I can't see programmed RPing replacing, or even coming close to replacing tabletop paper-pen and dice.
Heh. Amen...
I have an in-house gaming network (soon to be online) and we featured Baldur's Gate from the day it came out.
Ya know what happened? There was no real interest in multiplayer play at all. A couple of people tried to get games going, but people would cheat and create total munchkin characters, or be "evil characters" and harass the other players. We had younger kids (I'm talking early teens here) who'd go around killing chickens and squirrels because the game decided they were worth 1 XP each.
There were three or four people who were working their way through the single-player setup, but that was it; meanwhile, my supply of 2nd edition D&D books sold rather steadily. I, along with everyone else, am looking forward to 3rd edition.
I'll have to print out this article on the "D20 system"; I have lot of aspiring adventure writers...
TRUSTe not necessarily limited to web sites (Score:1) by TrentC (trentc@dev.null) on Tuesday November 16, @03:11PM EST (#48)
Some of the comments made by TRUSTe about the RealNetworks incident (not to mention the Microsoft GUID) were to the effect of "well, it doesn't involve their web site, so it's outside our jurisdiction".
But that's not necessarily true.
From Schedule A of the TRUSTe license agreement, rev 5.0 (I wonder what the history of changes are):
"1. TRUSTe Program. The TRUSTe Program (the "Program") is intended to promote fair information practices with regard to the collection of Personally Identifiable Information and Third Party Personally Identifiable Information at Web sites in order to promote the Internet as a trustworthy environment for conducting business, education, communication and entertainment activities. [emphasis mine] Without detracting from the foregoing, the Program may be made applicable to online facilities and services that are similar to an Internet Web site."
Now, one could make an argument that this may not apply to MS Word's GUID (although it's internet-enabled, the GUID is not necessarily a byproduct of that functionality) it would, in my opinion, most definitely apply to RealPlayer.
TRUSTe appears to reserve for itself a broader mandate than "just verifying web sites". But apparently it chooses not to pursue it.
... I was looking at doing a PERL-based app for my store that'd run off of Apache on a Linux box that I could access off of a web browser. (The Apache box would also hold the servers for Half-Life and serve as a fileserver for our in-house gaming network.)
But with this, I have an excuse to learn enough GTK (or maybe Perl/TK?) programming to do my app and have it run on a nifty desktop -- along with big GNOME panel buttons for in-house e-mail and maybe some HTML pages with our procedures, for employees that seem to have trouble with the way our Windows machine is currently set up.
Plus, it gets this clunky monitor off of my counter, and a box from underneath it...
Jay (= (still geekish enough to get a tingle out of this story...)
If I just had a 1-font web page, wouldn't I only need one tag at the beginning and end? Looking at some of my other pages, they have font tags within font tags. Wonder how much I can slim down.
If you do, be warned: your document isn't valid HTML.
According to the Transitional HTML 4.0 DTD, FONT is an inline tag, and must be contained in a block-level element. (That is, if I'm reading the DTD right...)
If you want to set the base font for your page, use the BASEFONT tag. It's an empty tag that you can use to set the base size, face, etc. for your document.
And somewhat more off-topic, from the reputation manager link he gave - "If a few Belgians become sick from drinking a soft drink, then the manufacturer may lose billions on Wall Street five minutes later. Another reason reputation managers will contribute to highly improved product quality and customer service."
Am I the only one who thinks this sounds like a frighteningly easy way to use rumours to manipulate stock prices?
Reputation managers only work so long as you trust the managers themselves, and that only works if you can find out the context of the comments.
This I why I think it would be better to have a number of smaller, focused reputation managers than something like, oh, TrustE.
I am more likely to remember or check out something that I see posted on Slashdot because I know that I have interests and viewpoints that are shared by the story posters and replies here.
To me, Slashdot works well because:
1) A story gets posted. 2) People post their comments about the story, both for and against. 3) People's comments can be replied to, validating or challenging their assertions. 4) ALL OF THE COMMENTS can be moderated, moderators being drawn from the body of Slashdot readers themselves. Obvious trolls and irrelevant postings can be weeded out, while the better replies are hopefully moderated up. 5) More importantly, MODERATIONS CAN BE META-MODERATED by anybody. So (theoretically) incompetant moderators can be weeded out. 6) And most importantly, readers can select the level of scoring themselves, choosing which level of "moderation" they want to browse at. Even though I browse at 1, I frequently drop to -1 in case there's a good re-parented comment and I want to see what spawned it.
