By better support in Xfree86, I mean actually supported by Xfree86, which NVidia is officially not. You have to get NVidia's closed-source drivers directly from them. They may be better, or they may have problems that won't be fixed, you have to put your trust in NVidia.
3dfx may be falling behind the times, but it looks like they give you the most bang for your buck under Linux. The Vooodoo3 has possibly the best driver support in Xfree86 4, and should be sufficient for playing Q3 Arena, and fun Mesa 3D stuff. For this reason, I just purchased myself a slightly used Voodoo3 3000 w/ 32 megs of RAM from a guy on ebay for $69 !! (how's that for value?) I'm just hoping it gets here in one piece and works as advertised.
Because you recieved this information from a Circuit City salesperson, we can safely assume that the oposite is true, and that Micro$oft has hardcoded the OS on chips that are soldered together, making it necessary to buy a new X-box every couple of months for bug fixes and security updates.
/rant/
I would rather have a democratic government making the laws than the current system, where only corporate money has a say. I would rather listen to "yahoos with wild intentions" than hear Gore and Bush debate over non-issues that don't matter to me, while ignoring the ones that do. And I would damn sure rather pay for your broken arm than for the shit I'm paying for now, like the joke they call the Drug War, billion dollar nuclear weapons, and putting bullshit internet filtering in schools and public libraries.
I'm getting somewhat pissed off at the Libertarians that hang around here. Government should be a service to those that are governed. I'm sick of paying for a government that wastes our money on so many deliberately failing and useless programs, but I don't want a Libertarian government that does nothing at all./end rant/
That said, I am voting Libertarian for my congressman, because I believe the first step should be giving the power and rights back to the people. But I hope to see some more Greens in congress as well, because we also need to realize that government has a responsibility to the people.
What is wrong with our prison system? Why are we spending billions of dollars per year to jail nonvilolent drug offenders, who are mostly young people and minorities? Is this system fair and is it working to combat the "drug problem", if such a thing exists, or is it just making money for the prison corporations? What are the alternatives, and how do they compare in terms of cost to taxpayers and benefit to society? Is the death penalty working? Does it deter homicides? Is it discriminatory against minorities and the poor, who often cannot get competent legal counsel? Is it justifiable, when it costs more of the taxpayer's money to pursue a capital case toward execution than it does to have full life imprisonment without parole?
Why doesn't it work on Linux? I thought Java applets were supposed to be cross-platform. What is it about their applet that is windows specific? Are they using something micro$oft added to the Java runtime engine, or what?
Also interesting to note that 33 of those are installer problems. And here's a link to the actual bugzilla query page, if you, like slashdot, couldn't find it:
I'm going to play the whiny Linux zealot for a while. When, oh when, will we have a Playstation Emulator for Linux? Seriously though, does anyone know of any bleem!-style projects under way to emulate Playstation on Linux?
I'm getting my self cable modem service for Christmas. I just got put on the waiting list today, so hopefully they should be coming to install it before the holidays.
This is the LAST time I am going to repeat myself. As it says on the page that you quoted:
This platform was adopted by the delegates of the membership of the Greens/Green Party USA (G/GPUSA) at their annual Green
Congress, meeting in Chicago, May 26-28, 2000. It reflects the majority views of the G/GPUSA membership.
G/GPUSA's national officers, spokespeople, and National Committee are expected to act in a manner consistent with the policy framework set by this platform. In keeping with G/GPUSA's structure of "democratic decentralism" where accountability is bottom-up, not top-down, the platform is not binding on the state and local affiliates of the Greens/Green Party USA.
This platform, therefore, does not necessarily reflect in every respect the views of Green Party candidates at any level, including Ralph Nader and Winona LaDuke, Green Party candidates for President and Vice-President in 2000.
The difference that you seem unable to grasp between the Greens and other political parties is this idea of Decentralization. The party system Sucks. You can't divide every issue into two sides, or even three. Green candidates, unlike Republicrats, are not controlled by a party. You don't agree with the national Green platform, I don't agree with the national Green platform, and neither does Ralph Nader. In the Green Party, that's fine, and people are expected to have different opinions. We should be able to vote for a candidate that represents what we believe in, instead of being forced to choose the lesser of two evils. Or worse yet, not have a choice at all, when the two hand-picked candidates take the same stance on all the issues.
-- "The Taxpayer gets to keep more of his own money.
Of course, by taxpayer you don't mean the bottom 95% of the population. No, you mean that top 1% of the population, whose wealth is more than that of the bottom 95% all together. Through their corporations' control of the government they will make sure that "everyone has lower taxes", all while they squeeze the economy for all it's worth, increasing oil prices, restricting fair use of products, passing laws like the DMCA. What I'm talking about requires one to see beyond the whole Democrat/Republican "there are only two sides to everything" viewpoint. The answer is not more tax breaks and it's not more government control. The first step is getting the corporations OUT of government. And that's something the Republicrats are unwilling to do.
