I Don't know about the UK case, but here in Argentina, Gambling is a service provided by the state, sometimes given to private companys, that pay VERY HIGH commissions to the state.
So, it's the government responsability, and they are earning millions from it.
And being tolerant and compassionate is NOT A GOOD THING.
Christians have poissoned life for years with their compassion. Aristoteles considered Compassion to be a very dangerous form of morbosity, and he was right.
May i recommend you to read The Antichrist by Friedrich Nietzsche?. That will surely enlighten you.
What the fuck is going on? Now we publish articles written by a bunch of assholes that beleives such shit as the existence of a god, and not happy with that (enough reason to diserve a very painfull dead), call themselves "scientists"?
I Totally agree with you, besides, if your connection can run this stuff, it surely can give you a decent quality for a VNC session back home.
Having good web-based apps is greate, but only if you accept that it's a web app and so design it as such (Like gmail or google calendar). But if you try to emulate the look&feel of a classical desktop, you are screwed.
I use a lot of webapps, I have gmail and gmail for your domain for my company's website, google calendar runs my life, Pandora takes care of my music, etc.
This is truly comfortable if you travel a lot, like me.
The UN finally acknowledges that the USA has been in war all the fucking time for the last 200 years, and is the only country in the world that has been in war in virtually all regions, and acepts that they just do it because they want more power and more economic control over the rest of the world. And then they acknowledge that they are way more dangerous than Irak, because a) Irak has no military power and b) Because Irak had only certain SPECIFIC military targets targets, and they have at least a "valid reason" (no reason is valid when we are talking about killing thousands, but you get the point) to attack those targets, while the USA has EVERY country as a target, just because they want more money, or more power, or control over a region because of strategic reasons, or they just don't like your ideas (read: Cuba). And then, they agree that the USA has violated more human rights than any other country, and not inside their territory, in a controlled manner (only a few cases, decided by the state itself and not by some soldiers), and because of real reasons of national security, like Cuba did, but all over the world, all the time outside their frontiers where they just don't care, with no control from the state, and in the order of millions, over the whole fucking last 100 years.
After realising all this, the UN treats the USA just like they permitted the USA to do with countrys like Nicaragua, Irak, Cuba, etc. and they restrict they commerce, and menace them with invasion, until they disarm and remove their troups from foreign countrys where they don't belong.
Off course this isn't going to happend, obviously NATO is way more powerfull than the UN, and both are mainly controlled by the USA, and off course that the most powerfull nations in the world won't say a damn word about it because the USA won't fuck with them, and because they all gain money out of having a 3rld world, And this has been the task of the USA during the last century, to make sure we have a bigger 3rld world, so they can get rich and powerfull out of it. This makes them a strange empire, all of the empires that walked this earth before meant off course destruction and domination, but they also meant the growing of many civilizations, culture, etc. England was once a powerfull empire, and they are responsible for creating Australia. Spain and Portugal were empires too, but they are responsible for allmost all latinamerica. Just tell me one positive thing the USA has donde for the world. Others conquer and dominate, but also teach, improve, create, and lets grow.
The USA just destroys so 200 millions of below-the-average rednecks in the north can buy a playstation.
Again, this situation ISN'T going to change anytime soon, but at least stop talking about the actions of the USA as if they had a reason, or were justifiable in some way. It's just plain old GREED, and you don't mind killing people to get what you want. It's allright, keep doing it, but at least get real.
That's exactly what i thought when i first saw the article, this has been the default for ext2 and ext3 filesystems for years... only this time will be implemented in hardware.
I Am Against Wars, not against any world in particular. I Am against the systematic, planned, and government-aproved assesination of human beings. So, yes, anyone supporting that is a bastard. And Yes, soldiers support war, without questioning, accepting orders blindly, and yes, that's a probe that they have no ethics. That's even worse than the average killer, because, at least, someone that kills someone on the street, decides to do it, and at least understand that it's wrong, so, they have ethics, they just don't care.
