Unfortunately, these days I wouldn't be surprised if an infants first words were "sex" instead of "mama" or "papa". Why? Most media has gone way too overboard with sex and profanity in films. Sure, when I'm with the guys its fine but if there are little kids even around in the house, I don't want to have to censor that stuff. Before anyone goes off on me about censoring content let me just say that it is my children who I deal with and raise so I *will* censor anything even remotely obscene. Movie houses such as these allow movies to be played without the worry of junior sneaking around when watching such films at night.
Anyway, I fail to see how profanity/sex is an art form in films. Without those scenes, I don't lose any meaning to the film. If I wanted that stuff, I'd rather go get pr0n instead. Furthermore, I can still censor this stuff w/ a fast forward feature. How is hollywood gonna stop me now? Oh wait, some DVDs don't allow you to time advance!
I don't mean to flame the educational system, but mod me down for it cause i believe what i write.
The entire educational system is in the crapper as far as i'm concerned. The larger problem is that we have teachers that don't give a darn about teaching and students who would rather be doing something else. Albiet that the latter has almost always been true, i mean, when did a kid *want* to go to school? I know many who do and the only reason is that from birth their parents have told them that to get somewhere in this world, they must go to school. Teachers, on the other hand, get paid less and less. That is the crux of the problem. I don't know many teachers who wouldn't bail for another job. The third issue is the idea in the American psychology that the school should teach everything from math to table manners to ethics (in other words: the school should be parenting). The fourth issue is our governments desire to fund murderous foreign goverments (read: Israel and a hundred others) with billions of dollars that could be going to our schools. All of this thrown together and we end up with teachers experimenting with tomorrows youth by playing video games. Did the generations of the 18 and 19 hundreds that got the ball rolling to have the technology we have today rely on a playstation? No, they relied on a pencil and a stack of paper. That is the only way to learn basic skills. That is way it should be. No video games in this household.
The problem that happens in all this trusted mumbo jumbo crap is that in the end it will be my eyes and ears that process the light and sound. Without that, there can never be any hollywood or movie industry. So as long as it can be seen or heard, it can be recorded as well. Last I checked, even grabbing the analog signals before they make it into the CRT would be good enough for a recording, wouldn't they? If not, any joe schmoe could video tape the images and play them back. The trusted computing/television is nothing more than a pipedream as many of you have said. If humans (not roswell aliens) designed the system, then it is crackable. Here is to another 50 years of great hacking (damn I shouldn't be drinking on a sunday =/)
Make sure you drink a lot of water since your kidneys will need it. High protien diets eventually lead to kidney stone formation. Have you ever tried to pass a stone? Trust me, its not a walk in the park. As much as you are trying to lose weight based on the type of food you consume, you must also excercise. I run about 3 miles a day which takes me about 30 minutes to complete. I make sure that I eat whatever I want, but I am capping my calorie intake at 1500 cal/day. That 3 miles of running is about equal to 500 calories burned so in essence i take in only 1000 cal/day. Once I reach the desired weight, I can increase calorie consumption to 2000 cal/day and run every other day to maintain it. I weight 215 at the begining of July. I weight 184 as of this morning.
Whatever you do, just remember... high protien diet MUST MUST MUST be accompanied by lots of water and frequent trips to the bathroom! Good luck.
But this move is largely designed for two reasons. With massive control over media, the reasons for having broadband start widdling their way down to nothing. Sure, you have a small minority that likes to download linux iso images for fun, but he majority of people have broadband for online gaming, mp3s, divx, p0rn, etc. The ISPs have to fight to make sure they don't lose the very reason for the existance of broadband. These ISPs are not the good guys, they just know that if they don't fight this, that they'll lose money.
Is there a list somewhere of the packages that were removed from Rawhide? If so, I could compile new meta-rpm such that it would install the latest versions of each onto new RedHat installs.
This is my 2nd or 3rd comment on this article and I'll just cap it off for now. Most of the people who posted comments don't run the new Beta of RedHat. Sure, RedHat choose certain applications as defaults and made both gnome and kde look the same. However, if you want to use KMail, Konqueror, KWord, etc. they are all still there. If you want to use them in KDE, customize the menu in KDE so they point to your preferred apps. At first I thought the moron menus in RedHat were terrible: Browse Internet, Check E-mail, etc. But the more I thought about it, the better it was for *most* newer users. If I want to be a power user, all I gotta do is edit the menu to my liking. Most power users already do this. For all of you that have said that their is no more "About...", well, every KDE app I ran had the About box that mentioned the authors, project name, and license (GPL). Sure, they lost that stupid intro "about" screen that you got when starting the app, but who cares. I like what they've done.
Also to Mosfet... let me get it off my chest... you are a great programmer and I respect you but you are a sensationalist idiot. I applied you Liquid theme to RedHat's new beta and it worked fine. Your webpage says that it doesn't work in the new beta. Now why is that? You may be a great programmer, but you are no better than 99.99999999% of slashdotters who come on here and make stuff up. Why don't you download the new beta and try it for yourself before bashing it?
