Shebaa Farms is not part of Lebanon. Lebanon's and Hezbollah's claims to that area are recent changes in policy (at least for Lebanon). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shebaa_farms
"In 1967, following the termination of the Six Day War, the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 242 (1967),[11] later reaffirmed by UN Security Council Resolution 338 (1973),[12] calling for all four of the following:
1. The "withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from territories occupied in the recent conflict" (in French, which was a translation of the English, "retrait des forces armées israéliennes des territoires occupés lors du récent conflit"). Note: The UN regards this territory as Syrian territory occupied by Israel (not Lebanese territory, subject to Resolution 242). There is a dispute as to whether the language requires withdrawal from "all" Lebanese territories. The French text uses "des," meaning "from the." The English text -- which is authoratative -- delibately omits the "the," leading to a dispute about the meaning of the sentence. The drafting process was in English; the French was only a translation of the English. So expression ' ' means 'all occupied territories' because an expression 'occupied in the recent conflict' in this context plays role of 'the' in Russian language. The practice at the UN is that the binding version of any resolution is the one voted upon. In the case of 242, that binding version was in English. (See statement by Arthur Goldberg, US Ambassador to the United Nations at that time, and an author of the resolution: "The notable omissions in regard to withdrawal... are the words 'all,' 'the' and 'the June 5, 1967 lines'... There is lacking a declaration requiring Israel to withdraw from all of the territories occupied by it on, and after, June 5, 1967... On certain aspects, the Resolution is less ambiguous than its withdrawal language. Resolution 242(1967) specifically calls for termination of all claims or states of belligerency..." (Columbia Journal of International Law, Vol. 12, no. 2, 1973)). The disputed territory was not mentioned by the Lebanese government after the 1967 Six Day War, or the 1973 October War, as an occupation issue.]
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Yea, totally. I mean, what are humans anyway, besides bald monkeys? And what are bald monkeys? Just a bunch of skin, muscles and intestines wrapped around a skeleton full of blood and crap and other offensive smelling and tasting substances. And what are skin, muscles and intestines wrapped around a skeleton full of blood and crap and other offensive smelling and tasting substances? Just a bunch of protons, neutrons and electrons put together. Not only that, but those protons, neutrons and electrons have only two desires: consume and multiply. What a bunch of parasites!
So, lay off that stupid blame game and grow up you nasty sacks of blood and crap and start consuming and multiplying like you're suppose to!
I only use ClamAV at home, but if I was compelled to buy some anti-virus software, Bitdefender is the software I would get. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1850851,00.as p shows how it detected 6 viruses, without signatures. For home use it is cheap, and for corporate use it seems to have reasonable prices as well.
What cost $199 in 1984 would cost $339.64 in 2001. 2001 is when Nintendo released the GC. What cost $199 in 1984 would cost $303.46 in 1996. 1996 is when Nintendo released the N64. What cost $199 in 1984 would cost $261.03 in 1991. 1991 is when Nintendo released the SNES.
The connotation of evil is superlative. It's normal usage is as a superlative. You can argue the semantics all day, but I'd rather just use a word that wasn't so overly emotional in nature for a company that uses immoral, unethical, or whatever-other-word-you'd-like-to-use methods of making money and protecting its 'ip'. Even immoral sounds less emotionally-charged, although it still will likely start arguements like these. You won't be taken seriously if you over-react by using words like evil to describe a company that is bent on making money at its customers' expense.
Evil? Why are they evil? Have they killed countless millions of people? Have they disenfranchised an entire population and brought them under a brutal dictatorship? Have they done scientific experiments on unwilling human-beings? Have they enslaved millions of people to do their bidding in extremely harsh and abusive environments? Have they ever attempted ethnic cleansing?
Let's try a less exaggerated term. Unethical or something similar perhaps. Let's keep the use of superlatives like evil for things that really deserve it.
It might not have been revealed during the press conference, but I imagine we'll hear more about it tomorrow when people can play with it (I assume there will be games that to utilize it from the Virtual Console).
Nintendo never actually said that the console would launch in Q4 '06, just that we'd be playing it in Q4 '06. They were vague about the launch date, as they were with other things.
I watched the video and I know that it was pre-rendered and all. But I still remember the roar of the crowd when the realistic Zelda-for-GC-pre-rendered-movie debuted at E3 years ago. People went crazy when they saw that. Not the same from what I could hear.
