Start a website dedicated to accepting donations for the purchase of XBOXs. Once appropriate donations are in place buy an XBOX (no software) and destroy it. Send the donors a bag with the percentage of parts that their contribution paid for. Send donors beneath a certain threshold a digital picture of their machine being destroyed.
It's ironic that in this discussion about video games growing influence that a movie could make such an powerful impact. Watch John Sayle's "Men With Guns" You'll have to find a good video store as it is not in wide release and is not available on dvd. In the central american based movie noone has access to guns. The individuals with guns are capable of being terrorists able to hold EVERYONE hostage without a fight. That is a type of oppression that no U.S. citizen could tolerate. Its also nice to get perspective about poverty. If you think poverty is serious in the U.S. just look at these poor people.
This is just the same demo as I recall on the old SGI's and it is somewhat reminiscant of old amiga stuff as well. Clearly there is as much innovation here as MS2000's aliasing featurette.
I remember speeding down hilly curvy PA routes and turning my lights off just for the rush. I'm sure I would've hacked the HUD just to impress my friends in their primitive vehicles.
I work for an outstanding, well-funded team of immunologists. They would be pleased to hear that understanding of their work was being facilitated to those who might not otherwise get the message. Instead of pettiness they let their record of publications speak for what is their IP. I wonder why U.C.L.A. has such problems with their record of IP
Don't get me wrong I like Sonys product lines and I'm already salivating at the mere thought of the Playstation 2, but competition is good. The following is an excerpt from an email with an film industry related friend:
Sony owns Paramount Pictures which is perhaps the most powerful (in terms of box office receipts) distributor in the motion picture industry. Second only to Columbia, Fox, and SKG. Now, digital photography is taking off since George Lucas is one of it's biggest advocates. The Blair Witch Project also helped the digital cause. What's happening is that the internet has the potential of changing how films will be distributed worldwide. The problem is that Hollywood types are afraid because Sony is the #1 producer of digital equipment. I think you can see that if Sony is allowed to become the standard of digital photography in the industry, they will control the entire industry. That's where Panasonic comes in. They're trying, with the help of SKG, Microsoft, and others, to battle Sony in this fight. As a result, they are building the ground work for a digital distribution now before Sony eats everyone up.
Does anyone remember the movie that defined a class of characters in AD&D? Of course I refer to Arnie's classic unfinished trilogy, Conan. The barbarian class is defined by these movies. Why is there so much skepticism that a movie couldn't be made according to the rules instead of defining them?
Oh yeah, Holloywood wouldn't allow anything pure and true to be made.
Thomas Jefferson's wife was considered poorly educated for her time. To look at the letters she wrote to Thomas during her courting days you could hardly believe she was not college educated and considered quite brite. The basic difference between then and now was the telephone. She was literate she communicated well by means of written correspondence. She learned to be efficient and accurate with her words because the letters she wrote had to communicate their message on one try. With the advent of the telephone people have discovered that being less accurate is easily correctable by the nature of the telephones two-way communication. Literacy suffered!
Computer gui's use icons and other symbolic means to interface. Peoples ability to identify these things hardly confer any increased understanding of their world. The spell/grammar checking ability of programs further decreases the need for full education of an individual with respect to language skills. the cyberclysm will be a whole group of people who need these forms of communication in order to interact. Literacy will further suffer.
Hard Data, producer of fine Alpha Servers and beowolf clusters, already ships computers using the name Hard Hat Linux for its tuned version of the Red Hat OS.
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So what if said actions lead to the demise of the individuals system. Its survival of the fittest. I wholeheartedly agree. An individuals rights to mess up and ruin any aspect of their life is unalienable. We should neither encourage nor discourage as maybe the next uber-hacker is just one confidence boost away.
How many unintelligible requests for help are going to be flooding in when Ciruit City starts selling Dell and Compaq Linux boxes? This will be the true test of the Linux communities resolve as the next generation Linux owner may not be capable of installing their own OS. The door to the real world and its vast hordes is fast opening and if Linux wants the lions share of the market they have to be ready to handle absolute morons.
This article foreshadows the loss of innocence for the Linux OS.
Since precedent is law, Linux advocates should start trying to punch holes in the GPL in order to have any adverse rulings being given to relatively benign organizations. Think of it as a miltary training exercise. In order to best know your own weakness' you have to try to find them first.
