usable with the ports system out there ?
If you are at a slow internet connection
you cannot afford to download all the
sources. I think this is the main flaw of the
ports system and the reason why *BSD is not
used of stand alone desktops very often.
Yes, I know that there are binary packages out there now.
BTW: a search in the posts package for "bsd is dying" returns
"Sorry, nothing found. You may look for other FreeBSD Search Services."
It seems that there is still much to do for them.
The sad thing is not that expriments with humans are going on but that all the U.S. researchers who are any good at it are likely to leave the United States. That sucks for the U.S. because the end result will be a whole lot of people who know how to do these procedures but don't live here. It's not just a brain drain, but financial drain. And, if you are morally opposed to experiments with humans, don't forget that if you want to legislate your morals you have to have jurisdiction over the people you want to control. An outright ban will just move these researchers to a country that will let them keep working -- just like the researcher at the top of that article.
It says 100$ per customer or 1000$ for all customers per day. The first one is extremely unlikely. And 1000$ bucks is not so much - any major company can afford this. They probably made more money by the data.
what minerals they want to mine there ?
AFAIK the moon is of the same material as earth, making it mainly a large rock of silicondioxide and iron.
Interesting stuff like uran/gold/etc. should be too rare to mine it commercially (high expenses for transport !).
The type should be obvious from context and
variablename automatically. If you have to prefix the name with arfc... to make the type clear, then you have a bad coding style.
Huangarian notation is evil.
Charles Simonyi is an anagram for
Limises Yonarch, anyone with some occult knowledge know what this means.
I can't agree.
The dialogues were often too pathetic
and there were too many monologes of the actors.
One of the main figures was played by a bad B-Movie actor which ruined much of the fun.
The figures of the "evil" side were played
by much better actors but for some reason
they switched over 3 different opponent figures in the whole movie, making it impossible to
build up a decent character.
One can argue about the special effects.
Some were rather good but others plainly sucked.
Mainly because they were created by early 80ies
computer graphics which were just shaded polygons floating in the infinite void.
Personally I like the old 60ies presidencies better. The H-bomb tests special effects were much better and there was more tension on the whole plot.
>And, most importantly, the EU is full of copynazi's too. Generally, they adopt laws about 5 years after we do. So you'll get about half a decade more freedom than we do, use it well.
This is not correct. While there is a movement now to strengthen the companies rights at the whole copyright issue, the European tradition is to protect much more customer rights than in the US.
Examples:
The European competition commissar Prodi fuck up all companies which try to abuse their power to betray customers. He has already attacked large companies like Daimler/Crysler and Volkswagen, and I think they have already moved their focus on Microsoft.
The privacy proctection laws are much stronger than in the US. In fact you don't have any decent laws at all. But in Europe you have the right to demand to be informed what kind of information a company has stored about you and you have the right to demand that all information about you has to be deleted. And the company has to comply.
Star Wars isn't worth to skip out.
This stuff will show up on TV in few years.
Mainly because it has only TV and not real movie
qualities.
So why offer a joyful day at work for a low quality flick ?
Ok., it has nice pictures but the story sucks donkey balls.
I can't understand these people who are so hot at Star Wars.
After all Einstein was for banning all nuclear weapons and against the development of the H bomb.
Keep in mind that these were the hard times in the cold war against the communists. Some people wrongly thought that all anti nuclear weapons guys were pro communist. Ironically their preceptions that the spending of more and more money into the military sector would bring down communism has turned out correct after all. Einstein was in fact unwillingly helping Stalin and Breshnev.
Well, we have here and RAIDED 60 TB array which runs well und Mac OS X.
This is mainly because Darwin is based on FreeBSD.
The BSD series comes from the professional/academic unix world and has automatical 64 bit support at all level for 9 years or so.
It's not very suprising that Linux is lacking these features. It's more hobbyist style and still contains some serious design failures like the missing microkernel Mac OS X has for some time now.
Many people here at slashdot bitch at the academic/professional world but at examples like this you see that professional, thoughful design always pays off in some time.
Maybe but what countries ?
If you are honest, you must admit that Mexico et al are pisspot 3rd world countries.
In more developed countries MS will have much more difficulties. E.g. the anti-monopoly commissar Ponti of the European Union is well know to crush any competition-disabling behavior and has the guts to challenge any company, no matter the size.
And high-level software development goes on in higher developed countries, so these are important for the future of MS and the internet.
Turn based - this means that you can screw any human player of the game by just taking "enough time" for a turn.
Real time - this reduces to strategic AD&D concept to Diablo style brainless monster wacking.
So I wonder why they are so keen on providing multiplayer abilities for NeverWinterNights.
