Of course it is! The Patriot Act enabled Obama and the Dems. If it hadn't been for that they never would have thought of this on their own, right? I mean Obama and Co are all for hope and change and rule of law and privacy rights and... yeah all that stuff they told us they were for each year Bush was in office!
Get a grip. Do you realize how many pets are killed in raids? Lucky he didn't have one (or more). Had he pulled a gun on the intruders he would likely be dead or facing jail time had he shot one of the swat team. There are far, far too many raids which have gone wrong - whether the individuals involved were innocent, guilty or just plain not the right house. And you cavilierly dismiss the consequences - in fact you just plain ignore them.
How about staying in the peoples wallet instead? There is no reason that the federal government should be paying for this, period. It is crap like this that has ruined this country financially. But then the 50% of people who pay no taxes don't have much of a reason to care about that.. not yet at least.
Stop already ok? It is *free* and *available* for 98% of the world. The last 2% includes linux, bsd, plan 9, etc. You know what? You made a concious choice to use an OS that is not only in the minority, but is miniscule in use compared to win and osx. You knew that so stop whining when a company makes a product that works on those platforms but doesn't cater to your need. And before you go off your horse again, I use FreeBSD most of the time - but I don't go freaking out when someone doesn't provide support for it, even if they could if they really wanted to as it is their perogative, not mine.
right ok.. please take a look at the graveyard of OSS projects. They come, they go.. but they mostly go. Even when speaking of "distributions" those which were popular in the late 90s are less so now. The time that XP has been around with regular updates from the vendor has to be one of the longest single version releases in the history of computers. I might through in Fressbsd but I think there are too many changes from early versions to today. IBM has long support times, perhaps there are some ancient versions of VM/somethingorother that are still supported. The original post was definitely troll material.
There was no Federal ban of online gambling so please, get your facts straight. What Bush signed into law on 9/30/06 (as an attachment to Port Security Act) was a ban on financial institutions knowingly transferring funds to companies/individuals that are involved in gambling operations where those operations are already illegal.
A conference report resolving those differences passed in the House of Representatives, paving the way for enactment of the bill, by roll call vote. The totals were 409 Ayes, 2 Nays, 21 Present/Not A conference report resolving those differences passed in the Senate, paving the way for enactment of the bill, by Unanimous Consent. A record of each senator’s position was not kept.
In Nov 2006, The Democrats took control of both houses of congress and in 2009 Obama took office. Yet it is the DOJ, under Obama, which has led this prosecution - a decision to prosecute made by AG Holder. And it continues the trend of going well beyond the statute by seizing the domains of those accused of illicit fund transfers and in fact is targeting not those transfering the funds but those getting the funds. From the original article: "The takedown marks the first widespread charges targeting Internet poker by federal officials and is likely to impact billions of dollars of gaming revenue."
So yes, please place blame for this where it is due. This is an intential prosecution led by the Obama DOJ. If the Democrats were some how tricked by Bush and wanted to amend or reverse the original law, they had over four years to do so, including over two with no fear of veto. If they did not have the stomach for that, the DOJ could simply chose not to persue prosecution.
Here's a hint for you: The current President of the US is a DEMOCRAT. The current head of the DOJ is a DEMOCRAT. The US Senate is held by the DEMOCRATIC PARTY. The House of Representatives for the four years prior to Jan 2011 was held by the DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
I would add to the above good commentary that the figure quoted, 70% of total energy used in production, probably applies to very many consumer devices (no, not just electronics). How much energy does a hand mixer use compared to what it takes to make it? Rechargable electric razor? I agree that this is a misleading and probably not very valuable metric.
any minute now. Clearly these kids are terrorists. Why eles would they be taking photos of the Hoover Dam? Lake Meade? Las Vegas! IIRC not even tourists are allowed to photo the dam itself anymore.
OK, but my choice is FreeBSD instead of Linux - fyi, kde and gnome work there too though I gave up on both quite a while ago and have been using Xmonad. I just found it hard to figure out exactly what kde or gnome was helping me with, other than using most of my system memory. Now to go read that story about bringing back the C:\ prompt...
