It's true, but none of those thousands of versions of Linux [distributions] are intentionaly crippled.
Not? How about the highly specialized micro-distros? By intention, for a good purpose, of course, but limited they are, and it takes much work to bring them on par with a full SuSE or Red Hat.
Just a technicality, of course. It doesn't matter much when they all have the same price point: 0.
I have a suspicion that Dvorak didn't try Max OS X himself. Right from the tasteful design and use of colour, through the well crafted behaviour of widgets down to the stable foundation of a real Unix - it's better than Windows and a main reason people switch.
Several friends of mine switched. They like the good engineering and the 'Just works' thing. They have jobs to do on the computer and can't be bothered with whacky programs, virus etc. Their iPods Just Work (TM), and then they look to the Mac for a similar stable computing experience. The 'Halo' effect is certainly working, and they would have nothing to gain by becoming just another Windows platform.
Dvorak is off a tangent again, but this time it's so obvious, it reveals his lack of insight and reflection for anyone to see. It's just embarrasing. Someone point him to this thread, please:)
So God changed ihis mind between Old and New testament:)
Why not? He might have noticed it was time for the Jewish society to move on from the strict laws that made joy and progress difficult, and sent someone who tried to loosen them up.
What to say? Fortunately, society progresses, and if there's really a God somewhere up there trying to help us out of the mess we create, I find it completely likely that he'll update his relevations whenever possible. Of course that goes only for Christianity - islam had their last relevations almost 1400 years ago, nothing more is gonna come there. These guys are really, badly stuck.
In Denmark, they're standing up and doing a really good job. They demonstrate clearly that the extremists do *not* have universal support, and are working hard to demonstrate that Islam and democracy, freedom of speech etc. can be compatible. This earns them a truckload of death threats by the extremists, who sense that their power over the islamic society is being threatened by anyone who doesn't support their views.
Personally, after having read significant parts of the Quran and Mohammads life, I have serious doubts about how moderate Islam can be justified on the basis of these books. But again, not being a muslim myself, I'll leave that to others to figure out.
Also, correct me if i'm wrong, but they are angry cause they cartoons are depicting Muhammad as a terrorist among one of the cartoons correct?
Correct. They state: "If you'll ever say that again, we'll bomb you." Example here Interestingly, Tony Blair and other western leaders missed the boat when they had the opportunity to call on islam to reject that impression.
They're pissed because someone drew a picture of Muhammad, which is forbidden in Islam.
Not quite. For instance, the cartoons were printed in Egypt back in October without a bird getting hurt. The whole mattter was about to be forgotten, when a bunch of criminal imams seized the opportunity to travel back and forth in the Middle East to raise a storm. That took them 3 months, but indeed they got their storm. If you look at the details, each country had perfectly good reasons to divert attention from various domestic issues, and this came as a great opportunity. What a mess...
I hope we'll all learn to distinguish courage and cowardice now. Let's have Piglet back from exile!
What happens here is that we are having a very serious debate about some important issues. Yes, this debate hits some points that genuinely hurt. That's very healthy. But generally, anyone who happened to overstep a reasonably tone in the debate (think 'Louise Frevert', 'Mogens Camre' and other emotional Danish politicians here) have been corrected and usually apologized for the mistakes.
Even a few weeks ago, one of our leading politicians (Pia Kjærsgaard - yes, she's leading, like it or not:) pointed out that the debate is about islamism, not islam - meaning that the religion as such is not the problem, but the politicization of it is. That was a genuinely good point. We're seeing that islamic traditions are being smuggled into our daily lives, and we don't like that. In Denmark, we're free to discuss it. In our neighbour country Sweden, they're not, as any sincere debate is being repressed by government and media. The result is clear: Denmark has about 50 incidents of racistic motivated violence per year, while Sweden has a staggering 2000, for just twice the population.
Some old authors have complained about the 'tone of the debate' instead of countering the very real issues that are being discussed. Curiously, these artists usually use the worst words they can find in the dictionary, like 'Nazi', 'Stalinist' etc. to describe the people they don't like. Before they figure out how to use a civil language in the debate, we are not going to take them seriously.
