I must say that you really
*puts on sunglasses*
butchered this one.

I simply don't visit sites with intrusive advertising.

You see, when you visit a site with Adblock you aren't really sending the site owners the right message. What you are doing is hoping that those who don't use Adblock keep "funding" your visits to that site. This, coupled with the childish "No Ad block?!, me no use!" posts every time Chrome is mentioned, means that you are cutting the same branch you are sitting on.

Yes, it's a selfish world. I am sure you recognize that. Do you like selfish people? I know I don't so I usually try not to act the same as those I criticize. If everyone would do the same we might have a chance, if they won't, at least I am letting myself feel a little better inside.

The last line in his post says it all.

You know what they say: People who do it under BSD do it beacause they love fee software, those who do it under the GPL do it because they hate Microsoft.

Can you help me out here? I took a look at TechNet and it seems to me that as a regular user (or "Power User"), as long as you plan to buy both Windows 7 and Office - both of which are common purchases for regular end users - it's cheaper to just get a TechNet subscription.

What are some limitation that I might have in the future if I decide to buy a TechNet subscription to get Windows 7 (and other software) instead of buying a retail copy?

Also, I see a lot of people on ebay selling what are supposedly legit Win 7 keys. Rumor has it that they are TechNet Keys.

Was it released by RAZOR1911?

1. yes people take advantage of others. do you expect me to believe that this somehow stops when people get into government? and they don't use government's control over the financial system to make laws to benefit them their buddies back in the private sector? for example, fractional reserve banking, laws over the creation of money, and inflation, all of which cause the system to be inherently unstable?

2. it's this inherent instability of the financial system which causes rolling bubbles and severe crashes through different sectors. yeah, people's fear and panic play a role, but it is not central. panics just don't happen for no reason. that is absurd.

the few powerful players that I see in our markets today were created by various subsidies and protection from competition granted by the government. for example, microsoft's gigantic monopoly is protected by the government's patent and copyright laws, giving them control over imaginary property. it has absolutely nothing to do with "an unregulated marketplace bubbles and pops due to nothing but simple human psychology, and naturally degenerates into a few powerful players dominating everyone else" as you claim.

the energy and telecommunications industries are also prime examples of how government consolidated many different market players, granted exclusive contracts, and tried to regulate them. we can all see how that turned out. there are countless other examples which I will leave as an exercise for the reader.

Wait. So you're going to judge the scientific community based on a piece of source code written by a "shitty programmer"...no wait...comments in the source code that you have absolutely no idea of whether it is even used or not?

How can you even verify that it's real? How do you know if that was a finished piece of code?

You're reading on slashdot, so I assume you have some programming background. You should know better. Someone was trying to fix a piece of legacy code (how old?) that was undocumented and uncommented. Did you analyze the function? Was it really squaring? I know of no compiler that would take x*x and return a negative number, so it's quite obvious the code was doing more than simple squaring.

Now granted, science codes are never that well done but if it was done based on research papers then the code is, at the very least, validated against the results of the paper. If there were no validation at all, then there is little chance of a climate model maintaining numerical stability for an few hours, let alone a 100 year climate simulation.

Scientists are human. They make mistakes. But the models are backed tested against the observational record. If they can't replicate the climate from say, 1850 to today and have the model get within a margin error then the model is broken. However, the models perform quite well and you can see this in the IPCC report. Or you can download a model (like GISS ModelE, it's source so you'll have to build it) and the data (also from GISS) and run it yourself.

You're not really implying that the whole of modern climate science should be tossed out based on an incomplete discussion about single craptastic piece of code are you?

~X~

I don't know where the other guy got his numbers but I've found (via google), that 1.5 Mbit/s ITU G.992.3 Annex L (reach extended) ADSL can travel five miles without a repeater, and ten miles with the repeater. If you slowed that down to 1 Mbit/s you could probably get 15 miles distance.

Almost all American homes are within that distance of the central office, or a DSLAM

He didn't hire a small army, he was part of a small army.
http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Chanology - NSFW
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chanology

Google and the internet are the anti-thesis to Big Brother. So are a populace with cameras.

This is what scares me about Google more than anything. Three important things are compared in this quote:
1) the Internet
2) Google
3) the public

One of these things is very different than the others...can you spot which? (hint...one has shareholders).

Far too often do I see people confusing Google with the internet, or believing that what's good for Google is good for us all.

They have basically accomplished what Microsoft tried 10 years ago...they are synonymous with the internet.

Sorry, maybe my tinfoil hat is too snug, but that feels very Big Brother-ish to me. They may be all "do no evil" today, but there was even a time (believe it or not) when Microsoft was a "good guy", fighting the tyranny of the evil Big Blue. Once we've given Google the keys to the internet, we may find our new Googlish overlords to be not quite as nice as we had imagined.

I use Chrome. It's an excellent browser that managed to easily sway me away from Firefox despite the fact that I use some FF extensions on a regular basis.

I have read all about the process per tab design of chrome but I must say that 95% of the times when Chrome crushes, it takes down the whole browser.

Because sudo is a commandline tool and UAC a graphical tool. Sudo behaves like UAC when you try to launch a Gnome or KDE app that requires root.

I've tried SystemTap and it looks really really cool . I understand that this project is "dtrace for linux". Can someone with experience with both tools give a rundown on how SystemTap 1.0 currently compares with dtrace?