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With weapons like these (or the ones we already have), how can anyone hope to compete against the US on military terms? Small wonder that everyone and his ancestral brother is grabbing for nuclear weapons.
Nukes are now practically the only kind of threat that give Uncle Sam pause before attacking pre-emptively. Look at Iraq vs. NK. I highly doubt we would have gone rushing boldly into Iraq had there truly been a WoMD threat.
But then again, at least this gives us (US) the moral high ground when it comes to demanding "fair" play on the battlefield.
What kind of message are you sending your astronauts by launching them into space on rockets named after an event in which 90,000 people died?
All joking aside, however, this should be interesting. In other news, I read in NYTimes today that Shanghai should soon have a building taller than the Petronas Towers (in other words, they'll soon have the tallest building in the world). With the WTC gone and NASA in a pathetic state, it looks like the US has lost its monopoly on highly recognizable symbols of prosperity.
Ok, my bad, I mistook poor sentence structure and complete lack of grammar for lack of thinking. I reread everything and mentally inserted a bunch of commas, repositioned some periods, and corrected some awfully ambiguous syntax, and now I finally think I understand what you were trying to say in the first place. Sheesh. No need to explain to me what "rights" are, I understand the meaning of the word.
Even so, the slavery analogy is not a good one, because slavery is absolutely wrong, whereas the debate over IP/copyright is legitimately worth spending time on - both sides of the IP debate have valid points and a complete swing in either direction will invariably hurt some and help others. A moral relativist might disagree with the first part of this statement, in which case he might claim the comparison to slavery is justified on the grounds that morality consists solely in popular ethics, but since you seem to agree that there exists an objective morality outside the whims of popular opinion, then you ought to agree that you cannot compare slavery, which is not a moral dilemma, to copyright, which is a moral dilemma inasmuch as it *might* have a few redeeming aspects, even if you are loathe to admit them.
Also I hardly see the threat in not using Microsoft. Or do you mean not paying for Microsoft? Then I suppose there's the threat of a lawsuit. But you can solve both problems painlessly by going to Linux. The great thing about M$ is you can hate their products *and* not buy their products. I wish the same was true of my local utility company.
I'm not usually one to criticize mods, but the above poster doesn't even appear know what (s)he's trying to say. How can this be "insightful"? Maybe "troll", but that implies purpose, which I think is an undeserved assumption.
Just look at how slavery led to the civil war.
Comparing copyrights to slavery? RIAA attorneys certainly never mutilated, tortured or murdered anyone. And popular as it may be, intellectual property violations aren't the basis for an entire regional economy. No, I don't think we're going to be attacking Fort Sumter any time soon over this issue.
Today many are betting trillions of dollars on a false premise, that works of knowledge can or should be owned without any understanding of what that implies
Sorry, but I don't understand either. What does ownership imply? The next sentence
Because information is becomming so easy to copy, change, and manipulate - the "middle" gound is quickly evaporating, either all information will half [sic] to be controlled or none of it.
doesn't even follow from what you said before. Copyright is bad, but maybe information has to be controlled... and yet, maybe it should be made free? Says who - you? I'm not saying I disagree with the spirit of your post (mostly I don't even know what I'd be disagreeing with), but try to work out your ideas a little more carefully.
And for christ's sake, mods, maybe you can toss a couple of points my way if they mean so little to you?
Did it ever occur to you that 100% of internet pr0n users think that 99% of pr0n is shit, only they're all referring to the pr0n preferred by the other 99%?
Occasionally, I'd also get a trip to the library, but in the end, there was just never enough information readily available to satisfy me.
I'd be willing to bet you were going to a small branch library. In the first few years of the Google era, I felt the same way that you do. Then one day I found myself back in a large university library. Big surprise: the big libraries blow away the internet in terms of quality and accessibility of information. Sure, you don't get your instant access to quotes, dates and other trivia. But if you want serious, in-depth, reliable information from an authoratative internet source, you have to pay subscription fees 9 times out of 10.
Besides, most libraries have Google too.
Now, when I want to learn about something I hear mentioned on TV or radio, or read in a book or magazine, I just load up Google, and type it in.
Another thing: ever been to The Memory Hole? Stuff on the internet can change quickly, and without notice. Vital facts can disappear overnight for any number of reasons. Electronic data cannot be trusted in the same way that old paper can.
Now, I'm not saying that books are infallible, but (most of the time) library books don't disappear or change overnight, real newspapers cannot be un-printed, and, reassuringly, librarians tend to get upset when the White House tries to boss them around. Conversely, it only takes a few minutes of browsing The Memory Hole to be convinced that your favorite online journals are all tools of The Man.
