I fear we are beginning to see the problems of diseases on capitalism really rearing their heads these days. The greed recently is overwhelming! Perhaps it is because most Western nations have lost their tangible manufacturing base to countries like India, Taiwan and China. Now instead of manufacturing goods, all that Western companies can do is manufacture "intellectual property". Since such "property", be it movies or music, isn't tangible in any way, it is often quite easy to reproduce and distribute. As such, these corporations and groups must resort to legalities to make a living.
Indeed, what we are seeing is a disease on capitalism and the free market. Our capitalism has been infected with intangible goods that are being treated as if they were tangible by the forces of law. The free market is not being allowed to work, and trouble is the result. Indeed, one cannot have an effective capitalistic society without a free market. Our free market has become diseased with intellectual property legalities, and as such fails to work to the benefit of society.
Links to the Mozilla Project's Bugzilla installation from Slashdot are disabled, you know.
Kids do read. But what they read is garbage.
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Kids do read, don't doubt that for a minute. But they read garbage. Garbage such as the postings at the forums at GameFAQs.com. Please, take a look for yourself. See the sub-standard level of English used there, often by children in elementary school.
They are reading the garbage put out by other youth like them, who are degenerate in the simple skills of reading and writing. Then those youth make their own posts, containing the same stupidity.
I am very happy that my children grew up in a world without the GameFAQs.com forums there to destroy their reading and writing skills. But it saddens me to know that my grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, will most likely be exposed to such educational shittery.
Thankfully my son knows that GameFAQs.com is not a place where a child should learn their basic life skills, and that is why he limits his son's usage of the forums there. And frankly, having conversed with my grandson via email, it was a good decision. My grandson is capable of correct spelling, correct grammar, and intelligent thought, all due to him being kept away from the idiocy of the GameFAQs.com forums.
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You're going into tenth grade, and you write English like that? Kid, you are a fucking disgrace. It's no wonder you can't handle Spanish; you struggle with your native language of English! You even managed to fuck up the spelling of "the". Way to go, cocktard.
And cockfools to the teachers who have promoted you over the years. They must be as moronic as you are.
Sir, you need a refresher on the definition of "terrorism" and "terrorist". Only once you understand the true meanings (ie. the ones not used by your American media) of those words can you discuss their use.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=terrorism terrorism
n. The unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons.
Indeed, notice that the very definition of "terrorism" applies perfectly well to the Blair government that has spoken out so loudly against the recent incidents in London.
The Blair government participated, along with the American government and those of numerous other nations, in the "unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence" (ie. war, bombardment, killings, torture, etc.) "by a person or an organized group" (ie. the Coalition of the Willing) "against people or property" (ie. Iraq, Afghanistan) "with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons" (ie. regime change, forced "democracy", giving up of natural resources, etc.).
Notice that the actions of such government fits the definition of "terrorism" perfectly. But of course you never see the media make mention of that fact. That is because the media, in cooperation with such governments, have distorted the use of such words. They have become buzzwords that are meant to evoke an intense emotional response, rather than accurately describe a situation. As such, any legitimate news organization whose main focus is to distribute the truth should not resort to the use of such buzzwords.
I think it is responsible of them to not refer to the perpetrators as "terrorists". These days "terrorist" is nothing more than a buzzword used by those politicians and businesspeople who participate in deceit and real-world trollery.
But in any case, I do respect the BBC's willingness to contribute back to society. They actively strive to promote the deployment of knowledge, rather than try to restrict and limit its dispersal. But that is most likely because their main goal is not profit. Maximizing profit will always be against what is best for society, as the externalities are not taken into account.
"Metrowerks recently sold its Intel x86 compiler and debugger technology to a third party. As a result, Metrowerks will no longer create and sell products that include this technology. Metrowerks will offer support for these products by hosting on-line discussions on newsgroups and on our web site.
This sale does not affect the right to use CodeWarrior or create x86 code by customers currently licensed to use CodeWarrior x86 compilers."
