Weren't these phones the ones that Microsoft stole from a British company, by making them a partner, and then turning around and killing their company?
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I use apt-get for rpm on with my redhat 9 install at work. The only drawback compared to apt-get on Debian is that with Debian, EVERYTHING is available through apt-get... but with Redhat... only "kosher" apps are available through apt-get.
The way generics are implemented in Java might be a hack, but parametric types are a very sound mathematical construction (see type theory, category theory, etc). When implemented correctly in a programming language, they can:
1. improve programmer productivity 2. improve quality of code 3. improve efficiency (speed/space) of developed software
However, I am sure Java's generics are nothing more than heavy syntactic sugar. Still, anyone who complains about generics in Java doesn't know very much about programming languages. Generics are a good thing, and Java's only mistake is that it didn't have them designed into the language from the begining.
Same goes for Java having "primitive" datatypes. Yeah, that just complicates both syntax and semantics. They seem to be patching up these problems with these new features.
These DOS attacks, against popular BitTorrent trackers, are coming from an unknown source. Some conspiracy nuts think that the MPAA and RIAA are to blaim. They have talked about doing such things before... but DDOS attacks aren't politically correct in corporate America, so I find this hard to believe.
My personal opinion is that, since BitTorrent is taking away from IRC based file transfers, a few powerful IRC trolls are mad that they are losing influence, and therefore they are trying to destroy BitTorrent through the use of DDOS attacks, hoping that most IRC users will stick to IRC file transfers as opposed to switching over to BitTorrent, after seeing that most popular BitTorrent trackers keep timing out.
Torrentse.cx's tracker has also been under a DOS attack. So factor that into your equation. The truth is that trackers have an overhead, but for files greater than 50MB in size, the overhead is negligible compared to the bandwidth saved by using BitTorrent.
GTA is a masterpiece! I have had the original installed on my computer for about 4 years now. Back then, GTA wasn't considered cool or a good game by critics. I thought that it was a great game with a sprikling of story to motivate some direction in the seemingly limitless world. GTA3 and Vice City look like sequals that have improved every strong point of the original, and added new stuff to boot.
GTA is great because even though you have a mostly linear story line, the game makes you feel like you are telling your own story... like you are doing things your own way.
I am not against having a story in my games. I agree that there is great potential in something that is both movie and game... or book and game.
However, making a book interactive doesn't make it better. It just makes it different. Same thing goes for movies. Personally, I have no problem reading a book, watching a movie, or playing a game. Also, they all deserve equal footing in being taught in a humanities class... but games don't need stories to be great.
I still play Quakeworld every day (FuhQuake is free btw), and everyone knows it has no story... yet I still have fun playing it. I can sit here and name several other great games that lack a story, yet are still great fun to play.
In fact, how often do you play a game that has a great story? Once, maybe twice... if you are a fanatic, maybe you have played it 8 or 9 times.
Final Fantasy 7 was one of the worst games that I have ever played. However, it was an interesting movie. I just got sick of having to press buttons to keep the movie playing.
The earlier Final Fantasy games were much better games. Not very good movies though.
What is with all of the Segwey astroturfing? Talk about a pathetic product. Tons of hype months before its unveiling. Tons of hype after. No one cares. The product is nothing more than an overpriced scooter, that will most likely be just as overpriced to maintain (who sells the spare parts).
I laugh whenever I remember how the astroturf machine was spreading rumors that this IT thing would revolutionize our way of life.
Again, pathetic.
The fact that Slashdot keeps posting these obvious Segwey astroturf "news" items makes me question whether or not they are being paid to post this rubbish.
Just because we are nerds doesn't mean we are stupid. Give us more news articles on math, science, and engineering breakthrus. If you are going to post news articles on high-tech gadgets, then only post articles about gadgets that are worth a geeks time and money.
I would rather see a news article about the latest LED flashlight, as opposed to another Segwey article. In fact, I am in need of purchasing a new LED flashlight. Any suggestions?
You just equated a rocket scientist to a piece of white trash. I am sorry, but the rocket scientist at NASA contributes far more to society than the guy selling discounted Britney Spears albums at Walmart.
Lets structure society so that we keep our rocket scientists.
The rule of thumb for using BitTorrent to server your files is that you only start seeing a benefit to using BitTorrent when the files are at least 50MB in size. The people putting out these files should have zipped all of the episodes into one large Torrent.
