"[...]Johnny had to live with the knowledge that were it not for some quirk of fate, his parents wouldn't have had him."
Duh. This is true for every single child born. If it wasn't for some quirk of fate, my parents would never have met. If it wasn't for some quirk of fate, the "sperm that became me" would have missed its target. If it wasn't for some quirk of fate, I might have died from a heart disease soon after I was born...
I think it's safe to say that as long as the parents actually love little Johnny, the psychological impact will be negligible.
Speaking of analogies, the best one I've heard is that launching a rocket into space is much like placing a destroyer-class vessel vertically on top of a big pile of explosives, and then design the explosion so that the ship stays balanced throughout the launch, as well as preventing damage to any of the delicate control systems (AKA humans:).
I think you're still haven't "lowered" yourself to the consumers level here. IMHO most members of the Sixpack family won't notice the difference between a Pentium at 600MHz and one at 1GHz. The vast majority will just go for the Gigahertz label at a good price, and then get a pleasant surprise from the extended battery life that Crusoe notebooks are likely to be sporting.
I think that the option should still be there, but most people doesn't seem to realize how web advertising works. The web page owners get paid per downloaded ad. This means that when you surf without adblocking, you are generating revenues (albeit small ones) for the web page owners. When you block ads, the ad images are not downloaded, and the web page owners get no money.
This is NOT meant as a flame! Except the part in paranthesis! Don't read that!
I think that if he seems to believe that the Internet is MS domain, he will not even think of giving Apple any credit. And I wouldn't say that Mr. Gates is "following" Apple today (while the Apple Macintosh certainly introduced the modern GUI to the world, Apple hasn't invented/implemented anything revolutionary since). Bill Gates Microsoft has not arrived to it's current position by it's extraordinary inventiveness, but in my book neither has Apple.
Just my two rotten sausage öre. (Bwa-ha ha-ha ha-ha ha-ha!) -- Donate food with your index finger!
After reading the conclusion of this text, I feel that the author has a valid message. It also seems to me that he has chosen CatB as the hook from which to hang his message. It's a good hook, well lit and right at eye-level for a lot of people. Unfortunately, he has chosen a way that we have seen a lot of authors go down recently -- slam the Linux community and watch what comes out. Constructively written, this could have been very informative, and I urge the author to try to formulate his thoughts in this manner. -- Donate food with your index finger!
The IDG article actually says (translated as careful as I can):
"Even though [the 17-year old] is now acquitted it is possible that he is guilty to the charge of `assisting an offense against the copyright law'. But as he was not tried for this crime he is freed."
Maybe not beautifully translated, but perhaps somewhat clarifying. It seems to me that this underlines that he was not tried for this charge, and therefore we can't really tell wether or not he was guilty.
BTW: An IFPI lawyer claims that "the court has not properly understood the technical details of deep-linking etc." (My free interpretation, just heard this on the radio).
Dagens Nyheter ("The Daily News", Swedens largest morning paper) has been covering this story quite good in their net edition. It's also been covered in P3 (Public radio channel).
``We used a set of Intel's own performance tests published on their web site.''
Hmm? Can't be an intel test suite running on a G4... and ``32 tap X 1024 dim. FIR Filter (bFir)'' doesn't mean anything to me. But what's this?
``Based on BYTEmark integer index processor scores.''
Pretty small font. Pretty much at the bottom of the page. Now I might be missing something here... But these benchmarks seems to be a couple of integer algorithms. My points regarding this are:
Only integer performance is shown. That means there is no telling what for example 3D rendering performance will be.
These tests were not done on Intels home turf, which is implied on the G4 page. Apple could easily optimise these algorithms for the G4.
I don't doubt that the G4 is damn fast, but Apple seems to have a preference for beautifying the truth somewhat in these press releases.
...nitpick, but do you think that a drug dealer would use an encryption application that had a backdoor? Encryption technology is not very hard to implement, you know (we've done a simple RSA implementation in ``College'' (the Swedish equivalent), and it was just a couple of lines in a math program).
