What you are expressing is DoublePlusUnGood. Comrade, stay where you are; I have reported you to the thought police. Don't you know how to doublethink?
Well if you guys like boobs so much, what's the problem if you grow your own pair? Maybe you'll stop staring at women's chests when you discover -- um, excuse me, my eyes are up here -- what it feels like.
Well considering that the Internet was originally funded solely by the US. retaining control over ICANN is perfectly reasonable. That initial investment ought to be good for something.
Recently I've started amending EULAs at install time - if I have a sharpie available and I'm at a CRT I write on the screen VOID, or I simply place a sticky over the screen. Just as with other contracts, I'm simply amending it, and clicking through to take advantage of the doctrine of first sale. I started doing that after reading about folks who do that and photograph the screen.
Assholes who come up with one-sided contracts for a product where there are no refunds can stuff it. If you disagree with a contract, simply amend it then agree to your terms.:)
My main problem with Linux is not just games, but that appliances/machinery that are machine controlled (embroidery machines) require Windows for their software, and diagnostics software for cars (diacom) require Windows or DOS (AND a serial port!).
Diacom I can do without - I don't need to eek another 20 hp out of my car, really. Running the embroidery machine is another matter. I cannot embroider without the software, but I do all the design in linux. I haven't tried Windows in a VM but my experience with Windows-on-Linux VMs is that USB devices just won't work -- but then, that was qemu. I haven't used the other options extensively enough.
OH! Furthermore, why should schools and offices prohibit peanut butter sandwiches, which don't distribute the allergens throughout the classroom/office environment, but encourage use of soy-based products, which do actively distribute an allergenic substance thoughout the air? If I were in a corporate or academic environment and eat a peanut butter sandwich for lunch and someone who is allergic to peanuts is a couple of cubes over and is aware of it, it could generate a knee-jerk conniption fit even though unless I were to make out with them or trade lunches with them it wouldn't physically bother them at all, so why are so many places banning peanut-based foods, and yet encouraging other allergens which are every bit as deadly to the people who are allergic to them?
I fear the day soy-based biodiesel really takes off - I may have to move to a remote area when that happens. Now, I LOVE farms and want to some day own and live on a farm, but I'm not ready to take that leap yet. I won't bring something like that toner into my office environment.
The 8 major allergens (dairy, wheat, soy, peanuts, tree nuts, shellfish, fish, eggs) should not be used in equipment where the substances which get distributed in the air, at least not in a dense (city) or enclosed (office/school/etc) environment, unless the process to make them is 100% effective at removing the allergenic proteins. Soy can be made safe (I can have some vegetable oil) but the temptation for more "cost-effective" processing results in a lot of vegetable oil that makes me sick, since not all of the offending proteins are removed from many vegetable oil brands.
I would have a problem with soy-based toners. I have a severe intolerance and a slight allergy to soy. My reaction usually consists of a severe migraine lasting 1-3 days which is so painful it makes me pray and wish for death, projectile vomiting, and heart palpitations, jaundice, and fatigue. Certain forms will push me past jaundice and into liver failure. The allergic reaction is usually limited to just hives (I have a scar from the last reaction I had) but in certain concentrations (such as found in margarine) will induce an anaphylactic reaction. Nothing like waking up unable to breathe!
There is an asian market I go to on occasion - it's a mini-mall with lots of really neat stores but they have a few fast food vendors as well. If I go in there when the fast food vendors are really busy I end up with a migraine and some breathing difficulty. Usually I start noticing the symptoms within a few minutes so if the air is that contaminated I just leave and go back another time.
So, the last thing I need is soy-based toner in my office - the HVAC would circulate particulates from the toner throughout the office. I have a Laserjet 4 and a Xerox Phaser 6180 - the 6180 sees relatively heavy use and I can smell the toner pretty strongly from both of them from 5' away when they're running.
