Improved shelf life and/or appearance is one thing, and polluting the environment and the foodchain for short-term profit is another. Evolution of technology does not necessarily make better products. Now ask yourselves, fellow supporters of GM. Did the consumption of chemicals rise or fell after the large scale adoption of GM agriculture?
Did the consumption of office paper rise or fell after the adoption of computers?
The reason for GM crops is only one: profit. Profit may come from improved appearance, from increased shelf-life, or from increased yields due to lower pest numbers. The agrochemical companies make two birds with one stone. They sell the GM seeds which usually are modified as to be pesticide-tolerant, and then they sell the pesticide to be used in excessive amounts to kill off everything else. Using vast amounts of chemicals is bad for the foodstuff as it leaves toxic residue inside, as well as for the environment that the toxic waste is released into. There is also increased risk of cross-pollination with other non-GM crops, which is the main reason of banning GM agriculture in Europe.
How can MSN tell them what they can do and what not, since the third world governments will spend THEIR money on the project. May be cause they would have less to spend on defense equipment, high-tech medicines on US prices, or MS software.
The economy actually benefits quite a bit from piracy. Digital entertaintment hardware and software, communications equipment and services, technology as a whole leaps forward mainly because of digital content. What would I do with a broadband line if it wasn't for movies? What would I do with an iPod with 2000 songs if I had to pay $1 (or $2 according to their wishes) each? But you wouldn't expect the content industries' assosiations to enlighten you, would you? They just want to squeeze a little bit more out of peoples pockets.
Back in the twenties and thirties, records were used as a means to promote concerts and appearences at clubs. Nowadays is the opposite, ie concerts are organized to promote new (or old) record releases. But in the Internet age, the music gets commoditized, ie no-one really appreciates a record enough to pay $20 a piece, because of sheer abundance. Records of the future will be like radio. Buy a song or a record at nominal price (or for free), and come to our club on saturday. As much as the record companies resent that, that's where their future lies.
Discus \Dis"cus\, n.; pl. E. {Discuses}, L. {Disci}. [L. See
{Disk}.] (from greek ÎÎÏfÎÎÏ)
1.
(a) A quoit; a circular plate of some heavy material
intended to be pitched or hurled as a trial of
strength and skill.
(b) The exercise with the discus.
[1913 Webster]
Note: This among the Greeks was one of the chief gymnastic
exercises and was included in the Pentathlon (the
contest of the five exercises). The chief contest was
that of throwing the discus to the greatest possible
distance.
[1913 Webster]
2. A disk. See {Disk}.
[1913 Webster]
-- From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
discus
n 1: an athletic competition in which a disc-shaped object is
thrown as far as possible
2: a disk used in throwing competitions [syn: {saucer}]
[also: {disci} (pl)]
The iPod reached its peak cause there aren't more people prepared to buy an overpriced device because of its coolness. Especially when 2GB MP3 players costing less than $100 are on the market. DRM is irrelavant because everyone loads the iPod with MP3s downloaded from the Internet. The iTunes serves to preserves relations with the content industry, so they keep making their money of piracy, by selling overpriced hardware. But that business model is going to have to change, as everything else in life. So Apple has to find another cool device to sell and please the Wall Street.
the story of the 7 sisters anyone? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Sisters_(oil_co mpanies) And what about the study which said that if anyone on earth cosumed as much power as the US per capita, the world's recources would only last for 3 months? So all you have to do is follow the money..
The fundamental fact driving radical Islam is the 100 year occupation of their lands by western imperialist powers because they happen to sit upon the world's largest oil reserves.
Now consider this: run any suitable browser under linux as a demoted user (no sudo priveledge, read and write only its home directory and nothing else) and have no personal data on that user's directory. Then the browser can run with all the bells and whistles enabled without any danger (well, almost). Pity that the RunAs feature in XP allows you only to elevate priviledges..
Proper hardware support is the reason of Linux not taking big marketshare in the consumer desktop world, not religion or elitisism. When you buy a device or card or whatever, you are usually provided with a CD which says WINDOWS 98, ME, 2000 or XP. The manufacturer of the piece of hardware releases the software to make it perform as it supposed to, UNDER HIS TERMS, since its his piece. The free software developers have somehow to figure out how this piece works and to develop their versions. Manufacturers of proprietory hardware don't like releasing open source drivers, they don't like releasing specs for their hardware and they don't like even releasing proprietory drivers for FOSS. When they do, they provide crippled, buggy and inferior drivers. They justify themselves by saying its because of lack of linux standardisation, small userbase, and all that crap, but in reality its because of DRM. Free software and DRM are oxymoron. If you knew how exactly it works, you can FREE it, i.e. remove the DRM. No more computer games sales, no more Macrovision, no more HDTV. So for the intents and purposes that the specs for the hardware are released and known, like processors, motherboards, etc. the future of FOSS looks bright, like in the server area. For the intents and purposes of protected content, adoption of FOSS will depend solely on bright individuals braking the various restrictions. Up to now we have been lucky. But the future remains to be seen..
