"I read on USA Today that they have a total of about 40k troops. I don't know what they think they are going to accomplish w/that low number of forces but whatever."
Apparently you are not very up to date on contemporary guerilla warfare. If you want to see what a small number of psychotic troops fighting for their homeland can do, take a look at the ass-beating the USA took in Vietnam. Another good example would be the guerrillas in Peru and Columbia, who have been able to keep fighting so long that they people have forgotten why the fighting ever started. An even better example would be the people of Afghanistan, who have beaten the British three times, and even took on the Soviet Army and beat them back, albeit with a good bit of help from the USA.
40,000 guerrillas in a war torn nation full of refugees are worse than millions of troops fighting with conventional styles of warfare. Their are plenty of people in the US government who fought in Vietnam, and do not ever want anyone to go through that sort of thing again.
People are going to mark this as flamebait and trollish (With a karma of 50 I really don't care.) but trust me on this one, don't bother. People are already making games and multimedia software for Linux, and it isn't selling very well. A commercial compiler for stuff people can not sell in the first place is pretty much just a big waste of time.
I have been told that the best way to talk to someone on the hill about legislation is not to, that it is better to talk with a legislator's staffers instead, as they tend to be the people who choose what bills to give attention to, and how said bills are written. Is this true, and if so, what is the best way to contact and work with the staffers of Capitol Hill?
Does this mean that the areas in online games (EverQuest, Ultima Online.) are now considered to be separate space? If so, do they count as part of the nation that they are hosted within, or are they separate nations? Does this mean that because Norrath (EverQuest) is a land unto itself within cyberspace, I can give lectures on cracking SDMI within Norrath and not fear prosecution by the US government?
It might not technically burn all at once, but it wouldn't take it very long to go up. Relative to the burn rate of airplane fuel, it would be going up all at once.
The plague has been causing problems for mankind since the middle ages! Damned high time they finally dealt with it! Of course, if it took them this long to deal with the plague, I don't expect to see any cures for these modern diseases any time soon! Damned doctors cost too much anyway...
A hydrogen powered plane's fuel tanks would have blown up all at once. The reason the WTC attacked worked is that airplane fuel is sticky and burns slowly when there are massive amounts of it, so it got all over the inside of the building and generated insane amounts of heat over time, starting other fires, etc. Hydrogen would have just blown up, with a small explosion and a lot of fire at impact, but little other damage.
Hydrogen is unlikely to be seen as a viable fuel, however, because for so many years it was believed that the Hindenburg was destroyed because of the hydrogen that held it aloft. Even now that the truth is known (The Hidenburg went down because the skin was painted with powdered aluminum, AKA rocket fuel, and when the mooring line grounded arcing electricity caught the aluminum on fire.), it is rarely spoken of because so many sources still quote hydrogen as the source of the explosion.
Okay, particle physics are not my cup of tea, but I am going to assume that if people are even beginning to think about building a five billion dollar particle accelerator, there must be some really good reason.
So would someone who does have a clue enlighten the rest of us as to just WTF this thing would actually be good for? I mean, is this going to provide us with new ideas, knowledge, and technology that can greatly benefit mankind, or does it just let some really badass physicists find out what happens when they slam particles together really fast?
Rather than whine and bitch about this stuff, I put my money where my mouth is. In February, Prince and the NPG launched http://www.npgmusicclub.com, a website that sells music and videos from Prince, the NPG, and other artists, for $7.77 a month or $100 a year (The $100 version also provides special concert seating, CDs, more music, and other stuff.). I can download and play it all with a proprietary player, or I can download it all from just about any web-browser (The site uses flash, but it can be navigated without flash.) and play the mp3 files on an OS of my choice. This month Prince will be posting his new album in entirety for memebers, before it ever hits stores.
Of course, Slashdot rejects all my submissions about this. The truth is, Slashdot does not want you to know about alternative music sources and support them, as that does not generate the massive amounts of postings and ad-viewings that people ranting about Microsoft, the government, and the RIAA do.
I am currently building up an anti-SSSCA task force in the Washington D.C. area. So far things are just restricted to swapping emails, and planning to meet at the Open Source conference in DC on October 10. Anyone who wants to help and can offer something useful (Political connections, previous experience, legal advice, etc.) feel free to send me an email (supabeastatsupabeastdotorg.). Please no random "I want to help but can't offer anything other than writing letters." emails, as I am a bit short on time right now!
Ok, maybe that wasn't incredible, but it beats the nonexistant severance packages that over 100,000 employees of airlines in the US have recieved in the past two weeks, not to mention the nonexistant packages that most dotcommers have been getting. Hell, it even beats the one month of severance I picked up from my last job when they tossed my ass out in July.
