You can get a 133 Mhz Sparcbook (as fast as Pentium class 450Mhz) for $800 compared to a P450 Notebook for $1200+. 2/3 the price and 3 3/4 the performance. Almost 6x the value.
I'd understand this being done on the original Sparc, but I'll castigate the first person who puts Slackware on an UltraSparc II
That's kinda how Linux got the lead. People running Linux found it 2.5x faster than Slowlaris.
You wanna talk big iron, ok Linux is kinda behind in that arena. Does the caverage guy need big iron? No. You figure it out from there.
that mean that on your 1024 dot line you will have 4 dot bands if you try to display gradients. It gets worse if you use mixed colors.
Think about that when that 4 dot band gets up on the IMAX screen. Really noticeable.
It's curious that people who are outraged by the limitations on their freedom imposed by the GPL, are not at all bothered by the impositions of, for instance, a standard employment contract, which are without question an order of magnitude
greater.
It shouldn't be curious to you, it should be obvious...
The limitation isn't necessarily by the developer against the developer. It maybe by the developer in as a favor to his poor dependent customer who needs to first break even and will not except any tool that doesn't allow him that.
While you're swimming in your little cozy thought experimenter's nirvana, practical things are happening around you like improvisation of tools for day to day tasks as problems present themselves. People depend on code being open things as a matter of barely keeping afloat. Yack all you want about perfect freedom when it's incredibly fleeting.
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That was the irony. You said people can be good or evil, and you've got the nick of a guy who's always walking in between.
I'm not sure she was shooting for the Nabokov award. I look at her books as simply a record of the kind of shit you can expect from society.
I agree so far as saying some of her works read like a police blotter of mind games and psychological warfare people play. Not too entertaining but still important works.
I know addresses can be spoofed, I'm simply saying that if someone owned the connection (Extended Domicile Act needed perhaps) then they could sue people for trespassing.
Maybe a net watermark could work.
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You know the anime Rorouni Kenshin? Guy walks around fighting without killing because he hates his past as a highly skilled assassin.
We're not living in an objectivist society. Are you going to tell me Rupert Murdoch, AOL, and Time Warner and their censorship policies represent such a society? Art in our society is constantly disparaged and trampled upon. Rand wins this argument.
Unless you define fair as what you get when free bidders and free sellers agree to exchange money
Couldn't have said it better myself. Speaking on unfree markets, ever wonder why successful companies like Bose don't IPO? Because that way they get to set the price of their stock. Frankly the public stock stock market exemplifies everything that's wrong with collectivist ideals.
1. Someone else decides your worth to the point where you are not allowed to claim more than what the majority tells you are worth.
2. The collective owners (shareholders) get away with murder with hardly any liability whatsoevere. They are allowed to sue the bloody fuck out of you for not patenting something that you know to be unpatentable by moral standards.
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Irony of ironies you should say that considering your nick:)
Moderator are on crack. (Score:0, Offtopic)
by Rares Marian (rmarian@winblowsstart.com) on 11:35 AM December 11th, 2000 EST (#14)
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That's a perfectly good comment.
Caught signal SIGSIG read this comment again.
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Computers are stupid, they cannot be neither good nor evil. Humans on the other hand.
There's not a thing technology can do without a human being thinking of it first and understanding it.
As a result the digital divide is reduced from this Terminator crap to a divide between people just as it always was and always will be.
As long as we only use computers as tools nothing more nothing less, computers will be ahead of us precisely because they are used to their fullest by those don't submit to such paranoid bullshit.
If everyone had an IP address they could use (not assigned just available) and if people OWNED said connection then it would be possible to work out internet voting. But since no one owns the connections (IP to IP communication not wiring) then it's impossible.
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Re:There's some real pig-headed assumptions here.
Is that supposed to be ironic?
You can get a 133 Mhz Sparcbook (as fast as Pentium class 450Mhz) for $800 compared to a P450 Notebook for $1200+. 2/3 the price and 3 3/4 the performance. Almost 6x the value.
I'd understand this being done on the original Sparc, but I'll castigate the first person who puts Slackware on an UltraSparc II
That's kinda how Linux got the lead. People running Linux found it 2.5x faster than Slowlaris.