(And for people who want to be able to moderate the stories themselves, you can always get the code and make a better Slashdot. If you build it, they will come...)
REDMOND, Wash. -- March 1,2000 -- Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT") announces the release of DirectExperience(tm), a revolutionary new system designed to provide an unparalleled audiual, visual and for the first time, tactile experience while providing optimal protection for the audio-visual-tactile content.
By inserting a series of IntelliPlugs(tm) into the flesh of the arms, legs and spine along with a DirectExperience(tm) cranial socket, content providers can download audio, visual, and tactile sensory experiences into the cortex of the brain, providing life-like experiences unrivalled by any other streaming medium released to date.
In addition to providing an encrypted stream of information right up to the integrated dermal and cranial sockets, reducing the chances of a successful side-channel attack, Microsoft has worked closely and secured an unparalleled deal in which all infants born after March 31, 2000 will have the plugs introduced in-vitro and connected to a DirectExperience terminal shortly after birth. Microsoft plans to use the profits from the licensing of its technology to content providers to allow for intravenous nourishment for these infants through the course of their natural lives. It is estimated that within 50 to 70 years, every person in the world will be upgraded to handle DirectExperience technology; after that, production of new consumers will be off-loaded to a separate farming location.
Early product testers, when asked about the DirectExperience(tm) system, offered the following comments:
"*belch*" "Glurgh..." "There is no spoon..."
Microsoft President and CEO Steve Ballmer, when asked about the DirectExperience(tm) system, said "It's the smell, you see..."
Hmmm... let's tweak this a bit, and see what we get.
I am an expert in monetarist economics, with a particular emphasis on the politics and philosophies of Milton Friedman, and his latter-day successor in the United Kingdom, Margaret Thatcher.
The whole "intellectual-property" and "copyright extension" phenomenon troubles me somewhat as an economist, so I felt I had to submit my opinions on what is obviously a fundamentally flawed economic model.
This DCMA case is a prime example. Once again, the cheapskates in the intellectual-property community begrudge someone making a profit off of product quality and service as opposed to artifical notions of "property" -- they seem to expect a free lunch. Well, as my economics professor always used to say, "there ain't no such thing as a free lunch".
What these crypto-fascist intellectual-property proponents don't seem to realise, is that the very system they promote is nothing more than the capitalist system they despise, but with a few extra nasty gotchas bolted on. If Marx were alive today, he would recognise "intellectual property" for what it is - an attempt by the owners of capital to extract more value from the labour of the proletariat without actually allowing them to see the excess value they produced
For example: you do "work for hire" on a project which someone else holds the "copyright" to, they continue to get paid in good old fashioned United States dollars long after you've been let go. Try taking that to your local BMW dealership and see how far it gets you.
So in a nutshell, intellectual-property is exactly like open-source (from the "big business" point of view), except that the developer works for nothing.
In my book, profiting from "intellectual property" produced by others is the same as being a slaveowner. For this reason alone intellectual-property must be stopped, by Federal Law if need be.
Much better, don't you think?
Jay (=
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This is just my opinion of how it looks, not how it runs. I am not advocating one GUI over another, just posting my observations about Aqua.
Not meant to be a flame, but you seem to be basing your complaints about Aqua on one application. What does QT Player's problems have to do with Aqua?
And speaking of, what version of the QT player are you looking at? This screenshot over at X Appeal shows OS X's QT player; the buttons are high-contrast and Aqua-like, while the volume "thumbwheel" has been replaced with a slider. There's no way to tell from the shot, but the OS X issue of MacAddict claims the "Favorites" drawer is gone as well.
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Answer is "kind of", apparently...
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Soemone else posted a web site, X Appeal, which is apparently put together by a person or people banging away on a Mac OS X dveloper release.
On their hardware page, the list the 7300/180 (my Mac) as successfully running Mac OS X Server -- hopefully Mac OS X Client will work, since they're basically the same OS with different desktops and utilities, right?
It lists other models and their success (or lack thereof) as well.
