From my experience Reiser has better average case read and write performance and XFS has better worst case performance (very useful if you are doing something time critical). I'd comment on JFS and ext3 but I havn't used them as heavily.
The real benefit of Reiser is going to be atomic operations (when apps get around to supporting it).
I prefer Diplomacy and Rebublic of Rome myself. For those who don't know, according to the author, Rebublic of Rome was a game made for people who thought Diplomacy wasn't hard core enough.
Xfree shouldnt be the only one group to get documentation.
Yeh, that's what I'm asking, did they say no specs? Your post reads like you expected them to give you a free video card, which doesn't make any sense at all. If they refused to give you the specs, you have a legitimate beef.
porting drivers and driver development for new OS's.
Since you seem in the know, care to respond on the accusation that there is GPLed code in the SkyOS tree?
I'm very curious, how did they get good NVidia support? I thought NVidia wouldn't even give the writers of XFree the time of day.
As for getting ATI to help, this might just be me but, wouldn't you have a better chance if asked for just the tech specs and other information needed to make the driver, but went out and bought the card yourself? They did give the tech specs to X developers...
He has been in the game since one of the expansions.
Reading the article, it appears the monster spawns as part of some quest, does his thing, and then vanishes forever. So you only get one shot at killing it.
What's happening in Israel is not "confronting hatred". Whenever people see Israelis on TV firing on Palestinians in the street from U.S.-made helicopter gunships, that is not "confronting hatred". That is breeding hatred. It is breeding hatred even if a panel of a hundred judicial experts would decide that the helicopters were being used in defense.
SHOCK!!!!! Big media only tells you what it wants you to think!! Yeh, I've been critical of them too. Of course the BBC, showing only Israelis doing bad things breeds hatred. But you can't abdicate all responsibility. As a citizen of a democracy you are responsible for reaching your own conclusions.
The terrorists target innocent Israeli civilians then run and hide behind innocent Palistinian civilians, knowing that when the Israeli's come in after them, they can manage to get a few innocents killed and show up on the news. Unfortunately you can't force fair news coverage. You can try to educate people about the facts, and try to carry on an intelligent disscussion and reach a realistic solution however.
My opinion is that the first step to true peace is ending the UN discrimination against both sides. The second step is forcibly disarming terrorists groups, and setting up a free, democratic society in the Palistinian territories along with all the infrastructure that entials. Step 3, reach an agreeable peace deal will work itself out.
Why don't we do this you ask? Aside from the fact that it would only benefit the innocent civilians on both sides, it's going to take time, and cost of lot of money and political capital, that people just don't want to spend. The U.S. approach is the closest to this (the Europeans are so far in left field I don't think they are comming back), but by equating the IDF with terrorists, and treating Arafat as a democratically elected leader of a free society, the ultimate resolution of this road map is going to be another despotic regime, and state sponsor of terror.
I think once more consoles start getting hard disks, we are going to see mod-able console games.
Initially you'll have to use a PC to burn expansion data to a special disk and then upload it onto the harddrive, but eventually, consoles are going to have the option to put an OS on the hard disk (like Linux for the PS2), once console games are designed to work with these OSes, console modding will really take off.
I did not say the land had no people, people lived there, but it was practiacally devoid of civilization.
My source is Mark Twain. In an essay published in 1867 after a visit to Palistine he said that "There is not a solitary village throught its whole extent...one may ride ten miles hereabouts and not see ten human beings." I'll trust a well know American author, essayists, and journalist over some random website. Another good source is the historian Benny Morris
Muslims, Christians, and Jews -- who got along basically pretty well with each other until the Zionists came along
The "zionists" weren't part of the mix when the Palistinians sided with the Ottomans in World War I, when they tried to drive the Jews out durring the 30s, or when they sided with the Germans in World War II. The Arab leaders in the region have never accepted the Jewish presence and have repeatedly tried to anihilate them.
the Zionist violence, given what they'd just been through in Europe; but that wasn't the Arabs' fault..
