Rock Linux, Green Tree Linux, and Linux From Scratch are not on the list. I can only assume from the brief discriptions of each distro that this list is mostly for people who have no idea what they realy want and those 3 are a little beond even "Advanced" in that most of them require you to compile a kernel befor you can even install the OS. But no list whould be compleat with out them.
The show I remember best for this was Rossann.
They had non-branded soda, serial, milk, etc.
I don't think this was a unless they pay us issue given that there was no branding for the duration of the show and it was at one time amongst the highest rated shows. It would be interesting to ask her why that was.
Thank you for pointing this out. When I submitted the story I doubted that anyone would even understand this was realy the most evil side effect of the move. It's one thing to use Jimi Hendrix songs in car spots. It's another to have him drinking a soda that didn't exist when he was alive.
There was a case a few months ago about some kind of GPL messaging client that some how ended up being ported to windows. No mention of GPL or the parent app was included in the comercial windows port, but the port was so compleat that in the About menu it had the url of the linux based gpl app. It was mentioned on slashdot at the time in its own story.
Slackware is being cut loose from there parent company even though Slackware does something unheard of in the distro game, they make money.
So we have unprofitable easy to use distros like Mandrake cutting back and we have profitable difficult ones like Slackware being cast adrift.
Will some one wake me when this starts to make sense?
Discloser: I have slack on one box and mandrake on the other because faux-wife should not be made to use slack and i should not have to use mandrake.
Let this be a lesson to all of you:
VR still counts in RealLife(tm)
One day a Bingbong will come.
I was at first misstified why there was a story on/. that involved a ball that was not a buckyball, but I RTFA and it all made sence and made me remember that i have $2000 worth of gameing books locked up in the closet.
I am now 7 years clean from RPG's.
You are very much correct. The last major illnesses of this type to affect Americans were the influensa plauge of 1917 and pollio. We have done wonders in killing off the plauges that would have killed off large sections of humanity.
Now if only we could get people to realize the emplications of this. Those virii and bactiria that where once the tools by which the heard was thined are now absent. The other major cause of population declines was the obligitory generational war. Now that these two are gone we are breading at a pace that is unsustainable dispite overall lower birth rates.
"Even in the 20th century hospitals were packed with instruments and machines. The hospitals of 2000 have even more"
You would think that something writen just 49 years after the start of the new century would know that the year 2000 is still part of the 20th century.
And like most predictions of this type no effort has been made to mention the social problems that will result from this tech utopia.
In some places like supermarkits and music stores you can easily pay 3 times that already.
I went to W word last week and spent $12.95 on 25 CDRs. Thats still.50 a piece. The only time you can get them for a realy good price is by going to the F word and getting a spool there,
$30 for 50 CDRW.
I have already decided I am only going to use cds for music anyway because to backup 19 gig of mp3's on cdrom is just not as efficiant or as a spare harddrive.
A 4x burner can not compare to the speed of a 40 gig harddrive.
Subject: Newbie needs help
Newsgroups: alt.linux.install
I can't get linux to install on my toaster.
Can any one help me?
It has always been the joke in the past but now
that there is a realy a linux toaster we need to start a new joke for those light days on the nntp.
I recomend the founding of a non-profit org that will make sure that Linux is always on the cutting edge of silly hardware so that we will always have something to post on those aformentioned light days.
I could use a linux powered cigarette lighter.
mount/dev/flame/mnt/fire
Living in San Diego in a one bedroom with one other person. 3 lights on at any given time, one TV (the old kind with knobs), two computers (this one is a p100 juice hog).
Total= $80 - rate cap adjustment of $30 = $50 monthly bill.
And knowing that one day they will come looking for that $30 it gets stuck in a savings acount so that i dont get screwd because of their new_math(tm)
Solar paneling a house is not cost effective. Even in California. It would take about $17,000 for the equipment. Figure a $100 monthly electric bill and it would take you 14 years to pay for its slef.
Also a lot of power companies have a monopaly that says that even if you produce your own power you have to sell it to them and they will apply it as a credit on your bill.
But my next laptop is going to be solar powerd, and I am gearing up to build a prototype as a solar powerd GameBoy to get it right the first time.
In an attempt to make sure that no one impersonates me and steals my identity on the web I have taken to not spell checking anything.
