How do you do tally the quantitative value of a person? Do you come up with tests, such as who can run the fastest or who is the smartest? Even the value we attribute to these tests are relative. The whole means of finding value is self-referential. Even things like natural selection is a relative since we as humans value survival. The problem is you can not quantify quality, it is nonsensical. However people are right when they say we are all of equal value, that value is NULL.
No you're right the CIA never directly funded the Afghan Arabs. However the US government did give billions of dollars to Saddam. And I'm sure you're saying "What does Saddam have to do with this?" and yeah I ask myself that a lot.
Actually the Linux kernel does these things pretty well. And modern distros that use udev, hal and dbus can detect hardware configurations on-the-fly. I was half-shocked when I plugged in my digital camera and it was detected and mounted automagically. The problem is X has it's own hardware subsystems for the sake of portability (BSD kernel does not Linux-like subsystems) and are not as good. It would be great if X just would let the Linux kernel do its thing. There is some work being done along these lines and hopefully will improve the situation.
Actually you don't have to write your DRM schemes into the kernel. You could simply write a module that loads up a dynamic library which contains whatever functions you need. This library is seperate and can be distributed under a different license.
GPLv3 is anti-evil-DRM in which the GPL would be circumvented by DRM methods. Such as providing you with the source code by unable to compile/run it because of DRM. Yet GPLv3 as I understand it does not say you can not include DRM in your software, you are free to do so.
I just find Linus too trusting of business. You would think he would have learned his lesson with BitKeeper but in the end I think he blames Andrew Tridgell instead of BitMover. Even RMS may be too distrusting of business, but isn't it better to be safer than sorry?
Not legally. The dangers to democracy of a superiorly armed standing military force is precisely why the second ammendment was crafted. It has nothing to do with hunting birds or target practice.
Believe me if it ever happens it will be legally. All you need is a 5-4 decision which redefines "well regulated militia" to mean professional standing army. It's not that hard to do such a thing. Or pass an amendment which voids the 2nd. I'm sure you will say "Oh that'll never happen". It could happen, and it'll happen with the people's support. Because the government will either scare the people into thinking it's necessary or the people will be so scared they will demand it.
People assume that the Constitution somehow assures the USA will always be a Republic. The Constitution can be changed and amended. It can be ignored and ripped up. A strong executive branch with powers over a professional military can over time slowly dimish the powers granted to the other branches. It's happened repeated times through history and it could happen here.
Also to think a somewhat organized citizen's resistance could repel this is somewhat naive. First the people can be easily manipulated to support the government. Second your campaign against such a government would be destroyed with little effort. They'll just go into towns who support guerillas and start killing people. They'll mass murder the resistance. It happened in Soviet Russia and it happened in Nazi Germany. You underestimate the brutality and power of a tyrannical regime.
Simple. Red Hat financially supports Gnome and not KDE. They support AIGLX and not XGL. They support Metacity and not Compiz. The list goes on...
The problem is the more money that is funneled through Red Hat the more developers they can hire and the better their projects become. Also because Red Hat has invested time and money into these projects they will only support them. They back Metacity which will only work well in Gnome over Compiz which is desktop agnostic.
Red Hat, IBM and Intel are basically business partners. They have hired and continue to influence important OSS developers. These developers are now tied to these companies and their projects. The real reason behind AIGLX vs XGL is Red Hat vs Novell.
This is the new danger, that as companies invest into OSS they do not invest in the OSS community but rather they invest in people. The more people they hire the more development they control. One important aspect of Linux is choice but as business invests more and more into OSS the more they solidify their gains. The less choice will we have.
If we can look at this as if it were an experiment, then when someone publishes a result others try to repeat it under the same conditions. They don't conduct a different test with different conditions in order to disprove the original.
Science never enters the picture here, this is a religious debate.
The term "well regulated militia" has never really been defined anywhere. Also "security of a free State", what does that mean? It's really up to interpretation.
A government with increasing powers with a professional army could easily render then 2nd amendment null and void. That's the danger I was pointing towards. The 2nd amendment is not explicit in its meaning.
