It looks like people like Christopher Reeve are walking again despite the fact that John Kerry isn't President of the United States. I guess Edwards forgot that part.
When the taxpayers weren't forced to pay for having their own rights trampled? When copyright holders were required to take pirates to court at their own expense and prove damages before a judge or jury?
I love politically-incorrect humor. This world would be a lot less stressful is people whould stop trying to be offended and just grow a thicker skin. I'm a pasty-white 100-pound nerd with glasses, and I'm proud of it. 'Nuff said.
Candidate John Kerry has also said he'll add a $2 trillion dollar giveaway in the form of universal health care to everyone projected to be on the dole when it gets implemented without raising my taxes.
So, in a more recent interview (maybe it was in Revolution OS, the movie?) Linus says specifically that people pronounce his name in different ways depending on what language they're speaking or whence they come, but Linux is always "linnucks".
FWIW, when I started using Linux back in '94, I pronounced it "lie-nucks" because that's how everyone around me pronounced it. There were always the few scattered wackos who insisted on pronouncing it "lean-nucks", but by 1995 or 1996 everyone had basically settled on "linnucks," where it remains today.
Agreed. As a small-"l" libertarian, I find some of the big-"L" Libertarian Party's tactics and statements to be incredibly kooky, hypocritical, counterproductive, and embarrassing.
What makes you think a Kerry administration would do anything differently? Face facts: at this time, this issue is of importance only to a very small minority of the citizens of this country. It is likely that the DoJ---most of which is made up of lifers, not administration appointeees---will continue to execute civil forfeiture and prosecute file sharers until (a) the courts rein law enforcement in, something that has been very slow to happen with civil forfeiture in other arenas or (b) enough people are affected that it appears on the radar of general public consciousness.
Any vote against Bush/for Kerry on this issue is consequently pointless.
How is this "insightful"? This is NOT censorship! I repeat: THIS IS NOT CENSORSHIP. If you think it's censorship, show me the law telling NBC they have to tape-delay their broadcasts, or the IOC (a non-US entity) that they must write geographical restrictions into their broadcast contracts.
Wouldn't we -- and they -- have been better off if they just punched out larger quanitites of the higher-end chips at less cost?
No, neither you nor they would be better off. Companies like nVidia and ATI rely on the quick infusion of lots of cash from the early adopters to fund R&D on better GPU's. If they sold their best chips at the same cost as an FX5200, funding for innovating these great chips would dry up and you'd have to wait much longer for new designs and better performance.
The best way to get these companies to reduce their costs is simply not to buy their equipment. The laws of supply and demand will naturally produce an equilibrium in which they sell their products at a price point that maximizes their own profit. If their best cards are $500, then you can be assured that there are enough people out there willing to pay $500 to make it more profitable for them to sell it for that price than for $499, $250, $120, or $60. If you aren't one of those people willing to pay $500, then either (a) produce your own damn GPU or (b) wait for the prices to come down. Either way, stop whining.
Exactly. The very nature of stock trading is that no money is created, it's only moved.
Can someone explain precisely how this got modded up? This statement is true only if there is no actual money in the market when you measure "wealth": i.e., if to measure its accuracy, you need everyone to sell all their stock and then measure the aggregate amount of money in all former stockholders' bank accounts.
The stock market in fact has a wealth multiplying effect, as all financial markets do: the "money" you have in $100 Yahoo shares isn't sitting in a bank account somewhere, but is instead being used by Yahoo to invest in other companies (through stock swaps), is being loaned to companies to make capital investments, is being used as collateral by individuals, etc.
Bottom line: stop talking out of your ass about something you clearly know nothing about.
I have a Thinkpad T40 with the lower resolution (1024x768) display. With the extended-life battery, I easily get 4 hours of DVD playing time when I'm on the airplane. With the standard battery as a backup, I can watch nearly 6 hours of DVD's without recharging.
In A Deepness in the Sky, Vinge posits a collection of software of ancient origins that handles all of the Qeng Ho's automation. This software is never replaced, but simply evolves as better ideas appear. While not technically open source (the Qeng Ho considered this software to be one of their proprietary advantages), it is open to every member of the group. By the time of Pham Nuwen, it had existed in some form or another for literally thousands of years, and over that time had been inspected by thousands of people.
I'm simply not interested in the opinions of people who are apparently so unsure of them that even they won't stand behind them. The only exception to this IMO is someone who can't be bothered to create a new slashdot account every time he posts from a surveillance state somewhere, and thus can't afford as a matter of liberty to provide police a way to track his posts. (Then again, you'd think he'd have better things to do than post on slashdot.) But this exception is too long to stick in my sig, so there.
