And there will be again. If forest fires permanently destroyed forests, I would have to imagine there would be no forests.
Mt. St. Helens is a perfect example, even though there aren't really any trees growing there 20 years later. There's plenty of "nature".
Indians, on the other hand, by which I mean their society, way of life, yadda yadda, will not be coming back any time soon. The best example I can think of is the Macah tribe out here in Washington that likes to go and hunt whales every now and again. People get all up in arms over it. Plus, here's the "traditional" whale hunt they go on: One guy throws an old-timey harpoon in the whale, and once "tradition" has been satisfied they open up with the.50 cal machine gun. Not exactly the noble battle of Man vs. Beast most people envision.
I am going to listen to Talking Heads "Moon Rocks" from the Speaking In Tongues album in a last-ditch effort to stay on topic.
Successful or unsuccessful? That's all? Who are you, Darwin?
I guess you must have been cheering whenever Picard was forced to violate the Prime Directive in Star Trek.
I was ignorant about Indian reservations on the East Coast, but I guess the point I was trying to make is that there's nothing even resembling their culture on the East Coast (though I still could be ignorantly wrong), but as you move West you begin to see it. Hence, as we moved forward in time we began to believe in things like self-determination, basic human rights, and so on.
I love it when two ACs battle it out. It's kinda like the battle between Good and Evil, except it's totally up to you whose side you're on. I guess that makes it like the War on Terrorism. (Though Mohammad Atta isn't an AC any more.)
god, why do I write stuff like that?
If, as AC #1 believes, "The world could easily be fed with the infrastructure and materials we have now," I ask: Why isn't it happening then? There are hungry people right here in America, after all. (And I'm not talking about the kind of hunger that I'm about to solve by ordering a pizza.)
The statute of limitations probably says otherwise. You won't get in trouble, at least under most U.S. law, for something you stole like seven years ago or whatever.
Those pesky Injuns should thank the Westerners for civilizing them and getting their heads out of the dirt.
You probably don't realize it, but you have stumbled upon the big question that Western Civilization ought to ask itself:
Q: Do non-Western Civilizations have a right to exist?
Follow-up Q: Do non-capitalist economic systems have a right to exist?
Historical Footnote #1: There are no Indian Reservations on the East Coast of USA.
Historical Footnote #2: Developing countries are pressured by the IMF and World Bank to turn over public utilites like water and electricity to private corporations, something that has proven to be a failure even in the Holiest of Capitalist Lands, the USA.
Ultimately that Question is a lot of what 9/11 and the War on Terror comes down to. It may not be all, but it's a critical ingredient.
Right. Less starvation. That's why the US Govt pays farmers to let their fields lie fallow.
You are a big moron. No country, not even the U.S., can solve the transportation problem called "getting the food to the people living in the middle of a desert." Nor can they solve the problem of "getting those people to stop breeding and creating more hungry mouths." China, in fact, is the ONLY country that has even addressed that issue.
If the rest of the world, which has a much lower standard of living, were Americans, and consumed resources like Americans, we would need several more earths to provide all the raw materials.
On the other hand, if the World were American, that might force humanity to deal with the inevitable collision between an ever-increasing human population vs. a ever-decreasing pool of natural resources.
We have left more trash on the moon than any other country. That certainly makes the moon resemble America. (By Trash I mean the part of the LEM that doesn't come back to Earth).
We need those volunteers who clean up the sides of the highways to go and clean up the Moon. I can see it now: "This Moon kept clean by Cedar Grove Girl Scout Troop #213"
I was gonna say that since we planted a US Flag on the Moon, then basically we claimed it. (At least that's the way it works in cartoons.) But as I recall, we actually brought the flag back with us.
I didn't bother to read the article (this is SlashDot, after all) but the plaque that Apollo 11 left on the moon does mention "For All Mankind." I would think that includes Honduras.
However, if the U.S. loses, George W. Bush will declare that Lucite Ball is a terrorist and then the courts won't matter.
The alternative sucks, but the payback comes when they install comet cursor and it breaks everything, then you tell their manager that they will be down for the next day while you rebuild their computer.
Removing the EULA won't prevent it from applying to you. It's like if you (bad analogy coming) add a zero to the end of the speed limit sign -- you can't drive 550 now just because you changed the sign.
