This should be a popular article considering that geeks are generally socially retarded shut-ins. How about posting a how-to on how to go out, do stuff, and maybe get laid every once in a while. At least this would help the (pathetic) state of affairs.
Deaths directly linked to the (mis)use of:
IIs : 1
Apache : 0
Is using IIs really worth the risk? Please, think before you deploy IIs.
Advice : Don't read the article
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Ooh, I almost feel like it was worth hearing this nitwit drone through the following conclusions:
With five different fan models from four different
manufacturers, there is no real way of comparing one to another,....
How about an objective, scientific comparison?
...although I can definitely give my opinion on certain features or aspects. For instance, I found the LEDs on the Antec Blue and TriLight fans to be much brighter and colorful than the LEDs found on the Cooler Master Blue LED fan, however the
blah blah blah
Holy hot shit! You write for a living and this is all you can come up with? The level of commentary here is on the level of your average grade two show and tell presentation.
My conclusion : this article is an embarassment to online journalism (and that's rather difficult to accomplish), don't read it.
Excellent reasoning! By way of analogy: If I was going to invest my money, I would look to minimize my investment return by allowing everyone to take my money and spend it as they please without having to pay me back! Oh man, it'll all be worth it when they have to acknowledge the fact that they're using what once was my money. My heavens, thank Dog for the BSD license.
I agree the issues RMS raises with trusted computing, specifically the loss of control over one's system and possibility for abuse, are valid, and even frightening.
OTOH I hold some opinions of my own.
RMS says that trusted computing should be called treacherous computing but his reasons are weak. I fail to see how stopping people from illegally trading media over the web should be considered treacherous, in fact it is commendable.
Instead of leaving the internet as a 'wild west' with no laws, Microsoft and the RIAA (along with some politicians) are benevolently expending time and effort to establish some sort of order. I look forward to the day when I can buy Trusted hardware and engage in Trusted computing. That will finally let me sleep at night, knowing that Hollywood and the RIAA are not being robbed of their hard earned money.
Not only is it co-orbital but it periodically gets trapped in earth's gravitational field to become a second moon:
General Simon Worden of the United States Space Command described it as a "near Earth object that is close to being trapped by the Earth as a second natural satellite".
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In 550AD, and again in 2600AD and 3880AD, for a while it will become a true satellite of our planet, in effect Earth's second moon, although technically it will remain under the gravitational control of the Sun.
In the name of efficiency I've decided to combine all of these exceedingly clever jokes into one package!
Cmdr_Taco: What happen?
Mechanic: Somebody set us up the troll article.
Operator: We get signal.
Cmdr_Taco: What !
Operator: Main screen turn on.
Cmdr_Taco: It's you !!
Katz: How are you gentlemen !!
Katz: All your little boys are belong to us.
Katz: You are on the way to your spelling sucks.
Cmdr_Taco: What yuort say !!
Katz: You have no chance to survive make your time.
Katz: Ha Ha Ha Ha... .
Cmdr_Taco: 1. Take off every "sig."
Cmdr_Taco:...
Cmdr_Taco: 3. Profit!
I have long held the opinion that computers, due to their nature, will deflate music prices dramatically and destroy the current media distribution cartels. Due to file trading, the service of providing music has decreased in value, and music cartels will be forced to lower their prices in order to sell music over the internet. If they lower their prices I would expect that more than a few asses will be canned in order to trim the cruft. On the other hand, should the RIAA open up 'RIAA ONLINE!' (RIAOL) us geeks can expect to gain some jobs.
Now is the time when we should be paying close scrutiny to the RIAA however, since instead of bowing to market (consumer) pressures, they are hellbent on strongarming everything that comes in between them and their fiefdom.
I look forward to the day when all of the media cartels have fallen, and the sham that is hollywood swirls (counterclockwise) into the shitter.
A couple points to make:
First of all the companies are trying to recoup their R&D costs (and make a profit). That seems perfectly fair to me. It either has to be done this way, or you can have a government funded research project to make certain GM foods royalty-patent-whatever free.
Second of all, I think it's better the way they are created at the moment, that is, unable to reproduce. I don't want super-plants spreading all over the place (outside of farmers' fields) and destroying our eco-system.
Just my $ 2e-2
The insect has been nicknamed 'Gladiator', mostly because its exoskeleton resembles armor, and partly because it is predatory and feeds on other insects.
Physically, it can be described as a cross between a stick insect and a praying mantis.
There are plenty of cures for viruses, or else you'd be dead after catching your first cold:
Antibodies (not antiviruses), they bond to viruses to render them inactive.
Interferons, a class of chemicals that inhibit viral reproduction.
These are two of the tools that your immune system works with to clean yourself of a virus, with another helper being cytotoxic cells which go around and eat infected cells to clean up and stop the spread of the virus. To me it seemed that the HPA's as they discussed them in the article were of a more general purpose nature, and would bond to many different kinds of viruses.
This is both a good and a bad thing; with the bad thing being that because they are so chemically active they could cause any range of problems when they enter the diverse chemical pool of the bloodstream. Who knows what could happen?
The article is very scant on details, it's merely a statement of what happened. I'm curious as to why HP would replace a stripped down office suite (Works) with just a word processor (WordPerfect)? Perhaps they should also look at some of the available office suites like StarOffice or OpenOffice.
