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We will be closely monitoring dsl statistics reports and those who go over their bandwidth quota, as mentioned above, will be sent a warning, then restricted.

300-400 GB!?

Thats up to 20 GB a day for a normal workweek. If you do that much for 'work' your employer should be footing your bill for a business line.

Just what exactly do you do that requires you to download that much data in a single day?

I was accused of downloading up to 300 Gigs a month. And the blog has screen shots of what I'm using currently. My ISP (xmission.com) shows I'm using less than 50 Gigs in any single month. Period. Acceptable use is stated as 100 Gigs a month or 25 Gigs a week.

Now THAT'S an ISP with customer service!

What do I do? I Post on slashdot all day man! :-)

... you could "hot swap" entirely new kernels while having very low processes latencies in the change over

kexec is a set of systems call that allows you to load another kernel from the currently executing Linux kernel. The current implementation has only been tested, and had the kinks worked out on x86, but the generic code should work on any architecture.

The town that I'm in (in Utah) did one better.

What it has is a city run fiber-to-the-house system. Basically, it works in that just about any provider can signup and provide service on the network, so you get your choice of internet providers while operating on the same network. You can checkout the background here: http://www.utopianet.org/ . The service also allows for more than just internet, you can run IPTV and VOIP services over it as well, on separate chunks of bandwidth so your phone doesn't drop out when you're downloading your "used car ads" from usenet.

One of the providers is a bit cheaper ( MStar ), but from the reviews (on dslreports) I have read, it's pretty crappy service. They have low monthly bandwidth caps, do torrent filtering, and seem to have a tough time letting their users hit anything near their purchased transfer rates. So, this may sound like your local cable company, but there is one important difference: There are more providers than this one using those same fiber lines.

I'm using XMission ( http://www.xmission.com/ ) as my service provider, and so far it's been a pretty much perfect experience. The first day, I decided to test the limits of my pipe, and I seeded two different distro ISO downloads through bittorrent. My results were what I had expected, when I was downloading, I got up to the advertised 15Mb/s, and when I was seeding it would hit 15Mb/s as well. So, UTOPIA has given me the choice of if I want the cheaper service with a lower QoS, or the more expensive service that is rock-solid.

Overall, I would say that having this network available has made things like network neutrality much less important to me, because I know if the ISP I am on should ever go evil, I can just make a quick phone call and switch to one of the other providers on the line. It's amazing the service offerings you can get when you get the free-market back in full swing, and for the suckers still on Comcast the added competition has forced them to drop their prices in the area to $33/month (well, at least until you add in all the random taxes + fees + surcharges), so even the big guys are having to play along. The best part of this all is that the city doesn't actually pay for the fiber at all unless the project fails, so the only question is why all of the towns in this area don't have it already.

If these words were people, I would embrace their genocide

There are quite a few ISPs that provide Internet services in combination with DSL service from the local phone company. I recently switched grudgingly from Speakeasy, which uses lines from Covad, to Qwest with third party ISP. I did this to save money, but now have no regrets upon hearing this news. Shopping around for an ISP other than Qwest MSN, XMission looked like a good one, but they stopped offering service in my area (they are Utah based I believe) so I can't speak firsthand. Other than that, the Qwest website listed dozens of local ISPs, very few of which were price competitive with Qwest's own Internet service, but many offered other features such as static IPs. I assume most locations have a handful of ISPs that provide service atop the telco's lines.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGL_vs._Direct3D

http://www.gamedev.net/reference/articles/article1 775.asp

http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/d3d-vs-opengl.ht ml [(this one is a bit out of date and only covers OpenGL 1.2 and DirectX 8

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGL_vs._Direct3D

http://www.gamedev.net/reference/articles/article1 775.asp

http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/d3d-vs-opengl.ht ml (this one is a bit out of date and only covers OpenGL 1.2 and DirectX 8

Mac's break? Who knew!
http://maddox.xmission.com/

BTW, on a theological note, I know that there are those in the Church who seem to claim that Jesus and God are one and the same

If by 'those in the church' you mean 'the classic creeds, the church fathers and the statements of faith of all mainstream denominations' then you are correct.

but if you read the Bible it is clear that Jesus carefully avoided claiming he was God

Actually, he repeatedly referred to himself as 'I AM,' which is a name for God and said that he was one with the Father, claimed abilities unique to God, such as the forgiveness of sins (which is one of the reasons the Pharisees wanted to kill him). He does distinguish between himself and the Father at times, but he is also quite clear that he is God.

