Choose your evils. Myself, I hate to see any company go unchallenged. MS at least had some challengers, no matter how small, But AOL/TW has none. Go without MS for a month, no problem. Now try to go without AOL/TW, good luck, hopefully you're blind, deaf and dumb and live in a very remote cave.
I could go without AOL/TW for a month much easier than going without MS for a month. I bet my boss would get pretty pissed if I didn't answer emails anymore sent via the corporate exchange server, but I could easily just continue to not watch TV, or read any magazines. I don't watch the supposed news sourse formerly known as the "clinton news network" (cnn) anyway, so who cares. I have enough CD's that I could easily avoid the ones associated with Warner Music and its affiliates, etc etc etc.
At the end of the day though, I still need to check my corporate email. I still need to do my banking, and my bank's website requires IE5 or 5.5. Etc. I can escape AOL/TW, I cannot escape MS.
Energy is proportional to mass. Mass goes by the cube of the linear dimensions. Thus, a 10-meter meteor is 3*3*3 = 27 times less massive than a 30-meter meteor.
Where the heck did your statement about pollution come from? Volcanoes emit lots of pollutions because the toss inredible amounts of crap into the atmosphere. Where would a 10-meter meteor get all the crap? Even if it lands and makes a small crater, dirt just isn't that harmful in the air.
first, the one from arizona was actually not really 30 meters. Its more like 26 (as 85feet is 25.9 meters). So, now lets do the math again...26*26*26=17576. 1000/17576. Almost 6% of the mass the one from arizona had. Hmmm...I DUNNO...SOUNDS PRETTY BAD TO ME....heh.
second, I was talking about all the people flying through the air. It was humour. eh.
Did you read the article? It says it could have been as small as a baseball... or as large as 10 meters across. No, a car-sized meteor wouldn't have necessarily caused any major damage.
10 meters across entering the earth's atmosphere. Not hitting the ground. As has been pointed out, that little bitty crater in Arizona was created by something less than 30 meters across (on impact). True, a 10 meter in diameter mereor would have been signifigantly smaller than one 30 meters in diameter, but surely you can see that one 10 meters in diameter would be VERY bad...causing more pollution than the NE coast has put off from man-made stuff in the last 20 years or so, probably...
at what point? It could have started out the size of a truck and burned up to a small core piece or 5.
no, the person who submitted it said "compact-car size metior may have hit north central PA." As in, it was the size of a car when it hit. NOT. Couldn't have been, that area of PA would be gone now. As the article actually states, it was most likely as small as a baseball.
did the person who submitted this actually read the article? It said the metior was probably about the size of a baseball...not a CAR. A CAR would have taken out a good chunk of PA...
the answer to the second question is extremely easy. Just how many people do you think would want a monocrome LCD? "Economy of scale" answers it to an extreme. The process for making a normal screen would have to be redeveloped, and even with different sizes there are still certain things that are similar between them, whereas monocrome would be quite different all together. Therefore...due to "economy of scale" as you yourself mentioned, a monocrome LCD would be more expensive than a color LCD. You're competeing with all the normal uses of an LCD. I wouldn't think the manufacturing cost of a monocrome would even really be all that much less...
"First, the average user isn't any smarter. How many of you use more than 25% of all the features in Microsoft Word? Most people don't even know how to do a mail merge. Yet, Microsoft insists on putting more and more features into it. Honestly, I can do most of the things that I need to do in Microsoft Word 6.0 for Win95."
There are features that you use, then there are features that other people use. Enough people *do* know how to do a mail merge to justify the feature's existence I would say (like, those people who actually need to do it, or support people near those people). Microsoft is, yes, the evil satanic mega-corp that is trying to own the world and take us all to hell...I completely agree...but I can guarrantee you that they have a HUGE R&D department, and that 99.99999 of the features in their products get used enough to justify their being there. The average user doesn't use every single feature on every single KDE tool, either. Some use some, while others use others (and some use Gnome, while others use KDE...). There are some features that are used by more than others. That just means they are more commonly used, not that their value negates the value of a feature only a few people need enough to learn.
