Is this a bone being thrown by the liberal party to try to stay in power through the massive AdScam corruption coming to light in Canada? Are they going to get support and money from the recording/movie industries to stay in power through all this in return for the legistlation?
Some time between 2015 to 2025, expect the cadre of kids now in pre-school to adopt a musical style that current fans of rap will find incomprehensible and offsensive.
That is one of the funniest things i've read on slashdot in a while. I guess this means that Country and Western Music makes a comeback, huh?
Looks like they have video for linux enabled, but none of the drivers... Hmmm I wonder if they modified the kernel to use a propriatary driver but didn't release it wich would be a violation of the binary only driver policy...
They also enabled a few of the kernel ciphers.
They are afraid that if people modify the dish reciever they can get free Dish Network service. If they designed the reciever correctly taht would be impossible to do. Anyone want to bet they did not design it correctly?
Anyone want to bet that the checksumming is for upgrade/installation of the software and not for running it?
How does this affect health care companies? How does this affect banks? How can we sue them if they use windows with this with our data on the machine?
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Intel has more plants to amortise their R&D costs of production and product production over. The economies of scale are the major difference in margin between the two. Yields are very very close. Developing a new fab process, developing a new processor are very expensive propositions. If making 10x the processors on the process and on the design means that the development cost per unit is 1/10th.
National Socialism comes up as a comparison to things we find wrong largely because Universities and schools today teach that all coltures morally are identical. We learn that we should not judge other cultures and other idealogies. They are all the same. The leftist montra that we should "try to understand them" and "alternative lifestyles are just different not wrong" lead to some problems for the leftists and for the rightist idealoges.
With these new foundations of thought in the university there is only one thing that can be pointed to in history that is truly "evil" or "bad" or "wrong." That is National Socialism. The left admits that it is truly evil. It is the truly wrong that admits no situational ethics. It was wrong no matter what situation.
So when the left wants to say that something if fundamentally wrong regardless of the situation, the way to do it is to shout "NAZI" about it. Strangely enough when the right wants to communicate to the left that something is truly wrong regardless of situation they use the language of the left and also shout "NAZI" Examples of the left: Bush Hitler comparasons at anti war demonstrations. Example of the right comparing Saddam Hussein to Hitler.
So what we see is that Godwin is fighting an up hill battle. As soon as the cultural elites can agree that there is right and wrong and not "right" and "wrong" that only are due to the situation; as soon as they can come up with a rational yardstick for right and wrong and stop saying everything is equal; THEN and ONLY THEN will all the National Socialism comparisons go away. Because then we could have a yardstick and not a single point for comparisons of badness.
Don't believe me about all of this? Then why was President Bush critisized so much for Calling North Korea, Iraq, and Iran an Axis of Evil?
They just want to increase the cost to their competitors. They do--or at least should-- reverse engineer their competitors product. They should decap the asics and scan them for functional schematic. They should also do a complete cost analysis of the product. Even if they had the specs they would probably do this anyway, but they might start on the spec in the mean time.
The TAO of engineering is to sell your product at a profit for less than your competitor can build it.
Its also a BSD Liscense! If it works well they can take it and use it as a base for their windows driver without releasing code. All this for FREE.
The only explanation is that the hardware has some nasty flaws that are fixed in the driver. They don't want to release specs that don't work with the broken hardware and dont want to release the work arounds and the flaws.
Each of those vehicles cost more than ANY Ferrari to make. GM lost hunderds of thousands of dollars per EV1 it leased. If the people want one it would be cheaper to buy a new saturn and have Boyd Coddington or some other high end hot rod house convert it to an EV1 alike then pay GM cost for the car.
Then they should put three mouse buttons on the powerbook and ibook and map them by default all to the same mouse button fuction. Now we have easy to use (doesn't matter which button to the newbie) and all the rest of the world can have a usefull interface.
If we do become immortal, imagine how that will
change people's tendency to take risks. We all take small risks all the time. We take risks driving cars, flying, etc. because the odds of it killing us before we die naturally is small. But if we live 10x longer then we end up in the situation where the risks are likely to kill us before we die of natural causes.
Also imagine the wrongful death suites if someone would be expected to live another 500 years. Who will want to take any risks if it might cause them to die when they don't expect to die ever?
Plus a firearm that fired that fast will be classified as full auto, meaning it falls under a different classification, meaning the price goes through the roof, plus licensing tax etc.
Actually you can't get a brand new machine gun for your own no matter how much you want to spend. They were made illegal in 1986. Only older grandfathered ones can be purchased, thus a fixed supply thus the hugh prices. To the gun banners this is perfect. You just wont be able to buy ANY pistol in NJ.
