I am also an Oregon resident. If I had to pay sales tax on out-of-state purchases, I'd be willing to shit a brick on some Congressmen's doorsteps. We are legally exempt from sales tax in any state (including places like Florida or Hawaii). They just don't know about it, and will make you go to hell-bent lengths to prove it. So, if they do instigate a tax like this, I sure hope they have an "I am an Oregon resident" box or something (and one for the other states; i can't recall which they are, though), allowing you to be exempt to the tax.
But alas, b/c I'm a citizen, and not a big corporation, my opinion, vote, and desires have nothing to do with how the country is run.
i know what you mean, and i wish this story were on the front page (be easier to get more comments, and therefore more information).
i remember my troubles, when the various docs had different things to say about tar. some systems it was one way, some another. some said to 'gunzip |tar xvf -' others said to 'tar -zxvf' and still others said to 'gzip -dc |tar -xvf -', and they were all accurate... depending on style, and if you were using a bsd or vms based system. it was impossible to remember what to use, though. and at the time, rpm was hard to find.
this idea of a modernized homer's illiad thing for unix sounds cool. i hope something comes out for it.
but as a farewell, the one thing that best saved me was this: 'makewhatis' and 'apropos'
good luck, and i hope you find the help you want/need
amen
was the alpha course developed by the holy trinity church of england, and possibly related to the one lead by nicky gumble? if so, i've gone through the course, and must say it was a very excellent one indeed.
i just think its cool you've gone through a similar course to one i've gone through, related to our religion (or faith, since there are differences, as nicky has explained quite well)
If you can get tcl/tk to compile in QNX, you can get TiK to work in QNX.
therefore, if you want an aol instant messaging client in QNX, all you have to do is get tcl/tk.
i'm probably going to try this in the next week or two, but since you've already got a qnx system you can probably try sooner.
ta ta, and enjoy TiK if you get tcl/tk to work 8)
--brian
go to http://users.belgacom.net/gc247244/q uality.htm if you honestly believe that.
if you've got 80+ GB of space to play with, i'm sure you'd be willing to encode at 256+ Kbps or use vbr.
i'm very much like that. and that is exactly why napster/etc has increased CD sales: because now there's a quick and easy way for someone to sample a CD, at a quality indistinguishable from CD quality for the average-joe-using-computer-speakers, and to listen to it a bunch of times before deciding, too.
i think what he means, is so that you can hear random music of a specified genre/format. for example, if you wanted to grab/hear a ska song you'd never heard before, or a country song you liked, but never knew its name, etc.
yes, TiK is great. gaim has its nice features, too, but its compiled vs interpreted. and believe it or not, gaim and tik aren't in direct competition. we actually occaisionally (read: not too often anymore) collaborate.
i think that, since aol used to support TiK, everyone should submit a bugreport saying that aol should again support it, again opensource. and through their ideas/input/programming, both gaim and TiK would benefit. also, they wouldn't be dumb-goats (this is rated G, btw) by starting over again on an AIM client.
this is a short and poorly grammared response (as you can already tell)
but the point is thus: i posed a similar question in my astrobiology class last term, and 3/4 of the class shared my (and your) view: that we'd be willing to give everything up and go if the chance existed. granted, 3/4 of the class was only about 10 people, but i'm sure there's more out there, too.
off topic... maybe/. should post a poll "would you be willing to live the rest of your life on mars if the opportunity presented itself? 'yes','no','cowboy neal','grits','i hate these options'"
the problem is, though, that they used to be really cool about being 'for the fan'. they even used to support and condone bootlegs of their concerts, if they were of decent quality.
the sad thing, though, is that they're not just suing napster. according to the article, they're also suing "several colleges, claiming, among other things, that they violated copyright law by allowing illegal swapping of its music."
now tell me... what's the problem with promoting weezer? i'd love it if i could get a copy of their videos at decent quality/size (like 640x480x32fps)
they're an awesome band, and could really use the publicity. they're first ablum went platinum. but because geffen didn't promote their second, it didn't. and because it didn't, geffen dropped them from the label. and that's why they haven't released a 3rd album for the last 4 years. now, they're finally going to start recording again (because they can afford to, now), and i look forward to their new material.