And why does one play an rpg anyway ?
For the story of course ! Has anyone here played Baldurs Gate, Pools of Radiance (the old, non sucking one), Ultima or Wizardry for monster wacking ?
And don't object with "Diablo". If Diablo is an rpg then Quake is a flight simulator.
As open source Ogg Vorbis is released under the GPL/LGPL. However doesn't this prevent companies to integrate the sources into their software ?
You might object that they link against LGPLed object files, but at the entertainment sector processing speed is crucial, so everybody has to integrate the sources directly.
And there is the question wether the viral clause of the GPL doesn't infect all interfaces and makes all linked software open source automatically.
I think the next generation MP3 would be better for commercial software because they have a clearer license sheme and license fees don't matter in commercial software. And the Direct-X encoding libraries are much easier to use than Ogg Vorbis. However, to learn Direct-X decently you must take some MSCD training which is rather expensive.
ensure competition ?
The FSF, EFF and associated bodies just want to lobby open software into federal institution.
This in fact avoids open competition because
the software is choosen by political considerations not by qualitative ones.
Competition has nothing do to with the question wether to use open software or not, but with the terms how these decisions are made.
So dragging the open vs. close software issue in is rather ridiculous.
Well, but the main point is that you get a clean and efficent form of energy storage. This would enable cars to use energy form many different sources, not only petrol like today.
until we have computer the this compational power sitting on our desktops ?
Would the Japs wait 10 years or so, they could order one at dell for just 999$.
The world's first consistent and complete theory of everything.
Well this is slightly offtopic, but I discovered recently an universal
theory of everything and I can't whithold such important information
from the slashdot crowd.
The theory is mainly inspired by the posts I read here at slashdot and
consists of the revolutionary thesis:
Everything is a troll.
I'll explain now what leads me to this conclusion.
Let's start with the most important part of most slashdotters lives:
the computer.
As you all know operating systems have lead to many heated and sometimes
flamebait discussions, take all these Linux vs Windows XP vs *BSD etc
flamewars here at slashdot as an example.
In fact we all now that the most important differences of the OSes are
for these discussion, for most practical uses an operating system is as
good and any other. Therefore the main purpose of modern operating
systems is just trolling and not any practical issues anymore !
The same goes for programming languages.
Today we have enough programming languages for any purpose which comes into
our minds. And we all know that the best programming is choosen
specifically for an explicit task.
But nevertheless there are always more and more universal programming
languages which "suit all purposes perfectly" created all the time.
Take Microsofts C# as an example.
Thus we can conclude that the main purpose of modern programming languages
is again trolling.
C# takes us direct to Microsofts monopolic behavoir.
If you examine it long enough, you'll come to the conclusion that
their practices to subdue the competitors is just a very clever way of
trolling. The the whole anti-trust case is just the way of
the competitors and the goverment to troll back at Microsoft !
You can go on and on with this and you'll finally reach the same
conclusion as I: the main purpose of the entire computer/IT industry is
just trolling.
Can we extend this statement to other parts of our lives ?
Let's look at something basic: emotions.
Hate is obviously a form of trolling.
If you think about it a little,
you'll see that the same goes to the opposite: love.
If you love someone you just troll everybody you don't love
and if you love everybody you troll the people who don't want
to be loved.
In fact any kind of emotion is a form of trolling.
The same goes for the society war is an obvious form of trolling.
The rule above for love applies at society leave at peace.
Terrorism, trade contracts, diplomany, just anything is trolling.
Religions are trolling just by their existence, because they always
claim all other relgions to be wrong.
You'll have to do some examination to see this always
but once you know the pattern it's relatively easy to spot.
This lead to the next conclusion: humans and society are always
trolling.
But what about nature ?
Well we know how to approach such thing know, so it's not very
difficult to procceed.
Carnivores are trolling herbivores
and other carnivores by eating them.
Herbivores troll plants by eating them.
Plants are trolling everybody by sitting around
doing nothing and being green.
Bacteria are trolling everybody by
causing such things as rotting and diarreea.
In fact even the physical laws are trollish.
Take the laws of thermodynamics.
The law of entropia is trollish by causing disorder everywhere.
The law of energy conservation is trollish by causing energy problems
all over the world.
As another example
the law of gravitation is trollish by hitting people with apples on
the head.
The moon circles around earth to troll it which on the other
hand trolls around the sun. And the sun trolls the planets by
sending radition and light at them. The milkyway trolls around
it's own axis. The whole universe is trolling by expanding
infinitely !
Well, this leaves the question wether the laws of trolling hold outside
our universe.
