we too narrowly avoided that shit here in turkey too. strict controls and standards were placed after 2001 liquidity crisis.
but, american government was pressuring the american backed islamist party here, to remove those regulations, so that there could be 'competition'. the street speak is, banks like Merrill lynch, goldman sachs were just wanting to enter turkish market to peddle their scam there. the economy minister here had had already started to babble about the issue, trying to make ground for the changes they were demanded by u.s., citing various run-off-the-mill right wing catchphrases about 'competition, free market' and whatnot. and those two banks had had already set up their first hqs in istanbul.
a month later, wall street scam had came out into open. and everyone shut up. bank-wise, turkish banks stayed as they were, intact. economically everyone got affected from the worldwide crisis though.
Copyrights allow little guys to get into a business
what a shallow, conditioned sentence.
copyrights allow little guys to get into business eh ? where are all the little guys then ? what happened to the people zygna, microsoft, google copied ?
Removing patents and copyrights is not the solution to people exploiting a loophole in the patent/copyright system.
removing patents and copyrights, reverting it to before how it was prior to coming to prominence before 1850, will be the solution. there were copyrights and patents even before 1850, however, free sharing spirit in science, engineering, literature and music was prioritized by the people. when big investors started to get into this new thing they call 'science and applied sciences', things suddenly turned around. and we are rehashing and reiterating what we were able to breakthrough until 1850s...............
there is no way to make copyright or patents work. copyright and patents reinforce the established power, and then established power reinforces them. its circular. and small guy has no place in it, unless s/he has the money. and when s/he has the money, small guys become a threat and therefore s/he turns into a big guy and reinforces the cycle.
Removing copyright from the equation doesn't seem like it would help
and why it would not help. the case here is, the big boy easily copying the little guy, but not allowing little guy to copy him through lawyer power thanks to copyrights. remove copyrights, and what would lawyers do ? there. you just liberated the little guy. and 7 billion little guys' innovation > any corporation.
excuse me, this is what capitalism is. shareholders are in for making money. and if there is an easier to make money, they will always push the company to do it.
Those fucks recently applied to whatever regulatory agency that regulates those stuff in the u.s., to permit usage of base elements used in agent orange, for agricultural pesticide applications again.......... it seems superbugs adapting to afflict their genetically modified corps have come too much for them. (was in slashdot news recently too)
a 3500 year old tree is a major scientific item. a more exciting tree would be a 4500 year old tree. or a 5500 year old tree. there's one in some american desert.
Unless he's running Linux, for which I will admit ATI/AMDs driver support has been nearly or completely non-existant for quite some time, he's totally full of shit.
i am able to easily play games like mount and blade warband under wine in ubuntu.
I have never gone more than a total of two weeks with a driver-related problem on an ATI card on a windows based system for any game
further, i havent had ANY problems with any games until this date. and im no usual gamer - i game on 3 monitor eyefinity resolution.
Since my academic work has focused almost solely on computer science and not software engineering per se, I'm really still a 'hacker,' meaning I take a problem, sketch together a rough solution using the appropriate CS algorithms, and then code something up (using a lot of prints to debug)
this is what you will be doing throughout your entire career. time constraints, budget constraints, legal constraints, XYZ constraints - there will always be something effecting you to have to do it the hack way.
ussr did not want to 'conquer' everyone. ussr wanted communism to be the dominant system in the world. they did not go about invading countries to do it.
they have done exactly what u.s. had been doing for a century - they supported friendly factions inside countries that would turn about. from korea to vietnam this has been the case.
so, there is nothing you can accuse ussr of, that you cannot accuse usa of.
BUT, in contrast with usa, ussr did not invent 'liberation' excuses to send its navy overseas and 'liberate' irrelevant countries for the resources they have by military force. they had all the power to be able to do that. and frankly, let me tell you, short of a nuclear war, entirety of the world did not have the conventional military power to stop ussr.
ussr had been the sane party throughout cold war too - mcarthur wanted to nuke china over korean war. but it was the ussr which backed down when it came down to cuba missile crisis - they pulled their missiles despite u.s. was storing missiles in turkey, right under ussr's nose.
leave aside not sending overseas invasion parties, they even didnt trifle with countries which were neighboring them, if they did not think they were strategical - other than eastern europe and extreme-east asia, they did not do anything - they could do anything to iran, india for example. and india is a 1 billion crowded country. they invaded afghanistan, because muslim factions supported by u.s. were trying to topple the established government. just like what happened in iran by the way.