Since you don't seem to care very much about the issues (I guess they don't affect you), and you would like to see partisan politics continue on unchanged, I ask you this: How is the corporate control of government benefitting you? Is your company making more money by selling products with heavier restrictions on fair use, or off of a common sense idea they patented? Does that mean you are making more money? Or is it all going to that 1% ? Or maybe you are that 1% ?
And where the hell are you getting this idea of nationalizing corporations? As I said before, there is no "green party platform". Just because one Green candidate proposed to do something does not mean that any/all Green party candidates agree. Can you show me one time where Nader suggested nationalizing corporations?
You are absolutely right. If these values sound ambiguous, that's intentional. It's easy to say you agree to these things, but the very question is how can a government work towards these goals? Unfortunately it's not so simple as strong government control, this compromises the principles of both grassroots democracy and decentralization. Same goes for socialism/communism, systems that sacrifice personal freedom for prosperity or equality.
Republicans may claim to agree with these ideals, but may have some problems when it comes to things like living wage, nonviolence (demilitarization).
Likewise Democrats would probably have problems with decentralization of government and grassroots democracy.
There's more to it than you might think. Perhaps you should read a little more closely. The answer is not simple, but it lies in putting the power back in the hands of the people, getting corporate interests out of government, and government (through the people) restricting the power of corporations(NOT socialism/government controlled companies).
There is no simple solution, but something has to change. Unless of course, you believe that the current situation in government politics is fine, and should continue on the same path. (elect BushGore, watch the rich get richer and the poor get fucked over)
How about this? A member of the green party needs only to adhere to these 10 key values. The candidate's platform is what THEY feel is important, unlike Republicrats, where the platform is controlled by the party. Ralph Nader's platform may be shocking to people who aren't used to having to consider real issues.
So, what exactly are you saying, Katz? That politics just doesn't matter to us "enlightened" citizens of The Net? This "politics sucks, so we can just ignore it" attitude is one thing I find really frightening about the Net culture. This kind of thing is funny to hear coming from Slahdot, considering how you are always posting outraged articles about the freedoms that are being taken away from us every day by the marriage of politics and corporations.
I am one of those young people that you think are just apathetic and disinterested in politics. The reason people have become disinterested in politics is that they have no say in it. We just tell ourselves that the political system is working fine without us, while it's being hijacked by corporate interests. Now what was a two party system has merged into a single party system with two faces, two identical candidates backed by the same corporations. Perhaps you will wish you hadn't been so quick to declare politics dead, when they take away your right to print articles saying what you believe. To quote Ralph Nader: "If you're not turned on to politics, politics will turn on you."
Well, so long as it doesn't break all the dependencies that is fine with me. The next question is: Will Helix Update work with the new version of RPM? I'm sure Helix Code will release a version of the Updater for RedHat 7 in the near future, but there have been some updates in the last couple of days that I would like to get. Then again, by the time my CD gets here they probably will have updated it for 7. Damn, that's what I love about free software.
This is the big question on my mind. I'm definitely upgrading, but I prefer the current Helix Gnome to what ever version Red Hat is going to include. So the question is: Will the installer replace _helix_ rpms?
You trolls need to find something more productive to do with all that creative energy. Maybe you should write the next Star Wars script? (probably do better than Lucas)
Maybe if they lose enough of the mainstream market it won't be so un-hip to use Redhat?
I run Redhat. I know that makes me less "l33T" than if I ran, say, Slackware. I bought my Redhat CD, way back at 6.0, with the book. As a newbie I found their book to be somewhat helpful. I still run Redhat because I just haven't found anything that better suits me. I'm not enough of a zealot for Debian, I don't know anything about Suse or Turbolinux, and Mandrake just scares me. So Redhat it is. It's a great system for those who like to tweak and mess around with the system, but don't want to worry about breaking it completely. Although the stability of the next release is anyone's guess, 6.2 has been a good solid base for me.
Besides, what other distro has such a bad-ass logo to compare with the shadowy guy in the red fedora?
I've been considering getting a laptop. But if Linux won't run flawlessly on it, it's not worth anything to me. Anyone have any suggestions, or links to lists of laptops that run linux? My budget is somewhat limited, so older or refurbished models will also be considered.
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By better support in Xfree86, I mean actually supported by Xfree86, which NVidia is officially not. You have to get NVidia's closed-source drivers directly from them. They may be better, or they may have problems that won't be fixed, you have to put your trust in NVidia.
