce true hot-swap memory sometime this year (note that MS can't possibly support it at this point either), and the ideal is that with IA-64, hot-swappability will be part of the chipset spec. Now, whether this even happens or not remains to be seen.
Now, granted, Linux still has a ways to go (JFS, more enterprise and datacenter hardware support), however, the picture is not nearly as bleak as some would like to have you believe.
Oh, I'm sorry. Maybe it's the fact that the MPAA/RIAA are trying to have their cake and eat it too.
Me: "So, when I buy this CD/DVD, am I buying it or licensing it?"
Corps: "Oh, you're licensing the information on it. You're paying for the right to access that info."
Me: "So, if something happens to it, will you give me another one for free? After all, I've already paid for the right to access the info."
Corps: "No! You want another one, you pay full price."
Me: "Oh, well then, I'd better make a personal backup copy, as is allowed under copyright law."
Corps: "No! We don't want you to do that! You might distribute that copy to people who didn't pay for it! Thus, we'd better control the ability to copy any of our material."
Me: "Yeah, but isn't that punishing people who don't distribute copyrighted works? And isn't that also making it impossible for me to make my perfectly legal backup copy?"
Corps (realizing at this point I'm trouble): "You know what, screw you! We're not only going to keep you from exercising your rights under copyright law, we're going to do it insidiously, by slowly buying legislation that takes away rights you had."
Me: "What?!?! You can't do that! People will be outraged!"
Corps: "You honestly think most people will notice? We'll just use words like 'all-digital quality', and people will not only allow it, they'll welcome it! Mwahahahahahaha!"
So there. Now, I'm not saying that everyone who rips CDs to mp3 are just making personal backup copies. However, to punish everyone for those who do is just stupid.
Well, Russ, I'd agree with you for the most part. However, as we've seen with the RIAA/MPAA, once corporations and corporate groups get to a certain size and pervasiveness (real word?), people tend to accept whatever crap the corps force down their throats. The problem as I see it is that when we have corporate control of the net (which we pretty much do through litigation, patents, etc.), they can easily buy governmental control for their own ends (DMCA, anyone?). Now, let me state for the record that while I agree with the main point of the essay, that corporations are only to serve their own interests and bottom lines, I do not agree that government regulation is the answer. Unfortunately, I do not have an acceptable plan to win back information rights. Again, the problem we face now is that corps are in control, and are winning (or have won) the government to their side. Then we will be stuck fighting them both, and that will be a bad day for all. I'm hoping someone smarter than I am has an answer for this problem, otherwise we're all hosed.
Nooooo, it's not because they use Linux that we're not beating the hell out of them (although I am sure that it helps). The key issue here is that they are extremely upfront about what their toolbar program does. In fact, they even present a default config that sends no information to Google. I have no doubt that if they had kept this secret, someone would have found out (let's face it, someone always finds out), and they would have gotten slammed. It boils down to this: If you want to collect information on someone, let them know that you want to, and give them a way to opt out. They have done this with their big warning box and privacy-friendly default config option. Hence, while I wish it didn't send stuff back to Google, they were very above-the-board about this.
Yeah, there is one, but it doesn't seem to be updated at all. New headlines keep cropping up on the site, but the file that slashdot pulls the headlines from is not updating properly. I also wish they'd provide headlines in RDF format or an XML format similar to/.'s. That heads.txt is something of a pain to parse when all of the other sites are using easily parsible formats.
Well, the movie is definitely good, and for those on a budget (read: not Rob), it is a good choice. However, if you can get the series, it's a little more immersive, and gives you more of the good stuff.
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Check the whole series, not just the all-in-one volume. Also, someone else mentioned "The Professional." Definitely find and watch it, and any others with Golgo 13. Good, good stuff.
I believe what was meant was that auto, health, and other insurance companies lobby the lawmakers to pass legislation to enforce seat belt compliance, outlaw smoking in certain areas, etc. Because these insurance companies view these things as drains on their respective pocketbooks, they will do anything they can to reduce the amount they pay out on claims. If they can align their views with others who want these things anyway, they can push even past Big Tobacco.
Personally, I think mandatory seat belt laws are some of the stupidest laws ever. Like those against committing suicide.
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You're right. Zymurgy is not chemistry or biology. Instead, as the parent to your comment said, it's chemistry and biology, applied towards the end result of brewing beer that's given the term "zymurgy". Saying that zymurgy has nothing to do with bio and chem is like saying that biology has nothing to do with chemistry, and that chem has nothing to do with physics. To believe it stands on its own implies ignorance (note I said implies, not shows).
Three years with no sex? That's cruel! That's inhumane! That's....what? Oh, wait... That's my life.
