Why a week? Are we a bunch of weak-willed panty waists?
I won't be watching TV again until this industry association has substantially cleaned up it's act. I won't be watching movies either.
A week won't put the fear of death into them, it'll be just as impotent as a Bill O'Reilly boycott against France or Canada. Give up TV, since they obviously don't want you watching anyway, and use this resource we were previously using because we were too lazy to set up our VCRs to get material from people who actually want their material seen.
You know, I think ethiopians are stealing from Jenny Craig(I am too, actually). By constantly being starving for free, they're interfering with Jenny Craigs business of selling "stop eating you fat bastard" to fat bastards.
My understanding is that the latest public domain works are from the 19th century, and nothing new will enter for decades.
Wait...I just realized... Therefore life of author plus 75 is about all you're going to get if you're a creator of intellectual property, enjoy it while you can.
Your use of irony to point out that copyright doesn't expire in any rational sense of the word is duly noted.
ShunTV dealt almost(with a few notable exceptions) exclusively with documentaries and news programs. Suing them is, to me, just wrong.
I'm not sure what the MPAA thinks it's going to accomplish, but as a paying customer(I pay over a thousand dollars for Cable TV, thank you very much, and the amount of money I spend on movies is non-trivial), this is the last straw. Shutting down suprnova was one thing(That was wholescale theft of movies, music, and more), but this isn't right. I will not be seeing the next star wars movie, nor Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, nor any one of the new movies coming out, nor will I buy any new copies of old favourites. If they're so worried about losing money because people downloading TV shows, then so be it: Now they're going to lose real money and real mindshare.
My personal boycott of RIAA music(I refuse to even listen to it, lest I give the bastards mindshare) is now extended to the MPAA, and to all Cable TV, even the shows I really enjoy. Lord knows it's an ant vs. a behemoth, but at least I'll be able to sleep at night knowing that I'm not paying for lawsuits.
So, are there any web-based independents out there who want their stuff seen? My viewing schedule just opened right up, and I'd love to see stuff done by someone who actually wants me to watch their stuff.
You'd be the first to find an Athlon XP slower than a similarly clocked P3. The Athlon design removes several critical flaws of the P3 design, such as the dreaded partial register stall, while putting the processor onto a faster bus. These features add up to a processor which is, in every task I've ever seen thrown at it in a real or imagined situation, faster than the similarly clocked Pentium III.
Of course, you're probably ignoring that most cheap laptops have piss poor subsystems which will cripple even the best processors on the market -- the chipset is very likely made by the lowest bidder(ali?), your video card is very likely eating up memory bandwidth, and the software on any given OEM machine will drag it to a standstill regardless of the hardware.
Second, AMD just needs to falter just a bit and they will fall behind. AMD has had the performance lead since the intro of the Athlon64, because they developed a set of 64 bit "extensions" to x86.
Windows XP 32-bit, the processor that the majority of home A64 systems are running on, probably would disagree with that prognosis. Most people agreed that it was fundamental design decisions like putting the memory controller on-die, and the hypertransport bus, which give the A64 et. al. their lead over the Pentium 4.
Also, your use of the word "extentions" in quotes is odd to me. From my understanding of the design, the 64-bit mode is an extention the same way that 32-bit pmode is an "extention" to the i8086 the whole market is based on.
Of course for these guys to make statements like: In fact, Intel completely went from having a "MHz is king" mentality, to a more "performance" oriented marketing stance. The sudden change of heart was clearly obvious. really makes me wonder about their knowledge at all. If you understand architecture, you realize that MHZ ISN'T king.
Does this change the fact that the latest Intel chips, for the first time, are using model numbers designating performance levels rather than Mhz numbers, representing a "sudden change of heart", where Intel "completely went from having a 'MHz is king' mentality, to a more "performance" oriented marketing stance"?
I don't think your grasp of the situation is nearly as tight as you think it is.
There are on linux. I recall bittornado exists under Linux, for example.
Java has perks other than cross-platform compatibility, but from your tone, I doubt you'd care much about security, ease of coding, and other things which are more than a little important compared to using a bit more resources than is ideal.
In practice, CVS is useful because nobody cares that you made a bug fix that doesn't work with the current codebase, for a bug that doesn't exist in the current codebase.
Install issues at this point are the problem of the company, not of the OS. debian or urpmi are both more than enough to install java in a heartbeat, along with anything else you want.