Also, in all the stupid cases and wars you mentioned, the USA just had some political interest, and they murdered people nonetheless.
I Don't consider the comment to be insulting, it's just the plain and painfull true.
The only thing i don't agree is about the 'moral' issue mentioned. I Want people to have Ethics, not moral. Ethics are a personal construction, moral is shit accepted blindly from some sort of institution, usually your parents, some religious bullshit, or similar.
The reality is that soldiers Don't have Ethics, otherwise, they wouldn't be soldiers of the USA (We all know what kind of polices the US Army has, if you decide to participate in it, you are a just like them, and there is no excuse you can use to argue with that).
That would let you use the GPU of a video card to do other kind of computational tasks.
I can't remember the name, it was posted in/. about a year ago, maybe someone isn't as lazy as me in a sunday afternoon and will care to looj for it.
Anyway, AGP is really too 3d graphics specific as to use it for something else. It's designed to let the machine pass enourmous ammounts of information in only one direction.
Maybe back in 98 one would try to reuse old hardware to it's last breath, now, the prices of hardware, and the way they are built (less hacking friendly), makes it easier and cheaper to just buy new hardware, and let the old behind.
Was the fileserver in my high school... o... you mean to own as in to buy?, well, in that case, it was a Commodore 64 with a huge 1571. Best.Machine.Ever.Period.
Well, i certainly prefer China and not the USA to play that role. I would prefere Nazi Germany to play that role instead of the USA.
I apreciate your concerns, but you should have thought about it 50 years sooner. You woke up the big giant. That's something amazing about the USA, you set the rules, and then you condemn other for playing by that rules. China had a comunist system, and it worked ok. The USA setted the rules of the game for the XX century, but every time some country starts really playing by your rules, you condemn that action. You started allmost every major war in the last century, but still talk about human rights when some other country starts a war. You are the only country that has ever used nuclear power, and still talk about the dangers of nuclear power, only when it's on someone elses hands, off course.
Well, let me tell you something about your worries for China. Your country stablished the rules. China is playing by the rules. And China has more elements than you to win the game. Your government's policy and China's policys are just the same, only that your government hasn't succeded in implementing them yet.
You have a point, and i agree with your logic, my point was, China is not inside the USA, and if google wants to sell their products in China, they must agree with local laws. People in China knows about the censorship, and if they want to search for political news, they surely won't look in google. Anyway, google is still there for lots of other topics, that's my point.
It isn't miss information. It's information on topics not related to politics or religion. If you want to search for political news, don't use google, if you want to know wtf asterisk stopped sending audio through bridged sip channels on january 25, then google is still your best option.
If you want to argue about this, talk about china's polices, not about google's polices.
You can use google in a number of ways, they provide a number of different services. Censorship is wrong, but if Google didn't negotiate with China, they would just ban google's whole subnet into oblivion. So, let's say that 20% of people would use google to find some information that may be considered to have something to do with politics. Of that 20%, let's say that some 70% would be ok for China, and another 30% is what they wanted banned. So, google is still functional in about 90% of all searches, that seems better than 0% to me. 100% of zero is zero, you have to negotiate sometimes.
Also, China is an amazingly big market, and also a pretty computer-literate market, so i think it represents a pretty big portion of google's income.
Oh Americans!, For you everything is about money and social status. Well, get capitalism out of your head for a second and reread my post. The distinction is clear: It's not about money, nor social status, nor intelligence. It's about your role in society, and you define that role, it doesn't matter in what family you were born, you own your life. There are two kinds of people: Those that want to survive, and those that want something more than just surviving. The first group, are the mediocres. In order to be in the second group, you don't need to be smart, you just have to be expecting from life something more than just sex and food. Nietzsche divided society in groups: the mediocres, those with Character, those with muscles, and those with a brain. The mediocres may have the same skills as the people in other groups, even more, many mediocres I know are smarter than many people in the other groups, the problem is that all they want from life, is to survive. But, again, this isn't a bad thing. We need from this people also, it's another role in society that someone has to play.
