It is entirely possible to write APIs that are not network transparent, although I suppose that's more of an implementation detail. In any event, OpenGL was designed to be network transparent, using a client/server architecture.
After a while, these analogies become completely pointless. We all understand how these programs work, and we can talk about them specifically. Right or wrong on it's own merits, not because it's 'like' something both hypothetical and ridiculous in the real world.
Using an open relay, or even worse an open proxy to send spam is not "speech" it's destructive hacking. If they want to send email, they should send it from their own machines. And, they should live with being black-listed or whatever.
The dean campaign has been doing a very good job of using the net to build their grass roots, not that Howard Dean knows how to configure a Cisco router, or whatever.
Maybe anti-dean people are simply sending 'fake' Spam in order to discredit his campaign. Hopefully someone from the dean campaign can clear this up.
The other possibility is that this might actually work. They are probably sending messages to 'known democrats' who signed their emails when they registered for the party or whatever (I live in IA and I've been getting a lot of calls from democrats and pollsters on my Cell, which they must have gotten from my registration).
Btw, just to defend the fact that I'm actually 'registered' to a political party. I liked both McCain and Bill Bradley (who ran against Gore in '2000), but the democratic primary was closer to my dorm room (the republican one was all the way across campus) and I figured there was a better chance of meeting a hot chick at the dem. Primary. Also, a friend of mine knew a guy working on the Bradley campaign so we were invited to the campaign HQ in Des Moines after the vote, which was kind of cool.
In fact, I did meet a really hot chick and she decided to come up to Des Moines with us, which was pretty cool.
I don't think that this little audio thing is very effective (anti-bush) propaganda, listening to bush's statement's over and over again just makes me want to agree with him.
You know, it would actually be a good idea to have two physical sets of wires leading to your house, or at least to the neighborhood distribution center. That way, if one set of wires goes down, you still have power.
In the US power consumption grew 30% while the power capacity only grew 15%, and the Democrats have been blocking all attempts to increase the power capacity.
What democrats? Dems in california? The whole nation? Can you provide any spesific examples?
This power outage just goes to prove that President Bush was right. He was talking about the need to increase, improve, and modernize out infrastructure.
Now this is ridiculous. Bush may have talked about it, but any monkey can say things. Bush didn't actually try to do anything about it other then push (I guess) for even more deregulation. And whether or not he talked about it he certainly didn't actually do anything about it. Given that the GOP has control of both houses in congress and the presidency, there's nothing really standing in his way if actually did want to do something.
The only thing this proves is that bush didn't do anything to fix problems he actually knew about...
Yeah, the internet was deregulated, and the power system was regulated. But think about how generally unreliable the internet is compared to the power system. Parts of it go down all the time. Think about the last network outage compared to the last blackout. How long did that blackout last compared to the network outage?
The power system is much more critical then the internet. Without power, people can get stuck in elevators, AC goes out, the cellular phone system can go down, etc.
Another problem that showed up in the power system is that companies like Enron were, with no equivocation, bandits. They actually fucked with the California power system in order to extract better deals from the state, along with the well-known securities thieving they pulled off.
Any attempt at power deregulation should also require a much, much better standard for open-ness and honesty from the companies. Peoples lives are actually at state here and leaving our power grid in the hands of criminals is not a very good plan.
And we also need to design a much more fault-tolerant grid system as well. It's just ridiculous that one fuckup can shut down the entire east coast, especially 40 years (or whatever) after the exact same thing happened...
3d games don't use Xwindows. They use OpenGL usually, which is also network transparent. GL obviously proves that network transparency doesn't slow you down, but it also dosn't prove that X isn't slow.
The future lays in things like VNC. VNC is faster and you can even disconnect and keep your session alive. It might be slightly slower but way more convenient.
This software doesn't really need to have a great name, a memorable slogan, or anything like this. I'm pretty sure that people choosing X-windows servers are not going to make choices based on cute names. Besides, I'm sure that the vast majority of people simply use the xserver that comes with their distro. So really, the most influential people here are going to be the people at redhat, SuSE, gentoo, etc. If they chance most Linux users will too.
Tech Biscuit: You're not running Windows? How can you not be running Windows?
