A video card I can't use on XP32 since it can't properly allocate that much VRAM & system RAM at the same time.
That's not necessarily a problem. VRAM doesn't have to be mapped into system RAM, it could be banked like it was back in the Dos/ISA days. It's not really clear whether they do but I did find this
The graphics component of XFree86-DGA is not supported because it requires a CPU mapping of framebuffer memory. As graphics boards ship with increasing quantities of video memory, the NVIDIA X driver has had to switch to a more dynamic memory mapping scheme that is incompatible with DGA. Furthermore, DGA does not cooperate with other graphics rendering libraries such as Xlib and OpenGL because it accesses GPU resources directly.
Which sounds like graphics memory is banked into CPU address space on an NVidia card. It doesn't make any difference in the common case because normal the hardware on the card does the drawing, not the CPU. Using a card like this as a dumb framebuffer for the CPU to draw into is kind of a waste.
That's a license though. Guthrie could choose to release his works under that license. Metallica can choose to release theirs under a much more restrictive one. Copyright laws give the content owners that choice. And you'll notice I didn't say artists, because the artists sold the rights to a record company.
Now if you remove copyright, that all breaks down. The record companies can publish the artists work and not pay them a dime, the artists would have no legal comeback. Hell Chinese CD factories already make most genuine CDs and a lot of fakes. At the moment selling the fakes is illegal so to get them in the shops in the West they need to license the IP from the record companies who bought it off the artists. But if there was no copyright, fakes would be sold cheaper than the genuine CDs. But neither the artists or the record companies would get paid, all the money would go to the guy that owned the CD factory.
It would be the same with software. There would be no way to enforce the GPL and thus no reason for big companies to release changes they made to GPL code. My guess is that the amount of source code people released to anyone would drop spectacularly. Some commercial company would end up releasing a 'good' branch of Linux and the free one would wither away. And clearly there's less possibility to make money off recording records. Metallica and the like could survive as performance artists, but you have to wonder what types of musicians and programmers would not be able to survive in the bold, new copyright free world.
Ok, but the stockmarket people want to invest in a viable business which owns IP. They wouldn't invest in movies if there were no copyright laws to allow that.
Fair enough, but the HD version will end up being free when someone rips it and seeds it on PirateBay too. Hence the interest in DRM by the content industry - they want to sell the 'premium' version to one person without that person republishing it to everyone for free.
Saying that marriage is about sex for sale is bitter.
I've never married anyone, but I've dated a lot of women and I've never considered myself buying sex in any of those relationships. Sex is what two people who like each other do.
I discovered if you give the echo shell command an asterisk as a parameter, it dumps out the file names of the current directory. (The sad thing is I had a practical use for this when a less-than-clueful-collegue deleted the/bin directory, leaving the system without an ls program).
One of things I have found in my career is that ignorance is an excellent strategy. Ignorant people aren't asked to work evenings and weekends because they fuck shit up. That means more free time to play FPS games, sniff petrol and argue on the Internet.
Is it bad when I see comments like this I wonder how hard it would be to generate them with a script?
You could search www.snpp.com with keywords from posts perhaps? Problem is it would need to know that grease is a synonym for oil in this case to find this page -
I think junkie crime would be kept down if people were allowed to beat the shit out of the junkies they caught.
Right now that's a very bad idea legally. Hell I'd go for a Texas style law where people lose all or most rights when they break into someone else's house. Then you could whack them with a baseball bat or something and hopefully kill them. I think the government should fund a Sudden Justice program on the BBC where homeowners in bad areas for burglaries catch burglars in beartraps, rig devices to tip boiling water over them or build shotgun shell boobytraps at groin level.
Why dick around? Burglary happens because burglars feel safe. Make them feel less safe and they'll do something else.
And just so we don't get into some sort of infinite recursion here, no, I don't have any evidence newer than five minutes. I'm sure the instances where Microsoft has been caught have taught them how to be more covert.
Winston Churchill wanted to drop candy laced with ammonia from Lancaster bombers on Germany, but the people at the War Ministry thought it was a crazy plan with no strategic benefit.
