But why would we want an authority presiding over the definition of open source software? Because if we don't have one, the name will be abused? It's not like OSI could ever stop MS from calling Vista open source... and if it ever became able to do that, it would mean OSI has gained political power. Do you want that? Yet another incompetent, worthless, abusive, governmental (but I repeat myself) burden on your life?
How about we let the industry sort his out, like it's currently doing, and quite successfully to boot? Don't you realize this is purely a power grab?
Actually he said "after crime" not "after theft", so we were not discussing TFA strictly. I was thinking of killing as a resort against aggression rather than theft. Then again, myabe I remember you, you must be one of those ultrasocialists who think we can "save" criminals by exposing them to pictures of cute kittens.
Besides, if anyone starts a fight, he knows (or should have known) that you just *don't play with violence*. If you raise your hands on someone, you should, no you MUST expect lethal force being used against you. But people who don't have a martial mentality can't understand this. They are also the ones who tend to start fights.
Finally: get rid of all those ridiculous "In my own personal opinion"; either state facts or get lost. What happens in your mind is of no interest.
It's inexcusable Oh really? According to *you*, and certainly many other people. But don't go around parading like what you said is some kind of absolute truth, unless you're willing to back it up with adequate proof.
Well, at the end of the day you can't build with physical objects, even as tiny as atoms, a perfectly spherical shape. So this point is moot anyway. They probably meant "more precise than ever created".
Oh really. There is "no way to diagnose it" yet it happens. And you know this *how exactly*? How can you know, if by your own words it can't be detected?
The way I see it, if your company wants to start activities in another country, it has two choices: either respect their laws or keep out of there. So, if Google China wants to actually exist, it'll need to put up with whatever laws affect Chinese corporations. I would *like* Western enterpreneurs not to help an oppressive gov't like China's, but at the same time I don't want any laws preventing them from doing so. Then again, if I had the chance to make a ton of money by selling stuff to the Chinese, what the heck, I might do so, who knows. It's easy to be a good guy when you're not tempted.
Anyway, in the long run, things will smooth out. Just like some poster pointed out, nothing will happen as long as their economy behaves like a bull on speed; real issues pop up in times of trouble, so wait for a recession to see some changes.
Yeah right I must be dreaming then because I distinctly remember Norton and McAfee screaming bloody murder over a totally legit kernel lockdown, while everybody else seemed to keep working on their AV products just fine.
Well, I never claimed I had scientifically accurate data about the preferences of/. It's not rocket science, so I won't blow my budget of wasted time by conducting accurate studies on this subject.
The majority of/. *seems not to dislike* these articles as much as has been claimed; otherwise they wouldn't be voted up in the firehose and the editors would stop accepting them. Is that too all-encompassing now?
No, what makes you think so? I simply think that the fact that articles like this keep appearing and that people use BugMeNot to read them mean that registration-only content is not disliked by the majority of/. You must have missed the AC I was replying to.
I'm reminded of the utter ripoff I felt when I saw the last episodes of Neon Genesis Evangelion. GAAAH the pain! The agony! Why did you have to bring this up? Back then, I felt so deceived. Later on, after the trembling and self-clutching and the head-against-wall-bouncing, I started to think better of NGE's ending. NGE's main themes had been perception of self, identity crisis, fear of abandonment etc. for the whole series. Sure, I didn't like it when they did not bother to explain anything about the background story, but the movies make up for that.
That said, GO AYANAMI <3 <3 <3
Well what do you suggest then? Send in the troops? Strategic bombing? And of *which* side, by the way? Sanctions? International scorn? Humour? Kind requests that they stop because we don't like what happens there?
On a more serious note: *anything* we (who is this "we", besides) do will be condemned and "we" will be hated for it. Anytime a civilized country invades another country, it is heavily criticized by ideologists of all kinds. And face it, sending into foreign territory any kind of armed hostile *is* an invasion.