That said, I just switched back to XP from Debian because there are *actual* problems with linux regarding it's relative inability to support the legacy of win32.
If three textboxes, a simple text parser(the irc protocol is dead simple), and a network connection is enough to make a program bloated, I recommend using the text version of Bittorrent.
Assuming this is the 0.01 minority, this means that there would have to be 25 million gun shootings in the US each day. Each year, every one in the US would have been shot... twelve times.
Obviously, that's because you guys have those magic bullets that killed Kennedy.
For the same reason they mod those same posts up -- because moderators are simply normal slashdot users who visit the site for a certain amount of time, between those who never visit and those who compulsively do so. There are many many moderators at once, and they don't have to have the same opinions. Such posts they disagree with *are* flamebait in the sense that a flamewar will probably follow, which is why the moderation is similarly two-faced.
By reducing it to a numbers game, you can play some disgusting games with human life.
Realistically, the GDP would increase if we just killed ALL criminals, from shoplifters up. There would be far fewer property crimes, reducing losses and increasing store profits and increasing tax revenues.
Actually, not pursuing sex offenders would probably be better for the economy, since they don't cost the victims any money unless the victims end up late for work.
In fact, by opening up the market for slaves, we could get back the job market from china, and finally be able to compete on a wage basis!
Going in the other direction, we could have anyone who refuses to go to college and get a career killed. That way our workforce will be highly educated and motivated, helping to increase the power of the economy!
This may come as a shock, but you can hate someone without being a partisan.
I'd even say it's possible to hate an entire political party without being partisan. Personally, I find both the Republican Party and our own Conservative Party of Canada to be distasteful(relatively new, untraditional, left wing fantasy land economics being one reason, fascist interpetations of history leading to attacking anyone they disagree with being the other), but I consider myself to be more conservative than most. I'm not siding with the other guy, I'm just saying I don't like these folks. You can do that without being partisan. A Republican can say he doesn't like the KKK or a Democrat can say he doesn't like the Soviet Union without either casting out all ideas of the right or left, and becoming a partisan shill for the left or right.
It's not tough to hate a guy who started nuclear weapons development back up, nor the party that let him do it.
Silly, we don't need a siren. We know you were playing Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas on the night of Febuary the 16th, only seconds before you decided to jaywalk in front of your home at 21:20:16GMT!
We're just finishing up the paperwork to initiate the lawsuit against Rockstar North now, then we'll be there to pick you up.
Computers, like TVs, have this marvellous button which will send a digital "high" signal to a digital logic circuit in the power supply, which sets up a chain reaction which actually enables or disables a power transistor in there which allows you to choose whether a current is allowed to flow into a computer or not! They call it a "Power Button".
Even more amazingly, a room without a computer, or a phone, or a TV can actually considered to be (though it IS a rough approximation which engineers and scientists use to make calculations easier) "without computers or tvs or anything".
Some scientists in Antarctica are working with trying to combine these two ideas to both "turn off" the computer, as it's known, and "take the computer away".
They've encountered some resistance from kids who say they need a computer to do their homework. To alleviate this problem, the kids are given "pencils", "paper", and "calculators" to work with. Amazingly, kids using these fantastic new tools seem to get, on aggregate, an average of 900% more work done per unit of time!
It's groundbreaking research, but the practical applications are unreal!!!
I played LSL1 and LSL5 when I was a kid. I completed LSL5...somehow.
It's like a pixar movie -- a kid doesn't know what's going on, since he's a kid!
Besides, LSL1 gave me valuable life lessons later on when I had some clue about what was going on:
"FUCK HER" ">SLAPSLAP SLAP"
Rest assured, my kids'll play all 4 of the classic (pre-windows)larrys. And they'll have to figure out who Ronald Regan and Richard Nixon are, 'cause I won't let them play LSL1 until they can make it through the intro.
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Why a week? Are we a bunch of weak-willed panty waists?
I won't be watching TV again until this industry association has substantially cleaned up it's act. I won't be watching movies either.
A week won't put the fear of death into them, it'll be just as impotent as a Bill O'Reilly boycott against France or Canada. Give up TV, since they obviously don't want you watching anyway, and use this resource we were previously using because we were too lazy to set up our VCRs to get material from people who actually want their material seen.
