If you ever get a chance to read Hume...DO IT!!! he's the David Spade of the philosophical world...really smart and really jaded. I don't think i've ever read anything by hume that i didn't like.
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Yah...i took philosophy in college too. But you forgot to read David Hume's refutal...Anselm's argument is actually an 8 point argument (almost had me believing in god for a minute)...but it assumes that existance is a predicate (which it isn't). - maybe you'll get to that at the end of the semester:P
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People seem to give scientists a little more license than i think they deserve. If you think about it...people like Einstein are responsible for more deaths than almost any other person on the face of the earth. Before you reply that science also has incredibly good applications, and that it's the misuse of these good applications that is the problem...think about this.
The scientists who worked on the manhatten project are responsible for tens of thousands of deaths. No - the abomb has NO practical applications other than to evaporate shit!
Science created the H-bomb. Science makes better weapons.
I have no beef with nuclear physicists, or doctors or engineers...i have a beef when these same people ask "can we?" without asking "should we."
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You bring up the argument of gods. Who's to say that what we view now as "god" is just what you're talking about? We almost have the technology to create life. If another race of beings...far off have that technology...they spawn super-intelligent machines, those machines in turn spawn better and more intelligent machines...is it so unbelievable that life on earth was created by a machine - how do you define god?? how do you define intelligent or "perfect"??
Oh well..i'll shut up now. I'm beginning to sound like an Asimov short.
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Hehehe....i didn't finish, but i was a Journalism major myself. The only one in my CompSci class who wasn't getting a B.S in CS or some form of Engineering.
The kids on slashdot that moderate my sarcastic comments down are just pissed that they have to provide tech support because their parents made them buy the GeForce with no financial help. I guess i'll just resign myself to moding them down on the Kurt Vonnegut discussion websites or something.:P
My favorite techie quote: "Yah I read literature. I like Asimov, Tolken, and I've read all of the DeathGate cycle."
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Do you think if we beat down the Sonic Foundry and Propellerhead's doors with enough force from the linux community that they will port their shit to linux?
To be perfectly honest...compared to windows, linux sound software is pretty pathetic.
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An international Uber-corporation violating it's privacy policy - DEAR GOD! we must contain these types of problems before they spread, and other companies get the same ideas!!!
LMAO!
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Yes...this is true! these movies and books are just an attempt at the vastly liberal majority in the US to control and abuse us loving, and caring Republicans!!! MY FUCKING GOD! The liberals make movies like this...what's next? In 10 years time we're going to see martitians ripping unborn children from the woom, shoving their ovapositors down their tiny little democratic crack-needing throats and depositing their eggs in their baby stomachs! THIS HAS GOT TO STOP PEOPLE! It's a conspiracy!! The liberalistic aliens are coming to take our guns away!!! Are we going to watch them do it?? NO!! Take up your arms my republican countrymen and aim them at mars...when the devolution comes, where will you be??
Oh my fucking god! only on slashdot could a post be moderated up for containing references to republicanism and anti-abortion activism in a post about water on mars. Good job - if you need me...ill be jumping off a bridge! Yah...banning books because we don't agree with them is a really good idea - next we can all wear swastikas and put jews in internment camps. Any other bright ideas Joe Bob??
I don't normally flame people - but that post REALLY fucking deserves it.
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I've been following the 4.0 release for a few months now...as i have a vested interest in it concerning one Voodoo3 3500. The reason 4.0 was so widely anticipated was because of the additional capabilities it has - especially in the arena of 3d acceleration. To my knowledge XF86 4.0 is going to be fully OpenGL compliant which means that you're gonna frickin' love it!
If not - don't worry...SGI and Nvidia are working on an API for Linux that will be as fast, if not faster, than any other API out there...including OpenGL and DirectX:) - but for my money..i'm fucking getting me a Voodoo 5 when they hit the market! Kiss my ass GeForce owners!!!:P
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what the world really needs is another website dedicated strictly to linux. I'm not getting enough linux by going just to linux.com, slashdot, freshmeat, linux.org, tux, etc. - thank you linsider...my life is now complete!