i'm not against your position, but i'm not for it, either but the thing is... if you don't live on earth anymore, and if we've got 6 bn ppl on earth, and 1 bn on the moon, and 2 bn on mars, and 150 k on space stations, then the earth's environment only affects 2/3 the human population... given another 150 - 200 years, it might only account for 1/3 or even less of human's population. my point is, if we get off this rock, we will eventually be rather independant of it, and it won't matter how its ecology is devastated. i'm not saying we should destroy the earth, but i am saying we shouldn't shirk at the idea of building nuke rockets in orbit of the earth, to run interplanetary missions from (which never actually exist on the earth)
the problem with launching from the poles is the lack of angular momentum to assist on the jump off the planet. that's why they launch in florida, instead of in maine... because it cheaper, due to the assist of the earth's rotational velocity. in addition to that, there's weaker gravity at the equator, because the earth is slighly larger in diameter there (although this is probably ignored, b/c its so insignificant)
i can't claim to know for sure, but i'd assume the problem isn't so much that we aren't willing to build or use the requried drives, but that we aren't going to go through to necessary monetary expense to get people onto mars
the only problem.... is what about storing redundant copies for backup
i've done my fair share of accidentally deleting files, and have been glad for keeping local backups, which according to this, would have only been links to the orignal.
i did read the article, but i might have missed something. if i were to delete the original, would all the links die? and how does it pick which file to base it on? or does it move a copy to a central location, and even link your original to a new master-copy
i'm a student at oregon state university. out mascot is the Mighty Beaver. lots of people here relate that to the female genatalia, but guess what? nobody cares. all its used for in that regards is some immature jokes, that nobody puts any weight in. so these guys need to get over it, and get on with their lives.
sorry, just had to get that out of my system. its just not a big deal what a college is called. you didn't pick (or look into) the school because of its name, but because of its academic reputation (or, depending, because of its partying reputation... but either way, not b/c of its name)
i'm just gonna post a little short, here personally, my icq and tik/aim lists contain largely people whom i met in person before placing them on the list. i use it to communicate with people whom i can't easily w/o the internet. for instance, its hard for me to organize an outing, or a movie-watching, or a concert-going with 6 or 7 people, while simultaneously work on some programming, and simultaneously keep in touch with my mom, without the internet. i'm not saying that i'm disagreeing with you. there are some people (like my roommate, it seems) who use internet communication to build "false" (imho) relationships with people he/they have never met. to me, that's not a good thing. but that's just me, and i'm the kind of person who doesn't like to push my opinion on others (but yes, i do like to inform others of my opinion). personally, i use the internet to communicate in ways where real communication (ie: face-to-face) is not desired. for instance, getting over a recently lost loved one can be hard to talk about, in person. so you make moves to talk about it with people you have already met and befriended prior to internet communication with them, so that they'll understand a little better why you're not so up to going out for the evening. similarly, they understand better, and can more easily gauge when you're ready for emotional face-to-face communication about it, and be more sensitive about it when it does occur. so for me, internet communication uses a decently large portion of my time. most of it is either in intellectual persuits (learning) or communicating with old friends whom i have moved away from and/or can't easily multitask while talking to them. the baseline of my point: your point is very well made, and applies in many cases. but naturally, not in all (and i don't believe you claimed it applied everywhere). personally, i'm an exception to your case, as many other people probably are. go well
you managed to phrase my long-winded point much more concisely... kudos and not redundant, because we posted on the same minute (yes i noticed that, so i'm not criticizing you at all, either)
i don't think he meant it in that way, to pirate psx games. yes, the potential is very much there, but its there with bleem, too. i don't know about connectix's software, but i know very well that bleem allows you to play burned psx games. also, he was referring to a free way to play psx games, which is not necessarily synonymous with a free way to obtain psx games. and his "This is sounding better and better the more I think about it" comment was just that... he was saying it was sounding better. most people i know who have something against linux is its lack of game support. with a freeware (as in free beer, in most cases... although free speech (OSS) would include that) application such as this distributed with major linux distro's, those people would have much less to complain about, as their new copy of redhat or slak or whatever would have a support base of hundreds (he said thousands, but i dunno honestly how many psx games there are) games, negating the excuse of "no games"
and i'm gonna apologize for my poor grammar/caps/run-on sentences, because i write how i talk, and i don't capitalize in speech, and people speak in run-on's (even phd english doctors, in my experience)
i'm a student at oregon state, the university the article is about i'm not sure the actual methods they use, but essentially, the napster.com domain doesn't resolve any longer. its not dns, because it won't resolve no matter which dns i use (even localhost). from reading some of the posts further down, it seems possible they might have firewalled it or blocked it on the routers. i don't know enough about networking to know exactly how it might be done, though.
