If you want to read what really good journalism sounds like, pick up Great Shark Hunt, but Hunter S. Thompson, or Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream, by same, or Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72.
Stop writing all this crap that a) says nothing, b) is as in-tune with your readers as a waffle and c) is just plain poorly written.
This is pure idiocy. Firstly, shutting out XP users from FreeCraft will not make people ditch XP, it will make them ditch FreeCraft (and any game which uses it).
How come no body ever says this about games that come out for Windows-Only? "X won't make users ditch Linux, it will make them ditch X." Strangely enough, most people still use Linux, and simply by having a dual boot.
And furthermore, they're saying they don't *support* Windows XP. E.g. They will not answer questions about XP, etc, etc. My cable internet provider says the same thing about Linux. It isn't supported. Doesn't mean it won't work. They just won't help you with it. But strangely enough `dhcpcd eth0` still works fine. Go figure.
Now all those CDs I bought will actually be worth money fifty years down the road, when we all pay $10 per track, which we can only listen to once, or our brains with be zapped with 50,000 volts and our credit ratings ruined.
In case you haven't it's pretty clearly a ripoff of D&D straight across (which is all Tolken anyway.. but eh.. ).
Which is all taken from Nordic mythology anyway. Midgaard (the default Circle/Diku city) is a name straight out of Nordic mythology, as is Middle Earth. It's actually no surprise on the Circle/Diku front. The people who programmed Diku (way back in the early nineties) were students at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
I may be mistaken, but I thought I read about an OC-768 test by Qwest across the continental U.S. earlier on/. - so why is this different? OC-768 is about 40Gb/s, which is a lot faster than 401Mb/s.
He could get a pair of tweleve year old girls to carry the books for him. Hell, they'd only take up one seat in the car. If you give 'em icecream, they'll probably pack and unpack the books for you.
Uhm... No? The F117-A cost about $275mil each to produce. F22s are more expensive (not sure precisely). The "stealth bomber", I assume you're talking about is the B2-B Flying Wing, which is approx. $2.2 bil each (actually a bit less now, I think I heard as low as $1.2b). But niether are particularly effective by themselves, and niether make up a large chunk of our airforce.
However, if Bill wanted to threaten someone, he could contract F15s at about $175mil apiece, F14s at $200mil apiece, and other various 70s planes. If you put each F15 at about $250mil, including ground support, armament, etc, then they could buy 160 of them. I don't think we even have that many flying in our Airforce right now.
Start worrying when Bill starts to invest in hydrogen bomb parts, or buys Los Alamos labs.
While these branes are a cute idea in a number of respects - not just because a parallel plane full of dark matter is 100% cool old school science fiction - it strikes me that they answer "how can we match our observations to what we want to be true?" rather than "how can we match our explanations to what we observe?"
Actually, I just took a seminar on Visualizing Higher Dimensions and one of the last thing we covered was the idea of M-theory or string theory. Specificially, the idea that there's another "universe" full of dark matter, which accounts for all the extra mass we can't see. And rather than it being far away, it's right next to us, a distance about 1x10^19 times smaller than the nucleus of an atom.
If you've ever noticed how a squirrel manages to stay on the exact opposite side of a tree when you chase it, the idea's the same. That "universe" is just on the other side of space-time, and no matter which way we move, we can't see it, 'cause it's always on the opposite side. Perhaps that's where anti-matter comes from. Who knows.
Anyway. AFAIR, I think that Stephen Hawking proposed something similar for his phD thesis, except more along the lines of: "The universe will eventually stop expanding, collapse, and re-big-bang." So cyclic theories are not new.
So the branes might be a "cute idea" to you, but they might also be right. The important thing is to keep your mind open about what possibilies there are, and not just focus on what "feels right" or wrong.:)
What would KDE be without Konq? Same thing as Windows. Not really usable the way it was intended.
I used KDE for about a year, quite happily, without ever touching Konquerer. I'm not sure if I even bothered to install it. It still manages windows. Nice menus. Multiple desktops. Does everything it needs to do. Hell, there are other file browsers out there that you could use if you really need a GUI for that.
...the reason why we don't watch the commercials is because there's so goddamn many of them. In a 30 minute show, there's usually 3-4 2 minute commercial blocks. That means nearly 1/3rd of the show is commercials.