Reading newspapers has been very exiting for the last few months. Free speech is vital, and we're happy that we seem to be coming throug faily unharmed.
The European and American media sense a big boost to their circulation and ratings, eat it up with just as much fervor, and start reprinting the cartoons. This is a bit like throwing water on a grease fire, and it leads us to where we are today.
OK, I'll put that bluntly. I followed the whole crisis closely through two weeks. We were under real, genuine pressure, and our politicians started caving in to the demands to limit our freedoms.
Seeing those reprints from France, Germany, Spain, Iceland etc. was like in a classic western where the cavalry arrives at the nick of time. Sure, it caused an immediate escalation of the conflict, but also made sure that we won. Which was sortof nice:)
A couple of worthwhile asides: On October 17th, an Egyptian newspaper reprinted the cartoons. Noone noticed. They are even Sunni muslims, which means they're covered by the ban of depicting Mohammad (Shia's are not).
This whole things had been easily forgotten, had not a band of Danish imams traveled all over the Middle East to raise hatred and destroy the formerly very good relationship between Denmark and the Arab countries. These supposedly religious persons misused their influence, lied about what had actually been said and printed in Denmark, and were the ones calling for a boycott. Their footwork paid off in January, where fatwa's calling for boycott of Denmark came out. First in Egypt, then other places. We're doing what any reasonable society would do: taking them to court.
Being Danish too, I tell you it's a blessing that this started due to some rather innocent cartoons rather than by someone blowing up a mosque or killing an imam. That would have been nasty. BTW, the contents of the cartoons is quite varied, expressing the impressions of the individual cartoonists.
One of the cartoons pointed at islam being intrinsically linked to terrorism. Much of the response went along the lines: "Stop saying that, or we'll blow up your little, beautiful country!". Example here
Instead of hiding, Tony Blair and the other cowardly politicians should have taken the opportunity to point out the obvious fact that islam and terrorism has, in the public eye, been closely linked. And that to avoid any further satire like that, a stronger rejection of terrorism is needed by the islamic countries and society. That would have caused some islamic soul-searching and hopefully less terrorism. He even had his own capital bombed, he should catch such opportunities.
Hang on. I know those quotes. But many of the milder quotes have been 'abrogated' (including the one permitting to drink alcohol:). They milder ones were mostly spoken in Mecca up til 622 CE, but Mohammad changed his life significantly when he fled to Medina. He and the early muslims financied their lives by attacking and plundering caravans, distributing the loot (that's Sura 8 in the Quran), and more. This gave rise to lots of contradicting 'relevations', which was a mess that was eventually resolved by deciding that the chronologially newest statement on any subject would be the valid ones. Which in turn puts all the violent quotes as being valid, while many of the peaceful ones are as invalid as if they had never been written.
But if you don't know this historical context, you can quote the Quran for being peaceful. Alternatively, if you know how to read this quite complicated book, and *still* quote abrogated verses, you're lying through your teeth. Islam has a concept for that, it's called 'Taquia' (SP?). One example, relating to the last one quoted above, is when Mohammad states that nothing happens without Allah's will. If you kill somebody, it was not you doing the killing, it was Allah acting through you, and you are absolved of any guilt.
Go read the life of Muhammad. Jihad is fought with the sword, killing infidels, destroying the Jews whereever they find them. Assassinating critics was actively encouraged by Mohammad.
It's in the biography by Ibn Ishaq, which I recently purchased to see what's going on. While not being used too frequently (there are many others), it's the first one ever written and undisputed by Islamic authorities. Ibn Ishaq was a muslim, and the writing was ordered and sponsored by the Caliph in approx. 750 CE.
What's also interesting is that this entire cartoon war was sparked by a Danish guy who translated from this book and had trouble finding an illustrator for his book. That became news in Denmark, and in turn prompted Jyllands-Posten to commission the 12 cartoons. His book came out recently, and paints an image of a raw warlord. The Islamic society in Denmark protested, but couldn't contest that the book painted a historically accurate image of his life.
