that's why arstrong won all of those races, having only one testicle created less drag.
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Also copy protection is completely retarded. You can download a priated version of any popular game. The Pirated version has no copy protection. The version you buy from the store does. Copy protection is only an inconvenience for paying users, people who pirate the game don't have to deal with it.
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probably be better to have a squad of dudes, some human controlled, some AI controlled. When you die you just take over an AI player. When you run out of AI players you have to start over / reload.
It probably does have something to do with Ubuntu. With so many people using and developing ubuntu, the newer versions of the software in debian's repositories will be better tested than their current stable versions. The whole point of debian sticking with older software was that it was better tested. But if everyone's using newer versions of the packages, the older versions aren't being as well tested. So there really is no point in staying with the older packages.
But it would take months for them to get gnome 2.16 tested properly (it has to be stable, right). By then firefox will be a few days away from a new release. Which will take months to test. By then a new version of KDE will be coming along. By the time they get all that tested and ready Gnome 2.18 will be a few days from being released.
Well aren't the number of people on the internet growing more rapidly in China? so by your logic the amount of spam should be increasing from there too. But they are reducing the amount of spam. The number of internet users in the US is growing much slower so therefore it should be easier for the US to fight spam than china.
And ok so you make a big list of spam-friendly ISPs. What the hell difference does that make? You think people will stop using them? No people will measure the quality of an ISP based on bandwidth/$. The free market is amoral. Nobody chooses their purchases based on morality. If that were the case Walmart would be broke.
Sorry its up to governments to deal with these kinds of problems. Maybe that goes against your libertarian sensibilities, but throughout history it has been the only way to fix these kinds of problems (tragedy of the commons).
Because I might partition my drives so that I keep all of my pictures of my cats on the D: I do this so that I when I reinstall windows (which I have to do because I use IE and my computer gets filled with spyware), the pictures of my precious kitties don't get wiped along with the spyware.
But then when I'm done reinstalling window... oh noes! All my pictures of fluffy are gone! WHY, MICROSOFT, WHY?!?!
It's probably not a good idea to wipe a partition unless the user tells you its ok. If someone partitioned the drive, they probably have a reason for doing it. It's just arrogance to assume that you know how to partition a drive better than the user.
And its not just MS, Ubuntu seems pretty eager to wipe drives too. Some us know what we're doing, but still want an easy OS. Easy shouldn't mean the same as assume the user is stupid and take away all their options because they're too stupid to do things right.
Not really. XP reorders all your partitions. Not the end of the world, you can just start up with a bot disk, alter your fstab, reinstall GRUB to the MBR and you're good. But still XP does screw with other partitions, even when you're installing XP tot he first partion on the drive. I don't know why it would mess up partitions after the partition its installing to, but it does.
Yes but it makes a barrier to entry for the mugging industry doesn't it? You have to have connections to be able to get a gun. So while organised crime will still be able to get guns, a low level street thug won't be able to until he is trusted. And mugging people is a lot harder when you don't have a gun. So instead of mugging people they go into selling crack or whatever, so they can get some connections so they can get a gun. But then once they have those connections they are making enough money off other crimes, they won't bother with mugging people.
It will also be easier to fight organised crime. Raid their social clubs or whatever, find some guns, put them all in jail for a long time for possession of illegal firearms. Then the gangsters will have to keep their guns stashed away, which means its less likely for there to be shoot outs in my neighbourhood.
I know a guy who got in a fist fight once. He probably might have shot the guy if he had a gun on him.
But I'm sure people blow up houses more often than they get into fist fights, so you're probably right, we should give every crazy person out there a gun.
If its easier for people to legally own firearms its also easier for criminals to own firearms. Make firearms illegal then less criminals will have them. Yes, there will still be a few that have them, but far fewer.
Also, when a normally law-abiding citizen goes postal, he won't have a gun sitting there for him to use. He'll have to go insane, make some criminal contacts, get a gun, then go on a killing spree. By the time that happens he'll have probably come to his senses.
ummm... racism was entirely acceptable in western culture too, until recently. Irish need not apply? Apartheid? Rosa Parks? Slavery? You have heard of these things right?
I don't think equality is just a concept of western culture, just that Japanese culture still hasn't developed as much as western culture. But I'm sure in a couple of decades Japan will have caught up.
