More info here for those of you who aren't familiar with the case. Short story: Canadian citizen living in the US was convicted of the horrible crime of selling water filters to Cuba.
A damn shame. If only he sold guns to South American terrorists, he'd have been fine.
The concept of the Lone Gunmen being buried in Arlington is just so completely wrong I don't know where to begin.
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Flash back a century. "Motor car owners need to remember that horse-buggy makers and the horse-buggy industry employ thousands - if not millions - and generate huge revenues for the US."
Or maybe a bit earlier? "Electric lightbulb users need to remember that oil-lamp makers and the oil lamp industry employ thousands - if not millions - and generate huge revenues for the US."
I found that about a year and a half ago, and brought it up in UI design class at college. The instructor was overjoyed, and made it required reading from that point forward.
And let me tell you, our interfaces in that class needed all the help they could get. Programmer art as far as the eye could see.
The National Post is a joke. It's just our version of CNN. Now the Globe and Mail on the other hand, that's a decent paper. Not perfect, but decent.
Besides, the mace story doesn't deserve wide coverage. Some idiot MP throwing a temper tantrum isn't as important as, say, the 3 boards of inquiry looking into the two US F16 pilots that killed 4 soldiers.
Arthur C. Clarke had an interesting idea in "Fountains of Paradise". The leader of a colony was chosen at random by the colony's central computer. Anyone who expressed an interest in ruling was disqualified. There was a quote (I don't have the book with me, I'm most certainly getting it wrong) along the lines of "We want someone who will be dragged kicking and screaming into office, and then will do the best job they can so that they'll get time off for good behaviour". Probably not practical in real life, though.
Don't forget to add a nice incriminating subject, like "Re: Request for nuclear bomb plans, here you go" or "Schedule for attacking the air force base".
Amen to that. I got a Live 5.1 a few months ago to replace an ancient ISA SB16. What a hell of a time I had installing it. Got it working eventually, but I ended up inventing some new swear phrases in the process. Thanks, Creative. You lost a customer forever. Does Creative even *have* a testing department?
If they do, and they're reading, maybe this would help with their QC process: MOST PEOPLE HAVE MORE THAN ONE PCI CARD IN THEIR COMPUTER. MAKE YOUR CARDS PLACE NICE WITH OTHERS.
But at least the entire operating system doesn't depend on it, just Outlook Express, which is free and uninstallable.
(darkly) So far.
Semi-OT, does anyone know of a replacement file manager for Windows 98? I don't mean a shell that sits on top of Explorer, I mean a complete replacement of Explorer.
I agree with you on one point. IE6 is a very good browser. But in the hell is it the file manager as well? I don't want bad javascript on a webpage to crash my entire goddamn computer.
Ah, so globalism is good until it upsets bloated, inefficient US monopolies? Ah, I understand now. This explains the new US tariff on Canadian softwood lumber, too.
For those not in the know, Canadian lumber companies are beingpunished by the US for having efficient, profitable mills, resulting if a few thousand layoffs. But that's okay, they're not Americans, so they don't matter.
Numerous obligations? Like what? If you don't like the terms of the GPL, like you said yourself,WRITE YOUR OWN CODE . No one's forcing you to use someone else's code. People who whine about how restrictive the GPL is just want a free lunch.
"Segmented software"? What the fuck is that? Oh, I get it. It's a new turn you invented to describe some big scary situation so that others will buy into your worthless argument, duped into thinking that you know what you're talking about.
I only downloaded the Slack 8 packages, so I don't know if the prelink and objprelink trick was used, but KDE3 was very snappy on my poor old K6-400 w/384MB ram. When I turned on full effects, it lagged a bit and hogged memory, but was still useable. Startup time was about a minute. I imagine on modern hardware it would be much better. I would have kept KDE3 on, but I'm rather strapped for disk space. Very impressive work, and this is coming from an obsessive Windowmaker-loving efficiency nut.:)
The gimp's web page does not inspire confidence in their Windows stability--or are they just being modest?
