If overclocking your poor processor to its death is ethical, then so is driving your herd of sheep off a cliff, or nailing your dog's feet to the floor so you can use it as a doorstop. And those people who post a link to slashdot without providing a mirror or cache just so they can watch some innocent, defenseless server get turned into a smoking carbon shell are no better. You know, IC's and other silicon-die based products have rights as well.
This has been a PSA from FETS (Fanatics for the Ethical Treatment of Silicon)
This makes no sense...... that the people that produce and distribute LCDs are the same people that sell CRTs... and if they lower the prices on LCDs, they'll kill their CRT sales... which cuts off one of their revenue streams..
Since LCD's are more expensive and less commoditized than CRT's, the manufacturers are able to pull in bigger margins off of LCD sales. Also, the market is heavily saturated with used CRT's that are expensive to dispose of and hence have a low resale price. Keeping this in mind, you would think that display manufacturers would want to focus more on marketing LCD screens since the market for new CRT's is a shrinking and less profitable one.
As soon as the majority of CRTs that are already produced are sold, the prices on LCDs will drop
Huh? They're still producing CRT's. As long as gamers and other niche markets still cling to CRT's, the CRT industry probably won't go into "liquidation mode".
Hydrogen allows you to use electricity to run a car. Since electricity is so versatile, it leaves the door open to making all kinds of modifications to cars that will improve their energy efficiency in the same way that gasoline hybrids do, but cheaper because the car no longer needs a gasoline engine. Regenerative brakes are the most common modification, but it would also be possible to do things like have solar panels on your car that will charge up a backup battery or turn wastewater back into hydrogen while its sitting in the parking lot.
Dunn Brothers on Wabasha in downtown St. Paul used to be my old bandwidth feed trough before I moved far, far away. Also, the MSP airport has Wi-Fi access, but I think its 'doze only and you have to pay for it.
The only way to truly get someone else's face on your body would be to transplant the entire head.
In other news, they're some guy is trying to do this. The problem is, it is less a head transplant than it is a body transplant because the transplanted head comes with a brain in it- can you say BONUS!
"Hey, I'm calling about your impending doom... I have a way out. Deny my offer, and suffer..."
Oh wait... You're talking about a slashdotting... At first you sounded like a Microsoft rep warning me that Win2K won't be officially supported anymore and I'll have to migrate the entire IT department to XP.
Am I the only guy who gets pissed when mission critical systems are portrayed in movies as over-the-top guis that take for ever to do something.. and that the complete lack of sane interface design is used to build tension?
They don't put those guis there to build tension- it's really because they've been pressured by crappy software companies (read: Microsoft) to get people to believe that your software is "hi-tech" if it has a cumbersome interface that runs like cold molasses.
Maybe, before he leaked it, he patched the game so that it was artificially crippled to only run at 12 FPS so that it will spur demand for ridiculously fast video cards.
Hey, I can wear my tinfoil conspiracy hat once in a while, can't I?
brak is a sandbox. brak is to slashdot what a stress-relief doll is to your boss. Or, what GTA3 is to driving in real life. So, I think what they really meant it to say was:
You have 30 Moderator Points! Abuse 'em or lose 'em!
A local Best Buy retailer was inundated with a crowd of screaming teenagers and adults who couldn't wait to get their hands on a new CD containing the latest in digital restrictions management technology.
"It's so amazing how far music has come in the last 5 decades.", said 18-year-old Tricia James, clutching her copy of the new CD, a reissue of Three Dog Night's 1970 release, Naturally.
"It's always the consumers who drive initiatives like this.", commente Hilary Rosen, chairperson of the RIAA,at a press conference this Wednesday. "Our customers demand stringent limitations that prevent freeloaders from getting out of paying for another CD if their original store-bought CD becomes too scratched to play, and we deliver them. It adds value to our product."
"And this is just the tip of the iceberg", interjected the MPAA chairman, Jack Valenti. "This same technology can be applied to television, food, and even movies. I can't believe that in the 100-or-so years film has been around, theater operators didn't realize that people have TWO eyes, effectively giving them two identical copies of the same movie, one of which isn't being paid for. We are developing a simple, fair solution for this: either the theater patron will pay double the normal price of a movie, or they will be forced to wear a pirate-like eye patch."
"But aren't pirates the people you are trying to get rid of?" inquired a skeptic reporter from the Philadelphia Observer. Hilary Rosen quickly and conclusively answered this one by saying "Ha ha, yeah, I guess that's a little ironic isn't it? Yaarrgh, maytee!".
However the teenagers at the Grassy Park Best Buy aren't quite THAT optimistic. "Eye patches? I mean I'm all for some more rights management, but it'll be som endeaver to pull it off" said an unsure 15-year-old named Brian Coqueville. "Maybe if they start putting cool corporate logos on the patches, I'll be interested."