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Probably. It's known already that Apple will be working on expanding hardware support after OSX goes Golden on the G3's and G4's. The narrow hardware support at the start is just to simplify the task of getting it up and running.
I didn't know that. I thought Appel was still being non-committal about older hardware.
Also, remember that OSX is Darwin-plus-goodies (just a lot more goodies than you get with the free version of Darwin). If you can make Darwin run, you'll be able to make OSX run.
Right; what I meant was "Can I go buy a copy of Mac OS X that will run on my Power Mac 7300/180, or do I have to build it myself once someone has gotten it to run on older machines?"
Jay (=
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I'm not talking about Darwin-plus-goodies, I mean the commercial, shrinkwrapped-by-Apple stuff.
I'm sticking with Mac OS 8.6 right now on my Mac, and the answer to this will determine if I eventually reformat to put Mac OS X on it or some PPC-based Linux.
ABIT puts out their Linux distro, with whatever optimizations need to be made for their particular motherboard setup. Hopefully based on something like Debian or Red Hat (for ease of use; they'll have a lot more luck with people using their distro "out of the box" if there isn't yet another desktop standard, or package manager, etc. to support.
So they "leech" off of Red Hat or Debian (or Slackware or SuSE) to get their distro started, and if they keep their stuff open (which it appears they have every intention of doing) then those distros get to "leech" back, getting yet more hardware support out of the box.
Jay (= (Who's actually built his PC around a BM6... not bad, from what little I know about them)
Then please make it easier for authors to contribute. Setting up the whole SGML tool-chain is a major desaster. Having to write in SGML is a desaster, too.
You will not attract a huge bunch of professional technical writers if you don't lower the bar. "All" you will get are the programmers who are just a little bit tired of coding and who relax by glueing together some documentation.
Amen. And it doen't have to be the "professional technical writers" that get scared away. People like myself, who get frustrated with the lack of documentation (or are unable to figure out where to find it) that exists for whatever problem I'm having, who plan to take notes as I bang some of this stuff out and work it into a least a mini-HOWTO, will not feel like learning SGML just to make their contributions "worthwhile".
To quote a Slashdotter, "Honestly, how many users want to read documentation? How many of them see a fat manual and feel happy?"
Am I the only one that falls into that category?
No.
Excessive documentation turns me on.
While I wouldn't go that far, I will say that I love curling up with a book and just reading. I'll absorb info over time, and at the very least get a feel for where I can find the info I need the next time I'm sitting down at the computer.
Also, as others point out, electronic documentation isn't very helpful when my problem revolves around the computer not operating.
Am I missing somthing here, why was this posted along with this 'MS owns a part of Corel' story?
Because the story apparently contained complaints about being mad at Slashdot for rejecting the author's stories; according to the end of Rob's rant, the part Rob was ranting about was simply deleted without comment or explanation.
A few answers to your questions Was Sabertooth Wolverine's father? No, Sabertooth is actually NightCrawler's Father.
No he's not. He was Grayson Creed's (a non-mutant, anti-mutant presidential candidate) father, and Mystique was both Creed's and Nightcrawler's mother, but if they ever explicitly revealed Sabretooth to be related to Nightcrawler, I missed it.
Wolverine had an adamantium skeleton? Yes, this gave him unbreakable bones. However, the Adamantium was ripped out of his body by Magneto. Only His Mutant Power (super human healing) allowed him to survive this. He no longer has an adamantium skeleton, but his healing powers are much stronger now.
Update: as of WOLVERINE #145 (about 4 months ago), he has his adamantium back.
Mystique was Nightcrawler's sister? No. Mystique is Nightcrawler's Mother. She is very old, but her power is to shapeshift into different forms. This lets her keep an appearance of youth and to maintain stregth and flexibility. Note, Both Sabertooth and Wolverine are also very old. Each of them have accelerated healing ability which retards their aging process.
Also, it has been revealed that Wolverine and Sabretooth both have memory implants, so much of their early history is, at best, suspect. (The implication that Sabretooth was Wolverine's father has been shown to be false.)
One of the most important political web sites at the moment conciously choose to switch from Windows to Linux. Yet, none of the comments is slapping this guy on the back. Instead it's just bitch, bitch, bitch.