When someone can kick your ass, has positioned himself to kick your ass, and has just recently kick your neighbor's ass, a sane person plays nice, and waits for him to lose interest.
u.s did not lose interest in 'liberating' countries in the last 2 decades. anyone proposing or believing otherwise, is flat out stupid.
Standing up to the US? Why do they need to build nukes to stand up to the US? They've stood up to the US since 1980 without nukes. In fact, the only reason anyone really wants to bomb them now is *because* they are building nukes.
much ignorance in regard to geopolitics in slashdot.........
iran has stood up to u.s. only because ussr was backing it. and, there were a lot of more lucrative targets to 'liberate' after ussr had had phased out. notice, how it started with 'liberating' iraq in 1991. then afghanistan, then another 'liberation' of iraq, and then another 'humanitarian bombing campaign' in libya, and only now its their turn.
its not like because of their nuke building or whatnot. north korea already has nukes. but u.s. cant even stir shit there. why ?
russia/china are behind them. apparently, u.s. feels that it can pull iran off. but, not north korea.
The Chinese have nuclear weapons and you don't see the Western World freaking the fuck out about that. Why is that?
let me tell you why - because at the time of chinese spinning out on their own, there was ussr and usa just couldnt go and bomb them to hell like it did to other countries.
hell, mcarthur even intended to, and openly requested to be allowed to bomb china during korean war. and thats why he was retired. because there was ussr, and the result would be world war iii.
and in the passing time in between korean war, in which chinese troops actually participated, and today, you had a lot of other stuff like vietnam and so on. you lost vietnam to chinese actually, not some random guerillas. NOTHING like these was perpetuated by iran, iraq or afghanistan.
but despite that, u.s. was not able to go bomb the shit out of them. thanks to ussr in the early stages, and then chinese had established themselves.
please dont talk about stuff when you dont know shit about history. in the wake of above historical actuality, your ignorance shows in your below bullcrap.
They don't sponsor terrorism, they don't threaten freedom of navigation on the high seas and they don't have an openly racist high level politician that denies the right of one of his neighbors to exist
Has that industry has been utilized for ANYthing other than perpetuating distant wars for the profit of a few corporations at great public expense ? Which expense, then came out of stuff that reflects directly on people's well being, and the general stability of the society in general, like social security or healthcare ?
why should people give a fuck ? let corporations defend themselves with the money they sucked away from public funds behind the pretense of defense.
im on a 6950, it is clocked at 810 mhz, but it can do 910 mhz by just using the ati catalyst slider. no fancy stuff. if you go into serious overclocking, you can approach 1000 mhz easily, if you play with the voltages and stuff.
moreover, X950s are generally unlockable. for example i unlocked the 6950 im sitting on, unlocking 24-30 or so shaders, basically making it a 6950. i could also flash a 6970 bios and make it a full 6970, but that's totally unnecessary, since i can get more than that by overclocking.
Legitimate data alongside questionably illegitimate data has gone to cinders. Those people had a right to their property too. Sue u.s. govt. for that data and the damages.
to irs, they are uneconomical to produce, and they are making losses. and yet, they keep doing them. can you believe all the recently made star wars movies made losses or insignificant profits...
with the patch microsoft put out for windows 7, there has been 10% performance increase in dozer chips. and moreover, some people have seen over 28% performance increase in games like bf3.
its just that you were too impatient and short sighted to perceive that new platforms require new software and updated old software to shine.
Slashdot Mirror
that fixes those things before they become an issue. they even have their own trendy name :
razor1911
we too narrowly avoided that shit here in turkey too. strict controls and standards were placed after 2001 liquidity crisis.
but, american government was pressuring the american backed islamist party here, to remove those regulations, so that there could be 'competition'. the street speak is, banks like Merrill lynch, goldman sachs were just wanting to enter turkish market to peddle their scam there. the economy minister here had had already started to babble about the issue, trying to make ground for the changes they were demanded by u.s., citing various run-off-the-mill right wing catchphrases about 'competition, free market' and whatnot. and those two banks had had already set up their first hqs in istanbul.
a month later, wall street scam had came out into open. and everyone shut up. bank-wise, turkish banks stayed as they were, intact. economically everyone got affected from the worldwide crisis though.