Your talking about the terroist groups Etzel and Lechi? The Israeli army forcibly disarmed them as it's first official action. I've seen no such action from the PLO
Historically, treatment of Jews in Muslim lands had been FAR FAR better than their treatment in Christian lands. Islam normally took a sort of condescending benevolence towards Judaism....
The hostility of Arabs towards Jews began with Zionism and its violence. The Zionists were throwing non-Jews out of their villages in Palestine and murdering people; and you are suprised that this was and is resented?
Historically Jews were treated as second class citizens in both cultures. The fact that Jews were "less" second class in 1880 means nothing. In Arab countries, Jews had no legal recorse against violence, and were regularly sujected to pograms. Even today, Jews are not allowed to live in most Arab nations. When Israel became a state, millions of Jews, who had lived in arab countries for generations were driven out, and forced to leave everything they own behind. Were the decendants of those Jews targeting innocent arabs in those countries today, I would condem it.
Arabs are not granted "full legal rights" in Israel
All persons in Israel are accorded full, and equal protection of the law. And Arab CITIZENS are granted equal rights. You would be correct to claim that the process for becoming a citizen heavily favors Jews. However even if Israel was the most racially segregated state in the world, that would not justify the targeting of innocent civilians for murder.
Investigate a little more deeply, my friend.
I would be currious to know how you plan to actually SOLVE the problem in the region. Standing around playing the blame game only lets more innocents die. I have a very solid understanding of the history and geo-political situation of the region.
The crux of the problem is that the Palistinian people are used as political pawns by Arab leaders who care nothing about them. That is why I am a staunch advocate for creating a Palistinian democracy that respects human rights, and has an independant judiciary. Unfortunately, useless propoganda from these same people gets quoted by others who have no knowledge of the situation, and then gets propogated as truth. Siding with Arafat and the other Jew-haters, only hurts the Palistinian people in the long run. Listen to the truth, and realize that what we need to be talking about is a process to move forward and get us where we want to go, not who did what when, and how to get revenge.
FYI, OpenBSD would have a better installer if the requirement wasn't that the ENTIRE install fit on a single floppy. (look at what freeBSD did with just 2) As it is that floppy is almost entirely full (to the point that adding and extra sentence puts it over the line).
There was a project by some frech grad students to make a CD-based GUI installer. Don't know what the status is though. Check it out
nvasion and occupation of Palestine by the British did not vest them with any sovereign rights.
If we accept this claim then we all go back to where we came from. While we may not like it, ignoring history gets us no where. However following your reasoning, we should kick the palistinans out. After all the British took the land from the Ottomans who took if from the Romans, who took it from and forced out...the JEWS.
Hopefully, most people will agree that going back to 100A.D. is a pretty stupid way to solve this fight. The solution is to encourage self determination, human rights, and democracy. (A healthy dose of reality to the UN would probably help too).
If you claim brute force is the basis of a claim to sovereignty you legitimate terrorism.
Terrorism is the purposeful targeting of civilians. You can have a war without terrorism. If the Palestinians want to fight a legitimate war against Israel, or anyonelse for that matter, I'm not going to run out there and try to stop them.
I don't like war and there is almost no good reason to start one. People practicing self government will be able to work out a better, more agreeable solution. However, I'm not going to equate a war with terrorism.
Well, some people in one neighborhood in Boston don't want Blacks to be able to live there...And a while back some people didn't want Blacks to be allowed to share the same schools as their white children; I guess we should just let them have their way. Confronting hatred doesn't acomplish anything after all....
The site you are reading distorts the facts. We don't know who was there before 1882 for certain. We do know that visitors to the region claimed it was basically deserted in the early 1800s and we know that by 1882 the Jews were in the majority. We also know that these Jews created jobs and increased the amount of arable land, raising the standard of living for everyone.
To leave because they were not wanted by arab leaders would have been foolish and stupid. They had a legitimate claim to the land, submiting to hatred, would have done no one any good.
However no amount of argueing will ever change history. We are where we are today and the important thing is to move forward. Ultimately, sensible people will adopt the principles of self determination, freedom, and democracy.
