"With SATA you need as many external SATA sockets on your computer as you have external SATA drives"
When I was looking into building a san like device I did some research on this. If you google "Port Multiplier SATA", you will find plenty of different options.
"How is the availability of a vaccine a violation of anyone's rights?"
What about a vaccine for homosexuality or ambition? The vaccine presumes that there is something "diseased" about a cocaine user. This is a moralistic value judgment, which makes it a violation of the liberty of men who are free from those particular moral chains.
"it could finally get an addicted person clean, after which he/she has no desire to put him/her self back in that state of dependency."
The grandparents point is that sure, you would say (if they give you a choice) that you want to get off the drugs and are miserable. This happens when you are comming down and never want to see another rolled up twenty again. What happens the next day, when your physical craving is gone but the mental dependancy is still there? What he was trying to say is that you will find other ways to get some sort of "high". This could simply be because its in your genetic nature.
When people start talking about medicating "conditions/syndromes" that are only a problem because of a sick political and philosophical war on drugs, then you get people who really truly do believe in freedom coming out against it. No surprise really.
"Let's look at alcoholism as an easier example. Alcoholics drink for the high."
Im pretty sure alcoholics drink more because they dont have the negative effects, such as hangovers. Everyone drinks "for the high" as you put it, why else would one drink if not to alter their perception? I personally never get hangovers, so I drink alot. There is nothing wrong with people who are alcoholics. Its not a disease or a deficit of character. We evolved this way, and ill be damned if ill let your puritan eugenics change who I am as a person. I like who I am. Just because some people treat alcohol as a crutch, cant afford it, or are violent, doesnt mean that all alcoholics are in need of a cure. Thats the persons problem, not the fault of some "disease" that they cant control.
People are always looking to blame something else for what generally is a lack of self control.
"Apple has designed the ideal techie retail store."
Apple and techie are antipodes. Slashdot, this is like the fifth apple story in the last 2 days. Have the homosexuals really taken over all of slashdot, so now all that is left is greasy metrosexual fanboi hipsters? I was recently flying and seated next to a gay guy. Guess what kind of laptop he had? A laptop that, by the way, he had to prop open in order to have it not enter standby while playing music tracks. Something that my toshiba does flawlessly because.. IT JUST WORKS. I tried to plug an mp3 player into the line in of a macbook that a colleague stupidly purchased, in order to have it play out the speakers. In a windows laptop, it just WORKS. We must have spent at least 15 minutes trying to figure out how to PASS THROUGH AUDIO on the damn thing. I mean thats really simple shit there, but we ended up having to boot into xp where it worked flawlessly with zero tweaks or effort. MAC_XP btw that gives people the impression that it doesnt need antivirus because, and im quoting at least 5 different people here: "macs dont get viruses!". Well yeah, mac OS doesnt, but your running windows on it! "so what" they say, "its a mac!". Brilliant. This is whoes buying these stupid macbooks. People who load xp on it and think that somehow the little apple badge on the laptop lid will protect them.
Im so sick of apple fanbois comparing apple to VISTA and gloating about how much better it is. Well no shit! windows 98se is better than gay ass vista! why dont you go back to comparing it to XP or 2k? Because then you will lose? yeah thats what I thought.
Seriously though, fuck apple. Also fuck karma no doubt. Truth hurts doesn't it macophiles.
Another thing to note is that the macbook has a defective trackpad, in that you cant tap it and have it register as a click. This behavior carries across into windows. Also there is no right mouse button as I assume would be on the dell.
What if he stood in the pouring rain all night, waiting for a chance to simply catch a glimpse of his wii, while violin music played softly in the background and a blind, hobbled pauper, noiselessly trembled his cup for change?
The idea that love has to have sacrifice is judeo-christian anyway. Im sure it makes you feel good telling other people they are not in "love" based on some list you some list you somehow worked out and internally justify.
I doubt that this would be really what would happen. If they had this ability, then why wouldnt he just "beam" all the dirt in the bar out? Quark plenty of times can be seen whiping down tables and cleaning up. Im sure he just gets one of the dabo girls to hose down the holideck after use. I doubt manual cleaning will ever go away, even in the 24th century.
I love how everyone thinks they know what "love" is.
