I'm not, but I don't think the US behaves repulsively. It behaves normally, but it's singled out while others genuinely repulsive behaviour is ignored. Complaining about the steel tarrif thing is a joke, we're down to taking sides in trade disputes that are settled in court.
Heavy industry and maintaining steel manufacturing capacity is seen as a strategic interest by some, and so it should be. Most Democratic candidates criticized Bush when he finally caved in and lifted the tarrifs, some after criticizing him for imposing them. Meanwhile the sycophants jump in and read the same old rap sheet of Bush evils and/or US evils without thinking about what's actually going on.
What's the point of worrying about environmental, workers comp, healthcare and general human rights when we ship heavy manufacturing jobs overseas to a place with none of the above and then complain about trying to preserve some domestic capacity. It's irresponsible to think you can have it both ways.
Now we're getting complaints about the devalued dollar and what it means for trade deficits in other countries. Well the US is still half a trillion in deficit spending despite low dollar value against Europe and every greedy fool abroad is still trying to strangle the goose that laid the golden egg. If there's any kind of a confidence hickup the whole friking economy will collapse, and I don't just mean the US economy.
Steel jobs in your favourite country, the environment and just about every pet cause you care to mention will be thoroughly shafted.
Can you list the other countries that refused to ratify Kyoto or are you only interested in bashing the U.S.
Comments and attitudes like yours explain exactly why the U.S. didn't sign the treaty on the international criminal court. They are held to a different standard. Does anyone give a shit about numerous nrth vietnamese war crimes during vietnam both against the U.S. and the vietnamese people? I've never heard anyone complain.
When was the last time anyone like you posted a rant here about China's numerous civil rights violations or occupation of countries?
It's completely one sided even in the US media.
When you explain why Clinton never did the scores of sins by omission that Bush is bashed for you might have a case.
But that embassy strike was on target dude. We already know exactly why it was bombed the wrong target was selected unfortunately, misrepresenting it as anything else is a lie. Nobody claims people are perfect but this constant bullshit from self serving individuals that these weapons aren't accurate is absolute nonsense. GPS is accurate so is laser guidance and these bombs are very accurate and reliable. People make mistakes but you can walk into any Fry's or Radio Shack and get a lesson in GPS accuracy and even those systems won't match the accuracy of these bomb systems, supplement that with some inertial guidance and you're off to the races.
Quit pretending that these weapons are not doing their job despite the abundant facts that are available to everyone.
War is messy, people die in wars it is tragic but these systems and even the deployment of unguided bombs in combats such as Gulf War one has been some of the most accurate bombing with the least collateral damage of any modern Wars.
If you carpet bomb an area like a concentration of tanks you need to drop a lot more dumb bombs in one mission than all the smart ones you dropped in a hundred earlier precision targeted missions but that doesn't mean you're running around risking extra collateral damage or misrepresenting the bombing campaign by showing the precision of the bombing.
But if we rain death & destruction on the banks we borrowed from do we have to worry about that $1 Trillion?
As for spending money like a drunken sailor in a brothel (as I like to describe current fiscal policy), I'm more worried about debt and destruction right now that death & destruction.
Apart from that I quite like the ability to rain death & destruction at a time and place of our choosing. Guided kinetic energy rod penetrators from orbit hitting bunkers is a good thing if they're our rods.
But it will improve the lives of American citizens. Who else do you think is going to get a well paid and interesting jobs designing and building these things.
Open Source Intellectual Property (in the form of Copyright works) has owners too and they have the right to make a profit. Unfairly excluding their work from use restricts their ability to make a profit from their work, for example by selling consulting services, or add ons or their skills and services in general. Let's not pretend that OSS is anti-capitalist or in any way incompatible with capitalism. It is another component in what should be a free market where EVERYONE including free software authors should be allowed to compete on a level playing field. If the U.S. government has forgotten this or has sold out to lobbyists representing vested interests then we need to make the case for Open Source and Free Software clearly without muddying the watters with silly statements about making the world safe for capitalism.
PCI Express has more bandwidth the fastest AGP but it also makes it easier to use, much more memory can be mapped for DMA with a linear model rather that the GART AGP aperture.
Since it's a serial bus it should be simpler & cheaper for mobo makers to implement with fewer wires on the board.
