When I lived in New York, I used to go to one of the massive Barnes and Noble stores, drink Starbucks, and read all the ultra-expensive magazines and computer textbooks.
I found the Starbucks coffee to be pretty decent, but nowhere near the quality we get here in Australia. (with so many Italian immigrants, we have fucking great coffee;) It was definately better than most of the other coffee I tasted in the US, which was basically shit in a filter and hot water.
Are you trying to say that we can learn nothing from analysing fictional characters? What the fuck is the point of reading anything if you can't relate it to your own life somehow?
You've obviously watched a few too many shitty films, and been burnt so that you can't recognise quality when you see it.
No doubt you're one of those: "Reading? Yeah, I tried it once." types.
Err, if you can't even tell the difference from the screenshots alone, then obviously you're not paying enough attention.
The fact that these babies can pull off this full-screen anti-aliased stuff with multiple transparencies and all sorts of multi-textured goodness at a high framerate sets them apart from anything available today.
Graphics cards will keep getting better, always getting faster in order to achieve more detail, hence realism.
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"The usual copout of the Linux user: Just download pacakge XYZ. Yeap, when you buy a car and it has no breaks, you don't go to the dealer and complain. No you simply walk over to Napa spare parts and download some new brakes. After all why should one assume that things should work out of the box?"
This is a silly analogy. Cars require breaks in order to function safely and effectively. An operating system by no means requires what you're describing, and for what I (and many others) use Linux for, it is unnecessary.
A more accurate analogy is this: You buy a brand new car, but unfortunately you cannot use it to mow your lawn. Some inconsiderate designer has neglected to attach the spinning blades to the underside of your car so that you can mow your lawn! Someone points you to a mechanic who specialises in fitting these sort of blades to cars, but you cry "Damn it! These things should work out of the box!"
Is it just me, or were most of the features listed in that article just ones that are typical amongst most shells (ie bash, tcsh, etc)? It was almost as if they were suggesting that these features were exclusive to zsh (although it did mention "as with bash" for the command line completion).
I can't really understand why this appeared on Slashdot, though. I mean: "Most developers and users of Linux come into contact with a UNIX shell sooner or later." ?? Sooner or later? How could anyone use Linux (or any other unix-like os) without coming into contact with a UNIX shell first and foremost?
Just out of interest, what are the living conditions over there like?
I gather that there's a lot more space than on first glance, the "legs" being inhabitable, but just how much space is there? How often do you leave? How many people are living over there with you?
How're the beds? bedrooms? bathrooms? food? What do you do for entertainment? Do you have a good sound system? (one would think that with a net connection of any great magnitude, you'd go nuts downloading mp3s;)
Sorry for the barrage of questions, but we (or maybe just I) want answers! Thanks.
Don't you find it at all amusing that some time in the future, a bunch of Geography students could be reviewing the 2001 census, to find that a small percentage of the population registered as members of the 'Jedi' religion?
Come on! Bender has to be one of the most consistently funny characters on TV. Almost everything he says makes me laugh out loud, or at least think "Where the hell did that come from?".
Dr. Zoidberg? Funny, but I always catch myself feeling really sorry for him. He seems so lonely, with no friends, at all.
Actually, come to think of it, Futurama has some very serious undertones in relation to loss and isolation. Don't think about it, it's too depressing.
I have seen every single Simpsons episode ever aired (except a few of the newer ones), and I can quite safely say that there is no episode where you see Marge's ass. Never.
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"How many cars are out there that were made by NT? Do they ever crash?"
Err, yes?
What kind of sick weirdos would be into that?!?!
I think if someone wanted to start up a new console, BeOS would be a prime choice for it's operating system.
Think about it, it's fast, pretty, user friendly, and a helluva lot cheaper than liscensing Microsoft stuff or writing your own.
Where's competition when you need it, eh?
It's only 25mb compressed, so I'm guessing whatever you downloaded it with unzipped it for you.
;)
Either that or someone upgraded your line without telling you about it
Thanks,
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The downloaded managed to max out my cable connection, and I'm in Australia.