Transparency is a no-go for government-microsoft deals. When MS strikes a deal with a government (most favored nation or something) they demand that the particulars are kept confidential. They even demand that the various ISVs the government contracts subsidise MS through some elaborate support sceme they are required to purchase. (from MS)
yeah you big computer geek after you are left with a command prompt caused by an officialy supported and signed update, you would remember which version of which package you upgraded so you can force the downgrade, esp. when the dependency resolution gives you no errors, logs give you no errors exept the fatal, reconfiguring xserver gives you ditto. May be its time for a system restore for linux.
yeah but if your sole computer in the house was ubuntu, no dual-boot, or if you were not a command-line wizzard, you wouldn't find the solution. In xp there is system restore. In ubuntu you have to boot a liveCD and wait for an (unsupported) fix (downgrade actually) by the ubuntu community over the internet.
The real issue in this case is political, not scientific or technological. (See how the concept of a "suitcase bomb" is made fun of at "Wag the Dog" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120885/). This is the british part in the leatest Israeli-Arab disturbance. Israelis took over the military part, Americans took over the diplomatic part, and the poor British had to settle for the PsycOPs, the psycological operations. They have to spread FUD to make killings of innocent civilians (more then 800 were the children only) go down easily on world public opinion's throats. Has it been succesfull? Not really. The ceasefire restored the old status. Shame on them for the poor peoples' lives and damages they inflicted.
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Improved shelf life and/or appearance is one thing, and polluting the environment and the foodchain for short-term profit is another. Evolution of technology does not necessarily make better products. Now ask yourselves, fellow supporters of GM. Did the consumption of chemicals rise or fell after the large scale adoption of GM agriculture? Did the consumption of office paper rise or fell after the adoption of computers?
The reason for GM crops is only one: profit. Profit may come from improved appearance, from increased shelf-life, or from increased yields due to lower pest numbers. The agrochemical companies make two birds with one stone. They sell the GM seeds which usually are modified as to be pesticide-tolerant, and then they sell the pesticide to be used in excessive amounts to kill off everything else. Using vast amounts of chemicals is bad for the foodstuff as it leaves toxic residue inside, as well as for the environment that the toxic waste is released into. There is also increased risk of cross-pollination with other non-GM crops, which is the main reason of banning GM agriculture in Europe.
You do that and you have no video, perhaps no 3d also ,
https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.co m/drivers/linux/linux_8.33.6.html#183417
or no xv on tv-out http://folk.uio.no/henger/htpc/ati-pal-tvout.jpg
http://ati.cchtml.com/show_bug.cgi?id=309
system FREEZES on 3d,
--locked-userpages={on|off}
Enable/disable locked user pages. Disable this option if the system
hangs when running fgl_glxgears.
User page lock is no longer available on AGP system now
The decision not to include the fglrx crapware is indeed the right one
AdblockPlus works..
Adbock plus with easylist/easyelement worked for me also
Disable NoScript and get flash9 for linux
In India corruption is standard business practice, which is a major drawback.
Me too. didn't store pass in the pass. manager either, even when I clicked the remember password button. Even with the NoScript extension disabled
Although Gates is a big supporter of Bush and vice-versa..
How can MSN tell them what they can do and what not, since the third world governments will spend THEIR money on the project. May be cause they would have less to spend on defense equipment, high-tech medicines on US prices, or MS software.
The economy actually benefits quite a bit from piracy. Digital entertaintment hardware and software, communications equipment and services, technology as a whole leaps forward mainly because of digital content. What would I do with a broadband line if it wasn't for movies? What would I do with an iPod with 2000 songs if I had to pay $1 (or $2 according to their wishes) each? But you wouldn't expect the content industries' assosiations to enlighten you, would you? They just want to squeeze a little bit more out of peoples pockets.
Back in the twenties and thirties, records were used as a means to promote concerts and appearences at clubs. Nowadays is the opposite, ie concerts are organized to promote new (or old) record releases. But in the Internet age, the music gets commoditized, ie no-one really appreciates a record enough to pay $20 a piece, because of sheer abundance. Records of the future will be like radio. Buy a song or a record at nominal price (or for free), and come to our club on saturday. As much as the record companies resent that, that's where their future lies.
With the experience they'll gather from real-time linux, may be they can fix yast which takes forever..
Oh, there it is, /usr/lib/win32
well, the greek text doesn't show up correctly, but you should blame it on no unicode support on slashdot.
Discus
Discus \Dis"cus\, n.; pl. E. {Discuses}, L. {Disci}. [L. See
{Disk}.] (from greek ÎÎÏfÎÎÏ)
1.
(a) A quoit; a circular plate of some heavy material
intended to be pitched or hurled as a trial of
strength and skill.
(b) The exercise with the discus.
[1913 Webster]
Note: This among the Greeks was one of the chief gymnastic
exercises and was included in the Pentathlon (the
contest of the five exercises). The chief contest was
that of throwing the discus to the greatest possible
distance.
