I think we've stumbled onto a much more important thing than news about a buyout. Why does slashdot suck it up in the unicode department? CmdrTaco, we await your defense.
By default torrent includes a list of torrent search engines. It's as if the developers are encouraging piracy rather than hiding behind the pretense that people can use the software for legitimate stuff. I reckon most bittorrent users, like me, use the protocol and their favorite client way more often for pirating music, movies, and porn than for downloading legitimate stuff.
If it excites water you'd damn well better have some eye protection. The eyes have a ton of water in them, and if you were to cause rapid heating in them you could cause intense pain in the sensitive corneal area and possibly permanent problems with the eyeballs' innards. This weapon is terribly inhumane, as prolonged, intense exposure could easily cause blindness. I do not want somebody pointing such a thing at me and making my eyeballs pop.
There was a massive nerd-rush for the following products after an effective slashvertisement: Mercedes', BMWs and Cadillacs; Japanese and Harley Davidson motorcycles; Hennessy XO and Johnny Walker. When asked for a comment, one nerd replied, "I had no idea there were products other than iPods and Segways. Mr. Kim has really opened my eyes to the new world of non-computing-related consumerism."
Beating and spanking are different. I know lots of adults who were spanked as children. I know a few who were whipped with switches or belts. I have known one who was actually beaten to the point that they sustained more than a slight bruise. The adults who were spanked and whipped mostly respect a certain amount of physical punishment as an effective method. The girl I know who was beaten by her father has hated him for years. While it would certainly be a slippery slope deciding how much physical abuse is alright as punishment, this kind of thing as it stand should be decided on a case-by-case basis. There's a difference, no matter how contrived the saying, "This is going to hurt me more than it hurts you," sounds, between punishing children and beating them for stress relief and/or enjoyment.
With that said, the guy's actions sound like those of a reprimand; his reasons, however, sound like he's doing it for his personal enjoyment. I'm not a Christian, but I'm fairly sure it's not the Christian way to beat religion into kids.
If you get something running topped-out it may produce some waste heat. Thin chips with only a few layers can rely on a large, flat piece of some kind of substrate attached to a big heat sink and fan. If you make a cube-shaped processor, the innermost parts' heat will have to be dissipated through many other layers of working parts, creating a temperature gradient within the processor. If the innermost parts must be kept below a certain temperature, the outermost must be kept well below that temperature to allow for thermal conduction and the whole thing will have to run very cool relative to today's chips.
I ran windows 2000 on a 133 MHz pentium 3 with 64 MB RAM and it was able to run a quake 3 server for 7 players with local pings of about 100. While by no means the kind of ping you'd expect on a LAN, it was sufficient. The computer was an NEC that came bundled with windows 95 and microsoft bob way back in the day, so I don't think it was any kind of overly fancy miracle setup.
I know I can't play hot new video games on a 133 MHz pentium, but it does run windows 2000 just fine. I reckon it would run XP a bit slowly. It runs xubuntu like a champ. Except for a few utility-oriented operating systems, most new ones are designed for new hardware. It's about time Microsoft give up on their ridiculous supporting-every-piece-of-hardware-from-the-last-d ecade legacy mentality. It's not so much about the age of the computer as it is about the ability to support all of the new doodads without taking up ridiculous amounts of space with unused drives.
For all of the shortcomings of IE, Microsoft does attempt to cover its ass to some degree. There are settings in IE which decide which goodies [javascript, (un)signed activex controls, etc.) can be run from which websites. When installing Server 2003, just about everything is out-of-bounds in the default IE. If Microsoft would advocate such tight controls by default on all Windows distributions, or even publish its own list of trusted 3rd-party sites, risks could be reduced. The malicious folks who take advantage of zero day exploits tend to be in the seedier parts of the tubes anyway.
The one area of Linux ownership and use where it becomes apparent that there's an assumption that everyone who uses Linux is an expert is hardware support.
How are we to take this article seriously with such awful writing? If I wrote "everyone who uses Linux is and expert is hardware support" in a paper for a grade I'd fail. I'm not sure everyone who uses the pretense of being a writer is an expert in use of the English language; I had assumed that people who are paid to write are held to a higher standard.
A famous bank robber said it did it because banks are "where the money is." I don't find this to be overly different. Technology is an industry where there is potential for rapid growth. If technology lobbyists are good enough, the politicians don't really need to know what they're doing. The government is a way for tech companies to sell stuff in high volume. Blame the companies for having excellent salesmen rather than talking bad on the politicians.
The process has not changed. Dapper, 6.06, is marked LTS for long term support. It has 3 years of support for the desktop flavor and 5 for the server, according to Canonical's website. Think of Edgy as a testing distribution; it has all of the new gizmos and doodads but will only be around for 6 months. It would not be practical to ship CDs of 6.10 if they will be obsolete long before support ends for the stable 6.06 version.