I like the idea in principle, but where soy is an allergen it is a really bad idea. I've read statistics claiming that 40% of people are slightly soy-intolerant and may not even realize it (MSG, crisco, and margarine will induce light headaches, and without doing an elimination diet it is hard to I.D. the cause), 3% are more intolerant and/or slightly allergic to it, and.3% are severely intolerant of it. I don't know how accurate those stats are but I know enough people who get headaches from chinese food to think that the stats might be in the right ballpark.
Keeping soy out of my diet is hard enough - I'd rather it not be used for fuels and inks and other uses that would be spraying lots of soy fumes and particulates in the air. There are other, hypoallergenic solutions out there such as canola and palm oils and fats that are slightly more expensive than soy but much cheaper than fossil fuel derivatives, and those costs could become competitive with soy if production is increased.
Unfortunately the Almighty Dollar will win, because it is hard to beat subsidies (socialism) from the producers' perspective. Soy, like corn, is subsidized which makes it extremely profitable to produce.
You know, I am SO sick of Obama kissing everyone's ass and working hard to be popular rather than fixing problems. You might say he's fixing the economy, but he's repeating mistakes which resulted in the great depression so many decades ago. How is racking up $11 TRILLION in debt in 100 days going to help the economy in the long terms? The banks which were the cause of the credit crunch are in need of MORE money and have blown the money they were given on toys and bonuses rather than making credit available, and the bills were written such that they do not have to be held accountable for how the money is spent. Insurance companies were given hundreds of billions TWICE and are in need of more money again. How does this help increase the manufacturing base? How do these bailouts help to increase the actual creation of wealth? The truth is it's going to result in massive tax increases which will go toward paying many times the original outlay for decades to come - it is unlikely the national debt will ever be repaid.
Obama work on fixing the problem: part of the solution includes import tariffs, and the other component is tax cuts across the board and less government spending - especially spending on pork.
it depends on what your definition of tolerance is.
To me tolerance is simply having the maturity to agree to disagree, acknowledging there is one correct and are many incorrect answers to a question, be it is there a flying spaghetti monster, the answer to 2+2, or whether we evolved.
Tolerance to some liberals means that everyone should agree that there are no absolutes (which ironcically is an absolute statement) and libel, slander, or persecute anyone who disagrees with their idea. They speak with a forked tongue.
Neocons don't do tolerance, period.
Others think that tolerance means that everyone should agree that all statements are equally valid.
FWIW, I'm a conservative (libertarian is closest to my world view) and I think tolerance means having the maturity to agree to disagree without forcing my world view on you. I do believe in god but I don't condemn those who don't.
Here is a list of reasons why cutting the cord is bad:
Limited shared bandwidth. Soon your internet connection will be faster than your WiFi connection. Security - WEP is hopelessly broken. WPA-PSK is not foolproof. Proprietary solutions suck and are expensive. Interference with nearby WLANs. There are only three unshared channels; the rest of the channels overlap. It's going to be very difficult to not overlap someone else's nearby WLAN and when you do, the performance of everyone's (on that frequency) will decrease Reliability - There are often "holes" in RF transmission, even close to the antenna. I found a spot at our conference table where my notebook drops the connection. A few inches either way and the connection is perfect. This is just 25' from the WAP. Driver load order: Are you on a Windows network and do you need to log on to a domain/active directory? If your wifi driver won't load before the workstation stack you may not be able to authenticate properly. Connection tracking - this is related to the limited bandwidth and limited memory in most WAPs.
Once you get more than 15 or so workstations on a WLAN performance can really start to suck, especially if you have network drives that see heavy use, or source control with heavy use. or if you try to do anything with a thin client.
Abandoning ethernet for WiFi is another nail in the second(?)third(?) death of the thin client, because bandwidth limitations and reliability will become a real concern.
On the other hand, I hate thin clients, and I hate Software as a Service (WHY would you trust another company to store all of your data under a restrictive license AND where obtaining your data if the provider goes belly up will be damn near impossible?), so bring on the WLANs!
Somehow I don't think Tolkien minds derivative works or even blatent "infringement" of his copyrights at this point - copyrights which ought to have expired long ago, incidentally. That is, "expired long ago" as in decades ago.