Yes it is true that KDE is nothing other than a shell. Most applications you use are those of Gnome. I have very mixed feelings over this. Sure, I really like some of the stuff KDE has to offer, but in the end, I like the fact that I can change to KDE or Gnome and the look and feel is still the same. I know people have jumped the gun (like mosfet) by saying that nothing works and how this is the worst thing to ever happen, but eerything is still there. RedHat choose to standardize on Gnome. If you don't like it, DON'T USE IT! No one is sticking a gun to your head making you use it. As for the about box changes, I don't understand what the issue is. If i want to run a standard KDE configuration, then I'll revert back to the KDE defaults. As it is, the system works and looks great.
On one had we have fought many battles against companies weilding the copyright over users, but now the tables are turned and the public is going after a company (Sigma Designs). This action by them (releasing the code) is NOT enough. They still claim their copyright over almost exact duplicates of XviD code. I'd hate to see the day when an enterprising young lawyer thinks that Sigma wrote the code first and then XviD copied it--the legal battle would have been nasty. Regardless, Sigma still needs to fess up to their screw up. Remember, management is always responsible for those below them. If a "lone ranger programmer" made the mistake, then the higher ups are just as responsible.
PS... what the hell is up with those stupid "in your mouth", "in your a**" posts? Go away trolls.
Its a demo/test model that I was using in the lab to verify compatibility with our applications. Yes, that is corporate speak for "I played quake for a couple hours on company time". I am payed to do that. Anyway, here it goes...
* 2D: WOW! I have been a diehard Matrox fan because of the awesome 2D on their boards. However, I think Matrox might have a challenger on their hands. Even at dizzyingly high resolutions, the fonts were crisp and clean.
* 3D: Very nice. It has been image quality than the Geforce Ti's with FSAA enabled. However, it cannot compete with the Matrox Parhelia here. The Parhelia, though it has slower framerates, has better color saturation and 16x FSAA w/o a massive performance hit.
* Drivers: so far it was worked fine under WinXP. I got the SVGA xserver running on it after mucking around with Redhat for a couple hours. I am hoping a dedicated XServer is coming out for this card since it needs one badly.
Maybe its a stretch but don't you think the very fact that he is going around and imposing his morality on others has only led to pissing people off is indicative of the what happens in real life? Case in point...
While doing research on perceptions of the World's only superpower (the U.S. -- I'm American) in the eyes of outsiders I found the very same thing. The U.S. goes around (along with some of its western europeann allies) and imposes its morality on others. Many times, that morality is just differing opinion but it leads to a lot of people who get pissed off and say "who the f*** is America to tell me how i live my life?". Maybe that isn't the central theme of Enterprise, maybe its not even intentional but I think it gives it a very real flavor. I would think that humans would act like that if they went to space.
it would have been better if Mr. Crusher could have made a little appearence somewhere in the background or in another portion of the movie. Last night's "Enterprise" rerun had a lot of people from the Deep Space 9 playing different characters. They want the crossover. What was even funnier is when Trip said "What are you going to do? Program a holographic doctor?" An obvious poke at those who watched voyager. It's stuff like that which makes Star Trek interesting.
... but your historical facts are not completely correct and you choose to present history from a largely Hindu/Indian perspective. Officially understood history from a United Nations perspective completely disagrees with what you have said.
Your evaluation of government reads that of the crap that comes out of the mouths of Indian and Indian loyalists. Can I you two things? Why hide like a coward behind anonimity? And two, maybe its time to pick up some books to fix your large factual errors, would you like some help in that?
I use a program called Proxomitron. It is a proxy that sits on your own machine and basically filters webpages for pop-ups, javascript, ads, etc. there is no way around this method of blocking and it works great. The only site that gives mee problems is http://www.mail.com. What they have done is made it do that to navigate the site, you have to enable javascript. For sites like that, a simple window killer works fine.
The thing that websites need to understand is that most of the web is "open-source". I don't mean that you can take whatever you want, but what I mean is that most of the website's code can be viewed. Those sites that use obnoxious java, flash, etc. types of stuff to close source their sites require a third party program (at least with the Sun Java client under windows I use) to be viewed. What do I do? I just disable that stuff, if I can't navigate the site, then I won't go there. The point of the open-source is that if my browser is going to do anything, I have the ultimate control since the code is run from my machine. To hell with pop-ups, pop-unders, javascript, flash, shockwave, etc. etc. etc.
Maybe we should take it offline. I'll leave you with one thing. India has no business being an occupation force in Kashmir. To say that Pakistan is funding terrorism is just like saying the French were funding terrorism by helping the founding fathers of the US against the corrupt British monarchy in the 18th century.
As for proving my case, you were the one that called me a troll and thusfar have just made random opinions without a single shred of evidence. You have conceded your original position and therefore I think you don't have much of any position to begin with. As for the troll rating on my post, its truely unfortunate since its a damn fine post. Take care... goodbye.
