Gasp! You mean the people in charge of Iran are basically the same (archetype) as the people in charge of the US!?! Just replace "God's Will" with "Freedom" or whatever other ideology is relevant for your country and leave the rich part in. I guess people really are the same the world over...
Imposter! You are not Captain Obvious because he would of taken *context* and *tone* into account. He was replying to a humorous counter-point to the pro-Safari poster in a manner which indicates he was in support of Safari. This much is obvious to most English readers (most because, apparently, you are one of the few exceptions).
So to show how NOT authoritarian we are you had best help your country and start tagging! America needs YOU to to spray Baby Jesus riding a Dinosaur on the backwall of Applebees!
There are already *seperate* rules in place right now to prevent that from happening. Its called software patents, and until they go away they will be used. Once software patents are gone there will have to be some other Trade Secret law (US specific example here) or something to protect the companies I guess...
Alright, normally I steer clear of these little fanboi-type fights but was that last bit really necessary? Way to be a mature adult! Sure, the GP could of been a little more diplomatic in saying that a lot of NoScript advocates don't know what they are talking about (just like many fans of many other things, from OS to car analogies). He was abrasive, but he wasn't trolling and he wasn't starting a flame war like your inflammatory comment can be seen as trying to do.
Back on topic: NoScript is not perfect, but it can help if you want to deal with the baggage that goes with it. Either way if you want to be safest you have got to do what the parent said about using your hosts file as well. It is a lot of work to be safe and private on the Internet, especially as you get more cross site services and similar. This is why most people don't/won't/can't bother, and why we should be trying to make it so NoScript and the like are not necessary for a 'safe' Internet experience.
Communities are our one real strength as a species, and the Internet is a tool that embodies it entirely. Its in our best interest as a species to develop it so all can benefit from it.
How's this for a defense advantage: long tails. Caveat: I first heard the idea from Jurassic Park (the second book), but it isn't an unreasonable theory. I wish we could be more accurate with our muscle models. All we have is the frames to go by. Do the same thing with an automobile and you'll probably never guess what the car really looks like.
Mod this guy up, if only for the "Free as in Speech" vs "Free as in Beer" aspect. Its still one of the hardest things for people to grasp, which is sad since a lot of the fools having problems with it are from the US which is nicknamed "Land of the Free" for crying out loud.
So I take it you think that humanity will never have a technology level capable of A) cloning identical copies of humans, B) possibly transferring either the knowledge/consciousnesses or the brain of a person itself into said clone, C) cryo-stasis, or B) the ability to revive the recently deceased (more so than we already can)?
Also I find it interesting that you assume like many Christians that should the Second Coming actually occur that it is physically the same Jesus. If you follow the assumption that God is all powerful and Jesus is His Son (I can't remember if its only Catholicism or if its Christianity in general that goes on about the Trinity, in which case Jesus is also God and is His own Son; complicated!) couldn't he just create a new physical form?
Anyways, the point is that while most people consider Islam, Judaism, Christianity, etc to be valid religions (mostly due to their age no doubt), most rational people refuse to accept Scientology as the same. Chiefly because its creator, Hubbard, is known as having said that to make real money you start a religion before he went and created Scientology. Couple that with the SciFi theme of the religion (Hubbard was a mediocre SciFi writer) and the fact that they use mind altering drugs and every aspect of the religion seems architectured to maintain control (such as banning psychiatrics and making practitioners out to be Evil, when they desperately need the help) of those that follow the "religion".
Anywas, if someone wants to believe they have an alien soul and the Evil Xenu are waging war on humanity by giving us mental health experts then so be it. All I know is the Church as an organization seems downright hostile to everyone's best interests, including those that follow it.
As another point to how misinformed the GP is in regards to memory utilization, Vista (and Windows 7?) uses Superfetch. This process is actually pretty great, but you have to let it learn before you see any advantage in it. For those that don't know, it basically just remembers what programs you like to use and when and holds some aspects in memory so the program launches faster and reserves space for them to run at those times (so you don't, in theory, notice a performance hit while your AV goes off). So aside from the OS being designed for more modern hardware, the numbers are further inflated anyways by this feature.
By the way, the downside to Superfetch is on the rare event you have to re-load the OS as you have to teach it all over again.
Funny, I seem to remember several cheesy action movies in the popular culture of the 80's. Sure the hero's were no longer pristine, but they were still heroes. Usually.
Replicators as in StarTrek, not Replicators as in StarGate. Because in America, I totally need another way to get junk food conveniently without moving from my couch.
