I'm getting excited because I run linux and winex on my G450, which doesn't even have a GPU. But the pricetag will have to drop a few hundred and winex 3.0 will have to be released before I'll be looking to replace mine.
Besides its all a moot point anyway. In the next year or two of software releases all of this stuff will integrate nicely. And when we can finally require all systems to be upgraded to Solaris 9 or later we can begin to standardize on the GNU tools that will never be unsupported. Things are integrating nicely. Now if only we could get companies to standardize on the Mac for desktops it'd make all our jobs that much easier.
But the price of ads are still based on the laws of economics. If there is no supply (of viewers) then there won't be as much demand for ad time and as a result the prices will have to drop and the stations will suffer. The question is not will companies lose money but is it a bad thing. Cable companies and media companies in general have very monopolistic tendencies. Like oil companies, they want to control a market with limitted supply. But with digital technology there is now unlimitted supply of content, similar to what is happening (albeit very slowly: no funding) with alternative energy sources and technologies. Eventually this trend will catch on and people will just step around the AOLs and AT&Ts of the world. But until then they're a 900 pound gorilla throwing their weight around. I'm just glad their throwing it into products that will naturally fail and cost them a lot of money instead of into legislation to hold back progress.
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Ah, American soceity is protecting what it percieves as its children. There are some societies that understand sexuality and don't have such absolute laws. In Holland, for example, I heard anyone over the age of 13 is a consenting adult. Personally I feel it is the responsibility of the parent to protect their children. But American's tend to not agree.
That being said I understand where you are coming from. But I have an 18 year old sister. Just because its legal for her to have sex doesn't mean its ok. She's pregnant. How did this happen? Not enough sexual education? I know she has attended at least a couple classes in high school. This is the result of a lack of parental responsibility and the bombardment of lies about drugs and sex that our media sends to our kids with the government's support. Sometimes I think she'd be better off if she grew up in a different country with a different family that wasn't raised on American values.
Understanding Radiation (from pothead's memory): An outside force reacts with that A/T base pairs of your DNA, mostly T/U if I remember correctly. Modifies your genetic code, which uses 3 of the base pairs to build an amino acid, which later makes up proteins, etc. Think of amino acids like they are bits in a CD, and the body has very little error correction. So when some of those bits get modified by radiation it can randomly change the data that those bits made up. We just hope that important OS specific data doesn't get modified or else we end up with cancer.
And refuse to do business with countries that grant patents.
Re:Society Only Appreciates Scientists In Movies
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I agree. But there are a lot of adults that aren't mentally or physically ready to be exposed to sex or drugs. The time when it is appropriate is different for each of us. But if we didn't have all these hangups about sex I bet it wouldn't hurt a 16 year old to experiment with some cute older lady he meets innocently and consentually. Nor would it hurt a 19 year old to wait a few years before experimenting. I fear that most people don't know the truth about sex or drugs and all these lies they've been told will only cause problems when they become adults and attempt to act grown up. No one should ever have to fight in a war. That is NOT part of life. And driving a car is one of the rare situations when extreme responsibility is required. Something only an adult can provide. But that's not to say that a 14 year old can't be that responsible or carry adult status, while a 22 year old might still be immature and irresponsible.
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Actually nothing prevents you or anyone else from walking into a busy shopping mall and firing a gun in the air. Even the most strict laws and the best police force could not prevent such a thing. If you wanted to do that. Safety is an illusion. It always has been and always will be. Freedom is not.
Too few freedoms? Political dissent: voting for a non bi-partisan party. Property: taxes due to the states on all property. Who do you think own your property? The public with one voice can take back any freedoms it chooses. A person does not have that liberty. How much freedom would you give up to exist peacefully with your neighbors?
I would choose to move before I would give up my freedom of speech or right to bare arms. And if those were taken from me and I could not find a place on this earth to get them back I might just take it out on the closest society, depending on circumstance.
The answer is relatively simple. In a free society everyone can do whatever they want as long as they don't hurt anyone else. If they hurt someone else they need to face legal consequences for their actions, these have already been drawn out in laws. Its really that simple. Unfortunately corporations would like to punish people when they haven't hurt anyone, and that's where the conflict with freedom comes in.