In the United States, truth is an absolute defense against charges of slander or libel. This is one of the many immensely logical precepts of our legal system that most of us on Slashdot (including myself, I know) take for granted just as we criticize other aspects of the same system. Let's have a round of applause for the US in this matter, and then go right back to criticism.:)
I haven't actually compiled any statistics, but the number of posts on slashdot attacking the messenger in precisely this way (too ugly/lame/smelly/oblivious to get sex) is ridiculous. IMO, if you were actually out getting any, you wouldn't waste your time posting here.
The lesson here, especially to investors, is: "Don't try to provide innovative service in a heavily regulated industry." All that will happen is you'll blow a lot of money to get your business off the ground, only to be slapped down by a regulatory environment that, intentionally (through corruption) or not (through the law of unforeseen consequences), effectively acts as a defender of the status quo: the behemoth government-protected monopolies who've already learned the lesson.
Dammit, record label execs are not terrorists. Terrorists blow up buildings full of innocent people. Colluding to raise the price of a product or service is not terrorism by any stretch of the imagination, and it's an insult both to the record label scum and to the memories of victims of terrorism to imply that it is.
Seriously, "cheap but good enough" almost always manages to beat "expensive and techically superior." Apple might be an exception, but that's open to debate.
Um... as far as I can tell, the debate is pretty much over: Windows owns over 90% of the personal computer market, with Apple and Linux filling niche roles.
Windows = cheap but good enough. Apple = pretty and technically superior, but expensive. Linux = cheap and technically superior, but much harder to setup and use.
Best performance improvement I ever got with the 2.4 series kernels was shutting off swap. My machine immediately became more responsive. From that point forward, I wouldn't come back to the machine after an hour away and encounter a jerky X mouse cursor because the instant I turned off the screensaver the kernel had to page all 128MB of my applications back into the 512MB RAM because it decided buffer cache was more important than code.
The 2.4 VM changes causing this behavior were awful, and it's too bad that I have to sacrifice a large (disk-based) physical address space, but I'm not going to put up with my applications being paged out when I have 4x as much RAM as code I'm running. Just allowing the system admin to put a limit on the size of the buffer cache would probably solve most of my problems, but instead I have to turn off swap. Too bad.
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It looks like people like Christopher Reeve are walking again despite the fact that John Kerry isn't President of the United States. I guess Edwards forgot that part.
:)
PRAISE THE LORD!
When the taxpayers weren't forced to pay for having their own rights trampled? When copyright holders were required to take pirates to court at their own expense and prove damages before a judge or jury?
Workers of the world unite! You need to revolt and kill every employer. Then you'll be in better shape.
Right?
I love politically-incorrect humor. This world would be a lot less stressful is people whould stop trying to be offended and just grow a thicker skin. I'm a pasty-white 100-pound nerd with glasses, and I'm proud of it. 'Nuff said.
Candidate John Kerry has also said he'll add a $2 trillion dollar giveaway in the form of universal health care to everyone projected to be on the dole when it gets implemented without raising my taxes.
Right.
So, in a more recent interview (maybe it was in Revolution OS, the movie?) Linus says specifically that people pronounce his name in different ways depending on what language they're speaking or whence they come, but Linux is always "linnucks".
FWIW, when I started using Linux back in '94, I pronounced it "lie-nucks" because that's how everyone around me pronounced it. There were always the few scattered wackos who insisted on pronouncing it "lean-nucks", but by 1995 or 1996 everyone had basically settled on "linnucks," where it remains today.
Agreed. As a small-"l" libertarian, I find some of the big-"L" Libertarian Party's tactics and statements to be incredibly kooky, hypocritical, counterproductive, and embarrassing.
What do you think "fantasy" is?
:-D
Duh.
What makes you think a Kerry administration would do anything differently? Face facts: at this time, this issue is of importance only to a very small minority of the citizens of this country. It is likely that the DoJ---most of which is made up of lifers, not administration appointeees---will continue to execute civil forfeiture and prosecute file sharers until (a) the courts rein law enforcement in, something that has been very slow to happen with civil forfeiture in other arenas or (b) enough people are affected that it appears on the radar of general public consciousness.
Any vote against Bush/for Kerry on this issue is consequently pointless.
How is this "insightful"? This is NOT censorship! I repeat: THIS IS NOT CENSORSHIP. If you think it's censorship, show me the law telling NBC they have to tape-delay their broadcasts, or the IOC (a non-US entity) that they must write geographical restrictions into their broadcast contracts.
The ignorance of some of you astounds me.
Wouldn't we -- and they -- have been better off if they just punched out larger quanitites of the higher-end chips at less cost?
No, neither you nor they would be better off. Companies like nVidia and ATI rely on the quick infusion of lots of cash from the early adopters to fund R&D on better GPU's. If they sold their best chips at the same cost as an FX5200, funding for innovating these great chips would dry up and you'd have to wait much longer for new designs and better performance.
