Show me the part of the Constitution that guarantees citizens the right to travel, or the denies the government the right to ration food.
Well, I don't know about the right to travel, but the 10th amendment would seem to deny the federal goverment the means to constitutionally ration food.
Amendment X: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
Although the tragedy is still the focus of the nation and probably will be for some time, it's good to see that some news sites aren't just repeating the same facts (that everyone already knows) and throwing in their 2 cents worth of speculation.
Also, there are still other forums that exist. Usenet, Yahoo, and other random discussion boards that exist at almost every site on the web. If all you want is a forum to discuss on go there.
If you must post to/., try making your own discussion. (scroll all the way down) I haven't played with it myself, but it looks like what you're looking for.
...is it now OK to link to The Register now that Mike Magee doesn't work there anymore? OK, so I don't read Slashdot that religiously anymore, but I can't remember the last time I saw a story linked to there from here.
Or maybe there's a large conspiracy against the poor man by Slashdot, Intel, Microsoft, and the Bavarian Illuminati. Well, maybe not. But there could be!
OK, I'll get get some sleep now. But not after I link to Mike's new page.
Not to be a pain, but I doubt we'd be half as close to having a browser as good as Mozilla and even NS6 has turned out to be. They're paying for it and, until we can make AOL non-profit or a subsidiary of the government (socialize the browser!:) I don't see why they wouldn't want to try to make a buck or two off of it.
And, like everyone else is saying, there's always Mozilla. Or just build your own browser off of Gecko...
Anand's article is actually better in my opinion. They use a different board (from FIC, if it makes a difference; it's still a DDR preview board) and got 5-20% better performance on various benchmarks. They also compare it to a PIII setup with an i815 and an i820 board.
And don't forget, these are preview boards, hopefully the real thing should give us an even bigger boost. Go DDR!:)
With exhaust that smells like French Fries, I personally can't think of a worse way to use that oil. If everyone in your neighborhood did it, the place would smell like McDonald's for blocks. Not to mention larger groups of people burning this stuff. Still, it probably has uses in higher altitude applications where it has time to diffuse.
It seems to me the problem could be solved fairly simply; that if the owner of a patent is a company, that the company must actually manufacture the product they are patenting or it becomes invalid after so many years of lack of use. Of course it has to be worded carefully so that they can't just assign the stock to the CEO or something, but it could help.
The same thing happened over at yahoo chat. Went in to ask a few questions and watched as the "moderators" who weren't there and the "band" who also wasn't there and the whole time everything that they were saying read like a press release. It was almost cute, but you could tell it was being faked by the timing involved (damn that Lars is one fast typist sometimes, the occasional typo isn't fooling anyone...)
What a friggin' rip. Should have just emailed 'em. I'm not about to now though; if they'll only listen to the money, I'm not buying any more of their CD's, encouraging my friends not to buy them, etc.
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I guess that was hearsay from somewhere else. I was speaking in terms of actual DIMMs available though; I still haven't seen or heard of those being anywhere...
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"Judging from the rest of the sentence, you said it backwards."
Oops. Yeah, thanks.:)
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The numbers are accurate, but DDR memory isn't actually being manufactured yet, while it is (theoretically) possible to find (really expensive) 800 MHz RIMMs.
However, once they come out, they'll be well worth grabbing. Rambus won't be able to keep up, especially in large memory configurations since latency decreases with each RIMM added...
*sigh* Took the friggin' physicists long enough to realize something as basic as this. Of COURSE the universe is pure chaos, how else could you possibly explain any of it? Anything else is merely a delusion. (See the <A HREF="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tilt/principia">Princ ipia Discordia</A> for further explanations and confusives. And because it's the fifth day of the week in many countries.)
>> Here's a newsflash -- children _ARE_ second class citizens, in a very real and biological sense. They are wired completely differently from adults. Children are wired to learn, absorb, and grow, part of which involves hormones that prioritize emotional reactions out of scale, and center the child's mind on himself. This is on purpose, by nature.
Adults are wired differently -- they don't learn easily, their emotions are numbed from years of toil, and they have simply seen FAR more of the world than children. All this allows them to digest new information in a healthier, rounded context, at the cost of creativity and passion. >>
I keep hearing this argument over and over again and it still doesn't make any sense to me. How are children supposed to become these mature adults that have seen "FAR more of the world" if they don't see it when they "are wired to learn, absorb, and grow"? A parents "DUTY" shouldn't include keeping them from information that will impede their maturing. It's also attitudes like that that are responsible for so many families being broken; not being allowed to make their own decisions they rebel and in rebelling they learn things their parents don't want them to know and leads to mistrust. Are you going to believe someone who's lied to you for years? They need their own experiences to decide for themselves. Parents can preach all day, but it doesn't mean anything; like the old explaining sex to a virgin bit.