You know, I've never owned a PS so I wasn't excited at all about this conference. However, I would have expected a bit more excitement and energy coming from the audience. Where was the roar of the crowd when super-popular games like MSG and FF came on the screen? I expected pandemonium when the controller was revealed, but all I could hear was the deafening silence of an audience completely under-whelmed by the big revelation.
The same arguements for using monolithic kernels vs. microkernels is the same sort of arguement for using C/C++ over languages like Lisp, Java, Python, Ruby, etc. I think maybe we're at a point that microkernels are now practical, same as with those high-level languages. I'm no kernel designer, but it seems reasonable that a monolithic kernel could be refactored into a microkernel.
From the link to the Linus vs. Tanenbaum arguement:
"The limitations of MINIX relate at least partly to my being a professor: An explicit design goal was to make it run on cheap hardware so students could afford it. In particular, for years it ran on a regular 4.77 MHZ PC with no hard disk. You could do everything here including modify and recompile the system. Just for the record, as of about 1 year ago, there were two versions, one for the PC (360K diskettes) and one for the 286/386 (1.2M). The PC version was outselling the 286/386 version by 2 to 1. I don't have figures, but my guess is that the fraction of the 60 million existing PCs that are 386/486 machines as opposed to 8088/286/680x0 etc is small. Among students it is even smaller. Making software free, but only for folks with enough money to buy first class hardware is an interesting concept. Of course 5 years from now that will be different, but 5 years from now everyone will be running free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5."
If you look at the video, you can see that there is good marketing potential for this, using the double i. I'm down with it, even if Revolution was a 'cool' name, it doesn't exactly appeal to the crowd Nintendo is gunning for.
Maturity is a double-edged sword. We get all the benefits of uniformity along with all its problems. Let's hope that Free Software can adapt good defenses whilst still providing better app support and uniformity.
I'd have to take exception to your comment about RA2. It's probably my favorite WinXP-playable C&C game. I remember what TS was suppose to look like, and it was a real let-down. It had really slow action, a poor interface when compared to RA2, and had serious gameplay issues (which I recently rediscovered with the release of the first decade pack). RA2, however, was certainly a much better playing experience all around. True, it wasn't as serious, but it was fun. And it looked prettier as well.
Personally, I don't hold out too much hope for this game. EA has botched things up so badly in the past that it is difficult to give them any credit. I'd rather watch Petroglyph and see what they are doing instead.
To say that the article writer has a bias against Redhat would be an understatement. Even when Redhat is transparent they are still lambasted. People want to hate Redhat, but without Redhat we would be much worse off in the Linux world. It's time people admit it.
Fascinating, yet irrelevant. The Vectrex didn't shape the way current controllers are today. The rumble wasn't used by game-console controllers until after Nintendo did it. Wireless controllers that don't suck (as another poster put it) weren't around until Nintendo made them. With the Revolution controller Nintendo will blaze a new trail, adding motion sensors and nunchuck design that works for both right-handed and left-handed people to the list of controller designs that Nintendo makes and every one copies.
There's a reason that console controllers have evolved into their current form, and that's because they are ergonomic and comfortable.
I think what you meant was "and that's because Nintendo leads the way every time."
Control Stick? That was Nintendo. Rumble [pack]? That was Nintendo. Next to add to that list? Wireless controllers with motion sensors using a nunchuck design.
If we dig up bones from hundreds of thousands or even millions of years ago, how can we show that bones from one era are from an animal/human that evolved later into another animal/human? That is, why couldn't both of those animals/humans have lived at the same time, independent of each other? We don't have all that many samples, considering the life of the earth. How can we show anything more than that bones from one era look similar and have similar characteristics to bones in another era?
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I'd think you would avoid linking to a comment showing how flamebait and trollish you are and where your assertion that Fluendo is advocating DRM in gstreamer is pointed out to be patently false.
Is this anything new? Firefox, Opera, GNOME, KDE, Adobe Acrobat, Visual Studio, Eclipse, none of these have names that clue you in to what they do. Visual Studio is even more confusing because one would think it was a movie/image app, not a DE.
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Shebaa Farms is not part of Lebanon. Lebanon's and Hezbollah's claims to that area are recent changes in policy (at least for Lebanon). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shebaa_farms
..." (Columbia Journal of International Law, Vol. 12, no. 2, 1973)). The disputed territory was not mentioned by the Lebanese government after the 1967 Six Day War, or the 1973 October War, as an occupation issue.]
