"If an I/O operation fails, the kernel has no way of knowing if the disk simply has a bad sector, or if the controller is on fire."
Isn't detecting CPU and internal system temperature already done at the BIOS level? It shouldn't be hard to implement here; just test the temperature levels every time a disk operation fails. But maybe the rest of the room is on fire! But we'll save space in the bad block table once the system is restored.
In no way should it be marked flamebait. This is very useful information; two actual verifications that MS is doing what the story says it's doing. That's exactly the kind of peer review that/. should be noted for. Meta-moderators, watch for that post when it comes around!
The one problem with the moderation system is that people will moderate not based on what they know but on what they THINK the meta-moderators will do.
So if they think that meta-moderators won't get the joke, they will moderate you down.
This probably wasn't the case with the original post (probably someone didn't get it) but was almost certainly the case in your reply.
The joke is on them, though, because the bottom line is that karma is useless, capped, and overrated.
Because if it worked for you, it'll surely work for each and every one of the roughly 50,000,000 kids in schools today.
Well I have a new approach. Anyone who sums up the problem as having one single identifiable root cause, or offers one single, simple answer to it, I will ignore with prejudice.
"Well they didn't have religion." "Well they didn't have parents." "Well they were bullied." "Well their hearts turned dark because of the Internet." "Well they weren't spanked." "Well they listened to Eminem." "Well there are so many guns around." "Well they were medicated." "Well they watched Hollywood movies." "Well their complaints were ignored." "Well they were mentally ill." "Well kids these days have it TOO easy." "Well they played video games." "Well they listened to Marilyn Manson." "Well this is a violent society." No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
The only single answer that I will accept is: PROBABILITY. Given the number of students in schools and the number of combinations of, well hell, ALL of the above, once in a while one or two of em will freak out and start killing everybody.
So why don't we SEPARATE the "kids killing kids" problem from the bullying problem, because even if there are no school shootings, I should hope bullying would remain a concern.
If it's simplicity you want, we'd be happy to sell you that. It's just that our research has shown time and time again that you're an early adopter, and our research has shown that early adopters will accept buggy products if you feel the company selling them to you is friendly and cool.
Our research of your own message shows that while you claim to be tired of advertising, it works on you. In fact, you were able to name several newly-monikered companies that are looking to overhaul their stodgy old-world images. We will report back to Cingular, Verizon and Accenture that not only were early adopters already able to remember their names, but identified them in the midst of a very busy, highly technology-oriented marketplace. What better evidence of marketing success do they need!
You were special, too, in that you not only had an acute understanding of the marketplace and economic factors contributing to it, but that you were keenly aware of the results of market conditions. You also picked up on the Slashdot/Thinkgeek connection. We will be reporting this as evidence of a deeper understanding in certain target markets of the alliances between aggregated sites of similar markets. Going forward, we will encourage corporate clients to develop communities that can be targetted and aggregated.
We would like to thank you, too, for pointing out an underlying resentment of middle managers that we were unaware of in this target market. Heretofore, we are re-purposing those resources to better delight you. Approximately one-third of all middle managers are going to be re-titled "Customer Experience Technicians". They will be indoctrinated in new approaches to micro-markets. Another third will be re-titled "Market-based Enablers". They will have the ability to directly affect any segment of the supply chain to improve your conception of the product ordering and delivery process. The last third will be impacted by our next reduction-in-force effort.
We determined partly through your feedback that the subtle connection between market awareness and bad business news is real. Fortunately our PR department is adept at generating bad business news by rosy forecasts that are followed by routine announcements of unmet goals. Since most of this so-called "news" is just the reaction of some investors to some information, we feel we can generate almost ridiculous amounts of awareness using this new model.
This is one week after/.'s Clay Shirky interview, in which he pointed out (again) that "In the next 6 months or so, the only professional sites that will be able to survive will either find some sort of patronage (including NPR/PBS-style subsidy from users, as Evan did when he needed servers for blogger) or get bought by a company that is willing to run a media outlet as a loss leader."
It follows Shirky's prediction that micropayments will not fly and that sites have to go with subscription, aggregation, and subsidy to make money. Was that guy on target or what!
The question is not whether Salon will make money from this, but whether they can make enough to survive. I think Salon has a really good combination of dynamite content and community: writing you can't find anywhere else and people you can't find anywhere else. I plan to join as soon as the option is available.