The "Network Servers" GUI for browsing samba shares doesn't work for me on Redhat 9. I tried combing the web, fixing it myself, etc... No matter what I get this weird "host (null)" error, when I try to use "Network Servers" or Nautilus (by typing "smb:" into the location field) to view the samba network.
Everything else seems to be working, but this is a show stopper for me. I have a network of tons of windows computers, and need to share printers, files... and see their printers and files.
So I guess I will have to wait until Redhat 9.1 comes out. Maybe it will get fixed by then.
Redhat is very easy to install and update software, just as Debian is very easy to install and update software. They both have versions of apt, which is a wonderful tool for install and updating software. For example, if you want to install mozilla:
apt-get install mozilla...is all that is needed. Anyway, yeah, installing and updating software for Linux is easier than doing so for Windows. Of course, then only applies as long as the software is packaged for your distro.
Iraq was one of the most modern Arab nations, as far as women's rights go, but you wouldn't hear that on the news, when we were being brainwashed into supporting the war.
There were so many experimental and creative mods for Quake. Many never got completed, but many did. Hell, Team Fortress, Capture the Flag, and Rocket Arena started out on Quake.
By the way, did you ever play Zerkanoid? It was a Quake based Arkanoid, with a severed Quake head instead of a ball.
Personally, I still play Quake and its mods. Why waste money on more of the same? Quake also runs on frickin everything... even Pocket PCs!
Maybe you should check out a game called Quake. It was the first true big mod platform. Doom had mods, but they were usually just new maps and textures. Not new games. Quake on the other hand has great mods such as Capture the Flag, TeamFortress (a far better game than the sequal TFC), Rocket Arena, QRally (racing game), Quess (Battle Chess with Quake characters), etc...
The only two Quake mods that people regularly play today are: Capture the Flag and Team Fortress.
My point is that Valve wasn't doing anything original.
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Weren't these phones the ones that Microsoft stole from a British company, by making them a partner, and then turning around and killing their company?
I use apt-get for rpm on with my redhat 9 install at work. The only drawback compared to apt-get on Debian is that with Debian, EVERYTHING is available through apt-get... but with Redhat... only "kosher" apps are available through apt-get.
The way generics are implemented in Java might be a hack, but parametric types are a very sound mathematical construction (see type theory, category theory, etc). When implemented correctly in a programming language, they can:
1. improve programmer productivity
2. improve quality of code
3. improve efficiency (speed/space) of developed software
However, I am sure Java's generics are nothing more than heavy syntactic sugar. Still, anyone who complains about generics in Java doesn't know very much about programming languages. Generics are a good thing, and Java's only mistake is that it didn't have them designed into the language from the begining.
Same goes for Java having "primitive" datatypes. Yeah, that just complicates both syntax and semantics. They seem to be patching up these problems with these new features.
These DOS attacks, against popular BitTorrent trackers, are coming from an unknown source. Some conspiracy nuts think that the MPAA and RIAA are to blaim. They have talked about doing such things before... but DDOS attacks aren't politically correct in corporate America, so I find this hard to believe.
My personal opinion is that, since BitTorrent is taking away from IRC based file transfers, a few powerful IRC trolls are mad that they are losing influence, and therefore they are trying to destroy BitTorrent through the use of DDOS attacks, hoping that most IRC users will stick to IRC file transfers as opposed to switching over to BitTorrent, after seeing that most popular BitTorrent trackers keep timing out.
Torrentse.cx's tracker has also been under a DOS attack. So factor that into your equation. The truth is that trackers have an overhead, but for files greater than 50MB in size, the overhead is negligible compared to the bandwidth saved by using BitTorrent.
GTA is a masterpiece! I have had the original installed on my computer for about 4 years now. Back then, GTA wasn't considered cool or a good game by critics. I thought that it was a great game with a sprikling of story to motivate some direction in the seemingly limitless world. GTA3 and Vice City look like sequals that have improved every strong point of the original, and added new stuff to boot.
GTA is great because even though you have a mostly linear story line, the game makes you feel like you are telling your own story... like you are doing things your own way.
I am not against having a story in my games. I agree that there is great potential in something that is both movie and game... or book and game.
However, making a book interactive doesn't make it better. It just makes it different. Same thing goes for movies. Personally, I have no problem reading a book, watching a movie, or playing a game. Also, they all deserve equal footing in being taught in a humanities class... but games don't need stories to be great.
I still play Quakeworld every day (FuhQuake is free btw), and everyone knows it has no story... yet I still have fun playing it. I can sit here and name several other great games that lack a story, yet are still great fun to play.
