That a lot of people are pretty fucking stupid, and that if we wish to solve the ever increasing problem we face that is over-population, we need merely to round up all these idiots and use the matter they currently inhabit for a more productive use. Fertiliser's a good one. Can't just burn all the bodies after all; air pollution etc.
Careful now.
That sounds like Un-American terrorist talk!
Just because you're not American, and have never been there doesn't mean you can't get dragged off to Gitmo' with your Govt's absolute and total blessing. Ask my country's Gary McKinnon if you fail to believe this.
Granted what your saying about power to a degree. But with the assumption of power comes inherent responsibilities;
however, this is not about power. It is about the sanctity of life (all life), and the rights of all sentient beings. Fair enough not all life is sentient;
we are, but we are not alone in this regard, either on earth or elsewhere (statistically, the chances of earth being the only planet with life on it is miniscule).
With sentience comes a realisation of the future, of pain and of many other things.
It is my moral belief that no sentient life should suffer abuse or torture, for any reason at all. If it were just about power and money, it would not be a problem if I went around offing people because I'm a Mafia boss; after all, I have power, and if it's financially good for me to have less rivals, blammo!
Except I aspire to live fairly in harmony with everything else and money should never enter into an equation with regards ethics!
In short, money is not a god...
it's an animal Well what the fuck are we then????
Seriously, did the scientific community declare us all fungi while I was in the shower?
This "we're not animals, 'cause animals have no souls" bullshit really pisses me off....
Of course we're animals, no more special than any other species...
I'm guessing it was the christians that started this bollocks
It's got the familiar stench of arrogant loathing to it. Same bull as they used to defend slavery;
"It's ok, they're not people, blacks are just animals..."
Well here's a newsflash for ya
WE ARE ALL ANIMALS!!
Sometimes, through various reasons such as the need to eat or expansion (due to our population as a whole needing to survive), we need to kill other things. All well and good if it's for a sufficient purpose (such as we'll die if we don't). That's nature. The wolf kills the deer else the wolf dies.
Nowhere in any fucked up universe do we need to do things like this to any lifeform. It's unethical, and wrong.
Torturing anyone is wrong. Even if they're "terrorists". Yet the US Govt do that. Torturing other creatures for no other reason than "fun" is wrong. Yet the Chinese Govt (who are funding this sick idea) are doing it. Doesn't mean it's right. And for the record I deplore anyone doing anything like this to any animal, be it equine, cetacean, primate or avian.
Not to attack you personally, because I know that many people believe as you do thanks to the DaVinci Code, but what you are saying as fact came from a FICTIONAL NOVEL, and is by no means even close to accurate, any more than Superman or Star Wars. Not to attack YOU personally, because I know that many people believe as you do thanks to the Bible and the ravages of the Catholic Church (and those that followed), but what you are saying also comes from a FICTIONAL NOVEL which also is by no means even close to accurate, any more so than the Da Vinci Code. The Earth is more than 6000 years old. Humanity was not created from 2 individuals, bats are not a type of bird, and when you really get down to it, if the character "Jesus" did actually exist, he almost certainly bore little to no resemblance to the man portrayed in the Bible. He also was probably not crucified, since the Romans loved to keep records of who they killed, yet 'forgot' to keep ones on a minor local celebrity.
I don't have much money. I'm poor. I'm also a student with a fair amount (probably around $30,000 USD) in student loans i'll be paying back for a fair while.
I don't waste my money on something that I'll probably only listen to a few times. I occasionally buy dvd's, usually out of the bargain bucket in Tescos, since my taste in film is for good films, not the mass-market drivel pumped out nowadays.
I don't buy music. Waste of money. In the past I have downloaded a fair amount. If, due to legalities or actualities I was no longer able to do so, I'd go without. I can live without others thoughts on the world; I have my own thoughts, impressions and music to fill the void if I have to. I have on a few occasions download music from iTunes, usually something that particularly moved me or inspired me. I didn't mind paying for this, given the price was minimal (about what I think reasonable to cover their overheads and bandwidth) and it didn't waste any more resources. CD's cost a huge amount in resources, oil for the plastics, various other chemicals for the binder etc, energy to create and process these raw materials etc., distribution and packaging costs. All for a hunk of data I can copy from a server safe in the knowledge that apart from the energy needed for the transfer, I've not contributed to the rape of the planet, since the server was already there, and even if it wasn't, one server can serve billions of songs in it's life.