Perhaps they should take their cue from Japan. If you've ever watched fansubs (or even some DVDs) of anime, you'll notice that there's only 1 commercial break, right in the middle. Hell, on the fansubs, I watch the commercials 'cause they're funny as hell.
Less commercials means we aren't desensitized, and ad executives can charge more per commercial, because they're a rarer commodity. Think about it.
...this article can't really be taken seriously. The Supreme Court has rejected prior restraint except in cases where National Security is involved. The article states that it was a classified report that discusses China's activities. If it was something important, the CIA could've pulled the whole article simply because it's classified - that's the only justification they need of its importance to National Security.
Furthermore, isn't leaking classified information treason? Yeah. So read it and write it off as "FUD". China simply wouldn't be able to hack into the U.S. systems - if we thought there was a threat, we could simply temporarily disconnect the overseas backbones (of which there are suprisingly few). Beyond that, the military, for some time, has used satellites to communicate; and every critical computer system is connected to a separate internal network, with no contact points to the Internet.
If China wants to drop some Spec. Ops. onto the Pentagon, that's a whole different story. But for now I'm not worried. Unless they try and DOS whitehouse.gov and kill all my RtCW ping times.
The problem isn't with forcing all the porn sites to.prn or.xxx or.hotnakedsluts, it's with the non-porn sites that show dirty pictures anyway. For example: Go to google and do an image search for "lesbian". Even with the adult filter on, you get a fair amount of smut - but all the thumbnails are cached at google.com and I'd be the vast majority of pictures are not from the porn sites, which google blocks out pretty well.
What's more - think about celebrity fan sites. What if I run a Shannon Elizabeth fandom site, and as part of that, I have a section of those nudie images I did. Those are dirty, but the rest of the site is regular old content. Where does it go?
It's absolutely rediculous to think it'd be possible to protect kids just by shovelling everything off to.prn. It'd be impossible to find everything to shovel, much less do the shovelling.
I hope they get some decent technical advising before the pass this rediculous bill. When will those idiots in Congress learn? Perhaps we should just get them to read/.; anyone up for starting a campaign to get our representatives to read/., so they at least have an idea of what the tech. sector really thinks of all this legislation that keeps getting flushed down our way?
Just when you think market saturation has reached the limit, leave it to a greedy corporation to start targeting the most naive and vulnerable demographic there is.
Naive, vulnerable, and PROFITABLE. And that's the most important part.
Nah, I just didn't check my facts. Motif is far from being the sum of all Window Managers, but I'll agree that most of them have followed suit.
My whole point came from the guy that mentioned the X icon on the dock, which has nothing to do with any of the WMs. This thread is already too damned long as it is.
The difference is I said the X architecture, not the implementation. The idea, the design, is beautiful. As a programmer, you have to appreciate it. I'll admit that its implementation certianly could be better - but not too many people would like to tackle that task.
But Windows as an architecture? Does it have an architecture? It suffers from "layered" (building on older versions) problems a thousand times worse than X. I'll concede the XP and 2000 have gone the distance to help fix them, but are by no means close to it.
And remember, I'm not talking about all the Windows apps - I'm talking about Windows the Windowing system. Whether you use MFCs in C++ or Swing in Java (which is slow as hell on my box in Windows, better in Linux), it's that same shitty interface.
According to this the original announcement was made November, 1983 (11/10/1983, I believe) for Microsoft Windows, however, the first commercial release wasn't until November, 1985. E.g. no one had seen it yet.
According to this X, as an asynchronous immediate graphics windowing achictecture was born May 1984. The first public release was September, 1985, 3 months before the release of Microsoft Windows.
Reguardless, the point is valid: X is not an imitation of Microsoft's Windows. I'm sorry to say I didn't check my facts first. I actually picked up the 1989 from Microsoft's splashscreen at boot (it says Copyright 1989-1998, since I used Windows 98 still). And Microsoft Windows didn't see much popularity until 3.0 started to roll around.
I especially like that X is shown in the dock. Now there's a finger in Bill's eye.
X is circa 1986. Microsoft Windows, at the *very* earliest, is 1989. Why can't people seem to grasp this concept? X has been around longer. It never was designed as an "alternative" to the Windows desktop. The two are completely different schemes for getting things done - and frankly, the X architecture is better than anything else out there. It's just the X window managers that're beginning to catch up with the aesthetic appeal of Microsoft Windows.
