Where else but America... Canada.... England, Germany, New Zealand, Austrialia, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Iceland, Belgium, Denmark or Italy, or one of the countries I have forgotten to name, could a hard worker from a nation with a crappy economy come to a place with a decent economy, work hard, and have an engineer in the family in only three generations?
lol, I am looking forward to seeing how small I can make the (currently 1GB) default Windows 2000 install. Stick the tiny K-Meleon web browser on there, and I might have to recommend 2000lite to many, many people.
All I saw was a page long attack on vans hardware for using data provided by AMD. I don't see how reporting with the information that he's actually given is a bad thing. After reading so many hardware sites with their pseudo-science-like analysis of why certain programs benchmark faster ("here we can see the power of the SSE2 and RDRAM catching up to 3dNow Pro, but without occulsion mapping, will it be able to stay there?"), it's refreshing to see just the facts, and not some lameassed attempt at sounding important by stating theories as fact.
I'd like you to meet my freind logic. He's a stoic little fellow, but he has some really interesing things to say, and they make a lot of sense. Like if the money in your account was stolen, you have been deprived of the money, and being deprived of something is under his definition of stealing.. Perhaps a better example would be if he made a copy of your account, so he had just as much money as you, but you don't have any less money. But then your childish arguement falls apart.
Oh. Now I see how the GPL "gobbles up all your intelectual property", by being stolen outright! Of course! By being stolen outright, it becomes the property of the commercial interest, and when the real authors start raising a fuss about the outright theft of code, they LOSE their stolen IP!
Right?...
Right?
What do you mean Bill Gates is a dirty rotten IP thief? When did he come into this conversation?
No, I don't think stealing code from Xerox dumpsters and using that as a baisis for his first product counts as gobbling up IP... Why are you looking at me that way? Why did Bill Gates come into the conversation?
Linux as a kernel is inconsequencial.There are other Open source kernels ready to run all this code with a simple find/replace and a recompile. I think people just rally behind Linux because it represents a starting point. If there are drivers for your hardware, Linux runs significantly better than Windows, and I think that point of pride is important to making people realize the truth about Open Source(not nessessarily GPL).
Unfortunately, though I shall not be supporting either the RIAA or MPAA financially due to their recent requests for immunity to commit cyber crimes. That makes them criminals in my book, and I don't give money to criminals.
The movie sounds good though, so I anxiously await the day that jackasses don't run the RIAA/MPAA....Hopefully it's before the Matrix 2 and 3 come out?:)
It's pretty easy, but not too straightforeward to do this on anything more than an application level(many apps implement their own clipboards, which take up their own memory space. KDE has a global copy/paste). Select the text you want to paste somewhere else. Move to the new document. Hit your middle mouse button. I haven't seen a single program that doesn't allow this, right down to old Xlib apps. If you accidently select some other text before pasting, click on the clipboard icon on the bar, and select the text you wanted to paste first....and, since we're talking about Microsoft, the quote from the last MS employee that I enjoyed most was "Open source is like pac-man!". Yup, it's fun, addictive, and it's set to take the world by storm.
There are benchmarks out for this same engineering sample from several months ago(actual ones, not "well, here's that same test on a 6 year old celeron" benchmarks), and it it quite fast. If I recall correctly, the 800(which is now several months old) beat the p4 1600. It doesn't seem to impressive until you also realize that the Athlon 1 Ghz chips were *just* edging out the p4 1.4 ghz chips in some applications
I was expecting something of substance; for crists sake, we had perliminary benchmarks of the same processor months ago! All I got was a press release and a really badly done benchmark comparison("well, here's how the 800 did. For comparison, lets see what a 400 celeron did!")
Reading this truly was a waste of my time. The ad when I clicked on the final "next" link added to my frustration.
I am working on a small game myself at the moment(just a freeware title for DOS, bad graphics, primitive code, weak music, but I take great pride in it, because it is my work, my piece of art, my experience to share with the world). Whenever I hear of some ignorant individual spouting off about the supposed wrath of violent video games, it makes me angry. Many times, I notice that the aforementioned "activists", are nothing more than leeches, leeching media exposure off of what should be a somber and saddening occasion such as Colombine, using a tragedy to further their political agenda in a way which should rightly cause horror and disgust in right minded people(I hate using the term, but really -- to use a tragedy like that to further your own political agenda is disgusting). Unfortunately, these people are also very often ignorant of the facts, so I am helpless against their torrent of misinformation. Video games are not the only thing which attract such leeches. After colombine, almost every aspect of popular culture which was found to have a connection to the two boys was exploited; the Matrix, violent music, the list is endless. As a game producer, I feel that the public has no concievable, legitimate right to tell me what I can and can't put in my games; be it philosophy, story, gore, violence, or mature subject matter. Those who believe it's somehow my responsibility to watch their children(while depriving other children with more mature parents of a mature, possibly enlightening experience) should grow up a bit and allow themselves to be parents. Some will say "but what if my child gets a violent game without me looking?", and to this I reply that if you make a rule that says that a child may not play or rent a violent video game, and that child breaks that rule, punish the child, not the industry! If you don't discipline your children yourself, you will find that violent computer games are the least of your worries when he/she reaches their teenage years.
