"Ohh, and he'd probably keep the Attorney General Adolph Reno in office, so she can use her Gestapo to point submachine guns in little kid's faces, and send them back to the enemy."
I sure hope so. That kid should never have stayed in the states. Whether you agree with Cuba's politics or not is irrelevant - children have a right to be with their parents, not with manipulative relatives who would use them as a pawn for their political agenda.
Excuse me, karma whore? Are you trying to say that slashdot isn't biased? This is the place where the party line is "ra ra Linux!", and anything Microsoft is seen as the coming of Satan Himself. You should know that well enough, as you're the most notorious karma whore on Slashdot.
Slashdot is biased. Get over it. It has never claimed to be a truly objective news source (like ABC or CBC or CNN or whatever), it has only claimed to be News For Nerds. If CmdrTaco wants to give his political views, that's fine by me. I'm free to disagree with them as I choose.
Gross abuse of journalistic power? Get your head out of your ass, bojay. He didn't say "you shouldn't vote for Bush because a malignant carbon rod would do a better job," he said "...I think that Bush is a rotten candidate, and while I don't like Gore, I would vote for a malignant carbon rod for president before I would vote for GWB." There's a whole lot of I-statements in there.
Basically, he said what he would do. There's nothing in there about what the voters of America should do. Stop your karma whoring and get a clue.
I want a fast, clean browser with flawless CSS support. Oh, and it has to do true-type fonts, because X doesn't by default, and I hate the small fonts of Netscape under Linux.
That's not too much to ask for. Unfortunately, Mozilla sucks. A lot. I don't want mail or news clients. I don't want instant messaging. I want a good, solid browser.
I've been using Linux for three years now (I started by trying to install Slack 3.2 on my machine in 1997; it didn't like it, so I went with a umsdos distribution), and I've been using Redhat 6.0 w/modifications for the last year or so, and by and large have no complaints. It's easy to set up, stable, and I can just as easily go through the/etc files with vim as use linuxconf (I'll do both, depending on what the situation demands).
Actually, I found the best introduction to the Linux world to be a UMSDOS distribution called DOSLinux. I didn't have to screw with hard drive partitions; all I had to do was type "linux" at the c:\ prompt, and it booted up quickly (even on an old 486 with minimal resources). Of course, I couldn't run X very well, because my memory was, uh, pretty lacking, but I got a thorough introduction to the OS and how things worked.
Xerox 8086, manufactured by Olivetti in the early 80s, and bought refurbished in 1986. 640kb RAM, 20 MB hard drive (after the 5MB one failed in 1989), CGA, etcetc. It's over fifteen years old now.
It's sitting on the floor in my bedroom, and boots up to MS-DOS 3.1. I still use it to play Adventure and DnD for nostalgia value.
So yeah, I'm pretty sure that the 8086 was used as a PC processor. Sorry.
I didn't pay for four licenses, retard. From pkunzip.exe:
If you use PKUNZIP on a regular basis, you are strongly encouraged to register it.
So yeah, I'm legal on all four copies, because I'm not forced to register. I should have registered at least once a long time ago, of course, but $47 is a lot when you consider that I just use it to unzip archives. Would you pay $47 for a decompressor? Didn't think so.
And yeah, good for you for doing cross-platform stuff at work. I do no such thing at work, since my work is not tech-related. At home, I've got three DOS boxes (8086, 386 laptop, 486), and one Windows/Linux box (K5-350, I believe). I had pkzip and unzip installed on all of my DOS boxes before I learned about Linux (1997), and it came pre-installed on the newish Compaq.
Thanks for playing. I'm keeping my copies because they do their job and do it extremely well. If you want to use open zip or whatever, that's good, but don't try to force your zealotry on me.
Java's a great language. It was used in my first year computer science classes, which were an introduction to programming in general, and object-orientated programming specifically. If it had an ncurses-style library, I'd use it for my current project (a roguelike). But since stuff like that is against the whole idea of Java, I'm using C++ instead.
When I said "lower level", I meant "lower level compared to the languages I just listed". C's not low level, but people shouldn't go calling it high level either.
Actually, I'd say he's wildly successful. PKZip and PKUnzip are installed on every one of my computers that run DOS (at last count, four), and I know I'm not alone.
I'm all for open source, but I'm not afraid to use better tools when they're available.
It depends on your background. I grew up on DOS on an 8086, so command line interfaces are easy and intuitive for me. My sister, on the other hand, only knows GUIs; she's used Windows forever. A few days ago, I opened a DOS window and opened some archives with pkunzip. Her reaction? "What the hell is that? It looks like gibberish."
Let's face it, "pkunzip -d *.zip" is gibberish to most people. If you only know a GUI, it's difficult to understand a CLI, or even why you'd want a CLI.