To relate this back to the topic, its like human error when administrating computers. Computers can be secured with enough planning by competent engineers. However, when Joe Smith works on his system he likes to enable telnet and several other security holes because he doesn't know any better. Similarly we have many politicians voting for laws that take freedoms away from citizens because they're playing Joe Smith, skimming over the bills and voting whichever way makes them the most money because they don't know any better. Its not about money. Its about happiness, life and liberty. But this is what you get when you let your finance department run your networks.
Doesn't it seem ironic that now Hollywood and the MPAA, a set of corporations which I heard were largely controlled by Jewish interests, promotes something almost as fascist as Nazism.
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I for one find "kid rape" highly disgusting
Interesting. I find "adult/kid sex" highly arousing, my feelings towards rape depend on its nature ("scene" vs. "nonconsensual"). Although I'd never have sex with a minor because it is illegal. I was a kid once, believe it or not, and I thought about having sex with adults, then. I fail to see how it would have hurt me as long as they didn't nonconsentually rape me. I think its important to be brutally honest about this topic.
Re:Artistic and Theft are not mutually exclusive
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Its not entirely the same thing. Lets say you took a few words from stephen king's book and mixed those with a few words from tom clancy's. Would that be plagiarism? Music is mixxed, digitally processed (meaning modified by running through digital filters like reverb, distortion, delay, etc.), chopped up, looped, and overlayed on top of other noise. The end product is almost nothing like the original carrying with it a entirely different tone and meaning.
Of course its immoral. But when did you ever think business had anything to do with morals? There's a reason they teach a business ethics. Because business doesn't necessarily have to be conducted ethically. And thus we have monopolies and anti-trust legislation, anti-competitive corps, and generally the most greedy people on earth running the show. Is it right or wrong? Does it matter? How much money did you make? Because that's what its all about.... in the words of a very famous CEO. *sigh*
For some reason top doesn't always give me an acurate readout of how much ram my system is using. I prefer to use gtop or gkrellm. Gkrellm says I use about 128MB of RAM running GNOME with a KDE app or two running, galeon, open office, starcraft/winex, and maybe an extra X session with alpha centauri. I have yet to max out the 256MB of RAM or use a significant amount of swap. Short of creating a 12800x10240 image in the gimp (while running all that other shit) nothing touches swap. 256MB is all I'll ever need.:)
Why is death so sickening? I view it as the natural conclusion to life. People are free to do what they want, that's part of freedom, including smoking a substance that may kill them. Why is that so sickening to you? Why do you care if I die young or not? You like your freedom, don't you? I am more concerned about the taxes I pay to help these people survive an extra week or two. I'd rather they died off young if they can't afford the medical costs to replace their lungs or stop their cancer. Every pack tells them they'll get cancer and die, what more do they need?
That being said I'm not against smoking an occational cigarette or joint or dropping a sheet of acid. Everyone is going to do what they want to do whether we want them to or not. Its more important for us to stop lying to ourselves than it is to prevent every early death. Life must be lived and experienced, not forced upon you. We should encourage life without drugs, including alcohol, cigarettes and caffeine in a positive and fun manner instead of punishing the people doing things you disagree with. No one will like you if you keep doing that to them.
Or, well, that's what I think.
I prefer cheap PC solutions. I'd build a network of AMD based systems because they are the best price/performance I can find. Design the network with redundancy and fault-tolerance in mind. Make it scalable by clusterring systems wherever possible. Load balancing and routing through linux boxen isn't that difficult. Dynamic DNS and DHCP isn't that difficult. Security isn't that difficult. Most of your effort should go into initially planning the net, writing scripts to automate it, then managing the rate of hardware failure once it is in place and operational. With cheap PCs you can afford to keep in stock an extra set of hardware to match the failures and spend your time finding the most durable hardware for the price. Your managers and share holders will thank you for the tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands you'll save them, then turn around and waste it on your salery.;)
But why go through all the trouble for software you have to pay for? I only use software that has license agreements I can accept and agree with. If you don't agree don't buy the software.
They did. The value Netscape had was its employees. Once AOL took over they partnerred with Sun to create Iplanet with about half the netscape employees. And that startup was one of the first dotcoms to crash. Then they laid off a large chunk of those and sold some buildings to Verisign and maybe HP. They did a fine job exploiting Netscape. At least mozilla was open sourced before AOL got ahold of it.