When I think Peter Gabriel my mind is instantly driven to the video for "Sledgehammer" with the stop motion animated food. With all of the Photoshopping talent online, why should the remix project stop with music alone? Music videos would likely be impressive as well.
A research computer I had been using for nearly a year ran MS Excel, some Hiden Mass Spectrometry software, and NI LabView. After installing service pack two, the thing broke. Each bit of software we were using had been released after SP2 came around, yet installing the service pack managed to break windows so badly that it had BSODs that it claimed were due to video driver problems. By wrapping too much together in service packs rather than allowing hundreds of incremental updates to individual problems, MS made a shoddy solution that is not only easy to roll out but difficult to remove. I've now had to switch back to using a Windows 2000 box with the data acquisition card moved from the XP box just to be able to do my research. If anything, Microsoft is shooting itself in the foot by making mass service packs rather than individual updates. The world of at-risk computers is wired well enough these days that 200 MB one-giant-size-fits-all updates aren't appropriate. My supervisor, who controls the budget for my research, is now looking at options for switching our licensing to allow us to use linux with a barebones distribution to run our equipment.
Laws often try to force-feed some kind of morality to the apathetic public. People pirate online because it is easy, not because it is right. I do not think heavy-handed fines are fitting for illegal theft and distribution just because the material being stolen is enormously overpriced; however, stealing is still wrong. While not everyone will agree on how much benefit certain people involved in the production and distribution of certain products should receive, there is no reason to deny everyone involved the opportunity to make a living. I know that [music/movies/software] I download are not my property, are obtained illegally, and could result in my being fined or imprisoned. Ask every person who bootlegs movies, music, or software to shoplift then distribute hard copies on CDR/DVDR/what-have-you. Piracy seems a lot more wrong when it's not so easy.
I thought Corel ate Wordperfect then failed in the non-free Linux distribution game. It's about time they stepped their game up into caching slashdottable sites.
Slashdot Mirror
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Nice one.
I think we've stumbled onto a much more important thing than news about a buyout. Why does slashdot suck it up in the unicode department? CmdrTaco, we await your defense.
By default torrent includes a list of torrent search engines. It's as if the developers are encouraging piracy rather than hiding behind the pretense that people can use the software for legitimate stuff. I reckon most bittorrent users, like me, use the protocol and their favorite client way more often for pirating music, movies, and porn than for downloading legitimate stuff.
If it excites water you'd damn well better have some eye protection. The eyes have a ton of water in them, and if you were to cause rapid heating in them you could cause intense pain in the sensitive corneal area and possibly permanent problems with the eyeballs' innards. This weapon is terribly inhumane, as prolonged, intense exposure could easily cause blindness. I do not want somebody pointing such a thing at me and making my eyeballs pop.
There was a massive nerd-rush for the following products after an effective slashvertisement:
Mercedes', BMWs and Cadillacs; Japanese and Harley Davidson motorcycles; Hennessy XO and Johnny Walker.
When asked for a comment, one nerd replied, "I had no idea there were products other than iPods and Segways. Mr. Kim has really opened my eyes to the new world of non-computing-related consumerism."
Beating and spanking are different. I know lots of adults who were spanked as children. I know a few who were whipped with switches or belts. I have known one who was actually beaten to the point that they sustained more than a slight bruise. The adults who were spanked and whipped mostly respect a certain amount of physical punishment as an effective method. The girl I know who was beaten by her father has hated him for years. While it would certainly be a slippery slope deciding how much physical abuse is alright as punishment, this kind of thing as it stand should be decided on a case-by-case basis. There's a difference, no matter how contrived the saying, "This is going to hurt me more than it hurts you," sounds, between punishing children and beating them for stress relief and/or enjoyment.
With that said, the guy's actions sound like those of a reprimand; his reasons, however, sound like he's doing it for his personal enjoyment. I'm not a Christian, but I'm fairly sure it's not the Christian way to beat religion into kids.
Shouldn't it be say:
Rodney King "trial"
instead of:
"Rodney King" trial
in the blurb?
If you get something running topped-out it may produce some waste heat. Thin chips with only a few layers can rely on a large, flat piece of some kind of substrate attached to a big heat sink and fan. If you make a cube-shaped processor, the innermost parts' heat will have to be dissipated through many other layers of working parts, creating a temperature gradient within the processor. If the innermost parts must be kept below a certain temperature, the outermost must be kept well below that temperature to allow for thermal conduction and the whole thing will have to run very cool relative to today's chips.
I ran windows 2000 on a 133 MHz pentium 3 with 64 MB RAM and it was able to run a quake 3 server for 7 players with local pings of about 100. While by no means the kind of ping you'd expect on a LAN, it was sufficient. The computer was an NEC that came bundled with windows 95 and microsoft bob way back in the day, so I don't think it was any kind of overly fancy miracle setup.
