I hate it when science stories - in any media or site, not just/. - don't like to the original paper. There's really no excuse when the paper is freely available, either.
That's for bugs in slash, not bugs in/.. This is an issue with the site layout, for some reason the admins have decided to remove the comment counts on index2.
A friend was having trouble with a TV signal repeater he was using to send his TV signal from his aerial to the screen in his kitchen as his DVB-T signal was poor in that room. He couldn't figure out why it was experiencing intermittent interference but he had noticed it was worse when his PC was turned on.
I guessed straight away it was probably due to his wi-fi and moving his network over to channel 1 (reggae ftw!) sorted the problem out. I'm sure it still happens occasionally though, most likely do to someone else in his building having a network on the default channel 11.
Well, no. I wasn't doing work for free. I was getting paid by the hour the entire time I stood there. The only difference would be if I was stepping on scraps of cardboard from the boxes and sliding around or not. I felt the area was creating a hazard which is why I grabbed the broom when someone else backed the line up.
Well that's different. If you felt it was a H&S concern then of course you should do something about it.
If that means I'm evil and incapable of appreciating unions, then I guess I'm guilty.
What you did wrong was hit a colleague - that's an automatic fire in any job except contact sports.
I'm not going to go into the rest of your post because it seems like there are things deeply wrong with unions in the USA if that's what they're like. If a factory is a closed shop then it doesn't make sense to keep slackers around simply for membership dues, it'd be better to encourage efficiency and redeploy staff. In the event of there really being too much staff it's generally cheaper to have a hiring freeze and let retirement and natural churn take its course.
If you increase productivity in that manner than you can justify higher pay and therefore membership dues!
I don't really agree with closed shop policies. Membership of political organisations should always be voluntary and a closed shop policy essentially promotes a tax on workers to fund the bureaucracy. I also think it compromises the independence of the union, the bureaucracy knows that they'll get their subs come what may so they start to serve themselves rather than the members.
As you say:
Anyways, the management generally has never been bullies in my experience. It's probably possible for them to be but creating a hostile work place just lowers productivity and quality so union or not
That's exactly right, which is why (in the firm I work for at least) senior management values the communication they get from our union. As far as they're concerned all their polices, which involve listening to the workforce & acting on concerns, etc, are being acted upon. In certain cases that's not happening and so having an independent union representing people and communicating concerns upwards is a big help.
I know there have been at least one major incident at the firm I work for where managers have tried to scapegoat the people working underneath them to cover their arse and it was the union that turned it around.
I wasn't saying all managers are egotistical btw, I was just saying that management roles can sometimes bring out peoples ego (I've seen it happen) even though it's just not needed. I think it's a part of human nature that, when you're in a position of power, it can sometimes feel hard to admit that you're wrong. Of course I think people respect their leaders more when they hold their hands up and apologise for making mistakes but meh, some people aren't that sensible.
Well, I actually got fired for cussing out the Shop Steward as he was yelling at me and the shift foreman had to call security to pull me off him. But that's what started it.
This is what always amazes me about people with anti-union prejudices. The steward was just pointing out to you that you were doing work for free thereby depriving someone else of employment so you swear and hit him. That's somehow the fault of the lazy slacker unions?
Also, if employment is "at will" and the firm can fire you for any reason, why do they keep the slackers? Something is missing from that picture.
I recently got appointed to the Executive Committee of our branch (I discovered there was a spare slot so I spoke to one of our reps) so I do have an interest here, but in my experience active union members are actually some of the most committed and hard-working people in any workplace.
Managers like to demonise unions because we embarrass the bad ones and are always campaigning for more pay but, when profits are soaring, of course it's right to ask for more money.
The reality is that most people who do union work don't like the slackers but, thankfully, most of the leechers don't actually bother to join unions. Most of the time trade unionists are just trying to convince managers to not be macho bullies because it doesn't actually help productivity and try to convince them to listen to their workers cos, you know, when you spend a full week doing a job you tend to get good ideas on how to improve it.