AND he PRAYED to God, and since he wasn't praying to himself

He was praying to the Father, but that doesn't mean is isn't God. The Trinity is relational, with the Father, Son and Holy Spirit displaying love towards one another. The Son, once incarnate, communicated with his Father through prayer and in doing so set us an example.

it is probably a mistake (on the order of breaking the first of the 10 Commadments) to worship Jesus.

Actually, Jesus willingly accepted worship when it was offered, e.g. by Thomas.

(although I do believe he is the savior, and he was sent from Heaven)

The trouble is that in order to be our Saviour, Jesus must be both man and God

If you are sceptical of what I've said, here a few links you might find interesting reading:

• Top ten reasons why Jesus is God
• Jesus is Worshipped
• The Deity of Christ
• The Divine and Human Nature of Christ
• Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God

The company I work for just got a fiber connection from XMission that is 30 Mbps download AND 30 Mbps upload. It costs only $125 per month. For home users, it is only $40 per month for 15 Mbps down and 15 Mbps up.

How are we so lucky you might ask? Several cities banded together to create a world-class, 100% fiber optic network that they extend to every home and business in the member cities.

This municipal fiber broadband project is called UTOPIA and you can get it if you are fortunate enough to live in one of these cities that provides it.

So if you're disappointed by the Internet access in your area, see if you can get your cities to setup a network like ours. Be forewarned though, our incumbent telco and cable company fought and lobbied very hard against it. We're lucky that enough of our city council members were forward-thinking enough to go ahead with the project despite significant pressure from the incumbent telecom providers. Now we all reap the benefits.

http://mirrors.xmission.com/ubuntu-cd/dapper/ubunt u-6.06.1-desktop-i386.iso

Improve your culture! http://maddox.xmission.com/

So, over here in the flyover country in a little state called Utah, a bunch of the cities have gotten together and done something great. These cities have decided that letting one company run the phone and another run the cable TV has gone on long enough. They have run their own fiber, and operate it like the roads. Equal access from anyone to anyone. Their website is http://www.utopianet.org/

Now, instead of getting crazy plans with no upload and bad ping times, I have my choice of four different providers for data, three (soon to be four) for voice, and three for video. All running on the same set of community fiber. The data plan I'm on right now is 15mbps SYMMETRIC for around $45/month. Business plans through this same company ( http://www.xmission.com/ ) give you a full 30mbps for $110/month. Oh, and I get a 26ms ping time to google, and 2ms ping time to my ISP.

If you had options like this, you wouldn't need to worry about the net neutrality bills, because if your service provider started degrading service for something you liked, you could just jump ship because there would be plenty of other options for you. You wouldn't be stuck under the iron fist of some "controlled" monopoly.

Seriously, call your city council and ask them why your city isn't this cool yet. I mean, if Utah can do it... what's stopping your state?

I am the Maddox of Slashdot and open source. Posting my satire and wit on the Internet since 1995. Posting it on BBSes since 1986. Maddox is a wannabe Orion Blastar, but I am way smarter than Maddox. You see Maddox hosts his own web site and pays for it, while I post my articles on other web sites and make them pay for it. I am truer to the pirate code than Maddox will ever be. Plus I am a Space Pirate Ninja who travelled from 4096AD back in time. You see, a true pirate don't pay for bandwith, when they can freely post on someone else's web site for free. Just use google to search for "Orion Blastar" to see my articles and Internet humor.

I am Uncyclopedian of the month for October 2006, at Uncyclopedia and it has benefits.

I contribute to open source web sites all over the Internet.

Not only that, but he also hosts the best page in the universe!!

Speaking as someone who owns a business that received a letter from SCO for our use of Linux, I hope IBM crushes them and wipes clean the stain from Utah's tech community.

Our company co-locates a server with his company, http://www.xmission.com/. They are great to work with. They were also the first ISP in Utah.

About the geekiest group of guys around. And I mean that as a compliment.

And, though it really shouldn't influence my vote here in UT another cool thing about Pete is that he is a vintage video game collector. For a while they were using an un-used part of the data center for storage of his machines. Plus, you can play a stand up version of one of the Donkey Kongs in the lobby of the data center.

