a little over a third of the US population voted
and bush didn't win the popular vote the first term, and probably shouldn't have become president, but he did. That's how the system works, it's not perfect, but it gets it's job done usually.
and the encumbent almost always wins the second term. (and still only around 51? 52% of popular vote iirc) [further proof the US is split right down the middle on most issues today]
i'm not saying my nation is better than anyone elses nation (and there are some nations with a FAR worse moral past if i wanted to get into that), i'm just saying you guys give us a bum wrap and never look at the good we do too.
i'm of the opinion the US should just become self-sufficient and leave the rest of the world alone, minus maybe some of our close allies like britain and such. no more aid. no more technology. no more help to developing nations. no more military aid to nations. if we can move away from an oil-based society we could do it rather easily too. hmph.
and i'm curious about these unpleasant ways our resources are being used around the globe...besides the controversial war on iraq that i personally don't agree with, what are we doing bad out there at the moment?
i normally wouldn't reply to obvious flamebait, but i can't help it on this one occasion. (feel free to mod this down as it's only half on topic and entirely a reply to the parent)
yes it's nice that india is doing this sort of thing, though i would personally rather see them spend their money more of on the planet earth and developing their nation. this WONT help the majority of their population, at least not within the next 20+ years. space research and exploration is a field with no guarenteed profits and nor even guarenteed information gained, and typically programs end up deep in the red but with some decent amounts of good research gained. I personally think India should stick to satellites in relation to space as satellites can bring real profit and truly help the Indian economy (and slow down or stop the damnable IT outsourcing) but i'm also obviously not leading a nation.
offtopic: as for the obvious hate rant at the United States and company. I won't say anyone is perfect, and most things in the united states are anything but perfect, but we could dish trash about any nation's past or even current policy, and native americans weren't mostly killed by US soldier's weapons, but instead by diseases (namely smallpox), the same way the aztecs and other centeral/south american natives were whiped out by spaniards and the other european nations exploring.
the United States is not this big evil nation out to do everyone in and make itself godly. real people live there too, the same as you, they bleed, they work hard, they live life. we're just a nation working as a nation with a government that is working as it is, albeit not always as well as everyone hopes, but it still is the government we americans choose to use. if you truly believe that what a some people in a government, a very tiny percentage of a population, for a very shot period (4 to 8 years), do is a good reason to bad mouth, to practically hate, hundreds of millions of humans with different ideas and beliefs; then i feel sorry for you on so many levels it's not even funny.
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because their agreements tend to read as 'legally binding' and not just as 'agreements'.
meaning they can't just pick up their sticks and then be like BWHAHA, PAY BITCHES!
sun and ibm arn't trying to screw open source, they rely on open source for alot of things, and with releasing their patents for FOSS they get free advertising and popularity of their 'ideas' basically...a win-win for both sides
look for the actual pdf file papers on the releases, and read through the wording, and it tends to be quite logical and simple and not able to be used to backstab FOSS
well, then we have people who say greenhouse gases will cool the planet down (preventing the suns rays from going far enough to the planet to warm it)
thus i would think less greenhouse gasses, less ozone, more sunglight, and more water (less ice) would lead to global warming logically
so that would mean greenhouse gases arn't the problem, they in fact help fix it, it's the gasses that deplete our ozone layer that are the problem...
when i want to really game, i prefer to use a gentoo LiveCD made specificially for a game...basically just the kernel and whatever is needed to run the game (you can make your own using catalyst) and i'm sure you could do the same thing with guides out there without gentoo's catalyst
you get the bloatlessness of the typical 'dedicated console' with the serious hardware of a computer =)
though wine is still a hassle if the game doesn't have linux binaries, maybe more people will stop using DirectX and start using more OpenGL, or maybe microsoft could be nice and support directx under linux
you need money to pay for the necessary processing power and crackers to break it
almost anything (probably could remove the almost) today is crackable....most especially non-military non-intelligence encryption methods
it's just a matter of time and money to break it
that's the whole reason why they want quantum cryptopgrahy, as it would theoretically be unable to be cracked
it's kinda like the general misconcept that one-way hashes are truly one way...they arn't for the most part, you can use rainbow tables to narrow it down to a rather small number of possibilities
you really don't understand the current state of medical doctors in the states then...
most don't CARE about every looking for the obscure.
they're good at taking care of the low end stuff (a one week virus, a cold) with advice or some small medication, and the high end immediate life threatening stuff (surgery, cancer) but if it comes to some obscure middle-ranged life degrading disease or problem they tend to just do their normal battery of blood tests and then say "you're fine, it's all in your head!"
and so then you must do doctor shopping.
you think people like wasting their time and money utterly with a doctor? they just HAVE to.
and they tend to self-diagnose cause the doctor doesn't do his job and diagnose you himself.
the medical profession is one of the few BUISNESS professions where you PAY MONEY and are not guarenteed RESULTS of ANY KIND.