I know I can't play hot new video games on a 133 MHz pentium, but it does run windows 2000 just fine. I reckon it would run XP a bit slowly. It runs xubuntu like a champ. Except for a few utility-oriented operating systems, most new ones are designed for new hardware. It's about time Microsoft give up on their ridiculous supporting-every-piece-of-hardware-from-the-last-d ecade legacy mentality. It's not so much about the age of the computer as it is about the ability to support all of the new doodads without taking up ridiculous amounts of space with unused drives.
I, for one, welcome our non-discriminatory piggy and human loving overlords.
For all of the shortcomings of IE, Microsoft does attempt to cover its ass to some degree. There are settings in IE which decide which goodies [javascript, (un)signed activex controls, etc.) can be run from which websites. When installing Server 2003, just about everything is out-of-bounds in the default IE. If Microsoft would advocate such tight controls by default on all Windows distributions, or even publish its own list of trusted 3rd-party sites, risks could be reduced. The malicious folks who take advantage of zero day exploits tend to be in the seedier parts of the tubes anyway.
The one area of Linux ownership and use where it becomes apparent that there's an assumption that everyone who uses Linux is an expert is hardware support.
How are we to take this article seriously with such awful writing? If I wrote "everyone who uses Linux is and expert is hardware support" in a paper for a grade I'd fail. I'm not sure everyone who uses the pretense of being a writer is an expert in use of the English language; I had assumed that people who are paid to write are held to a higher standard.
is a "Preview" button. I should register for a patent for that little snippet of code.
Your response does not take into account: /.
( ) You're a bit uptight
(X) Tasteless jokes are common on
Additionally you should:
(X) Grow a sense of humor.
(X) Quit writing such long trollish posts.
(X) Have a nice day.
A few stingray barbs to the heart and they'll think twice about spamming.
A famous bank robber said it did it because banks are "where the money is." I don't find this to be overly different. Technology is an industry where there is potential for rapid growth. If technology lobbyists are good enough, the politicians don't really need to know what they're doing. The government is a way for tech companies to sell stuff in high volume. Blame the companies for having excellent salesmen rather than talking bad on the politicians.
Entirely offtopic, but how does a Julius Caesar reference fit here?
The process has not changed. Dapper, 6.06, is marked LTS for long term support. It has 3 years of support for the desktop flavor and 5 for the server, according to Canonical's website. Think of Edgy as a testing distribution; it has all of the new gizmos and doodads but will only be around for 6 months. It would not be practical to ship CDs of 6.10 if they will be obsolete long before support ends for the stable 6.06 version.
sudo sed -i "s/dapper/edgy/g" /etc/apt/sources.list && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
No worries. /. itself seems /.'d now. I for one welcome our 503 new overlords.
When I think Peter Gabriel my mind is instantly driven to the video for "Sledgehammer" with the stop motion animated food. With all of the Photoshopping talent online, why should the remix project stop with music alone? Music videos would likely be impressive as well.
A research computer I had been using for nearly a year ran MS Excel, some Hiden Mass Spectrometry software, and NI LabView. After installing service pack two, the thing broke. Each bit of software we were using had been released after SP2 came around, yet installing the service pack managed to break windows so badly that it had BSODs that it claimed were due to video driver problems. By wrapping too much together in service packs rather than allowing hundreds of incremental updates to individual problems, MS made a shoddy solution that is not only easy to roll out but difficult to remove. I've now had to switch back to using a Windows 2000 box with the data acquisition card moved from the XP box just to be able to do my research. If anything, Microsoft is shooting itself in the foot by making mass service packs rather than individual updates. The world of at-risk computers is wired well enough these days that 200 MB one-giant-size-fits-all updates aren't appropriate. My supervisor, who controls the budget for my research, is now looking at options for switching our licensing to allow us to use linux with a barebones distribution to run our equipment.
Laws often try to force-feed some kind of morality to the apathetic public. People pirate online because it is easy, not because it is right. I do not think heavy-handed fines are fitting for illegal theft and distribution just because the material being stolen is enormously overpriced; however, stealing is still wrong. While not everyone will agree on how much benefit certain people involved in the production and distribution of certain products should receive, there is no reason to deny everyone involved the opportunity to make a living. I know that [music/movies/software] I download are not my property, are obtained illegally, and could result in my being fined or imprisoned. Ask every person who bootlegs movies, music, or software to shoplift then distribute hard copies on CDR/DVDR/what-have-you. Piracy seems a lot more wrong when it's not so easy.
I thought Corel ate Wordperfect then failed in the non-free Linux distribution game. It's about time they stepped their game up into caching slashdottable sites.