What we need is third-party security patches and hotfixes for Microsoft products. Ones that don't change the EULA.
Seeing as most bugs/exploits are found by non-MS folks, the next step is for them to write a patch for the bug. Props to the next hacker who find a bug and releases a patch too, completely circumventing Microsoft's involvement in the process!
Pocket PCs aren't as fast as people thought they would be. Is it the OS?
It could be the OS, which is the obvious answer since it's a Microsoft OS, and this is Slashdot. But I don't know. I've never tried running anything other than PocketPC OS on the iPaq, and probably never will. (It's a work thing.)
How did Microsoft become so popular? It was DOS, wasn't it? The program that ran on any x86 computer. Well, Microsoft should take a page from their previous success and allow a little more flexibility in PocketPC design. The main gripe that I and everyone else has about these gizmos is that they're locked into a 240 by 320 by 16-bit color display. That's lame, especially if one of the highlights of PocketPC is how easy it is to port your Win32 app. If you have to redesign all the screens to fit in a tiny-ass space, it's easy on the coders but hell on the systems analysts.
It looks to me like Palm have a much more open approach, they are using the same tactic that established Microsoft's dominance with DOS back in the 80s. You can get that new Sony Clie' with TWICE the screen real estate (as in pixels) of ANY PocketPC available. Kind of a no-brainer if you ask me.
If you were watching Two Fat Ladys you could create copious cupsful of cum.
If you're modding this comment down, I hope it's not for grammar, because "cupsful" is in fact the plural of cupful. One cup, two cups. One cupful, two cupsful. Strange language, this English.
I hate to admit it but I find this song quite catchy. The cadence is true to the original; it scans verynicely. This is pretty impressive, esp for a website whose participants normally can't even spell.
I second your comments about getting a monitor locally, and I'll add another reason. You'll want to be able to actually look at an actual monitor in person, unless you are going to take some reviewer's word for it.
The same goes with cases. When I put toghether my PC (I got my parts from pcbuyerclub.com by the way) I bought the case locally, because I wanted to be able to see it, and particularly make sure to get one where the Chinese prison labor bothered to smooth off the rough metal edges.
Actually, WWII was won (or lost) on the plains of Russia, and it was fought between Russians and German tanks. Anybody who has bothered to scratch the surface of the history of WWII knows this to be the case. America stepping in and making the "decisive moves" was a nice touch though, especially since FDR had been promising Stalin that we would do just that for months before we actually did.
The 25 million Russians who died in the War is why we're not speaking German today. America didn't really enter the War in Europe (i.e. invade at Normandy) until it was relatively "safe." That the casualties suffered on June 6 were so immense is a testament to just how grisly the War was. But for the most part, Americans didn't fight the major battles, at least in Europe.
The proportionately-small U.S. casualties in WWII is barely a dent, but for all the flag-waving we see every year you'd think we'd won the World Cup or something!
One death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic -- Josef Stalin
I agree with the kevin completely. What is wrong with having old copies of your site archived? take this quote from the front page of this article:
Perhaps I'm too much of a purist, but I've always seen the internet as an ever-changing medium, not a permanent one. Archives have bothered me ever since the fledgling days of DejaNews.
I don't know what kind of a "purist" this person thinks they are. DejaNews (now google) is one of the *best* places to look for info that's relevant but not this week's headline. We might as well burn all the libraries to the ground, since they contain books with embarassing misprints or factual errors.
It might not be easy to get your site out of the Wayback machine, but it doesn't sound like it's impossible either. Consider the alternatives; would you rather live in a world where the past can be "updated" as needed, like the (purportedly reputable) New York Times did to the web version of a Sep. 9 story warning about Osama bin Laden. Right after September 11 they replaced it with a puff piece-- full details here. (Warning, contains links to the NYT registration-reqd pages and I think the content may have been re-scrubbed since this appeared on BuzzFlash.)
If there's no record of content, how am I supposed to provide a bibliography or references for "something I saw on the web somewhere?"
Micron is the only US based DRAM manufacturer, I guess by definition that's sort of a monopoly
I guess Boeing is a monopoly then, since they're the only US-based manufacturer of large commercial jets...
The FTC looked at that when the Boeing/McDonnell Douglas deal was inked, and they had some concerns. As Boeing poured millions of dollars in to lobbyists, eventually they decided that it didn't matter. Airbus, in Europe, was touted as the competition for Boeing.
