There are already cheats that intercept and rewrite OpenGL/Direct3D calls at the OS level, without needing to set up a virtual video card. In OpenGL it's just a matter of rewriting one parameter in the function call to turn a shaded polygon into a wireframe.
Read the EULA. They devote two or three pages to disclaiming any sort of liability for anything the software does. That shiny new office suite could leap out of the box, devour your computuer in a single gulp, slit your throat, steal your wallet and keys, impregnate your daughter, and run off to Vegas to gamble away your life's savings and you would have no legal recourse against MS.
It doesn't find much of a home in learning the 3R's, nor in science education -- basic skills education is driven largely these days by the inststance that students pass standardized tests
I know bashing the test-driven education system is trendy these days, but no amount of collective negotiation of belief systems is going to make 2+2=5 or give carbon another electron! You might as well just teach things like math, chemistry, physics and such as facts because... well... they are.
Are we really that self-absorbed? Yes. Reality is a cold, scary place right now, and none of us/.ers can do a damn thing about it. The people of the U.S. can't even pick our own president anymore; what do you expect us to do about this "war"?
This is one of my pet peeves about linux as a desktop OS. None of the developers and zealot users seem to understand that on a Mac or a Windows machine, you can cut and paste images, video clips, sounds, etc. This is what we are complaining about when we say that X11's cut and paste functions suck. I don't mind having two different systems (actually, it's kinda useful) I mind having two systems that both only work on plain text!
Try this: Go to a windows system Copy some formatted text in an IE window, and paste it into a Word document. Copy an image from an IE window, and past it into a Word doc.
Now try doing the same thing on a Linux box. Doesn't work, does it? Put *that* in your X11 is superior pipe and smoke it. X11's cut and paste system is *brain* *dead*! It's not about keybindings, it's not about needing three button mice, it's about moving beyond flat effing ASCII text!
Sorry for the rant, but nobody ever seems to understand that to Mac and Windows converts, cut and paste is more than psting the right plain text into the right place most of the time.
Apple threatened to sue over people using the Apple logo in their themes, not about ripping off the aqua look-and-feel. There are still a lot of aqua-ish themes available online, the only themes that are gone are the ones that used trademarked logos.
Erm.. I hate to be the eternal pessimist, but what good would another law do? It's *already* illegal to take minors out of the US without written consent of *BOTH* parents.
If an estranged husband/wife is already planning to grab the kids and run to Mexico (breaking several state and federal laws), I don't think another state law is going to do much to stop him/her!
Didn't you hear about the Disney amendment? Congress sold^H^H^H^H passed it last year!
"Amendment 28: Article one, Section eight shall be amended to read as follows: To promote the profits of corporations, and to fight the evils of terrorism, the exclusive right of authors and inventors to their respective writings, recordings, video and audio discs, and discoveries shall be guaranteed in perpetuity.
Additionally, article three, section three shall be amended as follows: " Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort, being a terrorist or drug dealer, or by violating the patents and copyrights of any corporation. No person shall be convicted of treason except upon the secret testimony of the Attorney General or his deputies."
Instead of paying lobbyists for copyright extension for everyone, Disney pays the government to only extend their own. This is stupid.
No, this is a work-around to a stupid political system. Currently Disney and AOL/TW and their ilk have enough money and influence to get their copyrights extended perpetually. This system would allow them to buy infinitely long copyrights for their own stuff (which they are doing anyway), but still allow other works to go into the public domain in a reasonable amount of time. Neither of us (or our grandchildren) will likely live long enough to see a Disney movie go into the public domain. With a system like the one proposed here, we might have the *other* 98% of copyrighted material that nobody is really making money from anymore reach the public domain.
You forgot about the cute, animated barrel brush that will pop up and offer helpful suggestions like "It looks like you're trying to shoot an intruder! Would you like me to: - Research legalities of shooting burglars in your house, based on your current location? - Look up cleaning services that specialize in removing bloodstains from carpets? - Remind you that the safety is still on?"
Plus if you want a more natual look plant some ivy around it and in a hundred years you have a nice ivy cover.
No, in 4-5 years you have a nice ivy cover. In 100 years, you have a loosly organized mass of bricks held together by ivy. Vines destroy mortar, if you want to keep a wall standing, you really need to rip the ivy off of it every few years.
