KW is a unit for power, i.e. energy/time. So a 15kW lazer doesn't necessarily mean you have to put a nuke plant on a F-16. As long as the battery/capacitor can withstand extremely high current, 15 or even 150kW is doable. You just need to recharge between shots.
That's true. Without a centralized system you cannot effectively discourage the common players. But on the other hand, I don't think that majority of the casual MMORPG players subscribe to more than one game at a time. It's simply cost-prohibitive, well, except for games like diablo II and guildwars.
Maybe when they say the character is crippled, they actually mean all characters under the same account name. Although the real hardcore players can easily have multiple accounts at the same time, probably 99% of the MMORPG players play with a single account, thus the discouraging effect should work on them. But on the other hand, those 99% of the players don't kill themselves by playing 40 hours straight to start with.
Quote: "Just because something is nothing more than an amalgam of cells - or a single cell - doesn't mean it doesn't represent, even if only philosophically, human life. Why is it valid in the macro scale, but not micro?"
I don't think that kind of logic works here. Are you suggesting that one embryonic stem cell is the atom of life? What if you take away one electron from that cell, or one piece of membrane protein? Does that make it lifeless? Let's say you start taking away protein molecules, at what point do you say it's not a life any more? If you never stop, you can claim an atom to be a life. My point is, we don't have a mental barrier of a life form, period. Why are we protecting meaningless embryos when real, grown-up humans are starving in other places of the world, such as Africa? Give me a break!
I applaud to SUN's effort in attempting an open DRM standard. DRM is on its way to consumer market, whether we like it or not, but an open standard opens the gate to collaboration. Rather than debating endlessly about the moral grounds of DRM, IMHO it is best to accept reality and establish an "outpost" for open source and free use in the hostile land of DRM. Kinda like establishing a constitution in a monarchy state.
I would agree with you if the following things were true:
1. Electricity is free 2. Network bandwidth is free 3. Network maintainance is free 4. Network adminidstrators can live off air
So yah, shove your idealistic freedom and face the reality. Plus, TFA never mentioned anything like $5 fee. All I read was that the city hasn't made any financial commitment yet to the $18-20 million cost.
Do you even know what Moore's law is? Even a highschool student can tell you that it has nothing to do with the MHz speed of the silicon, although theoretically as the widths of the gates shrink you can run the logic faster. Moore's Law simply states that the density of silicon chips doubles every 18 month. On a sidenote, Intel's Netburst archicture has turned out to be a failure to reliably increase the PERFORMANCE of the CPU (ironically I'm using one right now), precisely because of the architecture's emphesis on higher clock rate. But other architectures, such as AMD64 and Power are rapidlly shrinking their die and consistently increasing performance.
One of the ways to install linux on the xbox (w/o a modchip) was to purchase a usb adaptor that can connect a usb flash memory to the weird-shaped usb ports on the xbox. By doing this, M$ can eliminate the vendors that provide such hacking tools. Of course, this also allows them to sell the XBOX-only keyboards for $200 a piece (just like how they tricked the public into buying their $30 ethernet cables "specifically designed for xbox")
Good-bye xbox, and hello PS3!
I only read the beginning part of his open letter and couldn't continue because it was so full of unsupported claims. It kind of reminds me of the beloved Iraq Information Officer Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, who in the last days of Sadam's regime said things like:
"They are lying every day. They are lying always, and mainly they are lying to their public opinion."
"They are achieving nothing; they are suffering from casualties. Those casualties are increasing, not decreasing."
"We are determined to defeat them and destroy them on the walls of our capital, as we are determined to destroy their miserable armies in every Muslim spot."
This makes me wonder, is Darl playing the same role of the beloved Iraq Information Officer, announcing the death of SCO in a humorous way?
Non-sense! I live right next to a cellphone tower and use my microwave oven with the door open all the time! So far only my dog has died, and my fish is blind. But I'm perfectly healthy and am going to live another 100 years because of the advancement of medical technology. Argh! gotta stop and take care of my bleeding nose.
Gentoo kernels are usually pretty close to the the latest ones from kernel.org, and I haven't gotten much trouble with them, except once when I upgraded to 2.6.11, the agpgart module stopped working. But that was soon remedied by another kernel patch from gentoo.
I think the fact that linux kernels (and for that matter, BSD kernels also) are (almost) infinitely configurable makes it very hard to do regression tests. It is much easier to do regression tests when you have a fixed set of kernel options and a fixed set of hardware pieces. Stable distros can do this, because their released kernel has much less variables involved.
How this would affect who get their kernels from their distros? Most distros have periodic binary builds for stable kernels, and even source-distributions like gentoo have dedicated teams to monitor and patch stable kernels. So how much is this gonna affect us who just use the standard distro kernels? They've always seem pretty stable to me.
