Turns out there was nothing to learn from installing Gentoo from stage 1. I already knew what goes into a system at the most basic level, but I got this from 10+ years of Unix/Linux experience, before I ever saw Gentoo.
And you get the "FUCKIN' DUH" award for the day.
Jebus. This is what passes for an "interesting" comment on slashdot these days?
What should have the government done? Put the whole country under martial law? Shut down all commerical businesses and transportation and unroll millions of miles of razor wire?
No, but they certainly shouldn't have used bullshit reductio ad absurdum arguments to justify doing nothing.
This is FUD. The 865 is not "low end" no matter what the article says. It's the chip that's capable of 8 way SMP, as opposed to the 2 and 1 way. Those are cheaper.
Here is the source article for the price leak from DigiTimes. The prices for the 1 and 2 level chips are much less:
Most humans are born with features that will eventually, in the course of normal development, allow them to speak. A person can speak without imposing costs on other people.
Not true. This "normal development" of which you speak depends on the contribution of other people, either actively or passively. This contribution imposes a cost. Whether you assert that speech develops through mimicry, direct instruction, or both, it requires other people to contribute.
we are not born with wifi receivers or telephone wires, nor will we develop them naturally.
So? We don't develop the ability to speak English naturally either. The method of connecting certain phonemes into words, connecting words into a certain grammar, etc., is a technology developed over many centuries. We didn't develop that technology "naturally" either.
So your argument is fundamentally flawed. If we have no right to use any technology not "natural" to humans, then I can outlaw your use of English, right? According to your argument that would not abridge your right to free speech. Just use another language. Your use of English involves considerable theft of resources from our society, through instruction and mimicry of those around you. You have no right to this technology, by your argument. Stop using it immediately.
That's why broadband can't be a right - because it would require government to take from others.
Your existence takes from others. You consume resources that others could use. Do you have a right to exist? Should the government enforce that right if you do? I think you'd say yes, but then you'd have to live with contradiction. Get used to it.
Rights cease to be so when they require the removal of someone else's rights. My right to property doesn't give me the right to steal from my neighbors, and your right to free expression doesn't include taking away a measure of my right to property to pay for it.
No one is taking away your ability to purchase broadband. I know that you're going to say, "But the free broadband will push the cpivate companies out of the marketplace!" Maybe so. Tough titty. That's why it's called a "marketplace." FedEx and UPS are doing just fine competing against the post office, a public/private partnetship. If the private broadband companies can't compete then they should die. If they're not providing a useful service then they should die.
The problem isn't that muni broadband is too communist. It's that the private boradband companies aren't capitalist enough to accept competition.
Rights are whatever the people say they are. Sure, this is a contradiction, as "rights" are thought of as a universal thing, but those are the kind of logical pitfalls you get into when you talk about universals generated by consensus. You're just arguing about phantoms with phantoms.
I love Hibernate. Hibernate is not a speed demon. It's a scalability demon. It's a OR mapping demon. It's a flexibility in persistence demon in spades.
It ain't fast. It's not dog slow, but you've got to pay the piper somewhere. If you cache out the wazoo you can get some decent performance, but then you pay in memory. (and if you're clustering, in multicast interserver network traffic)
So get over it and use the tool for what it was meant to be used.
Will you people please, please remove the stick up your ass when it comes to Java?
Please?
One of the article's complaints was that "FreeBSD and GNU/Linux for the PowerPC, have no official version of Java." Well, all of the time spent complaining about that has wasted years...YEARS people! The Blackdown folks made Java happen on x86 and amd64 Linux because they did something about it. They applied their minds to working instead of bitching.
This might not seem like such a serious problem on the surface, but it really is.
No kidding.
Know what the number one source of social unrest is? Males who don't settle down and make families, that's what. A few generations of this sex imbalance and the affected countries will have significant increases in crime, violence, social unrest, etc. War could even be in the offing with lots of males hanging around with nothing in particular to do and a feeling that their lives can't be fulfilled in any other way. And a man without kids is a man with nothing to lose and nothing to care for. (Except an attachment to the state or to a religion, both of which can lead to groups of violent men with a purpose. Oh, joy...)
It's important to identify that this is not a Sun JRE thing, but a user error thing!