A database failure at a financial instituion won't lead to the deaths of numerous people. The financial losses will be massive, of course. So you know what, write such software in C or Java. Don't mathematically verify it.
C is not a safe language to write mission critical software in. That's just a fact of the language. Look at many of the flaws in existing software, for instance. It is too inherently vulnerable to make mistakes that could, in systems such as this coaster, result in death and severe injury. Even a language like Ada, which was designed to be used in such circumstances, may not provide adequate protection. Not that C shouldn't be used, but it shouldn't be used when people can die.
"Fail" in the sense that the riders are killed or maimed, or the ride itself is damaged or destroyed. They took into account the situation you described, so I wouldn't consider that a "failure".
And I agree, the hardware itself is probably very well engineered, with a very high degree of redundancy. It is the software I am worried about, knowing that software in general normally lacks such engineering. That is why I was wondering what techniques they used, such as line-by-line mathematical verification, to ensure the software would not be the cause of death or destruction.
Indeed, it was quite exciting. But unaccessible to the average PC user. The software itself cost quite a bit. That is why only admins were usually able to experience such things firsthand.
.. was developed? I mean, this is the sort of software that cannot fail. This is not where you use C. Even Ada might not be up to the task. People could very well die, if not become severely maimed, if this software were to fail. And the financial cost of failure to the park would be astronomical. Has each and every line of the software source code been mathematically verified, as is done with the software systems controlling and monitoring nuclear power plants?
As a former SCO system administrator, I'd say that UnixWare and OpenServer/OpenDesktop were some of the best PC UNIX systems I'd used. Until about 1993, that is. Before then they were fantastic. Far better than ESIX or Coherent or XENIX.
Indeed, it is interesting to consider the history the old SCO had with the Itanium chip. The failed Project Monterey, which involved providing a UNIX implementation targetting the Itanium platform, directly lead to many of the issues involving the new The SCO Group today.
Today I was reading an entry in Eugenia Loli-Queru's Slashdot journal. It was discussing the recent defacing of TuxTops.com.
Now, looking at the source code to the main page of TuxTops.com I noticed that it includes a CSS file "misc/drupal.css". That would lead me to believe that they are using Drupal as their content management system. Please verify this for yourself if you do not believe me.
My question is: why was their site defaced so easily? Was it because Drupal itself is an inherently insecure system? Or was it just improperly installed?
Can anybody shed some light on this? I would like to use it, but seeing stuff like that makes me nervous.
Their Prism system is a good start. While it does use an Itanium2 chip, it also uses ATI graphics hardware and runs Linux. Considering their background in visualization and graphics-related computing applications, they could come up with a fantastic Opteron-based Linux workstation for the masses. Similar to what Sun is doing, but using Linux instead of Solaris. An Indy for the 21st century, we could say.
I don't know much about Progeny, so I was going to go to Wikipedia to read up more about it. But I'm having trouble accessing the http://en.wikipedia.org/ sites! The http://www.wikipedia.org/ page loads fine, but the search itself keeps failing. I have noticed these problems for several days now. Is Wikipedia having some severe server troubles?
If they are, then maybe they need to switch to a Debian-based distro rather than using Fedora.
Just let him say what he wants about open source software. I know that I'll never support his company from now on, and I feel quite safe in saying that open source software will continue to innovate far beyond anything his commercial world of software developers will produce.
It's just something that happens to all sites that start to become more focused on profits than providing a useful service to the community. Just be thankful that these forums aren't the overmoderated hellhole that GameFAQs.com has become!
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Your American math sucks the cockfoolery.
700 MHz to 2000 MHz is a 185% increase.
800 MHz to 3000 MHz is a 275% increase.
If you can't do such basic math, then I don't believe anything you say.
I fear we are beginning to see the problems of diseases on capitalism really rearing their heads these days. The greed recently is overwhelming! Perhaps it is because most Western nations have lost their tangible manufacturing base to countries like India, Taiwan and China. Now instead of manufacturing goods, all that Western companies can do is manufacture "intellectual property". Since such "property", be it movies or music, isn't tangible in any way, it is often quite easy to reproduce and distribute. As such, these corporations and groups must resort to legalities to make a living.
