Please RTFA before making such idiotic comments. Noone or nothing was brought back from the dead. What they did do was keep the dogs in "dead" state for 3 hours by replacing their blood with an ice cold salt solution and then put the blood back in and bring them back to life. In other words, they were able to "kill" living and healthy dogs (by replacing their blood with salt solution), keep them dead for three hours and then bring them back to "life" (put the blood back in). Of course grandparent doesn't want this to be done to him. He doesn't want to be "killed" and then brought back to life - he's afraid that something might go wrong, and rightfully so. They are not doing this on dead things - they are doing this on alive and healthy beings (not that I'm necessarily against it).
THANK YOU. We earn less money here in developing countries than in developed ones. But almost everything costs proportionately less too. From food and clothing to TVs to western books. When western companies try to sell their product here, they sell at lower companies than the west, so everything works out. EXCEPT for software and movies, and sometimes music. They are sold at the same prices as the west. The companies try to push their products in various ways, like advertising. It means they want to earn money from our market, which has a "lesser" economy. And it's all good, I'm not against that. But if they want to earn money in this market, then they should compromise and sell at prices we are willing to pay. Otherwise they can just leave. You can't have everything - you can't both enter a cheaper market AND expect to earn the same amount per unit as you were in the costlier market.
BTW, you have no idea how much it pisses me (and possibly others) off whenever slashdotters talk like it's in the nature of developing countries to "steal" and we are all thieves. But obviously no slashdotter cares about others, so this probably means nothing to you. Just in case anyone wanted to know.
If you think the word "piracy" is too harsh, then you should look at the larger trend of using "harsh" words. Some examples of this trend among "geeks" include calling people who deliberately make insulting posts as "trolls", or calling people who mess up wikipedia as "vandals".
Believe it or not most of the people who call themselves "geeks" and lurk on slashdot are assholes. Just go to any IRC channel on freenode or make a comment against popular belief on slashdot - you'll know the meaning of "asshole". And in case you're reading this and wondering if you're one of the assholes -- guess what, you probably are. Almost everyone here on slashdot, including, possibly, me, are assholes.
And no, "geeks" being assholes is not "adorable" or "amusing". It's just bad. And retarded in many cases.
Yeah, China - which hosts millions of tourists every year - will make a list of a few people and try to filter them out. After all, China is just a small village and doing such things will be as easy as putting a dog in the main entrance to the village. And we all know that they're more concerned with filtering out bloggers than national security or something similar.
The chances are very high. You either don't know anything about today's 12 year old girls, or you're bullshitting anyway. Did you even RTFA?
The "Candyman" site was geared only toward trading child sex pictures and stories, just like the Yahoo! rooms.
So 12 year old girls don't even have to enter these room for the harm to take place. Why do slashdotters become so defensive whenever an article about something bad happening on the Internet (or computers in general) shows up? If it's fear that this will lead to censoring of the Internet, it's still not justification enough to lie that things like this don't happen.
Oh, poor China is in trouble and the Chinese people are suffering. Don't worry, Americans to the rescue!! Aren't we all glad that we have Americans? They're the reason why everything good on the earth happens.
Torvalds always takes personal jabs in response to technical arguments. He made comments about Minix and, more specifically, about Tanenbaum in the Microkernel vs. Monolithic debate. He made personal comments during the BitKeeper issue (although I can't seem to find it now). And now, when De Raadt, at his most personal, said that Torvalds isn't focusing on quality as the maintainer of the Linux kernel, Torvalds, in response, made a personal comment about De Raadt, saying that he is "difficult". I don't see how that's classy or "quality". It seems more like Torvalds thinks this is all a big popularity contest and this is really an argument about who has the bigger dick. This about BSD and Linux, not about the maintainers of BSD and Linux (kernel).
BTW, the idol worshipping on slashdot is appaling.
This is not a flamebait. Can BSD users, especially OpenBSD users, tell me how BSD is better than Linux? Like specific points. And does it support as many hardware as Linux - especially Nvidia and ATI graphic cards? And what about support for applications - does it support as many OSS apps as Linux? After they're all *nixes, so I believe they do. And, of course, can you explain to me how BSD, especially OpenBSD, has better security? Is it just default setting or something more? And I'd like to know about these from the perspective of a user, developer and developer of the OSes. Thank you.