In fact, how often do you play a game that has a great story? Once, maybe twice... if you are a fanatic, maybe you have played it 8 or 9 times.
Final Fantasy 7 was one of the worst games that I have ever played. However, it was an interesting movie. I just got sick of having to press buttons to keep the movie playing.
The earlier Final Fantasy games were much better games. Not very good movies though.
What is with all of the Segwey astroturfing? Talk about a pathetic product. Tons of hype months before its unveiling. Tons of hype after. No one cares. The product is nothing more than an overpriced scooter, that will most likely be just as overpriced to maintain (who sells the spare parts).
I laugh whenever I remember how the astroturf machine was spreading rumors that this IT thing would revolutionize our way of life.
Again, pathetic.
The fact that Slashdot keeps posting these obvious Segwey astroturf "news" items makes me question whether or not they are being paid to post this rubbish.
Just because we are nerds doesn't mean we are stupid. Give us more news articles on math, science, and engineering breakthrus. If you are going to post news articles on high-tech gadgets, then only post articles about gadgets that are worth a geeks time and money.
I would rather see a news article about the latest LED flashlight, as opposed to another Segwey article. In fact, I am in need of purchasing a new LED flashlight. Any suggestions?
Why all of the Einstein hype? I mean, Slashdot never even mentioned the release of Turing's Collected Works. Nice books, I highly recommend it.
If you want a story, read a book.
If you want to play a game, then buy a game.
Chess is a great game, and has almost no story.
A great story does not make a great game.
Just download them using BitTorrent.
Did you have a hard time in school? Sounds like it. I am sure that professor was a real A-hole. It is all going to be ok. It is not your fault.
You just equated a rocket scientist to a piece of white trash. I am sorry, but the rocket scientist at NASA contributes far more to society than the guy selling discounted Britney Spears albums at Walmart.
Lets structure society so that we keep our rocket scientists.
Math is not a language, nor an alphabet. Also, math makes claims throughout itself.
1+1=2
There are an infinite number of primes.
etc...
These things are true because math is defined to be so.
Math is untestable and unfalsifiable. It is true because it was defined to be true. Does that make it meaningless?
The rule of thumb for using BitTorrent to server your files is that you only start seeing a benefit to using BitTorrent when the files are at least 50MB in size. The people putting out these files should have zipped all of the episodes into one large Torrent.
The "Network Servers" GUI for browsing samba shares doesn't work for me on Redhat 9. I tried combing the web, fixing it myself, etc... No matter what I get this weird "host (null)" error, when I try to use "Network Servers" or Nautilus (by typing "smb:" into the location field) to view the samba network.
Everything else seems to be working, but this is a show stopper for me. I have a network of tons of windows computers, and need to share printers, files... and see their printers and files.
So I guess I will have to wait until Redhat 9.1 comes out. Maybe it will get fixed by then.
Actually, its probably done to predatory pricinv AND allow price fixing. In addition to other slimey pricing tricks used by large monopolies.
Redhat is very easy to install and update software, just as Debian is very easy to install and update software. They both have versions of apt, which is a wonderful tool for install and updating software.
...is all that is needed. Anyway, yeah, installing and updating software for Linux is easier than doing so for Windows. Of course, then only applies as long as the software is packaged for your distro.
For example, if you want to install mozilla:
apt-get install mozilla
Iraq was one of the most modern Arab nations, as far as women's rights go, but you wouldn't hear that on the news, when we were being brainwashed into supporting the war.
Actually, I thought accurate counts had it at 3 million, but I am sure it is hard to get an accurate count in the first place.
Sony has a line of tiny laptops that are so small, you can hold them in one hand. Check it out.
There were so many experimental and creative mods for Quake. Many never got completed, but many did. Hell, Team Fortress, Capture the Flag, and Rocket Arena started out on Quake.
By the way, did you ever play Zerkanoid? It was a Quake based Arkanoid, with a severed Quake head instead of a ball.
Personally, I still play Quake and its mods. Why waste money on more of the same? Quake also runs on frickin everything... even Pocket PCs!
Maybe you should check out a game called Quake. It was the first true big mod platform. Doom had mods, but they were usually just new maps and textures. Not new games. Quake on the other hand has great mods such as Capture the Flag, TeamFortress (a far better game than the sequal TFC), Rocket Arena, QRally (racing game), Quess (Battle Chess with Quake characters), etc...
The only two Quake mods that people regularly play today are: Capture the Flag and Team Fortress.
My point is that Valve wasn't doing anything original.