What was it that I said that was trash, precisely? Let's get a few things straight:
- US Medical Sanctions has killed many times more people in peacetime than have died in conflict with the US since the second world war. Take a look at what is happening to the Iraqi people RIGHT NOW.
- The amount of aid given to foreign countries by the US (and many other first world nations) is a tiny fraction of that made back in terms of third-world debt interest given to the US and other first world nations.
- If the US has such strong ties to peace treaties, how come they are now reneging on unarguably the most important; the 1972 Anti Ballistic Missle Treaty?
Your argument for mass-producing arms, chemical weapons, torture equipment and nuclear weapons is that you also make colour laser printers, automatic milking machines and fabricated car plants? Are you serious?
The fact that the US sells them on to whoever will pay the list price, irrespective of their social or humanitarian policy doesn't bother you? And you are accusing me of not coming up with any real arguments? That's pretty funny!
I wasn't in any way condoning what happened on the 11th, which is what you seem to be accusing me of. I was trying to shed some light on *why* it happened.
My 'whiny leftist eurotrash drivel', as you so delicately put it, is anti-torture devices, anti-landmines, anti-bombs and anti-guns. If you disagree with that then I suggest you take a look at yourself and your views and try to consider just why people outside of America dislike the country and some of the people that live there.
"The hacker community is very important in the fight against terrorism. But we want to get the message out that if they want to get busy doing good stuff, they should come to us and not try to take action on their own," said Aftab.
Er, no. They don't want you to hack. They want you to help them hack.
As a Brit that has been living in the States for the last couple of months I've had the opportunity to experience the behaviour of the US media and the government first hand, and to be honest it makes me sick. Let's get a few things straight:
- America is the largest producer and exporter of weapons on the planet.
- America has the largest arsenal of nuclear and toxic weapeons on the planet.
- America is the largest producer and exportor of torture equipment on the planet.
- America is the largest producer and exportor of anti-personnel landmines on the planet.
America supports more oppressive regimes around the world than anyone else, as and when it suits them. A while ago they were supplying the Iraqis with weapons. Then they went after them. During the Russo-Afghan war, they were funding, supplying and even training the very afghans that are now described as 'evil'. 20 years ago they were called freedom fighter. Now they are deemed 'evil'.
Two weeks ago hacking was illegal. Now it's OK, just as long as it's not a.mil or a.gov.
Just because you are not shooting at someone doesn't mean your actions are peaceful. This is another attempt by the American government to whip up what is already a frenzy of 'They're evil! Get them!' sentiment.
If people had the foresight to try and work out *why* the events of the 11th happened, then maybe we could make some progress. As it is we'll be bombarded with the same old footage of disaster and death followed by Bush claiming that these people are 'evil'.
No doubt people will start port-scanning the few afghan/islamic websites that are around. Maybe while you are waiting you go to Amazon and buy The Plague by Camus. Oh, and switch of CNN.
I've been waiting and waiting and waiting for the nForce to reach production quality, and it seems that it hasn't been worth it! Looks like the KT266A is the one to go for. Especially as it looks like nVidia is selling you a gfx card that is pretty much redundant.
The question that no-one seems to answer is: When and where can I get one?!? The Via 266A chipset was reviewed a long time ago, yet no-one seems to have them available. Can anyone help me here?
Granted the remote support in X supercedes anything MS has done in the past and is still more flexible than terminal services, but I wasn't talking about that. Also, the remote display support in X is one of its core features, not something that is enabled with a cryptic line in a config file.
I don't think that it has anything to do with the number of people working on the technology. How many people invented Google? The Apple? TCP/IP? HTML? In some situations having a large number of developers is a good thing; writing the large number of device drivers for linux, for example. I don't think it is the same in this case, though.
IBM and HP riding in X? That's quite funny.
I've worked a lot with many versions of Windows, Solaris nee SunOS and Linux. Cutting through the individual display technologies, all I can say is that the fonts in XP look way better than anything I have ever seen before. Every colleague who has seen XP running (including many MacOS designers) have literally dropped their jaw. It's the first thing that they mention when they see the desktop.
Wait and see for yourself. I know the majority of/.ers will try really hard not to like it, but I'm just trying to be objective...Does anybody remember how to do that?
I somehow fail to believe that a technology that MS have spent a long time and a lot of money developing is _exactly the same thing_ as an option buried in XFree. They are not that stupid.
I hate to say it, but the ClearType technology in Windows XP blows AA fonts out of the water.
I have XP running on a TFT laptop, and the ClearType fonts are absolutely stunning.
I know most of the people here won't believe me, and I'll probably get flamed to hell for saying it, but wait until you see a machine running it. It is seriously impressive.
Does he really think the success of Java is based on the success of applets embedded in a web browser?
The way I see it, the longer Java exists, the further it is moving away from the client and into the server. And for good reason. Server side programmers get a well designed, well supported, well documented and open language with proper OO, and client side programmers get Flash.
You give me 5 websites with useful java applets and I'll give you 500 that have a java-powered server.
I don't really see what this has got to do with Microsoft. If they want to remove Java support with out-the-box XP they can. It's their product.
Java doesn't need Microsoft to survive, and Microsoft doesn't need Java.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not against Microsoft per se, I think Windows 2000 is a superb piece of engineering, but at the end of the day if all this goes through the only thing they will be losing is the enterprise application server market.
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What was it that I said that was trash, precisely? Let's get a few things straight:
- US Medical Sanctions has killed many times more people in peacetime than have died in conflict with the US since the second world war. Take a look at what is happening to the Iraqi people RIGHT NOW.