It's important to identify that this is not a user error thing, but a computer thing. I can accomplish the same "exploit" with a floppy disk and an available floppy drive.
I've seen the same thing. In fact, me and my girlfriend were having a conversation about this last night, but not about D&D. Her sister's kids are really into pokemon. They've memorized extensive lists of monsters, their abilities and stats, and how they compare to each other. They make up their own pokemon-like games spontaneously.
The core mechanics and memes of roleplaying games have exploded in popularity among kids these days, just in a different more socially acceptable form. I can't prove it, but I think it'll have a great effect on the intellectual developments of kids. They're motivated, by the competition of playing the game and the cooperation/competition of trading cards, to learn new skills such as memorizing many statistics and relationships, assessing the strength of an opponent, predicting the outcome of a confrontation/interaction, assesing the trustability of a trading partner, building trust relationships, basics of a barter economy... The list goes on!
They're detached from reality and suscepitble to influence
I wonder if they give low security clearance to kids who like movies, books, or any other kind of fiction? Consuming those involves being "detached from reality." What about actors? What about intelligence analysts who pose "what if" questions about their enemy's actions?
Slashdot Mirror
I'm surprised the Slashdot crowd doesn't know real karma when they see it...
Turns out there was nothing to learn from installing Gentoo from stage 1. I already knew what goes into a system at the most basic level, but I got this from 10+ years of Unix/Linux experience, before I ever saw Gentoo.
And you get the "FUCKIN' DUH" award for the day.
Jebus. This is what passes for an "interesting" comment on slashdot these days?
If sending your computer's configuration to Microsoft in the background was found to be illegal by the courts back in the Win95 days...
And who was in the White House in 95?
And who is in the White House and dominates the Congress now?
That's all that matters.
Apart from the fact that M$ has never cared about that "law" thing, anyway...
Congrats! You've invented exception handling.
What should have the government done? Put the whole country under martial law? Shut down all commerical businesses and transportation and unroll millions of miles of razor wire?
No, but they certainly shouldn't have used bullshit reductio ad absurdum arguments to justify doing nothing.
This is FUD. The 865 is not "low end" no matter what the article says. It's the chip that's capable of 8 way SMP, as opposed to the 2 and 1 way. Those are cheaper.
Here is the source article for the price leak from DigiTimes. The prices for the 1 and 2 level chips are much less:
165 chip: $637
265 chip: $851
Don't believe the FUD.
Excellent comment, TGK.
Most humans are born with features that will eventually, in the course of normal development, allow them to speak. A person can speak without imposing costs on other people.
Not true. This "normal development" of which you speak depends on the contribution of other people, either actively or passively. This contribution imposes a cost. Whether you assert that speech develops through mimicry, direct instruction, or both, it requires other people to contribute.
we are not born with wifi receivers or telephone wires, nor will we develop them naturally.
So? We don't develop the ability to speak English naturally either. The method of connecting certain phonemes into words, connecting words into a certain grammar, etc., is a technology developed over many centuries. We didn't develop that technology "naturally" either.
So your argument is fundamentally flawed. If we have no right to use any technology not "natural" to humans, then I can outlaw your use of English, right? According to your argument that would not abridge your right to free speech. Just use another language. Your use of English involves considerable theft of resources from our society, through instruction and mimicry of those around you. You have no right to this technology, by your argument. Stop using it immediately.
That's why broadband can't be a right - because it would require government to take from others.
Your existence takes from others. You consume resources that others could use. Do you have a right to exist? Should the government enforce that right if you do? I think you'd say yes, but then you'd have to live with contradiction. Get used to it.
Rights cease to be so when they require the removal of someone else's rights. My right to property doesn't give me the right to steal from my neighbors, and your right to free expression doesn't include taking away a measure of my right to property to pay for it.
No one is taking away your ability to purchase broadband. I know that you're going to say, "But the free broadband will push the cpivate companies out of the marketplace!" Maybe so. Tough titty. That's why it's called a "marketplace." FedEx and UPS are doing just fine competing against the post office, a public/private partnetship. If the private broadband companies can't compete then they should die. If they're not providing a useful service then they should die.
The problem isn't that muni broadband is too communist. It's that the private boradband companies aren't capitalist enough to accept competition.