Information is the one thing we should never keep from our children; the more we do the longer it takes for them to mature.
Got the URL for the article? Or the text? I wouldn't mind reading it. You ranted about not being able to get it in as a feature, but I for one would love to see it even if it was just buried in the comments. Pretty please?:)
It doesn't sound fishy at all. That same findings of fact said that servers and PCs are seperate markets and that Linux isn't yet true competition on the desktop, in PCs, where MS really has their monopoly.
Maybe all we really need is a way for the moderators to mark articles as Redundant. Or insightful, interesting, whatever, but no points; that could get ugly...
Sorry to make this short, but I gotta run in about 5 ms (milliseconds, not Microsofts...)
I agree with most of your post, but I don't think this is the last empire the world will ever see. How many people thought that the fall of Rome would be the last empire? I don't know the answer either, but I'm guessing they couldn't conceive of something like that, just like we couldn't conceive of that. But I'm sure it will happen.
I think you bring up a number of good things and I would like to (figuratively) take your ball and run with it.
You said "It is too easy to think to ourselves, `Gosh, if I lost the use of my eyes I would rather die than go on like that.' A fair question does arise as to how reasonable it is to transpose those feelings onto someone else."
I completely agree with this, and I think this is exactly what we cannot let ourselves believe in this issue. If you were born without eyes, you will never miss seeing. You might wonder intensely what life might have been like with them, but you would learn to cope.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that this is not a reason to use to decide life or death. There may be varying degrees of this, but it is possible to live normally with a birth defect, assuming it isn't immediately deadly (like being born with half a heart or something). There may be other decisions to be made on whether or not someone should go out into the world, but many of those reasons should have been decided before the fetus leaves the mother...
Either way, it is the parents choice (whether you think it should be punishable or not is your choice, but the choice is up to the parent/caretaker of the child; yes I'm speaking from a rational anarchist's view here) and IMO we shouldn't try to stand in their way if they decide that their child shouldn't live because of it.
This is a really interesting point. With the music industry at least the musicians don't mind as much if for no other reason than they can make money playing concerts, etc. than selling recordings. When you take it to Hollywood it becomes a whole 'nother ballgame. Actors don't actually act in front of a live audience anymore, they do everything in front of a camera, not to mention the execs making scandalous amounts of money off of the movies.
The other really scary part of this is what would happen if they could no longer make money off of showing the movie. How else could they? How did Star Wars make so much? Toys, add-ons, etc. Each movie becomes a marketing gimmick for the latest gadget/toy/time waster.
Of course I don't see this as being a big worry anytime in the future. I don't have a monitor big enough to equal the experience of seeing a movie in the theatre, do you? If so, can I come over for a tan? Where this would hurt would be in the videotape/DVD market. Who needs a VCR or DVD player when you can just download it?
Of course all this is random speculation. Also assumes a rather high bandwidth quotient. These things are coming, but perhaps not quite enough yet... Still, look at how well MP3's and pirated movies, etc are doing even with just the modems that most people have. I think people will wait if they don't have to pay. I know I would. But then again, I'm on a T1.:) (at least as long as I'm living in the dorm...)
I happened to meta-mod this comment, and got interested... has anyone tried to form a family tree of projects? I'm sure, just using the examples you've given, you could get some pretty interesting results...
Wow. First, let me say, awesome, AWESOME essay. Can't think of a better way to say it right now, so you'll have to take that for what it's worth.;)
Secondly. Though I think furthering the use of question marks in replacement of single quotes for lines like "The nasty word ?sellout? appeared in sporadic flames on the net, and Raymond stoked the fires by conspicuously avoiding talk of ?freedom? or ?free software? in his speeches,...", I would love to see the ' in its full glory sometimes. Rob, is there any way you can fit a version of the demoroniser into Slash somehow? Please? Great essays like this are far to often pitted with little marks like these and, though it's a shame MS thinks it has to add its own extensions to everything, it would be nice for those of us who actually use ?other? browsers on ?other? operating systems (lovin' those ?'s...;) to be able to read comments without worrying about parsing out the crap.
