"Think about that the next time you think you need to annoy your neighbors with the latest and greatest fiddy-cent ring tone."
How and why did such a racist comment find it's way to the front of slashdot? I guess all the "openmindedness" on Slashdot is all well and good, until someone wants to take pot shots at a black rap artist, and how certain people speak.
I'd hope this article is edited to remove the comment...or do the editors find colloquialisms of certain minorities a joke to make fun of on the front page?
I remember way back before they released anything, their major claim to fame so to speak was their code morphing tech where it would just emulate whatever cpu you needed. Making it maybe possible to do things like dualboot MacOSX and WindowsXP. They just decided to say the heck with all of that, and use it all to make low power x86 cpus(that don't look like they are selling too well based on the number of products using them)
So where's my triple boot OSX/XP/Linux box running on a transmeta chip?
Colin Powell had a class for slow learners at the UN... fast forward a couple of months, tune in CNN, and see what sort of threats were uncovered by advancing American Armed Forces as they look for weapons of mass destruction. Today's keyword: "Tip of the Iceberg".
It's true. Powell's sattellite photos proved the Iraqis had a forklift AND two trucks. If they get a bulldozer they'll have Bob the Builder.
I know there is going to be alot of cracks about it's goofy interface.
But to be honest, it is not all that bad. I went and bought the official blender book to learn how to do everything, and it was pretty straight forward. I was doing some things I never thought I would be able to do in a matter of hours. I still use Blender to do some artwork when I'm kinda bored. More of a part-time hobby then anything else, so Blender being free software was nice.
The Official Blender Guide was a really well written book. Lots of great looking shots showing off what blender can do, and putting alot of what I've seen people do in Maya to shame. I'd reccomend the book to anyone really interested in doing something with Blender. Also has a CD with updated versions of Blender, and all the pictures and animations done in the examples.
Just my two cents, I'm just happy to see that Blender isn't dead quite yet.
I'm going to put this game in the same catagory as Doom 3, and say that this is what's wrong with the American game industry.
There is too much convergant thinking in PC games anymore. War Craft 3, and Doom 3 being prime examples. Neither game sets off to be a good game in their own right. They want to be the perfect example of what a game in their genre would be. Neither Id nor Blizzard look at a game anymore and go "what would be good for this game?" they go "what would be good for a RTS or FPS?" Instead of trying to give the player a totally new experience, and make it something worth my time to play, I just get new polish on the same games that have been released for years. Most of the "improvements" in WC3 weren't because it would make it a better experience in the world of Warcraft, it's what would make it a more "perfect" RTS. The same can be said for Doom 3, which is going toward what a "perfect" FPS should be. It seems like the companies just seem to say "let's make a RTS, do what would be a perfect RTS, then just theme it with whatever franchise we should have a sequel to. Id being the same way, just so happens the Doom was the next franchise to get an update to approach that "perfect" FPS.
Is it really that hard anymore to actually try to create a game, and then design an interface to the game that would be best fitted to the experience you wanted to gamer to have? Show me something new before I put down $60 for a game. Or has the US gaming market have become so braindead that if a game doesn't fit perfectly into a given genre, it's "too hard and confusing". Excuse me if I don't want the same game 50 times, and have to have my hand held though a game. Give me something new, and I'll go put $60 to get a copy.
One of the best things I've seen in a browser is the scrapbook in IE for MacOS. This isn't even in the Windows version of IE and I really have no idea why.
I'd love to see this in Mozilla, or any of the front-end browsers. It's very convient when you order something, to just toss the reciept page in the scrapbook so you can refrence the tracking number without hassle. Or when I'm looking at a professor's website for his notes, just scrapbook what I have to read and read it offline(i'm on an ibook)
If you're sick of all these senseless video card upgrades, just follow the $150 video card rule. No game is really going to take full advantage of a card less then $150. If you're paying more then that, you're wasting money.
Your money would be better spend putting the extra money towards a better monitor for instance. Be surprised the number of people that spend $400 on a video card to play on a $150 montior. Then wonder why things are still jumpy. A nice subwoofer and new speakers would also enhance your gaming experience.