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE (pronounced/ËtÉ'lkiËn/[1]) (3 January 1892 â" 2 September 1973)
If you are into S&M, you could run a server on it,
I don't know what kind of service you run, but I have no idea what S&M has to do with an ISP. Maybe you're referring to bandwidth caps being analogous to anal rape?
Copyright doesn't exist to protect corporate interests. It exists to protect authors.
Incorrect. It protects the interest of public domain by ensuring that in exchange for a TEMPORARY (limited time) duration of a monopoly on distribution of that work, it will become public domain for the public good. It is to protect the public interest by encouraging the continued development of useful arts and sciences.
Crysis today is like Quake and Hexen II when they first came out. It's a game based on a bleeding-edge graphics engine that won't be truly playable (at high quality) on commodity hardware until another generation or two of graphics chipsets come to market.
There are always going to be a few bleeding-edge games that break the rules. Most people who want to play them without breaking the bank will buy the console version. Others will just wait until hardware gets better.
I don't know - ATI was 100% against open-source anything for a long time - it all seemed to start right after they purchased the corpse of Diamond Multimedia, another anti-Linux company. In fact Diamond was so bad I learned x86 assembly just to write a utility to probe the chipset on a Stealth 32 card on it to figure out which registers did what and then hacked the ET4000 x server so I could run X on my AMD DX4/120 (basically, a 120Mhz 486). DiamondMM was actively hostile toward Linux users while AMD was relatively helpful, and it seemed like ATI did an about-face the moment they bought out Diamond and inherited the anti-Linux attitude. I've been pro-Nvidia since then. Their drivers may not be open source, but NVidia's drivers just work, and they were never actively hostile toward non-Windows users as far as I can recall.
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What you are expressing is DoublePlusUnGood. Comrade, stay where you are; I have reported you to the thought police. Don't you know how to doublethink?
This is slashdot. We do not read articles.
Well if you guys like boobs so much, what's the problem if you grow your own pair? Maybe you'll stop staring at women's chests when you discover -- um, excuse me, my eyes are up here -- what it feels like.
Well considering that the Internet was originally funded solely by the US. retaining control over ICANN is perfectly reasonable. That initial investment ought to be good for something.
Recently I've started amending EULAs at install time - if I have a sharpie available and I'm at a CRT I write on the screen VOID, or I simply place a sticky over the screen. Just as with other contracts, I'm simply amending it, and clicking through to take advantage of the doctrine of first sale. I started doing that after reading about folks who do that and photograph the screen.
Assholes who come up with one-sided contracts for a product where there are no refunds can stuff it. If you disagree with a contract, simply amend it then agree to your terms. :)
Doctrine of first sale says he can do anything he want with it short of violate the copyright.
My main problem with Linux is not just games, but that appliances/machinery that are machine controlled (embroidery machines) require Windows for their software, and diagnostics software for cars (diacom) require Windows or DOS (AND a serial port!).
Diacom I can do without - I don't need to eek another 20 hp out of my car, really. Running the embroidery machine is another matter. I cannot embroider without the software, but I do all the design in linux. I haven't tried Windows in a VM but my experience with Windows-on-Linux VMs is that USB devices just won't work -- but then, that was qemu. I haven't used the other options extensively enough.
I guesstimate that the word "guesstimate" makes approximately 2.5% of slashdotters want to puke blood.
OH! Furthermore, why should schools and offices prohibit peanut butter sandwiches, which don't distribute the allergens throughout the classroom/office environment, but encourage use of soy-based products, which do actively distribute an allergenic substance thoughout the air? If I were in a corporate or academic environment and eat a peanut butter sandwich for lunch and someone who is allergic to peanuts is a couple of cubes over and is aware of it, it could generate a knee-jerk conniption fit even though unless I were to make out with them or trade lunches with them it wouldn't physically bother them at all, so why are so many places banning peanut-based foods, and yet encouraging other allergens which are every bit as deadly to the people who are allergic to them?
