What is the big deal with face recognition? WTF is wrong with that? Personally, I am not WILLING to give up any of my liberties because of this terrible act of terrorism, but how does face recognition computers infringe on my liberties? You are already in a public place, you're in the open, people can see you, so can cameras(which are already there anyway), what difference does it make if there are cameras connected to computers doing face recognition to be sure that no known criminals/terrorists board a plane?
Privacy can be important, especially for someone acting justly who has enemies, but in public there is no privacy. You are already out in the open, anyone who wants can snap a picture of you. Everyone sees you picking that monster weggie, everyone see you wipe that hanger off your nose, everyone sees you checking out that hot chick's ass while you're walking with your wife...
The day someone puts a camera in my house(or in too close a proximity), forces dna sampling, forces me to turn over personal information, etc., then I'll be pissed.
Personally, I'm not sure what I think about gun registration laws, and other such things that exist already, but complaining about face recognition is like complaining about putting up a website with pictures of you and people coming to download them, YOU PUT IT THERE, just like being out in public.
note: I'm still open to any arguments about why it's bad, but right now I just don't see it as a threat in any way at all.
You were implying that Mozilla had more bugs than Win2K, which would seem to be false, as Win2K was released as a final product while it still had ~65K bugs, and Mozilla, still in development, has 100,000 bug reports which are from internal development and duplicate bug reports, meaning the number of actual bugs is much much less than that.
But then you must define "bug" and compare how both companies define "bug", it's a worthless thing to speculate about. However, Win2K was released with quite a number of bugs, from my personal experience, which is all I can go on at this point.
I'm sorry, what was my point again? Oh yeah, your original post was simply pretty dumb...
My upgrades have never had anything to do with application software, they are 99.9% due to games such as Quake3, UT, Tribes2, Rune, etc., all available for Linux.
None of the applications I use require much processing power, but the games I play certainly do.
If I were to have had a Mac and always kept it up to par for the latest gaming goodnesses, I'd have probably spent 2 or 3 times as much as with a PC.
No, Macs are most definately not cheaper, and I find Linux to be extremely easy to use, being a programmer/network administrator and all, so none of that is an issue for me. Kernels sure do compile nice and quick though, but that doesn't need to be done often.
I would love to get my hands on a PPC based box, I'd love to have MacOSX, Linux and MacOS9, but, it's too expensive.
On the PC side, I've had the same machine for over 3 years, and I just keep upgrading 1 or 2 parts at a time. It used to be a 300 celery, now it's a AMD T-bird 900 w/Geforce2. The initial cost was about $1,200-, well under $2,000. Upgrades have run about $1,000, and from the leftover parts I put together another computer that I have connected to my T.V.
With PPC, however, the initial cost would be $1,800+, and I know nothing about upgrades for PPC hardware. Would I be able to continually upgrade parts cheaply with a PPC based machine.
I am interested because I would like to start developing for Linux/MacOSX/Win within the next couple years, with the main focus on Linux/MacOSX, and only on Win if it is profitable for me.
Anyone care to explain how the PPC world works? ; )
You are commenting on this when you didn't even finish reading the SUMMARY!
Mozilla DOES NOT HAVE 100,000 BUGS!
Thoughout the whole development process, 100,00 bugs have passed through the Mozilla code, this includes integration of new features where things aren't finished and don't work right, and well, everything else that gets put into bugzilla.
W2k was released with 20+k bugs in the finished product. But, who knows what those bugs are anyway, I've see plenty, but that large number could include things that most wouldn't consider to be real bugs, so, whatever...
You need to read about bin Laden, his reasons are nothing like you think. Simply put, it's a jihad against all "non-believers", Jews, Christians, etc. Anyone who isn't a Muslim basically, in bin Laden's eyes, needs to be killed. Bin Laden sees the U.S., and Europe too, as supporters of Judaism and Christianity.
It's pretty ridiculous to speculate on someone's motives when they plainly state it in interviews.
I have to say I'm am extremely impressed with the latest releases of mozilla, there has again been a very very nice speed jump.