Actually they are the same. What needs to happen first is the destruction of the software and content industries via the GNU model. This will get rid of the microsofts of the world. Once hundreds of thousands of programmers and sys admins are laid off and can't find work then we'll have a major crisis on our hands. Those hundreds of thousands of intelligent educated people will find jobs in other sectors, replacing jobs for lesser educated people, who will in turn be unemployed. But what all this means is more and more intelligent people will make less and less money because of competition and market forces. Eventually one day some of them will learn that money is based off the work they do (or did), and now that their company has computers to do that work (that cost considerably less than a person) they'll replace those people and collect the money. Its like getting rid of the middle men where the middle men are the slave laborers like you and me.
What I'd like to see happen is a bunch of these brilliant people figure this out before it happens and go off to start their own businesses that operate not on money but on a model similar to open source. (We'll give you all the food your employees need if you give us these resources so we can make it, etc...) If we networked everything together and eliminated money from the process we'd have no taxes and no innefficient costs in managing money, marketting, advertising, etc.
Think of it more like booting linux from loadlin. When you run win.com it loads windows which then takes control and uses its own drivers for hardware access instead of the old slow DOS bios calls. Linux does the same thing when you boot it from loadlin, but at least Linux doesn't NEED something as lame as DOS to run. I love how M$ lies all the time. I get such a kick out of hearing that they removed DOS from win98 and integrated the browser into the OS.
Not to mention all the kernel patches and technical work he has to deal with on a daily basis. And he has kids, too? Most people I know go insane just from the kids.
Yeah, but even though you are microwaving your body on a power of 1 you are still microwaving your body. And once you get cancer its too late. The way I look at this is similar to cell phones. If someone gets a brain tumor using a cell phone its their own damned fault. We've all been warned. But if you're affraid of UWB you should really be scared of 802.11a, often with ranges up to 10 miles. Imagine the radiation. Do you think a wireless internet is worth it? I do. *evil grin*
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When it first came out it was heavily marketted at the gaming market.
I'm getting excited because I run linux and winex on my G450, which doesn't even have a GPU. But the pricetag will have to drop a few hundred and winex 3.0 will have to be released before I'll be looking to replace mine.
Besides its all a moot point anyway. In the next year or two of software releases all of this stuff will integrate nicely. And when we can finally require all systems to be upgraded to Solaris 9 or later we can begin to standardize on the GNU tools that will never be unsupported. Things are integrating nicely. Now if only we could get companies to standardize on the Mac for desktops it'd make all our jobs that much easier.
But the price of ads are still based on the laws of economics. If there is no supply (of viewers) then there won't be as much demand for ad time and as a result the prices will have to drop and the stations will suffer. The question is not will companies lose money but is it a bad thing. Cable companies and media companies in general have very monopolistic tendencies. Like oil companies, they want to control a market with limitted supply. But with digital technology there is now unlimitted supply of content, similar to what is happening (albeit very slowly: no funding) with alternative energy sources and technologies. Eventually this trend will catch on and people will just step around the AOLs and AT&Ts of the world. But until then they're a 900 pound gorilla throwing their weight around. I'm just glad their throwing it into products that will naturally fail and cost them a lot of money instead of into legislation to hold back progress.
Ah, American soceity is protecting what it percieves as its children. There are some societies that understand sexuality and don't have such absolute laws. In Holland, for example, I heard anyone over the age of 13 is a consenting adult. Personally I feel it is the responsibility of the parent to protect their children. But American's tend to not agree.
That being said I understand where you are coming from. But I have an 18 year old sister. Just because its legal for her to have sex doesn't mean its ok. She's pregnant. How did this happen? Not enough sexual education? I know she has attended at least a couple classes in high school. This is the result of a lack of parental responsibility and the bombardment of lies about drugs and sex that our media sends to our kids with the government's support. Sometimes I think she'd be better off if she grew up in a different country with a different family that wasn't raised on American values.