I judge that as being morally and ethically superior to buying CD's in a shop and supporting these nazis in their quest for more money.
Excuse me? Where was I anti-american. Apart from a slightly barbed comment regarding the education standard of many americans (which is sad but nonetheless true), I was actually praising the american constitution with it's recognition of the fundamental predisposition that many governments have of grabbing power, and the need for them sometimes to be forcefully removed from said power.
I wish my nation had such safeguards and recognised the dangers inherent in giving people power and asking them for it back a few years later when they've gotten accustomed to it.
I don't suppose you've heard the term "democracy" have you? Probably not, I'm guessing you're american.
But not only can you vote out your government for where they spend taxes, you can also actively campaign to get others to vote them out too. You can even, if you've got the balls for it (and don't have a family etc.) choose to refuse payment of said taxes, and maybe even go to jail for not giving the government taxes you believe will be spent wrongly. You can even, if you've got a huge pair of swingers, attempt to overthrow your government if you think them really really bad. I believe in the USA, it's an enshrined principle of government that sometimes this might be necessary. Something about militia's being organised and the right of citizens to hold arms. There's always another choice.
"Windows market is middle class: "You get what you pay for.""
That's simply not true. If it was, to buy windows you'd need to use russian mafia bank notes that are selectively covered with infectious diseases and can be tracked anywhere they go by the use of hidden inbuilt technology that if you attempt to stop or understand, you'll get sued.
The unfortunate paradox resulting from this is that some of said stupid people would probably include said supermodels. Although not all them are dumb as fuck. There has to be some who are reasonably intelligent. Law of averages if nothing else.
Aye, away an heid yer weesht, ya wee sassenach bawbag. It's nae like the jakies here in bonnie scotland drink tha whisky. They cannae, them english bastards tax it tae much. They'll be af drinkin their bucky or floor polish. Ya numptie!
No. Common misconception. Mac OS 9-Mac SO X is more akin to 98/Me - 2k/XP, since 98 was based on an entirely different kernel to XP. Just like OS X is an entire rewrite of OS9. There is no base code remaining in the later at all (not at the core level). 10.1 to 10.2 is similar to 2k to XP. Same core, but new kernel, new features etc. 10.3 to 10.4 probably maybe just equates with XP-XPSP1-XPSP2. There weren't enough features in either Service Pack on their own to equate with a point release of OS X, but from base XP to SP2, it's probably fairly comparable. Vista is more of the same. Not a new kernel, just an update. Not a new UI, just a new theme, an update. The odd new feature bolted on here and there. Just like 10.5 will be.
Point is, the tech media have a tendency to equate Mac OS X with XP, since they came out about the same time. Difference is, XP has been out for 5 years and has seen the equivalent of one point release (SP1 & SP2 put together), whereas Apple have pushed the ball out and released 4. 5 in a couple of months. Somehow the media seem to equate this with "Oh, so Apple have released OS X, and Microsoft have put out XP, and that's all since 2001. Everything else is just minor updates." No. Not the case. Mac OS X will probably be the Mac OS for Apple for at least the next 5 or 6 years, if not longer. It won't be a 10 year old OS at that point. It'll be a year and a half old OS, just as it is now. 10.4 is coming up on 18 months old, and is due replacement. Ditto XP in 2003. Shame Apple have met their release targets (or bettered them) consistently for the last 5 years and Microsoft have failed.
Hmmm.
Fair comment if the DJ was warned but didn't pass on the warning.
Didn't realise the US tv people don't show them commercials. Over here there was a spate of ecstasy deaths a while back and it's become like a well-known thing now in the UK.
Wouldn't know about the data retention thing for the over-30's with regards biology classes, since I'm not over 30 yet.