The way I read it having a professional Army null and voids the entire clause. A well regulated Militia has been superceded by a paid Army. Therefore the need for people to keep and bear arms is no longer required. It would be different if we had a Citizen's Army where people could be drafted at a time of War. But this is no longer the case. Historically the move from a citizen's army to a professional one has doomed many Republics.
How would you want all lead women action roles to be portrayed? The women gets her ass kicked in the first scene and then goes back to cooking in the kitchen? Also having women in lead roles in action films is somewhat new and broke the old archetype. Compare versus the damsel in distress type role.
Additionally there are films for religious people and always have been. Recently there has been Narnia and The Passion of the Christ. Traditionally how about, The Ten Commandments or Ben Hur?
Really Hollywood is trying to make money and they will make movies about whatever as long as people go and see them. Now maybe they will give awards to different kinds of movies but thats not always the case. For example Gladiator won best picture in 2000, and LOTR in 2003.
Also do you think there were never gay cowboys? I don't know even Westerns could be a little gay at times, checking out each other's pistols and what not.
I always assumed the goal was to have people getting paid to work on open source. And in the reverse to work on open source projects and based on merit to get sponsored by a company to continue your work. It makes programming more academic in nature.
If Linux is going to make headway into the desktop market it will need help from big business. The X.org version of the X protocol server has maybe 10 active developers working on it and maybe 20-30 semi-active developers. How is this going to be competitive? Also we need some big corps to push on graphics vendors like Nvidia and ATI to take Linux seriously. Even though ati/nvidia driver support is getting better it's only according to their limitied resources allocated towards Linux devel.
You don't even understand the issue. The issue is whether or not Bush broke the law. Apparently the Executive Branch is unable to make laws but only able to follow the laws established by Congress. This NSA spying program bypasses the already in place FISA law which allows warrantless wiretaps (up to 72 hours) of foreign communications. The question becomes can Bush as President with powers granted by the Constitution circumvent an established law?
That paper is seriously questionable. It's filled with 'maybe or maybe not' and 'perhaps or perhaps not'. I would not consider it definitive.
The real reason nvidia supports the old model is for legacy support which is understandable. However why can't we just leave the current Xserver alone and work on something new? This is what Windows and Apple does. Eventually they drop the legacy server and work on something new carrying over what they think are good features. The X model has worked with the same server and just applied bandaid type fixes. This is why X is in the state it is in today.
Also I wonder if nvidia was talking about just OpenGL or OpenGL including OpenGL ES. OpenGL ES is a huge topic nowadays and nvidia actually developed the GPU on the PS3 which will use the OpenGL ES 2.0 API. This is the future and everyone knows it. I read that whitepaper and I don't understand what nvidia is actually thinking.
The composite extension is completely accelerated in Xgl. The only thing compiz does is memory management and define geometries. Software does a fine job for these types of things. And this new GLX extension basically binds a X pixmap to a GL texture. But all rendering is done by the GPU. People assume because compiz is using the Mesa library that all rendering is done by software but this is not the case.
Then why aren't any Muslims in the United States rioting? The truth is the whole cartoon thing is about politics. Muslims in the USA have a voice and avenues to express themselves. In these other countries Muslims are pretty much oppressed by authoritarian regimes. The cartoons just ignited all their frustrations about their lives and gave it focus. These people are angry but it's not about cartoons.
What? I highly doubt the American public would have went to war with Iraq because Saddam was funding suicide bombers in Palestian. This is what we are talking about. The selling point was there was an Al Qaeda and Saddam link. Also with recent events Hamas is actually a legitimized party and elected into government. Saying Hamas and Al Qeada are the same is no longer correct. Even though the Bush administration and the Israeli government would say they still are a terrorist organization. Anyway thats for another debate.
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I never said I believed it. Also I think you misunderstand my sig. But thanks for your input.
From x64bit.net "We also have information that almost 60% of the code for Vista will be rewritten." Is this true?
Also what language(s) is Vista actually programmed in?