One can make the same arguement over the war on drugs. Why prosecute people who decide to consume narcotics when tobacco and alchohol are completely legal? Who's a greater evil, Mexican drug lords or monster tobacco/beer corporations (the former only exists because it is illegal to brew the drugs in America)?
Don't mod me off-topic, because I'm coming back to the original debate. The truth is, they all have adverse social effects, but the politicians can only tackle the problems that are "politically correct/safe/popular."
It's not as cheap as $100. If the story submitter had RTFA, the card itself costs $150, and that doesn't include the cost of equipping it with 4GB RAM, which costs around $90X4=$360. The total cost comes out to be $510.
Well I didn't read the spec of EFI, but I took a look at openfirmware's website, and the first thing that I read was openfirmware is IEEE1275 standard, but is WITHDRAWN by IEEE. Could that be the reason of EFI, or the result? Another possible explanation is that microsoft wants more control of this, and they know they can get it because no standards like this can fly without them.
You didn't read his comments correctly. What he said is that OS X kernel is a variant of Unix. You are right that Linux is not a variant of Unix, but you are wrong about the fact that Linux is not POSIX compliant. In fact Linux is (mostly) POSIX compliant, and one of the allegations that SCO made against IBM is that IBM helped making Linux POSIC-compliant (which of course is BS).
You also contradicted yourself by saying that "(Linux) acts like Unix," because to "act like Unix" you must be POSIX-compliant.
Lastly, stop definition GNU as if you were Richard Stallman! Everybody either knows what it means or can look it up themselves. You are making a fool of yourself.
There used to be a distro called peanut linux, which was based on vector linux. It's a small distro that fits in a ~200MB iso and it came with enlightenment (no KDE or Gnome). It ran pretty smoothly on my old P3-600MHz workstation. Not sure if the distro still exists today, thought.
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KW is a unit for power, i.e. energy/time. So a 15kW lazer doesn't necessarily mean you have to put a nuke plant on a F-16. As long as the battery/capacitor can withstand extremely high current, 15 or even 150kW is doable. You just need to recharge between shots.
That's true. Without a centralized system you cannot effectively discourage the common players. But on the other hand, I don't think that majority of the casual MMORPG players subscribe to more than one game at a time. It's simply cost-prohibitive, well, except for games like diablo II and guildwars.
Maybe when they say the character is crippled, they actually mean all characters under the same account name. Although the real hardcore players can easily have multiple accounts at the same time, probably 99% of the MMORPG players play with a single account, thus the discouraging effect should work on them. But on the other hand, those 99% of the players don't kill themselves by playing 40 hours straight to start with.
Yes indeed. It's called elive. Get it at http://livecd.debianitas.net/index.htmlB eta%200.1
There's a torrent for it also: http://torrents.osdir.com/index.php?view=Elive%20
Shouldn't this go under IT instead of Linux?
Quote: "Just because something is nothing more than an amalgam of cells - or a single cell - doesn't mean it doesn't represent, even if only philosophically, human life. Why is it valid in the macro scale, but not micro?"
I don't think that kind of logic works here. Are you suggesting that one embryonic stem cell is the atom of life? What if you take away one electron from that cell, or one piece of membrane protein? Does that make it lifeless? Let's say you start taking away protein molecules, at what point do you say it's not a life any more? If you never stop, you can claim an atom to be a life. My point is, we don't have a mental barrier of a life form, period. Why are we protecting meaningless embryos when real, grown-up humans are starving in other places of the world, such as Africa? Give me a break!
I applaud to SUN's effort in attempting an open DRM standard. DRM is on its way to consumer market, whether we like it or not, but an open standard opens the gate to collaboration. Rather than debating endlessly about the moral grounds of DRM, IMHO it is best to accept reality and establish an "outpost" for open source and free use in the hostile land of DRM. Kinda like establishing a constitution in a monarchy state.
I would agree with you if the following things were true:
1. Electricity is free
2. Network bandwidth is free
3. Network maintainance is free
4. Network adminidstrators can live off air
So yah, shove your idealistic freedom and face the reality. Plus, TFA never mentioned anything like $5 fee. All I read was that the city hasn't made any financial commitment yet to the $18-20 million cost.
From TFA: Most impressive is his ability to deal with the physical hardships in space.
Nah...All you need is a playboy subscription.
Do you even know what Moore's law is? Even a highschool student can tell you that it has nothing to do with the MHz speed of the silicon, although theoretically as the widths of the gates shrink you can run the logic faster. Moore's Law simply states that the density of silicon chips doubles every 18 month.