Dunno about that. I mean, she didn't win, did she? Rules are rules. Can't go expecting people to change the game just because _your_ mum died in a hideously stupid way through no fault of anyone but herself.
Seriously though, who the fuck doesn't know about water poisoning? Not seen the adverts on TV about ecstasy killing through over-water consumption?? Or the news reports where they run down exactly how much water can be fatal, and how to avoid the dangers? Or maybe, just maybe, were you in school for the days your biology teacher went into how water affects the human body, why we need i, what happens if we've too much?
Ignorance is no defence. Especially not since she was told.
Cool, but how will they shoehorn this into the lightsaber along with a suitable power supply?
Could be kinda useful for holograms. If they could make so you could touch it, Holosex here we come.....
Aye. As a Yr3 student in a Scottish 'University' (I use the term under advisement, being it University of Paisley, er.. I mean University of Western Scotland, or University of West Scotland...) I can shamefully say that in a Uni that prides itself on technology, that gloats it's one of the best tech uni's in the UK, that virtually every single one of it's 20,000+ machines runs windowsxp. Utter utter shit. It gets worse though. Tech support have no conception of anything other than Windows. I kid you not, one of said support staff thought linux was a mobile phone provider!! Worse yet, being me a Mac zealot, on a computer animation course, which you think would be at least slightly mac friendly; not a bit. One of my lecturers, someone who does multimedia etc. spells it "MAC" and knows absolutely sod all about the most popular design/multimedia platform. The programming courses here are all totally C++/Windows Visual Studio pish. All documents etc are handed out in.xls or.doc format. (saying that, one lecturer said there's some free program called OpenOffice which is like a free version of the 'real office'. Wow. Who'da thought?) They're a Microsoft Genuine Advantage Campus with god knows how much pish from microsoft scattered around, various propaganda stuff going down; most of the lecturers buy into it 100% (I've had lecturers in the School of Computing thinking that Mac's can't do networking!!). One refers to my "powder-case" (I have a MacBook). It's truly scary how many graduates the place will churn out with absolutely no knowledge of the rest of the worlds computers. I know Microsoft have a huge monopoly and all, but linux is pretty damned popular, particularly in the server world. Ditto Unix. And as for DTP/Design, they still run on Mac's (thank the Gods). There are about 25 macs for the music folks, who I think swung it based on the idea that the mac's aren't "computers' but 'mixing desks'. Stupid beancounters probably thought must be musical, since don't Apple make them iPod things. Truly scary. That's without thinking about the amount of money they spend paying for microsofts pish, and the utterly dire machines that go with it. That said, I don't know why I'm surprised. Their internet/web-page/virtual learning resource (called Blackboard) which is supposed to be 24/7 so students can always log in and check stuff, doubly so over the holidays when they can't physically talk to lecturers...it was down from around the 15th of Dec to the 5th of Jan. My guess is one of the (MCSE only) tech plebs knocked the server off without realising at their xmas piss-up. Scary.
If you're trying to say that Vista boots faster than Mac or linux, may I politely suggest you huff some more crazy glue? Not so sure on some of the linux distros (I'm not so fond of beta software), but I can tell you for fact that on the same hardware, OS X (10.4.8) boots in ~23 seconds. XP Service pack 2 in ~55 seconds, Vista RTM `1 minute 30 seconds. Same hardware, proper drivers etc.
No. I'd euthanise a rabid-pitbull because it is suffering from a terminal disease and is in tremendous pain. Just as I'd euthanise a human in that position, unless something can be done to stop them from dying from said disease. If there was suddenly a cure for rabies, neither the dog nor the person would die. Criminals are NOT victims. Nowhere did I say or suggest that. Certain people who are labelled criminals but are in fact people with mental health difficulties are victims of said mental health, and should be treated, if possible. But if someone who has a sound mind chooses to do something that is wrong, then they are a criminal, and deserve to be suitably punished and rehabilitated. If such rehabilitation is impossible, then they should be locked away in a secure facility where they can do no harm to others or themselves. Is this such a hard concept to grasp? Public safety is paramount. Never said it wasn't. What I did say is that an overriding respect for life is also paramount. Lock them up, by all means. But don't torture them. And don't murder them. If we were to assume the right to kill these people for their crimes, then we become no better than them.
