Good to see that nvidia is still working hard for my money. I'm glad to keep paying them.
I second that. I am on my third Nvidia card (GeForce MX/400) having retired the first two simply because they were obsolete (though working fine) and a new one is so cheap.
I can't speak for other card manufacturers (because I don't use them. Note to companies building crappy products.) but Nvidia is always releasing new drivers and/or software packages which actually extend the capabilities of their older cards. A perfect example is the Riva TNT/TNT2, an acceptable unit that gained greatly in capabilities with just a few mouseclicks at the Nvidia site.
And after experiencing crappy refresh rates in KDE under Fedora Core 1, a quick visit for an updated linux driver solved the problem nice and painlessly. It just doesn't get better than that.
IWTKAL, but I think Booble is on pretty solid ground here. This is clearly, clearly a parody site (in fact, it's pretty bad parody if you ask me) and nowhere near functional.
I mean geez, a porn search engine that doesn't return any hits for "Jenna Haze," "Cherry Rain," or "Belladonna" is a long way from "marketable."
The article in question specifically mentions a young woman who earns $11K slinging code, thus the pronoun at issue, but you don't care. Your prior posts coupled with your rant about one word which really has nothing to do with the topic at hand have confirmed you are an unimaginative troll with a different axe to grind than outsourcing=bad. But what the hell, let's have some fun. Please note asueekim's hallmarks, highlighted in bold.
Since when were girls programers?
Gee, my wife has been one six years or so.
the tech/engineering/hard-science fields are manned {see, he can hardly help himself} almost entirely by men
There are several professional organizations dedicated to increasing the number of women in engineering.
Are you a feminist?
Yep.
Are you glad that our women have been corrupted beyond repair during the last 30 years?
I am glad that women have gained control over their own bodies and destinies, a process that began long before 1974.
Are you happy that they are all going to hell in a handbasket while being lead by the "great womyn" of our century to their eternal death?
Lemme just hazard a guess here. Fundamentalist Christian, right? Does your bible not say, remove the rafter from thine own eye before plucking the straw from thy neighbors? Does it not also say, Judge not lest ye be judged?
Please. If you want to troll Slashdot you should at least try harder to make it fun for the rest of us. This is too easy. Sky Gods. I mean really.
Absolutely. The complete overhaul of the H1B program is a good example of how two sides can meet in the middle.
If I understand the president's immigration proposal correctly, employers would be able to offer migrant workers only jobs they have proven are unfillable by American workers. While I don't want to increase the record-keeping burdens of business, it seems like this would be a good way to keep american jobs here.
The problem is not so much job outsourcing as it is dollar exportation. When our already embattled middle class collapses, those businesses which made money through such cost-cutting strategies as outsourcing will discover they have no one left to sell to. I say this as a staunch antiprotectionist.
An indian programmer might be able to live on $11,000 a year, but she won't be buying any GM products, either.
Advertising, on the other hand, will always require a lot of money:(
Unfortunately, internet advertising schemes don't seem to work very well. Web browsers kill popup ads now, spam is a curse that no one reads (and the source of endless revenue - for spam filter companies), and banner ads are sooo 1998.
Of course, all types of advertising are losing effectiveness and are transforming from thirty second spots to ubiquitous appearances in movies and tv shows. On the rare occasions my family and I go to the movies, we play Spot The Paid Product Placements.
I think the Netflix/Amazon people are onto something with their "People who bought x also bought y and z," though I think their algorithms could use some work. When we are all connected all the time and virtual communities supercede flesh and blood friendships, this kind of peer-recommended advertising will be the dominant model.
When performers no longer need the distribution and advertising services they provide, RIAA and the big labels will go away, or at least shrink to manageable size. Until that time, they will continue to prosper and pursue their agenda. As long as they effectively control distribution the situation will continue more or less as it is, a stalemate between producers and consumers of media. Who better to hasten their demise than the artists themselves?
I don't recall stating the existence of any Killer Features, nor referring to business use, nor claiming the superiority of one OS over another.