personally, though, during the times they hadn't banned napster (at the beginning of fall term, and for some reason for a few days during dead week), i noticed no bandwidth problems. i could use napster and get 300k/sec, or i could download from kernel.org at 500k/sec. it didn't matter. i get the same speeds now, when its blocked also, to get around the napster problem, i simply use a shell account on another computer with another isp, and ftp the mp3s over every couple of megs.
and by the way, i'm the kind of person who has bought most of his cd's because of sampling bands via mp3s online. i don't see much difference between mp3s and recording what you hear on the radio and keeping it. i don't redistribute it, or anything
i personally think he meant software/company support. many more software and hardware companies support microsoft OSes than do support GNU/Linux
in terms of tech support, there is certainly lots of unofficial support for both operating systems, if one wants to search the 'net for it (yes, the LDP and deja.com are good collective sources for linux help, though)
but back to my point, i think bob meant software and drivers support, more than he meant technical support
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But alas, b/c I'm a citizen, and not a big corporation, my opinion, vote, and desires have nothing to do with how the country is run.
i remember my troubles, when the various docs had different things to say about tar. some systems it was one way, some another. some said to 'gunzip |tar xvf -' others said to 'tar -zxvf' and still others said to 'gzip -dc |tar -xvf -', and they were all accurate ... depending on style, and if you were using a bsd or vms based system. it was impossible to remember what to use, though. and at the time, rpm was hard to find.
this idea of a modernized homer's illiad thing for unix sounds cool. i hope something comes out for it.
but as a farewell, the one thing that best saved me was this: 'makewhatis' and 'apropos'
good luck, and i hope you find the help you want/need
amen
was the alpha course developed by the holy trinity church of england, and possibly related to the one lead by nicky gumble? if so, i've gone through the course, and must say it was a very excellent one indeed.
i just think its cool you've gone through a similar course to one i've gone through, related to our religion (or faith, since there are differences, as nicky has explained quite well)
If you can get tcl/tk to compile in QNX, you can get TiK to work in QNX.
therefore, if you want an aol instant messaging client in QNX, all you have to do is get tcl/tk.
i'm probably going to try this in the next week or two, but since you've already got a qnx system you can probably try sooner.
ta ta, and enjoy TiK if you get tcl/tk to work 8)
--brian
go to http://users.belgacom.net/gc247244/q uality.htm if you honestly believe that.
if you've got 80+ GB of space to play with, i'm sure you'd be willing to encode at 256+ Kbps or use vbr.
i'm very much like that. and that is exactly why napster/etc has increased CD sales: because now there's a quick and easy way for someone to sample a CD, at a quality indistinguishable from CD quality for the average-joe-using-computer-speakers, and to listen to it a bunch of times before deciding, too.
i think what he means, is so that you can hear random music of a specified genre/format. for example, if you wanted to grab/hear a ska song you'd never heard before, or a country song you liked, but never knew its name, etc.
i think that, since aol used to support TiK, everyone should submit a bugreport saying that aol should again support it, again opensource. and through their ideas/input/programming, both gaim and TiK would benefit. also, they wouldn't be dumb-goats (this is rated G, btw) by starting over again on an AIM client.
ta ta for now
but the point is thus:
i posed a similar question in my astrobiology class last term, and 3/4 of the class shared my (and your) view: that we'd be willing to give everything up and go if the chance existed. granted, 3/4 of the class was only about 10 people, but i'm sure there's more out there, too.
off topic ... maybe /. should post a poll "would you be willing to live the rest of your life on mars if the opportunity presented itself? 'yes','no','cowboy neal','grits','i hate these options'"
the problem is, though, that they used to be really cool about being 'for the fan'. they even used to support and condone bootlegs of their concerts, if they were of decent quality.
the sad thing, though, is that they're not just suing napster. according to the article, they're also suing "several colleges, claiming, among other things, that they violated copyright law by allowing illegal swapping of its music."
that's the same story pine used for why their mp3/cd player was delayed
btw, you can keep updated on weezer at www.weezer.net
they're an awesome band, and could really use the publicity. they're first ablum went platinum. but because geffen didn't promote their second, it didn't. and because it didn't, geffen dropped them from the label. and that's why they haven't released a 3rd album for the last 4 years. now, they're finally going to start recording again (because they can afford to, now), and i look forward to their new material.
i'm not against your position, but i'm not for it, either ... if you don't live on earth anymore, and if we've got 6 bn ppl on earth, and 1 bn on the moon, and 2 bn on mars, and 150 k on space stations, then the earth's environment only affects 2/3 the human population ... given another 150 - 200 years, it might only account for 1/3 or even less of human's population.