For some reason managerial positions tend to bring out precious egos in people though, making life difficult for everyone.
Except that ECHR, which ratifies the UN UDHC in 99% of areas, HAS been incorporated into all EU member states law. This does make it illegial to discriminate on basis of political expression.
The ECHR actually comes from the Council of Europe, a body that pre-dates the European Union by a fair margin. Not all EU members are CoE members and vice versa. It's different from the UDHR in several areas, you should read it.
It doesn't make it completely illegal to discriminate on the basis of political expression because otherwise the state wouldn't be allowed to organise anti-fascist campaigns or prohibit fascists from seeking employment in sensitive jobs like the police, for example.
They government also broke the french DPA (no doubt, it is again similar to UK law) by forwarding on the email, which was by default considered private.
Letters between MPs and their constituents are actually protected by Parliamentary Privilege, not the DPA. This is ensured in the FOI act by specifically exempting correspondence of that nature from FOI requests.
Communications between MPs and other bodies is public however.
This is what happens when people use the term "IP" - they get things like Trademark and Copyright totally confused.
With FOSS you're free to modify + redistribute. If the project you're redistributing is trademarked then you're going to have to change the name for your modified version.
In fact the GPL requires that modified versions be marked as changed; obviously the best way to comply with that is to change the name.
I'm talking more like reinstalling Windows for people when their machine gets hijacked by the malware du-jour. If you use RIS then the only real work you have to do is download drivers from the manufacturers website. You even avoid inputting their product key - I've built up a decent collection of OEMBIOS files from various people's recovery media so my Windows images will activate on most major name brands.
They give you the box, you plug it into your network, you download drivers at some point and install them. Beer money.
The PS3 pad has 27 axis. It's because most of the buttons are pressure sensitive and so also count as axis plus it has accelorometers, although they don't seem to work in the FOSS drivers but they are still reported as axis.
It's not unusual for mail delivery firms to insist that the first order for a customer goes to the billing address, often the CC companies insist on policies like that for personal accounts. If you set it up as a company account though then they should have been more forgiving, the three week wait is unforgivable too.
I'm not surprised by TFA or your story tho, it matches up with everything else I've heard about Alienware: their service is terrible.
If you are forced to install that trash as a secondary OS, that you got via torrent,
I'll do that, I think the person holding the gun to my head would agree too - going out to a shop to buy Windows whilst being threatened with a firearm tends to draw attention!
Oh but whats this...?
because your new game does not work without it
I think you have a confused idea of what "forced" means. If you need Windows to run your games, pay for it. TBH I'd love to be able to buy a set of DX libraries from MS that worked under Linux - I'd pay them money every few years for the privilege too!
The bosses at Redmond would never do that for fear of Windows becoming a "legacy" OS and app developers using native Linux APIs, they shouldn't think that tho. The main reason games don't come out on Linux is because the APIs are terrible for games: DX10 is better than OGL3, the input APIs are terrible compared to Windows, etc.
In any case, paying for Windows so you can play games is like paying for a console. MS owns it so you should respect their copyright. If you don't respect Microsoft's copyrights then you're a hypocrite if you complain about GPL violators. That's why RMS says we should avoid all proprietary software at all times.
That's a principle I basically agree with but, well, I like playing video games on my PC...
Oh, and:
drug dealers, etc. Same thing, different business.
Drug dealers are working class heroes. They risk their liberty to give us the drugs we want, they should all get medals but I suppose they'll just have to settle for big fat margins on their deals.
Learning how to code is harder than building PCs. I've never once killed a part due to ESD (despite having curious cats and often not bothering to earth myself) and these days can build a PC in less than an hour.
Windows pretty much installs itself, you just have to answer a few questions and away it goes. If you install Windows with any frequency then it's worth your while to learn how to do unattended installs over your network. If you can figure out how to build a PC then you can do Windows installations for friends & colleagues and that's always a nice source of beer money.
See my above post. To run TIE Fighter maxed out you needed a fast pentium (in my case I used to have a PII400). Even using dynamic CPU and all the other suggested configuration options I still get choppiness / stuttering, especially during large battles.