If only the islamic countries would spend the same amount of energy denoucing terrorist as they spend denouncing cartoons, this world would be a much safe place.
This is all from the Old Testament, and is basically from the history of the Israeli tribes, and how they fought here and there, left and right, in their ancient history.
New Testament redeems all this and has a very different message. Islam has no redemption for the violence in the Quran, the life of Muhammad etc. Read it, it's pretty wild.
It's been two really tough weeks in Denmark. The Islamic countries have launched a full-fledged attack on our freedom of speech, free press etc.
Our prime minister has been strong, but he was let down by opposition parties, Blair, Bush, Chirac, the EU and many others, who otherwise love to praise themselves for defending freedom. The American ambassador in Denmark said: "Noone defends freedom of speech more than we do." We called 'Bullshit', and that became clearer as it became known just how much diplomatic work it took to get some statement of support from George Bush. Blair is worse. These are the people who talked us into the Iraq war. We had expected they'd immediately help us in a pinch because of that. Possibly Denmark should pull out now.
Yes, they're vandalizing web sites - friend of mine had his defaced. DDoS'ing major newspapers, too. That's peanuts compared to the real attack that went on in the sphere of politics. The only thing that saved us from losing our freedom of press was when other European newspapers started reprinting the cartoons, and the islamists became confused about which flag to burn today.
US and UK press are subverted by the government - *NO* major media dared to print the cartoons! UK/US coverage has generally been very thing. Pravda (yes, the old Russian newspaper!) clearly did better, also appropriately naming the riots 'progroms'. Until of course Putin stepped in and told us that he didn't like the free press that much. Support from ordinary Americans has been good, with 'Buy Danish' campaigns to counter the boycott, and lots of support for the 'Rigth to insult' (yes:) and in general be free citizens.
The worst is over. Time to rebuild those web sites and the embassies they torched. I've reported the instigators of this crisis to the police for treason. We'll remember those who stood up for freedom. But I'm predicting more culture clashes like this in the future.
Cherish freedom. Others put their lives on the line to gain it before us. Our day may come before we know it.
Can't we get a better source for these things than the discovery channel?
Actually, it was National Geographic. I saw it, and it was pretty compelling. Of course, with no antibiotics and little knowledge how to deal with infections, a large knee injury will usually kill people in the course of a few days. Completely sensible. A swordfight training accident sounds like a plausible cause.
The head injury/sneak attack theory was debunked - that damage happened long after death.
At the risk of being marked OffTopic and burning a little karma:
Now you know how we feel in the US...wait nevermind, we dont care that they do that with our flag.
Sure, we're usually with you. Personally I opposed the Iraq war, as democracy is difficult to install by sending the army. But now we're in, Denmark has boys on the ground as well, and I support them staying until the job is done. The war has attracted a lot of the people who want to defeat democracy and install the Caliphate instead, and it's an OK place to encounter them.
On the other hand, I do *not* believe GWB comprehends the depth of this mess. He stands up for freedom, but routinely absolves Arab dictators and other leaders, and refuses to look in detail at the context that brings up almost all terror attacks (and we're talking thousands since 9/11).
Finally, I'm disappointed that the US has not stood up for a little, faithful ally. Am glad to see web sites organizing (here American Thinker) "Buy Danish" campaigns to compensate our economical losses, and point out that we're spearheading a battle for freedom that the US should support.
Given our situation here in Denmark vs. the Arab world, who are launching a blockade to reduce our constitutionally guaranteed freedom of speech, it's good to have equipment that doesn't go BSOD in a critical situation.
In case anyone wonders, the struggle has been real tough the last week. We're usually a nice country interested in helping others. But when we see our flag and images of our PM being burned in the streets of Gaza, whom we have helped extensively in order to give them peace, we get pissed. It's all over Danish media and has been for months, but Monday the story also broke in the international media, like in New York Times. The 12 cartoons that started the whole thing has been republished in a series of other newspapers Tuesday. Reprints here.
