Amen to that man. Immunity for politicians in charge is one of the worst things for a democracy, two days ago in Italy we avoided a similar law thanks to the Constitutional Court rejecting Berlusconi's ignominous proposal... we still have a mafia's boss as a Prime Minister, but now he can be prosecuted for his crimes... of course the trials were blocked with ad-personam laws and they have to start them over again, so in the meantime he'll come up with another trick to avoid being prosecuted, but still it's a victory. We really should have common rules throughout Europe to protect us all from that kind of things.
Yep... very very true. As a side note, the same anti-abortion proponents also appear to be the same kind of people who are strongly in favor of death penalty, and usally supporters of war too, so ordinary logic doesn't apply here... why "killing" an embryo should be more criminal than killing a living person?
I'm running DSPAM too for 6 months, and after some time it starts letting some spam through... it's happening now with german spam and it happened often with non english languages; no false positives though, and no configuration needed! I used spamassassin for about 1 year and I always got a lot of false positives, and it needed constant tweaking on the ruleset to let some blocked new mail in.
You're reading correctly, except the fact that we don't have fusion yet, so that shitload of helium will serve at least to inflate baloons for celebrations...
-- "The crux of the biscuit is the Apostrophe(*)" - FZ
I like smoking, but I'd rather say that it puts you into a state where you think you can think very clearly and intensely on a specific topic... but if you write down your thoughts and read them when you're really lucid (I mean not high) you realize that you mostly wrote a bunch of worthless crap...
Seems to me it's the Ars guys' case... the whole article is clumsy, messy and convoluted (though they have a clue in whay they say if you can grasp the concepts)
-- "The crux of the biscuit is the Apostrophe(*)" - FZ
I think that if you lost an arm or a leg after an accident, you'd appreciate any effort made to connect neurons to electronic devices to create fully functional prosthesis, no matter how many lampreys were harmed to reach this goal...
-- "The crux of the biscuit is the Apostrophe(*)" - FZ
Sure, the great American Dream... the self-made man... come on, you can do better than this dude. You work for a Fortune 500 company but YOU DON'T OWN IT: that would have been an argument in your favour... see my point? To clarify: I never said that if you're poor in the U.S you're a slave, but if you have a few money you're less free than a wealthy person: do you remember OJ Simpson? And about my pocket, I get 75K$/year so I should't be here whining for the poor people, right? Instead that filthy european socialist culture makes me worry about people who can't make a living... and who cares if I earn 5K$/year less for the welfare state taxes, as long there's people who need social and medical assistance? Ciao.
-- "The crux of the biscuit is the Apostrophe(*)" - FZ
You're the one being academic... you can quote all the history books you want but I do live in Europe (Italy) and I SEE what's socialism in practice, at least what's the Western European version of it... that's very different from the old concept you read in your history book: remember that most governments nowadays are there because VC's (venture capitalists) let them be there, so this kind of socialism couldn't be all that bad even for your little money-driven capitalist mind. At least it's good for French, German and Italian capitalists; I suppose that they couldn't be all dumb going against their own interests! Cheers.
-- "The crux of the biscuit is the Apostrophe(*)" - FZ
* No way dude, technology couldn't be immoral in itself, it's only about the use we make of it. Moral is an extremely vague concept, almost every person create its own private moral starting on the basis given by the society in which he lives: even among you believers there's not one and only moral besides a few key points (which are shared even by most non-believers, including me). * The small step you're talking about "writing" into brain from a computer doesn't seem so small to me, because one thing is doing a fuzzy match on patterns concerning millions of neurons at a time (like the article says), another thing is putting sensorial data properly into small amounts of neurons at a time, which is what you seem to fear about... you've been too scared watching the Matrix, aren't you? * We've been tampering a lot with our perceptions with psychedelic drugs and the like, so it's not anything new, and I have to say this looks a lot less dangerous than LSD... * Even today, how can you trust the information you receive by traditional mediums? Are you saying that you trust without doubts any info from TV or newspapers or the net? Would be that a difference if the info comes to you by direct senses stimulation rather than words or images? * Lastly, have you even read the article? Well, the last paragraph says clearly that this thing will be pratical only for paralized people, and to quote the original: "Anything you can do with your brain can be done a lot faster, cheaper and easier with a finger and a remote control."