There are two scenarios here: either you invade and try to fix things, telling the world to suck it up because you're better than anyone else and know what you're doing, or you let this happen without intervening. The international backlash in the first scenario would be humungous, plus in the span of 1 week you'd have all kinds of parasites tagging along with your mission, salvaging and causing further havoc.
Finally: how would you justify invading Sudan vs e.g. Tibet? Tibet doesn't even exist anymore as the sovereign state it was. Yet I don't hear any whining from the usual suspects in our gov'ts.
Wowzer. Like it takes that much effort to crack a locally accessible box. But I've seen worse. Like interns chatting on MSN, totally oblivious to the fact that the program was logging all their conversations. It made for some fun reading by the people in that office, I've been told. (To their defense, they didn't know that the program was set up like that and only found out later)
Dislike? What makes you think the EU courts dislike MS? MS can be milked for years and years, providing either steady cash flow for those pathetic excuses for governments we have over here or nice gifts to the politicians involved in the court cases. What's not to like about MS?
I agree that some people make an obsession out of squeezing the most OCing or cooling out of their computers. Normal people like me, however, like to have a silent computer and you just can't compare something like a Zalman to a stock cooler, noisewise. Besides, it looks good in my windowed case at LAN parties:)
30 FPS under normal load mean 1 FPS during the first explosion, and horribly torn frames during fast movement. I for one will not put up with that. All you need is a $100 7600GT and you can play all kind of games very well. Why put up with horrible performance?
So not sure what they mean but redesigning. What would be nice is to make the windows kernel truly preemptive multitasking. I like how in Linux you can kill -9 a rogue program, but when a program crashes in windows it takes the whole system down. Never happened to me Ctrl-alt-delete (kill process) how often does it really kill the process vs hanging the system. Always, if you use Process Explorer rather than the pathetic task manager bundled with the OS. Unsusprisingly it's been bought my MS now.
Spam obviously *annoys* you, so you spend on appropriate countermeasures. Subtraction of, say, a notebook damages you. A knife in your body tends to kill you. The first "damage" is self-inflicted, the other ones are not. So, spam is not theft. By that logic, noisy cars in the road are stealing my time and money, because I choose to install thicker windows.
I don't know, even though I admin a mail server and I loathe spam like you can't begin to imagine, I still think spamming can't be worse than physical violence or, anyway, physical acts such as stealing. Besides, you seem to lump together the spamming activity and the infrastructure building activity (infecting boxes, setting up botnets, etc) - the latter is of course much more damaging but still it does not enter the physical realm. I'm still a bit conflicted about this.
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But why would we want an authority presiding over the definition of open source software? Because if we don't have one, the name will be abused? It's not like OSI could ever stop MS from calling Vista open source... and if it ever became able to do that, it would mean OSI has gained political power. Do you want that? Yet another incompetent, worthless, abusive, governmental (but I repeat myself) burden on your life?
How about we let the industry sort his out, like it's currently doing, and quite successfully to boot? Don't you realize this is purely a power grab?
Actually he said "after crime" not "after theft", so we were not discussing TFA strictly. I was thinking of killing as a resort against aggression rather than theft. Then again, myabe I remember you, you must be one of those ultrasocialists who think we can "save" criminals by exposing them to pictures of cute kittens.
Besides, if anyone starts a fight, he knows (or should have known) that you just *don't play with violence*. If you raise your hands on someone, you should, no you MUST expect lethal force being used against you. But people who don't have a martial mentality can't understand this. They are also the ones who tend to start fights.
Finally: get rid of all those ridiculous "In my own personal opinion"; either state facts or get lost. What happens in your mind is of no interest.
Well, at the end of the day you can't build with physical objects, even as tiny as atoms, a perfectly spherical shape. So this point is moot anyway. They probably meant "more precise than ever created".
Oh really. There is "no way to diagnose it" yet it happens. And you know this *how exactly*? How can you know, if by your own words it can't be detected?
Erm, that only nets you 20K, not 200K. So, no, it's not doable by the middle class.
