I pretty much flunked my German class in primary school in Denmark, but I get the jist of your post, and I most definitely agree.
Sorry to see ignorant bastards modding you to hell, but it's nothing that I couldn't have predicted.
Things seem to have changed since I watched TV in 1992 when Mr. King got the long fucking end of the stick.
...that might be tasteful, but I'm replying to a post that is modded +5 Funny, even though it really isn't funny. On that note, I suggest I'll be modded +5 Informative.
Depends on how you feel about limitations. I quite like having the entire repository at my disposal.
Same reason as I'll go home today and install Debian on a 1,8" 30 GB HDD to have the full Debian MIPSEL repository available to my router.
At least some of them probably have access to Windows code. (It's not really that secret- several companies have copies of the code including China which is known to launch cyber attacks against windows computers)
Yeah. The giant national corporation known as "China" has access to the source code to Windows.
The rest of your post seems sober enough. If you'd just removed that sentence (or rephrased it), I'd be perfectly happy.
Every country in the world has launched some kind of attack against another. With Windows source code being as cheap as $20 (as per Windows is Open source on Balckhat sites already), everyone who wants to has access to the source.
I don't know aboot Canada, but in Denmark we've had similar legislation for a few years. Every time you buy empty media, be it DVDR, USB drives or memory cards, you pay a small percentage to KODA, the Danish version of RIAA.
1.88 DKK (0.33 USD or 0.25 EUR) for CD-R media and MiniDisc
10.07 DKK (1.78 USD or 1.35 EUR) for 10 cm. DVD media (8 cm DVDs currently excempt)
4.28 DKK (0.77 USD or 0.57 EUR) for memory cards (Flash RAM)
...which is weird, because the tax is supposed to go to lost revenue, but I'm still not allowed to copy as much as I'd like.
Of course, the taxes doesn't really matter to the Danish pirates, as they buy their blank media in Germany.
...and/dev/random is overkill,/dev/urandom should be sufficient.
When read, the/dev/random device will only return random bytes within the estimated number of bits of noise in the entropy pool./dev/random should be suitable for uses that need very high quality randomness such as one-time pad or key generation. When the entropy pool is empty, reads from/dev/random will block until additional environmental noise is gathered.
Shut the fuck up and put an end to your criticism, you wanker. It's a fucking open source tablet, do you really think it wont be possible to install ReactOS on it?
Oh yeah, and it's the 2nd prototype. Now, what does that word tell you? That it's all finished and ready for hitting the market? No?
As the memristor was developed in HP Labs while working on fabrication techniques for "normal" memory, the fabrication technology is already here.
It'll only be a short while before we'll see memristors in consumer products.
"HP prototyped a crossbar latch memory using the devices that can fit 100 gigabits in a square centimeter.[10] HP has reported that its version of the memristor is about one-tenth the speed of DRAM.[27]"
My thoughts exactly. In fact, I have already written to one Danish newspaper, in an attempt to stop them from spewing this kind of crap.
When did journalists become proxies for each other, mindlessly replicating the stories from other journalists without ever thinking for themselves, looking up the sources or even thinking about source credibility?
It doesn't matter what your eyes can see. It's about responsiveness. Faster rendering makes the game more responsive. See, we live in an analog world which has essentially infinite FPS. The closer a game gets to that then the better it feels because it will respond at the exact microsecond you do something. It does make a very real difference.
Ever thought of spending a few bucks on some smokeables instead of dropping a few hundred bucks on a new graphics card? "Hacking" yourself to make you slower is a lot cheaper than buying new hardware;)
Just the other day I was taken aside at the airport and asked for licenses for all of the software installed on my laptop.
In real life, who gives a fuck..? If I browse to a website that contains artwork that has similar "IP problems", who gets in trouble? Not me, that's for sure. And if you do get in trouble for that, I suggest you move out of the country straight away. It's only going downhill from there.
No, the German press shouldn't have to check all the info. The information is available on the internet from a country foreign to Germany. The German press shouldn't have to be involved in this case in any way.
Maybe an indestructible keyboard would suffice?
I bought one myself a few years ago. You have to change your style of writing a bit, as the button presses are harder than with a regular keyboard, but in return you get a keyboard that is virtually indestructible, and can withstand being dumped in water for a wash/sterilization process.
Well, it does serve the purpose of giving all of us not-so-fat ones some self-confidence (in the sense of being one of the more exquisite geeks), and it probably does the same to the ones who are oh-my-god-i-can't-fucking-believe-it-fat (in the sense that they can't possible be the fattest of the bunch).
Just like I need to keep my current mouse, because I couldn't possibly learn how to use a new one.
No, that's not how it is. A lot of people have just been brought up with Windows. Just like almost all (north)Americans are taught to drive their car with automatic gearing, whereas the rest of the world pretty much uses stick-shift.
That doesn't mean that Americans are unable to drive a European car, or that Europeans won't be able to drive an American car, but both cases probably require a small amount of reschooling.