Most of the western world has rejected the death penalty. Only a few uncivilised boondocks still exist in the west that permit it. Sadly one of them thinks they run the world and invented democracy-freedom-tolerance-justice-civilisation.
It's Emperor Gates, Darth Ballmer, but Master Jobs, and Master Linus too, for that matter. Although I'm seeing Linus as a yoda-like guy and Jobs as definitely more of a Samuel-L kinda guy...
"I'm fuckin' tired of these motherfucking bugs in my motherfucking kernel!!"
I would be.
I'd want them taken somewhere where they are no danger to anyone else or themselves anymore, either to a point when they are genuinely rehabilitated, or in cases where that just isn't possible, locked up forever (there are a fair number of people who aren't reformable; particularly so with those who aren't mentally ill in any way, merely see what they did as the right thing)
No one. I'll repeat that slowly for you. N-O O-N-E has the right to end another sentient beings existence unless said being wishes it (consensual euthanasia) and is of a sound mind, or said being is directly and seriously threatening the first parties existence.
Nobody should be able to kill anyone else. Not some guy who's found his wife screwing the milkman. Not some women who's been pushed too far by a drunken arsehole and wants him gone. Not a drunken mob intent on blood from some child-raping scumbag. On the surface, all of these are fairly just reasons for being extremely pissed off. But they still don't have the right to kill someone.
Governments, by definition, are the people leading the people. If I can't shoot someone because I think they killed a child, why should the government have that right. Answer? They shouldn't. And in modern civilised countries, they don't. It's taken us a number of centuries to get to this point, and some would argue my country, for example (the UK) is still illegally killing people, by puttng armed men in the presence of other armed men and telling them to defend themselves (war is a tricksy one, probably beyond the scope of my post, but I stand by my 'don't kill people' stance..unless someone's invading, why should troops be in the presence of other troops. I'm not sure I understand why Iraq was a clear and extreme danger to my personal safety, or that of my countrymen).
My country last executed someone in the 1960's. The twentieth century will hopefully go down in the history books not just for nuclear weaponry, Hitler, Stalin, The Beatles and the internet, but also as the century when the civilised world turned around and said "we've not the right to kill people".
Maybe the weird little third-world nations that still cling to mob-rule and legalised murder will be able to say the same about the twenty-first century. I really hope so.
Poster got it wrong. Safe sleep (what Apple call it ) was only introduced on the last of the powerpc Powerbook's. After that it's subsequently found it's way into every new mac. So if you own a Macbook, Macbook Pro, iMac (intel) or MacMini (intel) or even the MacPro, it'll work like that. But powerpc machines (excluding aforementioned last-of-the-powerbook's) don't. Fear not however, brave iBook user, for with a bit of googling, which i'm too lazy/busy to do right no for you, you can find a nifty wee app that once you've enabled some stuff via the terminal (and if you're running OS 10.4.4 or above) will allow your outdated iBook to SafeSleep. Aren't you lucky.
I do apologise if my post is somewhat long-winded or rambling, I've not had much sleep and I've had a rather large dose of caffeine!
Whilst I would agree with you to a degree, and the fact that the western nations do bear a degree of responsibility in assisting the developing world, since a large reason why they're in such a shitty place is because we put them there through loans and wars etc.
That being said, why care about what country these people are coming from? They're in need, often dying of things that in western countries would bring shock and outrage. Doesn't matter what country they're from, they're people. We're all members of the same species. It is right to help if we can.