How do you do tally the quantitative value of a person? Do you come up with tests, such as who can run the fastest or who is the smartest? Even the value we attribute to these tests are relative. The whole means of finding value is self-referential. Even things like natural selection is a relative since we as humans value survival. The problem is you can not quantify quality, it is nonsensical. However people are right when they say we are all of equal value, that value is NULL.
No you're right the CIA never directly funded the Afghan Arabs. However the US government did give billions of dollars to Saddam. And I'm sure you're saying "What does Saddam have to do with this?" and yeah I ask myself that a lot.
Actually the Linux kernel does these things pretty well. And modern distros that use udev, hal and dbus can detect hardware configurations on-the-fly. I was half-shocked when I plugged in my digital camera and it was detected and mounted automagically. The problem is X has it's own hardware subsystems for the sake of portability (BSD kernel does not Linux-like subsystems) and are not as good. It would be great if X just would let the Linux kernel do its thing. There is some work being done along these lines and hopefully will improve the situation.
So you're saying the US is one giant consumer herd. And those who can manipulate the herd the best will be the most successful. Sounds about right.
Actually you don't have to write your DRM schemes into the kernel. You could simply write a module that loads up a dynamic library which contains whatever functions you need. This library is seperate and can be distributed under a different license.
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GPLv3 is anti-evil-DRM in which the GPL would be circumvented by DRM methods. Such as providing you with the source code by unable to compile/run it because of DRM. Yet GPLv3 as I understand it does not say you can not include DRM in your software, you are free to do so.
I just find Linus too trusting of business. You would think he would have learned his lesson with BitKeeper but in the end I think he blames Andrew Tridgell instead of BitMover. Even RMS may be too distrusting of business, but isn't it better to be safer than sorry?
Not legally. The dangers to democracy of a superiorly armed standing military force is precisely why the second ammendment was crafted. It has nothing to do with hunting birds or target practice.
Believe me if it ever happens it will be legally. All you need is a 5-4 decision which redefines "well regulated militia" to mean professional standing army. It's not that hard to do such a thing. Or pass an amendment which voids the 2nd. I'm sure you will say "Oh that'll never happen". It could happen, and it'll happen with the people's support. Because the government will either scare the people into thinking it's necessary or the people will be so scared they will demand it.
People assume that the Constitution somehow assures the USA will always be a Republic. The Constitution can be changed and amended. It can be ignored and ripped up. A strong executive branch with powers over a professional military can over time slowly dimish the powers granted to the other branches. It's happened repeated times through history and it could happen here.
Also to think a somewhat organized citizen's resistance could repel this is somewhat naive. First the people can be easily manipulated to support the government. Second your campaign against such a government would be destroyed with little effort. They'll just go into towns who support guerillas and start killing people. They'll mass murder the resistance. It happened in Soviet Russia and it happened in Nazi Germany. You underestimate the brutality and power of a tyrannical regime.
I meant inside the Courts.
Simple. Red Hat financially supports Gnome and not KDE. They support AIGLX and not XGL. They support Metacity and not Compiz. The list goes on...
The problem is the more money that is funneled through Red Hat the more developers they can hire and the better their projects become. Also because Red Hat has invested time and money into these projects they will only support them. They back Metacity which will only work well in Gnome over Compiz which is desktop agnostic.
Red Hat, IBM and Intel are basically business partners. They have hired and continue to influence important OSS developers. These developers are now tied to these companies and their projects. The real reason behind AIGLX vs XGL is Red Hat vs Novell.
This is the new danger, that as companies invest into OSS they do not invest in the OSS community but rather they invest in people. The more people they hire the more development they control. One important aspect of Linux is choice but as business invests more and more into OSS the more they solidify their gains. The less choice will we have.
If we can look at this as if it were an experiment, then when someone publishes a result others try to repeat it under the same conditions. They don't conduct a different test with different conditions in order to disprove the original.
Science never enters the picture here, this is a religious debate.
The term "well regulated militia" has never really been defined anywhere. Also "security of a free State", what does that mean? It's really up to interpretation.
A government with increasing powers with a professional army could easily render then 2nd amendment null and void. That's the danger I was pointing towards. The 2nd amendment is not explicit in its meaning.