Dont know why the AC was modded down as what they say is true. Firepig has turned into just that - bloat and gimmicks. It is slow and still has memory issues (far more than the other browsers). While only an every now and then user of Opera, it does seem more responsive and innovative though I'm kind of set in my way interface wise and extension wise which makes moving a last resort. That though is coming closer.
Why, for once, can't the developers put on a feature freeze and tackle head on performace (speed, memory usuage) issues? Does anyone even try to track how many of these "must have" new features people actually end up using? Firefox should focus on the basics and do them the best before going forward with anything new.
No, he still hasn't learned it. "free" as in socialist/communist is more like it. The collective shall develop the software and it shall be available to all comrade! I'm all for charity. If you want to write a program and make it OSS, or spend time working on something that already is, power to you! But don't try to commit me to doing the same thing.
Clearly you have no financial background. What is stable? Stable revenues? If so then you better be increasingly more productive to offset the effects of inflation on your gross margins. If not, your bottom line will dwindle as will your ability to pay a dividend. If you are claiming a stable net income (and therefor increasing revenues) and a stable dividend payment, then the value of the company is subject to changes in the discount rate which is used to determine the present value of all those future cash payments. Your seemingly stable company could quickly find itself worth half what it once was. Further, your "neither growing nor declining" could imply a stable market share in some industry. If so, that has no clear bearing at all on profitability or value of the company to the market (ie shareholders).
Finally - a company which only pays a dividend is in essence a bond. The big question though is, will there be a return of capital at maturity? Or will the company survive long enough to be considered a perpetuity and thus the 'principal' can be ignored? As many investors know, owning a bond is almost always less risky than owning the underlying equity in a company. Further, an investor can simply purchase a "risk free" bond such as a 10 or 30 year US treasury [ok, perhaps not as risk free today than in decades past]. Which would you own? A US bond that pays 4% or stock in a company which pays a 4% dividend with no prospect of an increased payout or an increase in the share price?
I guess that's what the cult of iSteve does to people. Maybe instead of crying about there being too many, you can consider exactly why you are being given those choices and research the options yourself so you'll know what you are getting instead of asking slashdot to provide you with the "answer". In effect you are asking the teacher to do your homework problem and will end up learning nothing in the process. I'll give one example: do you really need 1gb of memory on a discrete graphics card on a laptop? Believe it or not, yes people have written about this topic and a friend with that question learned quite a bit which will be factored into his future purchases. You could too.
(1) free software will only be ported if a developer(s) wish to do so too. It is not a given that you will get a clean compile taking a tarball from one and putting on another (ie, redhat to openbsd)
(2) Nvidia has probably made the economic assessment that there are few users of the older card(s) running linux or bsd to make it worth the effort to pull a developer off a current project to provide you something that was not promised when you purchased the card.
(3) I think if they are using XP and wanting 16:9 they would not switch to linux to get that ability. Their applications and knowledge base are with XP/Windows, not linux.
previous poster - one can always keep the original installation files of any downloaded software and roll back to a prior version. That is far easier than trying to recompile. Again, think about what % of computer users would even know the proper steps yet alone be willing to take them?
I'm not against oss at all but I am definitely in the BSD license camp.
"the developer of the software controls the users of the software"
what a crock that is. what % of users of software do you think are capable of doing anything remotely useful (or even plain silly) with the source code? 10%? 1%? And of those, what % are interested enough in making a change? The developer(s) will always control the users of the software unless the developers are the only people using the software.
The only problem is that the remaining 98% of authors are shit. Publishers and editors tend to weed out the crapola too so that the book store doesn't have 50,000 books on goatse
SO what are you paying this hopefully competent editor? And how many books are you spreading that cost over? And there may be more than one 'editor' involved in a book publication (fact checkers, designers/artists, etc). And do not discount the value of handling the legal end of things either. Sure you can probably find a lawer to do it for you.. hopefully that is his specialty... and that too must be spread over the number of books sold.
I think the opposite. If Japan manages to get through this with only minor radiation problems (as so far) I think it will be a positive for nuclear energy. I mean, WTF more could you possibly do? A Mag 10 quake right under the reactor core? One thing that will come out of this is that both Japan and the US currently require backup power for the cooling system of only about 12 hours while the Eurolanders require 24-48 hours. There will definitely be a push to try to up this to 72 hours though of course practicalities may get in the way.