I've always found the win32 port to be rock solid for me, but I'm not graphics professional, and I only run 98. I've never tried it under other platforms.
Though if all that's needed is a viewer, not an editor, Xzgv is great for big images. GTK has been ported to Windows (enough for Gimp to run, anyway) and it's probably less work to add CMYK to such a small program than Gimp.
With Xzgv on my puny K6-400 with 384MB RAM, I can load 50MB jpegs and tiffs in under 30 seconds, and panning is done in realtime. A modern workstation should handle bigger files even faster. Might be worth the effort to adapt it if adding CYMK doesn't break the speed.
Computer: "Dum de dum, let's send single soldiers one at a time down this pass lined with two dozen of the player's turrets! Yeah, that's a sure-fire strategy!"
*shakes head* Those games are so easy once you figure out the computer's behaviour.
Another one I love is Homeworld. "Let's send our entire fleet straight at the player mothership! Hmm, what are these little things? Mines? Dunno what those are, let's just plow through."
Is it just me, or is playing defensively is the best way to win those games?
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More info here for those of you who aren't familiar with the case. Short story: Canadian citizen living in the US was convicted of the horrible crime of selling water filters to Cuba.
A damn shame. If only he sold guns to South American terrorists, he'd have been fine.
I used to have sympathy for you Americans. Sept 11 was a terrible crime, and hurt so many people. But between the Cuban embargo, crippling our industries for being too efficient and too high-quality, and violating the basic human rights of our citizens because they're not Americans, continuuing to use anti-personnel land mines, and basically pissing all over the Kyoto treaty and anti-ballistic missle treaty, you're doing your damnest to screw the world. You can all go fuck yourselves. (For those of you who actually vote and try to change how the US government acts, I apologize. But you're in the minority.)
And that's not even mentioning the DMCA and SSSCA, which have gotten plenty of airing here and don't even need explaining.
Do your worst moderation, you jingoistic sheep. I've got plenty of karma to burn.
The concept of the Lone Gunmen being buried in Arlington is just so completely wrong I don't know where to begin.
Flash back a century. "Motor car owners need to remember that horse-buggy makers and the horse-buggy industry employ thousands - if not millions - and generate huge revenues for the US."
Or maybe a bit earlier? "Electric lightbulb users need to remember that oil-lamp makers and the oil lamp industry employ thousands - if not millions - and generate huge revenues for the US."
Get the picture yet?
I found that about a year and a half ago, and brought it up in UI design class at college. The instructor was overjoyed, and made it required reading from that point forward.
And let me tell you, our interfaces in that class needed all the help they could get. Programmer art as far as the eye could see.
Wow. You're the most coherent anti-compression audiophile I've ever seen. Congratulations.
For a moment, I thought Sheila Copps had an orgasm.
Thank you for that mental image. I was worried I was going to be able to sleep tonight, but you cured me of that.
The National Post is a joke. It's just our version of CNN. Now the Globe and Mail on the other hand, that's a decent paper. Not perfect, but decent.
Besides, the mace story doesn't deserve wide coverage. Some idiot MP throwing a temper tantrum isn't as important as, say, the 3 boards of inquiry looking into the two US F16 pilots that killed 4 soldiers.
Arthur C. Clarke had an interesting idea in "Fountains of Paradise". The leader of a colony was chosen at random by the colony's central computer. Anyone who expressed an interest in ruling was disqualified. There was a quote (I don't have the book with me, I'm most certainly getting it wrong) along the lines of "We want someone who will be dragged kicking and screaming into office, and then will do the best job they can so that they'll get time off for good behaviour". Probably not practical in real life, though.
Don't forget to add a nice incriminating subject, like "Re: Request for nuclear bomb plans, here you go" or "Schedule for attacking the air force base".
Goddamn, I wish I hadn't used up all my mod points last night. You deserve a couple of funnies.
But the real question is, is Disney a mammal? Does he fight ALL the time?