NetworkManager 0.7. Now I can use two ethernet connections at once, directly from Ubuntu's system tray.
And then there's the new Gnome, Xorg and a lot of other things.
I'd suggest you'd at least have a look and a comparison. I don't regret upgrading, that's for sure.
That's not technically true. There is a spending limit; they just don't tell you what it is until you hit it.
Heh -- that reminds me. In Denmark we have a national debit card, the Dankort. Since 2006 a company called PBS has handled all transactions with these cards.
For some reason, the cap on how much money you can charge from your card is set by the transaction terminal/machine. That is, if it is set at all. If it isn't set at all, PBS sets the upper limit. At around 16 million DKK, equating roughly 3,2 million USD.
Last year, a lady goes shopping. The guy at the cash register accidentally enters, uhm, way too many zeros. Being in a hurry, the lady just confirms the amount without making sure if it is the correct amount. Seconds later she realizes that she has just charged 16 million DKK from her account.
The store eventually agreed to pay a compensation for the few thousand DKK of interest that had accumulated overnigth.
I could say the exact same thing about music CDs.
Tool's 10,000 Days did just that. The CD has some awesome artwork in the form of a booklet filled with stereograms, complete with glasses.
I do pirate music, but I tend to buy it if I feel it's worth my money. I stumbled upon Japanese post-rock band Mono a few years ago, and pirated their music.
After listening to it for a while, I decided that it was worth a buy, so I went and bougth almost all of their CDs.
They played in Copenhagen last year, and a few weeks before, I introduced their music to some of my friends to try to get them to tag along to the concert. I was successful in just that, and I brought 5 friends to their show.
To sum it all up, my act of piracy actually got them a lot of new fans. I bought almost all their albums, will buy their newest when I have some money to spare, and I brougth 5 people to their concert -- all because of piracy.
Fortunately, you're also able to reply straight from the Sprint web interface. Let the customers know that Sprint is leaking pictures this way.
Let it get media attention!
Slashdot Mirror
I pretty much flunked my German class in primary school in Denmark, but I get the jist of your post, and I most definitely agree.
Sorry to see ignorant bastards modding you to hell, but it's nothing that I couldn't have predicted.
Things seem to have changed since I watched TV in 1992 when Mr. King got the long fucking end of the stick.
...that might be tasteful, but I'm replying to a post that is modded +5 Funny, even though it really isn't funny. On that note, I suggest I'll be modded +5 Informative.
Depends on how you feel about limitations. I quite like having the entire repository at my disposal.
Same reason as I'll go home today and install Debian on a 1,8" 30 GB HDD to have the full Debian MIPSEL repository available to my router.
At least some of them probably have access to Windows code. (It's not really that secret- several companies have copies of the code including China which is known to launch cyber attacks against windows computers)
Yeah. The giant national corporation known as "China" has access to the source code to Windows.
The rest of your post seems sober enough. If you'd just removed that sentence (or rephrased it), I'd be perfectly happy.
Every country in the world has launched some kind of attack against another. With Windows source code being as cheap as $20 (as per Windows is Open source on Balckhat sites already), everyone who wants to has access to the source.
Don't pull the China card on me, boy!
Well, that one is easy. Kill you brother and be done with it!
I don't know aboot Canada, but in Denmark we've had similar legislation for a few years. Every time you buy empty media, be it DVDR, USB drives or memory cards, you pay a small percentage to KODA, the Danish version of RIAA.
...which is weird, because the tax is supposed to go to lost revenue, but I'm still not allowed to copy as much as I'd like.
1.88 DKK (0.33 USD or 0.25 EUR) for CD-R media and MiniDisc
10.07 DKK (1.78 USD or 1.35 EUR) for 10 cm. DVD media (8 cm DVDs currently excempt)
4.28 DKK (0.77 USD or 0.57 EUR) for memory cards (Flash RAM)
Of course, the taxes doesn't really matter to the Danish pirates, as they buy their blank media in Germany.
...and /dev/random is overkill, /dev/urandom should be sufficient.
/dev/random device will only return random bytes within the estimated number of bits of noise in the entropy pool. /dev/random should be suitable for uses that need very high quality randomness such as one-time pad or key generation. When the entropy pool is empty, reads from /dev/random will block until additional environmental noise is gathered.
When read, the
I know that all of /. has commented on your apparent stupidity/shortsightedness, but I still wanted to kick you while you were down.
Reaching a negative reading on the Kelvin scale is possible, although I think my head needs some cooling to comprehend it.
Shut the fuck up and put an end to your criticism, you wanker. It's a fucking open source tablet, do you really think it wont be possible to install ReactOS on it?
...people these days. *shrug*
Oh yeah, and it's the 2nd prototype. Now, what does that word tell you? That it's all finished and ready for hitting the market? No?
Well, at least you can still buy growboxes and have them sent around the world ;)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memristor#Potential_applications
[27] http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/01/technology/01chip.html
My thoughts exactly. In fact, I have already written to one Danish newspaper, in an attempt to stop them from spewing this kind of crap. When did journalists become proxies for each other, mindlessly replicating the stories from other journalists without ever thinking for themselves, looking up the sources or even thinking about source credibility?
