They do probably exist, but I have yet to encounter such a router/firewall that doesn't allow you to forward specific ports to a machine behind it, which will solve your issues nicely without opening up everything.
I still have an a500 and one of those GVP turbo + drive add-ons.. Two things annoyed me about it.. It's unstable in many situations, and it used proprietary and pretty expensive memory modules.
Commodore's alternative, the a590 was crap when looking at the specs (a 20mb st506 drive? wtf?) and didn't allow for as much memory, oh, and no 'turbo'.. but at least it worked well..
There is, however, a real question about where to draw the line. George Orwell wrote that 'freedom is the freedom to say 2+2=5.' I disagree with this; freedom is the freedom to say that 2+2=5. The most fundamental right that we have is the right to be wrong.
The right to be wrong requires that there is a verifiable fact under dispute. Differentiating that from proposing doing harm to people is not difficult at all. That said, you are of course right that you can quite debate where exactly to draw the line.
The problem with the hate crimes legislation is that it makes the reasons criminal vs. the actions. Does thoughtcrime ring a bell?
That is not entirely accurate. Hate crimes make some things a bigger crime based on motivation, but usually those things are already crimes without that motivation. Hate crime requires an action, not mere thought.
Regardless of what you think of hate speech, once the infrastructure for persecuting people on their thoughts/attitudes/opinions is in place it becomes quite trivial to make it encompass your personal/ideological enemies. All you have to do is redefine "hate."
Slipperly slope, too bad that decades of having those laws on the book only has shown it becomming harder and harder to enforce them instead of easier to apply similar 'logic' to other situations, so it looks like your slipperly slope is either not so slippery or not a slope afterall..
It is a shame that she couldn't at least forgive him for the moronic (which is really all they are) things he wrote, rather than simply taking glee at his sentence which seems mostly due to the child pornography anyway.
It would be really helpfull if you'd actually read things before commenting on them.. He got 2 years and 8 months for the hate speech and the remainder for the kiddy porn.
Then, people talking about a specific group in a disrespectfull way very often makes it easier to think less of killing a member of that specific group. You may not like this, but that mother whom got her son killed has a point that his death and racist postings are related.
She could learn a lot from the Amish in this respect, I feel.
Maybe the entire USA should start learning something from them.. something about not overreacting to an attack maybe.. maybe something with 9/11 and such.. And maybe you should practise what you preach.
In more civilized societies, you need an actual violent act to happen before anyone's going on trial for inciting it, and even then, good luck getting a conviction.
Aha? maybe you should inform all those kept without trial because they might possibly be supportive of terrorism.. In more civilized societies, people have rules and breaking those rules can get you into trouble, provided it can be proven you broke those rules. If I were you, I'd realize that your specific rules are not the only valid set of rules.
This incident is nothing more than thoughtcrime--it wasn't an American who wrote 1984.
I know the guy who has the "i" from the Niketown sign, and he was both a bored college student and a hippy (not actually dirty, though). Guess how that influenced my perception of the anti-globalization movement?
Seems popular in the USA.. stick some nasty label on someone so you can just ignore whatever they say...
It is nice to hear there are people who get that to work, but annecdotal evidence helps little against a wall of bad experience.
I never tried a pcie version, but with any of their agp cards I have had trouble.
For example, a simple 9600 with Fedora core 5? Driver seems to work but no hardware accelerated opengl. That is in fact the best result I have had so far since at least it gives output and is stable (and is about what I can get with the open source drivers as well), and that was about 6 weeks ago with the drivers from that moment.
I tried in the past to use this card with FC4 and Debian Sarge. At some point I did have opengl acceleration working on FC4, with 3 major issues: failing to support extensions that Doom 3 requires, it would crash so often that the things that did work became unusable, and a gforce mx440 would match it in performance.
Its not exactly like I can't install a driver or such, considering that that radeon is really the only piece of hardware that I have that is supposed to work but doesn't (and yes, it does work on Windows, so it is not a broken card or such) and I understand more then enough of Linbux and drivers to deal with possible problems during installation, at least with everything else that I have used.
In comparison, Nvidia's drivers have caused some occational problems as well, but generally they just work, and have done so for years.
For that matter, the quality of drivers on Windows gives a slightly better (for ATI) picture, but even there they are still known for producing crap drivers.
