I only buy non-widescreen laptops. My previous laptop was a Toshiba Tecra M3. It died late last year, and I've been wanting to replace it with a Santa Rosa notebook. Imagine my surprise when the M3's successor's successor was widescreen. In fact, _every single Santa Rosa notebook_ is widescreen.
Well, Fujitsu makes a non-widescreen tablet, but it has integrated graphics, which wreaks havoc on system RAM (I always run without swap, so I need RAM). I think Lenovo released a non-widescreen T61 a month or two after I started searching, but it's still pathetic that only one manufacturer offers a non-widescreen notebook with discrete graphics (and they also happen to be the one manufacturer I have moral objections to buying from, what with them being headquartered in Red China). When I bought my M3, I had a choice between Toshiba, Dell, Lenovo, and probably a few others.
C'mon people, I don't want a laptop with a fucked-up aspect ratio.
I suppose it's a moot point now--I bought a new desktop a few months ago, and I want to pay it off in full before buying any more big-ticket items (and chances are, my next expensive purchase will be a 360, not another $2000 computer).
Except that the Pentium E2xxx is currently dominating the low end. Intel actually has all the bases covered this time.
They have the best chips in every market segment, and they have a solid architecture to back themselves up this time. It's not like the last time Intel was beating AMD (Northwood vs. Barton), when the attitude was "our chips are faster when we push our architecture to its limits, so let's just hope AMD doesn't add anything new, because our architecture scales so badly we can only catch up if we rip up our roadmaps and start over from scratch". And we should _all_ be thankful Intel ripped up their roadmaps and started over from scratch, because now they have an architecture that scales.
Right now, AMD is only remotely competitive in the server segment, because of HyperTransport and the on-die memory controller. When Nehalem launches, it's game over for AMD.
Yeah, I have AT&T U-verse, and I'm loving it. Unlike cable, it actually works. I used to have Comcast, and then Time Warner when they swapped cities, and my connection was horribly unreliable with both of them.
U-verse sure as hell doesn't throttle anything, and that 1Mbps upload speed is better than the 384Kbps crap Comcast and TWC offered. It was weird at first--I could actually finish seeding torrents the same day I finished downloading them! That was such a new concept at the time:P
This isn't new. OpenBSD developers are famous for having no class.
Remember, OpenBSD was only started because Theo was kicked out of NetBSD for constantly making personal attacks, so he started a competing project as revenge.
I once saw a PDF published by the IRS explaining how to report money from alternative income sources. There was a section on "bribes and kickbacks", a section on illegal drug sales, a section on "other illegal activities".
They just want your money; they don't care how you made it.
It entirely depends on the company. Small companies, Linux shops, and engineering-focused companies work better with people maintaining their own machines.
I work at a Linux-based network security startup. Engineers maintain our own Linux boxen, IT maintains the Windows boxes given to non-engineers. Most employees, engineers included, have Windows laptops assigned to them as well; those laptops are maintained by IT. Of course, we're a small company...IT consists of one person in our US office and one person in our India office.
Not much piracy concerns with Linux; we don't run any commercial distros on our desktops (we run a hodgepodge of Debian, Ubuntu, and Fedora), and none of us have any use for Linux commercial software.
You're right that Hitler's wars weren't terrorism, but his use of the Stormtroopers was a form of terrorism.
The Stormtroopers were a group of people Hitler hired to terrorize the population and generally do his dirty work of eliminating dissidents and/or scaring them into submission.
Nah, he's probably one of the shitheads associated with groups like CORRUPT.
They're an evil, evil neo-Nazi organization that worships at the altar of eugenics. They're the main reason why I've come to consider extreme pro-science zealots to be just as bad as extreme anti-science zealots.
The only reason I've even heard of them is because I know a guy who's a member, and after finding out about his crazy belief system (he actually identifies as a neo-Nazi), I've done my best to avoid him.
At the same time, UK Social Services is committing acts of terrorism (yes, kidnapping threats are acts of terrorism) against a family with fat children.
The Mozilla Foundation is the single biggest thing hurting Firefox. The MoFo has already turned Firefox into proprietary software. Seriously, Firefox isn't as free as you think, all while falsely claiming Firefox is open-source. They commit extortion against people who make custom icons, and they've announced that no one is allowed to distribute Firefox without MoFo signing off on it. Debian and the FSF want nothing to do with them, and for good reason.
