There is a huge different in intent to kill civilians and accidental deaths as a result of military action. Our intent is not to kill civilians over there and it's a shame that some civilians have to die, but weapons aren't perfect. We wouldn't even be there if they had not attacked us first, or protected those who had. The civilians of Afghanistan have no one to blame but their own government.
And in any case I don't consider what we're doing freedom fighting, I consider it protection. I'm all for saving human life where possible, but when it comes down to me or them, I choose them.
Remember, one man's Terrorist is another man's Freedom Fighter.
Bullshit it is. Terrorism involves the murder of innocents, terrorism is for cowards who have no respect for human life. A Freedom Fighter, regardless of whether you believe his cause is right, is an entirely different thing.
Not at all, the coolness has little to do with the price but mostly is a result of being able to take a console and write your own stuff for it. Yeah it's great that it's only $40 and don't get me wrong that does score some points for it, but if it were $200 I'd have run out and bought it.
BTW 5x is a bit high, 2 to 2.5x is more accurate.
Though I won't be suprised when a creative hardware hacker homebrews one for $20 in parts.
Hopefully soon I'll be able to do the same with my $40 dreamcast ( *cough* plus the ridiculous amount I'll be spending on a BBA ), but I'm willing to spend the money on this because there's other things I can do with it, strangely enough I can also use my dreamcast to play games . Of course once I get a dreamcast set up and sharing a drive on the network, I'll probably extend my mp3 idea to include ogg and hopefully, vcd and divx. That'd be cool to serve movies off of my file server.
Man rereading this I'm definitely starting to feel like more of a geek than usual.
I figured it was something like that, both methods have their uses and I won't say either one is better than the other. I hope Mac users don't take my first post as an attack.
... this is a tremendous waste of an article. Yes M$ does do evil stuff, but focusing on something as stupid as file extensions is about as dumb as you can get. Learn how your computer works whether it's Linux or Windows or whatever, it's not that difficult to change the extension associations. It can be obscure in Linux to change certain things too, but it's not some monopolistic plan to dominate the desktop. I can't stand Windows, but this is going too far.
Not to mention this guy sounds like a moron. I wouldn't expect add/remove programs to have the file extension list, nor would I expect to have the poperties for a particular file provide the option to change what file types get opened by what.
And as far as mac's having a more elegant solution, I don't buy that. Number one I'd rather be able to look at a file and be able to tell exactly what kind of file it is than to have it hidden withing the file. Number two, it's simple and easy to change the associated program to a file by changing the extension, is there a program to do that on the Mac? (I'm not bashing the Mac, just pointing out the flaws in this guys article).
I think this is the trend with most consoles. The first several months, at least, of games aren't all that outstanding. Some because they were rushed out the door and others because it takes time for a developer to really get proficient at a system. Contrast Resident Evil with Resident Evil 2 on the PS1, huge differences in graphics and gameplay.
Write one yourself. That's my plan for the dreamcast, an mp3player that can play inserted mp3 cd's or play them from a file server stuck in a closet somewhere. Of course if you don't want to write it yourself you can wait until I'm finished with mine.
I agree, using the word suck doesn't constitute flamebait.
I have to say though, the PS2 is starting to suck less and less. I got one when it first came ut (actually my roomate did) and I have to say I didn't have a lot of fun with the games I had. When my roomate left he took the PS2 with him and I thought big deal. But recently there have been games coming out that I actually want to play.
Contrast that with the DC I just got (so I could code for it) now that I've played it I'm sorry that I didn't get one sooner, the games I have for it so far are just plain fun. Of course, had I bought one when it first came out I may have had the same experience that I had with the PS2, in fact I remember looking at the available game for DC when it came out and I wasn't interested in the least.
These aren't nearly enoguh resources, but they're a good start. Of course if you just want your own UI it depends on what you want. You can write your own window managers ect for X or you can use
"Cracking Shells" in Unix Programming to give you a jump start on writing your own shell which is not a bad little project. Of course in order to build your own shell you'll probably want to have a scripting language tied to it so make sure to pick up the Dragon Book.
And my point is that when a word is used for a certain thing long enough it gains that meaning in the language, hence the word gay now primarily means homosexual. The same situation with Linux.
Actually I kinda of agree with you now that I think about it, I don't like the term as it's used now, it would be better saved for when we have real Cyberspace ala Gibson, or Stevenson, and others.
