I would suspect that if Cuba wishes to be looked at in a positive light, within the global community, then Cuba would follow or pay some attention/respect to Internation Copyright Law.
I don't buy my government's "Party Line" that Cuba is a nation of criminals. Personally, I do hope that someday, the Cuban people will live in a free and democratic society.
You mean foreigners that are visiting Cuba with their Windows running laptop? They would be out of luck for updates while in Cuba.
A trade embargo is a trade embargo.
If a US citizen has to obey the rules of the embargo, then a US Corporation has to obey those same rules.
...how an American Company is able to do business that results in benefits to Cuba.
Microsoft is an American corporation, it isn't legally allowed to profit from or provide goods or services that are shipped to Cuba. If I am understanding the US Trade Embargo correctly...
...a great deal of people in the US seem to be under the assumption that China is an underdeveloped nation, for some bizarre reason.
A friend of mine regularly chimes in that we have nothing to worry about from China because "...there is no way a nation that still has cases of Bubonic Plague and can't put electricity or roads across its entire landmass could possibly challenge US Superiority in what we do best..."...or something to that effect. I think he is to busy drinking the "Republican Pundit Cool-Aid" to seriously take a look at what is going on in China. There are far to many people who share those beliefs for it to be an isolated incident.
There would be far fewer atheists and agnostics out there if there weren't so many loons pushing people to realize that perhaps the answers aren't always found in the local church.
I don't believe that. Most Agnostics and Atheists that I know came across those beliefs because they are, by their nature, very skeptical of claims that magic is a real everyday involved aspect of the human condition.
How many Hari Krishners do you know?None, but that's not for lack of being uninterested in knowing any. I haven't seen any walking around on the streets in my town in nearly 8 years and when I used to see them, they were to busy banging on drums and hiking up and down the street singing to even start conversations. I don't even know if they were crazed zealots or lunatics. I just know them as the dancing and singing people in the orange monk attire.
Jehova's Witnesses? More then two. I used to have lengthy email conversations about their religious believes with one JW. He stopped conversing with me after a while. I am not exactly sure why, but it might have been that he was getting tired and attempting to convert me.
In a latteral move, how many people do you know who aren't geeks (and thus tend to wear their differences as badges of honor) who are willing to admit a love for Star Trek or Star Wars?
None that I know of, but I don't really see the relevence in this question. Star Wars is a cultural phenomenon that has captured the imagination of an incredibly large and diverse audience, the world over.
Dvorak states that 'Crazed Lunatics' are something that normal people simply don't want to associate with and that if Linux becomes associated as the OS of the 'Criminally Insane', the OS will be dropped by regular people. That's absolutely not true.
What has crazed fanatic lunatics done to set back religious groups?
Absolutely nothing.
There's still plenty of Christians, Jews and Muslims running around, even though each of those major world religions has more then a few criminally insane followers counted amongst their faithful.
Now, I am not saying that Operating Systems are like religions. They aren't. What I am saying is that people will go with what works for them, regardless of how many kooks are associated with it.
...because we all know that it takes almost 5 months to move from one end of the station to the other, which means those Astronauts need to start moving towards the escape vehicle, about now.
It stated in the Article snippet that they have 5 months of oxygen. How is that stressful?
...removing IE wouldn't significantly improve that computing experience.
Windows still has a host of vulnerabilities and without IE, the end-user will be quite unable to install the host of Critical Fixes, that are available through the Windows Update Pages. (Since Windows Update refuses to work with anything, other then IE.)
Sure, there's the 'Automatic Update' feature in modern Service Packs for both Windows 2000 and Windows XP... Unless I am mistaken, that feature utilizes the core of Internet Explorer to be able to perform its functions.
One big thing that they always forget about patriotism is that you(we) are supposed to hold our leadership accountable, demand fair and equitable treatment and preserve our freedoms.
That is what it meant to be called a patriot back in the days that the US was a colony of Britain. That's what it should still mean today.
Perhaps as a boss, you would understand that by submitting a story to Slashdot, this statement becomes a very public and potentially very embarrassing situation for the publisher involved.
This bold move on the part of the Senior Editor in question makes his ultimatum quite clear to his employer and at the same time makes his ultimatum something clearly in the public space. By doing so, we will very clearly know why he or the alleggedly offensive reporter (I have never read any of her work.) changes employment status.
Read this response of mine... I am aware of FPGA chips and I also understand that they are limited as to what their top performance capabilities are.
That's why I see this as being a difficult to get running kind of venture. Unless they can perform some kind of miracle, very few regular PC users will be interested in this sort of thing.
As another poster suggested, this might work great for embedded or tiny form factor devices, like PDAs, Cell phones and similar. It will be quite a feat to see these graphics cards come close to competing with current mid to low range offerings from ATI and Nvidia.
