Second, even if they did spend all day online, MOST of the VOTING public isn't online. Have you ever gone to vote? Take a day off work to stand in a long line. Your vote counts? Yeah, but as much as a days pay. VOTING has become the province of RETIRED citizens. Why do you think social security is a sacred cow?
I find that troubling. Here in Australia, elections are held on a Saturday, when most people aren't working. There were local government elections where I live last weekend; I was travelling all day, so I put in a pre-poll vote on the preceding afternoon. Alternatively, I could've used a postal vote. So that day's pay sounds like a pretty unconvincing excuse.
Of course, there's a catch: voting is compulsory here. I can guess some/. readers would disagree with that, for good reasons, but I think the advantages of actually getting most people to participate is worthwhile.
My Mom voted straight Democrat one year, because she had voted straight Republican previously. I begged her not to vote anymore, but would campaigning on the net have any effect?
Why shouldn't she vote that way? I think it would make more sense if she voted for whoever she believed would be the most responsible representative, but in reality when the two major parties are barely distinguishable, as seems to be the case these days, you might as well treat them as such.
I've seen countless psots that have nothing more than the theme: "NT sux, linux r00ls" moderated up as "funny" or even "informative" while well thought-out, mature posts about a shortcoming of Linux, or even (my god!) something positive about MS or NT labeled as "flamebait".
Well now any time I post something, it never gets posted, but I never get marked up. I have had one reply which was marked down due to flamebait??? I was only saying my point of view..
Sometime I feel like the people whom moderate this place truely have something against me.. Sure some times I can't spel and sometime I get my facts mix up (when it's early in the morning and your swamped with calls), I don't feel like I should be treated like that.
OK, this is just my opinion:
Some user names, for whatever reason, stick in my mind; I somehow notice some personalities more than others. To be honest, I've seen your posts moderated down a few times, and I can't remember ever having thought it was undeserved.
Having said that, nothing you've ever said convinces me that your posts should automatically be scored -1. As noted in another thread, Daveo seems to have been similarly maligned.
This latest disgusting abuse looks like it was the act of one childish AC. (I'd like to point out that most ACs seem to post sensibly, and I don't want to see any bans on anonymous posting.) So I can't understand why a couple of registered users have been punished.
In summary: if these are the only people who default to -1, it shouldn't be happening to anyone.
One of the best things about a flat sales tax, IMHO, is that it makes it has a built in incentive to save moey. You don't want to pay taxes, don't buy taxed items. The national savings rate for the U.S. last year was -.7%, IIRC.
Trouble is that it taxes stuff like food. Can't stop buying food.
The highest level of consumption, per capita, comes from the higher economic classes. The "soccer moms" and their ilk, who absolutely HAVE to have the latest and greatest toys for their kids, and their husbands.
So impose a higher rate of tax on luxury items. That only hurts those who could afford to save.
Of course, it makes for a less efficient taxation system...
did they ever really have it? If so where did they lose it? trace back every event that happened that day, and check with the lost and found department at the BBC.
Unfortunately, if they lost it way back then, the BBC probably destroyed it, like all those old episodes of Doctor Who. It could be lost forever.
Wasn't IBM's big mistake putting the 384K ROM space at the top of real memory, instead of the bottom? My understanding is that IBM did it this way only because that's how Apple did it (top 16K of the ]['s 64K.)
No. Placement of the ROM is a processor issue. After reset goes inactive, your processor starts executing at a certain "easy" address. Like 0 (Z80), 0xffff:0? (8086) or 0x7ffe (Transputer).
As well as that, the first 1k of memory is used by the 8088 for the interrupt handler addresses, and obviously it made sense for this to be in RAM, rather than ROM.
I hate it when you go to a site (such as, say www.BLINK-182.com), and instead of getting what you expect, you get nothing. Why?
Why? Because you plucked a host name from somewhere the sun doesn't shine.
If people used search engines, directories, and word of mouth to find web sites, instead of typing www.somethingiwanttolookat.com, domain squatting would not seem so attractive.
A remake is absolutely necessary, but they'll have to change TRON's name to something more modern like "-w" or "strict".
Ack, I should get this, but I don't. It has something to do with Perl, right? Is it surrealist comedy?