They did on Apple when they injected the $100 million+ to save them.
For $100 million, they finally got to put the recycle bin in the lower right corner of the screen in Windows XP.
You know, just like the Mac had back in the 80's. Hmmm...I guess in many ways Microsoft is like our current government then, recycling old politicians as proof of how modern they are. Microsoft's perfect ad would be George W. Bush flying around to Madonna in one of those XP ads. If 9/11 hadn't presidentalized him, he might have gone for it.
The best part about Microsoft's Java implementation is that the word 'java' is nowhere to be seen. It's the "Microsoft(TM) Virtual Machine." I think Microsoft were hoping that Java would go away if they simply don't ever speak the name.
I was installing some game the other day (I think it was Dungeon Siege) and within the EULA was the standard Java disclaimer about not running it on a nuclear reactor or air traffic control system. It made me chuckle. It also makes me wonder why MS doesn't include the same sort of liability disclaimer for their products. Because if the nuclear reactor is running Windows, I am moving at least 100 miles away.
There are no black and white issues Oooh, I have one! I can't get the NoCD crack to work with my (legally-purchased) copy of that game. I want to leave my (pirated) Dungeon Siege CD in all the time but I keep having to take it out to play Black and White:-[
No, there are hundreds if not thousands of slashdot weenies just like you. Some of us, though, who live a mere 5 miles from a nuclear reactor, are worried about bigger things.
Weenie raises hand, asks: I wonder, then: Are you in favor of Nuclear Power? Hard to turn any other kind of power plant into a nuclear bomb.
The threat has always been there, you have just recently become aware of it.
Also: Why the f don't you move?
AC Trolls are lazy trolls. Viva CLIT! (BTW what's the HTML for an upside down bang?)
I think we should start calling it the Post-Apocalyptic Era, for all the fuss everyone has made. 3,000 people dead and two ugly buildings gone was all it took to bring down a Free (as in Bill of Rights) society.
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I guess technology can't solve all the world's problems after all.
And there will be again. If forest fires permanently destroyed forests, I would have to imagine there would be no forests.
.50 cal machine gun. Not exactly the noble battle of Man vs. Beast most people envision.
Mt. St. Helens is a perfect example, even though there aren't really any trees growing there 20 years later. There's plenty of "nature".
Indians, on the other hand, by which I mean their society, way of life, yadda yadda, will not be coming back any time soon. The best example I can think of is the Macah tribe out here in Washington that likes to go and hunt whales every now and again. People get all up in arms over it. Plus, here's the "traditional" whale hunt they go on: One guy throws an old-timey harpoon in the whale, and once "tradition" has been satisfied they open up with the
I am going to listen to Talking Heads "Moon Rocks" from the Speaking In Tongues album in a last-ditch effort to stay on topic.
Successful or unsuccessful? That's all? Who are you, Darwin?
I guess you must have been cheering whenever Picard was forced to violate the Prime Directive in Star Trek.
I was ignorant about Indian reservations on the East Coast, but I guess the point I was trying to make is that there's nothing even resembling their culture on the East Coast (though I still could be ignorantly wrong), but as you move West you begin to see it. Hence, as we moved forward in time we began to believe in things like self-determination, basic human rights, and so on.
I love it when two ACs battle it out. It's kinda like the battle between Good and Evil, except it's totally up to you whose side you're on. I guess that makes it like the War on Terrorism. (Though Mohammad Atta isn't an AC any more.)
god, why do I write stuff like that?
If, as AC #1 believes, "The world could easily be fed with the infrastructure and materials we have now," I ask: Why isn't it happening then? There are hungry people right here in America, after all. (And I'm not talking about the kind of hunger that I'm about to solve by ordering a pizza.)
The statute of limitations probably says otherwise. You won't get in trouble, at least under most U.S. law, for something you stole like seven years ago or whatever.
Those pesky Injuns should thank the Westerners for civilizing them and getting their heads out of the dirt.
You probably don't realize it, but you have stumbled upon the big question that Western Civilization ought to ask itself:
Q: Do non-Western Civilizations have a right to exist?
Follow-up Q: Do non-capitalist economic systems have a right to exist?
Historical Footnote #1: There are no Indian Reservations on the East Coast of USA.