I do know of such one-off or short run circuit board manufacturers.
However, I understand that there is a difference between cranking out one board and cranking out a graphics processing chip and then attaching that to a board.
Do you use only existing transistors and processing chips, or do you design your own and then have them fabricate a run of those chip designs before having those installed in your board designs?
That's why I am having difficulty in seeing how all of this will end up working.
From what I recall reading in an article about Nvidia's design process, isn't FPGA much slower then the finished product would be?
In the article, they had a seperate system that was the 'graphics' card, which consisted of a compact high performance conceptualizing system. Very neat stuff, but very expensive and not as fast as the finished product would be.
Perhaps that is only if someone is attempting to take advantage of as yet undiscovered or undeveloped features, such as prior to full Anti-Aliasing, Fog Effects and other 'new' 3D features, being part of construction of the graphics chip.
Hardware is quite a bit different then software, being a physical tangible item that isn't easily copied/manufactured.
While I do wish them well, I still have trouble seeing how this will really make headway.
I do know that if what they come up with is capable and affordable, as in the hardware won't cost me more then my current PC cost to build, I will give their resulting product a go.
Naturalists and Creationists agree that specific data has been collected. We both theorize about origins and have differing understandings of the MEANING behind the collected data.
You make a mistake here. Without being testable, at best what can be made is a hypothesis. After a hypothesis has been tested and found true, more then once, it can become a theory.
You are mistaking the 'Theory of Evolution' with the original 'Hypothesis of Evolution'. In science, there is a very significant difference between the two. The Hypothesis, which came first, was tested out and some factual truths were discovered, this went into the formation of the Theory, which is a body of factual evidence that can be scientifically tested to prove correct or incorrect.
Inteligent Design is at best a hypothesis if one wishes to shoehorn it into science. However, being completely untestable, completely unverifiable, it does not fit within the confines of the scientific method. It does sit neatly within the realm of theology within the greater school of philosophy.
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There was a story about it a good year or so ago on NPR. I don't recall what the exact charge was, but it was pretty hefty.
They can and should, to be true to the embargo, disallow access from the block of IP addresses assigned to Cuba.
I would suspect that if Cuba wishes to be looked at in a positive light, within the global community, then Cuba would follow or pay some attention/respect to Internation Copyright Law.
I don't buy my government's "Party Line" that Cuba is a nation of criminals. Personally, I do hope that someday, the Cuban people will live in a free and democratic society.
You mean foreigners that are visiting Cuba with their Windows running laptop? They would be out of luck for updates while in Cuba.
A trade embargo is a trade embargo.
If a US citizen has to obey the rules of the embargo, then a US Corporation has to obey those same rules.
If the copies are illegal and thus MS is not profiting off of them. Nobody in Cuba should be able to run Windows Update.
If the copies are legal, then MS Windows Update should check for and disallow any Windows running PCs from Cuba to access and run updates.
I am just saying...
Microsoft is an American corporation, it isn't legally allowed to profit from or provide goods or services that are shipped to Cuba. If I am understanding the US Trade Embargo correctly...
A friend of mine regularly chimes in that we have nothing to worry about from China because "...there is no way a nation that still has cases of Bubonic Plague and can't put electricity or roads across its entire landmass could possibly challenge US Superiority in what we do best..."
There would be far fewer atheists and agnostics out there if there weren't so many loons pushing people to realize that perhaps the answers aren't always found in the local church.
I don't believe that. Most Agnostics and Atheists that I know came across those beliefs because they are, by their nature, very skeptical of claims that magic is a real everyday involved aspect of the human condition.
How many Hari Krishners do you know?None, but that's not for lack of being uninterested in knowing any. I haven't seen any walking around on the streets in my town in nearly 8 years and when I used to see them, they were to busy banging on drums and hiking up and down the street singing to even start conversations. I don't even know if they were crazed zealots or lunatics. I just know them as the dancing and singing people in the orange monk attire.
Jehova's Witnesses?
More then two. I used to have lengthy email conversations about their religious believes with one JW. He stopped conversing with me after a while. I am not exactly sure why, but it might have been that he was getting tired and attempting to convert me.
In a latteral move, how many people do you know who aren't geeks (and thus tend to wear their differences as badges of honor) who are willing to admit a love for Star Trek or Star Wars?
None that I know of, but I don't really see the relevence in this question. Star Wars is a cultural phenomenon that has captured the imagination of an incredibly large and diverse audience, the world over.
Dvorak states that 'Crazed Lunatics' are something that normal people simply don't want to associate with and that if Linux becomes associated as the OS of the 'Criminally Insane', the OS will be dropped by regular people. That's absolutely not true.
What has crazed fanatic lunatics done to set back religious groups?
Absolutely nothing.
