That is a stupid argument, they didn't invent 8 bit chips and 16 bit chips becuase they liked inventing things. They invented them becuase that was the best solution they knew about at the time, and they continued to evolve and improve those chips. If Intel were an Omniscient entity (which they are not) they would probably have built the best possible chip first, instead of building precursors and then constantly expending resources trying to improve that chip.
Thats a complete assumption, you assume that a god would be more intelligent than us, but if he designed is in him image wouldn't we have that same intelligence and just not have reached our full potential yet? Also you infer that if there were a creator, he would have done so for a purpose, is it not possible that we are an experiment, or a recreational activity or some such thing without a specific intent?
That makes no sense at all, why would God create either imperfect animals (I.E. those that would need to evolve to better suit their environment), or give his creations the ability to develop into something he did not intend through diversification? Have you ever heard of Occam's razor? I'm not saying its fact, but wouldn't it be much simpler to say that all life diversified from a single genetic strain rather than adding the complexity of an unknowable god into all of this?
You kinda remind me of Ptolemy, developing a needlessly complex theory becuase you are unwilling to bend from your preconcived notions even when you realize something else must be going on. You are halfway there, intelligent enough to realize that speciecs must be evolving and changing, but at the same time unwilling to give up you pre-existing belief that god must have created life, and at an already complex stage to boot.(Note I am not ruling out the fact that some being created that original strain, at least not in this post)
Yes, but I also need access support. I don't understand why access is typically not included, its a POS program but we pull data and run weekley reports on it at my work so its a necessity. My old 2000 copy works just fine.
Look we all know office is good, the problem is not the quality of the software (IMHO Office is MS's finest product, esp. excel) The problem is the closed-source, closed file format, and the fact that it is cost prohibitvie for home use. You can buy a PC for office/web use for $299 with windows, why should your Office suite cost as much? If Office was $79 or $99 (for the version with all the bells and whistles) I would by it, but im going to have to stick with 2000 for a long time on my windows box and I'll probably be using OpenOffice for most of my office work at home.
I don't fault AOL too much, at least they ask. They could just bury in somewhere deap in the EULA that they will be installing all kinds of neat programs to corrupt your filesystem and leech your bandwidth. If you aren't a total newb you'll just realize what they are offering and check no. What annoys me about the AIM windows official client is that even if you select do not pop up today window at sign-on, you still get it. Is there no way to turn it off (in the most current release ver)???
But there are also shows like family guy that get a half season, then get bumped around to diff time slots for 2 seasons, then get canceled even though it was clearly a terrific show in all respects. Thank our lucky stars that the DVD was popular and Fox was actually willing to conceed that the made a mistake in killing it.
Actually opera already runs on Qt/embedded qtopia. Take a look here . It currently runs on the sharp zaurus which is very similar in specs to this device. I'm sure it would take little to no porting at all to get this running.
ok, ok, for a second I was like "wtf is wrong with this person" then I realized, in dexters labratory lives the smartest boy you've ever know, but DEE DEE blows his experiments to smitherines. Or something to that effect.
You think American Politicians want more mass transit??? I would guess that out of all the political/industry associations, oil and gas has to be one of the most likely, take Pres. Bush for instance. I would think politicians would want to quash mass transit (I.E. recent major cuts for Amtrak). Theya are just looking for more ways to increase tax revenue so we don't notice the billions they are depriving us of from all the embezelment and war mongering.
However people who own big gas guzzlers are actually driving less than people who own fuel efficient cars if they buy the exact same amount of gas per year, so the gas guzzlers are being "penalized" with a higher tax when they use the roads precisely the same amount.
But don't those heavier cars put more wear and tear on the roads? I'm guessing that a Hummer puts a hell of a lot more wear on a road the a prius, or maybe not...
Don't be sorry. I don't really care about most people you know, I am talking about the actual definition of what an operating system is. And im not arguing the the kernel itself is a useable system, just that by definition it performs the functions traditionaly considered those fuctions which make up an operating system.
Actually what you are describing is not an operating system but the user interface and application layer on top of the OS. By definition an OS is what handles device management, files & filesystem, processes(process manager), and I/O(input/output). OS and kernel can in some respects here be synonymous, except that in the case of linux (I can't say for sure about other systems) part of the file/filesystem stuff can be handled by user space programs. Aside from that, the kernel IS the OS by definition, you are describing shells/guis/programs running on that OS. This is why many argue that what most people call linux should actually be called GNU/Linux, becuase linux provides the OS Kernel, while GNU provides the user software.
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What it means is that in the United States, business have more/better protected rights than a common citizen. Good luck trying to sue a corporation for something.
Wasn't the glacial pace and control-freak policies of Xfree the reason for the fork in the first place?
Actually IIRC much of the reason for the fork was due to a license change that many groups/people thought was too restrictive and incompatible with the popular OSS licencies (GPL/BSD/APACHE etc...)