If anything, the popularity of Microsoft Windows has been a big, pointy, naily finger in the eye of X for the past decade and a half.
How about 1 acre times 60,000 cities/towns/villiages? Or 10 acres across 6,000? 100 acres in 600? It's not *that* hard to find a 1 acre open lot in suburban areas, or to find 10 of them. You could probably easily find 100+ acres that'd be ready for conversion in the Chicagoland area (where I'm from), and the same could be said for other major metropolitan areas.
Furthermore, it'd be easy to couple this with something like a water treatment plant, - no one said the quicklime has to be sitting around on the ground, how about placing it on the roofs of a 10 acre treatment facility?
Sure, it wouldn't be easy, but no where near as difficult as you might suggest.
I tried Gentoo Linux after reading about it here on/., and I must say that it's not my desktop system. Why? Ease of installation - not just of the OS, but of the software too. It might take 4 - 6 clicks to install something in Windows, but in Gentoo it takes 1 line: "emerge vim". Or "emerge xfce", which also installs *everything* necessary for the XFCE desktop, including X Windows if you haven't yet.
After getting the basics installed, all I had to do to install everything I wanted was basically, "emerge xfce eterm mozilla gaim openssh...etc". Probably the best part is that it automatically downloads the files you need - you don't have to go searching for them online. And if you're not sure of the package name? 'emerge search "^kde"' lists all the packages starting with "kde".
It's really fantastic. In addition, they have tools to automatically update the RC scripts, so you don't have to fool around there. It's flexible enough for someone who knows their way around, e.g. me, and simple enough for a next-to-newbie to use. If you tacked on something like drakconf to this, I'd recommend it to all my friends.
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This is pure idiocy. Firstly, shutting out XP users from FreeCraft will not make people ditch XP, it will make them ditch FreeCraft (and any game which uses it).
How come no body ever says this about games that come out for Windows-Only? "X won't make users ditch Linux, it will make them ditch X." Strangely enough, most people still use Linux, and simply by having a dual boot.
And furthermore, they're saying they don't *support* Windows XP. E.g. They will not answer questions about XP, etc, etc. My cable internet provider says the same thing about Linux. It isn't supported. Doesn't mean it won't work. They just won't help you with it. But strangely enough `dhcpcd eth0` still works fine. Go figure.
Now all those CDs I bought will actually be worth money fifty years down the road, when we all pay $10 per track, which we can only listen to once, or our brains with be zapped with 50,000 volts and our credit ratings ruined.
But what if I need to actually get work done? Guess XP is where it's at.
Uh... no? I don't even know where to start with a comment like that.
In case you haven't it's pretty clearly a ripoff of D&D straight across (which is all Tolken anyway.. but eh.. ).
Which is all taken from Nordic mythology anyway. Midgaard (the default Circle/Diku city) is a name straight out of Nordic mythology, as is Middle Earth. It's actually no surprise on the Circle/Diku front. The people who programmed Diku (way back in the early nineties) were students at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
I may be mistaken, but I thought I read about an OC-768 test by Qwest across the continental U.S. earlier on /. - so why is this different? OC-768 is about 40Gb/s, which is a lot faster than 401Mb/s.
He could get a pair of tweleve year old girls to carry the books for him. Hell, they'd only take up one seat in the car. If you give 'em icecream, they'll probably pack and unpack the books for you.
Gods bless Linux.
Wow, that is low! If the gas mileage was jus t a bit better I might consider trading up!
Ask 'em if they'll make a hybrid?
Four US stealth fighters, or 40 stealth bombers.
Uhm... No? The F117-A cost about $275mil each to produce. F22s are more expensive (not sure precisely). The "stealth bomber", I assume you're talking about is the B2-B Flying Wing, which is approx. $2.2 bil each (actually a bit less now, I think I heard as low as $1.2b). But niether are particularly effective by themselves, and niether make up a large chunk of our airforce.
However, if Bill wanted to threaten someone, he could contract F15s at about $175mil apiece, F14s at $200mil apiece, and other various 70s planes. If you put each F15 at about $250mil, including ground support, armament, etc, then they could buy 160 of them. I don't think we even have that many flying in our Airforce right now.