Understanding Radiation (from pothead's memory): An outside force reacts with that A/T base pairs of your DNA, mostly T/U if I remember correctly. Modifies your genetic code, which uses 3 of the base pairs to build an amino acid, which later makes up proteins, etc. Think of amino acids like they are bits in a CD, and the body has very little error correction. So when some of those bits get modified by radiation it can randomly change the data that those bits made up. We just hope that important OS specific data doesn't get modified or else we end up with cancer.
And refuse to do business with countries that grant patents.
I agree. But there are a lot of adults that aren't mentally or physically ready to be exposed to sex or drugs. The time when it is appropriate is different for each of us. But if we didn't have all these hangups about sex I bet it wouldn't hurt a 16 year old to experiment with some cute older lady he meets innocently and consentually. Nor would it hurt a 19 year old to wait a few years before experimenting. I fear that most people don't know the truth about sex or drugs and all these lies they've been told will only cause problems when they become adults and attempt to act grown up. No one should ever have to fight in a war. That is NOT part of life. And driving a car is one of the rare situations when extreme responsibility is required. Something only an adult can provide. But that's not to say that a 14 year old can't be that responsible or carry adult status, while a 22 year old might still be immature and irresponsible.
Actually nothing prevents you or anyone else from walking into a busy shopping mall and firing a gun in the air. Even the most strict laws and the best police force could not prevent such a thing. If you wanted to do that. Safety is an illusion. It always has been and always will be. Freedom is not.
Too few freedoms? Political dissent: voting for a non bi-partisan party. Property: taxes due to the states on all property. Who do you think own your property? The public with one voice can take back any freedoms it chooses. A person does not have that liberty. How much freedom would you give up to exist peacefully with your neighbors?
I would choose to move before I would give up my freedom of speech or right to bare arms. And if those were taken from me and I could not find a place on this earth to get them back I might just take it out on the closest society, depending on circumstance.
The answer is relatively simple. In a free society everyone can do whatever they want as long as they don't hurt anyone else. If they hurt someone else they need to face legal consequences for their actions, these have already been drawn out in laws. Its really that simple. Unfortunately corporations would like to punish people when they haven't hurt anyone, and that's where the conflict with freedom comes in.
To relate this back to the topic, its like human error when administrating computers. Computers can be secured with enough planning by competent engineers. However, when Joe Smith works on his system he likes to enable telnet and several other security holes because he doesn't know any better. Similarly we have many politicians voting for laws that take freedoms away from citizens because they're playing Joe Smith, skimming over the bills and voting whichever way makes them the most money because they don't know any better. Its not about money. Its about happiness, life and liberty. But this is what you get when you let your finance department run your networks.
Doesn't it seem ironic that now Hollywood and the MPAA, a set of corporations which I heard were largely controlled by Jewish interests, promotes something almost as fascist as Nazism.
Interesting. I find "adult/kid sex" highly arousing, my feelings towards rape depend on its nature ("scene" vs. "nonconsensual"). Although I'd never have sex with a minor because it is illegal. I was a kid once, believe it or not, and I thought about having sex with adults, then. I fail to see how it would have hurt me as long as they didn't nonconsentually rape me. I think its important to be brutally honest about this topic.
Its not entirely the same thing. Lets say you took a few words from stephen king's book and mixed those with a few words from tom clancy's. Would that be plagiarism? Music is mixxed, digitally processed (meaning modified by running through digital filters like reverb, distortion, delay, etc.), chopped up, looped, and overlayed on top of other noise. The end product is almost nothing like the original carrying with it a entirely different tone and meaning.
Of course its immoral. But when did you ever think business had anything to do with morals? There's a reason they teach a business ethics. Because business doesn't necessarily have to be conducted ethically. And thus we have monopolies and anti-trust legislation, anti-competitive corps, and generally the most greedy people on earth running the show. Is it right or wrong? Does it matter? How much money did you make? Because that's what its all about.... in the words of a very famous CEO. *sigh*
For some reason top doesn't always give me an acurate readout of how much ram my system is using. I prefer to use gtop or gkrellm. Gkrellm says I use about 128MB of RAM running GNOME with a KDE app or two running, galeon, open office, starcraft/winex, and maybe an extra X session with alpha centauri. I have yet to max out the 256MB of RAM or use a significant amount of swap. Short of creating a 12800x10240 image in the gimp (while running all that other shit) nothing touches swap. 256MB is all I'll ever need. :)
Why is death so sickening? I view it as the natural conclusion to life. People are free to do what they want, that's part of freedom, including smoking a substance that may kill them. Why is that so sickening to you? Why do you care if I die young or not? You like your freedom, don't you? I am more concerned about the taxes I pay to help these people survive an extra week or two. I'd rather they died off young if they can't afford the medical costs to replace their lungs or stop their cancer. Every pack tells them they'll get cancer and die, what more do they need?