You are one well connected son-of-a-bitch
I found the Starbucks coffee to be pretty decent, but nowhere near the quality we get here in Australia. (with so many Italian immigrants, we have fucking great coffee ;) It was definately better than most of the other coffee I tasted in the US, which was basically shit in a filter and hot water.
You've obviously watched a few too many shitty films, and been burnt so that you can't recognise quality when you see it.
No doubt you're one of those: "Reading? Yeah, I tried it once." types.
Further, have they done anything to combat ARP spoofing? It'd seem pretty trivial to spy on your neighbours 'net activity on a system like this...
that's like, deep, man
pass me some of what you're smoking
The fact that these babies can pull off this full-screen anti-aliased stuff with multiple transparencies and all sorts of multi-textured goodness at a high framerate sets them apart from anything available today.
Graphics cards will keep getting better, always getting faster in order to achieve more detail, hence realism.
This is a silly analogy. Cars require breaks in order to function safely and effectively. An operating system by no means requires what you're describing, and for what I (and many others) use Linux for, it is unnecessary.
A more accurate analogy is this: You buy a brand new car, but unfortunately you cannot use it to mow your lawn. Some inconsiderate designer has neglected to attach the spinning blades to the underside of your car so that you can mow your lawn! Someone points you to a mechanic who specialises in fitting these sort of blades to cars, but you cry "Damn it! These things should work out of the box!"
Think, before you post.
I don't recall saying that Linux == Unix. In fact, I intentionally called linux a "unix-like os" in order to prevent just this kind of comment.
I imagine you'd have to be a bit of a retard to never open an xterm. How could you just turn your back on all of that command line goodness?
Is it just me, or were most of the features listed in that article just ones that are typical amongst most shells (ie bash, tcsh, etc)? It was almost as if they were suggesting that these features were exclusive to zsh (although it did mention "as with bash" for the command line completion).
I can't really understand why this appeared on Slashdot, though. I mean: "Most developers and users of Linux come into contact with a UNIX shell sooner or later." ?? Sooner or later? How could anyone use Linux (or any other unix-like os) without coming into contact with a UNIX shell first and foremost?
The mind boggles.
What a jerk.
That's really nice.
I wonder what your friend would think if this had happened to him? I imagine he wouldn't have been to happy about it.
I think your friend (and maybe you too, if you found it funny) have some serious ethical problems.
Just out of interest, what are the living conditions over there like?
;)
I gather that there's a lot more space than on first glance, the "legs" being inhabitable, but just how much space is there? How often do you leave? How many people are living over there with you?
How're the beds? bedrooms? bathrooms? food? What do you do for entertainment? Do you have a good sound system? (one would think that with a net connection of any great magnitude, you'd go nuts downloading mp3s
Sorry for the barrage of questions, but we (or maybe just I) want answers! Thanks.
Don't you find it at all amusing that some time in the future, a bunch of Geography students could be reviewing the 2001 census, to find that a small percentage of the population registered as members of the 'Jedi' religion?
Come on, people, this is comedy!
Fortunately, lasers don't tend to cause any damage to themselves by reading bad discs ;)
In what way is this insane? Downloading a large file is insane? Even if it takes a long time, it's still sane, and definately not a 'stunt'.
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Come on! Bender has to be one of the most consistently funny characters on TV. Almost everything he says makes me laugh out loud, or at least think "Where the hell did that come from?".
Dr. Zoidberg? Funny, but I always catch myself feeling really sorry for him. He seems so lonely, with no friends, at all.
Actually, come to think of it, Futurama has some very serious undertones in relation to loss and isolation. Don't think about it, it's too depressing.
I have seen every single Simpsons episode ever aired (except a few of the newer ones), and I can quite safely say that there is no episode where you see Marge's ass. Never.
;)
Time to call that shrink
Only 3 months? I've been doing it for years.
Cable TV is good.
Reminds me of what happened to me, whilst installing OpenBSD once:
PC: Please insert MFS floppy and press enter...
I insert the MFS floppy, and promply press the power button.
Me: Wait a second... Fuck.