You seem to be opposed to Union labour, are you opposed to a coalition of companies who agree to keep wages increadibly low?
If there were $2 an hour jobs people in the States would have to take them.
$20 an hour employees and union wages make them take their work seriously and make Wal-Mart pay more attention to their hiring policies, right now they throw the reproducing robots (people) at a problem and send their worst management to their stores using their good stuff to attack suppliers.
Walmart has made several owners billionaires (The waltons 6 guys with net worths of 16 Bln each), lets say they have 5,000,000 employees they could still give them $19000 more dollars a year each and keep the same profit margin.
While I'm sure each of those guys is as smart as a million Americans (So is the average Non-American apparently) and works as hard, perhaps they could be a bit generous.
Not to mention, people who get paid nothing really don't care about their work.
When Wal-Mart started they put a dollar value on an employee being happy and able to live a full and meaningful life pursuing their dreams, that number was $0.
Al-Queda is about 1/50th the terrorist threat they faced in the soviet union, and with computer resource monitoring our chances of catching anyone through patterns are 10x better. Do the math and they were 100x more free.
Kind of funny really, when the illegal mexicans see what Chavez is doing for the people of Venezuela and what the U.S. is doing for them (keeping in mind that most mexicans don't accept the legitimacy of the lower 7-12 states) then we'll start to see some real terrorism, and considering the level of responsibility demonstrated in the U.S. real facism won't be too far behind.
"You might as well ask me if I believe in life beyond the reaches of the galaxy. Perhaps it exists, perhaps not, but either way it doesn't matter. And any position you might offer on the topic is nothing but speculation."
Apparently your earlier statement suggesting that the existence or non-existence of God doesn't affect you should be revised. This statement would seem to involve part of the thought process of the earlier decision.
At some point the existence of life outside of our galaxy may become an issue, don't pretend you can compartmentalize your thought processes because no-decision is in fact a decision.
You can learn that the other quark has collapsed, how is that not information?
Besides physics is trying to make everything (including energy as a concept) a feature of matter (though at such small sizes it's pretty hard to say where matter stops) with gravitons etc.
The speed of light was broken about 30-45 years ago by some guys who shot light through a bunch of charged cesium atoms, there are no universal constants.
If AMD and ATI were to require signed drivers through their CPU's we'd be mighty screwed in 5-10 years.
We are still on the brink and we'll never be totally secure in having free software.
The only thing keeping MS from really examining under the table deals with hardware manufacturers is the EU and to a lesser extent Linux's total ineptitude on the desktop.
I think Slashdot is starting to wonder why we need the first one anymore in gaming. Clearly there is excellent potential in current generation graphics that SIMPLY ARE NOT BEING USED BY DEVELOPERS.
Games like Doom 3 and FEAR have an enormous amount of features we're not finding in other recent games and it's becoming obvious that the programmers are getting lazy.
If we all waited 2 years on 8800GTS 320 level graphics the devs would be begging for new hardware to experiment with real ideas instead of complaining about all the features they "need" to implement but don't really want to, further we could avoid Vista for that duration better yet we could move the graphics industry away from their current stance which seems to be that to play modern games should require a $350 graphics card and return them to when $100-150 was perfectly adequate.
Some people would love for games to be the ultimate sign of leisure, $600 purchases with no practical value Precisely to demonstrate how wealthy and bored they are.
Some of us want fun (which does include graphics) and we'd prefer the industry to try and maintain some sanity.
ATI is in the toilet, and the 85-600 series shows what Nvidia is thinking about plain as day, the fact that they're upgrading a standard for which 2 games have come out means they're trying to increase the upgrade cycle, which is not something I think most people want.
Valve has been releasing the numbers on what people ACTUALLY play with and I hope the industry takes note and consumers use those numbers to shape the industry into something we want.
Agreed, it's a great solution for network booting systems but a terrible solution for single use systems (especially if you're a power user who installs a bunch of diffrent software).
The best way to do it is to monitor your networking, seriously if a bot slows you down enough you can kill the program, and having no listening services or apps that aren't secure means you're totally immune to outside control.
When I turn off BT on my computer my net connection should be dead, if it's not I find the service and kill it.
For me the best solution has always been using rare software (such as Opera, and Miranda) and HiJackThis to kill every service. Every month I run an AV tool, and trojan program. I find something wrong every 5-6 months and it's usually not particularly toxic.
