The outcome of the trial may have been just considering the circumstances, but what isn't just is that he couldn't be tried again for the same crime. I'm not sure, but I think that's a speciality of US law that I haven't heard of anywhere else. Here, if a trial is found to be violating the rules, a higher court will order the trial to be repeated.
If you're working with gigabytes of data here, that can quickly be a frustrating exercise! Folks who are in the mentality of using cut | grep and even a visual editor like vi instead of sed are up the creek when they find themselves needing to manipulate and get portions of very large data sets.
I've just tried that on a 9 GB file with random binary data using a search string that would never match, on a PC with only 512 mb of RAM:
# time cat mydatafile |grep -b "kgfklgjfsdklgjlsdkfjgklsdfjgkldjgkdjfgkldjfkgljdk flgjdkfljgkldfjglkdfjkldjfkgljrituiroemvnmb"
real 2m24.265s
user 0m4.076s
sys 0m34.906s
# time grep -b "kgfklgjfsdklgjlsdkfjgklsdfjgkldjgkdjfgkldjfkgljdk flgjdkfljgkldfjglkdfjkldjfkgljrituiroemvnmb" mydatafile
real 2m17.366s
user 0m8.313s
sys 0m21.533s
The difference is astonishing! It saved a whole 7 seconds! Never again shall I make this mistake, remembering all the time I had wasted by wrong usage of unix commands! Thank you!
This game is not like most RTS games out there. You are actually penalized for killing the opponent's people because the goal is to convert everyone.
I don't know about anyone else, but as an atheist I'd rather be killed than to be forcibly converted, so I can't see how this is better: christians == good, everyone else == bad.
I'm not saying this game should be banned or taken off the shelves though. If we can have Doom like games, we can have this kind of crap, too. I'm with those that say it will starve on the shelves because nobody will want to play this sanctimonious crap. I also don't believe it represents mainstream christianity.
Just because all us sys-admins do such a great job, most of the time it does get there, people forget the dark ages of the internet when this would happen all the time.
Back then, you may have had an excuse. Today, the excuse that the RFC doesn't specify email gets delivered should get you fired for being a failure who doesn't give a shit. Just my $0.02.
We've heard this kind of demand before. A lot. They're just rechewing the same arguments everytime some kid loses it, just as they keep repeating that our army (the Bundeswehr) needs to be able to operate as a sort of police force in Germany. The problem with things like this is that if they keep repeating their FUD over and over again, people start to believe it. There are already opinion polls that show growing support for this legislative crap. And yes, Beckstein (some call him 'Dreckschwein') may only be the minister of the interior of Bavaria, but when he speaks, the cameras are on him. So, to anyone who thinks this is just gonna blow over, I can only suggest not to take this too lightly. Even if they drop the idea this time, the next time a kid runs amok they will try again, and there will be a good chance they'll eventually succeed with it.
As to things like the Hubble, it's nice to look at things but nothing beats actually going there.
Hubble sent back pictures of galaxies on the edge of the known universe. Do you really think you can go there?
As to your statement that you would rather see humanity doe off rather than live on Mars, I'm not even sure how to parse that statement.
It's either that or your trying very hard to twist my words as best you can. If you really don't understand what I said, then per an old chinese proverb, I shouldn't be discussing this with you any further.
They said the same thing about the Apollo Program. That brought back some moon rocks. You may have noticed we haven't been back to the moon in 20 years.
Now we might all agree that space exploration is exceedingly exciting. But why on Earth (no pun intended) would we want to go to the moon? There's nothing there but sharp and spikey moondust. Now, missions like Hubble I understand and support. Those make sense as they get us a much better insight into what is out there and how it might have come to be. But manned missions to nowhere just to prove "we can do it"? It seems to me this kind of mission is designed purely for the publicity value. For the general public, stunts like these are much more interesting than some probes sent to other planets that actually provide us with new and possibly new information.
And don't even get me started on the "we have to spread out humanity to other planets" argument. I'd rather die out as a species than to have to live on Mars, I tell you that.