Also, please note the use of "etc." in my post. This is generally taken to mean that the preceeding words, i.e. "window managers," belong to an additonal unspecified set, of which KDE/GNOME, as you mentioned, is another part. Don't be so pedantic.
And just for the record:
uname -ro
2.4.22-1.2149.nptl GNU/Linux
CNN has a story today in which various people purport that Linux isn't ready for desktop prime time but has a window (rimshot) of opportunity to establish itself therein before the release of Longhorn in 2006.
Might this be a step in the right direction? Your fabled bluehaired grandmother doesn't want to choose between different window managers, etc. Hell, she doesn't know what a window manager is and doesn't want to know. Try to explain various incarnations of X to her and watch granny sizzle.
This type of moral relativism, ie the denouncing of 'good and evil' as a christian idea resulted in communism, fascism, nazism, etc. Say pleasure vs. pain, if you like, but the labels still fit.
I personally don't like GWB, either, but putting him on the level of the second greatest mass murderer of the 20th century not only reduces your arguement to personal slander, but is terriblly disrespectful to the people who suffered under Hitler and Stalin.
The reason the UN can't have control over the world's militaries is because that body happens to be overrun by the same types of governments which predicate the kind of 'misinformed lunacy' you mention.
The reason the world is as sane as it is is because of the USA. When will YOU realize THAT?
With all due respect, you're terribly misinformed. Once you DON'T prepare for war, you've guaranteed one.
In a fairy tale world full of unicorns and wood nymphs, you would be correct. But in the real world, evil people do evil things all the time. Refusing to acknowledge and prepare for that is an assurance that they will happen to you. Do you think Switzerland's vaunted neutrality would have mattered at all without American missiles and troops guaranteeing the Soviets stayed the hell out of Western Europe?
Point 1: Al Qaeda exists because the Islamists are intensely uncomfortable with the success of western style capitalism.
Point 2: Iraq has been in violation of the treaties ending the 1991 Gulf War since those documents were signed. This is hardly a lack of provocation.
Point 3: Since we have to treat NKorea with kid gloves, even you'd see that Iran must not be allowed to go nuclear.
Point 4: Complete unconditional nuclear disarmament for all is a beautiful idea if you live in a fantasy land where everyone behaves and follows the rules. In reality, however, not everyone does that. Witness Iraq's, Iran's and North Korea's nascent or existent "secret" programs.
Point 5: The US had their nuclear option thrust upon them by the chances of history and has used them exactly twice in the same war to defeat an enemy that simply would not surrender. We can debate the necessity of nuking Japan versus an all out land invasion in which tens or hundreds of thousands of women, children, and old men would have been killed rather than surrender, but more intelligent heads than you or I made that choice long ago. Again, fantasy versus reality.
Point 6: The sanctions against Iraq, as well as ending the war before toppling that regime, were decisions made by the UN, not the US.
Point 7: During the cold war, the US did indeed have to hold its collective nose and support asshats like Hussein and the Shah as the lesser of two evils. Or perhaps you would have prefered the Soviet Union to have a hammerlock on the mideast?
Point 8: Castro is evil, so fucking what? I don't think that even merits comment. The US has tolerated the situation in Cuba for forty years, and no, Cuba has not improved by orders of magnitude, or any other measure. Witness the unending surge of people willing to brave ninety miles of shark-infested waters to get to Southern Florida before you declare how great it is over there.
Point 9: I don't watch Fox News - I find they are too much a tool of the government to be trusted. However, I would recommend a little less Michael Moore, who has told at least as many well-documented lies as Bill Clinton. And I do read the Guardian.
Point 10: Here's hoping people realize complacency breeds war, our successful society breeds hate among the losers of the civilization contest, and that it is not paranoia if you are attacked first.
when I traded in the old cassette drive for a 1541 floppy drive (and the old "cut out a notch on the other side" hack - arcane knowledge, man.). Price was $199 as I recall through the fog. Then the 300baud phone modem you actually placed the handset on top of . . . pure Star Trek, man!
