There really is no sense to this "console war" thing. PC vs. Mac is a viable religious debate, because Macs cost thousands upon thousands of dollars unless you want a low-end eMac. But with game consoles costing $129 and $149 (OMG TOO AMERICAN-CENTRIC) is it really a big deal anymore to own all three? You can buy all of them with one week's paycheck, if you make a good salary. If you play enough games on each to justify the initial cost of the console, it really shouldn't be a big deal.
That's a great idea. Now, instead of 5 candidates spamming me with "political speech", I'll get 500 because anyone now that anyone can get elected, they can all run and they'll all campaign with spam.
Spam as a campaign tool, being deregulated, is also not required to have the same truth content that the FCC would require in print, radio, or television media. This is what some would call a Bad Thing. George W. Bush sending 250,000,000 emails to everyone in America outlining his major strides forward in civil liberties, abolishing slavery and putting an end to Prohibition is not my idea of "political speech." Political speech can be free, like any other speech, but when it's nothing but lies and slander (look at the current state of spam), then it becomes too free.
Feel free to sign up for as many mailing lists as you want but leave my mailbox alone. I get pissed off enough by television commercials mudslinging. I don't need a virtual war being waged in my inbox.
I think XFree has been lacking a lot of things for a long time, like true alpha blending between windows and such. Aside from things like the Render extension, this is a project that really hasn't gone much of anywhere in several years. Getting the features we need into the window system itself would position Linux much more prominently on the desktop.
I just realized that I left out one strikingly important detail on this matter:
These pressure groups are not content to meddle only with our childrens' educations, but also with their health. If you want to see how deep the bullshit descends, take a look at the food pyramid. I'm certain most of you are aware that years ago, the most commonly-taught diet-balancing scheme changed from a fair balance of the four food groups to a pyramid, consisting of mostly grains. Do you know why this is?
Grain is considered a "farmers' diet"; the food pyramid was concocted because leftist sensitivity committees ordained that impoverished (I'm sorry... that's a dirty word... "disadvantaged") children cannot afford expensive meats. Additionally, since many on the left are also vegetarian or vegan, they will, like all other pressure groups, push their own agendas through subversive means such as educational textbooks. The importance of meat is downplayed, often being intentionally portrayed as much less healthy than it really is.
The real problem with this is that most people's grain consumption comes from processed grains rather than whole ones. Processed carbohydrates, such as white bread, contain little nutritional value but reasonable caloric content. Many people will remember the food pyramid and continue to eat these in excess, and this will do nothing but contribute to our nation's already rampant obesity problem.
This isn't a problem with computers: the fault lies entirely with the American educational system, and specifically with radical minority-centric pressure groups from the left.
The past 30 years or so have been a unique time for education. Over this period, the focus of teaching in schools has not been actual facts or skills. Pressure groups from the left have modified the curriculum in many ways to make the focus of education "multiculturalism" and "critical thinking" rather than the teaching of facts and skills. There are many reasons for this; however, some are subversive and rather reminiscient of Vonnegut. I'm sure you've read the story of Harrison Bergeron in early high school. This is much like what our educational system has become. In catering to minority students in underfunded urban environments, the schooling system has cut everyone's education down to their level, because overtly stating that impoverished children are, by definition, inferior academically, is "elitist," in addition to the obviously inherent racism.
You need look no further than the selections outlined in most districts' literature curriculums to understand the depth of this issue. Whereas previously, many classical English writers would be used to populate the curriculum. A strong sampling of English writers have been dismissed by the left as "Eurocentric," and in modern times the typical literature curriculum consists nearly fifty percent or more of works by minority authors such as Maya Angelou, and most of these will have a strongly either anti-European or pro-diversity message. This is all good and well, but literature is literature, right? Guess what: this multiculturalism has found its way into every facet of American education. Some math textbooks will detail African American achievements for no reason. And history textbooks will often completely distort the truth in favor of minorities, choosing to omit facts that do not lean in their agenda's favor; how many people do you know who are fully aware that Africa actively engaged in a slave trade with the Middle East before those dastardly Europeans showed up? But knowledge is no longer a requirement either for history. Standardized tests, like the New York State Regents Examinations, rely upon "document-based questions" and graphs in which only several pieces of outside information even need to be presented (I believe 2 pieces of outside information is required for a 5/5 score). This is to stress "critical thinking" and knowledge is a bias. Harrison Bergeron indeed.