It doesn't matter what your eyes can see. It's about responsiveness. Faster rendering makes the game more responsive. See, we live in an analog world which has essentially infinite FPS. The closer a game gets to that then the better it feels because it will respond at the exact microsecond you do something. It does make a very real difference.
Ever thought of spending a few bucks on some smokeables instead of dropping a few hundred bucks on a new graphics card? "Hacking" yourself to make you slower is a lot cheaper than buying new hardware ;)
Don't worry, as I see it you're way ahead of yourself. I mean, being a one-bit man is better than a four digit man, right?
HINT:
Preparing your children for work in the corporate world, might not be the best way of raising them. Let them make their own decisions instead...
Oh, so true.
Just the other day I was taken aside at the airport and asked for licenses for all of the software installed on my laptop.
In real life, who gives a fuck..? If I browse to a website that contains artwork that has similar "IP problems", who gets in trouble? Not me, that's for sure. And if you do get in trouble for that, I suggest you move out of the country straight away. It's only going downhill from there.
No, the German press shouldn't have to check all the info. The information is available on the internet from a country foreign to Germany. The German press shouldn't have to be involved in this case in any way.
Maybe an indestructible keyboard would suffice?
I bought one myself a few years ago. You have to change your style of writing a bit, as the button presses are harder than with a regular keyboard, but in return you get a keyboard that is virtually indestructible, and can withstand being dumped in water for a wash/sterilization process.
I bought mine from http://store.grandtec.com/virinkey.html , but you might also want to search eBay or similar places.
Good luck finding a solution,
Rune
Well, it does serve the purpose of giving all of us not-so-fat ones some self-confidence (in the sense of being one of the more exquisite geeks), and it probably does the same to the ones who are oh-my-god-i-can't-fucking-believe-it-fat (in the sense that they can't possible be the fattest of the bunch).
The Internet. It truly works miracles.
Just like I need to keep my current mouse, because I couldn't possibly learn how to use a new one.
No, that's not how it is. A lot of people have just been brought up with Windows. Just like almost all (north)Americans are taught to drive their car with automatic gearing, whereas the rest of the world pretty much uses stick-shift.
That doesn't mean that Americans are unable to drive a European car, or that Europeans won't be able to drive an American car, but both cases probably require a small amount of reschooling.
There you go. A car analogy.
On the other hand, you are a rude turnip. What'd you expect?
NetworkManager 0.7. Now I can use two ethernet connections at once, directly from Ubuntu's system tray. And then there's the new Gnome, Xorg and a lot of other things. I'd suggest you'd at least have a look and a comparison. I don't regret upgrading, that's for sure.
That's not technically true. There is a spending limit; they just don't tell you what it is until you hit it.
Heh -- that reminds me. In Denmark we have a national debit card, the Dankort. Since 2006 a company called PBS has handled all transactions with these cards.
For some reason, the cap on how much money you can charge from your card is set by the transaction terminal/machine. That is, if it is set at all. If it isn't set at all, PBS sets the upper limit. At around 16 million DKK, equating roughly 3,2 million USD.
Last year, a lady goes shopping. The guy at the cash register accidentally enters, uhm, way too many zeros. Being in a hurry, the lady just confirms the amount without making sure if it is the correct amount. Seconds later she realizes that she has just charged 16 million DKK from her account.
The store eventually agreed to pay a compensation for the few thousand DKK of interest that had accumulated overnigth.
Wikipedia on Dankort
I could say the exact same thing about music CDs. Tool's 10,000 Days did just that. The CD has some awesome artwork in the form of a booklet filled with stereograms, complete with glasses.
I do pirate music, but I tend to buy it if I feel it's worth my money. I stumbled upon Japanese post-rock band Mono a few years ago, and pirated their music.
After listening to it for a while, I decided that it was worth a buy, so I went and bougth almost all of their CDs.
They played in Copenhagen last year, and a few weeks before, I introduced their music to some of my friends to try to get them to tag along to the concert. I was successful in just that, and I brought 5 friends to their show.
To sum it all up, my act of piracy actually got them a lot of new fans. I bought almost all their albums, will buy their newest when I have some money to spare, and I brougth 5 people to their concert -- all because of piracy.
If you're interested in hearing what they sound like, I suggest going to their MySpace. Wikipedia has an article about them here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_(Japanese_band).
Fortunately, you're also able to reply straight from the Sprint web interface. Let the customers know that Sprint is leaking pictures this way.
Let it get media attention!
You can even get the full resolution pictures by editing the URL for the photos: http://pictures.sprintpcs.com/mmps/IDENTIFIER_GOES_HERE/2.jpg?partExt=.jpg&&&outquality=100&ext=.jpg&&limitsize=8000,8000&squareoutput=255,255,255
If the original is smaller than 8000x8000, you'll get the picture in the original resolution, otherwise it'll downscale it.