I just hope Darl McBride doesn't become President of IBM and start suing people again...
I mean, if he can turn a Linux distro into an anti-Linux suing machine, just think what he can do to a mere ally of Linux! IBM could be the next Microsoft! Oh...wait...I think they're onto m?#? NO CARRIER
But either way, it gives people even more reason to use mIRC - a closed source shareware app that's fast, efficient and doesn't expire even after 30 days. And, whatsmore, it's much, much better than Xchat - I've used it for 8 years now and I'm as happy as ever.
Wrong! It is disabled after 30 days, and you have to pay $20 to keep using it. What? You're using an old version? Oh, that doesn't have the expiry date? Good idea! Just like using any other old program, you're vulnerable to tons of exploits, like one that I've seen, where you end up flooding the server with gibberish until someone/kills you.
An easy solution is to switch to cable, as I'm not sure you're able to have DSL without having a dial tone. They also usually give you bundles for having both DSL and phone service from the same company.
Socialism can exist without the police state you speak of, but its a very strange kind of socialism, one that hasn't appeared yet. Anarchism, aka "Libertarian Socialism", blends an equal social system, with an egalitarian economic system.
Of course, this would depend heavily on humanity's ability to bury its differences and work together, which is why it hasn't shown up in the world.
Um, while Socialism and Communism started out as the same thing, they've forked and now evoke very different reactions. Socialism is now associated with the sharing of wealth among the many. Communism, on the other hand, is socialism PLUS the giant police state that controls everything you do.
You might want to check out this, because you're confusing economic positions with Authoritarian/Libertarian positions.
Actually, the Olympic Spirit is about greed. Capitalism wasn't invented at the time, but greed, fame, fortune, were all integral parts of the Ancient games. The "amateur" clause of the modern olympics was made so rich people wouldn't have to compete against commoners. Why allow people who work on the sea compete against you? They spend their lives on the sea, so they're "professionals".
So please, check your idealism at the door, the olympics aren't a celebration of humanity, rather an attempt by people to attain immortality, by any means necessary.
True, I'm looking at a laptop, and a Centrino based laptop at roughly the same speed as a mobile Athlon XP, with comparable specs, is about $500CAD more for the Pentium. Of course, the Centrino would be better on batteries, but both do the clocking down dance and are have more or less the same performance at their highest performance level. (This is an Athlon XP-M 2000+ compared to a Pentium M 1.5GHZ, I bet the XP-M 2800+ would blow the M out of the water...)
The new system is a dramatic change in Intel's marketing approach because it takes emphasis away from using clock speed as a main measure of performance. Instead, the system will strive to create a scenario in which a person choosing between several 300 series chips, for example, equates the decision to an exercise in choosing a good, better or best processor, sources familiar with the plan said.
"unless you're into PC games or have cost as a primary concern, there's no better non-ideology-based choice, in my view."
Uh, isn't the most commonly heard problem is "my gamez dont workz in lunix!"? GNU/Linux, commerical unices, or *BSD is more stable (even with the lack of blue screens in 2k/XP, you get hammered by worms/virii), and secure, and with tools such as apt-get or pkg_add, very easy to manage. It isn't an "ideology based choice", unless you consider being able to have a command-line-ism as an "ideology"
F.1 Are "anarcho"-capitalists really anarchists?
In a word, no. While "anarcho"-capitalists obviously try to associate themselves with the anarchist tradition by using the word "anarcho", their ideas are distinctly at odds with those associated with anarchism. Because of this any claims that their ideas are anarchist or that they are part of the anarchist tradition or movement are false.
"Anarcho"-capitalists claim to be anarchists because they say that they oppose government. As such, as noted in the last section, they use a dictionary definition of anarchism. However, this fails to appreciate that anarchism is a political theory, not a dictionary definition. As dictionaries are rarely politically sophisticated things, this means that they fail to recognise that anarchism is more than just opposition to government, it is also marked a opposition to capitalism (i.e. exploitation and private property). Thus, opposition to government is a necessary but not sufficient condition for being an anarchist -- you also need to be opposed to exploitation and capitalist private property. As "anarcho"-capitalists do not consider interest, rent and profits (i.e. capitalism) to be exploitative nor oppose capitalist property rights, they are not anarchists.
Anarchism is synonymous with "Libertarian Socialism", and can be thought of as Communism with political freedom, or Libertarianism with social freedom.
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Instructions for getting rid of it
As for the fellow below me, its Adware. Spyware, even, but tries to get out of it through a technicality.
God bless laptops and wifi. /posted from bed
Or, use an even better solution and use solar power, since then you dont have to spend hours trying to capture food, all you have to do is sit there!