I don't think so. TRON was a command in many BASIC interpreters for debugging (I think it was something really primitive, like printing a line number in square brackets when each line was interpreted). Not really like "use strict" in perl, but I think "gdb" would be a really sucky movie title...
Those are the only choices.. Can you see any alternative? Who pays for that one line that everyone can use? Who maintains a free for all network?
Who pays for the street in front of your house?
I know it's not a popular idea here, but there are some times when you do need government intervention. At least you can vote a government out of office, which is more than you can do about the local phone/cable monopoly.
While I agree about the unlikelyhood of other companies laying new pipe alongside the old pipe, I don't agree that it would be a bad thing. I'd love to have five pipes to choose from. I'd like for other companies to be allowed to do this if they chose to.
For what it's worth, we have this situation in some parts of Australia with cable TV (only one of the two companies actually offers cable modem service, the other will Real Soon Now). Maybe it's nice to have the choice... but look at this from the article:
The cable industry claims that investment in system upgrades needed to bring near-universal cable modem access will come only if it can guarantee returns under a business model with assured users and proprietary content.
We have this "proprietary content" here too. If you want to watch, say, NHL and rugby, you'll find that if you want the two channels they're on, you need to subscribe to both cable companies. So you're up for about $80 every month if what you choose to watch doesn't all happen to be owned by the right cable company.
So it's not really that good to have competing cables, because it encourages the "Coke or Pepsi" situation mentioned elsewhere in the thread.
The technical explanation is the "stage" byte keeps getting incremented until it hits 0. When the game goes to look up settings for stage 0, it reads garbage and goes haywire. Nice table.;)
Just like FDIV on an original Pentium, only it looks prettier.:)
As to the comparisions bwtween Aus/US TV, our FTA seems to be a whole lot more risque, but our cable not (except for some narrowband channels)
Again, if I remember correctly, due to Brian Harradine. He didn't want R rated content generally available on pay TV.
As a rough explanation, on TV we have G (for general viewing), PG (parental guidance recommended), M (recommended for mature audiences) and MA (like M, only more so), and a couple of others that aren't seen much. A show like Millennium, for example, usually gets M, though some of the more violent episodes would be MA.
Getting back to the question, this law doesn't actually apply to TV, but the politicians irresponsible for it argue that this law brings net regulation into line with TV regulation (never mind that TV isn't like the net).
Keeper of the out-of-date aus.tv FAQ (which i should update soon, i guess)
Release EARLY. Release Often. Release something that works, so that lots of LITTLE changes can happen.
Unfortunately your first and third wishes were mutually exclusive in the case of Mozilla. They chose "early".
And as for release often: you can download not only the milestones but nightly builds, and for the source code, how much more often can you get than CVS?
If you read the original post I was responding to, the person stated that you pay for NT and then you pay for IIS. That is not true.
Fair enough... but what I replied to was:
We never paid for IIS... it comes with the OS
... which, taken alone, is almost as inaccurate as what you were correcting. But it was late, and I was tired, and should've paid more attention to the context.
In the case of chips like this one, Saddam Hussein, the Chinese government, and various other bodies certainly favor open source. How many months before it's being used in their military communications?
Oh, I wouldn't worry about the Chinese. No doubt they've already got whatever the American military is using anyway, if their nuclear weapons program is anything to judge by.
This should be stuck down in a hurry, but then again some poor schmuck just got put in jail for swearing in public, so don't count on it.
He was jailed?:(
When I heard he was accused of cursing for over three minutes and could be heard from a quarter of a mile away, I wasn't shocked, I was impressed: I thought he deserved some kind of medal...
Having one business unit(Tivoli) actively attempt to prevent the sales of another(AIX) is something that I wouldn't have expected even IBM to consider.
I take it you've never been an OS/2 user then. Those of us who have wouldn't be surprised at all.
A spammer writes a script that generates email addresses, sends out thousands of mails and the one to my address doesn't bounce back. Now he's got my email address. He goes to deja.com and checks to see if I've posted anything - an instant list of my interests. He put's my address on a cd and sells it.
Spammers actually worried about who receives their spam? And for a while there I believed you...
