I just bought a GTX260 after comparing price/performance ration of it vs it's nearest ATI card. The nVidia card turned out to give more bang for my buck.
That cover is not pornographic. It is not sick or disgusting. It is an image of something beautiful- the naked human body. It is art.
Art should never be censored. Ever. Period. Censhorship is inherintly wrong and goes against the very concepts of freedom and democoracy.
Nobody was in any way harmed by the creation of that image. The girl in question most likely went on to live a perfectly ordinary life with no mental issues as a result. (In contrast- If you told her an image of her body was sick and disguesting, this would be far more likely to cause emotional issues).
Sure, there may be people out there that are sexually attracted to it. They are going to get there jollies from all sorts of publically available images, I see no reason for society to censor itself because a fraction of a percent of the population has THOUGHT CRIME over something.
Furthermore, the internet routes around censorship. More specifically, trying to censor an image results in the Streisand effect, effectively making it more visible to people. (Hell, I just googled it and found about 15,000 copies of the image on GIS).
This, my friends, is precisely why I'm against any form of internet censorship, particuarly the one proposed by the Australian Government.
As an Australian citizen, it scares the hell out of me that a politician could block a website purely because it is critical of him/her
Seriously... you recieve a letter from President Bush informing you that only YOU can possibly prevent this money from going to ter'ists, you simply need to send $100,000 to nigeria.
How fucking stupid do you have to be? I mean seriously.... wouldn't the fucking president of the united states be able to afford the "fees" needed to clear the cash if the story was actually true?
I just cannot fathom how someone could be so utterly stupid as to fall for this scam.
Personally I think anyone that falls for it deserves it.
I believe the Flu virus can only survive for a short time outside the human body, so just leave it.
That said, you are already immune to that particular strain, so you can't get reinfected.
I'm going to contribute nothing to this conversation other than to be a nazi and point out that the q6600 CPU runs at 2.4ghz, not the 1.6ghz listed in the article
I just bought a Sony Reader. The device is brilliant, and should be weighed on it's merits rather than hatred of another division of the company that makes it.
I've been using Zope/Plone as a development platform for years now (Since an early alpha of plone1.0), and I can honestly say it is without equal.
There is an incredibly steep learning curve and sub-par documentation, but once you get your head around it the speed and ease of development amazes everyone I develop for (And myself).
Having started using Java/Tomcat again for a project, It feels like taking several steps backwards. Apart from the the (imho) superiority of Python over Java*, The entire development process in Java feels antiquated, slow, error-prone, and difficult to scale (Not to mention Javas #1 Philosophy- if it aint broke, try adding XML).
I ended up writing my own framework to replicate my favorite parts of Zope/Plone (mainly Skins, ZPT, and Zope3 Views) and am feeling much more productive.
*I will admit, there are a lot of things- most notably typing and Interfaces- that I would love in Python, but overall Python wins over Java
I'm not sure I could ever go back to dialup. While it used to be acceptable, most web designers now assume broadband, so modern dialup would feel far slower than it used to.
This was my main fear when starting to use nicotine- that it's effects would eventually wear off and I'd become dependent on it.
I no longer get the almost euphoric hit it originally gave me, and it's affect on tourettes seems to have decreased- which would indicate my body is becoming more 'resistant' to it. I'm assuming upping the dose would counteract this, which I'm holding off for as long as possible. So far I haven't found myself physically addicted to it, which is a good sign.
(Just a quick bit of into on tourettes for those that don't know about it)
Tourettes is difficult to explain. The classical example people have heard about is uncontrollable swearing (Google for 'Tourettes Guy'). This is the extreme form of it, but is rare.
Most sufferers (like myself) just get uncontrollable urges to make small movements, in my case it's mostly eye twitches and small vocalizations like humming. The urge comes and goes, but when it's in full force I have to complete the 'tic' up to a couple of times per second. I can resist it for a small period of time, however resistance for long is impossible- it's just too overpowering, and resisting makes the bout of tics worse. From what I can gather it's caused by a bug in the reward pathways of my brain, and nicotine seems to act in a way that temporarily reduces this.
