I'm guessing the virtual guest will be locked down. I mean its only basically becoming an emulation layer. Its not like you will be able to fully boot up into an XP desktop within Windows 7. At least that's the impression I'm getting so far. If the host is so hosed that whatever is owning it can get at the VM, you have completely lost. All of the networks communications still has to pass through the host. I'm guessing worst case scenario: nothing happens. The next time your virtual instance spawns it will be completely rolled back. This is kind of a great idea actually, especially if they figure out a way to give the VM access to the hardware in a more direct way.
Nero is pretty good at making coasters. It made 3 last night, until I said fuck it and used the crappy roxio that comes with XP. It worked just fine.:)
What picture of him laying next to an amiga? If you are talking about the teen beat spread, there were no amigas around then as the picture was from like 1983 or something.
Virtualbox still isn't low latency enough for sound apps to be truly useful. I'd love to see some sort of virtualbox flavor that we designed purely for running sound applications like live and reason. There's just way too much latency and I wouldn't mind even devoting a good chunk of CPU to having low latency ASIO outs in a virtual machine, but I think that the nature of the beast prohibits it. I mean, this is one of the bigger stumbling blocks to just virtualizing windows, at least for me. Also there are a whole bunch of games that don't run very well without excellent 3d acceleration. It has come a long way with the OpenGL-->Direct3d pipe, and wine still runs a bunch of stuff surprisingly well on the native side. Lately, I'm a lot more interested in running Linux in a virtual box on windows, but I don't think there is good 3d support for compiz and whatnot yet, whereas windows guests in linux get decent acceleration I think. The last time I devoted a significant chunk of time on it, I had linux as a guest on my windows box. Ubuntu 8.10 would run for a while and then corrupt on seamless mode. After a while it got to the point where simply booting into seamless would make the whole windows completely disappear. I posted a bug report to the virtual box team and never got a reply. Who knows. Maybe I'm just cursed. Ubuntu 9.04 won't boot on my machine either.:(
Cricket is still around today. I use them (unfortunately) and their practices have gotten increasingly more shady. What did they do back then to curb excess usage? I mean clearly their market plan had to survive somehow. Now they are starting to roll out 3G (or at least claiming 3G), so clearly they have capital to upgrade. It amazes me that cell phone companies are still getting away with the crap that they have been pulling. I mean look at a text message and when you realize that it actually costs them nothing at all to send them it makes you wonder how much longer people will put up with excessive price gouging. There needs to be a law to explain all the fees they tack on too and why they are even allowed to do so. The future is pure data. Buy a used iphone, jail break it, and buy into a data network. $20 for 100 megs a month will get you a lot of phone calls over skype. When you start looking at voice services as just another form of data it starts to get pretty amazing how much more people pay for basically the same thing. I would totally recommend cricket, but their TERRIBLE (and I mean TERRRRRRIBLE) customer service and confusing billing practices really put them in the bottom. I can't count how many times I've had to pay late fees because they decided to turn off my phone even though the bill was paid, and then being told by their representative that she cannot remove the fee? I've thought about opening up a few complaints with the BBB and maybe even the state PUC for this kind of crap. Especially when you have no real recourse other than to just pay. Bad credit doesn't really help when you want to get a cell phone and being locked into a contract is never a good option IMHO.
The whole point of the article is to tell what he did with linux when he first installed it. I read the whole article and he never did anything! I was waiting to hear that he actually did something with this linux install other than just getting it to run. No mention of any apps he checked out, how he felt about the desktop, nothing. I mean, what entirely is the point of this article? "I installed linux, got it to run, and never looked back." Whoopdeedoo. For the record, I first started out with debian and would always be stuck installing from floppies and then grabbing packages with a modem. Since I had older hardware (even then at the time) BASH was my desktop and then ZSH for a period of time. I always thought that textmode linux rocked (I still do) and is probably one of the strongest features of UNIX in general. I guess the first thing I ran was telnet, so I could get on a shell and irc for a while. See, this guy installed linux in 2001, and I've been using it off and on since, what 1997? Debian has always been my favorite distro by far and I've always liked Ubuntu by extension.