Thank you for posting this. Wish I had moderator points to mod that one up. Too many people really do assume YVHV is the only god out there and that upsets me to no end (being Pagan and all...)
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Well, I don't know about the right to travel, but the 10th amendment would seem to deny the federal goverment the means to constitutionally ration food.
Amendment X: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
Also, there are still other forums that exist. Usenet, Yahoo, and other random discussion boards that exist at almost every site on the web. If all you want is a forum to discuss on go there.
If you must post to /., try making your own discussion. (scroll all the way down) I haven't played with it myself, but it looks like what you're looking for.
Or maybe there's a large conspiracy against the poor man by Slashdot, Intel, Microsoft, and the Bavarian Illuminati. Well, maybe not. But there could be!
OK, I'll get get some sleep now. But not after I link to Mike's new page.
As a corrolary, each week you vote a feature off the project...
When will the version number exceed the number of remaining users?
Not to be a pain, but I doubt we'd be half as close to having a browser as good as Mozilla and even NS6 has turned out to be. They're paying for it and, until we can make AOL non-profit or a subsidiary of the government (socialize the browser! :) I don't see why they wouldn't want to try to make a buck or two off of it.
And, like everyone else is saying, there's always Mozilla. Or just build your own browser off of Gecko...
And don't forget, these are preview boards, hopefully the real thing should give us an even bigger boost. Go DDR! :)
With exhaust that smells like French Fries, I personally can't think of a worse way to use that oil. If everyone in your neighborhood did it, the place would smell like McDonald's for blocks. Not to mention larger groups of people burning this stuff. Still, it probably has uses in higher altitude applications where it has time to diffuse.
It seems to me the problem could be solved fairly simply; that if the owner of a patent is a company, that the company must actually manufacture the product they are patenting or it becomes invalid after so many years of lack of use. Of course it has to be worded carefully so that they can't just assign the stock to the CEO or something, but it could help.
The same thing happened over at yahoo chat. Went in to ask a few questions and watched as the "moderators" who weren't there and the "band" who also wasn't there and the whole time everything that they were saying read like a press release. It was almost cute, but you could tell it was being faked by the timing involved (damn that Lars is one fast typist sometimes, the occasional typo isn't fooling anyone...)
What a friggin' rip. Should have just emailed 'em. I'm not about to now though; if they'll only listen to the money, I'm not buying any more of their CD's, encouraging my friends not to buy them, etc.
(And here's a link to a search on Pricewatch too...)
"Judging from the rest of the sentence, you said it backwards."
:)
Oops.
Yeah, thanks.
The numbers are accurate, but DDR memory isn't actually being manufactured yet, while it is (theoretically) possible to find (really expensive) 800 MHz RIMMs.
However, once they come out, they'll be well worth grabbing. Rambus won't be able to keep up, especially in large memory configurations since latency decreases with each RIMM added...
*sigh*c ipia Discordia</A> for further explanations and confusives. And because it's the fifth day of the week in many countries.)
Took the friggin' physicists long enough to realize something as basic as this. Of COURSE the universe is pure chaos, how else could you possibly explain any of it? Anything else is merely a delusion.
(See the <A HREF="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tilt/principia">Prin
Don't forget to eat your hot dog today!!!!!
>> Here's a newsflash -- children _ARE_ second class citizens, in a very real and biological sense. They are wired completely differently from adults. Children are wired to learn, absorb, and grow, part of which involves hormones that prioritize emotional reactions out of scale, and
center the child's mind on himself. This is on purpose, by nature.
Adults are wired differently -- they don't learn easily, their emotions are numbed from years of toil, and they have simply seen FAR more of
the world than children. All this allows them to digest new information in a healthier, rounded context, at the cost of creativity and passion. >>
I keep hearing this argument over and over again and it still doesn't make any sense to me. How are children supposed to become these mature adults that have seen "FAR more of the world" if they don't see it when they "are wired to learn, absorb, and grow"? A parents "DUTY" shouldn't include keeping them from information that will impede their maturing. It's also attitudes like that that are responsible for so many families being broken; not being allowed to make their own decisions they rebel and in rebelling they learn things their parents don't want them to know and leads to mistrust. Are you going to believe someone who's lied to you for years? They need their own experiences to decide for themselves. Parents can preach all day, but it doesn't mean anything; like the old explaining sex to a virgin bit.
Information is the one thing we should never keep from our children; the more we do the longer it takes for them to mature.
