Crazy stuff. Police officers are trained to create a zone of control around themselves, which would include things like threatening random passers-by and generally acting like thugs, its standard crowd control tactics, and while very far from acceptable civilised behaviour, it does work.
Thugs are for fascists. Like, blackshirts and brownshirts. So what does it tell us about the state of a democracy if random, peaceful people are arrested and beaten for disagreeing or even doing basically nothing.
But beware, there are more than a few people on slashdot these days who will aggressively attack you for suggesting even bare minimum levels of openness.
There are not. You just can't handle polemics against the FSF's doctrine(s).
I don't get it. If they care about hardware, why isn't it ok to only state compatibility with a kernel? Because that's all you have to really worry about.
How is "testing against 10-20 different kernel versions" different from "testing against 10-20 most popular Linux distributions"? Because I just had to deal with that problem yesterday: a friend of mine owns a laptop which has a soundcard in it that's supported on kernel version 2.6.32 but not 2.6.35.
I like how you ignore the 60+ years after WWII.
MAD absolutely does work. There have been dozens of near world-ending situations where fingers were literally on the actual buttons to send nuclear weapons at other countries.
It doesn't matter what got us into those situations (political turmoil, technical glitches), it was MAD that prevented us from pushing the button.
I think the bigger question would be why would anybody want this in the first place? Is the girl that does your hair at the local place REALLY costing you so much you'd think of replacing her with a bot?
It's more about boring jobs than cost, IMHO. Why should humans do boring jobs when there's a robot for it?
My Acer's running an Atom as well. With Firefox running under Win 7 Starter with a wifi connection those balls flew, and I didn't notice any slowdown at all.
"Bauer" = "peasant" or "farmer". Can also be used in a pejorative sense for "dull person". Bauerntheather is an older form of play originally played by amateurs (usually peasants) about peasants for peasants. Usually comedy.
AFAICS it is already at least partially. I can whitelist for example ogg@domain.net/.../video.ogg or Font@domain.net with NoScript. But I couldn't find this for audio. But since Firefox's HTML5 audio player requires JS it can be easily blocked as well.
I'm not a professional developer, but I know my way around some programming languages (C/C++, python, Java) and I wanted to play with diasporas code base. Unfortunately I do know jack about ruby and don't have the time to learn a new programming language. Well, too bad I guess:(
Never worked for me ever. And I have a few years of Linux under my belt. Either you're incredibly lucky, see Linux through rose-colored glasses or you're plain lying.
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Crazy stuff. Police officers are trained to create a zone of control around themselves, which would include things like threatening random passers-by and generally acting like thugs, its standard crowd control tactics, and while very far from acceptable civilised behaviour, it does work.
Thugs are for fascists. Like, blackshirts and brownshirts. So what does it tell us about the state of a democracy if random, peaceful people are arrested and beaten for disagreeing or even doing basically nothing.
But beware, there are more than a few people on slashdot these days who will aggressively attack you for suggesting even bare minimum levels of openness.
There are not. You just can't handle polemics against the FSF's doctrine(s).
You're aware Duke Nukem Forever is now coming out, right?
I've heard that before.
As long as there are popular FOSS apps like Firefox - which don't have the money to buy such signatures/certificates - this won't be an issue.
Shell scripts are plaintext files.
I don't get it. If they care about hardware, why isn't it ok to only state compatibility with a kernel? Because that's all you have to really worry about.
How is "testing against 10-20 different kernel versions" different from "testing against 10-20 most popular Linux distributions"? Because I just had to deal with that problem yesterday: a friend of mine owns a laptop which has a soundcard in it that's supported on kernel version 2.6.32 but not 2.6.35.
I like how you ignore the 60+ years after WWII. MAD absolutely does work. There have been dozens of near world-ending situations where fingers were literally on the actual buttons to send nuclear weapons at other countries.
It doesn't matter what got us into those situations (political turmoil, technical glitches), it was MAD that prevented us from pushing the button.
Oh, really?
WTH does it have to do with anything mentioned in that post?
I think the bigger question would be why would anybody want this in the first place? Is the girl that does your hair at the local place REALLY costing you so much you'd think of replacing her with a bot?
It's more about boring jobs than cost, IMHO. Why should humans do boring jobs when there's a robot for it?
That's interesting, how old is the netbook?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_n450#Pineview
http://www.mobilewhack.com/asustek-announces-latest-netbook-eeepc-1005pe/
My Acer's running an Atom as well. With Firefox running under Win 7 Starter with a wifi connection those balls flew, and I didn't notice any slowdown at all.
Maybe ION graphics?
"Bauer" = "peasant" or "farmer". Can also be used in a pejorative sense for "dull person". Bauerntheather is an older form of play originally played by amateurs (usually peasants) about peasants for peasants. Usually comedy.
Hehe. "angefressen" is colloquial and could be translated as "pissed". Obviously lost in translation, because "fressen" = (roughly) "to gorge".
It did slow down my netbook. Atom N450. Win XP, nearly fresh install.
AFAICS it is already at least partially. I can whitelist for example ogg@domain.net/.../video.ogg or Font@domain.net with NoScript. But I couldn't find this for audio. But since Firefox's HTML5 audio player requires JS it can be easily blocked as well.
Maybe this: http://groups.google.com/group/diaspora-dev/browse_thread/thread/3eceb21134faada1#
I'm not a professional developer, but I know my way around some programming languages (C/C++, python, Java) and I wanted to play with diasporas code base. Unfortunately I do know jack about ruby and don't have the time to learn a new programming language. Well, too bad I guess :(
How do you know he doesn't ?
I'm somewhat confused by your logic ?
Since we do not know how many cores the CPU has, we can not decide if "100% CPU time of one core" == "100% CPU time" is true or not.
Which of course it MUST be, because any application that REALLY took 100% of all CPU cycles would kill the kernel dead.
Have you heard of rounding errors? It may as well be 99.5%
Yet you'll all come out with balnket bullshit statements like "Flash is a piece of shit, it sucks up 100% of my CPU",
Again, who said that?
do not want. Seriously, this robot/AI was the scariest since HAL 9000.
Yes, I know. So how exactly do you know that Anonymous Coward's CPU has only one core?
It's in France. However, the project is international. To be honest, mostly US and Japan.
No, it's not. It's mostly european: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iter#Funding
I still have my first own printer in use, a HP Deskjet 840C. And it's supported by Windows 7 OOTB, lucky me :)
One core. Learn to read.
I guess all the people on AppDB having problems are just stupid morons, then?
Never worked for me ever. And I have a few years of Linux under my belt. Either you're incredibly lucky, see Linux through rose-colored glasses or you're plain lying.