Yes, that's right. Just like it wouldn't affect the price of your groceries at all if all the wheat farms on the east coast shut down, right? Cos you know that your supermarket buys wheat from the west.
Anyone else want to join on a raid to capture the people behind Fallout and the entire Baldur Gate line of games and the people from troika (and some excellent bug squashers) and just put them in a dungeon and force them to make RPG's?
You don't think they could escape your dungeon? They've spent their whole careers training for that!
(disclaimer: I use KDE. I hate konqueror. If you're one of the konqueror designers, please go and drown yourself.) ---
Whoever modded parent "Insightful": Please shoot yourself. Thank you.
Jesus. I scroll down one page and you are at it again. Did you buy this account on eBay or did your dad just leave the PC logged in?
The browser and the file manager are only visually the same in that they inhabit the same window. They are different kparts. Do you understand what this means? They are seperate components, with potentially different rights. Unless you think that the fact that you can use Gecko in Konqueror with the kmozilla kpart means that the Mozilla Foundation also make a file browser.
(Disclaimer: I use GNOME. I am also not a big fan of Konq. If you're someone who talks about technical issues but clearly doesn't bother to have an informed opionon, please go and drown yourself.)
Also note here that the sampled group is web developers, a group far, far more likely to have a modern machine then the standard Windows user. You'll be able to see the Vista stats shoot up there as people install it for testing sites on IE7, I suspect.
The situation has historically been slower changing then you describe, and is likely to be far more for gamers this time round. Vista has a large jump in hardware requirements, and is at present appallingly slow compared to XP. What gamer is going to want to drop 20fps on an FPS for features you can't see when you are in-game? This keeps gamers on XP, meaning that games prodcued need to support XP, meaning that gamers stay on XP....
Bear in mind that the effective tax rate in most failed states does not have anything to do with what the central government say, as by definition the government that is too weak to tax is also too weak to police. Think more of the local AK-47 armed Uncle Vinny saying "Youse is doing well with the business...now pay up".
As with most corrupt economies, this leads to nepotism and favouritsm, and distorts the economy far more then effectively managed cental government taxes. Basically, you are entirely wrong.
Consider it my challenge to my webhost. I like to keep them on their toes.;) It's dreamhost, on the $20 a month package. Good speed/slashdotting protection, but sometimes the services go down for maintainance. 1.6 TB of transfer a month for $20 is good though, so I feel free to be/.ed with impunity, or mirror ISOs for projects etc.
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Would a set of cuffs and cell mate get you to take it down?
Actually, no. There's such a thing as principles, you know. I don't believe that a case that revolves around possibly unconstituitional state actions should be secret, since that effectively negates democracy.
If you have an executive that can avoid releasing info on governmental programs to the legislature, and can hide or quash cases where the judiciary declare those programs illegal, what oversight is left? You might as well just elect a king.
Since I don't know how long this will be up at Wired, I have mirrored it on my site at http://jaduncan.net/mark-kleins-att-statement-in-t he-eff-case
The HTML and the PDF are both there, and all in one page since I don't have to care about ad views. And no, a nastygram wouldn't make me take it down.
XP is stable in the absence of external factors. Yes, it doesn't randomly blue screen most of the time now.
HOWEVER...if you start actually using it day to day, you become vulnerable to many 0-day exploits (see the recent Word/rootkit issue) and so in practice you can end up with many problems through no fault of your own. If you think this isn't an issue for you, please note the many infections that have occured through non-obvious vectors (viewing.jpg and.wmf files, playing a Sony audio CD, installing games with various loony anti-piracy schemes that install dodgy drivers *coughs*Starforce*coughs*). It even comes rooted, as the EULA explicitly states that MS can enter your computer in both the Windows and Windows Media Player EULAs.
Due to this, it just isn't reliable enough for me to trust it for storing the serious data that my main OS must - the APIs just were not designed for that.
Got an iBook to try OSX, was unimpressed, promptly installed Debian on it.
iBook G3 logic board went wrong 3 times in a year - no refund. Frankly, I'm not impressed with Apple software or hardware.
Any true microkernel has the drivers running in userspace as services - so your apparent complete lack of knowledge would encompass little known OSes like QNX or the Hurd. You know, stictly minor stuff that nobody on/. would ever have heard of.
European elections are modified PR - they work on party lists, but assign areas of responsiblity geographically with "top up" MEPs allowed in to balance things out to something more like the correct PR result.
Bank holidays are not what you think. They are legal holidays. While it is true that you may have to work at a bank holiday, the employer is legally required to offer you a day off in lieu, so the point about the higher amount of days off stands.
Funnily enough, I wrote something about how I thought pr0n had affected me...principally by making me more sexually demanding.
Link: http://jaduncan.net/how-pr0n-has-changed-me
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Yes, that's right. Just like it wouldn't affect the price of your groceries at all if all the wheat farms on the east coast shut down, right? Cos you know that your supermarket buys wheat from the west.