Yeah, because this discussion isn't about Linux; it's about Al Gore's campaign webmaster, and, by extension, the campaign's Internet presence.
i.e. "He didn't answer the questions in a brutally honest way." "He ignored the questions we didn't ask." If you're always going to be critical of people, even when they're on your side, people are just going to start ignoring you.
What proof do we have that he's on "our" side? That he uses Linux? Big deal; Rush Limbaugh uses a Mac, but that hardly makes him "on my side".
If Al Gore wants to be on "our" ("we" being who? Slashdot readers? Linux users? net-freedom advocates? GPL purists?) side, he can start by talking to us about the issues we care about.
I can't beleive it! The best question (the last one) in the world got completely blown off!
Algore2000 is a good site. Well, that's a good start. I like this guy already. Why does algore2000.com seem to think I'm a fool? Hmmmmm. Sounds like he changed his mind. Uh-oh. Nearly all the "content" of algore2000.com is fluff. I disagree.
That's IT? Gee, the webmaster doesn't like a critique of his site, and came off as a condesending fool to boot. I'm shocked.
Mr. Green, I would refer you to UseIT's "Alertbox" section. Among those essays, you'll find a recurring theme; people want to be able to find all of the information they can handle.
You might also want to check out the cluetrain as well; even though it's more aimed at businesses, I think the moral is the same; we're not "demographics", we're not "lobbies", we're not "PACs" or "special interests"; we're your neighbors, the parents of the kids your kids go to school with, the people who bag your groceries, the tellers at your bank.
Sure, you can target the "average American", but what you (or the candidate you work for, at any rate) and the other politicians forget is that a good portion of web surfers and internet users are more intelligent, inquisitive, and interested in politics than the "average American".
Why did Jesse Ventura win the gubenatorial election using a 'net-based campaign? Because, from the accounts I've seen, he used his web site and his mailing list to actually talk to the people that ended up putting him into office. Mr. Ventura (or his 'net handler, at any rate) made sure that people who were interested in him and wanted to help out got the information they wanted -- not what Mr. Ventura or his PR flacks or spin doctors thought they wanted -- when they needed it.
Algore2000.com is, in essence, a bigger, better, multimedia-enabled campaign pamphlet; nothing more, nothing less. And Americans (this one, at any rate) are getting tired of all of the rhetoric, the "business as usual" -- even if the BAU is served over a modem rather than stuck in my mailbox or blasted through a 30-second spot during "Frazier".
When Mr.Gore or Mr. Bradley or Mr. McCain or Mr. Bush or Mr. Third Party has something to say to me as opposed to "the average American", I'll be listening. But I won't be holding my breath.
I expect that, since someone in the UK press has published information on how to circumvent controls on accessing copyrighted material, that the MPAA will file a lawsuit (or they will find someone in the UK willing to file on their behalf) posthaste.
I mean, if a couple of "evil hackers" in Norway can't write a program to get around CSS, then why should "the hi-fi press" (?) in the UK be able to publish information on how to hack the units themselves?
And isn't it interesting that the ones that can be set to play any region discs have skyrocketed in popularity? Now, would that be because people (the people in Britian, anyways) value the freedom that OpenDVD, the EFF and others are championing on our behalf? Or is the MPAA and their apologists going to try to claim that the owners of these DVD players are all pirates?
Just replace the logo with something interesting and creative, and you're probably off the hook.
I think it's the same principle as when Apple complained that people were making Kaleidoscope schemes that looked like Apple's unreleased MacOS 8 themes, Hi-Tech and whatever.
I think Apple is right about trademark infringement in this case for the apple and the MacOS face (it's possible, though unlikely, that someone could attempt mis-represent the Qua theme on a Linux box as Mac OS X).
Someone else noted that they could go after a non-Apple-marked Aqua-alike theme, claiming dilution of the Aqua "look and feel", but they lost one of those suits already. (Also, why aren't they going after themes.org for their System 7 and Apple Platinum themes?)
So, replace the MacOS logo with Tux, and replace the Apple apple with the Gnome foot or the KDE gears as needed. Call them "Gno-qua" and "K-qua" or something.
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After reading the Windows 2001 thread, I realized you missed one...
127.0.0.1 goatse.cx
Jay (=
I can't see programmed RPing replacing, or even coming close to replacing tabletop paper-pen and dice.