but the thing is
my point is, if we get off this rock, we will eventually be rather independant of it, and it won't matter how its ecology is devastated. i'm not saying we should destroy the earth, but i am saying we shouldn't shirk at the idea of building nuke rockets in orbit of the earth, to run interplanetary missions from (which never actually exist on the earth)
the problem with launching from the poles is the lack of angular momentum to assist on the jump off the planet. ... because it cheaper, due to the assist of the earth's rotational velocity.
that's why they launch in florida, instead of in maine
in addition to that, there's weaker gravity at the equator, because the earth is slighly larger in diameter there (although this is probably ignored, b/c its so insignificant)
i can't claim to know for sure, but i'd assume the problem isn't so much that we aren't willing to build or use the requried drives, but that we aren't going to go through to necessary monetary expense to get people onto mars
i've done my fair share of accidentally deleting files, and have been glad for keeping local backups, which according to this, would have only been links to the orignal.
i did read the article, but i might have missed something. if i were to delete the original, would all the links die? and how does it pick which file to base it on? or does it move a copy to a central location, and even link your original to a new master-copy
sorry, just had to get that out of my system. its just not a big deal what a college is called. you didn't pick (or look into) the school because of its name, but because of its academic reputation (or, depending, because of its partying reputation ... but either way, not b/c of its name)
i'm just gonna post a little short, here
personally, my icq and tik/aim lists contain largely people whom i met in person before placing them on the list. i use it to communicate with people whom i can't easily w/o the internet. for instance, its hard for me to organize an outing, or a movie-watching, or a concert-going with 6 or 7 people, while simultaneously work on some programming, and simultaneously keep in touch with my mom, without the internet.
i'm not saying that i'm disagreeing with you. there are some people (like my roommate, it seems) who use internet communication to build "false" (imho) relationships with people he/they have never met. to me, that's not a good thing. but that's just me, and i'm the kind of person who doesn't like to push my opinion on others (but yes, i do like to inform others of my opinion).
personally, i use the internet to communicate in ways where real communication (ie: face-to-face) is not desired. for instance, getting over a recently lost loved one can be hard to talk about, in person. so you make moves to talk about it with people you have already met and befriended prior to internet communication with them, so that they'll understand a little better why you're not so up to going out for the evening. similarly, they understand better, and can more easily gauge when you're ready for emotional face-to-face communication about it, and be more sensitive about it when it does occur.
so for me, internet communication uses a decently large portion of my time. most of it is either in intellectual persuits (learning) or communicating with old friends whom i have moved away from and/or can't easily multitask while talking to them.
the baseline of my point: your point is very well made, and applies in many cases. but naturally, not in all (and i don't believe you claimed it applied everywhere). personally, i'm an exception to your case, as many other people probably are.
go well
you managed to phrase my long-winded point much more concisely ... kudos
and not redundant, because we posted on the same minute (yes i noticed that, so i'm not criticizing you at all, either)
and his "This is sounding better and better the more I think about it" comment was just that
and i'm gonna apologize for my poor grammar/caps/run-on sentences, because i write how i talk, and i don't capitalize in speech, and people speak in run-on's (even phd english doctors, in my experience)
i'm not sure the actual methods they use, but essentially, the napster.com domain doesn't resolve any longer. its not dns, because it won't resolve no matter which dns i use (even localhost).
from reading some of the posts further down, it seems possible they might have firewalled it or blocked it on the routers. i don't know enough about networking to know exactly how it might be done, though.
personally, though, during the times they hadn't banned napster (at the beginning of fall term, and for some reason for a few days during dead week), i noticed no bandwidth problems. i could use napster and get 300k/sec, or i could download from kernel.org at 500k/sec. it didn't matter. i get the same speeds now, when its blocked
also, to get around the napster problem, i simply use a shell account on another computer with another isp, and ftp the mp3s over every couple of megs.
and by the way, i'm the kind of person who has bought most of his cd's because of sampling bands via mp3s online. i don't see much difference between mp3s and recording what you hear on the radio and keeping it. i don't redistribute it, or anything
in terms of tech support, there is certainly lots of unofficial support for both operating systems, if one wants to search the 'net for it (yes, the LDP and deja.com are good collective sources for linux help, though)
but back to my point, i think bob meant software and drivers support, more than he meant technical support
das ist alles
unfortunately, that seems the be the closest (and soonest) before 2050
but on 23Sept2071 there's one thru baja somewhere
i got this data from http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.g ov/eclipse/SEmap/SENorAm.html
oh well, i guess i never quite thought of it that way
thanks for the correction, though