Well, when a new user is using a computer and sees something about Bill G. he gets curious. Kinda like if you're in a fast food restaurant and you see something about the cheif-boss owner-guy of McDonalds (whoever he is), you get curious.
The company says that running Mac OS X for x86 requires a special boot ROM that locks the new OS to Apple branded hardware.
Interesting.
"We didn't buy that "MHz Myth" stuff any more than our customers did," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "The Velocity Engine is just so much pipe smoke, and it was time to hook ourselves up with the real power in the computing world, Intel."
"It has been embarrassing to run those highly specialized Photoshop® bake-offs to try and say that the G4 was faster than the Pentium® line, and now this way we don't have to," said Phil Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing.
Interesting still. The article goes on to editorialise:
It's even more interesting that Apple would come right out and declare its own marketing ploys like the MHz Myth to be so much baloney. You wouldn't think the company's execs would do that, would you?
I'm not sure what "copyrights" are implied on a legal document sent to another party for them to read and how much/whether the "another" party is restricted from dealing with it. The sending party does, after all, want the recieving party to use the document and take action upon it in favour of the sending party. The reciever, if he publishes it on a website, might just be asking for legal opinion from his legal consultants who happen to be the readers of that particular website. Of course, it might be copyright protected just like regular stuff, but we can't just assume that. So, are there any lawyers here who can clarify? (What a redundant question.)
So they're not denying that DRM exists in Intel stuff. They're just saying that DRM is not there on Pentium D and the 945 chipset. Other Intel stuff have all that crap they listed - Macrovision, DTCP-IP, COPP, HDCP, CGMS-A, and "others".
PC World has posted some benchmark results suggesting that Apple's Power Mac G5 isn't the world's fastest desktop PC after all. The PC World tests compare dual G5 systems to a Pentium 4 3.2GHz, Athlon 64 3200+, Athlon 64 FX-51, and Opteron 246, and the results make Apple's claim to the desktop performance crown look rather foolish. The dual 2GHz Power Mac G5 can't even manage a win in Photoshop, where the dual Opteron system turns in the fastest performance.
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Please RTFA before making such idiotic comments. Noone or nothing was brought back from the dead. What they did do was keep the dogs in "dead" state for 3 hours by replacing their blood with an ice cold salt solution and then put the blood back in and bring them back to life. In other words, they were able to "kill" living and healthy dogs (by replacing their blood with salt solution), keep them dead for three hours and then bring them back to "life" (put the blood back in). Of course grandparent doesn't want this to be done to him. He doesn't want to be "killed" and then brought back to life - he's afraid that something might go wrong, and rightfully so. They are not doing this on dead things - they are doing this on alive and healthy beings (not that I'm necessarily against it).
THANK YOU. We earn less money here in developing countries than in developed ones. But almost everything costs proportionately less too. From food and clothing to TVs to western books. When western companies try to sell their product here, they sell at lower companies than the west, so everything works out. EXCEPT for software and movies, and sometimes music. They are sold at the same prices as the west. The companies try to push their products in various ways, like advertising. It means they want to earn money from our market, which has a "lesser" economy. And it's all good, I'm not against that. But if they want to earn money in this market, then they should compromise and sell at prices we are willing to pay. Otherwise they can just leave. You can't have everything - you can't both enter a cheaper market AND expect to earn the same amount per unit as you were in the costlier market.
BTW, you have no idea how much it pisses me (and possibly others) off whenever slashdotters talk like it's in the nature of developing countries to "steal" and we are all thieves. But obviously no slashdotter cares about others, so this probably means nothing to you. Just in case anyone wanted to know.
If you think the word "piracy" is too harsh, then you should look at the larger trend of using "harsh" words. Some examples of this trend among "geeks" include calling people who deliberately make insulting posts as "trolls", or calling people who mess up wikipedia as "vandals".