My complaint with the US policy is that it treats the targeting of innocent civilians with and the accidental killing of innocent bystanders as morally equal. It does not encourage human rights, or democratic principles. It doesn't even encourage fair treatment of either side by the UN (The UN has spent more time condeming Israel then every other topic combined. It also discriminates agaist Palistinians in regaurd to refugee support). Instead it encourages the situation to foment, and causes the radicalization of both sides. Clinton was right, as long as terrorists and radicals are in control there can be no peace. At least is seems that Bush is trying to take his advice...
if you accept that concept you would legitimize the objectives of Hamas.
If I don't accept that claim then there is no such thing as sovernty and we can all go back to living in africa.
Hamas is dedicated to killing the Jews. If they only attacked military targets, and didn't use innocent palistinians for cover (that is conduct a real war instead of terrorism), I'd be fine with what they were doing.
US has the leverage to force Israel
Setting aside the failure to realise the Israel is a democracy with a very complex voter demographic,
how are the settlements the cause of this problem? Terrorism against the Jewish inhabitants of the region existed long before there was even a Jewish state. It existed after there was a Jewish state but before there were occupied territories. So now that Jordan abandoned the West Bank and Egypt abandoned Gaza, Surprise!!! We still have Terrorism!
Aid from the US yes, but maybe you should remember that there are other countries in the world. If you total up all of the aid Israel recieves vs the aid Arab countries recieve you will see that the money that Israel gets is dwarfed.
In the 1800s the area that is currently modern Israel was almost unpopulated. The Jews moved in bought land from absentee landlords (most of whom lived in Syria BTW). They then built up the infrastructure and by 1880 (when the first record of the population was made) were in the majority.
Unlike the white person in your example, Jews are not allowed to live an arab countries (like Jordan) from which they were expelled in the early 1900s. Arabs are allowed to live in Israel, and are granted full legal rights. In fact the life expectancy amoung Arab-Israelis is higher then the life expectancy in every other country in the region and most of the western world.
How you can blame the Jews for what is going on is beyond me. The true blame lies with the Arab leaders (like the Grand Mufti and his decendant Arafat) who have repeatedly used their control over society to foment hatred against the Jews and Israel. Jews are targets of violence because the Palistinians have been deprived of the rights to speech and expression. If they knew the truth instead of what they are told to believe, there would be no problem.
According to dictionary.com:
an anti-Semite is "One who discriminates against or who is hostile toward or prejudiced against Jews."
When I speak against Jewish self-destructiveness, I am anti-Jewish?
When you make the same argument as Hitler with the same bogus evidence? When you blatetly ignore modern history? When you distort the facts to the disadvantage of Jews everywhere? When you unfairly single them out for critisism? Pardon me for assuming that you are just being anti-semitic.
I've thought about this for a little while. Honestly I don't know of any good websites, but there are a lot of good books.
Alan Dershowitz's The Case for Israel deals with the most common arguments brought up on. The purpose of the book is to sight the relevent facts from credible sources to counter the (bogus) claims that many people (and slashdot trolls) make.
It's a pretty good introduction to the situation and he sites good sources so you can keep reading. He pushes his opinion on the situation a little harder then I like, but all in all it's a decent book.
Please know the facts before you post. Yes, the killing of innocents needs to stop, but quoting crap off of the TV and posting it on slashdot does not help.
Rather then repeate what's already been posted: here is an acurate history lesson. Read the entire thread, you might learn something.
Now let's deal with your specific points:
Britain has never at any time had any territorial claim to any part of Palestine.
I would call getting the land as part of the treaty that ended World War I legitimate.
The whole problem in the area was created by colonialism, the idea that the British could invade the region, expell the Turks and then set about calmly parcelling out territory to people...
I don't know about you, but I like the idea of self determination. The original British policy on Palestine was to give each group of people democratic control over the land in which they were a majority. That doesn't sound too imperialistic to me.
A majority of the Palestinian and Israeli populations support the plan
Geneva would be a fine peace setlement if both sides agreed on it's implementation. Unfortunately they do not. Support for the ultimate resolution, does not equate support for a particular series of steps to get there.
Sharon's government is bitterly opposed and will fight it to the end.
