Enterprise is so politically correct I can barely bring myself to watch it
Yeah if you want a good idea of how overly PC that show is, this season of enterprise had the first mention of actually GOING TO THE BATHROOM (on the minefield episode) ever on star trek.
If you need a long instruction document just to install an OS, then you can bet it's not going to be easy to use after!
Stick to Mandrake and the other user friendly linux distrobutions... although none of them are as easy to install as windows it is still not very hard.
That right wing style capatalism doesn't work. Look at a country such as Sweden or Canada and compare it to the United States. Sure the US has more money but it's in the pockets of only a few people, while most of the population are just scraping by. The United States is more akin to a 'kingdom' such as the ones europe had 300 years ago. It's unfortunate that while Europe is progressing the United States is actualy reverting to the primitive style of government most people gave up centuries ago.
Microsoft 'controlling' the government is just more proof of how terrible the US has become.
so you think there is something wrong with bill gates' personal foundation (which has nothing to do with microsoft) donating money to desperately underfunded schools? I don't. I hope those kids put those laptops to good use.
well obviously I did not mean super pigs in the superhero sense. I meant pigs that were genetically superior to standard pigs and could wreck havoc on the environment.
Despite my name, I am not a fan of genetically modified pigs. We are tampering with nature in ways where we do not know the long term consequences. There are several reasons I shall list of why using pigs as 'organ farms' is not a good idea.
1) Nobody knows what might happen if these pigs somehow were released into the wild. A new species of 'super-pig' could potentionally cause wisespread damage if they escaped captivity.
2) Pigs are dirty, they typically roll in their own feces. This is not an appropriate animal to use for 'human' organs.
3) Using Pigs in such a fasion is inhumane. Nobody knows the pain these pigs could live with because we have set off certain gene sequences we should not have.
4) Pigs are not kosher, and Jewish or Moslems would not be able to benefit from these advances. That's alienting 1/5 of the planet right there from being able to benefit from this.
5) We are tampering with God's work. Pigs were created perfect the way they are, as are we. Toying with genes is tampering with God's perfect work and SHOULD not be done under any sane principals.
I find this entire war on spam to be nonesense. Suing someone for sending spam to a state where it is illegal is complete hogwash. It would be as if one state made television commercials illegal and a person happened to pick up a frequency comming from another state. There is also no way to know if a resident is from washington or not. Someone sending an advertisement to a hotmail address or such would not know wether they live in one state or another or china or greenland. Personally I have a fealing this whole case will be thrown out of court.
Though it will cost you 10% to 15% performance penalty
this could be a problem, seeing as macs have been seriously underperforming compared to PC's lately already. OS X tends to need a fast g4 just to run properly anyway, I guesse this file system will just push the requirements for OS X even higher:(
Canada is quickly turning into a police state. This is a country where you can be arrested for owning a gun, charged for saying something 'racist', and imprisoned for WRITING DOWN child porn fantasies. Talk about draconian!
This digital cetificate for every citizen is just the last nail in the coffin as Canada turns into a police state. I'm sure it's just a conveniant way to track citizens. I hope to God that this doesn't happen to America.
a person could also 'steal' a 1000$ gold watch they would have never been able to afford, or 'steal' a 3000$ big screen TV they could never afford. Whats the difference between that or stealing expensive software you can't afford?
The USA trying to push it's own agenda on the world, enforcing their laws and beliefs on other countries and cultures, makes me sick. If there is any hope for the USA or the rest of the world, America must be restrained from trying to enforce its own laws in other countries. Trade embargoes are needed against the USA for such disgusting practices.
Netbsd supports smp? Windows NT has supported SMP for over 7 years... I think Unix developers are going to have to pick up the pace if they expect to compete with the big gorilla known as Microsoft.
Both have an interesting "mutual termination for patent action" clause - basically, the license terminates if you file a lawsuit in any court against any software that is licensed under an OSI approved license containing the same clause.
So now open-source licenses are trying to restrict our legal rights? I can't see any company adopting any software that uses these licenses if it does not allow them to exercises their legal rights to file lawsuits. It seems this clause is just a way to try and take away people's freedom.
I personally have a problem with the recent amateur rocket craze. What would happen if a launch failed because Joe Blow failed physics and got the angle of his rocket wrong and it hit a building somewhere and killed a bunch of people? It won't be long before this happens.
Nasa employs some of the smartest and most experienced people in the world and I would not trust anyone else to be launching rockets in to the sky. I believe NASA should have a monopoly on space travel as they are the only ones who seem to get it right.
Imagine how many starving children could be fed if those millionaires donated the $621,500 to charity instead of getting their genes mapped and finding out what illness might kill them.
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Enterprise is so politically correct I can barely bring myself to watch it
Yeah if you want a good idea of how overly PC that show is, this season of enterprise had the first mention of actually GOING TO THE BATHROOM (on the minefield episode) ever on star trek.
If you need a long instruction document just to install an OS, then you can bet it's not going to be easy to use after!
Stick to Mandrake and the other user friendly linux distrobutions... although none of them are as easy to install as windows it is still not very hard.
