It's a common slang phrase among people who don't know what they're talking about. Someone heard it used in the correct sense, appropriated it for incorrect usage, and it's been downhill ever since.
They also make no guarantees of net neutrality. They don't do traffic shaping, but they won't commit to never do traffic shaping. I even tried to ask them about their stance towards it, and their reply was essentially, "here, have this marketing-drone non-answer".
Ubuntu 7.04, whatever that is. I was really impressed with how fast the installation was, and I'm probably going to give it another shot now that I've got the machine connected to a wired ethernet system. But out of the box, neither Ubuntu nor Kubuntu had anything close to WPA support for my wireless system. And I tried for quite a few hours. (And I've used Gentoo on 3 machines for over 6 years, so I like to think I at least kind of know what I'm doing).
MS can't fix the problems. They now only employ point, click and drool "programmers" who think Visual Basic is a programming language. All the real programmers left years ago, when marketing took over running the show.
That's absolutely ridiculous. Yeah, Vista has problems. But you honestly think it'd be even to the point it is today if your statement was even remotely true? Please.
And before you go ranting about me being a pro-MS whore or whatever, remember, the worst thing you can do is underestimate an enemy.
As much as I support Linux, I have to say that trying to get a wireless connection running with a decent encryption scheme is an exercise in frustration.
There are ways around that. If you were really worried about extortion being a problem, you could allow people to generate an indistinguishable "fake" vote receipt which would indicate a vote other than your actual one. The real problem is, they can track your vote and return to you what you entered, but it's still not proof that the vote you cast makes it into the final tally.
They've also found altruistic behavior in the higher primates. The point is, a certain amount of selfishness is probably beneficial, but animals of any level of intelligence can do better if they have a certain amount of cooperation with the rest of the group. Evolution absolutely does not push creatures towards pure selfishness. A balance of the two is logically the most likely to survive, and observed behavior in the wild tends to back that up.
Like when that guy got shot in the London subway system, by a cop, and the tapes from all 3 cameras with a view got "lost"? Yeah, that could never happen...
I'm confused why you would say this. As far as "American propaganda", it seems they'd much rather have us link China with Communism than with Fascism. Care to explain yourself?
DVDs contain an image which has more resolution than an SD signal. To play on an SD connection, they downsample the image. The native resolution is something like 532 scanlines, which, while less than a 720 HD signal, is still MORE information than even a progressive scan SD signal. So yes, an upscaling DVD player outputting to an HD connection will literally give you a better picture than a normal DVD player outputting to an SD connection.
An up-converted DVD player WILL have more detail than one outputting an SD signal, even a progressive scan SD signal. It just won't have as much detail as a full 720 signal.
Fascism != Communism. USSR and China are fascist dictatorships. Cuba kind of is, but a more benevolent one perhaps. Anyway, don't confuse the evils of fascism with communism.
No. It applies when you distribute copies. And Novell/SuSE is distributed digitally, so it's distributing copies by definition. It gives you the ADDED right to make modifications, but make no mistake, the GPL is the only thing that allows you to make copies of GPL-licensed software without infringing on the creator's copyright.
Increasingly, the nature of human cities is turning gasoline into a literal need, especially in the US. Giant cities with extremely poor mass transit systems, along with a slumping economy, mean that you may have no other way to get to a workplace in order to make money. It sucks, and it should be fixed, but city planning and the actual change that follows is a slow, slow process.
I'm no fan of the Zune, and I will probably never buy a 360 myself, but over 10 million people buying them probably indicates that more than just "some idiots" like it.
As someone who's never used a slot machine, is it completely unheard of for a machine to convert money into "game points" or tokens or credits or something? If I played a slot machine and it said 10 every time I put a dollar in, I'd assume it was 10 plays for a dollar.
And that's only 85% if you consider industrial waste from a turkey processing plant to be "usable energy". If you consider the fact that they can run off of completely useless waste products, and feed 15% of their output back into the plant to power it, this is essentially free energy, AND a reduction in landfill contents.
Not really. You know that behavior when you pass a stranger on the street and avoid looking directly at each other, essentially pretending the other isn't there? That same behavior is observed in primate populations over about 100 individuals or so. It's thought to be a coping mechanism in a group where you can't know every individual. Anyway, it's definitely something built into primates at the very least.
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It's a common slang phrase among people who don't know what they're talking about. Someone heard it used in the correct sense, appropriated it for incorrect usage, and it's been downhill ever since.