Well fuck moderation and self restraint. I want a girlfriend, they want a boyfriend. Come to think of it, they're kick ass engineers too. They probably designed the motherboard in the PC you're typing on now.
makes sense. that's why the most conservative/repressive cultures are also the most fucked up. i've noticed that extremely repressive Asian cultures like Taiwan and Japan tend to have very polarized populations, where most people are either complete prudes who lead unhealthy, overly sheltered lives devoid of any sort of pleasure, or they lead equally unhealthy lives partying way too much, with absolutely no sense of moderation or self-restraint.
Not spent much time in Taiwan, have you?
Basically my experience of both is that you can go out to a club, meet some woman, fuck on the first night and end up with a girlfriend, because that's what they are aiming for.
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Seems like the Mod announced the draconian new policy that he can ban you not just from the forums but from all the games you've bought with no refund, a shitstorm erupted and he clarified things that that was not the policy. But it is in the TOS as the other EA guy pointed out.
The part about laws does make a difference. In China the constitution is not exactly liberal, but it is more liberal than the behaviour of the police against dissidents would imply.
E.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_PRC Article 35 of the 1982 State Constitution proclaims that "citizens of the People's Republic of China enjoy freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly, of association, of procession, and of demonstration." In the 1978 constitution, these rights were guaranteed, but so were the right to strike and the "four big rights," often called the "four bigs": to speak out freely, air views fully, hold great debates, and write big-character posters. In February 1980, following the Democracy Wall period, the four bigs were abolished in response to a party decision ratified by the National People's Congress. The right to strike was also dropped from the 1982 Constitution. The widespread expression of the four big rights during the student protests of late 1986 elicited the regime's strong censure because of their illegality. The official response cited Article 53 of the 1982 Constitution, which states that citizens must abide by the law and observe labor discipline and public order. Besides being illegal, practicing the four big rights offered the possibility of straying into criticism of the Communist Party of China, which was in fact what appeared in student wall posters. In a new era that strove for political stability and economic development, party leaders considered the four big rights politically destabilizing. Except for the ostentatious six democratic parties, Chinese citizens are prohibited from forming parties.
Of course in practice the political police will limit people's ability to exercise these, particularly freedom of speech. Multinationals refusing to do stuff that is unconstitutional does make a difference. It's also very much in their interests to not be seen to be blindly obedient to the more thuggish elements of the police should the system liberalise in future, which seems quite possible to me.
IIRC the definition of species is can interbreed and produce fertile offspring. With Tigons and Ligers only the females are fertile, as wikipedia puts it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species#Difficulty_of_defining_.22species.22_and_identifying_particular_species There is considerable variation in the degree to which hybridization may succeed under natural and experimental conditions, or even in the degree to which some organisms use sexual reproduction between individuals to breed. Some hybrids, e.g., mules, hinnies, ligers and tigons, apparently cannot produce offspring when mated with one of their own kind (e.g. a mule with a mule), but sometimes do produce offspring when mated with members of one of the parent species (e.g. a liger with a lion). Usually in such hybrids the males are sterile, so one could improve the basic textbook definition by changing "... whose interbreeding produces fertile offspring" to "... whose interbreeding produces offspring in which both sexes are normally fertile".
Human races don't produce infertile males when they interbreed, so you can't make a case they are different species.
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A video card I can't use on XP32 since it can't properly allocate that much VRAM & system RAM at the same time.
That's not necessarily a problem. VRAM doesn't have to be mapped into system RAM, it could be banked like it was back in the Dos/ISA days. It's not really clear whether they do but I did find this
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-multimedia-de/2006-04/msg00012.html
The graphics component of XFree86-DGA is not supported because it
requires a CPU mapping of framebuffer memory. As graphics boards
ship with increasing quantities of video memory, the NVIDIA X
driver has had to switch to a more dynamic memory mapping scheme
that is incompatible with DGA. Furthermore, DGA does not cooperate
with other graphics rendering libraries such as Xlib and OpenGL
because it accesses GPU resources directly.
Which sounds like graphics memory is banked into CPU address space on an NVidia card. It doesn't make any difference in the common case because normal the hardware on the card does the drawing, not the CPU. Using a card like this as a dumb framebuffer for the CPU to draw into is kind of a waste.
That's a license though. Guthrie could choose to release his works under that license. Metallica can choose to release theirs under a much more restrictive one. Copyright laws give the content owners that choice. And you'll notice I didn't say artists, because the artists sold the rights to a record company.