"I mean, look at you! You're the kind of guy who would beg for sex! And I should know, we can smell our own." --Brodie
(I know, I've been trolled. Don't care. Haven't had coffee yet.)
I have to differ with you on the Playstation controller. I'm a pretty big guy with large (some say, "ham-sized") hands, and the Playstation controller is simply the best controller ever, IMHO. The sheer ergonomics of the controller were perfect. All buttons were within easy reach, and the controller was small enough to fit perfectly in the grip. I'm not as big a fan of the original Dual-Shock Analog Playstation controller, as I thought the analog sticks threw the ergonomics off, but I could deal with it for analog control and the vibration functionality. However, the PS2 controller is totally sweet. 255 levels of sensitivity in each button makes for delightful analog button-pusing control, and the analog sticks were tightened up to a usable point. I realize that YMMV, but for my money, the PS2 controller is the only way to fly.
Do not trust the X-Box controller. It is malfunctioning. The PS2 controller will protect you from the terrible secret of space. Do you have stairs in your house?
Well, while I will agree that it's not terribly newbie-friendly, it's not impossible to circumvent. First of all, the local box should allow you to register the machine without a problem, but you won't be able to update your software. All you do is log into the rhn site rnh.redhat.com, click on "entitlements", change the old registration's entitlement to "none", and the new one to "basic". Then run up2date -u and you should be set.
Actually, this is only partly true in Virginia. The state has a statewide sales tax of 4.5% (unless it's changed in the last 3 years), and counties do not add on their own sales tax. However, cities are able to add their own sales tax. For example, Alexandria (just across the river from DC) has a 3% sales tax on top of the state's, so you'll pay 7.5%. Ugh.
As far as the 40/80 GB max on DLT, IBM and Compaq both offer larger backup solutions, LTO and Super DLT. Compaq has embraced Quantum's SDLT, which has a capacity of 110/220 GB and a transfer rate of 11 MB/sec (uncompressed). Search speed is roughly 4.5 meters/sec. IBM has embraced LTO, which uses 100/200GB tapes, has a transfer rate of 15 MB/second (uncompressed, and a >2x increase over 40/80 DLT at about 6 MB/second uncompressed), and has an on-tape chip which can hold an index of all the files on the tape for easier retrieval. The search speed on LTO is about 6 meters/sec.
Now, all of this is useless without being "generally available", so I did a little price-checking. Below are internal single-drive units (no autoloaders), and list price from manufacturers:
Compaq 40/80 DLT Drive (internal) - $3,499.00
Compaq 110/220 SDLT Drive (internal) - $5,590.00
IBM 100/200 LTO Drive (internal) - $3,999.00
Just wanted to point out that there are other options.
I'm currently running Junkbuster on Win32 and Linux, and I can't get in, no matter what user agent I put in junkbstr.ini. If you want to try yourself, look in junkbstr.ini for a line that starts with "user-agent". Like I said, I've tried IE user agent strings, but cannot get in at all, no matter what string I try. Of course, if I turn off my evil, communist, revenue draining blocker, I have no problems.
In the words of MST3K, "Well, she was going to smell like beer sooner or later."
Personally, I think your over-zealous inference of racism is doing more harm than the author possibly could.
The site www.suntimes.com is running Netscape-Enterprise/3.6 on Solaris
Check for yourself here
Actually, all of your posts are already copyrighted by you. I'll direct your attention to the bottom of the page: "All trademarks and copyrights on this page are owned by their respective owners. Comments are owned by the Poster. The Rest © 1997-2001 OSDN." (Emphasis mine). Plus, when something is created, it is automatically copyrighted by the creator, unless the copyright is explicitly granted to another. Now, if you want to make that copyright explicit, that's of course perfectly acceptable, too.
Well, Google has recently added paid links near the top of searches (but, thankfully, they've taken pains to identify them as such). Also, they make a metric buttwad of money licensing out their search engine to other sites (Yahoo!(TM) anyone?).
Several points here: W2K DC doesn't run 64-bit, at least not until Itanium is released. Second, for something like this, there are two reasons to do a large server farm: scalability and throughput. They said that they do not have one monolithic storage system, but instead partition the database up into small segments in the servers themselves. This means that they can handle many more I/Os per second than one (or several) big iron boxes could do. Also, those big 64-bit boxes are damn expensive (both hardware and software). For the price of one of those, you can get cheap servers and cluster them together. The big iron boxes are great for large databases that can't be split up among several servers/storage systems, but if you can split the database up (as they have done), a farm of small servers will always provide better scalability and throughput than one big box. And aren't those two things the secret behind the web game?