I really don't understand certain geeks that try to make others like us.
Nietzsche was right, mediocres are necesary, and understanding that is part of being an intelligen person.
Discriminating is not a good thing, but thinking that we are all alike is even worse. We have to accept that we are all different, and that only a small group hsa been born to change the world, and the rest has been born to go to work and watch TV. It's when you learn to accept that fact, and stop being angree at others for being simpler than you when you really grow as a person, and can really focus on the important stuff.
Yes, i agree. I wasn't trying to make a point against the article in my post, i agree that it is a real problem, and i understand that most of the people doesn't have the required knowledge level to do things that way. My post wasn't saying that currently compatibility isn't an issue, i was just trying to point out that in software, it shoudln't be a problem. It is a problem because of the lack of knowledge of the users, and because monopolies that base their bussiness model in the abuse of copyright law. In any hardware-based industry (from cars to mp3 players, and form hammers to computer hardware), compatibility will allways be a problem, because of the nature of hardware. You can't copy hardware by just pushing a button, you can't alter the structure of hardware so easily, and we have a limited ammount of matter. In software, this laws doesn't apply, you can copy software without allmost any cost involved, you can alter software completely easily, and we have a virtually unlimited ammount of ones and zeroes.
What i was trying to point out is that all the problems with software, are artificial, and are not problems inherent to software, they are problems inherent to people.
If you write standard compliant software / websites / whatever, you don't have to care that much about software versions.
Also, Software should be easy to upgrade. The point is, sometimes you do have a reason to run old software. Is there a reason not to upgrade your win95 machine to Winxp?, yes, the reason is that it CAN'T be really upgraded, actually, you are reinstalling. My Slackware install has been in my machine since Slack 7. It has been upgraded several times, and now is a slack 10.1. Each upgrade has been as easy as:
That's it, I don't even have to reboot (i allways upgrade my kernel from source).
That's the answer: If your software is not badly designed, upgrading should be easy, and nobody would keep old versions running. I think that noboyd out there is running Slackware 7 anymore, or Redhat 6.2, or 2.0 kernels, or Emacs 19... because there aren't any reasons not to upgrade. Upgrading is easy, fast, and free.
In Windows, upgrading is complex, takes lots of time, and costs lots of money, and in many cases, it isn't a real upgrade, but a reinstall.
The reason why/.ers complain, is not because dupes are a huge problem, but because it's an unnecessary problem, they are amazingly easy to spot.
Here is my reasoning: I spend about an hour and a half a day on/., and that's just as i do other stuff, like the radio, it's on the background, and i just check it from time to time, and still, i spot dupes on sight. Most/.ers do. So, how the editors, which get PAID for their job, doesn't?
Agreed, a human presented with to ideas, both of them new to him, he will tend to accept as true the one more familiar with his previous beleifs, if someone is presented the same problem over and over, he will eventually tend to keep thinking what he allready knows. It's a kind of inertia of the mind. If you are following a logical reasoning, you tend to remain in your current path, and not to diverge into new knowledge, even if, logically both ideas are correct, man will tend to accept the one more familiar to him. That's why workgroup is important, and why it's important that a man doesn't obsess with his work, and it's important that when you are working on something, from time to time free your mind from your work and think about something else. This is also the reason of the technicall success of Free Software, millions of people, with different nationalities, historys, academical backgrounds, and skillsets, working on different parts of a system that is later assembled by different groups of people. People don't stall in the same ideas, the new is not rejected by prejudice automatically, etc.
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I Don't know about the UK case, but here in Argentina, Gambling is a service provided by the state, sometimes given to private companys, that pay VERY HIGH commissions to the state.
So, it's the government responsability, and they are earning millions from it.
Moral is SHIT, I have ethics, but no moral.
And being tolerant and compassionate is NOT A GOOD THING.
Christians have poissoned life for years with their compassion. Aristoteles considered Compassion to be a very dangerous form of morbosity, and he was right.
