Is this release just composed of patches sent in from people outside the regular kernel maintenance group? I can't believe that anybody from the actual kernel group would still be working on 2.2.x, it is almsot ancient after you've used 2.3.x.
Can't wait for 2.4 stable:)
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Books use reflective light... not their own. This is called "passive light", and is much easier on the eyes becuase it is the same as the world outside. Computer screens, on the other hand, rely on their own light... active light, which is additive to the light spectrum and can be too harsh on the eyes.
Besides this, books also have an infinite refresh rate (except for when you blink):)
Also, books have the interesting feature that they cannot be changed... once it's printed, you know you're reading the same thing (and not one edited) every time you pick it up.
So if it's the xxAA, meaning "whatever" Association of America, why the fuck does it affect me in Canada? And why does it affect people in Europe and Asia and Africa and Austrilia and South America? We're not the US's bitches. We need to stand up, tell the RIAA and MPAA to go outside and play hide-and-go-fuck-themselves, and continue with our freedom.
....but is this guy going to start giving out Public Enemy music as MP3's? That would be even better then just saying something's "good" and semi-supporting it.
But, if Napster and other anti-establishment geek stuff is getting to people we wouldn't have thought of... it's going to go a hell of a long way. Things will definalty change.
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Did you not undertsand what this loser was saying when you moderated him up?
He's advocating both the fact that you should kill everyone at school ("a good idea") and he's mocking Open Source. That's a troll, or at least flamebait.
Wait, it doesn't say anything beside the moderation. Does that mean he used a +1 bonus? What an idiot.
Go and kill yourself instead of people at school. It's more humane, you sick son of a bitch.
...becuase everyone knows that april fools jokes end past noon, otherwise the person who plays them is the april fool.
Thank you for listening....
...and as for microsoft settling, I don't see that happening. Their legal team will win and Windows+IE and everything else will continue. But from what I've seen of the latest Debian, which I installed yesterday, Linux has nothing to fear... and the desktops will be ours soon.
But there would still be Napster, and still be pirates, and still be people making programs that let them download the music only once and then listen to it without paying again.
And there will still be kids who don't have credit cards, that want to buy things online, but can't.
Even with places like MP3.com, where I can buy a DAM CD (mp3's included) for $6 us (plus shipping, and converted into Cdn$ that's around $15cdn - average music cd here is $20cdn plus)
So i go to MP3.com and download the MP3's. I don't pay. I use napster daily and get hundreds of megs of music per week over my DSL connection. I don't pay, and even if there was some easy system that somehow enabled people under 18 to pay 1 cent and listen to a song, I and many other people would probably avoid it.
I'm not going to rationalize my crime... whether it should be a crime or not. It is illegal in Canada (and the US and the rest of the civilized world) to pirate media (be it software, music, movies, whatever).
But nobody is ever going to stop me. The only way to stop me is to offer some value in buying the CD or paying the $0.01/listen that I can't gt by downloading the song through Napster. Right now, the only thing that CDs have that comes close is the booklet, which in a lot of newer CDs doesn't even contain the lyrics.
If there was a nice booklet like what's in the Beastie Boys anthology CD, which I bought, then there's value. I paid $35 cdn for those Beastie Boys cd's. There is a 50 page plus booklet in there, and 2 cd's packed with music. That's an accpetable value.
But paying $22 or so and getting a CD with 30 minutes (out of 74 max) of music, 2 songs that are good and the rest suck, and a booklet that says "Thanks to my friends at (insert label) Records and my Family." and nothing else?
This reminded me of my favourite Hemos joke. It's a simple name subsititution joke:
Jeff "Master" Bates.
I hope you enjoyed that.
As for playing GTA in a tank, I did that earlier today (GTA2, not a real tank, foo) and it was fun. I made $500000. Then the piggies took me out of my tank and arrested me. Why the hell doesn't the player know how to lock the door to his tank?
Ohh, that reminded me of a cop joke. More like a rhyme:
I want bacon I want pork Run piggy Run piggy I've got a fork Run piggy Run piggy Run piggy Run Run piggy Run piggy I've got a gun
Say it really fast, guaranteed to bring a smile to your face.
At the bottom of the body text it says that Coca-Cola shouldn't have any rights to the domain. Well, as far as I'm concerened, they don't.
They don't have a "right" to anything that they HAVEN'T TRADEMARKED in whichever country you happen to be in. In this instance, it's Switzerland.
(I always thought.ch was china... what do the Swiss call Switzerland? And what's China's extension?)
Find out if Coca Cola owns the trademark for Coke in switzerland. If they do, you're going to have to give it to them. If this is the case, offer to sell it. You'll get a couple thousand, which is always nice, and you can buy cocaine.ch or some other variant (don't know the WHOIS server for that domain, sorry:).