A lot of people are referencing/. and wondering when the/. subscription service will arrive. My own two cents: I thnk/. could do well by everyone by giving subscribers pages with 15-minutes advance on stories (and 15-minute advance on the ability to post). It could include a Playbill-style list of contributors at different levels of membership (opt-in, natch). That way, in open-source style, contribution is rewarded with a stronger sense of community, a healthy ego boost, and official acknowledgement (the site is willing to "give back").
You ask "Why haven't any models come about that support what people really want?" My answer is that what people really want is high quality content for free, and for a half-dozen years, the net has been incredibly good at delivering on that desire. Now that the "stock price as business model" plan has failed, most of the sites built in that era will disappear.
This was my question, and
I guess I'm exasperated because I didn't get the answer I wanted, but I'm amazed by this answer. I guess we will really see, and based on how faulty my own crystal ball has been, I'm not going to question anyone else's.
It's true that everyone wants their sites to be free, but maybe that's an oversimplification. Everybody wants free beer too, but nobody GETS it, because they're only one half of the equation. Somebody has to produce that beer.
Even/. depends on ad revenue -- doesn't it? -- despite having been consolidated under a single media company. It couldn't have grown to what it is without at least the first parts of its transformation from labor of love/hobbyist site.
Not that I don't understand. I have my own hobbyist/labor of love that I don't make any money for and never will (it's the community in my sig). But for those of us trying vainly to make even a simple living from our net meanderings, I guess the bottom line is that things are going to get a hell of a lot weirder before they get any better.
Shucks. I hope you're happy. Now I have to explain to my wife why I'm going to chuck this whole Linux web development thing and go back to H/P sysadminning. At least IT shops with H/P systems seem to want to throw money at them every once in a while. Ah, well, it was fun while it lasted.
Personalize the Yahoo portal with my.yahoo.com and you will probably find it a treasure trove of exactly the kind of information you want. Net-savvy users will have done this because my.yahoo.com is convenient and fast. Only Netscape's own personalized portal might be better (because it allows for the import of stuff from/. amongst others).
Amongst all the major operators, Yahoo has been the very essence of interoperability. Not once (er, that I'm aware of) has it locked anyone in, required a platform, used Javascript or even frames, etc. They led the boom and were the only ones to understand how important load times are.
P.S. It occurred to me well after I'd written the question. The porn sites use two out of the three solutions (aggregation and subscription). It would be impossible to imagine them introducing micropayments. Once again, porn is the lead runner in implementing internet technology!
I agree with you that micropayments are not coming any time soon. But I worry that the net is not accurately communicating its need for quality content -- and its willingness to pay for same.
Amongst any group of users, my bet is that you'll find several who would pay for improvements in the quality and nature of the information they receive. Obviously there is great value in correct and timely information. In some cases, it is nothing short of a life or death matter. In most cases it simply keeps us a little better informed.
I don't understand, therefore, why none of your proposed solutions (aggregation, subscription, subsidy) have evolved yet. Every site that I've seen try subscription has given up (except one: the WSJ). And everyone agrees that subsidy in the form of advertising is not going to fly.
Many high-quality sites that deserve to survive are having a tough time of it, and it's not for lack of readership. The Onion hasn't created any multi-millionaires; it should have. Salon has had layoffs. The Straight Dope should make more money on its website than on its books. User Friendly should not have to resort to dead tree publishing or syndication.
In short, while Fucked Company celebrates the death of the crappy sites and stupid business plans, the quality sites are in danger of dying as well. What's gone wrong? Why haven't any models come about that support what people really want?
I have three machines running Windows (don't ask, it's the result of a semi-failed business): a P-200, a P3-500 and a P3-750. All have 128MB or more. The P3-500 suddenly developed window slowness with one of the updates and it can now take up to 35 seconds to open a new Mozilla window. The P-200 has never had such slowness.
As the owner/operator of a virtual community for over 10 years now (ob. ad: see the sig), I can tell you, it's a good thing that editors don't post.
Posting by editors/admins/operators/etc. confuses the community. Most users are afraid to argue with the opinions of the folks in charge. Some people engage in simple pandering. The worst part is someone feels that the post reflects on the entire site, not just on one person. Sometimes people leave on that basis.
I don't care if people disagree with me -- I want them to disagree with me, and to feel free to do so. But despite pointing that out time and time again, there were always users who would freak out at my posts and disappear shortly thereafter.
So I forged a handle to post to my own site. That way I can be just another person posting, and people can disagree with me as much as possible.
