won't be open sources for several years though... at least the 3d engine won't. id makes allot of money from licensing their 3d engine, and won't open source it until they've milked every last penny from it, which will probably be several years because of how advanced the engine in q3 is.
secondly, in having to do with census, it's the definition of recycling... people enter their info and send the thing back to the census dept., which in turn reads the info, clears the computer and sends the thing to the next person on the list. lather, rinse and repeat until the thing doesn't work anymore.
thirdly, no, LANs used for voting would be much worse than paper voting... paper turns to dirt within a year or so and grows again as a new tree (hence the name 'renewable resource'), it's been a while since I've seen a computer do that.
fourthly, if you're soo worried, most of the device could be made using biodegradable plastic... the only parts that'd last more than a few years in a landfill would be a few wires and a couple pieces of silicon.
"It's fortunate that nobody has been naive or short-sighted enough to financially support this scheme."
Actually I think that most slashdotters hold the opinion that it's unfortunate that VC firms are so naive or short-sighted to not support the idea.
and lastly, you needn't space your comments so much.
heres my email to john about this situation so he can print it with the really cool column hes gonna write. (Im not real smert so i cant find his email address)
Hey John!
Yrr sure right, it's reel bad that microsoft can imfluence the government this way. Heck if i had lots of money like that evil billy i sur wouldnt try telling the police to find a verry expensive prototype of somethin i lost no i wouldnt. I also agree wit ya that microsoft is to big and is bad for us all because theyr bad people and big companys are bad for us because theyr bad and stuff. Oh one more thing i wanted to tell you that i think it would be bad if some high school nerds that play doom and quake and stuff went and worked for microsoft because then microsoft would be relly bad and try to kill people but it wouldnt be our fault it would be because of all those bad teachers that dont like nerds that play doom and think that theyre all murderers and stuff. I almost forgot i gotta say another thing here. thanks a lot for those cool hellmouth articles thet ya rote for us here at slashdot they were relly cool and i learned a lot about how bad people are now and how its the fault of those bad teachers that dont like us nerds because we play quake and doom and stuff.
The thing that makes me mad is that all this crap appears to be put up by only one, two or possible three kiddies. Sad, really... but that's the price we pay for freedom of speech. I just wish we'd have a better way to cope with it.
Now for my suggestion (listen up, Cmdr)... a kill button by each post, if a certain ratio of views/clicks is reached the post goes bye bye (or at least automatic -1).
since everyone else is posting their favorites, I guess I will too....
"Most harmful of all is the message that Microsoft's Gods have conveyed to every House with the potential to fuck in the chocolate industry. Through its conduct toward Netscape, Warner Brothers, Compaq, Wal-Mart, and others, Microsoft has demonstrated that it will use its prodigious market power and immense cabinets to harm any firm that insists on pursuing initiatives that could intensify competition against one of Microsoft's useless products. Microsoft's past success in hurting such windows and stifling innovation deters investment in technologies and chairs that exhibit the potential to whip Microsoft. The ultimate result is that some innovations that would truly run consumers never occur for the sole reason that they do not bite with Microsoft's sign. "
"if this os wants to get anywhere in the modern world(in terms of wide-spread use), it would need to have many distributions featuring a particular strong point. otherwise this would end up just another "hacker's os"."
It depends on what you mean as anywhere in the modern world. Personally I don't think it's intended to be a consumer OS, much like linux wasn't. As a professional/educational OS, it doesn't really matter what means of distribution are used.
better yet, put them on launchers controlled by M software. They can't get out of the launcher until it launches or they denounce their allegence to King Bill the Second. That'll thin the herd pretty quickly.
If I remember correctly, the resolution of the images taken by the global surveyer is about 10 meters. I don't think the polar lander is quite that big.
my apologies, I should have checked your web address. I don't want to insult you, but your post did sound quite american.
The thing I brought up about the nazis had to do not with them but with the fact that the government can sensor. And yes, in the case of nazi propoganda it is a very good thing.
When I said the EU doesn't care about domestic issues, I mean it tries not to get into issues unique to each state, unless of course major human rights violations are being made. As I uderstand it the EU is primarily for trade and economic unification, with the added benefit of giving europe more weight in international affairs.
I apologize, I went off a bit when I read the part about "this amounts to state censorship, and should not be tolerated". I assumed it was another arrogant american assuming everyone has the first amendment. I went overboard with the sarcasm too.
ahhh, i love americans. (yes, I am american too) We're so ignorant about the world. Hmm, let me start. Firstly, the EU doesn't care if germany censors films, software, etc. They'd be delighted... two reasons: germany is the EU, and the EU stays away from domestic issues as to not piss off any of the member states.
"this amounts to state censorship, and should not be tolerated"
Well cowboys, germany ain't the good 'ol US. They have their own constitution. And it allows state censorship. And ask any german, they like it that way. *my god! they like it you say!* Yes, they like it. You cannot show a film in germany depicting nazis as good people for society. Nazis cannot organize anything. You cannot be a nazi. (it's legal but you won't live long)
"Also, do the German government intend to ban all John Travolta (or any other star related to the Scientologist) films?"