Love means you have to stick together for a long time? I guess im in love with my co workers then because I have tolerated them for years.
Your just not ready to accept that there is no such thing as "love". And so it can be arbitrarily applied to whatever anyone wants. Its like happiness. Words to describe something that simply doesnt exsist.
It doesnt really matter what your usability studies say, a one button mose is really annoying. Whats even more annoying is people who have started to dual boot macbooks which only have one mouse button on their trackpad (!!). In addition to this, you cant tap the pad, like every single other computer, and have it count as a click. You have to use this huge ass stupid button that constantly reminds you that there should be two.
Its more in a long line of apple usability nightmares. The ipod has no off button, so it "sleeps" and drains its battery in a matter of days.
"The worst are users (about 5%) who always click both buttons at the same time"
So the mac solution is to redesign the entire interface for 5% of idiot users. Man, if apple was a car company they would swap the gas and break because steve jobs is left footed. Its a cult, and a million studies arent going to change the reality that steve jobs is just trying to be "different" and teaching stupid lusers the wrong way to go about doing things (i define wrong as contrary to established conventions).
"First, all systems ship in single button configuration, so developers almost never require right-clicking for any action."
Yeah, thats why it takes so long to do even simple things on a mac. You have to hunt for menus in unrelated places instead of merely right clicking on the exact thing you want. For macophiles, different ALWAYS means good. People like you just cant admit that a one button mouse is a completely stupid idea and is single handedly regressing computers back to 1986. Maybe apple can come out with monocrome displays next. Sure would save developers from designing complected guis!
"You're trying to sell these to gamers not investment bankers."
I think its much more likely that an investment banker would play wow than a gamer. Most true gamers got bored of wow, or wisely avoided ever getting addicted to it in the first place. Anyone who still plays wow after 2 or 3 years should have their head examined.
Whenever I need new music thats not personally recommended by a friend (which is 95% of music i download), ill find a shoutcast stream I like, set up stationripper and then listen to the individual tracks at my leisure. If you have a good track, ill download the whole album.
Other ways would be getting on something like soulseek and browsing other users files whom you share common interests with.
There is simply so much music out there that it isnt really nessecary to go out looking for it. Let the music find you. The good stuff always does.
"But most people can't be bothered to actually make content. they bitch about the content other people make, but their protest is basically to steal other peoples stuff, not to make anything different."
1. I dont think you understand what the word "stealing" means. It does not mean "depriving me of possible revenue".
2. Most pirates are indiscriminate about the companies they pirate from, as it should be. The "little guy" doesnt have a right to profit off of creativity any more or less than anyone else.
"There is nothing obsolete about the business model of making stuff and selling it."
The internet has the potential to make the world more free (as in beer/software). Of course profiteers such as yourself want to take this freedom away. If you made widgets, and nanoforges were invented that allowed limitless manufacture of anything from raw material, would you have them banned for copying your widgets? Its the exact same thing, except we are talking about software, music and movies not widgets.
If it can be easily copied, and isnt some sort of private information, then it should be easily copied. I believe that all software code should be open source and free, including your games. Its the only way humanity progresses, both ideologically and pragmatically as we get closer and closer to assembling things atom by atom. We have to set up a legal framework now, or our children and grand children will be walled up in a world of complete artificial scarcity, dominated and controlled by Intellectual "Property" overloards.
Now I hear the keyboard clacking, "you cant tell me my software has to be open source!! thats communism!!11". There are some things too important to be left to individual "biases". Whether software is open or closed is one of those things. Now games are more like music and movies, entertainment, than actual software "tools", but I would like to quote a very old slashdot post (whoes author has sadly escaped me (notice im not taking credit for others work which IS morally wrong) ) But this is something that bears reprinting in every single discussion about IP.
----------- Seriously though, I'm sure that a lot of people think the way this guy thinks. It's an easy mistake to make, especially if you look at software as being analogous to physical property. The analogy breaks down pretty quickly if you look at it. I like to use the example of the "magic hammer".