I did at some point 'go out of my way' to find a solution that works well and requires very little efford, but beyond that there is no 'going out of my way'.
As a matter of fact, most plugins (flash, java etc) require more efford to install.
You do nto have to go out of your way to block virtually all ads. adblock and an automatic rule updater do this very well already.
It is of course rather non-selective, and I might miss some ads I'd like to have seen, but the overall annotance that ads cause is bigger then the slight advantage they provide that I am missing.
Annoyance? moving pictures, bright and ugly colors, slowdown of websites, slowdown of my browser.
Most? Most applications don't come close to requiring a sustained transfer from disk, sure there are specialist cases but the general case is small random reads/writes, hence the big buffers on filesystems and disks.
For application load time, peak throughput is not going to help you much, whereas sustained throughput will help quite a bit.
For 'typical use', the actual throughput of the medium is irrelevant due to large buffers. All that counts here is the speed of the bus that links the device to the computer.
Many consumers tend to do silly things like encoding their home videos to DVD and such, for which sustained throughput is all that matters, even access time becomes largely irrelevant for such uses.
So yeah, there are cases where the throughput of the bus matters, but you do not need flash disks to make use of that at all. Sustained throughput will be noticable for the typical consumer in all cases, and can become a major issue for 'multimedia' uses of PCs.
True, easily fixed.
Aha? Intel is saying they need an entirely new type of non-volitile memory to fix this...
Of course not using a pagefile or swap partition would fix this, but for most purposes that is not an option right now.
Hmm, the only real performance advantage over conventional disks there is the access time.
320mb/sec peak rate? nice, but not very usefull for most applications.
40mb/sec sustained transfer rate? The somewhat older SEAGATE ST373405 I have here beats that easily (on an old 80mb/sec bus no less), and so do quite a few modern SATA and SCSI disks. I have seen regular IDE disks beat this as well.
5M write cycles is a real issue with the flash disk you suggest, you really don't want to have your page file or swap partition on that.
Usefull they are, but they are not the silver bullet of reliable fast storage.
x86_64 (AMD/64) and EM64T are equivalent and highly compatible, but not identical, and it is quite possible to end up with code that works on one but not the other by accident. It is of course also quite possible to end up with code that works perfectly fine on both.
Running Server 2003 in a VM and accessing it over a wan is no different from accessing Server 2003 on a physical server over a wan. Running Server 2003 in a VM has issues, but the connection is seldom one of them. Specifically, terminal services in a VM is not what you want, and more generally, many single purpose VMs perform better then one big multi-purpose VM. That is true independent of lan or wan access.
Also, you don't want to use the vmware remote console for anything other then emergencies when not having a lan connection.
And yes, it can work, and I use it more or less daily (server 2003 on vmware esx over a vpn connection)
It seems you got the point very well. Make sure that people can vote regardless of voting day being a working day solves a lot more then trying for a day when most people don't have to work.
The other part, july 4th being a good day for it because of it being independence day stands of course, I'm just a bit concerned that many people are too busy having a big party and will be drunk when voting if they bother with it to begin with.
And maybe you should try a little flag waving. That's one of the main reasons liberals in this country aren't taken seriously. You look like you hate this country and all it stands for.
Maybe you should start with some critical thinking. Being upset and vocal about freedoms being lost and creating lots of enemies around the world due to misguided or even criminal is standing for those things that are fundamental to the USA.
By depicting those things as anti American, yyyou are in fact helping those trying to destroy the USA as it is.
I fully support compulsory voting, because I believe it encourages some people to be more aware of the relevant issues around election time
Uh no, it is way more likely that people who don't care will just cast a random vote. Those who actually care and donÄt want to vote will turn in an invalid or blank vote, but they can do that already with non compulory voting anyway. As you correctly say, yo can't force people to care. You can try to convince people to care however...
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They do probably exist, but I have yet to encounter such a router/firewall that doesn't allow you to forward specific ports to a machine behind it, which will solve your issues nicely without opening up everything.
Why they can't use the clock to seed it, I don't know
For modern players that should be an option, but a traditional audio cd player derives its (sample) clock from the CD..
I still have an a500 and one of those GVP turbo + drive add-ons.. Two things annoyed me about it.. It's unstable in many situations, and it used proprietary and pretty expensive memory modules.
Commodore's alternative, the a590 was crap when looking at the specs (a 20mb st506 drive? wtf?) and didn't allow for as much memory, oh, and no 'turbo'.. but at least it worked well..