M$ simply gives people a choice, just like all OS's and all software manufactures do. Feature "bloat" isn't isolated to M$ ya know. With M$ its almost like russian roulette, though...in that all you're doing is taking a gamble that the next thing you do in your M$ environment won't be the thing that gives the BSOD.
"For those of you who have, however, how do you think humanity would recover from a catastrophic loss of all electronic technology? My personal experience is that if something like this were to occur, we would not recover very quickly, but I'm not as optimistic as I was a few years ago. Maybe some of you can paint a better picture."
"Personal experience?" What????? Cliff, you have personal experience in humanity suffering a catastrophic loss of all electronic technology? Huh??? Just what is this "Personal Experience" in, since you've *obviously* misworded yourself...what was your intent? What did you *mean* to say, since you obviously do not have "personal experience" in "humanity [suffering] a catastrophic loss of all electronic technology?"
Big "what if" ya got there. Kinda hard to imagine something that would cause global problems of this sort, and would get *everything*, including the stuff that is well protected. In the event that that happened though, I can promise there would be a lot of people in Redmond that would never have a job ever again doing what they once did...I dunno, maybe we'd all start using Eros or BEOS?
One also must note that simply frying the electronics doesn't change the fact that there are still hard-copy circut designs for what we now have. That, and the dyes and boards are all set up the current way too. To that extent, PCI would obviously return unchanged, etc. ISA would obviously find itself never to be replaced. And things would be back to normal (albiet slightly improved, though less improved had nothing happened and things progressed normally) in less than a year. Why do I think that? Consider the highway rebuilding in california a couple years back. Necessity breeds efficiency and dedication, not just invention.
I didn't notice microsoft.com was down, just hotmail. I have several things I like getting from net-based email, and well...honestly hotmail has some cool features.
ALTHOUGH, they have have recently added this new crappy rtf thing that has all sorts of bugs, and I wish I could keep it from even starting. But eh, oh well.
sure, hotmail goes down a lot. But its not like I have -important- stuff sent to my hotmail account...anything important goes to one of the other multitudes of accounts. Hotmail is just convienent.
anyone know an IP of a hotmail login server (have it in their tables already, or whatever) and could share?
Please, stop pretending to be lawyers on slashdot. Slashdot barely has any journalistic credibility in the wake of that hooters link that got on the front page yesterday. Don't undermine it even more by giving people false and misleading legal advice. In many jurisdictions, giving false legal advice is itself a crime. If you must wallow in your own ignorance, then don't drag others into the morass with you. Please.
Couple of things. First, he's not giving any legal advice. He's simply stating that the kid winn probably win. He's not attempting to represent the kid in court, nor anyone else in court for that matter. He's simply making a statement. That is VERY far from illegal.
Second, I would like to congradulate you on becoming a part of the hordes of idiots that swarm this and every other site. You are part of an elite crowd of no more than 90% of the posters that feel like they are better than everyone else, and somehow have more intelligent things to say. Blah on you.
me, my low karma speaks loads for how little intelligence I have *grin* But at least I haven't sunken so low as to tell someone they're doing something illegal, especially when thhey're not.
This was first announced the first half of '99, around May I believe. I'd give an exact date, but the pages on it were expired. There was a article about it in the June99 edition of ComputerWorld, for example.
Oh well. Perhaps one day/. will stop being glitzy, and start being the source for nerd news that it once was. Oddly enough, I think it was/. that I first heard about this on, over a year and a half ago...
First, you say Gore leads by 200,000 in the popular vote. Actually, it's over 300,000, but what's a hundred thousand lost votes to a Republican?
sorry, hard to keep up with the ever-changing tallies. So, it goes from 0.2% to 0.3%. Wow. You totally defeated my arguement there, let me tell ya.