Don't forget to watch American Dad tomorrow. From your post you make it sound like the new Family Guy eps are going straight to adult swim. I was under the impression that the would actually be run by fox, hopefully on Sunday night behind Simpsons and with American Dad.
Agreed, I love adult swim. But you are talking about repeat episodes. With them being played 5 days a week (Sun-Thu) you see futuramas 4 seasons and family guys 3 (and the first season was short, including weinstein I believe there are 51 episodes total) You soon start seeing repeats quite often. I am an adult cartoon junkie so I love other adult swim shows too, aqua teen, sealab 2021, and venture bro's are all great
Yeah but IMHO the cell shaded 3D scenes esp. the space fights and such were really worth it. I thought the animation was some of the best I had seen on TV. I like the one when Bender is floating through space with a civilation growing on his stomach. I love Family Guy, but I miss Futurama almost as much I wish they would create a super cartoon block (Simpsons 8, Futurmama 8:30, Family Guy 9, and then get rid of malcom and put arreted development at 9:30) best sunday night ever.
Surely you post anonymously becuase you are wrong. If you follow this issue at all you will see there have been several bills in congress which propose to INCREASE fines for content the FCC terms indecent, and yet at the same time there is nothing on the books that explicitly states what indecency is in the eyes of the FCC so basically they are reserving the right to impose huge fines on content they simply don't like
I would guess that this would make things difficult. I'm not a kernel hacker but I would think that the API would be different so it would not be a simple matter of just lifting the driver code out of Linux. Secondly, I would also guess that the architecture (Monolithic vs. Microkernel) would call for some major differences in how hardware drivers are handled. I do think the writers of new drivers for HURD will benefit greatly from at least being able to look at the linux drivers and get an idea of the hardware interface.
My guess is that driver support for HURD will be slow going at this point. The reason being that HURD has a much smaller user base that a kernel like Linux, and its likely that only hardware that the few devs are using will have drivers for it in the near future.
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That is a stupid argument, they didn't invent 8 bit chips and 16 bit chips becuase they liked inventing things. They invented them becuase that was the best solution they knew about at the time, and they continued to evolve and improve those chips. If Intel were an Omniscient entity (which they are not) they would probably have built the best possible chip first, instead of building precursors and then constantly expending resources trying to improve that chip.
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"Whitehouse.com will be opening its doors in February. Something big is coming. Check back soon."
1. What the hell happened to my beautiful P0RN?
2. Um... Isn't it March already, what year were they talking about.
3. ?????
4. Profit!!!
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Thats a complete assumption, you assume that a god would be more intelligent than us, but if he designed is in him image wouldn't we have that same intelligence and just not have reached our full potential yet? Also you infer that if there were a creator, he would have done so for a purpose, is it not possible that we are an experiment, or a recreational activity or some such thing without a specific intent?
-kaplanfx
That makes no sense at all, why would God create either imperfect animals (I.E. those that would need to evolve to better suit their environment), or give his creations the ability to develop into something he did not intend through diversification? Have you ever heard of Occam's razor? I'm not saying its fact, but wouldn't it be much simpler to say that all life diversified from a single genetic strain rather than adding the complexity of an unknowable god into all of this?
You kinda remind me of Ptolemy, developing a needlessly complex theory becuase you are unwilling to bend from your preconcived notions even when you realize something else must be going on. You are halfway there, intelligent enough to realize that speciecs must be evolving and changing, but at the same time unwilling to give up you pre-existing belief that god must have created life, and at an already complex stage to boot.(Note I am not ruling out the fact that some being created that original strain, at least not in this post)
-kaplanfx
Yes, but I also need access support. I don't understand why access is typically not included, its a POS program but we pull data and run weekley reports on it at my work so its a necessity. My old 2000 copy works just fine.
-kaplanfx
Look we all know office is good, the problem is not the quality of the software (IMHO Office is MS's finest product, esp. excel) The problem is the closed-source, closed file format, and the fact that it is cost prohibitvie for home use. You can buy a PC for office/web use for $299 with windows, why should your Office suite cost as much? If Office was $79 or $99 (for the version with all the bells and whistles) I would by it, but im going to have to stick with 2000 for a long time on my windows box and I'll probably be using OpenOffice for most of my office work at home.
-kaplanfx
I don't fault AOL too much, at least they ask. They could just bury in somewhere deap in the EULA that they will be installing all kinds of neat programs to corrupt your filesystem and leech your bandwidth. If you aren't a total newb you'll just realize what they are offering and check no. What annoys me about the AIM windows official client is that even if you select do not pop up today window at sign-on, you still get it. Is there no way to turn it off (in the most current release ver)???