You could also argue that it's completely overboard punishment. What's your point?
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They also make no guarantees of net neutrality. They don't do traffic shaping, but they won't commit to never do traffic shaping. I even tried to ask them about their stance towards it, and their reply was essentially, "here, have this marketing-drone non-answer".
Ubuntu 7.04, whatever that is. I was really impressed with how fast the installation was, and I'm probably going to give it another shot now that I've got the machine connected to a wired ethernet system. But out of the box, neither Ubuntu nor Kubuntu had anything close to WPA support for my wireless system. And I tried for quite a few hours. (And I've used Gentoo on 3 machines for over 6 years, so I like to think I at least kind of know what I'm doing).
I've had exactly the opposite experience, running Ubuntu and XP on the same machine.
You still won't, to travel between states. As long as you're not on an airplane. We're still free, honest.
And before you go ranting about me being a pro-MS whore or whatever, remember, the worst thing you can do is underestimate an enemy.
As much as I support Linux, I have to say that trying to get a wireless connection running with a decent encryption scheme is an exercise in frustration.
There are ways around that. If you were really worried about extortion being a problem, you could allow people to generate an indistinguishable "fake" vote receipt which would indicate a vote other than your actual one. The real problem is, they can track your vote and return to you what you entered, but it's still not proof that the vote you cast makes it into the final tally.
They've also found altruistic behavior in the higher primates. The point is, a certain amount of selfishness is probably beneficial, but animals of any level of intelligence can do better if they have a certain amount of cooperation with the rest of the group. Evolution absolutely does not push creatures towards pure selfishness. A balance of the two is logically the most likely to survive, and observed behavior in the wild tends to back that up.
That's not true in the least. Biologists have found altruistic behaviors in a number of lower species in the wild.
Like when that guy got shot in the London subway system, by a cop, and the tapes from all 3 cameras with a view got "lost"? Yeah, that could never happen...
Let me have 2 minutes alone with your computer, and I guarantee you'll change that opinion. Goatse theme ftw!
I'm confused why you would say this. As far as "American propaganda", it seems they'd much rather have us link China with Communism than with Fascism. Care to explain yourself?
DVDs contain an image which has more resolution than an SD signal. To play on an SD connection, they downsample the image. The native resolution is something like 532 scanlines, which, while less than a 720 HD signal, is still MORE information than even a progressive scan SD signal. So yes, an upscaling DVD player outputting to an HD connection will literally give you a better picture than a normal DVD player outputting to an SD connection.
An up-converted DVD player WILL have more detail than one outputting an SD signal, even a progressive scan SD signal. It just won't have as much detail as a full 720 signal.
Fascism != Communism. USSR and China are fascist dictatorships. Cuba kind of is, but a more benevolent one perhaps. Anyway, don't confuse the evils of fascism with communism.
No. It applies when you distribute copies. And Novell/SuSE is distributed digitally, so it's distributing copies by definition. It gives you the ADDED right to make modifications, but make no mistake, the GPL is the only thing that allows you to make copies of GPL-licensed software without infringing on the creator's copyright.
Increasingly, the nature of human cities is turning gasoline into a literal need, especially in the US. Giant cities with extremely poor mass transit systems, along with a slumping economy, mean that you may have no other way to get to a workplace in order to make money. It sucks, and it should be fixed, but city planning and the actual change that follows is a slow, slow process.
I'm no fan of the Zune, and I will probably never buy a 360 myself, but over 10 million people buying them probably indicates that more than just "some idiots" like it.
You'd be amazed by the number of government employees who run BitTorrent on work machines...
As someone who's never used a slot machine, is it completely unheard of for a machine to convert money into "game points" or tokens or credits or something? If I played a slot machine and it said 10 every time I put a dollar in, I'd assume it was 10 plays for a dollar.
And that's only 85% if you consider industrial waste from a turkey processing plant to be "usable energy". If you consider the fact that they can run off of completely useless waste products, and feed 15% of their output back into the plant to power it, this is essentially free energy, AND a reduction in landfill contents.
Not really. You know that behavior when you pass a stranger on the street and avoid looking directly at each other, essentially pretending the other isn't there? That same behavior is observed in primate populations over about 100 individuals or so. It's thought to be a coping mechanism in a group where you can't know every individual. Anyway, it's definitely something built into primates at the very least.