"Americans, wake up and realise that "terrorists" are nothing more than a device of your leaders."
I guess WTC was just one of Bush's hunches, huh?
"Oh, i have an idea! Lets kill a couple of thousand of our own citizens, destroy one of our most famous landmarks, destabilise the world economy, so we can start an expensive war on a few camel jockeys in Afghanistan!"
before you start making personal attacks ala "my own version of world history", allow me to remind you that Islam has ONLY been spread by means of the sword.
We are not talking christian atrocities or fundamentalism here, i know and acknowledge that they exist, but that are not the point of this discussion.
As to the Christian "Jihads" - do you homework, please. A little knowledge of the crusades era reveal, that the sole purpose of the crusades were to LIBERATE JERUSALEM and the christian territories that had been overrun.
Overrum, coincidentally... by Moslems.
Once Jerusalem was liberated, the crusaders halted their advance. They did not intend to conquer more territory, they did not intend to slaughter the semitic peoples as a whole.
Enter Jihad. It is called the "6th pillar of Islam", (even though there are only 5 pillars of Islam, which are the rules/principles that will last until eternity after the Islamic dystopia has been fulfulled in the world. that of course means that all heathens have been eradicated, so there will be no need for the Jihad, ergo, there is no need for it as a "pillar". Anyway:)
Jihad is a duty to you if you are a devout Moslem. Jihad means, as per Mohammeds orders, written in the Qu'ran, to kill all heathens (jews and chistians primarily), take their lands and fortunes.
you just dont see anything comparative to Jihad in the bible or other mainstream religious texts. Sure, there is a lot of nonsense in the OT, i know, but again, this is not the issue here. Chistian terrorists are not the ones bombing Afghan skyscrapers (you get the idea).
That is nonsense. Terrorism as we know it today har risen from the relatively new phenomenon known as "Jihad" - Islamic Holy War.
The Islamic terrorism that the USA amongst others have been victim of has nothing to do with governmtnt power, imperialism or whatever some loudmouths blurt out - it is simple because the islamsis despise the western lifestyle and its freedoms.
Argumentation: WinNuke, the exploits in WinXX discovered on monthly basis, Microsoft's soddy handling of personal information, their suspected cooperation in handling email addresses to spammers, the suspicion of backdoors in Windows. etc.
You can warn contacts that send junk, spam, whatever. When their warning goes high enough, they are prohibited from sending more junk/whatever for a certain period.
Someone brought up which is fastest - Carbon or Cocoa.
And someone said that "near the metal" there was no discernable difference.
However, if you code i Cocoa, you will get noticably smaller codebase sizes, and i think that alone explains some of the speedups you get in cocoa apps - try Chimera vs. Mozilla as an example.
OK, i'll not put my head on the block and make bold claims like "the revolution is beginning" or somesuch, but the constant small trickle of stories like these of insututions and corporations swithing from WIndows to Linux shows that Linux is a true alternative to Windows.
1) The components look awfully cramped. But that's not really surprising considering that it's essentially a PC crammed into a console box - size matters.
2) While it should work at standard operating parameters (i.e. not overclocked), I think the lack of proper ventilation (as a result of pt. 1, see above) could halt any overclocking efforts.
3) I wonder how much noise the box will make after 3 months woth of dust and use... TWO fans (if not 3?) is awfully muich for a console - in my experience.
4) It's Microsoft... ewww. Yes, that's my blanat bias.
Slashdot Mirror
...will mostly be marked by a bunch of assholes from Arstechnica's forums.
For some reason, civlised debat is hard to come by on that particular website.
Because opennes implies freedom. Humans like freedom.
Second, because we have bad experiences with Microsoft. Microsoft is closed. Proprietary. Restrictive. Opressive. User hostil. Unreliable.
Etc.
Guns enable common criminals, but i dont see arms companies suffer for that?
"Americans, wake up and realise that "terrorists" are nothing more than a device of your leaders."
I guess WTC was just one of Bush's hunches, huh?
"Oh, i have an idea! Lets kill a couple of thousand of our own citizens, destroy one of our most famous landmarks, destabilise the world economy, so we can start an expensive war on a few camel jockeys in Afghanistan!"
Aha.
Dear mark2003,
before you start making personal attacks ala "my own version of world history", allow me to remind you that Islam has ONLY been spread by means of the sword.
We are not talking christian atrocities or fundamentalism here, i know and acknowledge that they exist, but that are not the point of this discussion.
As to the Christian "Jihads" - do you homework, please. A little knowledge of the crusades era reveal, that the sole purpose of the crusades were to LIBERATE JERUSALEM and the christian territories that had been overrun.
Overrum, coincidentally... by Moslems.
Once Jerusalem was liberated, the crusaders halted their advance. They did not intend to conquer more territory, they did not intend to slaughter the semitic peoples as a whole.
