I'm a little more worried about them picking MACs/Serials that other people already have and wreaking all sorts of havoc when the legitimate owners of the Serial/MAC tries to get online when the hacker has alreayd logged in.
That's why he should make it free as in speech! What is this talk of "charging money" for software? Bah. Hmm, a game about a bunch of slave-owning separatists developed by a bunch of communist intellectuals.
for 30K. You have to put the forsaken thing together yourself, and obtain the nesscessary tools to do so, save the plug wrench for engines. You also need to buy a battery charger and a carriage. If anyone feels they can spend 30k to buy this thing, I'm sure those extra expenses aren't a big deal, but I personally wouldn't trust myself to fly around in something that had "some assembly required" stamped on the box, and I was the one who had to assemble it.
Creepy. Imagine if GUI driven interfaces had ended up on the server and the desktop was Xenix. Would the OSS movement be the ones making GUIs?::cue x-files music::
Once, I wanted a safe mode command prompt only in XP. So I pick that option. I end up in graphical session with a maximized command prompt window. It was a little odd.
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b of a test : limited to choices of fixed alternatives and reducing subjective factors to a minimum."
Find me two perfectly unbiased analysts to make this decision. You can't, short of people who are completely unbiased because they don't know anything about the topic.
The definition talks about "reducing subjective factors to a minimum" By including Microsoft as well as OSS adovcates they are trying to balance the panel.
I agree with you about Stallman, but if the panel had been made up of just Stallman and the FSF the slashbots probably would be appaulding Japan over their selection of a well-rounded panel.
Since you can't find a truly objective person you have to balance everyone's views. As an old cliche puts it, there are three sides to every story, your side, his side and the truth. Japan wants to find out the truth, not Microsoft's story, and not OSS's story. By putting members of both extremes on the panel they are doing the best possible in the real world to get an objective analysis.
I can't believe how many posts I've seen that go along the lines of:
Micro$oft on the PANEL? ROFLMAO. It's not Objective! They'll never pick OSS! Who puts Micro$oft on a panel about OSS?!?!
Meanwhile, all the posts poiting out how dumb this is havent risen above a 3.
Newsflash zealots, to be "objective" you have to have viewpoints from ALL the sides, not just the one you want to win. The Japanese are doing the perfectly correct, and intelligent thing by including Microsoft on the panel.
I don't think it played GameGear games. And some one did buy one, one of my friends. I think the battery life was measured in half-lives of unounouno--one of those elements.
Good luck with the backwards spinning non-standard size dvds. Oh and dont think you can just burn a regular dvd or cd backwards, cuz the opening is too small for full size media.
Talk about bitter. "What!? you aimed a game at children!? Thats it, you don't get any of my money!" Sheesh. Forget about all the other good games, the good console, or anything like that. If you aim a game at children, and I mean ONE game thats it its over. I wonder what woulda happened to Square if all the FF fanboys had seen Mystic Quest and reacted the same way...hmmm...maybe its not sucha bad idea after all
Why does everyone think I was CRITICIZING the guy? I LIKED the idea. I thought it was a good idea. I was pointing out that I thought it was an ingenious method of doing things. I never would of thought of that. For the last time, my post was positive, not negative, sheesh.
Yeah. wget and IMLib could be in kernel space. It could be RtLinux to make sure that really important porno got d/led off Gnutella before any other piddling tasks such as handling login requests and such. We already have a pr0n optimized mozilla do we not? Its the next logical step.
Whoa. Where did that come from? I was COMPLIMENTING the guy. *I* certainly never would have thought of that. It makes so much sense, its one of those duh, why didn't I think of that things. I was applauding Mr. Knopper. Sorry if it came out the wrong way.
Here to make this perfectly clear: Good job Klaus Knopper. I wish I had Mr. Knopper's insight.
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I'm now going to shove my foot in my mouth. There. Couldn't you pretty much just recompile?
Wow, that is terrifying. I hope no one actually tries that.
I'm a little more worried about them picking MACs/Serials that other people already have and wreaking all sorts of havoc when the legitimate owners of the Serial/MAC tries to get online when the hacker has alreayd logged in.
That's why he should make it free as in speech! What is this talk of "charging money" for software? Bah. Hmm, a game about a bunch of slave-owning separatists developed by a bunch of communist intellectuals.