3dfx may be falling behind the times, but it looks like they give you the most bang for your buck under Linux. The Vooodoo3 has possibly the best driver support in Xfree86 4, and should be sufficient for playing Q3 Arena, and fun Mesa 3D stuff. For this reason, I just purchased myself a slightly used Voodoo3 3000 w/ 32 megs of RAM from a guy on ebay for $69 !! (how's that for value?) I'm just hoping it gets here in one piece and works as advertised.
Big boys don't cry, they sue.
Because you recieved this information from a Circuit City salesperson, we can safely assume that the oposite is true, and that Micro$oft has hardcoded the OS on chips that are soldered together, making it necessary to buy a new X-box every couple of months for bug fixes and security updates.
/rant/ I would rather have a democratic government making the laws than the current system, where only corporate money has a say. I would rather listen to "yahoos with wild intentions" than hear Gore and Bush debate over non-issues that don't matter to me, while ignoring the ones that do. And I would damn sure rather pay for your broken arm than for the shit I'm paying for now, like the joke they call the Drug War, billion dollar nuclear weapons, and putting bullshit internet filtering in schools and public libraries. I'm getting somewhat pissed off at the Libertarians that hang around here. Government should be a service to those that are governed. I'm sick of paying for a government that wastes our money on so many deliberately failing and useless programs, but I don't want a Libertarian government that does nothing at all. /end rant/
That said, I am voting Libertarian for my congressman, because I believe the first step should be giving the power and rights back to the people. But I hope to see some more Greens in congress as well, because we also need to realize that government has a responsibility to the people.
Ive all ways concidered Slashdot too be just like real news, but without profreading.
What is wrong with our prison system? Why are we spending billions of dollars per year to jail nonvilolent drug offenders, who are mostly young people and minorities? Is this system fair and is it working to combat the "drug problem", if such a thing exists, or is it just making money for the prison corporations? What are the alternatives, and how do they compare in terms of cost to taxpayers and benefit to society? Is the death penalty working? Does it deter homicides? Is it discriminatory against minorities and the poor, who often cannot get competent legal counsel? Is it justifiable, when it costs more of the taxpayer's money to pursue a capital case toward execution than it does to have full life imprisonment without parole?
Why doesn't it work on Linux? I thought Java applets were supposed to be cross-platform. What is it about their applet that is windows specific? Are they using something micro$oft added to the Java runtime engine, or what?
Also interesting to note that 33 of those are installer problems. And here's a link to the actual bugzilla query page, if you, like slashdot, couldn't find it:
Try it yourself.
product: red hat linux
version: 7.0
status: new, assigned, reopened
severity: security, high, normal, low
returns: 137 bugs, 42 security or high severity, most trivial.
I wonder what kind of crack Taco's been smoking today...
I'm going to play the whiny Linux zealot for a while. When, oh when, will we have a Playstation Emulator for Linux? Seriously though, does anyone know of any bleem!-style projects under way to emulate Playstation on Linux?
I'm getting my self cable modem service for Christmas. I just got put on the waiting list today, so hopefully they should be coming to install it before the holidays.
I was going to get a patent for Common Sense, but then I realized that noone would ever use it.
Not anymore. All their stockholders just sold! har har har
Got to admit, that christian review is almost funnier than the movie.
This is the LAST time I am going to repeat myself. As it says on the page that you quoted:
This platform was adopted by the delegates of the membership of the Greens/Green Party USA (G/GPUSA) at their annual Green
Congress, meeting in Chicago, May 26-28, 2000. It reflects the majority views of the G/GPUSA membership.
G/GPUSA's national officers, spokespeople, and National Committee are expected to act in a manner consistent with the policy framework set by this platform. In keeping with G/GPUSA's structure of "democratic decentralism" where accountability is bottom-up, not top-down, the platform is not binding on the state and local affiliates of the Greens/Green Party USA.
This platform, therefore, does not necessarily reflect in every respect the views of Green Party candidates at any level, including Ralph Nader and Winona LaDuke, Green Party candidates for President and Vice-President in 2000.
The difference that you seem unable to grasp between the Greens and other political parties is this idea of Decentralization. The party system Sucks. You can't divide every issue into two sides, or even three. Green candidates, unlike Republicrats, are not controlled by a party. You don't agree with the national Green platform, I don't agree with the national Green platform, and neither does Ralph Nader. In the Green Party, that's fine, and people are expected to have different opinions. We should be able to vote for a candidate that represents what we believe in, instead of being forced to choose the lesser of two evils. Or worse yet, not have a choice at all, when the two hand-picked candidates take the same stance on all the issues.
-- "The Taxpayer gets to keep more of his own money.