May i recommend you to read The Antichrist by Friedrich Nietzsche?. That will surely enlighten you.
What the fuck is going on? Now we publish articles written by a bunch of assholes that beleives such shit as the existence of a god, and not happy with that (enough reason to diserve a very painfull dead), call themselves "scientists"?
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This site is going down
You can't because God and Microsoft support, are both myths.
Microsoft related website showing image of wikipedia?? http://labs.live.com/photosynth/images/page_6.jpg
Amazing...
I Totally agree with you, besides, if your connection can run this stuff, it surely can give you a decent quality for a VNC session back home.
Having good web-based apps is greate, but only if you accept that it's a web app and so design it as such (Like gmail or google calendar). But if you try to emulate the look&feel of a classical desktop, you are screwed.
I use a lot of webapps, I have gmail and gmail for your domain for my company's website, google calendar runs my life, Pandora takes care of my music, etc.
This is truly comfortable if you travel a lot, like me.
The UN finally acknowledges that the USA has been in war all the fucking time for the last 200 years, and is the only country in the world that has been in war in virtually all regions, and acepts that they just do it because they want more power and more economic control over the rest of the world. And then they acknowledge that they are way more dangerous than Irak, because a) Irak has no military power and b) Because Irak had only certain SPECIFIC military targets targets, and they have at least a "valid reason" (no reason is valid when we are talking about killing thousands, but you get the point) to attack those targets, while the USA has EVERY country as a target, just because they want more money, or more power, or control over a region because of strategic reasons, or they just don't like your ideas (read: Cuba). And then, they agree that the USA has violated more human rights than any other country, and not inside their territory, in a controlled manner (only a few cases, decided by the state itself and not by some soldiers), and because of real reasons of national security, like Cuba did, but all over the world, all the time outside their frontiers where they just don't care, with no control from the state, and in the order of millions, over the whole fucking last 100 years.
After realising all this, the UN treats the USA just like they permitted the USA to do with countrys like Nicaragua, Irak, Cuba, etc. and they restrict they commerce, and menace them with invasion, until they disarm and remove their troups from foreign countrys where they don't belong.
Off course this isn't going to happend, obviously NATO is way more powerfull than the UN, and both are mainly controlled by the USA, and off course that the most powerfull nations in the world won't say a damn word about it because the USA won't fuck with them, and because they all gain money out of having a 3rld world, And this has been the task of the USA during the last century, to make sure we have a bigger 3rld world, so they can get rich and powerfull out of it.
This makes them a strange empire, all of the empires that walked this earth before meant off course destruction and domination, but they also meant the growing of many civilizations, culture, etc.
England was once a powerfull empire, and they are responsible for creating Australia. Spain and Portugal were empires too, but they are responsible for allmost all latinamerica.
Just tell me one positive thing the USA has donde for the world. Others conquer and dominate, but also teach, improve, create, and lets grow.
The USA just destroys so 200 millions of below-the-average rednecks in the north can buy a playstation.
Again, this situation ISN'T going to change anytime soon, but at least stop talking about the actions of the USA as if they had a reason, or were justifiable in some way. It's just plain old GREED, and you don't mind killing people to get what you want. It's allright, keep doing it, but at least get real.
That's exactly what i thought when i first saw the article, this has been the default for ext2 and ext3 filesystems for years ... only this time will be implemented in hardware.
Are you sure you don't need my genetic material anymore?, your mother seems to like the taste of my genetic material ...
I Am Against Wars, not against any world in particular. I Am against the systematic, planned, and government-aproved assesination of human beings. So, yes, anyone supporting that is a bastard. And Yes, soldiers support war, without questioning, accepting orders blindly, and yes, that's a probe that they have no ethics. That's even worse than the average killer, because, at least, someone that kills someone on the street, decides to do it, and at least understand that it's wrong, so, they have ethics, they just don't care.
Also, in all the stupid cases and wars you mentioned, the USA just had some political interest, and they murdered people nonetheless.