The second component of the proposed scheme is proposed uniform State and Territory laws that will create offences for the publication and transmission of proscribed material by producers of content on the Internet or persons who upload or access such content. It is intended under the national scheme that the States and Territories will be primarily responsible for regulating the activities of persons who create, upload or access content.
Does this mean they say the govt goes after the hosts while the local and "state" go after everybody else?
I suspect it's probably due to the constitution not actually giving the federal government the power to impose this law, so it needs the cooperation of the states. Existing censorship of other media relies on State laws too.
The sheep of Australia are no different than any other country; since they've abdicated personal and parental responsibility, they're demanding their own government do the dirty work. What a bunch of lamers.
It has absolutely nothing to do with what we want. This survey shows that less than 3% of Australian net users are worried about indecent content. What this is really about is the government trying to get the support of a single senator who happens to be very morally conservative.
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I find that troubling. Here in Australia, elections are held on a Saturday, when most people aren't working. There were local government elections where I live last weekend; I was travelling all day, so I put in a pre-poll vote on the preceding afternoon. Alternatively, I could've used a postal vote. So that day's pay sounds like a pretty unconvincing excuse.
Of course, there's a catch: voting is compulsory here. I can guess some /. readers would disagree with that, for good reasons, but I think the advantages of actually getting most people to participate is worthwhile.
Why shouldn't she vote that way? I think it would make more sense if she voted for whoever she believed would be the most responsible representative, but in reality when the two major parties are barely distinguishable, as seems to be the case these days, you might as well treat them as such.
I haven't. Could you post some links?
OK, this is just my opinion:
Some user names, for whatever reason, stick in my mind; I somehow notice some personalities more than others. To be honest, I've seen your posts moderated down a few times, and I can't remember ever having thought it was undeserved.
Having said that, nothing you've ever said convinces me that your posts should automatically be scored -1. As noted in another thread, Daveo seems to have been similarly maligned.
This latest disgusting abuse looks like it was the act of one childish AC. (I'd like to point out that most ACs seem to post sensibly, and I don't want to see any bans on anonymous posting.) So I can't understand why a couple of registered users have been punished.
In summary: if these are the only people who default to -1, it shouldn't be happening to anyone.
(Disclaimer: I liked MEEPT.)
Trouble is that it taxes stuff like food. Can't stop buying food.
So impose a higher rate of tax on luxury items. That only hurts those who could afford to save.
Of course, it makes for a less efficient taxation system...
Unfortunately, if they lost it way back then, the BBC probably destroyed it, like all those old episodes of Doctor Who. It could be lost forever.
As well as that, the first 1k of memory is used by the 8088 for the interrupt handler addresses, and obviously it made sense for this to be in RAM, rather than ROM.
Why? Because you plucked a host name from somewhere the sun doesn't shine.
If people used search engines, directories, and word of mouth to find web sites, instead of typing www.somethingiwanttolookat.com, domain squatting would not seem so attractive.
Ack, I should get this, but I don't. It has something to do with Perl, right? Is it surrealist comedy?
I don't think so. TRON was a command in many BASIC interpreters for debugging (I think it was something really primitive, like printing a line number in square brackets when each line was interpreted). Not really like "use strict" in perl, but I think "gdb" would be a really sucky movie title...
Those are the only choices.. Can you see any alternative? Who pays for that one line that everyone can use? Who maintains a free for all network?
Who pays for the street in front of your house?
I know it's not a popular idea here, but there are some times when you do need government intervention. At least you can vote a government out of office, which is more than you can do about the local phone/cable monopoly.
While I agree about the unlikelyhood of other companies laying new pipe alongside the old pipe, I don't agree that it would be a bad thing. I'd love to have five pipes to choose from. I'd like for other companies to be allowed to do this if they chose to.
For what it's worth, we have this situation in some parts of Australia with cable TV (only one of the two companies actually offers cable modem service, the other will Real Soon Now). Maybe it's nice to have the choice... but look at this from the article:
We have this "proprietary content" here too. If you want to watch, say, NHL and rugby, you'll find that if you want the two channels they're on, you need to subscribe to both cable companies. So you're up for about $80 every month if what you choose to watch doesn't all happen to be owned by the right cable company.
So it's not really that good to have competing cables, because it encourages the "Coke or Pepsi" situation mentioned elsewhere in the thread.