What made you choose this particular message to respond to?
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Teenage males are prone to one stimuli more than all others combined. SEX. I'm willing to bet that sexual frustration leads more teens to psychotic breakdowns than Doom, the Net, AD&D could ever. The fact that these kids may have taken part in such activities may further remove them from their peers and oportunities to interact in a healty manner but this hardly is enough to turn an individual against society.
I really blame the marketing guru's who decide how to make sex sell today. The pressure exerted by advertisers coupled with a teenagers hormones coupled with uncertainty about what the future holds is certainly enough to overwhelm confused youths. These kids chose people who were getting laid and tried to kill them. Why doesn't the media address the adverising issue? Oh yeah that's where they're money comes from. No small mystery there. AD&D and doom adverising dollars haven't ever sponsered the evening news and the internet threatens the well established medias control of today's stories
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Even if this genetic drift occurs the likelihood that all insects of any species being susceptible to the toxin is low, let alone all insects of all species. The more likely outcome would be the selection for insects that are harder to kill with conventional pesticides.
You ask "those in the know" to correct not only the DNC's leading candidate but also the news media? I can read the headlines now "Right Wing Conspiracy Perpetrated Online." It would continue to link/.'s rise in popularity in 1998 during the days of the Clinton scandel to right wing extremists collaborating online at sites like/.. Legislation would be presented to censor such inflammatory sites. We better just give up and help Gore clarify historical records pertaining to his creation of the National Parks Act.
Anyone who thinks that this is the ultimate fix for their OS doesn't realise that they perpetuate the need for consumers to buy and accept their products. They are ever vigilant about producing new bugs with each distribution. The consumer not only bends over and takes it but asks for more when they discover that M$ makes the word processor that best supports the bugs in their faulty OS. I hope the DOJ and the states involved don't settle for anything less than prohibiting M$ from using CPU's or source code or anything of a cmomputer nature. The mindless MS users have paid enough let the deprogramming begin.
Leonardo DiCaprio isn't the one-sided no talent hack type of actor that Kostner or Harrison Ford is. He has depth in Basketball Diaries. It is amazing how different you'll feel about Leo after seeing it. A good movie consists of more than any single actors contribution. Keanu probably hurts the movie but a good script or director can compensate for any such shortcomings and from what I've seen and read this movie rises above its limitations.
As a member of the scientific community I can appreciate the problems of scale up. What works on a lab bench doesn't necessarily work on the factory floor. The points brought to light in this artcile are worthwhile if they inspire the Linux community to work on solutions for scale up. The community (in order to attain the lions share of the market) needs to continuously recognize emerging challenges and develop from its chaos a means of meeting the needs of the community much the same way as a laboratiry does. The goal of scale up is to remove the austerity with which a procedure is completed. Take something seemingly complex and fine tune it such that anyone can see the steps involved. This doesn't make the procedure less complex or the one performing it any smarter it just carefully defines the parameters needed to complete the job. The so called shortage of talented people is overcome by a surplus of technicians. Before Win98 was released I watched an infomercial for it. The two Win98 programmers that appeared on the show were not boy geniuses they barely had a better working knowledge than I do (and that is pretty pathetic)they were technicians. The framework is already in place for hoardes of young semi-experienced programmers to help out; check out freshmeat. Centralized control and distribution of patches, fixes, and new ideas are abundant. I strongly disagree with the author in that programs need to be bloated with features. Watch the evolution of cars. When a new car comes on the market it is usually complete, functional, and full of features and options. As the line of cars ages and new generations are released they too get heavier and more bloated with 'luxury'items. This continues until the heavy bloated car becomes a dinosaur and is remade.
I spent about $2300 US for a 533MHz UX with almost all the trimmmings (monitor not included) at Hard Data Ltd. (www.harddata.com) They're in Canada but they ship UPS 3day select and will work with you to find the system you always wanted.
Recently my lab purchased two gateway 2000 computers and we received a Windows98 upgrade by mail for free. Since the college sys admin wouldn't "support" Win98 we haven't opened the package. Unfortunately we use the win95 that the computer was shipped with. Can I send the win 98 in?
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Start a website dedicated to accepting donations for the purchase of XBOXs. Once appropriate donations are in place buy an XBOX (no software) and destroy it. Send the donors a bag with the percentage of parts that their contribution paid for. Send donors beneath a certain threshold a digital picture of their machine being destroyed.