...but linux is not limited to intel hardware. it doesn't even have those features on the hardware that does support them True. In an earlier version of my statement (not the one I eventually posted), I stated that IA is not the be-all end-all of computing hardware. Far from it. However, MS's playing field is in the IA space (since they pulled Alpha support for NT), so those are the features we have to examine.
The fact of the matter is that with Compaq and IBM getting behind Linux, we are getting enterprise-level and datacenter features. Hotswap PCI cards? Oh, every Compaq Proliant with hot-swap PCI slots fully supports Red Hat. Hot-swap memory and CPU? Don't even exist in the IA world. Not yet, anyway. Compaq is expecting to announce true hot-swap memory sometime this year (note that MS can't possibly support it at this point either), and the ideal is that with IA-64, hot-swappability will be part of the chipset spec. Now, whether this even happens or not remains to be seen. Now, granted, Linux still has a ways to go (JFS, more enterprise and datacenter hardware support), however, the picture is not nearly as bleak as some would like to have you believe.
Oh, I'm sorry. Maybe it's the fact that the MPAA/RIAA are trying to have their cake and eat it too.
Me: "So, when I buy this CD/DVD, am I buying it or licensing it?"
Corps: "Oh, you're licensing the information on it. You're paying for the right to access that info."
Me: "So, if something happens to it, will you give me another one for free? After all, I've already paid for the right to access the info."
Corps: "No! You want another one, you pay full price."
Me: "Oh, well then, I'd better make a personal backup copy, as is allowed under copyright law."
Corps: "No! We don't want you to do that! You might distribute that copy to people who didn't pay for it! Thus, we'd better control the ability to copy any of our material."
Me: "Yeah, but isn't that punishing people who don't distribute copyrighted works? And isn't that also making it impossible for me to make my perfectly legal backup copy?"
Corps (realizing at this point I'm trouble): "You know what, screw you! We're not only going to keep you from exercising your rights under copyright law, we're going to do it insidiously, by slowly buying legislation that takes away rights you had."
Me: "What?!?! You can't do that! People will be outraged!"
Corps: "You honestly think most people will notice? We'll just use words like 'all-digital quality', and people will not only allow it, they'll welcome it! Mwahahahahahaha!"
So there. Now, I'm not saying that everyone who rips CDs to mp3 are just making personal backup copies. However, to punish everyone for those who do is just stupid.
Well, Russ, I'd agree with you for the most part. However, as we've seen with the RIAA/MPAA, once corporations and corporate groups get to a certain size and pervasiveness (real word?), people tend to accept whatever crap the corps force down their throats. The problem as I see it is that when we have corporate control of the net (which we pretty much do through litigation, patents, etc.), they can easily buy governmental control for their own ends (DMCA, anyone?). Now, let me state for the record that while I agree with the main point of the essay, that corporations are only to serve their own interests and bottom lines, I do not agree that government regulation is the answer. Unfortunately, I do not have an acceptable plan to win back information rights. Again, the problem we face now is that corps are in control, and are winning (or have won) the government to their side. Then we will be stuck fighting them both, and that will be a bad day for all. I'm hoping someone smarter than I am has an answer for this problem, otherwise we're all hosed.
Nooooo, it's not because they use Linux that we're not beating the hell out of them (although I am sure that it helps). The key issue here is that they are extremely upfront about what their toolbar program does. In fact, they even present a default config that sends no information to Google. I have no doubt that if they had kept this secret, someone would have found out (let's face it, someone always finds out), and they would have gotten slammed. It boils down to this: If you want to collect information on someone, let them know that you want to, and give them a way to opt out. They have done this with their big warning box and privacy-friendly default config option. Hence, while I wish it didn't send stuff back to Google, they were very above-the-board about this.
Jesus, one tin a week? When I get a case, I usually go through 1-2 tins a day. My kidneys hate me so very, very much.
Yeah, there is one, but it doesn't seem to be updated at all. New headlines keep cropping up on the site, but the file that slashdot pulls the headlines from is not updating properly. I also wish they'd provide headlines in RDF format or an XML format similar to /.'s. That heads.txt is something of a pain to parse when all of the other sites are using easily parsible formats.
Well, the movie is definitely good, and for those on a budget (read: not Rob), it is a good choice. However, if you can get the series, it's a little more immersive, and gives you more of the good stuff.
Check the whole series, not just the all-in-one volume. Also, someone else mentioned "The Professional." Definitely find and watch it, and any others with Golgo 13. Good, good stuff.
Personally, I think mandatory seat belt laws are some of the stupidest laws ever. Like those against committing suicide.