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The internet is all well and good but you have to remind yourselves of one thing. Alot of people in the "hardcore" third world countries like Etheopia, etc. aren't worried about getting their daily slashdot fix. they're worried about getting food. I don't think the internet is going to catch on anytime soon in countries with a primary export of dirt. In the U.S and other major powers around the world...all our needs are met. We can move on to other things. Untill third world countries figure out a way to get everyone fed, clothed, and sheltered...the internet isn't going anywhere.
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I have one suggestion to all the geeks out there who think that the DMCA is a bad idea. BREAK THE LAW!!! In the great tradition of the USA, we keep ourselves at the mercy of big business. A law is passed. Lawsuits ensue and generaly a few names in the paper are all it takes to dissuade everyone from doing the same. With the recent measures that have been taken against large universities and private individuals about such matters...we're seeing this very trend hitting us. Now universities and web sites are starting to prohibit "illegal" content from hitting the web.
What do we (as americans) do? We BREAK THE LAW! there are two arguments against this. One is the old "what can i, just a single individual, do? Nothing!" - if this is your argument...then i'm willing to bet you won't be voting in November either. Your best bet would be to take a leap off the tallest building in your town and be done with it. If you haven't had kids yet...i thank you and your family for not further polluting the gene pool. The other argument, one that holds much more sway is, "Well, myself or someone i know may get sued. Lawsuits will take a bite out of my ass." - I have only one answer to this. FUCK OFF THEN!! If everything came at no cost then life would be peachy. Everyone would have four cars in their garages and huge networks wired with fiber. No one would be hungry and all music would be free. That just isn't the case. If something is worth fighting for, it's worth losing something for. Just like most bogus laws in this country, i suspect that people will just bitch and moan but not REALLY fight for their freedoms and the suits will win.
Oh...you may have one final argument: "Come off your high horse A-hole! Breaking the DMCA won't do anything but bring on more lawsuits and cause us more greif!" I have two rebuttals there - 1: Did you read the rest of my post. If you're not willing to sacrifice for it...is it really worth having? 2: Try to think of the last time truly breaking the law actually got it repealed. I'll give you a hint, it starts with "P" and ends in "rohibition."
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jeepers marty, obviously the people at slashdot aren't J majors or they would have studied "timliness." - the bench has been out for over a month. still funny tho.
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the question isn't "Is linux ready for the desktop?"....
the question is "Is your desktop ready for linux?" - Linux isn't for everyone. I don't think it ever will be. Not, at least, while Windows 9x users still think they're being technical by running the "Ad new hardware" wizard.
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You have a few good points. But what you fail to realize is that the "wet" infrastructure is basically comprised of other students. Our SA's and SE's were nothing more than sophomores willing to take $7 an hour to troubleshoot connection problems. I'm not sure where you live, but in most areas a T1 is approximately $1000 a month (no, not frame relay). Considering additional bandwidth and the cheaper cost of buying in "bulk" bandwidth - I think a dorm could very easily afford this by charging $20 a month. The cost is SIGNIFIGANTLY reduced when you have about 5 or 6 thousand people sharing the cost of the bandwidth.
As for the professionals needed to keep this network up and running (yes, i realize that there ARE real life Engineers mixed in there too), at Mizzou our phone and ethernet charges were both regulated by Mizzou Telecom; Basically a company within the U. Being that we had additional charges and such for this Telecom service it probably averaged out to about $30-40 a month for ethernet access when it cam down to it. So...if USWest (here in Denver) can charge people $30 a month for DSL and still operate at a signifigant profit, i'm sure a federally subsidized college can accomodate its students rather well.
BTW - i was paying $18,000 a year to go to that hole of a school...i feel damned well entitled to at least a little friggin' bandwidth.
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All arguments aside about private vs. public colleges: I attended the U of Missouri and we did in fact pay $20 a month for ethernet access which came to around $9600 a month that a dorm would pay for something like ResNet. This most certainly facilitates the kind of bandwidth that the students would be using up with programs like Napster.