Believe it or not most of the people who call themselves "geeks" and lurk on slashdot are assholes. Just go to any IRC channel on freenode or make a comment against popular belief on slashdot - you'll know the meaning of "asshole". And in case you're reading this and wondering if you're one of the assholes -- guess what, you probably are. Almost everyone here on slashdot, including, possibly, me, are assholes.
And no, "geeks" being assholes is not "adorable" or "amusing". It's just bad. And retarded in many cases.
Yeah, China - which hosts millions of tourists every year - will make a list of a few people and try to filter them out. After all, China is just a small village and doing such things will be as easy as putting a dog in the main entrance to the village. And we all know that they're more concerned with filtering out bloggers than national security or something similar.
Oh, poor China is in trouble and the Chinese people are suffering. Don't worry, Americans to the rescue!! Aren't we all glad that we have Americans? They're the reason why everything good on the earth happens.
Torvalds always takes personal jabs in response to technical arguments. He made comments about Minix and, more specifically, about Tanenbaum in the Microkernel vs. Monolithic debate. He made personal comments during the BitKeeper issue (although I can't seem to find it now). And now, when De Raadt, at his most personal, said that Torvalds isn't focusing on quality as the maintainer of the Linux kernel, Torvalds, in response, made a personal comment about De Raadt, saying that he is "difficult". I don't see how that's classy or "quality". It seems more like Torvalds thinks this is all a big popularity contest and this is really an argument about who has the bigger dick. This about BSD and Linux, not about the maintainers of BSD and Linux (kernel).
BTW, the idol worshipping on slashdot is appaling.
This is not a flamebait. Can BSD users, especially OpenBSD users, tell me how BSD is better than Linux? Like specific points. And does it support as many hardware as Linux - especially Nvidia and ATI graphic cards? And what about support for applications - does it support as many OSS apps as Linux? After they're all *nixes, so I believe they do. And, of course, can you explain to me how BSD, especially OpenBSD, has better security? Is it just default setting or something more? And I'd like to know about these from the perspective of a user, developer and developer of the OSes. Thank you.
Well, when a new user is using a computer and sees something about Bill G. he gets curious. Kinda like if you're in a fast food restaurant and you see something about the cheif-boss owner-guy of McDonalds (whoever he is), you get curious.
PNG eh? Too bad PNG is not good for pictures of Britney Spears.
So this is about scientists in US (Not that others aren't similar). Just to be clear.
If you don't quit bullying the other kids, Microsoft, no one is going to want to play with you.
Yeah. No one *wants* to play with the bully. But they have to do it anyway.
Thank you. So only some packages go to experimental while others go to unstable directly? Or do all packges have to go through experimental?
I thought that new packages were directly uploaded into unstable where they were tested. What is experimental then?
How is parent funny?
I'm not sure what "copyrights" are implied on a legal document sent to another party for them to read and how much/whether the "another" party is restricted from dealing with it. The sending party does, after all, want the recieving party to use the document and take action upon it in favour of the sending party. The reciever, if he publishes it on a website, might just be asking for legal opinion from his legal consultants who happen to be the readers of that particular website. Of course, it might be copyright protected just like regular stuff, but we can't just assume that. So, are there any lawyers here who can clarify? (What a redundant question.)
For once, not reading TFA is actually working in favour of slashdotters.
So they're not denying that DRM exists in Intel stuff. They're just saying that DRM is not there on Pentium D and the 945 chipset. Other Intel stuff have all that crap they listed - Macrovision, DTCP-IP, COPP, HDCP, CGMS-A, and "others".
Why hasn't anyone mentioned lex or yacc yet?
Fuck water and life, but dude, weed is necessary to "have a good time".
Here's a similar comparision/benchmark. And Tech Report posts a summary/commentary of the tests:
PC World has posted some benchmark results suggesting that Apple's Power Mac G5 isn't the world's fastest desktop PC after all. The PC World tests compare dual G5 systems to a Pentium 4 3.2GHz, Athlon 64 3200+, Athlon 64 FX-51, and Opteron 246, and the results make Apple's claim to the desktop performance crown look rather foolish. The dual 2GHz Power Mac G5 can't even manage a win in Photoshop, where the dual Opteron system turns in the fastest performance.
I suggest you check out the benchmark results.
That wasn't even funny.