Don't go around trying to insult people by calling their tools a toy, that doesn't impress anyone. MySQL may not be a good solution for you, but it works great in some situations. It's very fast on cheap as shit hardware, free, and there are plenty of ways to back up your data with MySQL.
If you don't need the features of a more expensive database that requires beefier hardware, then it's not a bad choice. Go fire yourself for being a prick.
FYI, we use MySQL. It's worked flawlessly for us. I would really love to upgrade to a database with more features just to "play" with it, but that would be a waste of time for us.
But you're also right. Of course they're not idiots! To say they are idiots is just stupid. Of course they're not, obviously it takes some brains to make so many millions of dollars fucking over so many thousands of people.
However, that doesn't in any way mean they have a clue what they are doing. They may have some good business sense, but they don't know shit about computers, the internet, hackers, rackers, or pirates. They don't know the lengths they will go to, they don't understand their personalities, they don't understand the technology, and they sure as hell don't understand the people who are just fucking fed up with them and will do anything to fuck them back. That's simply not their expertise.
They MAY have a plan to try to stomp out gnutella/opennap/freenet, etc. But they will never pull it off. No one will, ever. If they start monitoring all the time, people will switch back to irc, run ftps and trade that way. Then when they dump billions and billions into monitoring everything going on on IRC, then we'll start encrypting all our data.
No, you're just giving them way too much credit. Of course they're smart, maybe even brilliant, but that doesn't mean shit. When it comes to the internet, etc., they're just fish out of water.
Chip manufacturers can't possibly test all their chips to find the absolute max speed they will run at, that would take way too long. So they product chips in mass quantity and the speed they are labeled as is what they are guaranteed to run correctly at. If it doesn't run at that speed you can take it back. If it runs 100MHZ faster than what it is rated at then you just got a freebie.
That's how every industry works, products are guaranteed to do so much. If you can squeeze more power/life/sexual pleasure out of that product then good for you.
Like cars. When you buy a car it is under warranty for a certain time. It is also rated at certain mpg/hp etc. If you can tweak it and make it faster, more economic, etc., then good for you, but you're tweaking the final product beyond it's specifications and it's no longer under warranty.
This is all as it should be. Stop making up complaints out of thin air. Go do something productive, write some code, donate money to the EFF, but quit being a whiny little bitch.
WTF? What does it matter if it's Microsoft's fault that they have a monopoly? Why do people keep returning to this and say they got there through no fault of their own?
THAT DOESN'T HAVE A DAMN BIT OF RELEVENCE IN THIS CASE!
What MATTERS, is what they have done SINCE they gained their monopoly position!
In short...
1. Bribed/blackmailed OEMs into NOT shipping competing products
2. Paid large sums of money to ISPs to use their browser instead of netscape
3. Included IE in their desktop after agreeing NOT to bundle products in this manner
4. Doubled/Tripled/Quadrupled prices for OEMs that shipped competing products...
and during the trial
1. Lied
2. Forgot
3. Lied
4. Created false evidence
5. Forgot
Anyone who still insists that Microsoft doesn't deserve to be broken up is smoking some potent crack.
And it works like a charm, I haven't had any problems. What kernel version did you upgrade from? Older 2.2.x kernels didn't recognize the geometry of some drives properly, but would still work, but when switching to a new (fixed) version it would screw it up because the partition table is off (or something, was a while ago I saw this).
FYI, I have an Abit KT7-Raid and a DMA-100 30 Gig Maxtor drive, DMA-66 20 Gig Maxtor drive, and a DMA-100 45 Gig IBM drive in two different machines and they all work just fine with 2.4.x.
I wouldn't necessarily blame the kernel if a fsck won't complete, ext2 can get fucked(sorry for the profanity, saying fscked may have been confusing) pretty easily depending on what your machine is doing. You can almost always manually fix it though, but that's a pain.
Maybe you should try ReiserFS. I've been playing with it for a few days and so far so good...
That's also true. They don't want unauthorized players on the market, otherwise they may not implement Macrovision, forced viewing of "FBI warnings", and commercials etc..
I mean shit, it would be just horrible if a player allowed for fair use!
The courts have been misled very easily in this case. The MPAA says, "No, it's copy protection, and DeCSS is a pirate tool, who are you going to believe, us, we're all rich, or those hackers?" and the court says, "We don't like hackers, in fact, we don't like intelligent people at all, in fact, we've been bought buy people like the MPAA for a long time now and we like it, why stop now. Ok Mr Hacker people, you suck, we don't like you, you lose."
If you yell fire in a crowded theatre and everyone runs for their lives because they think they're going to die and people get killed/injured, you've just tricked a few hundred people into getting themselves hurt. If, however, there really IS a fire, then you haven't broken the law.
If what you are saying isn't true and people get hurt because of it, then you're responsible. If what you are saying IS true, then that's freedom of speech.
CSS is not a copy protection system, it is a region control system (which the legality of is questionable in many areas).
DeCSS allows you to view the mpeg data in unencrypted form. You CAN use this to copy the mpegs, but then you have 4 GIGS of mpegs, there's a lot more you have to do for this to be useful for piracy. There are also MANY other ways of doing this, and there are also MANY other uses for DeCSS.
Shouting FIRE in a crowded theatre creates an immediate danger(possibly life threatening) to the people there and is therefore not free speech. Linking to a site containing illegal content does not create an immediate danger, someone else has to act on it to cause damage. Further, the damage that can be caused is monitary, and has in no way even been shown to be true that damage actually could be caused and therefore the ruling was completely wrong.
I shout when I want to be heard IRL, I'll shout here too if I feel like it.
Are you are a complete moron to think what I said invalidates copyright in any way, it's just not constitutional in it's current form, especially with the DMCA.
If the length of copyright is anywhere near as long as the average lifespan(which it is) that is in effect not a limited time and therefore unconstitutional.
If copyright is used for any other purpose but to promote progress then it is unconstitutional. Copyright is being used to make as much money as possible for the copyright holder, and therefore unconstitutional. There is a balance somewhere that needs to be met, but that's not what it's aiming for anymore.
"The question we have to ask is: Is the right to free speech allowed when it directly infringes the rights of another?"
That is completely false, linking DOES NOT DIRECTLY infringe anything. Linking is telling someone where something is, nothing more. Further more, what RIGHTS are being infringed. DeCSS is a program that can be used for many things, and it is not even the best tool to use for "pirating" movies. Add to that the fact that copyright law today is completely unconstitutional in that in the constitution it allows for LIMITED (limited cannot mean longer than the average lifespan) copyright to FURTHER PROGRESS (NOT TO MAKE AS MUCH MONEY AS POSSIBLE FOR THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER!!!).
Why the fuck does the US Gov. feel the need to step in here? And why the hell are they trying to help out the MPAA? That is absolutely ridiculous, linking is OBVIOUSLY just speach, it doesn't directly cause any damage, and the DMCA (which this whole damn case is based on!) is OBVIOUSLY unconstitutional! This is absolutely insane!
I would think that when someone says that something is to last for a limited time, it would be logical to conclude that by limited they would mean much less than the lifespan of an individual. If that time period was longer than the lifespan of an individual, then it is in effect an unlimited time period to those persons who live within that specific timeframe. That cannot be what they meant by "limited" when they wrote the constitution!
You PAY to attend college, why in hell should they practically OWN you when you are attending? That is completely ridiculous! You PAY to live in a dorm, should it not be treated like an apartment? Legally, it's their property, you sign a contract to attend or whatever... however, legal issues be damned, I don't give a fuck what the legal issues are that's just plain not right.
When the SDRAM standard was being finalised, they got their "technology" included in the spec and just forgot to tell the other members that they had a patent on it.
The point of insurance is that the insurance company takes a risk. If they can continue to narrow it down so they are almost never taking a risk, then the only people with insurance will be the ones that DON'T NEED IT, and the people who can't get it are the ones that NEED IT MOST.
Genetic information IS just information, but that's totally beside the point. Forcing people to get genetic testing is an invasion of privacy, and just generally a bad idea. The film, Gattaca, is a perfect example of this. Genetic profiling would prevent people from exceeding their expectations.
That was an utterly ridiculous comment. A "disadvantaged" person isn't necessarily better at other things. What is a paralyzed person better at? Besides, that's totally beside the point anyway.
It would really do you some good to go see Gattaca, it is a perfect example of why genetic screening is a Really Bad Idea. It doesn't allow for people to rise up above their limitations.
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Quit pulling your own pud, that's disgusting.
Don't go around trying to insult people by calling their tools a toy, that doesn't impress anyone. MySQL may not be a good solution for you, but it works great in some situations. It's very fast on cheap as shit hardware, free, and there are plenty of ways to back up your data with MySQL.
If you don't need the features of a more expensive database that requires beefier hardware, then it's not a bad choice. Go fire yourself for being a prick.
FYI, we use MySQL. It's worked flawlessly for us. I would really love to upgrade to a database with more features just to "play" with it, but that would be a waste of time for us.