Exactly. My computer doesn't have any 'legacy' (read: useless) connections. It has firewire (for digital devices like dv cameras, and for point-point networking), USB 2.0 (for everything else, keyboards, mice, glowing christmas trees, you name it. Bit slow compared to firewire mind.), gigabit ethernet (networking over a wire!), wi-fi (cause networking over a wire is soo 2001), bluetooth (for sending porn my pals send me from my phone to my 21-inch external monitor) and a display adaptor (it is a laptop, after all. But it's a mini-dvi, not some ugly as hell chunky vga job)
Now, bear in mind I'm a mac user, but my current machine (13.3" macbook) has the above, and nothing else. Does me fine. So did my last machine, a 12" iBook. Before that an eMac. Last machine I had that had legacy crap was purchased in 1999. Never used any of the legacy ports once. Had to buy a USB hub though since it only came with two. Handy that my apple keyboard now has two ports on the back of it. See? That's good thinking.
Why the hell any pc manufacturer still includes that legacy port pish I don't know. Just makes the machine look ugly and confuses newbies.
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That a lot of people are pretty fucking stupid, and that if we wish to solve the ever increasing problem we face that is over-population, we need merely to round up all these idiots and use the matter they currently inhabit for a more productive use. Fertiliser's a good one. Can't just burn all the bodies after all; air pollution etc.
Careful now. That sounds like Un-American terrorist talk! Just because you're not American, and have never been there doesn't mean you can't get dragged off to Gitmo' with your Govt's absolute and total blessing. Ask my country's Gary McKinnon if you fail to believe this.
Granted what your saying about power to a degree. But with the assumption of power comes inherent responsibilities; however, this is not about power. It is about the sanctity of life (all life), and the rights of all sentient beings. Fair enough not all life is sentient; we are, but we are not alone in this regard, either on earth or elsewhere (statistically, the chances of earth being the only planet with life on it is miniscule). With sentience comes a realisation of the future, of pain and of many other things. It is my moral belief that no sentient life should suffer abuse or torture, for any reason at all. If it were just about power and money, it would not be a problem if I went around offing people because I'm a Mafia boss; after all, I have power, and if it's financially good for me to have less rivals, blammo! Except I aspire to live fairly in harmony with everything else and money should never enter into an equation with regards ethics! In short, money is not a god...
Repeat after me:
"All life is sacred"
Sometimes, through various reasons such as the need to eat or expansion (due to our population as a whole needing to survive), we need to kill other things. All well and good if it's for a sufficient purpose (such as we'll die if we don't). That's nature. The wolf kills the deer else the wolf dies.
Nowhere in any fucked up universe do we need to do things like this to any lifeform. It's unethical, and wrong.
Torturing anyone is wrong. Even if they're "terrorists". Yet the US Govt do that. Torturing other creatures for no other reason than "fun" is wrong. Yet the Chinese Govt (who are funding this sick idea) are doing it. Doesn't mean it's right.
And for the record I deplore anyone doing anything like this to any animal, be it equine, cetacean, primate or avian.
I hate to respond to that, but..
Me.
I don't have much money. I'm poor. I'm also a student with a fair amount (probably around $30,000 USD) in student loans i'll be paying back for a fair while.
I don't waste my money on something that I'll probably only listen to a few times. I occasionally buy dvd's, usually out of the bargain bucket in Tescos, since my taste in film is for good films, not the mass-market drivel pumped out nowadays.
I don't buy music. Waste of money. In the past I have downloaded a fair amount. If, due to legalities or actualities I was no longer able to do so, I'd go without. I can live without others thoughts on the world; I have my own thoughts, impressions and music to fill the void if I have to. I have on a few occasions download music from iTunes, usually something that particularly moved me or inspired me. I didn't mind paying for this, given the price was minimal (about what I think reasonable to cover their overheads and bandwidth) and it didn't waste any more resources. CD's cost a huge amount in resources, oil for the plastics, various other chemicals for the binder etc, energy to create and process these raw materials etc., distribution and packaging costs. All for a hunk of data I can copy from a server safe in the knowledge that apart from the energy needed for the transfer, I've not contributed to the rape of the planet, since the server was already there, and even if it wasn't, one server can serve billions of songs in it's life.
I judge that as being morally and ethically superior to buying CD's in a shop and supporting these nazis in their quest for more money.