The only reason people use C is because there is this perception that you somehow must use it. Personally, I've never seen why you should use a lower-level language like C (let's face it, perl and Java and Pascal are high level; C isn't) to write programs that would best be served by a strong, high-level language.
That being said, yes, I'm not a fan of C. My favourite languages are perl and Java. If it wasn't for people being so closed-minded to change, you'd see other languages being used a lot. In the current situation, there's the feeling that you must use C or C++ or you're doomed.
This isn't flamebait. Remember, not all/. users are Unix-loving, C munching gurus. I love Unix, I don't like C. Fair?
Exactly. Do you have any idea how hard it is to get, for example, J.S. Bach's "Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor" (one of his more famous works, and in my opinion, his best) on Napster? How about "Circumference of a Circle" by Clint Mansell (one of the pieces on the soundtrack to pi)? Napster's great if you're into top-40 sludge and rap and that sort of stuff, but if your musical tastes are outside a standard deviation, you haven't got a hope.
The problem is that these would not be your children, but your creations. They would be engineered. Basically, what I'm trying to say is that you, sir, are full of shit and shouldn't be allowed to choose advantages for your children.
I'm bad at math. I'm a musician. I've got a talent for programming computers. I suffer from an anxiety disorder. I've got that dark red hair colour that everyone tries for with hair dye. I'm emotionally frail. I do well academically. All of these things make me an individual. Would I be resentful if my parents selected a hair colour or eye colour at birth? How about an aptitude towards a particular subject? You bet I would be. I'd be the product of the desires of my parents.
That's wrong.
Some things are best left up to nature. You get merits and flaws, but ultimately, you get an individual. If I were engineered, I'd never, ever forgive my parents.
Wrong. Betamax was technically superior. The VHS format won because Sony decided they were the only ones who could make the players, while VHS's creator (JVC, I think), decided it was more lucrative to make tapes and open the player market to anyone and everyone.
And that's why Betamax lost. Sort of sad, since it was such a good format.
I'd personally like to see TLDs opened up to anyone and everyone. That way, you'd have less trouble with corporations and strong-arm tactics, because they seriously couldn't register in each and every tld. In this scenario I could, for example, register a.jcd TLD. It would make the www a far more interesting place, and effectively eliminate the problem of limited space in the big three TLDs.
Of course, this probably won't happen, given that consumer interests are not held in the highest regard by ICANN. Corporations tend to have rather a lot of representation. Given how North American society is, I don't see this changing anytime soon.
Uh-huh. Super NES emulators work flawlessly on my system, as do PSX emulators. However, since I own both of the systems, I'd much rather play the games on the real hardware.
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I sure hope so. That kid should never have stayed in the states. Whether you agree with Cuba's politics or not is irrelevant - children have a right to be with their parents, not with manipulative relatives who would use them as a pawn for their political agenda.
vi, of course.
The streets with run with the blood of the Emacs users.
Slashdot is biased. Get over it. It has never claimed to be a truly objective news source (like ABC or CBC or CNN or whatever), it has only claimed to be News For Nerds. If CmdrTaco wants to give his political views, that's fine by me. I'm free to disagree with them as I choose.
Gross abuse of journalistic power? Get your head out of your ass, bojay. He didn't say "you shouldn't vote for Bush because a malignant carbon rod would do a better job," he said "...I think that Bush is a rotten candidate, and while I don't like Gore, I would vote for a malignant carbon rod for president before I would vote for GWB." There's a whole lot of I-statements in there.
Basically, he said what he would do. There's nothing in there about what the voters of America should do. Stop your karma whoring and get a clue.
Better that than "3ps1l0n 3r1d4n1 0wnz j00, b1tch0rz!"
I want a fast, clean browser with flawless CSS support. Oh, and it has to do true-type fonts, because X doesn't by default, and I hate the small fonts of Netscape under Linux.
That's not too much to ask for. Unfortunately, Mozilla sucks. A lot. I don't want mail or news clients. I don't want instant messaging. I want a good, solid browser.
Actually, I found the best introduction to the Linux world to be a UMSDOS distribution called DOSLinux. I didn't have to screw with hard drive partitions; all I had to do was type "linux" at the c:\ prompt, and it booted up quickly (even on an old 486 with minimal resources). Of course, I couldn't run X very well, because my memory was, uh, pretty lacking, but I got a thorough introduction to the OS and how things worked.
If I recall correctly, Pascal came before C, as it was created by Wirth in the late 60s. It's a teaching language, sure, but it's not C.
Xerox 8086, manufactured by Olivetti in the early 80s, and bought refurbished in 1986. 640kb RAM, 20 MB hard drive (after the 5MB one failed in 1989), CGA, etcetc. It's over fifteen years old now.
