It seems that even Slashdot doesn't understand the First Amendment either. The Bill of Rights was written as an organic document. Each amendment ties into and relates to every other, and to focus on just one amendment to the exclusivity of every other is like trying to make cookies by just using flour. Also, the meanings of each individual amendment and the Bill of Rights as a whole drastically changed with the 14th Amendment and Incorporation. Unfortunately, when so many are ignorant of any individual amendments, you can't expect most anyone to understand the Bill of Rights as whole, or pre and post-Reconstruction understanding of such.
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If this thing is only going to be sold to the government, you can bet it will get to a fraction of its intendend recepient and costs ten times as much. The reason the developing world is still developing is because of the government for god's sake. Who ever heard of a government, especially of a developing country, that wasn't up to its eyeballs in corruption and graft? The only people who stand to benefit from this are government cronies and the black market.
...does this represent a major philosophical shift for the chipmaker, or are they just leaping upon the nearest bandwagon in pursuit of a few extra bucks?"
Keep in mind here Intel is a business enterprise; its mission is to generate a positive rate of return for its stockholders and pay its employees, not to be PhDs in philosophy who are capable of arguing the difference in the philophical foundations between Kant and Satre. The fact that Intel is broadening its Linux support is commendable, but is a decision based on the belief that it would enable Intel to sell more product to a broader market, not because it unconditionally supports Linux. Intel adopted AMD's x86-64 instruction set to remain competitive in the market, not because it's AMD's new best friend. Philosophy is mostly in the realm of think-tanks, non-profit organizations, and the chronically unemployed. Corporations implement ideas they believe will be profitable; they don't create entire philosophical frameworks.
I'm sorry, but these people sound like complete idiots who need a computing appliance, not a completed computer. This reminds me of that rash of "sudden acceleration" stories in the late 80s or early 90s that had drivers complaining their cars where just randomly and without their input ramming into things. It turned out after investigation that these people were wildly incompetent drivers, and couldn't control what their feet were doing. If you aren't willing to take responsibility for using a tool, you're obviously not well adapted to the enivornment and should be removed from the gene pool to prevent the spread of stupid user syndrome.
Slashdot? Verify? Could this be the start of a new policy of accurate and responsible reporting at Slashdot? Maybe the CBS Report put things in perspective for them.
Or by "Napster", did Nom du Keyboard mean something that a law student wouldn't dare touch for fear of getting a finding of liability for copyright infringement on his permanent record?
A future lawyer? Breaking the law? Oh, that would never happen, especially as we all know how past and present lawyers are, without exception, such outstanding and productive members of society.
My guess for for the #1 innovation in the past 25 years is so-called "Reaganomics" (really just economics as understood since at least the 18th century). Sorry Slashdot, it won't be you.
"Does this mean AOL is trying to become something which it is not?"
Do you mean profitable? Seriously though, AOL has lost it's main reason to exist; massive amounts of newbies who are willing to use dial-up. Many of these newbies have, technologically speaking, grown up, and dial-up isn't desirable compared to broadband for most regions and applications. Any business that expects to survive long-term must constantly adapt to consumer preferences, which necessitates that the business constantly reinvent itself to pursue new markets and opportunities, and extricate itself from unprofitable and dying markets. Or we could all be driving Ford Model As and using behemoth vacuum tube-based computers.
Excellent question. Copying off of general concepts is acceptable, but copying off my work identically is criminal. For instance, Microsoft copying the general idea of the Macintosh OS from Apple who copied the idea from PARC or Ford copying off the general idea of hybrid vehicles from Honda or Toyota is fine (and whoever Honda or Toyota got the idea from and/or licenced the technology), but you can't steal the blueprints and create an exact copy of their product, or create a similiar or identical looking product and attempt to pass it off as the original. Everyone is free to market and sell a better mousetrap, but you can't just pump out replicas of the original. If you feel that for whatever reason you can't create a suitable or improved substition, you can always try licencing.