When I first started college, I was a CS major. Orginally I was going part-time, and working full time at a local computer company, doing anything from building point-of-sales systems to writing software.
When I left(long story) I was informed of a part-time teachine position at a local elementry school. It was a private school, so I didn't need to have my certifications, and a CS major at the university was what they were looking for. I loved it. Learning about the differnt educational packages, how kids used computers, teaching them all I knew, etc. Nothing quite as exciting/nerveracking as having a class of 3rd graders assembling your new dual celeron system:-) But that's what I did. Where the previous teacher was just basicly teaching typing, I was teaching them about how computers actually worked, how to use the internet, etc. Even had a group of 8th graders who worked on the school website. I even got into some basic prgramming later in the year using the C compiler for the Gameboy. Hello World on a PC isn't too interesting to a 8th grader. Do the same program, and put it to a GB Flashcart and have it run on their gameboy, that's something cool.
Well, I transfered schools(Attending the University of Pittsburgh) I decided to go into Education. How Pitt's education program works is I'm still majoring in Computer Science, but taking courses that will get me into the School of Education when I graduate. So in 3 years, I'll have a BS in CS and a Masters of Education.
I figure I won't have any problems finding a teaching position holding a CS degree. And I can get into things like developing quality educational software. Or even work for Apple:-) Of course, people in the CS dept. kinda chuckle when I say I'm going into education because they think I'm not going to pass up a $60k/year job to go to school for another year to make $30k/year. But it's never about the money, about doing what you like to do.
They want money for what they "might" do. This isn't a product where if I want to play a windows-only game, I can buy it and make it work. They aren't even making any guarentees on what works and what doesn't. Games they have listed as "working" are still flaky at best.
I'd like nothing more then to play NHL 2002 on my linux system. A port is less then likely. So something like this is really my only option. But why wouldn't I suscribe? Pay $5/month to ask them to get a game working? There isn't even a guarentee that it will ever work.
Now, it would be worth money, if it could actually play all DirectX 8 games. If I could buy a game that uses DirectX, and know it's going to work. THAT'S something that's actually worth money.
Paying someone in advance for work they might do, and never even getting a guarentee that it's going to get done isn't something I do.
If anyone looked at thier configuations for desktop systems, linux was never an option. I was looking for a friend of mine, and there were no systems with a drop-down box with an os choice of linux. I called Dell's sales dept. and was told that you can only get desktop systems with Windows.
After searching for a good hour on Dell's site, I did find their "linux" section, with a system. Perhaps if linux was an actual choice when you called, or went to configure their true desktop sytems, more people would have went for it. You can't sell a product, keep it in the back room, tell people it's not really there, and then stop selling it before "no one bought it when we had it".
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It's an irrational number. It doesn't end. Nothing more to see, go back to your homes.
If you have an infinate list of numbers, of course you can pull whatever you want out of them. Eventually something interesting will come up. I'm sure places 495865749584 to 495857498745 in binary are linux kernel 6.2.4 compiled perfectly for my hardware. In some other goofy place is DeCSS, and in another is any goofy message you want to look into it.
Not being a troll, but I still don't see the big deal about one irrational number.
Not so much as major large programs such as from Adoble or Mircosoft, but from small companies that have one programs that's in wide use in a nitch market, or companies where their major source of income is one or two major accounts.
Companies that use open source projects could buy bonds, and then direct to the path of the project to suit them. I'm a midrange copration, and I want an office suite. I buy X amount of bonds in OpenOffice, and say I want A, B and C. A, B and C are quickly added, the changes benefit all, and my company has an office suite with the exact fetures my company needs.
I COULD just as eaisly hire programs, and have it done internally. But why? If my company makes wire, why the hell do I want to go though the trouble of another department to optimize the company standard office suite. I have wire to worry about, not office suites.
So, if bond purchacers have an actual say in where they want a project they invest in go, this could be a VERY good thing for all open source projects.
