I guess if you want to live on the margins you are right. But policy should be based around the 99% case. Very few people will open foreign accounts in order to gamble online. It's not worth the effort. Blocking payments from any credit card vendor that wants to process transactions in the US would "solve" the problem.
AMD and Cyrix both made 120 Mhz 486s. Cyrix's model was their own design and was fairly slow. AMD's model was based on licenses from Intel and at the same clock rate performed the same.
The pentium FPU was much faster than the 486DX FPU. Code that involved any kind of FP math would be a lot faster on a pentium at a lower clock rate than a 486DX at a higher clock rate. A good example of code that ran much faster on a pentium 66 v. a 486DX4 would be the original Quake. The hand tuned assembly rasterizer relied on the characteristics of the pentium architecture and bogged down on a 486.
I think you fail to understand. I didn't claim to not wear a seat belt. I said seat belt laws should be repealed. If there is an expense paid by the government due to lack of seat belt wearing, then the solution is to stop paying the bill and leave it to individuals to make sure they are covered appropriately, not to force everyone to wear seat belts.
No. I mean profits. The recent run of nationwide seatbelt enforcement has led to increased seatbelt wearing, but my insurance rates didn't go down. Rates only go down in the face of competition. They never go down because of a reduced expenses paid out in claims.
Google themselves have said that because of the way GFS works they can *NEVER* know when a piece of data flagged for deletion is actually no longer recoverable. That fault tolerance and redundancy is built into the design.
Umm. I would suggest that being unaware of the state of a piece of data on your file system is more or less the exact opposite of fault tolerance and redundancy.
But I guess if Google says it, it must be ok.
However I think the point is is that one should be able to say "I don't want to receive my email at gmail.com any longer." And so you submit your request and google goes out and deletes any online storage, bounces any new email (for the next 180 days or so), and has a set of standard operating processes such that any offline storage will eventually (in some reasonable number of days, 90-180) be rotated back into the tape drives and overwritten with new backups. Additionally, barring a subpoena, no one recovers your account from tape or other offline storage. Basically, my stance is if you request to have your data deleted, they delete it from any readily accessable disk and let it be overwritten on tape. At no point do they make a point of archiving your data into their personal archives for whatever profit chasing activity they may get up to.
Look, Google is a bunch of jerks. This was confirmed when it became known that the digital copies of public domain books that they are getting from Stanford and the University of California are not allowed to be duplicated in bulk. Eg. they gave the universities digital scans of the books but only under the terms that no one is allowed to access them in any broad fashion.
But it's not about just you. It's about all of their customers. Their best efforts will not be focused on making sure that you personally have triply redundant DS3 to the pole outside of your house. Their supposed to make sure that everybody gets good service. If one schmuck has kicked off thirteen downloads of the latest hidef burqa and horse porn from northern africa, then pummeling his bandwidth into the floor is best effort for their customers.
Stop being selfish and think about how these networks are used by all users and stop thinking about how you personally will be able to make the most copies of the latest software, music, porn, television, and movies for your $24.95/mo.
I guess it depends on how he wins. By getting evidence thrown out? By filing hundreds of motions until somewhere along the line a law clerk makes a mistake and he jumps on the technicality?
Until you've read some of the transcripts you don't know any more than the parent poster knows.
No. Seatbelt laws are based on one thing: insurance company profits.
Additionally, if we were going to go with total freedom, as those who want unrestricted online gambling appear to desire, then it is up to the passengers to not ride with a non-seatbelt wearing person. What's more, in a traffic accident no one ever gets charged with manslaughter unless it was intentional or they were DUI.
This is absolutely nothing like prohibition. Why you ask? Because it'd be easy for the government to actually control this if they wanted to. They just don't let six or seven businesses (visa, mastercard, etc.) pay money to the online casinos. At that point the casinos won't let anybody in the US play because they'd have absolutely no way of collecting from the losers.
You say that, but let's get real here. If the smart people let all the dumb people ruin their lives, the dumb people will come demanding that the smart people take care of them. Until they are willing to abolish social security, medicare, welfare, disaster relief, education grants, etc. then the stupid fucks who want to spend their money building houses in flood plains, building houses in tornado alley, building in hurricane prone areas, on earthquake faults, etc. can go ahead and do that. But as long as they're taking my fucking money to support other people's lives, then no, people aren't mature enough to manage their own money and lives.