The difference is huge but it depends on the software to an extent. AGP has much more bandwidth, but it can also DMA data from memory straight to the card freeing the CPU for other stuff. In addition newer AGP cards can send command data to the card while data is being transfered.
If you don't see much difference you may not have certain features enabled. Make sure you enable fast writes and that your AGP aperture is large. You may be experiencing a performance impact if this is too small due to memory copies and/or PCI mode transfers to the card.
I paid top dollar for my fancy mobo and this bodes very well for me. I love it that they're increasing the bus and linearizing teh DMA memory. No more small AGP apertures. I love it.
The other thing that's awesome is that they're going straight for the PCI-Express 16X. This is just fantastic. I was concerned that they're make do with 8X or less for the first generation but they're really going for it.
These MOBOS will also have PCI-Express peripheral buses and that's going to finally blow the doors off the PC bus bandwidth limits, this is going to make really fast RAID, very fast networking and more, feasible at consumer PC pricepoints. Some this stuff has until now been the preserve of high end systems.
So I for one welcome our new mobo overlords. Please don't stop the train just because I boarded at an earlier station.
SCO claims that SCO UNIX(TM) is legally safe
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SCO's reasons to use list is very strange, SCO while presenting themselves as the legally safe option is actually a very risky prospect. They are currently the target of a massive countersuit by IBM, Red Hat is suing them and they're also in a legal tussle with Novel. They're running out of cash obtained from their initial shakedown and it looks like other attempts at intimidation won't work because people are learning more about the facts. It is doubtful they'd actually sue anyone else purely on the basis of their legal bills and the OSDN defense fund that would eliminate any chance of an early settlement even if they weren't laughed out of court on day one. So there are serious doubts about the medium term viability of SCO as a company.
You simply cannot risk using SCO UNIX(TM) as a solution if you're serious about your IT strategy. They represent a huge risk.
This is just beautiful. A judge finally recognizes the true nature of the situation. Their rights to control & restrict certain I.P. are unnatural and statutory. The limitations placed on citizens are enacted in law and are specific. RIAA et.al. are running around calling everyone a thief for doing what comes easily and naturally as a progression of technology, when infact this is just not against the law. An activity should not automatically be defined as criminal just because a bunch of incumbent monopolists don't like the consequences and the judge is right to tell this lawyer to cut the invective.
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Just FYI - SCO's new web site runs Linux.
P.S. that citation for the record
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Here's a link to ESR's original post where he forgot his meds and acts like he's on an episode of The Lone Gunmem.
So this is what Daryl is talking about in his Harvard presentation.
"..claims that a member of the linux community claimed that a high-level linux hacker was responsible for at least one of the attacks (I'd love to see that citation). "
This was Eric Raymond acting as self appointed champion and bull in a china shop during an earlier attack.
Personally I think Eric Raymond is a darned fool for saying 'we' etc as if this was a community effort. Eric saying he's ashamed for us all plays right into SCO's hands. This was not the community, it was one lone criminal acting for themselves. Presenting it as something else is both inaccurate and damaging.
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Yup, I see that now, you're right. Still applies though, this guy loves talking and it's all grist for the mill.
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Daryl doesn't seem to be aware that his public comments may impact the trial. It's like the guy genuinely doesn't care about th eendgame as many here have observed.
It must be pretty frustrating for Linux contributors to be attacked by a guy who is using the fruits of their labors on his own Linux system.
" According to Ransom Love, Caldera Systems' CEO and soon to be CEO of the combined SCO divisions and Caldera Systems, 'Caldera has a proven track record of releasing the most important stuff to the open community. We haven't decided on which license to use yet. For standards, GPL makes a lot of sense and every product we'll ship with source code.' Some code, however, can't be open sourced because other companies own it. "
In other words the CEO gave all the code they owned away deliberately and with full knowledge.
This is yet another nail in SCO's coffin. This has gone from being a worrying annoiance to being pure entertainment. Grab the popcorn and enjoy the show.
This really is a comedy of errors. What's SCO going to say to get out of this one? The dog ate my source code tood a dump under the Linux tree?
It's just fantastic, this case is now sure to become a legendary example of litigious managerial incompetence. Is anyone writing the book on this one yet? It should be a hoot.