Of course, by taxpayer you don't mean the bottom 95% of the population. No, you mean that top 1% of the population, whose wealth is more than that of the bottom 95% all together. Through their corporations' control of the government they will make sure that "everyone has lower taxes", all while they squeeze the economy for all it's worth, increasing oil prices, restricting fair use of products, passing laws like the DMCA. What I'm talking about requires one to see beyond the whole Democrat/Republican "there are only two sides to everything" viewpoint. The answer is not more tax breaks and it's not more government control. The first step is getting the corporations OUT of government. And that's something the Republicrats are unwilling to do.
Since you don't seem to care very much about the issues (I guess they don't affect you), and you would like to see partisan politics continue on unchanged, I ask you this: How is the corporate control of government benefitting you? Is your company making more money by selling products with heavier restrictions on fair use, or off of a common sense idea they patented? Does that mean you are making more money? Or is it all going to that 1% ? Or maybe you are that 1% ?
And where the hell are you getting this idea of nationalizing corporations? As I said before, there is no "green party platform". Just because one Green candidate proposed to do something does not mean that any/all Green party candidates agree. Can you show me one time where Nader suggested nationalizing corporations?
You are absolutely right. If these values sound ambiguous, that's intentional. It's easy to say you agree to these things, but the very question is how can a government work towards these goals? Unfortunately it's not so simple as strong government control, this compromises the principles of both grassroots democracy and decentralization. Same goes for socialism/communism, systems that sacrifice personal freedom for prosperity or equality.
Republicans may claim to agree with these ideals, but may have some problems when it comes to things like living wage, nonviolence (demilitarization).
Likewise Democrats would probably have problems with decentralization of government and grassroots democracy.
There's more to it than you might think. Perhaps you should read a little more closely. The answer is not simple, but it lies in putting the power back in the hands of the people, getting corporate interests out of government, and government (through the people) restricting the power of corporations(NOT socialism/government controlled companies).
There is no simple solution, but something has to change. Unless of course, you believe that the current situation in government politics is fine, and should continue on the same path. (elect BushGore, watch the rich get richer and the poor get fucked over)
How about this? A member of the green party needs only to adhere to these 10 key values. The candidate's platform is what THEY feel is important, unlike Republicrats, where the platform is controlled by the party. Ralph Nader's platform may be shocking to people who aren't used to having to consider real issues.
So, what exactly are you saying, Katz? That politics just doesn't matter to us "enlightened" citizens of The Net? This "politics sucks, so we can just ignore it" attitude is one thing I find really frightening about the Net culture. This kind of thing is funny to hear coming from Slahdot, considering how you are always posting outraged articles about the freedoms that are being taken away from us every day by the marriage of politics and corporations.
I am one of those young people that you think are just apathetic and disinterested in politics. The reason people have become disinterested in politics is that they have no say in it. We just tell ourselves that the political system is working fine without us, while it's being hijacked by corporate interests. Now what was a two party system has merged into a single party system with two faces, two identical candidates backed by the same corporations. Perhaps you will wish you hadn't been so quick to declare politics dead, when they take away your right to print articles saying what you believe. To quote Ralph Nader: "If you're not turned on to politics, politics will turn on you."
Well, so long as it doesn't break all the dependencies that is fine with me. The next question is: Will Helix Update work with the new version of RPM? I'm sure Helix Code will release a version of the Updater for RedHat 7 in the near future, but there have been some updates in the last couple of days that I would like to get. Then again, by the time my CD gets here they probably will have updated it for 7. Damn, that's what I love about free software.
This is the big question on my mind. I'm definitely upgrading, but I prefer the current Helix Gnome to what ever version Red Hat is going to include. So the question is: Will the installer replace _helix_ rpms?
You trolls need to find something more productive to do with all that creative energy. Maybe you should write the next Star Wars script? (probably do better than Lucas)
Maybe if they lose enough of the mainstream market it won't be so un-hip to use Redhat?
I run Redhat. I know that makes me less "l33T" than if I ran, say, Slackware. I bought my Redhat CD, way back at 6.0, with the book. As a newbie I found their book to be somewhat helpful. I still run Redhat because I just haven't found anything that better suits me. I'm not enough of a zealot for Debian, I don't know anything about Suse or Turbolinux, and Mandrake just scares me. So Redhat it is. It's a great system for those who like to tweak and mess around with the system, but don't want to worry about breaking it completely. Although the stability of the next release is anyone's guess, 6.2 has been a good solid base for me.
Besides, what other distro has such a bad-ass logo to compare with the shadowy guy in the red fedora?
I've been considering getting a laptop. But if Linux won't run flawlessly on it, it's not worth anything to me. Anyone have any suggestions, or links to lists of laptops that run linux? My budget is somewhat limited, so older or refurbished models will also be considered.