Additionally, content censorship from the left prevents exposure to any unclean ideals. Birthday cake cannot be eaten in a story about a party because cake is not nutritious. Witches cannot be mentioned because they may offend children with Christian sensibilities. Would children rather read about witches and birthday parties and cake, or ocean currents and the migration paths of sea turtles? Sensitivity and bias committees have ruined the American educational system, and when our children are too dumb to vote, there will be no turning back. The truth is that school has now become so banal, boring, and focusless that there really is no wondering why students are caring less and less.
Many of the drawing functions in the GDI+ graphics library in Windows 2000/XP have already been offloaded to the GPU (ever try moving translucent windows around? It's smooth.). There's really not that much left to be done.
There are also third-party utilities (Stardock WindowFX, etc.) that create all sorts of nifty transitions, shadows, blending, etc. that are handled by the graphics device.
$350k/year won't really get you very far at all for a well-staffed IT department. You're going to end up paying out the nose for any systems administrator who specifically addresses critical problems, as opposed to the more mundane IT staff who may deploy patches, ensure systems are running properly and not experiencing memory leaks, random errors, etc. Assume that you're paying $70,000 for a Linux sysadmin who's experienced enough to handle all the problems that none of the other guys can manage on their own (which is the entire point of the pay support in the first place). You can hire five of these people. Splitting them into 24/7 support (3 shifts, plus weekends), you essentially have one person at any given time managing 500 servers ($350,000 divided by $700, the cost of a Red Hat Enterprise ES license).
Outsourcing is really a much better option than hiring these people.
True, but Verizon's entire fiber network was down in the Northeast. You'd be really lucky to get online even if your computer had power from a generator.
Somehow I get the feeling that if you pissed SCO off enough by doing that, they would subpoena your computer under a provision of the DMCA. You are, after all, running "their" unlicensed and copyrighted IP.
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You can tell how much they're against copyrights by how they steal Gamespot's layout without batting an eyelash.
There really is no sense to this "console war" thing. PC vs. Mac is a viable religious debate, because Macs cost thousands upon thousands of dollars unless you want a low-end eMac. But with game consoles costing $129 and $149 (OMG TOO AMERICAN-CENTRIC) is it really a big deal anymore to own all three? You can buy all of them with one week's paycheck, if you make a good salary. If you play enough games on each to justify the initial cost of the console, it really shouldn't be a big deal.
That's a great idea. Now, instead of 5 candidates spamming me with "political speech", I'll get 500 because anyone now that anyone can get elected, they can all run and they'll all campaign with spam.
Spam as a campaign tool, being deregulated, is also not required to have the same truth content that the FCC would require in print, radio, or television media. This is what some would call a Bad Thing. George W. Bush sending 250,000,000 emails to everyone in America outlining his major strides forward in civil liberties, abolishing slavery and putting an end to Prohibition is not my idea of "political speech." Political speech can be free, like any other speech, but when it's nothing but lies and slander (look at the current state of spam), then it becomes too free.
Feel free to sign up for as many mailing lists as you want but leave my mailbox alone. I get pissed off enough by television commercials mudslinging. I don't need a virtual war being waged in my inbox.
You strive to set a dangerous precedent.
Would you rather BE goatse?
If so, would you rather be the giver, the taker, or the loopback?
I think Bob Graham is a better candidate anyway.
<OldJewishLady> Now this is just nonsense.
I think XFree has been lacking a lot of things for a long time, like true alpha blending between windows and such. Aside from things like the Render extension, this is a project that really hasn't gone much of anywhere in several years. Getting the features we need into the window system itself would position Linux much more prominently on the desktop.
It's probably better than employing Dick Trickle.
Am I the only person who cracked up when I read this?
I just realized that I left out one strikingly important detail on this matter:
These pressure groups are not content to meddle only with our childrens' educations, but also with their health. If you want to see how deep the bullshit descends, take a look at the food pyramid. I'm certain most of you are aware that years ago, the most commonly-taught diet-balancing scheme changed from a fair balance of the four food groups to a pyramid, consisting of mostly grains. Do you know why this is?
Grain is considered a "farmers' diet"; the food pyramid was concocted because leftist sensitivity committees ordained that impoverished (I'm sorry... that's a dirty word... "disadvantaged") children cannot afford expensive meats. Additionally, since many on the left are also vegetarian or vegan, they will, like all other pressure groups, push their own agendas through subversive means such as educational textbooks. The importance of meat is downplayed, often being intentionally portrayed as much less healthy than it really is.
The real problem with this is that most people's grain consumption comes from processed grains rather than whole ones. Processed carbohydrates, such as white bread, contain little nutritional value but reasonable caloric content. Many people will remember the food pyramid and continue to eat these in excess, and this will do nothing but contribute to our nation's already rampant obesity problem.