Before they get around to legalizing online gambling, they need to:
1) restore bankruptcy laws to something sane. there's no grounds for the government to be stepping in and restructuring the law such that it's much less consumer friendly and applying it retroactively to pre-existing debt. it's the fault of the credit card issuers for not having enough of a clue not to extend so much credit to people likely to default.
2) fucking get rid of seat belt laws. if we're supposed to be smart enough to manage our money wisely, we should be smart enough to protect our, infinitely more valuable, lives.
3) let the airlines fail. if they can't come up with a rational business model, they need to die.
First, no 386 systems had math coprocessors. The difference between a 386sx and a 386dx involved the sizes of the data and address buses coming off the chip. An sx processor had a 16-bit database and a 24-bit address bus. A 32-bit request would take two requests. It could only physically connect to 16 MB of RAM.
Shit even MHz aren't meaningful much anymore.
Mhz never mattered outside of the same processor from the same company. A 66 Mhz Pentium ran circles around 120 Mhz 486s. SPARCs, MIPS, and Alpha's generally ate the intel and compatibles for lunch at much lower clock rates.
Your argument is like saying "just because I said I agree, doesn't mean I agree." A court of law doesn't accept lies. If you say you agree then you agree. The real question is whether what you agreed to was binding.
Except that in all likelyhood you never gave Microsoft any money. You gave Walmart money. They gave you a product from their shelf which they bought from Microsoft.
I comprehended what you wrote just fine. I even bolded the relevant part.
And you stated the exact same thing again:
All Dell has to do is ask and provide a little support.
I'm assuming here that you're not talking about some Dell flunky posting to slashdot saying "Yeah guys. That's good. Do it just like that. We're totally behind you on this."
There's probably a thousand developers who'd be more than happy to regurgitate yet another menu system that parses an XML file and runs commands just like the thousand other variations on the same thing out there. After that all Dell will have to do is drop $50k or more on someone who will write the actual guts of such a diagnostic tool. And of course they'll have to rewrite it every six months which is about how long the kernel guys can go without completely breaking their APIs and interfaces. (And don't tell me this doesn't happen or that Dell could make their diagnostics open source and that'd solve the problem, because you can look at the fucking kernel releases and see that developers play chase the API all the time when one of the "core" guys decides they need to add an extra bitfield right in the middle of critical struct A.)
It's not that ridiculous. If my goal is to run Linux software I'm not buying a mac to do it. If I'm running OSX then I want OSX software. That sticks to the GUI, interacts correctly with the clipboard, and all the other shit that makes OSX OSX. Just like if I'm running Windows, I'm going to use Windows software, not get cygwin and run a bunch of GTK interfaces that remove 90% of the functionality of some command-line app. Jesus people. Get a clue.
Dell doesn't yet understand the community process. If they did, they would be asking the community to provide the needed software, or, even better, assigning an engineer part time to build it, with an open development model and accepting contributions from interested developers around the world.
This will sound cynical, but you nailed it right there. The FOSS community wants free shit. They cried and cried that Dell wouldn't sell them a system without Windows and with Linux preinstalled for a lower price. Now they want Dell to provide an entire support structure to go with it. Fuck. The "community" doesn't even support Linux when you load up non-GPLed drivers because they can't tell for sure what's going on. Why the hell would Dell support Linux when they have no idea what mysterious shit the driver developers might be getting up to. And why would Dell want to dump a bunch of money into learning the source well enough to debug other people's code. And why would Dell even want to get into the software development business?
The whole exercise is starting to sound like a bunch of politically oriented clowns with an agenda trying to push Dell into coughing up cash to support the GNU agenda.
(And yes, now you moderators can -1 me because you can't think of anything smart to post in disagreement.)
So what you're saying is Linux is going to be this money pit for dell to support? Instead of staffing a windows support team, they now have to staff a linux support team.
And BTW, it is possible that the lack of full feature support for some hardware will shorten it's life. Or some clever linux driver developer hacks together a kludgy way to overdrive the radio in the winmodem-style wireless adapter by 50% so that they can eek out an extra four feet of range, all the while running the components of the adapter over spec and sending it to an early grave. Or maybe they misprogram the clock generation circuits for the video controller and poof, dead display.
I don't view Islam as a bunch of suicide bombers any more than I view Christianity as a bunch of witch burners.
Yeah, because there's no difference between two hundred years ago and two days ago.
Not that all Muslims agree with suicide bombing, but it's pretty fucking stupid to compare hundred year old witch burnings with contemporary suicide bombing.
Palestine shoots a few missiles at Israel, killing less than 10 people. What does Israel do? They make bombing runs into Palestine, killing almost 100 people.