So, despite the community's protest that people are needed to do things other than write code, the one criterion that you express is that what ESR wrote ISN'T HARD ENOUGH. And then you get modded up in a reply, suggesting that the community agrees with you.
You know, the most damning writers at ZD have figured it out. The open source community ensures that end users are systematically locked out. The community has a genuine contempt, not only for "users", but also for the simple. And so it produces sendmail -- and a whole set of similar interfaces that are so complex to configure that you need more 3" thick O'Reilly books.
ESR is not given some respect for having coded a utility that you don't care about. ESR is given respect because he helped a gigantic and very powerful set of users to understand the revolutionary and important nature of open source.
If open source fails at its alleged "mission", we will be running Microsoft (TM) TCP-IP.NET by 2005 and the state of freedom across the world will be endangered. (OK, allow me a little melodrama.) But ESR will be responsible for holding off that state of affairs for a few years.
Do you believe me? Do you care?
This year will see the final maturing of the complete product support network for the internet musician- with burn/print to order for everything from shirts to full-on audio CDs to fscking _mousepads_ we're practically at the level of 'Jackson 5' merchandising capabilities, without using the record industry.
Yeah, you got the CDs, you got the shirts, you got the mousepads, all you need now is the fucking talent ordered over the net, you'd have it made.
TINAT (This Is Not A Troll), I'm partly saying that to try to sound clever. But I'm also partly saying that because these people are not going to make their mint from selling 100,000 mousepads for 10 big ol' bands. They're going to sell 10 mousepads for 100,000 little bands. Hair metal wannabes, southern bar bands, MIDI ego trips, and stuff for honest local musicians to give out at the door in the hopes of getting 10 more people in the next time so they can keep on having the dumb dream.
Well let me save you the money, spudly. Don't order up a big load of those pro packages. You're going to lose money on it. Nobody cares how good your CD looks. Burn the things yourself; the local superstore has a spindle of CDRs. Buy a bulk of jewel cases and get Kinkos to cut the copies of the inserts to size. The people will love you for it. And everyone already has a mousepad. Instead, put up a web site with as many mp3s as you can manage to record. The more mixes the better.
If you're going to spend, spend it on the studio, but get someone who has a studio workstation, good microphones, and an ear, not some high-profile studio where you've heard of the owner.
And this whole rant wasn't directed at you, it was directed at all those other musicians. You've seen 'em too, I know, you can't miss 'em.
29: If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and throw it away; it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell.
30: And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away; it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell.
31: It was also said, 'Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.'
32: But I say to you that every one who divorces his wife, except on the ground of unchastity, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
And lest we forget, Leviticus 20:10:
If a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall be put to death.
Hey, I quote this not as scripture, but just as one possible viewpoint and answer to the question. If you commit adultery in your heart, your eye has offended you; pluck it out. I guess if you commit adultery in a chat room, you should cut of your internet connection and maybe a few fingers.
And if you've lusted after that neighbor, one possible viewpoint is that you should be put to death.
Good luck. I would avoid the neighbors completely just to make sure.
I find that I get a tremendous compression ratio with ASCII text. For example, I compress the front page of the local paper with results nearly 1000:1. The compression scheme that I use is a LITTLE lossy, but still quite usable. Here for example is my compression of today's front page (and also of yesterday's front page):
Unrest in the middle east;drug kingpin arrested;shooting in bad part of town;development protested;local colorful character is colorful;local sports team loses (or wins);50% chance of rain
The Larry Flynt - Jerry Falwell supreme court case preserved freedom of speech for the purposes of parody.
bonsaikitten is too good of a parody, to the point where a person of average intelligence will not think it's a parody.
Therefore, the protection of freedom of speech is limited in cases where the quality of the speech is too good.
The conclusion that one must necessarily draw about this case, and many many others, is that the USA's focus is shifting: from one that necessarily protected certain freedoms, to one that only protects politically viable viewpoints.
One 32MB Smartmedia card, one Smartmedia floppy adapter, and voila -- a 32MB floppy.
Yes, I know; the USB Smartmedia reader costs about as much as a floppy and the floppy adapter is a hack. And yes, I know, if the floppy adapter makes it, manufacturers will replace the floppy drive with a Smartmedia reader and bypass the clunky floppy adapter. Nevertheless, I *do* have a 32MB floppy, today.
The trend in recent years has been towards making slot machines do more and more things. In the early 90s, the only trend was towards a graphical representation of the old reel machines. Today, slots are highly networked and getting more and more complex including 3D.