But the existance of such questions would be oviously trolling and
therefore everything outside the universe must be trolling, too !
So we can conclude the universal laws of the universe: EVERTHING IS TROLLING !
This law has some interesting implications:
All slashdot readers, editors, crapflooders are trolls.
Every slashdot post is a troll. Moderating it "troll" is always fair.
Moderation is always trolling. Therefore all moderation is unfair.
This is inconstent with the above statement that moderation "troll"
is always fair, but this is just a troll.
If Taco wants to get rid of the trolls he must close down slashdot
entirely. This action would be, of course, trollish.
If someone stops trolling slashdot then this is just a troll.
If you moderate this post (up or down) you are a troll.
If you don't moderate you are a troll, too.
All factual, logical, grammatical, spelling errors is this post
are there to troll you.
Slashdot Mirror
$7 !
Well, that's really a bargain.
With a new amino acid.
If you are at a slow internet connection you cannot afford to download all the sources.
I think this is the main flaw of the ports system and the reason why *BSD is not used of stand alone desktops very often.
Yes, I know that there are binary packages out there now.
BTW: a search in the posts package for "bsd is dying" returns "Sorry, nothing found. You may look for other FreeBSD Search Services."
It seems that there is still much to do for them.
I think Dr. J. Mengele fled to Argentina.
I don't want to know how it attacks the enemy.
BTW: Is the rumor true that the Trud Report has signed up with the army ?
It says 100$ per customer or 1000$ for all customers per day. The first one is extremely unlikely. And 1000$ bucks is not so much - any major company can afford this. They probably made more money by the data.
what minerals they want to mine there ?
AFAIK the moon is of the same material as earth, making it mainly a large rock of silicondioxide and iron.
Interesting stuff like uran/gold/etc. should be too rare to mine it commercially (high expenses for transport !).
The dialogues were often too pathetic and there were too many monologes of the actors.
One of the main figures was played by a bad B-Movie actor which ruined much of the fun. The figures of the "evil" side were played by much better actors but for some reason they switched over 3 different opponent figures in the whole movie, making it impossible to build up a decent character.
One can argue about the special effects. Some were rather good but others plainly sucked. Mainly because they were created by early 80ies computer graphics which were just shaded polygons floating in the infinite void.
Personally I like the old 60ies presidencies better. The H-bomb tests special effects were much better and there was more tension on the whole plot.
In fact anyone who does add Barbarella to the top 20 Sci-Fi list.
This is not correct. While there is a movement now to strengthen the companies rights at the whole copyright issue, the European tradition is to protect much more customer rights than in the US.
Examples:
Between a few large keys and many little micro keys.
But the large keys always win because of the infamous "Wurstfinger" phenomena.
Star Wars isn't worth to skip out.
This stuff will show up on TV in few years.
Mainly because it has only TV and not real movie qualities.
So why offer a joyful day at work for a low quality flick ?
Ok., it has nice pictures but the story sucks donkey balls.
I can't understand these people who are so hot at Star Wars.
Larry Wall did Perl already in the 80s.
After all Einstein was for banning all nuclear weapons and against the development of the H bomb.
Keep in mind that these were the hard times in the cold war against the communists. Some people wrongly thought that all anti nuclear weapons guys were pro communist. Ironically their preceptions that the spending of more and more money into the military sector would bring down communism has turned out correct after all. Einstein was in fact unwillingly helping Stalin and Breshnev.
Well, we have here and RAIDED 60 TB array which runs well und Mac OS X. This is mainly because Darwin is based on FreeBSD. The BSD series comes from the professional/academic unix world and has automatical 64 bit support at all level for 9 years or so.
It's not very suprising that Linux is lacking these features. It's more hobbyist style and still contains some serious design failures like the missing microkernel Mac OS X has for some time now.
Many people here at slashdot bitch at the academic/professional world but at examples like this you see that professional, thoughful design always pays off in some time.
Maybe but what countries ?
If you are honest, you must admit that Mexico et al are pisspot 3rd world countries.
In more developed countries MS will have much more difficulties. E.g. the anti-monopoly commissar Ponti of the European Union is well know to crush any competition-disabling behavior and has the guts to challenge any company, no matter the size. And high-level software development goes on in higher developed countries, so these are important for the future of MS and the internet.
Hmmmm, tasty and crispy !
Mad props from Paris !
These guys just spread FUD to discredit Celera Genomics.
The DNA is not from Dr. Venter.
The DNA is from his dog.
- Turn based - this means that you can screw any human player of the game by just taking "enough time" for a turn.
- Real time - this reduces to strategic AD&D concept to Diablo style brainless monster wacking.