You know, I think ethiopians are stealing from Jenny Craig(I am too, actually). By constantly being starving for free, they're interfering with Jenny Craigs business of selling "stop eating you fat bastard" to fat bastards.
My understanding is that the latest public domain works are from the 19th century, and nothing new will enter for decades.
Wait...I just realized...
Therefore life of author plus 75 is about all you're going to get if you're a creator of intellectual property, enjoy it while you can.
Your use of irony to point out that copyright doesn't expire in any rational sense of the word is duly noted.
It's too bad we'll never know because it hasn't happened.
Myself, I don't think I'd have a problem with viewing ads in downloaded content.
Of course, now that doesn't matter, because these guys can go fuck themselves, but...
It's only stealing if you're not paying for it.
Signed
SJ0
Cable TV subscriber
ShunTV dealt almost(with a few notable exceptions) exclusively with documentaries and news programs. Suing them is, to me, just wrong.
I'm not sure what the MPAA thinks it's going to accomplish, but as a paying customer(I pay over a thousand dollars for Cable TV, thank you very much, and the amount of money I spend on movies is non-trivial), this is the last straw. Shutting down suprnova was one thing(That was wholescale theft of movies, music, and more), but this isn't right. I will not be seeing the next star wars movie, nor Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, nor any one of the new movies coming out, nor will I buy any new copies of old favourites. If they're so worried about losing money because people downloading TV shows, then so be it: Now they're going to lose real money and real mindshare.
My personal boycott of RIAA music(I refuse to even listen to it, lest I give the bastards mindshare) is now extended to the MPAA, and to all Cable TV, even the shows I really enjoy. Lord knows it's an ant vs. a behemoth, but at least I'll be able to sleep at night knowing that I'm not paying for lawsuits.
So, are there any web-based independents out there who want their stuff seen? My viewing schedule just opened right up, and I'd love to see stuff done by someone who actually wants me to watch their stuff.
If you manage to get that much information into a format half as readable as this virtual page-turner, then you'll be qualified to say something.
The original Star Wars script is available on-line. It's completely different from what you ended up seeing on the screen.
You'd be the first to find an Athlon XP slower than a similarly clocked P3. The Athlon design removes several critical flaws of the P3 design, such as the dreaded partial register stall, while putting the processor onto a faster bus. These features add up to a processor which is, in every task I've ever seen thrown at it in a real or imagined situation, faster than the similarly clocked Pentium III.
Of course, you're probably ignoring that most cheap laptops have piss poor subsystems which will cripple even the best processors on the market -- the chipset is very likely made by the lowest bidder(ali?), your video card is very likely eating up memory bandwidth, and the software on any given OEM machine will drag it to a standstill regardless of the hardware.
Second, AMD just needs to falter just a bit and they will fall behind. AMD has had the performance lead since the intro of the Athlon64, because they developed a set of 64 bit "extensions" to x86.
Windows XP 32-bit, the processor that the majority of home A64 systems are running on, probably would disagree with that prognosis. Most people agreed that it was fundamental design decisions like putting the memory controller on-die, and the hypertransport bus, which give the A64 et. al. their lead over the Pentium 4.
Also, your use of the word "extentions" in quotes is odd to me. From my understanding of the design, the 64-bit mode is an extention the same way that 32-bit pmode is an "extention" to the i8086 the whole market is based on.
Of course for these guys to make statements like:
In fact, Intel completely went from having a "MHz is king" mentality, to a more "performance" oriented marketing stance. The sudden change of heart was clearly obvious.
really makes me wonder about their knowledge at all. If you understand architecture, you realize that MHZ ISN'T king.
Does this change the fact that the latest Intel chips, for the first time, are using model numbers designating performance levels rather than Mhz numbers, representing a "sudden change of heart", where Intel "completely went from having a 'MHz is king' mentality, to a more "performance" oriented marketing stance"?
I don't think your grasp of the situation is nearly as tight as you think it is.
Hypocrisy, even. Not that anyone cares about this point dragged out every time p2p or gpl comes up.
There are on linux. I recall bittornado exists under Linux, for example.
Java has perks other than cross-platform compatibility, but from your tone, I doubt you'd care much about security, ease of coding, and other things which are more than a little important compared to using a bit more resources than is ideal.