Second, you say that a lead of 200,000 votes is insignificant, to the point where there was "no winner", yet you're arguing that Bush's lead of 500 votes in Florida is decisive, conclusive, and we should all go home. That's particularly funny when his lead shrinks to 120 votes if you count the recounts already submitted from Miami and Palm Beach. Of course, Katherine Harris, lackey-in-chief, didn't count these votes, or the 10,000 undervotes yet to be inspected. Surprise, surprise, surprise.
then, if you discount the chads all over the floor and count all the wrongly disqualified overseas ballots, Bush's lead goes up again. Not only that, but I NEVER said anything about a few hundred votes being decisive, nor did I ever say I was republican. To put back to you what you did to me, I believe the appropriate thing to say would be "yet another example of a democrat trying to determine the intent of the voter." I just think the law is established in such a way as to define what takes place, those events have occured, and we should all live with them. Enough is enough. Gore won New Mexico by what, 179 votes? Do you see Bush doing to New Mexico and the US what Gore is doing to Florida and the US?
Third, you tell me that having three democrats on one canvassing board is illegal. Might be, but it's the first I've heard of it
*shrug* watch the news a little more. Been talked about. Sorry you missed it. Don't have time to do the research for you, if you don't believe me do it yourself.
Fourth, dimpled chads aren't being counted.
Yes they are...again, watch the news a bit more. Go to cnn.com, perhaps. Learn a little.
Fifth, your hero doesn't agree with your assertion that counting them is ridiculous, since Dubya himself signed a law saying dimpled chads are legal in Texas
"oh yeah, well he started it!" Blah. Not even going to go into this. Doesn't even rate.
the video was only shown on the news like twice. Eh, what can I say about the media; its well established that there is a bias there. This was one of the reasons the observers went there, actually.
How about having a real recount, that is, a hand recount that is actually allowed to finish?
Bush's lackeys have expended a great deal of energy to prevent the lawful counting of ballots. Clearly, it's because they know that if every vote is counted, they lose, the same way the lost the popular vote. They even resorted to goon tactics with shipped-in hooligans to intimdate election officials in Miami. Maybe that's your idea of democracy, but it sounds more like South America to me. It sure as hell isn't "the rule of law" or "trusting the people".
Oh please...
2 things. FIRST, Bush did NOT lose the popular election. It may appear as though he lost by a little over 200,000, but since that is like less than 1/5 of 1 percent anyone with ANY common sense and obvervation skills should easily see that.2% is WAY less than the margin of error in an election. Therefore, there was NO winner in the popular vote.
Second thing. Sick of hearing about Bush being fraudulent or something, cause its ludicrous. Wanna know why Bush sent people there? Cause the 3-member canvasing pannel in palm beach were all democrats, for example. That particular thing is against the law. Many other things too, like videos of Ms Cox bending ballots until a "chad" became indented. Or, the countless chads found on the floor after being recounted by the heavily democrat areas (gee, wonder where those came from). Or this absurd notion of a "dimpled chad" being counted.
The deadline established by law passed by. The Florida Supreme Court in a VERY biased opinion (biased AGAINST republicans, ya loon) extended the deadline. That second deadline is now passed. They didn't make it.
When lawlessness abounds, when the rules don't matter, THAT is when we'll have third world style elections. And that is the exact thing Gore is wanting to give us.
speed drops because the program has to wait a few cycles to determine if it can use an area of ram or not.
HELLOO...this is already being done. The memory is already being mapped, there is already a section specifically designated to store this info. Otherwise, you'd write to GOOD areas of the RAM that were already in use by running applications...
There is no reason that this should make your system any slower in the least bit. This is a very useful tool, and once developed will allow for on-th-fly saves. Not only that, but its going to allow me to have 512mb of ram in my system, without worrying about my wife fussing at me about the expenditure
I'd be more impressed with on the fly patching of bad memory to keep a server going rather than having it hang. That would be a selling point.