So it makes sense to have a library of things you can sorta depend upon to develop slot applications faster.
But what doesn't make sense is MS getting into the embedded market like this. I realize that they're hedging their bets, to turn a phrase. But they're also trying to dominate SO MANY markets in order to maintain world domination that they cannot possibly succeed at all of them, and being so spread out is like fighting a war on many fronts.
Can they win the server, the desktop, the set-top, the embedded, the game console, AND the PDA all at the same time, while dealing with how many million lines of code AND juggling partnership against partnership? What happens when the PDA partnerships and the embedded partnerships collide? What happens when wireless gaming comes to the set-top of game console market? What happens when a security problem shows up that manifests itself in three or four of these lines and some of that code isn't able to be patched?
Meanwhile, Linux has been adapted for use in a bunch of embedded applications, without the benefit of having to develop a "partnership". Hey, if I were in the business, I would say that such "partnerships" were a hindrance, not an advantage to doing business. This is especially true with Microsoft "partnerships", where you're just as likely to be on the wrong end of a reaming, if you read your MS history (or just pay attention).
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Isn't detecting CPU and internal system temperature already done at the BIOS level? It shouldn't be hard to implement here; just test the temperature levels every time a disk operation fails. But maybe the rest of the room is on fire! But we'll save space in the bad block table once the system is restored.
In no way should it be marked flamebait. This is very useful information; two actual verifications that MS is doing what the story says it's doing. That's exactly the kind of peer review that /. should be noted for. Meta-moderators, watch for that post when it comes around!
So if they think that meta-moderators won't get the joke, they will moderate you down.
This probably wasn't the case with the original post (probably someone didn't get it) but was almost certainly the case in your reply.
The joke is on them, though, because the bottom line is that karma is useless, capped, and overrated.
Well I have a new approach. Anyone who sums up the problem as having one single identifiable root cause, or offers one single, simple answer to it, I will ignore with prejudice.
"Well they didn't have religion." "Well they didn't have parents." "Well they were bullied." "Well their hearts turned dark because of the Internet." "Well they weren't spanked." "Well they listened to Eminem." "Well there are so many guns around." "Well they were medicated." "Well they watched Hollywood movies." "Well their complaints were ignored." "Well they were mentally ill." "Well kids these days have it TOO easy." "Well they played video games." "Well they listened to Marilyn Manson." "Well this is a violent society." No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
The only single answer that I will accept is: PROBABILITY. Given the number of students in schools and the number of combinations of, well hell, ALL of the above, once in a while one or two of em will freak out and start killing everybody.
So why don't we SEPARATE the "kids killing kids" problem from the bullying problem, because even if there are no school shootings, I should hope bullying would remain a concern.
Our research of your own message shows that while you claim to be tired of advertising, it works on you. In fact, you were able to name several newly-monikered companies that are looking to overhaul their stodgy old-world images. We will report back to Cingular, Verizon and Accenture that not only were early adopters already able to remember their names, but identified them in the midst of a very busy, highly technology-oriented marketplace. What better evidence of marketing success do they need!
You were special, too, in that you not only had an acute understanding of the marketplace and economic factors contributing to it, but that you were keenly aware of the results of market conditions. You also picked up on the Slashdot/Thinkgeek connection. We will be reporting this as evidence of a deeper understanding in certain target markets of the alliances between aggregated sites of similar markets. Going forward, we will encourage corporate clients to develop communities that can be targetted and aggregated.
We would like to thank you, too, for pointing out an underlying resentment of middle managers that we were unaware of in this target market. Heretofore, we are re-purposing those resources to better delight you. Approximately one-third of all middle managers are going to be re-titled "Customer Experience Technicians". They will be indoctrinated in new approaches to micro-markets. Another third will be re-titled "Market-based Enablers". They will have the ability to directly affect any segment of the supply chain to improve your conception of the product ordering and delivery process. The last third will be impacted by our next reduction-in-force effort.
We determined partly through your feedback that the subtle connection between market awareness and bad business news is real. Fortunately our PR department is adept at generating bad business news by rosy forecasts that are followed by routine announcements of unmet goals. Since most of this so-called "news" is just the reaction of some investors to some information, we feel we can generate almost ridiculous amounts of awareness using this new model.
Thank you for your participation!
It follows Shirky's prediction that micropayments will not fly and that sites have to go with subscription, aggregation, and subsidy to make money. Was that guy on target or what!
