Correction: they are real Republicans; they are not real Conservatives. The Republican party has sold out the conservatives, and turned neo-con (big debt, big government, big business, big religion, anti-intellectual, anti-freedom).
This could be a good thing for OSS. If home-user license enforcement becomes easy, it will become widespread. If this works well enough, then MS Office, Adobe Photoshop, etc will start requiring these licenses to run. If it becomes difficult or impossible to run these programs, more people will stop using illegal copies, and start using OpenOffice, Gimp, etc. If MS were able to stamp-out copyright infringement (by any means), that would be a huge boost to OSS.
I wish Perot would come back. Don't get me wrong, he would make a lousy President. But if he could siphon-off 12% of the right-wing vote in the next election I would be very happy. On a related note: I hope Nader doesn't screw the liberals again.
Nonsense, you can always vote with your feet in a marketplace.
When you vote for public officials, each citizen gets one vote (with a few exceptions). When you 'vote with your feet in the marketplace', Bill Gates gets more votes than the bottom 40% of the American public. The wealthiest 5% of Americans get to cast 95% of the 'votes'.
We (the people) can reform the government, and make it respond to the needs and wishes of the people. We cannot reform the marketplace except by government regulation.
I dunno, GP might be right. The fact that a Scientist *can* drop a rock and have it hit the ground, probably means that rocks *cannot* fall off mountains without the aid of some Intelligent Dropper.
They looked at 100 proteins to learn what the simple rules are. That does not preclude the existence of rules that are simple. GP was right, if simple rules exist (no matter how we learned what they are), then it is more likely that proteins could arrise by chance, than if the simplest rules for making proteins are complex.
And once the names of the entities have changed, a 'new' article containing the 'new' names will be posted on/.; a mammoth flamewar will follow over whether or not this article is a dupe.
Then you can bet that the article(s) on library science will be pretty accurate. However, when your librarian approves and buys an encyclopedia, what makes you think that the articles on quantum physics or renaissance art are not complete BS?
HDCP is just an evil feature of HD-DVD/Blu-Ray, and Microsoft just adds the OS-level support for this stuff.
BS. M$ practically wrote the VC1 spec, and is a major driver of DRM. Perhaps because they know that OSS and DRM are almost antithetical.
So, in fact, there could be an opportunity for an open and legal implementation of HDCP on Linux.
Don't bet on it. M$'s VC1 is extremely patent-encumbered, and many of those patents are held by M$. Don't expect to see any legal Linux implementations. However, DVDJon should have the DRM cracked about 2 weeks after Vista hits the streets.
Yeah, well, we just got the report from your doctor via the insurance company that you look like you've got MS, so we're going to have to let you go, otherwise the health insurance rates for the company will double.
I don't have MS you insensitive clod. I only use Linux.
If an individual is buying health insurance, their rates are based on their medical history. If you join a 'group plan' (almost always via your employer), every employee pays the same amount*, and cannot be denied coverage because of their condition.
* except that many employers offer multiple plans, where all employees in a given plan pay the same rate.
Does the 64-bit architecture, or the M$ OS, or the M$ compiler require that all data elements be aligned on 64-bit boundries? If so, then any program that uses small (~32-bit) data elements (variables) will also double it's memory usage.
I'm not talking about 'sorting', I'm talking about fossilization (ref Permineralization). The fossils that we dig-up are not bone. They are stone. The bone material has been replaced by minerals that bear a closer resemblance to granite than to bone. So (forget the sorting), the young earthers must be claiming that these animals bones have been replaced by other minerals at a rapid pace (a pace that we do not see in skeletons that we dig up from 2,000 years ago.)
So how do those young earthers explain fossils? Random rocks that only resemble bones? Bones that were able to fossilize in less than 6,000 years? Oddities planted not to test our faith, merely to allow the 'saved' to laugh at the efforts of those stupid paleontologists?
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No one expects the American Inquisition!