If they don't own the trademark, tell them to screw off. They can't take it from you by force if they have no legal right to it, and even if they register the trademark now you predate it.
While it said something about pascal, so I thought I'd share my opinons in Pascal.
writeln ('This whole competition is stupid. You cannot rate a program or a language except relative to ther programs; and new programs are always written, so there is no zero ground. Therefore this is stupid.')
(did i forget a semicolon or something? it won't compile.)
Boy, you're a bright one. The people who are complaining about Rob's skills ARE THE TROLLS. The trolls are not self-anhillating! They like trolling! I like trolling!
We should have a trolling section on the side, to see who can write the best trolls!
But instead of giving us a place to complain and to troll, we have been thrown out into the articles.
1) Relative-to-cursor movement, like those eraser-nub thingys IBMs have : you're not moving like it's a screen. 2) Full 360 - degree movement : not just every 45 like an eraser nub. 3) Precision. Far more precise than a nub or a touchpad.
To clean 'em, just twist the little surrounding thing and pull out the ball. Just like a mouse.
That must be why they're burning 'em then.. becuase if nobody's going to correct orbit problems, etc, they could hit other sattelites, and just generally cause chaos in orbit.
I'm not talking aout graphics -- or the stupid AV portal stuff. I just think AV has better search syntax features...
The "refine" thing they used to have was cool, but it's gone now.
Oh well.
As for the other reply: I use google if av and metacrawler don't find what i want. I've used it a lot recently, and it's good, but AV is still better...
but this is just like distribution wars:) , so let's end it. to each his own
And that's presuming 2/3 of the citizens of the world want a satellite phone. (Remember, half the world can't afford a Coke, much less an Iridium phone; a third are under 18; and 1 in 4 worldwide still hasn't SEEN a telephone!)
I'm under 18, I can afford a Coke, and I have seen a telephone.
You've got a point here... above is a message from somebody else about donating $1, and I replied to it, but you've made me think more about it.
Seeing as how 1) the sattelites really don't cost anything to stay up there, do they, becuase they use solar power and don't really need maintenance becuase they're designed well; and 2) they have to lose the money anyways.
They should leave them up and open it up. They could open up how-to-build plans for Iridium phones... and poeple would end up bulding and selling them. Big cellphone companies might even build Iridium phones.
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Is this release just composed of patches sent in from people outside the regular kernel maintenance group?
:)
I can't believe that anybody from the actual kernel group would still be working on 2.2.x, it is almsot ancient after you've used 2.3.x.
Can't wait for 2.4 stable
Books use reflective light... not their own. This is called "passive light", and is much easier on the eyes becuase it is the same as the world outside.
:)
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Computer screens, on the other hand, rely on their own light... active light, which is additive to the light spectrum and can be too harsh on the eyes.
Besides this, books also have an infinite refresh rate (except for when you blink)
Also, books have the interesting feature that they cannot be changed... once it's printed, you know you're reading the same thing (and not one edited) every time you pick it up.
... i was reading Fahrenheit 451 last week
I use the Linux version of the flash player all the time because my job requires me to view Flash animations.
I don't know if they plan on making a Linux version of the Flash creator, or any other apps, but we may see something like that in the future.
So if it's the xxAA, meaning "whatever" Association of America, why the fuck does it affect me in Canada? And why does it affect people in Europe and Asia and Africa and Austrilia and South America? We're not the US's bitches. We need to stand up, tell the RIAA and MPAA to go outside and play hide-and-go-fuck-themselves, and continue with our freedom.
Greedy capitalist pigs.
At least they're not communist, though.
....but is this guy going to start giving out Public Enemy music as MP3's? That would be even better then just saying something's "good" and semi-supporting it.
But, if Napster and other anti-establishment geek stuff is getting to people we wouldn't have thought of... it's going to go a hell of a long way. Things will definalty change.
Did you not undertsand what this loser was saying when you moderated him up?
He's advocating both the fact that you should kill everyone at school ("a good idea") and he's mocking Open Source. That's a troll, or at least flamebait.
Wait, it doesn't say anything beside the moderation. Does that mean he used a +1 bonus? What an idiot.
Go and kill yourself instead of people at school. It's more humane, you sick son of a bitch.
...becuase everyone knows that april fools jokes end past noon, otherwise the person who plays them is the april fool.
Thank you for listening....
...and as for microsoft settling, I don't see that happening. Their legal team will win and Windows+IE and everything else will continue. But from what I've seen of the latest Debian, which I installed yesterday, Linux has nothing to fear... and the desktops will be ours soon.
yeah, i'm a little slow
wow, replied to by the legendary ubertroll. i worship you. this is indeed a great honour.
And there will still be kids who don't have credit cards, that want to buy things online, but can't.