Yeah. Where did they spend that $250 billion? They need to be held accountable for a handout that large. That's 10x what we gave to domestic car manufacturers (roughly) and yet nothing has really improved in the last 15 years. Even if they over promised the government should have cut the funds long before it has gotten to the point it has now. A number like that is large enough to potentially buy out AT&T or Sprint entirely. That's ok. Hopefully we'll pull out the government credit card one too many times and find out that the credit is insufficient and this stupidity will just fucking collapse on itself. We are pretty fucked as it is.
I tried the RC a week ago and could not get it to boot. It dumps into busybox on the usb detection. My hardware is pretty generic, athlon 64 3000, sis chipset. I never had a problem with ubuntu before, and it seems kernel related. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/362629
Kind of a bummer that I can't even boot. One of these days I'll install linux without a single showstopper.....
I agree wholeheartedly. I've switched to linux a million times now and I keep falling back to the ever stable, ever reliable windows xp. I never dreamed that I would make this statement 10 years ago, but I have had about 0 problems with XP. Ever since service pack 2, XP has been rock solid. Its been a long, long time since I've seen a blue screen. I can't even remember. Maybe over a year ago. I was all excited about Ubuntu 9.04, so I downloaded the release candidate and tried a wubi install inside my windows partition. Usually this option works great, but not this time. It seems my generic Athlon 64 motherboard won't boot 9.04. Amazing. (It seems USB related) I finally dicked around and got it to boot (exit busy box after everything times out) and now it doesn't see my virtual partition on the windows drive. Lovely. It wants to install to the first primary partition on the first drive in the chain by default. If I didn't know what I was doing I could have easily installed over my windows partition (or attempted to at least). I'll take it as a sign. No Photoshop CS3? No lightroom? No reason or live? I can run mozilla and the gimp in windows too. In fact, there is better quality free software on windows than linux and a great deal more of it too. I don't want to turn this into a troll (I know I'm on the edge here), but when my ATI card can't even get accelerated 3d at a basic level its kind of hard to see the appeal. (was looking foward to the new drivers too) A lot of this crap would have been perfectly acceptable in 1994, but its going on 2010 and when I plug something in, I really expect it to work without pissing around with it for 3 days and finding the magic keywords on google that will hunt down that one post on that one obscure bulletin board that will magically fix my problem. Sorry. To get back ontopic....
Its amazing that M$ would even consider selling such a neutered OS still. Look at what the OEMs are paying for a license (they won't tell you, people would be outraged) and look at what you pay when you walk into Best Buy and pick up a copy of ultimate. What the hell ever happened to the simple Home/Corporate ideology of XP? Like for instance vista ultimate is $319 versus Home premium at $239 with surprisingly Vista Business being the cheapest out of the 3 at $200. The cheapest dell right now is like $350 with vista home premium. So what is dell paying for the OEM license? $50? $70? I don't see how it could be more than $70. Why the hell do you have to pay $170 more at retail???? Talk about gouging. The best part of the OEM license is that it is totally not transferable. Want to install Vista on another machine, you need buy another license. This crap has to end. Consumers should at least have transferable rights to software.
I kind of agree. I loved the atmosphere of fallout 1, but by the time I got around to playing 2 it was too over the top. Don't get me wrong, fallout 2 had some pretty amazing parts and a whole lot of people to kill, but it didn't really add much new to the mix.
Thanks for the grounded response. Yeah, I never subscribed to his theories, but I thought he made some interesting claims. I've investigated it a bit and it generally led to people claiming that everything he did was pseudo-science. He really hinges a lot of what he says on different cultures talking about the sun standing still in the sky for a long period of time, or total darkness on the other side of the earth for an extended period of time. I'm sure other people have looked at some of the strange similarities (the flood myth comes to mind) and have explained them as just common myths, and there are a lot, especially when you compare religions. I'm sure you've read some Joseph Campbell (another jungian). Lots of strange myths that were once based on something from reality. Like how the hopi supposedly said that the sun used to rise in the west.....
