..and it doesn't make much sence. "Sience", many argue, is giving us "unnatural" ways of surviving and carrying on "low quality" genes. I disagree. In a larger scale our advances in sience are minimal. Noone is complaining about our ancient ancestors getting "unnatural" advantages against predators just because they learned to use fire and tools made of stone or wood.
Essentialy we're in the same kind of situation. A tiger uses it's teeth to kill and stripes to hide. These special characteristics help the tiger survive and breed. Our special characteristic is our brain. As I see it: Anything our brain helps us with is natural. Even if it means we'd become wheelchair sitting, websurfing, tubefed weaklings who'd die in an power outage. Shit happens! The dinosaurs died... Maybe because they became to specialised? The same could happen to us. The univers wouldn't care less..:).. So enjoy your life as it is.
Cheers...
U guys never learn, please NO Linking to GeoCities
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Linking from/. to something on geocities is pointless. Why? because of this:
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If you are going to put info somewhere don't use sites with limitations on bandwith. If it's not your info: Just don't link to it, or even better: mirror it!..
*sigh*... I've tried to submit giFT related stories several times and gotten rejected all the time. Seems almost as if/. editors would rather have stories about bitching over KaZaA/Morpheus than helping make an important alternative project more well known and supported. The result of this can clearly be seen in this answer to your post further down.
If you are tired of bitching and want to do something about it then get invovlved.
Your trenchcoat example is completely irrelevant. I was opposed to judging people by names. Something you are born with. Nothing that you can deside to "wear" on any given day. Deviant behaviour always raises attention. But for fsck's sake don't judge me by my name!
You will be praying for "alarmists" when the cuting of civil liberties has reached you and the ones not affected yet call you an alarmist. Rest assured that I am not praying for that day to come.
Is it racism to point out the simple fact that 20 out of 20 9-11 terrorists and the famed Shoe-Bomber were those fellas with more consonants than vowels?
Suposing that by the "more consonants..." thingie you mean they had "funny sounding names".. It's not racism to point that fact out. It's just a simple fact. But to harass people because of appearences ONLY is prejudice and racism.
Why do you think bil Laden hates Americans. Do you think he hates them because he has met all of them had a nice talk to each and every one of them and come to the conclussion that Amercans suck and should be killed? I can assure you that he most probably has not made such a thorough investigation! He's being the same kind of fool like every other racist who judges all by the knowledge he has over a few. He probably has a problem with some imperialistic pricks but does the stupid mistake on blaming everyone in the same group. That's prejudice and racism and it's especially common in times of uncertainty.
but four guys with more consonants than vowels in their name sitting in different parts of the plane probably would. And what the hell's wrong with that?
but most of the "normal" users, i.e. non-editors, prefer to mod down. It's some kind of sadist thing. I know the recomendations are to mod up rather than down, but is you look at how incredibly fast the firs posts (admitedly almost always irelevant) are moded down you'd get the idea.
There are to many CowboyModerators out there (no pun intended to CowboyNeal) who just shoot from the hip. I think that one major reason for this is the fact that many users think the mod system is broken.
I've always been opposed to the notions of "it was better before", "I miss the good old times" and so forth. But now finaly I am too getting there. I've been reading/. since 1998 and will probably continue, but I'm becoming more and more dissapointed.
I miss the time when you could yourself mark you post Offtopic by inserting an "(OT)" mark in the subject and the users mods understood that "Ok, it's marked offtopic" and let it be. If some users were interested they continued the thread, now what is wrong with that!? That was a perfectway to have spin-off discussions. I mean if you are discussing Transmetas Crusoe it's easy to start speaking of other processors and suddendly you are talking Z80-assembly!! What the hell is wrong with that!?
I hope this pos gets through and it will be interesting to see the moderations that will be done on this comment. Let me tell you that I'm NOT holding my breath... I'm starting to care less and less and kindof feeling a Golum-like transformation going on towards... dare I say it... trolling...
Propz to all downmodded Offtopicers...
go fsck you daddy some more
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you ex-troll sissy boy... here you get a special +1 answer.. why? cause karma is for burning (for those that have it..;].. )
there was something wrong with the database and the storybody WAS EMPTY!.. now it's working though... Did anyone else see that?.. or am I simply refreshing MUCH to often?..:)
whatever..