Yep, maxed out on one core I can't quite get full speed, it's still slightly choppy whereas on my 400Mhz PII it was butter.
TBH I'm not convinced CPU virtualisation is needed though, I expect with a few more speed optimisations DOSBox will get there, eventually and 320x240 is OK. My biggest problem is getting my PS3 pad to work properly - mapping all those controls to keys is a pain! (27 axis + 18 buttons!).
Off-topic, but I'd love to see the rationale from whoever moderated my first post in this thread "Redundant." Redundant with what?
Maybe because it shifted the blame from MS to Intel when TFA made clear that MS has a working para-virtualisation solution they could have used? Also pointing out that future Intel products would be OK is also pointless because this whole topic is about how products Intel has released in the recent past are going to have problems.
DOSBox can actually be slow when trying to run old DOS games in 640x480. Even on my Q6600 I can only get TIE Fighter to work at acceptable speeds in 320x240 which is a bummer as I remember playing it maxed out on my PII back in the day...
Speeding is a criminal violation, infringing on a patent is not illegal. It is up to the patent holder to enforce his rights.
And it's up to the state to enforce criminal law. Infringing on a patent is illegal in all the senses of the word "illegal" used by non-lawyers.
TBH though, I'm pretty certain even lawyers in court would use the word illegal too, I can't be bothered Googling it though but that's OK - neither could you.
Even assuming that's true, that's such a meaningless thing to say. I don't even think it holds water logically either.
Violating civil law gives someone the right to sue you. Your violation could result in a tort. The phrase "violating civil law" has meaning in that regard because it means you've violated someone else's rights and are therefore liable to be sued.
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No, but there is in the paper.
I hate it when science stories - in any media or site, not just /. - don't like to the original paper. There's really no excuse when the paper is freely available, either.
That's for bugs in slash, not bugs in /.. This is an issue with the site layout, for some reason the admins have decided to remove the comment counts on index2.
A friend was having trouble with a TV signal repeater he was using to send his TV signal from his aerial to the screen in his kitchen as his DVB-T signal was poor in that room. He couldn't figure out why it was experiencing intermittent interference but he had noticed it was worse when his PC was turned on.
I guessed straight away it was probably due to his wi-fi and moving his network over to channel 1 (reggae ftw!) sorted the problem out. I'm sure it still happens occasionally though, most likely do to someone else in his building having a network on the default channel 11.
Well, no. I wasn't doing work for free. I was getting paid by the hour the entire time I stood there. The only difference would be if I was stepping on scraps of cardboard from the boxes and sliding around or not. I felt the area was creating a hazard which is why I grabbed the broom when someone else backed the line up.
Well that's different. If you felt it was a H&S concern then of course you should do something about it.
If that means I'm evil and incapable of appreciating unions, then I guess I'm guilty.
What you did wrong was hit a colleague - that's an automatic fire in any job except contact sports.
I'm not going to go into the rest of your post because it seems like there are things deeply wrong with unions in the USA if that's what they're like. If a factory is a closed shop then it doesn't make sense to keep slackers around simply for membership dues, it'd be better to encourage efficiency and redeploy staff. In the event of there really being too much staff it's generally cheaper to have a hiring freeze and let retirement and natural churn take its course.
If you increase productivity in that manner than you can justify higher pay and therefore membership dues!
I don't really agree with closed shop policies. Membership of political organisations should always be voluntary and a closed shop policy essentially promotes a tax on workers to fund the bureaucracy. I also think it compromises the independence of the union, the bureaucracy knows that they'll get their subs come what may so they start to serve themselves rather than the members.
As you say:
Anyways, the management generally has never been bullies in my experience. It's probably possible for them to be but creating a hostile work place just lowers productivity and quality so union or not
That's exactly right, which is why (in the firm I work for at least) senior management values the communication they get from our union. As far as they're concerned all their polices, which involve listening to the workforce & acting on concerns, etc, are being acted upon. In certain cases that's not happening and so having an independent union representing people and communicating concerns upwards is a big help.
