I agree... I don't know why that would get a 5... it wasn't the vulgarness... just wasn't that funny... Apple IIe's rocked, but that doesn't mean that playing oregen trail and then growing up to swear every other word helped the situation out any...
Stupid people are infecting the world... we need a cure...
Well I don't know about all of you, but when I'm in my car the stereo is pumpin tunes quite loudly... which brings up my question... how well would voice activated stereos be?
Let's look at a hypothetical situation... Someone passes you and you scream "Shove it" and just by coincidence you have the Deftones (My own summer shove it) in your playlist. Does this mean that unless you have quite a few songs named after choice phrases you won't be hearing much else.
Also I really dis-like the "HaaavING too tawlk and bee punctwoal in ordehr two gewt theee thINGs to werk.
I like how everything today that someone holds of value can be obtained with enough work for free. A free university is nothing new to the world. Remember scholarships???
This is rather amusing hehehe. Wonder if someone could change that to GNU, BSD, Linux, or heck lots of things apply there.
What I want to get at is that I'm really glad that people slashdot sends questions to in interviews get seriously answered. And these are people with rather busy days that need to answer these questions. Good job/.
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But maxis is going to release the source code of the game named "edith" sometime soon. So like every popular game that windows users loved and linux users hated to dual boot for... here comes the code. I figure once Maxis releases the code sales will skyrocket because this game alone looks like an addictive 3D RPG.
I guess I don't blame them for making the game for linux from the get go... that would have taken production costs higher, but now that the game is going no where but up I don't thi8nk it would be so unlikely to make it for linux. I like Loki, but just because they make games for linux doesn't mean they're cheap...
Everyone today is hearing about one thing or another going open source. Then everyone is hearing the critics about how open source is also hurting the community.
All that aside did you ever in your wildest dreams at the very start of the "crusade" think that open source would be a "movment"?
There is money, power, and influence all behind open source today. Computers boot and rely on open source to work every day. And you've even managed to help influence others to open source their own projects in order to gain help on their own making powerful software free to the masses.
So did you ever imagine anything like what is happening now with open source would ever happen?
Well I may be a little confused here, but when I saw Star Wars Episode 1 in theatres I noticed that it had to be in only a digital theater with digital sound and digital picture. So why wouldn't you release EP 1 on a digital format?
I know that with DeCSS that DVD's are evil now, but wait... does this really mean that because of some computer software we have to watch a analog version of a digital movie?
I may not be the smartest man around, but I do know that you do loose something when you go from digital to analog... so why wouls george do this?
Okay so looking at both Corel WordPerfect 2000, staroffice, and office I'll rank office as the worst.
Now here's the tough part... trying to rank WordPerfect2000 over staroffice. I've used both of them... and I've used them both for windows and linux. The winner is... you choose:-).
Corel for the last couple of years has started to see linux as the other market that they should endorse. Not to mention the neo3 ads are kind of interesting to look at. But Corel does lack a web browser and it doesn't really do that perfect of a job to take care of Word files. I do like the great printer support inside wordperfect and all the fonts that have been with WP since the old groupwise days.
Though staroffice is free unless you might still want to look at wordperfect because it's more of an application than an actual suite. It looks as if staroffice was meant to be loaded onto a computer and that's all the computer would need to run. Wordperfect on the other hand does not. I really like the slideshows that Corel uses through presentations alot more than powerpoint also.
Finally. The templates in wordperfect are what keep me coming back. If you're a student and you've had to follow MLA documentation before and hate to keep going back to reformat the page the MLA wizzard/template(Whatever you call it) will make the job the easiest.
Also the MakeItFit manager has saved me quite a few times. This feature alone is worth it to me... it manages to take the document you have and change around font size and margins in order to make the document however many pages you speficy without making it look too obvious. This is also good when you've typed too much and want to shrink the document down.
Corel keeps on buying and trying. MS has tried one to many times to screw them over and I think this is corels way of saying "ohh that's okay" then sucker punching them in the side. All these windows tools that corel keeps buying is going to make a truly awesome linux distribution. They know that a product is a good product hence why they bought it. And they know people will want it. I dunno about you, but gimp is a great program, but when you can use a program as easy as Goo or Photo Soap to do a lil image sprucing up... why wouldn't you? Okay everyone says corel isn't for the "real" or "power" linux user, but what exactly is a real or power linux user. I mean if you use redhat or suse (or any other packaged distro) are you losing the effect of installing libraries and compiling your own binaries? Corel makes products that are useful and easy to use. They want to make it so you don't have to take a class to use their products... where you can just ask a friend for some help on how to do something. And the help files they provide could make anyone happy. I like corel. I like corel linux. And theres nothing my Corel box can't do that your Slackware box can't do.
well my sig used to be "My name is DuG so yours can't be", but after receiving some emails I learned that there are about 3 other people on slashdot that use the spelling of Dug as their name... so most of yours can't be became the new sig.
All in all it's catchy and I like it... maybe I'll add a smiley to it... ya never know
Well the hacker girl Acid Burn becomes the most sought after cyber sex symbol in the world. Coincidence? I think not. She's sexy... and made geeks around the world think that any gorgeous woman will fall for you if you talk about RISC chips and hack the gibson.
Really... how does this apply to any of us at all? I mean like iridum who owns a satellite and like this who own a mainfram let alone 40,000 clustered linux boxes? And even if we did... what in the world would we do with that processing power? I mean hell the average person could work with 133mhz (gotta be able to play mp3's)...
Okay so this is great... now anyone can publish super encrpytion and what even export it now. I guess this makes us all one step up from the "good guys"...
But wait... DeCSS now legal does this mean that there is no more DeCSS cases? Whoa... does this mean opensource DVD players? Whoa wait... I mean what about ways to openly decrypt trusted encryption??? There's no real reason you'd need something like that unless you wanted to do bad things to the computer world.
I hate to tell everyone, but ummm you really can't see mir I mean even with a telescope... so what point would it be to sell advertising for it... erm wait... ohh yeah... u mmm whoever gets me $1000 I'll advertise for them on the moon... yeah there we go... the moon... it's in space and no one has claimed it... so now it's officially DuG's moon... so yeah anyone wants to visit my moon they'll need a moonport(tm) and ummm moonshoes(tm) and ummm moonmotels(tm)... all provided by you for a near bargain of 2 trillion dollars... if Nasa can't make a habitat out of the moon I sure as heck will. So yeah anyone wanna fund the "DuG's moon habitat" project??
These new networks are nothing new. Even if they think they can go past the certain restrictions of the internet world. Where does this help people trying to rid the world of Child Pornography or other sites. I mean if there's no way to regulate these networks they will just become internet back alleys that people will shy away from.
check out Condemned and see for yourself. It's already extremely hard to regulate child pornography on the net. Also what about other illegal things like bomb making texts or racist propoganda. I think everyone is forgetting why there are internet laws... it's not just about you publishing your internet mp3 collection.
Let's take a step back and look at the situation again...
I'm not really familiar with the cube servers but does this mean that you can throw NT or 2K on one of these things?
Not that you'd want to, but maybe you should. And if you want to be able to load up any flavor of linux do you have to rely on one of the little LCD screens in order to install it??
In order to get full functionality of the box itself maybe you should be able to throw a monitor or display adapter of some kind.
I dunno maybe I should just buy one. But has anyone tried making one of these into like a carMP3 player?... sounds like the right size...
I don't know if any of you windows users out there have tried command based voice recognition... in fact I think MS offers it for free... I got it from a program here. StreamBox which even gives you a lil wizzard that sits there and does text to speech as well. But the one thing still stands U N L E S S Y O U S P E A K C L E A R L Y... with no background noise the program is virtually useless.
Another thing... how much does it help to have a portable linux? Do you really care what operating system tells you that you have a doctors appointment in an hour?
Well I'm very happy that there is yet ANOTHER filesystem for linux, but did everyone forget that there's 2.3.99pre2?? I mean is 2.4 going to be released before the end of spring? I'm excited because not only is there USB support maybe they'll come out with a new penguin... maybe make him like dance for the 2.4 or something... maybe I should just go and make a new penguin.
But anyways 2.4 we're waiting... I'm excited, but like a little child I can't wait... so I'm going to compile 2.3.99:-)... why you ask? Because I can...:-)
You think you can control me by telling me what I will and will not like. Then you go forth and try to tell me what I can an cannot see. Then to top it off you tell me that my fellow earthlings will have to see it at a designated time. I tell you movie industry... you keep trying to run my life and I'll hit you where it counts. The pocket book. You don't think a movie boycott will hurt you any. Think again... you try to control all of us... I think it's about time we took a stand against you.