Wouldn't this be an obvious first step towards having it work on-the-fly? We all already have scripts in our crontabs monitoring the system health, things watching other things and making everything work. I'd imagine that it would be an eventual possibility for this to work on-the-fly, so long as the beginning stages are worked on/with.
would it be way over their heads to have them develop an app of some sort, like maybe for KDE or something? Imagine an app that is fairly useful, and the credits list your high school students names or whatever. I dunno.
or maybe you could get them involved in a project like wine or mozilla. It would be a riot if a group of high school kids were able to save mozilla...hehe
isn't "overrated" something that a post should get if it had gotten mod'd UP? Like, their saying it isn't worth an "insightful" or "informative" or something?
The mods suck. My post was relevent, and contributed to the discussion. oh well. I submit stories that are rejected and show up a month later. Submitted one about a week ago about a group of physicists who have gotten a beam of light to travel 300 times the normal "speed of light," but it was rejected. Wonder when that one will show up.
"innocent until proven guilty" is still very intact, since it refers to criminal trials, and not civil ones. As an example, take OJ's nonsense. Somehow, the jury found a "shadow of a doubt" and let him free, because he was considered "innocent until proven guilty" "beyond the shadow of a doubt." Howver, he was then sued in a CIVIL court, and was ordered by the judge to pay up (what, like $10 mill, right) for any responsibility he had had in Nicole's death. So, he was found guilt in the civil trial, but he wasn't in the criminal trial.
The RIAA didn't press criminal charges against Napster. If they had, then what we would be seeing would be "The people vrs (xyz place, wherever the RIAA filed the charges)." Instead, the case is the RIAA vrs Napster. Injunctions aren't ever placed in a criminal trial. In criminal trials, they're called restraining orders
"Their latest version, 5.0, is roughly comparable to Linux 2.3. Since the current version of Linux is 6.2, this is clearly unacceptable"
eh? the current version of linux is 6.2? freebsd 5.0 is comparible to linux 2.3? sounds like someone else who has fallen into the "redhat=linux" myth, yet is also confused in other ways too. Geeze...how long has it been since redhat 2.3? was there ever one? (lol) I know I used to use slack 2.3...(shrug) current version of REDHAT is at 6.2. Current "version" of Linux (stable) is 2.2.16
We use Lotus Notes (yuck!) here, so I don't mind educating people on this new hole (I've never heard of any LN exploit) yuck, eh? Do you see how in this one sentence you've said something rather strange? You don't know of any exploits with lotus notes, yet you don't like the product. hmmm...strange
No, this is NOT reasonable. Labs across the world have been doing this research for many, many years. This was not a matter of a single break-through, it was a culmination of lots and lots of research. My fiance' is doing a project right now where she is trying to come up with the 'cell line' to be able to clone felines. Apprarently the process is different per each species. Ask her, she's the genetics person. But these people patented an idea that has been in use now for a bit, and all the people around the world, such as my fiance', who are doing this last-stage process now have to stop. All the research she's done, months and months of work, is gone. All because of some stupid patent. The HARD work is figuring out what to put in the cells. What this patent does is stop the EASY part, which is just putting the genetic material into the cell.
Me: Actually, your society might think that that is dangerous, but that doesn't mean there is any kind of evidence or research supporting that opinion.
And Why should it be illegal to post pictures of illegal sexual acts? Is it OK in your opinion to distribute pictures of non sexual illegal acts?
Several things. First, it is not "my" society. It is a society of which I am but a part. Second, my statement, "It should be illegal to distribute pictures of sexual activities that are illegal" is not exclusive. I was only talking about illegal sexual activities. Sexual activity is different in nature than everything else, and therefore there is a different prescribed way of handling it. All catagories have differences. I do not need to give my opinion on each and every type of thing in order to make an assertion about one single thing; that would be absurd.
Jon, you bring up an example of a teacher seducing what he thought was a 14 year old boy, and then ask
How, for example, are adults interested in sexuality supposed to know the ages of the people they're speaking with in chat rooms? Is discussing sexuality with a teenager a crime?"