Indeed, what we are seeing is a disease on capitalism and the free market. Our capitalism has been infected with intangible goods that are being treated as if they were tangible by the forces of law. The free market is not being allowed to work, and trouble is the result. Indeed, one cannot have an effective capitalistic society without a free market. Our free market has become diseased with intellectual property legalities, and as such fails to work to the benefit of society.
Well, then. You are innocent of all charges.
Links to the Mozilla Project's Bugzilla installation from Slashdot are disabled, you know.
Kids do read, don't doubt that for a minute. But they read garbage. Garbage such as the postings at the forums at GameFAQs.com. Please, take a look for yourself. See the sub-standard level of English used there, often by children in elementary school.
They are reading the garbage put out by other youth like them, who are degenerate in the simple skills of reading and writing. Then those youth make their own posts, containing the same stupidity.
I am very happy that my children grew up in a world without the GameFAQs.com forums there to destroy their reading and writing skills. But it saddens me to know that my grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, will most likely be exposed to such educational shittery.
Thankfully my son knows that GameFAQs.com is not a place where a child should learn their basic life skills, and that is why he limits his son's usage of the forums there. And frankly, having conversed with my grandson via email, it was a good decision. My grandson is capable of correct spelling, correct grammar, and intelligent thought, all due to him being kept away from the idiocy of the GameFAQs.com forums.
You're going into tenth grade, and you write English like that? Kid, you are a fucking disgrace. It's no wonder you can't handle Spanish; you struggle with your native language of English! You even managed to fuck up the spelling of "the". Way to go, cocktard.
And cockfools to the teachers who have promoted you over the years. They must be as moronic as you are.
Sir, you need a refresher on the definition of "terrorism" and "terrorist". Only once you understand the true meanings (ie. the ones not used by your American media) of those words can you discuss their use.
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http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=terroris
terrorist
n.
One that engages in acts or an act of terrorism.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=terroris
terrorism
n.
The unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons.
Indeed, notice that the very definition of "terrorism" applies perfectly well to the Blair government that has spoken out so loudly against the recent incidents in London.
The Blair government participated, along with the American government and those of numerous other nations, in the "unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence" (ie. war, bombardment, killings, torture, etc.) "by a person or an organized group" (ie. the Coalition of the Willing) "against people or property" (ie. Iraq, Afghanistan) "with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons" (ie. regime change, forced "democracy", giving up of natural resources, etc.).
Notice that the actions of such government fits the definition of "terrorism" perfectly. But of course you never see the media make mention of that fact. That is because the media, in cooperation with such governments, have distorted the use of such words. They have become buzzwords that are meant to evoke an intense emotional response, rather than accurately describe a situation. As such, any legitimate news organization whose main focus is to distribute the truth should not resort to the use of such buzzwords.
I'm interested in who purchased it, especially considering the upcoming transition of Macs to Intel-based systems.
I think it is responsible of them to not refer to the perpetrators as "terrorists". These days "terrorist" is nothing more than a buzzword used by those politicians and businesspeople who participate in deceit and real-world trollery.
But in any case, I do respect the BBC's willingness to contribute back to society. They actively strive to promote the deployment of knowledge, rather than try to restrict and limit its dispersal. But that is most likely because their main goal is not profit. Maximizing profit will always be against what is best for society, as the externalities are not taken into account.
Metrowerks no longer produces an x86 compiler toolchain:
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http://www.metrowerks.com/MW/Develop/Desktop/defa
"Metrowerks recently sold its Intel x86 compiler and debugger technology to a third party. As a result, Metrowerks will no longer create and sell products that include this technology. Metrowerks will offer support for these products by hosting on-line discussions on newsgroups and on our web site.
This sale does not affect the right to use CodeWarrior or create x86 code by customers currently licensed to use CodeWarrior x86 compilers."
Somebody at the GameFAQs.com forum claims to already have the book, and has supposedly posted content from it.