Really can't figure out what the dropoff between 40-something and 20-something women in the field is all about.
Please tell me you're being sarcastic here... No? Children. And additionally, husbands who have no intention of taking their share of raising their children.
Filtering software is not inherently evil, but when it's enforced on others by someone who doesn't realise that all filtering software (AFAIK) is flawed, it becomes a problem. And none of the makers of filtering software will educate anyone on this, because that would obviously make their software look bad. Open Source Filtering Software, anyone? It's an ugly job, but someone might have to do it...;)
Also, (and this isn't for you, perhaps for other parts of the slashdot readers) don't push parents into buying computers for their children! It's not essential for any child to jump onto the latest media form, in this case the internet. I don't believe that owning a computer as a child automatically gives you the intelligence to be able to use a computer for a better purpose and to a better result than someone with real intelligence. Such as someone that has been raised without a computer but with someone who knows how to stimulate their intellect.
Ultimately, it all boils down to the fact that there are no magic bullets when it comes to parenting.
(I've gotta go now, but I hope that I haven't left anything out that makes this hard to understand.)
This type of Media Stunts(tm) have no ``real industry value''. It just takes a couple of losers with DoS scripts to completely wreck the comparison, and there seems to be pretty many of that kind around... I wouldn't be surprised if someone at M$ could predict this outcome, only to be trampled by marketoids.
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Qt is a cross-platform toolkit. It runs on *nix, X-less *nix, MS Windows and Apple Macintosh.
Now, explain to me how you would go about building a cross-platform toolkit "on top of X".
LED != LCD
// for that matter
Science_mag.find( "SLED" ) == -1;
An LED laptop screen would be interesting, though. Just not very good resolution-wise.
"[...]Johnny had to live with the knowledge that were it not for some quirk of fate, his parents wouldn't have had him."
Duh. This is true for every single child born. If it wasn't for some quirk of fate, my parents would never have met. If it wasn't for some quirk of fate, the "sperm that became me" would have missed its target. If it wasn't for some quirk of fate, I might have died from a heart disease soon after I was born...
I think it's safe to say that as long as the parents actually love little Johnny, the psychological impact will be negligible.
It's supposed to read
throwing up [h]is cake on IIS
Speaking of analogies, the best one I've heard is that launching a rocket into space is much like placing a destroyer-class vessel vertically on top of a big pile of explosives, and then design the explosion so that the ship stays balanced throughout the launch, as well as preventing damage to any of the delicate control systems (AKA humans :).
I think you're still haven't "lowered" yourself to the consumers level here. IMHO most members of the Sixpack family won't notice the difference between a Pentium at 600MHz and one at 1GHz. The vast majority will just go for the Gigahertz label at a good price, and then get a pleasant surprise from the extended battery life that Crusoe notebooks are likely to be sporting.
I think that the option should still be there, but most people doesn't seem to realize how web advertising works. The web page owners get paid per downloaded ad. This means that when you surf without adblocking, you are generating revenues (albeit small ones) for the web page owners. When you block ads, the ad images are not downloaded, and the web page owners get no money.
Ah! But as I am not satisfied with this bloated, POS, ancient version, I (ab)use the GPL to produce the following fork:
#include
using std::cout;
int main()
{
cout }
I would also like to take this opportunity to childishly taunt you:
Neer, ner!
Eloquently put, now where are my moderator points?
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Donate food with your index finger!
This is NOT meant as a flame! Except the part in paranthesis! Don't read that!
I think that if he seems to believe that the Internet is MS domain, he will not even think of giving Apple any credit. And I wouldn't say that Mr. Gates is "following" Apple today (while the Apple Macintosh certainly introduced the modern GUI to the world, Apple hasn't invented/implemented anything revolutionary since).
Bill Gates Microsoft has not arrived to it's current position by it's extraordinary inventiveness, but in my book neither has Apple.
Just my two rotten sausage öre.