I did the whole game, went around for two years with NMH [neurally mediated hypotension] before a cardiologist finally diagnosed me and gave me the proper medicine. First went to my primary care physican, she was just like "yes i know your life sucks and you're losing tons of weight and you look like you're dying but i have no clue so go elsewhere!" and that was basically the same thing, either they didn't know and they didn't care or they just wanted me to see a psych professional (which i saw many of and they all said i was just fine mentally for a person in my condition)
it's easy to judge something until it actually happens to you...
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hey, just cause the thirteenth warrior wasn't plot-deep and was alarmingly like beowulf's plot doesn't make it bad.
it had this really catchy theme song.
and Buliwyf was a bad ass.
As far as i can tell (and adaware can tell), there isn't any spyware installed, at least no outside of the exeem executable itself.
No such DLLs exist...
no such registry addresses exist...
of course i don't care much about my windows partition anyway
i figure they just use said company for ads, and maybe when they're out of beta they'll add that nice spyware, but so far no ads even show up so i don't think they've even integerated anything from CyDoor yet
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there is something called y-windows which aims to fix that;p
as well as others i assume
i have a friend who did exactly that when he heard about it.
and for about a week or so now he's been going to every store in town to try and find WoW with no success.
poor bugger.
well here's a reason: we don't allow assisted suicide.
so think about it, after 385 years you might finally feel you're done with life or accomplished what you want and want to cash in for the long sleep.
but no, society says it's wrong. so the law also says it's wrong. and so you're doomed for 615 more years.
if people can live for 1000 years, it changes EVERYTHING. it changes the whole lower class vs middle class vs upper class debate, as who is going to be able to afford it? what about overpopulation? right now we have a healthy population growth, a 1000 year life-span available to all could cause serioues global problems...
there are so many factors to the 'why shouldn't we?'
yes, i agree it would be a nice thing. but go around polling 80 year olds asking them if they'd like to live to 1000. and i bet you get a 90%+ majority who would rather not.
now of course everyone in their teens, 20's or 30's say the 'Hell yes, we should!", they've only lived a short bit of their lifespan...
that's why they make this nifty little thing called 'sudo' so that you can temporarily have 'root' level access...
redhat always did this wonderfully IIRC, if it needed root permisions it would bring up a little sudo gui app with a password box and then leave that in the 'system tray' while you were running as root.
(no i don't like redhat, but it was/is a decent system for linux newbies)
If I have to configure anything, which I shouldn't, there should be a graphical tool for it, and it should allow me to configure *all* of the available options, not just the common ones.
ok, you can't have your cake and eat it too. if you want something that's utterly user friendly aka idiot proof, they arn't going to give you an all-option pretty GUI for it. They certainly don't in windows (hence registry), you're going to have to live with the fact that there is streamlined gui for the idiot and then the rest of us will be having fun in the console with vi or nano. I for one love knowing exactly what is what and having almost complete control over my system.
that is by far the most ignorant thing i've ever read...
you think there arn't executable binaries in linux? boy, you are seriously deranged. i dunno how that became to be 'insightful' as it seems more flamebait
anyway, more on subject alot of popular linux applications have binary installers (mozilla for example), but it's not that hard to do "./configure; make all; make install;" anyway if you were compiling from source
though having a centralized web-interface for this sorta thing is nice...but the real question is, how easy is it to UNINSTALL applications. (which is also a problem windows has had for years...)
a thud would actually be better than a splash in a sense
a splash will mean that the batteries will drain faster...a thud could mean up to over 2 hours of battery time or something like that
it's not going to be landing at a very high speed if things go right (like under 10mph IIRC) so it shouldn't need a splash to survive;)
the problem is that when you have to look up domains that don't exist it tends to take longer, especially for DNS servers, as my understanding they then ask ANOTHER server if it has it, etc
and thus when you multiply that times about a billion...
you end up killing/lagging DNS servers and the server recieving the mail in the first place;p
yer but when i'm compiling a C++ webapp that i develop that extra 2Ghz matters alot to me. but then again so does the ram.
i like not having to wait 15+ minutes for the shiz to do a full compile.