This isn't a problem with computers: the fault lies entirely with the American educational system, and specifically with radical minority-centric pressure groups from the left.
The past 30 years or so have been a unique time for education. Over this period, the focus of teaching in schools has not been actual facts or skills. Pressure groups from the left have modified the curriculum in many ways to make the focus of education "multiculturalism" and "critical thinking" rather than the teaching of facts and skills. There are many reasons for this; however, some are subversive and rather reminiscient of Vonnegut. I'm sure you've read the story of Harrison Bergeron in early high school. This is much like what our educational system has become. In catering to minority students in underfunded urban environments, the schooling system has cut everyone's education down to their level, because overtly stating that impoverished children are, by definition, inferior academically, is "elitist," in addition to the obviously inherent racism.
You need look no further than the selections outlined in most districts' literature curriculums to understand the depth of this issue. Whereas previously, many classical English writers would be used to populate the curriculum. A strong sampling of English writers have been dismissed by the left as "Eurocentric," and in modern times the typical literature curriculum consists nearly fifty percent or more of works by minority authors such as Maya Angelou, and most of these will have a strongly either anti-European or pro-diversity message. This is all good and well, but literature is literature, right? Guess what: this multiculturalism has found its way into every facet of American education. Some math textbooks will detail African American achievements for no reason. And history textbooks will often completely distort the truth in favor of minorities, choosing to omit facts that do not lean in their agenda's favor; how many people do you know who are fully aware that Africa actively engaged in a slave trade with the Middle East before those dastardly Europeans showed up? But knowledge is no longer a requirement either for history. Standardized tests, like the New York State Regents Examinations, rely upon "document-based questions" and graphs in which only several pieces of outside information even need to be presented (I believe 2 pieces of outside information is required for a 5/5 score). This is to stress "critical thinking" and knowledge is a bias. Harrison Bergeron indeed.
Additionally, content censorship from the left prevents exposure to any unclean ideals. Birthday cake cannot be eaten in a story about a party because cake is not nutritious. Witches cannot be mentioned because they may offend children with Christian sensibilities. Would children rather read about witches and birthday parties and cake, or ocean currents and the migration paths of sea turtles? Sensitivity and bias committees have ruined the American educational system, and when our children are too dumb to vote, there will be no turning back. The truth is that school has now become so banal, boring, and focusless that there really is no wondering why students are caring less and less.
Computers are not the problem. People are.
Don't blame me, I voted for... ...shit.
1. Post something including lame South Park derivative Slashdot catchphrase
2. Include no real content in your posts
3. Profit!
Oops.
Don't look at me. I voted for Kang.
Just hook it up to your kid's heart, and you'll know by his increased heartrate when he's downloading porn on the thing and fapping away.
HAHAHAHA, I was just going to post on how this looks like a urinal. Looks like you've beaten me to the punch.
Kudos.
Many of the drawing functions in the GDI+ graphics library in Windows 2000/XP have already been offloaded to the GPU (ever try moving translucent windows around? It's smooth.). There's really not that much left to be done.
There are also third-party utilities (Stardock WindowFX, etc.) that create all sorts of nifty transitions, shadows, blending, etc. that are handled by the graphics device.
$350k/year won't really get you very far at all for a well-staffed IT department. You're going to end up paying out the nose for any systems administrator who specifically addresses critical problems, as opposed to the more mundane IT staff who may deploy patches, ensure systems are running properly and not experiencing memory leaks, random errors, etc. Assume that you're paying $70,000 for a Linux sysadmin who's experienced enough to handle all the problems that none of the other guys can manage on their own (which is the entire point of the pay support in the first place). You can hire five of these people. Splitting them into 24/7 support (3 shifts, plus weekends), you essentially have one person at any given time managing 500 servers ($350,000 divided by $700, the cost of a Red Hat Enterprise ES license).
Outsourcing is really a much better option than hiring these people.
True, but Verizon's entire fiber network was down in the Northeast. You'd be really lucky to get online even if your computer had power from a generator.
My explorer.exe takes up 6 MB with alpha-blended icons and 1280x1024 background, thank you.
Does anyone else find it ironic that the images on AfterStep's webpage are from Wingdings, a Windows font?
A BSOD-emulating XScreensaver would be even better, no?
Somehow I get the feeling that if you pissed SCO off enough by doing that, they would subpoena your computer under a provision of the DMCA. You are, after all, running "their" unlicensed and copyrighted IP.