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"In 1967, following the termination of the Six Day War, the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 242 (1967),[11] later reaffirmed by UN Security Council Resolution 338 (1973),[12] calling for all four of the following:
1. The "withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from territories occupied in the recent conflict" (in French, which was a translation of the English, "retrait des forces armées israéliennes des territoires occupés lors du récent conflit"). Note: The UN regards this territory as Syrian territory occupied by Israel (not Lebanese territory, subject to Resolution 242). There is a dispute as to whether the language requires withdrawal from "all" Lebanese territories. The French text uses "des," meaning "from the." The English text -- which is authoratative -- delibately omits the "the," leading to a dispute about the meaning of the sentence. The drafting process was in English; the French was only a translation of the English. So expression ' ' means 'all occupied territories' because an expression 'occupied in the recent conflict' in this context plays role of 'the' in Russian language. The practice at the UN is that the binding version of any resolution is the one voted upon. In the case of 242, that binding version was in English. (See statement by Arthur Goldberg, US Ambassador to the United Nations at that time, and an author of the resolution: "The notable omissions in regard to withdrawal... are the words 'all,' 'the' and 'the June 5, 1967 lines'... There is lacking a declaration requiring Israel to withdraw from all of the territories occupied by it on, and after, June 5, 1967... On certain aspects, the Resolution is less ambiguous than its withdrawal language. Resolution 242(1967) specifically calls for termination of all claims or states of belligerency
Yea, totally. I mean, what are humans anyway, besides bald monkeys? And what are bald monkeys? Just a bunch of skin, muscles and intestines wrapped around a skeleton full of blood and crap and other offensive smelling and tasting substances. And what are skin, muscles and intestines wrapped around a skeleton full of blood and crap and other offensive smelling and tasting substances? Just a bunch of protons, neutrons and electrons put together. Not only that, but those protons, neutrons and electrons have only two desires: consume and multiply. What a bunch of parasites!
So, lay off that stupid blame game and grow up you nasty sacks of blood and crap and start consuming and multiplying like you're suppose to!
I only use ClamAV at home, but if I was compelled to buy some anti-virus software, Bitdefender is the software I would get. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1850851,00.as p shows how it detected 6 viruses, without signatures. For home use it is cheap, and for corporate use it seems to have reasonable prices as well.
Huh? I thought we were talking about Sony here?
What cost $199 in 1984 would cost $339.64 in 2001. 2001 is when Nintendo released the GC.
What cost $199 in 1984 would cost $303.46 in 1996. 1996 is when Nintendo released the N64.
What cost $199 in 1984 would cost $261.03 in 1991. 1991 is when Nintendo released the SNES.
See the pattern now?
The connotation of evil is superlative. It's normal usage is as a superlative. You can argue the semantics all day, but I'd rather just use a word that wasn't so overly emotional in nature for a company that uses immoral, unethical, or whatever-other-word-you'd-like-to-use methods of making money and protecting its 'ip'. Even immoral sounds less emotionally-charged, although it still will likely start arguements like these. You won't be taken seriously if you over-react by using words like evil to describe a company that is bent on making money at its customers' expense.
Evil? Why are they evil? Have they killed countless millions of people? Have they disenfranchised an entire population and brought them under a brutal dictatorship? Have they done scientific experiments on unwilling human-beings? Have they enslaved millions of people to do their bidding in extremely harsh and abusive environments? Have they ever attempted ethnic cleansing?
Let's try a less exaggerated term. Unethical or something similar perhaps. Let's keep the use of superlatives like evil for things that really deserve it.
http://www.digg.com/gaming/Nintendo_Wii_Classic_Co ntroller_Revealed_
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It might not have been revealed during the press conference, but I imagine we'll hear more about it tomorrow when people can play with it (I assume there will be games that to utilize it from the Virtual Console).
Nintendo never actually said that the console would launch in Q4 '06, just that we'd be playing it in Q4 '06. They were vague about the launch date, as they were with other things.
I watched the video and I know that it was pre-rendered and all. But I still remember the roar of the crowd when the realistic Zelda-for-GC-pre-rendered-movie debuted at E3 years ago. People went crazy when they saw that. Not the same from what I could hear.