Did you really just say that? Like killing 10 people doesn't matter? If it was any other country in the world being attacked, they'd have already plowed and paved Palestine.
Prior to 1967 Palestine had zero sovereignity. The region was under the control of Egypt and Jordan. When those two stupid gits attacked Isreal, Isreal kicked their asses and took over the area now known as Palestine. Over the last few yeas Isreal has forcibly removed their own citizens from the area and given the Palestineans the most self determination that they've ever had. And in response, the people of Palestine allow thugs and criminals to hide among them. They elect those same criminals to run their country. Yeah, Isreal is over reacting.
You make an assumption that this documentation is "key". It may not be. But most likely it has something do with with hundreds of millions of dollars that Microsoft paid to Novell. And nothing to do with smoky rooms, trench coats, dark alleys, or secret decoder rings.
Do you have difficulty with english much? If you read that sentence again, perhaps you will see that it says that unreleased documentation will be released to microsoft. Not that it will only be released to microsoft. There's no collaboration going on. Previously they wouldn't give the documentation to anyone, now they have to give it to, at least, microsoft.
Gosh. I guess it's just a matter of seeing what's there as opposed to what you want to be there.
She lives on the second floor. The picture appears fairly square on. I think it's reasonable to assume people aren't going to be driving around with elevated cameras taking pictures in your window.
You cannot complain, and certainly cannot sue or try to get someone in legal trouble because they 'invaded' your privacy by taking pictures in a clearly open window.
Depends on the effort involved. If someone has to climb a ladder or tree in order to see in your window, then you have an expectation of privacy that is being broken. If someone has to get a truck with cameras mounted about normal human reach in order to take pictures into people's homes, then you're violating their privacy.
Wow. You do know that it's not that Garth Brooks isn't popular, but instead it's that he retired? That's why you don't see any new recordings. Has nothing to do with some imaginary backlash against his stance on people reselling his CDs.
Also, the "30-day waiting period"* isn't about controlling resale of used CDs. It's about cutting down on petty theft. If, when some jittery twitchy dude comes into the pawn shop with three hundred CDs in a whole slew of genres and six car stereo head units with their wiring harnesses ripped out and no cans, maybe the pawn shop owner might think twice about buying these goods if there is a good chance he'll end up having to hand it over to the police because it's obviously stolen.
* - BTW it's not a 30 day waiting period, like you have to come into the pawn shop and give them your information then come back in 30 days to sell of your collection of spice girls and brittany spears CDs. The pawn shop has to hold the goods for 30 days. Oh, how terrible. God-damned fucking politicians interfering with our constitutionally protected rights to sell stolen property. How dare they.
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I guess if you want to live on the margins you are right. But policy should be based around the 99% case. Very few people will open foreign accounts in order to gamble online. It's not worth the effort. Blocking payments from any credit card vendor that wants to process transactions in the US would "solve" the problem.
AMD and Cyrix both made 120 Mhz 486s. Cyrix's model was their own design and was fairly slow. AMD's model was based on licenses from Intel and at the same clock rate performed the same.
The pentium FPU was much faster than the 486DX FPU. Code that involved any kind of FP math would be a lot faster on a pentium at a lower clock rate than a 486DX at a higher clock rate. A good example of code that ran much faster on a pentium 66 v. a 486DX4 would be the original Quake. The hand tuned assembly rasterizer relied on the characteristics of the pentium architecture and bogged down on a 486.
I think you fail to understand. I didn't claim to not wear a seat belt. I said seat belt laws should be repealed. If there is an expense paid by the government due to lack of seat belt wearing, then the solution is to stop paying the bill and leave it to individuals to make sure they are covered appropriately, not to force everyone to wear seat belts.
No. I mean profits. The recent run of nationwide seatbelt enforcement has led to increased seatbelt wearing, but my insurance rates didn't go down. Rates only go down in the face of competition. They never go down because of a reduced expenses paid out in claims.
Umm. I would suggest that being unaware of the state of a piece of data on your file system is more or less the exact opposite of fault tolerance and redundancy.
But I guess if Google says it, it must be ok.
However I think the point is is that one should be able to say "I don't want to receive my email at gmail.com any longer." And so you submit your request and google goes out and deletes any online storage, bounces any new email (for the next 180 days or so), and has a set of standard operating processes such that any offline storage will eventually (in some reasonable number of days, 90-180) be rotated back into the tape drives and overwritten with new backups. Additionally, barring a subpoena, no one recovers your account from tape or other offline storage. Basically, my stance is if you request to have your data deleted, they delete it from any readily accessable disk and let it be overwritten on tape. At no point do they make a point of archiving your data into their personal archives for whatever profit chasing activity they may get up to.