Yup, very silly move of Red Hat. Pure short termism. It's almost like they forgot they had competition out there from other distros. I'd still be using RH if they hadn't abandoned me in an attempt to charge extertionate rates (hundreds per year) to support software they never wrote. Red hat were THE one stop shop for a good Linux Distro IMHO, and that changed overnight, now I wouldn't touch their distro with a barge pole and I'm still a happily getting on with my computing. This will have serious longer term repercussions for them.
It takes s special breed of bureaucratic self serving bozo to describe this accident in the most bizzarre terms possible then say something like "I don't know how anyone could have seen that coming" when the truth is people DID see it coming and tried their darndest to stop it happening and long before this NASA had been running foam inmapct studies due to earlier strikes.
Flawed analysis. Movies often don't make the budget back at the domestic box office, international markets, rentals, DVD sales, TV rights, merchandising etc make up the margin and then some.
Just look at the "+ Overseas Gross" in on that page it's over a quarter billion, add to that merchandising, DVDs, Computer Games, etc and you're seriously in the black.
Yup the movies were ass but given your attitude LOTR would never have been made.
A second Matrix sequel while the other was in production may have been a safer bet that a new movie from thin air (which often bomb). In addition ofcourse the parallel production reduced costs on a number of levels giving you (at least in theory) more movie for your buck.
Didn't this break a couple of months ago. Looks like we get a second bite at the apple on this one. These were staffers, to say this was republicans on the committee is a stretch. The whole 'infiltrated' thing is also subject to interpretation, probably a windows share folder with incorrect access. It really is mendacious to claim this was infiltration if files simply weren't passworded as seems to be the case. There's no tangible link to Novak.
Seems like one side's staffers are blaming the other side'e staffers for their own eggregious security gaffe.
L2 is effectively orbiting around the Sun not the Earth (with a little bit of a tug from the Earth), so it's really an Earth escape mission, rather than Earth orbital mission. That means it requires much greater velocity and AFAIK it's beyond the reach of the Space Shuttle (at least if you want the Shuttle vehicle back).
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I'm not, but I don't think the US behaves repulsively. It behaves normally, but it's singled out while others genuinely repulsive behaviour is ignored. Complaining about the steel tarrif thing is a joke, we're down to taking sides in trade disputes that are settled in court.
Heavy industry and maintaining steel manufacturing capacity is seen as a strategic interest by some, and so it should be. Most Democratic candidates criticized Bush when he finally caved in and lifted the tarrifs, some after criticizing him for imposing them. Meanwhile the sycophants jump in and read the same old rap sheet of Bush evils and/or US evils without thinking about what's actually going on.
What's the point of worrying about environmental, workers comp, healthcare and general human rights when we ship heavy manufacturing jobs overseas to a place with none of the above and then complain about trying to preserve some domestic capacity. It's irresponsible to think you can have it both ways.
Now we're getting complaints about the devalued dollar and what it means for trade deficits in other countries. Well the US is still half a trillion in deficit spending despite low dollar value against Europe and every greedy fool abroad is still trying to strangle the goose that laid the golden egg. If there's any kind of a confidence hickup the whole friking economy will collapse, and I don't just mean the US economy.
Steel jobs in your favourite country, the environment and just about every pet cause you care to mention will be thoroughly shafted.
Nope, these defense jobs go *exclusively* to U.S. citizans in the U.S. who have security clearance.
Wow you've really being drinking the cool-aid.
Can you list the other countries that refused to ratify Kyoto or are you only interested in bashing the U.S.
Comments and attitudes like yours explain exactly why the U.S. didn't sign the treaty on the international criminal court. They are held to a different standard. Does anyone give a shit about numerous nrth vietnamese war crimes during vietnam both against the U.S. and the vietnamese people? I've never heard anyone complain.
When was the last time anyone like you posted a rant here about China's numerous civil rights violations or occupation of countries?
It's completely one sided even in the US media.
When you explain why Clinton never did the scores of sins by omission that Bush is bashed for you might have a case.
But that embassy strike was on target dude. We already know exactly why it was bombed the wrong target was selected unfortunately, misrepresenting it as anything else is a lie. Nobody claims people are perfect but this constant bullshit from self serving individuals that these weapons aren't accurate is absolute nonsense. GPS is accurate so is laser guidance and these bombs are very accurate and reliable. People make mistakes but you can walk into any Fry's or Radio Shack and get a lesson in GPS accuracy and even those systems won't match the accuracy of these bomb systems, supplement that with some inertial guidance and you're off to the races.