Heh. Amen...
I have an in-house gaming network (soon to be online) and we featured Baldur's Gate from the day it came out.
Ya know what happened? There was no real interest in multiplayer play at all. A couple of people tried to get games going, but people would cheat and create total munchkin characters, or be "evil characters" and harass the other players. We had younger kids (I'm talking early teens here) who'd go around killing chickens and squirrels because the game decided they were worth 1 XP each.
There were three or four people who were working their way through the single-player setup, but that was it; meanwhile, my supply of 2nd edition D&D books sold rather steadily. I, along with everyone else, am looking forward to 3rd edition.
I'll have to print out this article on the "D20 system"; I have lot of aspiring adventure writers...
Jay (=
... is to check Google for a cached copy.
In this case...
Google's cached copy of the "hack"
Jay (=
Yes, it does. Or rather, it can.
This is taken from a comment I made on an earlier TRUSTe story on slashdot:
Jay (=
... I was looking at doing a PERL-based app for my store that'd run off of Apache on a Linux box that I could access off of a web browser. (The Apache box would also hold the servers for Half-Life and serve as a fileserver for our in-house gaming network.)
But with this, I have an excuse to learn enough GTK (or maybe Perl/TK?) programming to do my app and have it run on a nifty desktop -- along with big GNOME panel buttons for in-house e-mail and maybe some HTML pages with our procedures, for employees that seem to have trouble with the way our Windows machine is currently set up.
Plus, it gets this clunky monitor off of my counter, and a box from underneath it...
Jay (=
(still geekish enough to get a tingle out of this story...)
Does anyone know what files exactly are required to un-grey the next box? :)
Not as such, but this is what my directories looked like when I installed...
helix/
helix/allmirrors.xml
helix/mirrors.xml
helix/installer-latest-intel(*)
helix/distributions/
helix/distributions/Red_Hat_6/
helix/distributions/Red_Hat_6/metapackages.xml
helix/distributions/Red_Hat_6/packages.xml
helix/distributions/Red_Hat_6/updates.xml
helix/distributions/Red_Hat_6/(various RPMs)
(*)This is unzipped and set executable.
Jay (=
If I just had a 1-font web page, wouldn't I only need one tag at the beginning and end? Looking at some of my other pages, they have font tags within font tags. Wonder how much I can slim down.
If you do, be warned: your document isn't valid HTML.
According to the Transitional HTML 4.0 DTD, FONT is an inline tag, and must be contained in a block-level element. (That is, if I'm reading the DTD right...)
If you want to set the base font for your page, use the BASEFONT tag. It's an empty tag that you can use to set the base size, face, etc. for your document.
Or, as countless others have said, move over to cascading style sheets.
Jay (=
And somewhat more off-topic, from the reputation manager link he gave - "If a few Belgians become sick from drinking a soft drink, then the manufacturer may lose billions on Wall Street five minutes later. Another reason reputation managers will contribute to highly improved product quality and customer service."
Am I the only one who thinks this sounds like a frighteningly easy way to use rumours to manipulate stock prices?
Reputation managers only work so long as you trust the managers themselves, and that only works if you can find out the context of the comments.
This I why I think it would be better to have a number of smaller, focused reputation managers than something like, oh, TrustE.
I am more likely to remember or check out something that I see posted on Slashdot because I know that I have interests and viewpoints that are shared by the story posters and replies here.
To me, Slashdot works well because:
1) A story gets posted.
2) People post their comments about the story, both for and against.
3) People's comments can be replied to, validating or challenging their assertions.
4) ALL OF THE COMMENTS can be moderated, moderators being drawn from the body of Slashdot readers themselves. Obvious trolls and irrelevant postings can be weeded out, while the better replies are hopefully moderated up.
5) More importantly, MODERATIONS CAN BE META-MODERATED by anybody. So (theoretically) incompetant moderators can be weeded out.
6) And most importantly, readers can select the level of scoring themselves, choosing which level of "moderation" they want to browse at. Even though I browse at 1, I frequently drop to -1 in case there's a good re-parented comment and I want to see what spawned it.
(And for people who want to be able to moderate the stories themselves, you can always get the code and make a better Slashdot. If you build it, they will come...)
