Put up a review stating that Suns OS sucks, and cap it off with this statement:
"In fact, it's possible installing Solaris x86 on my dual-processor box, even if I disabled one of the processors, violates the evaluation license that Sun offers Solaris x86. Oops."
I don't know where you got the idea that I disapprove of neural implants... I can't wait to have one.
And in all seriousness, once we have them and as they improve, knowledge will become increasingly insignificant. The ability to learn quickly and to problem solve will be what is important, and the human brain will develop in dramatically different ways from what it does now.
After all, if you have a universal library wired into your skull, what use is it to have books in your grey matter?
I had Witnesses show up once while I was shaggin. Funnily enough, they wouldn't come in when I invited them... they didn't even come back later like they promised they would.
Nothing gets rid of door-to-door types like a sticky hard-on:)
I don't care if everyone knows what I ate yesterday, or where I went, or who I fucked, or how much money I have.
I DO care if I don't know these things about anyone else, but some organization with goals I'm unaware of knows them about me and everyone else.
We don't need privacy, and frankly, we don't have it. What we need is transparency. Transparency leads to knowledge, wisdom, justice and tolerance. Monitoring by secret organizations, however, leads to ignorance, injustice, control, and fear.
If you're fighting for privacy, you're fighting the wrong fight.
Technically, if you were to have a box in canada, and terminal into it, and download to that box, you would legally own that copy. You could then download from your canadian box to your american box, and argue fair use.
Lot of work though... I'd rather just live in a better country...
The savings don't come from buying cheap terminals, at least initially. They come from getting a longer run off your existing hardware.
Is mosix that unreliable? I don't have much experience, aside from toying with it at home, but I was of the understanding that if nodes drop, the work just gets resent to another node...
One of the major benefits of *nix mentioned in the article was the centralization of processing, and how that can decrease hardware churn.
It's true, but by itself, it leaves a lot of wasted resources by having P3s and P4s acting like dumb terminals. If I'd just shelled out for new machines, I wouldn't like having to shell out for grunty servers to supplant the grunty desktops I'd just bought.
But the ability to have the whole network act as a Mosix cluster takes this and flips it on its head, allowing maximum leverage of all the hardware resources that the organization already has. Aside from the real-world benefits, pitching that would make a purchaser feel clever, not stupid. It ought to have had a mention.
You can stick a DVD onto 2 CDs with the 5.1 audio, and the loss of quality is very small with most movies... the exception being very dark movies, which MPEG-4 doesn't do well.
I put my DVDs on DivX and watch em like that cause I don't want to worry bout my kid trashing a $20 DVD, but I won't freak out if they trash 35c worth of CD-Rs once in a while.
Tying up the machine for 8 hrs to crunch a DVD sure is a pain in the ass though...
5 minute survey to read an article?
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That's just retarded. Anyone who develops for the web bases their job on Windows... IE owns the market, so thats what you have to build to. I should quit web design because ppl use windows?
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Computer, what's the weather going to be like today?
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A single point of failure sounds much better than a multitude, any of which can bring things down.
If the power is gone, the communications are gone anyways, so where is the issue?
This is such a load of crap. Hackers aren't fat, they're skinny and wear black.
This diet is going to do nothing for them... gaining weight is hard, unlike losing weight, which is easy.
Stop eating like a pig, then go to the gym and break a bit of a sweat with some cardio. Wow, that's a hard lifestyle change.
Try gaining some muscle-weight after the age of 25, and you'll wish you were a lard-ass with easily fixed problems.
The Americans WEREN'T crazy for holding on to their guns... whoda thought?
Put up a review stating that Suns OS sucks, and cap it off with this statement:
"In fact, it's possible installing Solaris x86 on my dual-processor box, even if I disabled one of the processors, violates the evaluation license that Sun offers Solaris x86. Oops."
Smart move, dumbass...
"the stoneage look, feel and functionality of it has no place in gaming these days"
You do know that this is "retro" gaming, right?