There is, however, a real question about where to draw the line. George Orwell wrote that 'freedom is the freedom to say 2+2=5.' I disagree with this; freedom is the freedom to say that 2+2=5. The most fundamental right that we have is the right to be wrong.
The right to be wrong requires that there is a verifiable fact under dispute. Differentiating that from proposing doing harm to people is not difficult at all. That said, you are of course right that you can quite debate where exactly to draw the line.
You misspelled "juries," for the U.S. at least.
You misspelled 'forgot'..
So, to make my statement more complete, it is either judges or juries (depending on where you live) deciding on whom breaks the law.
The problem with the hate crimes legislation is that it makes the reasons criminal vs. the actions. Does thoughtcrime ring a bell?
That is not entirely accurate. Hate crimes make some things a bigger crime based on motivation, but usually those things are already crimes without that motivation. Hate crime requires an action, not mere thought.
Regardless of what you think of hate speech, once the infrastructure for persecuting people on their thoughts/attitudes/opinions is in place it becomes quite trivial to make it encompass your personal/ideological enemies. All you have to do is redefine "hate."
Slipperly slope, too bad that decades of having those laws on the book only has shown it becomming harder and harder to enforce them instead of easier to apply similar 'logic' to other situations, so it looks like your slipperly slope is either not so slippery or not a slope afterall..
It is a shame that she couldn't at least forgive him for the moronic (which is really all they are) things he wrote, rather than simply taking glee at his sentence which seems mostly due to the child pornography anyway.
It would be really helpfull if you'd actually read things before commenting on them.. He got 2 years and 8 months for the hate speech and the remainder for the kiddy porn.
Then, people talking about a specific group in a disrespectfull way very often makes it easier to think less of killing a member of that specific group. You may not like this, but that mother whom got her son killed has a point that his death and racist postings are related.
She could learn a lot from the Amish in this respect, I feel.
Maybe the entire USA should start learning something from them.. something about not overreacting to an attack maybe.. maybe something with 9/11 and such.. And maybe you should practise what you preach.
I don't feel particularly comfortable putting that kind of power in anyone's hands, let alone a government's.
Like all other laws, the government (on behalf of the people supposedly) makes them, but it is independent judges deciding on who breaks them.
In more civilized societies, you need an actual violent act to happen before anyone's going on trial for inciting it, and even then, good luck getting a conviction.
Aha? maybe you should inform all those kept without trial because they might possibly be supportive of terrorism.. In more civilized societies, people have rules and breaking those rules can get you into trouble, provided it can be proven you broke those rules. If I were you, I'd realize that your specific rules are not the only valid set of rules.
This incident is nothing more than thoughtcrime--it wasn't an American who wrote 1984.
If anything it is speechcrime, not thoughtcrime.
I know the guy who has the "i" from the Niketown sign, and he was both a bored college student and a hippy (not actually dirty, though). Guess how that influenced my perception of the anti-globalization movement?
Seems popular in the USA.. stick some nasty label on someone so you can just ignore whatever they say...
You are very good at reading and understanding, really..
It is nice to hear there are people who get that to work, but annecdotal evidence helps little against a wall of bad experience.
I never tried a pcie version, but with any of their agp cards I have had trouble.
For example, a simple 9600 with Fedora core 5? Driver seems to work but no hardware accelerated opengl. That is in fact the best result I have had so far since at least it gives output and is stable (and is about what I can get with the open source drivers as well), and that was about 6 weeks ago with the drivers from that moment.
I tried in the past to use this card with FC4 and Debian Sarge. At some point I did have opengl acceleration working on FC4, with 3 major issues: failing to support extensions that Doom 3 requires, it would crash so often that the things that did work became unusable, and a gforce mx440 would match it in performance.
Its not exactly like I can't install a driver or such, considering that that radeon is really the only piece of hardware that I have that is supposed to work but doesn't (and yes, it does work on Windows, so it is not a broken card or such) and I understand more then enough of Linbux and drivers to deal with possible problems during installation, at least with everything else that I have used.
In comparison, Nvidia's drivers have caused some occational problems as well, but generally they just work, and have done so for years.
For that matter, the quality of drivers on Windows gives a slightly better (for ATI) picture, but even there they are still known for producing crap drivers.
Oh, and they don't support FreeBSD either.
