I don't think more, I mean, look at what's happened whenever a Repub has been in office or whenever they managed to ram something through congress. Sure they had the help of some naughty people but not necessarily the majority of Dems.
In the end, it the corrupt of both parties that have screwed us up. But it's been a long pendulum swing back from the mid sixties civil right movement to the current bunch of truly corrupt that are running the government now. The pendulem WILL swing back, and with a vengance.
We have to make sure that it doesn't go to the commusistic side too much - but it hasn't even come close even during the most "liberal" administration.
Interestingly, I had a friend tell me that Kerry was a communist and I just had to laugh. They obviously don't have the sense of history that I have, or grossly misunderstand what Communists (or rather Stalinist/Marxists) actually do. True Communism isn't a bad idea but is more prone to flaws than our version of capitalism which, right now, is showing all it ugly flaws, helped on by rampantly amoral business interests.
Hey, this is the conservative effective mantra, right? Right. Big profits for the big guys, who happen to fund most of the conservative politician (and quite a few non-conservative ones too). But since the late 60s/early 70s, this has been the trend and what a horrible unjust trend it is too. Anything standing up for individual rights just ain't in the cards. Anything for corporate right is.
This is one of the fights progressives have. Stop helping the rich and powerful and help the little guy. They are the ones that need it after all. Not the Bushs and Cheneys of the world. But the regular mom and dads who don't make much. Even the real mom and dad (comparitively) businesses don't get helped but the big, really big ones do. And by lotsa over-favorable legislation, like this.
So, to prevent this type of horrible abuse of what should be something of primarily public ownership, we need to take back the government from those fascists currently running it and pub laws and restrictions back in place that stop this type of thing from happening.
But I feel there are some potential civil liberties problems for the other. Though I'm not going to take sides on the issue in this post, it has always bothered me that the U.S. has always had problems with immigration, ironically, from a country whose most famous entrance guard states:
"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door."
As a country, we've never really taken to those words but have always appended an "If" to it.
"The US Department of Commerce has reversed its original decision on the Internet's root DNS servers, which would have eventually seen them pass into the hands of ICANN."
Who runs the USDC? Someone appointed by whom? This ain't flamebait or a troll post. It's legit criticism. This decision was based on the political philosophy of the administration, not with our interests in mind. I am faulting them for that.
that the Bush admin is a bunch of fascists. One more freedom restricted. Hopefully, this will be reversed after Bush leaves office but that requires we elect someone with a modicum of sense as far as human rights and the internet go.
And all that 10s of dollars that they make off the stolen movies will now go directly the the MPAA, and of course, the actual people who made the movie.
Ahuh, yeah, you betchya.
(This post has been exagerated for your protection.)
While I applaud the small amount of legitimacy this may add to the open source community, it appears this may be just a way to make money off the open source community rather than truly help it. Open source is free and always will be (unless you count the s**tload of work that goes into it).
On the other hand, this could also be used to help open source people make some money back for their invaluable efforts.
The cynic in me thinks it's the former though, not the ladder.
Only time will tell.
Of course it's not about me but by the apparent tone of your post, it may possibly be about you.
Nope, the workstation market won't try this either. They'll go with something a little more tested out and use alternate cards sometimes with multiple gpus. They won't rely on these cards at all. Besides, NVidia has a separate line for graphics workstations. Maybe the technology will tickle down to these units but that still won't be out for a while. And Workstations are an entirely different market anyway, which throws your point out since that market isn't being targeted here by NVidia.
By your logic, they should up the price for $1500 and come out with the 20000! Yeah, that would gain them some prestige but who would care. Only a very few like you.
I have a bridge in Brooklyn you may be interested in buying!
Seriously, does anyone still believe these guys under the fascist Bush administration? They have got to be kidding if they think people are still that stupid.
OOPS! I forgot! Around 49% of the American public supposedly voted for Bush last time. I guess there are some truly gullible, or worse, out there!
a) They are pricing themselves beyond reason for even enthusiasts. Not too long ago, the top level for a graphics card was $400. That was expensive but within reach. I think they may be passing the point were even the enthusiast crowd will purhcase this.
b) Most people will wait until the next products come out from them and ATI. I mean, when you know that cheaper products will come out with most of the performance AND that better products will come out with better performance in this same series, why buy this? Just one example - remember ATI's 9700.
c) It's just for prestige anyway. That's the real reason this card has been released. They'll wait until ATI comes out with a reply card, wait a few months, and come out with something faster again and get good PR OR not have anything faster and suffer the consequences in bad PR.
