Must be an exceptionally slow news day here at/. because this is not news. Granted, there is something interesting hardware here (check out the Western Digital 8mb cache drives:)...), but the comparisons have been done, the benchmarks have been posted and mobos are available (and have been) with ATA133 on them. This is just another opportunity for the SCSI vs. IDE camps to jump up and down at each other and show each other why they are better than the other guys.... I did even see the obligatory beowulf cluster post on this one...
I see -- I do not condone the act of asking for 'questionable' material to be removed from anywhere -- Internet, library, television. My suggestion of asking the ISP to remove a questionable site was in response to the poster asking "What can we do about this"....
That is why I said to ask, rather than demand or jump up and down with your MidWest ethics and say that you will boycott and flame everybody who has an opinion different than yours, etc.... That is why I suggested asking....
Why does this need to be fixed? This is a great opportunity for a knee-jerk reaction to "Oh my God, look at what is going on here; there should be a law" reactionary thinking. The beauty of the Internet is the fact that it is, at its most basic level, a pure democracy. Anyone with a voice/idea/concept can post it for the world to see. Whether you agree with it or not is not the point. If you don't like it or disagree, that is your opinion, your right to dislike/disagree. Granted, there are things on the 'net that, for the most part, we would all agree should not be there (child porn, cruelty to animals, Pokemon, etc) but there is no legislation/enforcement that will eradicate anything from the 'net.
"Fixing" the 'net is not possible. You also ask "What can we do about it? You can ask your ISP not to carry sites that you find offensive. Once again, however, we cannot legislate morality.
Check out Maximum PC's May issue: this freak has 4 LCD screens (1 AGP & 3 PCI cards) running from one PC -- looks like somethng out of The Matrix..... He had to do some custom fabrication on the screens, but pretty cool..
This guy... JK must be a pseudonym for someone else, somebody must be writing and then throwing the JK by-line on the article... I say this because there is no way that a rational human can be this far out-of-touch with his subject. A quick scan of the postings here will show the general wrath JK incites (thank God there are no public appearances scheduled for this guy); I would have to agree with the majority of them - JK doesn't have a clue as to what he is writing about.... I don't think JK is a real person, just an Anonymous Coward's screen name.
Chomsky doesn't bash American culture, he exposes the arrogance and hypocrisy of the American corporate government. His interviews about the events on 9/11 and circumstances leading up to those tragic events are grandly ignored by the corporate media. This is a shame, as this may force the US to review its own history and see that they may have been to blame for it or may have even set it up to allow the current regime free reign in abusing civil/human rights, depending upon whose point of view you are looking. And as far his:
He repetidly make the clasic error of assuming that identification of a problem is the same as fixing it
Chomsky's ideas on how to fix it have always been there: stop the lies and duplicity in the government, hold yourself to the same standards you hold everyone else to, and never never never suspect for one meager moment that you will get away with your crimes. It is strange to see mention on Chomsky's name on a posting about pop culture and movies, but Chomsky definitely deserves a place in the/. HOF for his views on government and how its greed and corruption are destroying the fabric of America.
Yeah, this pretty much was a rant, but thought some of this b.s. should have been labelled as such.....
not necessarily Britney, but just about any teenager (or those who can't let go of those years) in the US.... although Britney and her PR machine will probably thank you for equating the two...
Sounds odd, but this is exactly what needs to happen to slap MS down a peg or two. I have read on several occasions recently that most of South and Central America are considering open-source in all government computers -- that's great! No chance in hell of it happening here in the US, but then their governments aren't propped up by corporations, either...
Huh? How could this possibly be good news for geeks? Have you ever tried to upgrade a Presario or Pavilion? Proprietary crap all over the inside of these boxes. I credit both of these manufacturers with the initial disposable PC -- can't upgrade it, so you have buy a new one...H-P's printers are ok, but I have since switched to Canon's (and they rock); I have never considered one of their boxes - probably never will now. "Sleek designs" by Compaq? When you make claims like this, you really should supply a.jpg as well -- beige boxes, etc. And don't even begin on the LS-120 fiasco....
Us older gamers have been waiting for this, especially with all the sequels and reviving of classic titles... any mention of a movie sequel as well? Nah, that would be too good....
Interestingly enough, my wife was caught up in FPS's for a while: CW, ROTT, and DOOM especially. I knew we were meant for each other when I hear behind me,
"Die, motherfucker, die!!"