And I'm sure he whent off and joked to his other biscuits that "I had this customer who didn't even think he was running a version of windows. ha ha ha. He's like, 'it's not windows, it's OS XP!'"
My favorite story on that site is where a woman calls her PC the "Engine" (I.e. the case with the Mobo/fans/hds/etc in it). And then the tech support person complains that she dosn't know what to call the "CPU".
I mean, most of these tech support people are idiots themselves! And here they are insulting other people for not knowing things that they happen to know. Pretty stupid and annoying over-all.
You go to the movies. When the movie starts, you begin shouting at the screen. An usher comes and asks you to leave. Is this censorship?
yes
How about this one: you go to church. In the middle of a sermon, you stand up and tell the priest to go f--- himself. Two big parishioners drag you outside. Is this censorship?
yes
Here's another: you shout "fire" in a crowded theater. You start a panic. You get arrested and sent to jail for causing a panic and endangering lives. Is this censorship?
probably not
You go to get a driver's license, but rather than giving them your real name and address, you say your name is Oswald Cobblepot and you live at 1313 Mockingbird Lane. They refuse to give you your license. Is this censorship?
No.
Go read the dictionary. 'Censorship' is what Censors do. Censors are people with the authority to prevent speech. People who work for NBC, MTV and other networks getting rid of nudity, putting in bleeps, and requesting content changes are Called 'Censors' what they do is 'Censorship'.
Who said anything about 'donate'? Why would I want to 'donate' code to anyone for any reason? Why on earth would I want to 'donate' my code to you? You're a dick. If I want to GPL something, that's my choice. I don't give up 'ownership' of the code in the way I would if I put it in the public domain.
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It is entirely possible to write APIs that are not network transparent, although I suppose that's more of an implementation detail. In any event, OpenGL was designed to be network transparent, using a client/server architecture.
I much prefer shaved, isn't it obvious?
After a while, these analogies become completely pointless. We all understand how these programs work, and we can talk about them specifically. Right or wrong on it's own merits, not because it's 'like' something both hypothetical and ridiculous in the real world.
Using an open relay, or even worse an open proxy to send spam is not "speech" it's destructive hacking. If they want to send email, they should send it from their own machines. And, they should live with being black-listed or whatever.
The dean campaign has been doing a very good job of using the net to build their grass roots, not that Howard Dean knows how to configure a Cisco router, or whatever.
Maybe anti-dean people are simply sending 'fake' Spam in order to discredit his campaign. Hopefully someone from the dean campaign can clear this up.
The other possibility is that this might actually work. They are probably sending messages to 'known democrats' who signed their emails when they registered for the party or whatever (I live in IA and I've been getting a lot of calls from democrats and pollsters on my Cell, which they must have gotten from my registration).
Btw, just to defend the fact that I'm actually 'registered' to a political party. I liked both McCain and Bill Bradley (who ran against Gore in '2000), but the democratic primary was closer to my dorm room (the republican one was all the way across campus) and I figured there was a better chance of meeting a hot chick at the dem. Primary. Also, a friend of mine knew a guy working on the Bradley campaign so we were invited to the campaign HQ in Des Moines after the vote, which was kind of cool.
In fact, I did meet a really hot chick and she decided to come up to Des Moines with us, which was pretty cool.
It also worked out well, as I fucking hate bush.
George W. Bush is a Fascist. [66.92.134.175]
I don't think that this little audio thing is very effective (anti-bush) propaganda, listening to bush's statement's over and over again just makes me want to agree with him.
You know, it would actually be a good idea to have two physical sets of wires leading to your house, or at least to the neighborhood distribution center. That way, if one set of wires goes down, you still have power.
In the US power consumption grew 30% while the power capacity only grew 15%, and the Democrats have been blocking all attempts to increase the power capacity.
What democrats? Dems in california? The whole nation? Can you provide any spesific examples?
This power outage just goes to prove that President Bush was right. He was talking about the need to increase, improve, and modernize out infrastructure.
Now this is ridiculous. Bush may have talked about it, but any monkey can say things. Bush didn't actually try to do anything about it other then push (I guess) for even more deregulation. And whether or not he talked about it he certainly didn't actually do anything about it. Given that the GOP has control of both houses in congress and the presidency, there's nothing really standing in his way if actually did want to do something.
