argh. I'm about to cry. I just donated money to mame.dk basically for the fact that they had all those lovely neo geo titles (metal slug *) and they just recieved a C & D this weekend. I knew I hadn't downloaded enough when I should have. Oh well. I now a few files which are going to be put on the gnutella network.
I can not believe it. On the front page of slashdot a microsoft advertisement. I think I saw satan asking for a sweater and pigs looking at the head winds. MY GOD! I wonder who's responsible. Maybe anti M$ comments will now be modded down.
I've been thinking about this OEM on systems like Dell or HP and I realized as a linux user the only proconfigured system I have ever had is a dell laptop. Everything else has be made by myself. Windows has never been stable on the systems that I scrapped together, so I sacrificed my sanity and learned linux. I believe that this is typical for a lot of linux users. They don't want proconfigured anything or they would be using windows. The linux user likes to get their hands dirty. It's not that the market for linux or BeOS systems is small its just that they can only look at the systems sold. I truly believe there is probably only a market for something like linux laptops and servers and even that is very fringe. oh well my $.02.
what do you think that infared watch is? It'll be interesting to see what they mean by sending "virus" to each other. Is that actually virus in the sense of computers and M$ and all that, or is it just a game? ooh the suspense.
I'm not sure that IT is something this society really needs right now. Think of how many people are overweight and could use any walking they can get. Now think of what they will be doing with that scooter. Now people will get the opportunity to never actually use their own muscles.[sarcasm] wow, sign me up. [/sarcasm] I imagine the future just got a little wider.
Oh come on. That is the typical bible thumper attitude. How about many of the people that enjoy what they do;) and get paid for it? They are voluntarily there (concession, many are). Think of the lonely person who is looking for a way to vent sexual frustration, shouldn't there be an easy way to do this and not get chased by puritans? I could continue to rant, but it's simple: Porn is not evil. But as long as the church or government wants control it will always have a clasp on our genitals.
I' have a similar problem with an external Cd-rom on my dell inspiron running slack. I think I need to set the IRQ and Port settings for the parallel port at the boot or using paride. I'm feeling lazy right now so I haven't done that.
Maybe america will get a taste of its own medicine. We arrested a Russian programmer for violating the DMCA here, maybe we just need an American web site owner to get arrested in Australia.
or not, I believe it's kind of hard to get people patriotic about the arrest of a nerd or porn-site owner. oh well.
I've had discussions of art with an art professor here at Oregon State University. He has told me, and I agree with him, that art is for the sake of art. It is meant to show something unusual or beautiful. It is not designed for a purpose, that is mearly an asthetically pleasing utilitarian purpose. Video games are produced with a purpose, make money. They can be beautiful, interesting, or whatever; but that doesn't change why they were produced. Of course games that fall under the GPL can be art.;)
All those board games were about entertainment and/or fantasy. Did they serve a purpose like a tool? No, they were there for the purpose of entertainment to the beholder. Video games I would say are even more so art than boardgames. They let you live out fantasies or just enjoy the beautiful surroundings (i.e. riven). Some would even bring into question alot about ethics and political espoinage, etc. (i.e. dues ex). So it really is a matter of perspective, which is what art is anyway.
p.s. Of course only free and open source games are truly art. The other stuff is commercially produced so it doesn't really count.;)
I thought a big problem of those would be hitting too steep or or in too high density air, and burning up when the craft gets caught by the planet. Either that or another really big problem occurs when entering in these shallow angles needed to aerobrake would be skipping like a stone and being sent out into the neither regions of space. These crafts heat shields are large, flat, and smooth. The perfect skipping stone.
I think a more broad look would be helpful. I mean yah I bought a debian distro for $9. But then I had to purchase a book to learn how to use. Then I have to pay for bandwith to download the latest kernel. ad naseum. There are a lot of little costs with linux. However I don't believe they compare to the initial costs of windows which can be quite large. And then the bandwith for downloading all the patches. etc, etc.
I see this as "Hey look, we'll charge all these windows assholes money for what the linux community is getting for free! hahaha." Is that really so bad.
"I want to pay money for it too"
no, thanks.
I wonder if Dell will still give out their Red Hat distro? Did their laptops come with a device driver or just a non-win-modem? And excusing all that how can I download Xfree86 4 onto my system if I can't get the modem to work under debian?