Just so it makes it into the archives, i'll repost it again:
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Unfortunate really... (Score:0, Troll) by Critical_ on Tuesday August 13, @02:37PM (#4064895) (User #25211 Info | http://www.ucla.edu/)
It's almost shocking for me to see this happening. If India has that much money to send a mission to the moon, maybe they should try to feed their population. Sure, those who are known as the brainless-CNN-types will say that India has had a food surplus but that doesn't mean that most of the population has food.
Poverty is unimaginably high in most of India. It has largely been the clever propoganda by the Indian government to show that they are better than their neighbors (mainly Pakistan) in terms of hunger and disease. Sure, GDP may be higher but their society lacks a middle class. The rich are extreme rich but very small in number and the poor amount to most of the population.
The class system in India has held the country down for a long time. Hindu religious and Indian cultural teaching have authorized the top classes to, for example, beat those of the lowest cast if even their two shadows two each other. Furthermore, India has been waging a war and occupying Kashmir for many decades. When the British left in the middle part of 20th century, they purposely left a Hindu Raj in charge of Kashmir which is predominantly a Muslim area. The Raj was a tyranical ruler that did the bidding of India and the population has been fighting against the oppression for many years now. Again, its clever Indian propoganda to paint the Kashmiri freedom fighters as terrorists. India has repeatedly blocked the right of the Kashmiri people to decide their "nation's" fate by not allowing a referendum to occur. India also has almost half a million troops in Kashmir through its occupation.
I could go on and on about what International humanitarian orgs have said about human rights abuses in India and Kashmir. Women in Hindu/Indian society have no rights. If a woman tries to have a relationship with a man, she is burned alive. If a woman decides not to marry the man her parents have picked for her, then she is burned alive. Parents will often times pick men for marriage based upon how much money the man is willing to give for their daughter. Marriages can happen between middle-aged men (40 y/o) with under-18 girls. The examples are endless.
Now please, tell me something, why is it that they want to send someone to the moon? They need to work on their nation and their political system to bring it up to 21st century standards. The money they spend should go to benefit their popuation not a stupid "my-weewee-is-bigger-than-yours" contest. Until they do that, they will always be a third world nation attempting to hang with the big boys but in the end it is the largely poor masses who suffer.
Oh and before someone says that I don't know what I am talking about... I have lived in India as a humanitarian worker for a long time. I've seen it all.
You may be an associate professor at UFl but you don't know how to clarify your points.
"This is false as India has a burgeoning middle class. We can quibble all we want about numbers but India would not have a fledgling IT services sector without this middle class. And it is this middle class and foreign investment which will decide whether or not India can combat the crushing poverty, improve the infrastructure etc."
So you agree that India has a massive chunk of the population that is under the poverty line. You also seem to agree with my original post that the middle class is relatively small. Okay, if you are agreeing, then how am I trolling?
Then you said:
"This is a half truth since it ignores Pakistan's role in Kashmir. The Kargil war in 1999 (which took place in Kashmor) was conducted by Musharraf. Both India and Pakistan have to take the blame for screwing up Kashmir which by any rights ought to be allowed to flourish along the lines of Colorado."
Ummm, this is what we call "skirting the issue". Mr. Associate Professor, shouldn't you talk about the atrocities committed by the Hindu Raj who was in bed with the government of India? Do you also forget that any attempt at a UN resolution asking for the right of Kashmiri citizens to choose their future paths in terms of government in the general assembly has been fought against by India? Yes, you do forget Pakistan's role. Pakistan has been pushing diplomatic solutions in the world community (including the UN) that would allow for a referendum, why did you not talk about this? Are you scared that you'll torpedo any semblence of an argument? Again, you have stated half truths and fail to state the actual history of the conflict. Repeating again: How is what I wrote trolling when all you can do is point fingers at me?
Then you continue:
"This is a mixture of outright falsehoods and half truths. It is simply not true to say that Hindu women have no rights since they have equal rights under Hindu law. This would be like saying, "The US is a racist country and African Americans have no rights there." As for women being burned alive, gimme a break. This is hardly the norm and against the law."
Not true? Many womens rights organizations differ with your opinion. Just because it is "against the law" doesn't mean it doesn't happen. How much policing does the Indian government do in the largely "village-inhabiting" population on India? Please give numbers because if you can even find numbers, it'll prove that the lack of womens rights in India under the Hindu system of culture and religion is predominant. Making a plea that it can't be true is just opinion Mr. Associate Professor. How about giving some examples to refute my claims?
Its nice to know that a person in higher education has no clue what he is talking about. Please Mr. Associate Professor, check your Indo-centric biases at the door.
If I didn't make it clear, I'd love to hear your "unbiased" Indian-perspective on India. I'm sure we'll get the whole picture then since someone who is Indian will be able to tell us everything without any bias when it comes to their home country.
So tell me about womens rights in India?
Can you tell me about the Indian-occupation of Kashmir?
Can you tell me about the Indian-blocked Kashmiri self-determination referendum?