As a submitter of bugs, it's good to see them getting cleaned up, at this point it's better than many browsers that call themselves 3, 4, 5, 6, 7... whatever.
Stability is getting really good, I haven't been able to crash the latest 0.9.3 nightlies or 0.9.4, even with java, javascript, and flash.
Really excellent work, my thanks goes out to everyone who has helped with Mozilla.
I can't believe how fucking stupid people are, how the fuck are backdoors going to do anything when the people who we need to track won't have backdoors in their software?
The whole fucking point of this article seems to be to criticize President Bush and the media. How utterly ridiculous.
I did not vote for Bush, nor do I agree with all his decisions, but this kind of bullshit article is entirely inappropriate during such a time of crisis. President Bush was being moved around by the secret service, it appeared the whitehouse was a possible target, should he have gone back to the whitehouse to be killed? No, he should stay the fuck out of Washington until the immediate danger is over, he can run the country from anywhere anyway!
Then you criticize the media as appearing distant, etc. I saw the whole thing on live television, when the second plance crashed into the second building, the reporters, camera man, and everyone else in the stupio screamed and started shouting. Some of the news networks STILL haven't run ANY commercials, the same reporters have been reporting for 2 days straight with almost no break, eyes are puffy, speach is slow, and they've put all their partisan political leanings aside and have simply tried to report on the fucking news, which is more than I can say for you!
Fucking ridiculous, and fucking inappropriate, please, Katz, STFU!
WTF does that have to do with anything? He tells his people we are denying them food, yet we are prepared to give them food, but, he doesn't let them have OUR food. That makes sense, how?
Maybe he should stop trying to build biological and nuclear weapons and should let his people eat.
I think you need to take your head out of your ass.
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You need to take your head out of your ass. Americans are no different than the people of any other country. When the time calls for it, most Americans are willing to sacrifice themselves for the greater good.
Did you see how many firemen died trying to save people? Did you see how many people ran back to the toppling buildings to do what they could to help?
After Pearl Harbor you know what many American men did, they joined up! They wanted to fight! They would rather fight and die than sit and do nothing! 200+ firemen are DEAD because they were trying to save others! Doctors in the area rushed in to help, some of which are missing.
"How the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki felt when the US used atomic bombs on their ready-to-surrender country just to prove that they worked."
Japan was not ready to surrender, they were willing to fight until they completely used up all their resources. Millions more people would likely have been killed in battle had we not dropped those bombs, Japanese and American. Don't forget who started that war either. Not only that, the day before we dropped the bombs, we alerted their civilian populations that they should evacuate those cities.
Yes, America is guilty of plenty of wrongdoings, but your type of anti-American bullshit rhetoric helps nothing.
And of all times to spout your bullshit, you do it after thousands of innocent people are killed by acts of terrorism.
If this project is ever completed, and there is enough money left over to do some really good marketing, these guys have a real chance.
I was at the bookstore the other day(I go there a lot), and for the first time ever I saw someone else looking at the Linux books. I noticed he was holding a "Linux for Dummies"(or linux for complete idiots of whatever) book, so I asked him if/why he was giving Linux a try. His answer? Windows XP!
Yes, Joe Blow (aka Joe Sixpack) was giving Linux a try because Windows XP pricing, licensing, forced registration, etc was plain ridiculous, he said.
This Joe Sixpack may have been a bit more computer saavy than average, but not much. He's mostly just a gamer, and he was impressed with the game selection on Linux now so wanted to try it out. He plans to hold onto win98 to play games for a while, but he DOES NOT want to buy XP.
A cheap, windows compatible OS would be a good alternative for this guy and many others.
Just sell friggin breathalyzers to the general public so they can see for themselves if they're over the legal limit. Why do we need all the Big BrotherTM crap? How the hell is that supposed to help anything?
If you let people take responsibility for themselves you'd be surprised what you find. Most people I know who have ever been cited for DUI didn't realize they were over the legal limit.
Is there some type of breathalyzer available to the general public?
They shouldn't have paid ISPs, OEMs, etc. to NOT distribute Netscape. They should have allowed OEMs to bundle whatever software they wanted, etc, etc, etc, etc...
I agree with you though, bundling IE was not a bad thing. What was wrong though, was the way they forced Netscape out of the market.
with your assumption about me. When people disregard some of the technical advantages *BSD has over Linux I try to find out the real scoop.
The difference isn't in what you could do, it's between what the guy was saying and what MS has done. You were defending MS comparing their tactics to what he was saying, but they are not the same thing at all as MS has attempted to spread blatant lies and misinformation about Linux while he was advocating no such thing at all.
I recently visited the library in my area (in MD, USA) and to my surprise, whatever net filtering software they are using blocks Slashdot! I couldn't believe it, that's ridiculous. It also blocked a bunch of other sites that really shouldn't have been blocked.
Fortuneately, only half of the computers there have filtering software installed, the other half are unfiltered and have privacy screens on them. I sure hope it stays that way. IMO, that's a pretty sane way to work a public library, unfortuneately, the filtering software could use a lot of work...
Look, I hate zealots, they do nothing but distract from the real issues and make us all look like fools. BUT, you're being a damn idiot, the reason it would be different than FUD is that he would be telling the truth, not half truth, not flat out lies, the plain simple unadultered truth.
A boycott doesn't stop anyone who doesn't want to participate from buying it.
Second, not buying stuff from MS on general principal is perfectly valid, would you buy products from a company owned by Nazi's (or any other evil organization of your choice)? I'm not comparing MS to Nazis, I'm simply demonstrating that maybe there are products you might not want to buy on general principal. Seems a valid reason to me...
disclaimer: "brain missing" isn't supposed to be an insult, I'm just kidding ; )
It's really funny(strange funny), I really like the way anti-aliased fonts look, just so much smoother and make the desktop so very pretty. For years I stared at anti-aliased fonts in windows, then I switched to Linux and didn't have them anymore, which I thought sucked but now I like it better simply because anti-aliased fonts make my eyes hurt. I had no idea what it was before, but, now I know what makes my eyes hurt more than anything while sitting at a computer.
Anyone else dislike anti-aliased fonts for this reason. Granted, some fonts just look absolutely horrible if they're not anti-aliased, but good fonts don't need it.
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yeah, thanks... it's been said before
Privacy can be important, especially for someone acting justly who has enemies, but in public there is no privacy. You are already out in the open, anyone who wants can snap a picture of you. Everyone sees you picking that monster weggie, everyone see you wipe that hanger off your nose, everyone sees you checking out that hot chick's ass while you're walking with your wife...
The day someone puts a camera in my house(or in too close a proximity), forces dna sampling, forces me to turn over personal information, etc., then I'll be pissed.
Personally, I'm not sure what I think about gun registration laws, and other such things that exist already, but complaining about face recognition is like complaining about putting up a website with pictures of you and people coming to download them, YOU PUT IT THERE, just like being out in public.
note: I'm still open to any arguments about why it's bad, but right now I just don't see it as a threat in any way at all.
But then you must define "bug" and compare how both companies define "bug", it's a worthless thing to speculate about. However, Win2K was released with quite a number of bugs, from my personal experience, which is all I can go on at this point.
I'm sorry, what was my point again? Oh yeah, your original post was simply pretty dumb...
None of the applications I use require much processing power, but the games I play certainly do.
If I were to have had a Mac and always kept it up to par for the latest gaming goodnesses, I'd have probably spent 2 or 3 times as much as with a PC.
No, Macs are most definately not cheaper, and I find Linux to be extremely easy to use, being a programmer/network administrator and all, so none of that is an issue for me. Kernels sure do compile nice and quick though, but that doesn't need to be done often.
1. the case
2. nic
3. sound card(about to be replaced)
So yes, an axe with 2 new blades and 3 new handles is a good comparison. ;-)
On the PC side, I've had the same machine for over 3 years, and I just keep upgrading 1 or 2 parts at a time. It used to be a 300 celery, now it's a AMD T-bird 900 w/Geforce2. The initial cost was about $1,200-, well under $2,000. Upgrades have run about $1,000, and from the leftover parts I put together another computer that I have connected to my T.V.