Maybe the mass landscape burning mentioned here is responsible for all the desert land in Australia???
This article is ridiculous
It's ironic that in this discussion about video games growing influence that a movie could make such an powerful impact. Watch John Sayle's "Men With Guns" You'll have to find a good video store as it is not in wide release and is not available on dvd. In the central american based movie noone has access to guns. The individuals with guns are capable of being terrorists able to hold EVERYONE hostage without a fight. That is a type of oppression that no U.S. citizen could tolerate. Its also nice to get perspective about poverty. If you think poverty is serious in the U.S. just look at these poor people.
This is just the same demo as I recall on the old SGI's and it is somewhat reminiscant of old amiga stuff as well. Clearly there is as much innovation here as MS2000's aliasing featurette.
I remember speeding down hilly curvy PA routes and turning my lights off just for the rush. I'm sure I would've hacked the HUD just to impress my friends in their primitive vehicles.
I work for an outstanding, well-funded team of immunologists. They would be pleased to hear that understanding of their work was being facilitated to those who might not otherwise get the message. Instead of pettiness they let their record of publications speak for what is their IP. I wonder why U.C.L.A. has such problems with their record of IP
Don't get me wrong I like Sonys product lines and I'm already salivating at the mere thought of the Playstation 2, but competition is good. The following is an excerpt from an email with an film industry related friend:
Sony owns Paramount Pictures which is perhaps the most powerful (in terms of box office receipts) distributor in the motion picture industry. Second only to Columbia, Fox, and SKG. Now, digital photography is taking off since George Lucas is one of it's biggest advocates. The Blair Witch Project also helped the digital cause. What's happening is that the internet has the potential of changing how films will be distributed worldwide. The problem is that Hollywood types are afraid because Sony is the #1 producer of digital equipment. I think you can see that if Sony is allowed to become the standard of digital photography in the industry, they will control the entire industry. That's where Panasonic comes in. They're trying, with the help of SKG, Microsoft, and others, to battle Sony in this fight. As a result, they are building the ground work for a digital distribution now before Sony eats everyone up.
Does anyone remember the movie that defined a class of characters in AD&D?
Of course I refer to Arnie's classic unfinished trilogy, Conan. The barbarian class is defined by these movies.
Why is there so much skepticism that a movie couldn't be made according to the rules instead of defining them?
Oh yeah, Holloywood wouldn't allow anything pure and true to be made.
Exciting to relive the old memories though!
Thomas Jefferson's wife was considered poorly educated for her time. To look at the letters she wrote to Thomas during her courting days you could hardly believe she was not college educated and considered quite brite. The basic difference between then and now was the telephone. She was literate she communicated well by means of written correspondence. She learned to be efficient and accurate with her words because the letters she wrote had to communicate their message on one try.
With the advent of the telephone people have discovered that being less accurate is easily correctable by the nature of the telephones two-way communication. Literacy suffered!
Computer gui's use icons and other symbolic means to interface. Peoples ability to identify these things hardly confer any increased understanding of their world. The spell/grammar checking ability of programs further decreases the need for full education of an individual with respect to language skills. the cyberclysm will be a whole group of people who need these forms of communication in order to interact. Literacy will further suffer.
Hard Data, producer of fine Alpha Servers and beowolf clusters, already ships computers using the name Hard Hat Linux for its tuned version of the Red Hat OS.
So what if said actions lead to the demise of the individuals system. Its survival of the fittest. I wholeheartedly agree. An individuals rights to mess up and ruin any aspect of their life is unalienable. We should neither encourage nor discourage as maybe the next uber-hacker is just one confidence boost away.
How many unintelligible requests for help are going to be flooding in when Ciruit City starts selling Dell and Compaq Linux boxes? This will be the true test of the Linux communities resolve as the next generation Linux owner may not be capable of installing their own OS. The door to the real world and its vast hordes is fast opening and if Linux wants the lions share of the market they have to be ready to handle absolute morons.
Is Sinclair in any way related to the Timex Sinclair 1000?
I meant to reply to the business week article whoops!
This article foreshadows the loss of innocence for the Linux OS.
Since precedent is law, Linux advocates should start trying to punch holes in the GPL in order to have any adverse rulings being given to relatively benign organizations. Think of it as a miltary training exercise. In order to best know your own weakness' you have to try to find them first.