I have much less of a problem with Opera. Opera doesn't hide the fact that they're not free at all. It's a closed-source browser that admits it. The Mozilla Foundation lacks that honesty.
Not to mention performance: Firefox is a giant memory leak, while Opera just keeps chugging along. Then again, Opera has managed to piss me off with 9.50...I hate how 9.50 totally locks up my computer and makes my hard drive grind for 30 seconds flat every time I type a URL into the address bar.
Wow, you display a fundamental misunderstanding of what genocide means.
Genocide against Muslims in Vietraq is okay. You want to see a genocide against Muslims? Maybe you should read up on the Srebrenica massacre, where people killed nearly every male Muslim in an entire region. Calling anything the US has done in Iraq a genocide is a grave insult to the victims of real genocides.
And comparing Iraq to Viet Nam just shows your vast ignorance. There's no draft in Iraq. We never toppled the North Vietnamese government. We never captured and killed Ho Chi Minh, his children, and every important official in his government. The number of soldiers who have died in Iraq are more than an order of magnitude less than the number of soldiers who died in Viet Nam (4000 in Iraq, 58000 in Viet Nam).
So is genocide against those in the path of Hurricane Katrina. Economic genocide against those Americans outside Bush's "in" group WTF? Nothing you describe has anything to do with genocide. Oh, I get it, you're one of those radical leftist psuedo-intellectuals who think it's cool to throw out scary-sounding words when you're bashing Bush, even if the actual meanings of those words don't apply.
And people wonder why leftists are persona non grata in American society.
Nihilism also preaches moral relativism, since the nihilistic viewpoint maintains that nothing has any inherent value, especially moral value. Thus, to a nihilist, nothing is either moral or immoral. This is why Christianity is not nihilist. No moral philosophy that uses terms like "right" and "wrong" is nihilist.
Science is not supposed to be used as a moral philosophy. Science does not make any value judgements. Science answers "how?" rather than "why?" or "is this good?". The problem comes when some idiots decide to treat science as a moral philosophy. Attempting to misuse science as a moral philosophy results in nihilism.
Nihilists have no problem with executing the 90% of humanity who have any genetic faults to improve the gene pool for the other 10%. They do not see the murder of over five billion people as immoral. Likewise, the theory of evolution does not morally condemn the killing of a lifeform due to natural selection. That is perfectly fine; science is not supposed to pass any moral judgements. However, when you wrongly treat science as if it were a moral philosophy, any action becomes morally permissible, and only results matter.
This is why most modern neo-Nazis are nihilists who worship science, especially evolution and natural selection. These are people who see no problem with the wholesale slaughter of anyone with a low IQ, anyone with any genetic faults, or anyone not in perfect health for the sake of improving humanity's gene pool. They refer to it as culling the unfit. These people are real. I know one of them. He's the scariest and most sickening person I've met, and I was even more sickened when I found out that there are several organizations who share his beliefs.
Well, we usually don't have to install our own workstations--new employees usually get a machine that used to belong to someone who left. They can reinstall it if they want, but no one bothers. Engineering desktops are an eclectic mix of Debian, Ubuntu, and Fedora. The actual machines are usually old HP, Compaq, or Gateway PCs, but we also have several System76 boxen with preinstalled Ubuntu.
For engineers, we maintain our own desktops, though the company-issued laptops are maintained by IT (but nearly everyone in engineering has a Linux desktop they maintain). The layout of the labs is the responsibility of the department using the lab (development, QA, or customer support depending on the lab); IT only handles the basic network infrastructure. File servers, build machines, etc. used by development are maintained by developers (and I'm one of the two developers who usually maintain these machines). IT just gives us the hardware we need and makes sure we have connectivity. The only servers IT directly maintains are general servers like the mail server, the company directory, the core gateway, etc.
If I have a problem with something on my machine, I'll always ask one of the more senior developers. Our IT guy (there's only one; this company is tiny) is a great guy, but the developers have the most experience with Linux workstations. I love working at a startup.
I see the usual groupthink hivemind still controls Slashdot.
Good to see that the usual "anything non-free must be destroyed" dogma is still rigidly enforced by the moderators. Not.