On a sidenote, Intel's Netburst archicture has turned out to be a failure to reliably increase the PERFORMANCE of the CPU (ironically I'm using one right now), precisely because of the architecture's emphesis on higher clock rate. But other architectures, such as AMD64 and Power are rapidlly shrinking their die and consistently increasing performance.
Perhaps this is all part of a elegant scheme to bring down xbox-linux's website. Way to go Cmdr Taco!
One of the ways to install linux on the xbox (w/o a modchip) was to purchase a usb adaptor that can connect a usb flash memory to the weird-shaped usb ports on the xbox. By doing this, M$ can eliminate the vendors that provide such hacking tools. Of course, this also allows them to sell the XBOX-only keyboards for $200 a piece (just like how they tricked the public into buying their $30 ethernet cables "specifically designed for xbox") Good-bye xbox, and hello PS3!
That takes the benefits of rsync out of picture, doesn't it? Unless you can do rsync over a .bz or .tgz file?
I only read the beginning part of his open letter and couldn't continue because it was so full of unsupported claims. It kind of reminds me of the beloved Iraq Information Officer Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, who in the last days of Sadam's regime said things like:
"They are lying every day. They are lying always, and mainly they are lying to their public opinion."
"They are achieving nothing; they are suffering from casualties. Those casualties are increasing, not decreasing."
"We are determined to defeat them and destroy them on the walls of our capital, as we are determined to destroy their miserable armies in every Muslim spot."
This makes me wonder, is Darl playing the same role of the beloved Iraq Information Officer, announcing the death of SCO in a humorous way?
Non-sense! I live right next to a cellphone tower and use my microwave oven with the door open all the time! So far only my dog has died, and my fish is blind. But I'm perfectly healthy and am going to live another 100 years because of the advancement of medical technology. Argh! gotta stop and take care of my bleeding nose.
Gentoo kernels are usually pretty close to the the latest ones from kernel.org, and I haven't gotten much trouble with them, except once when I upgraded to 2.6.11, the agpgart module stopped working. But that was soon remedied by another kernel patch from gentoo.
I think the fact that linux kernels (and for that matter, BSD kernels also) are (almost) infinitely configurable makes it very hard to do regression tests. It is much easier to do regression tests when you have a fixed set of kernel options and a fixed set of hardware pieces. Stable distros can do this, because their released kernel has much less variables involved.
How this would affect who get their kernels from their distros? Most distros have periodic binary builds for stable kernels, and even source-distributions like gentoo have dedicated teams to monitor and patch stable kernels. So how much is this gonna affect us who just use the standard distro kernels? They've always seem pretty stable to me.
One can make the same arguement over the war on drugs. Why prosecute people who decide to consume narcotics when tobacco and alchohol are completely legal? Who's a greater evil, Mexican drug lords or monster tobacco/beer corporations (the former only exists because it is illegal to brew the drugs in America)? Don't mod me off-topic, because I'm coming back to the original debate. The truth is, they all have adverse social effects, but the politicians can only tackle the problems that are "politically correct/safe/popular."
It's not as cheap as $100. If the story submitter had RTFA, the card itself costs $150, and that doesn't include the cost of equipping it with 4GB RAM, which costs around $90X4=$360. The total cost comes out to be $510.
That's the same for PCI and heck lot of other IEEE standards.
Well I didn't read the spec of EFI, but I took a look at openfirmware's website, and the first thing that I read was openfirmware is IEEE1275 standard, but is WITHDRAWN by IEEE. Could that be the reason of EFI, or the result? Another possible explanation is that microsoft wants more control of this, and they know they can get it because no standards like this can fly without them.
The link given in the story is bad. There's a good story listed in yahoo news: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ibd/20050 720/bs_ibd_ibd/2005720tech01
You didn't read his comments correctly. What he said is that OS X kernel is a variant of Unix. You are right that Linux is not a variant of Unix, but you are wrong about the fact that Linux is not POSIX compliant. In fact Linux is (mostly) POSIX compliant, and one of the allegations that SCO made against IBM is that IBM helped making Linux POSIC-compliant (which of course is BS).
You also contradicted yourself by saying that "(Linux) acts like Unix," because to "act like Unix" you must be POSIX-compliant.
Lastly, stop definition GNU as if you were Richard Stallman! Everybody either knows what it means or can look it up themselves. You are making a fool of yourself.
There used to be a distro called peanut linux, which was based on vector linux. It's a small distro that fits in a ~200MB iso and it came with enlightenment (no KDE or Gnome). It ran pretty smoothly on my old P3-600MHz workstation. Not sure if the distro still exists today, thought.