Kind of funny I just bought the Perl DVD Encryption t-shirt and then just read this story on slashdot. $3 of it went to support the EFF
On another I'm also glad I didn't sell my apex player which is region selectable. I own a couple of region 2 dvds, and it's nice just to be able to play them with minimum fuss. I still just find it sad that I have to resort to a hacked dvd player to play dvds I purchased. Hopefully sometime down the road, all this encryption, region coding and every other technology that is desgned to screw me and maximize profits of major companies will be a thing of the past.
Hopefully my $20 donation to the EFF was along with a few thousand others when the story ran a couple months ago asked people to donate will help get the laws(DCMA, etc.) that make this kind of stuff legal thrown out.
Sorry to say that there isn't a linux port yet. I played it on a friend's computer, and it really was a good time to play. Truly one of the few orgianl titles you'll see in the US game market that's just plasterd with dumb FPS and RTS games.
Hope if gets open-sorced too, or to have someone port it and publish commercially. As soon as it's avalible. I'm all over it like flies one poop.
Just so I say it publiclly though, great game, and I'll be the first, or probably on of the first few hundred thousand, that will get it when it's for my favorite os:-)
Ok, this is late in the thread, so I doubt anyone will even read this....
It's not even about getting linux, it's about having to pay for a Windows. As a University of Pittsburgh student I get just about every consumer Microsoft product for free legally, thanks to the school. If I want to buy a professionally built system, I'm still forced to buy Windows.
The problem is, I already have a legal license to run it. Why should I be forced to buy something I can get legally for free?
I shouldn't have to build my own system, or get a system from Joe Slapnuts at a local computer place to avoid paying for something I can legally get for free. I should be able to go to Dell, Gateway, Compaq, or whomever and get a professonally built computer system, and not have to pay for a Windows license.
That's just my two cents...if anyone actually read this post, reply. I'm courious to see how many people actually read posts this late in the thread.
Ok, no, I'm not for giving out names and numbers for everyone that asks for them from an ISP.
But AOL isn't an ISP, AOL isn't even the internet. If the whole Internet just died tomorrow, AOL would be alive and kicking sans it's web access and ability to half ass use other tcp/ip programs though it.
AOL isn't the public internet, it's a private network. In a private setting, the constitution doesn't mean a thing. You have no right to privacy. Your only option is that if you dont' like it, leave.
Maybe they shouldn't have given that mother that number, but they should have at least called the police, and informed them of it situation. That's what you should get by using a private network. As far as AOL is concerend, they should know everything about the people that use their network. If that means personal information of 20-30 million people, so be it. It's those people that CHOOSE to be on that private network, they weren't forced on.
I'm not for censoring the internet in any way, shape or form. It's a public forum. But AOL isn't public, it's private. They advertise about safety and child seurity of their private network. They should start taking some steps to doing so. If that means sacraficing some of their member's privacy by giving their names to police, etc. then so be it.
I just can't say it enough that what happens on AOL is not the internet, as a private network, they don't play by the same rules. They shouldn't play by the same rules. Just like partents who send their childern to private schools so they can get education like religion that can't be taught in public schools, people should use AOL for protection that they shouldn't legally be able to get though a normal ISP.
That's why I feel like they didn't do their job. AOL is NOT the internet, and people should stop treating it like it is. It is a private network.
I'm apalued that one would place security at a $7/hour paying job, over the safety of a child. I actually find that sickening. That information should have been given out, piss on AOL's policy. Not saying give that info out to every Tom, Dick, and Harry...but come one now.
And I also am shocked about AOL's poilcy on that. I mean, they see no problem in using your personal information to send you spam out the ass. But as soon as a child's safety is in question "sorry, that information is sacred, we can not give it out to anyone" No, it's they won't give it out for a pirce.
Makes me think that parent shouldn't have called customer service, they should have called marketing and just bought the information.
And to everyone that says "the parents should have been watching their child" It's impossible to look over your child 24/7 let alone just bad parenting to do so. THis wasn't some 6 year old. This was just a mother scared that her child was oen of the many that leave their house because someone in AOL convinced them to do, and they aren't seen again until someoen finds them in a ditch on some old hunting road 6 months later.
Unstead of "every program attempts to expand until it can read email" should be changed to "every piece of hardware and software expands until it can play mp3s"
Nice to see the gnome team respond with a quick 2nd beta. What I'm about to say isn't flamebait, just my opinion.
