Duplicate stories seem to appear about every other day these days. Is this supposed to make me want to read the site, click on the ads, and post anything but trolls? Crapflooding is for ACs, not editors.
Currently it works in a way that means it can span multiple video cards in a single machine, but not multiple machines. X itself lets you have many pointers, but only one window can have the keyboard focus.
The way I use these things is to have a big desktop that spans a couple of monitors along with both a mouse and a trackball for different kinds of work. But I was envisioning a giant shared desktop with many people working in it: not only could you get nitfy screen-saver effects, you could do things like passing windows or icons around between people's desktops directly. "Here are my changes to the code. Look them over before I commit them." The seamless collaboration part of the idea really floors me, and after some thought I really think Someone Should Do It (i.e., I should get off my lazy ass and code it unless someone else kindly decides to do it for me).
This is so not what you want to do, but it would still be so cool. Suppose you hacked up Xinerama to span X desktops on different machines and make them into a single giant screen with multiple independent pointers. Hmm. Not just pointers, but keyboards and focus as well. Woah, such a cool idea, my head's going to explode, gotta go.
Copying: I have this one thing, and I make anothing thing just like it.
These are totally unrelated acts. Copyright forbids certain kinds of copying in hopes of encouraging the act of original creation, and copying may violate the law as a result, but there isn't even a hint of stealing involved. Get a grip.
A business web page is not for advertising. Get a clue. Retail store? I want your hours, I want to know what you have in stock and how much it costs so I know whether to go an hour out of my way to pick something up from your store today. Hardware manufacturer? Give me specs, make it easy for me to buy your stuff, and I'll cut out the middleman and give you more of my money. But I don't give a shit about your branding or your partners or your fucking synergy. It's just a few little bits I want, the basic stuff of doing business with you.
There is a difference between donations to support a politician because you agree with his views (on the one hand) and purchasing his vote or his attention (on the other). In the latter case, when there is "quid pro quo", the state is being made to serve the one who paid the bribe instead of the voters. Our government is supposed to provide equal representation to all, not greater representation for those who can pay.
I don't really think bribing a politician should be a crime; if buying influence is what it takes to get represented, there's no reasons citizens shouldn't be allowed to do it. On the other hand, the politicans who require voters to bribe them to get representation... well, if I said what I really think ought to be done with them, someone might think I was advocating extrajudicial punishment, which I am not. But I would like them to be taken before a jury of their fellow citizens, proven guilty, and made unable to accept or respond to any future bribes.
In case you haven't noticed, Sadaam Hussein hasn't done a goddamn thing to us ever (he's been our catspaw sometimes, and abused our other catspaws at other times), and the latest crop of terrorists took a decade to plan and execute murder that, because it was successful beyond their wildest dreams, killed three thousand people. Corrupt politicians, on the other hand, pass laws that result every year in thefts of billions of dollars and thousands of deaths (e.g., from the large-scale criminal gangs that have sprung up to trade in all of the various sorts of goods the government has band). I gotcher clear and present danger right here.
I agree that the article is not proof of the enormity of the author's metaphorical intellectual penis. My contention is that this article is appropriate for Slashdot because the project is both technically cool and within the scope of what many random slashdotniks might actually do, and because the article is a good writeup of the project.
Can't read, huh? The article describes the very involved technical hackery required to get it to work a whole lot better than "just taping it to a toy choo-choo" (i.e., at all).
What's implausible about the hot air balloon hypothesis? It's not even in conflict with your other ideas; signs, markers, and art all make a great deal more sense if you can actually, y'know, see them. It's one thing to scoff at notions that they had aliens helping them, but if they had the physical capability to build balloons like the fellow says, why wouldn't they?
The US has the concept of an "officer of the court": it generally includes everyone from the judge to the clerks, cops, and so on. It usually seems to include all lawyers in the state as well, and to require one to be truthful and forthcoming in court and to report certain facts. But mileage varies from state to state, apparently.
Oh, just shut the fuck up. If you can't bother to examine even the factual parts of the opposition's arguments (to start with, copyright is a government-granted monopoly, which may or may not be a good thing but is sure as hell not a generally acknowledged moral right), then you don't get to play. The discussion of whether and when that monopoly is a good thing is where the bit about "overpriced goods" comes in.
Become literate in this discussion and try again. Alternately, if you're a troll, grow up; parrotting a genuine naive viewpoint (if one rather painfully so) is a boring troll.
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you screw nyt.com.
Duplicate stories seem to appear about every other day these days. Is this supposed to make me want to read the site, click on the ads, and post anything but trolls? Crapflooding is for ACs, not editors.
Did you get any of his hair or spit with the doll? Perhaps they were being considerate of your feelings after all.
Currently it works in a way that means it can span multiple video cards in a single machine, but not multiple machines. X itself lets you have many pointers, but only one window can have the keyboard focus.