Well, at least you get relative freedom of religion here. But weather or not it's a religion is up to the government to decide. The church and state are not seperate here. There are 3 religion classes in the public schools. You can choose catholic, lutheran or neither/none (ethics). You must take one. If you want to be catholic or lutheran you pay a tax that goes to the church. Otherwise you don't get married or buried by them. I think the tax is a 2% income tax. *what's that you say? no seperation of church and state! my god!*
hmm. what else should we nice americans learn today? oh yeah. porn is legal. so is alcohol. A 16 year old can go to a grocery store and legally buy a condom, porn mag, beer and a pack of camels. And he can enjoy them too. But if the light doesn't work on his bike when he rides home the police will stop him, give him a ticket for the light and tell him to have a fun night.
Know a little about another society before you start saying what they can and can't do, would ya please?
Now if you would please excuse me, I'm going to eat dinner, go to the pub and have a good german ale. I'm 17 and it's legal.
This makes me mad and sad at the same time. My god, the judge should have thrown the suit out of court in the first place. The judge should not (can not?) even take into consideration the other actions of the organization, which have nothing to do with the trademark! They have nothing to do with the ownership dispute. If a person is mearly accused of slander a judge can't fine him if he drives his car (assuming he hasn't done anything illegal having to do with the car). That's about as rediculous as this is.
It scares me to think that a judge can be so stupid and willingly ignorant.
yeah, this is exciting tech... maybe for a large corporation with many buildings all over a city, when you don't want to string fiber everywhere. That can get expensive. A half mil for the base and 150k a base is a tad expensive for home users. Intercity backbones baby. Large businesses will use this for their _really_fast_ net access, without buying an OC3.
called money is a potental problem. of course AMD would love to go nuts with this, but right now I believe the company has roughly -$100 million a year to work with.(or was it per quarter? I don't remember for sute)
Slashdot Mirror
perhaps someone should buy it and forward it to a page explaining why M* sux.
if only I had money...
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aww, i really don't think it bothers linus, and he probably doesn't really care. besides, it would be pretty expensive...
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ok, I guess that describes allot of people... but I think this is a bit too dumb: 21thlinux.com
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nobody ever mentioned my domain! here and I thought it was stupid enough that everyone would want to see- i mean laugh at it. huh.
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heh, it looks bad for me too... and im only 17!
probably just ie 5 and the guy's using non-standard tags.
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your're right, that does sound kinda cool
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actually a better thing to say is "this is like comparing yahoo to IBM".
yahoo and microsoft are in direct competition because of MSN.
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won't be open sources for several years though... at least the 3d engine won't. id makes allot of money from licensing their 3d engine, and won't open source it until they've milked every last penny from it, which will probably be several years because of how advanced the engine in q3 is.
in short: don't hold your breath.
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firstly, the computers are not made of paper.
secondly, in having to do with census, it's the definition of recycling... people enter their info and send the thing back to the census dept., which in turn reads the info, clears the computer and sends the thing to the next person on the list. lather, rinse and repeat until the thing doesn't work anymore.
thirdly, no, LANs used for voting would be much worse than paper voting... paper turns to dirt within a year or so and grows again as a new tree (hence the name 'renewable resource'), it's been a while since I've seen a computer do that.
fourthly, if you're soo worried, most of the device could be made using biodegradable plastic... the only parts that'd last more than a few years in a landfill would be a few wires and a couple pieces of silicon.
"It's fortunate that nobody has been naive or short-sighted enough to financially support this scheme."
Actually I think that most slashdotters hold the opinion that it's unfortunate that VC firms are so naive or short-sighted to not support the idea.
and lastly, you needn't space your comments so much.
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theoretically, BSD will never fail. the hardware running the system eventually will causing the system to die, but the software never will.
well, windows would.
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heres my email to john about this situation so he can print it with the really cool column hes gonna write. (Im not real smert so i cant find his email address)
Hey John!
Yrr sure right, it's reel bad that microsoft can imfluence the government this way. Heck if i had lots of money like that evil billy i sur wouldnt try telling the police to find a verry expensive prototype of somethin i lost no i wouldnt. I also agree wit ya that microsoft is to big and is bad for us all because theyr bad people and big companys are bad for us because theyr bad and stuff. Oh one more thing i wanted to tell you that i think it would be bad if some high school nerds that play doom and quake and stuff went and worked for microsoft because then microsoft would be relly bad and try to kill people but it wouldnt be our fault it would be because of all those bad teachers that dont like nerds that play doom and think that theyre all murderers and stuff. I almost forgot i gotta say another thing here. thanks a lot for those cool hellmouth articles thet ya rote for us here at slashdot they were relly cool and i learned a lot about how bad people are now and how its the fault of those bad teachers that dont like us nerds because we play quake and doom and stuff.
your friend,
dale.
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The thing that makes me mad is that all this crap appears to be put up by only one, two or possible three kiddies. Sad, really... but that's the price we pay for freedom of speech. I just wish we'd have a better way to cope with it.