Look, Google is a bunch of jerks. This was confirmed when it became known that the digital copies of public domain books that they are getting from Stanford and the University of California are not allowed to be duplicated in bulk. Eg. they gave the universities digital scans of the books but only under the terms that no one is allowed to access them in any broad fashion.
But it's not about just you. It's about all of their customers. Their best efforts will not be focused on making sure that you personally have triply redundant DS3 to the pole outside of your house. Their supposed to make sure that everybody gets good service. If one schmuck has kicked off thirteen downloads of the latest hidef burqa and horse porn from northern africa, then pummeling his bandwidth into the floor is best effort for their customers.
Stop being selfish and think about how these networks are used by all users and stop thinking about how you personally will be able to make the most copies of the latest software, music, porn, television, and movies for your $24.95/mo.
I guess it depends on how he wins. By getting evidence thrown out? By filing hundreds of motions until somewhere along the line a law clerk makes a mistake and he jumps on the technicality?
Until you've read some of the transcripts you don't know any more than the parent poster knows.
No. Seatbelt laws are based on one thing: insurance company profits.
Additionally, if we were going to go with total freedom, as those who want unrestricted online gambling appear to desire, then it is up to the passengers to not ride with a non-seatbelt wearing person. What's more, in a traffic accident no one ever gets charged with manslaughter unless it was intentional or they were DUI.
This is absolutely nothing like prohibition. Why you ask? Because it'd be easy for the government to actually control this if they wanted to. They just don't let six or seven businesses (visa, mastercard, etc.) pay money to the online casinos. At that point the casinos won't let anybody in the US play because they'd have absolutely no way of collecting from the losers.
You say that, but let's get real here. If the smart people let all the dumb people ruin their lives, the dumb people will come demanding that the smart people take care of them. Until they are willing to abolish social security, medicare, welfare, disaster relief, education grants, etc. then the stupid fucks who want to spend their money building houses in flood plains, building houses in tornado alley, building in hurricane prone areas, on earthquake faults, etc. can go ahead and do that. But as long as they're taking my fucking money to support other people's lives, then no, people aren't mature enough to manage their own money and lives.
Before they get around to legalizing online gambling, they need to:
1) restore bankruptcy laws to something sane. there's no grounds for the government to be stepping in and restructuring the law such that it's much less consumer friendly and applying it retroactively to pre-existing debt. it's the fault of the credit card issuers for not having enough of a clue not to extend so much credit to people likely to default.
2) fucking get rid of seat belt laws. if we're supposed to be smart enough to manage our money wisely, we should be smart enough to protect our, infinitely more valuable, lives.
3) let the airlines fail. if they can't come up with a rational business model, they need to die.
First, no 386 systems had math coprocessors. The difference between a 386sx and a 386dx involved the sizes of the data and address buses coming off the chip. An sx processor had a 16-bit database and a 24-bit address bus. A 32-bit request would take two requests. It could only physically connect to 16 MB of RAM.
Mhz never mattered outside of the same processor from the same company. A 66 Mhz Pentium ran circles around 120 Mhz 486s. SPARCs, MIPS, and Alpha's generally ate the intel and compatibles for lunch at much lower clock rates.
Your argument is like saying "just because I said I agree, doesn't mean I agree." A court of law doesn't accept lies. If you say you agree then you agree. The real question is whether what you agreed to was binding.
Except that in all likelyhood you never gave Microsoft any money. You gave Walmart money. They gave you a product from their shelf which they bought from Microsoft.
And you stated the exact same thing again:
I'm assuming here that you're not talking about some Dell flunky posting to slashdot saying "Yeah guys. That's good. Do it just like that. We're totally behind you on this."
There's probably a thousand developers who'd be more than happy to regurgitate yet another menu system that parses an XML file and runs commands just like the thousand other variations on the same thing out there. After that all Dell will have to do is drop $50k or more on someone who will write the actual guts of such a diagnostic tool. And of course they'll have to rewrite it every six months which is about how long the kernel guys can go without completely breaking their APIs and interfaces. (And don't tell me this doesn't happen or that Dell could make their diagnostics open source and that'd solve the problem, because you can look at the fucking kernel releases and see that developers play chase the API all the time when one of the "core" guys decides they need to add an extra bitfield right in the middle of critical struct A.)