The technical explanation is the "stage" byte keeps getting incremented until it hits 0. When the game goes to look up settings for stage 0, it reads garbage and goes haywire. Nice table. ;)
Just like FDIV on an original Pentium, only it looks prettier. :)
As to the comparisions bwtween Aus/US TV, our FTA seems to be a whole lot more risque, but our cable not (except for some narrowband channels)
Again, if I remember correctly, due to Brian Harradine. He didn't want R rated content generally available on pay TV.
As a rough explanation, on TV we have G (for general viewing), PG (parental guidance recommended), M (recommended for mature audiences) and MA (like M, only more so), and a couple of others that aren't seen much. A show like Millennium, for example, usually gets M, though some of the more violent episodes would be MA.
Getting back to the question, this law doesn't actually apply to TV, but the politicians irresponsible for it argue that this law brings net regulation into line with TV regulation (never mind that TV isn't like the net).
Keeper of the out-of-date aus.tv FAQ (which i should update soon, i guess)
Yes, you should. :)
I wonder if that could really be JP himself just trying to get another enemy in trouble for making death threats?
He'd better not be. That would be stealing Laurence Godfrey's schtick.
Release EARLY. Release Often. Release something that works, so that lots of LITTLE changes can happen.
Unfortunately your first and third wishes were mutually exclusive in the case of Mozilla. They chose "early".
And as for release often: you can download not only the milestones but nightly builds, and for the source code, how much more often can you get than CVS?
Well, you see, Linux and all other Unixes have a non-blocking flag on every file descriptor... It's called FIONBIO.
But doesn't this make the code more complicated than it would be if it were multithreaded?
If you read the original post I was responding to, the person stated that you pay for NT and then you pay for IIS. That is not true.
Fair enough... but what I replied to was:
... which, taken alone, is almost as inaccurate as what you were correcting. But it was late, and I was tired, and should've paid more attention to the context.
Linux doesn't have a BSOD because it dumps core instead. Which hides the problem,
Saving most of the state of the failing program in a file...
requiring you to open the core file in a debugger.
... which can be inspected by a tool designed to help you find the problem - that is hiding the problem?
This reinforces the need for a "priesthood" to fix problems. Mere users need not apply.
Oh come on, "mere users" can't fix anything that causes a BSOD either. And the BSOD is less informative than a core dump.
We never paid for IIS... it comes with the OS.
The OS which you paid for.
In the case of chips like this one, Saddam Hussein, the Chinese government, and various other bodies certainly favor open source. How many months before it's being used in their military communications?
Oh, I wouldn't worry about the Chinese. No doubt they've already got whatever the American military is using anyway, if their nuclear weapons program is anything to judge by.
This should be stuck down in a hurry, but then again some poor schmuck just got put in jail for swearing in public, so don't count on it.
He was jailed? :(
When I heard he was accused of cursing for over three minutes and could be heard from a quarter of a mile away, I wasn't shocked, I was impressed: I thought he deserved some kind of medal...
Having one business unit(Tivoli) actively attempt to prevent the sales of another(AIX) is something that I wouldn't have expected even IBM to consider.
I take it you've never been an OS/2 user then. Those of us who have wouldn't be surprised at all.
A spammer writes a script that generates email addresses, sends out thousands of mails and the one to my address doesn't bounce back. Now he's got my email address. He goes to deja.com and checks to see if I've posted anything - an instant list of my interests. He put's my address on a cd and sells it.
Spammers actually worried about who receives their spam? And for a while there I believed you...
It sounds like you should be using Java on OS/2. According to the Volano benchmark, the OS/2 JVM was beaten only by the TowerJ compiler on Linux.
Does this mean they say the govt goes after the hosts while the local and "state" go after everybody else?
I suspect it's probably due to the constitution not actually giving the federal government the power to impose this law, so it needs the cooperation of the states. Existing censorship of other media relies on State laws too.
The sheep of Australia are no different than any other country; since they've abdicated personal and parental responsibility, they're demanding their own government do the dirty work. What a bunch of lamers.
It has absolutely nothing to do with what we want. This survey shows that less than 3% of Australian net users are worried about indecent content. What this is really about is the government trying to get the support of a single senator who happens to be very morally conservative.