If I was Nintendo right now I'd be flipping out.
"That's all they've got? HA!"
You know, I've never owned a PS so I wasn't excited at all about this conference. However, I would have expected a bit more excitement and energy coming from the audience. Where was the roar of the crowd when super-popular games like MSG and FF came on the screen? I expected pandemonium when the controller was revealed, but all I could hear was the deafening silence of an audience completely under-whelmed by the big revelation.
O to be Nintendo at this moment.
The same arguements for using monolithic kernels vs. microkernels is the same sort of arguement for using C/C++ over languages like Lisp, Java, Python, Ruby, etc. I think maybe we're at a point that microkernels are now practical, same as with those high-level languages. I'm no kernel designer, but it seems reasonable that a monolithic kernel could be refactored into a microkernel.
From the link to the Linus vs. Tanenbaum arguement:
"The limitations of MINIX relate at least partly to my being a professor: An explicit design goal was to make it run on cheap hardware so students could afford it. In particular, for years it ran on a regular 4.77 MHZ PC with no hard disk. You could do everything here including modify and recompile the system. Just for the record, as of about 1 year ago, there were two versions, one for the PC (360K diskettes) and one for the 286/386 (1.2M). The PC version was outselling the 286/386 version by 2 to 1. I don't have figures, but my guess is that the fraction of the 60 million existing PCs that are 386/486 machines as opposed to 8088/286/680x0 etc is small. Among students it is even smaller. Making software free, but only for folks with enough money to buy first class hardware is an interesting concept. Of course 5 years from now that will be different, but 5 years from now everyone will be running free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5."
This guy wasn't very helpful. Neither were the other four people before him.
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If you look at the video, you can see that there is good marketing potential for this, using the double i. I'm down with it, even if Revolution was a 'cool' name, it doesn't exactly appeal to the crowd Nintendo is gunning for.
Bring on the Wii box!
Maturity is a double-edged sword. We get all the benefits of uniformity along with all its problems. Let's hope that Free Software can adapt good defenses whilst still providing better app support and uniformity.
I'd have to take exception to your comment about RA2. It's probably my favorite WinXP-playable C&C game. I remember what TS was suppose to look like, and it was a real let-down. It had really slow action, a poor interface when compared to RA2, and had serious gameplay issues (which I recently rediscovered with the release of the first decade pack). RA2, however, was certainly a much better playing experience all around. True, it wasn't as serious, but it was fun. And it looked prettier as well.
Personally, I don't hold out too much hope for this game. EA has botched things up so badly in the past that it is difficult to give them any credit. I'd rather watch Petroglyph and see what they are doing instead.
Here is the link to the email Redhat sent out. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-li st/2006-April/msg00016.html
To say that the article writer has a bias against Redhat would be an understatement. Even when Redhat is transparent they are still lambasted. People want to hate Redhat, but without Redhat we would be much worse off in the Linux world. It's time people admit it.
Fascinating, yet irrelevant. The Vectrex didn't shape the way current controllers are today. The rumble wasn't used by game-console controllers until after Nintendo did it. Wireless controllers that don't suck (as another poster put it) weren't around until Nintendo made them. With the Revolution controller Nintendo will blaze a new trail, adding motion sensors and nunchuck design that works for both right-handed and left-handed people to the list of controller designs that Nintendo makes and every one copies.
There's a reason that console controllers have evolved into their current form, and that's because they are ergonomic and comfortable.
I think what you meant was "and that's because Nintendo leads the way every time."
Control Stick? That was Nintendo. Rumble [pack]? That was Nintendo. Next to add to that list? Wireless controllers with motion sensors using a nunchuck design.
If we dig up bones from hundreds of thousands or even millions of years ago, how can we show that bones from one era are from an animal/human that evolved later into another animal/human? That is, why couldn't both of those animals/humans have lived at the same time, independent of each other? We don't have all that many samples, considering the life of the earth. How can we show anything more than that bones from one era look similar and have similar characteristics to bones in another era?
I'd think you would avoid linking to a comment showing how flamebait and trollish you are and where your assertion that Fluendo is advocating DRM in gstreamer is pointed out to be patently false.
Is this anything new? Firefox, Opera, GNOME, KDE, Adobe Acrobat, Visual Studio, Eclipse, none of these have names that clue you in to what they do. Visual Studio is even more confusing because one would think it was a movie/image app, not a DE.