No noticable differences? Then why bother upgrading?:-)
I doubt that 4.x will be as stable as 3.x for at least another 8 months, so I'm sticking with 3.3.6. The only thing that could make me switch is the addition of real (a la Windows/MacOS/XIG/commercial UNIX) font support.
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BMG? The CD club? Oh, shit, Napster users better get the fuck out now, before BMG gets your e-mail address or anything.
(Those CD clubs are nasty I was a member of Columbia House for about a year, six or seven years ago. I cancelled. To this day, I still get snail-mail and even phone calls every few months. Talk about thick-headed. Just imagine if they had my e-mail address... *shudder*)
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True. And the Internet is supposed to be (last I heard, anyway) a network for expressing ideas of all kinds, not just advertising. Are we going to let the WWW become the next Television, a slave to the major corporations?
This whole story is almost more frightening than it is absurd.
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Hey, now, that's a little unfair.:-) I'd never heard anyone mention this before at work, and I don't remember seeing anything mentioned at the tech sites I frequent, so it was news to me. I have a USB Zip100, and I'm glad to know about this problem. If it had started clicking before I saw this guy's post (okay, several people mention it in this discussion, but I saw his post first), I would have kept on using the drive until it completely died. Therefore, I consider that to be an "informative" post.
I assume you mean Gran Turismo 2. That game is going to kick ass, my friend. I sucked ass at the original, but had fun playing it anyway, because of its super-mega-excellent graphics, kick-ass customization, tons-o-cars, et cetera. If GT2 is even better, then... wow.
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How would this change the gaming industry with two major players working together?"
The thing you're missing is that Sega is not a major player. They haven't been since the Genesis days. The Saturn was a complete flop. The Dreamcast is fairly nice system, but can't possibly compete with the PlayStation 2. In five years, Sony will still be a major player in the gaming industry, and if the XBox comes to fruition, Microsoft will be too. (Microsoft has the resources to be a major player in whatever they like.) Nintendo's future isn't quite as certain. The N64 was a great system, and complemented the PlayStation nicely with its different graphical style. But it's clear that they don't have the corporate and technical momentum they did in the past. A Sony-Nintendo merger could save the future of both companies, if they can release a system within the next two years comparable to the PSX2.
Many of you who have posted so far seem incredulous about the possibilities of this happening, but if public response to this is good, I definitely think this could happen, and would be good for the gaming industry.
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I don't know why I'm even bothering to comment after there have already been 600+ comments, but I am anyway.
First of all, let me say that except for caffeine and the occasional (once a year, at most) alcoholic beverage, I do not and never have "done drugs", of any kind. Now let me explain some things.
I went through DARE (in elemenary or middle school, I forget which) and one of those "health" classes in high school, and they had absolutely no impact on my behavior. Looking back on this "education", I am disgusted at the blatant misinformation that was distributed. Part of this was simply ignorance; clueless teachers with 20-year old textbooks. But as someone who knows more than the average bear of the scienific/medical facts about addiction, it's quite obvious that this "education" was merely another fallicy produced by the so-called war on drugs.
Not everyone who "does drugs" will become addicted. It has less to do with the type of drug or frequency of use than it has to do with your family history. Except for some of the most addictive substances, such as nicotine, the predisposition to addiction is determined by your genetic makeup. On a larger scale, your ethnic heritage and your ancestors' accumlated resistance to these substances comes into play. On a smaller scale, look at your family tree. If one parent is an addict, there is a 50% that the genetic predispoition to addiction will be passed from parent to child.
However, DARE and similar "health" programs paint a picture where you partake of the substance once, start craving the drug more and more, and than all of a sudden you "cross the line" and become an addict. Your children are being lied to, just as you were. Yes, the regular intake certain substances can have a negative impact on your life, especially if you are an addict, but the information being distributed by the government regarding this topic is mere fantasy. It's propaganda, pure and simple.
I could go on for another few pages about why the government does this, but I won't. I'll leave you with a quote from George Clinton: "There's more money in pretending to stop it than selling it."
Vote Libertarian.
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I think the new HTML spec should include <sarcasm> tags for the sarcasm impaired.