Can you tell me about human rights abuses in India?
Can you tell me about the poverty?
Can you tell me about the backwards caste system which allows higher classes to abuse the lower classes?
And finally, can you tell me why a nation like this should be focusing on going to the moon?
I want you to go through and tell me what is biased? You disagree on the population numbers? That's fine. You agree there is a lot of poverty? It sure seems like it. But please, before calling me a troll, go through and tell me how I am trolling point by point. I'm sorry for be blunt, but I don't think you could refute most of my post since you know its true (or can't prove its false)
Word of advice, just because it goes against what you believe and hold as an opinions does not make my post that of a troll. In the end, calling someone else "too biased" without backing up your opinions is not a very good rebutal. If you can't offer anything solid, then don't argue.
Let me ask you something, why have you not gone through and refuted every point I have made. The very fact you are Indian makes your comments suspect and biased. Sources, especially biased ones, are very typical of India's general propoganda to overstate its position. Just because they have a fledgling IT services sector exploited by western companies for cheap programming labor goes to show that India is still a nation of poverty. Do you refute that? Do you refute the fact that, accroding to your statistics, 350+ million people are below the poverty line? My original posts intent was to criticize India for focusing on going to the moon. If you are a person who has Indian pride, then I ask you what is more important: a space program targetting the moon, or a humanitarian package seeking the (over 350 million) below the poverty line?
In typical slashdot style, when a person's ideas do not jive with the moderators, they are marked as a troll. Go for it, keep moding it down for speaking how I see it.
Mod me down if what I said is wrong, so far no one has said jack.
I'm sure being that you are an Indian will cause you to come to my comments defense. I don't blame you. However, just posting satistics and numbers without any sort of explaination is foolish. For example: 35% of the population below poverty line? That's 350 million people. With a middle class of a claimed 300 million by an indian site, I would wonder how they are defining such things.
It's almost shocking for me to see this happening. If India has that much money to send a mission to the moon, maybe they should try to feed their population. Sure, those who are known as the brainless-CNN-types will say that India has had a food surplus but that doesn't mean that most of the population has food.
Poverty is unimaginably high in most of India. It has largely been the clever propoganda by the Indian government to show that they are better than their neighbors (mainly Pakistan) in terms of hunger and disease. Sure, GDP may be higher but their society lacks a middle class. The rich are extreme rich but very small in number and the poor amount to most of the population.
The class system in India has held the country down for a long time. Hindu religious and Indian cultural teaching have authorized the top classes to, for example, beat those of the lowest cast if even their two shadows two each other. Furthermore, India has been waging a war and occupying Kashmir for many decades. When the British left in the middle part of 20th century, they purposely left a Hindu Raj in charge of Kashmir which is predominantly a Muslim area. The Raj was a tyranical ruler that did the bidding of India and the population has been fighting against the oppression for many years now. Again, its clever Indian propoganda to paint the Kashmiri freedom fighters as terrorists. India has repeatedly blocked the right of the Kashmiri people to decide their "nation's" fate by not allowing a referendum to occur. India also has almost half a million troops in Kashmir through its occupation.
I could go on and on about what International humanitarian orgs have said about human rights abuses in India and Kashmir. Women in Hindu/Indian society have no rights. If a woman tries to have a relationship with a man, she is burned alive. If a woman decides not to marry the man her parents have picked for her, then she is burned alive. Parents will often times pick men for marriage based upon how much money the man is willing to give for their daughter. Marriages can happen between middle-aged men (40 y/o) with under-18 girls. The examples are endless.
Now please, tell me something, why is it that they want to send someone to the moon? They need to work on their nation and their political system to bring it up to 21st century standards. The money they spend should go to benefit their popuation not a stupid "my-weewee-is-bigger-than-yours" contest. Until they do that, they will always be a third world nation attempting to hang with the big boys but in the end it is the largely poor masses who suffer.
Oh and before someone says that I don't know what I am talking about... I have lived in India as a humanitarian worker for a long time. I've seen it all.
Moderate this as a flame if you want cause I am sick and tired of this x86-64 bullcrap.
Lets see, the history of slashdot and most of computer-geekdom has always ribbed Intel for maintaining backwards compatibility with processors more than a decade old. Sure, x86 is great due to all the applications out for it, but in all honesty why can't we move away from it?
With Slashdot, Linus and most of the online review sites pushing for x86-64, one has to wonder if AMD is slipping cash under the table to all these parties. If not, then what happened to those people who wanted innovation in the releam of processors and just not cheap hacks upon hacks upon hacks? It's kinda funny but the way AMD is going is sorta the way Microsoft is: maintain backward compatibility at all costs.
My guess is that most people pushing x86-64 have yet to write a program more complicated than "hello world!". Let's stick to our desire for innovation and truely stand behind the company willing to shed the baggage: Intel.