I concede this is a good point. However, the original parent concerned profitable explorative models, which communications satellites are not.
Declaring the space business profitable because DirecTV is making money is rather like declaring AI alive and well because we have computers that can play a mean game of chess. In both cases, if this is all we can do, we'd be better off not bothering.
profitable private space business/exploration model been found?
Any successful business model requires consumers, the one resource space is somewhat lacking in. Private industry has to solve the $10,000 per kilo conundrum first.
Space exploitation is kind of like a round of Leisure Suit Larry; you know, Larry has to have this to get that, but to get that he needs something else from someone who needs yet another item . . . and so on. Space contains all the materials humans need to survive and thrive there, but spread out over billions of miles. Plenty of Nitrogen for growing crops - at Triton. Lots and lots of water - in the rings of Saturn. God's own acreage - under hard vacuum. Tons of iron for construction - in asteroids that must be moved to a predictable and useful Earth orbit (and who would trust ANYone to move a dinosaur killer into LEO?)
On the bright side, untold trillions of dollars are waiting for the right entrepreneurs to solve those riddles.
If they want to play Starving Artist, why are they changing the rules?
Shouldn't there be a phase in gameplay where they introduce these kids to cocaine and hoes to further indenture them? What about the ironclad contract these students have to sign before they get to play? And where is the record executive sitting behind each players back, dictating the moves these kids are allowed to make?
Slashdot Mirror
oh, dammit.
"h1t(hh1k3r5 Gu1d3 2 t3h g414xy"
Sorry, I couldn't help myself, and it's half-past ritalin, anyway.
Good to see that nvidia is still working hard for my money. I'm glad to keep paying them.
I second that. I am on my third Nvidia card (GeForce MX/400) having retired the first two simply because they were obsolete (though working fine) and a new one is so cheap.
I can't speak for other card manufacturers (because I don't use them. Note to companies building crappy products.) but Nvidia is always releasing new drivers and/or software packages which actually extend the capabilities of their older cards. A perfect example is the Riva TNT/TNT2, an acceptable unit that gained greatly in capabilities with just a few mouseclicks at the Nvidia site.
And after experiencing crappy refresh rates in KDE under Fedora Core 1, a quick visit for an updated linux driver solved the problem nice and painlessly. It just doesn't get better than that.
Troll? Really?
This is clearly a parody of IANAL, and therefore protected under copyright law...
I Want To Kill All The Lawyers
...the marketability of the parody
IWTKAL, but I think Booble is on pretty solid ground here. This is clearly, clearly a parody site (in fact, it's pretty bad parody if you ask me) and nowhere near functional.
I mean geez, a porn search engine that doesn't return any hits for "Jenna Haze," "Cherry Rain," or "Belladonna" is a long way from "marketable."
I applaud the sheer evil genius of whoever thought up this gem. Their creativity on behalf of their dark masters is remarkable.
Now please, come back to the light side.
The article in question specifically mentions a young woman who earns $11K slinging code, thus the pronoun at issue, but you don't care. Your prior posts coupled with your rant about one word which really has nothing to do with the topic at hand have confirmed you are an unimaginative troll with a different axe to grind than outsourcing=bad. But what the hell, let's have some fun. Please note asueekim's hallmarks, highlighted in bold.
Since when were girls programers?
Gee, my wife has been one six years or so.
the tech/engineering/hard-science fields are manned {see, he can hardly help himself} almost entirely by men
There are several professional organizations dedicated to increasing the number of women in engineering.
Are you a feminist?
Yep.
Are you glad that our women have been corrupted beyond repair during the last 30 years?
I am glad that women have gained control over their own bodies and destinies, a process that began long before 1974.
Are you happy that they are all going to hell in a handbasket while being lead by the "great womyn" of our century to their eternal death?
Lemme just hazard a guess here. Fundamentalist Christian, right? Does your bible not say, remove the rafter from thine own eye before plucking the straw from thy neighbors? Does it not also say, Judge not lest ye be judged?