Why not just have the voter vote on paper like they used to, and then just use a machine to scan the ballots and transmit the results? That way, the paper trail could be trusted, and if there was any doubt about the machine, you could use any other to verify the results.
I know nothing about BSD tbh, but it can't be that difficult. You got all the code you need, so basically an experienced BSD hacker should be able to add support within BSD in a rather short time.
Someone else has mentioned it before: the real target here may be Oracle.
It would make sense on some level: the enemy of my enemy is my friend. For the time being anyway. Novell and Red Hat are no serious threat to MS. Oracle may be. Oracle announced just recently they'd enter the Linux business and practically declared war against Red Hat. So what does Microsoft do? Use a deal camouflaged as a patent deal to pump money into all the enemies of Oracle to support them so that Oracle will fail on the Linux market.
It's just a possibility. Right now the water is still to murky to clearly see what's going on. But it might make some small sense that way.
Ok, so let me get this straight. Linux already has this going for it:
Great hardware support
Runs on a huge number of architectures
Fully open source (yes, I had to make changes to Linux in the past!)
Free as in beer and speech
Fast
Reliable
Very well structured (in 2.6 at least, 2.4 not so much)
But what this article (and many other people) are complaining about has nothing to do with any of these things. In fact, it has nothing to do with the Linux kernel whatsoever. What this article is complaining about is ease of use of distributions and gadgetery and the perceived lack of games. Correct me if I'm wrong, but as I see it, there is absolutely nothing in Linux that prevents anyone from turning it into a copy of OS X for Joe Average to use, right? So how is there anything wrong with Linux? I know I'm being a bit picky here, but let's at least try to clearly define where this "problem" really lies.
I think we do not need to argue about the fact that that article is moronic. Lyons fails to attack the idea, so instead he attacks the messenger in a most pathetic way. He also distorts many things in a way that make RMS look like an overzealous lunatic to the uninitiated in a sad and again pathetic attempt to discredit the ideas he stands for.
As far as the accusation of overzealousness from within the slashdot populace goes, my opinion is this: RMS has ideals that he fights for. 'Ideal' means "A conception of something in its absolute perfection" - not something you will ever achieve in reality. BUT reality is oft derived from ideals that pull it one way or another. The stronger an ideal, the stronger it's potential pulling power. If you start out with an ideal of "I want some freedom... maybe", you're just not going to get very far. If you want results, you have to have vision.
Translation for geeks:
Well, if you're going to make a point why not make it so that no one misses it?
-- Delenn, Babylon 5 episode "The Paragon of Animals"
Fallout and PS:T are well-placed, but I'd have probably put at least one of the Ultimas or possibly the series as a whole on #1. While I've never been that much of an Ultima player (I played mostly 7, 8 and 9 and more recently started to play the excellent Ultima V mod for Dungeon Siege) I admire and appreciate it for being everything I want in an RPG. It's a wide, open world where you can do what you want. What you do has an actual impact on the game world - choice and consequence. You have your great dialog, too. Maybe not as excellent as PS:T, but as good as you can get with branched keyword dialog systems. Also love the fact that you have to keep track of your quests and things like that yourself in the earlier parts of the series.
And what does Oblivion have? A shallow plot, a tiny amount of new lore, idiotic dialog, hand-holding at all times, no politics at all; not between individuals and not between factions. Nothing. Morrowind was 10x the RPG Oblivion is, and that's not even mentioning Daggerfall. Oblivion is the coffin in which TES will be buried. It may be a good action game, but it stinks as an RPG.
Where have I heard this before? I tell you where. It sounds exactly like the propaganda the BSA would spew, about software piracy basically costing billions and billions of dollars in losses. Nevermind the facts, here comes the propaganda. Forget about the fact that many of those illegally downloading all those programs probably couldn't afford to buy them anyway, or wouldn't even if that meant they couldn't have them at all.
Besides, if we're using their logic, what about the internet? I doubt Internet service providers would have such an easy time selling broadband internet to the masses if it wasn't for piracy. Isn't that part of the ripple effect as well?