I can only assume that circuitry for an entire AM radio is bordering on the utterly trivial nowadays.
It has been for decades. The not so trivial part is getting rid of interference from about everything else that is inside the device.
Seeing how easy it is to install extensions, no.
I did at some point 'go out of my way' to find a solution that works well and requires very little efford, but beyond that there is no 'going out of my way'.
As a matter of fact, most plugins (flash, java etc) require more efford to install.
You do nto have to go out of your way to block virtually all ads. adblock and an automatic rule updater do this very well already.
It is of course rather non-selective, and I might miss some ads I'd like to have seen, but the overall annotance that ads cause is bigger then the slight advantage they provide that I am missing.
Annoyance? moving pictures, bright and ugly colors, slowdown of websites, slowdown of my browser.
Most? Most applications don't come close to requiring a sustained transfer from disk, sure there are specialist cases but the general case is small random reads/writes, hence the big buffers on filesystems and disks.
For application load time, peak throughput is not going to help you much, whereas sustained throughput will help quite a bit.
For 'typical use', the actual throughput of the medium is irrelevant due to large buffers. All that counts here is the speed of the bus that links the device to the computer.
Many consumers tend to do silly things like encoding their home videos to DVD and such, for which sustained throughput is all that matters, even access time becomes largely irrelevant for such uses.
So yeah, there are cases where the throughput of the bus matters, but you do not need flash disks to make use of that at all. Sustained throughput will be noticable for the typical consumer in all cases, and can become a major issue for 'multimedia' uses of PCs.
True, easily fixed.
Aha? Intel is saying they need an entirely new type of non-volitile memory to fix this...
Of course not using a pagefile or swap partition would fix this, but for most purposes that is not an option right now.
Aren't all the new macs running with ati?
Hmm, good point. Not very helpfull for us BSD and Linux users tho (both of which enjoy pretty good support from nvidia)
Hmm, the only real performance advantage over conventional disks there is the access time.
320mb/sec peak rate? nice, but not very usefull for most applications.
40mb/sec sustained transfer rate? The somewhat older SEAGATE ST373405 I have here beats that easily (on an old 80mb/sec bus no less), and so do quite a few modern SATA and SCSI disks. I have seen regular IDE disks beat this as well.
5M write cycles is a real issue with the flash disk you suggest, you really don't want to have your page file or swap partition on that.
Usefull they are, but they are not the silver bullet of reliable fast storage.
x86_64 (AMD/64) and EM64T are equivalent and highly compatible, but not identical, and it is quite possible to end up with code that works on one but not the other by accident. It is of course also quite possible to end up with code that works perfectly fine on both.
ATI definitely has the best integrated graphics solution in the laptop market
ATI can't write drivers, not to mention their almost complete lack of support for anything not Windows.
Running Server 2003 in a VM and accessing it over a wan is no different from accessing Server 2003 on a physical server over a wan. Running Server 2003 in a VM has issues, but the connection is seldom one of them. Specifically, terminal services in a VM is not what you want, and more generally, many single purpose VMs perform better then one big multi-purpose VM. That is true independent of lan or wan access.
Also, you don't want to use the vmware remote console for anything other then emergencies when not having a lan connection.
And yes, it can work, and I use it more or less daily (server 2003 on vmware esx over a vpn connection)
It seems you got the point very well. Make sure that people can vote regardless of voting day being a working day solves a lot more then trying for a day when most people don't have to work.
The other part, july 4th being a good day for it because of it being independence day stands of course, I'm just a bit concerned that many people are too busy having a big party and will be drunk when voting if they bother with it to begin with.
And maybe you should try a little flag waving. That's one of the main reasons liberals in this country aren't taken seriously. You look like you hate this country and all it stands for.
Maybe you should start with some critical thinking. Being upset and vocal about freedoms being lost and creating lots of enemies around the world due to misguided or even criminal is standing for those things that are fundamental to the USA.
By depicting those things as anti American, yyyou are in fact helping those trying to destroy the USA as it is.
I fully support compulsory voting, because I believe it encourages some people to be more aware of the relevant issues around election time
Uh no, it is way more likely that people who don't care will just cast a random vote. Those who actually care and donÄt want to vote will turn in an invalid or blank vote, but they can do that already with non compulory voting anyway.
As you correctly say, yo can't force people to care. You can try to convince people to care however...