That seems like an awfully big hammer. Especially since, as one of the syadmins over at XMission Internet I'd really rather not experience that. And before everybody points it out, yes, XMission is Pete Ashdown's company. :]

I used to pack my hefty old 486 portable

FVWM-Crystal is an eye-candy, functional and ultra-fast desktop environment for GNU/Linux, based on FVWM. Crystal can be used even on very old machines, thus it is a noticeable alternative to popular desktop choices like XFCE or Fluxbox.

Pic 1. FVWM-Crystal default desktop

History

FVWM is one of the oldest window managers for the X Window System. It is actually so old that even the creators don't remember what the first letter of the acronym stands for. FVWM acronym is often evaluated to "Flexible Virtual Window Manager". If you like, you can however put any other word there. Some examples include: "Fine", "Freaky", "Favorite", "Furious", "Functional", etc .

FVWM is known for its configurability. It provides a countless number of options making it possible to personalize your desktop to a very large extent. It even has it own scripting language and a shell (called FVWM console) which can be exploited by advanced users to interactively change the desktop looks and behavior. For programmers, there is an API available for creating new applets for FVWM, written in Perl.

The default FVWM looks is very minimalistic. There is just a blank desktop and a menu accessed with a right mouse button. In order to appreciate this great window manager you need to visit the FVWM-themes website, where you can see multiple screenshots of modified FVWM desktops, as well as download numerous themes. Here are just a few interesting examples:

• FWVM which Windows XP looks and FVWM with MacOS looks - themes by user sa from xmission.com
• Smokey and Artic - original themes created by Pierre Eric Marchandet, with transparency enabled
• Another interesting theme created by Tril from ironphoenix.org, using a matrix of virtual desktops (3×3) and WindowMaker-like docks.

FVWM-Crystal, which is the subject of this article, has been originally created as an FVWM theme as well. However, it evolved to something much more complex. Currently Crystal is integrated with a bunch of external tools like music players, desktop toolbars, file managers, terminals and more, so we decided to call it a minimalistic desktop environment with FVWM as the window manager. Following this path, it should be compared with GNOME or XFCE rather than Fluxbox, WindowMaker and such. But, to be precise, it's actually something in between.

Pic 2. FVWM-Crystal with Nautilus

Why Crystal?

Good question, like a politician would say. We have dozens of window managers for X and a few full-featured desktop environments. Why should you care for yet another not very popular program doing the same thing? Well, there are a couple of reasons why, actually.

1. FVWM-Crystal is fast. It boots-up a few times quicker than GNOME or KDE and takes up a dozen times less memory. This is however a feature of most lightweight window managers. Nothing too fancy.
2. FVWM-Crystal looks really great. The whole desktop is transparent by default, includin

FVWM-Crystal is an eye-candy, functional and ultra-fast desktop environment for GNU/Linux, based on FVWM. Crystal can be used even on very old machines, thus it is a noticeable alternative to popular desktop choices like XFCE or Fluxbox.

Pic 1. FVWM-Crystal default desktop

History

FVWM is one of the oldest window managers for the X Window System. It is actually so old that even the creators don't remember what the first letter of the acronym stands for. FVWM acronym is often evaluated to "Flexible Virtual Window Manager". If you like, you can however put any other word there. Some examples include: "Fine", "Freaky", "Favorite", "Furious", "Functional", etc .

FVWM is known for its configurability. It provides a countless number of options making it possible to personalize your desktop to a very large extent. It even has it own scripting language and a shell (called FVWM console) which can be exploited by advanced users to interactively change the desktop looks and behavior. For programmers, there is an API available for creating new applets for FVWM, written in Perl.

The default FVWM looks is very minimalistic. There is just a blank desktop and a menu accessed with a right mouse button. In order to appreciate this great window manager you need to visit the FVWM-themes website, where you can see multiple screenshots of modified FVWM desktops, as well as download numerous themes. Here are just a few interesting examples:

• FWVM which Windows XP looks and FVWM with MacOS looks - themes by user sa from xmission.com
• Smokey and Artic - original themes created by Pierre Eric Marchandet, with transparency enabled
• Another interesting theme created by Tril from ironphoenix.org, using a matrix of virtual desktops (3×3) and WindowMaker-like docks.

FVWM-Crystal, which is the subject of this article, has been originally created as an FVWM theme as well. However, it evolved to something much more complex. Currently Crystal is integrated with a bunch of external tools like music players, desktop toolbars, file managers, terminals and more, so we decided to call it a minimalistic desktop environment with FVWM as the window manager. Following this path, it should be compared with GNOME or XFCE rather than Fluxbox, WindowMaker and such. But, to be precise, it's actually something in between.

Pic 2. FVWM-Crystal with Nautilus

Why Crystal?

Good question, like a politician would say. We have dozens of window managers for X and a few full-featured desktop environments. Why should you care for yet another not very popular program doing the same thing? Well, there are a couple of reasons why, actually.

1. FVWM-Crystal is fast. It boots-up a few times quicker than GNOME or KDE and takes up a dozen times less memory. This is however a feature of most lightweight window managers. Nothing too fancy.
2. FVWM-Crystal looks really great. The whole desktop is transparent by default, includin

FVWM-Crystal is an eye-candy, functional and ultra-fast desktop environment for GNU/Linux, based on FVWM. Crystal can be used even on very old machines, thus it is a noticeable alternative to popular desktop choices like XFCE or Fluxbox.

Pic 1. FVWM-Crystal default desktop

History

FVWM is one of the oldest window managers for the X Window System. It is actually so old that even the creators don't remember what the first letter of the acronym stands for. FVWM acronym is often evaluated to "Flexible Virtual Window Manager". If you like, you can however put any other word there. Some examples include: "Fine", "Freaky", "Favorite", "Furious", "Functional", etc .

FVWM is known for its configurability. It provides a countless number of options making it possible to personalize your desktop to a very large extent. It even has it own scripting language and a shell (called FVWM console) which can be exploited by advanced users to interactively change the desktop looks and behavior. For programmers, there is an API available for creating new applets for FVWM, written in Perl.

The default FVWM looks is very minimalistic. There is just a blank desktop and a menu accessed with a right mouse button. In order to appreciate this great window manager you need to visit the FVWM-themes website, where you can see multiple screenshots of modified FVWM desktops, as well as download numerous themes. Here are just a few interesting examples:

• FWVM which Windows XP looks and FVWM with MacOS looks - themes by user sa from xmission.com
• Smokey and Artic - original themes created by Pierre Eric Marchandet, with transparency enabled
• Another interesting theme created by Tril from ironphoenix.org, using a matrix of virtual desktops (3×3) and WindowMaker-like docks.

FVWM-Crystal, which is the subject of this article, has been originally created as an FVWM theme as well. However, it evolved to something much more complex. Currently Crystal is integrated with a bunch of external tools like music players, desktop toolbars, file managers, terminals and more, so we decided to call it a minimalistic desktop environment with FVWM as the window manager. Following this path, it should be compared with GNOME or XFCE rather than Fluxbox, WindowMaker and such. But, to be precise, it's actually something in between.

Pic 2. FVWM-Crystal with Nautilus

Why Crystal?

Good question, like a politician would say. We have dozens of window managers for X and a few full-featured desktop environments. Why should you care for yet another not very popular program doing the same thing? Well, there are a couple of reasons why, actually.

1. FVWM-Crystal is fast. It boots-up a few times quicker than GNOME or KDE and takes up a dozen times less memory. This is however a feature of most lightweight window managers. Nothing too fancy.
2. FVWM-Crystal looks really great. The whole desktop is transparent by default, includin

FVWM-Crystal is an eye-candy, functional and ultra-fast desktop environment for GNU/Linux, based on FVWM. Crystal can be used even on very old machines, thus it is a noticeable alternative to popular desktop choices like XFCE or Fluxbox.

Pic 1. FVWM-Crystal default desktop

History

FVWM is one of the oldest window managers for the X Window System. It is actually so old that even the creators don't remember what the first letter of the acronym stands for. FVWM acronym is often evaluated to "Flexible Virtual Window Manager". If you like, you can however put any other word there. Some examples include: "Fine", "Freaky", "Favorite", "Furious", "Functional", etc .

FVWM is known for its configurability. It provides a countless number of options making it possible to personalize your desktop to a very large extent. It even has it own scripting language and a shell (called FVWM console) which can be exploited by advanced users to interactively change the desktop looks and behavior. For programmers, there is an API available for creating new applets for FVWM, written in Perl.