However, the right of privacy is not absolute. In particular, the courts have long held that news reporting and social, political and economic commentary — the things the First Amendment was designed to protect — are more valuable to society than an individual’s right to be let alone. Therefore, images that are part of the public colloquy about events have usually been exempt from privacy lawsuits. In contrast, the courts have generally held that making money is distinctly less valuable to society than the right to be let alone.
So in fact, a case could be made that a release was necessary as this was not an editorial (news) type photograph. As you note, commercial use is more firmly a no-no without release.
really should be tailored to the kind of programming and development the student expects to be doing after he graduates. Working for a defense contractor? Yeah some basic understanding of calc and linear methods etc is probably useful. Business? Outside of narrow quant areas on Wall St, nothing much beyond simple math from high school. Of course there areas where more advanced stuff like graph theory might be appropriate - maybe in the telecoms or CIA. But to force students (as I once was) to take a few high level math courses just 'because' its not fair to any involved.
I don't use either Gnome or KDE. I use Xmonad on FreeBSD (while on life support) and XP on all machines but my laptop which is Win 7. So I think I can speak to the lack of minimize though perhaps less so the maximize.
While using XP I rarely maximize an application - the only ones might be video/image editing or to watch pron..err youtube. Everything else is a variable size as I like to keep chat windows and other apps visible, at least in part while browsing or using spreadsheet or similar. I use minimize often to declutter (I dont like title bars floating about) and I rarely, if ever, use virtual screens eventhough I have them available.
While using Xmonad I rarely float windows - the only exception that comes to mind is the music player controls. On the otherhand, I make great use of virtual screens. Typically I have one or two browsers maxed on their own screen. Possibly also an open office document or Eclipse. Other things tend to get tiled on a screen. Chats on one, mail and shells windows on another, etc. There really is not any concept of minimize in Xmonad though I do at times find myself wishing for this. Instead I tend to just shift the application in question to another virtual screen.
Neither approach is perfect, there are times I prefer one over the other but I can live with either.
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Of course it is! The Patriot Act enabled Obama and the Dems. If it hadn't been for that they never would have thought of this on their own, right? I mean Obama and Co are all for hope and change and rule of law and privacy rights and... yeah all that stuff they told us they were for each year Bush was in office!
Get a grip. Do you realize how many pets are killed in raids? Lucky he didn't have one (or more). Had he pulled a gun on the intruders he would likely be dead or facing jail time had he shot one of the swat team. There are far, far too many raids which have gone wrong - whether the individuals involved were innocent, guilty or just plain not the right house. And you cavilierly dismiss the consequences - in fact you just plain ignore them.
Are you then saying that Verizon, Comcast, etc should provide all of use free internet access too? After all, they created the networks we are using.
How about staying in the peoples wallet instead? There is no reason that the federal government should be paying for this, period. It is crap like this that has ruined this country financially. But then the 50% of people who pay no taxes don't have much of a reason to care about that.. not yet at least.
Stop already ok? It is *free* and *available* for 98% of the world. The last 2% includes linux, bsd, plan 9, etc. You know what? You made a concious choice to use an OS that is not only in the minority, but is miniscule in use compared to win and osx. You knew that so stop whining when a company makes a product that works on those platforms but doesn't cater to your need. And before you go off your horse again, I use FreeBSD most of the time - but I don't go freaking out when someone doesn't provide support for it, even if they could if they really wanted to as it is their perogative, not mine.
right ok.. please take a look at the graveyard of OSS projects. They come, they go.. but they mostly go. Even when speaking of "distributions" those which were popular in the late 90s are less so now. The time that XP has been around with regular updates from the vendor has to be one of the longest single version releases in the history of computers. I might through in Fressbsd but I think there are too many changes from early versions to today. IBM has long support times, perhaps there are some ancient versions of VM/somethingorother that are still supported. The original post was definitely troll material.
There was no Federal ban of online gambling so please, get your facts straight. What Bush signed into law on 9/30/06 (as an attachment to Port Security Act) was a ban on financial institutions knowingly transferring funds to companies/individuals that are involved in gambling operations where those operations are already illegal.