No...bandwidth is not free. But if students don't see the direct cost of this (e.g. a $XX a month surcharge for ethernet) then they most definitely see it in their tuition. At the U. of Colorado, students are charged a Riot Fee because of the certainty that they are going to riot at some point in the year.
The point is this. the students ARE paying for their bandwidth, be it directly or indirectly. So let's not hear all the SA's and SE's out there who've forgotten about their college experiences back in the early 80's bitch about it!
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personally - i don't think a an argument that the government is just "evening out" the tax margin is going to fly with the rest of the public. If i were a successful internet sales proprietor taxes on "e-items" would almost prompt me to move overseas where this would no longer be a problem.
One other question - who the hell is going to enforce this. In the days when a shop was on your street corner and everyone knew the owner, tax evasion was an easy thing to prove. What about when the shop is just an IP? What about e-bay? Is an online flea market subject to the same restrictions as any other web site selling goods. Unfortunately our nations leaders are going to decide these matters based on the advice of 14 year old 31337 h4x0rs rather than listen to the/bin/fscking public on this one.
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yah. medics get syringes. Engineers and HWGuys get a couple snazzy new items. All in all it just makes for a few more features - Airstrikes and such. I think there is a huge rift forming between gamers. There were the TF/MTF feuders, now the UT/Q3A brawlers...it's pretty funny. I think they're both damned good games. It's just too bad i got the V3 3500 instead of the GeForce. Oh well - bye bye framerate!
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In a recent release from the Associated Press. A spokesperson for Amazon.com (R) recently announced said company's pantenting of the "Finders Fee." The details of the plan are vague but basicaly are as follows
If a person or any person they know buys something that Amazon.com previously had listed...Amazon.com has legal rights to recover from both parties any money involved in the transaction.
Anything sold on ebay.com or any or any bn.com or barnesandnoble.com site is subject to an Amazon.com "finders fee."
Any children born in the United States are also subject to said "finders fee" and will be summarily taken into custody if the parents refuse to or are unable to pay. This is of course to cover the costs of implementation and research for "finders fee" v1.0.2
Unconfirmed rumors state that in early march of 2001, Amazon.com will merge with AOL and Microsoft Corporation to consumate the largest merger in corporate history. While details are sketchy, a source inside Amazon told us, "...this will finally help us bring about a master race of albino "E-children" to take over the world..."
-FluX flux is a renowned jackass columnist for such publications as slashdot.org and...um...did we already say slashdot?
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Heh...you know. the head of the US patent office back at the turn of the "other" century said that pretty much everything possible had been invented. Mind you this was before the atomic bomb, the airplane, etc. I think your statement is a very naieve one at that. Examples of incredibly recent technological advances (at least in computing) include the GeForce, Crusoe...and probably within 10-20 years we're going to be using quantum computers...alot is changing.
There are two things i need to say here:
1. Cyrix was, is, and always will be a shitty chip. Before you dismiss me as another IRC script kiddie with a chip on his shoulder against anything but AMD, hear me out; I've had personal experience troubleshooting Cyrix chips in tech support, and for my mother who got stuck with one under the pretext of an "upgrade" from a P200. I'm not posting here because a friend of a friend of a friend said they're a sub-standard chip. I'm posting because i know they're bad from experience. Can you name another company that has such overwhelming criticism coming from the public? I'll give you a hint - it starts with an "H" and ends in "yundai". Cyrix has had so many flaws for so long that this cannot possibly be just a problem of engineering. By now the whole damned engineering staff in the company has probably cycled through at least once. This is more than likely a problem of the way the company is run. Upper and lower management, design principles...you name it. Honestly, i'm surprised Cyrix has made it this far without completely disintegrating.
2. As far as a laptop killing a desktop machine...i don't see this happening for a LONG time to come. First of all...the 3d gaming market is going strong. Nvidia and 3dfx don't make kick ass PCMCIA video cards...at least none that i've ever seen. Additionally, laptops have a very long road ahead of them before they achieve full upgradeability. The current standard of upgradeability for a portable is being able to add a stick of RAM. maybe a new hard drive. This isn't going to be enough to dethrone the desktop for quite some time.