The question is not whether Salon will make money from this, but whether they can make enough to survive. I think Salon has a really good combination of dynamite content and community: writing you can't find anywhere else and people you can't find anywhere else. I plan to join as soon as the option is available.
A lot of people are referencing /. and wondering when the /. subscription service will arrive. My own two cents: I thnk /. could do well by everyone by giving subscribers pages with 15-minutes advance on stories (and 15-minute advance on the ability to post). It could include a Playbill-style list of contributors at different levels of membership (opt-in, natch). That way, in open-source style, contribution is rewarded with a stronger sense of community, a healthy ego boost, and official acknowledgement (the site is willing to "give back").
But that's just my opinion, I could be wrong.
This was my question, and I guess I'm exasperated because I didn't get the answer I wanted, but I'm amazed by this answer. I guess we will really see, and based on how faulty my own crystal ball has been, I'm not going to question anyone else's.
It's true that everyone wants their sites to be free, but maybe that's an oversimplification. Everybody wants free beer too, but nobody GETS it, because they're only one half of the equation. Somebody has to produce that beer.
Even /. depends on ad revenue -- doesn't it? -- despite having been consolidated under a single media company. It couldn't have grown to what it is without at least the first parts of its transformation from labor of love/hobbyist site.
Not that I don't understand. I have my own hobbyist/labor of love that I don't make any money for and never will (it's the community in my sig). But for those of us trying vainly to make even a simple living from our net meanderings, I guess the bottom line is that things are going to get a hell of a lot weirder before they get any better.
Shucks. I hope you're happy. Now I have to explain to my wife why I'm going to chuck this whole Linux web development thing and go back to H/P sysadminning. At least IT shops with H/P systems seem to want to throw money at them every once in a while. Ah, well, it was fun while it lasted.
Personalize the Yahoo portal with my.yahoo.com and you will probably find it a treasure trove of exactly the kind of information you want. Net-savvy users will have done this because my.yahoo.com is convenient and fast. Only Netscape's own personalized portal might be better (because it allows for the import of stuff from /. amongst others).
Amongst all the major operators, Yahoo has been the very essence of interoperability. Not once (er, that I'm aware of) has it locked anyone in, required a platform, used Javascript or even frames, etc. They led the boom and were the only ones to understand how important load times are.
P.S. It occurred to me well after I'd written the question. The porn sites use two out of the three solutions (aggregation and subscription). It would be impossible to imagine them introducing micropayments. Once again, porn is the lead runner in implementing internet technology!
Amongst any group of users, my bet is that you'll find several who would pay for improvements in the quality and nature of the information they receive. Obviously there is great value in correct and timely information. In some cases, it is nothing short of a life or death matter. In most cases it simply keeps us a little better informed.
I don't understand, therefore, why none of your proposed solutions (aggregation, subscription, subsidy) have evolved yet. Every site that I've seen try subscription has given up (except one: the WSJ). And everyone agrees that subsidy in the form of advertising is not going to fly.
Many high-quality sites that deserve to survive are having a tough time of it, and it's not for lack of readership. The Onion hasn't created any multi-millionaires; it should have. Salon has had layoffs. The Straight Dope should make more money on its website than on its books. User Friendly should not have to resort to dead tree publishing or syndication.
In short, while Fucked Company celebrates the death of the crappy sites and stupid business plans, the quality sites are in danger of dying as well. What's gone wrong? Why haven't any models come about that support what people really want?
Which protocols did they try?
The first lawsuit to allege that wearable internet appliances cause brain cancer will be filed in May, 2005.
I have three machines running Windows (don't ask, it's the result of a semi-failed business): a P-200, a P3-500 and a P3-750. All have 128MB or more. The P3-500 suddenly developed window slowness with one of the updates and it can now take up to 35 seconds to open a new Mozilla window. The P-200 has never had such slowness.
Posting by editors/admins/operators/etc. confuses the community. Most users are afraid to argue with the opinions of the folks in charge. Some people engage in simple pandering. The worst part is someone feels that the post reflects on the entire site, not just on one person. Sometimes people leave on that basis.
I don't care if people disagree with me -- I want them to disagree with me, and to feel free to do so. But despite pointing that out time and time again, there were always users who would freak out at my posts and disappear shortly thereafter. So I forged a handle to post to my own site. That way I can be just another person posting, and people can disagree with me as much as possible.