I find this is easier than PGP incription and it will also make the job of the archeaoligists studying me in the coming decades much easier.
( that last part is a joke )
It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.
--Andrew Jackson
If you look at the books on the best sellers lists for non-fiction these days you will see a big echo of the TV and movie culture. Because thats what sells. And a lot of those books are more or less writen by "companies" not indaviduals. A prime example are the "autobiographys" of famous people. Most of these are writen by lackies of the publishing company that express no indapendant control at all. Then after that the book is handed off to the think tank people who diside what will sell the book, ie non ofensive contraversy and a 4th grade reading level.
What you propose is an interesting idea but that would violate free speech laws. Tell the _big media companies_ what they can not produce and you can kiss _your_ first amendment rights good bye in the same breath.
I am way too cynical for a 26 year old.
"how many companies do you need to provide programming to mass audiences"
Am I the only one who finds it disturbing that all the media dose is provide "programming"?
Last time I checked these companies also printed books, magazines and other forms of media in addition to programming like TV and movies.
Oh wait, I just had an idea, the TV news is more for intertainment than for news, magaziens are for gosiping about what you saw on the TV, and books are for cronicaling the magazines and TV shows and movies.
So I guess I was off base because ignorance is bliss and people these days are very happy not to know the details of world events. So these publicly held media companies are just following the wishes of their stock holders by dumbing down society.
In my state, CA, it is illegal for a person under the age of 18 to own a pager, cellphone, or a credit card. Now thats not to say that people obay the law but it is none the less the law.
So long as restrictions like this persist, and I think they should, then the phone companys should be required to maintain payphones.
Slashdot Mirror
Rock Linux, Green Tree Linux, and Linux From Scratch are not on the list. I can only assume from the brief discriptions of each distro that this list is mostly for people who have no idea what they realy want and those 3 are a little beond even "Advanced" in that most of them require you to compile a kernel befor you can even install the OS. But no list whould be compleat with out them.
Maybe they need a distributed http server to get around the /. effect.
No mouse. No X. If its something I am going to do twice a week I write a programe to do it for me.
So I guess on this little app of I would be the guy who had one tenth the number of key strokes as the adverage and no mouse clicks.
Oh, and I us a operating system that allows me to avoid having things like this put on my system in the first place.
Paul Maud`Dib turning himself into the sand-worm king
that was his son
being assassinated so to speak by immersion in a river.
his son again.
This isnt D&D. Just because people have live on differnt planits dosn't mean they are differant races. Humans where the only humanoids in the story.
As for the games vs the books, You have my vote.
Thou shall not make thinking machines.
I wonder how good the AI is in this game?
The show I remember best for this was Rossann.
They had non-branded soda, serial, milk, etc.
I don't think this was a unless they pay us issue given that there was no branding for the duration of the show and it was at one time amongst the highest rated shows. It would be interesting to ask her why that was.
Thank you for pointing this out. When I submitted the story I doubted that anyone would even understand this was realy the most evil side effect of the move. It's one thing to use Jimi Hendrix songs in car spots. It's another to have him drinking a soda that didn't exist when he was alive.
There was a case a few months ago about some kind of GPL messaging client that some how ended up being ported to windows. No mention of GPL or the parent app was included in the comercial windows port, but the port was so compleat that in the About menu it had the url of the linux based gpl app. It was mentioned on slashdot at the time in its own story.
Slackware is being cut loose from there parent company even though Slackware does something unheard of in the distro game, they make money.
So we have unprofitable easy to use distros like Mandrake cutting back and we have profitable difficult ones like Slackware being cast adrift.
Will some one wake me when this starts to make sense?
Discloser: I have slack on one box and mandrake on the other because faux-wife should not be made to use slack and i should not have to use mandrake.
Let this be a lesson to all of you:
/. that involved a ball that was not a buckyball, but I RTFA and it all made sence and made me remember that i have $2000 worth of gameing books locked up in the closet.
VR still counts in RealLife(tm)
One day a Bingbong will come.
I was at first misstified why there was a story on
I am now 7 years clean from RPG's.
You are very much correct. The last major illnesses of this type to affect Americans were the influensa plauge of 1917 and pollio. We have done wonders in killing off the plauges that would have killed off large sections of humanity.