(Bwa-ha ha-ha ha-ha ha-ha!)
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Donate food with your index finger!
The Chemical Brothers "dig your own hole" works just as well as caffeine for me...
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Donate food with your index finger!
After reading the conclusion of this text, I feel that the author has a valid message. It also seems to me that he has chosen CatB as the hook from which to hang his message.
It's a good hook, well lit and right at eye-level for a lot of people.
Unfortunately, he has chosen a way that we have seen a lot of authors go down recently -- slam the Linux community and watch what comes out. Constructively written, this could have been very informative, and I urge the author to try to formulate his thoughts in this manner.
--
Donate food with your index finger!
The IDG article actually says (translated as careful as I can):
"Even though [the 17-year old] is now acquitted it is possible that he is guilty to the charge of `assisting an offense against the copyright law'. But as he was not tried for this crime he is freed."
Maybe not beautifully translated, but perhaps somewhat clarifying. It seems to me that this underlines that he was not tried for this charge, and therefore we can't really tell wether or not he was guilty.
BTW: An IFPI lawyer claims that "the court has not properly understood the technical details of deep-linking etc." (My free interpretation, just heard this on the radio).
Dagens Nyheter ("The Daily News", Swedens largest morning paper) has been covering this story quite good in their net edition. It's also been covered in P3 (Public radio channel).
Vem fan startade den här "Bork bork bork!"-grejen?
Hmm? Can't be an intel test suite running on a G4... and ``32 tap X 1024 dim. FIR Filter (bFir)'' doesn't mean anything to me. But what's this?
``Based on BYTEmark integer index processor scores.''
Pretty small font. Pretty much at the bottom of the page. Now I might be missing something here...
But these benchmarks seems to be a couple of integer algorithms. My points regarding this are:
I don't doubt that the G4 is damn fast, but Apple seems to have a preference for beautifying the truth somewhat in these press releases.
Why does the coward say 'nuff said? It's pretty clear that when you say ``Quake sucks'' people are going to respond.
What a depressing dumbness...
...nitpick, but do you think that a drug dealer would use an encryption application that had a backdoor? Encryption technology is not very hard to implement, you know (we've done a simple RSA implementation in ``College'' (the Swedish equivalent), and it was just a couple of lines in a math program).
Read the tests. Intel can't touch the Athlon.
Really can't figure out what the dropoff between 40-something and 20-something women in the field is all about.
Please tell me you're being sarcastic here...
No? Children. And additionally, husbands who have no intention of taking their share of raising their children.
There's a couple of points I wanted to make:
;)
Filtering software is not inherently evil, but when it's enforced on others by someone who doesn't realise that all filtering software (AFAIK) is flawed, it becomes a problem. And none of the makers of filtering software will educate anyone on this, because that would obviously make their software look bad.
Open Source Filtering Software, anyone? It's an ugly job, but someone might have to do it...
Also, (and this isn't for you, perhaps for other parts of the slashdot readers) don't push parents into buying computers for their children! It's not essential for any child to jump onto the latest media form, in this case the internet. I don't believe that owning a computer as a child automatically gives you the intelligence to be able to use a computer for a better purpose and to a better result than someone with real intelligence. Such as someone that has been raised without a computer but with someone who knows how to stimulate their intellect.
Ultimately, it all boils down to the fact that there are no magic bullets when it comes to parenting.
(I've gotta go now, but I hope that I haven't left anything out that makes this hard to understand.)
Anders.
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This type of Media Stunts(tm) have no ``real industry value''. It just takes a couple of losers with DoS scripts to completely wreck the comparison, and there seems to be pretty many of that kind around...
I wouldn't be surprised if someone at M$ could predict this outcome, only to be trampled by marketoids.
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Methinks they are running out of excuses for all that downtime...
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The problem lies in the insane ratings system, not in the fact that the system is being carried out.
Focus, you must focus...
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Yada yada yada...
OK, he's done. Let's bash some Christians!
God damn, they gonna moderate me down for this one...
Oh well.
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