Please. If you want to troll Slashdot you should at least try harder to make it fun for the rest of us. This is too easy. Sky Gods. I mean really.
Absolutely. The complete overhaul of the H1B program is a good example of how two sides can meet in the middle.
If I understand the president's immigration proposal correctly, employers would be able to offer migrant workers only jobs they have proven are unfillable by American workers. While I don't want to increase the record-keeping burdens of business, it seems like this would be a good way to keep american jobs here.
The problem is not so much job outsourcing as it is dollar exportation. When our already embattled middle class collapses, those businesses which made money through such cost-cutting strategies as outsourcing will discover they have no one left to sell to. I say this as a staunch antiprotectionist.
An indian programmer might be able to live on $11,000 a year, but she won't be buying any GM products, either.
Advertising, on the other hand, will always require a lot of money :(
Unfortunately, internet advertising schemes don't seem to work very well. Web browsers kill popup ads now, spam is a curse that no one reads (and the source of endless revenue - for spam filter companies), and banner ads are sooo 1998.
Of course, all types of advertising are losing effectiveness and are transforming from thirty second spots to ubiquitous appearances in movies and tv shows. On the rare occasions my family and I go to the movies, we play Spot The Paid Product Placements.
I think the Netflix/Amazon people are onto something with their "People who bought x also bought y and z," though I think their algorithms could use some work. When we are all connected all the time and virtual communities supercede flesh and blood friendships, this kind of peer-recommended advertising will be the dominant model.
When performers no longer need the distribution and advertising services they provide, RIAA and the big labels will go away, or at least shrink to manageable size. Until that time, they will continue to prosper and pursue their agenda. As long as they effectively control distribution the situation will continue more or less as it is, a stalemate between producers and consumers of media. Who better to hasten their demise than the artists themselves?
Gee, guy . . . didn't mean to strike a nerve.
I don't recall stating the existence of any Killer Features, nor referring to business use, nor claiming the superiority of one OS over another.
Also, please note the use of "etc." in my post. This is generally taken to mean that the preceeding words, i.e. "window managers," belong to an additonal unspecified set, of which KDE/GNOME, as you mentioned, is another part. Don't be so pedantic.
And just for the record:
uname -ro
2.4.22-1.2149.nptl GNU/Linux
Awk! Mea Culpa.
To paraphrase:
"Being out-googled makes me embarassed. Very embarassed indeed."
CNN has a story today in which various people purport that Linux isn't ready for desktop prime time but has a window (rimshot) of opportunity to establish itself therein before the release of Longhorn in 2006.
Might this be a step in the right direction? Your fabled bluehaired grandmother doesn't want to choose between different window managers, etc. Hell, she doesn't know what a window manager is and doesn't want to know. Try to explain various incarnations of X to her and watch granny sizzle.
Marvin packed an Uranium Pew-36 Explosive Space Modulator
/pedantry
/geekmode
AIX is based on UNIX. Linux is based on UNIX. Why bother?
www.iuma.org, among other fine sites offering frisbee mp3s of unsigned artists waaaaay better than Britney/Justin/blah.
Durned lameness filter.
The United States and Europe have withstood nightmares unimaginable relatively unscathed precisely because we have the biggest gun.
In a world full of guns, having the biggest one is your only assurance of safety. In a world bereft of guns unicorns frolic with woodnymphs.
This type of moral relativism, ie the denouncing of 'good and evil' as a christian idea resulted in communism, fascism, nazism, etc. Say pleasure vs. pain, if you like, but the labels still fit.
I personally don't like GWB, either, but putting him on the level of the second greatest mass murderer of the 20th century not only reduces your arguement to personal slander, but is terriblly disrespectful to the people who suffered under Hitler and Stalin.
The reason the UN can't have control over the world's militaries is because that body happens to be overrun by the same types of governments which predicate the kind of 'misinformed lunacy' you mention.
The reason the world is as sane as it is is because of the USA. When will YOU realize THAT?
With all due respect, you're terribly misinformed. Once you DON'T prepare for war, you've guaranteed one.