Well, considering its a helicopter, and I'm a cs major...yes, yes I do. :)
for 30K. You have to put the forsaken thing together yourself, and obtain the nesscessary tools to do so, save the plug wrench for engines. You also need to buy a battery charger and a carriage. If anyone feels they can spend 30k to buy this thing, I'm sure those extra expenses aren't a big deal, but I personally wouldn't trust myself to fly around in something that had "some assembly required" stamped on the box, and I was the one who had to assemble it.
I'm using them and they are solid. Problem is no S3TC, so no UT2K3. Thats all.
Creepy. Imagine if GUI driven interfaces had ended up on the server and the desktop was Xenix. Would the OSS movement be the ones making GUIs? ::cue x-files music::
Once, I wanted a safe mode command prompt only in XP. So I pick that option. I end up in graphical session with a maximized command prompt window. It was a little odd.
They probably couldn't do it any other way without some obscene downtime.
I have a Radeon Mobility 7500. I think that number is too low. Dammit, and to think I almost thought I could stay in Linux to play UT2K3.
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=objective
"... b of a test : limited to choices of fixed alternatives and reducing subjective factors to a minimum."
Find me two perfectly unbiased analysts to make this decision. You can't, short of people who are completely unbiased because they don't know anything about the topic.
The definition talks about "reducing subjective factors to a minimum" By including Microsoft as well as OSS adovcates they are trying to balance the panel.
I agree with you about Stallman, but if the panel had been made up of just Stallman and the FSF the slashbots probably would be appaulding Japan over their selection of a well-rounded panel.
Since you can't find a truly objective person you have to balance everyone's views. As an old cliche puts it, there are three sides to every story, your side, his side and the truth. Japan wants to find out the truth, not Microsoft's story, and not OSS's story. By putting members of both extremes on the panel they are doing the best possible in the real world to get an objective analysis.
The astroturers must have mod points today.
I can't believe how many posts I've seen that go along the lines of:
Micro$oft on the PANEL? ROFLMAO. It's not Objective! They'll never pick OSS! Who puts Micro$oft on a panel about OSS?!?!
Meanwhile, all the posts poiting out how dumb this is havent risen above a 3.
Newsflash zealots, to be "objective" you have to have viewpoints from ALL the sides, not just the one you want to win. The Japanese are doing the perfectly correct, and intelligent thing by including Microsoft on the panel.
I don't think it played GameGear games. And some one did buy one, one of my friends. I think the battery life was measured in half-lives of unounouno--one of those elements.
Good luck with the backwards spinning non-standard size dvds. Oh and dont think you can just burn a regular dvd or cd backwards, cuz the opening is too small for full size media.
Talk about bitter. "What!? you aimed a game at children!? Thats it, you don't get any of my money!" Sheesh. Forget about all the other good games, the good console, or anything like that. If you aim a game at children, and I mean ONE game thats it its over. I wonder what woulda happened to Square if all the FF fanboys had seen Mystic Quest and reacted the same way...hmmm...maybe its not sucha bad idea after all
Why does everyone think I was CRITICIZING the guy? I LIKED the idea. I thought it was a good idea. I was pointing out that I thought it was an ingenious method of doing things. I never would of thought of that. For the last time, my post was positive, not negative, sheesh.
Look, its recursive linking! Slashdot links to IBM who links to slashdot who links to slashdot...arrg head hurts.
Cmon, this is informative! How come it hasn't been modded up yet :)
Yeah. wget and IMLib could be in kernel space. It could be RtLinux to make sure that really important porno got d/led off Gnutella before any other piddling tasks such as handling login requests and such. We already have a pr0n optimized mozilla do we not? Its the next logical step.
Go for it.
Yes, right after I emailed him and told him too. Computer geeks, defend your computer-illeterate friends! Save them form themselves! :)
Bring on the laser pistols. Slice off someone's arm they dont even notice because there is no pain. Awesome.
Whoa. Where did that come from? I was COMPLIMENTING the guy. *I* certainly never would have thought of that. It makes so much sense, its one of those duh, why didn't I think of that things. I was applauding Mr. Knopper. Sorry if it came out the wrong way.
Here to make this perfectly clear: Good job Klaus Knopper. I wish I had Mr. Knopper's insight.