Very few Americans will admit that. It's all USA USA USA F-22 Fuck Yeah! Of course vectored thrust is pretty neat, but now that they've started putting it on the missiles - "dogfighting" has become obsolete. You just have to watch the vids of the new missiles and see them leap off the rail, do a complete 180 and nail the drone that's flying BEHIND the shooting plane... gotcha. No more "best turn rate wins". Now it's who's got the better fire control radar and the better missiles.
Imagine how much money the oil companies are losing every time a car dealer comes up with a more fuel efficient engine! ZOMG we need 10 gallons/mile engines RIGHT NOW to "save" the oil business!!!
I could just as well say that not winning the lottery every week is "costing" me billions a year.
Now you'll be ready to work for these guys when you multiply those "billions per year" not winning the lottery costs you by the population that don't buy lottery tickets. Wow, the US as a whole is losing QUADRILLIONS of dollars per year because of this! It's several times the world's GDP! Losing lottery tickets should be outlawed!
Please pay me $1000 for this "report"... (yes, sarcasm again)
That would be "costing other software vendors" in the same sense that the RIAA and the MPAA are "losing money from piracy". It makes the HUGE assumption that everyone who uses open source software is someone who would otherwise have purchased the "traditional" software. This is simply not true. However human beings are very good at pulling numbers out of their asses, and since politicians are used to talking shit, they readily believe these numbers.
Wow, let's make a law that outlaws open source software, to "protect" the "traditional" software industry. At the same time it will fight terrorism (because terrorists use open source software) and help the children (because open source is BAD). Yes you sarcasm impaired mods, learn to spot it when you see it.
It's more that they delight in the fact that what they're doing is wrong, and that no one can do anything about it.
Which is why all pirates smile when they spot a fat, slow merchantman loaded with gold that has no choice but heave-to when a couple shots are put across its bow and the "Jolly Roger" is hoisted.
Someone actually had the balls to NAME these ISPs, instead of referring to generic "providers". Of course it sucks to be you if you live in an area where they have exclusive coverage - but it's good to know who thinks they have the right to tamper with packets going between you and the destination of your choice.
I say, Bear Stearns and Citi should be allowed to pay the price and dismantled, with assets sold in auction.
Personally I agree. But if Citi and Bear and others go under, they're taking a lot of people's 401(k) with them. The stock market would certainly crash. As a day trader I really don't give a damn, up or down is all the same to me. I LIVE on volatility. But mom and dad who are relying on their stocks for retirement would be out of luck - especially since social security is just not going to work either.
I think that's pretty much the Fed's idea with helping the investment banks. But I do agree that heads should roll, certain individual people should face fraud charges, etc.
Of course you were modded flamebait - apparently saying anything anti-Bush/Cheney is "trolling" here on slashdot.
I don't agree that the current crisis is completely the administration's fault - any less than hurricane Katrina was. But their handling of the situation was not exactly stellar either, nor is it here.
The average american got HIMSELF into trouble by going into too much debt, by thinking that house prices would continue to increase at the same pace forever, and by borrowing on the "future" price of his home, then spending the money on a nicer car/plasma tv/whatever.
The "greedy bankers" helped the process along by giving almost anyone a loan, because after all they too thought that housing prices were headed up forever. If the person defaulted and the bank had to foreclose a couple years later, they'd still get their principle back even if they sold the house at a discount.
Record gas is entirely the fault of the administration - oh yeah I've heard the argument about China and India increasing the demand, but the truth of the matter is the price started climbing the minute Iraq got invaded JUST LIKE IT DID in the first gulf war. When you bring war to the oil producing area, people get nervous about the stability of the supply and the price climbs. Then all the speculators jump in and KEEP the price high because hey, oil is a pretty sure bet nowadays.
The high energy costs are the kick in the nuts you are referring to. But I don't think housing is the administration's fault. The gov't perhaps could have done more to make sure that financial companies knew the risks when they were buying SIV's, but this is mostly the investment banking community's fault - again, just like 2001 and the dot-com bubble.
What is obvious to some but not all readers is that if you are being arrested by federal agents it is for a "federal crime".