In practice, CVS is useful because nobody cares that you made a bug fix that doesn't work with the current codebase, for a bug that doesn't exist in the current codebase.
Install issues at this point are the problem of the company, not of the OS. debian or urpmi are both more than enough to install java in a heartbeat, along with anything else you want.
That said, I just switched back to XP from Debian because there are *actual* problems with linux regarding it's relative inability to support the legacy of win32.
If three textboxes, a simple text parser(the irc protocol is dead simple), and a network connection is enough to make a program bloated, I recommend using the text version of Bittorrent.
Assuming this is the 0.01 minority, this means that there would have to be 25 million gun shootings in the US each day. Each year, every one in the US would have been shot... twelve times.
Obviously, that's because you guys have those magic bullets that killed Kennedy.
For the same reason they mod those same posts up -- because moderators are simply normal slashdot users who visit the site for a certain amount of time, between those who never visit and those who compulsively do so. There are many many moderators at once, and they don't have to have the same opinions. Such posts they disagree with *are* flamebait in the sense that a flamewar will probably follow, which is why the moderation is similarly two-faced.
By reducing it to a numbers game, you can play some disgusting games with human life.
Realistically, the GDP would increase if we just killed ALL criminals, from shoplifters up. There would be far fewer property crimes, reducing losses and increasing store profits and increasing tax revenues.
Actually, not pursuing sex offenders would probably be better for the economy, since they don't cost the victims any money unless the victims end up late for work.
In fact, by opening up the market for slaves, we could get back the job market from china, and finally be able to compete on a wage basis!
Going in the other direction, we could have anyone who refuses to go to college and get a career killed. That way our workforce will be highly educated and motivated, helping to increase the power of the economy!
This may come as a shock, but you can hate someone without being a partisan.
I'd even say it's possible to hate an entire political party without being partisan. Personally, I find both the Republican Party and our own Conservative Party of Canada to be distasteful(relatively new, untraditional, left wing fantasy land economics being one reason, fascist interpetations of history leading to attacking anyone they disagree with being the other), but I consider myself to be more conservative than most. I'm not siding with the other guy, I'm just saying I don't like these folks. You can do that without being partisan. A Republican can say he doesn't like the KKK or a Democrat can say he doesn't like the Soviet Union without either casting out all ideas of the right or left, and becoming a partisan shill for the left or right.
It's not tough to hate a guy who started nuclear weapons development back up, nor the party that let him do it.
Yeah, we get it, "you're being a dick, stop hurting america". We get it already.
Why? Do you want your kid to become a graphic designer? DO YOU?!
Silly, we don't need a siren. We know you were playing Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas on the night of Febuary the 16th, only seconds before you decided to jaywalk in front of your home at 21:20:16GMT!
We're just finishing up the paperwork to initiate the lawsuit against Rockstar North now, then we'll be there to pick you up.
Unplug. Wait five minutes. Plug back in. Watch ultra-violent anime tentacle porn on YTV.
Ah, the innocence of youth.
Computers, like TVs, have this marvellous button which will send a digital "high" signal to a digital logic circuit in the power supply, which sets up a chain reaction which actually enables or disables a power transistor in there which allows you to choose whether a current is allowed to flow into a computer or not! They call it a "Power Button".
Even more amazingly, a room without a computer, or a phone, or a TV can actually considered to be (though it IS a rough approximation which engineers and scientists use to make calculations easier) "without computers or tvs or anything".
Some scientists in Antarctica are working with trying to combine these two ideas to both "turn off" the computer, as it's known, and "take the computer away".
They've encountered some resistance from kids who say they need a computer to do their homework. To alleviate this problem, the kids are given "pencils", "paper", and "calculators" to work with. Amazingly, kids using these fantastic new tools seem to get, on aggregate, an average of 900% more work done per unit of time!
It's groundbreaking research, but the practical applications are unreal!!!
I played LSL1 and LSL5 when I was a kid. I completed LSL5...somehow.
It's like a pixar movie -- a kid doesn't know what's going on, since he's a kid!
Besides, LSL1 gave me valuable life lessons later on when I had some clue about what was going on:
"FUCK HER"
">SLAPSLAP SLAP"
Rest assured, my kids'll play all 4 of the classic (pre-windows)larrys. And they'll have to figure out who Ronald Regan and Richard Nixon are, 'cause I won't let them play LSL1 until they can make it through the intro.