I am almost finished with my plan to escape evil Bill's clutches forever. I recently bought an Apple ibook (No Microsoft tax!), and will be installing Mandrake 8.0 PPC on it this weekend to get away from IE. Last night I downloaded Mandrake 8.1 to replace Windows on my last surviving Windows box (I kept it for EverQuest in hopes that they would eventually abandon MS- oh well.). Tonight I will be burning the ISOs that will free me from the grip of evil! Linux is my escape, into the free world from which I will run my anti-SSSCA task force and wait for the day someone makes a really good knockoff of the natural keyboards I so enjoy!
Forgive me for not having too much sympathy, but I doubt these guys are too unhappy. Unlike the hundreds of thousands of now out of work mid and junior level dotcom techies, these guys are some of the best UNIX gurus in the world. That means that they already made a ton of money, and probably recieved incredible severance packages. They will now all be able to spend a few months with their families or vacationing, and as soon as they want to return to work, they can, because they have the skills and knowledge that will always be in demand, no matter how bad the US Economy gets.
On the upside, this might mean that the new HPaQ corporation is planning to dump some of their traditional UNIX plans in favor of moving to Linux. This would certainly make sense, given that both vendors have close relationships with intel, encourage Linux as the native OS for IA-64, and have had problems being strongarmed by Microsoft in the past.
"From our standpoint, we are designing the software for the 99 percent of the people who don't want to steal the music but instead (want to) use it for whatever means--for whatever personal use that's allowed by the artist and the record label. The software was designed for those people, not for the 1 percent who are going to take the lock cutters and cut the lock off and steal music in an unauthorized way."
So this software is designed to reign in the people who do not "steal" the music anyway? Does that not make this method of "cooy protection" pointless? It seems to me that this guy just admitted his company is ripping off record companies by selling them copy protection schemes that are really no good.
"Not as if web ads weren't already becoming more annoying, but the companies that run Web ads are probably as interested in ads that people don't hate as you are in not seeing the awful ones. What can we tell them?"
Why don't you stop whining like a little girl and thank them? These people are busting their butts trying make the business model of ad supported content work so you can read the stuff for free! If you don't like it, send them money!
Commercial internet sites cannot make money with nonintrusive advertising. This is why thousands of web sites are disappearing every month, and eventually there won't be any free content sites left that are not provided by the people trying to sell you more of the same content. It will hit everyone, even sites like Slashdot.
Does anyone know of web site that lists such albums. I would like to start purchasing them and returning them as defective to every record store in a 20 mile radius.
Stupid crap like this is why I dropped out of college. Colleges seem to have this idea that I should give them a huge amount of money, and they will tell me what to do. Somehow that seemed a little backwards to me, given that in just about every other situation where I give someone money (Not including taxes.), I get what I want, when I want it, in return.
Per seat licensing? I know it goes against the grain, but at they are trying to make some serious money off of Linux. Times are tight, and if they need some capital, they will not get it by telling potential investors that they plan to make money selling an $80 boxed Linux that a company of 10,000 people can use to cover the OS for every employee they have.
Companies like AMD will never learn the real secret to winning wars in this industry: better marketing. Did Microsoft win with excellent, low cost products? Did Iomega? Did AOL? does anyone? NO.
AMD needs to just suck it up and start blowing a ton of money on advertising like intel does. They need to bribe, err, encourage PC makers to advertise using AMD CPUs. They need to constantly reengineer things in senseless ways that scre consumers and make them money.
In reality, the only way AMD can last is to stop being AMD.
-Disclaimer: This is a hypothetical question, and I am not claiming or implying any impropriety on the part of Soren or the Linux kernel authors involved.-
What if the code was developed separately and just happened to come out the same? While such a thing is possible, is it at all likely? Could two programmers who went through the same computer programming programs at school, or use ideas and styles derived from the same O'Reilly books, develop very similar coding styles and end up hacking out code that was verbatim if they were both working on the same thing in different locations and did not know it?
Just a thought.
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"the NRA and religious right (the two most powerful lobbys)"
Actually, the most powerful lobby out there is the AARP. Anyone in the US over 50 can join the AARP, and they have millions of members. Because they are a non-profit they cannot be too politically active, but when a politician does something that senior citizens don't like, the AARP volunteers can mobilize overnight into a vocal force that give politicians nightmares. This is why you rarely see politicians do things that piss off old people.
As for geeks having no balls, I don't think that is the problem. The real issue is that geeks are lazy bastards. Because we have so much freedom, so much money, and generally pretty easy lives, it is very hard to motivate geeks to be proactive. Until something is lost that really hits home, geeks will continue to be far too relaxed as politicians fuck America over again and again.
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"I read on USA Today that they have a total of about 40k troops. I don't know what they think they are going to accomplish w/that low number of forces but whatever."