But you're also right. Of course they're not idiots! To say they are idiots is just stupid. Of course they're not, obviously it takes some brains to make so many millions of dollars fucking over so many thousands of people.
However, that doesn't in any way mean they have a clue what they are doing. They may have some good business sense, but they don't know shit about computers, the internet, hackers, rackers, or pirates. They don't know the lengths they will go to, they don't understand their personalities, they don't understand the technology, and they sure as hell don't understand the people who are just fucking fed up with them and will do anything to fuck them back. That's simply not their expertise.
They MAY have a plan to try to stomp out gnutella/opennap/freenet, etc. But they will never pull it off. No one will, ever. If they start monitoring all the time, people will switch back to irc, run ftps and trade that way. Then when they dump billions and billions into monitoring everything going on on IRC, then we'll start encrypting all our data.
No, you're just giving them way too much credit. Of course they're smart, maybe even brilliant, but that doesn't mean shit. When it comes to the internet, etc., they're just fish out of water.
Chip manufacturers can't possibly test all their chips to find the absolute max speed they will run at, that would take way too long. So they product chips in mass quantity and the speed they are labeled as is what they are guaranteed to run correctly at. If it doesn't run at that speed you can take it back. If it runs 100MHZ faster than what it is rated at then you just got a freebie.
That's how every industry works, products are guaranteed to do so much. If you can squeeze more power/life/sexual pleasure out of that product then good for you.
Like cars. When you buy a car it is under warranty for a certain time. It is also rated at certain mpg/hp etc. If you can tweak it and make it faster, more economic, etc., then good for you, but you're tweaking the final product beyond it's specifications and it's no longer under warranty.
This is all as it should be. Stop making up complaints out of thin air. Go do something productive, write some code, donate money to the EFF, but quit being a whiny little bitch.
He's not talking about IE integration into Windows. He's talking about install programs forcing you to install IE3 long before that.
Geez, please read the posts you're responding to.
WTF? What does it matter if it's Microsoft's fault that they have a monopoly? Why do people keep returning to this and say they got there through no fault of their own?
THAT DOESN'T HAVE A DAMN BIT OF RELEVENCE IN THIS CASE!
What MATTERS, is what they have done SINCE they gained their monopoly position!
In short...
1. Bribed/blackmailed OEMs into NOT shipping competing products
2. Paid large sums of money to ISPs to use their browser instead of netscape
3. Included IE in their desktop after agreeing NOT to bundle products in this manner
4. Doubled/Tripled/Quadrupled prices for OEMs that shipped competing products...
and during the trial
1. Lied
2. Forgot
3. Lied
4. Created false evidence
5. Forgot
Anyone who still insists that Microsoft doesn't deserve to be broken up is smoking some potent crack.
And it works like a charm, I haven't had any problems. What kernel version did you upgrade from? Older 2.2.x kernels didn't recognize the geometry of some drives properly, but would still work, but when switching to a new (fixed) version it would screw it up because the partition table is off (or something, was a while ago I saw this).
FYI, I have an Abit KT7-Raid and a DMA-100 30 Gig Maxtor drive, DMA-66 20 Gig Maxtor drive, and a DMA-100 45 Gig IBM drive in two different machines and they all work just fine with 2.4.x.
I wouldn't necessarily blame the kernel if a fsck won't complete, ext2 can get fucked(sorry for the profanity, saying fscked may have been confusing) pretty easily depending on what your machine is doing. You can almost always manually fix it though, but that's a pain.
Maybe you should try ReiserFS. I've been playing with it for a few days and so far so good...
That's also true. They don't want unauthorized players on the market, otherwise they may not implement Macrovision, forced viewing of "FBI warnings", and commercials etc..
I mean shit, it would be just horrible if a player allowed for fair use!
The courts have been misled very easily in this case. The MPAA says, "No, it's copy protection, and DeCSS is a pirate tool, who are you going to believe, us, we're all rich, or those hackers?" and the court says, "We don't like hackers, in fact, we don't like intelligent people at all, in fact, we've been bought buy people like the MPAA for a long time now and we like it, why stop now. Ok Mr Hacker people, you suck, we don't like you, you lose."
If you yell fire in a crowded theatre and everyone runs for their lives because they think they're going to die and people get killed/injured, you've just tricked a few hundred people into getting themselves hurt. If, however, there really IS a fire, then you haven't broken the law.
If what you are saying isn't true and people get hurt because of it, then you're responsible. If what you are saying IS true, then that's freedom of speech.