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http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs/genmessage.php?b
This leak would lend credence to his claims that he does already have access to the book.
A database failure at a financial instituion won't lead to the deaths of numerous people. The financial losses will be massive, of course. So you know what, write such software in C or Java. Don't mathematically verify it.
C is not a safe language to write mission critical software in. That's just a fact of the language. Look at many of the flaws in existing software, for instance. It is too inherently vulnerable to make mistakes that could, in systems such as this coaster, result in death and severe injury. Even a language like Ada, which was designed to be used in such circumstances, may not provide adequate protection. Not that C shouldn't be used, but it shouldn't be used when people can die.
"Fail" in the sense that the riders are killed or maimed, or the ride itself is damaged or destroyed. They took into account the situation you described, so I wouldn't consider that a "failure".
And I agree, the hardware itself is probably very well engineered, with a very high degree of redundancy. It is the software I am worried about, knowing that software in general normally lacks such engineering. That is why I was wondering what techniques they used, such as line-by-line mathematical verification, to ensure the software would not be the cause of death or destruction.
Indeed, it was quite exciting. But unaccessible to the average PC user. The software itself cost quite a bit. That is why only admins were usually able to experience such things firsthand.
.. was developed? I mean, this is the sort of software that cannot fail. This is not where you use C. Even Ada might not be up to the task. People could very well die, if not become severely maimed, if this software were to fail. And the financial cost of failure to the park would be astronomical. Has each and every line of the software source code been mathematically verified, as is done with the software systems controlling and monitoring nuclear power plants?
As a former SCO system administrator, I'd say that UnixWare and OpenServer/OpenDesktop were some of the best PC UNIX systems I'd used. Until about 1993, that is. Before then they were fantastic. Far better than ESIX or Coherent or XENIX.
Indeed, it is interesting to consider the history the old SCO had with the Itanium chip. The failed Project Monterey, which involved providing a UNIX implementation targetting the Itanium platform, directly lead to many of the issues involving the new The SCO Group today.
Today I was reading an entry in Eugenia Loli-Queru's Slashdot journal. It was discussing the recent defacing of TuxTops.com.
Now, looking at the source code to the main page of TuxTops.com I noticed that it includes a CSS file "misc/drupal.css". That would lead me to believe that they are using Drupal as their content management system. Please verify this for yourself if you do not believe me.
My question is: why was their site defaced so easily? Was it because Drupal itself is an inherently insecure system? Or was it just improperly installed?
Can anybody shed some light on this? I would like to use it, but seeing stuff like that makes me nervous.
Their Prism system is a good start. While it does use an Itanium2 chip, it also uses ATI graphics hardware and runs Linux. Considering their background in visualization and graphics-related computing applications, they could come up with a fantastic Opteron-based Linux workstation for the masses. Similar to what Sun is doing, but using Linux instead of Solaris. An Indy for the 21st century, we could say.
I don't know much about Progeny, so I was going to go to Wikipedia to read up more about it. But I'm having trouble accessing the http://en.wikipedia.org/ sites! The http://www.wikipedia.org/ page loads fine, but the search itself keeps failing. I have noticed these problems for several days now. Is Wikipedia having some severe server troubles?
If they are, then maybe they need to switch to a Debian-based distro rather than using Fedora.
That's what people said about Apple, too. And now Apple is quite undead. SGI may very well turn themselves around.
Are these cards compatible with SGI Prism systems? The current SGI Prism systems appear to include a ATI FireGL card.
http://www.sgi.com/products/visualization/prism/
Is that you, Marc Fleury?
Just let him say what he wants about open source software. I know that I'll never support his company from now on, and I feel quite safe in saying that open source software will continue to innovate far beyond anything his commercial world of software developers will produce.
It's just something that happens to all sites that start to become more focused on profits than providing a useful service to the community. Just be thankful that these forums aren't the overmoderated hellhole that GameFAQs.com has become!
Harry Potter has become a multibillion dollar industry. Financially, it is a very serious matter, akin to treasure or national secrets.