The few things that bugged me about TSS such as Leo's rather overtly sexual comments that, I felt, went over the bounds of decency, were not nearly enough to take away from the plain excellent content produced by techies for techies.
G4, of course, is by non-techies for acne cases and it shows. Sucks and always will. Don't watch the show at all. When TSS and CFH were on, I started watching many other shows on TechTV, such as the wonderful John Dvorak's breakfast hour debate show (They still owe me a mug that ZDNet!).
Think they can get JD on ROTSS? That would be fun.
Unfortunatly, you can't look at the beautiful women they use to have on, on a podcast!
I find it amusing that someone, probably Karl Rove, thought my reply was flamebait. I'm sure it attracted some neo-con who would label it as such but what I said is verifiably true so tough nuts demoter!
You'll just have to live with me being right and not liking it.
And as far as my stuff not being gramatically correct, you just blew yourself up on that call.
unless there is a widespread cry. Since his neo-con bent makes much of what he does profit-only motivated, biased and unfair, your best bet will be to get all other similarly equiped people together and scream your heads off that you will leave DirecTV entirely if they don't foot the bill for any tech changes that may occur on this front.
Even then, I think you have an uphill battle and will pay something, somewhere, to maintain your equipment. It may even be under the guise of providing you with "better" service/quality.
You made me laugh in spite of myself. That is a funny response! Thanks. I needed to laugh.
Well, when I see a new technology or program or such mentioned on/. I'd say it's not really underground. I'd also say that I could easily track it down, load the prog on my computer and have fun using it for a month or so before the rest of the world catches on. That may be "underground" by your definition but not by mine. Maybe for the public at large though, it is. I'm not sure. For me "underground" is how most of the warez sites info get around to people who do that sort of thing. I don't know how to get that info so to me it is underground. I suppose this means that it's a relative definition and any status as underground can only be measured by total number of people knowing about it before authority figures get ahold of it. I don't know where that magic dividing line is but I'd like to hear theories on figuring it out.
If the government tries to outlaw this technology OR try some method of controling it directly. It's an anarchist technology and the type of thing over-controlling fascist governments hate.
I don't think it will ever be fully controlled but it may be forced underground.
Anyone else think the world is getting to be too much like "The Matrix"?
Pretty soon there will be no more searches for the best looking baby, we'll just design them. Gap won't have to search for the cutest baby model either.
Yep, I think this will save large amounts of time and effort for corporations.
OOOOOoooo - I want an outtee. No, no, no. Make that an inny!!
Yes, he's an adult legally. "Not otherwise though," says the 40-some year old computer programmer.
A) They should punish him
B) They punishment should not be harsh unless Steve Job's tax returns were hidden in the released code. Suggest Multi-thousand dollar fine - like @$5-10K + community service.
C) He should definitely loose all rights to anything MAC unless he ponies up money like the rest of us; this includes loosing any apple accounts at iTunes, etc.
It's just unfortunate that while the advantage of having a stepping processor on the desktop will cut down on the heat in my building's rooms, it will also cut down on the processing power at the same time.
Honestly, most people won't ever notice the difference since what they'll use it for is word processing and spreadsheets. They don't need the gawdoffal (tm) power these computers have now. In fact, the only thing driving the continual 3-4 year upgrade cycle is poorly written code and programs so huge that we'll never use all the features.
Which makes me think that maybe we should call some moritorium on "new" software, perfect what we do have, use lower power processors that are simply more efficient, and stop buying pcs altogether.
NAH!!! Just kidding! I mean, who really wants to stop this computer-centric commerce and put intel and microsoft out of business anyway... (looks around and sees slashdot's mac, linux and other os users...)