I've been using Nicotine as a treatment for Tourettes syndrome for a few months now, and can quite honestly say It's saved my life. The only other treatments are incredibly severe drugs with worse side effects than the illness itself, and I was damn near suicidal for a while contemplating life with an untreatable movement disorder.
Then on some forum advice I tried a nicotine patch. Within an hour it had a noticeable affect, and within 3 hours there was an almost complete reduction in symptoms. I also found it had a similar affect with OCD and ADD (Although I'm not formally diagnosed with the latter, I found I could concentrate far better with a nicotine patch)
I'd have to agree with this. I live in a rather high crime area and see Police and Ambulances blow through lights all the time. They always appear to slow down.
Live and let live. You can be idealistic as much as you want, but for 99.999% of the world, a Computer(and it's OS) is a tool, not a political statement. We just want the thing to work.
I have absolutely no problem whatsoever with proprietry drivers, or proprietry software in general, and would encourage kernel developers to support them as best as possible. (I'm thinking a fixed API/ABI/Whatever so I don't have to reinstall every driver when I update my kernel). Leave that stupid "Warning: A proprietry kernel module has tainted the Kernel, killing a poor defenceless baby Gnu" message for me to ignore, and the world will keep on turning.
To put it another way, the two things that are stopping Linux from ending up on Mothers desktops everywhere are
a) Driver/Hardware support. This can be remedied with a decent driver API (With binary-only driver support!) b) Software installation. Third party repositories are a fundamentally flawed system, give me InstallShield/Wise/InstallAnywhere anyday.
And No, I don't want to hear about how easy FooDriver is to install using Yum/Apt-Get/Portage/etc, and how your Mum uses linux (Because you support it from her basement). The system doesn't work for Obscure-Software-2.0 with Random-Library-3.0-that-has-no-binary-packages-ava ilable-and-only-compiles-with-gcc-1.5, which unfortunately seems to be 95% of the stuff people want to install. I expect any rebuttal to include a detailed explanation of how to install "tuneit" on any arbitrary linux distro, in terms my mother could understand (That means no console!)
I've noticed numerous TGP porn sites have been trying to get me to open a WMF file (Not that I uh.... would know about this first hand or anything;p). Didn't think there was anything to it until seeing this article- my guess is it's being used to install crapware of some kind.
You completely missed my point. Those were a few examples of major applications off the top of my head that arn't available in any of the major repos.
My mum most certainly does need OpenOffice, and I can imagine my younger siblings wanting to use LimeWire.
Linux will never be ready for the desktop until it has point and click installation of ALL applications (which can only happen if we go to a 1st party packaging system rather than 3rd party repositories)
Thats not the point. She might be able to install an application thats in the repository, but as soon as she wants to install something not in the repo, or something with a different version, she cannot do it.
You can go on about how easy it is to `yum install foo` or do the equivilant in a GUI, but as soon as I want to very slightly from what the repository maintainer decides is right, I'm fucked. And honestly, it seems like 90% of the stuff I want to install is not in the repository.
Find me a repo with KDE3.4 for Fc3-x86_64, find me OpenOffice 2 for fc3, what about opera or skype? vmware? Eclipse, netbeans, limewire..... most of the major applications I have on my machine have no way for the average non technical user (i.e. "My Mum") to install.
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I just bought a GTX260 after comparing price/performance ration of it vs it's nearest ATI card. The nVidia card turned out to give more bang for my buck.
Can't speak for low end cards though.
Directly from the Slashdot summary:
"The government may now take steps to legislate so that Telstra can't build a network that competes with the NBN"
I should clarify my point.
They don't win the government grant, fine
But why not let them build their own network with their own money parallel to this? Explicitly forbidding this seems a little too socialist.
Why wouldn't the government allow them to compete?
