Um well if it's not illegal and people are voting for him then what's the problem? He's not voting on national policy here-- if most people in Texas want to be governed by a certain person then that's certainly their right. Where is your qualm with that? Even if he was affecting you and voting in Congress, it's still Texas electors' right to be represented how they please. They can send whoever they want as their delegate to Congress and I can't believe you'd deny them that right. There's those "foundational principles of my country" you were talking about.
What. Like it or not, Christianity says that non-Christians will go to hell. If you don't believe that then I guess you've got nothing to worry about and his comments shouldn't bother you. It's not like they affect how he administrates his state. That's a tenant of the religion and there are plenty of Christians in office. Would you outlaw that religion?
"Our servers did it" definitely induced a head-scratch from me. Why on earth would they have their servers set up to automatically commit serious crimes just because a server was public and then restricted access? That doesn't make sense, even from their twisted viewpoint..
I agree and don't feel the least bit sorry for these web designers that design for Microsoft "standards". Just design for actual standards and leave idiot IE users high and dry.. maybe when MS starts realizing that half the internet looks like crap on their browser then they'll do something about it. Honestly, I don't even know where web designers came up with this idea that it's OK to spend extra time tweaking it for users of a bizarrely non-compliant browser. Or where Microsoft decided it would be a good idea to randomly make a browser that renders differently from other ones.
It's not really that surprising. CPUs are supposed to control the computer's resources and keep some kind of sanity and synchronization.. do one thing at a time and they do it fast. Multiple cores are nice but they just let you do 2 things at once. Yeah they're fancy and pipelined and there's all sort of asynchronous optimization with arithmetic and logic, but as a whole it's executing one instruction after another.
GPUs on the other hand are far more parallel. The thousands of individual subprocessors can be independently controlled in software and given different tasks.
What's with the weird name? I get the "nusiance" reference but unless they're trying to somehow imply GNU-siance the g seems pretty random. Awful confusing- why do we need random names for all these ubuntu derivatives.. how about freebuntu or something?
How do you know it wasn't a couple of punk kids just screwing around...
for the street address, they used the "Dildo Room" at "69 Dick Tard Lane." facepalm
I completely agree.. unlimited matchmaking, being able to easily download any of my games whenever and wherever I want at insane speeds, steam community.. it's all well worth the tiny prices Valve asks.
What? That's a terrible idea. A Steam game is just a huge tree of files that's parsed by the Steam loader. Those files, including cached sound data and map node resources, are being updated continuously as you play through the game. What difference does it make if one more file is altered to store configuration data? Would you really rather have to re-set your audio/video settings every time you want to play, as well as rebind your keys, as well as re-tweak your Voice volumes, as well as reconfigure your steam community overlay options? Have you even seen how powerful the console is? It would take me 10 minutes to manually execute everything in my autoexec.cfg.
Yeah the free market has really done well with the cable situation.. I guess wireless is cheaper to implement though so there's not the prohibitive and monopoly-encouraging cost of the last mile
The government's not providing it, they're selling the spectrum to someone who has to offer free internet on it. Who the heck would agree to that offer? Yes I will pay you money to be forced to offer free services. What?
MKVs are very badly supported, and seeking is completely broken for FLVs and high-def video in any format. I'm really not much of a fan of VLC.. using individual libraries like libmpeg2 is a much better idea than just copy/pasting tons of code into the project and trying to keep it updated. Oh and VLC transcoding is just awful and it basically says in the transcoder dialogue box "Do Not Use This".
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Um well if it's not illegal and people are voting for him then what's the problem? He's not voting on national policy here-- if most people in Texas want to be governed by a certain person then that's certainly their right. Where is your qualm with that? Even if he was affecting you and voting in Congress, it's still Texas electors' right to be represented how they please. They can send whoever they want as their delegate to Congress and I can't believe you'd deny them that right. There's those "foundational principles of my country" you were talking about.
What. Like it or not, Christianity says that non-Christians will go to hell. If you don't believe that then I guess you've got nothing to worry about and his comments shouldn't bother you. It's not like they affect how he administrates his state. That's a tenant of the religion and there are plenty of Christians in office. Would you outlaw that religion?
Nah the proof was just too long to write in the margin..
So do it yourself. Yeah it's unusual that someone hasn't gotten up off their butt but you can't exactly complain-- it's free.
Nice :[
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"Our servers did it" definitely induced a head-scratch from me. Why on earth would they have their servers set up to automatically commit serious crimes just because a server was public and then restricted access? That doesn't make sense, even from their twisted viewpoint..
I agree and don't feel the least bit sorry for these web designers that design for Microsoft "standards". Just design for actual standards and leave idiot IE users high and dry.. maybe when MS starts realizing that half the internet looks like crap on their browser then they'll do something about it. Honestly, I don't even know where web designers came up with this idea that it's OK to spend extra time tweaking it for users of a bizarrely non-compliant browser. Or where Microsoft decided it would be a good idea to randomly make a browser that renders differently from other ones.
unlimited battery life.. just keep downloading BIOS updates to add half hours to your battery life..
It's not really that surprising. CPUs are supposed to control the computer's resources and keep some kind of sanity and synchronization.. do one thing at a time and they do it fast. Multiple cores are nice but they just let you do 2 things at once. Yeah they're fancy and pipelined and there's all sort of asynchronous optimization with arithmetic and logic, but as a whole it's executing one instruction after another.
GPUs on the other hand are far more parallel. The thousands of individual subprocessors can be independently controlled in software and given different tasks.
What's with the weird name? I get the "nusiance" reference but unless they're trying to somehow imply GNU-siance the g seems pretty random. Awful confusing- why do we need random names for all these ubuntu derivatives.. how about freebuntu or something?
for the street address, they used the "Dildo Room" at "69 Dick Tard Lane." facepalm
I completely agree.. unlimited matchmaking, being able to easily download any of my games whenever and wherever I want at insane speeds, steam community.. it's all well worth the tiny prices Valve asks.
What? That's a terrible idea. A Steam game is just a huge tree of files that's parsed by the Steam loader. Those files, including cached sound data and map node resources, are being updated continuously as you play through the game. What difference does it make if one more file is altered to store configuration data? Would you really rather have to re-set your audio/video settings every time you want to play, as well as rebind your keys, as well as re-tweak your Voice volumes, as well as reconfigure your steam community overlay options? Have you even seen how powerful the console is? It would take me 10 minutes to manually execute everything in my autoexec.cfg.
Yeah the free market has really done well with the cable situation.. I guess wireless is cheaper to implement though so there's not the prohibitive and monopoly-encouraging cost of the last mile
The government's not providing it, they're selling the spectrum to someone who has to offer free internet on it. Who the heck would agree to that offer? Yes I will pay you money to be forced to offer free services. What?
I'd generally steer clear of anything with a relic of a "Turbo" button..
Uh it said a worthy alternative to the eee pc, not the OLPC..
No wires or ball? You got ripped off buddy.
It was way better than 3.1..
MKVs are very badly supported, and seeking is completely broken for FLVs and high-def video in any format. I'm really not much of a fan of VLC.. using individual libraries like libmpeg2 is a much better idea than just copy/pasting tons of code into the project and trying to keep it updated. Oh and VLC transcoding is just awful and it basically says in the transcoder dialogue box "Do Not Use This".
..makes sense to me.. at least he wasn't fired
How is this irony? How can you possibly go to China and not expect these sort of massive privacy/rights violations?
No that's irony. The site (by design) denies any real service to its customers, and it's essentially being DDOSd by the slashdot community.