The default FVWM looks is very minimalistic. There is just a blank desktop and a menu accessed with a right mouse button. In order to appreciate this great window manager you need to visit the FVWM-themes website, where you can see multiple screenshots of modified FVWM desktops, as well as download numerous themes. Here are just a few interesting examples:

• FWVM which Windows XP looks and FVWM with MacOS looks - themes by user sa from xmission.com
• Smokey and Artic - original themes created by Pierre Eric Marchandet, with transparency enabled
• Another interesting theme created by Tril from ironphoenix.org, using a matrix of virtual desktops (3×3) and WindowMaker-like docks.

FVWM-Crystal, which is the subject of this article, has been originally created as an FVWM theme as well. However, it evolved to something much more complex. Currently Crystal is integrated with a bunch of external tools like music players, desktop toolbars, file managers, terminals and more, so we decided to call it a minimalistic desktop environment with FVWM as the window manager. Following this path, it should be compared with GNOME or XFCE rather than Fluxbox, WindowMaker and such. But, to be precise, it's actually something in between.

Pic 2. FVWM-Crystal with Nautilus

Why Crystal?

Good question, like a politician would say. We have dozens of window managers for X and a few full-featured desktop environments. Why should you care for yet another not very popular program doing the same thing? Well, there are a couple of reasons why, actually.

1. FVWM-Crystal is fast. It boots-up a few times quicker than GNOME or KDE and takes up a dozen times less memory. This is however a feature of most lightweight window managers. Nothing too fancy.
2. FVWM-Crystal looks really great. The whole desktop is transparent by default, includin

My favorite quote, "I used to type emails in caps like yours, but then I decided that I didn't want a job mixing concrete."

Pete Ashdown owns XMission, which is Utah's largest ISP. He understands technical issues very well and would represent the technology crowd very well.

Enjoy.

How about maddox?

http://maddox.xmission.com/

http://www.xmission.com/utopia/index.html

Not bad for 15 Megabit down AND up, eh? Unfortunately, it's only available in a few cities in Utah, and I'm not fortunate enough to be in one of them.

Utopia is a fiber network built with the support of city governments with a goal to provide fiber to every household and business in the city. Revenues go back into the network to keep it running and support future upgrades. The cities have to provide the initial cash outlay, and hopefully, they will get their money back with customer adoption. Any provider (be it for Internet service, phone, or TV) can tap into Utopia and provide their service. They provide the content, Utopia just provides the fiber connection to the customer.

XMission is a great ISP in Utah that provides 15 megabit fiber for the home, or 30 megabit for business. They were one of the major players helping to get Utopia here in Utah, and they are a great statewide ISP with a local feel. We like them out here because they support advanced stuff like shell access.

If anyone else out there is trying to get a municipal broadband project underway, expect a lot of lobbying from your incumbent telecom companies. You will need some strong local support from your city council members, lots of education for the public about the benefits of building it, and forward thinking individuals willing to do what it takes to make it happen.

It was a long battle getting this network built for us in Utah. Qwest and Comcast pushed VERY hard to stop Utopia. We went to several city council meetings where they were voting on whether or not to build this network, at every one Qwest and Comcast representatives were there, along with their employees living in the area pushing the city councils to vote against Utopia. When the dust cleared, only a handful of cities voted to build Utopia; there was tons of money spent in ad campaigns to try to kill Utopia. They were somewhat successful, because we didn't get the support of all the cities we wanted. For example, our state capital Salt Lake City ultimately pulled out of Utopia. The cities that remained are smaller, suburban areas. The first of them are now seeing the fruits of their efforts--fast bandwidth!

I believe that even though Utopia has had a slow start, it will quickly become apparent what a benefit it is to have fiber to your house and what things can be done with it. We are pioneering this effort and hope it will spread across Utah and many other states.

some good general sites:
http://www.xmission.com/~nate/tutors.html basic's
http://www.gamedev.net/ Game programming
http://nehe.gamedev.net/ OpenGL programming/game site

THERE IS NOTHING PERMANENT EXCEPT CHANGE- HERACLITUS,6TH CENTURY B.C

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Seven sixteenths of one inch - Maddox, 2003 A.D.

Think new. And it is wrong that /. holds the most user friendly design because of it's, err, clean style -
Things like Times New Roman, black text on a white background and ugly (slashdot green gives me the nausea) colors are some of the flawes in the usability.

With design in mind, digg sucks, wired sucks, cnn/bbc++ sucks. http://maddox.xmission.com/ has it's flawes, but is better than the former.