Who modded this off topic? Insightful would of been more appropriate. What he is trying to do is make an analogy of Craigslist vs Newspapers and Linux Distros vs Microsoft. It's not a great analogy but its good enough for a +5 Slashdot comment.
Essentially, you don't have to pay to get craigslist, just like you don't have to pay to get Linux. Both are available wherever you have an Internet connection. Your alternative is to go pay money for a different service (eg buy Windows or buy a Newspaper) or pay to have it delivered to you (shipping vs store == paper boy vs a gas station or something). In theory, the one you pay for should be "better" but is turning out not to be in many many ways.
In both cases, the people running the company that sells a product has way too much focus on what other companies are doing rather than figuring out how he should be adapting his own.
Okay, so its a better analogy than I thought, so again why is this "offtopic".
Well I liked it. The guy who did McCoy did a great job in my opinion. Kirk and Spock's characters were a little different, but then different things happened to them. My one pet peeve is the 'sidekick' Scotty had and how he didn't seem to be a 'serious engineer' that was funny because he was scottish rather than being a bit of a goof.
All in all, I thought it was well done and one of the better Star Trek movies since the Undiscovered Country.
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I'm sorry drinkypoo, but you actually are off topic here. You are going on a personal rant about OCZ. The topic is how flash media has become cheap and undifferentiated. Which is true. One flash stick is essentially the same as the other. You can usually swap out the flash memory in a jump drive and put it in another one. The only difference really is the same difference with any other commodity (including other undifferentiated ones) and that is a difference in manufacturing quality.
The "speed differences" are largely imaginary as the USB connection bottlenecks access times anyways. Things like customer support and warranties are factors for buying a specific brand of thumb drive but aren't qualities that differentiate the actual product as the products themselves are largely the same.
I'm sorry you had a frustrating experience with OCZ but complaining about Slashdot moderators isn't going to do any good anyways. Chances are by this afternoon you'll be +5 Insightful once someone who has also had a bad experience with OCZ gets in here. Of course given most people seem to have good experiences with OCZ its possible that you'll be a bit lower than +5 by the end of day.
+1 Flame Retardant Rebuttal
It is nice to see somebody who wanted to just start a fight get completely shutdown. More so when the rebuttal is concise and in a calm manner. If more . . . disagreements were handled in such a manner the world would be a better place. Keep doing your part!
Back on topic, I can't really defend Michael Douglas in any way but it seems to be he would of been expecting them to act a little more crazy. Sure, they were real mental patients, but aside from the stereotypical views of mental patients only ones with "good behavior" would of been allowed to act in the movie. No self respecting doctor would allow someone with a strong capacity and will for violence to do the same. But then since when to producers actually do anything but help provide capital these days?
It's an RC. If you were fool enough to install Windows 7 and use it at a production level then you get what is coming. If you installed it at home and you only had one box you should of known from the start that something like this would happen. People who think like your comment suggests are a big problem in today's society. It represents yet again that some people want things to be provided to them for free exactly how they want it and damn anyone who does otherwise.
Aborigines can be white in theory. Sure, Australian Aborigines are black. But I wouldn't call the Inuit (Canadian aborigines) black. All aboriginal means is "having existed in a region from the beginning" (i.e. aboriginal forests and so forth). Generally used in reference to so-called "primitive" societies but not always.
You can "steal" anything scarce, and a radio frequency is technically a scarcity since you (typically) can only have "one" signal going on the frequency. If you have multiples you tend to get interference, bleeding, etc.
Note that I'm using "one" a little figuratively here (multicast transmissions etc) since I'm too lazy at the moment to grab the exact sources to whore my Karma.
Legislatures did nothing to contribute to a problem in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina hit. That blame lies solely on the Executive. FEMA was supposed to execute rescue and recovery operations and failed to do so properly.
Its a perception thing. For example, which is faster: Windows XP or Windows Vista? Most will choose the first one. Funnily enough though, if you are using a DELL XPS One and XP you'll notice it seems *slower* than when it had Vista on it (and you won't be able to eject CD's via the button on the right side thanks to Vista only drivers).
Pretty much it comes back to the hardware and drivers which Linux doesn't have perfectly well as everyone here knows. Sometimes Windows IS faster. For me, its only two things keeping me on Vista: DirectX10 and the Windows Media Connectors. If I could find all the drivers for my laptop hardware for Linux I'd remove Vista on that and throw Linux on it.
Mod this guy up. Every one of his points is valid, and in reality the truth. Civilian casualties are a given and in war you do not take chances. The line may very well of been crossed in Falluja but its a very fine one to be treading and the people behind the gun are just as terrified as the ones in front of it. War is hell in every sense of the phrase and its NEVER a good thing. The only sad part is that it is sometimes necessary, if you want to keep your own anyways.