Jay (=
REDMOND, Wash. -- March 1,2000 -- Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT") announces the release of DirectExperience(tm), a revolutionary new system designed to provide an unparalleled audiual, visual and for the first time, tactile experience while providing optimal protection for the audio-visual-tactile content.
By inserting a series of IntelliPlugs(tm) into the flesh of the arms, legs and spine along with a DirectExperience(tm) cranial socket, content providers can download audio, visual, and tactile sensory experiences into the cortex of the brain, providing life-like experiences unrivalled by any other streaming medium released to date.
In addition to providing an encrypted stream of information right up to the integrated dermal and cranial sockets, reducing the chances of a successful side-channel attack, Microsoft has worked closely and secured an unparalleled deal in which all infants born after March 31, 2000 will have the plugs introduced in-vitro and connected to a DirectExperience terminal shortly after birth. Microsoft plans to use the profits from the licensing of its technology to content providers to allow for intravenous nourishment for these infants through the course of their natural lives. It is estimated that within 50 to 70 years, every person in the world will be upgraded to handle DirectExperience technology; after that, production of new consumers will be off-loaded to a separate farming location.
Early product testers, when asked about the DirectExperience(tm) system, offered the following comments:
"*belch*"
"Glurgh..."
"There is no spoon..."
Microsoft President and CEO Steve Ballmer, when asked about the DirectExperience(tm) system, said "It's the smell, you see..."
Jay (=
Hmmm... let's tweak this a bit, and see what we get.
I am an expert in monetarist economics, with a particular emphasis on the politics and philosophies of Milton Friedman, and his latter-day successor in the United Kingdom, Margaret Thatcher.
The whole "intellectual-property" and "copyright extension" phenomenon troubles me somewhat as an economist, so I felt I had to submit my opinions on what is obviously a fundamentally flawed economic model.
This DCMA case is a prime example. Once again, the cheapskates in the intellectual-property community begrudge someone making a profit off of product quality and service as opposed to artifical notions of "property" -- they seem to expect a free lunch. Well, as my economics professor always used to say, "there ain't no such thing as a free lunch".
What these crypto-fascist intellectual-property proponents don't seem to realise, is that the very system they promote is nothing more than the capitalist system they despise, but with a few extra nasty gotchas bolted on. If Marx were alive today, he would recognise "intellectual property" for what it is - an attempt by the owners of capital to extract more value from the labour of the proletariat without actually allowing them to see the excess value they produced
For example: you do "work for hire" on a project which someone else holds the "copyright" to, they continue to get paid in good old fashioned United States dollars long after you've been let go. Try taking that to your local BMW dealership and see how far it gets you.
So in a nutshell, intellectual-property is exactly like open-source (from the "big business" point of view), except that the developer works for nothing.
In my book, profiting from "intellectual property" produced by others is the same as being a slaveowner. For this reason alone intellectual-property must be stopped, by Federal Law if need be.
Much better, don't you think?
Jay (=
This is just my opinion of how it looks, not how it runs. I am not advocating one GUI over another, just posting my observations about Aqua.
Not meant to be a flame, but you seem to be basing your complaints about Aqua on one application. What does QT Player's problems have to do with Aqua?
And speaking of, what version of the QT player are you looking at? This screenshot over at X Appeal shows OS X's QT player; the buttons are high-contrast and Aqua-like, while the volume "thumbwheel" has been replaced with a slider. There's no way to tell from the shot, but the OS X issue of MacAddict claims the "Favorites" drawer is gone as well.
Jay (=
Soemone else posted a web site, X Appeal, which is apparently put together by a person or people banging away on a Mac OS X dveloper release.
On their hardware page, the list the 7300/180 (my Mac) as successfully running Mac OS X Server -- hopefully Mac OS X Client will work, since they're basically the same OS with different desktops and utilities, right?
It lists other models and their success (or lack thereof) as well.
Jay (=
Probably. It's known already that Apple will be working on expanding hardware support after OSX goes Golden on the G3's and G4's. The narrow hardware support at the start is just to simplify the task of getting it up and running.
I didn't know that. I thought Appel was still being non-committal about older hardware.
Also, remember that OSX is Darwin-plus-goodies (just a lot more goodies than you get with the free version of Darwin). If you can make Darwin run, you'll be able to make OSX run.