So I wonder why they are so keen on providing multiplayer abilities for NeverWinterNights.And why does one play an rpg anyway ?
For the story of course ! Has anyone here played Baldurs Gate, Pools of Radiance (the old, non sucking one), Ultima or Wizardry for monster wacking ?
And don't object with "Diablo". If Diablo is an rpg then Quake is a flight simulator.
As open source Ogg Vorbis is released under the GPL/LGPL. However doesn't this prevent companies to integrate the sources into their software ?
You might object that they link against LGPLed object files, but at the entertainment sector processing speed is crucial, so everybody has to integrate the sources directly.
And there is the question wether the viral clause of the GPL doesn't infect all interfaces and makes all linked software open source automatically.
I think the next generation MP3 would be better for commercial software because they have a clearer license sheme and license fees don't matter in commercial software. And the Direct-X encoding libraries are much easier to use than Ogg Vorbis. However, to learn Direct-X decently you must take some MSCD training which is rather expensive.
ensure competition ?
The FSF, EFF and associated bodies just want to lobby open software into federal institution. This in fact avoids open competition because the software is choosen by political considerations not by qualitative ones. Competition has nothing do to with the question wether to use open software or not, but with the terms how these decisions are made.
So dragging the open vs. close software issue in is rather ridiculous.
Well, but the main point is that you get a clean and efficent form of energy storage. This would enable cars to use energy form many different sources, not only petrol like today.
until we have computer the this compational power sitting on our desktops ?
Would the Japs wait 10 years or so, they could order one at dell for just 999$.
Well this is slightly offtopic, but I discovered recently an universal theory of everything and I can't whithold such important information from the slashdot crowd.
The theory is mainly inspired by the posts I read here at slashdot and consists of the revolutionary thesis:
Everything is a troll.
I'll explain now what leads me to this conclusion.
Let's start with the most important part of most slashdotters lives: the computer.
As you all know operating systems have lead to many heated and sometimes flamebait discussions, take all these Linux vs Windows XP vs *BSD etc flamewars here at slashdot as an example. In fact we all now that the most important differences of the OSes are for these discussion, for most practical uses an operating system is as good and any other. Therefore the main purpose of modern operating systems is just trolling and not any practical issues anymore !
The same goes for programming languages. Today we have enough programming languages for any purpose which comes into our minds. And we all know that the best programming is choosen specifically for an explicit task. But nevertheless there are always more and more universal programming languages which "suit all purposes perfectly" created all the time. Take Microsofts C# as an example. Thus we can conclude that the main purpose of modern programming languages is again trolling.
C# takes us direct to Microsofts monopolic behavoir. If you examine it long enough, you'll come to the conclusion that their practices to subdue the competitors is just a very clever way of trolling. The the whole anti-trust case is just the way of the competitors and the goverment to troll back at Microsoft !
You can go on and on with this and you'll finally reach the same conclusion as I: the main purpose of the entire computer/IT industry is just trolling.
Can we extend this statement to other parts of our lives ?
Let's look at something basic: emotions.
Hate is obviously a form of trolling. If you think about it a little, you'll see that the same goes to the opposite: love. If you love someone you just troll everybody you don't love and if you love everybody you troll the people who don't want to be loved. In fact any kind of emotion is a form of trolling.
The same goes for the society war is an obvious form of trolling. The rule above for love applies at society leave at peace. Terrorism, trade contracts, diplomany, just anything is trolling. Religions are trolling just by their existence, because they always claim all other relgions to be wrong. You'll have to do some examination to see this always but once you know the pattern it's relatively easy to spot.
This lead to the next conclusion: humans and society are always trolling.
But what about nature ?
Well we know how to approach such thing know, so it's not very difficult to procceed.
Carnivores are trolling herbivores and other carnivores by eating them.
Herbivores troll plants by eating them.
Plants are trolling everybody by sitting around doing nothing and being green.
Bacteria are trolling everybody by causing such things as rotting and diarreea.
In fact even the physical laws are trollish. Take the laws of thermodynamics. The law of entropia is trollish by causing disorder everywhere. The law of energy conservation is trollish by causing energy problems all over the world. As another example the law of gravitation is trollish by hitting people with apples on the head. The moon circles around earth to troll it which on the other hand trolls around the sun. And the sun trolls the planets by sending radition and light at them. The milkyway trolls around it's own axis. The whole universe is trolling by expanding infinitely !
Well, this leaves the question wether the laws of trolling hold outside our universe. But the existance of such questions would be oviously trolling and therefore everything outside the universe must be trolling, too ! So we can conclude the universal laws of the universe:
EVERTHING IS TROLLING !
This law has some interesting implications: