They use DDoS attacks against P2P and now, apparently, other sites as well. That puts them at odds with federal computer crime statutes. What do you think?
Grab the video stream, edit out the commercial and voila! No need to buy a DVD, no need to tape it off television, no need to keep the commercial on your final video.
First off, I agree with the parent. Secondly, I think regulation doesn't solve a whole lot of anything. Even on environmental issues, regulation works only in that it the laws are abided by and enforced. Unfortunately, the enforcement record -- or more precisely, lack thereof -- of environmental regulations by the federal government stands for itself.
The answer isn't entirely market forces, either, though, as the Libertarian Party would have you believe (I am a small 'l' libertarian). Market forces only work if people are educated and understand what's going on. If that were the case, Wal*Mart wouldn't be the #1 retailer in this country.
Ron Paul is not my 100% ideal candidate, but you have to be realistic and say probably nobody will ever fit your politics 100% unless you are a drooling idiot, in which case anybody will do. But as far as the field of candidates goes, he's the only one I would cast my vote for were he on the ballot in Novemeber 2008.
Offtopic? How is this post offtopic? TFA is about presdiential candidates, right?
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There is only one candidate -- from either party -- talking about ending The War, and that's Ron Paul. I care as much about he's a Republican as I care about Hillary being a Democrat. I don't vote on party lines, I vote on the issues.
It's all a part of the plan described by Michel Chossudovsky, a professor of economics at the University of Ottawa. The globalization of poverty puts less money in the pockets of the 'have-nots' and more money in the pockets of the 'haves'. It's all about the rich getting richer at your expense and mine.
Actually, aside from the sense of balance you mention, everyone has a 'sixth sense' of some sort if they'd just manage to learn about it. It's called your 'intuitive sense'. Most people are completely tuned out to it, but science has recently begun to realize that intuition is real and based on our brain's ability to perceive and think about things that aren't in the 'foreground task' of our mind.
I think it was discussed in a recent edition of 'Scientific American Mind'.
Linus controls the kernel. Mozilla controls firefox. Yes.
At absolutely no time is Linus or Mozilla at the whim of the community. The directions of the products will absolutely be to the needs of the respective controlling body Umm, partly true. Linus listens to the community, that's what the LKML is all about. Is he at the community's whim? No. Does he accept input from others and make decisions that will be of the most benefit to the community? Yes.
The same more or less holds true for Mozilla. Mozilla is not a money-making venture. Their sole purpose is to make Firefox, Thunderbird and Sunbird and related technologies available to the community. That's it. Nothing more, nothing less. What other agenda could they possibly have?
In his defense, I would say that "it will be fixed in the future" counts for nothing in a discussion about games being developed *now*. I'd rather believe it when I see it. As others have pointed out elsewhere in this thread, what matters for developing games now is what the technology will be like 2-3 years, not what the technology is currently like.
Performance-wise, developers can expect a decrease of around 10-15% on Windows as compared to Windows XP. Applications that use problematic cases (for example, excessive flushing, or rendering to the frontbuffer, as explained later) can see a larger performance degradation. However, expect this gap to become smaller over time while the graphics hardware vendors work on further optimizing their Windows Vista WDDM drivers.
first post ever, maybe I should cut you some slack, but my guess is that based on the age of your account and that this is the first post ever, you are probably an astroturfing, shilling troll. (For comparison, my account is probably somewhere around 2 years old, and yours is older)
So, you either didn't bother reading the entire paragraph, or you are a troll. I'm betting based on the evidence that you fall in the later category.
Actually, I don't think it will matter. In 10-15 years, the emphasis will shift away from traditional binary computing and towards quantum computing anyway, making Moore's law sorta moot.
I was under the impression that Vista did not support OpenGL in the true sense of "support". I had heard that Vista emulates all OpenGL calls and turns them into DirectX equivalents. Stop spreading FUD. What you just said is so completely wrong it's not even funny. Vista brings better OpenGL integration than XP. You're right that Vista does not include an OpenGL ICD in the box, but then again, neither did XP.
And just what constitutes 'relevant professional experience.'? Most NASA astronauts retire from NASA. Where are these experienced astronauts going to come from? Former Soviet Bloc countries?
The obvious "solution" is: blame Microsoft - it's bad design practice to enable so many possible interactions throughout the system. But this would mean that users won't be able to use such nifty things like "live" copy & paste throughout their applications (OLE), Explorer shell extensions (like WinZip), unified database drivers (ODBC, OLE, ADO), etc. -- and all of these things are selling points (AND, unsurprisingly, these are some of the more important things users miss when they try to use Linux). If you try to do it partially, for example disable OLE calls from ActiveX controls, business users will be angry because their embedded ActiveX applications will stop working. 1) Live copy & paste works between applications following a certain convention, not necessarily by allowing application interaction, but by well-defined protocols and standards. Check out KDE and Koffice, for instance. All KOffice apps can interchange data with all other KDE apps that support KParts.
2) Shell extensions -- both Nautilus and Konqueror support equivalents of shell extensions. Where have you been?
3) Unified database drivers. That this is some sort of selling point for Windows anymore is a myth in the first place (especially since not all apps support ODBC, despite its presence), but honestly, OOo 2.x on Linux supports ODBC and JDBC, so I don't know what your problem is. JDBC is the most widely-deployed database interface these days anyway in the corporate world, not ODBC, and numerous applications and language platforms on Linux support JDBC natively.
1) You are legally entitled to 'media shift' and 'time shift'. This has been decided by the courts, with the former drawing a precedent from the latter. No matter what this lawyer says, he's full of shit.
Why should the consumer be allowed to buy the cheap razors and decline the blades?*/quote
You're asking the wrong question. The question you should be asking is why should the razor manufacturer be allowed to create a virtual monopoly on razor blades by abusing the patent and copyright systems?
1.5 seconds if you all of your components were fast enough. The drive won't be. Exactly. There's still the slowdown associated with the mechanical aspects of the hard drive -- spin rate (RPM), average seek time (ms), etc. On top of that, most hard drive controllers are limited by the technology they use. For instance, a SATA hard drive, even plugged into a USB 2 or 3 port, is limited to 150 MB/s -- but, that's burst speed, not sustained transfer rate.
Sorry, I claim prior art::@) was posted by me (and others) as early as 1989-1990 on Detroit-area BBSes, including S*O*L*A*R*I*S and Gateway. Also seen on Fidonet that early.
Demonstrates how appointed bureaucrats are out of touch with the people. Out of touch with everything, more like it. The DMCA is not working just fine. It's made criminals out of people looking to do no more than use the content that they lawfully paid for with the device of their choosing that they also lawfully paid for.
DMCA takedown notices are being used as a harrasment tactic for otherwise lawful and free-speech protected Web sites by folks such as the Church of Scientology.
The DMCA has allowed printer manufacturers like Epson to lock out all competitors in the field of ink supplies.
And, it continues to be a tool used by the clueless morons over at the MAFIAA to strong arm computer illiterate grandmothers and small children.
What, exactly, constitutes 'working fine' in any of the above?
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They use DDoS attacks against P2P and now, apparently, other sites as well. That puts them at odds with federal computer crime statutes. What do you think?
Well maybe someone should turn them in to the FBI for violating federal computer crime statutes.
Fields? Huh. I remember when this was all molten rock and hadn't even finished cooling yet! Now you kids get off of my lawn!
Grab the video stream, edit out the commercial and voila! No need to buy a DVD, no need to tape it off television, no need to keep the commercial on your final video.
First off, I agree with the parent. Secondly, I think regulation doesn't solve a whole lot of anything. Even on environmental issues, regulation works only in that it the laws are abided by and enforced. Unfortunately, the enforcement record -- or more precisely, lack thereof -- of environmental regulations by the federal government stands for itself.
The answer isn't entirely market forces, either, though, as the Libertarian Party would have you believe (I am a small 'l' libertarian). Market forces only work if people are educated and understand what's going on. If that were the case, Wal*Mart wouldn't be the #1 retailer in this country.