/.'rs alike shall we fight out against the tyranny of the movie industry. Giving out copies of DeCSS and making sure to keep freedom for all. Lets not forget... movies are entertainment and before movies people were just as entertained. So don't tell me when need movies. We need the movie industry to have less power is what we need.
Citizen Kane knew what it meant... it's just a sequal now...
Dear fellow/.'rs... ummm that whole post was supposed to be from a sarcastic point of view. I don't hate english people and I don't like to stereotype people. And no jerry springer is not a native Englishman who is 56 years old.
Wow... I like the fact that I can call someone a wanker at any point in time I feel like it. I guess maybe I should take that for granted. Though we all know England really can't do much of anything right. I mean they even mess up the english language. Let's face it. English people like tea and whining. And I guess whining gets you a half a million dollars because someone typed something that hurt your feelings.
I can see posting threats or breaking laws like that. But flaming someone... come on... you've obviously never driven in a big city in America if you really think something someone types will upset you. I mean you get a bit to close to someone and BOOM you just became lower than dirt. Also there's that whole fact that americans like to put down and flame peole. It's the american way. Look at Jerry Springer. Great show... these people come on to just bash each other and for no apparent reason except they can. Now that's america... we took free speech and said goodbye to english rule quite a bit ago... looks like we did something right.
Do you know how much money MS is losing? They're ONLY worth 512 billion dollars right now. And just think.. all that could be gone tomorrow.
Erm wait... MS is just a big whiner with enough money to get any creative lawyer to make anything possible. OJ did it... why can't the worlds Most Valuable Company do it?
So like I've posted before... MS breaks up... ohh wahh... but look at the other operating systems. Be has basically NO printer support what-so-ever which knocks it out of the "Operating System Contender Category" let's call it the OSCC...
So the OSCC's are right now Mac's and Linux... and of course windows... if anything driver support should spread across more platforms.
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sometimes you feel like a nut... sometimes you don't?
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Well I really don't know what a GPL'd global satellite system would do for all of us. I mean really... how many of us are tired of running closed source satellite code? I know I am... my 17 satellites need me to re-code them. Ohhh wait I don't own a satellite... erm even better I'm going to bet no slashdot readers own a satellite. So their valliant plan to GPL satellites doesn't help me much. Also will this give me a free phone call or free pager?? no... I'll still have to pay... and I'll pay the same companies... so that doesn't help me either.
Iridum burns... it doesn't hurt me any. In fact maybe if they do it when we're not facing the sun it would be fun to see.
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Stupid people are infecting the world ... we need a cure ...
Let's look at a hypothetical situation ... Someone passes you and you scream "Shove it" and just by coincidence you have the Deftones (My own summer shove it) in your playlist. Does this mean that unless you have quite a few songs named after choice phrases you won't be hearing much else.
Also I really dis-like the "HaaavING too tawlk and bee punctwoal in ordehr two gewt theee thINGs to werk.
This is rather amusing hehehe. Wonder if someone could change that to GNU, BSD, Linux, or heck lots of things apply there.
What I want to get at is that I'm really glad that people slashdot sends questions to in interviews get seriously answered. And these are people with rather busy days that need to answer these questions. Good job /.
I guess I don't blame them for making the game for linux from the get go ... that would have taken production costs higher, but now that the game is going no where but up I don't thi8nk it would be so unlikely to make it for linux. I like Loki, but just because they make games for linux doesn't mean they're cheap ...
My other question is ... why is this any different then wireless networking or advertised paid paging?
Seems like a gimmick that costs too much to get off the ground and no one will really use anyways. Ohh well.
All that aside did you ever in your wildest dreams at the very start of the "crusade" think that open source would be a "movment"?
There is money, power, and influence all behind open source today. Computers boot and rely on open source to work every day. And you've even managed to help influence others to open source their own projects in order to gain help on their own making powerful software free to the masses.
So did you ever imagine anything like what is happening now with open source would ever happen?
I know that with DeCSS that DVD's are evil now, but wait ... does this really mean that because of some computer software we have to watch a analog version of a digital movie?
I may not be the smartest man around, but I do know that you do loose something when you go from digital to analog ... so why wouls george do this?
I mean ... let's do it for jar jar here ...
Now here's the tough part ... trying to rank WordPerfect2000 over staroffice. I've used both of them ... and I've used them both for windows and linux. The winner is ... you choose :-).