It's sitting on the floor in my bedroom, and boots up to MS-DOS 3.1. I still use it to play Adventure and DnD for nostalgia value.
So yeah, I'm pretty sure that the 8086 was used as a PC processor. Sorry.
If you use PKUNZIP on a regular basis, you are strongly encouraged to register it.
So yeah, I'm legal on all four copies, because I'm not forced to register. I should have registered at least once a long time ago, of course, but $47 is a lot when you consider that I just use it to unzip archives. Would you pay $47 for a decompressor? Didn't think so.
And yeah, good for you for doing cross-platform stuff at work. I do no such thing at work, since my work is not tech-related. At home, I've got three DOS boxes (8086, 386 laptop, 486), and one Windows/Linux box (K5-350, I believe). I had pkzip and unzip installed on all of my DOS boxes before I learned about Linux (1997), and it came pre-installed on the newish Compaq.
Thanks for playing. I'm keeping my copies because they do their job and do it extremely well. If you want to use open zip or whatever, that's good, but don't try to force your zealotry on me.
Java's a great language. It was used in my first year computer science classes, which were an introduction to programming in general, and object-orientated programming specifically. If it had an ncurses-style library, I'd use it for my current project (a roguelike). But since stuff like that is against the whole idea of Java, I'm using C++ instead.
When I said "lower level", I meant "lower level compared to the languages I just listed". C's not low level, but people shouldn't go calling it high level either.
Actually, I'd say he's wildly successful. PKZip and PKUnzip are installed on every one of my computers that run DOS (at last count, four), and I know I'm not alone.
I'm all for open source, but I'm not afraid to use better tools when they're available.
Let's face it, "pkunzip -d *.zip" is gibberish to most people. If you only know a GUI, it's difficult to understand a CLI, or even why you'd want a CLI.
That being said, yes, I'm not a fan of C. My favourite languages are perl and Java. If it wasn't for people being so closed-minded to change, you'd see other languages being used a lot. In the current situation, there's the feeling that you must use C or C++ or you're doomed.
This isn't flamebait. Remember, not all
because the people this is targeted at wouldn't know what "mv a* foo" means.
btw, first post.
Exactly. Do you have any idea how hard it is to get, for example, J.S. Bach's "Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor" (one of his more famous works, and in my opinion, his best) on Napster? How about "Circumference of a Circle" by Clint Mansell (one of the pieces on the soundtrack to pi)? Napster's great if you're into top-40 sludge and rap and that sort of stuff, but if your musical tastes are outside a standard deviation, you haven't got a hope.
Please bend over and take it like a good citizen. We really do know what's best for you.
Cheerio,
Tony Q. Blair, Prime Minister, Britain
MP3s were very popular before AOL bought WinAmp, you know.
I'm bad at math. I'm a musician. I've got a talent for programming computers. I suffer from an anxiety disorder. I've got that dark red hair colour that everyone tries for with hair dye. I'm emotionally frail. I do well academically. All of these things make me an individual. Would I be resentful if my parents selected a hair colour or eye colour at birth? How about an aptitude towards a particular subject? You bet I would be. I'd be the product of the desires of my parents.
That's wrong.
Some things are best left up to nature. You get merits and flaws, but ultimately, you get an individual. If I were engineered, I'd never, ever forgive my parents.
Exactly. There was a really great article posted to (I believe) Usenet a while back. Here's a link to it.
Wrong. Betamax was technically superior. The VHS format won because Sony decided they were the only ones who could make the players, while VHS's creator (JVC, I think), decided it was more lucrative to make tapes and open the player market to anyone and everyone.
And that's why Betamax lost. Sort of sad, since it was such a good format.
Bring back 3-Demon! That game gave me more hours of enjoyment than anything else at the time.
I mean, these games are supposedly gratuitously violent, but most of them can't match that early 90s bloodfest "Time Killers". Why's this going on?
Oh, right, election year.
I'm user 12000 and something, and have metamoded since the beginning. Of course, that's probably because I checked the "willing to moderate" box.
I'd personally like to see TLDs opened up to anyone and everyone. That way, you'd have less trouble with corporations and strong-arm tactics, because they seriously couldn't register in each and every tld. In this scenario I could, for example, register a .jcd TLD. It would make the www a far more interesting place, and effectively eliminate the problem of limited space in the big three TLDs.
Of course, this probably won't happen, given that consumer interests are not held in the highest regard by ICANN. Corporations tend to have rather a lot of representation. Given how North American society is, I don't see this changing anytime soon.
Unfortunate, really.
Uh-huh. Super NES emulators work flawlessly on my system, as do PSX emulators. However, since I own both of the systems, I'd much rather play the games on the real hardware.