Not touching anything microsofty, ever, regardless of technical merits. If I can support good (android, not saying its perfect) and boycott assholery (microsoft since day 1) why not?
I have an ancient samsung cdrw, it must be 15-16 years old now, that I just move around if the need to read cds the old skool way arises. Never had any dvd reader of any kind.
Theres excellent gear available from small vendors that specialize, in all price ranges.
A system with
2 small stand speakers 1 powered sub (must play bass, not 1 frequency) DAC hooked to your pc running mpd or something (make sure it doesnt resample) 1 decent 100W-ish integrated amp
can sound fantastic and doesnt have to cost much. You DO have to take the time to position the speakers, as it affects the sound enormously, but the sub makes it a lot easier.
Much of the west coast is luke-warm year round cause of the gulf stream, inland it gets pretty frosty tho. The church burning thing was popular a while but is old hat now (also running low on suitable churches, new ones are pure asbestos).
lots of noise about "necessary secrecy" etc., the fact is US is a banana republic, albeit a fragmented one. Greed is celebrated and cultivated from an early age, why is anyone surprised it leads to greedy people?
The choice for someone in whatever agency is to toil anonymously until death, with noone giving a flying fuck, or take the offer of directing funds to this or that company, in return for money and a life.
Ill second this, I respect Linus as an engineer first and foremost. This is ofcourse extended to all of the kernel hackers. Technical advice from any of these carries weight.
RMS I respect as a visionary with quite extraordinary consistency and patience, again extended to all GNUs. He gets a lot of flak from short-sighted people for an uncompromising stance, this is unfair. Its his role to be clear and firm, so that stuff moves in the right direction instead of stagnating in details.
They have overlapping spheres of influence, I think a large part of free softwares success is due to them both working at the same time.
I love Russia, and I think this gesture is more important than the language suggests. Russia is the first country to give the finger to US acta shakedown, which makes it easier for others to follow. Its not "most of the rest of the world" that wants harsher ip crap, its the US and some spineless countries that do as they're told.
Ill second this. NWN has to be the best value game ever made, with enough graphics for younger players and depth as they grow. I would stay far away from anything blizzard, its extremely cynical stuff hidden below a thin layer of glitzy graphics, the gaming equivalent of sugar bomb cereal.
You are right ofcourse, I think calling the concept amoral is a little harsh tho. MMO running companies run the whole moral spectrum like everyone else.
Technically theres no such thing as a digital signal; look at it on an oscilloscope and its a far cry from the impossible squarewave used to represent them. The receiver has to make a choice when to switch a 0 to a 1, with long slopes, noise and ringing this can cause problems even if its a "digital" signal. Equipment today is good enough that its "never" a problem, signals get reclocked and cleaned up, crc etc.
So no, you shouldnt buy expensive hdmi cables, but you shouldnt mistake the abstract digital concept for its real, messy electrical representation either.
I find the whole celebrating the execution of an old man in front of his family thing pretty distasteful. Maybe the execution was necessary, the gloating is just sad.
First round of colonies gave us resources and free labour to develop our societies and tech. Second round, the colonies have moved to the IP world which is owned completely by the west due to the advantage from the first round.
While I dont think theres any point backdating morality, things were different during the first looting, theres no excuse for the 2. except might is right.
The nobel peace prize committee is chosen by norwegian parliament but is otherwise independent. I have no idea how Obama got it tho, maybe it was to show they have a sense of humour.
Id say Wikileaks, Assange and Manning would be worthy recipients.
there is a form of leadership etc. in irc channels, but I dont think that concerns the democratic aspect. Its not mob mentality because whoever chooses to participate is anonymous to other participants aswell as the target.
Well, as I understand, the dos attacks are done by individuals targeting the LOIC program at the proposed target. The strength of the attack then is directly proportional to the number of "votes" it gets.
I dont think its right to say anonymous is not organized, it seems extremely democratic to me, especially the dos attacks. If you suggest a course of action and it resonates then it is anonymous, if it gets no support then its just you.
Regarding sony I would wager what happened was during the anonymous dos attack someone peeked at the defenses and went holy crap its wide open, and went back alone. IE the initial anonymous attack probably did uncover the vulnerable network but the hack was not by anonymous.
I didnt see https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Another_World_(video_game) which is one of the few games that really stunned me growing up (on amiga). I still remember the alien voices, animations and ambiance were fantastic. Gameplay was pretty harsh. I dont think anything came close until half life, atleast considering overall art direction.
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Not touching anything microsofty, ever, regardless of technical merits.
If I can support good (android, not saying its perfect) and boycott assholery (microsoft since day 1) why not?
I have an ancient samsung cdrw, it must be 15-16 years old now, that I just move around if the need to read cds the old skool way arises.
Never had any dvd reader of any kind.