If I attach a rock to the end of a stick to make a real-life hammer, and I give it to you, now I don't have a hammer anymore. With software, I can sell the hammer to you, and I still somehow have an identical hammer (that's how Microsoft makes the big bucks). With open source software, I give you the hammer with instructions on how to make it. I haven't really lost anything by giving you the hammer - I still have my copy, and copying it took about 3 seconds. You are encouraged to share the hammer with your friends (and you don't loose anything by doing so either). You can also make improvements to the hammer. Only an enterprising few will do this, but the effect is cumulative. When someone forges a brass head for the hammer, poof! Everyone's hammers are now better. Steel head? Poof! Claw on the back for pulling nails? Poof! It doesn't take long before everybody has a really good hammer. -author unknown
A music or movie is widely broadcast, that is the point of it, to tell a story. If an artist wants to let no one hear his song, locks it in a vault, and it gets shared, then thats wrong. But if an artist is producing music to be heard, then they have no right to privacy in regards to that song now do they?
You are somehow confusing the right to privacy with disseminating other peoples already released intelectual property. The issues are not even remotely similar. Of course this being slashdot, you have been wildly and incorrectly modded up.
"Network error moving from one windows box to another, yep your data is gone."
Have you ever used a computer? Youre quite simply wrong. Ive had many move operations fail and never lost a file doing it. You can test by moving a large file, pulling the network cable out. The file is still on your PC. With your "bad disk" example, well yeah if the disk lies to the OS saying that files are copied when theyre not then that could happen. This would be very rare as bad disks tend to advertise rather loudly (to the OS) that they are going bad.
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The grandparents point is that sure, you would say (if they give you a choice) that you want to get off the drugs and are miserable. This happens when you are comming down and never want to see another rolled up twenty again. What happens the next day, when your physical craving is gone but the mental dependancy is still there? What he was trying to say is that you will find other ways to get some sort of "high". This could simply be because its in your genetic nature.
When people start talking about medicating "conditions/syndromes" that are only a problem because of a sick political and philosophical war on drugs, then you get people who really truly do believe in freedom coming out against it. No surprise really.
People are always looking to blame something else for what generally is a lack of self control.
you own your children's freedom?
Hes probably just viral marketing both sites.
Im so sick of apple fanbois comparing apple to VISTA and gloating about how much better it is. Well no shit! windows 98se is better than gay ass vista! why dont you go back to comparing it to XP or 2k? Because then you will lose? yeah thats what I thought.
Seriously though, fuck apple. Also fuck karma no doubt. Truth hurts doesn't it macophiles.
Another thing to note is that the macbook has a defective trackpad, in that you cant tap it and have it register as a click. This behavior carries across into windows. Also there is no right mouse button as I assume would be on the dell.
What if he stood in the pouring rain all night, waiting for a chance to simply catch a glimpse of his wii, while violin music played softly in the background and a blind, hobbled pauper, noiselessly trembled his cup for change?
The idea that love has to have sacrifice is judeo-christian anyway. Im sure it makes you feel good telling other people they are not in "love" based on some list you some list you somehow worked out and internally justify.
I doubt that this would be really what would happen. If they had this ability, then why wouldnt he just "beam" all the dirt in the bar out? Quark plenty of times can be seen whiping down tables and cleaning up. Im sure he just gets one of the dabo girls to hose down the holideck after use. I doubt manual cleaning will ever go away, even in the 24th century.
I love how everyone thinks they know what "love" is.
Love means you have to stick together for a long time? I guess im in love with my co workers then because I have tolerated them for years.
Your just not ready to accept that there is no such thing as "love". And so it can be arbitrarily applied to whatever anyone wants. Its like happiness. Words to describe something that simply doesnt exsist.
Its more in a long line of apple usability nightmares. The ipod has no off button, so it "sleeps" and drains its battery in a matter of days. So the mac solution is to redesign the entire interface for 5% of idiot users. Man, if apple was a car company they would swap the gas and break because steve jobs is left footed. Its a cult, and a million studies arent going to change the reality that steve jobs is just trying to be "different" and teaching stupid lusers the wrong way to go about doing things (i define wrong as contrary to established conventions). Yeah, thats why it takes so long to do even simple things on a mac. You have to hunt for menus in unrelated places instead of merely right clicking on the exact thing you want. For macophiles, different ALWAYS means good. People like you just cant admit that a one button mouse is a completely stupid idea and is single handedly regressing computers back to 1986. Maybe apple can come out with monocrome displays next. Sure would save developers from designing complected guis!