If AMD has control of Chipsets, graphics drivers and CPU's they can custom compile for any hardware configuration and ensure that everything works properly.
This is what Linux has needed for a long time, custom built applications compiled for the system downloading them.
If they do this (offer the perfect kernel and drivers) for your hardware they'll attack the MAC cult hardware lockin space, while being based on an open operating system.
It may not stay open for long but it'll probably develop very strong market share.
Well I can stream a TV quality signal at about 340-480 kpbs so if they offered free wifi and a simple device (like the moded Xbox) to convert it to programming it would be cheaper and offer more viewer choice.
I'm not sure we can't have government provided wifi with the TV spectrum intact but apparently we're being told to believe that we can't have either (we'll probably end up with no free TV stations just as we run out of spectrum possibilities for universal internet access.
But damn it I want us to at least TRY to open the spectrum! (And yes I have cable and High-Speed internet... but I want people who don't to have the same capabilities because they should be DAMN cheap).
No I've redistributed where I choose to spend my money and what I choose to support, giving artists money (in the way we currently do) doesn't seem to produce better work.
Arguably the worst thing you can do to a modern artist (in terms of having them create brilliant future works) is give them financial success.
By spending money on knock offs you create brands and companies willing to innovate, both good things.
Fortunately I don't need to produce music, there are 6 billion people in the world, at least 5-10 million of them (1/1000) make art from their love of it, there will always be free music/movies/paintings etc. and yes I'd like to kill the root of the industry that forces conformity on artists and audiences alike.
By any measure of beneficence towards the population China is doing rather well, their economy is quickly outstripping every other nation and quality of life is skyrocketing.
Considering that the state of China 50 years ago could be compared to some countries in Central Africa and the poorer counties in South America and you'd have to agree their level of progress is increadible.
I think the U.S. is showing that freedom hasn't been a valid metric of a society in a while.
Whether China will be able to transition from a developing economy to a successful form of government is still undecided but I imagine it'll probably happen seamlessly.
Democracies seem to be lying to their people an awful lot these days, kudos to the sucessful... especially if they don't have to lie to get something done.
I think that there is some truly terrible music out there, however I also think there is quite a bit of music with something to say and artistic themes to convey.
This pricing scheme seems to be trying to say all music is equal, when it's clearly not.
Slashdotters think it's fine right now because the mainstream is so terrible compared to the eclectic tastes we've developed through piracy, but someday the industry might catch up.
This system doesn't promote good music any better than the older one did:( The fact that it inverses the ability of poor and rich artists to support themselves on few albumn sales isn't a plus, it's a minus.
I think of getting closed source projects to pay for open source code (or hire the dev who made the code or go open soure themselves) is a tool on the way to opening all code. Which is the same thing piracy does to the music industry.
My logic may be flawed but I suspect people want all of them to be totlly open, and yes they are willing to do some questionable things to get there.
Seeing that they can't play by their own rules is interesting, better yet is that I don't feel that rules apply to me in the pursuit of open information. Sounds bad, but I'm confident that what we're trying to accomplish is worthwhile and that the people who oppose this notion are btter organized than the OO community, and when we're done all of these actions will retroactively be legal.
Kind of like you putting music from CD's onto your MP3 player, that will be retroactively illegal.
Yes it's a very extreme attitude (commiting crimes to further a change in laws) but so are the lobbying groups and proposed laws that the RIAA is suggesting, if we don't fight now then when/if we do we'll barely be able to get back to where we are now.
The original Casmir force discovery is one of the most important elements in our understanding on whether the universe had enough energy to contract or not.
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Did I read this wrong, or is Torrentspy saying they are blocking U.S. users so those users can't incriminate themselves?
Why are they doing this?
TOR may or may not be secure but it's worrying for a website to say that it's not sure it's not compromised/subject to persecution.
You seem to be opposed to Union labour, are you opposed to a coalition of companies who agree to keep wages increadibly low?
If there were $2 an hour jobs people in the States would have to take them.
$20 an hour employees and union wages make them take their work seriously and make Wal-Mart pay more attention to their hiring policies, right now they throw the reproducing robots (people) at a problem and send their worst management to their stores using their good stuff to attack suppliers.
