But apparently they had to change the entire look of the aliens and cover most of their bodies with clothing since the budget didn't allow for extravagant makeup that was needed.P.As for Scientology, well anyone who follows a "religion" dreamt up by an average sci-fi author is an idiot. Me, I'm holding out for a Discworld relgion...
MS stock trading has been halted according to CNBC. Trading will resume at about 5:40EST they said.
Apologies if this has already been posted, but the page seems to be loading really badly.
CNBC also pointed out that Redhat stock and VA Linux stock are both up. They implied it was due to the news MS lost, but having not followed the stocks progress I can't comment.
Just another overly uptight loser who needs to find a girlfriend, and realize that there are more important things than a tasteless April 1st joke.
I know you'll probably never read this you anonymous posting tosspot, but for the record, this joke wasn't tasteless, it was crap. There's a difference. As for the girlfriend issue, I think my wife would be pissed if I tried to find a girlfriend...
This has to be the most intelligent story I've seen posted in weeks on here!
April Fools Day. What a waste of freakin' time. An excuse for a bunch of Internet websites to put crap (well, most of them do that the other 364 days (or 365) a year as well) online in the interests of so called "humor". April Fools Day stopped being amusing by the time I reached my teen years.
Hohoho, Internet spring cleaning, hahaha, gibberish posts (I'm restraining myself).
The Internet spring cleaning is mildly amusing first time around (anyone who falls for it is a total dumbass), but what the hell is this nonsense? Gee, let me do my very own April Fools Paragraph
Well, the subject says it all. How on earth do they enforce a mandatory recall. I don't know Japan, but if I buy a Playstation or whatever here, I don't have to give my name and address, so how can they enforce this? I mean over a million units sold. My guess is they'll be lucky to see 5% of them returned.
This is insanity. This whole region encoding has to go, but then on/. I'm preaching to the choir.
They're going to try and block the download of MP3's. Well if people just start zipping/gzipping them, they can't tell them from an ordinary archive. Of course the problem is GETTING people to start zipping MP3's. Whenever I trade MP3's I zip them as you do sometimes lose a few more K on the size, which over a dialup can save a few seconds or so.
Sure, they can probably block MP3 sites, but there are ways around everything.
Still, it's yet more proof that the governments on this planet are in fact owned by big business, like the recent blank CDR tax introduced here in Canada. Now every time I make a Linux CD, I get to the pay the govt. and the record companies here for the honour. When an indie band wants to make a demo CD, they now have to pay the record companies to do so...
It strikes me as rather ridiculous that they perform the nominated songs during the show. Why? It's about movies. It's not like they show the nominated MOVIES during the show... So why perform the songs that are, ultimately, crap?
If The Matrix doesn't pick up the award for best visual effects, I am paying zero attention to the Oscars ever again.
I was just hired on by a website to write a regular Linux column. (Not gratuitous plugs here.) While thrasing out ideas in my head for columns (and Lord knows Linux provides enough) I decided upon Linux humor for an upcoming column. Then here I am reading/. 2 days later and see this.
Linux doesn't take itself too seriously. (As in the people who create for it.) I mean we have these hilarious codenames for GNOME releases, and there's other items like the "Most Doomed" List, which if I recall is a list of programmers whose programs have the most bugs. Fantastic sense of humor.
I guess this is a good example of the ethic behind Linux compared to Windows. While amusing codenames are entertaining, I think as an investor I'd find it hard to invest in a company that was offering. Microsoft Windows 2000: Large Unfriendly Bear or the like. (Though the codename I just mentioned would be a good codename for Microsoft.)
Of course ethically I couldn't invest in MS anyway, but that's another story...
While it's not my favourite episode, I would LOVE to see a movie, if they do one, with the Stonecutters in it. Of course you'd HAVE to have Patrick Stewart back to do the voice of the lead Stonecutter. Maybe I'm just sold on it due to the Stonecutters song. "Who holds the back the electric car... Who made Steve Guttenberg a STAR!" Classic. And The Simpsons has gone down hill lately, but not anywhere near as bad as it got at 1 point 2 seasons ago.
And for the record, I get 2 hours of The Simpsons a day. An hour on Fox, an episode on the CBC, and another one later on a local channel. And I still sit and watch whenever I can.
What exactly is the scope of this? Does this mean that you can't say ANYTHING negative, even if you're in the media? If that IS the case (and to be honest I haven't looked into it much as I'm in Canada) surely this bill will mean the death of magazines like PC Gamer. If the latest game has this agreement, but is truly dire, the magazines aren't allowed to tell you. Draconian doesn't even BEGIN to cover this. The existing agreement is ridiculous, and wouldn't stand up in a court of law. By opening the box, you agree to the licencing agreement, but you have to open the box to READ said agreement. What kind of corporate BS is that? And now they want MORE?! We're already screwed by the current licencing agreement. Never thought I'd say this, but the software companies who proposed this are, without a doubt, SCUM.