You wanna talk big iron, ok Linux is kinda behind in that arena. Does the caverage guy need big iron? No. You figure it out from there.
16777216 is still 256 colors per primary.
that mean that on your 1024 dot line you will have 4 dot bands if you try to display gradients. It gets worse if you use mixed colors.
Think about that when that 4 dot band gets up on the IMAX screen. Really noticeable.
Course I don't go to IMAX often.
But without meaning you cannot assign or determine truth or falsehood.
You just proved his point.
GNU is no different than Intel giving away its instruction set architecture.
It's needed to get work done.
It's curious that people who are outraged by the limitations on their freedom imposed by the GPL, are not at all bothered by the impositions of, for instance, a standard employment contract, which are without question an order of magnitude
greater.
It shouldn't be curious to you, it should be obvious...
The limitation isn't necessarily by the developer against the developer. It maybe by the developer in as a favor to his poor dependent customer who needs to first break even and will not except any tool that doesn't allow him that.
While you're swimming in your little cozy thought experimenter's nirvana, practical things are happening around you like improvisation of tools for day to day tasks as problems present themselves. People depend on code being open things as a matter of barely keeping afloat. Yack all you want about perfect freedom when it's incredibly fleeting.
That was the irony. You said people can be good or evil, and you've got the nick of a guy who's always walking in between.
I'm not sure she was shooting for the Nabokov award. I look at her books as simply a record of the kind of shit you can expect from society.
I agree so far as saying some of her works read like a police blotter of mind games and psychological warfare people play. Not too entertaining but still important works.
move along nothing to see here.
Targets... I dare you to say that to their lawyers. There is no definition of target behind closed doors.
Arrogant assholes assume infringement or know in fact that there is no infringement.
I know addresses can be spoofed, I'm simply saying that if someone owned the connection (Extended Domicile Act needed perhaps) then they could sue people for trespassing.
Maybe a net watermark could work.
You know the anime Rorouni Kenshin? Guy walks around fighting without killing because he hates his past as a highly skilled assassin.
We're not living in an objectivist society. Are you going to tell me Rupert Murdoch, AOL, and Time Warner and their censorship policies represent such a society? Art in our society is constantly disparaged and trampled upon. Rand wins this argument.
We're not living in an objectivist society and art that is of value has not commanded appropriate market prices. Sounds like a proof of Rand to me.
Unless you define fair as what you get when free bidders and free sellers agree to exchange money
Couldn't have said it better myself. Speaking on unfree markets, ever wonder why successful companies like Bose don't IPO? Because that way they get to set the price of their stock. Frankly the public stock stock market exemplifies everything that's wrong with collectivist ideals.
1. Someone else decides your worth to the point where you are not allowed to claim more than what the majority tells you are worth.
2. The collective owners (shareholders) get away with murder with hardly any liability whatsoevere. They are allowed to sue the bloody fuck out of you for not patenting something that you know to be unpatentable by moral standards.
Irony of ironies you should say that considering your nick :)
"The distributions will have to come out with new boot disks."
It's not like you're scaling Everest.
Feel free to answer.
Moderator are on crack. (Score:0, Offtopic)
by Rares Marian (rmarian@winblowsstart.com) on 11:35 AM December 11th, 2000 EST (#14)
(User #83629 Info)
That's a perfectly good comment.
Caught signal SIGSIG read this comment again.
Computers are stupid, they cannot be neither good nor evil. Humans on the other hand.
There's not a thing technology can do without a human being thinking of it first and understanding it.
As a result the digital divide is reduced from this Terminator crap to a divide between people just as it always was and always will be.
As long as we only use computers as tools nothing more nothing less, computers will be ahead of us precisely because they are used to their fullest by those don't submit to such paranoid bullshit.
You can easily add the CPUID database to any distro. It's just a bunch of bytes and it's the SAME bloody kernel.
If everyone had an IP address they could use (not assigned just available) and if people OWNED said connection then it would be possible to work out internet voting. But since no one owns the connections (IP to IP communication not wiring) then it's impossible.
We need to stop allowing quacks like you to yack beeven if it is legal because it will rot the net.