'No' because it wasn't a real non-profit organization
if i remember correctly you have to get some sort of ID number from the non-profit organization to put on your tax form to be able to deduct it
that's actually an awesome idea
they could give away NWN for free, even do it through bittorrent to keep server costs low, and just very cheap ($5) for actual mailed CDs
have it come with one basic adventure to get them hooked...
and then bam, sell the modules or 'books' =D
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a little over a third of the US population voted and bush didn't win the popular vote the first term, and probably shouldn't have become president, but he did. That's how the system works, it's not perfect, but it gets it's job done usually.
and the encumbent almost always wins the second term. (and still only around 51? 52% of popular vote iirc) [further proof the US is split right down the middle on most issues today]
i'm not saying my nation is better than anyone elses nation (and there are some nations with a FAR worse moral past if i wanted to get into that), i'm just saying you guys give us a bum wrap and never look at the good we do too.
i'm of the opinion the US should just become self-sufficient and leave the rest of the world alone, minus maybe some of our close allies like britain and such. no more aid. no more technology. no more help to developing nations. no more military aid to nations. if we can move away from an oil-based society we could do it rather easily too. hmph.
and i'm curious about these unpleasant ways our resources are being used around the globe...besides the controversial war on iraq that i personally don't agree with, what are we doing bad out there at the moment?
i normally wouldn't reply to obvious flamebait, but i can't help it on this one occasion. (feel free to mod this down as it's only half on topic and entirely a reply to the parent)
yes it's nice that india is doing this sort of thing, though i would personally rather see them spend their money more of on the planet earth and developing their nation. this WONT help the majority of their population, at least not within the next 20+ years. space research and exploration is a field with no guarenteed profits and nor even guarenteed information gained, and typically programs end up deep in the red but with some decent amounts of good research gained. I personally think India should stick to satellites in relation to space as satellites can bring real profit and truly help the Indian economy (and slow down or stop the damnable IT outsourcing) but i'm also obviously not leading a nation.
offtopic: as for the obvious hate rant at the United States and company. I won't say anyone is perfect, and most things in the united states are anything but perfect, but we could dish trash about any nation's past or even current policy, and native americans weren't mostly killed by US soldier's weapons, but instead by diseases (namely smallpox), the same way the aztecs and other centeral/south american natives were whiped out by spaniards and the other european nations exploring.
the United States is not this big evil nation out to do everyone in and make itself godly. real people live there too, the same as you, they bleed, they work hard, they live life. we're just a nation working as a nation with a government that is working as it is, albeit not always as well as everyone hopes, but it still is the government we americans choose to use. if you truly believe that what a some people in a government, a very tiny percentage of a population, for a very shot period (4 to 8 years), do is a good reason to bad mouth, to practically hate, hundreds of millions of humans with different ideas and beliefs; then i feel sorry for you on so many levels it's not even funny.
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well, i for one prefer postfix =)
because their agreements tend to read as 'legally binding' and not just as 'agreements'. meaning they can't just pick up their sticks and then be like BWHAHA, PAY BITCHES! sun and ibm arn't trying to screw open source, they rely on open source for alot of things, and with releasing their patents for FOSS they get free advertising and popularity of their 'ideas' basically...a win-win for both sides look for the actual pdf file papers on the releases, and read through the wording, and it tends to be quite logical and simple and not able to be used to backstab FOSS
not always, but that's the majority case you can still use bittorrent without actually uploading, but that defeats the purpose of using bittorrent
well, then we have people who say greenhouse gases will cool the planet down (preventing the suns rays from going far enough to the planet to warm it) thus i would think less greenhouse gasses, less ozone, more sunglight, and more water (less ice) would lead to global warming logically so that would mean greenhouse gases arn't the problem, they in fact help fix it, it's the gasses that deplete our ozone layer that are the problem...
when i want to really game, i prefer to use a gentoo LiveCD made specificially for a game...basically just the kernel and whatever is needed to run the game (you can make your own using catalyst) and i'm sure you could do the same thing with guides out there without gentoo's catalyst you get the bloatlessness of the typical 'dedicated console' with the serious hardware of a computer =) though wine is still a hassle if the game doesn't have linux binaries, maybe more people will stop using DirectX and start using more OpenGL, or maybe microsoft could be nice and support directx under linux
you need money to pay for the necessary processing power and crackers to break it almost anything (probably could remove the almost) today is crackable....most especially non-military non-intelligence encryption methods it's just a matter of time and money to break it that's the whole reason why they want quantum cryptopgrahy, as it would theoretically be unable to be cracked it's kinda like the general misconcept that one-way hashes are truly one way...they arn't for the most part, you can use rainbow tables to narrow it down to a rather small number of possibilities
you really don't understand the current state of medical doctors in the states then...
most don't CARE about every looking for the obscure. they're good at taking care of the low end stuff (a one week virus, a cold) with advice or some small medication, and the high end immediate life threatening stuff (surgery, cancer) but if it comes to some obscure middle-ranged life degrading disease or problem they tend to just do their normal battery of blood tests and then say "you're fine, it's all in your head!"
and so then you must do doctor shopping.
you think people like wasting their time and money utterly with a doctor? they just HAVE to. and they tend to self-diagnose cause the doctor doesn't do his job and diagnose you himself. the medical profession is one of the few BUISNESS professions where you PAY MONEY and are not guarenteed RESULTS of ANY KIND.