I seem to have run into a bug with mouse gestures under 1.1, if I don't run mozilla as root (which is normal) some of the menus just disappear and the browser is unusable. This is after a clean installation of 1.1, and then installing gestures.
That Sigma Designs would acknowledge that code was stolen, and instead of retracting their program and rewriting the offending portions, they just disclosed the source to the program? I think they were anticipating this well beforehand and decided that if the worst situation happened they would just disclose the source.
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This should be a popular article considering that geeks are generally socially retarded shut-ins. How about posting a how-to on how to go out, do stuff, and maybe get laid every once in a while. At least this would help the (pathetic) state of affairs.
Please don't let RedHat make emacs like vi
J2EE will always lag in performance to .Net technologies due to its interpreted nature. When will you people finally understand this?
Are you just posting this on the front page to try and prove that BSD isn't dying?
Deaths directly linked to the (mis)use of:
IIs : 1
Apache : 0
Is using IIs really worth the risk? Please, think before you deploy IIs.
My conclusion : this article is an embarassment to online journalism (and that's rather difficult to accomplish), don't read it.
I know alot of software developers are anal retentive perfectionists, but this is going a little too far. What's next? EULA emulation?
Excellent reasoning! By way of analogy: If I was going to invest my money, I would look to minimize my investment return by allowing everyone to take my money and spend it as they please without having to pay me back! Oh man, it'll all be worth it when they have to acknowledge the fact that they're using what once was my money. My heavens, thank Dog for the BSD license.
What @$^@ing crack are you smoking anyhow?
OTOH I hold some opinions of my own. RMS says that trusted computing should be called treacherous computing but his reasons are weak. I fail to see how stopping people from illegally trading media over the web should be considered treacherous, in fact it is commendable.
Instead of leaving the internet as a 'wild west' with no laws, Microsoft and the RIAA (along with some politicians) are benevolently expending time and effort to establish some sort of order. I look forward to the day when I can buy Trusted hardware and engage in Trusted computing. That will finally let me sleep at night, knowing that Hollywood and the RIAA are not being robbed of their hard earned money.
In the name of efficiency I've decided to combine all of these exceedingly clever jokes into one package!
Cmdr_Taco: What happen? ... .
...
Mechanic: Somebody set us up the troll article.
Operator: We get signal.
Cmdr_Taco: What !
Operator: Main screen turn on.
Cmdr_Taco: It's you !!
Katz: How are you gentlemen !!
Katz: All your little boys are belong to us.
Katz: You are on the way to your spelling sucks.
Cmdr_Taco: What yuort say !!
Katz: You have no chance to survive make your time.
Katz: Ha Ha Ha Ha
Cmdr_Taco: 1. Take off every "sig."
Cmdr_Taco:
Cmdr_Taco: 3. Profit!
Now is the time when we should be paying close scrutiny to the RIAA however, since instead of bowing to market (consumer) pressures, they are hellbent on strongarming everything that comes in between them and their fiefdom.
I look forward to the day when all of the media cartels have fallen, and the sham that is hollywood swirls (counterclockwise) into the shitter.
Most participants in #hotsex would fail the Turing test regardless.
A couple points to make:
First of all the companies are trying to recoup their R&D costs (and make a profit). That seems perfectly fair to me. It either has to be done this way, or you can have a government funded research project to make certain GM foods royalty-patent-whatever free.
Second of all, I think it's better the way they are created at the moment, that is, unable to reproduce. I don't want super-plants spreading all over the place (outside of farmers' fields) and destroying our eco-system.
Just my $ 2e-2
The insect has been nicknamed 'Gladiator', mostly because its exoskeleton resembles armor, and partly because it is predatory and feeds on other insects. Physically, it can be described as a cross between a stick insect and a praying mantis.
Please, there's no need for such redundancy.
These are two of the tools that your immune system works with to clean yourself of a virus, with another helper being cytotoxic cells which go around and eat infected cells to clean up and stop the spread of the virus. To me it seemed that the HPA's as they discussed them in the article were of a more general purpose nature, and would bond to many different kinds of viruses.
This is both a good and a bad thing; with the bad thing being that because they are so chemically active they could cause any range of problems when they enter the diverse chemical pool of the bloodstream. Who knows what could happen?
There is a fix for it, but it requires a bit of work on your part:
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Using the patch at bug 33282 it is now possible to use an external mailer on Unix.
After applying the patch, try the following in prefs.js:
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.external.mail
user_pref("applications.mailto", "rxvt -e mutt");
user_pref("applications.mailto.host", "%username%@%host%");
A similar setup should work for any mailer that will take an address as a commandline option.
The article is very scant on details, it's merely a statement of what happened. I'm curious as to why HP would replace a stripped down office suite (Works) with just a word processor (WordPerfect)? Perhaps they should also look at some of the available office suites like StarOffice or OpenOffice.
I seem to have run into a bug with mouse gestures under 1.1, if I don't run mozilla as root (which is normal) some of the menus just disappear and the browser is unusable. This is after a clean installation of 1.1, and then installing gestures.
It was probably just an accounting error.
And yet you still managed to outperform my ISA Trident.
That Sigma Designs would acknowledge that code was stolen, and instead of retracting their program and rewriting the offending portions, they just disclosed the source to the program? I think they were anticipating this well beforehand and decided that if the worst situation happened they would just disclose the source.
A time when much like today we can 'roll your own' kernel, we will be able to fork our own alternate reality through time travel.