Sometimes it takes guts to fight for freedoms we used to take for granted. "Idealistic" resistance to anything military can cost us dearly.
Sometimes it looks as if the colonist of the New World invented the slave trade. That was not at all the case. It had been running for centuries on the coasts of Africa, with Arab traders dealing with the local rulers, buying prisoners of war and other potential slaves.
But they sure did get a boost in business when Europeans joined the trade!
Yes, the original, DOS-based, cluncky graphics. Simple gameplay, not too long-winded, and more fun than management. After too much lost sleep, I go cold turkey on it and kick the habit, only to fall back into it a year or so later.
I find one potential use for those extra dimensions - a place where emotions, ghosts and the whole paranormal zoo can reside. There's quite a bit of stuff there which has no space whatsoever in Newton or Einstein style universes, but which people routinely relate to in a more or less systematic way. Would be nice to have a rational explanation for this stuff:)
Surely if you drop the voltage your are going to have to under-clock the processor (reasoning that to over-clock you need to increase the voltage). Most processors for laptops already throttle the processor down when under light load now-a-days which must be a great energy saving. Would under volting it really then save more or would you just end up with a laptop that is dog slow?
What he does is to maintain the frequency (and the multiplier), and testing how low he can go on voltage. The minimum voltage reduced 7,5% is nice, the maximum reduced 20% is great.
I have just reproduced his results (my laptop is very similar), and can confirm that what he does causes no harm to performance - CPU hugs run at the same speed before.
I'm sure if it was this easy one of the big laptop producers would already be doing it as a 20% increase for basically nothing would give them a fantastic advantage.
They have stability concerns to consider. Undervolting at the expense of stability is not at all worth it. We have the time to tweak our individual machines and get the most of it.
I heard from someone that the Pentium-M is better than any of AMD's offerings for mobile CPUs; is there any truth to this?
As usual, the truth is more complex than a mere 'Yes' or 'No'. Yes, Intel has the performance edge with their dual-core M chips. Yes, AMD has a great laptop chip in the Turion, with performance ratings in the 3000-4000 range, while keeping power consumption low.
Friends of mine have Centrion-based laptops and complain about excessive fan noise. I'm the happy owner of an Acer Turion-based laptop, which only activates the fan when I'm stressing the CPU.
It's all relative. AMD has the lead on price/performance and does well in power management. Intel has the lead on raw performance, and (in some designs) in power management - but at the expense of performance. I find that the Turion offers a balanced compromise between the parameters, at a fine price point.
Obvious spelling or grammatical errors instinctly make my brain try to parse the various possible meanings, and distract me from the message of the article. This kind of meta-thinking impacts the benefit of the time I spend reading the article - and furthermore triggers a mind reaction labeling the editors as 'Sluggish', 'Careless', 'Unprofessional' etc. And (I assume) all the editors are even writing in their mother tounge? Many of us reading and commenting are not, and these ambigous typos make the articles harder to read.
Having worked 10 years for a computer magazine, I know how important it is to weed out the mistakes. Get rid of those trivial typos, get the grammar focused on the issue at hand. And then, if possible, go over it even one more time to make it even clearer. OK, joking, I'll never expect the last step from/. - I'll take non-optimized language for the fun of the game:)
The comments, then, are a free for all discussion forum. I'm prepared to ignore this kind of mistakes in the comments, for instance while moderating. In the parent article, I'll say slang and jargon - fine - it's part of the game. But editors who don't care enough to get their 'to's and 'too's right should, IMHO, get their act together.
BTW, many of the persons who complain about spelling etc. are sincerely trying to make/. a better place. They know that these sluggish mistakes irritates people and would like the editors do do better.
I don't think there's an easy way to wean her. If ordinary temptation doesn't do the job, I'd suggest you go spend more time with others. Not particular in order to find another girlfriend, but when she notices that her habit berefts her of your company and favors, she might discover that she's missing something important.
If it doesn't, perhaps the amount of other interesting women on this planet just might be good for you.
The question is: Why is taking so long to the court to dismiss the case?
