software piracy is what linux must compete against! Linux is losing on 2 major fronts. 1) certain softwares are not up to snuff compared to the stuff you can get for windows/osx. This is mostly media content creation stuff (photoshop, maya/3dsmax, etc) and 2)Software on linux is free but due to piracy so is software on windows! (also i think its easier for people to pirate software then attempt to deal with the idea of getting software absolutely free without breaking the law. Having to pay for stuff is so ingrained in humanity that its not helping FOSS.
ok i may not be right but that just came to mind so spout i must!
what i thought was cool in rocket girls was that their suits didnt require them to do compression/decompression to get in and out of them. But yea when i saw this article that was the first thing i thought of. Another cool space anime going on right now is moonlight mile. I want space to be cool again! I mean, it was always cool to me but i mean cool to you know, other people.
I dont think its a MAC addy they are requesting but a Mac address! Apple made up their own protocol and didnt tell ANYONE! New from apple the iMac Address.
yea but by the time something comes from japan to here the next thing they got makes us even more jealous here! Face it, Japan is in the future (by a whole day but its a long day too)
if its time for computer analogies....
i would tend to think that the parts of the brain that control things we dont consciously control (organ function, digestion, walking, senses, etc) are like hardware accelerated parts (a sensor package for converting your senses into usable data for your consciousness and preparing other data for some other hardware to use, etc). The conscious mind is like software for doing higher functions like thinking, imagining, inventing and whatnot. Anyway you get the idea.
yes unfortunately if an FOSS software gets ported to windows and osx it will become more popular. I am not sure whether or not something like krita will work more or less efficiently in osx or windows(probably not windows) but I would someday love to convert to linux completely and to do that I need software that is better and more usable than the windows counterparts. A photoshop replacement is the first step for most artists, followed by a nice 3d package (blender just dont cut it)
But thanx for giving the heads up on krita I didnt know about it.
What is going into KDE4 that will make it easy to port to osx or windows?
GIMP developers just need some healthy FOSS competition. Competing with the likes of photoshop is too much right now. Another graphics package needs to be started. The competition would get these dev's in gear. I believe the only kind of competition that exists in FOSS community is withing itself, not from closed source packages. I just wish I was a mad hacker cuz then ofcourse I wouldnt have to be saying this and instead doing it! But I am just a 3d artist...:\
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the top 7 list was made. Why not make it a top 10 list now? its been how many thousands of years since the OG list items were made. If we cant list just three accomplishments over those since then we are screwed as a species.
or
1. New wonders
2. ???
3. Profit!
I just don't wanna see the X-Prize become some reality tv show or something.
Anyway, what I want to see out of this stuff is some sort of jump gate network in orbit. Like they gates are magnetic catapults and you just put your ship or whatever payload or something in it and you get tossed to the moon! Or string them up to mars! It would be cool methinks. It could be the answer to making private owned travel cheaper if it is cheaper energy-wise? I dunno cuz I'm not a physicist or engineer, just a guy with fantasies about space travel.
this is a point that I didn't think about, thanx. I never played UO (I dont even play WoW) its probably bad for my health. But this reminds me of the difficulties of internet multiplayer games. The fact that people try to milk any system and dont play nice or fair with others. Mainly I believe that this is due to not having real consequences in games. People dont go to jail in wow for being a dick unless they really do something bad but that ends up with a ban from the game. Jail time for your character seems worse than banning I think since you still have to pay to keep your character existing. I dunno, I got a lot to talk and think about MMO's. Its just such an interesting thing from a social experiment stance.
yes! i share your thoughts. It would be interesting to develop an MMO with limited supply of money and items (or resources to make items). Then a real simulated economy would happen. Gold farmers would either be phased out or hold the game hostage (if they cant get any gold or they manage to get all the gold). This might also bring in player responsibility. For example Imagine fishing in an MMO. If fish were limited and renewed in a longer term (to simulate life cycles) then there is a possibility of over-fishing and causing a breed of fish to die out or become extinct and then one of the renewable resources would be gone! Imagine the impact on the community! People would have to raise environmental awareness and maybe encourage people to not fish all the time. Maybe there could be community imposed laws? A militia might form to regulate fishing. Maybe some sort of law enforcement group would form. Ok I've got my head in the clouds but you get my meaning.
yea but who is gonna dish out the cash for disk space? It's not fair to make torrentspy pay because they aren't committing a crime. It is just believed that their users are. Safe harbor? I dunno, I hate this crap.