I've never seen that support. I FIPSed my harddrive and have dual booted using a debian distro. When I asked for a driver for the internal modem, I got the usual "check the drivers on the win98 cd..." Also I'm unable to get my video card to work with the X windows system. The ATI Rage Mobility doesn't seem to work with the Mach 64 server. Neither do the VGA or SVGA servers work either. Anyone have any ideas what I should do? Or should I just keep bugging tech support until I get someone who doesn't say, "no I don't know who linux is" and then ask their manager if they know who linux is.
I don't know much about javascript but what I have worked with is that there is a command to actually change your homepage. it was originally intended to be like "click here to make this your homepage" kind of thing. unfortunately javascript also allows things to happen automatically like linking automatically, etc. so these people put 2 and 2 together and voila. annoyance without a lot of effort.
I would look up the commands for you, but I thought it wouldn't be that great to post 'em all over.
p.s. not tested for accuracy;)
I was thinking there is a site safeweb that offers anonymous, encrypted web browsing that can turn off cookies, malicious javascript, and pop-up windows. It works good on internet explorer, but is really buggy on my mozilla release.
What makes you think that the batteries would be applied any different than the AC adaptor? I couldn't begin to imagine if they ran off of a 12 volt system.
Massive amounts of energy include all the work and power that is put into just writing out "IBM" with copper molecules. The point is it just doesn't happen with little or no input. Even cells must expend a lot of energy to divide, only doing so about 1% of their life cycle.
And about self-replication is that machines have not been able to do it. Organisms have, molecules have but not machines. The question therefore is, is it really a machine if it self-replicates. And there is no guarantee that self-replication will ever happen. But it could, you are right. As of right now I would say it doesn't seem very plausible.
Lastly, Neal Stephensons book is visionary on what Nanotech can become. Just as Arthur C. Clarke's books helped create ideas on satellite technology and what it could be.
Or what about the vision enhancement that lets me see through walls? And would I have to use duracells to power those augmentations? I hope they develop an ac adapter, that would be expensive after awhile. I can think of a lot of uses for the cloak in girls locker room. *he he he* oh, did I say that out loud?
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argh. I'm about to cry. I just donated money to mame.dk basically for the fact that they had all those lovely neo geo titles (metal slug *) and they just recieved a C & D this weekend. I knew I hadn't downloaded enough when I should have. Oh well. I now a few files which are going to be put on the gnutella network.
I can not believe it. On the front page of slashdot a microsoft advertisement. I think I saw satan asking for a sweater and pigs looking at the head winds. MY GOD! I wonder who's responsible. Maybe anti M$ comments will now be modded down.
Oh and sorry for being off-topic.
I've been thinking about this OEM on systems like Dell or HP and I realized as a linux user the only proconfigured system I have ever had is a dell laptop. Everything else has be made by myself. Windows has never been stable on the systems that I scrapped together, so I sacrificed my sanity and learned linux. I believe that this is typical for a lot of linux users. They don't want proconfigured anything or they would be using windows. The linux user likes to get their hands dirty. It's not that the market for linux or BeOS systems is small its just that they can only look at the systems sold. I truly believe there is probably only a market for something like linux laptops and servers and even that is very fringe. oh well my $.02.
end result, one really rich BeOS employee due to out of court settlement? the mind ponders.
because it's necessary to say:
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these things. It would be like the cities I built...
and then my mom vacuumed up.
what do you think that infared watch is? It'll be interesting to see what they mean by sending "virus" to each other. Is that actually virus in the sense of computers and M$ and all that, or is it just a game? ooh the suspense.
I'm not sure that IT is something this society really needs right now. Think of how many people are overweight and could use any walking they can get. Now think of what they will be doing with that scooter. Now people will get the opportunity to never actually use their own muscles.[sarcasm] wow, sign me up. [/sarcasm] I imagine the future just got a little wider.
Oh come on. That is the typical bible thumper attitude. How about many of the people that enjoy what they do ;) and get paid for it? They are voluntarily there (concession, many are). Think of the lonely person who is looking for a way to vent sexual frustration, shouldn't there be an easy way to do this and not get chased by puritans? I could continue to rant, but it's simple: Porn is not evil. But as long as the church or government wants control it will always have a clasp on our genitals.
If I am not mistaken I believe any one is allowed to broadcast up to 1/2 mile. Or something to that affect.
I' have a similar problem with an external Cd-rom on my dell inspiron running slack. I think I need to set the IRQ and Port settings for the parallel port at the boot or using paride. I'm feeling lazy right now so I haven't done that.