That right wing style capatalism doesn't work. Look at a country such as Sweden or Canada and compare it to the United States. Sure the US has more money but it's in the pockets of only a few people, while most of the population are just scraping by. The United States is more akin to a 'kingdom' such as the ones europe had 300 years ago. It's unfortunate that while Europe is progressing the United States is actualy reverting to the primitive style of government most people gave up centuries ago.
Microsoft 'controlling' the government is just more proof of how terrible the US has become.
The transmeta crusoe can't even emulate x86 instructions at a reasonable speed. I mean this thing gets beat by the CELERON.
so you think there is something wrong with bill gates' personal foundation (which has nothing to do with microsoft) donating money to desperately underfunded schools? I don't. I hope those kids put those laptops to good use.
Is this for real? I'm sorry I have trouble believing it! Are record companies actually acting smart and reasonable? What next? MTV playing GOOD music?
well obviously I did not mean super pigs in the superhero sense. I meant pigs that were genetically superior to standard pigs and could wreck havoc on the environment.
Despite my name, I am not a fan of genetically modified pigs. We are tampering with nature in ways where we do not know the long term consequences. There are several reasons I shall list of why using pigs as 'organ farms' is not a good idea.
1) Nobody knows what might happen if these pigs somehow were released into the wild. A new species of 'super-pig' could potentionally cause wisespread damage if they escaped captivity.
2) Pigs are dirty, they typically roll in their own feces. This is not an appropriate animal to use for 'human' organs.
3) Using Pigs in such a fasion is inhumane. Nobody knows the pain these pigs could live with because we have set off certain gene sequences we should not have.
4) Pigs are not kosher, and Jewish or Moslems would not be able to benefit from these advances. That's alienting 1/5 of the planet right there from being able to benefit from this.
5) We are tampering with God's work. Pigs were created perfect the way they are, as are we. Toying with genes is tampering with God's perfect work and SHOULD not be done under any sane principals.
the government stopping people from publishing things? Didn't the nazis do this?
yes but it's unlikely most washington residents know about or signed up to this list. Alot of people are too busy to be researching spam laws.
I find this entire war on spam to be nonesense. Suing someone for sending spam to a state where it is illegal is complete hogwash. It would be as if one state made television commercials illegal and a person happened to pick up a frequency comming from another state. There is also no way to know if a resident is from washington or not. Someone sending an advertisement to a hotmail address or such would not know wether they live in one state or another or china or greenland. Personally I have a fealing this whole case will be thrown out of court.
I covered 55 aol disks with fondu fuel and burned them into one mass of metal. I know use it as a paperweight.
Though it will cost you 10% to 15% performance penalty
:(
this could be a problem, seeing as macs have been seriously underperforming compared to PC's lately already. OS X tends to need a fast g4 just to run properly anyway, I guesse this file system will just push the requirements for OS X even higher
that won't quite work because there are ALWAYS other ways of finding out your TRUE hair colour if you know what I mean ;)
well we all know that in america, violence is fine, but sex is not. Personally I prefer how it is in europe, where it's the other way around.
Canada is quickly turning into a police state. This is a country where you can be arrested for owning a gun, charged for saying something 'racist', and imprisoned for WRITING DOWN child porn fantasies. Talk about draconian!
This digital cetificate for every citizen is just the last nail in the coffin as Canada turns into a police state. I'm sure it's just a conveniant way to track citizens. I hope to God that this doesn't happen to America.
a person could also 'steal' a 1000$ gold watch they would have never been able to afford, or
'steal' a 3000$ big screen TV they could never afford. Whats the difference between that or stealing expensive software you can't afford?
It must have been the games that did it!
Force anyone to sit in one place for 86 hours without sleep, food, or water, and I'm sure at least SOME of them would die.
But I'm sure it was the GAMES that killed him.
you'd think for a guy who can afford 1.3 million dollar computers he could afford to host his site on a server that could survive a slashdotting!
The USA trying to push it's own agenda on the world, enforcing their laws and beliefs on other countries and cultures, makes me sick. If there is any hope for the USA or the rest of the world, America must be restrained from trying to enforce its own laws in other countries. Trade embargoes are needed against the USA for such disgusting practices.
Netbsd supports smp? Windows NT has supported SMP for over 7 years... I think Unix developers are going to have to pick up the pace if they expect to compete with the big gorilla known as Microsoft.
so where do I pick up my compensation check for getting screwed over for all these years?
Both have an interesting "mutual termination for patent action" clause - basically, the license terminates if you file a lawsuit in any court against any software that is licensed under an OSI approved license containing the same clause.
So now open-source licenses are trying to restrict our legal rights? I can't see any company adopting any software that uses these licenses if it does not allow them to exercises their legal rights to file lawsuits. It seems this clause is just a way to try and take away people's freedom.
I personally have a problem with the recent amateur rocket craze. What would happen if a launch failed because Joe Blow failed physics and got the angle of his rocket wrong and it hit a building somewhere and killed a bunch of people? It won't be long before this happens.
Nasa employs some of the smartest and most experienced people in the world and I would not trust anyone else to be launching rockets in to the sky. I believe NASA should have a monopoly on space travel as they are the only ones who seem to get it right.
Imagine how many starving children could be fed if those millionaires donated the $621,500 to charity instead of getting their genes mapped and finding out what illness might kill them.
Oh well, like it would ever happen.