Excuse me? Where was I anti-american. Apart from a slightly barbed comment regarding the education standard of many americans (which is sad but nonetheless true), I was actually praising the american constitution with it's recognition of the fundamental predisposition that many governments have of grabbing power, and the need for them sometimes to be forcefully removed from said power. I wish my nation had such safeguards and recognised the dangers inherent in giving people power and asking them for it back a few years later when they've gotten accustomed to it.
I don't suppose you've heard the term "democracy" have you?
Probably not, I'm guessing you're american.
But not only can you vote out your government for where they spend taxes, you can also actively campaign to get others to vote them out too. You can even, if you've got the balls for it (and don't have a family etc.) choose to refuse payment of said taxes, and maybe even go to jail for not giving the government taxes you believe will be spent wrongly.
You can even, if you've got a huge pair of swingers, attempt to overthrow your government if you think them really really bad.
I believe in the USA, it's an enshrined principle of government that sometimes this might be necessary. Something about militia's being organised and the right of citizens to hold arms.
There's always another choice.
"Windows market is middle class: "You get what you pay for."" That's simply not true. If it was, to buy windows you'd need to use russian mafia bank notes that are selectively covered with infectious diseases and can be tracked anywhere they go by the use of hidden inbuilt technology that if you attempt to stop or understand, you'll get sued.
The unfortunate paradox resulting from this is that some of said stupid people would probably include said supermodels. Although not all them are dumb as fuck. There has to be some who are reasonably intelligent. Law of averages if nothing else.
Aye, away an heid yer weesht, ya wee sassenach bawbag. It's nae like the jakies here in bonnie scotland drink tha whisky. They cannae, them english bastards tax it tae much. They'll be af drinkin their bucky or floor polish. Ya numptie!
No. Common misconception. Mac OS 9-Mac SO X is more akin to 98/Me - 2k/XP, since 98 was based on an entirely different kernel to XP. Just like OS X is an entire rewrite of OS9. There is no base code remaining in the later at all (not at the core level).
10.1 to 10.2 is similar to 2k to XP. Same core, but new kernel, new features etc.
10.3 to 10.4 probably maybe just equates with XP-XPSP1-XPSP2. There weren't enough features in either Service Pack on their own to equate with a point release of OS X, but from base XP to SP2, it's probably fairly comparable.
Vista is more of the same. Not a new kernel, just an update. Not a new UI, just a new theme, an update. The odd new feature bolted on here and there. Just like 10.5 will be.
Point is, the tech media have a tendency to equate Mac OS X with XP, since they came out about the same time. Difference is, XP has been out for 5 years and has seen the equivalent of one point release (SP1 & SP2 put together), whereas Apple have pushed the ball out and released 4. 5 in a couple of months. Somehow the media seem to equate this with "Oh, so Apple have released OS X, and Microsoft have put out XP, and that's all since 2001. Everything else is just minor updates." No. Not the case. Mac OS X will probably be the Mac OS for Apple for at least the next 5 or 6 years, if not longer. It won't be a 10 year old OS at that point. It'll be a year and a half old OS, just as it is now. 10.4 is coming up on 18 months old, and is due replacement. Ditto XP in 2003. Shame Apple have met their release targets (or bettered them) consistently for the last 5 years and Microsoft have failed.
Hmmm. Fair comment if the DJ was warned but didn't pass on the warning. Didn't realise the US tv people don't show them commercials. Over here there was a spate of ecstasy deaths a while back and it's become like a well-known thing now in the UK. Wouldn't know about the data retention thing for the over-30's with regards biology classes, since I'm not over 30 yet.
Dunno about that.
I mean, she didn't win, did she? Rules are rules. Can't go expecting people to change the game just because _your_ mum died in a hideously stupid way through no fault of anyone but herself.
Seriously though, who the fuck doesn't know about water poisoning? Not seen the adverts on TV about ecstasy killing through over-water consumption?? Or the news reports where they run down exactly how much water can be fatal, and how to avoid the dangers? Or maybe, just maybe, were you in school for the days your biology teacher went into how water affects the human body, why we need i, what happens if we've too much?
Ignorance is no defence. Especially not since she was told.
Cool, but how will they shoehorn this into the lightsaber along with a suitable power supply? Could be kinda useful for holograms. If they could make so you could touch it, Holosex here we come.....