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Unfortunately, these days I wouldn't be surprised if an infants first words were "sex" instead of "mama" or "papa". Why? Most media has gone way too overboard with sex and profanity in films. Sure, when I'm with the guys its fine but if there are little kids even around in the house, I don't want to have to censor that stuff. Before anyone goes off on me about censoring content let me just say that it is my children who I deal with and raise so I *will* censor anything even remotely obscene. Movie houses such as these allow movies to be played without the worry of junior sneaking around when watching such films at night.
Anyway, I fail to see how profanity/sex is an art form in films. Without those scenes, I don't lose any meaning to the film. If I wanted that stuff, I'd rather go get pr0n instead. Furthermore, I can still censor this stuff w/ a fast forward feature. How is hollywood gonna stop me now? Oh wait, some DVDs don't allow you to time advance!
I don't mean to flame the educational system, but mod me down for it cause i believe what i write.
The entire educational system is in the crapper as far as i'm concerned. The larger problem is that we have teachers that don't give a darn about teaching and students who would rather be doing something else. Albiet that the latter has almost always been true, i mean, when did a kid *want* to go to school? I know many who do and the only reason is that from birth their parents have told them that to get somewhere in this world, they must go to school. Teachers, on the other hand, get paid less and less. That is the crux of the problem. I don't know many teachers who wouldn't bail for another job. The third issue is the idea in the American psychology that the school should teach everything from math to table manners to ethics (in other words: the school should be parenting). The fourth issue is our governments desire to fund murderous foreign goverments (read: Israel and a hundred others) with billions of dollars that could be going to our schools. All of this thrown together and we end up with teachers experimenting with tomorrows youth by playing video games. Did the generations of the 18 and 19 hundreds that got the ball rolling to have the technology we have today rely on a playstation? No, they relied on a pencil and a stack of paper. That is the only way to learn basic skills. That is way it should be. No video games in this household.
The problem that happens in all this trusted mumbo jumbo crap is that in the end it will be my eyes and ears that process the light and sound. Without that, there can never be any hollywood or movie industry. So as long as it can be seen or heard, it can be recorded as well. Last I checked, even grabbing the analog signals before they make it into the CRT would be good enough for a recording, wouldn't they? If not, any joe schmoe could video tape the images and play them back. The trusted computing/television is nothing more than a pipedream as many of you have said. If humans (not roswell aliens) designed the system, then it is crackable. Here is to another 50 years of great hacking (damn I shouldn't be drinking on a sunday =/)
Make sure you drink a lot of water since your kidneys will need it. High protien diets eventually lead to kidney stone formation. Have you ever tried to pass a stone? Trust me, its not a walk in the park. As much as you are trying to lose weight based on the type of food you consume, you must also excercise. I run about 3 miles a day which takes me about 30 minutes to complete. I make sure that I eat whatever I want, but I am capping my calorie intake at 1500 cal/day. That 3 miles of running is about equal to 500 calories burned so in essence i take in only 1000 cal/day. Once I reach the desired weight, I can increase calorie consumption to 2000 cal/day and run every other day to maintain it. I weight 215 at the begining of July. I weight 184 as of this morning.
Whatever you do, just remember... high protien diet MUST MUST MUST be accompanied by lots of water and frequent trips to the bathroom! Good luck.
But this move is largely designed for two reasons. With massive control over media, the reasons for having broadband start widdling their way down to nothing. Sure, you have a small minority that likes to download linux iso images for fun, but he majority of people have broadband for online gaming, mp3s, divx, p0rn, etc. The ISPs have to fight to make sure they don't lose the very reason for the existance of broadband. These ISPs are not the good guys, they just know that if they don't fight this, that they'll lose money.
Is there a list somewhere of the packages that were removed from Rawhide? If so, I could compile new meta-rpm such that it would install the latest versions of each onto new RedHat installs.
This is my 2nd or 3rd comment on this article and I'll just cap it off for now. Most of the people who posted comments don't run the new Beta of RedHat. Sure, RedHat choose certain applications as defaults and made both gnome and kde look the same. However, if you want to use KMail, Konqueror, KWord, etc. they are all still there. If you want to use them in KDE, customize the menu in KDE so they point to your preferred apps. At first I thought the moron menus in RedHat were terrible: Browse Internet, Check E-mail, etc. But the more I thought about it, the better it was for *most* newer users. If I want to be a power user, all I gotta do is edit the menu to my liking. Most power users already do this. For all of you that have said that their is no more "About...", well, every KDE app I ran had the About box that mentioned the authors, project name, and license (GPL). Sure, they lost that stupid intro "about" screen that you got when starting the app, but who cares. I like what they've done.
Also to Mosfet... let me get it off my chest... you are a great programmer and I respect you but you are a sensationalist idiot. I applied you Liquid theme to RedHat's new beta and it worked fine. Your webpage says that it doesn't work in the new beta. Now why is that? You may be a great programmer, but you are no better than 99.99999999% of slashdotters who come on here and make stuff up. Why don't you download the new beta and try it for yourself before bashing it?
That's what i get for not previewing the subject. I have ran Limbo but now I am running NULL.
