my school is under a bulk licensing program from MS. Students get access to various MS software for free, such as 2 licenses of Office XP.
We also have a ton of non-MS systems. Databases run SCT on top of Solaris, many labs in the CS and Physics dept run Solaris and Linux (those physics folk have a 64-node beowulf cluster!), Art depts have a lot of macs. The student webserver is Solaris.
Man, Drexel spends a lot on all those non-MS systems. No wonder tuition so high!
yes, i read the article. i highly doubt any merchant will let two offenses against his own shop. and how is it possible to send a corporate chain to jail? you dont - that's why a fine would be used a lot more often, if not exclusively.
law or self-regulatory, it doesnt matter. my point was that the movie industry has been following similar rules for many years and has had no problems in doing so. this is no different.
i am clearly more informed than you when it comes to thinking independently about problems and issues.
You don't go to prison when you break Kmart policies. you dont go to jail, the merchant gets fined. clearly you failed to read the article.
A law that would restrict video game purchases to minors would likely destroy the industry well, the movie industry has had such laws imposed on them for many years. are they falling apart under these laws? answer: no.
also, most games out there arent going to be subjected to the law, as they dont have certain forms of violence, etc. The ones being restricted are those that are rated M already.
some stores (like Kmart, WalMart, and I think Blockbuster) already such policies. It's similar to movies that are rated PG-13 (must be age 13 or with parent), R (age 17 or 13+ with parent), and NC-17 (no one under 17).
Also, responislbe parents are out there. I used to work for Kmart in high school, and have had parents returning the Mortal Kombat III they purchased for their 7 year olds. Likewise people would ask if game blah was too violent for their kid. I'd just point them to the display about the ESRB ratings.
that's really interesting, now that i've taken a closer look. Exact same Headline, and exact same link! IIRC, slashdot uses a link filter to prevent duplicate articles. what happened to that filter on this story?
the most recent version of xfree has support for it, but it is extremely buggy and slow. worse, SiS seems to have no interest in developing a driver for it, so it's up to the community to write one. i havent checked on the status of the driver in a while, maybe i should do that. i'd but a new card, but money is a bit hard to come by for me recently. I'd also help xfree out, but i dont have experience or anything dealing with hardware interactions.
wow. i just read through all the comments that were +4 or better, and for once there was actually a sane and practical view of the system. especially in pointing out data trails we already have. thank you.
the motivation behind the cards: 1) the terrorists had false IDs when the attacks were carried out. 2) Identity theft is becoming a big problem.
(note that I said terrorism was the motivation, not what the system is trying to prevent)
The solution poroposed makes it difficult if not impossible for a person to obtain a falsified ID card. In doing that, it prevents one person the capability of getting an ID of somebody else and then using that person's identity.
Think about that. I have my driver's license in my home state (NJ). If I lose it, all I need to get a new one is my mother's maiden name. Ask yourself how difficult would it be for an ID thief to get a license in my name with his picture (unlike PA, NJ doesnt keep DL photos on record, the photo DLs are actually polaroid-like). Now under the proposed system, that ID thief would have to somehow forge my thumbprint or retina in order to get an ID in my name.
well, you pretty much hit most of what I wanted to say, so I'll expand on it.
how about having licenses retain the full legal text that they currently have, but also have a short portion at the top using simplified terms and other mediums (graphs, highlighted text, etc) that explains and summarizes what follows. (As cliff said, some say the preamble meets this)
they're expected yes, but some of these were so easily avoidable and were also in high profile applications. You're right about the reputation - the MArs Explorer several years ago went off course or something due to an english/metric conversion problem. The bug was known to exist before takeoff (ie, it was in a bug tracker).
your point? it dont matter what the tool is written in, what matters is does it work. oh, maybe you're one of those anti-Java nutcases taht still think Java's slow as molasses. HEre's why you think that: JRE 1.1 was a pos in terms of performance (and fwiw, everything else), and is now long outdated. It's also the version that MS embraced/extended to misrepresent real Java, which adds to the confusion. The current version is 1.4, and uses HotSpot, which does compiles bytecode down to native at run-time, and can match speeds with any native application.
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that's why my tuition so high!
my school is under a bulk licensing program from MS. Students get access to various MS software for free, such as 2 licenses of Office XP.
We also have a ton of non-MS systems. Databases run SCT on top of Solaris, many labs in the CS and Physics dept run Solaris and Linux (those physics folk have a 64-node beowulf cluster!), Art depts have a lot of macs. The student webserver is Solaris.