Because noone wants it to. SCO wants to drag on as long as possible, and as long as they can claim any possible wrongdoing, they get to do this.
IBM, and the Open Source community, would like a clean court victory on the issue of Linux copyrights. They have no hurry to have it thrown out of court either.
My prediction, though, is that the case will collapse just before a final judgement can be entered. Either SCO quits, or they're permitted to go bancrupt. It was quite telling how they just managed to get another $10 million of capital recently, or they would have no chance to make it to trial. But rather than losing the trial, the money will probably run out. One may wonder who invests in this company, but I'll leave that to our conspiracy experts:)
Interesting discussion. To me, the conclusion is quite clear: I read/. for the good stories and rarely bother with who found it. Unless, of course, there's some hidden agenda to the story - which is the job of the editor to weed out.
Even if the poster is a problem child of sorts, why focus on this? Enjoy the fact that he picked something worthwhile. It's a matter of keeping/. on track - if the editors start sorting by the personalities of the posters, somethings' gone wrong.
Being a regular moderator myself, I'll from now on help pan down anyone discussing the submitter. That's my contribution to a great web site.
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Not? How about the highly specialized micro-distros? By intention, for a good purpose, of course, but limited they are, and it takes much work to bring them on par with a full SuSE or Red Hat.
Just a technicality, of course. It doesn't matter much when they all have the same price point: 0.
Several friends of mine switched. They like the good engineering and the 'Just works' thing. They have jobs to do on the computer and can't be bothered with whacky programs, virus etc. Their iPods Just Work (TM), and then they look to the Mac for a similar stable computing experience. The 'Halo' effect is certainly working, and they would have nothing to gain by becoming just another Windows platform.
Dvorak is off a tangent again, but this time it's so obvious, it reveals his lack of insight and reflection for anyone to see. It's just embarrasing. Someone point him to this thread, please :)
Why not? He might have noticed it was time for the Jewish society to move on from the strict laws that made joy and progress difficult, and sent someone who tried to loosen them up.
What to say? Fortunately, society progresses, and if there's really a God somewhere up there trying to help us out of the mess we create, I find it completely likely that he'll update his relevations whenever possible. Of course that goes only for Christianity - islam had their last relevations almost 1400 years ago, nothing more is gonna come there. These guys are really, badly stuck.
In Denmark, they're standing up and doing a really good job. They demonstrate clearly that the extremists do *not* have universal support, and are working hard to demonstrate that Islam and democracy, freedom of speech etc. can be compatible. This earns them a truckload of death threats by the extremists, who sense that their power over the islamic society is being threatened by anyone who doesn't support their views.
Personally, after having read significant parts of the Quran and Mohammads life, I have serious doubts about how moderate Islam can be justified on the basis of these books. But again, not being a muslim myself, I'll leave that to others to figure out.
Correct. They state: "If you'll ever say that again, we'll bomb you." Example here Interestingly, Tony Blair and other western leaders missed the boat when they had the opportunity to call on islam to reject that impression.
They're pissed because someone drew a picture of Muhammad, which is forbidden in Islam.
Not quite. For instance, the cartoons were printed in Egypt back in October without a bird getting hurt. The whole mattter was about to be forgotten, when a bunch of criminal imams seized the opportunity to travel back and forth in the Middle East to raise a storm. That took them 3 months, but indeed they got their storm. If you look at the details, each country had perfectly good reasons to divert attention from various domestic issues, and this came as a great opportunity. What a mess...
I hope we'll all learn to distinguish courage and cowardice now. Let's have Piglet back from exile!
What happens here is that we are having a very serious debate about some important issues. Yes, this debate hits some points that genuinely hurt. That's very healthy. But generally, anyone who happened to overstep a reasonably tone in the debate (think 'Louise Frevert', 'Mogens Camre' and other emotional Danish politicians here) have been corrected and usually apologized for the mistakes.