With PPC, however, the initial cost would be $1,800+, and I know nothing about upgrades for PPC hardware. Would I be able to continually upgrade parts cheaply with a PPC based machine.
I am interested because I would like to start developing for Linux/MacOSX/Win within the next couple years, with the main focus on Linux/MacOSX, and only on Win if it is profitable for me.
Anyone care to explain how the PPC world works? ; )
Mozilla DOES NOT HAVE 100,000 BUGS!
Thoughout the whole development process, 100,00 bugs have passed through the Mozilla code, this includes integration of new features where things aren't finished and don't work right, and well, everything else that gets put into bugzilla.
W2k was released with 20+k bugs in the finished product. But, who knows what those bugs are anyway, I've see plenty, but that large number could include things that most wouldn't consider to be real bugs, so, whatever...
You need to read about bin Laden, his reasons are nothing like you think. Simply put, it's a jihad against all "non-believers", Jews, Christians, etc. Anyone who isn't a Muslim basically, in bin Laden's eyes, needs to be killed. Bin Laden sees the U.S., and Europe too, as supporters of Judaism and Christianity.
It's pretty ridiculous to speculate on someone's motives when they plainly state it in interviews.
What libc version are you running? Sometimes mozilla(among many other programs) seems to have problems with glibc 2.2.
You might want to try building it yourself.
I have to say I'm am extremely impressed with the latest releases of mozilla, there has again been a very very nice speed jump.
As a submitter of bugs, it's good to see them getting cleaned up, at this point it's better than many browsers that call themselves 3, 4, 5, 6, 7... whatever.
Stability is getting really good, I haven't been able to crash the latest 0.9.3 nightlies or 0.9.4, even with java, javascript, and flash.
Really excellent work, my thanks goes out to everyone who has helped with Mozilla.
I can't believe how fucking stupid people are, how the fuck are backdoors going to do anything when the people who we need to track won't have backdoors in their software?
Plain fucking stupidity.
The whole fucking point of this article seems to be to criticize President Bush and the media. How utterly ridiculous.
I did not vote for Bush, nor do I agree with all his decisions, but this kind of bullshit article is entirely inappropriate during such a time of crisis. President Bush was being moved around by the secret service, it appeared the whitehouse was a possible target, should he have gone back to the whitehouse to be killed? No, he should stay the fuck out of Washington until the immediate danger is over, he can run the country from anywhere anyway!
Then you criticize the media as appearing distant, etc. I saw the whole thing on live television, when the second plance crashed into the second building, the reporters, camera man, and everyone else in the stupio screamed and started shouting. Some of the news networks STILL haven't run ANY commercials, the same reporters have been reporting for 2 days straight with almost no break, eyes are puffy, speach is slow, and they've put all their partisan political leanings aside and have simply tried to report on the fucking news, which is more than I can say for you!
Fucking ridiculous, and fucking inappropriate, please, Katz, STFU!
WTF does that have to do with anything? He tells his people we are denying them food, yet we are prepared to give them food, but, he doesn't let them have OUR food. That makes sense, how?
Maybe he should stop trying to build biological and nuclear weapons and should let his people eat.
I think you need to take your head out of your ass.
You need to take your head out of your ass. Americans are no different than the people of any other country. When the time calls for it, most Americans are willing to sacrifice themselves for the greater good.
Did you see how many firemen died trying to save people? Did you see how many people ran back to the toppling buildings to do what they could to help?
After Pearl Harbor you know what many American men did, they joined up! They wanted to fight! They would rather fight and die than sit and do nothing! 200+ firemen are DEAD because they were trying to save others! Doctors in the area rushed in to help, some of which are missing.
Open your fucking eyes!
"How the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki felt when the US used atomic bombs on their ready-to-surrender country just to prove that they worked."
Japan was not ready to surrender, they were willing to fight until they completely used up all their resources. Millions more people would likely have been killed in battle had we not dropped those bombs, Japanese and American. Don't forget who started that war either. Not only that, the day before we dropped the bombs, we alerted their civilian populations that they should evacuate those cities.