Why not just learn XML? Then you can implement your own markup language (/.ML, perhaps -- Slashdot Markup Language!), complete with <sarcasm>, <flamebait>, and <IANAL> tags. LOL.
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"And in biology news, scientists at the Society for Preservation of UNIX-Workalikes announced that earlier this week, for the first time ever, the elusive 'Linux user' was caught on film. This colorful primate, easily identifiable by his herd mentality and a bizarre, ritualistic worship of penguins, was up until now believed to not exist outside of SPUW's 'Slashdot' wildlife preserve. Many experts believe the Linux user to be merely a mutation of the Stallmanistic Gnu (which has a 'hurd' mentality of its own, heh heh) a species of giant space monkey unseen since 1985.
"Once more has been learned of their behavior, SPUW hopes to domesticate the Linux user, despite the fact that one has never been captured alive, and despite Linux users' extreme discomfort in proximity to domestic regularities such as windows and gates.
"Some members of SPUW's board of defecators have expressed concern that even if the Linux user could be tamed, there would be little desire for him in mainstream society. 'The Linux user is really just a UNIX user, minus a few millenia of evolution,' notes Dr. Samuel S. Spankenbottom. 'The truth is that our only interest in the Linux user is a queer sense of nostaligia for obselete organisms. Perhaps we should leave the Linux user to the mercy of Nature, where it will surely become extinct when confronted with more evolved, modern animals. Our only hope of getting the world to accept the Linux user is by cross-breeding him with his weaker, but more owner-friendly, cousins in Redmond. Observe our success with such crossbreeds as the Redhatted Linux user and the Caldera Dumb-Fuck.'
"Rob Malda's stupid haircut contributed to this story."
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I assume that CRC Press does in fact own the rights to most of the material found in Mathworld.
Yes, CRC Press holds US Patent #029572-34-0111: "A system by which numerals may be combined with logical algorithms to computer other numerals." They were able to obtain this patent after licensing "1-Click division" from the Greeks.
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Tragically, Eric couldn never get the hang of this simple equation:
(C + I) = L, where C is "Copyright", I is "Infringement", and L is "Lawsuit."
Anyway, this is really a tragic loss. Maybe we can convince CRC Press to open-source Calculus? Then Richard Stallman can calculate the area under his curves.
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Aw, you're just jealous. Don't worry, you'll reach puberty one day and the world will make much more sense; I can imagine how confused and alone you feel right now. And maybe, just maybe, you'll lose your virginity to Chewbacca. So buck up, kiddo!
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That would have been perfect if he'd said "Personally I'm two lazy to care about the proper use of homonyms . .." Man, the one time Rob would've been applauded for fucking up, he doesn't. We can't count on that bastard for anything. (Kids, this is what listening to the Satan-worshipping "Guess Who" will do to your brain! We must ferret out the hippie element in our midst!)
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Wow, Red Hat is now lamer than Apple and Microsoft combined. I'm impressed! Red Hat, in under five years, has surpassed two of the lamest companies ever, who have (combined) been perfecting that Art of Lame for forty years. Bob Young is a highly skilled lameness engineer, that's for sure.
Let me now release an adjustsed GNU/Linux distro lameness index.
Lamest --> Red Hat
Caldera
SuSE
Mandrake
Turbo Linux
Yellow Dog
Slackware
Debian
L337est --> Roll-yer-own
Lameness may be affected by use of "newbie" dialogue installations, RPMs, GNOME, or KDE. Debian gets extra l337ness points for mentioning "GNU" in the product title.
In a related story, IBM recently made public their plans to sell 3-week disposable mainframes.
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Slashdot Mirror
I doubt that 4.x will be as stable as 3.x for at least another 8 months, so I'm sticking with 3.3.6. The only thing that could make me switch is the addition of real (a la Windows/MacOS/XIG/commercial UNIX) font support.
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(Those CD clubs are nasty I was a member of Columbia House for about a year, six or seven years ago. I cancelled. To this day, I still get snail-mail and even phone calls every few months. Talk about thick-headed. Just imagine if they had my e-mail address... *shudder*)
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This whole story is almost more frightening than it is absurd.