Ron Paul is not my 100% ideal candidate, but you have to be realistic and say probably nobody will ever fit your politics 100% unless you are a drooling idiot, in which case anybody will do. But as far as the field of candidates goes, he's the only one I would cast my vote for were he on the ballot in Novemeber 2008.
And he shouldn't. If only because he's the only candidate -- on either side of the fence -- talking about ending the farsical 'War on Terror.'
But maybe that's the why the media are ignoring him.
Offtopic? How is this post offtopic? TFA is about presdiential candidates, right?
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There is only one candidate -- from either party -- talking about ending The War, and that's Ron Paul. I care as much about he's a Republican as I care about Hillary being a Democrat. I don't vote on party lines, I vote on the issues.
It's all a part of the plan described by Michel Chossudovsky, a professor of economics at the University of Ottawa. The globalization of poverty puts less money in the pockets of the 'have-nots' and more money in the pockets of the 'haves'. It's all about the rich getting richer at your expense and mine.
Congratulations. Of course, people like you are something of a rarity. Sounds like you should apply.
BTW--I live in Florida and work in aerospace, so if you do go to work as an astronaut, look me up!
Actually, aside from the sense of balance you mention, everyone has a 'sixth sense' of some sort if they'd just manage to learn about it. It's called your 'intuitive sense'. Most people are completely tuned out to it, but science has recently begun to realize that intuition is real and based on our brain's ability to perceive and think about things that aren't in the 'foreground task' of our mind.
I think it was discussed in a recent edition of 'Scientific American Mind'.
Red boxes on a off-white background, but much of the cover is red, yes.
The same more or less holds true for Mozilla. Mozilla is not a money-making venture. Their sole purpose is to make Firefox, Thunderbird and Sunbird and related technologies available to the community. That's it. Nothing more, nothing less. What other agenda could they possibly have?
So, you either didn't bother reading the entire paragraph, or you are a troll. I'm betting based on the evidence that you fall in the later category.
Is Gordon Moore crying wolf again?
Actually, I don't think it will matter. In 10-15 years, the emphasis will shift away from traditional binary computing and towards quantum computing anyway, making Moore's law sorta moot.
And just what constitutes 'relevant professional experience.'? Most NASA astronauts retire from NASA. Where are these experienced astronauts going to come from? Former Soviet Bloc countries?
I knew I should have taken a mathematics/computer science double major. *sigh*
OTOH, it could only be said marginally as to whether my vision is correctable to 20/20 or not, so I might've failed the vision test.
Anyway, $60K (which is probably what you would get with no astronaut experience) isn't much of a salary these days.
2) Shell extensions -- both Nautilus and Konqueror support equivalents of shell extensions. Where have you been?
3) Unified database drivers. That this is some sort of selling point for Windows anymore is a myth in the first place (especially since not all apps support ODBC, despite its presence), but honestly, OOo 2.x on Linux supports ODBC and JDBC, so I don't know what your problem is. JDBC is the most widely-deployed database interface these days anyway in the corporate world, not ODBC, and numerous applications and language platforms on Linux support JDBC natively.
You're asking the wrong question. The question you should be asking is why should the razor manufacturer be allowed to create a virtual monopoly on razor blades by abusing the patent and copyright systems?
Well, this not my original Slashdot account. I don't use that one anymore mostly because I can't remember the password to it.
Sorry, I claim prior art: :@) was posted by me (and others) as early as 1989-1990 on Detroit-area BBSes, including S*O*L*A*R*I*S and Gateway. Also seen on Fidonet that early.
No, humour.
;)
Just like, I'm 29
(Read my comment history to find out how old I really am -- you might have to be a subscriber, though)
DMCA takedown notices are being used as a harrasment tactic for otherwise lawful and free-speech protected Web sites by folks such as the Church of Scientology.
The DMCA has allowed printer manufacturers like Epson to lock out all competitors in the field of ink supplies.
And, it continues to be a tool used by the clueless morons over at the MAFIAA to strong arm computer illiterate grandmothers and small children.
What, exactly, constitutes 'working fine' in any of the above?