I know there have been at least one major incident at the firm I work for where managers have tried to scapegoat the people working underneath them to cover their arse and it was the union that turned it around.
I wasn't saying all managers are egotistical btw, I was just saying that management roles can sometimes bring out peoples ego (I've seen it happen) even though it's just not needed. I think it's a part of human nature that, when you're in a position of power, it can sometimes feel hard to admit that you're wrong. Of course I think people respect their leaders more when they hold their hands up and apologise for making mistakes but meh, some people aren't that sensible.
You guys have closed shops over there?
Well, I actually got fired for cussing out the Shop Steward as he was yelling at me and the shift foreman had to call security to pull me off him. But that's what started it.
This is what always amazes me about people with anti-union prejudices. The steward was just pointing out to you that you were doing work for free thereby depriving someone else of employment so you swear and hit him. That's somehow the fault of the lazy slacker unions?
Also, if employment is "at will" and the firm can fire you for any reason, why do they keep the slackers? Something is missing from that picture.
I recently got appointed to the Executive Committee of our branch (I discovered there was a spare slot so I spoke to one of our reps) so I do have an interest here, but in my experience active union members are actually some of the most committed and hard-working people in any workplace.
Managers like to demonise unions because we embarrass the bad ones and are always campaigning for more pay but, when profits are soaring, of course it's right to ask for more money.
The reality is that most people who do union work don't like the slackers but, thankfully, most of the leechers don't actually bother to join unions. Most of the time trade unionists are just trying to convince managers to not be macho bullies because it doesn't actually help productivity and try to convince them to listen to their workers cos, you know, when you spend a full week doing a job you tend to get good ideas on how to improve it.
For some reason managerial positions tend to bring out precious egos in people though, making life difficult for everyone.
Except that ECHR, which ratifies the UN UDHC in 99% of areas, HAS been incorporated into all EU member states law. This does make it illegial to discriminate on basis of political expression.
The ECHR actually comes from the Council of Europe, a body that pre-dates the European Union by a fair margin. Not all EU members are CoE members and vice versa. It's different from the UDHR in several areas, you should read it.
It doesn't make it completely illegal to discriminate on the basis of political expression because otherwise the state wouldn't be allowed to organise anti-fascist campaigns or prohibit fascists from seeking employment in sensitive jobs like the police, for example.
They government also broke the french DPA (no doubt, it is again similar to UK law) by forwarding on the email, which was by default considered private.
Letters between MPs and their constituents are actually protected by Parliamentary Privilege, not the DPA. This is ensured in the FOI act by specifically exempting correspondence of that nature from FOI requests.
Communications between MPs and other bodies is public however.
French data protection legislation isn't necessarily similar to the UKs and I have no idea if correspondence between French députés and Senators has the same protection as in the UK.
This is what happens when people use the term "IP" - they get things like Trademark and Copyright totally confused.
With FOSS you're free to modify + redistribute. If the project you're redistributing is trademarked then you're going to have to change the name for your modified version.
In fact the GPL requires that modified versions be marked as changed; obviously the best way to comply with that is to change the name.
Fucking call me at 3am because your AC broke
I'm talking more like reinstalling Windows for people when their machine gets hijacked by the malware du-jour. If you use RIS then the only real work you have to do is download drivers from the manufacturers website. You even avoid inputting their product key - I've built up a decent collection of OEMBIOS files from various people's recovery media so my Windows images will activate on most major name brands.
They give you the box, you plug it into your network, you download drivers at some point and install them. Beer money.
It's worse than that: by refusing to sell spares to the second-hand market they're destroying the resale value of their overpriced machines.
I hope that reign of ignorance is over.
Lets see... Nope, Ballmer is still in charge!
The PS3 pad has 27 axis. It's because most of the buttons are pressure sensitive and so also count as axis plus it has accelorometers, although they don't seem to work in the FOSS drivers but they are still reported as axis.