Yes because everyone knows that tampering with a smoke detector in the bathroom of an airplane, saying the word "bomb" (or even worse, writing it down on a napkin) onboard an aircraft are crimes far more horrendous than stealing a car or shooting someone. Of course these people need their DNA collected.
This post has been captioned for the sarcasm impaired.
We all know computers can't do tru random operations
Yes they can, provided you have the right hardware. I agree that YOUR personal computer only generates pseudo-random numbers, however there are cards available that can generate completely random numbers.
it doesn't seem fair to fight a war that doesn't put your troops at risk.
Whoa there! What, would you expect everyone to wear boxing gloves and fight it out by weight class according to the Marquess of Queensbury rules or what?
War is not about "fairness", it's not about dying for your country - it's about, as George Patton said - making the other poor bastard die for his. It's about surprise. It's about hitting your enemy with all your force in his weakest spot. It's about kicking him in the balls and then shooting him dead when he's on the ground. Because believe me if you let him get up again he's going to try his best to kill YOU.
Although I personally don't agree with THIS particular war (Iraq), the less you expose your flesh and blood troops to enemy fire, the better. The only catch is the cost. Robot armies are more expensive to build, maintain and replace than some grunt with a rifle. Especially when you're getting charged millions of dollars in shipping to ship a couple washers to the war zone (yes I'm being sarcastic, but if it happened before it will happen again - fraudsters are creative bastards).
Therefore perhaps it's possible to economically defeat your robot-deploying aggressor if you can make him lose enough robots - but you will pay a price in blood and morale. And after all maybe that's the key - knowing that you're going up against a machine and are probably going to die, and the enemy is controlling the machine from another continent.
But then again morale has always been a tricky thing to judge. People used to think bombing cities would erode morale - but the effect is quite the opposite. Proven in World War 2, Vietnam, Korea and Iraq 1 with the "scuds". Bombing civilians only makes them angry, not "demoralized".
It's not ready for gamers however, but neither is the hardware config most "casual" "mass" people buy.
Actually wine and cedega have gotten much, much better. Although I agree that you'll have a hard time running the latest games out of the box, especially if they need DirectX 10 or.NET technology, most of the games needing DirectX 9.0c or backwards work just as well or better right out of the box.
Meh, and since I'm an old fart, I prefer most of the older stuff anyway. Dos Box works just fine on linux:)
My question is shorter: Is Hardy Heron ready? It seems major core packages (like xorg) are updated EVERY DAY! I would expect nothing but minor tweaks in the days before a release. What I am seeing is last-minute scrambling to get changes in. That's disconcerting.
So if you're not sure, wait a month for the first service pack. I think it's scheduled for May/June. But this is fairly typical for any major release. And there will be bugs - there are always bugs. The cute thing about ubuntu is the patches come out almost daily, you just have to click on the little orange icon and type your admin password. Takes about 10 secs. Also remember that Hardy is going to be a LTS (long term support) version.
Simply RUNNING a program that wasn't on the executable menu was a ridiculous headache.
That's part of the reason linux is more secure. Unlike the Windows prostitute model, that wants to run everything as code, from.EXE files to email attachments and.JPEGs. In linux (and unix in general) you have to take the time to use the chmod command and give it permission. Then when you get a virus/trojan, it's your own damned fault.
Next week: 13 year old boy discovers new chemical reaction in which a combination of scientifically illiterate PR bunnies and sub-editors produces large quantities of bullshit.
This technology has been known since ancient Greece, and is applied routinely by politicians.
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The Su-37 is a pretty good plane too
Very few Americans will admit that. It's all USA USA USA F-22 Fuck Yeah! Of course vectored thrust is pretty neat, but now that they've started putting it on the missiles - "dogfighting" has become obsolete. You just have to watch the vids of the new missiles and see them leap off the rail, do a complete 180 and nail the drone that's flying BEHIND the shooting plane... gotcha. No more "best turn rate wins". Now it's who's got the better fire control radar and the better missiles.
