Being anti-consumer and anti-technology are not good positions to be in. You can only shoot yourself in the foot so many times before there is nothing left to stand on.
I work at a prominant research university, and I've never understood how amidst all of the innovation happening around us, we are still using proprietary software for practically 90% of our infrastructure. What better place to research, develop and provide inventive OSS solutions than in an environment that is supposed to foster those ideals?
(I am not one to speculate, but it wouldn't surprise me if something furtive was in play. *COUGH*Microsoft*COUGH*)
Why the need for a reasonable DX9 graphics card? Vista includes a new desktop compositing and drawing system that uses DirectX 9 to draw the screen. Every window, icon, toolbar, or other desktop element is actually a 3D surface, made of polygons and manipulated by your graphics card. It's possible to smoothly stretch, rotate, skew, light or shadow, and otherwise manipulate everything on the desktop using all the flexibility of DX9. Everything gets rendered to an off-screen buffer, and then swapped to the live desktop view. This enables all kinds of cool effects, like windows that can warp and stretch...
What's this fascination with coddling dangerous criminals? We can't see what goes on in jails, but as soon as I step outside my home, it's possible for anyone to watch my every move?
I guess it fits since they get cable and other amenities that a college student can only wish for (or steal).
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Being anti-consumer and anti-technology are not good positions to be in. You can only shoot yourself in the foot so many times before there is nothing left to stand on.
(I am not one to speculate, but it wouldn't surprise me if something furtive was in play. *COUGH*Microsoft*COUGH*)
What's this fascination with coddling dangerous criminals? We can't see what goes on in jails, but as soon as I step outside my home, it's possible for anyone to watch my every move?
I guess it fits since they get cable and other amenities that a college student can only wish for (or steal).
...WAY too many lawyers in the world today. We might need to expand hell into California.
Many thanks, signal.
Spend the money on peace, not waepons.
Tell that to the WTC/Pentagon victims.