Hey, careful there! I'm one of those external helpers that a company depends! But I'm neither costly nor incompetent! In any such discussion, it's always helpful to remember that there are often more than one kind of apples: the rotten ones, and the tasty ones!
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The outcome of the trial may have been just considering the circumstances, but what isn't just is that he couldn't be tried again for the same crime. I'm not sure, but I think that's a speciality of US law that I haven't heard of anywhere else. Here, if a trial is found to be violating the rules, a higher court will order the trial to be repeated.
http://www.brandrepublic.com/bulletins/media/arti
I've just tried that on a 9 GB file with random binary data using a search string that would never match, on a PC with only 512 mb of RAM:
# time cat mydatafile |grep -b "kgfklgjfsdklgjlsdkfjgklsdfjgkldjgkdjfgkldjfkgljdreal 2m24.265s
user 0m4.076s
sys 0m34.906s
# time grep -b "kgfklgjfsdklgjlsdkfjgklsdfjgkldjgkdjfgkldjfkgljd
real 2m17.366s
user 0m8.313s
sys 0m21.533s
The difference is astonishing! It saved a whole 7 seconds! Never again shall I make this mistake, remembering all the time I had wasted by wrong usage of unix commands! Thank you!
I don't know about anyone else, but as an atheist I'd rather be killed than to be forcibly converted, so I can't see how this is better: christians == good, everyone else == bad.
I'm not saying this game should be banned or taken off the shelves though. If we can have Doom like games, we can have this kind of crap, too. I'm with those that say it will starve on the shelves because nobody will want to play this sanctimonious crap. I also don't believe it represents mainstream christianity.
Back then, you may have had an excuse. Today, the excuse that the RFC doesn't specify email gets delivered should get you fired for being a failure who doesn't give a shit. Just my $0.02.
We've heard this kind of demand before. A lot. They're just rechewing the same arguments everytime some kid loses it, just as they keep repeating that our army (the Bundeswehr) needs to be able to operate as a sort of police force in Germany. The problem with things like this is that if they keep repeating their FUD over and over again, people start to believe it. There are already opinion polls that show growing support for this legislative crap. And yes, Beckstein (some call him 'Dreckschwein') may only be the minister of the interior of Bavaria, but when he speaks, the cameras are on him. So, to anyone who thinks this is just gonna blow over, I can only suggest not to take this too lightly. Even if they drop the idea this time, the next time a kid runs amok they will try again, and there will be a good chance they'll eventually succeed with it.
Hubble sent back pictures of galaxies on the edge of the known universe. Do you really think you can go there?
It's either that or your trying very hard to twist my words as best you can. If you really don't understand what I said, then per an old chinese proverb, I shouldn't be discussing this with you any further.
Now we might all agree that space exploration is exceedingly exciting. But why on Earth (no pun intended) would we want to go to the moon? There's nothing there but sharp and spikey moondust. Now, missions like Hubble I understand and support. Those make sense as they get us a much better insight into what is out there and how it might have come to be. But manned missions to nowhere just to prove "we can do it"? It seems to me this kind of mission is designed purely for the publicity value. For the general public, stunts like these are much more interesting than some probes sent to other planets that actually provide us with new and possibly new information.
And don't even get me started on the "we have to spread out humanity to other planets" argument. I'd rather die out as a species than to have to live on Mars, I tell you that.
And that makes a difference....how?
Why not just have the voter vote on paper like they used to, and then just use a machine to scan the ballots and transmit the results? That way, the paper trail could be trusted, and if there was any doubt about the machine, you could use any other to verify the results.
India or China? Look no further than Amsterdam! Really, if you've gotta drive a car there, you're fucked.
The SCO fiasco has hurt linux adoption (not that it's the only thing).
Can you please elaborate on that? I personally am not aware of any cases.
I know nothing about BSD tbh, but it can't be that difficult. You got all the code you need, so basically an experienced BSD hacker should be able to add support within BSD in a rather short time.
Sure.
/bin/sync
Someone else has mentioned it before: the real target here may be Oracle.