FluX no animals were harmed in the writing of this post
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If you ever get a chance to read Hume...DO IT!!! he's the David Spade of the philosophical world...really smart and really jaded. I don't think i've ever read anything by hume that i didn't like.
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Yah...i took philosophy in college too. But you forgot to read David Hume's refutal...Anselm's argument is actually an 8 point argument (almost had me believing in god for a minute)...but it assumes that existance is a predicate (which it isn't). - maybe you'll get to that at the end of the semester :P
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Has anyone ever actually pulled anything decent off mp3.com???
thank god they didn't register napster.com! heh
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People seem to give scientists a little more license than i think they deserve. If you think about it...people like Einstein are responsible for more deaths than almost any other person on the face of the earth. Before you reply that science also has incredibly good applications, and that it's the misuse of these good applications that is the problem...think about this.
The scientists who worked on the manhatten project are responsible for tens of thousands of deaths. No - the abomb has NO practical applications other than to evaporate shit!
Science created the H-bomb. Science makes better weapons.
I have no beef with nuclear physicists, or doctors or engineers...i have a beef when these same people ask "can we?" without asking "should we."
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You bring up the argument of gods. Who's to say that what we view now as "god" is just what you're talking about? We almost have the technology to create life. If another race of beings...far off have that technology...they spawn super-intelligent machines, those machines in turn spawn better and more intelligent machines...is it so unbelievable that life on earth was created by a machine - how do you define god?? how do you define intelligent or "perfect"??
Oh well..i'll shut up now. I'm beginning to sound like an Asimov short.
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Ok...obviously you're not getting the point of my post. I don't want to use Win2k...i don't want to use Windows! that's the friggin' point!
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Hehehe....i didn't finish, but i was a Journalism major myself. The only one in my CompSci class who wasn't getting a B.S in CS or some form of Engineering.
:P
The kids on slashdot that moderate my sarcastic comments down are just pissed that they have to provide tech support because their parents made them buy the GeForce with no financial help. I guess i'll just resign myself to moding them down on the Kurt Vonnegut discussion websites or something.
My favorite techie quote: "Yah I read literature. I like Asimov, Tolken, and I've read all of the DeathGate cycle."
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Do you think if we beat down the Sonic Foundry and Propellerhead's doors with enough force from the linux community that they will port their shit to linux?
To be perfectly honest...compared to windows, linux sound software is pretty pathetic.
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You're talking like a liberal arts major....be careful. When the mods on slashdot smell that you don't have a B.S. you'll get modded down.
I don't know what scares me more...the original post or the fact that people thought i was serious.
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An international Uber-corporation violating it's privacy policy - DEAR GOD! we must contain these types of problems before they spread, and other companies get the same ideas!!!
LMAO!
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Yes...this is true! these movies and books are just an attempt at the vastly liberal majority in the US to control and abuse us loving, and caring Republicans!!! MY FUCKING GOD! The liberals make movies like this...what's next? In 10 years time we're going to see martitians ripping unborn children from the woom, shoving their ovapositors down their tiny little democratic crack-needing throats and depositing their eggs in their baby stomachs! THIS HAS GOT TO STOP PEOPLE! It's a conspiracy!! The liberalistic aliens are coming to take our guns away!!! Are we going to watch them do it?? NO!! Take up your arms my republican countrymen and aim them at mars...when the devolution comes, where will you be??
Oh my fucking god! only on slashdot could a post be moderated up for containing references to republicanism and anti-abortion activism in a post about water on mars. Good job - if you need me...ill be jumping off a bridge! Yah...banning books because we don't agree with them is a really good idea - next we can all wear swastikas and put jews in internment camps. Any other bright ideas Joe Bob??
I don't normally flame people - but that post REALLY fucking deserves it.
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I've been following the 4.0 release for a few months now...as i have a vested interest in it concerning one Voodoo3 3500. The reason 4.0 was so widely anticipated was because of the additional capabilities it has - especially in the arena of 3d acceleration. To my knowledge XF86 4.0 is going to be fully OpenGL compliant which means that you're gonna frickin' love it!