The Vatican Bank is said to be a successful and profitable bank. By the 1990s, the Bank had invested somewhere over US$10 billion in foreign companies. In 1968 Vatican authorities hired Michele Sindona as a financial advisor, despite Sindona's questionable past. It was Sindona who was chiefly responsible for the massive influx of money when he began laundering the Gambino crime family's heroin monies (taking a 50% cut) through a shell corporation "Mabusi". This laundering was accomplished with the help of another banker, Roberto Calvi, who managed the Banco Ambrosiano. Both Calvi and Sindona were members of the P2 Lodge.[8]
When Pope John Paul I became Pope in 1978 he was informed about the allegations of wrongdoing at the Vatican Bank, and instructed Jean-Marie Villot, Cardinal Secretary of State and head of the papal Curia, to investigate the matter thoroughly. Pope John Paul I died after only 33 days in office, leading to claims that he had been murdered as a result of discovering a scandal. Pope John Paul I is generally accepted to have died from natural causes, although some medical experts believe that he may have died from a pulmonary embolism or an adverse reaction to the medication that he was taking rather than from a heart attack as was stated in original press reports of his death.
[edit] Banco Ambrosiano scandal Main article: Banco Ambrosiano
The Vatican Bank was Banco Ambrosiano's main share-holder. Father Paul Marcinkus, head of the Institute for Religious Works from 1971 to 1989, was indicted in Italy in 1982 as an accessory in the $3.5 billion collapse of Banco Ambrosiano, one of the major post-war financial scandals. Banco Ambrosiano was accused of laundering drug money for the Sicilian Mafia, which used Propaganda Due (aka "P2"), a mobbed up Masonic lodge, as an intermediary. P2 and its Worshipful Master, Licio Gelli, were also involved in financing right wing terror groups during the 1970s. As for Fr. Marcinkus, he would never come to trial in Italy, where courts ruled that he possessed diplomatic immunity. He lived in retirement in Sun City, Arizona (US) until his death on February 21, 2006.
The Vatican Bank has denied having legal responsibility for the Ambrosiano's downfall but did acknowledge "moral involvement", and paid $241m (£169m) to creditors. As of 2006, investigations are continuing concerning the murder of Ambrosiano's chairman, Roberto Calvi, which, according to Ernest Backes, former #3 of Clearstream, may have been linked to the death of Gérard Soisson, who used to work for Clearstream, a "bank of banks" which practices financial clearing. According to recent wiretap information,[citation needed] however, Calvi's death was almost certainly decreed by the Cupola, the ruling council of the Sicilian Mafia, which had come to view Calvi as a liability since the bank's collapse.
[edit] Other allegations
Several books[clarification needed] that appeared during the 1990s were highly critical of the Vatican Bank's historical relations with right-wing governments and especially in the collaborationist regime of the Independent State of Croatia. They engendered initial defensive hostility and controversy. The controversy centers on conclusions drawn from the documentation rather than the documents themselves.
According to a 1998 report issued by the US State Department, the Nazi Croatian treasury was illicitly transferred to the Vatican Bank and other banks after the end of World War II. For its part, the Vatican has repeatedly denied any Franciscan participation in Ustashi crimes or the disappearance of the Croatian Treasury, yet has refused to open its wartime records to substantiate its denial.
A 1946 memo from US Treasury agent Emerson Bigelow, declassified in 1997, quoted a "reliable source in Italy", who alerted his superior that Croatian officials had sent 350 million confiscated Swiss francs (CHF) to the Vatican Bank "for safekeeping". On the way s
A funny joke, but a disturbing quote. There was a russian that wrote a length about this. I believe the book was called "Worlds in Collision." I have a copy laying around somewhere. A bunch of cultures apparently all talked about the same event happening, though nobody really seems to know what happened. Anyone know what I'm talking about and have any ideas? I know its off topic and all, but I've been thinking about this and you mentioned it. The book proposes the idea that venus collided with earth at this time and thus the earth's rotation was halted momentarily, though I believe that this theory has been thoroughly debunked if I am not mistaken.