Correction: they are real Republicans; they are not real Conservatives. The Republican party has sold out the conservatives, and turned neo-con (big debt, big government, big business, big religion, anti-intellectual, anti-freedom).
Thus ensuring that one of the two guys you are voting against will always win.
This could be a good thing for OSS. If home-user license enforcement becomes easy, it will become widespread. If this works well enough, then MS Office, Adobe Photoshop, etc will start requiring these licenses to run. If it becomes difficult or impossible to run these programs, more people will stop using illegal copies, and start using OpenOffice, Gimp, etc. If MS were able to stamp-out copyright infringement (by any means), that would be a huge boost to OSS.
I wish Perot would come back. Don't get me wrong, he would make a lousy President. But if he could siphon-off 12% of the right-wing vote in the next election I would be very happy. On a related note: I hope Nader doesn't screw the liberals again.
What about 'short attention spans'? What an odd phrase to toss-off out of the blue.
When you vote for public officials, each citizen gets one vote (with a few exceptions). When you 'vote with your feet in the marketplace', Bill Gates gets more votes than the bottom 40% of the American public. The wealthiest 5% of Americans get to cast 95% of the 'votes'.
We (the people) can reform the government, and make it respond to the needs and wishes of the people. We cannot reform the marketplace except by government regulation.
Wait... argh! Still buggy!
Sounds like it's time to make a batch of CmdrTaco Tacos.
(In the game Civilization:Call To Power, the Beef Vat is a piece of infrastructure that wipes-out hunger in any city in which one is built.)
I dunno, GP might be right. The fact that a Scientist *can* drop a rock and have it hit the ground, probably means that rocks *cannot* fall off mountains without the aid of some Intelligent Dropper.
They looked at 100 proteins to learn what the simple rules are. That does not preclude the existence of rules that are simple. GP was right, if simple rules exist (no matter how we learned what they are), then it is more likely that proteins could arrise by chance, than if the simplest rules for making proteins are complex.
No, FGC is already trademarked by Microsoft, and it applies to Operating Systems, not toolbars.
To be fair, that textile industry had no textile workers. The fabric was 'spun' by marketers.
Don't criticize this thing until you Wakamaru in its shoes.
And once the names of the entities have changed, a 'new' article containing the 'new' names will be posted on /.; a mammoth flamewar will follow over whether or not this article is a dupe.
Then you can bet that the article(s) on library science will be pretty accurate. However, when your librarian approves and buys an encyclopedia, what makes you think that the articles on quantum physics or renaissance art are not complete BS?
George Washington Carver could have made it work.
Well that's very interesting, but Microdots were invented at Berkeley 40 years ago.
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BS. M$ practically wrote the VC1 spec, and is a major driver of DRM. Perhaps because they know that OSS and DRM are almost antithetical.
So, in fact, there could be an opportunity for an open and legal implementation of HDCP on Linux.
Don't bet on it. M$'s VC1 is extremely patent-encumbered, and many of those patents are held by M$. Don't expect to see any legal Linux implementations. However, DVDJon should have the DRM cracked about 2 weeks after Vista hits the streets.
I don't have MS you insensitive clod. I only use Linux.
* except that many employers offer multiple plans, where all employees in a given plan pay the same rate.
Does the 64-bit architecture, or the M$ OS, or the M$ compiler require that all data elements be aligned on 64-bit boundries? If so, then any program that uses small (~32-bit) data elements (variables) will also double it's memory usage.
I'm not talking about 'sorting', I'm talking about fossilization (ref Permineralization). The fossils that we dig-up are not bone. They are stone. The bone material has been replaced by minerals that bear a closer resemblance to granite than to bone. So (forget the sorting), the young earthers must be claiming that these animals bones have been replaced by other minerals at a rapid pace (a pace that we do not see in skeletons that we dig up from 2,000 years ago.)
So how do those young earthers explain fossils? Random rocks that only resemble bones? Bones that were able to fossilize in less than 6,000 years? Oddities planted not to test our faith, merely to allow the 'saved' to laugh at the efforts of those stupid paleontologists?