I Don't consider the comment to be insulting, it's just the plain and painfull true.
The only thing i don't agree is about the 'moral' issue mentioned. I Want people to have Ethics, not moral. Ethics are a personal construction, moral is shit accepted blindly from some sort of institution, usually your parents, some religious bullshit, or similar.
The reality is that soldiers Don't have Ethics, otherwise, they wouldn't be soldiers of the USA (We all know what kind of polices the US Army has, if you decide to participate in it, you are a just like them, and there is no excuse you can use to argue with that).
ahahah, Yhea, really.
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Asyncronous connections sucks
That would let you use the GPU of a video card to do other kind of computational tasks.
/. about a year ago, maybe someone isn't as lazy as me in a sunday afternoon and will care to looj for it.
I can't remember the name, it was posted in
Anyway, AGP is really too 3d graphics specific as to use it for something else. It's designed to let the machine pass enourmous ammounts of information in only one direction.
Maybe back in 98 one would try to reuse old hardware to it's last breath, now, the prices of hardware, and the way they are built (less hacking friendly), makes it easier and cheaper to just buy new hardware, and let the old behind.
Was the fileserver in my high school ... o ... you mean to own as in to buy?, well, in that case, it was a Commodore 64 with a huge 1571. Best.Machine.Ever.Period.
Well, i certainly prefer China and not the USA to play that role. I would prefere Nazi Germany to play that role instead of the USA.
I apreciate your concerns, but you should have thought about it 50 years sooner. You woke up the big giant. That's something amazing about the USA, you set the rules, and then you condemn other for playing by that rules. China had a comunist system, and it worked ok. The USA setted the rules of the game for the XX century, but every time some country starts really playing by your rules, you condemn that action. You started allmost every major war in the last century, but still talk about human rights when some other country starts a war. You are the only country that has ever used nuclear power, and still talk about the dangers of nuclear power, only when it's on someone elses hands, off course.
Well, let me tell you something about your worries for China. Your country stablished the rules. China is playing by the rules. And China has more elements than you to win the game. Your government's policy and China's policys are just the same, only that your government hasn't succeded in implementing them yet.
You have a point, and i agree with your logic, my point was, China is not inside the USA, and if google wants to sell their products in China, they must agree with local laws. People in China knows about the censorship, and if they want to search for political news, they surely won't look in google. Anyway, google is still there for lots of other topics, that's my point.
It isn't miss information. It's information on topics not related to politics or religion. If you want to search for political news, don't use google, if you want to know wtf asterisk stopped sending audio through bridged sip channels on january 25, then google is still your best option.
If you want to argue about this, talk about china's polices, not about google's polices.
The Police of the world ...
Look, i don't agree with China polices, but it's their country, and you have to show respect for that.
Google is a company, They sell a product, if they want to sell their products in China, they must accept the local laws.
Your country acting as the world police is a terrible thing, don't accept that as normal, and expect companys to do the same.
Google isn't only to find political information.
You can use google in a number of ways, they provide a number of different services.
Censorship is wrong, but if Google didn't negotiate with China, they would just ban google's whole subnet into oblivion. So, let's say that 20% of people would use google to find some information that may be considered to have something to do with politics. Of that 20%, let's say that some 70% would be ok for China, and another 30% is what they wanted banned. So, google is still functional in about 90% of all searches, that seems better than 0% to me. 100% of zero is zero, you have to negotiate sometimes.
Also, China is an amazingly big market, and also a pretty computer-literate market, so i think it represents a pretty big portion of google's income.
Oh Americans!, For you everything is about money and social status. Well, get capitalism out of your head for a second and reread my post. The distinction is clear: It's not about money, nor social status, nor intelligence. It's about your role in society, and you define that role, it doesn't matter in what family you were born, you own your life. There are two kinds of people: Those that want to survive, and those that want something more than just surviving. The first group, are the mediocres. In order to be in the second group, you don't need to be smart, you just have to be expecting from life something more than just sex and food. Nietzsche divided society in groups: the mediocres, those with Character, those with muscles, and those with a brain. The mediocres may have the same skills as the people in other groups, even more, many mediocres I know are smarter than many people in the other groups, the problem is that all they want from life, is to survive.