Right; what I meant was "Can I go buy a copy of Mac OS X that will run on my Power Mac 7300/180, or do I have to build it myself once someone has gotten it to run on older machines?"
Jay (=
...will Mac OS X run on non-G3/G4 Power Macs?
I'm not talking about Darwin-plus-goodies, I mean the commercial, shrinkwrapped-by-Apple stuff.
I'm sticking with Mac OS 8.6 right now on my Mac, and the answer to this will determine if I eventually reformat to put Mac OS X on it or some PPC-based Linux.
On the plus side, I do have three choices! Yellow Dog Linux, LinuxPPC, or Debian's PPC port...
Jay (=
...if their drivers remain proprietary.
Think about it:
ABIT puts out their Linux distro, with whatever optimizations need to be made for their particular motherboard setup. Hopefully based on something like Debian or Red Hat (for ease of use; they'll have a lot more luck with people using their distro "out of the box" if there isn't yet another desktop standard, or package manager, etc. to support.
So they "leech" off of Red Hat or Debian (or Slackware or SuSE) to get their distro started, and if they keep their stuff open (which it appears they have every intention of doing) then those distros get to "leech" back, getting yet more hardware support out of the box.
Jay (=
(Who's actually built his PC around a BM6... not bad, from what little I know about them)
Here we go again:
We do need more authors.
Then please make it easier for authors to contribute. Setting up the whole SGML tool-chain is a major desaster. Having to write in SGML is a desaster, too.
You will not attract a huge bunch of professional technical writers if you don't lower the bar. "All" you will get are the programmers who are just a little bit tired of coding and who relax by glueing together some documentation.
Amen. And it doen't have to be the "professional technical writers" that get scared away. People like myself, who get frustrated with the lack of documentation (or are unable to figure out where to find it) that exists for whatever problem I'm having, who plan to take notes as I bang some of this stuff out and work it into a least a mini-HOWTO, will not feel like learning SGML just to make their contributions "worthwhile".
Jay (=
To quote a Slashdotter, "Honestly, how many users want to read documentation? How many of them see a fat manual and feel happy?"
Am I the only one that falls into that category?
No.
Excessive documentation turns me on.
While I wouldn't go that far, I will say that I love curling up with a book and just reading. I'll absorb info over time, and at the very least get a feel for where I can find the info I need the next time I'm sitting down at the computer.
Also, as others point out, electronic documentation isn't very helpful when my problem revolves around the computer not operating.
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Am I missing somthing here, why was this posted along with this 'MS owns a part of Corel' story?
Because the story apparently contained complaints about being mad at Slashdot for rejecting the author's stories; according to the end of Rob's rant, the part Rob was ranting about was simply deleted without comment or explanation.
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A few answers to your questions Was Sabertooth Wolverine's father? No, Sabertooth is actually NightCrawler's Father.
No he's not. He was Grayson Creed's (a non-mutant, anti-mutant presidential candidate) father, and Mystique was both Creed's and Nightcrawler's mother, but if they ever explicitly revealed Sabretooth to be related to Nightcrawler, I missed it.
Wolverine had an adamantium skeleton? Yes, this gave him unbreakable bones. However, the Adamantium was ripped out of his body by Magneto. Only His Mutant Power (super human healing) allowed him to survive this. He no longer has an adamantium skeleton, but his healing powers are much stronger now.
Update: as of WOLVERINE #145 (about 4 months ago), he has his adamantium back.
Mystique was Nightcrawler's sister? No. Mystique is Nightcrawler's Mother. She is very old, but her power is to shapeshift into different forms. This lets her keep an appearance of youth and to maintain stregth and flexibility. Note, Both Sabertooth and Wolverine are also very old. Each of them have accelerated healing ability which retards their aging process.
Also, it has been revealed that Wolverine and Sabretooth both have memory implants, so much of their early history is, at best, suspect. (The implication that Sabretooth was Wolverine's father has been shown to be false.)
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One of the most important political web sites at the moment conciously choose to switch from Windows to Linux. Yet, none of the comments is slapping this guy on the back. Instead it's just bitch, bitch, bitch.
Yeah, because this discussion isn't about Linux; it's about Al Gore's campaign webmaster, and, by extension, the campaign's Internet presence.
i.e. "He didn't answer the questions in a brutally honest way." "He ignored the questions we didn't ask." If you're always going to be critical of people, even when they're on your side, people are just going to start ignoring you.