Jill Holmsworth, 21 still too giddy after the purchase of her new crippled disc to talk about anything else. "It's like almost an S&M thing for me. You no, like when someone ties you up and you're like No! No more! but deep down inside you love that stable,predictable feeling that the restraints give you. DRM is just like that, only they're DIGITAL restrictions, which are like ten times as good!"
I think your idea of "freedom" is very screwed up. GPL is actually quite a restrictive license, it's just that it is restrictive in other than the usual ways. Freedom means the ability to make meaningful choices, even if you don't like the choice I make and even if you think it's a bad choice for the future/society/environment/children/etc.
This is a common misconception about free software. The freedom in free software does not belong to the people that use the software, but rather to the software itself. Free software is free from ever being a victim of an 'embrace and extend' maneuver, where the software is modified for strategic reasons, rather than to actually improve it. If this all sounds like new age liberal hippiebabble, bring it up with RMS. However, he must be doing something right when he came up with the only software license that MS clearly despises since it undercuts their trademark business tactic.
Kilimanjaro is just one small part of a much bigger trend of glaciers around the world shrinking. In fact, a majority of the world's glaciers are shrinking according to a USGS study. While almost all climate scientists agree global warming is happening, some are still unsure about whether it is being caused by humans.
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Judging by the indirect slashdotting, I'm also deducing that he built his web server out of legos. Apache for LegOS, anyone?
Suddenly, seeing one of those "wireless communications make people happier" commercials shortly before seeing one of those "Marijuana funds terrorism" infomercials has become more ironic.
Slashdot Mirror
If overclocking your poor processor to its death is ethical, then so is driving your herd of sheep off a cliff, or nailing your dog's feet to the floor so you can use it as a doorstop.
And those people who post a link to slashdot without providing a mirror or cache just so they can watch some innocent, defenseless server get turned into a smoking carbon shell are no better.
You know, IC's and other silicon-die based products have rights as well.
This has been a PSA from FETS (Fanatics for the Ethical Treatment of Silicon)
This makes no sense... ... that the people that produce and distribute LCDs are the same people that sell CRTs ... and if they lower the prices on LCDs, they'll kill their CRT sales ... which cuts off one of their revenue streams ..
Since LCD's are more expensive and less commoditized than CRT's, the manufacturers are able to pull in bigger margins off of LCD sales. Also, the market is heavily saturated with used CRT's that are expensive to dispose of and hence have a low resale price.
Keeping this in mind, you would think that display manufacturers would want to focus more on marketing LCD screens since the market for new CRT's is a shrinking and less profitable one.
As soon as the majority of CRTs that are already produced are sold, the prices on LCDs will drop
Huh? They're still producing CRT's. As long as gamers and other niche markets still cling to CRT's, the CRT industry probably won't go into "liquidation mode".
Hydrogen allows you to use electricity to run a car. Since electricity is so versatile, it leaves the door open to making all kinds of modifications to cars that will improve their energy efficiency in the same way that gasoline hybrids do, but cheaper because the car no longer needs a gasoline engine.
Regenerative brakes are the most common modification, but it would also be possible to do things like have solar panels on your car that will charge up a backup battery or turn wastewater back into hydrogen while its sitting in the parking lot.
Dunn Brothers on Wabasha in downtown St. Paul used to be my old bandwidth feed trough before I moved far, far away. Also, the MSP airport has Wi-Fi access, but I think its 'doze only and you have to pay for it.
Carhenge!
The only way to truly get someone else's face on your body would be to transplant the entire head.
In other news, they're some guy is trying to do this. The problem is, it is less a head transplant than it is a body transplant because the transplanted head comes with a brain in it- can you say BONUS!
"Hey, I'm calling about your impending doom... I have a way out. Deny my offer, and suffer..."
Oh wait... You're talking about a slashdotting... At first you sounded like a Microsoft rep warning me that Win2K won't be officially supported anymore and I'll have to migrate the entire IT department to XP.
Whew. (for now)
...the makers of Band-Aid bandages began going to great lengths to protect thier brand.
For that, they used a Brand-Aid(tm)
*thwack*... Ow! What was that for!?
Am I the only guy who gets pissed when mission critical systems are portrayed in movies as over-the-top guis that take for ever to do something .. and that the complete lack of sane interface design is used to build tension?
They don't put those guis there to build tension- it's really because they've been pressured by crappy software companies (read: Microsoft) to get people to believe that your software is "hi-tech" if it has a cumbersome interface that runs like cold molasses.
Once they overcame their initial surprise, could they resist the temptation to brake and reverse?