Apparently you are not very up to date on contemporary guerilla warfare. If you want to see what a small number of psychotic troops fighting for their homeland can do, take a look at the ass-beating the USA took in Vietnam. Another good example would be the guerrillas in Peru and Columbia, who have been able to keep fighting so long that they people have forgotten why the fighting ever started. An even better example would be the people of Afghanistan, who have beaten the British three times, and even took on the Soviet Army and beat them back, albeit with a good bit of help from the USA.
40,000 guerrillas in a war torn nation full of refugees are worse than millions of troops fighting with conventional styles of warfare. Their are plenty of people in the US government who fought in Vietnam, and do not ever want anyone to go through that sort of thing again.
People are going to mark this as flamebait and trollish (With a karma of 50 I really don't care.) but trust me on this one, don't bother. People are already making games and multimedia software for Linux, and it isn't selling very well. A commercial compiler for stuff people can not sell in the first place is pretty much just a big waste of time.
I have been told that the best way to talk to someone on the hill about legislation is not to, that it is better to talk with a legislator's staffers instead, as they tend to be the people who choose what bills to give attention to, and how said bills are written. Is this true, and if so, what is the best way to contact and work with the staffers of Capitol Hill?
Does this mean that the areas in online games (EverQuest, Ultima Online.) are now considered to be separate space? If so, do they count as part of the nation that they are hosted within, or are they separate nations? Does this mean that because Norrath (EverQuest) is a land unto itself within cyberspace, I can give lectures on cracking SDMI within Norrath and not fear prosecution by the US government?
Don't most people hold the phone with fingers and type with thumbs? Everyone I know does, same for two ways and small PDA keyboards.
A cute idea, but I have a feeling that it will not be well recieved.
It might not technically burn all at once, but it wouldn't take it very long to go up. Relative to the burn rate of airplane fuel, it would be going up all at once.
/sarcasm ON!
The plague has been causing problems for mankind since the middle ages! Damned high time they finally dealt with it! Of course, if it took them this long to deal with the plague, I don't expect to see any cures for these modern diseases any time soon! Damned doctors cost too much anyway...
A hydrogen powered plane's fuel tanks would have blown up all at once. The reason the WTC attacked worked is that airplane fuel is sticky and burns slowly when there are massive amounts of it, so it got all over the inside of the building and generated insane amounts of heat over time, starting other fires, etc. Hydrogen would have just blown up, with a small explosion and a lot of fire at impact, but little other damage.
Hydrogen is unlikely to be seen as a viable fuel, however, because for so many years it was believed that the Hindenburg was destroyed because of the hydrogen that held it aloft. Even now that the truth is known (The Hidenburg went down because the skin was painted with powdered aluminum, AKA rocket fuel, and when the mooring line grounded arcing electricity caught the aluminum on fire.), it is rarely spoken of because so many sources still quote hydrogen as the source of the explosion.
Okay, particle physics are not my cup of tea, but I am going to assume that if people are even beginning to think about building a five billion dollar particle accelerator, there must be some really good reason.
So would someone who does have a clue enlighten the rest of us as to just WTF this thing would actually be good for? I mean, is this going to provide us with new ideas, knowledge, and technology that can greatly benefit mankind, or does it just let some really badass physicists find out what happens when they slam particles together really fast?
Rather than whine and bitch about this stuff, I put my money where my mouth is. In February, Prince and the NPG launched http://www.npgmusicclub.com, a website that sells music and videos from Prince, the NPG, and other artists, for $7.77 a month or $100 a year (The $100 version also provides special concert seating, CDs, more music, and other stuff.). I can download and play it all with a proprietary player, or I can download it all from just about any web-browser (The site uses flash, but it can be navigated without flash.) and play the mp3 files on an OS of my choice. This month Prince will be posting his new album in entirety for memebers, before it ever hits stores.
Of course, Slashdot rejects all my submissions about this. The truth is, Slashdot does not want you to know about alternative music sources and support them, as that does not generate the massive amounts of postings and ad-viewings that people ranting about Microsoft, the government, and the RIAA do.
I am currently building up an anti-SSSCA task force in the Washington D.C. area. So far things are just restricted to swapping emails, and planning to meet at the Open Source conference in DC on October 10. Anyone who wants to help and can offer something useful (Political connections, previous experience, legal advice, etc.) feel free to send me an email (supabeastatsupabeastdotorg.). Please no random "I want to help but can't offer anything other than writing letters." emails, as I am a bit short on time right now!
Ok, maybe that wasn't incredible, but it beats the nonexistant severance packages that over 100,000 employees of airlines in the US have recieved in the past two weeks, not to mention the nonexistant packages that most dotcommers have been getting. Hell, it even beats the one month of severance I picked up from my last job when they tossed my ass out in July.