Start worrying when Bill starts to invest in hydrogen bomb parts, or buys Los Alamos labs.
While these branes are a cute idea in a number of respects - not just because a parallel plane full of dark matter is 100% cool old school science fiction - it strikes me that they answer "how can we match our observations to what we want to be true?" rather than "how can we match our explanations to what we observe?"
:)
Actually, I just took a seminar on Visualizing Higher Dimensions and one of the last thing we covered was the idea of M-theory or string theory. Specificially, the idea that there's another "universe" full of dark matter, which accounts for all the extra mass we can't see. And rather than it being far away, it's right next to us, a distance about 1x10^19 times smaller than the nucleus of an atom.
If you've ever noticed how a squirrel manages to stay on the exact opposite side of a tree when you chase it, the idea's the same. That "universe" is just on the other side of space-time, and no matter which way we move, we can't see it, 'cause it's always on the opposite side. Perhaps that's where anti-matter comes from. Who knows.
Anyway. AFAIR, I think that Stephen Hawking proposed something similar for his phD thesis, except more along the lines of: "The universe will eventually stop expanding, collapse, and re-big-bang." So cyclic theories are not new.
So the branes might be a "cute idea" to you, but they might also be right. The important thing is to keep your mind open about what possibilies there are, and not just focus on what "feels right" or wrong.
What would KDE be without Konq? Same thing as Windows. Not really usable the way it was intended.
I used KDE for about a year, quite happily, without ever touching Konquerer. I'm not sure if I even bothered to install it. It still manages windows. Nice menus. Multiple desktops. Does everything it needs to do. Hell, there are other file browsers out there that you could use if you really need a GUI for that.
...the reason why we don't watch the commercials is because there's so goddamn many of them. In a 30 minute show, there's usually 3-4 2 minute commercial blocks. That means nearly 1/3rd of the show is commercials.
Perhaps they should take their cue from Japan. If you've ever watched fansubs (or even some DVDs) of anime, you'll notice that there's only 1 commercial break, right in the middle. Hell, on the fansubs, I watch the commercials 'cause they're funny as hell.
Less commercials means we aren't desensitized, and ad executives can charge more per commercial, because they're a rarer commodity. Think about it.
Guess you weren't really committed to that "slashdot blackout", huh?
Some times I feel like a nut. Some times I don't.
...this article can't really be taken seriously. The Supreme Court has rejected prior restraint except in cases where National Security is involved. The article states that it was a classified report that discusses China's activities. If it was something important, the CIA could've pulled the whole article simply because it's classified - that's the only justification they need of its importance to National Security.
Furthermore, isn't leaking classified information treason? Yeah. So read it and write it off as "FUD". China simply wouldn't be able to hack into the U.S. systems - if we thought there was a threat, we could simply temporarily disconnect the overseas backbones (of which there are suprisingly few). Beyond that, the military, for some time, has used satellites to communicate; and every critical computer system is connected to a separate internal network, with no contact points to the Internet.
If China wants to drop some Spec. Ops. onto the Pentagon, that's a whole different story. But for now I'm not worried. Unless they try and DOS whitehouse.gov and kill all my RtCW ping times.
The problem isn't with forcing all the porn sites to .prn or .xxx or .hotnakedsluts, it's with the non-porn sites that show dirty pictures anyway. For example: Go to google and do an image search for "lesbian". Even with the adult filter on, you get a fair amount of smut - but all the thumbnails are cached at google.com and I'd be the vast majority of pictures are not from the porn sites, which google blocks out pretty well.
.prn. It'd be impossible to find everything to shovel, much less do the shovelling.
/.; anyone up for starting a campaign to get our representatives to read /., so they at least have an idea of what the tech. sector really thinks of all this legislation that keeps getting flushed down our way?
What's more - think about celebrity fan sites. What if I run a Shannon Elizabeth fandom site, and as part of that, I have a section of those nudie images I did. Those are dirty, but the rest of the site is regular old content. Where does it go?
It's absolutely rediculous to think it'd be possible to protect kids just by shovelling everything off to
I hope they get some decent technical advising before the pass this rediculous bill. When will those idiots in Congress learn? Perhaps we should just get them to read
Oh well. My $0.02.