Amen to that. I got a Live 5.1 a few months ago to replace an ancient ISA SB16. What a hell of a time I had installing it. Got it working eventually, but I ended up inventing some new swear phrases in the process. Thanks, Creative. You lost a customer forever. Does Creative even *have* a testing department?
If they do, and they're reading, maybe this would help with their QC process: MOST PEOPLE HAVE MORE THAN ONE PCI CARD IN THEIR COMPUTER. MAKE YOUR CARDS PLACE NICE WITH OTHERS.
Name two big industries that refer to their customers as "users".
All true. I wish I had mod points, and I doubly wish that I could use them all on a single post.
But at least the entire operating system doesn't depend on it, just Outlook Express, which is free and uninstallable.
(darkly) So far.
Semi-OT, does anyone know of a replacement file manager for Windows 98? I don't mean a shell that sits on top of Explorer, I mean a complete replacement of Explorer.
I agree with you on one point. IE6 is a very good browser. But in the hell is it the file manager as well? I don't want bad javascript on a webpage to crash my entire goddamn computer.
Don't forget Mystic Quest. Wait. on second thought, forget Mystic Quest.
I loved the old FFs as much any rpg geek, but 7 was the last gasp of creativity in the whole shebang. And Tactics. Tactics rocked.
Already answered.
Ah, so globalism is good until it upsets bloated, inefficient US monopolies? Ah, I understand now. This explains the new US tariff on Canadian softwood lumber, too.
For those not in the know, Canadian lumber companies are being punished by the US for having efficient, profitable mills, resulting if a few thousand layoffs. But that's okay, they're not Americans, so they don't matter.
Numerous obligations? Like what? If you don't like the terms of the GPL, like you said yourself, WRITE YOUR OWN CODE . No one's forcing you to use someone else's code. People who whine about how restrictive the GPL is just want a free lunch.
"Segmented software"? What the fuck is that? Oh, I get it. It's a new turn you invented to describe some big scary situation so that others will buy into your worthless argument, duped into thinking that you know what you're talking about.
I only downloaded the Slack 8 packages, so I don't know if the prelink and objprelink trick was used, but KDE3 was very snappy on my poor old K6-400 w/384MB ram. When I turned on full effects, it lagged a bit and hogged memory, but was still useable. Startup time was about a minute. I imagine on modern hardware it would be much better. I would have kept KDE3 on, but I'm rather strapped for disk space. Very impressive work, and this is coming from an obsessive Windowmaker-loving efficiency nut. :)
The gimp's web page does not inspire confidence in their Windows stability--or are they just being modest?
I've always found the win32 port to be rock solid for me, but I'm not graphics professional, and I only run 98. I've never tried it under other platforms.
Though if all that's needed is a viewer, not an editor, Xzgv is great for big images. GTK has been ported to Windows (enough for Gimp to run, anyway) and it's probably less work to add CMYK to such a small program than Gimp.
With Xzgv on my puny K6-400 with 384MB RAM, I can load 50MB jpegs and tiffs in under 30 seconds, and panning is done in realtime. A modern workstation should handle bigger files even faster. Might be worth the effort to adapt it if adding CYMK doesn't break the speed.
Yeah! After all, look how stable and powerful the HURD kernel is.
Computer: "Dum de dum, let's send single soldiers one at a time down this pass lined with two dozen of the player's turrets! Yeah, that's a sure-fire strategy!"
*shakes head* Those games are so easy once you figure out the computer's behaviour.
Another one I love is Homeworld. "Let's send our entire fleet straight at the player mothership! Hmm, what are these little things? Mines? Dunno what those are, let's just plow through."
Is it just me, or is playing defensively is the best way to win those games?
Remember who owns Fritz Hollings.
I've hung Linux before [try using full screen DGA apps at the same time as TV stuff...] so don't go telling me that Linux is all that.
When in my post did I ever say anything about Linux? Please stop setting up strawman arguments.