If I made a product that I put effort and thought into, and I could charge $100 for each, is it lawful if someone in another nation can steal my work and produce straight copies for $10 each, thereby bypassing the entire R&D costs, of which I'm stuck paying for myself as well as freeloaders? Other nations should not be havens for those who engage in the theft of other people's property. Would you argue against all extradition treaties as well?
I don't get it. Is this about coffee, lattes, or both? These articles are writtem as if it makes sense to interchange sedan with dump-truck willy nilly.
"...truely take advantage of the PCI Express bus by using system RAM to store textures."
Isn't this just a so-called feature of the AGP spec originally that nearly no one used because performance sucked and it was cheaper to just place the RAM onboard to begin with?
I'm curious to know what each 250 supplement is, and in what dosage, as well as what his "certain diet" consists of. I've never found his research to be more than slightly off, so more data on this would be helpful. As for those who consider this guy to be some sort of nutcase, yes, I can see how one interview can give that impression. However, I would stress the need do more research and investigation before drawing a conclusion from a single datapoint, which is never good science.
Work on the ppc kernel was presumably more or less abandoned since NT4 (which was, what, 11 years ago?).
Windows NT 4.0 released 1996. Currently 2004. 2004 - 1996 not equal to 11. 2004 - 1996 = 8. You're off by a rather significant percentage. Are you sure you're a techie? Should be able to do uber-basic math, at least.
No, college refers exclusively to undgraduate schools. University tends to be used for graduate schools, but may occasionally be used for undergraduate as well. No offense, but it's not he who has an apparent deficieny in the English langauge.
I think you mean a 64-bit MS OS. Any fully 32-bit OS will work fine with the AMD64 line. I don't think the AMD64 IA supports 16-bit code, but I'm not certain, as I've located conflicting information on it. You can always download the beta of Windows XP 64-bit for AMD64, but it will expire within a set period, of course.
It's a collection of tech fanatics who don't understand business at all.
Well, I am in IT, and also a Finance major, with a rather solid grounding in economics. For the majority of those who post though, you're probably right. Hell, you could say many of them are tech fanatics who don't even know what they're talking about techwise either. That is why we have mods and modpoints, which while far from perfect, are at least an attempt to rein in the nutters.
Because Apple uses their software to sell their hardware...
Uh-oh...that sounds like bundling...bet MS could give some tips to help Apple out on the legalities of that one.
Please note I am a believer in economic freedom, so please no replies about how when MS does action X, it's evil, but if someone else does action X, it's perfectly fine. Talk about arbitrary.
First, let my congratulate you on being the first 2004 Presidential candidate to be interviewed on Slashdot. I have been a Libertarian for perhaps 5 or so years now, and this will be the first Presidential election I will be old enough to vote in (missed the last by a hair). Now, I am in full agreement with most of the Libertarian National Campaign Platform, but I am most concerned with its positions on the War on Terrorists and our border policy. In my opinion, unilateral disengangment from the War on Terrorists will damage our strong alliances among the free nations who support freedom and democracy, as well as making us more vulnerable to terrorist attack. The terrorists have made it clear time and time again that they will not be satisfied if we give in to their demands (Spain), and that their goal is to destroy freedom worldwide, implementing an Islamist theocratic empire. The Libertarian Party cannot afford to be seen as an appeaser in World War IV, when the most important issue on the minds of voters is the War on Terrorists (ie World War IV). How do you propose to defend the United States' interests when the party currently shows no desire to defend them beyond our borders? Regarding our borders, will you mobilize the National Guard to defend the nation against illegeal aliens and terrorist infiltrators, or will you pursue a free border policy that is even worse than President Bush's illegal alien amnesty plan? I will be voting Libertarian for US Senate and House, but unless you are able to convince this Libertarian you are credible as Commander-in-Chief, I will be forced to vote for President Bush.
Great sci-fi, but it doesn't belong anywhere in the Trek timeline.
It's not. It's an alternate timeline. We hope.
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You know, here, in the US, the subnotebooks never really took off as far as I can tell. I see mostly medium-sized to desktop replacement size notebooks. The only time I've seen a subnotebook was at those chain stores. Are there any Slashdotter's in the US who use or have seen a good number of subnotebooks? Are there Slashdotters from other countries who believe subnotebooks are much more prevalent than they appear to be here?