That being said I'm not against smoking an occational cigarette or joint or dropping a sheet of acid. Everyone is going to do what they want to do whether we want them to or not. Its more important for us to stop lying to ourselves than it is to prevent every early death. Life must be lived and experienced, not forced upon you. We should encourage life without drugs, including alcohol, cigarettes and caffeine in a positive and fun manner instead of punishing the people doing things you disagree with. No one will like you if you keep doing that to them.
Or, well, that's what I think.
And you do business with these types of people?
I prefer cheap PC solutions. I'd build a network of AMD based systems because they are the best price/performance I can find. Design the network with redundancy and fault-tolerance in mind. Make it scalable by clusterring systems wherever possible. Load balancing and routing through linux boxen isn't that difficult. Dynamic DNS and DHCP isn't that difficult. Security isn't that difficult. Most of your effort should go into initially planning the net, writing scripts to automate it, then managing the rate of hardware failure once it is in place and operational. With cheap PCs you can afford to keep in stock an extra set of hardware to match the failures and spend your time finding the most durable hardware for the price. Your managers and share holders will thank you for the tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands you'll save them, then turn around and waste it on your salery. ;)
Don't we all make fun of every AOL user we come across.
;)
I know I do.
But why go through all the trouble for software you have to pay for? I only use software that has license agreements I can accept and agree with. If you don't agree don't buy the software.
They did. The value Netscape had was its employees. Once AOL took over they partnerred with Sun to create Iplanet with about half the netscape employees. And that startup was one of the first dotcoms to crash. Then they laid off a large chunk of those and sold some buildings to Verisign and maybe HP. They did a fine job exploiting Netscape. At least mozilla was open sourced before AOL got ahold of it.
I think part of the problem is you can sue them for anything at anytime.
Actually they are the same. What needs to happen first is the destruction of the software and content industries via the GNU model. This will get rid of the microsofts of the world. Once hundreds of thousands of programmers and sys admins are laid off and can't find work then we'll have a major crisis on our hands. Those hundreds of thousands of intelligent educated people will find jobs in other sectors, replacing jobs for lesser educated people, who will in turn be unemployed. But what all this means is more and more intelligent people will make less and less money because of competition and market forces. Eventually one day some of them will learn that money is based off the work they do (or did), and now that their company has computers to do that work (that cost considerably less than a person) they'll replace those people and collect the money. Its like getting rid of the middle men where the middle men are the slave laborers like you and me.
What I'd like to see happen is a bunch of these brilliant people figure this out before it happens and go off to start their own businesses that operate not on money but on a model similar to open source. (We'll give you all the food your employees need if you give us these resources so we can make it, etc...) If we networked everything together and eliminated money from the process we'd have no taxes and no innefficient costs in managing money, marketting, advertising, etc.
Ya, I know, that's crazy.
Think of it more like booting linux from loadlin. When you run win.com it loads windows which then takes control and uses its own drivers for hardware access instead of the old slow DOS bios calls. Linux does the same thing when you boot it from loadlin, but at least Linux doesn't NEED something as lame as DOS to run. I love how M$ lies all the time. I get such a kick out of hearing that they removed DOS from win98 and integrated the browser into the OS.
Not to mention all the kernel patches and technical work he has to deal with on a daily basis. And he has kids, too? Most people I know go insane just from the kids.
Yeah, but even though you are microwaving your body on a power of 1 you are still microwaving your body. And once you get cancer its too late. The way I look at this is similar to cell phones. If someone gets a brain tumor using a cell phone its their own damned fault. We've all been warned. But if you're affraid of UWB you should really be scared of 802.11a, often with ranges up to 10 miles. Imagine the radiation. Do you think a wireless internet is worth it? I do. *evil grin*