That cover is not pornographic. It is not sick or disgusting. It is an image of something beautiful- the naked human body. It is art.
Art should never be censored. Ever. Period. Censhorship is inherintly wrong and goes against the very concepts of freedom and democoracy.
Nobody was in any way harmed by the creation of that image. The girl in question most likely went on to live a perfectly ordinary life with no mental issues as a result. (In contrast- If you told her an image of her body was sick and disguesting, this would be far more likely to cause emotional issues).
Sure, there may be people out there that are sexually attracted to it. They are going to get there jollies from all sorts of publically available images, I see no reason for society to censor itself because a fraction of a percent of the population has THOUGHT CRIME over something.
Furthermore, the internet routes around censorship. More specifically, trying to censor an image results in the Streisand effect, effectively making it more visible to people. (Hell, I just googled it and found about 15,000 copies of the image on GIS).
This, my friends, is precisely why I'm against any form of internet censorship, particuarly the one proposed by the Australian Government. As an Australian citizen, it scares the hell out of me that a politician could block a website purely because it is critical of him/her
Seriously... you recieve a letter from President Bush informing you that only YOU can possibly prevent this money from going to ter'ists, you simply need to send $100,000 to nigeria.
How fucking stupid do you have to be? I mean seriously.... wouldn't the fucking president of the united states be able to afford the "fees" needed to clear the cash if the story was actually true?
I just cannot fathom how someone could be so utterly stupid as to fall for this scam.
Personally I think anyone that falls for it deserves it.
I believe the Flu virus can only survive for a short time outside the human body, so just leave it. That said, you are already immune to that particular strain, so you can't get reinfected.
I bought a sony prs-505 a few months ago and use it to read novels almost every night. I'd consider THE best $400 (Australian Dollars) I ever spent.
I'm going to contribute nothing to this conversation other than to be a nazi and point out that the q6600 CPU runs at 2.4ghz, not the 1.6ghz listed in the article
http://techgage.com/article/intel_core_2_quad_q6600/
Not very fast? Most ISPs offer 24mbit ADSL2+. Much faster than most of the world.
More importantly, ebook readers tend to use "ePaper" rather than LCD screens. It looks just like real paper and is very easy to read off.
I just bought a Sony Reader. The device is brilliant, and should be weighed on it's merits rather than hatred of another division of the company that makes it.
We can usually get a response in a matter of hours, but we build web applications which completely changes the playing field.
I've been using Zope/Plone as a development platform for years now (Since an early alpha of plone1.0), and I can honestly say it is without equal.
There is an incredibly steep learning curve and sub-par documentation, but once you get your head around it the speed and ease of development amazes everyone I develop for (And myself).
Having started using Java/Tomcat again for a project, It feels like taking several steps backwards. Apart from the the (imho) superiority of Python over Java*, The entire development process in Java feels antiquated, slow, error-prone, and difficult to scale (Not to mention Javas #1 Philosophy- if it aint broke, try adding XML).
I ended up writing my own framework to replicate my favorite parts of Zope/Plone (mainly Skins, ZPT, and Zope3 Views) and am feeling much more productive.
*I will admit, there are a lot of things- most notably typing and Interfaces- that I would love in Python, but overall Python wins over Java
I'm not sure I could ever go back to dialup. While it used to be acceptable, most web designers now assume broadband, so modern dialup would feel far slower than it used to.
This was my main fear when starting to use nicotine- that it's effects would eventually wear off and I'd become dependent on it.
I no longer get the almost euphoric hit it originally gave me, and it's affect on tourettes seems to have decreased- which would indicate my body is becoming more 'resistant' to it. I'm assuming upping the dose would counteract this, which I'm holding off for as long as possible. So far I haven't found myself physically addicted to it, which is a good sign.
(Just a quick bit of into on tourettes for those that don't know about it)
Tourettes is difficult to explain. The classical example people have heard about is uncontrollable swearing (Google for 'Tourettes Guy'). This is the extreme form of it, but is rare.