Well yeah it does hold water, the AC Shelby Cobra was a Ford. It was a modified customized Forf, but at it's heart it was a Ford. BTW an analogy doesn't have to be perfect, that's why it's an analogy, it's intended to convey the spirit of the concept by using another more accessible if not identical one.
So Linux is still technically only a kernel. Sure, Linux has pervaded our vernacular as being a complete OS
What the hell did I just get done saying im my first post. You just repeated exactly what I said.
I think we agree, maybe not exactly but in spirit at least. For instance, I personally don't buy that different paths and intalling packages constitutes a different OS ( I can install Windows on two machines with completley different directory structures), or that using slightly different kernels makes it a different OS either. It's all still Linux, whether it's running on a Dreamcast or an x86. I certainly agree with you that the word Linux describes only the kernel technically, but when you look at it that way, how far do you go? You'd have to keep coming up with new names to distinguish between the differences between two similar kernels. Language doesn't work that way, we categorize so that we can move up a level in abstraction and still talk meanigfully about a subject. So we call all Linux based kernels Linux, and now we call all Linux kernel based OS's Linux. If you ask me what OS I'm running I can say 'Linux' and you immediately understand what I'm saying. You may want more detailed information so you ask 'what flavor?' but the term Linux was enough to describe what OS I'm running.
This is all obviously an exercise in sematics, at the root I agree with you Linux is just the kernel, but due to the nature of language it means a lot more now.
Uh William Gibson did. I'm not quite sure what you don't like about it, but there's nothing at all wrong with the term, it pretty accurately describes the concept.
If you had read the article you would see that it is a completely logical ruling, that held up the spirit of the zoning laws that were the focus of this case.
It's also importnat to point out that these transactions do not take place at the server only.
They take place at every hop along the way and on every machine that carries a packet to it's final destination. It is not a direct connection from one machine to another. Are all the imtermidiate carriers accessories to the crime? Cyberspace is a different place, the normal rules of space and time are dramatically different than what we're used to in the Real World, localization of a global network just does not work.
What makes anyone think cyberspace is a different world? With this argument one can say they can set up an online heroin business that should be immune to any legal ramifications
Bad analogy, they should be able to set up an online heroin business with no legal ramifications, but unless you are going to use the drug in cyberspace and not have it delivered to you physically they'll get busted when they try to ship it. It is a separate place with separate rules. It's the interaction with the real world that cause the gray area.
No, as I said he's only technically correct. Linux has become the term for all GNU/Linux OS's, regardless of the fact that it technically only describes the kernel. If/when HURD is ever released it will be the HURD OS regardless of who distributes it. A car doesn't cease to be a Ford just because it was bought froma distributor called AAA Car Sales.
Linux is an operating system, the word has passed into the language with that definition due to use.
Yeah and a hacker is only a skillful coder. Maybe in the strictest sense that's true, but do to popular use Linux is now an operating system. Although I agree with your point, there's no reason for consolidation, choice is the operative word, the more OS's that are available the better. And IMHO the more *nix OS's the better, 'specially since they're, for the most part, compatible with one another.
Hmmm I never mentioned the word elite. Don't read into more than is there. I specifically went out of my way to POINT out that my statement ONLY applied to computers. As for schooling, I find it hard to believe that you've never heard a professor say that memory issues are not important because of the cheapness of RAM or that speed isn't as important since processors are so fast, but I won't call you a liar, you're lucky that you didn't have to sit through that crap. However, elegance is a nebulous term. When I go through code to speed it up the changes are not always pretty, I would call them elegant, but many college professors would not. But the truth is they work and they make for better code.
You need to check your history, OO has been around for a long time. Elegance is not ties to a language or a method. No laguage is more elegant than another (for the most part), only the idiomatic expression of elegance is different.
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And in any case I don't consider what we're doing freedom fighting, I consider it protection. I'm all for saving human life where possible, but when it comes down to me or them, I choose them.
Remember, one man's Terrorist is another man's Freedom Fighter.
Bullshit it is. Terrorism involves the murder of innocents, terrorism is for cowards who have no respect for human life. A Freedom Fighter, regardless of whether you believe his cause is right, is an entirely different thing.
BTW 5x is a bit high, 2 to 2.5x is more accurate.
Though I won't be suprised when a creative hardware hacker homebrews one for $20 in parts.
Ummm, the first name? Just kidding couldn't resist.
Man rereading this I'm definitely starting to feel like more of a geek than usual.