Why is this modded troll? He's making a perfectly valid point that PETA and Greenpeace, are actually doing more damage than they prevent by extreme Green-ism.

I, for one, agree with him. I've never seen PETA support their claims with studies, or any other form of admissable scientific data. I've not seen one shred of evidence from them that their movement would help save animals. Maddox, even though what he writes is usually flamebait, presents data, from an authority. Who's laughing now, PETA?

http://maddox.xmission.com/hatemail.cgi

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=gr ill

And what about Greenpeace? What do they have to gain by opposing all forms of unclean power? What about the damage done to the ecosystem by hydroelectric power, as the new resevoirs drastically change local climates? How is that any better than storing a little bit of radioactive material underground, in sealed casques? If these casques are properly designed, how much of that radioactivity will ever leak out? None. Compare this to the ecological damage caused by hydroelectric power.

I would move that Greenpeace should be modded Troll.

It's okay to promote environmental ethics, but protesting nuclear power because of two accidents out of several-hundred plants is like being afraid of plane travel because a few planes out of several-thousand have crashed; Especially with what we know about engineering for safe, economical nuclear power. A lot of lives could be saved--lives that are lost due to pollution-related ilnesses--if we would only lose our fear of nuclear power. Thank you Greenpeace for undermining the one form of power that has the potential, in tandem with other technologies, to enable clean, economical transportation for our children and their children.

I would like my children to know what a tree looks like, not what it looked like.

Also, it comes with the Rumble Pack, and you can't really go wrong by buying it. I play it all the time... it may well be my favorite game for the DS. (In fact, I like it so much I just recently ordered The Pinball of the Dead for Gameboy Advance.) Of course, I've always loved real pinball, and bought two pinball sims for my Genesis (Dragons Fury and Dinoland).

Just waiting until the day I can afford my own Haunted House pinball machine (oh, and a house to put it in...)

quick, somebody ask Maddox what he thinks !!

Ninja are way better than Pirates...

Well, we've moved very far from the topic of people with social liabilities to the full-on playa's guide to bangin' chicks and getting laid. It's a whole different sphere of things.

Not completely a different sphere, just different ends of the same spectrum.

I do understand what you mean, and my point wasn't intended to be as patronizing as it came out.

The way I see it, people with Autism/Aspergers/Slashdot-fever who have problems in social situations have them because of their inability to relate. I'm assuming someone, who is otherwise very intelligent, is unable to pick up on people's facial expressions because they themselves don't associate their own facial expressions with the reactions that normally cause them.

To add to that, I think they are very painfully aware of this and are afraid of social interactions because of this. Each bit of interaction, especially with someone they've never met before, is a potential cause of failure.

This is what needs to be overcome and I'm saying fearlessness is the answer. There is absolutely nothing to be lost in any social situation, regardless of how it goes! Worst case scenario, the other people walk away thinking you're a fucking nerd with no life. They thought that before you opened your mouth anyway, it's no big deal.

I think over time you'll find other peoples opinions really don't matter. So why talk to them in the first place, right? Humans are social creatures, we all need other people for something or other. It'd be a shame to not take advantage of other people's help just because you didn't know how to approach them and ask.

I wish a playa's guide to bangin' chicks and getting laid existed, but like you said, not all strategies work for everyone, nor should they be tried by everyone. That doesn't mean a good strategy wont work for most people, and shouldn't be tried by people who have no reason not to try it.

Here's mine:

If you want to increase your social aptitude, regardless of whether it's to weild power and authority or just to bang hot bitches (not necessarily in the back of a bus) you must concentrate on one thing: dominance. You're the manliest of men, all the men want to be you, all the women want to do you.

Understandably, it may require a drastic shift in mentality. A good start would be some stuff written by some manly men:

Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal

Bastard Operator From Hell

Move on to less nerdier fare once you grow some balls, such as:

The Best Page In The Universe

After that you'll have already come to the conclusion that only fags need to learn how to be cool, and this shit was all a waste of time because you were the baddest motherfucker in the world from day one.

Good comment, better link: Maddox.

IMO, Dartmouth BASIC and its derivatives were the only versions of BASIC truly made for beginners. There was no structuring to worry about beyond line numbers, and the language was interpretive rather than compiled so you didn't even need line numbers -- you'd just tell the computer what to do and it would do it! The instant feedback helps train the user, like Pavlov's classical conditioning, in the relationship between command and action (and also what happens if a command is given incorrectly).