Most sufferers (like myself) just get uncontrollable urges to make small movements, in my case it's mostly eye twitches and small vocalizations like humming. The urge comes and goes, but when it's in full force I have to complete the 'tic' up to a couple of times per second. I can resist it for a small period of time, however resistance for long is impossible- it's just too overpowering, and resisting makes the bout of tics worse. From what I can gather it's caused by a bug in the reward pathways of my brain, and nicotine seems to act in a way that temporarily reduces this.
I've been using Nicotine as a treatment for Tourettes syndrome for a few months now, and can quite honestly say It's saved my life. The only other treatments are incredibly severe drugs with worse side effects than the illness itself, and I was damn near suicidal for a while contemplating life with an untreatable movement disorder.
Then on some forum advice I tried a nicotine patch. Within an hour it had a noticeable affect, and within 3 hours there was an almost complete reduction in symptoms. I also found it had a similar affect with OCD and ADD (Although I'm not formally diagnosed with the latter, I found I could concentrate far better with a nicotine patch)
I'd have to agree with this. I live in a rather high crime area and see Police and Ambulances blow through lights all the time. They always appear to slow down.
What does proprietary have to do with evil?
Live and let live. You can be idealistic as much as you want, but for 99.999% of the world, a Computer(and it's OS) is a tool, not a political statement. We just want the thing to work.
a ilable-and-only-compiles-with-gcc-1.5, which unfortunately seems to be 95% of the stuff people want to install. I expect any rebuttal to include a detailed explanation of how to install "tuneit" on any arbitrary linux distro, in terms my mother could understand (That means no console!)
I have absolutely no problem whatsoever with proprietry drivers, or proprietry software in general, and would encourage kernel developers to support them as best as possible. (I'm thinking a fixed API/ABI/Whatever so I don't have to reinstall every driver when I update my kernel). Leave that stupid "Warning: A proprietry kernel module has tainted the Kernel, killing a poor defenceless baby Gnu" message for me to ignore, and the world will keep on turning.
To put it another way, the two things that are stopping Linux from ending up on Mothers desktops everywhere are
a) Driver/Hardware support. This can be remedied with a decent driver API (With binary-only driver support!)
b) Software installation. Third party repositories are a fundamentally flawed system, give me InstallShield/Wise/InstallAnywhere anyday.
And No, I don't want to hear about how easy FooDriver is to install using Yum/Apt-Get/Portage/etc, and how your Mum uses linux (Because you support it from her basement). The system doesn't work for Obscure-Software-2.0 with Random-Library-3.0-that-has-no-binary-packages-av
Your IP address has scored: 0. This is ranked #39349 of the 39349 IP's spotted so far. Mmmm. I feel special.
I've noticed numerous TGP porn sites have been trying to get me to open a WMF file (Not that I uh.... would know about this first hand or anything ;p). Didn't think there was anything to it until seeing this article- my guess is it's being used to install crapware of some kind.
lucky I'm using Linux.
You completely missed my point. Those were a few examples of major applications off the top of my head that arn't available in any of the major repos.
My mum most certainly does need OpenOffice, and I can imagine my younger siblings wanting to use LimeWire.
Linux will never be ready for the desktop until it has point and click installation of ALL applications (which can only happen if we go to a 1st party packaging system rather than 3rd party repositories)
Thats not the point. She might be able to install an application thats in the repository, but as soon as she wants to install something not in the repo, or something with a different version, she cannot do it.
You can go on about how easy it is to `yum install foo` or do the equivilant in a GUI, but as soon as I want to very slightly from what the repository maintainer decides is right, I'm fucked. And honestly, it seems like 90% of the stuff I want to install is not in the repository.
Find me a repo with KDE3.4 for Fc3-x86_64, find me OpenOffice 2 for fc3, what about opera or skype? vmware? Eclipse, netbeans, limewire..... most of the major applications I have on my machine have no way for the average non technical user (i.e. "My Mum") to install.