..has a lot more chances to survive on Europa which has Ice and presumably water. If you have read you Arthur C. Clarke you'd know that Jupiter is an "unlit" star so it's better suited to kill any leftover bacteria.
"Celseste" was a typo.. I was talking about "Celeste" and I ment celestial as in "from the heavens" not as in color, and then that it also means azul celeste as in color..:)
That StarOffice was not developed bu SUN from the start. They bought it from some german company which name curently eludes me.
In my company we have 2 MS Office Licenses (one 97 and one 2k) and the rest of us run StarOffice 5.2. It saves us some cash and spares us time in the evergoing "keep-your-licenses-at-handy-just-in-case-struggle ".
Now that SUN moved away from the "let's teake over the desktop" strategy used in 5.2 I think that the suite will become even more attractive.
Cudos to SUN from me and my pals for keeping StarOffice alive. We NEED alternatives. No matter if the are free or not.
In 1996 when I started collecting mp3 files I very quickly hit the 50Mb quota at our Unis computer society. I didn't want to erase files and since the CD-writer was booked for the next week I had to backup my mp3's to tape..:).. Thus I learned the true purpose of the tar command.. I later continued using the tapes for backup and storage since hardly anyone used them. I had to go from the terminal room to where the tape device was: in the serverroom which was deep down in the basement of the Uni..:).. Those were _those_ days..
As you and others have said KaZaA does include spyware. In older versions it was optionable, but in the latest so called "security fix" it's mandatory.
However. There are alternatives and one of the less known ones is Grokster. This is also an official client to the fasttrack network and it does also include spyware but you can disable it. Actually it's disabled by default! I've been using it and when I've checked with AdAware it's green. So go get it!
Meanwhile. What happened to giFT/OpenFT?? I'm still waiting..:)
Kazaa is an old word for cat. It's in some ancient european/german language. I can't find the reference but some good KH can surely make a nice google search. I guess they were reffering to napster in a way. Also Kazaa was formely Opennap for those of you who didn't know. Hmm.. or was it music city, I don't remeber anymore. anyway they begun as a part of the opennap network and when napster died - they florished. Whan they die someone else will take over ad infinitum.. or at least untill the RIAA gives up or we all are dead.. whichever comes first.. sorry for the fuzzyness I'm tired..:)..
Are you the original pankake ninja? By the user# I see it's a new login, but still... I've missed the Pankeka Ninja.. One of few funny trolls(?) on/. IMHO..
It's an "Out of virtual memory" message. (In swedish) And I've seen quite a few of these. Also on the arrival/departure screens on Arlanda/Stockholm you see failiures quite often.
Gnutella and other p2p networks is the answer...
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If someone with access to a DevKit can pull the same stunt and is NOT a meta-karma-whore looking for recognition, then he/she can release the result anonymously as let's say an ISO image on a p2p network and then it's for the rest of us lamers to just keep shareing it and enjoying it..:)..
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Essentialy we're in the same kind of situation. A tiger uses it's teeth to kill and stripes to hide. These special characteristics help the tiger survive and breed. Our special characteristic is our brain. As I see it: Anything our brain helps us with is natural. Even if it means we'd become wheelchair sitting, websurfing, tubefed weaklings who'd die in an power outage. Shit happens! The dinosaurs died... Maybe because they became to specialised? The same could happen to us. The univers wouldn't care less.. :) .. So enjoy your life as it is.
Cheers...
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The web site you are trying to access has exceeded its allocated data transfer. Visit our help area for more information.
If you are going to put info somewhere don't use sites with limitations on bandwith.
If it's not your info: Just don't link to it, or even better: mirror it!..
Cheers...
Given the fact that itäs open source, once it's working fine how hard do you think it will be to make it work under Windows or any other OS?..
;-)
*sigh*
If you are tired of bitching and want to do something about it then get invovlved.
Cheers...
You will be praying for "alarmists" when the cuting of civil liberties has reached you and the ones not affected yet call you an alarmist. Rest assured that I am not praying for that day to come.
Cheers..
Is it racism to point out the simple fact that 20 out of 20 9-11 terrorists and the famed Shoe-Bomber were those fellas with more consonants than vowels?
Suposing that by the "more consonants..." thingie you mean they had "funny sounding names".. It's not racism to point that fact out. It's just a simple fact. But to harass people because of appearences ONLY is prejudice and racism.