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So fuck you very much, friend.
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The thing you're missing is that Sega is not a major player. They haven't been since the Genesis days. The Saturn was a complete flop. The Dreamcast is fairly nice system, but can't possibly compete with the PlayStation 2. In five years, Sony will still be a major player in the gaming industry, and if the XBox comes to fruition, Microsoft will be too. (Microsoft has the resources to be a major player in whatever they like.) Nintendo's future isn't quite as certain. The N64 was a great system, and complemented the PlayStation nicely with its different graphical style. But it's clear that they don't have the corporate and technical momentum they did in the past. A Sony-Nintendo merger could save the future of both companies, if they can release a system within the next two years comparable to the PSX2.
Many of you who have posted so far seem incredulous about the possibilities of this happening, but if public response to this is good, I definitely think this could happen, and would be good for the gaming industry.
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First of all, let me say that except for caffeine and the occasional (once a year, at most) alcoholic beverage, I do not and never have "done drugs", of any kind. Now let me explain some things.
I went through DARE (in elemenary or middle school, I forget which) and one of those "health" classes in high school, and they had absolutely no impact on my behavior. Looking back on this "education", I am disgusted at the blatant misinformation that was distributed. Part of this was simply ignorance; clueless teachers with 20-year old textbooks. But as someone who knows more than the average bear of the scienific/medical facts about addiction, it's quite obvious that this "education" was merely another fallicy produced by the so-called war on drugs.
Not everyone who "does drugs" will become addicted. It has less to do with the type of drug or frequency of use than it has to do with your family history. Except for some of the most addictive substances, such as nicotine, the predisposition to addiction is determined by your genetic makeup. On a larger scale, your ethnic heritage and your ancestors' accumlated resistance to these substances comes into play. On a smaller scale, look at your family tree. If one parent is an addict, there is a 50% that the genetic predispoition to addiction will be passed from parent to child.
However, DARE and similar "health" programs paint a picture where you partake of the substance once, start craving the drug more and more, and than all of a sudden you "cross the line" and become an addict. Your children are being lied to, just as you were. Yes, the regular intake certain substances can have a negative impact on your life, especially if you are an addict, but the information being distributed by the government regarding this topic is mere fantasy. It's propaganda, pure and simple.
I could go on for another few pages about why the government does this, but I won't. I'll leave you with a quote from George Clinton: "There's more money in pretending to stop it than selling it."
Vote Libertarian.
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Why not just learn XML? Then you can implement your own markup language (/.ML, perhaps -- Slashdot Markup Language!), complete with <sarcasm>, <flamebait>, and <IANAL> tags. LOL.
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"Once more has been learned of their behavior, SPUW hopes to domesticate the Linux user, despite the fact that one has never been captured alive, and despite Linux users' extreme discomfort in proximity to domestic regularities such as windows and gates.
"Some members of SPUW's board of defecators have expressed concern that even if the Linux user could be tamed, there would be little desire for him in mainstream society. 'The Linux user is really just a UNIX user, minus a few millenia of evolution,' notes Dr. Samuel S. Spankenbottom. 'The truth is that our only interest in the Linux user is a queer sense of nostaligia for obselete organisms. Perhaps we should leave the Linux user to the mercy of Nature, where it will surely become extinct when confronted with more evolved, modern animals. Our only hope of getting the world to accept the Linux user is by cross-breeding him with his weaker, but more owner-friendly, cousins in Redmond. Observe our success with such crossbreeds as the Redhatted Linux user and the Caldera Dumb-Fuck.'
"Rob Malda's stupid haircut contributed to this story."
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Anyway, this is really a tragic loss. Maybe we can convince CRC Press to open-source Calculus? Then Richard Stallman can calculate the area under his curves.
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What, Babelfish doesn't do that yet?
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Let me now release an adjustsed GNU/Linux distro lameness index.
Lameness may be affected by use of "newbie" dialogue installations, RPMs, GNOME, or KDE. Debian gets extra l337ness points for mentioning "GNU" in the product title.
In a related story, IBM recently made public their plans to sell 3-week disposable mainframes.
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