Aye. As a Yr3 student in a Scottish 'University' (I use the term under advisement, being it University of Paisley, er.. I mean University of Western Scotland, or University of West Scotland...) I can shamefully say that in a Uni that prides itself on technology, that gloats it's one of the best tech uni's in the UK, that virtually every single one of it's 20,000+ machines runs windowsxp. Utter utter shit. .xls or .doc format. (saying that, one lecturer said there's some free program called OpenOffice which is like a free version of the 'real office'. Wow. Who'da thought?)
It gets worse though. Tech support have no conception of anything other than Windows. I kid you not, one of said support staff thought linux was a mobile phone provider!!
Worse yet, being me a Mac zealot, on a computer animation course, which you think would be at least slightly mac friendly; not a bit. One of my lecturers, someone who does multimedia etc. spells it "MAC" and knows absolutely sod all about the most popular design/multimedia platform. The programming courses here are all totally C++/Windows Visual Studio pish. All documents etc are handed out in
They're a Microsoft Genuine Advantage Campus with god knows how much pish from microsoft scattered around, various propaganda stuff going down; most of the lecturers buy into it 100% (I've had lecturers in the School of Computing thinking that Mac's can't do networking!!). One refers to my "powder-case" (I have a MacBook). It's truly scary how many graduates the place will churn out with absolutely no knowledge of the rest of the worlds computers. I know Microsoft have a huge monopoly and all, but linux is pretty damned popular, particularly in the server world. Ditto Unix. And as for DTP/Design, they still run on Mac's (thank the Gods). There are about 25 macs for the music folks, who I think swung it based on the idea that the mac's aren't "computers' but 'mixing desks'. Stupid beancounters probably thought must be musical, since don't Apple make them iPod things. Truly scary.
That's without thinking about the amount of money they spend paying for microsofts pish, and the utterly dire machines that go with it.
That said, I don't know why I'm surprised. Their internet/web-page/virtual learning resource (called Blackboard) which is supposed to be 24/7 so students can always log in and check stuff, doubly so over the holidays when they can't physically talk to lecturers...it was down from around the 15th of Dec to the 5th of Jan. My guess is one of the (MCSE only) tech plebs knocked the server off without realising at their xmas piss-up.
Scary.
If you're trying to say that Vista boots faster than Mac or linux, may I politely suggest you huff some more crazy glue?
Not so sure on some of the linux distros (I'm not so fond of beta software), but I can tell you for fact that on the same hardware, OS X (10.4.8) boots in ~23 seconds. XP Service pack 2 in ~55 seconds, Vista RTM `1 minute 30 seconds.
Same hardware, proper drivers etc.
No. I'd euthanise a rabid-pitbull because it is suffering from a terminal disease and is in tremendous pain. Just as I'd euthanise a human in that position, unless something can be done to stop them from dying from said disease. If there was suddenly a cure for rabies, neither the dog nor the person would die.
Criminals are NOT victims. Nowhere did I say or suggest that. Certain people who are labelled criminals but are in fact people with mental health difficulties are victims of said mental health, and should be treated, if possible. But if someone who has a sound mind chooses to do something that is wrong, then they are a criminal, and deserve to be suitably punished and rehabilitated. If such rehabilitation is impossible, then they should be locked away in a secure facility where they can do no harm to others or themselves. Is this such a hard concept to grasp?
Public safety is paramount. Never said it wasn't. What I did say is that an overriding respect for life is also paramount. Lock them up, by all means. But don't torture them. And don't murder them. If we were to assume the right to kill these people for their crimes, then we become no better than them.
Most of the western world has rejected the death penalty. Only a few uncivilised boondocks still exist in the west that permit it. Sadly one of them thinks they run the world and invented democracy-freedom-tolerance-justice-civilisation.
You're forgetting; this is Slashdot.
It's Emperor Gates, Darth Ballmer, but Master Jobs, and Master Linus too, for that matter. Although I'm seeing Linus as a yoda-like guy and Jobs as definitely more of a Samuel-L kinda guy...