Thanks for all the work, slashdot has always been a unique spot on the interwebs.
Steve Jobs gonna be pissed at you, taking the spotlight like that.
Theres excellent gear available from small vendors that specialize, in all price ranges.
A system with
2 small stand speakers
1 powered sub (must play bass, not 1 frequency)
DAC hooked to your pc running mpd or something (make sure it doesnt resample)
1 decent 100W-ish integrated amp
can sound fantastic and doesnt have to cost much.
You DO have to take the time to position the speakers, as it affects the sound enormously, but the sub makes it a lot easier.
Much of the west coast is luke-warm year round cause of the gulf stream, inland it gets pretty frosty tho.
The church burning thing was popular a while but is old hat now (also running low on suitable churches, new ones are pure asbestos).
focus on reducing the causes of crime and you kill a whole migration of birds with 1 stone.
T+A
lots of noise about "necessary secrecy" etc., the fact is US is a banana republic, albeit a fragmented one.
Greed is celebrated and cultivated from an early age, why is anyone surprised it leads to greedy people?
The choice for someone in whatever agency is to toil anonymously until death, with noone giving a flying fuck, or take the offer of directing funds to this or that company, in return for money and a life.
Ill second this, I respect Linus as an engineer first and foremost. This is ofcourse extended to all of the kernel hackers.
Technical advice from any of these carries weight.
RMS I respect as a visionary with quite extraordinary consistency and patience, again extended to all GNUs.
He gets a lot of flak from short-sighted people for an uncompromising stance, this is unfair.
Its his role to be clear and firm, so that stuff moves in the right direction instead of stagnating in details.
They have overlapping spheres of influence, I think a large part of free softwares success is due to them both working at the same time.
Big deal, Id do it in half the time.
I love Russia, and I think this gesture is more important than the language suggests.
Russia is the first country to give the finger to US acta shakedown, which makes it easier for others to follow.
Its not "most of the rest of the world" that wants harsher ip crap, its the US and some spineless countries that do as they're told.
Ill second this. NWN has to be the best value game ever made, with enough graphics for younger players and depth as they grow.
I would stay far away from anything blizzard, its extremely cynical stuff hidden below a thin layer of glitzy graphics, the gaming equivalent of sugar bomb cereal.
You are right ofcourse, I think calling the concept amoral is a little harsh tho. MMO running companies run the whole moral spectrum like everyone else.
Technically theres no such thing as a digital signal; look at it on an oscilloscope and its a far cry from the impossible squarewave used to represent them.
The receiver has to make a choice when to switch a 0 to a 1, with long slopes, noise and ringing this can cause problems even if its a "digital" signal.
Equipment today is good enough that its "never" a problem, signals get reclocked and cleaned up, crc etc.
So no, you shouldnt buy expensive hdmi cables, but you shouldnt mistake the abstract digital concept for its real, messy electrical representation either.
I find the whole celebrating the execution of an old man in front of his family thing pretty distasteful.
Maybe the execution was necessary, the gloating is just sad.
First round of colonies gave us resources and free labour to develop our societies and tech.
Second round, the colonies have moved to the IP world which is owned completely by the west due to the advantage from the first round.
While I dont think theres any point backdating morality, things were different during the first looting, theres no excuse for the 2. except might is right.
The nobel peace prize committee is chosen by norwegian parliament but is otherwise independent.
I have no idea how Obama got it tho, maybe it was to show they have a sense of humour.
Id say Wikileaks, Assange and Manning would be worthy recipients.
there is a form of leadership etc. in irc channels, but I dont think that concerns the democratic aspect.
Its not mob mentality because whoever chooses to participate is anonymous to other participants aswell as the target.
Well, as I understand, the dos attacks are done by individuals targeting the LOIC program at the proposed target.
The strength of the attack then is directly proportional to the number of "votes" it gets.
I dont think its right to say anonymous is not organized, it seems extremely democratic to me, especially the dos attacks.
If you suggest a course of action and it resonates then it is anonymous, if it gets no support then its just you.
Regarding sony I would wager what happened was during the anonymous dos attack someone peeked at the defenses and went holy crap its wide open,
and went back alone.
IE the initial anonymous attack probably did uncover the vulnerable network but the hack was not by anonymous.
wow that must be one mother of a plug
pulled out my old vic-20 recently, it must be closing on 30 years. Perfect working order, even read the tapes.
Id like to see a study tracing americans religious nuttery to the puritan migrants, would be delicious irony
I didnt see https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Another_World_(video_game) which is one of the few games that really stunned me growing up (on amiga). I still remember the alien voices, animations and ambiance were fantastic.
Gameplay was pretty harsh.
I dont think anything came close until half life, atleast considering overall art direction.
todays fortune seems spot on for the FA