Enter Jihad. It is called the "6th pillar of Islam", (even though there are only 5 pillars of Islam, which are the rules/principles that will last until eternity after the Islamic dystopia has been fulfulled in the world. that of course means that all heathens have been eradicated, so there will be no need for the Jihad, ergo, there is no need for it as a "pillar". Anyway:)
Jihad is a duty to you if you are a devout Moslem. Jihad means, as per Mohammeds orders, written in the Qu'ran, to kill all heathens (jews and chistians primarily), take their lands and fortunes.
you just dont see anything comparative to Jihad in the bible or other mainstream religious texts. Sure, there is a lot of nonsense in the OT, i know, but again, this is not the issue here. Chistian terrorists are not the ones bombing Afghan skyscrapers (you get the idea).
That is nonsense. Terrorism as we know it today har risen from the relatively new phenomenon known as "Jihad" - Islamic Holy War.
The Islamic terrorism that the USA amongst others have been victim of has nothing to do with governmtnt power, imperialism or whatever some loudmouths blurt out - it is simple because the islamsis despise the western lifestyle and its freedoms.
No.
Argumentation: WinNuke, the exploits in WinXX discovered on monthly basis, Microsoft's soddy handling of personal information, their suspected cooperation in handling email addresses to spammers, the suspicion of backdoors in Windows. etc.
From 11 to 20 billion years old... ahem... you couldn't get any more inaccurate than that?
I mean, since i was ten, i was counting on a Age(u) of 15...
Can the makers of these new Matrices make the next movies any better than the current Matrix (which I found great).
Or will it be new soup from old cabbage?
So, how is this better (if it is) for those of us already using DX 8.something with average hardware (in my case, Geforce 2 MX)?
Moz 1.2 runs great. Fast, stable, the HTTP pipelining is a *gem*.
And, of course, no M$ spyware.
What more can a nerd want?
Well, i bought a Palm m515, but it was overkillf or me, so now, I've cleaned it out, put it on sale, and using Apple iCal on my TiBook instead.
Works for me...
One thing i like about IM, or in particular AIM:
You can warn contacts that send junk, spam, whatever. When their warning goes high enough, they are prohibited from sending more junk/whatever for a certain period.
Can do that with email? Ah-ah.
How many Watts does this monster dissipate?
:/
I'm just thinking of the power economics of the todays 3D accellerators...
but:
"Only In America"
...that Apple's glorious supercomputers are obsolete?
:/
Damn...
Why dont they get it? If teh CD can be read AT ALL, it CAN BE COPIED!
the only way to copy protect a CD would be to make it unreadable. Or not to publish it.
For some bands, the last option would be welcome.
Someone brought up which is fastest - Carbon or Cocoa.
And someone said that "near the metal" there was no discernable difference.
However, if you code i Cocoa, you will get noticably smaller codebase sizes, and i think that alone explains some of the speedups you get in cocoa apps - try Chimera vs. Mozilla as an example.
No more buying CD's from Bertelsmann.
Thinking of it, i dont think i have any.
YAFAB?
(Yet Another Fucking Apple Basher)
OK, i'll not put my head on the block and make bold claims like "the revolution is beginning" or somesuch, but the constant small trickle of stories like these of insututions and corporations swithing from WIndows to Linux shows that Linux is a true alternative to Windows.
IT GETS THE JOB *DONE*.
And who cares about whats legal? Especially when legal means what the coneheads at the RIAA wants to be legal?
BULLOCKS!
As someone else said, every company has been shipping press releases claiming huge advances etc etc ad nauseam.
IBM, SOI, Copper. The worlds most advanced fabs. they've claimed over 1 Ghz chips but they still only deliver 700 Mhz G3's.
Motorola, AltiVec , SOI, lo-k dielectric. They promised 1 Ghz chips three years ago. Lets not even talk about the shit they got Apple into.
Intel, MMX, MMX-2/KNI/SEE, SSE-2, IA-64 "Terahertz". They promised a 1,1 Ghz "Athlon killer" 18 months ago.
AMD. yeah, lets soo, good chips, but now they're returning to 1997 marketing rating their chips after claimed Intel Pentium iV performance.
Transmeta "codemorphing" VLIW core etc etc. Only this wonderul achevement delivered less than impressive perfomence.
etc etc blah blah blah
It looks to e like most people are still using 1 Ghz based computers. And our computers still arent flying (blame Windows? whatever).
Argh.
Sorry, diatribe mode OFF.
1) The components look awfully cramped. But that's not really surprising considering that it's essentially a PC crammed into a console box - size matters.
2) While it should work at standard operating parameters (i.e. not overclocked), I think the lack of proper ventilation (as a result of pt. 1, see above) could halt any overclocking efforts.
3) I wonder how much noise the box will make after 3 months woth of dust and use... TWO fans (if not 3?) is awfully muich for a console - in my experience.
4) It's Microsoft... ewww. Yes, that's my blanat bias.
- Peter
Wow, some part of my mind is drooling!
;)
The groundwork for a Matrix/Johnny Mnemonic-style cyberspace, anyone?