In a fairy tale world full of unicorns and wood nymphs, you would be correct. But in the real world, evil people do evil things all the time. Refusing to acknowledge and prepare for that is an assurance that they will happen to you. Do you think Switzerland's vaunted neutrality would have mattered at all without American missiles and troops guaranteeing the Soviets stayed the hell out of Western Europe?
Point 1: Al Qaeda exists because the Islamists are intensely uncomfortable with the success of western style capitalism.
Point 2: Iraq has been in violation of the treaties ending the 1991 Gulf War since those documents were signed. This is hardly a lack of provocation.
Point 3: Since we have to treat NKorea with kid gloves, even you'd see that Iran must not be allowed to go nuclear.
Point 4: Complete unconditional nuclear disarmament for all is a beautiful idea if you live in a fantasy land where everyone behaves and follows the rules. In reality, however, not everyone does that. Witness Iraq's, Iran's and North Korea's nascent or existent "secret" programs.
Point 5: The US had their nuclear option thrust upon them by the chances of history and has used them exactly twice in the same war to defeat an enemy that simply would not surrender. We can debate the necessity of nuking Japan versus an all out land invasion in which tens or hundreds of thousands of women, children, and old men would have been killed rather than surrender, but more intelligent heads than you or I made that choice long ago. Again, fantasy versus reality.
Point 6: The sanctions against Iraq, as well as ending the war before toppling that regime, were decisions made by the UN, not the US.
Point 7: During the cold war, the US did indeed have to hold its collective nose and support asshats like Hussein and the Shah as the lesser of two evils. Or perhaps you would have prefered the Soviet Union to have a hammerlock on the mideast?
Point 8: Castro is evil, so fucking what? I don't think that even merits comment. The US has tolerated the situation in Cuba for forty years, and no, Cuba has not improved by orders of magnitude, or any other measure. Witness the unending surge of people willing to brave ninety miles of shark-infested waters to get to Southern Florida before you declare how great it is over there.
Point 9: I don't watch Fox News - I find they are too much a tool of the government to be trusted. However, I would recommend a little less Michael Moore, who has told at least as many well-documented lies as Bill Clinton. And I do read the Guardian.
Point 10: Here's hoping people realize complacency breeds war, our successful society breeds hate among the losers of the civilization contest, and that it is not paranoia if you are attacked first.
when I traded in the old cassette drive for a 1541 floppy drive (and the old "cut out a notch on the other side" hack - arcane knowledge, man.). Price was $199 as I recall through the fog. Then the 300baud phone modem you actually placed the handset on top of . . . pure Star Trek, man!
Remember 'Elephant Disks Never Forget?'
I concede this is a good point. However, the original parent concerned profitable explorative models, which communications satellites are not.
Declaring the space business profitable because DirecTV is making money is rather like declaring AI alive and well because we have computers that can play a mean game of chess. In both cases, if this is all we can do, we'd be better off not bothering.
profitable private space business/exploration model been found?
Any successful business model requires consumers, the one resource space is somewhat lacking in. Private industry has to solve the $10,000 per kilo conundrum first.
Space exploitation is kind of like a round of Leisure Suit Larry; you know, Larry has to have this to get that, but to get that he needs something else from someone who needs yet another item . . . and so on. Space contains all the materials humans need to survive and thrive there, but spread out over billions of miles. Plenty of Nitrogen for growing crops - at Triton. Lots and lots of water - in the rings of Saturn. God's own acreage - under hard vacuum. Tons of iron for construction - in asteroids that must be moved to a predictable and useful Earth orbit (and who would trust ANYone to move a dinosaur killer into LEO?)
On the bright side, untold trillions of dollars are waiting for the right entrepreneurs to solve those riddles.
If they want to play Starving Artist, why are they changing the rules?
Shouldn't there be a phase in gameplay where they introduce these kids to cocaine and hoes to further indenture them? What about the ironclad contract these students have to sign before they get to play? And where is the record executive sitting behind each players back, dictating the moves these kids are allowed to make?