Erm... consult a geologist before you start. Cliff faces tend to be active places with boulders and debris sliding down at unpredictable times. If you pick a good stable one, your house will still be there in 500 years, like the cliff dwellings at Mesa Verde. If you pick an unstable cliff, your house might start shrinking as your house slides to the bottom of the cliff one room at a time!
My point is that extrordinary claims require extrordinary evidence. You post about comments presupposing the existence of widespread mind-control without any sort of evidence to back up your claims. Now, on the basis of evidence available to me, I see four possible explanations.
1: It's true. The USgov is controlling everyone's thought (except yours) and you are the only one (outside the conspiracy) who knows about it.
2: You genuinely believe in this, although it is not factually true.
3: You don't really believe this, but you post about it because it gets lots of attention. (aka trolling)
4: You are an agent or group of agents of the USgov working to form an association in the public's mind between opposition to boneheaded US foriegn policy and loopy conspiracy theories, making it easier for people to dismiss legitimate arguments by saying "oh, you think we shouldn't be bombing Iraq... I bet you believe in space aliens and mind-control rays, too!"
Guess which of these four I think is **LEAST** likely.
A couple weeks ago, Congress decided that the Total Information Awareness program could not operate against US citizens.
*rolling eyes* Oh, yeah, right. I'm sure that will be the end of the matter then. When was the last time that Congress could tell the military what to do? Have they really had that power any time after WWII?
I liked a few of of your posts, for the first couple of paragraphs, before you went off on a tangent about huge government mind-control conspiracies. You tinfoil-beanie types give all of us with legitimate concerns about privacy a bad name.
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There are already cheats that intercept and rewrite OpenGL/Direct3D calls at the OS level, without needing to set up a virtual video card. In OpenGL it's just a matter of rewriting one parameter in the function call to turn a shaded polygon into a wireframe.
Linus announced last week that there would be no 1.x kernel patch to correct ptrace vulnerability.
Duke Nukem Forever...
In E17...
On Xfree86 5.0 (X12)
On The HURD...
On new Amiga hardware!
Read the EULA. They devote two or three pages to disclaiming any sort of liability for anything the software does. That shiny new office suite could leap out of the box, devour your computuer in a single gulp, slit your throat, steal your wallet and keys, impregnate your daughter, and run off to Vegas to gamble away your life's savings and you would have no legal recourse against MS.
after all he was vice president of the united states!
You need a better argument. After all, Dan Quayle was vice president, too!
It doesn't find much of a home in learning the 3R's, nor in science education -- basic skills education is driven largely these days by the inststance that students pass standardized tests
I know bashing the test-driven education system is trendy these days, but no amount of collective negotiation of belief systems is going to make 2+2=5 or give carbon another electron! You might as well just teach things like math, chemistry, physics and such as facts because... well... they are.
Are we really that self-absorbed? /.ers can do a damn thing about it. The people of the U.S. can't even pick our own president anymore; what do you expect us to do about this "war"?
Yes. Reality is a cold, scary place right now, and none of us
That's entirely possible.
Which apps did you transfer it between?
This is one of my pet peeves about linux as a desktop OS. None of the developers and zealot users seem to understand that on a Mac or a Windows machine, you can cut and paste images, video clips, sounds, etc. This is what we are complaining about when we say that X11's cut and paste functions suck. I don't mind having two different systems (actually, it's kinda useful) I mind having two systems that both only work on plain text!
Try this:
Go to a windows system
Copy some formatted text in an IE window, and paste it into a Word document.
Copy an image from an IE window, and past it into a Word doc.
Now try doing the same thing on a Linux box. Doesn't work, does it? Put *that* in your X11 is superior pipe and smoke it. X11's cut and paste system is *brain* *dead*! It's not about keybindings, it's not about needing three button mice, it's about moving beyond flat effing ASCII text!
Sorry for the rant, but nobody ever seems to understand that to Mac and Windows converts, cut and paste is more than psting the right plain text into the right place most of the time.
Apple threatened to sue over people using the Apple logo in their themes, not about ripping off the aqua look-and-feel. There are still a lot of aqua-ish themes available online, the only themes that are gone are the ones that used trademarked logos.
Erm.. I hate to be the eternal pessimist, but what good would another law do? It's *already* illegal to take minors out of the US without written consent of *BOTH* parents.