"What I would really like is a "smart firewall""
Try downloading untangle.
"the local bewspaper."
"Literacy seems to be waning in our time."
I'd have to agree!
Whenever I need new music thats not personally recommended by a friend (which is 95% of music i download), ill find a shoutcast stream I like, set up stationripper and then listen to the individual tracks at my leisure. If you have a good track, ill download the whole album.
Other ways would be getting on something like soulseek and browsing other users files whom you share common interests with.
There is simply so much music out there that it isnt really nessecary to go out looking for it. Let the music find you. The good stuff always does.
users already do not read prompts, so heres an idea, lets increase the amount of prompts they have to read! how can that fail!
2. Most pirates are indiscriminate about the companies they pirate from, as it should be. The "little guy" doesnt have a right to profit off of creativity any more or less than anyone else.
The internet has the potential to make the world more free (as in beer/software). Of course profiteers such as yourself want to take this freedom away. If you made widgets, and nanoforges were invented that allowed limitless manufacture of anything from raw material, would you have them banned for copying your widgets? Its the exact same thing, except we are talking about software, music and movies not widgets.
If it can be easily copied, and isnt some sort of private information, then it should be easily copied. I believe that all software code should be open source and free, including your games. Its the only way humanity progresses, both ideologically and pragmatically as we get closer and closer to assembling things atom by atom. We have to set up a legal framework now, or our children and grand children will be walled up in a world of complete artificial scarcity, dominated and controlled by Intellectual "Property" overloards.
Now I hear the keyboard clacking, "you cant tell me my software has to be open source!! thats communism!!11". There are some things too important to be left to individual "biases". Whether software is open or closed is one of those things. Now games are more like music and movies, entertainment, than actual software "tools", but I would like to quote a very old slashdot post (whoes author has sadly escaped me (notice im not taking credit for others work which IS morally wrong) ) But this is something that bears reprinting in every single discussion about IP.
-----------
Seriously though, I'm sure that a lot of people think the way this guy thinks. It's an easy mistake to make, especially if you look at software as being analogous to physical property. The analogy breaks down pretty quickly if you look at it. I like to use the example of the "magic hammer".
If I attach a rock to the end of a stick to make a real-life hammer, and I give it to you, now I don't have a hammer anymore. With software, I can sell the hammer to you, and I still somehow have an identical hammer (that's how Microsoft makes the big bucks). With open source software, I give you the hammer with instructions on how to make it. I haven't really lost anything by giving you the hammer - I still have my copy, and copying it took about 3 seconds. You are encouraged to share the hammer with your friends (and you don't loose anything by doing so either). You can also make improvements to the hammer. Only an enterprising few will do this, but the effect is cumulative. When someone forges a brass head for the hammer, poof! Everyone's hammers are now better. Steel head? Poof! Claw on the back for pulling nails? Poof! It doesn't take long before everybody has a really good hammer. -author unknown
A music or movie is widely broadcast, that is the point of it, to tell a story. If an artist wants to let no one hear his song, locks it in a vault, and it gets shared, then thats wrong. But if an artist is producing music to be heard, then they have no right to privacy in regards to that song now do they?
You are somehow confusing the right to privacy with disseminating other peoples already released intelectual property. The issues are not even remotely similar. Of course this being slashdot, you have been wildly and incorrectly modded up.
Im pretty sure this is a fake made up thing. Wikipedia says its made up pretty much.
If its 1997 UO you want, I could not recomend EVE more.
I almost caught it! Maybe with this new patch I'll catch it!
(anyone else think that trey and matt just got over their wow addiction?)
I guess im not human then. Homo sapiens sapiens paranoius?
Have you ever used a computer? Youre quite simply wrong. Ive had many move operations fail and never lost a file doing it. You can test by moving a large file, pulling the network cable out. The file is still on your PC. With your "bad disk" example, well yeah if the disk lies to the OS saying that files are copied when theyre not then that could happen. This would be very rare as bad disks tend to advertise rather loudly (to the OS) that they are going bad.
Wow thats fucking retarded!
How can you screw up such a basic thing as merging two folders contents??