I see how it is: criticize the fallacy that every form of non-free media is always a bad thing, and get modded down to -1 Troll. Heil Slashdot Gruppendenken!
I'm sure the asshats who modded me down are the same people who are hopelessly in love with Wikipedia and demand that they be allowed to cite Wikipedia as a source in their term papers.
Copyright paranoia happens for two reasons: 1. Wikimedia Foundation does not retain legal counsel who specialize in the laws of every jurisdiction on the planet, and 2. Wikimedia Foundation's legal department is orders of magnitude smaller than those of established publishers of non-free mass media. No, Wikipedia's copyright paranoia is because Wikipedia is dominated by free-software zealots who crusade against fair-use images for religious reasons.
I used to support the free-software movement. Thanks to Wikipedia's free-software zealots, I now despise the entire free-software movement.
Wikipedia only prohibits original research. Citing your own work is simply proof that your research isn't original to Wikipedia. Describing the version in the journal would violate the copyright transfer agreement, since you're still writing about your discovery.
- Transfer copyright to a friend you trust - Have your friend give you an irrevocable, royalty-free license to publish the work anywhere. Make sure the license states that it can never, under any circumstances, be renounced by either you or the copyright holder, and any future agreements that call for you or the copyright holder to renounce the license are null and void. - Have dated, notarized proof of both actions - Submit the work to the journal. Don't tell them you don't have the copyright anymore. Even if you say you're transferring the copyright to them, you're not allowed to transfer someone else's copyright. - Publish the work elsewhere after it gets published in the journal. - If the journal balks, show them the proof that you gave up the copyright before you sent it to the journal.
An alternative would be to have the friend transfer copyright back to you after giving you the irrevocable license. Get dated, notarized proof of that too. You now have both the copyright and an irrevocable license to publish the work. Even if you transfer copyright to the journal, you still have the irrevocable license.
Read High Frontier, by Gerard O'Neill. Space colonies are perfectly feasible. Building one is more an exercise in putting existing technologies together than inventing new technologies.
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Unlike the current writers, Len Kaminski actually knew what he was talking about when he referenced technologies in his run.
Damn, I wish Kaminski'd write Iron Man again. I miss him.
I know the feeling.
I only buy non-widescreen laptops. My previous laptop was a Toshiba Tecra M3. It died late last year, and I've been wanting to replace it with a Santa Rosa notebook. Imagine my surprise when the M3's successor's successor was widescreen. In fact, _every single Santa Rosa notebook_ is widescreen.
Well, Fujitsu makes a non-widescreen tablet, but it has integrated graphics, which wreaks havoc on system RAM (I always run without swap, so I need RAM). I think Lenovo released a non-widescreen T61 a month or two after I started searching, but it's still pathetic that only one manufacturer offers a non-widescreen notebook with discrete graphics (and they also happen to be the one manufacturer I have moral objections to buying from, what with them being headquartered in Red China). When I bought my M3, I had a choice between Toshiba, Dell, Lenovo, and probably a few others.
C'mon people, I don't want a laptop with a fucked-up aspect ratio.
I suppose it's a moot point now--I bought a new desktop a few months ago, and I want to pay it off in full before buying any more big-ticket items (and chances are, my next expensive purchase will be a 360, not another $2000 computer).
Hell, Apple had Rhapsody on x86 in the 90s.
Most worms spread through dipshits opening email attachments they have no business opening.
No matter what OS you run, if you open every spam attachment you get, your machine is hosed.
Except that the Pentium E2xxx is currently dominating the low end. Intel actually has all the bases covered this time.
They have the best chips in every market segment, and they have a solid architecture to back themselves up this time. It's not like the last time Intel was beating AMD (Northwood vs. Barton), when the attitude was "our chips are faster when we push our architecture to its limits, so let's just hope AMD doesn't add anything new, because our architecture scales so badly we can only catch up if we rip up our roadmaps and start over from scratch". And we should _all_ be thankful Intel ripped up their roadmaps and started over from scratch, because now they have an architecture that scales.
Right now, AMD is only remotely competitive in the server segment, because of HyperTransport and the on-die memory controller. When Nehalem launches, it's game over for AMD.
Yeah, I have AT&T U-verse, and I'm loving it. Unlike cable, it actually works. I used to have Comcast, and then Time Warner when they swapped cities, and my connection was horribly unreliable with both of them.
:P
U-verse sure as hell doesn't throttle anything, and that 1Mbps upload speed is better than the 384Kbps crap Comcast and TWC offered. It was weird at first--I could actually finish seeding torrents the same day I finished downloading them! That was such a new concept at the time
"Bounce a graviton particle beam off the main deflector dish, that's the way we do things here, making shit up as we wish..."
Voltaire is God.
This isn't new. OpenBSD developers are famous for having no class.
Remember, OpenBSD was only started because Theo was kicked out of NetBSD for constantly making personal attacks, so he started a competing project as revenge.
The US does that too.
I once saw a PDF published by the IRS explaining how to report money from alternative income sources. There was a section on "bribes and kickbacks", a section on illegal drug sales, a section on "other illegal activities".
They just want your money; they don't care how you made it.
It entirely depends on the company. Small companies, Linux shops, and engineering-focused companies work better with people maintaining their own machines.
I work at a Linux-based network security startup. Engineers maintain our own Linux boxen, IT maintains the Windows boxes given to non-engineers. Most employees, engineers included, have Windows laptops assigned to them as well; those laptops are maintained by IT. Of course, we're a small company...IT consists of one person in our US office and one person in our India office.
Not much piracy concerns with Linux; we don't run any commercial distros on our desktops (we run a hodgepodge of Debian, Ubuntu, and Fedora), and none of us have any use for Linux commercial software.
That's no good, you need a car analogy.
You're right that Hitler's wars weren't terrorism, but his use of the Stormtroopers was a form of terrorism.
The Stormtroopers were a group of people Hitler hired to terrorize the population and generally do his dirty work of eliminating dissidents and/or scaring them into submission.
Nah, he's probably one of the shitheads associated with groups like CORRUPT.
They're an evil, evil neo-Nazi organization that worships at the altar of eugenics. They're the main reason why I've come to consider extreme pro-science zealots to be just as bad as extreme anti-science zealots.
The only reason I've even heard of them is because I know a guy who's a member, and after finding out about his crazy belief system (he actually identifies as a neo-Nazi), I've done my best to avoid him.
At the same time, UK Social Services is committing acts of terrorism (yes, kidnapping threats are acts of terrorism) against a family with fat children.
Hypocritical much?
Tagged with "jumpedtheshark".
A web browser should be a web browser, goddammit.
The Mozilla Foundation is the single biggest thing hurting Firefox. The MoFo has already turned Firefox into proprietary software. Seriously, Firefox isn't as free as you think, all while falsely claiming Firefox is open-source. They commit extortion against people who make custom icons, and they've announced that no one is allowed to distribute Firefox without MoFo signing off on it. Debian and the FSF want nothing to do with them, and for good reason.
I have much less of a problem with Opera. Opera doesn't hide the fact that they're not free at all. It's a closed-source browser that admits it. The Mozilla Foundation lacks that honesty.
Not to mention performance: Firefox is a giant memory leak, while Opera just keeps chugging along. Then again, Opera has managed to piss me off with 9.50...I hate how 9.50 totally locks up my computer and makes my hard drive grind for 30 seconds flat every time I type a URL into the address bar.
And comparing Iraq to Viet Nam just shows your vast ignorance. There's no draft in Iraq. We never toppled the North Vietnamese government. We never captured and killed Ho Chi Minh, his children, and every important official in his government. The number of soldiers who have died in Iraq are more than an order of magnitude less than the number of soldiers who died in Viet Nam (4000 in Iraq, 58000 in Viet Nam). So is genocide against those in the path of Hurricane Katrina. Economic genocide against those Americans outside Bush's "in" group WTF? Nothing you describe has anything to do with genocide. Oh, I get it, you're one of those radical leftist psuedo-intellectuals who think it's cool to throw out scary-sounding words when you're bashing Bush, even if the actual meanings of those words don't apply.
And people wonder why leftists are persona non grata in American society.
Nihilism also preaches moral relativism, since the nihilistic viewpoint maintains that nothing has any inherent value, especially moral value. Thus, to a nihilist, nothing is either moral or immoral. This is why Christianity is not nihilist. No moral philosophy that uses terms like "right" and "wrong" is nihilist.
Science is not supposed to be used as a moral philosophy. Science does not make any value judgements. Science answers "how?" rather than "why?" or "is this good?". The problem comes when some idiots decide to treat science as a moral philosophy. Attempting to misuse science as a moral philosophy results in nihilism.
Nihilists have no problem with executing the 90% of humanity who have any genetic faults to improve the gene pool for the other 10%. They do not see the murder of over five billion people as immoral. Likewise, the theory of evolution does not morally condemn the killing of a lifeform due to natural selection. That is perfectly fine; science is not supposed to pass any moral judgements. However, when you wrongly treat science as if it were a moral philosophy, any action becomes morally permissible, and only results matter.
This is why most modern neo-Nazis are nihilists who worship science, especially evolution and natural selection. These are people who see no problem with the wholesale slaughter of anyone with a low IQ, anyone with any genetic faults, or anyone not in perfect health for the sake of improving humanity's gene pool. They refer to it as culling the unfit. These people are real. I know one of them. He's the scariest and most sickening person I've met, and I was even more sickened when I found out that there are several organizations who share his beliefs.
This is exactly like the company where I work.
Well, we usually don't have to install our own workstations--new employees usually get a machine that used to belong to someone who left. They can reinstall it if they want, but no one bothers. Engineering desktops are an eclectic mix of Debian, Ubuntu, and Fedora. The actual machines are usually old HP, Compaq, or Gateway PCs, but we also have several System76 boxen with preinstalled Ubuntu.
For engineers, we maintain our own desktops, though the company-issued laptops are maintained by IT (but nearly everyone in engineering has a Linux desktop they maintain). The layout of the labs is the responsibility of the department using the lab (development, QA, or customer support depending on the lab); IT only handles the basic network infrastructure. File servers, build machines, etc. used by development are maintained by developers (and I'm one of the two developers who usually maintain these machines). IT just gives us the hardware we need and makes sure we have connectivity. The only servers IT directly maintains are general servers like the mail server, the company directory, the core gateway, etc.
If I have a problem with something on my machine, I'll always ask one of the more senior developers. Our IT guy (there's only one; this company is tiny) is a great guy, but the developers have the most experience with Linux workstations. I love working at a startup.
This is the ONLY area where Scientology is right. All mental health studies are bullshit junk "science".
I see the usual groupthink hivemind still controls Slashdot.
Good to see that the usual "anything non-free must be destroyed" dogma is still rigidly enforced by the moderators. Not.
I see how it is: criticize the fallacy that every form of non-free media is always a bad thing, and get modded down to -1 Troll. Heil Slashdot Gruppendenken!
I'm sure the asshats who modded me down are the same people who are hopelessly in love with Wikipedia and demand that they be allowed to cite Wikipedia as a source in their term papers.
I used to support the free-software movement. Thanks to Wikipedia's free-software zealots, I now despise the entire free-software movement.
Wikipedia only prohibits original research. Citing your own work is simply proof that your research isn't original to Wikipedia. Describing the version in the journal would violate the copyright transfer agreement, since you're still writing about your discovery.
Idea:
- Transfer copyright to a friend you trust
- Have your friend give you an irrevocable, royalty-free license to publish the work anywhere. Make sure the license states that it can never, under any circumstances, be renounced by either you or the copyright holder, and any future agreements that call for you or the copyright holder to renounce the license are null and void.
- Have dated, notarized proof of both actions
- Submit the work to the journal. Don't tell them you don't have the copyright anymore. Even if you say you're transferring the copyright to them, you're not allowed to transfer someone else's copyright.
- Publish the work elsewhere after it gets published in the journal.
- If the journal balks, show them the proof that you gave up the copyright before you sent it to the journal.
An alternative would be to have the friend transfer copyright back to you after giving you the irrevocable license. Get dated, notarized proof of that too. You now have both the copyright and an irrevocable license to publish the work. Even if you transfer copyright to the journal, you still have the irrevocable license.
Read High Frontier, by Gerard O'Neill. Space colonies are perfectly feasible. Building one is more an exercise in putting existing technologies together than inventing new technologies.
I want to live in an O'Neill cylinder!
Eh, I'll take the cigarettes and keep on using my Windoze phone (hey, WM5 and WM6 are Microsoft's only good products).
Mmm...Djarum cigarette in my mouth, HTC phone in my hand. Yummy.