"I dont understand why corporations didnt regulate themselves ...." (Alan Greenspan, in front of senate inquiry committee on wall street scam)
Except now you've just completely destroyed someone's ability to react to changes in the market, and changes in the world
they should only react to those changes through their corporation. not by just dumping it and buying something else.
Feudalism is simply about... hierarchy
Socialism is simply about .... equality
Copyrights allow little guys to get into a business
what a shallow, conditioned sentence.
copyrights allow little guys to get into business eh ? where are all the little guys then ? what happened to the people zygna, microsoft, google copied ?
Removing patents and copyrights is not the solution to people exploiting a loophole in the patent/copyright system.
removing patents and copyrights, reverting it to before how it was prior to coming to prominence before 1850, will be the solution. there were copyrights and patents even before 1850, however, free sharing spirit in science, engineering, literature and music was prioritized by the people. when big investors started to get into this new thing they call 'science and applied sciences', things suddenly turned around. and we are rehashing and reiterating what we were able to breakthrough until 1850s. ..............
there is no way to make copyright or patents work. copyright and patents reinforce the established power, and then established power reinforces them. its circular. and small guy has no place in it, unless s/he has the money. and when s/he has the money, small guys become a threat and therefore s/he turns into a big guy and reinforces the cycle.
Removing copyright from the equation doesn't seem like it would help
and why it would not help. the case here is, the big boy easily copying the little guy, but not allowing little guy to copy him through lawyer power thanks to copyrights. remove copyrights, and what would lawyers do ? there. you just liberated the little guy. and 7 billion little guys' innovation > any corporation.
excuse me, this is what capitalism is. shareholders are in for making money. and if there is an easier to make money, they will always push the company to do it.
Those fucks recently applied to whatever regulatory agency that regulates those stuff in the u.s., to permit usage of base elements used in agent orange, for agricultural pesticide applications again.......... it seems superbugs adapting to afflict their genetically modified corps have come too much for them. (was in slashdot news recently too)
a 3500 year old tree is a major scientific item. a more exciting tree would be a 4500 year old tree. or a 5500 year old tree. there's one in some american desert.
Unless he's running Linux, for which I will admit ATI/AMDs driver support has been nearly or completely non-existant for quite some time, he's totally full of shit.
i am able to easily play games like mount and blade warband under wine in ubuntu.
I have never gone more than a total of two weeks with a driver-related problem on an ATI card on a windows based system for any game
further, i havent had ANY problems with any games until this date. and im no usual gamer - i game on 3 monitor eyefinity resolution.
you should have bought a card from a proper manufacturer. 5970s are still monster cards.
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Since my academic work has focused almost solely on computer science and not software engineering per se, I'm really still a 'hacker,' meaning I take a problem, sketch together a rough solution using the appropriate CS algorithms, and then code something up (using a lot of prints to debug)
this is what you will be doing throughout your entire career. time constraints, budget constraints, legal constraints, XYZ constraints - there will always be something effecting you to have to do it the hack way.
ussr did not want to 'conquer' everyone. ussr wanted communism to be the dominant system in the world. they did not go about invading countries to do it.
they have done exactly what u.s. had been doing for a century - they supported friendly factions inside countries that would turn about. from korea to vietnam this has been the case.
so, there is nothing you can accuse ussr of, that you cannot accuse usa of.
BUT, in contrast with usa, ussr did not invent 'liberation' excuses to send its navy overseas and 'liberate' irrelevant countries for the resources they have by military force. they had all the power to be able to do that. and frankly, let me tell you, short of a nuclear war, entirety of the world did not have the conventional military power to stop ussr.
ussr had been the sane party throughout cold war too - mcarthur wanted to nuke china over korean war. but it was the ussr which backed down when it came down to cuba missile crisis - they pulled their missiles despite u.s. was storing missiles in turkey, right under ussr's nose.
leave aside not sending overseas invasion parties, they even didnt trifle with countries which were neighboring them, if they did not think they were strategical - other than eastern europe and extreme-east asia, they did not do anything - they could do anything to iran, india for example. and india is a 1 billion crowded country. they invaded afghanistan, because muslim factions supported by u.s. were trying to topple the established government. just like what happened in iran by the way.