The only thing this proves is that bush didn't do anything to fix problems he actually knew about...
Yeah, the internet was deregulated, and the power system was regulated. But think about how generally unreliable the internet is compared to the power system. Parts of it go down all the time. Think about the last network outage compared to the last blackout. How long did that blackout last compared to the network outage?
The power system is much more critical then the internet. Without power, people can get stuck in elevators, AC goes out, the cellular phone system can go down, etc.
Another problem that showed up in the power system is that companies like Enron were, with no equivocation, bandits. They actually fucked with the California power system in order to extract better deals from the state, along with the well-known securities thieving they pulled off.
Any attempt at power deregulation should also require a much, much better standard for open-ness and honesty from the companies. Peoples lives are actually at state here and leaving our power grid in the hands of criminals is not a very good plan.
And we also need to design a much more fault-tolerant grid system as well. It's just ridiculous that one fuckup can shut down the entire east coast, especially 40 years (or whatever) after the exact same thing happened...
3d games don't use Xwindows. They use OpenGL usually, which is also network transparent. GL obviously proves that network transparency doesn't slow you down, but it also dosn't prove that X isn't slow.
The future lays in things like VNC. VNC is faster and you can even disconnect and keep your session alive. It might be slightly slower but way more convenient.
This software doesn't really need to have a great name, a memorable slogan, or anything like this. I'm pretty sure that people choosing X-windows servers are not going to make choices based on cute names. Besides, I'm sure that the vast majority of people simply use the xserver that comes with their distro. So really, the most influential people here are going to be the people at redhat, SuSE, gentoo, etc. If they chance most Linux users will too.
Yes, I know that. But the law dosn't say anything about 'unsolicited' mail or 'spam'.
The terrible secret of the robots! From space!
Will this book reveal the terrible secret of space!?
It would make more sense to pronounce it "zoh-vert", or the way the french pronounce 'ou' with a 'z' in front. Since when is OU an "oo" sound?
I'm sick of companies and people coming up with 'pronunciations' for their stuff that has no relation to the spelling.
So if I send a saucy email to my girlfriend, I need to include "adv-adult" in the subject line?
And in the meantime, non-explicet Spam continues to pile up.
Good job Louisiana.
Tech Biscuit: You're not running Windows? How can you not be running Windows?
And I'm sure he whent off and joked to his other biscuits that "I had this customer who didn't even think he was running a version of windows. ha ha ha. He's like, 'it's not windows, it's OS XP!'"
Not even win2k needs to be rebooted to change network settings anymore :P Just do ipconfig /renew to get new DHCP settings...
My favorite story on that site is where a woman calls her PC the "Engine" (I.e. the case with the Mobo/fans/hds/etc in it). And then the tech support person complains that she dosn't know what to call the "CPU".
I mean, most of these tech support people are idiots themselves! And here they are insulting other people for not knowing things that they happen to know. Pretty stupid and annoying over-all.
You go to the movies. When the movie starts, you begin shouting at the screen. An usher comes and asks you to leave. Is this censorship?
yes
How about this one: you go to church. In the middle of a sermon, you stand up and tell the priest to go f--- himself. Two big parishioners drag you outside. Is this censorship?
yes
Here's another: you shout "fire" in a crowded theater. You start a panic. You get arrested and sent to jail for causing a panic and endangering lives. Is this censorship?
probably not You go to get a driver's license, but rather than giving them your real name and address, you say your name is Oswald Cobblepot and you live at 1313 Mockingbird Lane. They refuse to give you your license. Is this censorship?
No.
Go read the dictionary. 'Censorship' is what Censors do. Censors are people with the authority to prevent speech. People who work for NBC, MTV and other networks getting rid of nudity, putting in bleeps, and requesting content changes are Called 'Censors' what they do is 'Censorship'.
Who said anything about 'donate'? Why would I want to 'donate' code to anyone for any reason? Why on earth would I want to 'donate' my code to you? You're a dick. If I want to GPL something, that's my choice. I don't give up 'ownership' of the code in the way I would if I put it in the public domain.
The lawyers only get paid if they win.
Actualy, this is the same lawyer who defended Napster, and prosecuted Microsoft.
You just have to limit how many backup copies they can make. A reasonable number like 100 trillion or so should do.