Yeah, but if I die, my artwork might be one day worth something and my family would have something to sell. This is why intellectual property exists, so there is something that is tangible that can be transferred. In the eyes of the law it is my property. Like it or not, I can do what I want with my property after I die as defined by my will. I disagree with the excessively long times that copyright can be extended for now, and I think 10 years or so is really kind of fine. There are other reasons that copyright can't expire at death as other people have noted. Why shouldn't your family be the ones that reap the benefits of your labor? If I produced sculpture all my life, should my sculpture be suddenly public domain at death? How is writing or anything else that takes intellectual effort any different other than it exists in easily reproduced forms?
Yeah, because maybe his family shouldn't get a windfall from the surge in book sales his titles are about to recieve. Funerals are expensive too. Maybe when you die you won't care if you leave your kids with anything, but seeing as how many authors are broke most of their life, I'm sure he would just be ok with his family getting nothing. I mean, the guys not even in the ground yet and suddenly his life's work should be free? Your logic fails me. I could see maybe like 10 to 20 years or something, but jeez, copyright exists for a period of time after death for a whole bunch of reasons.
huh? are you saying that I don't have to use the kind of crappy open source drivers for my 9250 anymore? that new open source drivers that were built on the newly opened architecture are released now? The problem was that the closed source drivers didn't support anything below 9800 or so, making the lackluster open source drivers the only way to go. Is this situation now not the same? And the new drivers come with 9.04???
I know I could like buy another video card, but why? It displays all my software just like any other video card and I can even play a bunch of games on it. I could care less about Crysis...:P
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I'm guessing the virtual guest will be locked down. I mean its only basically becoming an emulation layer. Its not like you will be able to fully boot up into an XP desktop within Windows 7. At least that's the impression I'm getting so far. If the host is so hosed that whatever is owning it can get at the VM, you have completely lost. All of the networks communications still has to pass through the host. I'm guessing worst case scenario: nothing happens. The next time your virtual instance spawns it will be completely rolled back. This is kind of a great idea actually, especially if they figure out a way to give the VM access to the hardware in a more direct way.
Nero is pretty good at making coasters. It made 3 last night, until I said fuck it and used the crappy roxio that comes with XP. It worked just fine. :)
We are all going to die.
What picture of him laying next to an amiga? If you are talking about the teen beat spread, there were no amigas around then as the picture was from like 1983 or something.
It is making of of Xybit (is that you how spell it?) from Pimp My Ride.
news that will make people crap their pants!
You know. That was the first time I ever laughed at that meme. Well done! :)
Virtualbox still isn't low latency enough for sound apps to be truly useful. I'd love to see some sort of virtualbox flavor that we designed purely for running sound applications like live and reason. There's just way too much latency and I wouldn't mind even devoting a good chunk of CPU to having low latency ASIO outs in a virtual machine, but I think that the nature of the beast prohibits it. I mean, this is one of the bigger stumbling blocks to just virtualizing windows, at least for me. Also there are a whole bunch of games that don't run very well without excellent 3d acceleration. It has come a long way with the OpenGL-->Direct3d pipe, and wine still runs a bunch of stuff surprisingly well on the native side. Lately, I'm a lot more interested in running Linux in a virtual box on windows, but I don't think there is good 3d support for compiz and whatnot yet, whereas windows guests in linux get decent acceleration I think. The last time I devoted a significant chunk of time on it, I had linux as a guest on my windows box. Ubuntu 8.10 would run for a while and then corrupt on seamless mode. After a while it got to the point where simply booting into seamless would make the whole windows completely disappear. I posted a bug report to the virtual box team and never got a reply. Who knows. Maybe I'm just cursed. Ubuntu 9.04 won't boot on my machine either. :(
Cricket is still around today. I use them (unfortunately) and their practices have gotten increasingly more shady. What did they do back then to curb excess usage? I mean clearly their market plan had to survive somehow. Now they are starting to roll out 3G (or at least claiming 3G), so clearly they have capital to upgrade. It amazes me that cell phone companies are still getting away with the crap that they have been pulling. I mean look at a text message and when you realize that it actually costs them nothing at all to send them it makes you wonder how much longer people will put up with excessive price gouging. There needs to be a law to explain all the fees they tack on too and why they are even allowed to do so. The future is pure data. Buy a used iphone, jail break it, and buy into a data network. $20 for 100 megs a month will get you a lot of phone calls over skype. When you start looking at voice services as just another form of data it starts to get pretty amazing how much more people pay for basically the same thing. I would totally recommend cricket, but their TERRIBLE (and I mean TERRRRRRIBLE) customer service and confusing billing practices really put them in the bottom. I can't count how many times I've had to pay late fees because they decided to turn off my phone even though the bill was paid, and then being told by their representative that she cannot remove the fee? I've thought about opening up a few complaints with the BBB and maybe even the state PUC for this kind of crap. Especially when you have no real recourse other than to just pay. Bad credit doesn't really help when you want to get a cell phone and being locked into a contract is never a good option IMHO.
Yeah. I did read that and then totally missed it. Whoops. I fail. Still doesn't make it any less of a crappy article. :P
"Couldn't resit. ;-)"
That's hard to do when you have a peg up your ass. :P
The whole point of the article is to tell what he did with linux when he first installed it. I read the whole article and he never did anything! I was waiting to hear that he actually did something with this linux install other than just getting it to run. No mention of any apps he checked out, how he felt about the desktop, nothing. I mean, what entirely is the point of this article? "I installed linux, got it to run, and never looked back." Whoopdeedoo. For the record, I first started out with debian and would always be stuck installing from floppies and then grabbing packages with a modem. Since I had older hardware (even then at the time) BASH was my desktop and then ZSH for a period of time. I always thought that textmode linux rocked (I still do) and is probably one of the strongest features of UNIX in general. I guess the first thing I ran was telnet, so I could get on a shell and irc for a while. See, this guy installed linux in 2001, and I've been using it off and on since, what 1997? Debian has always been my favorite distro by far and I've always liked Ubuntu by extension.
Yeah. Where did they spend that $250 billion? They need to be held accountable for a handout that large. That's 10x what we gave to domestic car manufacturers (roughly) and yet nothing has really improved in the last 15 years. Even if they over promised the government should have cut the funds long before it has gotten to the point it has now. A number like that is large enough to potentially buy out AT&T or Sprint entirely. That's ok. Hopefully we'll pull out the government credit card one too many times and find out that the credit is insufficient and this stupidity will just fucking collapse on itself. We are pretty fucked as it is.
I tried the RC a week ago and could not get it to boot. It dumps into busybox on the usb detection. My hardware is pretty generic, athlon 64 3000, sis chipset. I never had a problem with ubuntu before, and it seems kernel related. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/362629
Kind of a bummer that I can't even boot. One of these days I'll install linux without a single showstopper.....
I agree wholeheartedly. I've switched to linux a million times now and I keep falling back to the ever stable, ever reliable windows xp. I never dreamed that I would make this statement 10 years ago, but I have had about 0 problems with XP. Ever since service pack 2, XP has been rock solid. Its been a long, long time since I've seen a blue screen. I can't even remember. Maybe over a year ago. I was all excited about Ubuntu 9.04, so I downloaded the release candidate and tried a wubi install inside my windows partition. Usually this option works great, but not this time. It seems my generic Athlon 64 motherboard won't boot 9.04. Amazing. (It seems USB related) I finally dicked around and got it to boot (exit busy box after everything times out) and now it doesn't see my virtual partition on the windows drive. Lovely. It wants to install to the first primary partition on the first drive in the chain by default. If I didn't know what I was doing I could have easily installed over my windows partition (or attempted to at least). I'll take it as a sign. No Photoshop CS3? No lightroom? No reason or live? I can run mozilla and the gimp in windows too. In fact, there is better quality free software on windows than linux and a great deal more of it too. I don't want to turn this into a troll (I know I'm on the edge here), but when my ATI card can't even get accelerated 3d at a basic level its kind of hard to see the appeal. (was looking foward to the new drivers too) A lot of this crap would have been perfectly acceptable in 1994, but its going on 2010 and when I plug something in, I really expect it to work without pissing around with it for 3 days and finding the magic keywords on google that will hunt down that one post on that one obscure bulletin board that will magically fix my problem. Sorry. To get back ontopic....
Its amazing that M$ would even consider selling such a neutered OS still. Look at what the OEMs are paying for a license (they won't tell you, people would be outraged) and look at what you pay when you walk into Best Buy and pick up a copy of ultimate. What the hell ever happened to the simple Home/Corporate ideology of XP? Like for instance vista ultimate is $319 versus Home premium at $239 with surprisingly Vista Business being the cheapest out of the 3 at $200. The cheapest dell right now is like $350 with vista home premium. So what is dell paying for the OEM license? $50? $70? I don't see how it could be more than $70. Why the hell do you have to pay $170 more at retail???? Talk about gouging. The best part of the OEM license is that it is totally not transferable. Want to install Vista on another machine, you need buy another license. This crap has to end. Consumers should at least have transferable rights to software.
I kind of agree. I loved the atmosphere of fallout 1, but by the time I got around to playing 2 it was too over the top. Don't get me wrong, fallout 2 had some pretty amazing parts and a whole lot of people to kill, but it didn't really add much new to the mix.
Interesting for sure. I never realized that conjunction had such special significance. But what do I know? I just slept at a holiday inn.
Thanks for the grounded response. Yeah, I never subscribed to his theories, but I thought he made some interesting claims. I've investigated it a bit and it generally led to people claiming that everything he did was pseudo-science. He really hinges a lot of what he says on different cultures talking about the sun standing still in the sky for a long period of time, or total darkness on the other side of the earth for an extended period of time. I'm sure other people have looked at some of the strange similarities (the flood myth comes to mind) and have explained them as just common myths, and there are a lot, especially when you compare religions. I'm sure you've read some Joseph Campbell (another jungian). Lots of strange myths that were once based on something from reality. Like how the hopi supposedly said that the sun used to rise in the west.....
Well, Hell. This is at least on topic (sorta):
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Controversy
The Vatican Bank is said to be a successful and profitable bank. By the 1990s, the Bank had invested somewhere over US$10 billion in foreign companies. In 1968 Vatican authorities hired Michele Sindona as a financial advisor, despite Sindona's questionable past. It was Sindona who was chiefly responsible for the massive influx of money when he began laundering the Gambino crime family's heroin monies (taking a 50% cut) through a shell corporation "Mabusi". This laundering was accomplished with the help of another banker, Roberto Calvi, who managed the Banco Ambrosiano. Both Calvi and Sindona were members of the P2 Lodge.[8]
When Pope John Paul I became Pope in 1978 he was informed about the allegations of wrongdoing at the Vatican Bank, and instructed Jean-Marie Villot, Cardinal Secretary of State and head of the papal Curia, to investigate the matter thoroughly. Pope John Paul I died after only 33 days in office, leading to claims that he had been murdered as a result of discovering a scandal. Pope John Paul I is generally accepted to have died from natural causes, although some medical experts believe that he may have died from a pulmonary embolism or an adverse reaction to the medication that he was taking rather than from a heart attack as was stated in original press reports of his death.
[edit] Banco Ambrosiano scandal
Main article: Banco Ambrosiano
The Vatican Bank was Banco Ambrosiano's main share-holder. Father Paul Marcinkus, head of the Institute for Religious Works from 1971 to 1989, was indicted in Italy in 1982 as an accessory in the $3.5 billion collapse of Banco Ambrosiano, one of the major post-war financial scandals. Banco Ambrosiano was accused of laundering drug money for the Sicilian Mafia, which used Propaganda Due (aka "P2"), a mobbed up Masonic lodge, as an intermediary. P2 and its Worshipful Master, Licio Gelli, were also involved in financing right wing terror groups during the 1970s. As for Fr. Marcinkus, he would never come to trial in Italy, where courts ruled that he possessed diplomatic immunity. He lived in retirement in Sun City, Arizona (US) until his death on February 21, 2006.
The Vatican Bank has denied having legal responsibility for the Ambrosiano's downfall but did acknowledge "moral involvement", and paid $241m (£169m) to creditors. As of 2006, investigations are continuing concerning the murder of Ambrosiano's chairman, Roberto Calvi, which, according to Ernest Backes, former #3 of Clearstream, may have been linked to the death of Gérard Soisson, who used to work for Clearstream, a "bank of banks" which practices financial clearing. According to recent wiretap information,[citation needed] however, Calvi's death was almost certainly decreed by the Cupola, the ruling council of the Sicilian Mafia, which had come to view Calvi as a liability since the bank's collapse.
[edit] Other allegations
Several books[clarification needed] that appeared during the 1990s were highly critical of the Vatican Bank's historical relations with right-wing governments and especially in the collaborationist regime of the Independent State of Croatia. They engendered initial defensive hostility and controversy. The controversy centers on conclusions drawn from the documentation rather than the documents themselves.
According to a 1998 report issued by the US State Department, the Nazi Croatian treasury was illicitly transferred to the Vatican Bank and other banks after the end of World War II. For its part, the Vatican has repeatedly denied any Franciscan participation in Ustashi crimes or the disappearance of the Croatian Treasury, yet has refused to open its wartime records to substantiate its denial.
A 1946 memo from US Treasury agent Emerson Bigelow, declassified in 1997, quoted a "reliable source in Italy", who alerted his superior that Croatian officials had sent 350 million confiscated Swiss francs (CHF) to the Vatican Bank "for safekeeping". On the way s
A funny joke, but a disturbing quote. There was a russian that wrote a length about this. I believe the book was called "Worlds in Collision." I have a copy laying around somewhere. A bunch of cultures apparently all talked about the same event happening, though nobody really seems to know what happened. Anyone know what I'm talking about and have any ideas? I know its off topic and all, but I've been thinking about this and you mentioned it. The book proposes the idea that venus collided with earth at this time and thus the earth's rotation was halted momentarily, though I believe that this theory has been thoroughly debunked if I am not mistaken.
Yeah, but if I die, my artwork might be one day worth something and my family would have something to sell. This is why intellectual property exists, so there is something that is tangible that can be transferred. In the eyes of the law it is my property. Like it or not, I can do what I want with my property after I die as defined by my will. I disagree with the excessively long times that copyright can be extended for now, and I think 10 years or so is really kind of fine. There are other reasons that copyright can't expire at death as other people have noted. Why shouldn't your family be the ones that reap the benefits of your labor? If I produced sculpture all my life, should my sculpture be suddenly public domain at death? How is writing or anything else that takes intellectual effort any different other than it exists in easily reproduced forms?
Yeah, because maybe his family shouldn't get a windfall from the surge in book sales his titles are about to recieve. Funerals are expensive too. Maybe when you die you won't care if you leave your kids with anything, but seeing as how many authors are broke most of their life, I'm sure he would just be ok with his family getting nothing. I mean, the guys not even in the ground yet and suddenly his life's work should be free? Your logic fails me. I could see maybe like 10 to 20 years or something, but jeez, copyright exists for a period of time after death for a whole bunch of reasons.
I have read that windows 7 does not overwrite grub. I don't know if this is true as I have not tested it myself, but I believe this is to be the case.
huh? are you saying that I don't have to use the kind of crappy open source drivers for my 9250 anymore? that new open source drivers that were built on the newly opened architecture are released now? The problem was that the closed source drivers didn't support anything below 9800 or so, making the lackluster open source drivers the only way to go. Is this situation now not the same? And the new drivers come with 9.04???
I know I could like buy another video card, but why? It displays all my software just like any other video card and I can even play a bunch of games on it. I could care less about Crysis... :P