But roads aren't a right.
Rights are whatever the people say they are. Sure, this is a contradiction, as "rights" are thought of as a universal thing, but those are the kind of logical pitfalls you get into when you talk about universals generated by consensus. You're just arguing about phantoms with phantoms.
It's not like freedom of speech, in which case we're all born with the ability to speak.
You're kidding, right? When's the last time you saw a baby pop out and say, "Don't slap my ass, biatch!"
Children learn to speak, just like they learn to access the internet.
The freedom to say what you want is granted (or revoked) by others, just as the freedom to access the internet is granted (or revoked) by others.
Speech is no more innate than internet access, you're just more used to it. It's just a younger behavior, but it's still simply a behavior.
"However, don't try to sell the line that one has a "right" to something that they didn't produce."
Do communities have a right to electricity? Some municipalities have electricity coops. Is this communism?
We have a long way to go before statements like "a brain scan reveals our thoughts" will be valid.
Not really...
I love Hibernate. Hibernate is not a speed demon. It's a scalability demon. It's a OR mapping demon. It's a flexibility in persistence demon in spades.
It ain't fast. It's not dog slow, but you've got to pay the piper somewhere. If you cache out the wazoo you can get some decent performance, but then you pay in memory. (and if you're clustering, in multicast interserver network traffic)
So get over it and use the tool for what it was meant to be used.
Granted there are opponents w/ money, but the RIAA has proven to be very motivated.
"The best lack all conviction, and the worst are filled with passionate intensity." - Yeats
This will be marked as flamebait, but here goes:
Will you people please, please remove the stick up your ass when it comes to Java?
Please?
One of the article's complaints was that "FreeBSD and GNU/Linux for the PowerPC, have no official version of Java." Well, all of the time spent complaining about that has wasted years...YEARS people! The Blackdown folks made Java happen on x86 and amd64 Linux because they did something about it. They applied their minds to working instead of bitching.
Be a proper geek and do the same.
This might not seem like such a serious problem on the surface, but it really is.
No kidding.
Know what the number one source of social unrest is? Males who don't settle down and make families, that's what. A few generations of this sex imbalance and the affected countries will have significant increases in crime, violence, social unrest, etc. War could even be in the offing with lots of males hanging around with nothing in particular to do and a feeling that their lives can't be fulfilled in any other way. And a man without kids is a man with nothing to lose and nothing to care for. (Except an attachment to the state or to a religion, both of which can lead to groups of violent men with a purpose. Oh, joy...)
In every one of you guys (and I do mean guys) is an nifty gene backup mechanism: the Y chromosome. Most of it is made up of gene palindromes.
Gentlemen, start up your whitelists!
It's important to identify that this is not a Sun JRE thing, but a user error thing!
It's important to identify that this is not a user error thing, but a computer thing. I can accomplish the same "exploit" with a floppy disk and an available floppy drive.
With one of those and one of these my mini MythTV dreams will be complete...
Uh, what smoke are you cracking?
I've seen the same thing. In fact, me and my girlfriend were having a conversation about this last night, but not about D&D. Her sister's kids are really into pokemon. They've memorized extensive lists of monsters, their abilities and stats, and how they compare to each other. They make up their own pokemon-like games spontaneously.
The core mechanics and memes of roleplaying games have exploded in popularity among kids these days, just in a different more socially acceptable form. I can't prove it, but I think it'll have a great effect on the intellectual developments of kids. They're motivated, by the competition of playing the game and the cooperation/competition of trading cards, to learn new skills such as memorizing many statistics and relationships, assessing the strength of an opponent, predicting the outcome of a confrontation/interaction, assesing the trustability of a trading partner, building trust relationships, basics of a barter economy... The list goes on!
And it's all the child of D&D.
Does SWT use Java2D?
linky
And any direct rendering hardware acceleration helps. 3D cards also have to draw the 2D bits, like textures, surface coloring, etc.
From TFA:
They're detached from reality and suscepitble to influence
I wonder if they give low security clearance to kids who like movies, books, or any other kind of fiction? Consuming those involves being "detached from reality." What about actors? What about intelligence analysts who pose "what if" questions about their enemy's actions?