..how US scientists are working on improving AI - with potential benefits for coming games.
Ah crap. Does this mean the next version of Neverwinter Nights won't let me hide behind a rock formation and waste that dragon with my arrows? The bloody thing will actually find a way around? Damn scientists..
3. My original post was going to address OpenBSD desktops, but I decided not to. Using OpenBSD as a desktop is sort of like using a weed whacker to mow your lawn, then saying "Weed whackers do just fine in any other role!
I'm typing this on an OpenBSD desktop at my workplace. I run the Linux Citrix client for access to a machine in another city whereas some of our Linux machines can't because of incompatibilities. Truthfully, most of the "features" that OpenBSD lack when compared to Linux are not as big as the "features" Linux lacks when compared to Windows. In fact.. I can't think of one reason that I'd have to downgrade to Linux after all these years of being a happy FreeBSD and OpenBSD user.
The BIND that comes with OpenBSD is an audited V 4.x IIRC. That should suffice for many many users, those that need 8.x or 9.x can find it them the ports tree. The sendmail is locked down as well and doesn't accept connections by default.
The Telezapper is quickly becoming useless. A large number of telemarketing firms have already modified their dialers to wait for the second (or third) tone in the "disconnected" sequence.
yep, that's why the tones I linked to above have all three tones in sequence.:)
But we shouldn't have to pay $39.95 or whatever they cost to avoid their calls. [...] While I'm at it, it shouldn't even cost extra to have an unlisted number.
I agree on both points and in a perfect world your wishes would be reality. I dislike having to pay for caller ID but without it my BelTronics call blocker won't work. It can reject up to 100 phone numbes and private callers as well as supplying standard CID info. A nice digitized voice tells the caller to go away (well, it's longer than that obviously:))
buy a Telezapper or make your own with these tones. Simply put these on your answering machine before any speaking. The tones will play and will fool most of the remote machines into thinking you have a disconnected number.
For instance, can you imagine U2 without Brian Eno? or a Garbage record without Butch Vig using every possible studio trick? Ditto for Nine Inch Nails...
Bah to those nancy-boy bands.. Motorhead can do it in a day and still have time left for Lemmy to suck back a facefull at the pub..
I don't care if they are nicotine-free. When evaluating a woman at first glance, smoking gets a "-10" right off the bat. It stinks up the air, their breath stinks, their clothes and hair stink..
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How can you release anything that's graphical without screenshots? Who does that?
Oh there aren't any? Phew. I don't have to leave w3m then..
The amazing thing is that it was the submitter that made that unneccesary comment and not Michael!
Don't trust the Germans, they make potato cannons.
You have a bot that alerts you anytime a new Slashdot story contains the word "distributed"
Haha, good idea but it's not true.
There are lots of
Ah crap. Does this mean the next version of Neverwinter Nights won't let me hide behind a rock formation and waste that dragon with my arrows? The bloody thing will actually find a way around? Damn scientists..
I think finally I am gonna try OpenBSD. Does anyone know what hardware requirements it has
Currently supported hardware can be found here. Enjoy, it's a damn fine OS.
3. My original post was going to address OpenBSD desktops, but I decided not to. Using OpenBSD as a desktop is sort of like using a weed whacker to mow your lawn, then saying "Weed whackers do just fine in any other role!
I'm typing this on an OpenBSD desktop at my workplace. I run the Linux Citrix client for access to a machine in another city whereas some of our Linux machines can't because of incompatibilities.
Truthfully, most of the "features" that OpenBSD lack when compared to Linux are not as big as the "features" Linux lacks when compared to Windows. In fact.. I can't think of one reason that I'd have to downgrade to Linux after all these years of being a happy FreeBSD and OpenBSD user.
And then they ship sendmail and BIND with it.
The BIND that comes with OpenBSD is an audited V 4.x IIRC. That should suffice for many many users, those that need 8.x or 9.x can find it them the ports tree. The sendmail is locked down as well and doesn't accept connections by default.
Nice FUD otherwise.
I sure hope RealDoll comes up with something like this!
The Telezapper is quickly becoming useless. A large number of telemarketing firms have already modified their dialers to wait for the second (or third) tone in the "disconnected" sequence.
yep, that's why the tones I linked to above have all three tones in sequence.
But we shouldn't have to pay $39.95 or whatever they cost to avoid their calls. [...] While I'm at it, it shouldn't even cost extra to have an unlisted number.
I agree on both points and in a perfect world your wishes would be reality. I dislike having to pay for caller ID but without it my BelTronics call blocker won't work. It can reject up to 100 phone numbes and private callers as well as supplying standard CID info. A nice digitized voice tells the caller to go away (well, it's longer than that obviously
buy a Telezapper or make your own with these tones. Simply put these on your answering machine before any speaking. The tones will play and will fool most of the remote machines into thinking you have a disconnected number.
...is what I'm buying! Blood, gore, death, mutilation, horror... that's what I want splattered on my monitor.
Sorry, you get "+1; Insightful" for the overall message, but "-1; Catch-Phrases" for major paradigm shift
The Editors.
Does RMS' welfare cheques count as another example?
I'm a programmer and I have a girlfriend. No sex though, and no care.
Sorry man, if you aren't spewing molten jets of bodily fluids on one another she isn't a "girlfriend" she's just a "friend".
Avoid the GPL at all costs for your software.
but.. but... "GPL" and "costs" in the same sentence... me is confuzed
Choose no girlfriend.
That's a choice? I thought it was a prerequisite.
If you take your LPs out of the cardboard sleeves you easily save over 50% space.
For instance, can you imagine U2 without Brian Eno? or a Garbage record without Butch Vig using every possible studio trick? Ditto for Nine Inch Nails...
Bah to those nancy-boy bands.. Motorhead can do it in a day and still have time left for Lemmy to suck back a facefull at the pub..
Smart Dust? I must have the world's most powerful Beowulf cluster under my bed.
"supper glue" is what you get when the potatoes are cooked too long.
I bet if the Germans marched to Paris armed with nothing but potato cannons, the French would still surrender.
I don't care if they are nicotine-free. When evaluating a woman at first glance, smoking gets a "-10" right off the bat. It stinks up the air, their breath stinks, their clothes and hair stink..