Why do you think bil Laden hates Americans. Do you think he hates them because he has met all of them had a nice talk to each and every one of them and come to the conclussion that Amercans suck and should be killed? I can assure you that he most probably has not made such a thorough investigation! He's being the same kind of fool like every other racist who judges all by the knowledge he has over a few. He probably has a problem with some imperialistic pricks but does the stupid mistake on blaming everyone in the same group. That's prejudice and racism and it's especially common in times of uncertainty.
Cheers...
That's called racism, fool. That's what's wrong.
c is not misidentified. c is the speed of light in vacuum. It can and does vary in gas/liquid/solids.
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://slashdot.org
There are to many CowboyModerators out there (no pun intended to CowboyNeal) who just shoot from the hip. I think that one major reason for this is the fact that many users think the mod system is broken.
I've always been opposed to the notions of "it was better before", "I miss the good old times" and so forth. But now finaly I am too getting there. I've been reading /. since 1998 and will probably continue, but I'm becoming more and more dissapointed.
I miss the time when you could yourself mark you post Offtopic by inserting an "(OT)" mark in the subject and the users mods understood that "Ok, it's marked offtopic" and let it be. If some users were interested they continued the thread, now what is wrong with that!? That was a perfectway to have spin-off discussions. I mean if you are discussing Transmetas Crusoe it's easy to start speaking of other processors and suddendly you are talking Z80-assembly!! What the hell is wrong with that!?
I hope this pos gets through and it will be interesting to see the moderations that will be done on this comment. Let me tell you that I'm NOT holding my breath... I'm starting to care less and less and kindof feeling a Golum-like transformation going on towards... dare I say it... trolling...
Propz to all downmodded Offtopicers...
you ex-troll sissy boy... here you get a special +1 answer.. why? cause karma is for burning (for those that have it.. ;] .. )
whatever..
Cheers..
need we say more!...
..has a lot more chances to survive on Europa which has Ice and presumably water. If you have read you Arthur C. Clarke you'd know that Jupiter is an "unlit" star so it's better suited to kill any leftover bacteria.
"Celseste" was a typo.. I was talking about "Celeste" and I ment celestial as in "from the heavens" not as in color, and then that it also means azul celeste as in color.. :)
In my company we have 2 MS Office Licenses (one 97 and one 2k) and the rest of us run StarOffice 5.2. It saves us some cash and spares us time in the evergoing "keep-your-licenses-at-handy-just-in-case-struggle ".
Now that SUN moved away from the "let's teake over the desktop" strategy used in 5.2 I think that the suite will become even more attractive.
Cudos to SUN from me and my pals for keeping StarOffice alive. We NEED alternatives. No matter if the are free or not.
Cheers..
In 1996 when I started collecting mp3 files I very quickly hit the 50Mb quota at our Unis computer society. I didn't want to erase files and since the CD-writer was booked for the next week I had to backup my mp3's to tape.. :) .. Thus I learned the true purpose of the tar command.. I later continued using the tapes for backup and storage since hardly anyone used them. I had to go from the terminal room to where the tape device was: in the serverroom which was deep down in the basement of the Uni.. :) .. Those were _those_ days..
Celseste means celestial or "light blue" in Spanish.. :)
However. There are alternatives and one of the less known ones is Grokster. This is also an official client to the fasttrack network and it does also include spyware but you can disable it. Actually it's disabled by default! I've been using it and when I've checked with AdAware it's green. So go get it!
Meanwhile. What happened to giFT/OpenFT?? I'm still waiting.. :)
Kazaa is an old word for cat. It's in some ancient european/german language. I can't find the reference but some good KH can surely make a nice google search. I guess they were reffering to napster in a way. Also Kazaa was formely Opennap for those of you who didn't know. Hmm.. or was it music city, I don't remeber anymore. anyway they begun as a part of the opennap network and when napster died - they florished. Whan they die someone else will take over ad infinitum.. or at least untill the RIAA gives up or we all are dead.. whichever comes first.. sorry for the fuzzyness I'm tired.. :) ..
I was like refering to this ninja.
Peace out.
(Hey, it's only Karma!)
So you are the one responsible for this!!
Hey guys! Lets /. him!!
For great justice!!
Err.. Now I need some sleep... :-P
It's an "Out of virtual memory" message. (In swedish) And I've seen quite a few of these. Also on the arrival/departure screens on Arlanda/Stockholm you see failiures quite often.
Cheers...