Well John, he thought the person was 14. That's the whole point. Attempting to seduce what you think is a 14 year old is, and should be, a crime. You then say this:
Is all exposure to sexual imagery dangerous to all kids at all ages? Is some exposure to sexual imagery and discussion safe, even healthy? This society has never figured such questions out, or even addressed them in any sustained way.
Well John, it seems to me that society has figured this out, but that you refuse to recognize that fact because it's opinion differs from yours. Also, most would say that many of the images available on the net, things such as beastiality, S&M, etc., are inappropriate at any age. It should be illegal to distribute pictures of sexual activities that are illegal. Simple.
I'm on the other extreme from you, some would say, because of what I'm about to say. The first amendment protects speech, not porn. The writers wanted to protect the right of the citizens to speak against the government. Simple. They very easily could have said "freedom of expression," but they did not. The word did in fact exist back then. It was not used.
All I can say I guess Jon is that you perhaps need to start hitting the "preview" button. Read what you say, so that you can see the crazy stuff you say before you post it. Figure out that you are an extremist (which you are, if you are going to attempt to excuse all porn that is online). Don't treat people like they are stubborn and ignorant if they don't agree with you. I am one of the "2001=new millenium" people, but I don't go around telling people they haven't decided when the millenium starts simply because they don't agree with me. That would be silly.
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Choose your evils. Myself, I hate to see any company go unchallenged. MS at least had some challengers, no matter how small, But AOL/TW has none. Go without MS for a month, no problem. Now try to go without AOL/TW, good luck, hopefully you're blind, deaf and dumb and live in a very remote cave. I could go without AOL/TW for a month much easier than going without MS for a month. I bet my boss would get pretty pissed if I didn't answer emails anymore sent via the corporate exchange server, but I could easily just continue to not watch TV, or read any magazines. I don't watch the supposed news sourse formerly known as the "clinton news network" (cnn) anyway, so who cares. I have enough CD's that I could easily avoid the ones associated with Warner Music and its affiliates, etc etc etc. At the end of the day though, I still need to check my corporate email. I still need to do my banking, and my bank's website requires IE5 or 5.5. Etc. I can escape AOL/TW, I cannot escape MS.
first, the one from arizona was actually not really 30 meters. Its more like 26 (as 85feet is 25.9 meters). So, now lets do the math again...26*26*26=17576. 1000/17576. Almost 6% of the mass the one from arizona had. Hmmm...I DUNNO...SOUNDS PRETTY BAD TO ME....heh.
second, I was talking about all the people flying through the air. It was humour. eh.
Did you read the article? It says it could have been as small as a baseball... or as large as 10 meters across. No, a car-sized meteor wouldn't have necessarily caused any major damage. 10 meters across entering the earth's atmosphere. Not hitting the ground. As has been pointed out, that little bitty crater in Arizona was created by something less than 30 meters across (on impact). True, a 10 meter in diameter mereor would have been signifigantly smaller than one 30 meters in diameter, but surely you can see that one 10 meters in diameter would be VERY bad...causing more pollution than the NE coast has put off from man-made stuff in the last 20 years or so, probably...
no, the person who submitted it said "compact-car size metior may have hit north central PA." As in, it was the size of a car when it hit. NOT. Couldn't have been, that area of PA would be gone now. As the article actually states, it was most likely as small as a baseball.
damnit...I made the same spelling error too. meteor. not metior.
did the person who submitted this actually read the article? It said the metior was probably about the size of a baseball...not a CAR. A CAR would have taken out a good chunk of PA...
duh.