If an estranged husband/wife is already planning to grab the kids and run to Mexico (breaking several state and federal laws), I don't think another state law is going to do much to stop him/her!
Didn't you hear about the Disney amendment? Congress sold^H^H^H^H passed it last year!
"Amendment 28: Article one, Section eight shall be amended to read as follows: To promote the profits of corporations, and to fight the evils of terrorism, the exclusive right of authors and inventors to their respective writings, recordings, video and audio discs, and discoveries shall be guaranteed in perpetuity.
Additionally, article three, section three shall be amended as follows: " Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort, being a terrorist or drug dealer, or by violating the patents and copyrights of any corporation. No person shall be convicted of treason except upon the secret testimony of the Attorney General or his deputies."
Instead of paying lobbyists for copyright extension for everyone, Disney pays the government to only extend their own. This is stupid.
No, this is a work-around to a stupid political system. Currently Disney and AOL/TW and their ilk have enough money and influence to get their copyrights extended perpetually. This system would allow them to buy infinitely long copyrights for their own stuff (which they are doing anyway), but still allow other works to go into the public domain in a reasonable amount of time. Neither of us (or our grandchildren) will likely live long enough to see a Disney movie go into the public domain. With a system like the one proposed here, we might have the *other* 98% of copyrighted material that nobody is really making money from anymore reach the public domain.
You forgot about the cute, animated barrel brush that will pop up and offer helpful suggestions like "It looks like you're trying to shoot an intruder! Would you like me to:
- Research legalities of shooting burglars in your house, based on your current location?
- Look up cleaning services that specialize in removing bloodstains from carpets?
- Remind you that the safety is still on?"
Plus if you want a more natual look plant some ivy around it and in a hundred years you have a nice ivy cover.
No, in 4-5 years you have a nice ivy cover. In 100 years, you have a loosly organized mass of bricks held together by ivy. Vines destroy mortar, if you want to keep a wall standing, you really need to rip the ivy off of it every few years.
Erm... consult a geologist before you start.
Cliff faces tend to be active places with boulders and debris sliding down at unpredictable times. If you pick a good stable one, your house will still be there in 500 years, like the cliff dwellings at Mesa Verde. If you pick an unstable cliff, your house might start shrinking as your house slides to the bottom of the cliff one room at a time!
The parent poster is right. Not only is Nigeria *obviously* funding terrorism, but it has significant oil deposits too!
Yes, but which human's rights do we set first?
Better get underground quick, then. There's radiation coming down from space that makes cell phone signals look insignificant by comparison.
You might want to avoid computers in the future, too. They spew all sorts of radiation, mostly at the user via the CRT.
From tinrib's post:
"some benchmarks point out that it's 9000 times faster than a fully-cached-in-RAM Oracle database, for example."
(emphasis mine)
My point is that extrordinary claims require extrordinary evidence. You post about comments presupposing the existence of widespread mind-control without any sort of evidence to back up your claims. Now, on the basis of evidence available to me, I see four possible explanations.
1: It's true. The USgov is controlling everyone's thought (except yours) and you are the only one (outside the conspiracy) who knows about it.
2: You genuinely believe in this, although it is not factually true.
3: You don't really believe this, but you post about it because it gets lots of attention. (aka trolling)
4: You are an agent or group of agents of the USgov working to form an association in the public's mind between opposition to boneheaded US foriegn policy and loopy conspiracy theories, making it easier for people to dismiss legitimate arguments by saying "oh, you think we shouldn't be bombing Iraq... I bet you believe in space aliens and mind-control rays, too!"
Guess which of these four I think is **LEAST** likely.
Long live UNIX!
A couple weeks ago, Congress decided that the Total Information Awareness program could not operate against US citizens.
*rolling eyes*
Oh, yeah, right. I'm sure that will be the end of the matter then.
When was the last time that Congress could tell the military what to do? Have they really had that power any time after WWII?
We're all stocked up on stupid here.
I liked a few of of your posts, for the first couple of paragraphs, before you went off on a tangent about huge government mind-control conspiracies. You tinfoil-beanie types give all of us with legitimate concerns about privacy a bad name.
Steve Jobs hates the Newton more than he loves making money. The Newt will never reappear in any form as long as Steve is in charge.