Maybe america will get a taste of its own medicine. We arrested a Russian programmer for violating the DMCA here, maybe we just need an American web site owner to get arrested in Australia.
or not, I believe it's kind of hard to get people patriotic about the arrest of a nerd or porn-site owner. oh well.
I've had discussions of art with an art professor here at Oregon State University. He has told me, and I agree with him, that art is for the sake of art. It is meant to show something unusual or beautiful. It is not designed for a purpose, that is mearly an asthetically pleasing utilitarian purpose. Video games are produced with a purpose, make money. They can be beautiful, interesting, or whatever; but that doesn't change why they were produced. Of course games that fall under the GPL can be art. ;)
All those board games were about entertainment and/or fantasy. Did they serve a purpose like a tool? No, they were there for the purpose of entertainment to the beholder. Video games I would say are even more so art than boardgames. They let you live out fantasies or just enjoy the beautiful surroundings (i.e. riven). Some would even bring into question alot about ethics and political espoinage, etc. (i.e. dues ex). So it really is a matter of perspective, which is what art is anyway.
;)
p.s. Of course only free and open source games are truly art. The other stuff is commercially produced so it doesn't really count.
anyone know if there is anything out there to play quicktime on linux? I kind of want to see those shorts.
I thought a big problem of those would be hitting too steep or or in too high density air, and burning up when the craft gets caught by the planet. Either that or another really big problem occurs when entering in these shallow angles needed to aerobrake would be skipping like a stone and being sent out into the neither regions of space. These crafts heat shields are large, flat, and smooth. The perfect skipping stone.
I think a more broad look would be helpful. I mean yah I bought a debian distro for $9. But then I had to purchase a book to learn how to use. Then I have to pay for bandwith to download the latest kernel. ad naseum. There are a lot of little costs with linux. However I don't believe they compare to the initial costs of windows which can be quite large. And then the bandwith for downloading all the patches. etc, etc.
I see this as "Hey look, we'll charge all these windows assholes money for what the linux community is getting for free! hahaha." Is that really so bad.
"I want to pay money for it too"
no, thanks.
I wonder if Dell will still give out their Red Hat distro? Did their laptops come with a device driver or just a non-win-modem? And excusing all that how can I download Xfree86 4 onto my system if I can't get the modem to work under debian?
I've never seen that support. I FIPSed my harddrive and have dual booted using a debian distro. When I asked for a driver for the internal modem, I got the usual "check the drivers on the win98 cd..." Also I'm unable to get my video card to work with the X windows system. The ATI Rage Mobility doesn't seem to work with the Mach 64 server. Neither do the VGA or SVGA servers work either. Anyone have any ideas what I should do? Or should I just keep bugging tech support until I get someone who doesn't say, "no I don't know who linux is" and then ask their manager if they know who linux is.
I don't know much about javascript but what I have worked with is that there is a command to actually change your homepage. it was originally intended to be like "click here to make this your homepage" kind of thing. unfortunately javascript also allows things to happen automatically like linking automatically, etc. so these people put 2 and 2 together and voila. annoyance without a lot of effort. ;)
I would look up the commands for you, but I thought it wouldn't be that great to post 'em all over.
p.s. not tested for accuracy
I was thinking there is a site safeweb that offers anonymous, encrypted web browsing that can turn off cookies, malicious javascript, and pop-up windows. It works good on internet explorer, but is really buggy on my mozilla release.
Is internet explorer the only one vulnerable to these malicious javascript?
What makes you think that the batteries would be applied any different than the AC adaptor? I couldn't begin to imagine if they ran off of a 12 volt system.
Massive amounts of energy include all the work and power that is put into just writing out "IBM" with copper molecules. The point is it just doesn't happen with little or no input. Even cells must expend a lot of energy to divide, only doing so about 1% of their life cycle. And about self-replication is that machines have not been able to do it. Organisms have, molecules have but not machines. The question therefore is, is it really a machine if it self-replicates. And there is no guarantee that self-replication will ever happen. But it could, you are right. As of right now I would say it doesn't seem very plausible. Lastly, Neal Stephensons book is visionary on what Nanotech can become. Just as Arthur C. Clarke's books helped create ideas on satellite technology and what it could be.
Or what about the vision enhancement that lets me see through walls? And would I have to use duracells to power those augmentations? I hope they develop an ac adapter, that would be expensive after awhile. I can think of a lot of uses for the cloak in girls locker room. *he he he* oh, did I say that out loud?