I did the whole game, went around for two years with NMH [neurally mediated hypotension] before a cardiologist finally diagnosed me and gave me the proper medicine. First went to my primary care physican, she was just like "yes i know your life sucks and you're losing tons of weight and you look like you're dying but i have no clue so go elsewhere!" and that was basically the same thing, either they didn't know and they didn't care or they just wanted me to see a psych professional (which i saw many of and they all said i was just fine mentally for a person in my condition)
it's easy to judge something until it actually happens to you...
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hey, just cause the thirteenth warrior wasn't plot-deep and was alarmingly like beowulf's plot doesn't make it bad. it had this really catchy theme song. and Buliwyf was a bad ass.
As far as i can tell (and adaware can tell), there isn't any spyware installed, at least no outside of the exeem executable itself. No such DLLs exist... no such registry addresses exist... of course i don't care much about my windows partition anyway i figure they just use said company for ads, and maybe when they're out of beta they'll add that nice spyware, but so far no ads even show up so i don't think they've even integerated anything from CyDoor yet
there is something called y-windows which aims to fix that ;p
as well as others i assume
i have a friend who did exactly that when he heard about it. and for about a week or so now he's been going to every store in town to try and find WoW with no success. poor bugger.
well here's a reason: we don't allow assisted suicide. so think about it, after 385 years you might finally feel you're done with life or accomplished what you want and want to cash in for the long sleep. but no, society says it's wrong. so the law also says it's wrong. and so you're doomed for 615 more years. if people can live for 1000 years, it changes EVERYTHING. it changes the whole lower class vs middle class vs upper class debate, as who is going to be able to afford it? what about overpopulation? right now we have a healthy population growth, a 1000 year life-span available to all could cause serioues global problems... there are so many factors to the 'why shouldn't we?' yes, i agree it would be a nice thing. but go around polling 80 year olds asking them if they'd like to live to 1000. and i bet you get a 90%+ majority who would rather not. now of course everyone in their teens, 20's or 30's say the 'Hell yes, we should!", they've only lived a short bit of their lifespan...
nah, everyone else got your meaning ;)
someone apparently just doesn't know how to read =)
that's why they make this nifty little thing called 'sudo' so that you can temporarily have 'root' level access... redhat always did this wonderfully IIRC, if it needed root permisions it would bring up a little sudo gui app with a password box and then leave that in the 'system tray' while you were running as root. (no i don't like redhat, but it was/is a decent system for linux newbies)
If I have to configure anything, which I shouldn't, there should be a graphical tool for it, and it should allow me to configure *all* of the available options, not just the common ones. ok, you can't have your cake and eat it too. if you want something that's utterly user friendly aka idiot proof, they arn't going to give you an all-option pretty GUI for it. They certainly don't in windows (hence registry), you're going to have to live with the fact that there is streamlined gui for the idiot and then the rest of us will be having fun in the console with vi or nano. I for one love knowing exactly what is what and having almost complete control over my system.
that is by far the most ignorant thing i've ever read... you think there arn't executable binaries in linux? boy, you are seriously deranged. i dunno how that became to be 'insightful' as it seems more flamebait anyway, more on subject alot of popular linux applications have binary installers (mozilla for example), but it's not that hard to do "./configure; make all; make install;" anyway if you were compiling from source though having a centralized web-interface for this sorta thing is nice...but the real question is, how easy is it to UNINSTALL applications. (which is also a problem windows has had for years...)
well then i suppose either way it doesn't matter where it lands!
a thud would actually be better than a splash in a sense a splash will mean that the batteries will drain faster...a thud could mean up to over 2 hours of battery time or something like that it's not going to be landing at a very high speed if things go right (like under 10mph IIRC) so it shouldn't need a splash to survive ;)
the problem is that when you have to look up domains that don't exist it tends to take longer, especially for DNS servers, as my understanding they then ask ANOTHER server if it has it, etc and thus when you multiply that times about a billion... you end up killing/lagging DNS servers and the server recieving the mail in the first place ;p
incorrect, read the actual paper here it says "IBM's Legally Binding Commitment..."
yer but when i'm compiling a C++ webapp that i develop that extra 2Ghz matters alot to me. but then again so does the ram. i like not having to wait 15+ minutes for the shiz to do a full compile.
'No' because it wasn't a real non-profit organization if i remember correctly you have to get some sort of ID number from the non-profit organization to put on your tax form to be able to deduct it
that's actually an awesome idea they could give away NWN for free, even do it through bittorrent to keep server costs low, and just very cheap ($5) for actual mailed CDs have it come with one basic adventure to get them hooked... and then bam, sell the modules or 'books' =D