That first beta trashed my system. Installed nautilus, which kinda took over everything that gmc did, but with about 1/2 the useable functionality. And not to mention that the mozilla intergration didn't work(yeah, I had all the correct packages). And it was just a slow expierience over all. Saw the promise in what 1.4 and 2.0 could be. But as of now, it's not nearly there.
Decided to see what all the fuss over KDE 2.1 was about. A simple "apt-get install task-kde" had it installed in a few moments. What a differnece in night and day this was when I first started it up.
First off, I noticed the AA Fonts. And then just the overall speedup compared to even the stable 1.2 gnome. I did think what most people think of kde though, it just being an improved Windows interface. A simple change in a theme made it nothing that looked like it's former self.
Then I checked out Konqurer. I didn't expect much. However, after using it for a couple days, I don't see how ANYONE can not use this. In useablitly, speed, and stability, it's between IE4 and IE5. Not to mention features such as killing popup windows, that IE will never have. And not to mention speed. I clicked the desktop icon, and it displayed the start page. Pages loaded and rendered faster then any mozilla optimized build that I've compiled myself.
But what I don't think most people understand that you don't have to totally pick one over the other. I do like evolution, and I still use it for my e-mail. I still use gaim, and a bunch of other "gnome" programs. If I would have got around to actually trying konqurer, I would have ran it in gnome. Using kde or gnome, doesn't tie you to their aps.
So while you all are trying out this new Gnome 1.4 beta, type an apt-get install task-kde and give the new kde a whirl. I ran gnome since pre 1.0 days, and it made a convert out of me. And if you don't like it, there is always apt-get remove task-kde
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"Think about that the next time you think you need to annoy your neighbors with the latest and greatest fiddy-cent ring tone."
How and why did such a racist comment find it's way to the front of slashdot? I guess all the "openmindedness" on Slashdot is all well and good, until someone wants to take pot shots at a black rap artist, and how certain people speak.
I'd hope this article is edited to remove the comment...or do the editors find colloquialisms of certain minorities a joke to make fun of on the front page?
I remember way back before they released anything, their major claim to fame so to speak was their code morphing tech where it would just emulate whatever cpu you needed. Making it maybe possible to do things like dualboot MacOSX and WindowsXP. They just decided to say the heck with all of that, and use it all to make low power x86 cpus(that don't look like they are selling too well based on the number of products using them)
So where's my triple boot OSX/XP/Linux box running on a transmeta chip?
Colin Powell had a class for slow learners at the UN ... fast forward a couple of months, tune in CNN, and see what sort of threats were uncovered by advancing American Armed Forces as they look for weapons of mass destruction. Today's keyword: "Tip of the Iceberg".
It's true. Powell's sattellite photos proved the Iraqis had a forklift AND two trucks. If they get a bulldozer they'll have Bob the Builder.
Yes, but they can combine and form Devastator.
When will this be a weapon of choice in "America's Amry" ?
I know there is going to be alot of cracks about it's goofy interface.
But to be honest, it is not all that bad. I went and bought the official blender book to learn how to do everything, and it was pretty straight forward. I was doing some things I never thought I would be able to do in a matter of hours. I still use Blender to do some artwork when I'm kinda bored. More of a part-time hobby then anything else, so Blender being free software was nice.
The Official Blender Guide was a really well written book. Lots of great looking shots showing off what blender can do, and putting alot of what I've seen people do in Maya to shame. I'd reccomend the book to anyone really interested in doing something with Blender. Also has a CD with updated versions of Blender, and all the pictures and animations done in the examples.
Just my two cents, I'm just happy to see that Blender isn't dead quite yet.
I'm going to put this game in the same catagory as Doom 3, and say that this is what's wrong with the American game industry.