[1913 Webster]
2. A disk. See {Disk}.
[1913 Webster]
-- From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
discus
n 1: an athletic competition in which a disc-shaped object is
thrown as far as possible
2: a disk used in throwing competitions [syn: {saucer}]
[also: {disci} (pl)]
-- From WordNet (r) 2.0
46 Moby Thesaurus words for "discus":
O, annular muscle, annulus, areola, aureole, ball, chaplet, circle,
circuit, circumference, circus, closed circle, corona, coronet,
crown, cycle, diadem, disk, ejecta, ejectamenta, eternal return,
fairy ring, garland, glory, halo, lasso, logical circle, loop,
looplet, magic circle, missile, noose, orbit, projectile, quoit,
radius, ring, rondelle, round, roundel, saucer, sphincter,
trajectile, vicious circle, wheel, wreath
-- From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
disco
disco
n : a public dance hall for dancing to recorded popular music
[syn: {discotheque}]
discotheque
discotheque
n : a public dance hall for dancing to recorded popular music
[syn: {disco}] [from Greek (ÎÎÏfÎÎÎήÎÎ, disc case)]
-- From WordNet (r) 2.0
24 Moby Thesaurus words for "discotheque":
amusement park, ballroom, cabaret, cafe, cafe chantant,
cafe dansant, casino, dance floor, dance hall, dancing pavilion,
entertainment industry, fun-fair, juke joint, night spot,
nightclub, nitery, resort, roadhouse, show biz, show business,
supper club, tavern, theater, watering place
-- From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
The iPod reached its peak cause there aren't more people prepared to buy an overpriced device because of its coolness. Especially when 2GB MP3 players costing less than $100 are on the market. DRM is irrelavant because everyone loads the iPod with MP3s downloaded from the Internet. The iTunes serves to preserves relations with the content industry, so they keep making their money of piracy, by selling overpriced hardware. But that business model is going to have to change, as everything else in life. So Apple has to find another cool device to sell and please the Wall Street.
the story of the 7 sisters anyone? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Sisters_(oil_co mpanies) And what about the study which said that if anyone on earth cosumed as much power as the US per capita, the world's recources would only last for 3 months? So all you have to do is follow the money..
The fundamental fact driving radical Islam is the 100 year occupation of their lands by western imperialist powers because they happen to sit upon the world's largest oil reserves.
Now consider this: run any suitable browser under linux as a demoted user (no sudo priveledge, read and write only its home directory and nothing else) and have no personal data on that user's directory. Then the browser can run with all the bells and whistles enabled without any danger (well, almost). Pity that the RunAs feature in XP allows you only to elevate priviledges..
Proper hardware support is the reason of Linux not taking big marketshare in the consumer desktop world, not religion or elitisism. When you buy a device or card or whatever, you are usually provided with a CD which says WINDOWS 98, ME, 2000 or XP. The manufacturer of the piece of hardware releases the software to make it perform as it supposed to, UNDER HIS TERMS, since its his piece. The free software developers have somehow to figure out how this piece works and to develop their versions. Manufacturers of proprietory hardware don't like releasing open source drivers, they don't like releasing specs for their hardware and they don't like even releasing proprietory drivers for FOSS. When they do, they provide crippled, buggy and inferior drivers. They justify themselves by saying its because of lack of linux standardisation, small userbase, and all that crap, but in reality its because of DRM. Free software and DRM are oxymoron. If you knew how exactly it works, you can FREE it, i.e. remove the DRM. No more computer games sales, no more Macrovision, no more HDTV. So for the intents and purposes that the specs for the hardware are released and known, like processors, motherboards, etc. the future of FOSS looks bright, like in the server area. For the intents and purposes of protected content, adoption of FOSS will depend solely on bright individuals braking the various restrictions. Up to now we have been lucky. But the future remains to be seen..
Transparency is a no-go for government-microsoft deals. When MS strikes a deal with a government (most favored nation or something) they demand that the particulars are kept confidential. They even demand that the various ISVs the government contracts subsidise MS through some elaborate support sceme they are required to purchase. (from MS)
yeah you big computer geek after you are left with a command prompt caused by an officialy supported and signed update, you would remember which version of which package you upgraded so you can force the downgrade, esp. when the dependency resolution gives you no errors, logs give you no errors exept the fatal, reconfiguring xserver gives you ditto. May be its time for a system restore for linux.
yeah but if your sole computer in the house was ubuntu, no dual-boot, or if you were not a command-line wizzard, you wouldn't find the solution. In xp there is system restore. In ubuntu you have to boot a liveCD and wait for an (unsupported) fix (downgrade actually) by the ubuntu community over the internet.
The real issue in this case is political, not scientific or technological. (See how the concept of a "suitcase bomb" is made fun of at "Wag the Dog" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120885/). This is the british part in the leatest Israeli-Arab disturbance. Israelis took over the military part, Americans took over the diplomatic part, and the poor British had to settle for the PsycOPs, the psycological operations. They have to spread FUD to make killings of innocent civilians (more then 800 were the children only) go down easily on world public opinion's throats. Has it been succesfull? Not really. The ceasefire restored the old status. Shame on them for the poor peoples' lives and damages they inflicted.