Don't try to cloud the issues. This isn't about free speech, this is about the RIAA and MPAA trying to make it legal for them to DoS individuals. If the law passes, you can be goddamned sure that they will constantly make use of this new tool. Perhaps you've never had to pay for bandwidth, but the costs can add up if rhe RIAA is constantly DoSing your customers. Ergo, block the entire network, their web pages, their infiltrators, their DoS engines, because to be honest, the RIAA and MPAA don't deserve to be on the internet with the rest of us more civilized individuals.
freind, you seem to misunderstand the dilemma; the reason that all these things are happening. THE RIAA ARE TRYING TO MAKE IT LEGAL TO THEM TO DOS NETWORKS!
The message is probably 32 N characters, followed by a small amount of code. That type of speech is illegal. It's called "hacking". I shall now kick you in the nuts. Don't try to block it or get out of the way; It's my right to send the message of pain to your gonads.
Personally, the whole industry is a joke; how criminal can we become before someone actually notices?
I am going to punch you. I have threatened that I will punch you. I have put the legal means into place that say that I can punch you without any legal ramifications.
When I take a swing at you, will you get out of the way, or will you accept my right to punch you?
Perhaps changing your sig would be appropriate. I don't really want to criticise(though the thread in your journal is closed is closed, so I can't do it there...), but the entirety of your arguement turns on one idea; "Well, I don't know the truth, but I assume these are myths, and not actually well documented fact, or extremely reasonable educated guesses, or confessions from a valid source...". This is a foolhardy way to start any arguement. It's flawed from the start, and therefore, any arguements you make from this are quite certain to be flawed(if they aren't, it's a mere coincidence, nothing more).
It has an office suite. It has a web browser(several, including mozilla). It has a graphics manipulation program. It has games. It has a fully functional Dev environment. It has network applications like VNC. It has X. It has wine. It has at least one of anything a user would need.
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Mine too was a joke. MicroGigahertz. Wacky. Strange. Try figuring out how many zeroes one uGhz vs. one hz would have and where. It hurts my brain.
Where else but America... Canada.... England, Germany, New Zealand, Austrialia, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Iceland, Belgium, Denmark or Italy, or one of the countries I have forgotten to name, could a hard worker from a nation with a crappy economy come to a place with a decent economy, work hard, and have an engineer in the family in only three generations?
Wouldn't it be GH(ertz) = Gh(ertz)?
now... uGhz would be different!(and would confuse the hell out of people!)
If I were a manager...blahblahblah...
Let me guess...Out of work Dot-bomb manager?
lol, I am looking forward to seeing how small I can make the (currently 1GB) default Windows 2000 install. Stick the tiny K-Meleon web browser on there, and I might have to recommend 2000lite to many, many people.
All I saw was a page long attack on vans hardware for using data provided by AMD. I don't see how reporting with the information that he's actually given is a bad thing. After reading so many hardware sites with their pseudo-science-like analysis of why certain programs benchmark faster ("here we can see the power of the SSE2 and RDRAM catching up to 3dNow Pro, but without occulsion mapping, will it be able to stay there?"), it's refreshing to see just the facts, and not some lameassed attempt at sounding important by stating theories as fact.
It's litepc.net now. They probably changed it because they're working on 2000lite and XPlite right now.
Yay competition!
Wait...This is Slashdot, home of the "competition is bad" thread...
Boo! Competiton! Users and developers don't want choice! What does this look like? A democracy?
Hope you enjoy spiting your noseless face.
What?
I'd like you to meet my freind logic. He's a stoic little fellow, but he has some really interesing things to say, and they make a lot of sense. Like if the money in your account was stolen, you have been deprived of the money, and being deprived of something is under his definition of stealing.. Perhaps a better example would be if he made a copy of your account, so he had just as much money as you, but you don't have any less money. But then your childish arguement falls apart.
Oh. Now I see how the GPL "gobbles up all your intelectual property", by being stolen outright! Of course! By being stolen outright, it becomes the property of the commercial interest, and when the real authors start raising a fuss about the outright theft of code, they LOSE their stolen IP!
...
Right?
Right?
What do you mean Bill Gates is a dirty rotten IP thief? When did he come into this conversation?
No, I don't think stealing code from Xerox dumpsters and using that as a baisis for his first product counts as gobbling up IP... Why are you looking at me that way? Why did Bill Gates come into the conversation?
Oh, right. FUD. the whole gobbling remark. Okay.
(I'm one insane motherf*cker)
Linux as a kernel is inconsequencial.There are other Open source kernels ready to run all this code with a simple find/replace and a recompile. I think people just rally behind Linux because it represents a starting point. If there are drivers for your hardware, Linux runs significantly better than Windows, and I think that point of pride is important to making people realize the truth about Open Source(not nessessarily GPL).
Unfortunately, though I shall not be supporting either the RIAA or MPAA financially due to their recent requests for immunity to commit cyber crimes. That makes them criminals in my book, and I don't give money to criminals.