Another win for plant-kind!
I already own three of your tux stickers, you insensitive clod!
Actually, with the tweaking thats gone on, IT looks much better. It might just be that I'm on a different monitor, but it looks fine now.
I just hope Darl McBride doesn't become President of IBM and start suing people again...
I mean, if he can turn a Linux distro into an anti-Linux suing machine, just think what he can do to a mere ally of Linux! IBM could be the next Microsoft! Oh...wait...I think they're onto m?#? NO CARRIER
because you had to hold it like a taco to talk!
and the games were crap version of GBA games, or PSX games with worse graphics.
But either way, it gives people even more reason to use mIRC - a closed source shareware app that's fast, efficient and doesn't expire even after 30 days. And, whatsmore, it's much, much better than Xchat - I've used it for 8 years now and I'm as happy as ever.
/kills you.
Wrong! It is disabled after 30 days, and you have to pay $20 to keep using it. What? You're using an old version? Oh, that doesn't have the expiry date? Good idea! Just like using any other old program, you're vulnerable to tons of exploits, like one that I've seen, where you end up flooding the server with gibberish until someone
P.S.: Just because a lot of idiots use Windows doesn't mean any idiot can use it. Btw., I know a lot of idiots using Linux, what does that tell us?
That um... uh... we should use FreeBSD?
we're too busy trying to stay warm, eh?
An easy solution is to switch to cable, as I'm not sure you're able to have DSL without having a dial tone. They also usually give you bundles for having both DSL and phone service from the same company.
I thought this was a troll on *BSD, seeing how the webside was /.'d from the *BSD section...
...but it turns out that they're running Linux!
Socialism can exist without the police state you speak of, but its a very strange kind of socialism, one that hasn't appeared yet. Anarchism, aka "Libertarian Socialism", blends an equal social system, with an egalitarian economic system.
Of course, this would depend heavily on humanity's ability to bury its differences and work together, which is why it hasn't shown up in the world.
Anyways, this was pretty off topic.
Um, while Socialism and Communism started out as the same thing, they've forked and now evoke very different reactions. Socialism is now associated with the sharing of wealth among the many. Communism, on the other hand, is socialism PLUS the giant police state that controls everything you do.
You might want to check out this, because you're confusing economic positions with Authoritarian/Libertarian positions.
Actually, the Olympic Spirit is about greed. Capitalism wasn't invented at the time, but greed, fame, fortune, were all integral parts of the Ancient games. The "amateur" clause of the modern olympics was made so rich people wouldn't have to compete against commoners. Why allow people who work on the sea compete against you? They spend their lives on the sea, so they're "professionals".
So please, check your idealism at the door, the olympics aren't a celebration of humanity, rather an attempt by people to attain immortality, by any means necessary.
Yep, and some pr0n sites which want to install spyware/adware simply give you the same message: "YOUR BROWSER IS NOT WIN32 COMPATIBLE!"
I know this happens in Linux, but I dont know if I've ever come across it in Windows on Firefox.
Fry: Cool! So there's an infinite number of parallel universes?
Professor Farnsworth: No, just the two.
No no... this is a good example of karma. The cosmic kind, not the Slashdot kind. :)
Also, I made fun of my dad hitting his head on these waterslides we were at, and then hit my head twice. Karma can really hurt sometimes. >.>
True, I'm looking at a laptop, and a Centrino based laptop at roughly the same speed as a mobile Athlon XP, with comparable specs, is about $500CAD more for the Pentium. Of course, the Centrino would be better on batteries, but both do the clocking down dance and are have more or less the same performance at their highest performance level. (This is an Athlon XP-M 2000+ compared to a Pentium M 1.5GHZ, I bet the XP-M 2800+ would blow the M out of the water...)
oh yeah? well... you're so fat... you're like the Prescott's basic Integer pipeline!
Its funny that this was the highest rated comment when I clicked on this story.
Yes, we'll think about that in a few years, but in order to get out of the goddamn phone contract, you have to spend lots of money. Oh well...
"unless you're into PC games or have cost as a primary concern, there's no better non-ideology-based choice, in my view."
Uh, isn't the most commonly heard problem is "my gamez dont workz in lunix!"? GNU/Linux, commerical unices, or *BSD is more stable (even with the lack of blue screens in 2k/XP, you get hammered by worms/virii), and secure, and with tools such as apt-get or pkg_add, very easy to manage. It isn't an "ideology based choice", unless you consider being able to have a command-line-ism as an "ideology"
Here is some more information on that.
Anarchism is synonymous with "Libertarian Socialism", and can be thought of as Communism with political freedom, or Libertarianism with social freedom.