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I don't think more, I mean, look at what's happened whenever a Repub has been in office or whenever they managed to ram something through congress. Sure they had the help of some naughty people but not necessarily the majority of Dems. In the end, it the corrupt of both parties that have screwed us up. But it's been a long pendulum swing back from the mid sixties civil right movement to the current bunch of truly corrupt that are running the government now. The pendulem WILL swing back, and with a vengance. We have to make sure that it doesn't go to the commusistic side too much - but it hasn't even come close even during the most "liberal" administration. Interestingly, I had a friend tell me that Kerry was a communist and I just had to laugh. They obviously don't have the sense of history that I have, or grossly misunderstand what Communists (or rather Stalinist/Marxists) actually do. True Communism isn't a bad idea but is more prone to flaws than our version of capitalism which, right now, is showing all it ugly flaws, helped on by rampantly amoral business interests.
Hey, this is the conservative effective mantra, right? Right. Big profits for the big guys, who happen to fund most of the conservative politician (and quite a few non-conservative ones too). But since the late 60s/early 70s, this has been the trend and what a horrible unjust trend it is too. Anything standing up for individual rights just ain't in the cards. Anything for corporate right is. This is one of the fights progressives have. Stop helping the rich and powerful and help the little guy. They are the ones that need it after all. Not the Bushs and Cheneys of the world. But the regular mom and dads who don't make much. Even the real mom and dad (comparitively) businesses don't get helped but the big, really big ones do. And by lotsa over-favorable legislation, like this. So, to prevent this type of horrible abuse of what should be something of primarily public ownership, we need to take back the government from those fascists currently running it and pub laws and restrictions back in place that stop this type of thing from happening.
or by a little bit of filler?
A scary case of a common saying having a literal outcome?
Helping to identify the dead is good.
But I feel there are some potential civil liberties problems for the other. Though I'm not going to take sides on the issue in this post, it has always bothered me that the U.S. has always had problems with immigration, ironically, from a country whose most famous entrance guard states:
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:
I lift my lamp beside the golden door."
As a country, we've never really taken to those words but have always appended an "If" to it.
I'm sorry, acting just like a criminal for revenge purposes, no matter how satisfying, is wrong. It just brings you down to their level.
"The US Department of Commerce has reversed its original decision on the Internet's root DNS servers, which would have eventually seen them pass into the hands of ICANN." Who runs the USDC? Someone appointed by whom? This ain't flamebait or a troll post. It's legit criticism. This decision was based on the political philosophy of the administration, not with our interests in mind. I am faulting them for that.
that the Bush admin is a bunch of fascists. One more freedom restricted. Hopefully, this will be reversed after Bush leaves office but that requires we elect someone with a modicum of sense as far as human rights and the internet go.
Ahuh, yeah, you betchya.
And all that 10s of dollars that they make off the stolen movies will now go directly the the MPAA, and of course, the actual people who made the movie.
Ahuh, yeah, you betchya.
(This post has been exagerated for your protection.)
While I applaud the small amount of legitimacy this may add to the open source community, it appears this may be just a way to make money off the open source community rather than truly help it. Open source is free and always will be (unless you count the s**tload of work that goes into it). On the other hand, this could also be used to help open source people make some money back for their invaluable efforts. The cynic in me thinks it's the former though, not the ladder. Only time will tell.
Seems reasonably obvious and worthwhile way of doing things. At least they didn't CALL the teenage cell phone users to ask them about the problem. ;)
Of course it's not about me but by the apparent tone of your post, it may possibly be about you. Nope, the workstation market won't try this either. They'll go with something a little more tested out and use alternate cards sometimes with multiple gpus. They won't rely on these cards at all. Besides, NVidia has a separate line for graphics workstations. Maybe the technology will tickle down to these units but that still won't be out for a while. And Workstations are an entirely different market anyway, which throws your point out since that market isn't being targeted here by NVidia. By your logic, they should up the price for $1500 and come out with the 20000! Yeah, that would gain them some prestige but who would care. Only a very few like you.
I have a bridge in Brooklyn you may be interested in buying!
Seriously, does anyone still believe these guys under the fascist Bush administration? They have got to be kidding if they think people are still that stupid.
OOPS! I forgot! Around 49% of the American public supposedly voted for Bush last time. I guess there are some truly gullible, or worse, out there!
A few things:
a) They are pricing themselves beyond reason for even enthusiasts. Not too long ago, the top level for a graphics card was $400. That was expensive but within reach. I think they may be passing the point were even the enthusiast crowd will purhcase this.
b) Most people will wait until the next products come out from them and ATI. I mean, when you know that cheaper products will come out with most of the performance AND that better products will come out with better performance in this same series, why buy this? Just one example - remember ATI's 9700.
c) It's just for prestige anyway. That's the real reason this card has been released. They'll wait until ATI comes out with a reply card, wait a few months, and come out with something faster again and get good PR OR not have anything faster and suffer the consequences in bad PR.