Now if you remove copyright, that all breaks down. The record companies can publish the artists work and not pay them a dime, the artists would have no legal comeback. Hell Chinese CD factories already make most genuine CDs and a lot of fakes. At the moment selling the fakes is illegal so to get them in the shops in the West they need to license the IP from the record companies who bought it off the artists. But if there was no copyright, fakes would be sold cheaper than the genuine CDs. But neither the artists or the record companies would get paid, all the money would go to the guy that owned the CD factory.
It would be the same with software. There would be no way to enforce the GPL and thus no reason for big companies to release changes they made to GPL code. My guess is that the amount of source code people released to anyone would drop spectacularly. Some commercial company would end up releasing a 'good' branch of Linux and the free one would wither away. And clearly there's less possibility to make money off recording records. Metallica and the like could survive as performance artists, but you have to wonder what types of musicians and programmers would not be able to survive in the bold, new copyright free world.
Ok, but the stockmarket people want to invest in a viable business which owns IP. They wouldn't invest in movies if there were no copyright laws to allow that.
Fair enough, but the HD version will end up being free when someone rips it and seeds it on PirateBay too. Hence the interest in DRM by the content industry - they want to sell the 'premium' version to one person without that person republishing it to everyone for free.
Saying that marriage is about sex for sale is bitter.
I've never married anyone, but I've dated a lot of women and I've never considered myself buying sex in any of those relationships. Sex is what two people who like each other do.
lrn2life!
Well yeah, but you have to admit they do it with a certain panache.
WinVNC has been around for ages. And Remote Desktop has been part of Windows since XP.
echo *
I discovered if you give the echo shell command an asterisk as a parameter, it dumps out the file names of the current directory. (The sad thing is I had a practical use for this when a less-than-clueful-collegue deleted the /bin directory, leaving the system without an ls program).
rm does that too for some reason
echo "You have SINNED!" | smbclient -M victimpc -U God
There's a reason it's called eunuchs.
Sex for trade or sale is as common as muck, most of it is simply covered by a marriage license. Argue all you wish with that, but it is true.
Bitter much?
One of things I have found in my career is that ignorance is an excellent strategy. Ignorant people aren't asked to work evenings and weekends because they fuck shit up. That means more free time to play FPS games, sniff petrol and argue on the Internet.
Is it bad when I see comments like this I wonder how hard it would be to generate them with a script?
You could search www.snpp.com with keywords from posts perhaps? Problem is it would need to know that grease is a synonym for oil in this case to find this page -
http://www.snpp.com/episodes/5F20
But I think it should worry you that it's only that step which means you pass a Turing test.
I don't mind if people break into my house, as long as they leave everything how they found it.
WTF?
I think junkie crime would be kept down if people were allowed to beat the shit out of the junkies they caught.
Right now that's a very bad idea legally. Hell I'd go for a Texas style law where people lose all or most rights when they break into someone else's house. Then you could whack them with a baseball bat or something and hopefully kill them. I think the government should fund a Sudden Justice program on the BBC where homeowners in bad areas for burglaries catch burglars in beartraps, rig devices to tip boiling water over them or build shotgun shell boobytraps at groin level.
Why dick around? Burglary happens because burglars feel safe. Make them feel less safe and they'll do something else.
And just so we don't get into some sort of infinite recursion here, no, I don't have any evidence newer than five minutes. I'm sure the instances where Microsoft has been caught have taught them how to be more covert.
Yaz.
Or they stopped doing it post anti trust case.
Winston Churchill wanted to drop candy laced with ammonia from Lancaster bombers on Germany, but the people at the War Ministry thought it was a crazy plan with no strategic benefit.
Don't sell netbooks to consumers, sell the consumers to the carriers.
Muahaha.
Well fuck moderation and self restraint. I want a girlfriend, they want a boyfriend. Come to think of it, they're kick ass engineers too. They probably designed the motherboard in the PC you're typing on now.
Taiwanese people get shit done ;-)
Maybe you're in New Zealand and .au sites are blocked.
makes sense. that's why the most conservative/repressive cultures are also the most fucked up. i've noticed that extremely repressive Asian cultures like Taiwan and Japan tend to have very polarized populations, where most people are either complete prudes who lead unhealthy, overly sheltered lives devoid of any sort of pleasure, or they lead equally unhealthy lives partying way too much, with absolutely no sense of moderation or self-restraint.
Not spent much time in Taiwan, have you?
Basically my experience of both is that you can go out to a club, meet some woman, fuck on the first night and end up with a girlfriend, because that's what they are aiming for.