CSS is not a copy protection system, it is a region control system (which the legality of is questionable in many areas).
DeCSS allows you to view the mpeg data in unencrypted form. You CAN use this to copy the mpegs, but then you have 4 GIGS of mpegs, there's a lot more you have to do for this to be useful for piracy. There are also MANY other ways of doing this, and there are also MANY other uses for DeCSS.
DeCSS is NOT a piracy tool, not even close.
Shouting FIRE in a crowded theatre creates an immediate danger(possibly life threatening) to the people there and is therefore not free speech. Linking to a site containing illegal content does not create an immediate danger, someone else has to act on it to cause damage. Further, the damage that can be caused is monitary, and has in no way even been shown to be true that damage actually could be caused and therefore the ruling was completely wrong.
I shout when I want to be heard IRL, I'll shout here too if I feel like it.
Are you are a complete moron to think what I said invalidates copyright in any way, it's just not constitutional in it's current form, especially with the DMCA.
If the length of copyright is anywhere near as long as the average lifespan(which it is) that is in effect not a limited time and therefore unconstitutional.
If copyright is used for any other purpose but to promote progress then it is unconstitutional. Copyright is being used to make as much money as possible for the copyright holder, and therefore unconstitutional. There is a balance somewhere that needs to be met, but that's not what it's aiming for anymore.
One of the most frequently used tactics in litigation in this country is to keep the other guy in court till he runs out of money.
So I would say it's more like Liberty and Justice for the rich.
"The question we have to ask is: Is the right to free speech allowed when it directly infringes the rights of another?"
That is completely false, linking DOES NOT DIRECTLY infringe anything. Linking is telling someone where something is, nothing more. Further more, what RIGHTS are being infringed. DeCSS is a program that can be used for many things, and it is not even the best tool to use for "pirating" movies. Add to that the fact that copyright law today is completely unconstitutional in that in the constitution it allows for LIMITED (limited cannot mean longer than the average lifespan) copyright to FURTHER PROGRESS (NOT TO MAKE AS MUCH MONEY AS POSSIBLE FOR THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER!!!).
Why the fuck does the US Gov. feel the need to step in here? And why the hell are they trying to help out the MPAA? That is absolutely ridiculous, linking is OBVIOUSLY just speach, it doesn't directly cause any damage, and the DMCA (which this whole damn case is based on!) is OBVIOUSLY unconstitutional! This is absolutely insane!
The DMCA has got to go.
You still have to select "Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers" to even get the option to build Reiser FS.
If it's stable then why is this?
Maybe I'm missing something, if so just let me know.
When will Reiser FS (or any other journaling fs) be out of the experimental stage?
I'm tired of fsck (not that I see it often...)
I would think that when someone says that something is to last for a limited time, it would be logical to conclude that by limited they would mean much less than the lifespan of an individual. If that time period was longer than the lifespan of an individual, then it is in effect an unlimited time period to those persons who live within that specific timeframe. That cannot be what they meant by "limited" when they wrote the constitution!
You PAY to attend college, why in hell should they practically OWN you when you are attending? That is completely ridiculous! You PAY to live in a dorm, should it not be treated like an apartment? Legally, it's their property, you sign a contract to attend or whatever... however, legal issues be damned, I don't give a fuck what the legal issues are that's just plain not right.
When the SDRAM standard was being finalised, they got their "technology" included in the spec and just forgot to tell the other members that they had a patent on it.
The point of insurance is that the insurance company takes a risk. If they can continue to narrow it down so they are almost never taking a risk, then the only people with insurance will be the ones that DON'T NEED IT, and the people who can't get it are the ones that NEED IT MOST.
Yeah... that's the world I want to live in.
Mod this back up you fucks. WTF is wrong with people, this is NOT flaimbait, it is a very strong opinion.
Genetic information IS just information, but that's totally beside the point. Forcing people to get genetic testing is an invasion of privacy, and just generally a bad idea. The film, Gattaca, is a perfect example of this. Genetic profiling would prevent people from exceeding their expectations.
That was an utterly ridiculous comment. A "disadvantaged" person isn't necessarily better at other things. What is a paralyzed person better at? Besides, that's totally beside the point anyway.
It would really do you some good to go see Gattaca, it is a perfect example of why genetic screening is a Really Bad Idea. It doesn't allow for people to rise up above their limitations.
Cancer cells don't grow into a living animal.
Even if they did, we kill animals every day for food, etc.
Cancer kills you. You have the right to protect yourself.
Don't argue for abortion with this kind of bullshit.