"First, the average user isn't any smarter. How many of you use more than 25% of all the features in Microsoft Word? Most people don't even know how to do a mail merge. Yet, Microsoft insists on putting more and more features into it. Honestly, I can do most of the things that I need to do in Microsoft Word 6.0 for Win95." There are features that you use, then there are features that other people use. Enough people *do* know how to do a mail merge to justify the feature's existence I would say (like, those people who actually need to do it, or support people near those people). Microsoft is, yes, the evil satanic mega-corp that is trying to own the world and take us all to hell...I completely agree...but I can guarrantee you that they have a HUGE R&D department, and that 99.99999 of the features in their products get used enough to justify their being there. The average user doesn't use every single feature on every single KDE tool, either. Some use some, while others use others (and some use Gnome, while others use KDE...). There are some features that are used by more than others. That just means they are more commonly used, not that their value negates the value of a feature only a few people need enough to learn. M$ simply gives people a choice, just like all OS's and all software manufactures do. Feature "bloat" isn't isolated to M$ ya know. With M$ its almost like russian roulette, though...in that all you're doing is taking a gamble that the next thing you do in your M$ environment won't be the thing that gives the BSOD.
"For those of you who have, however, how do you think humanity would recover from a catastrophic loss of all electronic technology? My personal experience is that if something like this were to occur, we would not recover very quickly, but I'm not as optimistic as I was a few years ago. Maybe some of you can paint a better picture."
"Personal experience?" What????? Cliff, you have personal experience in humanity suffering a catastrophic loss of all electronic technology? Huh??? Just what is this "Personal Experience" in, since you've *obviously* misworded yourself...what was your intent? What did you *mean* to say, since you obviously do not have "personal experience" in "humanity [suffering] a catastrophic loss of all electronic technology?" Big "what if" ya got there. Kinda hard to imagine something that would cause global problems of this sort, and would get *everything*, including the stuff that is well protected. In the event that that happened though, I can promise there would be a lot of people in Redmond that would never have a job ever again doing what they once did...I dunno, maybe we'd all start using Eros or BEOS? One also must note that simply frying the electronics doesn't change the fact that there are still hard-copy circut designs for what we now have. That, and the dyes and boards are all set up the current way too. To that extent, PCI would obviously return unchanged, etc. ISA would obviously find itself never to be replaced. And things would be back to normal (albiet slightly improved, though less improved had nothing happened and things progressed normally) in less than a year. Why do I think that? Consider the highway rebuilding in california a couple years back. Necessity breeds efficiency and dedication, not just invention.ALTHOUGH, they have have recently added this new crappy rtf thing that has all sorts of bugs, and I wish I could keep it from even starting. But eh, oh well.
sure, hotmail goes down a lot. But its not like I have -important- stuff sent to my hotmail account...anything important goes to one of the other multitudes of accounts. Hotmail is just convienent.
anyone know an IP of a hotmail login server (have it in their tables already, or whatever) and could share?
Couple of things. First, he's not giving any legal advice. He's simply stating that the kid winn probably win. He's not attempting to represent the kid in court, nor anyone else in court for that matter. He's simply making a statement. That is VERY far from illegal.
Second, I would like to congradulate you on becoming a part of the hordes of idiots that swarm this and every other site. You are part of an elite crowd of no more than 90% of the posters that feel like they are better than everyone else, and somehow have more intelligent things to say. Blah on you.
me, my low karma speaks loads for how little intelligence I have *grin* But at least I haven't sunken so low as to tell someone they're doing something illegal, especially when thhey're not.
Oh well. Perhaps one day /. will stop being glitzy, and start being the source for nerd news that it once was. Oddly enough, I think it was /. that I first heard about this on, over a year and a half ago...
sorry, hard to keep up with the ever-changing tallies. So, it goes from 0.2% to 0.3%. Wow. You totally defeated my arguement there, let me tell ya.