Walmart has made several owners billionaires (The waltons 6 guys with net worths of 16 Bln each), lets say they have 5,000,000 employees they could still give them $19000 more dollars a year each and keep the same profit margin.
While I'm sure each of those guys is as smart as a million Americans (So is the average Non-American apparently) and works as hard, perhaps they could be a bit generous.
Not to mention, people who get paid nothing really don't care about their work.
When Wal-Mart started they put a dollar value on an employee being happy and able to live a full and meaningful life pursuing their dreams, that number was $0.
Still better than the president, well unless you live in South America.
Al-Queda is about 1/50th the terrorist threat they faced in the soviet union, and with computer resource monitoring our chances of catching anyone through patterns are 10x better. Do the math and they were 100x more free.
Kind of funny really, when the illegal mexicans see what Chavez is doing for the people of Venezuela and what the U.S. is doing for them (keeping in mind that most mexicans don't accept the legitimacy of the lower 7-12 states) then we'll start to see some real terrorism, and considering the level of responsibility demonstrated in the U.S. real facism won't be too far behind.
"You might as well ask me if I believe in life beyond the reaches of the galaxy. Perhaps it exists, perhaps not, but either way it doesn't matter. And any position you might offer on the topic is nothing but speculation."
Apparently your earlier statement suggesting that the existence or non-existence of God doesn't affect you should be revised. This statement would seem to involve part of the thought process of the earlier decision.
At some point the existence of life outside of our galaxy may become an issue, don't pretend you can compartmentalize your thought processes because no-decision is in fact a decision.
You can learn that the other quark has collapsed, how is that not information?
Besides physics is trying to make everything (including energy as a concept) a feature of matter (though at such small sizes it's pretty hard to say where matter stops) with gravitons etc.
The speed of light was broken about 30-45 years ago by some guys who shot light through a bunch of charged cesium atoms, there are no universal constants.
If AMD and ATI were to require signed drivers through their CPU's we'd be mighty screwed in 5-10 years.
We are still on the brink and we'll never be totally secure in having free software.
The only thing keeping MS from really examining under the table deals with hardware manufacturers is the EU and to a lesser extent Linux's total ineptitude on the desktop.
Faster, Cheaper, Easier pick two...
I think Slashdot is starting to wonder why we need the first one anymore in gaming. Clearly there is excellent potential in current generation graphics that SIMPLY ARE NOT BEING USED BY DEVELOPERS.
Games like Doom 3 and FEAR have an enormous amount of features we're not finding in other recent games and it's becoming obvious that the programmers are getting lazy.
If we all waited 2 years on 8800GTS 320 level graphics the devs would be begging for new hardware to experiment with real ideas instead of complaining about all the features they "need" to implement but don't really want to, further we could avoid Vista for that duration better yet we could move the graphics industry away from their current stance which seems to be that to play modern games should require a $350 graphics card and return them to when $100-150 was perfectly adequate.
Some people would love for games to be the ultimate sign of leisure, $600 purchases with no practical value Precisely to demonstrate how wealthy and bored they are.
Some of us want fun (which does include graphics) and we'd prefer the industry to try and maintain some sanity.
ATI is in the toilet, and the 85-600 series shows what Nvidia is thinking about plain as day, the fact that they're upgrading a standard for which 2 games have come out means they're trying to increase the upgrade cycle, which is not something I think most people want.
Valve has been releasing the numbers on what people ACTUALLY play with and I hope the industry takes note and consumers use those numbers to shape the industry into something we want.
Agreed, it's a great solution for network booting systems but a terrible solution for single use systems (especially if you're a power user who installs a bunch of diffrent software).
The best way to do it is to monitor your networking, seriously if a bot slows you down enough you can kill the program, and having no listening services or apps that aren't secure means you're totally immune to outside control.
When I turn off BT on my computer my net connection should be dead, if it's not I find the service and kill it.
For me the best solution has always been using rare software (such as Opera, and Miranda) and HiJackThis to kill every service. Every month I run an AV tool, and trojan program. I find something wrong every 5-6 months and it's usually not particularly toxic.
Including windows?
If AMD has control of Chipsets, graphics drivers and CPU's they can custom compile for any hardware configuration and ensure that everything works properly.
This is what Linux has needed for a long time, custom built applications compiled for the system downloading them.