It would make sense on some level: the enemy of my enemy is my friend. For the time being anyway. Novell and Red Hat are no serious threat to MS. Oracle may be. Oracle announced just recently they'd enter the Linux business and practically declared war against Red Hat. So what does Microsoft do? Use a deal camouflaged as a patent deal to pump money into all the enemies of Oracle to support them so that Oracle will fail on the Linux market.
It's just a possibility. Right now the water is still to murky to clearly see what's going on. But it might make some small sense that way.
But what this article (and many other people) are complaining about has nothing to do with any of these things. In fact, it has nothing to do with the Linux kernel whatsoever. What this article is complaining about is ease of use of distributions and gadgetery and the perceived lack of games. Correct me if I'm wrong, but as I see it, there is absolutely nothing in Linux that prevents anyone from turning it into a copy of OS X for Joe Average to use, right? So how is there anything wrong with Linux? I know I'm being a bit picky here, but let's at least try to clearly define where this "problem" really lies.
I think we do not need to argue about the fact that that article is moronic. Lyons fails to attack the idea, so instead he attacks the messenger in a most pathetic way. He also distorts many things in a way that make RMS look like an overzealous lunatic to the uninitiated in a sad and again pathetic attempt to discredit the ideas he stands for.
As far as the accusation of overzealousness from within the slashdot populace goes, my opinion is this: RMS has ideals that he fights for. 'Ideal' means "A conception of something in its absolute perfection" - not something you will ever achieve in reality. BUT reality is oft derived from ideals that pull it one way or another. The stronger an ideal, the stronger it's potential pulling power. If you start out with an ideal of "I want some freedom... maybe", you're just not going to get very far. If you want results, you have to have vision.
Translation for geeks:
Well, if you're going to make a point why not make it so that no one misses it?
-- Delenn, Babylon 5 episode "The Paragon of Animals"
I quite liked the zombie woman I saw on E3 2005. I really think it helped advertize the product she advertized for. Uh....whatever that was.
I got a picture of her strangling my friend. Ah... memories.
I did read about that before that murder story. I think it was on Heise.de. I think that conclusively proves it has nothing to do with that.
Ah yes, here we go: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/result.xhtml?url=%2 Fnewsticker%2Fmeldung%2F79035&words=Reiser - that was dated 10/04, 7 days before the murder story broke.
Fallout and PS:T are well-placed, but I'd have probably put at least one of the Ultimas or possibly the series as a whole on #1. While I've never been that much of an Ultima player (I played mostly 7, 8 and 9 and more recently started to play the excellent Ultima V mod for Dungeon Siege) I admire and appreciate it for being everything I want in an RPG. It's a wide, open world where you can do what you want. What you do has an actual impact on the game world - choice and consequence. You have your great dialog, too. Maybe not as excellent as PS:T, but as good as you can get with branched keyword dialog systems. Also love the fact that you have to keep track of your quests and things like that yourself in the earlier parts of the series.
And what does Oblivion have? A shallow plot, a tiny amount of new lore, idiotic dialog, hand-holding at all times, no politics at all; not between individuals and not between factions. Nothing. Morrowind was 10x the RPG Oblivion is, and that's not even mentioning Daggerfall. Oblivion is the coffin in which TES will be buried. It may be a good action game, but it stinks as an RPG.
Where have I heard this before? I tell you where. It sounds exactly like the propaganda the BSA would spew, about software piracy basically costing billions and billions of dollars in losses. Nevermind the facts, here comes the propaganda. Forget about the fact that many of those illegally downloading all those programs probably couldn't afford to buy them anyway, or wouldn't even if that meant they couldn't have them at all.
Besides, if we're using their logic, what about the internet? I doubt Internet service providers would have such an easy time selling broadband internet to the masses if it wasn't for piracy. Isn't that part of the ripple effect as well?
To find it most unsettling to have to talk like a gargoyle in the future!
Hey, careful there! I'm one of those external helpers that a company depends! But I'm neither costly nor incompetent! In any such discussion, it's always helpful to remember that there are often more than one kind of apples: the rotten ones, and the tasty ones!
Why?