The best way to get these companies to reduce their costs is simply not to buy their equipment. The laws of supply and demand will naturally produce an equilibrium in which they sell their products at a price point that maximizes their own profit. If their best cards are $500, then you can be assured that there are enough people out there willing to pay $500 to make it more profitable for them to sell it for that price than for $499, $250, $120, or $60. If you aren't one of those people willing to pay $500, then either (a) produce your own damn GPU or (b) wait for the prices to come down. Either way, stop whining.
Exactly. The very nature of stock trading is that no money is created, it's only moved.
Can someone explain precisely how this got modded up? This statement is true only if there is no actual money in the market when you measure "wealth": i.e., if to measure its accuracy, you need everyone to sell all their stock and then measure the aggregate amount of money in all former stockholders' bank accounts.
The stock market in fact has a wealth multiplying effect, as all financial markets do: the "money" you have in $100 Yahoo shares isn't sitting in a bank account somewhere, but is instead being used by Yahoo to invest in other companies (through stock swaps), is being loaned to companies to make capital investments, is being used as collateral by individuals, etc.
Bottom line: stop talking out of your ass about something you clearly know nothing about.
I have a Thinkpad T40 with the lower resolution (1024x768) display. With the extended-life battery, I easily get 4 hours of DVD playing time when I'm on the airplane. With the standard battery as a backup, I can watch nearly 6 hours of DVD's without recharging.
In A Deepness in the Sky, Vinge posits a collection of software of ancient origins that handles all of the Qeng Ho's automation. This software is never replaced, but simply evolves as better ideas appear. While not technically open source (the Qeng Ho considered this software to be one of their proprietary advantages), it is open to every member of the group. By the time of Pham Nuwen, it had existed in some form or another for literally thousands of years, and over that time had been inspected by thousands of people.
I didn't know the U2 singer was a Senator.
Oh, you must mean this Senator Bono.
You really need to get with it.
Because, of course, the government's 3% failure rate is much better than private industry could achieve.
I'm simply not interested in the opinions of people who are apparently so unsure of them that even they won't stand behind them. The only exception to this IMO is someone who can't be bothered to create a new slashdot account every time he posts from a surveillance state somewhere, and thus can't afford as a matter of liberty to provide police a way to track his posts. (Then again, you'd think he'd have better things to do than post on slashdot.) But this exception is too long to stick in my sig, so there.
:)
Oh, and bite me.
In the United States, truth is an absolute defense against charges of slander or libel. This is one of the many immensely logical precepts of our legal system that most of us on Slashdot (including myself, I know) take for granted just as we criticize other aspects of the same system. Let's have a round of applause for the US in this matter, and then go right back to criticism. :)
Cheers,
Kyle
I haven't actually compiled any statistics, but the number of posts on slashdot attacking the messenger in precisely this way (too ugly/lame/smelly/oblivious to get sex) is ridiculous. IMO, if you were actually out getting any, you wouldn't waste your time posting here.
Sucks, eh? Don't do 3-D then.
For the record, I use the nvidia proprietary driver under Linux.
The lesson here, especially to investors, is: "Don't try to provide innovative service in a heavily regulated industry." All that will happen is you'll blow a lot of money to get your business off the ground, only to be slapped down by a regulatory environment that, intentionally (through corruption) or not (through the law of unforeseen consequences), effectively acts as a defender of the status quo: the behemoth government-protected monopolies who've already learned the lesson.
Dammit, record label execs are not terrorists. Terrorists blow up buildings full of innocent people. Colluding to raise the price of a product or service is not terrorism by any stretch of the imagination, and it's an insult both to the record label scum and to the memories of victims of terrorism to imply that it is.
Seriously, "cheap but good enough" almost always manages to beat "expensive and techically superior." Apple might be an exception, but that's open to debate.
Um... as far as I can tell, the debate is pretty much over: Windows owns over 90% of the personal computer market, with Apple and Linux filling niche roles.
Windows = cheap but good enough.
Apple = pretty and technically superior, but expensive.
Linux = cheap and technically superior, but much harder to setup and use.
Best performance improvement I ever got with the 2.4 series kernels was shutting off swap. My machine immediately became more responsive. From that point forward, I wouldn't come back to the machine after an hour away and encounter a jerky X mouse cursor because the instant I turned off the screensaver the kernel had to page all 128MB of my applications back into the 512MB RAM because it decided buffer cache was more important than code.
The 2.4 VM changes causing this behavior were awful, and it's too bad that I have to sacrifice a large (disk-based) physical address space, but I'm not going to put up with my applications being paged out when I have 4x as much RAM as code I'm running. Just allowing the system admin to put a limit on the size of the buffer cache would probably solve most of my problems, but instead I have to turn off swap. Too bad.
I don't know about the OP, but I have over 100 GB of music at 192 kbits, all fully legit. So eat a dick, AC.