Oh, and move the joystick left, then right... MAME accepts that as an "OK"
...but I can play mine from the sofa!
Technically, it boils down to
"You're just going to have to trust me"
I don't know where you got the idea that I disapprove of neural implants... I can't wait to have one.
And in all seriousness, once we have them and as they improve, knowledge will become increasingly insignificant. The ability to learn quickly and to problem solve will be what is important, and the human brain will develop in dramatically different ways from what it does now.
After all, if you have a universal library wired into your skull, what use is it to have books in your grey matter?
Doesn't sound like it's "Linux" (whoever that is) that needs the help... I don't see Mr. Linux sitting around complaining about alternatives.
Answer the door naked.
:)
I had Witnesses show up once while I was shaggin. Funnily enough, they wouldn't come in when I invited them... they didn't even come back later like they promised they would.
Nothing gets rid of door-to-door types like a sticky hard-on
Then you can all benefit from the ultimate source of information:
Yeah, it's my kid. She knows EVERYTHING.
Those who can, do Those who can't...
I don't care if everyone knows what I ate yesterday, or where I went, or who I fucked, or how much money I have.
I DO care if I don't know these things about anyone else, but some organization with goals I'm unaware of knows them about me and everyone else.
We don't need privacy, and frankly, we don't have it. What we need is transparency. Transparency leads to knowledge, wisdom, justice and tolerance. Monitoring by secret organizations, however, leads to ignorance, injustice, control, and fear.
If you're fighting for privacy, you're fighting the wrong fight.
Never heard of em
Base premise false; skip article
A disease worse than aids... you can catch it just by having a carrier hug you.
Bill had the first documented case of Extenditus, and being such a touchy-feely guy, he's embraced a lot of people since, spreading it far and wide.
We recommend an immediate quarantine of Microsoft and all organizations that have engaged in "Group Hugs" with them.
Its not lack of parenting, and its not video games.
Its all Judas Priests fault!
Technically, if you were to have a box in canada, and terminal into it, and download to that box, you would legally own that copy. You could then download from your canadian box to your american box, and argue fair use.
Lot of work though... I'd rather just live in a better country...
The savings don't come from buying cheap terminals, at least initially. They come from getting a longer run off your existing hardware.
Is mosix that unreliable? I don't have much experience, aside from toying with it at home, but I was of the understanding that if nodes drop, the work just gets resent to another node...
What are you talking about?
Canadas forests have been growing for the last six years.
One of the major benefits of *nix mentioned in the article was the centralization of processing, and how that can decrease hardware churn.
It's true, but by itself, it leaves a lot of wasted resources by having P3s and P4s acting like dumb terminals. If I'd just shelled out for new machines, I wouldn't like having to shell out for grunty servers to supplant the grunty desktops I'd just bought.
But the ability to have the whole network act as a Mosix cluster takes this and flips it on its head, allowing maximum leverage of all the hardware resources that the organization already has. Aside from the real-world benefits, pitching that would make a purchaser feel clever, not stupid. It ought to have had a mention.
I agree. Screw free trade.
Americans are living high on Canadian resources. Lets ratchet up the tariffs on Water, Oil, Electricity, Gas, Lumber, Food and Metal.
Or were you looking for "sorta" free trade?
You can stick a DVD onto 2 CDs with the 5.1 audio, and the loss of quality is very small with most movies... the exception being very dark movies, which MPEG-4 doesn't do well.
I put my DVDs on DivX and watch em like that cause I don't want to worry bout my kid trashing a $20 DVD, but I won't freak out if they trash 35c worth of CD-Rs once in a while.
Tying up the machine for 8 hrs to crunch a DVD sure is a pain in the ass though...
Salon, you just lost my patronage permanently.
Go bankrupt or something.
That's just retarded. Anyone who develops for the web bases their job on Windows... IE owns the market, so thats what you have to build to. I should quit web design because ppl use windows?
STFU