Oh yes, she is the one for me... now it's hockey & football, no chick flicks, etc... and she heckles me when I die in Arena.. go figure
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What an unfortunate way to look at life -- to say:
We are done making cool invention(s).
is a defeatist view of the world and the creativity of humans. A century ago, people could not envision the computer as it is today, wireless communications as they are today.... To utter such ridiculous statements is akin to saying you don't think that humanmind has lost the ability to go beyond the known and delve into the unknown (then making it known and a new conundrum...). How depressing.
Better yet, why is the State of California policing itself? Would that not be a conflict of interest? Or is it just amazing that a government entity is shredding documents to cover its ass.... no wait, that part is not news anymore...
Well, without the rolling blackouts, California had to come up with something that would spell c-r-i-s-i-s......
Seriously, though, it sounds like the state government there needs a complete overhaul and there don't seem to be any oversights/checks on what really is going on there....
Like everything else about computing, it all in what you want to do with the machine. SCSI for mission-critical, IDE for everything else. Quite a simply formula; IDE's speed and throughput nowadays is fast/high enough to handle just about anything the usual user can throw at it.
So, if I understand this correctly, AOL is complicating their services after touting to the entire planet how simple their services are... I know that I am not the only/.er here who doesn't think that programming a PVR may be outside the realm of AOL users....
The massive security holes in this will be hilarious to read about... heh, heh
In this day and age, in a corporate setting, one man cannot have that much effect on something as large as Linux support (someone else will do it) or the OpenOffice release (too late, already done). There are exceptions, of course, but usually it is the person in charge of the corp.
On the other hand, if Sun decides to turn its back on Linux support or anything else along those lines, we can always hold them up like most of/. does with MS....
This guy is an idiot -- there is no contract with the network when I watch TV, there is certainly no contract to contend with when I skip the addled advertising (is it just me or is it just noise?), and there is certainly no contract dispute when I turn the damn thing off.
Reading these posts, all I see are one-sided views.
because, if you had read them, a surprising majority did say no to new laws, but they also said the existing laws need to be enforced, which they are not./.'ers are for fair use, not piracy (well, most of them anyway), and the legislation in question calls into questions the very basis of fair use. If the hardware I buy will not allow me to make that extra copy of a CD, how is that fair use -- I want to make an extra copy for the car, to use your example, but I can't if the hardware won't allow it. You ask for compromise, but there is legislation already on the books that outlaws piracy/illegal distribution of pirated material. That should have been the end of it, but because the industries have lobbyists in their pocket, and maybe a few congresspersons, we have to jump up and down to get their attention -- and it isn't so much that we are liberal in our views, we are sick of the government riding shotgun in how we live our lives.
Since when was Gore the first person to do anything? First he invented the internet, now he was the first to link 'internet' and 'information superhighway'? Ridiculous --politicians do not have original thoughts -- facts/statistics will bear me out on this....
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Must be an exceptionally slow news day here at /. because this is not news. Granted, there is something interesting hardware here (check out the Western Digital 8mb cache drives :)...), but the comparisons have been done, the benchmarks have been posted and mobos are available (and have been) with ATA133 on them. This is just another opportunity for the SCSI vs. IDE camps to jump up and down at each other and show each other why they are better than the other guys.... I did even see the obligatory beowulf cluster post on this one...
I see -- I do not condone the act of asking for 'questionable' material to be removed from anywhere -- Internet, library, television. My suggestion of asking the ISP to remove a questionable site was in response to the poster asking "What can we do about this"....
don't forget it would take you to the same location everyday for it's first trip of the day.....
Please read before posting...
How can this be fixed? What can we do about it?
Why does this need to be fixed? This is a great opportunity for a knee-jerk reaction to "Oh my God, look at what is going on here; there should be a law" reactionary thinking. The beauty of the Internet is the fact that it is, at its most basic level, a pure democracy. Anyone with a voice/idea/concept can post it for the world to see. Whether you agree with it or not is not the point. If you don't like it or disagree, that is your opinion, your right to dislike/disagree. Granted, there are things on the 'net that, for the most part, we would all agree should not be there (child porn, cruelty to animals, Pokemon, etc) but there is no legislation/enforcement that will eradicate anything from the 'net."Fixing" the 'net is not possible. You also ask "What can we do about it? You can ask your ISP not to carry sites that you find offensive. Once again, however, we cannot legislate morality.
Check out Maximum PC's May issue: this freak has 4 LCD screens (1 AGP & 3 PCI cards) running from one PC -- looks like somethng out of The Matrix..... He had to do some custom fabrication on the screens, but pretty cool..