A conference report resolving those differences passed in the House of Representatives, paving the way for enactment of the bill, by roll call vote. The totals were 409 Ayes, 2 Nays, 21 Present/Not A conference report resolving those differences passed in the Senate, paving the way for enactment of the bill, by Unanimous Consent. A record of each senator’s position was not kept.
In Nov 2006, The Democrats took control of both houses of congress and in 2009 Obama took office. Yet it is the DOJ, under Obama, which has led this prosecution - a decision to prosecute made by AG Holder. And it continues the trend of going well beyond the statute by seizing the domains of those accused of illicit fund transfers and in fact is targeting not those transfering the funds but those getting the funds. From the original article: "The takedown marks the first widespread charges targeting Internet poker by federal officials and is likely to impact billions of dollars of gaming revenue."
So yes, please place blame for this where it is due. This is an intential prosecution led by the Obama DOJ. If the Democrats were some how tricked by Bush and wanted to amend or reverse the original law, they had over four years to do so, including over two with no fear of veto. If they did not have the stomach for that, the DOJ could simply chose not to persue prosecution.
Here's a hint for you: The current President of the US is a DEMOCRAT. The current head of the DOJ is a DEMOCRAT. The US Senate is held by the DEMOCRATIC PARTY. The House of Representatives for the four years prior to Jan 2011 was held by the DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
Please place blame where it is due correctly.
I would add to the above good commentary that the figure quoted, 70% of total energy used in production, probably applies to very many consumer devices (no, not just electronics). How much energy does a hand mixer use compared to what it takes to make it? Rechargable electric razor? I agree that this is a misleading and probably not very valuable metric.
any minute now. Clearly these kids are terrorists. Why eles would they be taking photos of the Hoover Dam? Lake Meade? Las Vegas! IIRC not even tourists are allowed to photo the dam itself anymore.
"The whole idea of linux is choice.."
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OK, but my choice is FreeBSD instead of Linux - fyi, kde and gnome work there too though I gave up on both quite a while ago and have been using Xmonad. I just found it hard to figure out exactly what kde or gnome was helping me with, other than using most of my system memory. Now to go read that story about bringing back the C:\ prompt
Dont know why the AC was modded down as what they say is true. Firepig has turned into just that - bloat and gimmicks. It is slow and still has memory issues (far more than the other browsers). While only an every now and then user of Opera, it does seem more responsive and innovative though I'm kind of set in my way interface wise and extension wise which makes moving a last resort. That though is coming closer.
Why, for once, can't the developers put on a feature freeze and tackle head on performace (speed, memory usuage) issues? Does anyone even try to track how many of these "must have" new features people actually end up using? Firefox should focus on the basics and do them the best before going forward with anything new.
No, he still hasn't learned it. "free" as in socialist/communist is more like it. The collective shall develop the software and it shall be available to all comrade! I'm all for charity. If you want to write a program and make it OSS, or spend time working on something that already is, power to you! But don't try to commit me to doing the same thing.
Clearly you have no financial background. What is stable? Stable revenues? If so then you better be increasingly more productive to offset the effects of inflation on your gross margins. If not, your bottom line will dwindle as will your ability to pay a dividend. If you are claiming a stable net income (and therefor increasing revenues) and a stable dividend payment, then the value of the company is subject to changes in the discount rate which is used to determine the present value of all those future cash payments. Your seemingly stable company could quickly find itself worth half what it once was. Further, your "neither growing nor declining" could imply a stable market share in some industry. If so, that has no clear bearing at all on profitability or value of the company to the market (ie shareholders).
Finally - a company which only pays a dividend is in essence a bond. The big question though is, will there be a return of capital at maturity? Or will the company survive long enough to be considered a perpetuity and thus the 'principal' can be ignored? As many investors know, owning a bond is almost always less risky than owning the underlying equity in a company. Further, an investor can simply purchase a "risk free" bond such as a 10 or 30 year US treasury [ok, perhaps not as risk free today than in decades past]. Which would you own? A US bond that pays 4% or stock in a company which pays a 4% dividend with no prospect of an increased payout or an increase in the share price?