I understand that the judge thinks that because data was in ram at one point that is can be requested or subpoenaed. The implications of this are grave. If we equate ram to the spoken word (which is also 'volatile' since after being spoken it disappears) then we would be having to record everything we say. Even worse, if we don't log all our ram and it is requested as evidence will that just be grounds for guilt? Will we be penalized for not doing something that really the average user doesn't know how to do nor have the hard drive space to hold all that info. I know that this case is about a larger group or company with servers and stuff but what if this kind of ruling scales down to the individual? Everyday the man is jacking up the cost of freedom to the citizens. Damn it how high must that price be to get people to do something about it! If that is even possible! Is this country even a place where we can get enough people organized to really do something about anything? We are just a bunch of cattle to be slaughtered. Everyday I consider moving out of this country but its not much better anywhere else. Someone tell me something to make me feel better about this country.
After hearing this news I've just been sitting here reminiscing the old days (I'm only 24 but the old days is always good times how ever long ago that was for you.) Even though I didn't end up a scientist or get a PhD in something science related (I'm a digital artist) Mr. Wizard still greatly impacted my life as a kid. I've always kept an open mind about things in life and now that I look back Mr. Wizard had a big part in that. Thank you Mr. Wizard.
i think i just like it cuz its simple, the ui hasnt changed much over time and tabbed chat window plus integration of multiple types of accounts works smoothly and seamlessly. Pigin now looks nicer i think. Plus finally for windows version you can minimize to sys tray, in linux that was ofcourse already happening but i use both OS's and i hate when going back into a windows environment and little things just bug me after being easy and not annoying in linux.
mmm i hope the neo comes out soon. Its so much more awesome than that gay ass I phone. Its got ORANGE TRIM! mmmmm fuk a iphone! Anyone who thinks they can get into the cellphone market charging that much and so subsidization is a fool. and I am not Mr. T so I dont pity this fool.
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isn't it spelled Nucular? no? ... damn you Bush! You lexicon-artist!
software piracy is what linux must compete against! Linux is losing on 2 major fronts. 1) certain softwares are not up to snuff compared to the stuff you can get for windows/osx. This is mostly media content creation stuff (photoshop, maya/3dsmax, etc) and 2)Software on linux is free but due to piracy so is software on windows! (also i think its easier for people to pirate software then attempt to deal with the idea of getting software absolutely free without breaking the law. Having to pay for stuff is so ingrained in humanity that its not helping FOSS. ok i may not be right but that just came to mind so spout i must!
what i thought was cool in rocket girls was that their suits didnt require them to do compression/decompression to get in and out of them. But yea when i saw this article that was the first thing i thought of. Another cool space anime going on right now is moonlight mile. I want space to be cool again! I mean, it was always cool to me but i mean cool to you know, other people.
I dont think its a MAC addy they are requesting but a Mac address! Apple made up their own protocol and didnt tell ANYONE! New from apple the iMac Address.
I already discovered the cure to fear, turns out it's balls.
yea but by the time something comes from japan to here the next thing they got makes us even more jealous here! Face it, Japan is in the future (by a whole day but its a long day too)
if its time for computer analogies.... i would tend to think that the parts of the brain that control things we dont consciously control (organ function, digestion, walking, senses, etc) are like hardware accelerated parts (a sensor package for converting your senses into usable data for your consciousness and preparing other data for some other hardware to use, etc). The conscious mind is like software for doing higher functions like thinking, imagining, inventing and whatnot. Anyway you get the idea.
yes unfortunately if an FOSS software gets ported to windows and osx it will become more popular. I am not sure whether or not something like krita will work more or less efficiently in osx or windows(probably not windows) but I would someday love to convert to linux completely and to do that I need software that is better and more usable than the windows counterparts. A photoshop replacement is the first step for most artists, followed by a nice 3d package (blender just dont cut it) But thanx for giving the heads up on krita I didnt know about it. What is going into KDE4 that will make it easy to port to osx or windows?
GIMP developers just need some healthy FOSS competition. Competing with the likes of photoshop is too much right now. Another graphics package needs to be started. The competition would get these dev's in gear. I believe the only kind of competition that exists in FOSS community is withing itself, not from closed source packages. I just wish I was a mad hacker cuz then ofcourse I wouldnt have to be saying this and instead doing it! But I am just a 3d artist... :\
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the top 7 list was made. Why not make it a top 10 list now? its been how many thousands of years since the OG list items were made. If we cant list just three accomplishments over those since then we are screwed as a species. or 1. New wonders 2. ??? 3. Profit!
you forgot Reality TV. Its a wonder how its still popular.
gotta set it up to produce 1.21 JIGAwatts!