Taiwan is also far from repressive.
It is JUSTICE.
Look at this quote from here though
http://forums.ea.com/mboards/thread.jspa?threadID=457006
First the mod says that bans from the forums don't mean a ban from the games a bit later some other EA guy says this
Elearen (EA.com)
tbh I would rather that forum behaviour did affect online availability.
It would tie in with the TOS quite nicely.
http://www.ea.com/global/legal/tos.jsp
And the TOS he links to says this
EA may terminate any EA Service at any time by giving you notice of such termination within the time period specified when you joined the particular EA Service, or if no time period for notice of termination was specified, then within thirty (30) days of the date such notice is posted on the applicable EA Service.
EA may also terminate your Account(s) (and access to all related entitlements) for violation of this Terms of Service, illegal or improper use of your Account, or illegal or improper use of EA Services, products, or EA's Intellectual Property. You may lose your user names and personas as a result of Account termination. If you have more than one Account, EA may terminate all of your Accounts and all related entitlements. EA may issue you a warning, or EA may immediately terminate any and all Accounts that you have established. You acknowledge that EA is not required to provide you notice before terminating your Account(s). If EA terminates your Account, you may not participate in an EA Service again without EA's express permission. To participate in an EA Service, contact support.ea.com EA reserves the right to refuse to keep Accounts for, and provide EA Services to, any individual. You may not allow individuals whose Accounts have been terminated by EA to use your Account.
If your Account, or a particular subscription for an EA Service associated with your Account, is terminated, no refund will be granted; no online time or other credits (e.g., points in an online game) will be credited to you or converted to cash or other form of reimbursement, and you will have no further access to your Account or entitlements associated with your Account or the particular EA Service (such as points, tokens or other digital items).
Seems like the Mod announced the draconian new policy that he can ban you not just from the forums but from all the games you've bought with no refund, a shitstorm erupted and he clarified things that that was not the policy. But it is in the TOS as the other EA guy pointed out.
The part about laws does make a difference. In China the constitution is not exactly liberal, but it is more liberal than the behaviour of the police against dissidents would imply.
E.g.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_PRC
Article 35 of the 1982 State Constitution proclaims that "citizens of the People's Republic of China enjoy freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly, of association, of procession, and of demonstration." In the 1978 constitution, these rights were guaranteed, but so were the right to strike and the "four big rights," often called the "four bigs": to speak out freely, air views fully, hold great debates, and write big-character posters. In February 1980, following the Democracy Wall period, the four bigs were abolished in response to a party decision ratified by the National People's Congress. The right to strike was also dropped from the 1982 Constitution. The widespread expression of the four big rights during the student protests of late 1986 elicited the regime's strong censure because of their illegality. The official response cited Article 53 of the 1982 Constitution, which states that citizens must abide by the law and observe labor discipline and public order. Besides being illegal, practicing the four big rights offered the possibility of straying into criticism of the Communist Party of China, which was in fact what appeared in student wall posters. In a new era that strove for political stability and economic development, party leaders considered the four big rights politically destabilizing. Except for the ostentatious six democratic parties, Chinese citizens are prohibited from forming parties.
Of course in practice the political police will limit people's ability to exercise these, particularly freedom of speech. Multinationals refusing to do stuff that is unconstitutional does make a difference. It's also very much in their interests to not be seen to be blindly obedient to the more thuggish elements of the police should the system liberalise in future, which seems quite possible to me.
IIRC the definition of species is can interbreed and produce fertile offspring. With Tigons and Ligers only the females are fertile, as wikipedia puts it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species#Difficulty_of_defining_.22species.22_and_identifying_particular_species
There is considerable variation in the degree to which hybridization may succeed under natural and experimental conditions, or even in the degree to which some organisms use sexual reproduction between individuals to breed. Some hybrids, e.g., mules, hinnies, ligers and tigons, apparently cannot produce offspring when mated with one of their own kind (e.g. a mule with a mule), but sometimes do produce offspring when mated with members of one of the parent species (e.g. a liger with a lion). Usually in such hybrids the males are sterile, so one could improve the basic textbook definition by changing "... whose interbreeding produces fertile offspring" to "... whose interbreeding produces offspring in which both sexes are normally fertile".
Human races don't produce infertile males when they interbreed, so you can't make a case they are different species.