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It seems that even Slashdot doesn't understand the First Amendment either. The Bill of Rights was written as an organic document. Each amendment ties into and relates to every other, and to focus on just one amendment to the exclusivity of every other is like trying to make cookies by just using flour. Also, the meanings of each individual amendment and the Bill of Rights as a whole drastically changed with the 14th Amendment and Incorporation. Unfortunately, when so many are ignorant of any individual amendments, you can't expect most anyone to understand the Bill of Rights as whole, or pre and post-Reconstruction understanding of such.
If this thing is only going to be sold to the government, you can bet it will get to a fraction of its intendend recepient and costs ten times as much. The reason the developing world is still developing is because of the government for god's sake. Who ever heard of a government, especially of a developing country, that wasn't up to its eyeballs in corruption and graft? The only people who stand to benefit from this are government cronies and the black market.
Keep in mind here Intel is a business enterprise; its mission is to generate a positive rate of return for its stockholders and pay its employees, not to be PhDs in philosophy who are capable of arguing the difference in the philophical foundations between Kant and Satre. The fact that Intel is broadening its Linux support is commendable, but is a decision based on the belief that it would enable Intel to sell more product to a broader market, not because it unconditionally supports Linux. Intel adopted AMD's x86-64 instruction set to remain competitive in the market, not because it's AMD's new best friend. Philosophy is mostly in the realm of think-tanks, non-profit organizations, and the chronically unemployed. Corporations implement ideas they believe will be profitable; they don't create entire philosophical frameworks.
I'm sorry, but these people sound like complete idiots who need a computing appliance, not a completed computer. This reminds me of that rash of "sudden acceleration" stories in the late 80s or early 90s that had drivers complaining their cars where just randomly and without their input ramming into things. It turned out after investigation that these people were wildly incompetent drivers, and couldn't control what their feet were doing. If you aren't willing to take responsibility for using a tool, you're obviously not well adapted to the enivornment and should be removed from the gene pool to prevent the spread of stupid user syndrome.
Slashdot? Verify? Could this be the start of a new policy of accurate and responsible reporting at Slashdot? Maybe the CBS Report put things in perspective for them.
A future lawyer? Breaking the law? Oh, that would never happen, especially as we all know how past and present lawyers are, without exception, such outstanding and productive members of society.
My guess for for the #1 innovation in the past 25 years is so-called "Reaganomics" (really just economics as understood since at least the 18th century). Sorry Slashdot, it won't be you.
"Does this mean AOL is trying to become something which it is not?" Do you mean profitable? Seriously though, AOL has lost it's main reason to exist; massive amounts of newbies who are willing to use dial-up. Many of these newbies have, technologically speaking, grown up, and dial-up isn't desirable compared to broadband for most regions and applications. Any business that expects to survive long-term must constantly adapt to consumer preferences, which necessitates that the business constantly reinvent itself to pursue new markets and opportunities, and extricate itself from unprofitable and dying markets. Or we could all be driving Ford Model As and using behemoth vacuum tube-based computers.
Excellent question. Copying off of general concepts is acceptable, but copying off my work identically is criminal. For instance, Microsoft copying the general idea of the Macintosh OS from Apple who copied the idea from PARC or Ford copying off the general idea of hybrid vehicles from Honda or Toyota is fine (and whoever Honda or Toyota got the idea from and/or licenced the technology), but you can't steal the blueprints and create an exact copy of their product, or create a similiar or identical looking product and attempt to pass it off as the original. Everyone is free to market and sell a better mousetrap, but you can't just pump out replicas of the original. If you feel that for whatever reason you can't create a suitable or improved substition, you can always try licencing.
If I made a product that I put effort and thought into, and I could charge $100 for each, is it lawful if someone in another nation can steal my work and produce straight copies for $10 each, thereby bypassing the entire R&D costs, of which I'm stuck paying for myself as well as freeloaders? Other nations should not be havens for those who engage in the theft of other people's property. Would you argue against all extradition treaties as well?