Yes it is true that KDE is nothing other than a shell. Most applications you use are those of Gnome. I have very mixed feelings over this. Sure, I really like some of the stuff KDE has to offer, but in the end, I like the fact that I can change to KDE or Gnome and the look and feel is still the same. I know people have jumped the gun (like mosfet) by saying that nothing works and how this is the worst thing to ever happen, but eerything is still there. RedHat choose to standardize on Gnome. If you don't like it, DON'T USE IT! No one is sticking a gun to your head making you use it. As for the about box changes, I don't understand what the issue is. If i want to run a standard KDE configuration, then I'll revert back to the KDE defaults. As it is, the system works and looks great.
On one had we have fought many battles against companies weilding the copyright over users, but now the tables are turned and the public is going after a company (Sigma Designs). This action by them (releasing the code) is NOT enough. They still claim their copyright over almost exact duplicates of XviD code. I'd hate to see the day when an enterprising young lawyer thinks that Sigma wrote the code first and then XviD copied it--the legal battle would have been nasty. Regardless, Sigma still needs to fess up to their screw up. Remember, management is always responsible for those below them. If a "lone ranger programmer" made the mistake, then the higher ups are just as responsible.
PS... what the hell is up with those stupid "in your mouth", "in your a**" posts? Go away trolls.
Its a demo/test model that I was using in the lab to verify compatibility with our applications. Yes, that is corporate speak for "I played quake for a couple hours on company time". I am payed to do that. Anyway, here it goes...
* 2D: WOW! I have been a diehard Matrox fan because of the awesome 2D on their boards. However, I think Matrox might have a challenger on their hands. Even at dizzyingly high resolutions, the fonts were crisp and clean.
* 3D: Very nice. It has been image quality than the Geforce Ti's with FSAA enabled. However, it cannot compete with the Matrox Parhelia here. The Parhelia, though it has slower framerates, has better color saturation and 16x FSAA w/o a massive performance hit.
* Drivers: so far it was worked fine under WinXP. I got the SVGA xserver running on it after mucking around with Redhat for a couple hours. I am hoping a dedicated XServer is coming out for this card since it needs one badly.
Anyone else have any luck under Linux?
Maybe its a stretch but don't you think the very fact that he is going around and imposing his morality on others has only led to pissing people off is indicative of the what happens in real life? Case in point...
While doing research on perceptions of the World's only superpower (the U.S. -- I'm American) in the eyes of outsiders I found the very same thing. The U.S. goes around (along with some of its western europeann allies) and imposes its morality on others. Many times, that morality is just differing opinion but it leads to a lot of people who get pissed off and say "who the f*** is America to tell me how i live my life?". Maybe that isn't the central theme of Enterprise, maybe its not even intentional but I think it gives it a very real flavor. I would think that humans would act like that if they went to space.
it would have been better if Mr. Crusher could have made a little appearence somewhere in the background or in another portion of the movie. Last night's "Enterprise" rerun had a lot of people from the Deep Space 9 playing different characters. They want the crossover. What was even funnier is when Trip said "What are you going to do? Program a holographic doctor?" An obvious poke at those who watched voyager. It's stuff like that which makes Star Trek interesting.
But a 3 hour star trek!?! Jeez, talk about long!
... but your historical facts are not completely correct and you choose to present history from a largely Hindu/Indian perspective. Officially understood history from a United Nations perspective completely disagrees with what you have said.
Your evaluation of government reads that of the crap that comes out of the mouths of Indian and Indian loyalists. Can I you two things? Why hide like a coward behind anonimity? And two, maybe its time to pick up some books to fix your large factual errors, would you like some help in that?
I use a program called Proxomitron. It is a proxy that sits on your own machine and basically filters webpages for pop-ups, javascript, ads, etc. there is no way around this method of blocking and it works great. The only site that gives mee problems is http://www.mail.com. What they have done is made it do that to navigate the site, you have to enable javascript. For sites like that, a simple window killer works fine.
The thing that websites need to understand is that most of the web is "open-source". I don't mean that you can take whatever you want, but what I mean is that most of the website's code can be viewed. Those sites that use obnoxious java, flash, etc. types of stuff to close source their sites require a third party program (at least with the Sun Java client under windows I use) to be viewed. What do I do? I just disable that stuff, if I can't navigate the site, then I won't go there. The point of the open-source is that if my browser is going to do anything, I have the ultimate control since the code is run from my machine. To hell with pop-ups, pop-unders, javascript, flash, shockwave, etc. etc. etc.
Maybe we should take it offline. I'll leave you with one thing. India has no business being an occupation force in Kashmir. To say that Pakistan is funding terrorism is just like saying the French were funding terrorism by helping the founding fathers of the US against the corrupt British monarchy in the 18th century.
As for proving my case, you were the one that called me a troll and thusfar have just made random opinions without a single shred of evidence. You have conceded your original position and therefore I think you don't have much of any position to begin with. As for the troll rating on my post, its truely unfortunate since its a damn fine post. Take care... goodbye.