If they do this (offer the perfect kernel and drivers) for your hardware they'll attack the MAC cult hardware lockin space, while being based on an open operating system.
It may not stay open for long but it'll probably develop very strong market share.
Screw that, we should hold out for a better deal. I'm thinking music industry gone, totally free music everywhere.
Well I can stream a TV quality signal at about 340-480 kpbs so if they offered free wifi and a simple device (like the moded Xbox) to convert it to programming it would be cheaper and offer more viewer choice.
I'm not sure we can't have government provided wifi with the TV spectrum intact but apparently we're being told to believe that we can't have either (we'll probably end up with no free TV stations just as we run out of spectrum possibilities for universal internet access.
But damn it I want us to at least TRY to open the spectrum! (And yes I have cable and High-Speed internet... but I want people who don't to have the same capabilities because they should be DAMN cheap).
No I've redistributed where I choose to spend my money and what I choose to support, giving artists money (in the way we currently do) doesn't seem to produce better work.
Arguably the worst thing you can do to a modern artist (in terms of having them create brilliant future works) is give them financial success.
By spending money on knock offs you create brands and companies willing to innovate, both good things.
Fortunately I don't need to produce music, there are 6 billion people in the world, at least 5-10 million of them (1/1000) make art from their love of it, there will always be free music/movies/paintings etc. and yes I'd like to kill the root of the industry that forces conformity on artists and audiences alike.
Can you name that brand again please?
Googling ilo doesn't turn up anything.
By any measure of beneficence towards the population China is doing rather well, their economy is quickly outstripping every other nation and quality of life is skyrocketing.
Considering that the state of China 50 years ago could be compared to some countries in Central Africa and the poorer counties in South America and you'd have to agree their level of progress is increadible.
I think the U.S. is showing that freedom hasn't been a valid metric of a society in a while.
Whether China will be able to transition from a developing economy to a successful form of government is still undecided but I imagine it'll probably happen seamlessly.
Democracies seem to be lying to their people an awful lot these days, kudos to the sucessful... especially if they don't have to lie to get something done.
You know they're gonna solve that before we have kids.
:(
Tiny Violin: Poor kids never know the simple pleasure of the laser
Was this filesystem included BECAUSE it was supposed to deal with Flash? In that case job poorly done?
:P
I guess this will be the last Linux filesystem effort before they move on to Flash.
Dude this thing might last 50 years!
I think that there is some truly terrible music out there, however I also think there is quite a bit of music with something to say and artistic themes to convey.
:( The fact that it inverses the ability of poor and rich artists to support themselves on few albumn sales isn't a plus, it's a minus.
This pricing scheme seems to be trying to say all music is equal, when it's clearly not.
Slashdotters think it's fine right now because the mainstream is so terrible compared to the eclectic tastes we've developed through piracy, but someday the industry might catch up.
This system doesn't promote good music any better than the older one did
I think of getting closed source projects to pay for open source code (or hire the dev who made the code or go open soure themselves) is a tool on the way to opening all code. Which is the same thing piracy does to the music industry.
My logic may be flawed but I suspect people want all of them to be totlly open, and yes they are willing to do some questionable things to get there.
Seeing that they can't play by their own rules is interesting, better yet is that I don't feel that rules apply to me in the pursuit of open information. Sounds bad, but I'm confident that what we're trying to accomplish is worthwhile and that the people who oppose this notion are btter organized than the OO community, and when we're done all of these actions will retroactively be legal.
Kind of like you putting music from CD's onto your MP3 player, that will be retroactively illegal.
Yes it's a very extreme attitude (commiting crimes to further a change in laws) but so are the lobbying groups and proposed laws that the RIAA is suggesting, if we don't fight now then when/if we do we'll barely be able to get back to where we are now.
If the Casmir force succumbs to the same effects produced on light by a lense wouldn't it be possible to focus it?
Very strong nano-forces FTW!
The original Casmir force discovery is one of the most important elements in our understanding on whether the universe had enough energy to contract or not.
reciprocity is a bad word for girls to know?
"Mercury's pretty much buggered."
By Galacticus' lesser known brother?
Actually I don't have any of those things, I live in Canada.
I'm sure it's a coincidence that we also have fewer libertarians, but cause and effect is so much FUN!