Man, Drexel spends a lot on all those non-MS systems. No wonder tuition so high!
yes, i read the article. i highly doubt any merchant will let two offenses against his own shop. and how is it possible to send a corporate chain to jail? you dont - that's why a fine would be used a lot more often, if not exclusively.
law or self-regulatory, it doesnt matter. my point was that the movie industry has been following similar rules for many years and has had no problems in doing so. this is no different.
i am clearly more informed than you when it comes to thinking independently about problems and issues.
You don't go to prison when you break Kmart policies.
you dont go to jail, the merchant gets fined. clearly you failed to read the article.
A law that would restrict video game purchases to minors would likely destroy the industry
well, the movie industry has had such laws imposed on them for many years. are they falling apart under these laws? answer: no.
also, most games out there arent going to be subjected to the law, as they dont have certain forms of violence, etc. The ones being restricted are those that are rated M already.
I said: already such policies
Should read: already have such policies
some stores (like Kmart, WalMart, and I think Blockbuster) already such policies. It's similar to movies that are rated PG-13 (must be age 13 or with parent), R (age 17 or 13+ with parent), and NC-17 (no one under 17).
Also, responislbe parents are out there. I used to work for Kmart in high school, and have had parents returning the Mortal Kombat III they purchased for their 7 year olds. Likewise people would ask if game blah was too violent for their kid. I'd just point them to the display about the ESRB ratings.
that's really interesting, now that i've taken a closer look. Exact same Headline, and exact same link! IIRC, slashdot uses a link filter to prevent duplicate articles. what happened to that filter on this story?
old news
thanks.
the most recent version of xfree has support for it, but it is extremely buggy and slow. worse, SiS seems to have no interest in developing a driver for it, so it's up to the community to write one. i havent checked on the status of the driver in a while, maybe i should do that. i'd but a new card, but money is a bit hard to come by for me recently. I'd also help xfree out, but i dont have experience or anything dealing with hardware interactions.
What version of xfree comes with the new distro? Specifically, can it support a SiS 6326 card?
The American government knew about the attacks
Post a reputable link to a story about this and maybe people will beleive what you're saying.
wow. i just read through all the comments that were +4 or better, and for once there was actually a sane and practical view of the system. especially in pointing out data trails we already have. thank you.
i beleive you meant to say DNA, but anyways...
the motivation behind the cards: 1) the terrorists had false IDs when the attacks were carried out. 2) Identity theft is becoming a big problem.
(note that I said terrorism was the motivation, not what the system is trying to prevent)
The solution poroposed makes it difficult if not impossible for a person to obtain a falsified ID card. In doing that, it prevents one person the capability of getting an ID of somebody else and then using that person's identity.
Think about that. I have my driver's license in my home state (NJ). If I lose it, all I need to get a new one is my mother's maiden name. Ask yourself how difficult would it be for an ID thief to get a license in my name with his picture (unlike PA, NJ doesnt keep DL photos on record, the photo DLs are actually polaroid-like). Now under the proposed system, that ID thief would have to somehow forge my thumbprint or retina in order to get an ID in my name.
well, you pretty much hit most of what I wanted to say, so I'll expand on it.
how about having licenses retain the full legal text that they currently have, but also have a short portion at the top using simplified terms and other mediums (graphs, highlighted text, etc) that explains and summarizes what follows. (As cliff said, some say the preamble meets this)
they're expected yes, but some of these were so easily avoidable and were also in high profile applications. You're right about the reputation - the MArs Explorer several years ago went off course or something due to an english/metric conversion problem. The bug was known to exist before takeoff (ie, it was in a bug tracker).
shock moment: Word has garbage collection!?
good golly somebody stop me please!
crap i did it again
oops
i think i just broke (c) law. aaaah!
your point? it dont matter what the tool is written in, what matters is does it work. oh, maybe you're one of those anti-Java nutcases taht still think Java's slow as molasses. HEre's why you think that: JRE 1.1 was a pos in terms of performance (and fwiw, everything else), and is now long outdated. It's also the version that MS embraced/extended to misrepresent real Java, which adds to the confusion. The current version is 1.4, and uses HotSpot, which does compiles bytecode down to native at run-time, and can match speeds with any native application.
iirc, you're right! I recall them being at Disney World in Florida many years ago.
that makes sense. I just found it kinda humourous to see "havent used it" in the middle of his list. thanks
2. Compaq AlphaServer SC ES45/1GHz
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
Haven't used it, but I'm guessing Tru64.
(emphasis me)
are you saying you've used the machines on that list? or did you just r00t them?
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Do a new write up and submit.
If accepted, congrats. Rejected? Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
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interesting. i just got your post in my metamod queue. i've seen duplicate stories on slashdot before, but never triplicate stories.