This guy... JK must be a pseudonym for someone else, somebody must be writing and then throwing the JK by-line on the article... I say this because there is no way that a rational human can be this far out-of-touch with his subject. A quick scan of the postings here will show the general wrath JK incites (thank God there are no public appearances scheduled for this guy); I would have to agree with the majority of them - JK doesn't have a clue as to what he is writing about.... I don't think JK is a real person, just an Anonymous Coward's screen name.
He repetidly make the clasic error of assuming that identification of a problem is the same as fixing it
Chomsky's ideas on how to fix it have always been there: stop the lies and duplicity in the government, hold yourself to the same standards you hold everyone else to, and never never never suspect for one meager moment that you will get away with your crimes. It is strange to see mention on Chomsky's name on a posting about pop culture and movies, but Chomsky definitely deserves a place in theYeah, this pretty much was a rant, but thought some of this b.s. should have been labelled as such.....
not necessarily Britney, but just about any teenager (or those who can't let go of those years) in the US.... although Britney and her PR machine will probably thank you for equating the two...
Sounds odd, but this is exactly what needs to happen to slap MS down a peg or two. I have read on several occasions recently that most of South and Central America are considering open-source in all government computers -- that's great! No chance in hell of it happening here in the US, but then their governments aren't propped up by corporations, either...
Huh? How could this possibly be good news for geeks? Have you ever tried to upgrade a Presario or Pavilion? Proprietary crap all over the inside of these boxes. I credit both of these manufacturers with the initial disposable PC -- can't upgrade it, so you have buy a new one...H-P's printers are ok, but I have since switched to Canon's (and they rock); I have never considered one of their boxes - probably never will now. "Sleek designs" by Compaq? When you make claims like this, you really should supply a .jpg as well -- beige boxes, etc. And don't even begin on the LS-120 fiasco....
ah, the life of a bit: yes... no...
"Die, motherfucker, die!!"
Oh yes, she is the one for me... now it's hockey & football, no chick flicks, etc... and she heckles me when I die in Arena.. go figureWe are done making cool invention(s).
is a defeatist view of the world and the creativity of humans. A century ago, people could not envision the computer as it is today, wireless communications as they are today.... To utter such ridiculous statements is akin to saying you don't think that humanmind has lost the ability to go beyond the known and delve into the unknown (then making it known and a new conundrum...). How depressing.Does this also mean that Walter Hewlett will finally shut up and go away?
Better yet, why is the State of California policing itself? Would that not be a conflict of interest? Or is it just amazing that a government entity is shredding documents to cover its ass.... no wait, that part is not news anymore...
Seriously, though, it sounds like the state government there needs a complete overhaul and there don't seem to be any oversights/checks on what really is going on there....
Like everything else about computing, it all in what you want to do with the machine. SCSI for mission-critical, IDE for everything else. Quite a simply formula; IDE's speed and throughput nowadays is fast/high enough to handle just about anything the usual user can throw at it.
The massive security holes in this will be hilarious to read about... heh, heh
On the other hand, if Sun decides to turn its back on Linux support or anything else along those lines, we can always hold them up like most of /. does with MS....
sorry, must have hit the wrong key while I was throwing up my breakfast!! thank you for that gut-wrenching how-do-you-do....
In summation, an idiot...
Reading these posts, all I see are one-sided views.
because, if you had read them, a surprising majority did say no to new laws, but they also said the existing laws need to be enforced, which they are not. /.'ers are for fair use, not piracy (well, most of them anyway), and the legislation in question calls into questions the very basis of fair use. If the hardware I buy will not allow me to make that extra copy of a CD, how is that fair use -- I want to make an extra copy for the car, to use your example, but I can't if the hardware won't allow it. You ask for compromise, but there is legislation already on the books that outlaws piracy/illegal distribution of pirated material. That should have been the end of it, but because the industries have lobbyists in their pocket, and maybe a few congresspersons, we have to jump up and down to get their attention -- and it isn't so much that we are liberal in our views, we are sick of the government riding shotgun in how we live our lives.
But this is not an either-or dichotomy; if we offer the option of 'no law necessary' often enough, we may get through to these eejits...
Since when was Gore the first person to do anything? First he invented the internet, now he was the first to link 'internet' and 'information superhighway'? Ridiculous --politicians do not have original thoughts -- facts/statistics will bear me out on this....