He was about a foot taller and at least 30 lbs heavier than me. Man, I hope he was at least 6'.
I finally told him to shut the hell up or we could go outside and I would kick his butt. He shut the hell up and apologized later. I think I remember seeing a clip of that on Fox's When Nerds Get Kind of Pissy.
Moot and oppressive? What? I do not think it means what you think it means.
Don't question my words, my son. Moot, as in useless, and oppressive, as in oppressive.
We still have speed limits, don't we?
Indeed we do, and they are just as moot and oppressive as laws that protect corporate interests to the detriment of individual rights and freedoms.
What did happen to it? What happened to the rights of artists to control their own works? How is it that your "illegally downloading" (you said it yourself, don't point the finger at me) of music is to take over the rights of those who produce it?
What I mean is that if the majority of people want to pay nothing for music, then that's the way it has to be, even if it causes the rights of the artists to be impinged. That's the way it works in the USA. The freedom of the majority must be preserved, even if - EVEN IF - it causes the destruction of the nation as a whole. Nothing is more important.
If you think that the laws of your country are the only thing keeping people from killing and stealing from each other, then I'm glad I'm not living your life, my man.
The role of the government is to run the country per the will of the people who created the government, is it not? So at what point does public will tip the scales and cause these laws to become moot and oppressive? How legal is it to make a law that will actually cause the majority of law-abiding citizens to become criminals? What if more than 50% of the people illegally download music, shouldn't the law then be repealed? Whatever happened to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
I'm fairly certain it's not the same thing, at all... Being tased is being tased - all muscle function is lost, and you have absolutely no say about what you do next, whether or not you were prepared for it. Warning or no, your sphincter knows not the difference.
There is some truth to this sentiment, which is why police officers in most districts are required to be both tasered and pepper-sprayed during training - so that they realise just how effective a tool they are.
What is interesting is just how much the media is showing their bias by giving such one-sided statistics. How many people have been tasered in total? I wonder if the application-of-non-lethal-force to deaths ratio is better for rubber bullets, bean bags, billy clubs, or tasers. Not to mention the (unmeasurable) statistic of how many lives were saved because they were tasered, and not shot to death.
It's an imperfect solution, but it's much, much better than the alternatives.
Not to be pedantic or anything, but Laika was only the first animal to orbit the earth. There were fruit flies, monkeys, other dogs, and mice sent up years before Laika.
The fact that there really isn't an antivirus solution out there that protects against rootkits by default is also quite scary, because I have a fair knowledge of things computery, and it took me half an hour to find a rootkit detector that would run on Windows x64. It's not that much better for regular XP users, since 'rootkit' isn't (for whatever reason) yet lumped in with 'virus'.
If you think I'm going to risk my life just to make money by shuffling papers around, you're crazy! I will not risk the dangers of 'tonerlung' and 'tonerloc', I'll take my chances with blacklung, thank you very much.
Man, now if someone would only modify the GPL'd Quake or Doom so we could run around in our OS. You could attatch properties to certain areas or rooms, so when you enter them a wall opens up with display properties, mounted filesystems, etc.. Run up to a computer in one of the rooms and get a shell window! And secret walls through which you may walk to access your pr0n!! IDSPISPOPD LIVES AGAIN!!!
I would have to agree 100% with 50% of that sentiment.. Not Xbox, but PS2, Gamecube, Xbox, Voice over IP (hey, could happen), etc.. If they port UO to any of those systems, I am a dead man. Hell, Final Fantasy XI will probably take me out of commission.
While we're busy talking about compression, let's talk about the amount of data lost in the digitising process! Wherever an analog signal is stepped to a digital one, there is going to be loss. Unless of course we go from base 2 to some sort of base-infinity system.
But, isn't base-infinity just clever semantics for... analog?
But seriously, I am of the opinion that people like vinyl more because of the different set of dynamics that music production way back when entailed. More hollow and bassy, as I hear it.
It's sort of a wooden vs carbon-graphite hockey stick deal for me. Both are good. One breaks earlier. One feels better. etc..
I'm of the opinion that what happened, or rather, might have happened, is due to the fact that sysadmins running Microsoft product are generally less in tune with their servers and therefore more vulnerable. I can't believe how many people didn't patch!
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Moot and oppressive? What? I do not think it means what you think it means.
Don't question my words, my son. Moot, as in useless, and oppressive, as in oppressive.
We still have speed limits, don't we?
Indeed we do, and they are just as moot and oppressive as laws that protect corporate interests to the detriment of individual rights and freedoms.
What did happen to it? What happened to the rights of artists to control their own works? How is it that your "illegally downloading" (you said it yourself, don't point the finger at me) of music is to take over the rights of those who produce it?