Well its hit and miss whether malware would work under wine, just like any app is hit and miss with wine. If it did work it would do the same things it does on windows, but would only effect wine, so only apps you run with wine would be affected. When not running wine the malware wouldn't run at all. Most wine setups put your home directory as a drive (J: maybe?), so the malware could look through your files, and maybe infect them with windows viruses or whatever. If you delete the wine directory the malware would be deleted too, but some files in your home directory would still be messed up, though you wouldn't know because its unlikely it would have any effect under linux. But if you email a file to a windows user... you might give them a virus.
This is all theoretical, of course. since linux users are pretty careful, I don't think this would happen often.
No he was right 2000 is a step up from XP. XP == 2000 + a bunch of crapware.
XP drivers will work on 2000 anyway. Only issue is that the XP drivers will sometimes complain about missing DRM dlls when installing them, but otherwise will work anyway.
ActiveX empowers webdevelopers. FF extensions empowers users. ActiveX can be used by bad people to exploit your system because it allows remote sites to do stuff on your system. FF extensions are run only on your own system, most of them have nothing to do with the webpages you load. And the ones that do just filter out ads. Some are more complex, such as greasemonkey, but you only run those only on sites you trust.
Also extensions aren't installed by default, so there isn't any danger of a feature you never use compromising your system.
That low-level stuff is important if you have code that needs to run fast. Need to multiply a number by a constant? You can use shifts and adds instead. Does the same thing, but takes the processor less time.
But you don't need to do that often. But knowing how to shift and use the bitwise AND and OR and XOR, is still important. Why? because this is how the computer thinks. It's good enough for a secretary to click an icon and have stuff work without knowing how, but a computer programmer? Sorry, if you don't know "add-shift multipliers or whatever archaic multi-step register operation you can think of" you aren't a programmer. You're something approaching the secretary that just clicks icons. You may know when to use this object or that function, but you don't know why.
Would you trust an engineer that knew to use X number of steel beams, but had no idea why?
Compiled languages are always faster than VMs. if they make a computer 100 times more powerful, the compiled language will still be faster than the VMs.
How do you take advantage of multi-cores in C/C++? Same way you take advantage of them in a VM. Someone makes an API for it. you read the docs and figure it out. Anything that can be done in a VM can be done in native code, only native code will be faster.
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No no, all the atoms that are here now were created by God 6000 years ago. Plutonium is something scientists just made up.
I've heard christians argue that anyway.
that's why arstrong won all of those races, having only one testicle created less drag.
Also copy protection is completely retarded. You can download a priated version of any popular game. The Pirated version has no copy protection. The version you buy from the store does. Copy protection is only an inconvenience for paying users, people who pirate the game don't have to deal with it.
probably be better to have a squad of dudes, some human controlled, some AI controlled. When you die you just take over an AI player. When you run out of AI players you have to start over / reload.
It probably does have something to do with Ubuntu. With so many people using and developing ubuntu, the newer versions of the software in debian's repositories will be better tested than their current stable versions. The whole point of debian sticking with older software was that it was better tested. But if everyone's using newer versions of the packages, the older versions aren't being as well tested. So there really is no point in staying with the older packages.
But it would take months for them to get gnome 2.16 tested properly (it has to be stable, right). By then firefox will be a few days away from a new release. Which will take months to test. By then a new version of KDE will be coming along. By the time they get all that tested and ready Gnome 2.18 will be a few days from being released.
yeah, using a pointing device to point a weapon is just plain crazy.
Well aren't the number of people on the internet growing more rapidly in China? so by your logic the amount of spam should be increasing from there too. But they are reducing the amount of spam. The number of internet users in the US is growing much slower so therefore it should be easier for the US to fight spam than china.
And ok so you make a big list of spam-friendly ISPs. What the hell difference does that make? You think people will stop using them? No people will measure the quality of an ISP based on bandwidth/$. The free market is amoral. Nobody chooses their purchases based on morality. If that were the case Walmart would be broke.
Sorry its up to governments to deal with these kinds of problems. Maybe that goes against your libertarian sensibilities, but throughout history it has been the only way to fix these kinds of problems (tragedy of the commons).
Because I might partition my drives so that I keep all of my pictures of my cats on the D: I do this so that I when I reinstall windows (which I have to do because I use IE and my computer gets filled with spyware), the pictures of my precious kitties don't get wiped along with the spyware.