Yes, America is guilty of plenty of wrongdoings, but your type of anti-American bullshit rhetoric helps nothing.
And of all times to spout your bullshit, you do it after thousands of innocent people are killed by acts of terrorism.
If this project is ever completed, and there is enough money left over to do some really good marketing, these guys have a real chance.
I was at the bookstore the other day(I go there a lot), and for the first time ever I saw someone else looking at the Linux books. I noticed he was holding a "Linux for Dummies"(or linux for complete idiots of whatever) book, so I asked him if/why he was giving Linux a try. His answer? Windows XP!
Yes, Joe Blow (aka Joe Sixpack) was giving Linux a try because Windows XP pricing, licensing, forced registration, etc was plain ridiculous, he said.
This Joe Sixpack may have been a bit more computer saavy than average, but not much. He's mostly just a gamer, and he was impressed with the game selection on Linux now so wanted to try it out. He plans to hold onto win98 to play games for a while, but he DOES NOT want to buy XP.
A cheap, windows compatible OS would be a good alternative for this guy and many others.
Just sell friggin breathalyzers to the general public so they can see for themselves if they're over the legal limit. Why do we need all the Big BrotherTM crap? How the hell is that supposed to help anything?
If you let people take responsibility for themselves you'd be surprised what you find. Most people I know who have ever been cited for DUI didn't realize they were over the legal limit.
Is there some type of breathalyzer available to the general public?
They shouldn't have paid ISPs, OEMs, etc. to NOT distribute Netscape. They should have allowed OEMs to bundle whatever software they wanted, etc, etc, etc, etc...
I agree with you though, bundling IE was not a bad thing. What was wrong though, was the way they forced Netscape out of the market.
Are our browser caches going to come under fire next? Where does it end?
Copyright is just getting totally nuts...
When is the next shuttle off this rock?
with your assumption about me. When people disregard some of the technical advantages *BSD has over Linux I try to find out the real scoop.
The difference isn't in what you could do, it's between what the guy was saying and what MS has done. You were defending MS comparing their tactics to what he was saying, but they are not the same thing at all as MS has attempted to spread blatant lies and misinformation about Linux while he was advocating no such thing at all.
I recently visited the library in my area (in MD, USA) and to my surprise, whatever net filtering software they are using blocks Slashdot! I couldn't believe it, that's ridiculous. It also blocked a bunch of other sites that really shouldn't have been blocked.
Fortuneately, only half of the computers there have filtering software installed, the other half are unfiltered and have privacy screens on them. I sure hope it stays that way. IMO, that's a pretty sane way to work a public library, unfortuneately, the filtering software could use a lot of work...
Look, I hate zealots, they do nothing but distract from the real issues and make us all look like fools. BUT, you're being a damn idiot, the reason it would be different than FUD is that he would be telling the truth, not half truth, not flat out lies, the plain simple unadultered truth.
A boycott doesn't stop anyone who doesn't want to participate from buying it.
Second, not buying stuff from MS on general principal is perfectly valid, would you buy products from a company owned by Nazi's (or any other evil organization of your choice)? I'm not comparing MS to Nazis, I'm simply demonstrating that maybe there are products you might not want to buy on general principal. Seems a valid reason to me...
disclaimer: "brain missing" isn't supposed to be an insult, I'm just kidding ; )
It's really funny(strange funny), I really like the way anti-aliased fonts look, just so much smoother and make the desktop so very pretty. For years I stared at anti-aliased fonts in windows, then I switched to Linux and didn't have them anymore, which I thought sucked but now I like it better simply because anti-aliased fonts make my eyes hurt. I had no idea what it was before, but, now I know what makes my eyes hurt more than anything while sitting at a computer.
Anyone else dislike anti-aliased fonts for this reason. Granted, some fonts just look absolutely horrible if they're not anti-aliased, but good fonts don't need it.
That's hilarious, a Limited Edition of a piece of software that can be copied over and over and over for almost no cost at all.
I thought limited edition was usually reserved for things where there was an actual scarcity of, such as cars and such.