There is too much convergant thinking in PC games anymore. War Craft 3, and Doom 3 being prime examples. Neither game sets off to be a good game in their own right. They want to be the perfect example of what a game in their genre would be. Neither Id nor Blizzard look at a game anymore and go "what would be good for this game?" they go "what would be good for a RTS or FPS?" Instead of trying to give the player a totally new experience, and make it something worth my time to play, I just get new polish on the same games that have been released for years. Most of the "improvements" in WC3 weren't because it would make it a better experience in the world of Warcraft, it's what would make it a more "perfect" RTS. The same can be said for Doom 3, which is going toward what a "perfect" FPS should be. It seems like the companies just seem to say "let's make a RTS, do what would be a perfect RTS, then just theme it with whatever franchise we should have a sequel to. Id being the same way, just so happens the Doom was the next franchise to get an update to approach that "perfect" FPS.
Is it really that hard anymore to actually try to create a game, and then design an interface to the game that would be best fitted to the experience you wanted to gamer to have? Show me something new before I put down $60 for a game. Or has the US gaming market have become so braindead that if a game doesn't fit perfectly into a given genre, it's "too hard and confusing". Excuse me if I don't want the same game 50 times, and have to have my hand held though a game. Give me something new, and I'll go put $60 to get a copy.
One of the best things I've seen in a browser is the scrapbook in IE for MacOS. This isn't even in the Windows version of IE and I really have no idea why.
I'd love to see this in Mozilla, or any of the front-end browsers. It's very convient when you order something, to just toss the reciept page in the scrapbook so you can refrence the tracking number without hassle. Or when I'm looking at a professor's website for his notes, just scrapbook what I have to read and read it offline(i'm on an ibook)
If you're sick of all these senseless video card upgrades, just follow the $150 video card rule. No game is really going to take full advantage of a card less then $150. If you're paying more then that, you're wasting money.
Your money would be better spend putting the extra money towards a better monitor for instance. Be surprised the number of people that spend $400 on a video card to play on a $150 montior. Then wonder why things are still jumpy. A nice subwoofer and new speakers would also enhance your gaming experience.
Quite possibly the best thing I ever got for my kitchen. Hotdogs, humburgers, vegetables, if you can grill it, you can stick it on there.
;-)
Even works with hot pockets, and alot of other frozen foods that are usually just cooked in the microwave.
Oohhh, yeah, and when you see the fat dripping off, you know you're eating healty
When I first started college, I was a CS major. Orginally I was going part-time, and working full time at a local computer company, doing anything from building point-of-sales systems to writing software.
:-) But that's what I did. Where the previous teacher was just basicly teaching typing, I was teaching them about how computers actually worked, how to use the internet, etc. Even had a group of 8th graders who worked on the school website. I even got into some basic prgramming later in the year using the C compiler for the Gameboy. Hello World on a PC isn't too interesting to a 8th grader. Do the same program, and put it to a GB Flashcart and have it run on their gameboy, that's something cool.
:-) Of course, people in the CS dept. kinda chuckle when I say I'm going into education because they think I'm not going to pass up a $60k/year job to go to school for another year to make $30k/year. But it's never about the money, about doing what you like to do.
When I left(long story) I was informed of a part-time teachine position at a local elementry school. It was a private school, so I didn't need to have my certifications, and a CS major at the university was what they were looking for. I loved it. Learning about the differnt educational packages, how kids used computers, teaching them all I knew, etc. Nothing quite as exciting/nerveracking as having a class of 3rd graders assembling your new dual celeron system
Well, I transfered schools(Attending the University of Pittsburgh) I decided to go into Education. How Pitt's education program works is I'm still majoring in Computer Science, but taking courses that will get me into the School of Education when I graduate. So in 3 years, I'll have a BS in CS and a Masters of Education.
I figure I won't have any problems finding a teaching position holding a CS degree. And I can get into things like developing quality educational software. Or even work for Apple
Then they would have known he cheated. Hopefully they used it on Chan Gailey's ;-)
Yes, I do go to Clown College. Also known as the University of Pittsburgh. :-)
They want money for what they "might" do. This isn't a product where if I want to play a windows-only game, I can buy it and make it work. They aren't even making any guarentees on what works and what doesn't. Games they have listed as "working" are still flaky at best.
I'd like nothing more then to play NHL 2002 on my linux system. A port is less then likely. So something like this is really my only option. But why wouldn't I suscribe? Pay $5/month to ask them to get a game working? There isn't even a guarentee that it will ever work.