All Dogs Go To
Pet Sematary
So, despite the community's protest that people are needed to do things other than write code, the one criterion that you express is that what ESR wrote ISN'T HARD ENOUGH. And then you get modded up in a reply, suggesting that the community agrees with you. You know, the most damning writers at ZD have figured it out. The open source community ensures that end users are systematically locked out. The community has a genuine contempt, not only for "users", but also for the simple. And so it produces sendmail -- and a whole set of similar interfaces that are so complex to configure that you need more 3" thick O'Reilly books. ESR is not given some respect for having coded a utility that you don't care about. ESR is given respect because he helped a gigantic and very powerful set of users to understand the revolutionary and important nature of open source. If open source fails at its alleged "mission", we will be running Microsoft (TM) TCP-IP.NET by 2005 and the state of freedom across the world will be endangered. (OK, allow me a little melodrama.) But ESR will be responsible for holding off that state of affairs for a few years. Do you believe me? Do you care?
Then I'd just have to update the blocked list with whatever it turned out they were hitting the most.
Yeah, you got the CDs, you got the shirts, you got the mousepads, all you need now is the fucking talent ordered over the net, you'd have it made.
TINAT (This Is Not A Troll), I'm partly saying that to try to sound clever. But I'm also partly saying that because these people are not going to make their mint from selling 100,000 mousepads for 10 big ol' bands. They're going to sell 10 mousepads for 100,000 little bands. Hair metal wannabes, southern bar bands, MIDI ego trips, and stuff for honest local musicians to give out at the door in the hopes of getting 10 more people in the next time so they can keep on having the dumb dream.
Well let me save you the money, spudly. Don't order up a big load of those pro packages. You're going to lose money on it. Nobody cares how good your CD looks. Burn the things yourself; the local superstore has a spindle of CDRs. Buy a bulk of jewel cases and get Kinkos to cut the copies of the inserts to size. The people will love you for it. And everyone already has a mousepad. Instead, put up a web site with as many mp3s as you can manage to record. The more mixes the better.
If you're going to spend, spend it on the studio, but get someone who has a studio workstation, good microphones, and an ear, not some high-profile studio where you've heard of the owner.
And this whole rant wasn't directed at you, it was directed at all those other musicians. You've seen 'em too, I know, you can't miss 'em.
29: If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and throw it away; it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell.
30: And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away; it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell.
31: It was also said, 'Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.'
32: But I say to you that every one who divorces his wife, except on the ground of unchastity, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
And lest we forget, Leviticus 20:10:
If a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall be put to death.
Hey, I quote this not as scripture, but just as one possible viewpoint and answer to the question. If you commit adultery in your heart, your eye has offended you; pluck it out. I guess if you commit adultery in a chat room, you should cut of your internet connection and maybe a few fingers.
And if you've lusted after that neighbor, one possible viewpoint is that you should be put to death.
Good luck. I would avoid the neighbors completely just to make sure.
bonsaikitten is too good of a parody, to the point where a person of average intelligence will not think it's a parody.
Therefore, the protection of freedom of speech is limited in cases where the quality of the speech is too good.
The conclusion that one must necessarily draw about this case, and many many others, is that the USA's focus is shifting: from one that necessarily protected certain freedoms, to one that only protects politically viable viewpoints.
Can you think of anything more dangerous?
Yes, I know; the USB Smartmedia reader costs about as much as a floppy and the floppy adapter is a hack. And yes, I know, if the floppy adapter makes it, manufacturers will replace the floppy drive with a Smartmedia reader and bypass the clunky floppy adapter. Nevertheless, I *do* have a 32MB floppy, today.
So it makes sense to have a library of things you can sorta depend upon to develop slot applications faster.
But what doesn't make sense is MS getting into the embedded market like this. I realize that they're hedging their bets, to turn a phrase. But they're also trying to dominate SO MANY markets in order to maintain world domination that they cannot possibly succeed at all of them, and being so spread out is like fighting a war on many fronts.
Can they win the server, the desktop, the set-top, the embedded, the game console, AND the PDA all at the same time, while dealing with how many million lines of code AND juggling partnership against partnership? What happens when the PDA partnerships and the embedded partnerships collide? What happens when wireless gaming comes to the set-top of game console market? What happens when a security problem shows up that manifests itself in three or four of these lines and some of that code isn't able to be patched?
Meanwhile, Linux has been adapted for use in a bunch of embedded applications, without the benefit of having to develop a "partnership". Hey, if I were in the business, I would say that such "partnerships" were a hindrance, not an advantage to doing business. This is especially true with Microsoft "partnerships", where you're just as likely to be on the wrong end of a reaming, if you read your MS history (or just pay attention).