Even with places like MP3.com, where I can buy a DAM CD (mp3's included) for $6 us (plus shipping, and converted into Cdn$ that's around $15cdn - average music cd here is $20cdn plus)
So i go to MP3.com and download the MP3's. I don't pay. I use napster daily and get hundreds of megs of music per week over my DSL connection. I don't pay, and even if there was some easy system that somehow enabled people under 18 to pay 1 cent and listen to a song, I and many other people would probably avoid it.
I'm not going to rationalize my crime... whether it should be a crime or not. It is illegal in Canada (and the US and the rest of the civilized world) to pirate media (be it software, music, movies, whatever).
But nobody is ever going to stop me. The only way to stop me is to offer some value in buying the CD or paying the $0.01/listen that I can't gt by downloading the song through Napster.
Right now, the only thing that CDs have that comes close is the booklet, which in a lot of newer CDs doesn't even contain the lyrics.
If there was a nice booklet like what's in the Beastie Boys anthology CD, which I bought, then there's value. I paid $35 cdn for those Beastie Boys cd's. There is a 50 page plus booklet in there, and 2 cd's packed with music. That's an accpetable value.
But paying $22 or so and getting a CD with 30 minutes (out of 74 max) of music, 2 songs that are good and the rest suck, and a booklet that says "Thanks to my friends at (insert label) Records and my Family." and nothing else?
That's ridiculous.
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Jeff "Master" Bates.
I hope you enjoyed that.
As for playing GTA in a tank, I did that earlier today (GTA2, not a real tank, foo) and it was fun. I made $500000. Then the piggies took me out of my tank and arrested me. Why the hell doesn't the player know how to lock the door to his tank?
Ohh, that reminded me of a cop joke. More like a rhyme:
I want bacon I want pork
Run piggy Run piggy I've got a fork
Run piggy Run piggy Run piggy Run
Run piggy Run piggy I've got a gun
Say it really fast, guaranteed to bring a smile to your face.
Thank you for reading my insignificant troll.
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They don't have a "right" to anything that they HAVEN'T TRADEMARKED in whichever country you happen to be in. In this instance, it's Switzerland.
(I always thought
Find out if Coca Cola owns the trademark for Coke in switzerland. If they do, you're going to have to give it to them. If this is the case, offer to sell it. You'll get a couple thousand, which is always nice, and you can buy cocaine.ch or some other variant (don't know the WHOIS server for that domain, sorry
If they don't own the trademark, tell them to screw off. They can't take it from you by force if they have no legal right to it, and even if they register the trademark now you predate it.
Enjoy your domain.
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writeln ('This whole competition is stupid. You cannot rate a program or a language except relative to ther programs; and new programs are always written, so there is no zero ground. Therefore this is stupid.')
(did i forget a semicolon or something? it won't compile.)
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dammit woman, get off'n my balls while i teach your son a lesson!
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May a million fleas from a million camels infest your armpits from now until Eternity.
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Go back to fucking your gay daddy and leave the posting to real trolls.
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The people who are complaining about Rob's skills ARE THE TROLLS. The trolls are not self-anhillating! They like trolling! I like trolling!
We should have a trolling section on the side, to see who can write the best trolls!
But instead of giving us a place to complain and to troll, we have been thrown out into the articles.
We aren't going to stop ourselfs.
Now go fuck your camel.
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...but i still like trackballs....
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You got it from some guy who was on crack.
You don't know who it came from.
Therefore:
You've got a Newton now.
Enjoy yourself... and clean the crack and dirt off'n it.
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1) Relative-to-cursor movement, like those eraser-nub thingys IBMs have : you're not moving like it's a screen.
2) Full 360 - degree movement : not just every 45 like an eraser nub.
3) Precision. Far more precise than a nub or a touchpad.
To clean 'em, just twist the little surrounding thing and pull out the ball. Just like a mouse.
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That must be why they're burning 'em then.. becuase if nobody's going to correct orbit problems, etc, they could hit other sattelites, and just generally cause chaos in orbit.
I'm looking forward to the fireworks.
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The "refine" thing they used to have was cool, but it's gone now.
Oh well.
As for the other reply: I use google if av and metacrawler don't find what i want. I've used it a lot recently, and it's good, but AV is still better...
but this is just like distribution wars
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I'm under 18, I can afford a Coke, and I have seen a telephone.
Hook me up, baby!
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above is a message from somebody else about donating $1, and I replied to it, but you've made me think more about it.
Seeing as how 1) the sattelites really don't cost anything to stay up there, do they, becuase they use solar power and don't really need maintenance becuase they're designed well; and 2) they have to lose the money anyways.
They should leave them up and open it up. They could open up how-to-build plans for Iridium phones... and poeple would end up bulding and selling them. Big cellphone companies might even build Iridium phones.
But it's too late now.
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