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Gasp! You mean the people in charge of Iran are basically the same (archetype) as the people in charge of the US!?! Just replace "God's Will" with "Freedom" or whatever other ideology is relevant for your country and leave the rich part in. I guess people really are the same the world over...
Imposter! You are not Captain Obvious because he would of taken *context* and *tone* into account. He was replying to a humorous counter-point to the pro-Safari poster in a manner which indicates he was in support of Safari. This much is obvious to most English readers (most because, apparently, you are one of the few exceptions).
So to show how NOT authoritarian we are you had best help your country and start tagging! America needs YOU to to spray Baby Jesus riding a Dinosaur on the backwall of Applebees!
There are already *seperate* rules in place right now to prevent that from happening. Its called software patents, and until they go away they will be used. Once software patents are gone there will have to be some other Trade Secret law (US specific example here) or something to protect the companies I guess...
Alright, normally I steer clear of these little fanboi-type fights but was that last bit really necessary? Way to be a mature adult! Sure, the GP could of been a little more diplomatic in saying that a lot of NoScript advocates don't know what they are talking about (just like many fans of many other things, from OS to car analogies). He was abrasive, but he wasn't trolling and he wasn't starting a flame war like your inflammatory comment can be seen as trying to do.
Back on topic: NoScript is not perfect, but it can help if you want to deal with the baggage that goes with it. Either way if you want to be safest you have got to do what the parent said about using your hosts file as well. It is a lot of work to be safe and private on the Internet, especially as you get more cross site services and similar. This is why most people don't/won't/can't bother, and why we should be trying to make it so NoScript and the like are not necessary for a 'safe' Internet experience.
Communities are our one real strength as a species, and the Internet is a tool that embodies it entirely. Its in our best interest as a species to develop it so all can benefit from it.
How's this for a defense advantage: long tails. Caveat: I first heard the idea from Jurassic Park (the second book), but it isn't an unreasonable theory. I wish we could be more accurate with our muscle models. All we have is the frames to go by. Do the same thing with an automobile and you'll probably never guess what the car really looks like.
Well either way one can easily get a virus, but with your Wife it will be harder to remove.
Mod this guy up, if only for the "Free as in Speech" vs "Free as in Beer" aspect. Its still one of the hardest things for people to grasp, which is sad since a lot of the fools having problems with it are from the US which is nicknamed "Land of the Free" for crying out loud.
So I take it you think that humanity will never have a technology level capable of A) cloning identical copies of humans, B) possibly transferring either the knowledge/consciousnesses or the brain of a person itself into said clone, C) cryo-stasis, or B) the ability to revive the recently deceased (more so than we already can)?
Also I find it interesting that you assume like many Christians that should the Second Coming actually occur that it is physically the same Jesus. If you follow the assumption that God is all powerful and Jesus is His Son (I can't remember if its only Catholicism or if its Christianity in general that goes on about the Trinity, in which case Jesus is also God and is His own Son; complicated!) couldn't he just create a new physical form?
Anyways, the point is that while most people consider Islam, Judaism, Christianity, etc to be valid religions (mostly due to their age no doubt), most rational people refuse to accept Scientology as the same. Chiefly because its creator, Hubbard, is known as having said that to make real money you start a religion before he went and created Scientology. Couple that with the SciFi theme of the religion (Hubbard was a mediocre SciFi writer) and the fact that they use mind altering drugs and every aspect of the religion seems architectured to maintain control (such as banning psychiatrics and making practitioners out to be Evil, when they desperately need the help) of those that follow the "religion".
Anywas, if someone wants to believe they have an alien soul and the Evil Xenu are waging war on humanity by giving us mental health experts then so be it. All I know is the Church as an organization seems downright hostile to everyone's best interests, including those that follow it.
By the way, the downside to Superfetch is on the rare event you have to re-load the OS as you have to teach it all over again.
Funny, I seem to remember several cheesy action movies in the popular culture of the 80's. Sure the hero's were no longer pristine, but they were still heroes. Usually.
Replicators as in StarTrek, not Replicators as in StarGate. Because in America, I totally need another way to get junk food conveniently without moving from my couch.
Who modded this off topic? Insightful would of been more appropriate. What he is trying to do is make an analogy of Craigslist vs Newspapers and Linux Distros vs Microsoft. It's not a great analogy but its good enough for a +5 Slashdot comment.