In fact, I like the old school BASIC language so much that I starting writing my own BASIC interpreter for unix. Haven't gotten around to finishing it, though.

If you know a marine, ask him if he can see http://maddox.xmission.com/

I want to have the option to keep transfering files if one fails to copy.

Amen to that. But until Microsoft comes to its senses, here's an open-source utility that will do that for you.

Thanks for having the balls to say that.

I think maddox said it best when he wrote this...

Maddox has managed it for more than five years now because "giving away content" wasn't his source of income. Now he's set to make a boatload of cash from various ventures including a book and a comic.
See also every commercial webcomic. Some go for a pure related-merchandise-for-sale approach, such as ctrl alt del, others push a little harder, like questionablecontent selling clothes that appear in comics.
And if your site doesn't fit into an easy category for making money, but does have traffic, I have three words for you: Ads by Goooooooogle. I hate these ads, but they work.
As for corporations and such, and their continued profit from the internet, I have nothing but a big Fuck You for them. The only area this discussion is even relevant to big business is newspapers. The answer for them in most cases is advertising. Others try to lock in their content. These are the ones who miss the point. Screw them. The third case is the BBC - no need to profit from the internet. This is where I go for my news.

Has a blown up image of the nipple, in case you are into that. And also a good, well-rounded view on the entire situation.

I'd like to believe it's because of the quality with which they implemented things, and not the ideas themselves, but WoW took everything that I considered poison and made a great game out of it.

There are no choices in WoW. It's an RPG on rails, but it's hugely popular, (and I admit, I think it's fun too.)

Anyway, that doesn't mean I think the only way to make a MMORPG is dumbed-down and simplistic. I just think Blizzard put a lot of polish on mediocre ideas.

Here are some essays I wrote for an obsolete Horizons webpage. The internal links don't work anymore, but the concepts are universal and timeless.

A Case for the removal of the Numbers
Calculation and Advancement of Skills
Using Tests to determine abilities.

I'd like to believe it's because of the quality with which they implemented things, and not the ideas themselves, but WoW took everything that I considered poison and made a great game out of it.

There are no choices in WoW. It's an RPG on rails, but it's hugely popular, (and I admit, I think it's fun too.)

Anyway, that doesn't mean I think the only way to make a MMORPG is dumbed-down and simplistic. I just think Blizzard put a lot of polish on mediocre ideas.

Here are some essays I wrote for an obsolete Horizons webpage. The internal links don't work anymore, but the concepts are universal and timeless.

A Case for the removal of the Numbers
Calculation and Advancement of Skills
Using Tests to determine abilities.

I'd like to believe it's because of the quality with which they implemented things, and not the ideas themselves, but WoW took everything that I considered poison and made a great game out of it.

There are no choices in WoW. It's an RPG on rails, but it's hugely popular, (and I admit, I think it's fun too.)

Anyway, that doesn't mean I think the only way to make a MMORPG is dumbed-down and simplistic. I just think Blizzard put a lot of polish on mediocre ideas.

Here are some essays I wrote for an obsolete Horizons webpage. The internal links don't work anymore, but the concepts are universal and timeless.

A Case for the removal of the Numbers
Calculation and Advancement of Skills
Using Tests to determine abilities.

http://maddox.xmission.com/
~150million hits?
Proof by counter-example?

Can't believe no one mentioned the soundtrack of pRon
http://mailman.xmission.com/pipermail/zorn-list/20 03-December/007280.html

I'm a big Crimson fan, ever since I saw Yes and King Crimson circa May, 1973, Santa Monica Civic. Bill Bruford played in both. Have seen most of the iterations of King Crimson since then (except the last). Have a memory of Greg Lake singing Epitaph at California Jam. I also remember Emerson playing a grand piano while it did a slow barrel roll...

More recently, I took my wife to see Fripp and the California Guitar mumblesomething at a small place in the OC. The guitarists would play fantastic versions of Wipeout or whatever, then Fripp would make funky feedback sounds, to great applause. Wife didn't get that at all.

No doubt they'd do it if they could. Not quite the RIAA, but to quote Maddox, "if the law let Hollywood producers shoot us on the street and take our wallets, you bet your ass they would all have pistols."