Now, it would be worth money, if it could actually play all DirectX 8 games. If I could buy a game that uses DirectX, and know it's going to work. THAT'S something that's actually worth money.
Paying someone in advance for work they might do, and never even getting a guarentee that it's going to get done isn't something I do.
If anyone looked at thier configuations for desktop systems, linux was never an option. I was looking for a friend of mine, and there were no systems with a drop-down box with an os choice of linux. I called Dell's sales dept. and was told that you can only get desktop systems with Windows.
After searching for a good hour on Dell's site, I did find their "linux" section, with a system. Perhaps if linux was an actual choice when you called, or went to configure their true desktop sytems, more people would have went for it. You can't sell a product, keep it in the back room, tell people it's not really there, and then stop selling it before "no one bought it when we had it".
It's an irrational number. It doesn't end. Nothing more to see, go back to your homes.
If you have an infinate list of numbers, of course you can pull whatever you want out of them. Eventually something interesting will come up. I'm sure places 495865749584 to 495857498745 in binary are linux kernel 6.2.4 compiled perfectly for my hardware. In some other goofy place is DeCSS, and in another is any goofy message you want to look into it.
Not being a troll, but I still don't see the big deal about one irrational number.
Not so much as major large programs such as from Adoble or Mircosoft, but from small companies that have one programs that's in wide use in a nitch market, or companies where their major source of income is one or two major accounts.
Companies that use open source projects could buy bonds, and then direct to the path of the project to suit them. I'm a midrange copration, and I want an office suite. I buy X amount of bonds in OpenOffice, and say I want A, B and C. A, B and C are quickly added, the changes benefit all, and my company has an office suite with the exact fetures my company needs.
I COULD just as eaisly hire programs, and have it done internally. But why? If my company makes wire, why the hell do I want to go though the trouble of another department to optimize the company standard office suite. I have wire to worry about, not office suites.
So, if bond purchacers have an actual say in where they want a project they invest in go, this could be a VERY good thing for all open source projects.
yeah, I'll order my copy......maybe :-)
Kind of funny I just bought the Perl DVD Encryption t-shirt and then just read this story on slashdot. $3 of it went to support the EFF
On another I'm also glad I didn't sell my apex player which is region selectable. I own a couple of region 2 dvds, and it's nice just to be able to play them with minimum fuss. I still just find it sad that I have to resort to a hacked dvd player to play dvds I purchased. Hopefully sometime down the road, all this encryption, region coding and every other technology that is desgned to screw me and maximize profits of major companies will be a thing of the past.
Hopefully my $20 donation to the EFF was along with a few thousand others when the story ran a couple months ago asked people to donate will help get the laws(DCMA, etc.) that make this kind of stuff legal thrown out.
They released the source code to Notepad. I mean, if that isn't commitment to open source(tm) what is?!
Sorry to say that there isn't a linux port yet. I played it on a friend's computer, and it really was a good time to play. Truly one of the few orgianl titles you'll see in the US game market that's just plasterd with dumb FPS and RTS games.
:-)
Hope if gets open-sorced too, or to have someone port it and publish commercially. As soon as it's avalible. I'm all over it like flies one poop.
Just so I say it publiclly though, great game, and I'll be the first, or probably on of the first few hundred thousand, that will get it when it's for my favorite os
Ok, this is late in the thread, so I doubt anyone will even read this....
It's not even about getting linux, it's about having to pay for a Windows. As a University of Pittsburgh student I get just about every consumer Microsoft product for free legally, thanks to the school. If I want to buy a professionally built system, I'm still forced to buy Windows.
The problem is, I already have a legal license to run it. Why should I be forced to buy something I can get legally for free?
I shouldn't have to build my own system, or get a system from Joe Slapnuts at a local computer place to avoid paying for something I can legally get for free. I should be able to go to Dell, Gateway, Compaq, or whomever and get a professonally built computer system, and not have to pay for a Windows license.
That's just my two cents...if anyone actually read this post, reply. I'm courious to see how many people actually read posts this late in the thread.
Ok, no, I'm not for giving out names and numbers for everyone that asks for them from an ISP.