...he took real pride in his fjords, he wouldn't take too kindly to auto planet creation.
Depends on where his boot is failing, you don't need linux to write a mp3 player for DC.
I figured it was something like that, both methods have their uses and I won't say either one is better than the other. I hope Mac users don't take my first post as an attack.
Not to mention this guy sounds like a moron. I wouldn't expect add/remove programs to have the file extension list, nor would I expect to have the poperties for a particular file provide the option to change what file types get opened by what.
And as far as mac's having a more elegant solution, I don't buy that. Number one I'd rather be able to look at a file and be able to tell exactly what kind of file it is than to have it hidden withing the file. Number two, it's simple and easy to change the associated program to a file by changing the extension, is there a program to do that on the Mac? (I'm not bashing the Mac, just pointing out the flaws in this guys article).
I think this is the trend with most consoles. The first several months, at least, of games aren't all that outstanding. Some because they were rushed out the door and others because it takes time for a developer to really get proficient at a system. Contrast Resident Evil with Resident Evil 2 on the PS1, huge differences in graphics and gameplay.
Write one yourself. That's my plan for the dreamcast, an mp3player that can play inserted mp3 cd's or play them from a file server stuck in a closet somewhere. Of course if you don't want to write it yourself you can wait until I'm finished with mine.
I have to say though, the PS2 is starting to suck less and less. I got one when it first came ut (actually my roomate did) and I have to say I didn't have a lot of fun with the games I had. When my roomate left he took the PS2 with him and I thought big deal. But recently there have been games coming out that I actually want to play.
Contrast that with the DC I just got (so I could code for it) now that I've played it I'm sorry that I didn't get one sooner, the games I have for it so far are just plain fun. Of course, had I bought one when it first came out I may have had the same experience that I had with the PS2, in fact I remember looking at the available game for DC when it came out and I wasn't interested in the least.
Modern Operating Systems
Linux Kernel Internals Unix Kernel Internals is better but I couldn't find a link
C Programming Language -- you gotta have the bible
These aren't nearly enoguh resources, but they're a good start. Of course if you just want your own UI it depends on what you want. You can write your own window managers ect for X or you can use
"Cracking Shells" in Unix Programming to give you a jump start on writing your own shell which is not a bad little project. Of course in order to build your own shell you'll probably want to have a scripting language tied to it so make sure to pick up the Dragon Book.
Sounds good to me.
And my point is that when a word is used for a certain thing long enough it gains that meaning in the language, hence the word gay now primarily means homosexual. The same situation with Linux.
Actually I kinda of agree with you now that I think about it, I don't like the term as it's used now, it would be better saved for when we have real Cyberspace ala Gibson, or Stevenson, and others.
So Linux is still technically only a kernel. Sure, Linux has pervaded our vernacular as being a complete OS
What the hell did I just get done saying im my first post. You just repeated exactly what I said.
This is all obviously an exercise in sematics, at the root I agree with you Linux is just the kernel, but due to the nature of language it means a lot more now.
Uh William Gibson did. I'm not quite sure what you don't like about it, but there's nothing at all wrong with the term, it pretty accurately describes the concept.
It's also importnat to point out that these transactions do not take place at the server only.
They take place at every hop along the way and on every machine that carries a packet to it's final destination. It is not a direct connection from one machine to another. Are all the imtermidiate carriers accessories to the crime? Cyberspace is a different place, the normal rules of space and time are dramatically different than what we're used to in the Real World, localization of a global network just does not work.
What makes anyone think cyberspace is a different world? With this argument one can say they can set up an online heroin business that should be immune to any legal ramifications
Bad analogy, they should be able to set up an online heroin business with no legal ramifications, but unless you are going to use the drug in cyberspace and not have it delivered to you physically they'll get busted when they try to ship it. It is a separate place with separate rules. It's the interaction with the real world that cause the gray area.
Linux is an operating system, the word has passed into the language with that definition due to use.
Yeah and a hacker is only a skillful coder. Maybe in the strictest sense that's true, but do to popular use Linux is now an operating system. Although I agree with your point, there's no reason for consolidation, choice is the operative word, the more OS's that are available the better. And IMHO the more *nix OS's the better, 'specially since they're, for the most part, compatible with one another.
You need to check your history, OO has been around for a long time. Elegance is not ties to a language or a method. No laguage is more elegant than another (for the most part), only the idiomatic expression of elegance is different.
*cough* Midcraft was * cough bought and paid for cough * incredibly biased