Second, you say that a lead of 200,000 votes is insignificant, to the point where there was "no winner", yet you're arguing that Bush's lead of 500 votes in Florida is decisive, conclusive, and we should all go home. That's particularly funny when his lead shrinks to 120 votes if you count the recounts already submitted from Miami and Palm Beach. Of course, Katherine Harris, lackey-in-chief, didn't count these votes, or the 10,000 undervotes yet to be inspected. Surprise, surprise, surprise.
then, if you discount the chads all over the floor and count all the wrongly disqualified overseas ballots, Bush's lead goes up again. Not only that, but I NEVER said anything about a few hundred votes being decisive, nor did I ever say I was republican. To put back to you what you did to me, I believe the appropriate thing to say would be "yet another example of a democrat trying to determine the intent of the voter." I just think the law is established in such a way as to define what takes place, those events have occured, and we should all live with them. Enough is enough. Gore won New Mexico by what, 179 votes? Do you see Bush doing to New Mexico and the US what Gore is doing to Florida and the US?
Third, you tell me that having three democrats on one canvassing board is illegal. Might be, but it's the first I've heard of it
*shrug* watch the news a little more. Been talked about. Sorry you missed it. Don't have time to do the research for you, if you don't believe me do it yourself.
Fourth, dimpled chads aren't being counted.Yes they are...again, watch the news a bit more. Go to cnn.com, perhaps. Learn a little.
Fifth, your hero doesn't agree with your assertion that counting them is ridiculous, since Dubya himself signed a law saying dimpled chads are legal in Texas
"oh yeah, well he started it!" Blah. Not even going to go into this. Doesn't even rate.
the video was only shown on the news like twice. Eh, what can I say about the media; its well established that there is a bias there. This was one of the reasons the observers went there, actually.
Oh please...
2 things. FIRST, Bush did NOT lose the popular election. It may appear as though he lost by a little over 200,000, but since that is like less than 1/5 of 1 percent anyone with ANY common sense and obvervation skills should easily see that .2% is WAY less than the margin of error in an election. Therefore, there was NO winner in the popular vote.
Second thing. Sick of hearing about Bush being fraudulent or something, cause its ludicrous. Wanna know why Bush sent people there? Cause the 3-member canvasing pannel in palm beach were all democrats, for example. That particular thing is against the law. Many other things too, like videos of Ms Cox bending ballots until a "chad" became indented. Or, the countless chads found on the floor after being recounted by the heavily democrat areas (gee, wonder where those came from). Or this absurd notion of a "dimpled chad" being counted.
The deadline established by law passed by. The Florida Supreme Court in a VERY biased opinion (biased AGAINST republicans, ya loon) extended the deadline. That second deadline is now passed. They didn't make it.
When lawlessness abounds, when the rules don't matter, THAT is when we'll have third world style elections. And that is the exact thing Gore is wanting to give us.
speed drops because the program has to wait a few cycles to determine if it can use an area of ram or not. HELLOO...this is already being done. The memory is already being mapped, there is already a section specifically designated to store this info. Otherwise, you'd write to GOOD areas of the RAM that were already in use by running applications... There is no reason that this should make your system any slower in the least bit. This is a very useful tool, and once developed will allow for on-th-fly saves. Not only that, but its going to allow me to have 512mb of ram in my system, without worrying about my wife fussing at me about the expenditure
I'd be more impressed with on the fly patching of bad memory to keep a server going rather than having it hang. That would be a selling point. Wouldn't this be an obvious first step towards having it work on-the-fly? We all already have scripts in our crontabs monitoring the system health, things watching other things and making everything work. I'd imagine that it would be an eventual possibility for this to work on-the-fly, so long as the beginning stages are worked on/with.
or maybe you could get them involved in a project like wine or mozilla. It would be a riot if a group of high school kids were able to save mozilla...hehe
isn't "overrated" something that a post should get if it had gotten mod'd UP? Like, their saying it isn't worth an "insightful" or "informative" or something?
The mods suck. My post was relevent, and contributed to the discussion. oh well. I submit stories that are rejected and show up a month later. Submitted one about a week ago about a group of physicists who have gotten a beam of light to travel 300 times the normal "speed of light," but it was rejected. Wonder when that one will show up.
I wish /. was still cool. sigh.