Plus you are either married or single here. Girlfriends are more of a myth. Ugh I hate getting older.
I like to spell it how it's pronounced ... 1.21 JIGawatts!
I just don't wanna see the X-Prize become some reality tv show or something. Anyway, what I want to see out of this stuff is some sort of jump gate network in orbit. Like they gates are magnetic catapults and you just put your ship or whatever payload or something in it and you get tossed to the moon! Or string them up to mars! It would be cool methinks. It could be the answer to making private owned travel cheaper if it is cheaper energy-wise? I dunno cuz I'm not a physicist or engineer, just a guy with fantasies about space travel.
I thought they were called "Imagineers". There is no fun at Disney!
too bad microsoft's software cant tell if it is authentic or not! or do they also have false positive hell?
this is a point that I didn't think about, thanx. I never played UO (I dont even play WoW) its probably bad for my health. But this reminds me of the difficulties of internet multiplayer games. The fact that people try to milk any system and dont play nice or fair with others. Mainly I believe that this is due to not having real consequences in games. People dont go to jail in wow for being a dick unless they really do something bad but that ends up with a ban from the game. Jail time for your character seems worse than banning I think since you still have to pay to keep your character existing. I dunno, I got a lot to talk and think about MMO's. Its just such an interesting thing from a social experiment stance.
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yes! i share your thoughts. It would be interesting to develop an MMO with limited supply of money and items (or resources to make items). Then a real simulated economy would happen. Gold farmers would either be phased out or hold the game hostage (if they cant get any gold or they manage to get all the gold). This might also bring in player responsibility. For example Imagine fishing in an MMO. If fish were limited and renewed in a longer term (to simulate life cycles) then there is a possibility of over-fishing and causing a breed of fish to die out or become extinct and then one of the renewable resources would be gone! Imagine the impact on the community! People would have to raise environmental awareness and maybe encourage people to not fish all the time. Maybe there could be community imposed laws? A militia might form to regulate fishing. Maybe some sort of law enforcement group would form. Ok I've got my head in the clouds but you get my meaning.
yea but who is gonna dish out the cash for disk space? It's not fair to make torrentspy pay because they aren't committing a crime. It is just believed that their users are. Safe harbor? I dunno, I hate this crap.
I understand that the judge thinks that because data was in ram at one point that is can be requested or subpoenaed. The implications of this are grave. If we equate ram to the spoken word (which is also 'volatile' since after being spoken it disappears) then we would be having to record everything we say. Even worse, if we don't log all our ram and it is requested as evidence will that just be grounds for guilt? Will we be penalized for not doing something that really the average user doesn't know how to do nor have the hard drive space to hold all that info. I know that this case is about a larger group or company with servers and stuff but what if this kind of ruling scales down to the individual? Everyday the man is jacking up the cost of freedom to the citizens. Damn it how high must that price be to get people to do something about it! If that is even possible! Is this country even a place where we can get enough people organized to really do something about anything? We are just a bunch of cattle to be slaughtered. Everyday I consider moving out of this country but its not much better anywhere else. Someone tell me something to make me feel better about this country.
After hearing this news I've just been sitting here reminiscing the old days (I'm only 24 but the old days is always good times how ever long ago that was for you.) Even though I didn't end up a scientist or get a PhD in something science related (I'm a digital artist) Mr. Wizard still greatly impacted my life as a kid. I've always kept an open mind about things in life and now that I look back Mr. Wizard had a big part in that. Thank you Mr. Wizard.
i think i just like it cuz its simple, the ui hasnt changed much over time and tabbed chat window plus integration of multiple types of accounts works smoothly and seamlessly. Pigin now looks nicer i think. Plus finally for windows version you can minimize to sys tray, in linux that was ofcourse already happening but i use both OS's and i hate when going back into a windows environment and little things just bug me after being easy and not annoying in linux.
mmm i hope the neo comes out soon. Its so much more awesome than that gay ass I phone. Its got ORANGE TRIM! mmmmm fuk a iphone! Anyone who thinks they can get into the cellphone market charging that much and so subsidization is a fool. and I am not Mr. T so I dont pity this fool.