I fear the day soy-based biodiesel really takes off - I may have to move to a remote area when that happens. Now, I LOVE farms and want to some day own and live on a farm, but I'm not ready to take that leap yet. I won't bring something like that toner into my office environment.
The 8 major allergens (dairy, wheat, soy, peanuts, tree nuts, shellfish, fish, eggs) should not be used in equipment where the substances which get distributed in the air, at least not in a dense (city) or enclosed (office/school/etc) environment, unless the process to make them is 100% effective at removing the allergenic proteins. Soy can be made safe (I can have some vegetable oil) but the temptation for more "cost-effective" processing results in a lot of vegetable oil that makes me sick, since not all of the offending proteins are removed from many vegetable oil brands.
I would have a problem with soy-based toners. I have a severe intolerance and a slight allergy to soy. My reaction usually consists of a severe migraine lasting 1-3 days which is so painful it makes me pray and wish for death, projectile vomiting, and heart palpitations, jaundice, and fatigue. Certain forms will push me past jaundice and into liver failure. The allergic reaction is usually limited to just hives (I have a scar from the last reaction I had) but in certain concentrations (such as found in margarine) will induce an anaphylactic reaction. Nothing like waking up unable to breathe!
There is an asian market I go to on occasion - it's a mini-mall with lots of really neat stores but they have a few fast food vendors as well. If I go in there when the fast food vendors are really busy I end up with a migraine and some breathing difficulty. Usually I start noticing the symptoms within a few minutes so if the air is that contaminated I just leave and go back another time.
So, the last thing I need is soy-based toner in my office - the HVAC would circulate particulates from the toner throughout the office. I have a Laserjet 4 and a Xerox Phaser 6180 - the 6180 sees relatively heavy use and I can smell the toner pretty strongly from both of them from 5' away when they're running.
I like the idea in principle, but where soy is an allergen it is a really bad idea. I've read statistics claiming that 40% of people are slightly soy-intolerant and may not even realize it (MSG, crisco, and margarine will induce light headaches, and without doing an elimination diet it is hard to I.D. the cause), 3% are more intolerant and/or slightly allergic to it, and .3% are severely intolerant of it. I don't know how accurate those stats are but I know enough people who get headaches from chinese food to think that the stats might be in the right ballpark.
Keeping soy out of my diet is hard enough - I'd rather it not be used for fuels and inks and other uses that would be spraying lots of soy fumes and particulates in the air. There are other, hypoallergenic solutions out there such as canola and palm oils and fats that are slightly more expensive than soy but much cheaper than fossil fuel derivatives, and those costs could become competitive with soy if production is increased.
Unfortunately the Almighty Dollar will win, because it is hard to beat subsidies (socialism) from the producers' perspective. Soy, like corn, is subsidized which makes it extremely profitable to produce.
DingDingDingDingDing! We have a winner!
Socialism didn't solve the problems then, and communism won't now either.
You know, I am SO sick of Obama kissing everyone's ass and working hard to be popular rather than fixing problems. You might say he's fixing the economy, but he's repeating mistakes which resulted in the great depression so many decades ago. How is racking up $11 TRILLION in debt in 100 days going to help the economy in the long terms? The banks which were the cause of the credit crunch are in need of MORE money and have blown the money they were given on toys and bonuses rather than making credit available, and the bills were written such that they do not have to be held accountable for how the money is spent. Insurance companies were given hundreds of billions TWICE and are in need of more money again. How does this help increase the manufacturing base? How do these bailouts help to increase the actual creation of wealth? The truth is it's going to result in massive tax increases which will go toward paying many times the original outlay for decades to come - it is unlikely the national debt will ever be repaid.
Obama work on fixing the problem: part of the solution includes import tariffs, and the other component is tax cuts across the board and less government spending - especially spending on pork.
the liberal media, for starters. ;)
it depends on what your definition of tolerance is.
To me tolerance is simply having the maturity to agree to disagree, acknowledging there is one correct and are many incorrect answers to a question, be it is there a flying spaghetti monster, the answer to 2+2, or whether we evolved.
