Excellently said. Just let me note that 1789 Revolution in France was sparked out by taxes on crop.
However, you seem to be a little discouraged by reality you currently experience. The time of despair is not coming yet. Did you tried to make some influence on the situation... with Art?
That's easy to solve. Make a contingent of leftist soldiers and a contingent of rightist solders and keep them both separate in place or time. Just a logistic problem...
According my observations on my friends and myself several decades ago, D&D style role-players are more (if not completely) resistant to propaganda, brain-washing and military drill. The real problem of recruiters with new recruits is, security clearance in military is not about trust, but about thought control. They trust no one. So they can't give security clearance to someone who's mind they can't control.
Let me comment some headers of TFA:
'Simply detached from reality'
Does mean subject is mentally independent from factual perception, able to create experience according his own intentions. That allows him potentially diverge from lined propaganda. Note, the military propaganda is also somewhat "detached from reality", but other, organized and controlled way.
'The game indicates a weak personality'
"Strong personality" in military sense is someone who obeys all commands unquestionably and is capable to force them out to the lower levels. Higher intellect, which is often a characteristic for D&D players, is not a bonus for performing something that "does not make sense to do" in critical situation. Actually, in D&D all good players are very picky about what does make sense to do in dangerous conditions. Sometimes, simply stand and fight is not an option in dungeon and players already know about it.
...to scare some galaxians with ads and thus prevent posible future invasion on Earth.
Well, for a price, since a new HHGTTG entry on Earth will probably be something as: "Formerly mostly harmless, now plagued by strange mental disease forcing planetary population to buy tons of stuff they never need. This disease spreads itself by radio encoded visual memes, so recieving any signal from the direction of Earth is dangerous to your wealth."
While sitting quietly on your desktop, infected Windows is far less dangerous to your own health than within some robotic platform freely wandering and/or poking around with random sticks. Seriously, I believe if used in robots, Windows itself will take Windows users out of humanity gene pool, ehm... directly.
If you want to support the Open-Source Software movement but don't live in a PayPal-accepted country, what are your alternatives?
For me as an OSS developer, none. Micropayments were forbidden by law here in Czech Republic several years ago, killing lot of fresh internet companies. Banks would not give away their monopolies easily: every money transaction from abroad would cost me at least 50USD deducted from my account, no matter what the sender pays to his bank for the transaction. So, it is cheaper for me to code for free.
Patent application in its wording uses conversion to compact ASCII string.
So, you can avoid infringement of this patent by using conversion to ISO-8859-1. Or perhaps a new patent, anyone? Just leave ISO-8859-2 for me, please.
So, create 8x8 and 6x7 bitmaps from the vector definition, and save memory on a 32x32 bitmap! a 32-bit 8x8 image is 256 bytes in size.
Hardly. 8x8 and 6x7 are docking icons. In the list icon view of a directory, they are 24x24, and 32x32 big-at-center-of-screen while starting up something. Some of these vector icons are even animated.
So, I still prefer to have vector icons in precious pda flash, rendering them in sub-pixel quality to raster icon cache ram on the fly as they are needed in whatever size is required by current view.
... what was wrong with bitmaps? If your icons are large enough that you need vector icons... they're way way too damn big.
For me, just the opposite. App icons on docking panel of my linux pda are 8x8 and 6x7 pixels. With sub-pixel rendering from vector definition, they are just looking much better than filtered down 32x32 raster.
I think they should ban nethack on the first place. Killing random monsters just for grabbing their magic items is certainly a felony and eating them is disgusting as well.
Reason behind the weak Windows encryption is not to provide easy out of the box encryption for the masses. The real purpose is to provide out of the box mass decryption for government agencies. Surely Microsoft has been asked to do that by quite a number of them.
So, cryptopgraphic community perfectionism this time crosses interests of real power and will be ignored.
Schwartz refers first to the "long history of partnering" between Sun and IBM, and claims Sun customers have made repeated calls to IBM about having the choice to run IBM products on Solaris 10.
There are several possible logic interpretations of that foggy statement:
possibility #1: Some Sun customers found Solaris lacking features and wanted to run those same superior IBM solutions as do their competitors.
possibility #2: Some IBM customers wishing to defect to Solaris on cheapo hardware, but are not sufficiently brave to say that to IBM eyes to eyes. So they used Mr. Schwartz as herold.
possibility #3: Mr. Schwartz tries to save dying Solaris desperately by generating some media PR/FUD at all costs. Slashdot comes handy for such task, as usually.
possibility #4: Sun is negotiating secretly with IBM about monetary compensation for future opening of Java. Mr. Schwartz suggests they would accept some customers instead of cash. On really big markets, customers are commodity, you know...
possibility #5: Mr. Schwartz used to write on his blog after a very long long drinking party.
