I'm Australian, but haven't lived there for almost 20 years.. and I have to say that every time I go back to visit, it just seems like the sun gets hotter and hotter, and stings more and more, each year.
You are obviously lying, thanks to modern research done mostly in US we all know that there is no global warming and ozone layer holes is just tree-huggers' paranoia.
Hmm, considering that the term "piracy" got so popular we definitely should coin something for these things. I propose the following (as far as cool headlines go):
> The appeal of anime is partly that japan > isn't limited in their animation to kids
Actually, most of anime is for kids / teens. The issue though is that there in Japan (and prolly eastern Asia in general) the parents don't give a fuck of what their children watch. They know that their children are no more "pure" (neither they are expected to be) than the parents themselves. I'd say that in fact this is a huge problem with our western civilization - we expect everyone (but us, of course) to be ideal and pure in thoughts and deeds. We can easily justify whatever stupid, ugly things we do, but we severly lack the understanding and cannot condescent (sp?) to other people's actions.
Second issue is that they have _other_ taboos than we have here. You see, boys have testicles and girls have boobs - that's completely natural and no secret to everyone. But here it's a taboo somehow. Watch "Heisei Tanuki Kassen Ponpoko" for example - it's a cute wonderful movie (anime) for kids and causes no problems out there (in fact, it scored greatly at the box office). But there's no way in hell it could be shown publically in US, most of Europe, of for example, Russia, because male tanuki have them balls clearly visible all the time and use them for some magic things. Every mom and dad here I guess would get brain fracture in an instant if their kids see that. Not that I think that would cause any problems for kids.
But there are dangers in going dotnet way and it is certainly not _the_solution_ (or even not _a_solution_) to many programming problems, enterprise programming or not. And certainly that's not the most effective way to get the job done. But there is a very high ad pressure from Microsoft pushing its stuff into every hole and someone should counteract it to maintain some little sense left in current IT "scene". Who else but us? So - just "don't use" is the wrong answer.
It's the technology, stupid. Early K6's (I recall having a 3.3v one) were heat monsters. Later I had K6-2+ @500 and it could almost run without a cooler. Early Athlons (1.4GHz pre(?)-Thunderbirds) were ouch-hot. The versions before SocketA died were much-much more efficient. OTOH - PIV design is notable for doing way too much extra work (many loops running in advance etc... I don't fully understand modern CPUs but you may try to research it) and that extra work will still heat 'em up no matter what the process. Athlon64 is actually very power-efficient design.
PS: Before you point it out - I understand that P-M is not P-IV.
Well, you never know. Maybe (probably?) there is a database somewhere out there that lists your (and my) documented "bit-crimes", like the log of videos you downloaded or your searches for software cracks or who knows what else. It may seem unlikely but it would definitely come in handy once you become an annoyance and the powers that be would like to have you "neutralized". Maybe not quite now but once the penalties for these kind of crimes get even more insane... Surely that was the case during the climax of communism in USSR - everyone was guilty if proof was needed. Sadly - nowadays I don't think that there are many people in the world that their government won't be able to prosecute if needed. We all break some laws daily.
If true then this means that MacOS _will_ run on generic hardware, otherwise no "dongle" would be needed. I say it's good news for all those who would like to play with it without paying any dough first. It's a shame that such hypocrisy exists, but I'm happy for Apple too! This kind of "piracy" can be nothing but good for them. Drool... I so wish that Win would finally get a serious and - despite everything - much more sane alternative.
As hardware gets cheaper and cheaper it would be very pretty stupid of them to stick to that concept, don't you think? They may have been hardware company 10 years ago. Does not mean that they are obliged to be always that way. And I guess MS has had to change their collective underpants hearing that MacOS for generic PC is in the wild, hoax or not. Personally I think that Apple _will_ leak that at least several months before LH ships. They are showing signs of hardball play intentions and I would cheer for them.
Yes, sure. If (imagine) MS suddenly has there OS business in tatters it should make a clear business sense to bundle their Office business to this disaster, right? After all - they still would have XBox360 left.