What I mean is that if the majority of people want to pay nothing for music, then that's the way it has to be, even if it causes the rights of the artists to be impinged. That's the way it works in the USA. The freedom of the majority must be preserved, even if - EVEN IF - it causes the destruction of the nation as a whole. Nothing is more important.
The difference is... They aren't.
If you think that the laws of your country are the only thing keeping people from killing and stealing from each other, then I'm glad I'm not living your life, my man.
The role of the government is to run the country per the will of the people who created the government, is it not? So at what point does public will tip the scales and cause these laws to become moot and oppressive? How legal is it to make a law that will actually cause the majority of law-abiding citizens to become criminals? What if more than 50% of the people illegally download music, shouldn't the law then be repealed? Whatever happened to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
FoxIt is wonderful, but is there anything free out there that will put a print-to-pdf driver on Windows machines?
I'm fairly certain it's not the same thing, at all... Being tased is being tased - all muscle function is lost, and you have absolutely no say about what you do next, whether or not you were prepared for it. Warning or no, your sphincter knows not the difference.
There is some truth to this sentiment, which is why police officers in most districts are required to be both tasered and pepper-sprayed during training - so that they realise just how effective a tool they are.
What is interesting is just how much the media is showing their bias by giving such one-sided statistics. How many people have been tasered in total? I wonder if the application-of-non-lethal-force to deaths ratio is better for rubber bullets, bean bags, billy clubs, or tasers. Not to mention the (unmeasurable) statistic of how many lives were saved because they were tasered, and not shot to death.
It's an imperfect solution, but it's much, much better than the alternatives.
HAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAH!!!!!
This contest is over! Give that man the ten thousand dollars!
Not to be pedantic or anything, but Laika was only the first animal to orbit the earth. There were fruit flies, monkeys, other dogs, and mice sent up years before Laika.
I was waiting for the obligatory Slashdot 'But Windows *is* a virus!! Linux is pwns Windows!' post. This'll do nicely...
The fact that there really isn't an antivirus solution out there that protects against rootkits by default is also quite scary, because I have a fair knowledge of things computery, and it took me half an hour to find a rootkit detector that would run on Windows x64. It's not that much better for regular XP users, since 'rootkit' isn't (for whatever reason) yet lumped in with 'virus'.
Anyone know why that is?
Hey, dammit! I've only read up to page 193 of Book 9! Thanks for spoiling page 194 for me.
Please, people, consider the spoiler content of your posts!
If you think I'm going to risk my life just to make money by shuffling papers around, you're crazy! I will not risk the dangers of 'tonerlung' and 'tonerloc', I'll take my chances with blacklung, thank you very much.
Even so, there would have to be a server component.
Aren't you supposed to be participating in the 'Great Slashdot Blackout?'
Yeah, actually, I'm holding the official first run release in my hands right now. White keep case. Look it up.
And again, I have to eat the cost of my fist TRON DVD, purchased before I knew there would be a TRON SE disc. Sigh.
They simply argue that scientific dating techniques are insufficient, and/or that it's an 'athiest plot' (read: reality).
Man, now if someone would only modify the GPL'd Quake or Doom so we could run around in our OS. You could attatch properties to certain areas or rooms, so when you enter them a wall opens up with display properties, mounted filesystems, etc.. Run up to a computer in one of the rooms and get a shell window! And secret walls through which you may walk to access your pr0n!! IDSPISPOPD LIVES AGAIN!!!
I would have to agree 100% with 50% of that sentiment.. Not Xbox, but PS2, Gamecube, Xbox, Voice over IP (hey, could happen), etc.. If they port UO to any of those systems, I am a dead man. Hell, Final Fantasy XI will probably take me out of commission.
I wouldn't call it timely, considering the fact that it was pushed up from a 2002 release to coincide with 'enduring freedom'.
Capitalising on a war, now that's all-American.
While we're busy talking about compression, let's talk about the amount of data lost in the digitising process! Wherever an analog signal is stepped to a digital one, there is going to be loss. Unless of course we go from base 2 to some sort of base-infinity system.
But, isn't base-infinity just clever semantics for... analog?
But seriously, I am of the opinion that people like vinyl more because of the different set of dynamics that music production way back when entailed. More hollow and bassy, as I hear it.
It's sort of a wooden vs carbon-graphite hockey stick deal for me. Both are good. One breaks earlier. One feels better. etc..
I'm of the opinion that what happened, or rather, might have happened, is due to the fact that sysadmins running Microsoft product are generally less in tune with their servers and therefore more vulnerable. I can't believe how many people didn't patch!
I think you are thinking of Jeff K.