But then when I'm done reinstalling window... oh noes! All my pictures of fluffy are gone! WHY, MICROSOFT, WHY?!?!
It's probably not a good idea to wipe a partition unless the user tells you its ok. If someone partitioned the drive, they probably have a reason for doing it. It's just arrogance to assume that you know how to partition a drive better than the user.
And its not just MS, Ubuntu seems pretty eager to wipe drives too. Some us know what we're doing, but still want an easy OS. Easy shouldn't mean the same as assume the user is stupid and take away all their options because they're too stupid to do things right.
Not really. XP reorders all your partitions. Not the end of the world, you can just start up with a bot disk, alter your fstab, reinstall GRUB to the MBR and you're good. But still XP does screw with other partitions, even when you're installing XP tot he first partion on the drive. I don't know why it would mess up partitions after the partition its installing to, but it does.
But he has databases with Tens of Terabytes of data in them. TERABYTES!!!! 40 GBit/s + !! FORTY!! PLUS!!!
His expertise should never, ever be questioned. Remember, TERABYTES!
So that's why their civilization always beat me to alpha centauri.
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Yes but it makes a barrier to entry for the mugging industry doesn't it? You have to have connections to be able to get a gun. So while organised crime will still be able to get guns, a low level street thug won't be able to until he is trusted. And mugging people is a lot harder when you don't have a gun. So instead of mugging people they go into selling crack or whatever, so they can get some connections so they can get a gun. But then once they have those connections they are making enough money off other crimes, they won't bother with mugging people.
It will also be easier to fight organised crime. Raid their social clubs or whatever, find some guns, put them all in jail for a long time for possession of illegal firearms. Then the gangsters will have to keep their guns stashed away, which means its less likely for there to be shoot outs in my neighbourhood.
Christopher Walken has a solution for hiding the earbuds too: http://john.savage.free.fr/steve/nickroulette22.jp g
I know a guy who got in a fist fight once. He probably might have shot the guy if he had a gun on him.
But I'm sure people blow up houses more often than they get into fist fights, so you're probably right, we should give every crazy person out there a gun.
If its easier for people to legally own firearms its also easier for criminals to own firearms. Make firearms illegal then less criminals will have them. Yes, there will still be a few that have them, but far fewer.
Also, when a normally law-abiding citizen goes postal, he won't have a gun sitting there for him to use. He'll have to go insane, make some criminal contacts, get a gun, then go on a killing spree. By the time that happens he'll have probably come to his senses.
ummm... racism was entirely acceptable in western culture too, until recently. Irish need not apply? Apartheid? Rosa Parks? Slavery? You have heard of these things right?
I don't think equality is just a concept of western culture, just that Japanese culture still hasn't developed as much as western culture. But I'm sure in a couple of decades Japan will have caught up.
This is all theoretical, of course. since linux users are pretty careful, I don't think this would happen often.
No he was right 2000 is a step up from XP. XP == 2000 + a bunch of crapware.
XP drivers will work on 2000 anyway. Only issue is that the XP drivers will sometimes complain about missing DRM dlls when installing them, but otherwise will work anyway.
ActiveX empowers webdevelopers. FF extensions empowers users. ActiveX can be used by bad people to exploit your system because it allows remote sites to do stuff on your system. FF extensions are run only on your own system, most of them have nothing to do with the webpages you load. And the ones that do just filter out ads. Some are more complex, such as greasemonkey, but you only run those only on sites you trust.
Also extensions aren't installed by default, so there isn't any danger of a feature you never use compromising your system.
Well done, sir, well done.
Because now the tools won't support Win2000 anymore? No one is saying its bad for the companies involved, just bad for the users.
But you don't need to do that often. But knowing how to shift and use the bitwise AND and OR and XOR, is still important. Why? because this is how the computer thinks. It's good enough for a secretary to click an icon and have stuff work without knowing how, but a computer programmer? Sorry, if you don't know "add-shift multipliers or whatever archaic multi-step register operation you can think of" you aren't a programmer. You're something approaching the secretary that just clicks icons. You may know when to use this object or that function, but you don't know why.
Would you trust an engineer that knew to use X number of steel beams, but had no idea why?
How do you take advantage of multi-cores in C/C++? Same way you take advantage of them in a VM. Someone makes an API for it. you read the docs and figure it out. Anything that can be done in a VM can be done in native code, only native code will be faster.