But, again, this isn't a bad thing. We need from this people also, it's another role in society that someone has to play.
I really don't understand certain geeks that try to make others like us.
Nietzsche was right, mediocres are necesary, and understanding that is part of being an intelligen person.
Discriminating is not a good thing, but thinking that we are all alike is even worse. We have to accept that we are all different, and that only a small group hsa been born to change the world, and the rest has been born to go to work and watch TV. It's when you learn to accept that fact, and stop being angree at others for being simpler than you when you really grow as a person, and can really focus on the important stuff.
Yes, i agree. I wasn't trying to make a point against the article in my post, i agree that it is a real problem, and i understand that most of the people doesn't have the required knowledge level to do things that way.
My post wasn't saying that currently compatibility isn't an issue, i was just trying to point out that in software, it shoudln't be a problem. It is a problem because of the lack of knowledge of the users, and because monopolies that base their bussiness model in the abuse of copyright law.
In any hardware-based industry (from cars to mp3 players, and form hammers to computer hardware), compatibility will allways be a problem, because of the nature of hardware. You can't copy hardware by just pushing a button, you can't alter the structure of hardware so easily, and we have a limited ammount of matter. In software, this laws doesn't apply, you can copy software without allmost any cost involved, you can alter software completely easily, and we have a virtually unlimited ammount of ones and zeroes.
What i was trying to point out is that all the problems with software, are artificial, and are not problems inherent to software, they are problems inherent to people.
If you write standard compliant software / websites / whatever, you don't have to care that much about software versions.
/cdrom && cd /cdrom/slackware /etc/rc.d/rc.S
... because there aren't any reasons not to upgrade. Upgrading is easy, fast, and free.
Also, Software should be easy to upgrade. The point is, sometimes you do have a reason to run old software. Is there a reason not to upgrade your win95 machine to Winxp?, yes, the reason is that it CAN'T be really upgraded, actually, you are reinstalling. My Slackware install has been in my machine since Slack 7. It has been upgraded several times, and now is a slack 10.1.
Each upgrade has been as easy as:
mount
killall5
upgradepkg --install-new */*
That's it, I don't even have to reboot (i allways upgrade my kernel from source).
That's the answer: If your software is not badly designed, upgrading should be easy, and nobody would keep old versions running. I think that noboyd out there is running Slackware 7 anymore, or Redhat 6.2, or 2.0 kernels, or Emacs 19
In Windows, upgrading is complex, takes lots of time, and costs lots of money, and in many cases, it isn't a real upgrade, but a reinstall.
The reason why /.ers complain, is not because dupes are a huge problem, but because it's an unnecessary problem, they are amazingly easy to spot.
/., and that's just as i do other stuff, like the radio, it's on the background, and i just check it from time to time, and still, i spot dupes on sight. Most /.ers do. So, how the editors, which get PAID for their job, doesn't?
Here is my reasoning:
I spend about an hour and a half a day on
Agreed, a human presented with to ideas, both of them new to him, he will tend to accept as true the one more familiar with his previous beleifs, if someone is presented the same problem over and over, he will eventually tend to keep thinking what he allready knows. It's a kind of inertia of the mind. If you are following a logical reasoning, you tend to remain in your current path, and not to diverge into new knowledge, even if, logically both ideas are correct, man will tend to accept the one more familiar to him.
That's why workgroup is important, and why it's important that a man doesn't obsess with his work, and it's important that when you are working on something, from time to time free your mind from your work and think about something else.
This is also the reason of the technicall success of Free Software, millions of people, with different nationalities, historys, academical backgrounds, and skillsets, working on different parts of a system that is later assembled by different groups of people. People don't stall in the same ideas, the new is not rejected by prejudice automatically, etc.