Even a few weeks ago, one of our leading politicians (Pia Kjærsgaard - yes, she's leading, like it or not :) pointed out that the debate is about islamism, not islam - meaning that the religion as such is not the problem, but the politicization of it is. That was a genuinely good point. We're seeing that islamic traditions are being smuggled into our daily lives, and we don't like that. In Denmark, we're free to discuss it. In our neighbour country Sweden, they're not, as any sincere debate is being repressed by government and media. The result is clear: Denmark has about 50 incidents of racistic motivated violence per year, while Sweden has a staggering 2000, for just twice the population.
Some old authors have complained about the 'tone of the debate' instead of countering the very real issues that are being discussed. Curiously, these artists usually use the worst words they can find in the dictionary, like 'Nazi', 'Stalinist' etc. to describe the people they don't like. Before they figure out how to use a civil language in the debate, we are not going to take them seriously.
Reading newspapers has been very exiting for the last few months. Free speech is vital, and we're happy that we seem to be coming throug faily unharmed.
OK, I'll put that bluntly. I followed the whole crisis closely through two weeks. We were under real, genuine pressure, and our politicians started caving in to the demands to limit our freedoms.
Seeing those reprints from France, Germany, Spain, Iceland etc. was like in a classic western where the cavalry arrives at the nick of time. Sure, it caused an immediate escalation of the conflict, but also made sure that we won. Which was sortof nice :)
A couple of worthwhile asides:
On October 17th, an Egyptian newspaper reprinted the cartoons. Noone noticed. They are even Sunni muslims, which means they're covered by the ban of depicting Mohammad (Shia's are not).
This whole things had been easily forgotten, had not a band of Danish imams traveled all over the Middle East to raise hatred and destroy the formerly very good relationship between Denmark and the Arab countries. These supposedly religious persons misused their influence, lied about what had actually been said and printed in Denmark, and were the ones calling for a boycott. Their footwork paid off in January, where fatwa's calling for boycott of Denmark came out. First in Egypt, then other places. We're doing what any reasonable society would do: taking them to court.
One of the cartoons pointed at islam being intrinsically linked to terrorism. Much of the response went along the lines: "Stop saying that, or we'll blow up your little, beautiful country!". Example here
Instead of hiding, Tony Blair and the other cowardly politicians should have taken the opportunity to point out the obvious fact that islam and terrorism has, in the public eye, been closely linked. And that to avoid any further satire like that, a stronger rejection of terrorism is needed by the islamic countries and society. That would have caused some islamic soul-searching and hopefully less terrorism. He even had his own capital bombed, he should catch such opportunities.
But if you don't know this historical context, you can quote the Quran for being peaceful. Alternatively, if you know how to read this quite complicated book, and *still* quote abrogated verses, you're lying through your teeth. Islam has a concept for that, it's called 'Taquia' (SP?). One example, relating to the last one quoted above, is when Mohammad states that nothing happens without Allah's will. If you kill somebody, it was not you doing the killing, it was Allah acting through you, and you are absolved of any guilt.
This is a mess. And a dangerous one, too.
It's in the biography by Ibn Ishaq, which I recently purchased to see what's going on. While not being used too frequently (there are many others), it's the first one ever written and undisputed by Islamic authorities. Ibn Ishaq was a muslim, and the writing was ordered and sponsored by the Caliph in approx. 750 CE.
What's also interesting is that this entire cartoon war was sparked by a Danish guy who translated from this book and had trouble finding an illustrator for his book. That became news in Denmark, and in turn prompted Jyllands-Posten to commission the 12 cartoons. His book came out recently, and paints an image of a raw warlord. The Islamic society in Denmark protested, but couldn't contest that the book painted a historically accurate image of his life.
If only the islamic countries would spend the same amount of energy denoucing terrorist as they spend denouncing cartoons, this world would be a much safe place.
New Testament redeems all this and has a very different message. Islam has no redemption for the violence in the Quran, the life of Muhammad etc. Read it, it's pretty wild.