"innocent until proven guilty" is still very intact, since it refers to criminal trials, and not civil ones. As an example, take OJ's nonsense. Somehow, the jury found a "shadow of a doubt" and let him free, because he was considered "innocent until proven guilty" "beyond the shadow of a doubt." Howver, he was then sued in a CIVIL court, and was ordered by the judge to pay up (what, like $10 mill, right) for any responsibility he had had in Nicole's death. So, he was found guilt in the civil trial, but he wasn't in the criminal trial.
The RIAA didn't press criminal charges against Napster. If they had, then what we would be seeing would be "The people vrs (xyz place, wherever the RIAA filed the charges)." Instead, the case is the RIAA vrs Napster. Injunctions aren't ever placed in a criminal trial. In criminal trials, they're called restraining orders
all make sense now?
eh? the current version of linux is 6.2? freebsd 5.0 is comparible to linux 2.3? sounds like someone else who has fallen into the "redhat=linux" myth, yet is also confused in other ways too. Geeze...how long has it been since redhat 2.3? was there ever one? (lol) I know I used to use slack 2.3...(shrug) current version of REDHAT is at 6.2. Current "version" of Linux (stable) is 2.2.16
We use Lotus Notes (yuck!) here, so I don't mind educating people on this new hole (I've never heard of any LN exploit) yuck, eh? Do you see how in this one sentence you've said something rather strange? You don't know of any exploits with lotus notes, yet you don't like the product. hmmm...strange
yeah, true... but it was still a funny comment, darn it
No, this is NOT reasonable. Labs across the world have been doing this research for many, many years. This was not a matter of a single break-through, it was a culmination of lots and lots of research. My fiance' is doing a project right now where she is trying to come up with the 'cell line' to be able to clone felines. Apprarently the process is different per each species. Ask her, she's the genetics person. But these people patented an idea that has been in use now for a bit, and all the people around the world, such as my fiance', who are doing this last-stage process now have to stop. All the research she's done, months and months of work, is gone. All because of some stupid patent. The HARD work is figuring out what to put in the cells. What this patent does is stop the EASY part, which is just putting the genetic material into the cell.
And Why should it be illegal to post pictures of illegal sexual acts? Is it OK in your opinion to distribute pictures of non sexual illegal acts?
Several things. First, it is not "my" society. It is a society of which I am but a part. Second, my statement, "It should be illegal to distribute pictures of sexual activities that are illegal" is not exclusive. I was only talking about illegal sexual activities. Sexual activity is different in nature than everything else, and therefore there is a different prescribed way of handling it. All catagories have differences. I do not need to give my opinion on each and every type of thing in order to make an assertion about one single thing; that would be absurd.How, for example, are adults interested in sexuality supposed to know the ages of the people they're speaking with in chat rooms? Is discussing sexuality with a teenager a crime?"
Well John, he thought the person was 14. That's the whole point. Attempting to seduce what you think is a 14 year old is, and should be, a crime. You then say this:
Is all exposure to sexual imagery dangerous to all kids at all ages? Is some exposure to sexual imagery and discussion safe, even healthy? This society has never figured such questions out, or even addressed them in any sustained way.
Well John, it seems to me that society has figured this out, but that you refuse to recognize that fact because it's opinion differs from yours. Also, most would say that many of the images available on the net, things such as beastiality, S&M, etc., are inappropriate at any age. It should be illegal to distribute pictures of sexual activities that are illegal. Simple.
I'm on the other extreme from you, some would say, because of what I'm about to say. The first amendment protects speech, not porn. The writers wanted to protect the right of the citizens to speak against the government. Simple. They very easily could have said "freedom of expression," but they did not. The word did in fact exist back then. It was not used.
All I can say I guess Jon is that you perhaps need to start hitting the "preview" button. Read what you say, so that you can see the crazy stuff you say before you post it. Figure out that you are an extremist (which you are, if you are going to attempt to excuse all porn that is online). Don't treat people like they are stubborn and ignorant if they don't agree with you. I am one of the "2001=new millenium" people, but I don't go around telling people they haven't decided when the millenium starts simply because they don't agree with me. That would be silly.