No limit to car analogies on slashdot:
Imagine how much money the oil companies are losing every time a car dealer comes up with a more fuel efficient engine! ZOMG we need 10 gallons/mile engines RIGHT NOW to "save" the oil business!!!
I could just as well say that not winning the lottery every week is "costing" me billions a year.
Now you'll be ready to work for these guys when you multiply those "billions per year" not winning the lottery costs you by the population that don't buy lottery tickets. Wow, the US as a whole is losing QUADRILLIONS of dollars per year because of this! It's several times the world's GDP! Losing lottery tickets should be outlawed!
Please pay me $1000 for this "report"... (yes, sarcasm again)
That would be "costing other software vendors" in the same sense that the RIAA and the MPAA are "losing money from piracy". It makes the HUGE assumption that everyone who uses open source software is someone who would otherwise have purchased the "traditional" software. This is simply not true. However human beings are very good at pulling numbers out of their asses, and since politicians are used to talking shit, they readily believe these numbers.
Wow, let's make a law that outlaws open source software, to "protect" the "traditional" software industry. At the same time it will fight terrorism (because terrorists use open source software) and help the children (because open source is BAD). Yes you sarcasm impaired mods, learn to spot it when you see it.
You're going to die.
You can store the data on a disk and read it back 50 years from now.
Oh the RIAA and MPAA are not going to like THAT. Cue the yearly fee to access your movies/music.
InPhase Technologies announces it will also be releasing Duke Nukem Forever by the end of the year.
Problem is, they forgot to mention WHICH year. As usual.
I pre-ordered my copy of Duke anyway.
Nothing in this universe is unlimited.
In an unlimited universe, everything can be unlimited?
It's more that they delight in the fact that what they're doing is wrong, and that no one can do anything about it.
Which is why all pirates smile when they spot a fat, slow merchantman loaded with gold that has no choice but heave-to when a couple shots are put across its bow and the "Jolly Roger" is hoisted.
You need to learn to "yarrr" properly, matey.
Someone actually had the balls to NAME these ISPs, instead of referring to generic "providers". Of course it sucks to be you if you live in an area where they have exclusive coverage - but it's good to know who thinks they have the right to tamper with packets going between you and the destination of your choice.
Thanks for sharing that. I feel more cultured already!
I say, Bear Stearns and Citi should be allowed to pay the price and dismantled, with assets sold in auction.
Personally I agree. But if Citi and Bear and others go under, they're taking a lot of people's 401(k) with them. The stock market would certainly crash. As a day trader I really don't give a damn, up or down is all the same to me. I LIVE on volatility. But mom and dad who are relying on their stocks for retirement would be out of luck - especially since social security is just not going to work either.
I think that's pretty much the Fed's idea with helping the investment banks. But I do agree that heads should roll, certain individual people should face fraud charges, etc.
Of course you were modded flamebait - apparently saying anything anti-Bush/Cheney is "trolling" here on slashdot.
I don't agree that the current crisis is completely the administration's fault - any less than hurricane Katrina was. But their handling of the situation was not exactly stellar either, nor is it here.
The average american got HIMSELF into trouble by going into too much debt, by thinking that house prices would continue to increase at the same pace forever, and by borrowing on the "future" price of his home, then spending the money on a nicer car/plasma tv/whatever.
The "greedy bankers" helped the process along by giving almost anyone a loan, because after all they too thought that housing prices were headed up forever. If the person defaulted and the bank had to foreclose a couple years later, they'd still get their principle back even if they sold the house at a discount.
Record gas is entirely the fault of the administration - oh yeah I've heard the argument about China and India increasing the demand, but the truth of the matter is the price started climbing the minute Iraq got invaded JUST LIKE IT DID in the first gulf war. When you bring war to the oil producing area, people get nervous about the stability of the supply and the price climbs. Then all the speculators jump in and KEEP the price high because hey, oil is a pretty sure bet nowadays.
The high energy costs are the kick in the nuts you are referring to. But I don't think housing is the administration's fault. The gov't perhaps could have done more to make sure that financial companies knew the risks when they were buying SIV's, but this is mostly the investment banking community's fault - again, just like 2001 and the dot-com bubble.