"I'm fuckin' tired of these motherfucking bugs in my motherfucking kernel!!"
I would be. I'd want them taken somewhere where they are no danger to anyone else or themselves anymore, either to a point when they are genuinely rehabilitated, or in cases where that just isn't possible, locked up forever (there are a fair number of people who aren't reformable; particularly so with those who aren't mentally ill in any way, merely see what they did as the right thing) No one. I'll repeat that slowly for you. N-O O-N-E has the right to end another sentient beings existence unless said being wishes it (consensual euthanasia) and is of a sound mind, or said being is directly and seriously threatening the first parties existence. Nobody should be able to kill anyone else. Not some guy who's found his wife screwing the milkman. Not some women who's been pushed too far by a drunken arsehole and wants him gone. Not a drunken mob intent on blood from some child-raping scumbag. On the surface, all of these are fairly just reasons for being extremely pissed off. But they still don't have the right to kill someone. Governments, by definition, are the people leading the people. If I can't shoot someone because I think they killed a child, why should the government have that right. Answer? They shouldn't. And in modern civilised countries, they don't. It's taken us a number of centuries to get to this point, and some would argue my country, for example (the UK) is still illegally killing people, by puttng armed men in the presence of other armed men and telling them to defend themselves (war is a tricksy one, probably beyond the scope of my post, but I stand by my 'don't kill people' stance..unless someone's invading, why should troops be in the presence of other troops. I'm not sure I understand why Iraq was a clear and extreme danger to my personal safety, or that of my countrymen). My country last executed someone in the 1960's. The twentieth century will hopefully go down in the history books not just for nuclear weaponry, Hitler, Stalin, The Beatles and the internet, but also as the century when the civilised world turned around and said "we've not the right to kill people". Maybe the weird little third-world nations that still cling to mob-rule and legalised murder will be able to say the same about the twenty-first century. I really hope so.
Poster got it wrong. Safe sleep (what Apple call it ) was only introduced on the last of the powerpc Powerbook's.
After that it's subsequently found it's way into every new mac. So if you own a Macbook, Macbook Pro, iMac (intel) or MacMini (intel) or even the MacPro, it'll work like that. But powerpc machines (excluding aforementioned last-of-the-powerbook's) don't. Fear not however, brave iBook user, for with a bit of googling, which i'm too lazy/busy to do right no for you, you can find a nifty wee app that once you've enabled some stuff via the terminal (and if you're running OS 10.4.4 or above) will allow your outdated iBook to SafeSleep. Aren't you lucky.
I do apologise if my post is somewhat long-winded or rambling, I've not had much sleep and I've had a rather large dose of caffeine!
Whilst I would agree with you to a degree, and the fact that the western nations do bear a degree of responsibility in assisting the developing world, since a large reason why they're in such a shitty place is because we put them there through loans and wars etc. That being said, why care about what country these people are coming from? They're in need, often dying of things that in western countries would bring shock and outrage. Doesn't matter what country they're from, they're people. We're all members of the same species. It is right to help if we can.
Exactly. My computer doesn't have any 'legacy' (read: useless) connections. It has firewire (for digital devices like dv cameras, and for point-point networking), USB 2.0 (for everything else, keyboards, mice, glowing christmas trees, you name it. Bit slow compared to firewire mind.), gigabit ethernet (networking over a wire!), wi-fi (cause networking over a wire is soo 2001), bluetooth (for sending porn my pals send me from my phone to my 21-inch external monitor) and a display adaptor (it is a laptop, after all. But it's a mini-dvi, not some ugly as hell chunky vga job) Now, bear in mind I'm a mac user, but my current machine (13.3" macbook) has the above, and nothing else. Does me fine. So did my last machine, a 12" iBook. Before that an eMac. Last machine I had that had legacy crap was purchased in 1999. Never used any of the legacy ports once. Had to buy a USB hub though since it only came with two. Handy that my apple keyboard now has two ports on the back of it. See? That's good thinking. Why the hell any pc manufacturer still includes that legacy port pish I don't know. Just makes the machine look ugly and confuses newbies.