Corel for the last couple of years has started to see linux as the other market that they should endorse. Not to mention the neo3 ads are kind of interesting to look at. But Corel does lack a web browser and it doesn't really do that perfect of a job to take care of Word files. I do like the great printer support inside wordperfect and all the fonts that have been with WP since the old groupwise days.
Though staroffice is free unless you might still want to look at wordperfect because it's more of an application than an actual suite. It looks as if staroffice was meant to be loaded onto a computer and that's all the computer would need to run. Wordperfect on the other hand does not. I really like the slideshows that Corel uses through presentations alot more than powerpoint also.
Finally. The templates in wordperfect are what keep me coming back. If you're a student and you've had to follow MLA documentation before and hate to keep going back to reformat the page the MLA wizzard/template(Whatever you call it) will make the job the easiest.
Also the MakeItFit manager has saved me quite a few times. This feature alone is worth it to me ... it manages to take the document you have and change around font size and margins in order to make the document however many pages you speficy without making it look too obvious. This is also good when you've typed too much and want to shrink the document down.
Corel keeps on buying and trying. MS has tried one to many times to screw them over and I think this is corels way of saying "ohh that's okay" then sucker punching them in the side. All these windows tools that corel keeps buying is going to make a truly awesome linux distribution. They know that a product is a good product hence why they bought it. And they know people will want it. I dunno about you, but gimp is a great program, but when you can use a program as easy as Goo or Photo Soap to do a lil image sprucing up ... why wouldn't you? Okay everyone says corel isn't for the "real" or "power" linux user, but what exactly is a real or power linux user. I mean if you use redhat or suse (or any other packaged distro) are you losing the effect of installing libraries and compiling your own binaries? Corel makes products that are useful and easy to use. They want to make it so you don't have to take a class to use their products ... where you can just ask a friend for some help on how to do something. And the help files they provide could make anyone happy. I like corel. I like corel linux. And theres nothing my Corel box can't do that your Slackware box can't do.
All in all it's catchy and I like it ... maybe I'll add a smiley to it ... ya never know
Ohh yeah and beat plague
But wait ... DeCSS now legal does this mean that there is no more DeCSS cases? Whoa ... does this mean opensource DVD players? Whoa wait ... I mean what about ways to openly decrypt trusted encryption??? There's no real reason you'd need something like that unless you wanted to do bad things to the computer world.
Last Woo Hoo PGP :-)
check out Condemned and see for yourself. It's already extremely hard to regulate child pornography on the net. Also what about other illegal things like bomb making texts or racist propoganda. I think everyone is forgetting why there are internet laws ... it's not just about you publishing your internet mp3 collection.
Let's take a step back and look at the situation again...
Not that you'd want to, but maybe you should. And if you want to be able to load up any flavor of linux do you have to rely on one of the little LCD screens in order to install it??
In order to get full functionality of the box itself maybe you should be able to throw a monitor or display adapter of some kind.
I dunno maybe I should just buy one. But has anyone tried making one of these into like a carMP3 player? ... sounds like the right size ...
Another thing... how much does it help to have a portable linux? Do you really care what operating system tells you that you have a doctors appointment in an hour?
But anyways 2.4 we're waiting ... I'm excited, but like a little child I can't wait ... so I'm going to compile 2.3.99 :-) ... why you ask? Because I can ... :-)
Citizen Kane knew what it meant ... it's just a sequal now...
Thank you drive through
I can see posting threats or breaking laws like that. But flaming someone ... come on ... you've obviously never driven in a big city in America if you really think something someone types will upset you. I mean you get a bit to close to someone and BOOM you just became lower than dirt. Also there's that whole fact that americans like to put down and flame peole. It's the american way. Look at Jerry Springer. Great show ... these people come on to just bash each other and for no apparent reason except they can. Now that's america ... we took free speech and said goodbye to english rule quite a bit ago ... looks like we did something right.
Erm wait ... MS is just a big whiner with enough money to get any creative lawyer to make anything possible. OJ did it ... why can't the worlds Most Valuable Company do it?
So like I've posted before ... MS breaks up ... ohh wahh ... but look at the other operating systems. Be has basically NO printer support what-so-ever which knocks it out of the "Operating System Contender Category" let's call it the OSCC ...
So the OSCC's are right now Mac's and Linux ... and of course windows ... if anything driver support should spread across more platforms.
sometimes you don't?
Iridum burns ... it doesn't hurt me any. In fact maybe if they do it when we're not facing the sun it would be fun to see.