What made you choose this particular message to respond to?
Teenage males are prone to one stimuli more than all others combined. SEX. I'm willing to bet that sexual frustration leads more teens to psychotic breakdowns than Doom, the Net, AD&D could ever. The fact that these kids may have taken part in such activities may further remove them from their peers and oportunities to interact in a healty manner but this hardly is enough to turn an individual against society.
I really blame the marketing guru's who decide how to make sex sell today. The pressure exerted by advertisers coupled with a teenagers hormones coupled with uncertainty about what the future holds is certainly enough to overwhelm confused youths. These kids chose people who were getting laid and tried to kill them.
Why doesn't the media address the adverising issue? Oh yeah that's where they're money comes from. No small mystery there. AD&D and doom adverising dollars haven't ever sponsered the evening news and the internet threatens the well established medias control of today's stories
Even if this genetic drift occurs the likelihood that all insects of any species being susceptible to the toxin is low, let alone all insects of all species. The more likely outcome would be the selection for insects that are harder to kill with conventional pesticides.
You ask "those in the know" to correct not only the DNC's leading candidate but also the news media? /.'s rise in popularity in 1998 during the days of the Clinton scandel to right wing extremists collaborating online at sites like /.. Legislation would be presented to censor such inflammatory sites.
I can read the headlines now "Right Wing Conspiracy Perpetrated Online." It would continue to link
We better just give up and help Gore clarify historical records pertaining to his creation of the National Parks Act.
Anyone who thinks that this is the ultimate fix for their OS doesn't realise that they perpetuate the need for consumers to buy and accept their products. They are ever vigilant about producing new bugs with each distribution. The consumer not only bends over and takes it but asks for more when they discover that M$ makes the word processor that best supports the bugs in their faulty OS.
I hope the DOJ and the states involved don't settle for anything less than prohibiting M$ from using CPU's or source code or anything of a cmomputer nature. The mindless MS users have paid enough let the deprogramming begin.
I wouldn't be using the word "cracker" in prison. I seriously doubt that the average prisoner uses the computer jargon definition for this word.
Leonardo DiCaprio isn't the one-sided no talent hack type of actor that Kostner or Harrison Ford is. He has depth in Basketball Diaries. It is amazing how different you'll feel about Leo after seeing it. A good movie consists of more than any single actors contribution. Keanu probably hurts the movie but a good script or director can compensate for any such shortcomings and from what I've seen and read this movie rises above its limitations.
As a member of the scientific community I can appreciate the problems of scale up. What works on a lab bench doesn't necessarily work on the factory floor. The points brought to light in this artcile are worthwhile if they inspire the Linux community to work on solutions for scale up. The community (in order to attain the lions share of the market) needs to continuously recognize emerging challenges and develop from its chaos a means of meeting the needs of the community much the same way as a laboratiry does. The goal of scale up is to remove the austerity with which a procedure is completed. Take something seemingly complex and fine tune it such that anyone can see the steps involved. This doesn't make the procedure less complex or the one performing it any smarter it just carefully defines the parameters needed to complete the job. The so called shortage of talented people is overcome by a surplus of technicians. Before Win98 was released I watched an infomercial for it. The two Win98 programmers that appeared on the show were not boy geniuses they barely had a better working knowledge than I do (and that is pretty pathetic)they were technicians. The framework is already in place for hoardes of young semi-experienced programmers to help out; check out freshmeat. Centralized control and distribution of patches, fixes, and new ideas are abundant.
I strongly disagree with the author in that programs need to be bloated with features. Watch the evolution of cars. When a new car comes on the market it is usually complete, functional, and full of features and options. As the line of cars ages and new generations are released they too get heavier and more bloated with 'luxury'items. This continues until the heavy bloated car becomes a dinosaur and is remade.
I spent about $2300 US for a 533MHz UX with almost all the trimmmings (monitor not included) at Hard Data Ltd. (www.harddata.com) They're in Canada but they ship UPS 3day select and will work with you to find the system you always wanted.
Recently my lab purchased two gateway 2000 computers and we received a Windows98 upgrade by mail for free. Since the college sys admin wouldn't "support" Win98 we haven't opened the package. Unfortunately we use the win95 that the computer was shipped with. Can I send the win 98 in?