Since the Czech Post is a state controlled company, it is a significant breakthrough against Microsoft's traditionally strong position inside czech government.
In a wider context, unfortunately Ministery of Education is still under heavy M$ lobby influence and a bilions of CZK costly Internet for schools project is still chained to Windows, no open data formats for documents available but the IE's nonstandard HTML dialect (generated by winword) and only Windows applications could apply for the project.
As a result, typical czech school network is a paradise tool for spammers.
Since when is the ieee more relevant than the professional organizations in some hundred other countries ?
In past sixty years of computer technology, it happened many technology standards were IEEE well decades before ISO. ASCII code and interfaces such as RS-232 or RS-488 are examples of such IEEE nomenclature.
But it happens me not so often to make an obligatory folklore joke: In Soviet Russia, bizzare fish web forum is slashdotted by You!
Anyway, I got a text from pages and yes, I can read azbuka, but no images. Any fellíow slashdotters made a mirror? Pics are too fresh for google cache.
It is obvious that software in question is MailList King. it is actually a spammer's tool, isn't it? So, who is the bad guy here? I guess the "victim" is.
Slashdot Mirror
If I am forced to use Windows...
Do not speculate about slavery, please. Kindly continue to live it.
Excellently said. Just let me note that 1789 Revolution in France was sparked out by taxes on crop.
However, you seem to be a little discouraged by reality you currently experience. The time of despair is not coming yet. Did you tried to make some influence on the situation... with Art?
That's easy to solve. Make a contingent of leftist soldiers and a contingent of rightist solders and keep them both separate in place or time. Just a logistic problem...
According my observations on my friends and myself several decades ago, D&D style role-players are more (if not completely) resistant to propaganda, brain-washing and military drill. The real problem of recruiters with new recruits is, security clearance in military is not about trust, but about thought control. They trust no one. So they can't give security clearance to someone who's mind they can't control.
Let me comment some headers of TFA:
'Simply detached from reality'
Does mean subject is mentally independent from factual perception, able to create experience according his own intentions. That allows him potentially diverge from lined propaganda. Note, the military propaganda is also somewhat "detached from reality", but other, organized and controlled way.
'The game indicates a weak personality'
"Strong personality" in military sense is someone who obeys all commands unquestionably and is capable to force them out to the lower levels. Higher intellect, which is often a characteristic for D&D players, is not a bonus for performing something that "does not make sense to do" in critical situation. Actually, in D&D all good players are very picky about what does make sense to do in dangerous conditions. Sometimes, simply stand and fight is not an option in dungeon and players already know about it.
Will my 802.11s router run at 5mbps in a busy apartment, lending the remaining bandwidth to forwarding other packets?
No. It will run at less than 1 mbps.
Will a wardriver in the parking lot be able to DDoS the mesh?
Yes.
Will I have to disable mesh and disallow all outside traffic the first time I install the router, if I just want to use the router myself?
Yes.
Will I be able to do that?
No.
...to scare some galaxians with ads and thus prevent posible future invasion on Earth.
Well, for a price, since a new HHGTTG entry on Earth will probably be something as: "Formerly mostly harmless, now plagued by strange mental disease forcing planetary population to buy tons of stuff they never need. This disease spreads itself by radio encoded visual memes, so recieving any signal from the direction of Earth is dangerous to your wealth."
Turn Your Old Hard Drive into a Windchime. Wednesday February 23, @10:39AM
Rejected
And I even included a link to another page on the subject
When rejected, always try to resubmit with different title when another editor comes into offfice. Having excellent karma also helps.
"narrow, persistent band of content" across the bottom of the user's screen
Put a narrow duct tape across bottom of the user's screen. Much less annoying than narrow, persistant band of content.
While sitting quietly on your desktop, infected Windows is far less dangerous to your own health than within some robotic platform freely wandering and/or poking around with random sticks. Seriously, I believe if used in robots, Windows itself will take Windows users out of humanity gene pool, ehm... directly.
Am I the only one that gets irritated by these kind of articles?
No.