What is obvious to some but not all readers is that if you are being arrested by federal agents it is for a "federal crime".
Yes because everyone knows that tampering with a smoke detector in the bathroom of an airplane, saying the word "bomb" (or even worse, writing it down on a napkin) onboard an aircraft are crimes far more horrendous than stealing a car or shooting someone. Of course these people need their DNA collected.
This post has been captioned for the sarcasm impaired.
We all know computers can't do tru random operations
Yes they can, provided you have the right hardware. I agree that YOUR personal computer only generates pseudo-random numbers, however there are cards available that can generate completely random numbers.
it doesn't seem fair to fight a war that doesn't put your troops at risk.
Whoa there! What, would you expect everyone to wear boxing gloves and fight it out by weight class according to the Marquess of Queensbury rules or what?
War is not about "fairness", it's not about dying for your country - it's about, as George Patton said - making the other poor bastard die for his. It's about surprise. It's about hitting your enemy with all your force in his weakest spot. It's about kicking him in the balls and then shooting him dead when he's on the ground. Because believe me if you let him get up again he's going to try his best to kill YOU.
Although I personally don't agree with THIS particular war (Iraq), the less you expose your flesh and blood troops to enemy fire, the better. The only catch is the cost. Robot armies are more expensive to build, maintain and replace than some grunt with a rifle. Especially when you're getting charged millions of dollars in shipping to ship a couple washers to the war zone (yes I'm being sarcastic, but if it happened before it will happen again - fraudsters are creative bastards).
Therefore perhaps it's possible to economically defeat your robot-deploying aggressor if you can make him lose enough robots - but you will pay a price in blood and morale. And after all maybe that's the key - knowing that you're going up against a machine and are probably going to die, and the enemy is controlling the machine from another continent.
But then again morale has always been a tricky thing to judge. People used to think bombing cities would erode morale - but the effect is quite the opposite. Proven in World War 2, Vietnam, Korea and Iraq 1 with the "scuds". Bombing civilians only makes them angry, not "demoralized".
Who knows how this will work out.
This is not the first time the American robotic army has attacked its own troops...
Oh my, the title of this story leaves itself very, very open.
Did it pull out in time? When can we expect the baby robots, do we finally have self replicating machines? Etc.
I don't expect everyone in china to know how to wield a Katana
:)
Neither do I. Aren't katanas Japanese?
It's not ready for gamers however, but neither is the hardware config most "casual" "mass" people buy.
.NET technology, most of the games needing DirectX 9.0c or backwards work just as well or better right out of the box.
:)
Actually wine and cedega have gotten much, much better. Although I agree that you'll have a hard time running the latest games out of the box, especially if they need DirectX 10 or
Meh, and since I'm an old fart, I prefer most of the older stuff anyway. Dos Box works just fine on linux
My question is shorter: Is Hardy Heron ready? It seems major core packages (like xorg) are updated EVERY DAY! I would expect nothing but minor tweaks in the days before a release. What I am seeing is last-minute scrambling to get changes in. That's disconcerting.
So if you're not sure, wait a month for the first service pack. I think it's scheduled for May/June. But this is fairly typical for any major release. And there will be bugs - there are always bugs. The cute thing about ubuntu is the patches come out almost daily, you just have to click on the little orange icon and type your admin password. Takes about 10 secs. Also remember that Hardy is going to be a LTS (long term support) version.
Simply RUNNING a program that wasn't on the executable menu was a ridiculous headache.
.EXE files to email attachments and .JPEGs. In linux (and unix in general) you have to take the time to use the chmod command and give it permission. Then when you get a virus/trojan, it's your own damned fault.
That's part of the reason linux is more secure. Unlike the Windows prostitute model, that wants to run everything as code, from
I'm imagining, then, that it sounded something like "Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran."
And it was apparently incapable of pronouncing the world nuclear as something other than nukular.
2038 years should be enough for anybody
Next week: 13 year old boy discovers new chemical reaction in which a combination of scientifically illiterate PR bunnies and sub-editors produces large quantities of bullshit.
This technology has been known since ancient Greece, and is applied routinely by politicians.