Just so it makes it into the archives, i'll repost it again:
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Unfortunate really... (Score:0, Troll)
by Critical_ on Tuesday August 13, @02:37PM (#4064895)
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It's almost shocking for me to see this happening. If India has that much money to send a mission to the moon, maybe they should try to feed their population. Sure, those who are known as the brainless-CNN-types will say that India has had a food surplus but that doesn't mean that most of the population has food.
Poverty is unimaginably high in most of India. It has largely been the clever propoganda by the Indian government to show that they are better than their neighbors (mainly Pakistan) in terms of hunger and disease. Sure, GDP may be higher but their society lacks a middle class. The rich are extreme rich but very small in number and the poor amount to most of the population.
The class system in India has held the country down for a long time. Hindu religious and Indian cultural teaching have authorized the top classes to, for example, beat those of the lowest cast if even their two shadows two each other. Furthermore, India has been waging a war and occupying Kashmir for many decades. When the British left in the middle part of 20th century, they purposely left a Hindu Raj in charge of Kashmir which is predominantly a Muslim area. The Raj was a tyranical ruler that did the bidding of India and the population has been fighting against the oppression for many years now. Again, its clever Indian propoganda to paint the Kashmiri freedom fighters as terrorists. India has repeatedly blocked the right of the Kashmiri people to decide their "nation's" fate by not allowing a referendum to occur. India also has almost half a million troops in Kashmir through its occupation.
I could go on and on about what International humanitarian orgs have said about human rights abuses in India and Kashmir. Women in Hindu/Indian society have no rights. If a woman tries to have a relationship with a man, she is burned alive. If a woman decides not to marry the man her parents have picked for her, then she is burned alive. Parents will often times pick men for marriage based upon how much money the man is willing to give for their daughter. Marriages can happen between middle-aged men (40 y/o) with under-18 girls. The examples are endless.
Now please, tell me something, why is it that they want to send someone to the moon? They need to work on their nation and their political system to bring it up to 21st century standards. The money they spend should go to benefit their popuation not a stupid "my-weewee-is-bigger-than-yours" contest. Until they do that, they will always be a third world nation attempting to hang with the big boys but in the end it is the largely poor masses who suffer.
Oh and before someone says that I don't know what I am talking about... I have lived in India as a humanitarian worker for a long time. I've seen it all.
You may be an associate professor at UFl but you don't know how to clarify your points.
"This is false as India has a burgeoning middle class. We can quibble all we want
about numbers but India would not have a fledgling IT services sector without
this middle class. And it is this middle class and foreign investment which will
decide whether or not India can combat the crushing poverty, improve the
infrastructure etc."
So you agree that India has a massive chunk of the population that is under the poverty line. You also seem to agree with my original post that the middle class is relatively small. Okay, if you are agreeing, then how am I trolling?
Then you said:
"This is a half truth since it ignores Pakistan's role in Kashmir. The Kargil war
in 1999 (which took place in Kashmor) was conducted by Musharraf. Both India and
Pakistan have to take the blame for screwing up Kashmir which by any rights
ought to be allowed to flourish along the lines of Colorado."
Ummm, this is what we call "skirting the issue". Mr. Associate Professor, shouldn't you talk about the atrocities committed by the Hindu Raj who was in bed with the government of India? Do you also forget that any attempt at a UN resolution asking for the right of Kashmiri citizens to choose their future paths in terms of government in the general assembly has been fought against by India? Yes, you do forget Pakistan's role. Pakistan has been pushing diplomatic solutions in the world community (including the UN) that would allow for a referendum, why did you not talk about this? Are you scared that you'll torpedo any semblence of an argument? Again, you have stated half truths and fail to state the actual history of the conflict. Repeating again: How is what I wrote trolling when all you can do is point fingers at me?
Then you continue:
"This is a mixture of outright falsehoods and half truths. It is simply not true
to say that Hindu women have no rights since they have equal rights under Hindu
law. This would be like saying, "The US is a racist country and African
Americans have no rights there." As for women being burned alive, gimme a break.
This is hardly the norm and against the law."
Not true? Many womens rights organizations differ with your opinion. Just because it is "against the law" doesn't mean it doesn't happen. How much policing does the Indian government do in the largely "village-inhabiting" population on India? Please give numbers because if you can even find numbers, it'll prove that the lack of womens rights in India under the Hindu system of culture and religion is predominant. Making a plea that it can't be true is just opinion Mr. Associate Professor. How about giving some examples to refute my claims?
Its nice to know that a person in higher education has no clue what he is talking about. Please Mr. Associate Professor, check your Indo-centric biases at the door.
If I didn't make it clear, I'd love to hear your "unbiased" Indian-perspective on India. I'm sure we'll get the whole picture then since someone who is Indian will be able to tell us everything without any bias when it comes to their home country.
So tell me about womens rights in India?
Can you tell me about the Indian-occupation of Kashmir?