I am almost finished with my plan to escape evil Bill's clutches forever. I recently bought an Apple ibook (No Microsoft tax!), and will be installing Mandrake 8.0 PPC on it this weekend to get away from IE. Last night I downloaded Mandrake 8.1 to replace Windows on my last surviving Windows box (I kept it for EverQuest in hopes that they would eventually abandon MS- oh well.). Tonight I will be burning the ISOs that will free me from the grip of evil! Linux is my escape, into the free world from which I will run my anti-SSSCA task force and wait for the day someone makes a really good knockoff of the natural keyboards I so enjoy!
Forgive me for not having too much sympathy, but I doubt these guys are too unhappy. Unlike the hundreds of thousands of now out of work mid and junior level dotcom techies, these guys are some of the best UNIX gurus in the world. That means that they already made a ton of money, and probably recieved incredible severance packages. They will now all be able to spend a few months with their families or vacationing, and as soon as they want to return to work, they can, because they have the skills and knowledge that will always be in demand, no matter how bad the US Economy gets.
On the upside, this might mean that the new HPaQ corporation is planning to dump some of their traditional UNIX plans in favor of moving to Linux. This would certainly make sense, given that both vendors have close relationships with intel, encourage Linux as the native OS for IA-64, and have had problems being strongarmed by Microsoft in the past.
From the interview -
"From our standpoint, we are designing the software for the 99 percent of the people who don't want to steal the music but instead (want to) use it for whatever means--for whatever personal use that's allowed by the artist and the record label. The software was designed for those people, not for the 1 percent who are going to take the lock cutters and cut the lock off and steal music in an unauthorized way."
So this software is designed to reign in the people who do not "steal" the music anyway? Does that not make this method of "cooy protection" pointless? It seems to me that this guy just admitted his company is ripping off record companies by selling them copy protection schemes that are really no good.
"Not as if web ads weren't already becoming more annoying, but the companies that run Web ads are probably as interested in ads that people don't hate as you are in not seeing the awful ones. What can we tell them?"
Why don't you stop whining like a little girl and thank them? These people are busting their butts trying make the business model of ad supported content work so you can read the stuff for free! If you don't like it, send them money!
Commercial internet sites cannot make money with nonintrusive advertising. This is why thousands of web sites are disappearing every month, and eventually there won't be any free content sites left that are not provided by the people trying to sell you more of the same content. It will hit everyone, even sites like Slashdot.
Does anyone know of web site that lists such albums. I would like to start purchasing them and returning them as defective to every record store in a 20 mile radius.
Call me rude, but people still watch TV?
Would a painting of urine in a jar be art? Art is subjective.
Stupid crap like this is why I dropped out of college. Colleges seem to have this idea that I should give them a huge amount of money, and they will tell me what to do. Somehow that seemed a little backwards to me, given that in just about every other situation where I give someone money (Not including taxes.), I get what I want, when I want it, in return.
Per seat licensing? I know it goes against the grain, but at they are trying to make some serious money off of Linux. Times are tight, and if they need some capital, they will not get it by telling potential investors that they plan to make money selling an $80 boxed Linux that a company of 10,000 people can use to cover the OS for every employee they have.
Companies like AMD will never learn the real secret to winning wars in this industry: better marketing. Did Microsoft win with excellent, low cost products? Did Iomega? Did AOL? does anyone? NO.
AMD needs to just suck it up and start blowing a ton of money on advertising like intel does. They need to bribe, err, encourage PC makers to advertise using AMD CPUs. They need to constantly reengineer things in senseless ways that scre consumers and make them money.
In reality, the only way AMD can last is to stop being AMD.
You know, if the brain had one of these to run simulations on, he an pinky probably could take over the world!
-Disclaimer: This is a hypothetical question, and I am not claiming or implying any impropriety on the part of Soren or the Linux kernel authors involved.-
What if the code was developed separately and just happened to come out the same? While such a thing is possible, is it at all likely? Could two programmers who went through the same computer programming programs at school, or use ideas and styles derived from the same O'Reilly books, develop very similar coding styles and end up hacking out code that was verbatim if they were both working on the same thing in different locations and did not know it?
Just a thought.
"the NRA and religious right (the two most powerful lobbys)"
Actually, the most powerful lobby out there is the AARP. Anyone in the US over 50 can join the AARP, and they have millions of members. Because they are a non-profit they cannot be too politically active, but when a politician does something that senior citizens don't like, the AARP volunteers can mobilize overnight into a vocal force that give politicians nightmares. This is why you rarely see politicians do things that piss off old people.
As for geeks having no balls, I don't think that is the problem. The real issue is that geeks are lazy bastards. Because we have so much freedom, so much money, and generally pretty easy lives, it is very hard to motivate geeks to be proactive. Until something is lost that really hits home, geeks will continue to be far too relaxed as politicians fuck America over again and again.