When someone can kick your ass, has positioned himself to kick your ass, and has just recently kick your neighbor's ass, a sane person plays nice, and waits for him to lose interest.
u.s did not lose interest in 'liberating' countries in the last 2 decades. anyone proposing or believing otherwise, is flat out stupid.
Standing up to the US? Why do they need to build nukes to stand up to the US? They've stood up to the US since 1980 without nukes. In fact, the only reason anyone really wants to bomb them now is *because* they are building nukes.
much ignorance in regard to geopolitics in slashdot.........
iran has stood up to u.s. only because ussr was backing it. and, there were a lot of more lucrative targets to 'liberate' after ussr had had phased out. notice, how it started with 'liberating' iraq in 1991. then afghanistan, then another 'liberation' of iraq, and then another 'humanitarian bombing campaign' in libya, and only now its their turn.
its not like because of their nuke building or whatnot. north korea already has nukes. but u.s. cant even stir shit there. why ?
russia/china are behind them. apparently, u.s. feels that it can pull iran off. but, not north korea.
The Chinese have nuclear weapons and you don't see the Western World freaking the fuck out about that. Why is that?
let me tell you why - because at the time of chinese spinning out on their own, there was ussr and usa just couldnt go and bomb them to hell like it did to other countries.
hell, mcarthur even intended to, and openly requested to be allowed to bomb china during korean war. and thats why he was retired. because there was ussr, and the result would be world war iii.
and in the passing time in between korean war, in which chinese troops actually participated, and today, you had a lot of other stuff like vietnam and so on. you lost vietnam to chinese actually, not some random guerillas. NOTHING like these was perpetuated by iran, iraq or afghanistan.
but despite that, u.s. was not able to go bomb the shit out of them. thanks to ussr in the early stages, and then chinese had established themselves.
please dont talk about stuff when you dont know shit about history. in the wake of above historical actuality, your ignorance shows in your below bullcrap.
They don't sponsor terrorism, they don't threaten freedom of navigation on the high seas and they don't have an openly racist high level politician that denies the right of one of his neighbors to exist
Has that industry has been utilized for ANYthing other than perpetuating distant wars for the profit of a few corporations at great public expense ?
Which expense, then came out of stuff that reflects directly on people's well being, and the general stability of the society in general, like social security or healthcare ?
why should people give a fuck ? let corporations defend themselves with the money they sucked away from public funds behind the pretense of defense.
im on a 6950, it is clocked at 810 mhz, but it can do 910 mhz by just using the ati catalyst slider. no fancy stuff. if you go into serious overclocking, you can approach 1000 mhz easily, if you play with the voltages and stuff.
moreover, X950s are generally unlockable. for example i unlocked the 6950 im sitting on, unlocking 24-30 or so shaders, basically making it a 6950. i could also flash a 6970 bios and make it a full 6970, but that's totally unnecessary, since i can get more than that by overclocking.
a good deal.
I heard they do this to lower the royalties they have to give to the actors.
dont cheer for hollywood. for the actors they can slight would not be the ones you would like to.
Legitimate data alongside questionably illegitimate data has gone to cinders. Those people had a right to their property too. Sue u.s. govt. for that data and the damages.
to irs, they are uneconomical to produce, and they are making losses. and yet, they keep doing them. can you believe all the recently made star wars movies made losses or insignificant profits ...
lying in wait for someone to post a certain post in a particular thread.
that's what you have been doing. keep it up.
with the patch microsoft put out for windows 7, there has been 10% performance increase in dozer chips. and moreover, some people have seen over 28% performance increase in games like bf3.
its just that you were too impatient and short sighted to perceive that new platforms require new software and updated old software to shine.
you just rationalized/justified slave labor. whats next ? death by stoning and tar pits ?