The way I use these things is to have a big desktop that spans a couple of monitors along with both a mouse and a trackball for different kinds of work. But I was envisioning a giant shared desktop with many people working in it: not only could you get nitfy screen-saver effects, you could do things like passing windows or icons around between people's desktops directly. "Here are my changes to the code. Look them over before I commit them." The seamless collaboration part of the idea really floors me, and after some thought I really think Someone Should Do It (i.e., I should get off my lazy ass and code it unless someone else kindly decides to do it for me).
You confused?
I don't have to pay their electric bill.
This is so not what you want to do, but it would still be so cool. Suppose you hacked up Xinerama to span X desktops on different machines and make them into a single giant screen with multiple independent pointers. Hmm. Not just pointers, but keyboards and focus as well. Woah, such a cool idea, my head's going to explode, gotta go.
Stealing: you have a thing, and I take it away.
Copying: I have this one thing, and I make anothing thing just like it.
These are totally unrelated acts. Copyright forbids certain kinds of copying in hopes of encouraging the act of original creation, and copying may violate the law as a result, but there isn't even a hint of stealing involved. Get a grip.
Yes, they dug up his corpse in hopes of finding a vaccine for inane humor. Let that be a lesson to us all.
It has been freed.
Where does anybody get off expecting Slashdot to be "professional"?
Honestly, I'd just settle for "literate".
Software is how I usually put it when speaking politely. The pregnant pause gets the meaning across quite nicely.
A business web page is not for advertising. Get a clue. Retail store? I want your hours, I want to know what you have in stock and how much it costs so I know whether to go an hour out of my way to pick something up from your store today. Hardware manufacturer? Give me specs, make it easy for me to buy your stuff, and I'll cut out the middleman and give you more of my money. But I don't give a shit about your branding or your partners or your fucking synergy. It's just a few little bits I want, the basic stuff of doing business with you.
There is a difference between donations to support a politician because you agree with his views (on the one hand) and purchasing his vote or his attention (on the other). In the latter case, when there is "quid pro quo", the state is being made to serve the one who paid the bribe instead of the voters. Our government is supposed to provide equal representation to all, not greater representation for those who can pay.
I don't really think bribing a politician should be a crime; if buying influence is what it takes to get represented, there's no reasons citizens shouldn't be allowed to do it. On the other hand, the politicans who require voters to bribe them to get representation... well, if I said what I really think ought to be done with them, someone might think I was advocating extrajudicial punishment, which I am not. But I would like them to be taken before a jury of their fellow citizens, proven guilty, and made unable to accept or respond to any future bribes.
In case you haven't noticed, Sadaam Hussein hasn't done a goddamn thing to us ever (he's been our catspaw sometimes, and abused our other catspaws at other times), and the latest crop of terrorists took a decade to plan and execute murder that, because it was successful beyond their wildest dreams, killed three thousand people. Corrupt politicians, on the other hand, pass laws that result every year in thefts of billions of dollars and thousands of deaths (e.g., from the large-scale criminal gangs that have sprung up to trade in all of the various sorts of goods the government has band). I gotcher clear and present danger right here.
...in a comment mentioning both penii and computers. Is your wang floppy?
I mean, that Legolas chick was so hot.
Don't think of it as a mangling of the book; think of it as its own k3wl new thing. Agent Elrond was great:
The ring must be destroyed... Mr. Underhill.
I agree that the article is not proof of the enormity of the author's metaphorical intellectual penis. My contention is that this article is appropriate for Slashdot because the project is both technically cool and within the scope of what many random slashdotniks might actually do, and because the article is a good writeup of the project.
Can't read, huh? The article describes the very involved technical hackery required to get it to work a whole lot better than "just taping it to a toy choo-choo" (i.e., at all).
Couldn't you have kept this thread private?
No matter how you scramble and encode the communication the human voice will always have certain keys that can be easily discerned in a conversation.
gzipped and rijndaeled voice is not voice anymore.
Triangulation, OTOH, is a meaningful worry.
When you assess a probability in the absense of statistics, what are you basing it on other than the plausibility to you of the hypothesis?
What's implausible about the hot air balloon hypothesis? It's not even in conflict with your other ideas; signs, markers, and art all make a great deal more sense if you can actually, y'know, see them. It's one thing to scoff at notions that they had aliens helping them, but if they had the physical capability to build balloons like the fellow says, why wouldn't they?
The US has the concept of an "officer of the court": it generally includes everyone from the judge to the clerks, cops, and so on. It usually seems to include all lawyers in the state as well, and to require one to be truthful and forthcoming in court and to report certain facts. But mileage varies from state to state, apparently.
Oh, just shut the fuck up. If you can't bother to examine even the factual parts of the opposition's arguments (to start with, copyright is a government-granted monopoly, which may or may not be a good thing but is sure as hell not a generally acknowledged moral right), then you don't get to play. The discussion of whether and when that monopoly is a good thing is where the bit about "overpriced goods" comes in.
Become literate in this discussion and try again. Alternately, if you're a troll, grow up; parrotting a genuine naive viewpoint (if one rather painfully so) is a boring troll.