It's insistence on installing X. I've got SuSE 6.3 installed on this machine (my not all singing and somewhat dancing P166) with X, lovely, fine. I have an old 486 dx4/100 though and did just a console install, and SuSE bitched incessantly about X missing, plus it claims certain dependencies which are total lies. If you install X there is a lot of stuff it says it depends on, when in reality, depending on the WM you run, you don't need it. Plus it insists on installing the ESound daemon if you let it, which is pretty dumb given my machine has no sound.
The person who said that you should be able to configure sound easily is right. In RH you just run sndconfig and you're away. With SuSE I had to compile sound directly into the kernel. Totally ruined the unofficial "smallest kernel" competition I was having with a friend who runs RH.
It seems governments are only around to come up with more and more stupid ideas. While I've only just read this, and maybe with time for it to sink in it will make sense, I can't understand what the point of this is. Sure, less paperwork is a fantastic idea. Having recently immigrated to Canada and had to fill in enough papers to write out Lord of the Rings, doing it electronically would have been awesome, but unless there are some INCREDIBLY stringent security measures this is WIDE open to almost insane amounts of abuse. I mean okay, forging signatures is one thing, digital forgery is going to be brain damagingly easy.
Script kiddies will have a field day with this if it takes off. I can almost see it in my minds eye...
Worker is superior though. I was using Filerunner until recently. On E it took a good 5-10 seconds to load, and can't be easily resized to an 800x600 monitor. You lose a couple of the button. Worker however fits nicely, will probably fit on a 640x480 desktop, and loads in under 2 seconds. Worker will be my file manager of choice until Opus gets ported. As an ex Amiga user, Opus was my favourite program on the Amiga. Awesome.
If the wife/girlfriend gets treated like a slave during football season, then she should dump the sorry ass loser and find a man who will truly appreciate her. I hate seeing women being treated like sh*t by men, but they can DO something about it. As for my favourite ad, the E*Trade chimp had to be the funniest. And as I'm a wrestling mark the WWF ad was pretty funny, though nowhere near as good as last years. Worst ads? The cat herding one, while pretty funny, made little sense when they got to the end. The BMW ads were pathetic, as were the website ads by the end. All these websites can take their e-business and stick it them up their e-asses and e-f*** off.
13 is the exact age I was when I got into Hitchhiker. I read the trilogy, then got tapes of the radio show. Adams' humor is universal I think. As a 13 year old I was in tears of laughter.
Games are what defines an OS or machine. Take the Amiga. In the early 90's THAT was the computer of choice in Europe. Lots of great (and not so great) games, and life was good. Then a certain software company released a certain game called DOOM. People saw that it was good. PC's were seen as serious games machines, and people moved to the PC. The games developers stopped developing for the Amiga and moved to the PC when the market grew, and the Amiga died. (As a mainstream machine.) While there's a trickle of games for Linux right now, sooner or later, hopefully, the dam will break, and the floodgates will open. Linux needs it's version of "Doom". A killer game that blows the competition away and makes people sit up and take notice. Here's to a Linux port of Championship Manager 99/00! (Not that that would sell Linux to 99.999% of the population, but oh well...)
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By this I mean could Steve Jackson games sue Activision for Interstate 76, after all it borrows heavily from Car Wars.
But apparently they had to change the entire look of the aliens and cover most of their bodies with clothing since the budget didn't allow for extravagant makeup that was needed.P.As for Scientology, well anyone who follows a "religion" dreamt up by an average sci-fi author is an idiot. Me, I'm holding out for a Discworld relgion...
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CNBC also pointed out that Redhat stock and VA Linux stock are both up. They implied it was due to the news MS lost, but having not followed the stocks progress I can't comment.
I know you'll probably never read this you anonymous posting tosspot, but for the record, this joke wasn't tasteless, it was crap. There's a difference. As for the girlfriend issue, I think my wife would be pissed if I tried to find a girlfriend...
April Fools Day. What a waste of freakin' time. An excuse for a bunch of Internet websites to put crap (well, most of them do that the other 364 days (or 365) a year as well) online in the interests of so called "humor". April Fools Day stopped being amusing by the time I reached my teen years.
Hohoho, Internet spring cleaning, hahaha, gibberish posts (I'm restraining myself).