But AOL isn't an ISP, AOL isn't even the internet. If the whole Internet just died tomorrow, AOL would be alive and kicking sans it's web access and ability to half ass use other tcp/ip programs though it.
AOL isn't the public internet, it's a private network. In a private setting, the constitution doesn't mean a thing. You have no right to privacy. Your only option is that if you dont' like it, leave.
Maybe they shouldn't have given that mother that number, but they should have at least called the police, and informed them of it situation. That's what you should get by using a private network. As far as AOL is concerend, they should know everything about the people that use their network. If that means personal information of 20-30 million people, so be it. It's those people that CHOOSE to be on that private network, they weren't forced on.
I'm not for censoring the internet in any way, shape or form. It's a public forum. But AOL isn't public, it's private. They advertise about safety and child seurity of their private network. They should start taking some steps to doing so. If that means sacraficing some of their member's privacy by giving their names to police, etc. then so be it.
I just can't say it enough that what happens on AOL is not the internet, as a private network, they don't play by the same rules. They shouldn't play by the same rules. Just like partents who send their childern to private schools so they can get education like religion that can't be taught in public schools, people should use AOL for protection that they shouldn't legally be able to get though a normal ISP.
That's why I feel like they didn't do their job. AOL is NOT the internet, and people should stop treating it like it is. It is a private network.
About that last caller:
I'm apalued that one would place security at a $7/hour paying job, over the safety of a child. I actually find that sickening. That information should have been given out, piss on AOL's policy. Not saying give that info out to every Tom, Dick, and Harry...but come one now.
And I also am shocked about AOL's poilcy on that. I mean, they see no problem in using your personal information to send you spam out the ass. But as soon as a child's safety is in question "sorry, that information is sacred, we can not give it out to anyone" No, it's they won't give it out for a pirce.
Makes me think that parent shouldn't have called customer service, they should have called marketing and just bought the information.
And to everyone that says "the parents should have been watching their child" It's impossible to look over your child 24/7 let alone just bad parenting to do so. THis wasn't some 6 year old. This was just a mother scared that her child was oen of the many that leave their house because someone in AOL convinced them to do, and they aren't seen again until someoen finds them in a ditch on some old hunting road 6 months later.
And people won't why I hate AOL..
Unstead of "every program attempts to expand until it can read email" should be changed to "every piece of hardware and software expands until it can play mp3s"
Nice to see the gnome team respond with a quick 2nd beta. What I'm about to say isn't flamebait, just my opinion.
That first beta trashed my system. Installed nautilus, which kinda took over everything that gmc did, but with about 1/2 the useable functionality. And not to mention that the mozilla intergration didn't work(yeah, I had all the correct packages). And it was just a slow expierience over all. Saw the promise in what 1.4 and 2.0 could be. But as of now, it's not nearly there.
Decided to see what all the fuss over KDE 2.1 was about. A simple "apt-get install task-kde" had it installed in a few moments. What a differnece in night and day this was when I first started it up.
First off, I noticed the AA Fonts. And then just the overall speedup compared to even the stable 1.2 gnome. I did think what most people think of kde though, it just being an improved Windows interface. A simple change in a theme made it nothing that looked like it's former self.
Then I checked out Konqurer. I didn't expect much. However, after using it for a couple days, I don't see how ANYONE can not use this. In useablitly, speed, and stability, it's between IE4 and IE5. Not to mention features such as killing popup windows, that IE will never have. And not to mention speed. I clicked the desktop icon, and it displayed the start page. Pages loaded and rendered faster then any mozilla optimized build that I've compiled myself.
But what I don't think most people understand that you don't have to totally pick one over the other. I do like evolution, and I still use it for my e-mail. I still use gaim, and a bunch of other "gnome" programs. If I would have got around to actually trying konqurer, I would have ran it in gnome. Using kde or gnome, doesn't tie you to their aps.
So while you all are trying out this new Gnome 1.4 beta, type an apt-get install task-kde and give the new kde a whirl. I ran gnome since pre 1.0 days, and it made a convert out of me. And if you don't like it, there is always apt-get remove task-kde