If you want to support the Open-Source Software movement but don't live in a PayPal-accepted country, what are your alternatives?
For me as an OSS developer, none. Micropayments were forbidden by law here in Czech Republic several years ago, killing lot of fresh internet companies. Banks would not give away their monopolies easily: every money transaction from abroad would cost me at least 50USD deducted from my account, no matter what the sender pays to his bank for the transaction. So, it is cheaper for me to code for free.
Why not to buy some complete spare parts lcd gauge panel assembly for some existing korean/japanese car, and mod it?
Patent application in its wording uses conversion to compact ASCII string.
So, you can avoid infringement of this patent by using conversion to ISO-8859-1. Or perhaps a new patent, anyone? Just leave ISO-8859-2 for me, please.
is it worth the risk to the rest of us or even to the potential careers of the graduates of the course?
No. Some graduates will consider career in local police/FBI/CIA/NSA/HFD/RIAA interesting.
So, create 8x8 and 6x7 bitmaps from the vector definition, and save memory on a 32x32 bitmap! a 32-bit 8x8 image is 256 bytes in size.
Hardly. 8x8 and 6x7 are docking icons. In the list icon view of a directory, they are 24x24, and 32x32 big-at-center-of-screen while starting up something. Some of these vector icons are even animated.
So, I still prefer to have vector icons in precious pda flash, rendering them in sub-pixel quality to raster icon cache ram on the fly as they are needed in whatever size is required by current view.
... what was wrong with bitmaps? If your icons are large enough that you need vector icons... they're way way too damn big.
For me, just the opposite. App icons on docking panel of my linux pda are 8x8 and 6x7 pixels. With sub-pixel rendering from vector definition, they are just looking much better than filtered down 32x32 raster.
I think they should ban nethack on the first place. Killing random monsters just for grabbing their magic items is certainly a felony and eating them is disgusting as well.
Reason behind the weak Windows encryption is not to provide easy out of the box encryption for the masses. The real purpose is to provide out of the box mass decryption for government agencies. Surely Microsoft has been asked to do that by quite a number of them.
So, cryptopgraphic community perfectionism this time crosses interests of real power and will be ignored.
Schwartz refers first to the "long history of partnering" between Sun and IBM, and claims Sun customers have made repeated calls to IBM about having the choice to run IBM products on Solaris 10.
There are several possible logic interpretations of that foggy statement:
possibility #1: Some Sun customers found Solaris lacking features and wanted to run those same superior IBM solutions as do their competitors.
possibility #2: Some IBM customers wishing to defect to Solaris on cheapo hardware, but are not sufficiently brave to say that to IBM eyes to eyes. So they used Mr. Schwartz as herold.
possibility #3: Mr. Schwartz tries to save dying Solaris desperately by generating some media PR/FUD at all costs. Slashdot comes handy for such task, as usually.
possibility #4: Sun is negotiating secretly with IBM about monetary compensation for future opening of Java. Mr. Schwartz suggests they would accept some customers instead of cash. On really big markets, customers are commodity, you know...
possibility #5: Mr. Schwartz used to write on his blog after a very long long drinking party.
possibility #6: All of the above.
Since the Czech Post is a state controlled company, it is a significant breakthrough against Microsoft's traditionally strong position inside czech government.
In a wider context, unfortunately Ministery of Education is still under heavy M$ lobby influence and a bilions of CZK costly Internet for schools project is still chained to Windows, no open data formats for documents available but the IE's nonstandard HTML dialect (generated by winword) and only Windows applications could apply for the project.
As a result, typical czech school network is a paradise tool for spammers.
Since when is the ieee more relevant than the professional organizations in some hundred other countries ?
In past sixty years of computer technology, it happened many technology standards were IEEE well decades before ISO. ASCII code and interfaces such as RS-232 or RS-488 are examples of such IEEE nomenclature.
The source of the Borg!
My personal theory on origin of the Borg is they are toy of Q.
But it happens me not so often to make an obligatory folklore joke: In Soviet Russia, bizzare fish web forum is slashdotted by You!
Anyway, I got a text from pages and yes, I can read azbuka, but no images. Any fellíow slashdotters made a mirror? Pics are too fresh for google cache.
Oracle should sue Microsoft for hostile takeover of Peoplesoft customers.
It is obvious that software in question is MailList King. it is actually a spammer's tool, isn't it? So, who is the bad guy here? I guess the "victim" is.