This temptation will only be exacerbated by the upcoming release of the electromagnetic 'poon, which the skater Aibo can use to CATCH cars.
Maybe, before he leaked it, he patched the game so that it was artificially crippled to only run at 12 FPS so that it will spur demand for ridiculously fast video cards.
Hey, I can wear my tinfoil conspiracy hat once in a while, can't I?
I keep expecting the MS stock quote to slide accross the screen...
'cause I'd love to see some Microsoft stock prices, leaked out many months ahead of time ; )
So, I think what they really meant it to say was:
You have 30 Moderator Points! Abuse 'em or lose 'em!
Too... much... power... Anyone else feeling drunk?
Berman-Coble legislation passes, mercenaries from the ??AA clog the network up with corrupt files and cancer nodes, making it nearly unusable.
A local Best Buy retailer was inundated with a crowd of screaming teenagers and adults who couldn't wait to get their hands on a new CD containing the latest in digital restrictions management technology.
"It's so amazing how far music has come in the last 5 decades.", said 18-year-old Tricia James, clutching her copy of the new CD, a reissue of Three Dog Night's 1970 release, Naturally.
"It's always the consumers who drive initiatives like this.", commente Hilary Rosen, chairperson of the RIAA,at a press conference this Wednesday. "Our customers demand stringent limitations that prevent freeloaders from getting out of paying for another CD if their original store-bought CD becomes too scratched to play, and we deliver them. It adds value to our product."
"And this is just the tip of the iceberg", interjected the MPAA chairman, Jack Valenti. "This same technology can be applied to television, food, and even movies. I can't believe that in the 100-or-so years film has been around, theater operators didn't realize that people have TWO eyes, effectively giving them two identical copies of the same movie, one of which isn't being paid for. We are developing a simple, fair solution for this: either the theater patron will pay double the normal price of a movie, or they will be forced to wear a pirate-like eye patch."
"But aren't pirates the people you are trying to get rid of?" inquired a skeptic reporter from the Philadelphia Observer. Hilary Rosen quickly and conclusively answered this one by saying "Ha ha, yeah, I guess that's a little ironic isn't it? Yaarrgh, maytee!".
However the teenagers at the Grassy Park Best Buy aren't quite THAT optimistic. "Eye patches? I mean I'm all for some more rights management, but it'll be som endeaver to pull it off" said an unsure 15-year-old named Brian Coqueville. "Maybe if they start putting cool corporate logos on the patches, I'll be interested."
Jill Holmsworth, 21 still too giddy after the purchase of her new crippled disc to talk about anything else. "It's like almost an S&M thing for me. You no, like when someone ties you up and you're like No! No more! but deep down inside you love that stable,predictable feeling that the restraints give you. DRM is just like that, only they're DIGITAL restrictions, which are like ten times as good!"
...MSN 2002 to be many, many steps ahead. I mean 8 ? Romans still roamed the earth then.
I think your idea of "freedom" is very screwed up. GPL is actually quite a restrictive license, it's just that it is restrictive in other than the usual ways. Freedom means the ability to make meaningful choices, even if you don't like the choice I make and even if you think it's a bad choice for the future/society/environment/children/etc.
This is a common misconception about free software. The freedom in free software does not belong to the people that use the software, but rather to the software itself. Free software is free from ever being a victim of an 'embrace and extend' maneuver, where the software is modified for strategic reasons, rather than to actually improve it.
If this all sounds like new age liberal hippiebabble, bring it up with RMS. However, he must be doing something right when he came up with the only software license that MS clearly despises since it undercuts their trademark business tactic.
Kilimanjaro is just one small part of a much bigger trend of glaciers around the world shrinking. In fact, a majority of the world's glaciers are shrinking according to a USGS study.
While almost all climate scientists agree global warming is happening, some are still unsure about whether it is being caused by humans.
Judging by the indirect slashdotting, I'm also deducing that he built his web server out of legos. Apache for LegOS, anyone?
...at least it is on the way in a couple years.
That's kind of what they said last year.
I predict that Apple will use the chip in a high end personal computer.
...but the 64-bit iPod project is already in high gear, so we can't stop now, can we?
Wow! That's an even better idea!
See this article..
Suddenly, seeing one of those "wireless communications make people happier" commercials shortly before seeing one of those "Marijuana funds terrorism" infomercials has become more ironic.
spacey synthesizer music
Kodos: The man-planet has produced a Simpsons movie!
Kang: Set coordinates for the obscure, T-shirt-producing planet known as Earth!
Together: AWAHAHAHAAHA!
Not mentioned, it cost less than the making of even a medium-sized Hollywood movie.
That's strange- I read that the total mission cost $265 million - more than Titanic cost to make. Still, at $1 a citizen, I think it was worth it.