*rolls eyes*
It's up there still.
You don't think they could escape your dungeon? They've spent their whole careers training for that!
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Whoever modded parent "Insightful": Please shoot yourself. Thank you.
Jesus. I scroll down one page and you are at it again. Did you buy this account on eBay or did your dad just leave the PC logged in?
The browser and the file manager are only visually the same in that they inhabit the same window. They are different kparts. Do you understand what this means? They are seperate components, with potentially different rights. Unless you think that the fact that you can use Gecko in Konqueror with the kmozilla kpart means that the Mozilla Foundation also make a file browser.
(Disclaimer: I use GNOME. I am also not a big fan of Konq. If you're someone who talks about technical issues but clearly doesn't bother to have an informed opionon, please go and drown yourself.)
To be fair, I have just purchased a Symbian phone and the option to install unsigned apps is toggleable. And I'm glad it is, someone ported Putty.
Of course. That's what I'd say too. *grins*
Ironically, Counterstike runs even on vanilla WINE now.
Actually, I believe in this case the technical term is a CYA tunnel.
Legal terminology, eh?
Yes, it's obvious that a society with a government that doesn't tax and spend at all is great.
That must be why Somalia works so well, eh?
Also note here that the sampled group is web developers, a group far, far more likely to have a modern machine then the standard Windows user. You'll be able to see the Vista stats shoot up there as people install it for testing sites on IE7, I suspect.
The situation has historically been slower changing then you describe, and is likely to be far more for gamers this time round. Vista has a large jump in hardware requirements, and is at present appallingly slow compared to XP. What gamer is going to want to drop 20fps on an FPS for features you can't see when you are in-game? This keeps gamers on XP, meaning that games prodcued need to support XP, meaning that gamers stay on XP....
Slow.
Bear in mind that the effective tax rate in most failed states does not have anything to do with what the central government say, as by definition the government that is too weak to tax is also too weak to police. Think more of the local AK-47 armed Uncle Vinny saying "Youse is doing well with the business...now pay up".
As with most corrupt economies, this leads to nepotism and favouritsm, and distorts the economy far more then effectively managed cental government taxes. Basically, you are entirely wrong.
Civil disobedience doesn't really work in private. There's a reason you'd actively choose to host it on your website.
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Actually, no. There's such a thing as principles, you know. I don't believe that a case that revolves around possibly unconstituitional state actions should be secret, since that effectively negates democracy.
If you have an executive that can avoid releasing info on governmental programs to the legislature, and can hide or quash cases where the judiciary declare those programs illegal, what oversight is left? You might as well just elect a king.
So, no, it wouldn't.
Since I don't know how long this will be up at Wired, I have mirrored it on my site at http://jaduncan.net/mark-kleins-att-statement-in-t he-eff-case
The HTML and the PDF are both there, and all in one page since I don't have to care about ad views. And no, a nastygram wouldn't make me take it down.
XP is stable in the absence of external factors. Yes, it doesn't randomly blue screen most of the time now.
.jpg and .wmf files, playing a Sony audio CD, installing games with various loony anti-piracy schemes that install dodgy drivers *coughs*Starforce*coughs*). It even comes rooted, as the EULA explicitly states that MS can enter your computer in both the Windows and Windows Media Player EULAs.
HOWEVER...if you start actually using it day to day, you become vulnerable to many 0-day exploits (see the recent Word/rootkit issue) and so in practice you can end up with many problems through no fault of your own. If you think this isn't an issue for you, please note the many infections that have occured through non-obvious vectors (viewing
Due to this, it just isn't reliable enough for me to trust it for storing the serious data that my main OS must - the APIs just were not designed for that.
Do you disagree with this?
And, to be fair, got good performance and *extra registers* in 32 bit mode. Your point was?
Got an iBook to try OSX, was unimpressed, promptly installed Debian on it. iBook G3 logic board went wrong 3 times in a year - no refund. Frankly, I'm not impressed with Apple software or hardware.
Hadn't heard of Alaa, asked the press office for comment. They say they will get back to me later today.
Any true microkernel has the drivers running in userspace as services - so your apparent complete lack of knowledge would encompass little known OSes like QNX or the Hurd. You know, stictly minor stuff that nobody on /. would ever have heard of.
European elections are modified PR - they work on party lists, but assign areas of responsiblity geographically with "top up" MEPs allowed in to balance things out to something more like the correct PR result.
Bank holidays are not what you think. They are legal holidays. While it is true that you may have to work at a bank holiday, the employer is legally required to offer you a day off in lieu, so the point about the higher amount of days off stands.
Well, I did write an atricle on encrypting VoIP. It's really not that hard with Asterisk. http://jaduncan.net/secure-point-to-point-voip-wit h-asterisk
Funnily enough, I wrote something about how I thought pr0n had affected me...principally by making me more sexually demanding. Link: http://jaduncan.net/how-pr0n-has-changed-me