- The amount of aid given to foreign countries by the US (and many other first world nations) is a tiny fraction of that made back in terms of third-world debt interest given to the US and other first world nations.
- If the US has such strong ties to peace treaties, how come they are now reneging on unarguably the most important; the 1972 Anti Ballistic Missle Treaty?
Your argument for mass-producing arms, chemical weapons, torture equipment and nuclear weapons is that you also make colour laser printers, automatic milking machines and fabricated car plants? Are you serious?
The fact that the US sells them on to whoever will pay the list price, irrespective of their social or humanitarian policy doesn't bother you? And you are accusing me of not coming up with any real arguments? That's pretty funny!
I wasn't in any way condoning what happened on the 11th, which is what you seem to be accusing me of. I was trying to shed some light on *why* it happened.
My 'whiny leftist eurotrash drivel', as you so delicately put it, is anti-torture devices, anti-landmines, anti-bombs and anti-guns. If you disagree with that then I suggest you take a look at yourself and your views and try to consider just why people outside of America dislike the country and some of the people that live there.
Two things:
1 - You have no idea why I came to the States.
2 - Unfortunately my country is not much better.
However, something I said really got you pissed, huh?
Er, no. They don't want you to hack. They want you to help them hack.
As a Brit that has been living in the States for the last couple of months I've had the opportunity to experience the behaviour of the US media and the government first hand, and to be honest it makes me sick. Let's get a few things straight:
.mil or a .gov.
- America is the largest producer and exporter of weapons on the planet.
- America has the largest arsenal of nuclear and toxic weapeons on the planet.
- America is the largest producer and exportor of torture equipment on the planet.
- America is the largest producer and exportor of anti-personnel landmines on the planet.
America supports more oppressive regimes around the world than anyone else, as and when it suits them. A while ago they were supplying the Iraqis with weapons. Then they went after them. During the Russo-Afghan war, they were funding, supplying and even training the very afghans that are now described as 'evil'. 20 years ago they were called freedom fighter. Now they are deemed 'evil'.
Two weeks ago hacking was illegal. Now it's OK, just as long as it's not a
Just because you are not shooting at someone doesn't mean your actions are peaceful. This is another attempt by the American government to whip up what is already a frenzy of 'They're evil! Get them!' sentiment.
If people had the foresight to try and work out *why* the events of the 11th happened, then maybe we could make some progress. As it is we'll be bombarded with the same old footage of disaster and death followed by Bush claiming that these people are 'evil'.
No doubt people will start port-scanning the few afghan/islamic websites that are around. Maybe while you are waiting you go to Amazon and buy The Plague by Camus. Oh, and switch of CNN.
I've been waiting and waiting and waiting for the nForce to reach production quality, and it seems that it hasn't been worth it! Looks like the KT266A is the one to go for. Especially as it looks like nVidia is selling you a gfx card that is pretty much redundant.
The question that no-one seems to answer is: When and where can I get one?!? The Via 266A chipset was reviewed a long time ago, yet no-one seems to have them available. Can anyone help me here?
Er, I was saying that the technology has been superceded.
I know that XP isn't out yet, but it is soon, isn't it?
Granted the remote support in X supercedes anything MS has done in the past and is still more flexible than terminal services, but I wasn't talking about that. Also, the remote display support in X is one of its core features, not something that is enabled with a cryptic line in a config file.
/.ers will try really hard not to like it, but I'm just trying to be objective...Does anybody remember how to do that?
I don't think that it has anything to do with the number of people working on the technology. How many people invented Google? The Apple? TCP/IP? HTML? In some situations having a large number of developers is a good thing; writing the large number of device drivers for linux, for example. I don't think it is the same in this case, though.
IBM and HP riding in X? That's quite funny.
I've worked a lot with many versions of Windows, Solaris nee SunOS and Linux. Cutting through the individual display technologies, all I can say is that the fonts in XP look way better than anything I have ever seen before. Every colleague who has seen XP running (including many MacOS designers) have literally dropped their jaw. It's the first thing that they mention when they see the desktop.
Wait and see for yourself. I know the majority of
I somehow fail to believe that a technology that MS have spent a long time and a lot of money developing is _exactly the same thing_ as an option buried in XFree. They are not that stupid.
Ok. You show me yours and I'll show you mine ;)
I hate to say it, but the ClearType technology in Windows XP blows AA fonts out of the water.
I have XP running on a TFT laptop, and the ClearType fonts are absolutely stunning.
I know most of the people here won't believe me, and I'll probably get flamed to hell for saying it, but wait until you see a machine running it. It is seriously impressive.
First world countries tend to have a state-provided healthcare service.
Unlike, er...?
But then you, like the large majority of the United States, probably don't own an international passport.
How do you know it is "shitty"? It hasn't been released yet.
Idiot.
Technically it easily outguns the PS2 and GameCube. Porting software from the PC will be trivial. etc. etc. etc.
Oh, but we're on Slashdot so I forgot the correct protocol of bypassing objectivity in order to bash Microsoft.
Well done!
Does he really think the success of Java is based on the success of applets embedded in a web browser?
The way I see it, the longer Java exists, the further it is moving away from the client and into the server. And for good reason. Server side programmers get a well designed, well supported, well documented and open language with proper OO, and client side programmers get Flash.
You give me 5 websites with useful java applets and I'll give you 500 that have a java-powered server.
I don't really see what this has got to do with Microsoft. If they want to remove Java support with out-the-box XP they can. It's their product.
Java doesn't need Microsoft to survive, and Microsoft doesn't need Java.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not against Microsoft per se, I think Windows 2000 is a superb piece of engineering, but at the end of the day if all this goes through the only thing they will be losing is the enterprise application server market.