Can you tell me about the Indian-blocked Kashmiri self-determination referendum?
Can you tell me about human rights abuses in India?
Can you tell me about the poverty?
Can you tell me about the backwards caste system which allows higher classes to abuse the lower classes?
And finally, can you tell me why a nation like this should be focusing on going to the moon?
I'm waiting...
I want you to go through and tell me what is biased? You disagree on the population numbers? That's fine. You agree there is a lot of poverty? It sure seems like it. But please, before calling me a troll, go through and tell me how I am trolling point by point. I'm sorry for be blunt, but I don't think you could refute most of my post since you know its true (or can't prove its false)
Word of advice, just because it goes against what you believe and hold as an opinions does not make my post that of a troll. In the end, calling someone else "too biased" without backing up your opinions is not a very good rebutal. If you can't offer anything solid, then don't argue.
Let me ask you something, why have you not gone through and refuted every point I have made. The very fact you are Indian makes your comments suspect and biased. Sources, especially biased ones, are very typical of India's general propoganda to overstate its position. Just because they have a fledgling IT services sector exploited by western companies for cheap programming labor goes to show that India is still a nation of poverty. Do you refute that? Do you refute the fact that, accroding to your statistics, 350+ million people are below the poverty line? My original posts intent was to criticize India for focusing on going to the moon. If you are a person who has Indian pride, then I ask you what is more important: a space program targetting the moon, or a humanitarian package seeking the (over 350 million) below the poverty line?
In typical slashdot style, when a person's ideas do not jive with the moderators, they are marked as a troll. Go for it, keep moding it down for speaking how I see it.
Mod me down if what I said is wrong, so far no one has said jack.
I'm sure being that you are an Indian will cause you to come to my comments defense. I don't blame you. However, just posting satistics and numbers without any sort of explaination is foolish. For example: 35% of the population below poverty line? That's 350 million people. With a middle class of a claimed 300 million by an indian site, I would wonder how they are defining such things.
again, i'm not pakistani, I am just giving my opinion based on how i see the facts
It's almost shocking for me to see this happening. If India has that much money to send a mission to the moon, maybe they should try to feed their population. Sure, those who are known as the brainless-CNN-types will say that India has had a food surplus but that doesn't mean that most of the population has food.
Poverty is unimaginably high in most of India. It has largely been the clever propoganda by the Indian government to show that they are better than their neighbors (mainly Pakistan) in terms of hunger and disease. Sure, GDP may be higher but their society lacks a middle class. The rich are extreme rich but very small in number and the poor amount to most of the population.
The class system in India has held the country down for a long time. Hindu religious and Indian cultural teaching have authorized the top classes to, for example, beat those of the lowest cast if even their two shadows two each other. Furthermore, India has been waging a war and occupying Kashmir for many decades. When the British left in the middle part of 20th century, they purposely left a Hindu Raj in charge of Kashmir which is predominantly a Muslim area. The Raj was a tyranical ruler that did the bidding of India and the population has been fighting against the oppression for many years now. Again, its clever Indian propoganda to paint the Kashmiri freedom fighters as terrorists. India has repeatedly blocked the right of the Kashmiri people to decide their "nation's" fate by not allowing a referendum to occur. India also has almost half a million troops in Kashmir through its occupation.
I could go on and on about what International humanitarian orgs have said about human rights abuses in India and Kashmir. Women in Hindu/Indian society have no rights. If a woman tries to have a relationship with a man, she is burned alive. If a woman decides not to marry the man her parents have picked for her, then she is burned alive. Parents will often times pick men for marriage based upon how much money the man is willing to give for their daughter. Marriages can happen between middle-aged men (40 y/o) with under-18 girls. The examples are endless.
Now please, tell me something, why is it that they want to send someone to the moon? They need to work on their nation and their political system to bring it up to 21st century standards. The money they spend should go to benefit their popuation not a stupid "my-weewee-is-bigger-than-yours" contest. Until they do that, they will always be a third world nation attempting to hang with the big boys but in the end it is the largely poor masses who suffer.
Oh and before someone says that I don't know what I am talking about... I have lived in India as a humanitarian worker for a long time. I've seen it all.
Moderate this as a flame if you want cause I am sick and tired of this x86-64 bullcrap.
Lets see, the history of slashdot and most of computer-geekdom has always ribbed Intel for maintaining backwards compatibility with processors more than a decade old. Sure, x86 is great due to all the applications out for it, but in all honesty why can't we move away from it?
With Slashdot, Linus and most of the online review sites pushing for x86-64, one has to wonder if AMD is slipping cash under the table to all these parties. If not, then what happened to those people who wanted innovation in the releam of processors and just not cheap hacks upon hacks upon hacks? It's kinda funny but the way AMD is going is sorta the way Microsoft is: maintain backward compatibility at all costs.
My guess is that most people pushing x86-64 have yet to write a program more complicated than "hello world!". Let's stick to our desire for innovation and truely stand behind the company willing to shed the baggage: Intel.