It's not that ridiculous. If my goal is to run Linux software I'm not buying a mac to do it. If I'm running OSX then I want OSX software. That sticks to the GUI, interacts correctly with the clipboard, and all the other shit that makes OSX OSX. Just like if I'm running Windows, I'm going to use Windows software, not get cygwin and run a bunch of GTK interfaces that remove 90% of the functionality of some command-line app. Jesus people. Get a clue.
This will sound cynical, but you nailed it right there. The FOSS community wants free shit. They cried and cried that Dell wouldn't sell them a system without Windows and with Linux preinstalled for a lower price. Now they want Dell to provide an entire support structure to go with it. Fuck. The "community" doesn't even support Linux when you load up non-GPLed drivers because they can't tell for sure what's going on. Why the hell would Dell support Linux when they have no idea what mysterious shit the driver developers might be getting up to. And why would Dell want to dump a bunch of money into learning the source well enough to debug other people's code. And why would Dell even want to get into the software development business?
The whole exercise is starting to sound like a bunch of politically oriented clowns with an agenda trying to push Dell into coughing up cash to support the GNU agenda.
(And yes, now you moderators can -1 me because you can't think of anything smart to post in disagreement.)
So what you're saying is Linux is going to be this money pit for dell to support? Instead of staffing a windows support team, they now have to staff a linux support team.
And BTW, it is possible that the lack of full feature support for some hardware will shorten it's life. Or some clever linux driver developer hacks together a kludgy way to overdrive the radio in the winmodem-style wireless adapter by 50% so that they can eek out an extra four feet of range, all the while running the components of the adapter over spec and sending it to an early grave. Or maybe they misprogram the clock generation circuits for the video controller and poof, dead display.
Yeah, because there's no difference between two hundred years ago and two days ago.
Not that all Muslims agree with suicide bombing, but it's pretty fucking stupid to compare hundred year old witch burnings with contemporary suicide bombing.
Did you really just say that? Like killing 10 people doesn't matter? If it was any other country in the world being attacked, they'd have already plowed and paved Palestine.
Prior to 1967 Palestine had zero sovereignity. The region was under the control of Egypt and Jordan. When those two stupid gits attacked Isreal, Isreal kicked their asses and took over the area now known as Palestine. Over the last few yeas Isreal has forcibly removed their own citizens from the area and given the Palestineans the most self determination that they've ever had. And in response, the people of Palestine allow thugs and criminals to hide among them. They elect those same criminals to run their country. Yeah, Isreal is over reacting.
You make an assumption that this documentation is "key". It may not be. But most likely it has something do with with hundreds of millions of dollars that Microsoft paid to Novell. And nothing to do with smoky rooms, trench coats, dark alleys, or secret decoder rings.
Do you have difficulty with english much? If you read that sentence again, perhaps you will see that it says that unreleased documentation will be released to microsoft. Not that it will only be released to microsoft. There's no collaboration going on. Previously they wouldn't give the documentation to anyone, now they have to give it to, at least, microsoft.
Gosh. I guess it's just a matter of seeing what's there as opposed to what you want to be there.
She lives on the second floor. The picture appears fairly square on. I think it's reasonable to assume people aren't going to be driving around with elevated cameras taking pictures in your window.
Depends on the effort involved. If someone has to climb a ladder or tree in order to see in your window, then you have an expectation of privacy that is being broken. If someone has to get a truck with cameras mounted about normal human reach in order to take pictures into people's homes, then you're violating their privacy.
Wow. You do know that it's not that Garth Brooks isn't popular, but instead it's that he retired? That's why you don't see any new recordings. Has nothing to do with some imaginary backlash against his stance on people reselling his CDs.
Also, the "30-day waiting period"* isn't about controlling resale of used CDs. It's about cutting down on petty theft. If, when some jittery twitchy dude comes into the pawn shop with three hundred CDs in a whole slew of genres and six car stereo head units with their wiring harnesses ripped out and no cans, maybe the pawn shop owner might think twice about buying these goods if there is a good chance he'll end up having to hand it over to the police because it's obviously stolen.
* - BTW it's not a 30 day waiting period, like you have to come into the pawn shop and give them your information then come back in 30 days to sell of your collection of spice girls and brittany spears CDs. The pawn shop has to hold the goods for 30 days. Oh, how terrible. God-damned fucking politicians interfering with our constitutionally protected rights to sell stolen property. How dare they.