Got the URL for the article? Or the text? I wouldn't mind reading it. You ranted about not being able to get it in as a feature, but I for one would love to see it even if it was just buried in the comments. Pretty please? :)
It doesn't sound fishy at all. That same findings of fact said that servers and PCs are seperate markets and that Linux isn't yet true competition on the desktop, in PCs, where MS really has their monopoly.
Maybe all we really need is a way for the moderators to mark articles as Redundant. Or insightful, interesting, whatever, but no points; that could get ugly...
Sorry to make this short, but I gotta run in about 5 ms (milliseconds, not Microsofts...)
I agree with most of your post, but I don't think this is the last empire the world will ever see. How many people thought that the fall of Rome would be the last empire? I don't know the answer either, but I'm guessing they couldn't conceive of something like that, just like we couldn't conceive of that. But I'm sure it will happen.
OK, I'm done rambling now...
I think you bring up a number of good things and I would like to (figuratively) take your ball and run with it.
You said "It is too easy to think to ourselves, `Gosh, if I lost the use of my eyes I would rather die than go on like that.' A fair question does arise as to how reasonable it is to transpose those feelings onto someone else."
I completely agree with this, and I think this is exactly what we cannot let ourselves believe in this issue. If you were born without eyes, you will never miss seeing. You might wonder intensely what life might have been like with them, but you would learn to cope.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that this is not a reason to use to decide life or death. There may be varying degrees of this, but it is possible to live normally with a birth defect, assuming it isn't immediately deadly (like being born with half a heart or something). There may be other decisions to be made on whether or not someone should go out into the world, but many of those reasons should have been decided before the fetus leaves the mother...
Either way, it is the parents choice (whether you think it should be punishable or not is your choice, but the choice is up to the parent/caretaker of the child; yes I'm speaking from a rational anarchist's view here) and IMO we shouldn't try to stand in their way if they decide that their child shouldn't live because of it.
This is a really interesting point. With the music industry at least the musicians don't mind as much if for no other reason than they can make money playing concerts, etc. than selling recordings. When you take it to Hollywood it becomes a whole 'nother ballgame. Actors don't actually act in front of a live audience anymore, they do everything in front of a camera, not to mention the execs making scandalous amounts of money off of the movies.
:) (at least as long as I'm living in the dorm...)
The other really scary part of this is what would happen if they could no longer make money off of showing the movie. How else could they? How did Star Wars make so much? Toys, add-ons, etc. Each movie becomes a marketing gimmick for the latest gadget/toy/time waster.
Of course I don't see this as being a big worry anytime in the future. I don't have a monitor big enough to equal the experience of seeing a movie in the theatre, do you? If so, can I come over for a tan? Where this would hurt would be in the videotape/DVD market. Who needs a VCR or DVD player when you can just download it?
Of course all this is random speculation. Also assumes a rather high bandwidth quotient. These things are coming, but perhaps not quite enough yet... Still, look at how well MP3's and pirated movies, etc are doing even with just the modems that most people have. I think people will wait if they don't have to pay. I know I would. But then again, I'm on a T1.
I happened to meta-mod this comment, and got interested... has anyone tried to form a family tree of projects? I'm sure, just using the examples you've given, you could get some pretty interesting results...
Wow. First, let me say, awesome, AWESOME essay. Can't think of a better way to say it right now, so you'll have to take that for what it's worth. ;)
Secondly. Though I think furthering the use of question marks in replacement of single quotes for lines like "The nasty word ?sellout? appeared in sporadic flames on the net, and Raymond stoked the fires by conspicuously avoiding talk of ?freedom? or ?free software? in his speeches,...", I would love to see the ' in its full glory sometimes. Rob, is there any way you can fit a version of the demoroniser into Slash somehow? Please? Great essays like this are far to often pitted with little marks like these and, though it's a shame MS thinks it has to add its own extensions to everything, it would be nice for those of us who actually use ?other? browsers on ?other? operating systems (lovin' those ?'s...;) to be able to read comments without worrying about parsing out the crap.
Thank you for posting this. Wish I had moderator points to mod that one up. Too many people really do assume YVHV is the only god out there and that upsets me to no end (being Pagan and all...)
OK, it's offtopic, but it had to be posted before someone at MS gets a clue. If that's possible. Check out this site with the title Do you think you've found a bug in Microsoft Bill Gates Anus 2000?
Just thought it was amusing... got it off today's edition of The Register.