It's not unusual for mail delivery firms to insist that the first order for a customer goes to the billing address, often the CC companies insist on policies like that for personal accounts. If you set it up as a company account though then they should have been more forgiving, the three week wait is unforgivable too.
I'm not surprised by TFA or your story tho, it matches up with everything else I've heard about Alienware: their service is terrible.
If you are forced to install that trash as a secondary OS, that you got via torrent,
I'll do that, I think the person holding the gun to my head would agree too - going out to a shop to buy Windows whilst being threatened with a firearm tends to draw attention!
Oh but whats this...?
because your new game does not work without it
I think you have a confused idea of what "forced" means. If you need Windows to run your games, pay for it. TBH I'd love to be able to buy a set of DX libraries from MS that worked under Linux - I'd pay them money every few years for the privilege too!
The bosses at Redmond would never do that for fear of Windows becoming a "legacy" OS and app developers using native Linux APIs, they shouldn't think that tho. The main reason games don't come out on Linux is because the APIs are terrible for games: DX10 is better than OGL3, the input APIs are terrible compared to Windows, etc.
In any case, paying for Windows so you can play games is like paying for a console. MS owns it so you should respect their copyright. If you don't respect Microsoft's copyrights then you're a hypocrite if you complain about GPL violators. That's why RMS says we should avoid all proprietary software at all times.
That's a principle I basically agree with but, well, I like playing video games on my PC...
Oh, and:
drug dealers, etc. Same thing, different business.
Drug dealers are working class heroes. They risk their liberty to give us the drugs we want, they should all get medals but I suppose they'll just have to settle for big fat margins on their deals.
Learning how to code is harder than building PCs. I've never once killed a part due to ESD (despite having curious cats and often not bothering to earth myself) and these days can build a PC in less than an hour.
Windows pretty much installs itself, you just have to answer a few questions and away it goes. If you install Windows with any frequency then it's worth your while to learn how to do unattended installs over your network. If you can figure out how to build a PC then you can do Windows installations for friends & colleagues and that's always a nice source of beer money.
See my above post. To run TIE Fighter maxed out you needed a fast pentium (in my case I used to have a PII400). Even using dynamic CPU and all the other suggested configuration options I still get choppiness / stuttering, especially during large battles.
Yep, maxed out on one core I can't quite get full speed, it's still slightly choppy whereas on my 400Mhz PII it was butter.
TBH I'm not convinced CPU virtualisation is needed though, I expect with a few more speed optimisations DOSBox will get there, eventually and 320x240 is OK. My biggest problem is getting my PS3 pad to work properly - mapping all those controls to keys is a pain! (27 axis + 18 buttons!).
Off-topic, but I'd love to see the rationale from whoever moderated my first post in this thread "Redundant." Redundant with what?
Maybe because it shifted the blame from MS to Intel when TFA made clear that MS has a working para-virtualisation solution they could have used? Also pointing out that future Intel products would be OK is also pointless because this whole topic is about how products Intel has released in the recent past are going to have problems.
DOSBox can actually be slow when trying to run old DOS games in 640x480. Even on my Q6600 I can only get TIE Fighter to work at acceptable speeds in 320x240 which is a bummer as I remember playing it maxed out on my PII back in the day...
No, you're not missing any joke, you're just missing beer :)
That's a meaningless technical distinction that has no bearing on what's being discussed.
Speeding is a criminal violation, infringing on a patent is not illegal. It is up to the patent holder to enforce his rights.
And it's up to the state to enforce criminal law. Infringing on a patent is illegal in all the senses of the word "illegal" used by non-lawyers.
TBH though, I'm pretty certain even lawyers in court would use the word illegal too, I can't be bothered Googling it though but that's OK - neither could you.
There's no such thing as violating civil law.
Even assuming that's true, that's such a meaningless thing to say. I don't even think it holds water logically either.
Violating civil law gives someone the right to sue you. Your violation could result in a tort. The phrase "violating civil law" has meaning in that regard because it means you've violated someone else's rights and are therefore liable to be sued.
No, you were right first time. Pac-Man is a two dimensional game and you gave mm^2 which is a two dimensional result!