Tolerance to some liberals means that everyone should agree that there are no absolutes (which ironcically is an absolute statement) and libel, slander, or persecute anyone who disagrees with their idea. They speak with a forked tongue.
Neocons don't do tolerance, period.
Others think that tolerance means that everyone should agree that all statements are equally valid.
FWIW, I'm a conservative (libertarian is closest to my world view) and I think tolerance means having the maturity to agree to disagree without forcing my world view on you. I do believe in god but I don't condemn those who don't.
*shrug*
Here is a list of reasons why cutting the cord is bad:
Limited shared bandwidth. Soon your internet connection will be faster than your WiFi connection.
Security - WEP is hopelessly broken. WPA-PSK is not foolproof. Proprietary solutions suck and are expensive.
Interference with nearby WLANs. There are only three unshared channels; the rest of the channels overlap. It's going to be very difficult to not overlap someone else's nearby WLAN and when you do, the performance of everyone's (on that frequency) will decrease
Reliability - There are often "holes" in RF transmission, even close to the antenna. I found a spot at our conference table where my notebook drops the connection. A few inches either way and the connection is perfect. This is just 25' from the WAP.
Driver load order: Are you on a Windows network and do you need to log on to a domain/active directory? If your wifi driver won't load before the workstation stack you may not be able to authenticate properly.
Connection tracking - this is related to the limited bandwidth and limited memory in most WAPs.
Once you get more than 15 or so workstations on a WLAN performance can really start to suck, especially if you have network drives that see heavy use, or source control with heavy use. or if you try to do anything with a thin client.
Abandoning ethernet for WiFi is another nail in the second(?)third(?) death of the thin client, because bandwidth limitations and reliability will become a real concern.
On the other hand, I hate thin clients, and I hate Software as a Service (WHY would you trust another company to store all of your data under a restrictive license AND where obtaining your data if the provider goes belly up will be damn near impossible?), so bring on the WLANs!
Vista may suck, but I hear Microsoft Mojave is really good! ;)
Somehow I don't think Tolkien minds derivative works or even blatent "infringement" of his copyrights at this point - copyrights which ought to have expired long ago, incidentally. That is, "expired long ago" as in decades ago.
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE (pronounced /ËtÉ'lkiËn/[1]) (3 January 1892 â" 2 September 1973)
If you are into S&M, you could run a server on it,
I don't know what kind of service you run, but I have no idea what S&M has to do with an ISP. Maybe you're referring to bandwidth caps being analogous to anal rape?
An oxy-acetylene torch works nicely as well. :)
Incorrect. It protects the interest of public domain by ensuring that in exchange for a TEMPORARY (limited time) duration of a monopoly on distribution of that work, it will become public domain for the public good. It is to protect the public interest by encouraging the continued development of useful arts and sciences.
My last experience with Catalyst was a less than stable system. Thanks, but until Nvidia screws up I'll stick with them.
there/they're/their
Guess which one is correct for the usage seen above?
DMCA provides explicit exclusions for interoperability.
Crysis today is like Quake and Hexen II when they first came out. It's a game based on a bleeding-edge graphics engine that won't be truly playable (at high quality) on commodity hardware until another generation or two of graphics chipsets come to market.
There are always going to be a few bleeding-edge games that break the rules. Most people who want to play them without breaking the bank will buy the console version. Others will just wait until hardware gets better.
I don't know - ATI was 100% against open-source anything for a long time - it all seemed to start right after they purchased the corpse of Diamond Multimedia, another anti-Linux company. In fact Diamond was so bad I learned x86 assembly just to write a utility to probe the chipset on a Stealth 32 card on it to figure out which registers did what and then hacked the ET4000 x server so I could run X on my AMD DX4/120 (basically, a 120Mhz 486). DiamondMM was actively hostile toward Linux users while AMD was relatively helpful, and it seemed like ATI did an about-face the moment they bought out Diamond and inherited the anti-Linux attitude. I've been pro-Nvidia since then. Their drivers may not be open source, but NVidia's drivers just work, and they were never actively hostile toward non-Windows users as far as I can recall.