Quit pretending that these weapons are not doing their job despite the abundant facts that are available to everyone.
War is messy, people die in wars it is tragic but these systems and even the deployment of unguided bombs in combats such as Gulf War one has been some of the most accurate bombing with the least collateral damage of any modern Wars.
If you carpet bomb an area like a concentration of tanks you need to drop a lot more dumb bombs in one mission than all the smart ones you dropped in a hundred earlier precision targeted missions but that doesn't mean you're running around risking extra collateral damage or misrepresenting the bombing campaign by showing the precision of the bombing.
But if we rain death & destruction on the banks we borrowed from do we have to worry about that $1 Trillion?
As for spending money like a drunken sailor in a brothel (as I like to describe current fiscal policy), I'm more worried about debt and destruction right now that death & destruction.
Apart from that I quite like the ability to rain death & destruction at a time and place of our choosing. Guided kinetic energy rod penetrators from orbit hitting bunkers is a good thing if they're our rods.
But it will improve the lives of American citizens. Who else do you think is going to get a well paid and interesting jobs designing and building these things.
Open Source Intellectual Property (in the form of Copyright works) has owners too and they have the right to make a profit. Unfairly excluding their work from use restricts their ability to make a profit from their work, for example by selling consulting services, or add ons or their skills and services in general. Let's not pretend that OSS is anti-capitalist or in any way incompatible with capitalism. It is another component in what should be a free market where EVERYONE including free software authors should be allowed to compete on a level playing field. If the U.S. government has forgotten this or has sold out to lobbyists representing vested interests then we need to make the case for Open Source and Free Software clearly without muddying the watters with silly statements about making the world safe for capitalism.
PCI Express has more bandwidth the fastest AGP but it also makes it easier to use, much more memory can be mapped for DMA with a linear model rather that the GART AGP aperture.
Since it's a serial bus it should be simpler & cheaper for mobo makers to implement with fewer wires on the board.
The difference is huge but it depends on the software to an extent. AGP has much more bandwidth, but it can also DMA data from memory straight to the card freeing the CPU for other stuff. In addition newer AGP cards can send command data to the card while data is being transfered.
If you don't see much difference you may not have certain features enabled. Make sure you enable fast writes and that your AGP aperture is large. You may be experiencing a performance impact if this is too small due to memory copies and/or PCI mode transfers to the card.
I paid top dollar for my fancy mobo and this bodes very well for me. I love it that they're increasing the bus and linearizing teh DMA memory. No more small AGP apertures. I love it.
The other thing that's awesome is that they're going straight for the PCI-Express 16X. This is just fantastic. I was concerned that they're make do with 8X or less for the first generation but they're really going for it.
These MOBOS will also have PCI-Express peripheral buses and that's going to finally blow the doors off the PC bus bandwidth limits, this is going to make really fast RAID, very fast networking and more, feasible at consumer PC pricepoints. Some this stuff has until now been the preserve of high end systems.
So I for one welcome our new mobo overlords. Please don't stop the train just because I boarded at an earlier station.
SCO's reasons to use list is very strange, SCO while presenting themselves as the legally safe option is actually a very risky prospect. They are currently the target of a massive countersuit by IBM, Red Hat is suing them and they're also in a legal tussle with Novel. They're running out of cash obtained from their initial shakedown and it looks like other attempts at intimidation won't work because people are learning more about the facts. It is doubtful they'd actually sue anyone else purely on the basis of their legal bills and the OSDN defense fund that would eliminate any chance of an early settlement even if they weren't laughed out of court on day one. So there are serious doubts about the medium term viability of SCO as a company.
You simply cannot risk using SCO UNIX(TM) as a solution if you're serious about your IT strategy. They represent a huge risk.
This is just beautiful. A judge finally recognizes the true nature of the situation. Their rights to control & restrict certain I.P. are unnatural and statutory. The limitations placed on citizens are enacted in law and are specific. RIAA et.al. are running around calling everyone a thief for doing what comes easily and naturally as a progression of technology, when infact this is just not against the law. An activity should not automatically be defined as criminal just because a bunch of incumbent monopolists don't like the consequences and the judge is right to tell this lawyer to cut the invective.