:) - but for my money..i'm fucking getting me a Voodoo 5 when they hit the market! Kiss my ass GeForce owners!!! :P
If not - don't worry...SGI and Nvidia are working on an API for Linux that will be as fast, if not faster, than any other API out there...including OpenGL and DirectX
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what the world really needs is another website dedicated strictly to linux. I'm not getting enough linux by going just to linux.com, slashdot, freshmeat, linux.org, tux, etc. - thank you linsider...my life is now complete!
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The internet is all well and good but you have to remind yourselves of one thing. Alot of people in the "hardcore" third world countries like Etheopia, etc. aren't worried about getting their daily slashdot fix. they're worried about getting food. I don't think the internet is going to catch on anytime soon in countries with a primary export of dirt. In the U.S and other major powers around the world...all our needs are met. We can move on to other things. Untill third world countries figure out a way to get everyone fed, clothed, and sheltered...the internet isn't going anywhere.
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Wow...something gets screwed up involving astronauts and space! i'm surprised Lockheed Martin didn't have a hand in this! hehehe
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I have one suggestion to all the geeks out there who think that the DMCA is a bad idea. BREAK THE LAW!!! In the great tradition of the USA, we keep ourselves at the mercy of big business. A law is passed. Lawsuits ensue and generaly a few names in the paper are all it takes to dissuade everyone from doing the same. With the recent measures that have been taken against large universities and private individuals about such matters...we're seeing this very trend hitting us. Now universities and web sites are starting to prohibit "illegal" content from hitting the web.
What do we (as americans) do? We BREAK THE LAW! there are two arguments against this. One is the old "what can i, just a single individual, do? Nothing!" - if this is your argument...then i'm willing to bet you won't be voting in November either. Your best bet would be to take a leap off the tallest building in your town and be done with it. If you haven't had kids yet...i thank you and your family for not further polluting the gene pool. The other argument, one that holds much more sway is, "Well, myself or someone i know may get sued. Lawsuits will take a bite out of my ass." - I have only one answer to this. FUCK OFF THEN!! If everything came at no cost then life would be peachy. Everyone would have four cars in their garages and huge networks wired with fiber. No one would be hungry and all music would be free. That just isn't the case. If something is worth fighting for, it's worth losing something for. Just like most bogus laws in this country, i suspect that people will just bitch and moan but not REALLY fight for their freedoms and the suits will win.
Oh...you may have one final argument: "Come off your high horse A-hole! Breaking the DMCA won't do anything but bring on more lawsuits and cause us more greif!" I have two rebuttals there - 1: Did you read the rest of my post. If you're not willing to sacrifice for it...is it really worth having? 2: Try to think of the last time truly breaking the law actually got it repealed. I'll give you a hint, it starts with "P" and ends in "rohibition."
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jeepers marty,
obviously the people at slashdot aren't J majors or they would have studied "timliness." - the bench has been out for over a month. still funny tho.
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the question isn't "Is linux ready for the desktop?"....
the question is "Is your desktop ready for linux?" - Linux isn't for everyone. I don't think it ever will be. Not, at least, while Windows 9x users still think they're being technical by running the "Ad new hardware" wizard.
-FluX
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You have a few good points. But what you fail to realize is that the "wet" infrastructure is basically comprised of other students. Our SA's and SE's were nothing more than sophomores willing to take $7 an hour to troubleshoot connection problems. I'm not sure where you live, but in most areas a T1 is approximately $1000 a month (no, not frame relay). Considering additional bandwidth and the cheaper cost of buying in "bulk" bandwidth - I think a dorm could very easily afford this by charging $20 a month. The cost is SIGNIFIGANTLY reduced when you have about 5 or 6 thousand people sharing the cost of the bandwidth.
As for the professionals needed to keep this network up and running (yes, i realize that there ARE real life Engineers mixed in there too), at Mizzou our phone and ethernet charges were both regulated by Mizzou Telecom; Basically a company within the U. Being that we had additional charges and such for this Telecom service it probably averaged out to about $30-40 a month for ethernet access when it cam down to it. So...if USWest (here in Denver) can charge people $30 a month for DSL and still operate at a signifigant profit, i'm sure a federally subsidized college can accomodate its students rather well.