Historical Footnote #2: Developing countries are pressured by the IMF and World Bank to turn over public utilites like water and electricity to private corporations, something that has proven to be a failure even in the Holiest of Capitalist Lands, the USA.
Ultimately that Question is a lot of what 9/11 and the War on Terror comes down to. It may not be all, but it's a critical ingredient.
Right. Less starvation. That's why the US Govt pays farmers to let their fields lie fallow.
You are a big moron. No country, not even the U.S., can solve the transportation problem called "getting the food to the people living in the middle of a desert." Nor can they solve the problem of "getting those people to stop breeding and creating more hungry mouths." China, in fact, is the ONLY country that has even addressed that issue.
If the rest of the world, which has a much lower standard of living, were Americans, and consumed resources like Americans, we would need several more earths to provide all the raw materials.
On the other hand, if the World were American, that might force humanity to deal with the inevitable collision between an ever-increasing human population vs. a ever-decreasing pool of natural resources.
Troll again, I like replying.
We have left more trash on the moon than any other country. That certainly makes the moon resemble America. (By Trash I mean the part of the LEM that doesn't come back to Earth).
We need those volunteers who clean up the sides of the highways to go and clean up the Moon. I can see it now: "This Moon kept clean by Cedar Grove Girl Scout Troop #213"
I was gonna say that since we planted a US Flag on the Moon, then basically we claimed it. (At least that's the way it works in cartoons.) But as I recall, we actually brought the flag back with us.
I didn't bother to read the article (this is SlashDot, after all) but the plaque that Apollo 11 left on the moon does mention "For All Mankind." I would think that includes Honduras.
However, if the U.S. loses, George W. Bush will declare that Lucite Ball is a terrorist and then the courts won't matter.
The alternative sucks, but the payback comes when they install comet cursor and it breaks everything, then you tell their manager that they will be down for the next day while you rebuild their computer.
After that they won't install comet cursor again.
The better thing would be to add a dns forward lookup zone for microsoft.com and then add a *.microsoft.com record.
Only terrorists reformat their hard drives and change their hardware configuration.
Seriously, what did your friend do? Did he get his money back or something? (Assuming he bought the WMA files in the first place.)
Removing the EULA won't prevent it from applying to you. It's like if you (bad analogy coming) add a zero to the end of the speed limit sign -- you can't drive 550 now just because you changed the sign.
What we need is third-party security patches and hotfixes for Microsoft products. Ones that don't change the EULA.
Seeing as most bugs/exploits are found by non-MS folks, the next step is for them to write a patch for the bug. Props to the next hacker who find a bug and releases a patch too, completely circumventing Microsoft's involvement in the process!
There's a pithy comment about modern English, embraced within inverted commas forthwith:
"We love to verb nouns."
Pocket PCs aren't as fast as people thought they would be. Is it the OS?
It could be the OS, which is the obvious answer since it's a Microsoft OS, and this is Slashdot. But I don't know. I've never tried running anything other than PocketPC OS on the iPaq, and probably never will. (It's a work thing.)
How did Microsoft become so popular? It was DOS, wasn't it? The program that ran on any x86 computer. Well, Microsoft should take a page from their previous success and allow a little more flexibility in PocketPC design. The main gripe that I and everyone else has about these gizmos is that they're locked into a 240 by 320 by 16-bit color display. That's lame, especially if one of the highlights of PocketPC is how easy it is to port your Win32 app. If you have to redesign all the screens to fit in a tiny-ass space, it's easy on the coders but hell on the systems analysts.
It looks to me like Palm have a much more open approach, they are using the same tactic that established Microsoft's dominance with DOS back in the 80s. You can get that new Sony Clie' with TWICE the screen real estate (as in pixels) of ANY PocketPC available. Kind of a no-brainer if you ask me.
Off to the solstice parade!
If you were watching Two Fat Ladys you could create copious cupsful of cum.
If you're modding this comment down, I hope it's not for grammar, because "cupsful" is in fact the plural of cupful. One cup, two cups. One cupful, two cupsful. Strange language, this English.
I hate to admit it but I find this song quite catchy. The cadence is true to the original; it scans verynicely. This is pretty impressive, esp for a website whose participants normally can't even spell.
I second your comments about getting a monitor locally, and I'll add another reason. You'll want to be able to actually look at an actual monitor in person, unless you are going to take some reviewer's word for it.