Just FYI - SCO's new web site runs Linux.
Here's a link to ESR's original post where he forgot his meds and acts like he's on an episode of The Lone Gunmem. So this is what Daryl is talking about in his Harvard presentation.
"..claims that a member of the linux community claimed that a high-level linux hacker was responsible for at least one of the attacks (I'd love to see that citation). "
- 08 -25-010-26-NW-CY-LL&tbovrmode=3
This was Eric Raymond acting as self appointed champion and bull in a china shop during an earlier attack.
http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2003
Personally I think Eric Raymond is a darned fool for saying 'we' etc as if this was a community effort. Eric saying he's ashamed for us all plays right into SCO's hands. This was not the community, it was one lone criminal acting for themselves. Presenting it as something else is both inaccurate and damaging.
Yup, I see that now, you're right. Still applies though, this guy loves talking and it's all grist for the mill.
Daryl doesn't seem to be aware that his public comments may impact the trial. It's like the guy genuinely doesn't care about th eendgame as many here have observed.
It must be pretty frustrating for Linux contributors to be attacked by a guy who is using the fruits of their labors on his own Linux system.
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According to Ransom Love, Caldera Systems' CEO and soon to be CEO of the combined SCO divisions and Caldera Systems, 'Caldera has a proven track record of releasing the most important stuff to the open community. We haven't decided on which license to use yet. For standards, GPL makes a lot of sense and every product we'll ship with source code.' Some code, however, can't be open sourced because other companies own it.
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In other words the CEO gave all the code they owned away deliberately and with full knowledge.
This is yet another nail in SCO's coffin. This has gone from being a worrying annoiance to being pure entertainment. Grab the popcorn and enjoy the show.
This really is a comedy of errors. What's SCO going to say to get out of this one? The dog ate my source code tood a dump under the Linux tree?
It's just fantastic, this case is now sure to become a legendary example of litigious managerial incompetence. Is anyone writing the book on this one yet? It should be a hoot.
Yup, very silly move of Red Hat. Pure short termism. It's almost like they forgot they had competition out there from other distros. I'd still be using RH if they hadn't abandoned me in an attempt to charge extertionate rates (hundreds per year) to support software they never wrote. Red hat were THE one stop shop for a good Linux Distro IMHO, and that changed overnight, now I wouldn't touch their distro with a barge pole and I'm still a happily getting on with my computing. This will have serious longer term repercussions for them.
The openning quote really infuriates me.
It takes s special breed of bureaucratic self serving bozo to describe this accident in the most bizzarre terms possible then say something like "I don't know how anyone could have seen that coming" when the truth is people DID see it coming and tried their darndest to stop it happening and long before this NASA had been running foam inmapct studies due to earlier strikes.
Actually they do still use hands to measure the height of horses.
Flawed analysis. Movies often don't make the budget back at the domestic box office, international markets, rentals, DVD sales, TV rights, merchandising etc make up the margin and then some.
Just look at the "+ Overseas Gross" in on that page it's over a quarter billion, add to that merchandising, DVDs, Computer Games, etc and you're seriously in the black.
Yup the movies were ass but given your attitude LOTR would never have been made.
A second Matrix sequel while the other was in production may have been a safer bet that a new movie from thin air (which often bomb). In addition ofcourse the parallel production reduced costs on a number of levels giving you (at least in theory) more movie for your buck.
Didn't this break a couple of months ago. Looks like we get a second bite at the apple on this one. These were staffers, to say this was republicans on the committee is a stretch. The whole 'infiltrated' thing is also subject to interpretation, probably a windows share folder with incorrect access. It really is mendacious to claim this was infiltration if files simply weren't passworded as seems to be the case. There's no tangible link to Novak.
Seems like one side's staffers are blaming the other side'e staffers for their own eggregious security gaffe.
L2 is effectively orbiting around the Sun not the Earth (with a little bit of a tug from the Earth), so it's really an Earth escape mission, rather than Earth orbital mission. That means it requires much greater velocity and AFAIK it's beyond the reach of the Space Shuttle (at least if you want the Shuttle vehicle back).