-kaplanfx
But there are also shows like family guy that get a half season, then get bumped around to diff time slots for 2 seasons, then get canceled even though it was clearly a terrific show in all respects. Thank our lucky stars that the DVD was popular and Fox was actually willing to conceed that the made a mistake in killing it.
-kaplanfx
Does it just boot and sit there or can you actually input text? If so, how?
/me is confused
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After a little research, it appears to me that the above referenced knights can act as a client to te freechess.org site you mentioned.
Actually opera already runs on Qt/embedded qtopia. Take a look here . It currently runs on the sharp zaurus which is very similar in specs to this device. I'm sure it would take little to no porting at all to get this running.
-kaplanfx
ok, ok, for a second I was like "wtf is wrong with this person" then I realized, in dexters labratory lives the smartest boy you've ever know, but DEE DEE blows his experiments to smitherines. Or something to that effect.
-kaplanfx
So the one on the right is always named Dexter??? What if they are siamese twin girls?
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You think American Politicians want more mass transit??? I would guess that out of all the political/industry associations, oil and gas has to be one of the most likely, take Pres. Bush for instance. I would think politicians would want to quash mass transit (I.E. recent major cuts for Amtrak). Theya are just looking for more ways to increase tax revenue so we don't notice the billions they are depriving us of from all the embezelment and war mongering.
-kaplanfx
However people who own big gas guzzlers are actually driving less than people who own fuel efficient cars if they buy the exact same amount of gas per year, so the gas guzzlers are being "penalized" with a higher tax when they use the roads precisely the same amount.
But don't those heavier cars put more wear and tear on the roads? I'm guessing that a Hummer puts a hell of a lot more wear on a road the a prius, or maybe not...
-kaplanfx
Don't be sorry. I don't really care about most people you know, I am talking about the actual definition of what an operating system is. And im not arguing the the kernel itself is a useable system, just that by definition it performs the functions traditionaly considered those fuctions which make up an operating system.
-kaplanfx
Actually what you are describing is not an operating system but the user interface and application layer on top of the OS. By definition an OS is what handles device management, files & filesystem, processes(process manager), and I/O(input/output). OS and kernel can in some respects here be synonymous, except that in the case of linux (I can't say for sure about other systems) part of the file/filesystem stuff can be handled by user space programs. Aside from that, the kernel IS the OS by definition, you are describing shells/guis/programs running on that OS. This is why many argue that what most people call linux should actually be called GNU/Linux, becuase linux provides the OS Kernel, while GNU provides the user software.
-kaplanfx
What it means is that in the United States, business have more/better protected rights than a common citizen. Good luck trying to sue a corporation for something.
-kaplanfx
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Wasn't the glacial pace and control-freak policies of Xfree the reason for the fork in the first place?
Actually IIRC much of the reason for the fork was due to a license change that many groups/people thought was too restrictive and incompatible with the popular OSS licencies (GPL/BSD/APACHE etc...)
-kaplanfx
Don't forget to watch American Dad tomorrow. From your post you make it sound like the new Family Guy eps are going straight to adult swim. I was under the impression that the would actually be run by fox, hopefully on Sunday night behind Simpsons and with American Dad.
-kaplanfx
Agreed, I love adult swim. But you are talking about repeat episodes. With them being played 5 days a week (Sun-Thu) you see futuramas 4 seasons and family guys 3 (and the first season was short, including weinstein I believe there are 51 episodes total) You soon start seeing repeats quite often. I am an adult cartoon junkie so I love other adult swim shows too, aqua teen, sealab 2021, and venture bro's are all great
-kaplanfx
Yeah but IMHO the cell shaded 3D scenes esp. the space fights and such were really worth it. I thought the animation was some of the best I had seen on TV. I like the one when Bender is floating through space with a civilation growing on his stomach. I love Family Guy, but I miss Futurama almost as much I wish they would create a super cartoon block (Simpsons 8, Futurmama 8:30, Family Guy 9, and then get rid of malcom and put arreted development at 9:30) best sunday night ever.
-kaplanfx
Surely you post anonymously becuase you are wrong. If you follow this issue at all you will see there have been several bills in congress which propose to INCREASE fines for content the FCC terms indecent, and yet at the same time there is nothing on the books that explicitly states what indecency is in the eyes of the FCC so basically they are reserving the right to impose huge fines on content they simply don't like
-kaplanfx
I would guess that this would make things difficult. I'm not a kernel hacker but I would think that the API would be different so it would not be a simple matter of just lifting the driver code out of Linux. Secondly, I would also guess that the architecture (Monolithic vs. Microkernel) would call for some major differences in how hardware drivers are handled. I do think the writers of new drivers for HURD will benefit greatly from at least being able to look at the linux drivers and get an idea of the hardware interface.
My guess is that driver support for HURD will be slow going at this point. The reason being that HURD has a much smaller user base that a kernel like Linux, and its likely that only hardware that the few devs are using will have drivers for it in the near future.
-kaplanfx