There's still plenty of Christians, Jews and Muslims running around, even though each of those major world religions has more then a few criminally insane followers counted amongst their faithful.
Now, I am not saying that Operating Systems are like religions. They aren't. What I am saying is that people will go with what works for them, regardless of how many kooks are associated with it.
Heck, walking to the damn drugstore can be dangerous. Heck, leaving the damn house is dangerous, heck even living is dangerous.
More people die every year walking, then people have died in the entire life of the US Space Program.
More people die in their bathtubs, every year, then have ever died in the Space Program...
You are safer going into space, then you are driving ten miles on any American Highway.
Just about every replacement part I have ever ordered, with one or two exceptions, has given me no problems.
Perhaps you need to ground yourself and remove any metal jewelry before working on things.
Then they hop into their Soyuz Capsule return to Earth.
Again, where's the stress in having 5 months to get replacement parts and then still have time to get themselves into the escape capsule?
It stated in the Article snippet that they have 5 months of oxygen. How is that stressful?
Windows still has a host of vulnerabilities and without IE, the end-user will be quite unable to install the host of Critical Fixes, that are available through the Windows Update Pages. (Since Windows Update refuses to work with anything, other then IE.)
Sure, there's the 'Automatic Update' feature in modern Service Packs for both Windows 2000 and Windows XP... Unless I am mistaken, that feature utilizes the core of Internet Explorer to be able to perform its functions.
If I had 'em, you would get 'em.
How many gamers do you think will get tagged by and subsequently visited by authorities who believe they are mixed up in terrorist activities?
"Yer' PC Is all Messed up and stuff - Click on this to Unmess it - Word yo!"
So, how exactly is Longhorn going to change that?
One big thing that they always forget about patriotism is that you(we) are supposed to hold our leadership accountable, demand fair and equitable treatment and preserve our freedoms.
That is what it meant to be called a patriot back in the days that the US was a colony of Britain. That's what it should still mean today.
Perhaps as a boss, you would understand that by submitting a story to Slashdot, this statement becomes a very public and potentially very embarrassing situation for the publisher involved.
This bold move on the part of the Senior Editor in question makes his ultimatum quite clear to his employer and at the same time makes his ultimatum something clearly in the public space. By doing so, we will very clearly know why he or the alleggedly offensive reporter (I have never read any of her work.) changes employment status.
Microsoft wins over Christ
Christ wins over Satan
Linux wins over Christ
No reason, just posting results.
Sqruh U.
U Din't no' what the phwuQ U R talkin' 'bout.
Read this response of mine... I am aware of FPGA chips and I also understand that they are limited as to what their top performance capabilities are.
That's why I see this as being a difficult to get running kind of venture. Unless they can perform some kind of miracle, very few regular PC users will be interested in this sort of thing.
As another poster suggested, this might work great for embedded or tiny form factor devices, like PDAs, Cell phones and similar. It will be quite a feat to see these graphics cards come close to competing with current mid to low range offerings from ATI and Nvidia.
I do know of such one-off or short run circuit board manufacturers.
However, I understand that there is a difference between cranking out one board and cranking out a graphics processing chip and then attaching that to a board.
Do you use only existing transistors and processing chips, or do you design your own and then have them fabricate a run of those chip designs before having those installed in your board designs?
That's why I am having difficulty in seeing how all of this will end up working.
From what I recall reading in an article about Nvidia's design process, isn't FPGA much slower then the finished product would be?
In the article, they had a seperate system that was the 'graphics' card, which consisted of a compact high performance conceptualizing system. Very neat stuff, but very expensive and not as fast as the finished product would be.
Perhaps that is only if someone is attempting to take advantage of as yet undiscovered or undeveloped features, such as prior to full Anti-Aliasing, Fog Effects and other 'new' 3D features, being part of construction of the graphics chip.
Hardware is quite a bit different then software, being a physical tangible item that isn't easily copied/manufactured.
While I do wish them well, I still have trouble seeing how this will really make headway.
I do know that if what they come up with is capable and affordable, as in the hardware won't cost me more then my current PC cost to build, I will give their resulting product a go.
You make a mistake here. Without being testable, at best what can be made is a hypothesis. After a hypothesis has been tested and found true, more then once, it can become a theory.
You are mistaking the 'Theory of Evolution' with the original 'Hypothesis of Evolution'. In science, there is a very significant difference between the two. The Hypothesis, which came first, was tested out and some factual truths were discovered, this went into the formation of the Theory, which is a body of factual evidence that can be scientifically tested to prove correct or incorrect.
Inteligent Design is at best a hypothesis if one wishes to shoehorn it into science. However, being completely untestable, completely unverifiable, it does not fit within the confines of the scientific method. It does sit neatly within the realm of theology within the greater school of philosophy.