The Internet spring cleaning is mildly amusing first time around (anyone who falls for it is a total dumbass), but what the hell is this nonsense? Gee, let me do my very own April Fools Paragraph
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HAHAHA! I'm a comedy genius... NOT!
This is insanity. This whole region encoding has to go, but then on /. I'm preaching to the choir.
They'll have to form an Adopt-a-Free-Software-Project-Project
Now if we can just get WebTV and MSN onto it, the net will be a nicer place. Also, given the quality of service from AOL, isn't already there?
The Amiga comes back from the dead so often I think it now qualifies for Messiah status...
Sure, they can probably block MP3 sites, but there are ways around everything.
Still, it's yet more proof that the governments on this planet are in fact owned by big business, like the recent blank CDR tax introduced here in Canada. Now every time I make a Linux CD, I get to the pay the govt. and the record companies here for the honour. When an indie band wants to make a demo CD, they now have to pay the record companies to do so...
Democracy my ass...
If The Matrix doesn't pick up the award for best visual effects, I am paying zero attention to the Oscars ever again.
Linux doesn't take itself too seriously. (As in the people who create for it.) I mean we have these hilarious codenames for GNOME releases, and there's other items like the "Most Doomed" List, which if I recall is a list of programmers whose programs have the most bugs. Fantastic sense of humor.
I guess this is a good example of the ethic behind Linux compared to Windows. While amusing codenames are entertaining, I think as an investor I'd find it hard to invest in a company that was offering. Microsoft Windows 2000: Large Unfriendly Bear or the like. (Though the codename I just mentioned would be a good codename for Microsoft.)
Of course ethically I couldn't invest in MS anyway, but that's another story...
Keep up the humor guys!
And for the record, I get 2 hours of The Simpsons a day. An hour on Fox, an episode on the CBC, and another one later on a local channel. And I still sit and watch whenever I can.
What exactly is the scope of this? Does this mean that you can't say ANYTHING negative, even if you're in the media? If that IS the case (and to be honest I haven't looked into it much as I'm in Canada) surely this bill will mean the death of magazines like PC Gamer. If the latest game has this agreement, but is truly dire, the magazines aren't allowed to tell you. Draconian doesn't even BEGIN to cover this. The existing agreement is ridiculous, and wouldn't stand up in a court of law. By opening the box, you agree to the licencing agreement, but you have to open the box to READ said agreement. What kind of corporate BS is that? And now they want MORE?! We're already screwed by the current licencing agreement. Never thought I'd say this, but the software companies who proposed this are, without a doubt, SCUM.
The person who said that you should be able to configure sound easily is right. In RH you just run sndconfig and you're away. With SuSE I had to compile sound directly into the kernel. Totally ruined the unofficial "smallest kernel" competition I was having with a friend who runs RH.
Script kiddies will have a field day with this if it takes off. I can almost see it in my minds eye...
Worker is superior though. I was using Filerunner until recently. On E it took a good 5-10 seconds to load, and can't be easily resized to an 800x600 monitor. You lose a couple of the button. Worker however fits nicely, will probably fit on a 640x480 desktop, and loads in under 2 seconds. Worker will be my file manager of choice until Opus gets ported. As an ex Amiga user, Opus was my favourite program on the Amiga. Awesome.
If the wife/girlfriend gets treated like a slave during football season, then she should dump the sorry ass loser and find a man who will truly appreciate her. I hate seeing women being treated like sh*t by men, but they can DO something about it. As for my favourite ad, the E*Trade chimp had to be the funniest. And as I'm a wrestling mark the WWF ad was pretty funny, though nowhere near as good as last years. Worst ads? The cat herding one, while pretty funny, made little sense when they got to the end. The BMW ads were pathetic, as were the website ads by the end. All these websites can take their e-business and stick it them up their e-asses and e-f*** off.
13 is the exact age I was when I got into Hitchhiker. I read the trilogy, then got tapes of the radio show. Adams' humor is universal I think. As a 13 year old I was in tears of laughter.
Games are what defines an OS or machine. Take the Amiga. In the early 90's THAT was the computer of choice in Europe. Lots of great (and not so great) games, and life was good. Then a certain software company released a certain game called DOOM. People saw that it was good. PC's were seen as serious games machines, and people moved to the PC. The games developers stopped developing for the Amiga and moved to the PC when the market grew, and the Amiga died. (As a mainstream machine.) While there's a trickle of games for Linux right now, sooner or later, hopefully, the dam will break, and the floodgates will open. Linux needs it's version of "Doom". A killer game that blows the competition away and makes people sit up and take notice. Here's to a Linux port of Championship Manager 99/00! (Not that that would sell Linux to 99.999% of the population, but oh well...)