Are you serious? If it runs it can be cracked. Period. Even complicated (reasonably) schemes like Windows Activation are only a nuisance for legal users. Timebomb? - there are probably several 100s of thousands people in the world capable of cracking it in 20 minutes.
I gather they are still popular on handhelds... in Japan! No, seriously. And 2d nowadays is a rarity (very high, fixed, but different resolution monitors are to blame, I suppose).
Depends. If some book excludes 90%+ of readership based on some required knowledge it may still be worth reading. Like if it is some academic publication. If your site deals with... uhm, web-design or security issues you may well wish that people do the first step to continue reading. Plus - you have it wrong, it may not be "to go to the effort of excluding" but to "save the effort" of supporting not-quite-up-to-date browser technology.
I so wish that Mozilla ActiveX control were really ready to be drop-in replacement for MSIE ActiveX. So far it has issues that prevent this from happening (for once, tab key does not work in forms out of the box, or printing issues). I know that there are (probably) workarounds for those somewhere around but I'm just not all too ready to seek for those. Also - ActiveX for embedding Opera would be nice.
Reasoning: I find that most of the apps I've been working on can benefit greatly from being done mostly in Web-style interface (you know what I'm talking about). But still they need something that you won't get right from the browser (like scanner interface or similar stuff). Having hybrid web/classic(*) applications turns out to be the sweet spot - it is easy to do, it is easy to maintain, it works mostly great (*"classic" can be Delphi, VC, or some Python/what-not toolkit, or maybe even WinForms).
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I'm Australian, but haven't lived there for almost 20 years .. and I have to say that every time I go back to visit, it just seems like the sun gets hotter and hotter, and stings more and more, each year.
You are obviously lying, thanks to modern research done mostly in US we all know that there is no global warming and ozone layer holes is just tree-huggers' paranoia.
Hmm, considering that the term "piracy" got so popular we definitely should coin something for these things. I propose the following (as far as cool headlines go):
"Man Convicted for Raping Xbox".
No worse than "piracy", huh?
> The appeal of anime is partly that japan
> isn't limited in their animation to kids
Actually, most of anime is for kids / teens. The issue though is that there in Japan (and prolly eastern Asia in general) the parents don't give a fuck of what their children watch. They know that their children are no more "pure" (neither they are expected to be) than the parents themselves. I'd say that in fact this is a huge problem with our western civilization - we expect everyone (but us, of course) to be ideal and pure in thoughts and deeds. We can easily justify whatever stupid, ugly things we do, but we severly lack the understanding and cannot condescent (sp?) to other people's actions.
Second issue is that they have _other_ taboos than we have here. You see, boys have testicles and girls have boobs - that's completely natural and no secret to everyone. But here it's a taboo somehow. Watch "Heisei Tanuki Kassen Ponpoko" for example - it's a cute wonderful movie (anime) for kids and causes no problems out there (in fact, it scored greatly at the box office). But there's no way in hell it could be shown publically in US, most of Europe, of for example, Russia, because male tanuki have them balls clearly visible all the time and use them for some magic things. Every mom and dad here I guess would get brain fracture in an instant if their kids see that. Not that I think that would cause any problems for kids.
But there are dangers in going dotnet way and it is certainly not _the_solution_ (or even not _a_solution_) to many programming problems, enterprise programming or not. And certainly that's not the most effective way to get the job done. But there is a very high ad pressure from Microsoft pushing its stuff into every hole and someone should counteract it to maintain some little sense left in current IT "scene". Who else but us? So - just "don't use" is the wrong answer.
It's the technology, stupid. Early K6's (I recall having a 3.3v one) were heat monsters. Later I had K6-2+ @500 and it could almost run without a cooler. Early Athlons (1.4GHz pre(?)-Thunderbirds) were ouch-hot. The versions before SocketA died were much-much more efficient. OTOH - PIV design is notable for doing way too much extra work (many loops running in advance etc... I don't fully understand modern CPUs but you may try to research it) and that extra work will still heat 'em up no matter what the process. Athlon64 is actually very power-efficient design.