Just when you think market saturation has reached the limit, leave it to a greedy corporation to start targeting the most naive and vulnerable demographic there is.
Naive, vulnerable, and PROFITABLE. And that's the most important part.
Maybe that's what threw you at first?
Nah, I just didn't check my facts. Motif is far from being the sum of all Window Managers, but I'll agree that most of them have followed suit.
My whole point came from the guy that mentioned the X icon on the dock, which has nothing to do with any of the WMs. This thread is already too damned long as it is.
The difference is I said the X architecture, not the implementation. The idea, the design, is beautiful. As a programmer, you have to appreciate it. I'll admit that its implementation certianly could be better - but not too many people would like to tackle that task.
But Windows as an architecture? Does it have an architecture? It suffers from "layered" (building on older versions) problems a thousand times worse than X. I'll concede the XP and 2000 have gone the distance to help fix them, but are by no means close to it.
And remember, I'm not talking about all the Windows apps - I'm talking about Windows the Windowing system. Whether you use MFCs in C++ or Swing in Java (which is slow as hell on my box in Windows, better in Linux), it's that same shitty interface.
According to this the original announcement was made November, 1983 (11/10/1983, I believe) for Microsoft Windows, however, the first commercial release wasn't until November, 1985. E.g. no one had seen it yet.
According to this X, as an asynchronous immediate graphics windowing achictecture was born May 1984. The first public release was September, 1985, 3 months before the release of Microsoft Windows.
Reguardless, the point is valid: X is not an imitation of Microsoft's Windows. I'm sorry to say I didn't check my facts first. I actually picked up the 1989 from Microsoft's splashscreen at boot (it says Copyright 1989-1998, since I used Windows 98 still). And Microsoft Windows didn't see much popularity until 3.0 started to roll around.
I especially like that X is shown in the dock. Now there's a finger in Bill's eye.
X is circa 1986. Microsoft Windows, at the *very* earliest, is 1989. Why can't people seem to grasp this concept? X has been around longer. It never was designed as an "alternative" to the Windows desktop. The two are completely different schemes for getting things done - and frankly, the X architecture is better than anything else out there. It's just the X window managers that're beginning to catch up with the aesthetic appeal of Microsoft Windows.
If anything, the popularity of Microsoft Windows has been a big, pointy, naily finger in the eye of X for the past decade and a half.
How about 1 acre times 60,000 cities/towns/villiages? Or 10 acres across 6,000? 100 acres in 600? It's not *that* hard to find a 1 acre open lot in suburban areas, or to find 10 of them. You could probably easily find 100+ acres that'd be ready for conversion in the Chicagoland area (where I'm from), and the same could be said for other major metropolitan areas.
Furthermore, it'd be easy to couple this with something like a water treatment plant, - no one said the quicklime has to be sitting around on the ground, how about placing it on the roofs of a 10 acre treatment facility?
Sure, it wouldn't be easy, but no where near as difficult as you might suggest.
Also, they intend to build in .NET support for the Mac, though Microsoft says that they do not intend to push .NET for Mac developers.
Almost makes me want to switch to a Mac.
Er... in the previous post "not" in the first line should be "now". My mistake.
/., and I must say that it's now my desktop system.
==> I tried Gentoo Linux after reading about it here on
I tried Gentoo Linux after reading about it here on /., and I must say that it's not my desktop system. Why? Ease of installation - not just of the OS, but of the software too. It might take 4 - 6 clicks to install something in Windows, but in Gentoo it takes 1 line: "emerge vim". Or "emerge xfce", which also installs *everything* necessary for the XFCE desktop, including X Windows if you haven't yet.
...etc". Probably the best part is that it automatically downloads the files you need - you don't have to go searching for them online. And if you're not sure of the package name? 'emerge search "^kde"' lists all the packages starting with "kde".
After getting the basics installed, all I had to do to install everything I wanted was basically, "emerge xfce eterm mozilla gaim openssh
It's really fantastic. In addition, they have tools to automatically update the RC scripts, so you don't have to fool around there. It's flexible enough for someone who knows their way around, e.g. me, and simple enough for a next-to-newbie to use. If you tacked on something like drakconf to this, I'd recommend it to all my friends.