-- "The crux of the biscuit is the Apostrophe(*)" - FZ
Back in the C64 days I made this really bad game with 6502 ASM: a giant cock appeared on the screen, you had to move the hand back and forth until an ejaculation came out... score was calculated with the elapsed time and there were levels too, it was just about raising the movements required to ejaculate every level. A bit tasteless but I was 13... anyway I made a lot of copies of this one to my friends! Great success for that year (83), I gave away at least 30 tapes! Too bad I've lost the original tape...
-- "The crux of the biscuit is the Apostrophe(*)" - FZ
Well, could be that you forgot uninstalling your distro's original lilo package... If so, distro pkgs binaries usually stay in/bin, (/sbin in this case) but manually compiled packages with./configure end up in/usr/local/bin by default so you're using the same old lilo because/sbin is before/usr/local/bin in $PATH and the old binary is found before the new one. Try using an absolute path when invoking lilo, like/usr/local/[s]bin/lilo... Hope this helps.
-- "The crux of the biscuit is the Apostrophe(*)" - FZ
Not so trollish as most people may think: try plugging a $20k vinyl player and a $20k cd player + DA converter on a $60K hi-fi system, and start the same track on both devices, then try switching back and forth from one to another device: you'll find that vinyl sounds way better! Strange, but true: I've tried by myself on a friend's hi-end store... analog still carries more information than any digital form, even 24bit/96KHz systems. Still, the guy's a bit zealot: digital music is art as much as analog, only it plays worst. What matters is the content, not the form.
-- "The crux of the biscuit is the Apostrophe(*)" - FZ
Currently the best card for Linux is the G400, because they did very good drivers: looking at the hardware however the GeForce simply outperforms it in windoze, especially in OpenGL, and the price is quite similar.
Considering that some of the guys at NVidia come from SGI, and that they are writing new drivers for XFree 4.0 i'd go for a GeForce, even if current open source drivers are not good at all... I have a GeForce and under 3D Studio MAX it leaves other consumer cards in the dust.
Well, if you're not able to understand sendmail.cf switch to microsoft soft or maybe change job and start selling peanuts at the stadium but don't say sendmail sucks, because it's still the most powerful and flexible MTA out there. Period. And for me a new sendmail version with changes like SMTP AUTH it's many orders of magnitude more important than a new linux kernel point release...
1) About PCI: Yes, I know there are 64bit/66Mhz PCI motherboards but cards working that way are hard to find. Plus, while I don't know the gory details about PCI internals, I experienced good speed improvements after replacing my PCI video card with an AGP one... maybe I'm wrong again but this seems a PCI limitation to me because the only element I changed was the video card and I don't think there's a noticeable difference between a Matrox Millenium and a GeForce in pure 2d drawing speed!! 2) About memory: yes, Rambus is not bad in itself: it's how Intel drove the whole thing that makes me laugh (faulty chipsets etc. etc.)... and there's the latency issue: I think DDR-RAM is more intresting but cuold be a matter of taste:)) Ah, with this one I didn't want to compare apples and oranges (that's what you said:), I just wanted to point out that while companies are struggling about megahertz they are doing nothing to improve PC architecture, nothing besides this Rambus thing that will help only when prices will drop and when Intel will do a good, reliable chipset like BX. 3) About s-bus: you're right, I'm reading Ultra2 specsheet and the s-bus is indeed very close in design but inferior in performance to PCI: I was thinking about Sun's UPA (that seems more like a "multiple AGP with arbitration controller"), and Intel's NGIO: I think this will be the future, but frankly it's too expensive nowadays...
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Amen to that man. Immunity for politicians in charge is one of the worst things for a democracy, two days ago in Italy we avoided a similar law thanks to the Constitutional Court rejecting Berlusconi's ignominous proposal... we still have a mafia's boss as a Prime Minister, but now he can be prosecuted for his crimes... of course the trials were blocked with ad-personam laws and they have to start them over again, so in the meantime he'll come up with another trick to avoid being prosecuted, but still it's a victory.
We really should have common rules throughout Europe to protect us all from that kind of things.
You forget that Vatican actually IS a colony of homosexsuals...
Yes but oracle installation STOPS if you don't enter a password, MSSQL just goes on with an empty password...