BTW - i was paying $18,000 a year to go to that hole of a school...i feel damned well entitled to at least a little friggin' bandwidth.
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All arguments aside about private vs. public colleges: I attended the U of Missouri and we did in fact pay $20 a month for ethernet access which came to around $9600 a month that a dorm would pay for something like ResNet. This most certainly facilitates the kind of bandwidth that the students would be using up with programs like Napster.
No...bandwidth is not free. But if students don't see the direct cost of this (e.g. a $XX a month surcharge for ethernet) then they most definitely see it in their tuition. At the U. of Colorado, students are charged a Riot Fee because of the certainty that they are going to riot at some point in the year.
The point is this. the students ARE paying for their bandwidth, be it directly or indirectly. So let's not hear all the SA's and SE's out there who've forgotten about their college experiences back in the early 80's bitch about it!
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personally - i don't think a an argument that the government is just "evening out" the tax margin is going to fly with the rest of the public. If i were a successful internet sales proprietor taxes on "e-items" would almost prompt me to move overseas where this would no longer be a problem.
/bin/fscking public on this one.
One other question - who the hell is going to enforce this. In the days when a shop was on your street corner and everyone knew the owner, tax evasion was an easy thing to prove. What about when the shop is just an IP? What about e-bay? Is an online flea market subject to the same restrictions as any other web site selling goods. Unfortunately our nations leaders are going to decide these matters based on the advice of 14 year old 31337 h4x0rs rather than listen to the
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Unless the new contact has some arcane connection to tux the penguin...the link has been fixed.
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yah. medics get syringes. Engineers and HWGuys get a couple snazzy new items. All in all it just makes for a few more features - Airstrikes and such. I think there is a huge rift forming between gamers. There were the TF/MTF feuders, now the UT/Q3A brawlers...it's pretty funny. I think they're both damned good games. It's just too bad i got the V3 3500 instead of the GeForce. Oh well - bye bye framerate!
-FluX
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Unconfirmed rumors state that in early march of 2001, Amazon.com will merge with AOL and Microsoft Corporation to consumate the largest merger in corporate history. While details are sketchy, a source inside Amazon told us, "...this will finally help us bring about a master race of albino "E-children" to take over the world..."
-FluX
flux is a renowned jackass columnist for such publications as slashdot.org and...um...did we already say slashdot?
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Heh...you know. the head of the US patent office back at the turn of the "other" century said that pretty much everything possible had been invented. Mind you this was before the atomic bomb, the airplane, etc. I think your statement is a very naieve one at that. Examples of incredibly recent technological advances (at least in computing) include the GeForce, Crusoe...and probably within 10-20 years we're going to be using quantum computers...alot is changing.
There are two things i need to say here:
1. Cyrix was, is, and always will be a shitty chip. Before you dismiss me as another IRC script kiddie with a chip on his shoulder against anything but AMD, hear me out; I've had personal experience troubleshooting Cyrix chips in tech support, and for my mother who got stuck with one under the pretext of an "upgrade" from a P200. I'm not posting here because a friend of a friend of a friend said they're a sub-standard chip. I'm posting because i know they're bad from experience. Can you name another company that has such overwhelming criticism coming from the public? I'll give you a hint - it starts with an "H" and ends in "yundai". Cyrix has had so many flaws for so long that this cannot possibly be just a problem of engineering. By now the whole damned engineering staff in the company has probably cycled through at least once. This is more than likely a problem of the way the company is run. Upper and lower management, design principles...you name it. Honestly, i'm surprised Cyrix has made it this far without completely disintegrating.
2. As far as a laptop killing a desktop machine...i don't see this happening for a LONG time to come. First of all...the 3d gaming market is going strong. Nvidia and 3dfx don't make kick ass PCMCIA video cards...at least none that i've ever seen. Additionally, laptops have a very long road ahead of them before they achieve full upgradeability. The current standard of upgradeability for a portable is being able to add a stick of RAM. maybe a new hard drive. This isn't going to be enough to dethrone the desktop for quite some time.
FluX
no animals were harmed in the writing of this post
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