The same goes with cases. When I put toghether my PC (I got my parts from pcbuyerclub.com by the way) I bought the case locally, because I wanted to be able to see it, and particularly make sure to get one where the Chinese prison labor bothered to smooth off the rough metal edges.
Actually, WWII was won (or lost) on the plains of Russia, and it was fought between Russians and German tanks. Anybody who has bothered to scratch the surface of the history of WWII knows this to be the case. America stepping in and making the "decisive moves" was a nice touch though, especially since FDR had been promising Stalin that we would do just that for months before we actually did.
The 25 million Russians who died in the War is why we're not speaking German today. America didn't really enter the War in Europe (i.e. invade at Normandy) until it was relatively "safe." That the casualties suffered on June 6 were so immense is a testament to just how grisly the War was. But for the most part, Americans didn't fight the major battles, at least in Europe.
The proportionately-small U.S. casualties in WWII is barely a dent, but for all the flag-waving we see every year you'd think we'd won the World Cup or something!
One death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic -- Josef Stalin
I don't know what kind of a "purist" this person thinks they are. DejaNews (now google) is one of the *best* places to look for info that's relevant but not this week's headline. We might as well burn all the libraries to the ground, since they contain books with embarassing misprints or factual errors.
It might not be easy to get your site out of the Wayback machine, but it doesn't sound like it's impossible either. Consider the alternatives; would you rather live in a world where the past can be "updated" as needed, like the (purportedly reputable) New York Times did to the web version of a Sep. 9 story warning about Osama bin Laden. Right after September 11 they replaced it with a puff piece-- full details here. (Warning, contains links to the NYT registration-reqd pages and I think the content may have been re-scrubbed since this appeared on BuzzFlash.)
If there's no record of content, how am I supposed to provide a bibliography or references for "something I saw on the web somewhere?"
Micron is the only US based DRAM manufacturer, I guess by definition that's sort of a monopoly
I guess Boeing is a monopoly then, since they're the only US-based manufacturer of large commercial jets...
The FTC looked at that when the Boeing/McDonnell Douglas deal was inked, and they had some concerns. As Boeing poured millions of dollars in to lobbyists, eventually they decided that it didn't matter. Airbus, in Europe, was touted as the competition for Boeing.
They did on Apple when they injected the $100 million+ to save them.
For $100 million, they finally got to put the recycle bin in the lower right corner of the screen in Windows XP.
You know, just like the Mac had back in the 80's. Hmmm...I guess in many ways Microsoft is like our current government then, recycling old politicians as proof of how modern they are. Microsoft's perfect ad would be George W. Bush flying around to Madonna in one of those XP ads. If 9/11 hadn't presidentalized him, he might have gone for it.
The best part about Microsoft's Java implementation is that the word 'java' is nowhere to be seen. It's the "Microsoft(TM) Virtual Machine." I think Microsoft were hoping that Java would go away if they simply don't ever speak the name.
I was installing some game the other day (I think it was Dungeon Siege) and within the EULA was the standard Java disclaimer about not running it on a nuclear reactor or air traffic control system. It made me chuckle. It also makes me wonder why MS doesn't include the same sort of liability disclaimer for their products. Because if the nuclear reactor is running Windows, I am moving at least 100 miles away.
There are no black and white issues :-[
Oooh, I have one! I can't get the NoCD crack to work with my (legally-purchased) copy of that game. I want to leave my (pirated) Dungeon Siege CD in all the time but I keep having to take it out to play Black and White
Will YOU be the next enemy combatant?
No, there are hundreds if not thousands of slashdot weenies just like you. Some of us, though, who live a mere 5 miles from a nuclear reactor, are worried about bigger things.
Weenie raises hand, asks: I wonder, then: Are you in favor of Nuclear Power? Hard to turn any other kind of power plant into a nuclear bomb.
The threat has always been there, you have just recently become aware of it.
Also: Why the f don't you move?
AC Trolls are lazy trolls. Viva CLIT! (BTW what's the HTML for an upside down bang?)
post September-11 world
I think we should start calling it the Post-Apocalyptic Era, for all the fuss everyone has made. 3,000 people dead and two ugly buildings gone was all it took to bring down a Free (as in Bill of Rights) society.
AC Trolls are lazy trolls. Viva CLIT!