The way I read it having a professional Army null and voids the entire clause. A well regulated Militia has been superceded by a paid Army. Therefore the need for people to keep and bear arms is no longer required. It would be different if we had a Citizen's Army where people could be drafted at a time of War. But this is no longer the case. Historically the move from a citizen's army to a professional one has doomed many Republics.
I thought we were talking about movies. Anyway if you want to watch some "realistic" women fighting movies I suggest "Million Dollar Baby".
How would you want all lead women action roles to be portrayed? The women gets her ass kicked in the first scene and then goes back to cooking in the kitchen? Also having women in lead roles in action films is somewhat new and broke the old archetype. Compare versus the damsel in distress type role.
Additionally there are films for religious people and always have been. Recently there has been Narnia and The Passion of the Christ. Traditionally how about, The Ten Commandments or Ben Hur?
Really Hollywood is trying to make money and they will make movies about whatever as long as people go and see them. Now maybe they will give awards to different kinds of movies but thats not always the case. For example Gladiator won best picture in 2000, and LOTR in 2003.
Also do you think there were never gay cowboys? I don't know even Westerns could be a little gay at times, checking out each other's pistols and what not.
Very true, Three Mile Island and Chernobyl have put such a stigma on nuclear power that it will be almost impossible to build new reactors anywhere.
I always assumed the goal was to have people getting paid to work on open source. And in the reverse to work on open source projects and based on merit to get sponsored by a company to continue your work. It makes programming more academic in nature.
If Linux is going to make headway into the desktop market it will need help from big business. The X.org version of the X protocol server has maybe 10 active developers working on it and maybe 20-30 semi-active developers. How is this going to be competitive? Also we need some big corps to push on graphics vendors like Nvidia and ATI to take Linux seriously. Even though ati/nvidia driver support is getting better it's only according to their limitied resources allocated towards Linux devel.
You don't even understand the issue. The issue is whether or not Bush broke the law. Apparently the Executive Branch is unable to make laws but only able to follow the laws established by Congress. This NSA spying program bypasses the already in place FISA law which allows warrantless wiretaps (up to 72 hours) of foreign communications. The question becomes can Bush as President with powers granted by the Constitution circumvent an established law?
That paper is seriously questionable. It's filled with 'maybe or maybe not' and 'perhaps or perhaps not'. I would not consider it definitive.
The real reason nvidia supports the old model is for legacy support which is understandable. However why can't we just leave the current Xserver alone and work on something new? This is what Windows and Apple does. Eventually they drop the legacy server and work on something new carrying over what they think are good features. The X model has worked with the same server and just applied bandaid type fixes. This is why X is in the state it is in today.
Also I wonder if nvidia was talking about just OpenGL or OpenGL including OpenGL ES. OpenGL ES is a huge topic nowadays and nvidia actually developed the GPU on the PS3 which will use the OpenGL ES 2.0 API. This is the future and everyone knows it. I read that whitepaper and I don't understand what nvidia is actually thinking.
The composite extension is completely accelerated in Xgl. The only thing compiz does is memory management and define geometries. Software does a fine job for these types of things. And this new GLX extension basically binds a X pixmap to a GL texture. But all rendering is done by the GPU. People assume because compiz is using the Mesa library that all rendering is done by software but this is not the case.
Then why aren't any Muslims in the United States rioting? The truth is the whole cartoon thing is about politics. Muslims in the USA have a voice and avenues to express themselves. In these other countries Muslims are pretty much oppressed by authoritarian regimes. The cartoons just ignited all their frustrations about their lives and gave it focus. These people are angry but it's not about cartoons.
What? I highly doubt the American public would have went to war with Iraq because Saddam was funding suicide bombers in Palestian. This is what we are talking about. The selling point was there was an Al Qaeda and Saddam link. Also with recent events Hamas is actually a legitimized party and elected into government. Saying Hamas and Al Qeada are the same is no longer correct. Even though the Bush administration and the Israeli government would say they still are a terrorist organization. Anyway thats for another debate.