The way I see it, if your company wants to start activities in another country, it has two choices: either respect their laws or keep out of there. So, if Google China wants to actually exist, it'll need to put up with whatever laws affect Chinese corporations. I would *like* Western enterpreneurs not to help an oppressive gov't like China's, but at the same time I don't want any laws preventing them from doing so. Then again, if I had the chance to make a ton of money by selling stuff to the Chinese, what the heck, I might do so, who knows. It's easy to be a good guy when you're not tempted.
Anyway, in the long run, things will smooth out. Just like some poster pointed out, nothing will happen as long as their economy behaves like a bull on speed; real issues pop up in times of trouble, so wait for a recession to see some changes.
Yeah right I must be dreaming then because I distinctly remember Norton and McAfee screaming bloody murder over a totally legit kernel lockdown, while everybody else seemed to keep working on their AV products just fine.
No, what makes you think so? I simply think that the fact that articles like this keep appearing and that people use BugMeNot to read them mean that registration-only content is not disliked by the majority of /. You must have missed the AC I was replying to.
Articles like this keep appearing and people readily use BugMeNot. That's quite telling.
Fine. *I*, on the other hand, am. And apparently most people around here agree.
That said, GO AYANAMI <3 <3 <3
Well what do you suggest then? Send in the troops? Strategic bombing? And of *which* side, by the way? Sanctions? International scorn? Humour? Kind requests that they stop because we don't like what happens there?
On a more serious note: *anything* we (who is this "we", besides) do will be condemned and "we" will be hated for it. Anytime a civilized country invades another country, it is heavily criticized by ideologists of all kinds. And face it, sending into foreign territory any kind of armed hostile *is* an invasion.
There are two scenarios here: either you invade and try to fix things, telling the world to suck it up because you're better than anyone else and know what you're doing, or you let this happen without intervening. The international backlash in the first scenario would be humungous, plus in the span of 1 week you'd have all kinds of parasites tagging along with your mission, salvaging and causing further havoc.
Finally: how would you justify invading Sudan vs e.g. Tibet? Tibet doesn't even exist anymore as the sovereign state it was. Yet I don't hear any whining from the usual suspects in our gov'ts.
Wowzer. Like it takes that much effort to crack a locally accessible box. But I've seen worse. Like interns chatting on MSN, totally oblivious to the fact that the program was logging all their conversations. It made for some fun reading by the people in that office, I've been told. (To their defense, they didn't know that the program was set up like that and only found out later)
Dislike? What makes you think the EU courts dislike MS? MS can be milked for years and years, providing either steady cash flow for those pathetic excuses for governments we have over here or nice gifts to the politicians involved in the court cases. What's not to like about MS?
I agree that some people make an obsession out of squeezing the most OCing or cooling out of their computers. Normal people like me, however, like to have a silent computer and you just can't compare something like a Zalman to a stock cooler, noisewise. Besides, it looks good in my windowed case at LAN parties :)
30 FPS under normal load mean 1 FPS during the first explosion, and horribly torn frames during fast movement. I for one will not put up with that. All you need is a $100 7600GT and you can play all kind of games very well. Why put up with horrible performance?
Watch the extended edition, man. There's no throat-cutting but still it's better than the theatrical edition.
re: your sig. software patents delendae sunt. thanks.
Spam obviously *annoys* you, so you spend on appropriate countermeasures. Subtraction of, say, a notebook damages you. A knife in your body tends to kill you. The first "damage" is self-inflicted, the other ones are not. So, spam is not theft. By that logic, noisy cars in the road are stealing my time and money, because I choose to install thicker windows.
I don't know, even though I admin a mail server and I loathe spam like you can't begin to imagine, I still think spamming can't be worse than physical violence or, anyway, physical acts such as stealing. Besides, you seem to lump together the spamming activity and the infrastructure building activity (infecting boxes, setting up botnets, etc) - the latter is of course much more damaging but still it does not enter the physical realm. I'm still a bit conflicted about this.
Criminals, as opposed to e.g. children or bullies