Our prime minister has been strong, but he was let down by opposition parties, Blair, Bush, Chirac, the EU and many others, who otherwise love to praise themselves for defending freedom. The American ambassador in Denmark said: "Noone defends freedom of speech more than we do." We called 'Bullshit', and that became clearer as it became known just how much diplomatic work it took to get some statement of support from George Bush. Blair is worse. These are the people who talked us into the Iraq war. We had expected they'd immediately help us in a pinch because of that. Possibly Denmark should pull out now.
Yes, they're vandalizing web sites - friend of mine had his defaced. DDoS'ing major newspapers, too. That's peanuts compared to the real attack that went on in the sphere of politics. The only thing that saved us from losing our freedom of press was when other European newspapers started reprinting the cartoons, and the islamists became confused about which flag to burn today.
US and UK press are subverted by the government - *NO* major media dared to print the cartoons! UK/US coverage has generally been very thing. Pravda (yes, the old Russian newspaper!) clearly did better, also appropriately naming the riots 'progroms'. Until of course Putin stepped in and told us that he didn't like the free press that much. Support from ordinary Americans has been good, with 'Buy Danish' campaigns to counter the boycott, and lots of support for the 'Rigth to insult' (yes :) and in general be free citizens.
The worst is over. Time to rebuild those web sites and the embassies they torched. I've reported the instigators of this crisis to the police for treason. We'll remember those who stood up for freedom. But I'm predicting more culture clashes like this in the future.
Cherish freedom. Others put their lives on the line to gain it before us. Our day may come before we know it.
Actually, it was National Geographic. I saw it, and it was pretty compelling. Of course, with no antibiotics and little knowledge how to deal with infections, a large knee injury will usually kill people in the course of a few days. Completely sensible. A swordfight training accident sounds like a plausible cause.
The head injury/sneak attack theory was debunked - that damage happened long after death.
Now you know how we feel in the US...wait nevermind, we dont care that they do that with our flag.
Sure, we're usually with you. Personally I opposed the Iraq war, as democracy is difficult to install by sending the army. But now we're in, Denmark has boys on the ground as well, and I support them staying until the job is done. The war has attracted a lot of the people who want to defeat democracy and install the Caliphate instead, and it's an OK place to encounter them.
On the other hand, I do *not* believe GWB comprehends the depth of this mess. He stands up for freedom, but routinely absolves Arab dictators and other leaders, and refuses to look in detail at the context that brings up almost all terror attacks (and we're talking thousands since 9/11).
Finally, I'm disappointed that the US has not stood up for a little, faithful ally. Am glad to see web sites organizing (here American Thinker) "Buy Danish" campaigns to compensate our economical losses, and point out that we're spearheading a battle for freedom that the US should support.
OK, mod me down at will :)
In case anyone wonders, the struggle has been real tough the last week. We're usually a nice country interested in helping others. But when we see our flag and images of our PM being burned in the streets of Gaza, whom we have helped extensively in order to give them peace, we get pissed. It's all over Danish media and has been for months, but Monday the story also broke in the international media, like in New York Times. The 12 cartoons that started the whole thing has been republished in a series of other newspapers Tuesday. Reprints here.
Sometimes it takes guts to fight for freedoms we used to take for granted. "Idealistic" resistance to anything military can cost us dearly.
But they sure did get a boost in business when Europeans joined the trade!
Civilization I
Yes, the original, DOS-based, cluncky graphics. Simple gameplay, not too long-winded, and more fun than management. After too much lost sleep, I go cold turkey on it and kick the habit, only to fall back into it a year or so later.
Do not dare touch Civ IV...
Socialism? I thought that stopped decades ago...
I find one potential use for those extra dimensions - a place where emotions, ghosts and the whole paranormal zoo can reside. There's quite a bit of stuff there which has no space whatsoever in Newton or Einstein style universes, but which people routinely relate to in a more or less systematic way. Would be nice to have a rational explanation for this stuff :)
Surely if you drop the voltage your are going to have to under-clock the processor (reasoning that to over-clock you need to increase the voltage). Most processors for laptops already throttle the processor down when under light load now-a-days which must be a great energy saving. Would under volting it really then save more or would you just end up with a laptop that is dog slow?