This problem did not start when Sharon took power, to claim otherwise (as the BBC and others have done) is to distort history. Terrorism existed before Sharon was elected, and (surprise) it exists now.
US will impose a similar settlement on Israel for the simple reason that it is tired of the endless lies and prevarications on both sides
I hate to tell you, but you can't "impose" peace without putting troops in there to physically separate the sides. That's not going to happen.
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From my experience Reiser has better average case read and write performance and XFS has better worst case performance (very useful if you are doing something time critical). I'd comment on JFS and ext3 but I havn't used them as heavily.
The real benefit of Reiser is going to be atomic operations (when apps get around to supporting it).
Excelent Advice! Right on!
I'm guessing the lawyer is doing it pro-bono if he's really good. OTOH maybe fat wallet has that kind of money...
Yeh, that's what I'm asking, did they say no specs? Your post reads like you expected them to give you a free video card, which doesn't make any sense at all. If they refused to give you the specs, you have a legitimate beef.
porting drivers and driver development for new OS's.
Since you seem in the know, care to respond on the accusation that there is GPLed code in the SkyOS tree?
As for getting ATI to help, this might just be me but, wouldn't you have a better chance if asked for just the tech specs and other information needed to make the driver, but went out and bought the card yourself? They did give the tech specs to X developers...
Reading the article, it appears the monster spawns as part of some quest, does his thing, and then vanishes forever. So you only get one shot at killing it.
SHOCK!!!!! Big media only tells you what it wants you to think!! Yeh, I've been critical of them too. Of course the BBC, showing only Israelis doing bad things breeds hatred. But you can't abdicate all responsibility. As a citizen of a democracy you are responsible for reaching your own conclusions.
The terrorists target innocent Israeli civilians then run and hide behind innocent Palistinian civilians, knowing that when the Israeli's come in after them, they can manage to get a few innocents killed and show up on the news. Unfortunately you can't force fair news coverage. You can try to educate people about the facts, and try to carry on an intelligent disscussion and reach a realistic solution however.
My opinion is that the first step to true peace is ending the UN discrimination against both sides. The second step is forcibly disarming terrorists groups, and setting up a free, democratic society in the Palistinian territories along with all the infrastructure that entials. Step 3, reach an agreeable peace deal will work itself out.
Why don't we do this you ask? Aside from the fact that it would only benefit the innocent civilians on both sides, it's going to take time, and cost of lot of money and political capital, that people just don't want to spend. The U.S. approach is the closest to this (the Europeans are so far in left field I don't think they are comming back), but by equating the IDF with terrorists, and treating Arafat as a democratically elected leader of a free society, the ultimate resolution of this road map is going to be another despotic regime, and state sponsor of terror.
Initially you'll have to use a PC to burn expansion data to a special disk and then upload it onto the harddrive, but eventually, consoles are going to have the option to put an OS on the hard disk (like Linux for the PS2), once console games are designed to work with these OSes, console modding will really take off.
My source is Mark Twain. In an essay published in 1867 after a visit to Palistine he said that "There is not a solitary village throught its whole extent...one may ride ten miles hereabouts and not see ten human beings." I'll trust a well know American author, essayists, and journalist over some random website. Another good source is the historian Benny Morris
Muslims, Christians, and Jews -- who got along basically pretty well with each other until the Zionists came along
The "zionists" weren't part of the mix when the Palistinians sided with the Ottomans in World War I, when they tried to drive the Jews out durring the 30s, or when they sided with the Germans in World War II. The Arab leaders in the region have never accepted the Jewish presence and have repeatedly tried to anihilate them.
the Zionist violence, given what they'd just been through in Europe; but that wasn't the Arabs' fault..
Your talking about the terroist groups Etzel and Lechi? The Israeli army forcibly disarmed them as it's first official action. I've seen no such action from the PLO
Historically, treatment of Jews in Muslim lands had been FAR FAR better than their treatment in Christian lands. Islam normally took a sort of condescending benevolence towards Judaism....
The hostility of Arabs towards Jews began with Zionism and its violence. The Zionists were throwing non-Jews out of their villages in Palestine and murdering people; and you are suprised that this was and is resented?