I don't get it. Is this about coffee, lattes, or both? These articles are writtem as if it makes sense to interchange sedan with dump-truck willy nilly.
Isn't this just a so-called feature of the AGP spec originally that nearly no one used because performance sucked and it was cheaper to just place the RAM onboard to begin with?
Well, considering that the last x86 chip generation to run straight x86 code without emulation was the Pentium/Pentium MMX line...
I'm curious to know what each 250 supplement is, and in what dosage, as well as what his "certain diet" consists of. I've never found his research to be more than slightly off, so more data on this would be helpful. As for those who consider this guy to be some sort of nutcase, yes, I can see how one interview can give that impression. However, I would stress the need do more research and investigation before drawing a conclusion from a single datapoint, which is never good science.
Windows NT 4.0 released 1996. Currently 2004. 2004 - 1996 not equal to 11. 2004 - 1996 = 8. You're off by a rather significant percentage. Are you sure you're a techie? Should be able to do uber-basic math, at least.
No, college refers exclusively to undgraduate schools. University tends to be used for graduate schools, but may occasionally be used for undergraduate as well. No offense, but it's not he who has an apparent deficieny in the English langauge.
I think you mean a 64-bit MS OS. Any fully 32-bit OS will work fine with the AMD64 line. I don't think the AMD64 IA supports 16-bit code, but I'm not certain, as I've located conflicting information on it. You can always download the beta of Windows XP 64-bit for AMD64, but it will expire within a set period, of course.
Well, I am in IT, and also a Finance major, with a rather solid grounding in economics. For the majority of those who post though, you're probably right. Hell, you could say many of them are tech fanatics who don't even know what they're talking about techwise either. That is why we have mods and modpoints, which while far from perfect, are at least an attempt to rein in the nutters.
Uh-oh...that sounds like bundling...bet MS could give some tips to help Apple out on the legalities of that one.
Please note I am a believer in economic freedom, so please no replies about how when MS does action X, it's evil, but if someone else does action X, it's perfectly fine. Talk about arbitrary.
This isn't the 80s anymore. Apple is a hardware AND software company. The arguments over it being one or the other is long dead.
Windows > IE > Alexa. Also, if you find an OS with no security holes, accidental or otherwise, maybe you should notify someone.
First, let my congratulate you on being the first 2004 Presidential candidate to be interviewed on Slashdot. I have been a Libertarian for perhaps 5 or so years now, and this will be the first Presidential election I will be old enough to vote in (missed the last by a hair). Now, I am in full agreement with most of the Libertarian National Campaign Platform, but I am most concerned with its positions on the War on Terrorists and our border policy. In my opinion, unilateral disengangment from the War on Terrorists will damage our strong alliances among the free nations who support freedom and democracy, as well as making us more vulnerable to terrorist attack. The terrorists have made it clear time and time again that they will not be satisfied if we give in to their demands (Spain), and that their goal is to destroy freedom worldwide, implementing an Islamist theocratic empire. The Libertarian Party cannot afford to be seen as an appeaser in World War IV, when the most important issue on the minds of voters is the War on Terrorists (ie World War IV). How do you propose to defend the United States' interests when the party currently shows no desire to defend them beyond our borders? Regarding our borders, will you mobilize the National Guard to defend the nation against illegeal aliens and terrorist infiltrators, or will you pursue a free border policy that is even worse than President Bush's illegal alien amnesty plan? I will be voting Libertarian for US Senate and House, but unless you are able to convince this Libertarian you are credible as Commander-in-Chief, I will be forced to vote for President Bush.
Sincerely, MSTCrow5429
That would be a horribly depressing show. We know they're all going to die anyways. And who is going to get attached to a doomed crew?
It's not. It's an alternate timeline. We hope.
You know, here, in the US, the subnotebooks never really took off as far as I can tell. I see mostly medium-sized to desktop replacement size notebooks. The only time I've seen a subnotebook was at those chain stores. Are there any Slashdotter's in the US who use or have seen a good number of subnotebooks? Are there Slashdotters from other countries who believe subnotebooks are much more prevalent than they appear to be here?