(pervert voice)
Do you know who this is? I sure know who you are. Guess what? I got naked and strapped myself in a nomex diving suit, put on a life support helmet and submerged myself in warm saline just so I could be totally and completely alone with your voice. How do you like that? ssssssssssss....
(/pervert voice)
You read Slashdot, so I'll assume you have a fair degree of computer knowledge, or at least pretend to. Imagine watching a moviem, supposedly about some fantastic computer hackers, where in a certain scene the main character says: "I've installed a 2.4 gigahertz hard drive, and applied a firewall to the keyboard. Let's see them hack through that!"
You obviously didn't read the FAQ before posting this. See, in this movie (it's set in the future), "hard drive" will be a generic term for firewall, the effectiveness of the firewall will be measured in gigahertz, and "applied a firewall to the keyboard" will merely be an antiquated way of saying "installed a hard drive on my monitor" (monitor being the new word for "database").
The part about the keyboard will have merely been said for cool factor so the audience knows what an old hand the hero is.
If people criticize the terminology it will only be because they're not reading deeply enough into it.
When you hear about Israeli bulldozers crushing buildings in the West Bank, they're not talking about a cute yellow Caterpillar driven by a smiling man in an orange hard hat.
Don't get me wrong, I still love research for research's sake, but I think that Japan could better spend $50 billion on more advanced urban architecture and transportation.
What do you think they are, some kind of third-world country? Japan is a world leader in public transportation. It's not like Tokyo is some festering shantytown.
I think this is a great idea. The world needs a new technology race with a positive, life-enhancing goal. I hope (but don't expect) the US will follow suit.
X-Plane. Period. Available here. It does it all, it's hackable, there are tons of free data files on the 'net you can download - new planes, scenery, etc
It's also buggy as hell: plane spontaneously changes its attitude whenever you transition to a new scenery area (every hundred miles or so), and it's not uncommon for the program to crash altogether.
Don't get me wrong - I love X-plane - the physics model is unsurpassed and there's no substitute when it comes to add-ons and sheer nerd appeal, but somehow for $70 USD I expected a more finished product. And he wants $30 for an extra scenery disc? Maybe if it was a little more polished, but not if the existing scenery has buildings floating in the Hudson River.
I also second the IL2 Sturmovik recommendation. It's beautiful, immersive, painstakingly detailed, and could easily stand on its own as a pure flight simulator were it not for all the guns and bombs. It's like two games rolled into one.
There already is a fanless PSU available off the shelf (expensive):
http://www.siliconacoustics.com/silpc.html
There are also plenty of motherboards with passive northbridge cooling, and IIRC some Taiwanese manufacturer now offers a newer (GF FX?) heatpipe-cooled AGP card. No need to void any warranties.
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Awesome idea. If you create it, I'll download it.
Screw Linux; what I wanna know is, can it divide by zero?
Nukes are now practically the only kind of threat that give Uncle Sam pause before attacking pre-emptively. Look at Iraq vs. NK. I highly doubt we would have gone rushing boldly into Iraq had there truly been a WoMD threat.
But then again, at least this gives us (US) the moral high ground when it comes to demanding "fair" play on the battlefield.
All joking aside, however, this should be interesting. In other news, I read in NYTimes today that Shanghai should soon have a building taller than the Petronas Towers (in other words, they'll soon have the tallest building in the world). With the WTC gone and NASA in a pathetic state, it looks like the US has lost its monopoly on highly recognizable symbols of prosperity.
>> traits.
> > Like the ability to properly conjugate "to be"!
Not to mention the ability not to split infinitives!
About as much as it means in light of this.
Considering that General Motors obviously bankrolled the car chase scene, it probably didn't cost much.
Even so, the slavery analogy is not a good one, because slavery is absolutely wrong, whereas the debate over IP/copyright is legitimately worth spending time on - both sides of the IP debate have valid points and a complete swing in either direction will invariably hurt some and help others. A moral relativist might disagree with the first part of this statement, in which case he might claim the comparison to slavery is justified on the grounds that morality consists solely in popular ethics, but since you seem to agree that there exists an objective morality outside the whims of popular opinion, then you ought to agree that you cannot compare slavery, which is not a moral dilemma, to copyright, which is a moral dilemma inasmuch as it *might* have a few redeeming aspects, even if you are loathe to admit them.
Also I hardly see the threat in not using Microsoft. Or do you mean not paying for Microsoft? Then I suppose there's the threat of a lawsuit. But you can solve both problems painlessly by going to Linux. The great thing about M$ is you can hate their products *and* not buy their products. I wish the same was true of my local utility company.
Just look at how slavery led to the civil war.