Now for my suggestion (listen up, Cmdr)... a kill button by each post, if a certain ratio of views/clicks is reached the post goes bye bye (or at least automatic -1).
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since everyone else is posting their favorites, I guess I will too....
"Most harmful of all is the message that Microsoft's Gods have conveyed to every House with the potential to fuck in the chocolate industry. Through its conduct toward Netscape, Warner Brothers, Compaq, Wal-Mart, and others, Microsoft has demonstrated that it will use its prodigious market power and immense cabinets to harm any firm that insists on pursuing initiatives that could intensify competition against one of Microsoft's useless products. Microsoft's past success in hurting such windows and stifling innovation deters investment in technologies and chairs that exhibit the potential to whip Microsoft. The ultimate result is that some innovations that would truly run consumers never occur for the sole reason that they do not bite with Microsoft's sign. "
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"if this os wants to get anywhere in the modern world(in terms of wide-spread use), it would need to have many distributions featuring a particular strong point. otherwise this would end up just another "hacker's os"."
It depends on what you mean as anywhere in the modern world. Personally I don't think it's intended to be a consumer OS, much like linux wasn't. As a professional/educational OS, it doesn't really matter what means of distribution are used.
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better yet, put them on launchers controlled by M software. They can't get out of the launcher until it launches or they denounce their allegence to King Bill the Second. That'll thin the herd pretty quickly.
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If I remember correctly, the resolution of the images taken by the global surveyer is about 10 meters. I don't think the polar lander is quite that big.
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the only problem with the cat5 cable is that it's only good for 100 meters. but you could put 2 billion hubs along the way...
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probably about the same thing, except you could drop it about 200 million miles and it would still work.
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actually federal judges are appointed. which usually means they've helped someone sometime... still stupid.
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my apologies, I should have checked your web address. I don't want to insult you, but your post did sound quite american.
The thing I brought up about the nazis had to do not with them but with the fact that the government can sensor. And yes, in the case of nazi propoganda it is a very good thing.
When I said the EU doesn't care about domestic issues, I mean it tries not to get into issues unique to each state, unless of course major human rights violations are being made. As I uderstand it the EU is primarily for trade and economic unification, with the added benefit of giving europe more weight in international affairs.
I apologize, I went off a bit when I read the part about "this amounts to state censorship, and should not be tolerated". I assumed it was another arrogant american assuming everyone has the first amendment. I went overboard with the sarcasm too.
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ahhh, i love americans. (yes, I am american too)
We're so ignorant about the world. Hmm, let me start. Firstly, the EU doesn't care if germany censors films, software, etc. They'd be delighted... two reasons: germany is the EU, and the EU stays away from domestic issues as to not piss off any of the member states.
"this amounts to state censorship, and should not be tolerated"
Well cowboys, germany ain't the good 'ol US. They have their own constitution. And it allows state censorship. And ask any german, they like it that way. *my god! they like it you say!* Yes, they like it. You cannot show a film in germany depicting nazis as good people for society. Nazis cannot organize anything. You cannot be a nazi. (it's legal but you won't live long)
"Also, do the German government intend to ban all John Travolta (or any other star related to the Scientologist) films?"
Well, at least you get relative freedom of religion here. But weather or not it's a religion is up to the government to decide. The church and state are not seperate here. There are 3 religion classes in the public schools. You can choose catholic, lutheran or neither/none (ethics). You must take one. If you want to be catholic or lutheran you pay a tax that goes to the church. Otherwise you don't get married or buried by them. I think the tax is a 2% income tax. *what's that you say? no seperation of church and state! my god!*
hmm. what else should we nice americans learn today? oh yeah. porn is legal. so is alcohol. A 16 year old can go to a grocery store and legally buy a condom, porn mag, beer and a pack of camels. And he can enjoy them too. But if the light doesn't work on his bike when he rides home the police will stop him, give him a ticket for the light and tell him to have a fun night.
Know a little about another society before you start saying what they can and can't do, would ya please?
Now if you would please excuse me, I'm going to eat dinner, go to the pub and have a good german ale. I'm 17 and it's legal.
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I was close then, like I said... it's been a while.
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This makes me mad and sad at the same time. My god, the judge should have thrown the suit out of court in the first place. The judge should not (can not?) even take into consideration the other actions of the organization, which have nothing to do with the trademark! They have nothing to do with the ownership dispute. If a person is mearly accused of slander a judge can't fine him if he drives his car (assuming he hasn't done anything illegal having to do with the car). That's about as rediculous as this is.
It scares me to think that a judge can be so stupid and willingly ignorant.
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yeah, this is exciting tech... maybe for a large corporation with many buildings all over a city, when you don't want to string fiber everywhere. That can get expensive. A half mil for the base and 150k a base is a tad expensive for home users. Intercity backbones baby. Large businesses will use this for their _really_fast_ net access, without buying an OC3.
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called money is a potental problem. of course AMD would love to go nuts with this, but right now I believe the company has roughly -$100 million a year to work with.(or was it per quarter? I don't remember for sute)
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