Of course Metel storm guns are illegal anyway. Since the software can be changed to allow more than one shot per pull of the triger it is considered a "machine gun" by batfe. Therefore it is illegal for a citizen to buy one. Only police and military can get them. So even if you would willingly buy it; you can't. So you can't get anything.
Law enforcement is excempt from the NJ law. This should tell you all you need to know about the reliability. Bit its actually worse than that. The metel storm guns would be illegal to own from federal law. So NJ says you have to buy a metal storm if you want a pistol, and the federal government wont let you get one; so no pistols in NJ. The metel storm pistols use an electronic trigger mechanism. This is classafied as a machine gun by BATFE; machine guns were made illegal under Reagon in 1986.
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If these guns are so great, why does the law
exempt New Jersey Police? This is especially troublesome since gun assaults on police are most often with their own weapon.
So lets get rid of the hipocrasy; lets make all the New Jersey police departments use the technology for three years before requiring it for everyone else. Let them debug it not the citizens of the state.
Actually during Erik the Red's time and before it was warmer there. We are in an ice age now compared to then. Maybe with global warming we can get back to those temperatures and out of this ice age.
" "And while most techies have a high tolerance for frustration when they go over the edge they can be excessive.
"I have one report of a frustrated geek who took his PC into the middle of a parking lot and dosed it with two gallons of gasoline. That's a bit much. Two cups would have been more than sufficient." "
Its at the end of the article and should have been in the slashdot blurb at the top.
One slight problem with that theory- we don't make anything in the United States anymore, we're a POST-industrialized nation.
Of course this is totally false. You made the assumption that since we have fewer jobs as a percentage of the workface in manufacturing that we don't produce as much as we used to. This also is making the assumption that American workers are not more effecient than they used to be. Try reading about it here, or Here. Both show that our manufacturing ability has pretty constantly increased. Even if we employ fewer people to make the products. I like it when fewer people can produce more good. That is what grows the economy. That is why my house is over twice the size of the one my Grand Parents had. That is why I have this nice cheap computer. That is what drives moore's law.
It is amazing how many people here on./ either have never had an economics class, or their class was tought by a communist.
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Is this a bone being thrown by the liberal party to try to stay in power through the massive AdScam corruption coming to light in Canada? Are they going to get support and money from the recording/movie industries to stay in power through all this in return for the legistlation?
Some time between 2015 to 2025, expect the cadre of kids now in pre-school to adopt a musical style that current fans of rap will find incomprehensible and offsensive.
That is one of the funniest things i've read on slashdot in a while. I guess this means that Country and Western Music makes a comeback, huh?
Looks like they have video for linux enabled, but none of the drivers...
Hmmm I wonder if they modified the kernel to use a propriatary driver but didn't release it wich would be a violation of the binary only driver policy...
They also enabled a few of the kernel ciphers.
They are afraid that if people modify the dish reciever they can get free Dish Network service. If they designed the reciever correctly taht would be impossible to do. Anyone want to bet they did not design it correctly?
Anyone want to bet that the checksumming is for upgrade/installation of the software and not for running it?
True but the Apple II and the C64 were using tv's as monitors when these other consoles failed as well. It wasn't the resolution.
How does this affect health care companies? How does this affect banks? How can we sue them if they use windows with this with our data on the machine?
And all this time I thought the Linux slogan was "World Domination"
Intel has more plants to amortise their R&D costs of production and product production over. The economies of scale are the major difference in margin between the two. Yields are very very close. Developing a new fab process, developing a new processor are very expensive propositions. If making 10x the processors on the process and on the design means that the development cost per unit is 1/10th.
National Socialism comes up as a comparison to things we find wrong largely because Universities and schools today teach that all coltures morally are identical. We learn that we should not judge other cultures and other idealogies. They are all the same. The leftist montra that we should "try to understand them" and "alternative lifestyles are just different not wrong" lead to some problems for the leftists and for the rightist idealoges.
With these new foundations of thought in the university there is only one thing that can be pointed to in history that is truly "evil" or "bad" or "wrong." That is National Socialism. The left admits that it is truly evil. It is the truly wrong that admits no situational ethics. It was wrong no matter what situation.
So when the left wants to say that something if fundamentally wrong regardless of the situation, the way to do it is to shout "NAZI" about it. Strangely enough when the right wants to communicate to the left that something is truly wrong regardless of situation they use the language of the left and also shout "NAZI" Examples of the left: Bush Hitler comparasons at anti war demonstrations. Example of the right comparing Saddam Hussein to Hitler.