...Hopefully it's before the Matrix 2 and 3 come out? :)
The movie sounds good though, so I anxiously await the day that jackasses don't run the RIAA/MPAA.
It's pretty easy, but not too straightforeward to do this on anything more than an application level(many apps implement their own clipboards, which take up their own memory space. KDE has a global copy/paste). Select the text you want to paste somewhere else. Move to the new document. Hit your middle mouse button. I haven't seen a single program that doesn't allow this, right down to old Xlib apps. If you accidently select some other text before pasting, click on the clipboard icon on the bar, and select the text you wanted to paste first. ...and, since we're talking about Microsoft, the quote from the last MS employee that I enjoyed most was "Open source is like pac-man!". Yup, it's fun, addictive, and it's set to take the world by storm.
There are benchmarks out for this same engineering sample from several months ago(actual ones, not "well, here's that same test on a 6 year old celeron" benchmarks), and it it quite fast. If I recall correctly, the 800(which is now several months old) beat the p4 1600. It doesn't seem to impressive until you also realize that the Athlon 1 Ghz chips were *just* edging out the p4 1.4 ghz chips in some applications
What about the criticizing of someones criticizing of someones criticizing?
Can't we all just get along?!
I was expecting something of substance; for crists sake, we had perliminary benchmarks of the same processor months ago! All I got was a press release and a really badly done benchmark comparison("well, here's how the 800 did. For comparison, lets see what a 400 celeron did!")
Reading this truly was a waste of my time. The ad when I clicked on the final "next" link added to my frustration.
I am working on a small game myself at the moment(just a freeware title for DOS, bad graphics, primitive code, weak music, but I take great pride in it, because it is my work, my piece of art, my experience to share with the world). Whenever I hear of some ignorant individual spouting off about the supposed wrath of violent video games, it makes me angry. Many times, I notice that the aforementioned "activists", are nothing more than leeches, leeching media exposure off of what should be a somber and saddening occasion such as Colombine, using a tragedy to further their political agenda in a way which should rightly cause horror and disgust in right minded people(I hate using the term, but really -- to use a tragedy like that to further your own political agenda is disgusting). Unfortunately, these people are also very often ignorant of the facts, so I am helpless against their torrent of misinformation. Video games are not the only thing which attract such leeches. After colombine, almost every aspect of popular culture which was found to have a connection to the two boys was exploited; the Matrix, violent music, the list is endless. As a game producer, I feel that the public has no concievable, legitimate right to tell me what I can and can't put in my games; be it philosophy, story, gore, violence, or mature subject matter. Those who believe it's somehow my responsibility to watch their children(while depriving other children with more mature parents of a mature, possibly enlightening experience) should grow up a bit and allow themselves to be parents. Some will say "but what if my child gets a violent game without me looking?", and to this I reply that if you make a rule that says that a child may not play or rent a violent video game, and that child breaks that rule, punish the child, not the industry! If you don't discipline your children yourself, you will find that violent computer games are the least of your worries when he/she reaches their teenage years.
Judge:Why aren't you blocking this website?
ISP:Because they weren't trying to DoS us.
Don't try to cloud the issues. This isn't about free speech, this is about the RIAA and MPAA trying to make it legal for them to DoS individuals. If the law passes, you can be goddamned sure that they will constantly make use of this new tool. Perhaps you've never had to pay for bandwidth, but the costs can add up if rhe RIAA is constantly DoSing your customers. Ergo, block the entire network, their web pages, their infiltrators, their DoS engines, because to be honest, the RIAA and MPAA don't deserve to be on the internet with the rest of us more civilized individuals.
freind, you seem to misunderstand the dilemma; the reason that all these things are happening. THE RIAA ARE TRYING TO MAKE IT LEGAL TO THEM TO DOS NETWORKS!
The message is probably 32 N characters, followed by a small amount of code. That type of speech is illegal. It's called "hacking". I shall now kick you in the nuts. Don't try to block it or get out of the way; It's my right to send the message of pain to your gonads.
Personally, the whole industry is a joke; how criminal can we become before someone actually notices?
I am going to punch you. I have threatened that I will punch you. I have put the legal means into place that say that I can punch you without any legal ramifications.
When I take a swing at you, will you get out of the way, or will you accept my right to punch you?
It doesn't change the fact that they advertise the pentium 4 as being faster than a PIII or Athlon. Lets see....P4 1.4 Ghz, vs. P3 1.0 Ghz...
Perhaps changing your sig would be appropriate. I don't really want to criticise(though the thread in your journal is closed is closed, so I can't do it there...), but the entirety of your arguement turns on one idea; "Well, I don't know the truth, but I assume these are myths, and not actually well documented fact, or extremely reasonable educated guesses, or confessions from a valid source...". This is a foolhardy way to start any arguement. It's flawed from the start, and therefore, any arguements you make from this are quite certain to be flawed(if they aren't, it's a mere coincidence, nothing more).
It has an office suite. It has a web browser(several, including mozilla). It has a graphics manipulation program. It has games. It has a fully functional Dev environment. It has network applications like VNC. It has X. It has wine. It has at least one of anything a user would need.