PS: Before you point it out - I understand that P-M is not P-IV.
Try opening them. Or get a life.
mount -t gsm /dev/gsm1 /tmp/.call -o number=1-555-3456 /tmp/.call/incoming /dev/speaker& ...
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Oh, don't call trolls "Theo". The real name is "de Raadt", BTW.
Well, you never know. Maybe (probably?) there is a database somewhere out there that lists your (and my) documented "bit-crimes", like the log of videos you downloaded or your searches for software cracks or who knows what else. It may seem unlikely but it would definitely come in handy once you become an annoyance and the powers that be would like to have you "neutralized". Maybe not quite now but once the penalties for these kind of crimes get even more insane... Surely that was the case during the climax of communism in USSR - everyone was guilty if proof was needed. Sadly - nowadays I don't think that there are many people in the world that their government won't be able to prosecute if needed. We all break some laws daily.
[phew, I had no idea I can be _that_ paranoic]
Have you considered a career in management? Have you killed at least one kitten in your life?
What? No "Cowboy Neal"?
Puh-leease?
If true then this means that MacOS _will_ run on generic hardware, otherwise no "dongle" would be needed. I say it's good news for all those who would like to play with it without paying any dough first. It's a shame that such hypocrisy exists, but I'm happy for Apple too! This kind of "piracy" can be nothing but good for them. Drool... I so wish that Win would finally get a serious and - despite everything - much more sane alternative.
As hardware gets cheaper and cheaper it would be very pretty stupid of them to stick to that concept, don't you think? They may have been hardware company 10 years ago. Does not mean that they are obliged to be always that way. And I guess MS has had to change their collective underpants hearing that MacOS for generic PC is in the wild, hoax or not. Personally I think that Apple _will_ leak that at least several months before LH ships. They are showing signs of hardball play intentions and I would cheer for them.
Yes, sure. If (imagine) MS suddenly has there OS business in tatters it should make a clear business sense to bundle their Office business to this disaster, right? After all - they still would have XBox360 left.
Can you be any more elitist narcisist asshole? Tell us how your FreeBSD runs iPhoto for example?
Are you serious? If it runs it can be cracked. Period. Even complicated (reasonably) schemes like Windows Activation are only a nuisance for legal users. Timebomb? - there are probably several 100s of thousands people in the world capable of cracking it in 20 minutes.
If as many features had been removed from D.N.F. as from Longhorn, then they would just be ok re-releasing PacMan.
Don't underestimate bitching about it on Slashdot!
I gather they are still popular on handhelds... in Japan! No, seriously. And 2d nowadays is a rarity (very high, fixed, but different resolution monitors are to blame, I suppose).
You mean that in Korea only old people take a leak?
Depends. If some book excludes 90%+ of readership based on some required knowledge it may still be worth reading. Like if it is some academic publication. If your site deals with... uhm, web-design or security issues you may well wish that people do the first step to continue reading. Plus - you have it wrong, it may not be "to go to the effort of excluding" but to "save the effort" of supporting not-quite-up-to-date browser technology.
I so wish that Mozilla ActiveX control were really ready to be drop-in replacement for MSIE ActiveX. So far it has issues that prevent this from happening (for once, tab key does not work in forms out of the box, or printing issues). I know that there are (probably) workarounds for those somewhere around but I'm just not all too ready to seek for those. Also - ActiveX for embedding Opera would be nice.
Reasoning: I find that most of the apps I've been working on can benefit greatly from being done mostly in Web-style interface (you know what I'm talking about). But still they need something that you won't get right from the browser (like scanner interface or similar stuff). Having hybrid web/classic(*) applications turns out to be the sweet spot - it is easy to do, it is easy to maintain, it works mostly great (*"classic" can be Delphi, VC, or some Python/what-not toolkit, or maybe even WinForms).
When PSP gets DS (dual screen). I.e. - never.