Comparing copyrights to slavery? RIAA attorneys certainly never mutilated, tortured or murdered anyone. And popular as it may be, intellectual property violations aren't the basis for an entire regional economy. No, I don't think we're going to be attacking Fort Sumter any time soon over this issue.
Today many are betting trillions of dollars on a false premise, that works of knowledge can or should be owned without any understanding of what that implies
Sorry, but I don't understand either. What does ownership imply? The next sentence
Because information is becomming so easy to copy, change, and manipulate - the "middle" gound is quickly evaporating, either all information will half [sic] to be controlled or none of it.
doesn't even follow from what you said before. Copyright is bad, but maybe information has to be controlled... and yet, maybe it should be made free? Says who - you? I'm not saying I disagree with the spirit of your post (mostly I don't even know what I'd be disagreeing with), but try to work out your ideas a little more carefully.
And for christ's sake, mods, maybe you can toss a couple of points my way if they mean so little to you?
Did it ever occur to you that 100% of internet pr0n users think that 99% of pr0n is shit, only they're all referring to the pr0n preferred by the other 99%?
I'd be willing to bet you were going to a small branch library. In the first few years of the Google era, I felt the same way that you do. Then one day I found myself back in a large university library. Big surprise: the big libraries blow away the internet in terms of quality and accessibility of information. Sure, you don't get your instant access to quotes, dates and other trivia. But if you want serious, in-depth, reliable information from an authoratative internet source, you have to pay subscription fees 9 times out of 10.
Besides, most libraries have Google too.
Now, when I want to learn about something I hear mentioned on TV or radio, or read in a book or magazine, I just load up Google, and type it in.
Another thing: ever been to The Memory Hole? Stuff on the internet can change quickly, and without notice. Vital facts can disappear overnight for any number of reasons. Electronic data cannot be trusted in the same way that old paper can.
Now, I'm not saying that books are infallible, but (most of the time) library books don't disappear or change overnight, real newspapers cannot be un-printed, and, reassuringly, librarians tend to get upset when the White House tries to boss them around. Conversely, it only takes a few minutes of browsing The Memory Hole to be convinced that your favorite online journals are all tools of The Man.
I, for one, welcome our new lame joke recycling overlords.
I know this is supposed to be a joke, but actually he's said by some to be the inventor of TV. Apparently the fusion thing came later on.
Am I the only one who thought "blog + raed = salam pax"?
Let it be the last.
(pervert voice)
Do you know who this is? I sure know who you are. Guess what? I got naked and strapped myself in a nomex diving suit, put on a life support helmet and submerged myself in warm saline just so I could be totally and completely alone with your voice. How do you like that? ssssssssssss....
(/pervert voice)
Come on mods, the above is clearly Interesting, not Informative. You messed up the symmetry!
You obviously didn't read the FAQ before posting this. See, in this movie (it's set in the future), "hard drive" will be a generic term for firewall, the effectiveness of the firewall will be measured in gigahertz, and "applied a firewall to the keyboard" will merely be an antiquated way of saying "installed a hard drive on my monitor" (monitor being the new word for "database").
The part about the keyboard will have merely been said for cool factor so the audience knows what an old hand the hero is.
If people criticize the terminology it will only be because they're not reading deeply enough into it.
Take a look at the IDF D9 Bulldozer.
I know if one of those came for me, I'd be running just as hard as if it was an Apache gunship!
What do you think they are, some kind of third-world country? Japan is a world leader in public transportation. It's not like Tokyo is some festering shantytown.
I think this is a great idea. The world needs a new technology race with a positive, life-enhancing goal. I hope (but don't expect) the US will follow suit.
It's also buggy as hell: plane spontaneously changes its attitude whenever you transition to a new scenery area (every hundred miles or so), and it's not uncommon for the program to crash altogether.
Don't get me wrong - I love X-plane - the physics model is unsurpassed and there's no substitute when it comes to add-ons and sheer nerd appeal, but somehow for $70 USD I expected a more finished product. And he wants $30 for an extra scenery disc? Maybe if it was a little more polished, but not if the existing scenery has buildings floating in the Hudson River.
I also second the IL2 Sturmovik recommendation. It's beautiful, immersive, painstakingly detailed, and could easily stand on its own as a pure flight simulator were it not for all the guns and bombs. It's like two games rolled into one.
http://www.siliconacoustics.com/silpc.html
There are also plenty of motherboards with passive northbridge cooling, and IIRC some Taiwanese manufacturer now offers a newer (GF FX?) heatpipe-cooled AGP card. No need to void any warranties.
DirectX 9 totally wasted my install - BSOD on boot. Couldn't even boot in safe mode. I reinstalled and it worked the second time, for some reason.
Have you ever seen a grown man naked?