It would suck but you wouldn't bitch about it
Maybe it's because they PAID for Vista... I'm sure RHEL customers will bitch a lot too with RH support if something like this happens...
PC != windows
Quicktime on MacOSX works very well indeed... it kinda sucks on linux tough.
Hint: the difficult concept I'm talking about is the difference between "life is always sacred" and "let's kill a fucking criminal"..
http://www.your.brain/ is your friend.
Yep... very very true. As a side note, the same anti-abortion proponents also appear to be the same kind of people who are strongly in favor of death penalty, and usally supporters of war too, so ordinary logic doesn't apply here... why "killing" an embryo should be more criminal than killing a living person?
...linux on a dead badger, used as an mp3 player... especially if you consider flower's smell can cover the dead badger's stink
I'm running DSPAM too for 6 months, and after some time it starts letting some spam through... it's happening now with german spam and it happened often with non english languages; no false positives though, and no configuration needed!
I used spamassassin for about 1 year and I always got a lot of false positives, and it needed constant tweaking on the ruleset to let some blocked new mail in.
You're reading correctly, except the fact that we don't have fusion yet, so that shitload of helium will serve at least to inflate baloons for celebrations...
--
"The crux of the biscuit is the Apostrophe(*)" - FZ
I like smoking, but I'd rather say that it puts you into a state where you think you can think very clearly and intensely on a specific topic... but if you write down your thoughts and read them when you're really lucid (I mean not high) you realize that you mostly wrote a bunch of worthless crap...
Seems to me it's the Ars guys' case... the whole article is clumsy, messy and convoluted (though they have a clue in whay they say if you can grasp the concepts)
--
"The crux of the biscuit is the Apostrophe(*)" - FZ
I think that if you lost an arm or a leg after an accident, you'd appreciate any effort made to connect neurons to electronic devices to create fully functional prosthesis, no matter how many lampreys were harmed to reach this goal...
--
"The crux of the biscuit is the Apostrophe(*)" - FZ
Sure, the great American Dream... the self-made
man... come on, you can do better than this dude.
You work for a Fortune 500 company but YOU DON'T OWN IT: that would have been an argument in your favour... see my point? To clarify: I never said that if you're poor in the U.S you're a slave, but if you have a few money you're less free than a wealthy person: do you remember OJ Simpson?
And about my pocket, I get 75K$/year so I should't be here whining for the poor people, right? Instead that filthy european socialist culture makes me worry about people who can't make a living... and who cares if I earn 5K$/year less for the welfare state taxes, as long there's people who need social and medical assistance?
Ciao.
--
"The crux of the biscuit is the Apostrophe(*)" - FZ
You're the one being academic... you can quote all the history books you want but I do live in Europe (Italy) and I SEE what's socialism in practice, at least what's the Western European version of it... that's very different from the old concept you read in your history book: remember that most governments nowadays are there because VC's (venture capitalists) let them be there, so this kind of socialism couldn't be all that bad even for your little money-driven capitalist mind. At least it's good for French, German and Italian capitalists; I suppose that they couldn't be all dumb going against their own interests!
Cheers.
--
"The crux of the biscuit is the Apostrophe(*)" - FZ
* No way dude, technology couldn't be immoral in itself, it's only about the use we make of it. Moral is an extremely vague concept, almost every person create its own private moral starting on the basis given by the society in which he lives: even among you believers there's not one and only moral besides a few key points (which are shared even by most non-believers, including me).
* The small step you're talking about "writing" into brain from a computer doesn't seem so small to me, because one thing is doing a fuzzy match on patterns concerning millions of neurons at a time (like the article says), another thing is putting sensorial data properly into small amounts of neurons at a time, which is what you seem to fear about... you've been too scared watching the Matrix, aren't you?
* We've been tampering a lot with our perceptions with psychedelic drugs and the like, so it's not anything new, and I have to say this looks a lot less dangerous than LSD...
* Even today, how can you trust the information you receive by traditional mediums? Are you saying that you trust without doubts any info from TV or newspapers or the net? Would be that a difference if the info comes to you by direct senses stimulation rather than words or images?
* Lastly, have you even read the article? Well, the last paragraph says clearly that this thing will be pratical only for paralized people, and to quote the original:
"Anything you can do with your brain can be done a lot faster, cheaper and easier with a finger and a remote control."