What he does is to maintain the frequency (and the multiplier), and testing how low he can go on voltage. The minimum voltage reduced 7,5% is nice, the maximum reduced 20% is great.
I have just reproduced his results (my laptop is very similar), and can confirm that what he does causes no harm to performance - CPU hugs run at the same speed before. I'm sure if it was this easy one of the big laptop producers would already be doing it as a 20% increase for basically nothing would give them a fantastic advantage.
They have stability concerns to consider. Undervolting at the expense of stability is not at all worth it. We have the time to tweak our individual machines and get the most of it.
Underclocking is cool :)
As usual, the truth is more complex than a mere 'Yes' or 'No'. Yes, Intel has the performance edge with their dual-core M chips. Yes, AMD has a great laptop chip in the Turion, with performance ratings in the 3000-4000 range, while keeping power consumption low.
Friends of mine have Centrion-based laptops and complain about excessive fan noise. I'm the happy owner of an Acer Turion-based laptop, which only activates the fan when I'm stressing the CPU.
It's all relative. AMD has the lead on price/performance and does well in power management. Intel has the lead on raw performance, and (in some designs) in power management - but at the expense of performance. I find that the Turion offers a balanced compromise between the parameters, at a fine price point.
Obvious spelling or grammatical errors instinctly make my brain try to parse the various possible meanings, and distract me from the message of the article. This kind of meta-thinking impacts the benefit of the time I spend reading the article - and furthermore triggers a mind reaction labeling the editors as 'Sluggish', 'Careless', 'Unprofessional' etc. And (I assume) all the editors are even writing in their mother tounge? Many of us reading and commenting are not, and these ambigous typos make the articles harder to read.
Having worked 10 years for a computer magazine, I know how important it is to weed out the mistakes. Get rid of those trivial typos, get the grammar focused on the issue at hand. And then, if possible, go over it even one more time to make it even clearer. OK, joking, I'll never expect the last step from /. - I'll take non-optimized language for the fun of the game :)
The comments, then, are a free for all discussion forum. I'm prepared to ignore this kind of mistakes in the comments, for instance while moderating. In the parent article, I'll say slang and jargon - fine - it's part of the game. But editors who don't care enough to get their 'to's and 'too's right should, IMHO, get their act together.
BTW, many of the persons who complain about spelling etc. are sincerely trying to make /. a better place. They know that these sluggish mistakes irritates people and would like the editors do do better.
Phew, hope it helps :)
The easiest solution is to get a Linksys NSLU2 and two external (USB) drives of any capacity you like. That'll get you the SMB shares.
Then configure the NSLU2 to back up from one drive to another. While technically this isn't RAID, it's accomplishing the same ends.
That should do the job. Then you can proceed to hack it, if you are so inclined :)
I don't think there's an easy way to wean her. If ordinary temptation doesn't do the job, I'd suggest you go spend more time with others. Not particular in order to find another girlfriend, but when she notices that her habit berefts her of your company and favors, she might discover that she's missing something important.
If it doesn't, perhaps the amount of other interesting women on this planet just might be good for you.
Good luck!
Because noone wants it to. SCO wants to drag on as long as possible, and as long as they can claim any possible wrongdoing, they get to do this.
IBM, and the Open Source community, would like a clean court victory on the issue of Linux copyrights. They have no hurry to have it thrown out of court either.
My prediction, though, is that the case will collapse just before a final judgement can be entered. Either SCO quits, or they're permitted to go bancrupt. It was quite telling how they just managed to get another $10 million of capital recently, or they would have no chance to make it to trial. But rather than losing the trial, the money will probably run out. One may wonder who invests in this company, but I'll leave that to our conspiracy experts :)
Even if the poster is a problem child of sorts, why focus on this? Enjoy the fact that he picked something worthwhile. It's a matter of keeping /. on track - if the editors start sorting by the personalities of the posters, somethings' gone wrong.
Being a regular moderator myself, I'll from now on help pan down anyone discussing the submitter. That's my contribution to a great web site.