The few things that bugged me about TSS such as Leo's rather overtly sexual comments that, I felt, went over the bounds of decency, were not nearly enough to take away from the plain excellent content produced by techies for techies.
G4, of course, is by non-techies for acne cases and it shows. Sucks and always will. Don't watch the show at all. When TSS and CFH were on, I started watching many other shows on TechTV, such as the wonderful John Dvorak's breakfast hour debate show (They still owe me a mug that ZDNet!).
Think they can get JD on ROTSS? That would be fun.
Unfortunatly, you can't look at the beautiful women they use to have on, on a podcast!
I find it amusing that someone, probably Karl Rove, thought my reply was flamebait. I'm sure it attracted some neo-con who would label it as such but what I said is verifiably true so tough nuts demoter! You'll just have to live with me being right and not liking it. And as far as my stuff not being gramatically correct, you just blew yourself up on that call.
unless there is a widespread cry. Since his neo-con bent makes much of what he does profit-only motivated, biased and unfair, your best bet will be to get all other similarly equiped people together and scream your heads off that you will leave DirecTV entirely if they don't foot the bill for any tech changes that may occur on this front.
Even then, I think you have an uphill battle and will pay something, somewhere, to maintain your equipment. It may even be under the guise of providing you with "better" service/quality.
Don't say you haven't been warned.
And you should watch your F mouth! Geesh, apparently you can't see a joke even when a smiley is on it! No, this post is not a joke.
Great! I bet his community service will be fixing Windows computers. Talk about irony!
You made me laugh in spite of myself. That is a funny response! Thanks. I needed to laugh.
Well, when I see a new technology or program or such mentioned on /. I'd say it's not really underground. I'd also say that I could easily track it down, load the prog on my computer and have fun using it for a month or so before the rest of the world catches on. That may be "underground" by your definition but not by mine. Maybe for the public at large though, it is. I'm not sure. For me "underground" is how most of the warez sites info get around to people who do that sort of thing. I don't know how to get that info so to me it is underground. I suppose this means that it's a relative definition and any status as underground can only be measured by total number of people knowing about it before authority figures get ahold of it. I don't know where that magic dividing line is but I'd like to hear theories on figuring it out.
If the government tries to outlaw this technology OR try some method of controling it directly. It's an anarchist technology and the type of thing over-controlling fascist governments hate. I don't think it will ever be fully controlled but it may be forced underground. Anyone else think the world is getting to be too much like "The Matrix"?
Pretty soon there will be no more searches for the best looking baby, we'll just design them. Gap won't have to search for the cutest baby model either. Yep, I think this will save large amounts of time and effort for corporations. OOOOOoooo - I want an outtee. No, no, no. Make that an inny!!
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I would have said less but the darn editor wants more characters per line and an actual subject! Just try ... as a subject!
Yes, he's an adult legally. "Not otherwise though," says the 40-some year old computer programmer.
A) They should punish himB) They punishment should not be harsh unless Steve Job's tax returns were hidden in the released code. Suggest Multi-thousand dollar fine - like @$5-10K + community service.
C) He should definitely loose all rights to anything MAC unless he ponies up money like the rest of us; this includes loosing any apple accounts at iTunes, etc.
It's just unfortunate that while the advantage of having a stepping processor on the desktop will cut down on the heat in my building's rooms, it will also cut down on the processing power at the same time.
;)
Honestly, most people won't ever notice the difference since what they'll use it for is word processing and spreadsheets. They don't need the gawdoffal (tm) power these computers have now. In fact, the only thing driving the continual 3-4 year upgrade cycle is poorly written code and programs so huge that we'll never use all the features.
Which makes me think that maybe we should call some moritorium on "new" software, perfect what we do have, use lower power processors that are simply more efficient, and stop buying pcs altogether.
NAH!!! Just kidding! I mean, who really wants to stop this computer-centric commerce and put intel and microsoft out of business anyway... (looks around and sees slashdot's mac, linux and other os users...)
Uh, easy guys. It's only a joke...
Thank you for your response. I find it very helpful in thinking about this problem.