Historically Jews were treated as second class citizens in both cultures. The fact that Jews were "less" second class in 1880 means nothing. In Arab countries, Jews had no legal recorse against violence, and were regularly sujected to pograms. Even today, Jews are not allowed to live in most Arab nations. When Israel became a state, millions of Jews, who had lived in arab countries for generations were driven out, and forced to leave everything they own behind. Were the decendants of those Jews targeting innocent arabs in those countries today, I would condem it.
Arabs are not granted "full legal rights" in Israel All persons in Israel are accorded full, and equal protection of the law. And Arab CITIZENS are granted equal rights. You would be correct to claim that the process for becoming a citizen heavily favors Jews. However even if Israel was the most racially segregated state in the world, that would not justify the targeting of innocent civilians for murder.
Investigate a little more deeply, my friend.
I would be currious to know how you plan to actually SOLVE the problem in the region. Standing around playing the blame game only lets more innocents die. I have a very solid understanding of the history and geo-political situation of the region.
The crux of the problem is that the Palistinian people are used as political pawns by Arab leaders who care nothing about them. That is why I am a staunch advocate for creating a Palistinian democracy that respects human rights, and has an independant judiciary. Unfortunately, useless propoganda from these same people gets quoted by others who have no knowledge of the situation, and then gets propogated as truth. Siding with Arafat and the other Jew-haters, only hurts the Palistinian people in the long run. Listen to the truth, and realize that what we need to be talking about is a process to move forward and get us where we want to go, not who did what when, and how to get revenge.
There was a project by some frech grad students to make a CD-based GUI installer. Don't know what the status is though. Check it out
If we accept this claim then we all go back to where we came from. While we may not like it, ignoring history gets us no where. However following your reasoning, we should kick the palistinans out. After all the British took the land from the Ottomans who took if from the Romans, who took it from and forced out...the JEWS.
Hopefully, most people will agree that going back to 100A.D. is a pretty stupid way to solve this fight. The solution is to encourage self determination, human rights, and democracy. (A healthy dose of reality to the UN would probably help too).
If you claim brute force is the basis of a claim to sovereignty you legitimate terrorism.
Terrorism is the purposeful targeting of civilians. You can have a war without terrorism. If the Palestinians want to fight a legitimate war against Israel, or anyonelse for that matter, I'm not going to run out there and try to stop them.
I don't like war and there is almost no good reason to start one. People practicing self government will be able to work out a better, more agreeable solution. However, I'm not going to equate a war with terrorism.
The site you are reading distorts the facts. We don't know who was there before 1882 for certain. We do know that visitors to the region claimed it was basically deserted in the early 1800s and we know that by 1882 the Jews were in the majority. We also know that these Jews created jobs and increased the amount of arable land, raising the standard of living for everyone.
To leave because they were not wanted by arab leaders would have been foolish and stupid. They had a legitimate claim to the land, submiting to hatred, would have done no one any good.
However no amount of argueing will ever change history. We are where we are today and the important thing is to move forward. Ultimately, sensible people will adopt the principles of self determination, freedom, and democracy.
My complaint with the US policy is that it treats the targeting of innocent civilians with and the accidental killing of innocent bystanders as morally equal. It does not encourage human rights, or democratic principles. It doesn't even encourage fair treatment of either side by the UN (The UN has spent more time condeming Israel then every other topic combined. It also discriminates agaist Palistinians in regaurd to refugee support). Instead it encourages the situation to foment, and causes the radicalization of both sides. Clinton was right, as long as terrorists and radicals are in control there can be no peace. At least is seems that Bush is trying to take his advice...
If I don't accept that claim then there is no such thing as sovernty and we can all go back to living in africa.
Hamas is dedicated to killing the Jews. If they only attacked military targets, and didn't use innocent palistinians for cover (that is conduct a real war instead of terrorism), I'd be fine with what they were doing.