So what we see is that Godwin is fighting an up hill battle. As soon as the cultural elites can agree that there is right and wrong and not "right" and "wrong" that only are due to the situation; as soon as they can come up with a rational yardstick for right and wrong and stop saying everything is equal; THEN and ONLY THEN will all the National Socialism comparisons go away. Because then we could have a yardstick and not a single point for comparisons of badness.
Don't believe me about all of this? Then why was President Bush critisized so much for Calling North Korea, Iraq, and Iran an Axis of Evil?
They just want to increase the cost to their competitors. They do--or at least should-- reverse engineer their competitors product. They should decap the asics and scan them for functional schematic. They should also do a complete cost analysis of the product. Even if they had the specs they would probably do this anyway, but they might start on the spec in the mean time.
The TAO of engineering is to sell your product at a profit for less than your competitor can build it.
Its also a BSD Liscense! If it works well they can take it and use it as a base for their windows driver without releasing code. All this for FREE.
The only explanation is that the hardware has some nasty flaws that are fixed in the driver. They don't want to release specs that don't work with the broken hardware and dont want to release the work arounds and the flaws.
Each of those vehicles cost more than ANY Ferrari to make. GM lost hunderds of thousands of dollars per EV1 it leased. If the people want one it would be cheaper to buy a new saturn and have Boyd Coddington or some other high end hot rod house convert it to an EV1 alike then pay GM cost for the car.
I guess he DOES have asbestos underware then?
In people subscribing to these services knowing that they can use them at wifi hotspots also.
Then they should put three mouse buttons on the powerbook and ibook and map them by default all to the same mouse button fuction. Now we have easy to use (doesn't matter which button to the newbie) and all the rest of the world can have a usefull interface.
Keep the shutter open for longer for night shots?
If we do become immortal, imagine how that will change people's tendency to take risks. We all take small risks all the time. We take risks driving cars, flying, etc. because the odds of it killing us before we die naturally is small. But if we live 10x longer then we end up in the situation where the risks are likely to kill us before we die of natural causes.
Also imagine the wrongful death suites if someone would be expected to live another 500 years. Who will want to take any risks if it might cause them to die when they don't expect to die ever?
Which will mean no one can buy a pistol in NJ unless they are a police officer. I think this is exactly the plan.
Plus a firearm that fired that fast will be classified as full auto, meaning it falls under a different classification, meaning the price goes through the roof, plus licensing tax etc.
Actually you can't get a brand new machine gun for your own no matter how much you want to spend. They were made illegal in 1986. Only older grandfathered ones can be purchased, thus a fixed supply thus the hugh prices. To the gun banners this is perfect. You just wont be able to buy ANY pistol in NJ.
Of course Metel storm guns are illegal anyway. Since the software can be changed to allow more than one shot per pull of the triger it is considered a "machine gun" by batfe. Therefore it is illegal for a citizen to buy one. Only police and military can get them. So even if you would willingly buy it; you can't. So you can't get anything.
Law enforcement is excempt from the NJ law. This should tell you all you need to know about the reliability. Bit its actually worse than that. The metel storm guns would be illegal to own from federal law. So NJ says you have to buy a metal storm if you want a pistol, and the federal government wont let you get one; so no pistols in NJ. The metel storm pistols use an electronic trigger mechanism. This is classafied as a machine gun by BATFE; machine guns were made illegal under Reagon in 1986.
If these guns are so great, why does the law exempt New Jersey Police? This is especially troublesome since gun assaults on police are most often with their own weapon. So lets get rid of the hipocrasy; lets make all the New Jersey police departments use the technology for three years before requiring it for everyone else. Let them debug it not the citizens of the state.
Actually during Erik the Red's time and before it was warmer there. We are in an ice age now compared to then. Maybe with global warming we can get back to those temperatures and out of this ice age.
" "And while most techies have a high tolerance for frustration when they go over the edge they can be excessive.
"I have one report of a frustrated geek who took his PC into the middle of a parking lot and dosed it with two gallons of gasoline. That's a bit much. Two cups would have been more than sufficient." "
Its at the end of the article and should have been in the slashdot blurb at the top.
where "a couple" == 500 can I have a couple of dollars from you?
One slight problem with that theory- we don't make anything in the United States anymore, we're a POST-industrialized nation.
./ either have never had an economics class, or their class was tought by a communist.
Of course this is totally false. You made the assumption that since we have fewer jobs as a percentage of the workface in manufacturing that we don't produce as much as we used to. This also is making the assumption that American workers are not more effecient than they used to be. Try reading about it here, or Here. Both show that our manufacturing ability has pretty constantly increased. Even if we employ fewer people to make the products. I like it when fewer people can produce more good. That is what grows the economy. That is why my house is over twice the size of the one my Grand Parents had. That is why I have this nice cheap computer. That is what drives moore's law.
It is amazing how many people here on