--
"The crux of the biscuit is the Apostrophe(*)" - FZ
Oops! I forgot previewing... /usr/src/linux-new.version.number /usr/src/linux-old.version.number
# diff -r
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"The crux of the biscuit is the Apostrophe(*)" - FZ
# diff -r /usr/src/linux- /usr/src/linux-
--
"The crux of the biscuit is the Apostrophe(*)" - FZ
Back in the C64 days I made this really bad game with 6502 ASM: a giant cock appeared on the screen, you had to move the hand back and forth until an ejaculation came out... score was calculated with the elapsed time and there were levels too, it was just about raising the movements required to ejaculate every level. A bit tasteless but I was 13... anyway I made a lot of copies of this one to my friends! Great success for that year (83), I gave away at least 30 tapes!
Too bad I've lost the original tape...
--
"The crux of the biscuit is the Apostrophe(*)" - FZ
> And they hauled out pallets of Sun gear where I
> worked during the Y2K adventure. Very, very
> little of it was replaced with anything but PCs.
And now they count uptimes in hours instead of years...
--
"The crux of the biscuit is the Apostrophe(*)" - FZ
Well, could be that you forgot uninstalling your distro's original lilo package... /bin, (/sbin in this case) but manually compiled packages with ./configure end up in /usr/local/bin by default so you're using the same old lilo because /sbin is before /usr/local/bin in $PATH and the old binary is found before the new one. Try using an absolute path when invoking lilo, like /usr/local/[s]bin/lilo...
If so, distro pkgs binaries usually stay in
Hope this helps.
--
"The crux of the biscuit is the Apostrophe(*)" - FZ
Not so trollish as most people may think: try plugging a $20k vinyl player and a $20k cd player + DA converter on a $60K hi-fi system, and start the same track on both devices, then try switching back and forth from one to another device: you'll find that vinyl sounds way better! Strange, but true: I've tried by myself on a friend's hi-end store... analog still carries more information than any digital form, even 24bit/96KHz systems. Still, the guy's a bit zealot: digital music is art as much as analog, only it plays worst. What matters is the content, not the form.
--
"The crux of the biscuit is the Apostrophe(*)" - FZ
Currently the best card for Linux is the G400, because they did very good drivers: looking at the hardware however the GeForce simply outperforms it in windoze, especially in OpenGL, and the price is quite similar.
Considering that some of the guys at NVidia come from SGI, and that they are writing new drivers for XFree 4.0 i'd go for a GeForce, even if current open source drivers are not good at all...
I have a GeForce and under 3D Studio MAX it leaves other consumer cards in the dust.
Well, if you're not able to understand sendmail.cf switch to microsoft soft or maybe change job and start selling peanuts at the stadium but don't say sendmail sucks, because it's still the most powerful and flexible MTA out there. Period.
And for me a new sendmail version with changes like SMTP AUTH it's many orders of magnitude more important than a new linux kernel point release...
1) About PCI: Yes, I know there are 64bit/66Mhz PCI motherboards but cards working that way are hard to find. Plus, while I don't know the gory details about PCI internals, I experienced good speed improvements after replacing my PCI video card with an AGP one... maybe I'm wrong again but this seems a PCI limitation to me because the only element I changed was the video card and I don't think there's a noticeable difference between a Matrox Millenium and a GeForce in pure 2d drawing speed!! :)) Ah, with this one I didn't want to compare apples and oranges (that's what you said :), I just wanted to point out that while companies are struggling about megahertz they are doing nothing to improve PC architecture, nothing besides this Rambus thing that will help only when prices will drop and when Intel will do a good, reliable chipset like BX.
2) About memory: yes, Rambus is not bad in itself: it's how Intel drove the whole thing that makes me laugh (faulty chipsets etc. etc.)... and there's the latency issue: I think DDR-RAM is more intresting but cuold be a matter of taste
3) About s-bus: you're right, I'm reading Ultra2 specsheet and the s-bus is indeed very close in design but inferior in performance to PCI: I was thinking about Sun's UPA (that seems more like a "multiple AGP with arbitration controller"), and Intel's NGIO: I think this will be the future, but frankly it's too expensive nowadays...