Essentially, you don't have to pay to get craigslist, just like you don't have to pay to get Linux. Both are available wherever you have an Internet connection. Your alternative is to go pay money for a different service (eg buy Windows or buy a Newspaper) or pay to have it delivered to you (shipping vs store == paper boy vs a gas station or something). In theory, the one you pay for should be "better" but is turning out not to be in many many ways.
In both cases, the people running the company that sells a product has way too much focus on what other companies are doing rather than figuring out how he should be adapting his own.
Okay, so its a better analogy than I thought, so again why is this "offtopic".
Well I liked it. The guy who did McCoy did a great job in my opinion. Kirk and Spock's characters were a little different, but then different things happened to them. My one pet peeve is the 'sidekick' Scotty had and how he didn't seem to be a 'serious engineer' that was funny because he was scottish rather than being a bit of a goof. All in all, I thought it was well done and one of the better Star Trek movies since the Undiscovered Country.
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I'm sorry drinkypoo, but you actually are off topic here. You are going on a personal rant about OCZ. The topic is how flash media has become cheap and undifferentiated. Which is true. One flash stick is essentially the same as the other. You can usually swap out the flash memory in a jump drive and put it in another one. The only difference really is the same difference with any other commodity (including other undifferentiated ones) and that is a difference in manufacturing quality.
The "speed differences" are largely imaginary as the USB connection bottlenecks access times anyways. Things like customer support and warranties are factors for buying a specific brand of thumb drive but aren't qualities that differentiate the actual product as the products themselves are largely the same.
I'm sorry you had a frustrating experience with OCZ but complaining about Slashdot moderators isn't going to do any good anyways. Chances are by this afternoon you'll be +5 Insightful once someone who has also had a bad experience with OCZ gets in here. Of course given most people seem to have good experiences with OCZ its possible that you'll be a bit lower than +5 by the end of day.
+1 Flame Retardant Rebuttal It is nice to see somebody who wanted to just start a fight get completely shutdown. More so when the rebuttal is concise and in a calm manner. If more . . . disagreements were handled in such a manner the world would be a better place. Keep doing your part! Back on topic, I can't really defend Michael Douglas in any way but it seems to be he would of been expecting them to act a little more crazy. Sure, they were real mental patients, but aside from the stereotypical views of mental patients only ones with "good behavior" would of been allowed to act in the movie. No self respecting doctor would allow someone with a strong capacity and will for violence to do the same. But then since when to producers actually do anything but help provide capital these days?
It's an RC. If you were fool enough to install Windows 7 and use it at a production level then you get what is coming. If you installed it at home and you only had one box you should of known from the start that something like this would happen. People who think like your comment suggests are a big problem in today's society. It represents yet again that some people want things to be provided to them for free exactly how they want it and damn anyone who does otherwise.
Aborigines can be white in theory. Sure, Australian Aborigines are black. But I wouldn't call the Inuit (Canadian aborigines) black. All aboriginal means is "having existed in a region from the beginning" (i.e. aboriginal forests and so forth). Generally used in reference to so-called "primitive" societies but not always.
You can "steal" anything scarce, and a radio frequency is technically a scarcity since you (typically) can only have "one" signal going on the frequency. If you have multiples you tend to get interference, bleeding, etc. Note that I'm using "one" a little figuratively here (multicast transmissions etc) since I'm too lazy at the moment to grab the exact sources to whore my Karma.
That's because you decided to be offended immediately by what he had to say instead of trying to understand why he thinks that.
Legislatures did nothing to contribute to a problem in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina hit. That blame lies solely on the Executive. FEMA was supposed to execute rescue and recovery operations and failed to do so properly.
IANAL but: copyright infringement IS a civil matter
Its a perception thing. For example, which is faster: Windows XP or Windows Vista? Most will choose the first one. Funnily enough though, if you are using a DELL XPS One and XP you'll notice it seems *slower* than when it had Vista on it (and you won't be able to eject CD's via the button on the right side thanks to Vista only drivers). Pretty much it comes back to the hardware and drivers which Linux doesn't have perfectly well as everyone here knows. Sometimes Windows IS faster. For me, its only two things keeping me on Vista: DirectX10 and the Windows Media Connectors. If I could find all the drivers for my laptop hardware for Linux I'd remove Vista on that and throw Linux on it.
Mod this guy up. Every one of his points is valid, and in reality the truth. Civilian casualties are a given and in war you do not take chances. The line may very well of been crossed in Falluja but its a very fine one to be treading and the people behind the gun are just as terrified as the ones in front of it. War is hell in every sense of the phrase and its NEVER a good thing. The only sad part is that it is sometimes necessary, if you want to keep your own anyways.