US has the leverage to force Israel
Setting aside the failure to realise the Israel is a democracy with a very complex voter demographic, how are the settlements the cause of this problem? Terrorism against the Jewish inhabitants of the region existed long before there was even a Jewish state. It existed after there was a Jewish state but before there were occupied territories. So now that Jordan abandoned the West Bank and Egypt abandoned Gaza, Surprise!!! We still have Terrorism!
Aid from the US yes, but maybe you should remember that there are other countries in the world. If you total up all of the aid Israel recieves vs the aid Arab countries recieve you will see that the money that Israel gets is dwarfed.
FYI, Israel's arab neighbors recieve more aid then Israel.
BTW, unlike, Hamas et. al., Israel does not purposefuly target innocent Arab civilians.
In the 1800s the area that is currently modern Israel was almost unpopulated. The Jews moved in bought land from absentee landlords (most of whom lived in Syria BTW). They then built up the infrastructure and by 1880 (when the first record of the population was made) were in the majority.
Unlike the white person in your example, Jews are not allowed to live an arab countries (like Jordan) from which they were expelled in the early 1900s. Arabs are allowed to live in Israel, and are granted full legal rights. In fact the life expectancy amoung Arab-Israelis is higher then the life expectancy in every other country in the region and most of the western world.
How you can blame the Jews for what is going on is beyond me. The true blame lies with the Arab leaders (like the Grand Mufti and his decendant Arafat) who have repeatedly used their control over society to foment hatred against the Jews and Israel. Jews are targets of violence because the Palistinians have been deprived of the rights to speech and expression. If they knew the truth instead of what they are told to believe, there would be no problem.
Maybe I'm being naive here, but wouldn't UTF-8 have worked just as well? It's backwards compatible with ASCII, and allows unicode charecters.
According to dictionary.com: an anti-Semite is "One who discriminates against or who is hostile toward or prejudiced against Jews."
When I speak against Jewish self-destructiveness, I am anti-Jewish?
When you make the same argument as Hitler with the same bogus evidence? When you blatetly ignore modern history? When you distort the facts to the disadvantage of Jews everywhere? When you unfairly single them out for critisism? Pardon me for assuming that you are just being anti-semitic.
Exept that what you mean has nothing to do with the situation at hand.
Cut the anti-semetic dibble. It's disgraceful and shows you ignorent you are.
Alan Dershowitz's The Case for Israel deals with the most common arguments brought up on. The purpose of the book is to sight the relevent facts from credible sources to counter the (bogus) claims that many people (and slashdot trolls) make.
It's a pretty good introduction to the situation and he sites good sources so you can keep reading. He pushes his opinion on the situation a little harder then I like, but all in all it's a decent book.
actually there were a majority of Jews in the area as early as 1880 (we can't know who was there earlier as there are no accurate counts).
Please know the facts before you post. Yes, the killing of innocents needs to stop, but quoting crap off of the TV and posting it on slashdot does not help.
Rather then repeate what's already been posted: here is an acurate history lesson. Read the entire thread, you might learn something.
Now let's deal with your specific points:
Britain has never at any time had any territorial claim to any part of Palestine.
I would call getting the land as part of the treaty that ended World War I legitimate.
The whole problem in the area was created by colonialism, the idea that the British could invade the region, expell the Turks and then set about calmly parcelling out territory to people...
I don't know about you, but I like the idea of self determination. The original British policy on Palestine was to give each group of people democratic control over the land in which they were a majority. That doesn't sound too imperialistic to me.
A majority of the Palestinian and Israeli populations support the plan
Geneva would be a fine peace setlement if both sides agreed on it's implementation. Unfortunately they do not. Support for the ultimate resolution, does not equate support for a particular series of steps to get there.
Sharon's government is bitterly opposed and will fight it to the end.
This problem did not start when Sharon took power, to claim otherwise (as the BBC and others have done) is to distort history. Terrorism existed before Sharon was elected, and (surprise) it exists now.
US will impose a similar settlement on Israel for the simple reason that it is tired of the endless lies and prevarications on both sides
I hate to tell you, but you can't "impose" peace without putting troops in there to physically separate the sides. That's not going to happen.
broken that commitment every time.
You must have meant the Palistinian Authority.