What proof do we have that he's on "our" side? That he uses Linux? Big deal; Rush Limbaugh uses a Mac, but that hardly makes him "on my side".
If Al Gore wants to be on "our" ("we" being who? Slashdot readers? Linux users? net-freedom advocates? GPL purists?) side, he can start by talking to us about the issues we care about.
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I can't beleive it! The best question (the last one) in the world got completely blown off!
Algore2000 is a good site.
Well, that's a good start. I like this guy already.
Why does algore2000.com seem to think I'm a fool?
Hmmmmm. Sounds like he changed his mind. Uh-oh.
Nearly all the "content" of algore2000.com is fluff.
I disagree.
That's IT? Gee, the webmaster doesn't like a critique of his site, and came off as a condesending fool to boot. I'm shocked.
Mr. Green, I would refer you to UseIT's "Alertbox" section. Among those essays, you'll find a recurring theme; people want to be able to find all of the information they can handle.
You might also want to check out the cluetrain as well; even though it's more aimed at businesses, I think the moral is the same; we're not "demographics", we're not "lobbies", we're not "PACs" or "special interests"; we're your neighbors, the parents of the kids your kids go to school with, the people who bag your groceries, the tellers at your bank.
Sure, you can target the "average American", but what you (or the candidate you work for, at any rate) and the other politicians forget is that a good portion of web surfers and internet users are more intelligent, inquisitive, and interested in politics than the "average American".
Why did Jesse Ventura win the gubenatorial election using a 'net-based campaign? Because, from the accounts I've seen, he used his web site and his mailing list to actually talk to the people that ended up putting him into office. Mr. Ventura (or his 'net handler, at any rate) made sure that people who were interested in him and wanted to help out got the information they wanted -- not what Mr. Ventura or his PR flacks or spin doctors thought they wanted -- when they needed it.
Algore2000.com is, in essence, a bigger, better, multimedia-enabled campaign pamphlet; nothing more, nothing less. And Americans (this one, at any rate) are getting tired of all of the rhetoric, the "business as usual" -- even if the BAU is served over a modem rather than stuck in my mailbox or blasted through a 30-second spot during "Frazier".
When Mr.Gore or Mr. Bradley or Mr. McCain or Mr. Bush or Mr. Third Party has something to say to me as opposed to "the average American", I'll be listening. But I won't be holding my breath.
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I expect that, since someone in the UK press has published information on how to circumvent controls on accessing copyrighted material, that the MPAA will file a lawsuit (or they will find someone in the UK willing to file on their behalf) posthaste.
I mean, if a couple of "evil hackers" in Norway can't write a program to get around CSS, then why should "the hi-fi press" (?) in the UK be able to publish information on how to hack the units themselves?
And isn't it interesting that the ones that can be set to play any region discs have skyrocketed in popularity? Now, would that be because people (the people in Britian, anyways) value the freedom that OpenDVD, the EFF and others are championing on our behalf? Or is the MPAA and their apologists going to try to claim that the owners of these DVD players are all pirates?
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Then why does the header say "News for Nerds"
.com", too...
It's a slogan, silly; that's all. I suppose you believe Sun is "the dot in
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Just replace the logo with something interesting and creative, and you're probably off the hook.
I think it's the same principle as when Apple complained that people were making Kaleidoscope schemes that looked like Apple's unreleased MacOS 8 themes, Hi-Tech and whatever.
I think Apple is right about trademark infringement in this case for the apple and the MacOS face (it's possible, though unlikely, that someone could attempt mis-represent the Qua theme on a Linux box as Mac OS X).
Someone else noted that they could go after a non-Apple-marked Aqua-alike theme, claiming dilution of the Aqua "look and feel", but they lost one of those suits already. (Also, why aren't they going after themes.org for their System 7 and Apple Platinum themes?)
So, replace the MacOS logo with Tux, and replace the Apple apple with the Gnome foot or the KDE gears as needed. Call them "Gno-qua" and "K-qua" or something.
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I distinctly remember using Word 3.0, 4.0 and 5.0 on the Mac side (still have Word 5, though I never use it). I don't know how the PC versions went...
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