I guess that's what the cult of iSteve does to people. Maybe instead of crying about there being too many, you can consider exactly why you are being given those choices and research the options yourself so you'll know what you are getting instead of asking slashdot to provide you with the "answer". In effect you are asking the teacher to do your homework problem and will end up learning nothing in the process. I'll give one example: do you really need 1gb of memory on a discrete graphics card on a laptop? Believe it or not, yes people have written about this topic and a friend with that question learned quite a bit which will be factored into his future purchases. You could too.
(1) free software will only be ported if a developer(s) wish to do so too. It is not a given that you will get a clean compile taking a tarball from one and putting on another (ie, redhat to openbsd) (2) Nvidia has probably made the economic assessment that there are few users of the older card(s) running linux or bsd to make it worth the effort to pull a developer off a current project to provide you something that was not promised when you purchased the card. (3) I think if they are using XP and wanting 16:9 they would not switch to linux to get that ability. Their applications and knowledge base are with XP/Windows, not linux. previous poster - one can always keep the original installation files of any downloaded software and roll back to a prior version. That is far easier than trying to recompile. Again, think about what % of computer users would even know the proper steps yet alone be willing to take them? I'm not against oss at all but I am definitely in the BSD license camp.
"the developer of the software controls the users of the software"
what a crock that is. what % of users of software do you think are capable of doing anything remotely useful (or even plain silly) with the source code? 10%? 1%? And of those, what % are interested enough in making a change? The developer(s) will always control the users of the software unless the developers are the only people using the software.
The only problem is that the remaining 98% of authors are shit. Publishers and editors tend to weed out the crapola too so that the book store doesn't have 50,000 books on goatse
SO what are you paying this hopefully competent editor? And how many books are you spreading that cost over? And there may be more than one 'editor' involved in a book publication (fact checkers, designers/artists, etc). And do not discount the value of handling the legal end of things either. Sure you can probably find a lawer to do it for you.. hopefully that is his specialty... and that too must be spread over the number of books sold.
The problem I see is that any doll would have to be sold as dupes
I think the opposite. If Japan manages to get through this with only minor radiation problems (as so far) I think it will be a positive for nuclear energy. I mean, WTF more could you possibly do? A Mag 10 quake right under the reactor core? One thing that will come out of this is that both Japan and the US currently require backup power for the cooling system of only about 12 hours while the Eurolanders require 24-48 hours. There will definitely be a push to try to up this to 72 hours though of course practicalities may get in the way.
So in fact, a case could be made that a release was necessary as this was not an editorial (news) type photograph. As you note, commercial use is more firmly a no-no without release.
really should be tailored to the kind of programming and development the student expects to be doing after he graduates. Working for a defense contractor? Yeah some basic understanding of calc and linear methods etc is probably useful. Business? Outside of narrow quant areas on Wall St, nothing much beyond simple math from high school. Of course there areas where more advanced stuff like graph theory might be appropriate - maybe in the telecoms or CIA. But to force students (as I once was) to take a few high level math courses just 'because' its not fair to any involved.
So you have no problem stealing $10 bucks from those who don't steal music or movies over the internet?
I don't use either Gnome or KDE. I use Xmonad on FreeBSD (while on life support) and XP on all machines but my laptop which is Win 7. So I think I can speak to the lack of minimize though perhaps less so the maximize.
While using XP I rarely maximize an application - the only ones might be video/image editing or to watch pron..err youtube. Everything else is a variable size as I like to keep chat windows and other apps visible, at least in part while browsing or using spreadsheet or similar. I use minimize often to declutter (I dont like title bars floating about) and I rarely, if ever, use virtual screens eventhough I have them available.
While using Xmonad I rarely float windows - the only exception that comes to mind is the music player controls. On the otherhand, I make great use of virtual screens. Typically I have one or two browsers maxed on their own screen. Possibly also an open office document or Eclipse. Other things tend to get tiled on a screen. Chats on one, mail and shells windows on another, etc. There really is not any concept of minimize in Xmonad though I do at times find myself wishing for this. Instead I tend to just shift the application in question to another virtual screen.
Neither approach is perfect, there are times I prefer one over the other but I can live with either.