Now if only we could get people to realize the emplications of this. Those virii and bactiria that where once the tools by which the heard was thined are now absent. The other major cause of population declines was the obligitory generational war. Now that these two are gone we are breading at a pace that is unsustainable dispite overall lower birth rates.
http://www.acponline.org/journals/annals/15oct97/s mallpox.htm
Not cured. Everyone who got it died.
"32. Widespread cures for viral disease
Compared to 1950? Again absolutely yes"
We have wiped out some virii from existence through the use of inoculations but we have as of yet to cure any virus.
And if we did find a cure for a virus it would not see the light of day.
Ancient Pharmaceutical Proverb:
Cure a virus get a one-quarter revenue increase.
Treat a symptom and have a sustainable business model.
"Even in the 20th century hospitals were packed with instruments and machines. The hospitals of 2000 have even more"
You would think that something writen just 49 years after the start of the new century would know that the year 2000 is still part of the 20th century.
And like most predictions of this type no effort has been made to mention the social problems that will result from this tech utopia.
In some places like supermarkits and music stores you can easily pay 3 times that already.
.50 a piece. The only time you can get them for a realy good price is by going to the F word and getting a spool there,
I went to W word last week and spent $12.95 on 25 CDRs. Thats still
$30 for 50 CDRW.
I have already decided I am only going to use cds for music anyway because to backup 19 gig of mp3's on cdrom is just not as efficiant or as a spare harddrive.
A 4x burner can not compare to the speed of a 40 gig harddrive.
if i did the math right we only have to wait 50 years for the 47000km tubes to be avalable
Subject: Newbie needs help
/dev/flame /mnt/fire
Newsgroups: alt.linux.install
I can't get linux to install on my toaster.
Can any one help me?
It has always been the joke in the past but now
that there is a realy a linux toaster we need to start a new joke for those light days on the nntp.
I recomend the founding of a non-profit org that will make sure that Linux is always on the cutting edge of silly hardware so that we will always have something to post on those aformentioned light days.
I could use a linux powered cigarette lighter.
mount
Now you can safely fly drugs across Chile without fear of losing a valuble pilot.
Living in San Diego in a one bedroom with one other person. 3 lights on at any given time, one TV (the old kind with knobs), two computers (this one is a p100 juice hog).
Total= $80 - rate cap adjustment of $30 = $50 monthly bill.
And knowing that one day they will come looking for that $30 it gets stuck in a savings acount so that i dont get screwd because of their new_math(tm)
Solar paneling a house is not cost effective. Even in California. It would take about $17,000 for the equipment. Figure a $100 monthly electric bill and it would take you 14 years to pay for its slef.
Also a lot of power companies have a monopaly that says that even if you produce your own power you have to sell it to them and they will apply it as a credit on your bill.
But my next laptop is going to be solar powerd, and I am gearing up to build a prototype as a solar powerd GameBoy to get it right the first time.
In an attempt to make sure that no one impersonates me and steals my identity on the web I have taken to not spell checking anything.
I find this is easier than PGP incription and it will also make the job of the archeaoligists studying me in the coming decades much easier.
( that last part is a joke )
It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.
--Andrew Jackson
What you propose is an interesting idea but that would violate free speech laws. Tell the _big media companies_ what they can not produce and you can kiss _your_ first amendment rights good bye in the same breath. I am way too cynical for a 26 year old.
"how many companies do you need to provide programming to mass audiences"
Am I the only one who finds it disturbing that all the media dose is provide "programming"?
Last time I checked these companies also printed books, magazines and other forms of media in addition to programming like TV and movies.
Oh wait, I just had an idea, the TV news is more for intertainment than for news, magaziens are for gosiping about what you saw on the TV, and books are for cronicaling the magazines and TV shows and movies.
So I guess I was off base because ignorance is bliss and people these days are very happy not to know the details of world events. So these publicly held media companies are just following the wishes of their stock holders by dumbing down society.
"All your indapendant thought are belong to us"
On almost any contract, contest, etc you will find:
"void where prohibited by law"
I am sure some here in the Verizon fine print you will find that.
I will keep this brief.
In my state, CA, it is illegal for a person under the age of 18 to own a pager, cellphone, or a credit card. Now thats not to say that people obay the law but it is none the less the law.
So long as restrictions like this persist, and I think they should, then the phone companys should be required to maintain payphones.